Quake

Disclaimer: I do not own the X-men, however I do own Alex/Quake

Timeline: Set after X3, only difference from the movies is that Scott and the professor never died

Pairings: Bobby/Kitty, John/Marie, Scott/OC

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Prologue

Alex…Aaaalex… Alex! The voice in her head taunted her as she tossed and turned in bed and tried to wake up from the dream, the only problem was that it wasn't really a dream. The memory of being taunted, bullied in kindergarten and the earthquake that had happened shortly after, in a town in the Midwest of the United States where earth quakes weren't normal. Normal in the sense that it didn't happen. Alex…Alex! She woke up in cold sweat, her heart pounded against her chest and when she looked around her room was a mess.

"No… not again…"

This couldn't go on, she could not live like this, losing her deposit every time she had to move since the place always looked like, well like an earth quake, face it that was what she did, creating earth quakes everywhere she went. She took her hand through her hair and closed her eyes. How was she going to explain this to her landlord this time? Uncontrollable rage or party gone wild? She had to decide something. This wasn't going to work anyway. It was time to leave this small town and move on. With a sigh she got up and started to pack her few things that she always had with her; a few photos of her parents; clothes; some precious jewellery her grandmother had given her on her 16th birthday. Shortly after that birthday her grandmother had passed away and Alex had started her spiral down, rage, anger, sadness, to which she was today, a freak with an ability to project earthquakes wherever she put her foot down and wherever someone provoked her to becoming mad or in her sleep dreaming about her classmates taunting and bullying her. This was who Alex was, uncontrollable, 17 and alone. Would she ever find someone or something that could save her? Alex wasn't sure she wanted to be saved, but at the same time she didn't want to have to move all the time. For her it was hard, living on her own, an outsider, a teenager with no future, and no past to go back to. It was like she was a ghost.

As she left the place leaving an envelope with the three month rent that she would've had to pay for getting released from her contract she felt emptiness inside. Once more she left a place she had started to like, once more Alex left because of her inability to control.

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Professor Xavier's class in physics was full. The students sat in his office intrigued by what he told them, Kitty and some other students gave their view on what he said about the law of physics and evolution. Marie watched them closely; her decision to not take the cure after all had in the end been a right decision. It had been proved to not be permanent as some of the mutants that had taken the cure had come to the mansion, telling them how the cure was not effective. Her ability or curse, sometimes she wondered, had been more controllable and for Bobby it had been almost become a habit, of course they could not be more intimate then kissing and hugging, but he said it was enough for him, as long as she could control her self there would be no problem. Marie leaned back in her chair and listened to the professor as he finished class. She looked out through the windows and saw the stone pillars with the memory plates of fallen mutants. Jean was dead and remarkably Scott had survived, it was a mystery how, but then again Scott was needed at the school. She was so deep in her thoughts that she at first didn't notice that her friends had started to leave the room.

"Rogue?" Bobby's voice woke her from her thoughts and she looked quizzing at him. "We have to go."

She nodded and got up, took her things and they left the room. Marie watched Kitty and Bobby, something told her to be cautious, but she didn't want to be suspicious of her best friend and boyfriend. Still the feeling of something wrong didn't leave her as she hurried after them.