Rule 1: Don't Get Attached.

Rogue, the name she had taken for herself not an hour ago, sat at the bus station waiting for the next bus headed west. She looked down at her hands that she kept gloved, how had they become so dangerous? She willed back the tears that had threatened to spill, she couldn't cry now, she had felt so emotionally numb for the past few days it was bound to catch up eventually. Rogue still had trouble coming to terms with what had happened as she thought back to two days ago.

She had just gone to a party to hang out, that was all, she didn't plan on dancing with Cody and she definitely didn't plan on sucking his soul right out of him. The worst part was that she could still hear him in her head; it was like there was a miniature version living in her mind. He liked to talk to who she now knew to be Kurt and Ororo, two of the X-Men that had chased her. Only now she wasn't so sure they were really trying to kill her, Ororo especially had gone into detail on what exactly a mutant was. She and Kurt had urged Rogue to seek their Professors help but she declined. She was too dangerous.

The worst part of this whole experience had been when Irene had finally caught up with her somewhere three blocks over from their house. Rogue was too disoriented to wonder how a blind woman had found her at the time to think much of it and allowed her guardian to lead her back home. Not even a second after they had stepped through the door before Rogue was introduced to another woman, a blue woman. As it turned out after another accidental touch to the woman she now knew to be Mystique, she saw the woman's true plans for her.

So she ignored everything Irene, or should she say Destiny, said and ran. Well it just went to show her that she couldn't trust anyone and getting attached only made things worse. From this moment on no more, she was Rogue and she wasn't going to be used to further Mystique's plans. Rogue looked up as they called they called for people to board a bus heading somewhere west, Texas maybe. She had been lucky that Ororo had been a pickpocket at one point in time and had instructed her how to alleviate some more wealthy people of some unnecessary cash. Rogue boarded the bus and crossed her fingers that it would lead to better things.

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These aren't going to be very long, well some of them might.