They like me, they really like me... wow that sounds really cliché. Moving along swiftly, here's the next chapter. I do not own X-Men in any shape or form. I only own this form of plot line. Now read you peoples, read! (laughs evilly)
Second ChanceChapter 1
Wolverine and Storm walked up to the porch of the southern household. It had nearly been a month since Rogue's heroic death but her family needed to know about her. It had taken a little bit of there day to find the Marie Raven's home but they found it in Caddlecott, Missouri.
It was a sunny saturday afternoon. The news was something no one expected on an afternoon like this.
They stepped up, rang the door bell, and waited until a young woman opened the door.
"Yes... what can I do for you." A thick southern accent rolled of her tongue, she looked almost like Marie only she had a longer nose and dirty blond hair.
"We have some news about Marie Raven." Storm said almost breaking her composure.
The youthful woman brightened up instantly, "Oh, come on in." She led them in closing the door behind them.
"Mom, Dad some people are here." She shouted to them somewhere in the house and led them to a finely furnished front living room. Two older people came from upstairs, Marie's parents.
"Mister and Misses Raven I am Ororo Monroe and this is Logan." They shook hand, exchanged pleasantries, (Iced tea fresh cookies that sort of thing.) and sat down.
"Uh,... This is Rose and I'm Howard and that's Anna." The man of the house pointed to Rogue's deadringer.
"They've got news on how Marie's doing!" Anna nearly shouted but she was waiting for them to spill ever so impatiently.
"Please, do tell then" Rogue's mother shifted in waiting.
"I am a teacher at Charles Xaivour's school for the gifted in New York, where she was given a charity tuition. You should be proud she was a bright child." Storm said, her voice close to cracking.
"Do you have a point ma'am, I don't like those that beat around the bush." Said Mr. Raven sternly.
"What do you mean 'was'!" Anna's words came rushed, she had caught the past tense word.
"Calm down before you start jumping to conclusions!" Logan almost snapped clearly not happy that he was sent to break the news.
The family was silent, waiting for something, anything.
"Ro-...Marie has.. died. A little less than a month ago." Storm broke and let a few tears slide down her face.
Questions hit Storm and Logan like a train.
"WHY WEREN'T WE TOLD THEN, NOT JUST NOW!" Rogue's father shouted, grief and rage in his voice.
"My baby oh, how could this have happened. Tell me please!" Grief swelling in the mothers eyes.
One question stopped their ranting. "What happened?" Anna's voice cracked but it was stern. Tears where running down her cheeks and the lights flickered.
"Oh, um, She was out.. swimming early one morning and... she had a fit in the water and drowned. She was out alone because of … well her mutation, so she didn't tell any one that she went out." Storm stuttered.
"Was she happy, at the school?" Storm was truly puzzled by Anna's question. "Was she?"
"... Yes." Storms answer made the girl smile ever so slightly.
"Mom.. Dad... stop pretending. You don't love her, you both were happy when she left." Both parent s looked stunned. While she got up and walked to the back door, light bulbs and power sockets buzzing when she walked past them.
"What does she mean you people don't love her?" Wolverine asked, remembering what Rogue had said about her dad.
Her father fumed, looked at his wife and got up and left.
The tears in the mothers eyes had completely gone and a remorseful anger had settled.
"This is a small town," her mother said, her voice hard and cold. "When Cody went into a coma, people started asking questions. Especially when Cody was healthy and wasn't hurt. They started to suspect something when Marie covered up showing nothing but her face. Finally we just told her to go. We have a reputation to up hold, our family has lived her for a hundred and fifty eight years! Our name has been here since the beginning of the town, we will not let it be tarnished by a mutant child!"
To this Logan growled, a family that thought their reputation was more important than their own daughter! Marie was so sweet. No one would have guessed that she was shunned like this.
"I think its time you left." The woman said, she went an opened the door for them.
"Hey, kid." Logan caught Anna's attention by calling her. She turned around, she was still crying. " The funerals in one weeks time. If you want to come, give the Professor a call and he'll get you there. Just give it some thought, okay... Also if you need anything else, just call this line." He handed her a card with the line to Charles' desk.
" I''m not a kid, I'm nineteen, and I will, thanks." Anna said gratefully.
Mrs. Raven cleared her throat and gestured for the door. The elder mutants left hoping that someone from Rogue's family would pay their respects. Within a hour they were half way to New York.
End chapter two.
Well I think that went well considering the circumstances. The next couple of chapters are going to be a little ( lot ) slow, depends on your out look, but just bear with me. I'll need lots of reviews for chapter three to come up. There's a reason that button exists. I'll need your ideas and what you hope will happen too. So I might be able to incorporate your fantasy into my story.