What If?
Push Me is Back! This fic is a Romy! Even though Push Me loves Robby (Rogue Bobby better) Better, Push Me is jumping on the band wagon and writing a Romy...
Summary: What if Rogue's mutant power never manifested? What would life be like? And would she still meet a certain Cajun...?
(For the purposes of this story, Rogue's name is Marie Darkholme)
Let's find out!
Let's go Push Me (Cheerleaders)
The girl called Marie sat in double Maths first thing on Monday morning.
Euh...Maths.
Her teacher babbled on, trying in vain to explain to his class the miracle of Triggernomatry...and failing.
In maths, Marie usually let her attention wander, her eyes scanning the classroom, but not focusing... Until they rested on the eye candy...
Cody looked as board as she was, spinning a pencil with one finger, while stretching the other arm out to one side, clerly not caring what the teacher was saying.
Marie shifted her chair sideways a little trying to get a glimpse of his face. Even from her position on the other side of the class (The teacher seperated them, when he noticed her grades slipping) she could see the bored expression on his face, his mouth half open as he barely stifled a yawn.
He looked around and met her gaze, his mouth shifting into a lopsided grin, making Marie shiver. She loved that smile...
Unfortunately, she was not the only one who noticed his smile, and the two were ''invited'' to detention after school for there lack of concenration.
Great, she thought watching Cody protest about football practice while the teacher attempted to hand him a detention form, Riley's gonna blame me for this...
She glanced across the class, no-one really paying her gaze much attention, until it fell on Riley, a transferredstudant from Northbrook, Illinois. Something about bullying another girl, she wasn't sure.
Already captain of the cheerleader team, and ''Top Dog'' amongst her friends, she despised Marie...
Riley had everything she did at her old school,except the most important thing... the most popular guy in school on his knees before her...
That title belonged to Marie, and Riley would do anything to get it, and Marie knew it. Whenever Cody left her site, or at the football games, he was prey to her...
That was why now Riley had the scowl on her face, knowing full well that if Cody had detention, he wouldn't go to football practice, and would walk her home after the teacher released them.
Marie smiled sarcastically and noticed the pencil in Riley's hand shake violantly. She returned her attention to the teacher, lest risk more time in detention.
Marie pulled her lunch out of her locker, looking into the depths of the brown paper bag, as she didn't inspect it before leaving for school. She sighed in relief. Irene had packed her lunch, not that sad excuse for a husband she had. He could see, yet he couldn't seem to butter a piece of bread to save his life.
Irene, completely blind, packed exaactly what she knew Marie liked. Her record now in the 20s seconds. Amazing woman.
That's not all that was amazing about her though...
Sometimes, on one of Marie'snightly trips to the kitchen, she would find Irene lieing in bed, eyes open, babbling to herslf about what she thought the day would be like tomorrow... Which was usually right...
Maybe this leaked out, cause she was getting a lot of Prank phone calls, looking for a woman named Destiny...
Evil bastards... Didn't they know she was blind?
Realising she was still in the crowded hall with her face in lunch, Marie blushed. She'd always been good at avoiding the crowds, even though she was the girlfriend of the football team captain. She was never pointed out in the crowd, except for one thing... her hair...
She'd always had a white streak at the front of her Auburn hair, but she never knew why... Irene said she was born with it, but she wasn't there at the birth, soMarie doubtedshe knewthat. She looked at it as a normal strand of hair, and Cody liked it... He could sit for hours in her room, simply twinding it round his fingers, lightly brushing her scalp ashe did so. She would close her eyes, feeling the light kisses along her neck, until he reached her faceand pressed one lightly on her lips then...
''Marie?''
Her eyes shot open. She had beenstanding there, re-enacting her private moments in the school hall, until Cody had brought her back to Earth.
She blushed at the puzzled look he gave her, and muttered that she was fine. She clasped her gloved hand round his, as he led her down the hall to the lunchroom, ignoring Riley's death glares.
The tables were filling according to social status. Footballers, Cheerleaders, nerds, and of coarse, No-Man's-Land in the middle.
That was where Cody and her always sat. He got some strange looks from his friends as they walked past, but he ignored them. Marie always felt a little guilty, like she was stopping Cody from having fun.
''Y'know...'' she said after another look from a footballer, ''You can sit with those guys if you wan'.''
Cody gave her a searching look,and clasped her hand in his.
'' I know that Marie...'' He whispered, leaning close and kissing her cheek. '' But I'd sit with you, rather than them anyday...''
Marie smiled softly, blushing as the cheerleaders glared at Cody.
''Cody... Everyone's looking at us... I don't want ya to prove anythi...''
''No..'' he whispered, '' but I wan' to...''
He pressed a kiss to her lips, letting it linger before pulling away, and smiling softly, before continuing with his lunch like nothing had happened. Marie placed her lunch back in the bag. She couldn't eat while Cody was with her, her stomach wouldn't allow it.
He kissed her one last time before waving and leaving with the rest of the footballers, heading for their meeting with their coach. Marie watched him leave, before she finally pulled out her lunch and began choking it down.
'' Careful Marie, keep eating like that and you'll be in the next football match!''
Marie turned to face the glowering Riley flanked as always by her group of giggling girls.
'' And unlike the ball, Cody will drop you like a stone. You might stay popular for a while... I hear girls like you get passed round the whole team before being let go...''
This was met with squels of laughter, until an abrupt cough made Riley choke on her own.
Cody smirked,
'' You would only know that Riley, cause you were the first. Did it get you closer to me?'' he asked coldly.
All Riley's friend took a step back, not wanting to look like they were involved, and one brave girl tried to start a conversation about shoes. Realising her support was gone, Riley stepped away, muttering something about when Cody's not around to protect her.
Cody gripped Marie by the arm, lifting her gently, and pulling her towards the door. When they reached the hall, he turned to face her, his face softened.
''I'm sorry Marie. I know all the bullshit you put up with for me. Don't worry 'bout Riley... She'll get tired. She always does...''
Marie doubted it in this case, but nodded all the same and let herself get pulled ontohis arms.
''Thanks Cody...Ah love you...''
''I love you too...''
She let him gently disengage her arms, and with a final smile, took off down the hall after his teammates.
Hmmmm, Marie thought, He's gotta forget hisHelmet more often... She looked down to where she was still clutching the helmet weighing down her hands.