Hello Everyone, this is Kimi! After a long absence from the Fanfiction realm I am back with a new project… a One Shot Collection! What do you think?
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You & Me Something That Could Never Be?

Looking Through Your Eyes

Scott and Rogue have always been friends; maybe even before they were born that bond of friendship already existed. Since their parents were friends during their High School years it was only natural for them to become friends as well. Their first adventure officially started when she was 5 and he was 8, both went to a private school so all grades [starting from pre-K up to the 12th grade] had a chance to interact with one another.

There she was, little Rogue sitting on the swing eating her sandwich, not bothering anyone. She was alone as usual since no one wanted to befriend her because of her condition. She gave a bite to her delicious ham sandwich, and felt an ominous presence in front of her.

"Hello loser" said a high pitched voice.

"Jean?" she asked, not sure if the voice belonged to her.

"The one and only freak" she spat.

"What's wrong why are you saying that?" little Rogue didn't understand why her cousin would be so mean to her, on the first day of school. Her eyes became a little watery and she hid her emerald orbs under her bangs.

"Ugh! Don't be a baby" she became irritated grabbed her cousin's sandwich. "You're eating this again?" she took a bite and then spat it at her cousin. "It's horrible, tell your mom to make better sandwiches." Jean threw the sandwich at Rogue and laughed at her with her little groupies.

"The little baby wants to cry?" said a girl with short black hair.

Not being able to take it any longer, five year old Rogue stood up from the swing and pushed the person in front of her. "Stop it!" her tears began to race down her cheeks and she sobbed quietly.

"You stupid blind freak!" said a seven year old red head, who was very upset. She grabbed the little one by the collar, "You touch me again, and I'll make your life miserable"

"Hey!" the prince in shining armor arrived. "Leave her alone!" said the boy, who was eight years old. "Jean? What are you doing?" Scott was surprised by what he saw. But he didn't wait for a reply, he grabbed Rogue and embraced her, while listening to her silent sobs. The little boy glared at the groupies gathered around them but especially more at Jean. "You're her cousin! You're supposed to protect her!"

"Scott, it's not wh-" she was cut off abruptly by him.

"I don't wanna hear it." He began caressing his best friend's head and dangerously whispered "Leave before I forget that you're a girl" all of the girls were gone, and with anger boiling within her Jean left as well.

"You always ruin everything! Stupid Rogue!"

"They're gone now" whispered the auburn haired boy to his friend. "Are you ok?"

She only nodded and buried her face in his chest, still sobbing.

"Do you want to tell me what happened?"

The girl shook her head in response. "I'm sorry…" she said softly.

"For what? You didn't do anything wrong." He took her chin in his hands and made her look up. Her orbs were emerald and beautiful but unable to see anything, and even though he knew that, he still made sure that their eyes connected.

"Am I… am I… a freak?" the little girl asked with expectancy in her eyes.

He smiled sweetly at her, "No. But I can tell you what you really are." He placed tuft of her hair behind her ear and saw clearly her puffy eyes and rosy cheeks. "You are smart," she was the first one in her class, "kind," she would always be nice and forgiving to everyone, "pretty," she blushed at his comment, no one had ever called her pretty, aside from her parents. "In short you are perfect." He kissed her forehead and then the bell rang.

They walked to class together, holding hands. Scott was never afraid of having those displays of affection with her, she was like a little sister to him, and from that day on he vowed to always protect her. Rogue on the other hand, was so happy that the previous encounter with her cousin was completely forgotten. She was happy and content of having a great friend like Scott, he had always been like a big brother to her. This day would be remembered by her forever. This day she had discovered the 'butterflies' people feel in movies when they are in love, however, being so young, she confused those feelings with friendship and adoration for her best friend/big brother.

{-}

10 years after…

After many years of education, today was the day, one of the most important setting stones in one's life. Graduation. Oh yes, finally the day had arrived, and everyone was so excited. Rogue specially, who at the age of fifteen was able to graduate due to her outstanding intelligence. She made her parents extremely proud. Who wouldn't be after having a daughter like her, she was extremely intelligent and kind, humble and sweet, well she was just the kind of girl everyone felt attracted to, in more ways than one. Unfortunately, due to her blindness and her lovely cousin's influence (she kept her word, all those years she made Rogue's life 'miserable' to some extent) she was treated like an outcast all throughout her school career by all of her peers , except for Scott.

Scott had been her friend, her best friend, her only friend, and she felt perfectly fine with that. They would do everything together. He went to all of her science fairs, and she would help him with his literature homework. He would always cheer her up any time one of the girls would bother her and surprisingly never did the same girl bother her twice. She would go to his basketball games and cheer him on and bake him desserts just to make him happy (he loved her desserts.) They never went to any school dance or any social event, but that didn't bother Rogue, for one: she would probably get teased; second: Scott never invited her, which she thought was understandable, I mean, people may get the wrong idea about them, but truthfully they were only friends… despite doing everything together.

