Chapter 2
The first thing I was alert of was a beeping sound. I tried to open my eyes, but I was still trying to fully wake up.
When I finally had total control of my body, I slowly began to open my eyes. I winced because of how bright the room was. 'Room?' I asked myself. The last thing I remember was the pull of my powers. 'Oh no, Logan,' I realized.
I quickly sat up in bed and found that I was in a medical room located within the mansion. I calmed down a bit when I realized where I was, but I was still worried about Logan. Was he alright, or had he fallen victim to my skin and died.
I got off the bed and began to head for the door. I stumbled a bit to get there, but I quickly recovered.
I came to a slightly annoying conclusion, though. I didn't know where Logan was. 'Damn it,' I thought. Instead of wondering around aimlessly I decided to go to the professor's office. I almost got lost on my way there, but like always I managed.
When I made it to the professor's office doors I stopped and took a deep breathe before continuing in. I saw that the professor was not alone, though. The woman named Storm and the X-men leader were there. The first one to notice me though, was the professor.
"Rouge! What are you doing out of the infirmary?" he asked with a bit of surprise in his voice. I saw that the other two people in the room had turned their attention on me. I began to feel out of place and slowly started to back away from them.
"Ah, I-I…. Well I came to ask you something, but I can see you're busy. Sorry to trouble you," I said quickly. I began to walk away but I was stopped by the professor's voice, "No, no, it's fine we were just chatting. You didn't disturb us. Come in," he said kindly.
I didn't want to be rude so I complied. I walked over to his desk and found that I was beside the other two people. This made me even more uncomfortable.
"So what was your question?" the professor asked softly.
I composed myself and said, "Right, is Logan alright? He's still alive?"
The professor gave me a curious look before he said, "Yes, he's fine. In fact he'll be here in less than ten seconds."
As if on cue I heard loud heavy footsteps coming to the office. I turned to look behind me and saw that there in fact stood Logan with a bunch of flowers in his hands. I let out a sigh before rushing over to him. I was about to hug him when I saw that not only was I not wearing gloves, I was wearing short sleeves. I flinched before backing away a bit.
"Logan, I'm so happy you're okay," I sighed out in relief. He gave me a big smile and took the cigar out of his mouth before responding, "Kid, I can't die that easily."
I laughed at this and he gave me a smirk.
"Here I brought these for you," he said as he handed me the bouquet of flowers in his hands. I gave him a smile and a soft thank you before I gladly took them. I saw that they were lotus flowers mixed in with plumeria flowers. I smelled them and sighed in content.
"Thank you! I love lotus and plumeria flowers," I said gleefully. As soon as the words left my mouth my eyes widened. My smile became a frown and I felt sorrow, anger, and sadness consume me. Logan noticed this and frowned.
"Hey, kid, are you okay?" I heard Logan ask me in a worried tone. I felt tears in my eyes as I remembered the boy's memories. I began to back away from Logan. This action gained even more concern from him.
"Rouge, hey, Rogue, what's wrong," he asked clearly vexed because of me. I had stopped backing away and was now shaking my head no. I kept thinking back to the boy. As all the emotions soared through my body I found that there was one emotion that reigned over the rest; rage.
I looked down at the flowers once more before I began to tear at them. When I was sure they didn't look pretty anymore I through them across the room and away from me.
By now I had everyone's attention on me, and I felt uncomfortable again. They probably thought I was insane. They weren't far fro the truth, though.
"I don't…It's not me… I don't like them… NO!" I shrieked at them. I felt tears drip down my chin and down to the carpet.
I saw Storm move to me but I stumbled to get away from her.
"Don't touch me!" I yelled.
Before they could say anything, I fled from the room.
I fled from the mansion, and I ran straight in to the forest. I didn't stop running till the only sound I truly heard was that of my heavy breathing and pounding heart. The silence didn't last very long because as I finally stopped feeling a burning sensation in my chest, I began to hear them all twelve of them, plus Logan and Magneto. They all began ranting about nonsense at the same time. Their voices were so loud that I couldn't really hear any of their conversations; instead I was beginning to feel a pounding headache. I clutched my head before begging, "Shut up! Please just shut up!"
None of them did.
I began to feel lightheaded and unbalanced so I fell to the ground on my knees. I took three deep breaths before concentrating on barrier in my head. At first it wouldn't stay, but by my fifth try I managed to put all their voices away.
