Kitty didn't get to go on the mission to rescue Rogue. This is what I think may have been her toughts after :) Enjoy
Half the team went on a mission to rescue Rogue a few weeks back. It went pretty smoothly from what Kurt has told me. He seems to be the only one willing to talk about it. He told me that Gambit wasn't the problem. It was a rival family called the Rippers or Assassins. Apparently Gambit had needed Rogue's help to save his father. Scott made Kurt swear to keep everything else quiet, but I'm slowly putting a few things together. Little details that the rest might not be noticing.
It's been a few weeks since Wolverine, Kurt, Scott, and Storm brought Rogue back from her "trip" to Louisiana with Gambit. I'm not quite sure if anyone else has noticed how Rogue has suddenly become attached to that playing card. The Queen of Hearts. I know she got it from Gambit. Kurt told me she had it in her hand after Gambit had left with his father. Something about it being the Queen of Hearts bothers me. I think he gave her that card on purpose. Jean thinks that I'm overthinking it and Rogue just blows me off.
"It's just a playing card, Kitty." She tells me. "What's the big deal?"
As her bestie, you'd think that Rogue would open up and talk to me every once in a while. I understand not talking to Jean; everyone knows Rogue doesn't like her much. I don't think Storm would understand. Gambit's the enemy. Rogue shouldn't have any sort of attachment to him. She acts like she doesn't, but I can't help but think she does. That card holds more value to her than books.
Sometimes she has these random French outbursts. I think she absorbed him. It only happens when she gets flustered or angry. Sometimes at night I notice the red on black eyes and I think it may be her, but then in the morning they are gone and Rogue goes back to fiddling with that stupid playing card.
I hid it from her once, to see how she would react. It was one of the many stupid things I've done in my life, but by far the stupidest. She tore up the mansion. I put it back on her nightstand when she said she wanted to see Professor Xavier. I think she knows I took it from her. She clutches it more tightly when I'm near her.
When she cooks, she no longer has the radio turned on. Instead she hums some tune under her breath. The pot holds something for her that no one else can see. She is absorbed in it.
The other night Rogue had cooking duty. She was completely absorbed by the food in the pot, tuning everyone and everything out, and instead of pasta or steak, she up and made 'jambalaya'. She declared that we were ready to grow a pair of taste buds and taste some "real southern food".
"Ain't real food unless it's got some spice to it. You northerners have no sense of cooking." Her words, I swear. If she isn't in the kitchen cooking some southern dish, she is holed up somewhere with her nose stuck in a book and that damn playing card. It's like she is lost.
That mission was supposed to be a rescue.
Maybe it wasn't after all.
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