She woke up screaming. It wasn't the first time. In fact it was the fifth that week. Her dreams where being plagued with images of the concentration camps, of Logan's torturous experiments, of horrible encounters that all the people she had touched had lived through in their lives. She could feel all the pain both physical and emotion from each and every one of the memories. Yet they all seemed to hurt differently in there own way.
As she sat up sweat streaming off her, tears escaped without her even realising. Chocking sobs filling the room before the door got suddenly kicked open to reveal some of the X-men. The ones that have come to see what was wrong. Before they came through the door she guessed as to who would be there, she was always right. It would be Logan, Kitty, Bobby, Ororo, and Scott would have been sent to get the Professor while Jean would tried so hard to clam her down by trying to enter her mind, but it never worked. Logan came first as usual; he would hear her screams because of his heightened senses, this always made her cringe.
"Kid, you alright?" Came the Canadian accent. All she could do was just nod, her eye still focused of the spot straight in front of her and never moved she never moved. Not once.
"Babe…What's up? did you have the dreams again?" Was Bobby's voice as he sat on the side of the bed. Trying to act all nice but she new better. She just ignored them all. All they could do was ask her if she was okay. If she was all right. If she felt better. None of them actually realised what was going on with her and the only one who did was the Professor but he always took his time coming to her because of his disability.
Now that everyone wasn't so on edge Ororo headed to the bathroom and came back with a bowl of water and a wet cloth. She sat on the other side of Rogue and dabbed her forehead being very careful not to touch her skin and Rogue knew this. She could feel the women shaking because she was concentrating so hard on not touching her because she was scared. Scared of what her skin would do. She just focused on the spot in front of her because if she didn't then she would break down and cry and she didn't want to do that…not in front of all of them anyway. Even her "boyfriend" that was sat at her side was still halfway down the bed. Why? Because he was scared of her mutation as well. They all where, they would all cringe whenever they where within closeness with her. They all thought that she never saw it but she did. She knew they never felt comfortable near her.
She could still feel them all in her head, there memories haunted her every night and they all just lingered in her head as if she had a part of them wherever she went every day. They would always give their opinion on the thing that she would be doing in the day. She had learned to ignore them but they seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. Or was it that she was getting weaker?
The professor had started to give her lessons on how to control the psyches in her head yet all that they seemed to be doing is making them louder. That's what she thought had started these dreams, his lessons. He thought it was something to do with my evolution blah blah blah… she had stopped listening because it was basically a load of crap.
When he arrived all the others except for Logan would get up and leave, she knew that what ever he would do to calm her down and suppress some of the memories it would not make her sleepy at all, yet she would go to sleep like she was forced because he had made her sleep. This would put her on edge knowing that he could make not just her but everyone do anything he liked and that he was inside her head, no matter how many times he had tried to help her she was still uncomfortable with him in her head.
Weeks past and the dreams where still coming except now they where bearable like she had become desensitised to the pain in them. Yet she would still wake up at early hours of the morning and find that she couldn't get back to sleep. But she was thankful for the fact that she had stopped waking others up, so she could have time to think…time to herself.
It was only the last couple of weeks that Rogue had started to notice that she was never alone in the mansion anymore. Like she was under some sort of surveillance. Like they where keeping something from her that she had every right to know. That is why she treasured these moments on her own.
Rogue had also noticed that while she always found herself with people around her they weren't necessarily around her, she found that her friends where avoiding her and that some of the newer kids would stair at her like she was a ghost, some even looked like they where so scared of her, that if she was to say hi they would run a mile. The girls would always hassle her to go to the mall with them but now none of them asked. Bobby would always want to do things with her constantly and yet he was making up excuses saying he had other things to do. Even Logan was treating her differently he would be on edge whenever he was near her.
She was slowly becoming an outcast. Even if she was one of them people who liked her space and liked being alone but it was mainly because of her mutation, not allowing her to get close to anyone. But she always had friends. She was getting fed up with all the sneaking around and even when she had asked the Professor he had said that they had their own problems to worry about and that it was nothing to do with her.
X-Men meet in the war room immediately
Came a message that none of them had heard in a while. Sighing Rogue removed the covers off her knowing that the others wouldn't be as happy as she was to be going on a mission right now. She just needed to clear her head and a good fight would help with that. Putting on her uniform she made her way down to the war room finding that she wasn't the first to get there. When every one had arrived looking all groggy and half asleep the Professor started.
"I am sorry that it is so early in the morning sorry for waking most of you up but we have an urgent mission that has to be dealt with ASAP. The brotherhood has struck after all this time of no activity, at a military facility in Canada. I would like you to stop them before they can kill innocent bystanders for what ever it is that they are trying to get. I warn you that it is going to be a lot colder then you would think so try and keep warm. The black bird is ready." Rogue stayed behind and walked up to the professor and said realising something.
"When is it just a Military facility Professor? Ah mean every mission is about facilities… but basic information is always kept from us. Y'all never tell us what we're lettin' ourselves in for. Its not gonna be long before one of us will end up dead an' then you'll be the one tellin' there parents. You know as much as ah do that this ant just a military facility, why else would Magneto be there?" With that Rogue walked off to board the black bird, feeling like she had made her point.