"My little baby!" exclaimed a middle aged woman while hugging her only daughter, Rogue. "Time went by so fast," she wiped some of her tears, "I remember like it was yesterday when you…" she began rambling of how it was only yesterday that she was wearing diapers and today her princess was graduating High School as the Valedictorian and with an acceptance letter to Harvard University with a full scholarship, all of that at the age of fifteen.

"Mother please." Smiled Rogue, feeling quite embarrassed even though what her mother spoke was nothing but the truth.

"I'm proud" said her father with a stoic face, which only lasted five seconds as he began sobbing uncontrollably, being patted on the back by his wife. "They grow up so fast." He complained.

After trying to cheer up both her parents and hugging them for what seemed the fiftieth time, she said her good-byes and went in search for Scott, he wanted to thank him for all that had done for her throughout the years. She still did not know to what University he had ultimately decided to attend but she knew that he would do well, he was the salutatorian after all. Which made her wonder why he would regularly call her over to 'help' him with his homework? But oh well that seemed rather trivial at the moment. Helped by the cane that she carried to measure the approximate distances of places so she wouldn't bump into them, Rogue was able to get to the back of the school auditorium, and before calling out her friend's name she heard some voices.

"I don't understand, why do you keep rejecting me!"came a voice that the emerald eyed beauty knew all too well. "I am the most beautiful girl, I'm smart, everyone likes me, and I'm good at sports." She began sobbing.

Someone else sighed, "You're right" came a tired male voice. "Only a fool would reject you."

The girl's voice was now very happy, "Right? We were meant to be Scott." She hugged the young man. "See, you wasted way too many years with the blind nerdy cousin of mine." She finalized happy, after all no one could resist Jean Grey, and Scott was no different.

"Maybe…"

Rogue gasped and ran away, not wanting to hear of her best friend's betrayal. How could he have faked kindness all of those years? How could he… All of his words, lies, lies and more lies. All of those times he cheered her up, meant nothing. Every time he said "Good job," "Thank you," "You are so cute," when he kissed her forehead reassuring her that everything would be okay, whenever anyone would tease her, in the end they were all lies, what a fool had she been all these years…

After Graduation.

"Mister and Miss's Carter have you seen Rogue?" Scott hadn't seen her after she gave her Valedictorian Speech and he was worried, he had something very important to tell her after all.

Miss Carter was wiping her tears away, "She didn't tell you?"

He stared at her utterly confused, "tell me what?"

"She is on her way to college son" finished Rogue's dad.

"What! But college doesn't start until August!" it was June at the time. "Why would she not tell me?" He didn't understand, weren't they best friends after all? She never mentioned it before; actually, she said she wanted to take a break before college so this really didn't make sense.

"We know dear," began Mrs. Carter, "but she insisted in leaving today after the ceremony" she then looked at her husband, "Why do you think she would want that?"

The older man only shrugged. "I don't know honey, but I'm sure she'll be al… alright" he began sobbing on his wife's shoulder. Yup, he was a very sentimental father, especially when his only daughter was going away… First college, what's next? Marriage? Just the thought made his stomach churn in pain.

Scott said goodbye to the elder couple and then went back to his parents, he said his farewells to his former basketball teammates, and later that day he went to one of his former mate's graduation party, not feeling the least bit interested. He would rather be hanging out with his best friend, probably they would be at his couch listening to music, eating some popcorn and talking about their memories in high school, not that they didn't know of each other's experiences already. Or maybe even better, she would be telling him about her plans after college, and he could lose himself admiring her. Her beautiful emerald eyes, and her pale yet soft and glowing skin, her beautiful smile, her long brown tresses with two white stripes that remained after her 'rebel' phase, the way she moved her petite hands in order to make emphasis to what she said, not only that also her long and perfect legs, her narrow waist and her… well those thoughts would only be for him to know. Nonetheless, he missed her, but this was only the beginning of a long and lonely summer.

August. Harvard University.

Things had turned out for the better for Rogue Carter, she was rid of all the teasing her cousin had put her through before, no one was afraid of speaking to her anymore. Even though every now and then someone would make a hurtful comment at her condition, or she would feel the uncomfortable stares from others, she was quite happy. Scratch that, she was… satisfied? Well regardless of the friends she made in these past weeks, a beautiful couple formed by a rebel named Lance and a prep gal named Kitty who were undeniably in love and also had a good heart. She still felt like something was missing, sadly she also knew what than something or rather someone was. Scott.

"Hey Ro-Ro how's my bestie doing?" asked the always-joyous Katherine Pryde. "Ro-Ro?" she snapped her fingers at her.

"W-What? Oh, sorry Kitty I was thinking" the white striped girl smiled.

"You always do. Guess what!" she sat next to Rogue.

"What?"

"I found your soul mate!" the preppy girl took her friend's hand, "Believe me, he is so good looking, he looks smart and cute and-" she was cut off by her friend.

Rogue waved her hands in front of her friend "Whoa, stop right there. We all know what happens when you meddle in relationships."

"Your never gonna let the Remy thing go, are you?" she faked annoyance and crossed her arms around her chest. "This is different! Believe me"

"How so?" asked the always skeptical southern beauty.

