All righty. I'm back. I decided that after my long hiatus that I would finally return. I didn't feel like continuing my old stuff so I'm starting something new. It's a Romy.
College Bound
First POV:
I walked across the grass of the Memorial Mall. I finally made it to Purdue. After going to school so long at Xavier's I decided I wanted to go out of state for college. Purdue, I thought was an excellent choice. Bobby didn't like it. He thought that I should go to the local college like a lot of the other students. He didn't think it was right for me to be so far from the safety of the mansion. Professor assured me that I would be perfectly safe here at Purdue. He even introduced me to a professor that taught here. Dr. Hank McCord. And get this, He's a mutant too. In fact, he's big and blue!
Wolverine decided to follow me down for a day or two to see I'm ok. Today was the first day of classes so Wolverine told me that he would meet me at the Class of 50 building at 5:30 to go out to eat. He had to be leaving for New York soon.
Though the summer was still holding strong here in Indiana, I knew I had to be careful about my skin. No 0ne here would know it's dangerous. I wore jeans and a coat with the hood up. Plus my usual scarf and gloves to cover my skin. Boy was it hot. Back home I could wear stuff a little cooler because people knew better.
Somewhere behind me I could hear the bell tower chiming. Twenty Minutes after the hour. That's wheat that meant. Twenty minutes after the hour was when classes let out. Five twenty is the end of the last class of the day.
Before I knew it, there where people surrounding me. They were everywhere, swarms of them.
Shorts, tank tops, short skirts! Everywhere they were people.
PEOPLE With EXPOSED SKIN!
THEY WERE A MASS OF HUMANITY. FLAUNTING SKIN THAT WAS SO DANGEROUS TO ME.
Just one mistake, one slip and I could be touched!
I COULD HURT SOMEONE!
ALL THE PEOPLE WITH ALL THE SKIN STARTED TO SPIN, NO THE EARTH WAS SPINING AND THEN THE PAVEMENT WAS RUSHING UP TO GREET ME. . .
Second POV:
I took the last drag of my cigarette before crushing it under the ball of my foot. I stood in a dark corner in the shelter of the class of 50 building. I'm not really a student here. More of a loiterer. I hang around the campus because it's easy picking around here. All these college kids with their parents credit cards.
Today though was a little different. Today I was watching a girl.
She was the most intriguing girl, not just because of her looks. She had those. She was short, petite, and very shapely. Her long hair was in loose curls falling down with a streak of white falling over her eyes. I couldn't see from this distance but I'm sure if I could, her eyes would be green.
More odd then her striking beauty were her clothes. In the late Indiana summer we were experiencing a heat wave. Today was at least a 100 degrees and the high humidity made every thing hot, muggy, and miserable.
I even left my brown leather duster at home because of the stifling heat. This girl thought, she was wearing black raver jeans with a white top. The swoop neck line could have only let in the smallest breeze. And a coat! A black winter! It was a flowing trench with a hood pulled up over her head. She was even wearing gloves and a scarf!
She had an alluring mysteriousness about her.
Behind me I could hear the bell tower and it moments the woman was surrounded by college students at there best. Scantly clad for the hot weather. The amount of noise that many students make is amazing. I almost lost her in the crowd. Over the heads of the people nearby I could see her grab her head. She looked around at all the people passing by her and loading onto busses. I moved in closer to see her better but as I got closer to see her better I could see her swaying. When I reached her side she fell practically into my arms.
"Gambit t'ink you in need uh rescuin' cher."
Author POV
Rogue felt herself being carried away from the oppressing crowd. When she stopped moving she opened her eyes to find herself in the arms of a ruggedly handsome man in dark sunglasses. He smiled the most charming smile know to Womenkind.
He was smileing because he was right. She had beautiful green eyes. Avruptly she started to push out of his arms.
"ya can let go. Ah'm fine."
Her southern accent was music to gambits ears.
"Name's Gambit. An' who be you cher?"
"Gambit. An' what kinda risky move are ya Cajun?"
Gambit smiled at the name he'd taken for his own years ago. Gambit, a risky move. Generally in chess, a pawn will be sacrificed in order to gain position and win. It's called a gambit. Gambit was one for risky moves, like saving mysterious women from being crushed under the feet of a hundred College students.
"Well Cher, you don' be lookin' to well righ' now. Wha' happen?"
She looked back at the crowd.
"Panicked is all. Too many people 'round."
"So da Cher be scared a people? You be from a small southern school den?"
Rogue glared at him. Was he insinuating that she could not take care of herself, like she was some back water county bumkin!
"Ah'll have ya know, Ah went ta school jus' out side a New York City! It's just. . . Different!" She was about to say it's dangerous because no one knows.
"Are ya gonna tell Gambit ya name, or ya gonna make Gambit beg?"
She gave him another look over. Besides the fact that he was a little messy it seemed to work for him. A kind of sleazy handsome charmer. Mysterious and cute. But in the distance she could hear Wolverine's motorcycle coming down the Memorial Mall.
She walked to where Wolverine had parked his bike and smiled back at Gambit.
"Mah frien's call me Rogue, but since Ah don' think we'll be seein' each other again, Ah don' think you'll be callin' me anythin'."
She pulled on her helment and jumped on the back to the bike.
Gambit watched as she drove away.
She was mysterious that's for sure. He pulled out the ID he took form her pocket while she was distracted.
Marie Logan.
That was all Gambit needed to know. The phone book and a few pulled strings could ensure that he'd run into her again.
AN
I got this idea when I was standing at the bus stop in front to the class of 50 lecture hall building. I attend Purdue University so for the first part of this it will be based in my lovely college home. I have a few ideas of places that the two will be "running into each other" that are places around campus.
But anyway I want to know what everyone thinks of it!
So Read and Review and hopefully in a few days (Wednesday (crosses fingers) )I'll have another chapter up.
since I didnt get this loaded until wednesday lets shoot for friday.
Rogue obsessed