"I didn't actually find him. He came looking for you"

"What?" Rogue was confused, she didn't know of anyone that would come to look for her, and no former classmates attended HU.

"Rogue…" came a voice from behind.

A chill went down her spine, and she felt herself freeze, "Scott?"

"Can we talk?" he asked ever so slowly.

Before the emerald-eyed girl answer, Kitty intervened, "Of course you can! I was on my way to class any way" lie. "I'll let you two at it" she ran to her boyfriend who was only a couple of feet away. She yanked him by the arm and both ducked under the bushes. "This is gonna get good." She whispered.

"Why are we hiding?" asked Lance while eating his sandwich. "Isn't that Ro-Ro?" Rogue's nickname.

"Ssshhh! Just watch" she commanded.

-X-

"What are you doing here Scott?" confusion, sadness, betrayal all of those things came to mind, but she couldn't deny that some butterflies were fluttering in her stomach as well. She missed him.

"The real question is, why did you leave without a good bye?" he mentioned it very calmly, but Rogue knew better, he was upset.

"I… well it was the best thing to do" what could she say, 'well I realized that you only pitied me, and that's why you befriended me. Wait no that was not it, you got together with my cousin, the person who hates me most and made my life miserable.'

"For who? For you?" he let out an exasperated sigh and threw himself at the bench next to her, "Honestly, that was the stupidest thing to do, you know?"

She was silent and lowered her head.

"I missed you a lot" he whispered.

Why would he say that? He was faking kindness all along, and then why did he seem so sincere?

"Without you, that was the worst summer of m-"

"Stop it Scott!" she jumped up from her seat, "You don't need to keep up that charade of the 'good friend' anymore!" she was furious at him, coming all the way to make fun of her.

He got up as well, "What are you talking about?"

"You know damn well what I'm talking about!" she only used those type of words when she was really upset.

"I don-"

"Don't give me that junk. Let me refresh your memory, remember graduation? And your little talk with Jean?" she tightened her fists and her hands were starting to become white.

"You listened?"

"Yes I did!"

"How much of it did you hear?" he was calm once again.

"How you told Jean that anyone would be a fool not to be with her!"

"Was that it?" he voice was even.

"No," she matched his tone. "I also heard how you…" tears began flowing from her eyes, cascading through her face, "said our friendship was a waste." This last sentence was full of heartache and sorrow.

"I never said that."

"You agreed to it" she rebutted.

He sighed and rubbed his forehead, "You didn't hear the whole conversation."

"There's more" there was a reason she didn't want to hear any more of what had already been said.

He chuckled a little, "Maybe if you would have listened to the whole thing. We wouldn't be in this situation"

She faced in the opposite direction, and grabbed her cane more firmly, "Does it matter now?" it was somewhat of a rhetorical question but still he answered.

"Yes." He swiftly captured hear face in his hands and made her face him, although, she was blind he couldn't help but get lost in her eyes, which were mystical and beautiful.

"What are you-" He silence her with a deep kiss, their lips danced together and without her consent her body was responding to him. Hi didn't kiss her in a passionate nor beastly manner, it was more of a sweet slow and full of emotion connection, and it felt so…right. As if it was meant to be since the beginning.

He slowly broke the kiss apart and connected both their foreheads, "We would have come to this a lot sooner" he whispered.

Rogue was as red as a tomato and was glad that Scott could not see her at the moment. " 'Maybe I did spend too much time with Rogue, but it's not something I regret. In fact I am in love with her, and have been since I rescued her from you long ago. By the way, you are the ugliest girl I've ever seen inside and out' " Scott uttered the words with the same feeling he had when he spoke them to Jean.

"What are you saying?" said Rogue in a barely audible tone.

"That was my answer to Jean after graduation."

"So you are saying…" slowly she moved her head upwards, knowing she wouldn't see him but he would see her.

"I love you."

-x-

A couple of meters away hidden in the bushes some sobs were heard…

"Are you crying?"

"No! Something got in my eye okay!" tough macho Lance could be a sentimental at times, imagine how he got when he saw the Notebook.

-X-

4 years later

"I'm scared" The maiden placed one last strand of her hair behind the ear. Her friend Katherine Pryde was helping her place the veil over her head.

"There is nothing to be afraid of. He loves you, you love him, getting married is natural" she sighed dreamily, "I wish Lance would hurry up and propose."

"I heard that!" came a voice from the other side of the door.

"Get the hint!" shouted Kitty.

-x-

"We are all gathered here to celebrate the union of two young people who are in love…" The two lovers couldn't focus on what the elder man was saying, more than anything they were focused on one another. Only when the time came did they spoke.

"I do" each at their designated time.

"Oh my baby!" declared Mr. Carter who couldn't help but have bittersweet emotions at the moment. His little girl, and only daughter was getting married, fortunately he had known Scott his whole life and couldn't have chosen anyone better than that young man for his daughter.

"There, there dear, we knew this would happen sooner or later." Mrs. Carter reassured her husband and laced their hands together. "You better take care of her with your life Scott Summers"

-xXx-

The End?