I breathed out in relief when I found that I was able to hear my own thoughts. 'Thank you,' I thought to no in particular.
Although I was calm, I didn't want to head back to the mansion yet, so I lay down on the cool, green grass. The trees above me took my breath away. They were massive and tall.
"I wonder what you guys would say if you could talk. What stories would you need and want to tell?" I said softly to them as if they understood me.
"They would probably tell of all the obstacles and glories man kind has had to face," I heard a man's voice said. I gasped in alarm before I quickly got of the ground. I looked around until I spotted the X-man's team leader leaning against a tree. He was staring at me as if assessing all my movements.
"How long have you been there?" I asked in alarm.
"Long enough," he replied as if I was supposed to know what he meant. He began to walk over to me and I saw he had a few familiar items in his hands.
"The professors worried about you, so he sent me out here to get you. Here, I bought you one of you sweaters and a pair of gloves," he said as he handed me the items. I nodded in gratitude and began to put them on. When my skin was covered he began to walk towards the mansion, and I had no choice but to follow.
As we neared the office I heard one of the voices in my head say, 'Please, you've got to help me.'
I furrowed my brows and thought, 'I can't right now.'
'Please I just need to see my children,' said the voice again. My narrowed a bit and suddenly I knew who this voice belonged to. It came from the woman who could control water.
'I know you're worried but there isn't anything I can do at this very moment,' I thought to her. My heart clenched at these words, but I had to go see the professor. As we entered the office I locked her up in my mind.
"Scott, Rouge, you're here," the professor said casually. I nodded and so did the X-man leader. 'Scott. I wonder if he has blue or green eyes,' I wondered.
"The first is more of a possibility," I heard the professor say. I looked up at him in slight shock and embarrassment. He chuckled a bit before gesturing us to sit.
"Now I would like to ask what happened here an hour ago," he asked me. I looked straight into his eyes and knew that I couldn't get out of this.
I sighed before saying, "I…don't like lotuses, I like lilies. I love staring at the moon, not the sun, and I love chocolate ice cream not strawberry."
"Yes, but what does this have to do with your incident this morning? We want to know if you think we can trust around other people," Scott said harshly. I winced at this, but I looked over to him and said, "No you can't. I think you should have known this since the beginning. The moment you knew what my skin could do you should have just thrown me out of this school. Is that the answer you want?"
"Rouge, we are not going to throw you out. We wan to help you," Professor X said.
"No," I said calmly.
"No what?" Scott asked.
I glared at him before saying, "No I will not need your help. I'm leaving."
"Look, because of you my team and New York was put in danger. Stop thinking about your self and start thinking about others," Scott gritted.
"Stop thinking you know me! I left on the train because I didn't want to endanger anybody here. How was I supposed to know that the metal head bastard wanted to use me for his evil plan?" I hissed out.
"Scott, Rouge," the professor said to get our attention.
We both turned to look at him.
"Scott I know that this mission risked a lot more than we thought, but we can not hold that against Rouge," the professor said sternly.
"And Rouge, I want to help you. I truly do, but I need to be let in," the professor said.
"Why don't you just rummage threw my head and pull out whatever you're looking for?" I asked him.
"I want to keep that as a last resort, and besides you unconsciously seem to be guarding your mind from me, at times," he answered.
"Sorry," I said softly.
"Quite alright, but I must ask before you were taken to Liberty Island where were you?" he inquired.
I took a shake breath before saying, "I don't know. It was like a cave, but I can't be sure."
He nodded at me and asked, "What happened to you while you were there?"
"At first they just had me shackled against a wall, but later they tried to persuade me to join 'the cause'." I laughed bitterly at this before continuing, "I told them no over and over, until they stopped asking. After that the bastard started babbling about how I would be his newest toy. He was going to make me his weapon by force. He…he…made Mystique drag them over to me. ….I fought. I truly fought, but I….I couldn't get out of those wretched restraints! A little girl was first. She had a happy life… until she met them. God damn it she was only seven!"
"Rouge did you kill her?" the professor asked cautiously.
I looked up at him and said, "I killed them."
"Them? How many people were there?" I heard Scott ask.
"There were twelve people, and she got through all of them," I replied with sorrow.
"Why didn't you stop her?" Scott bit out angrily.
"You don't think I tried? You think I wanted their memories and burdens. I can barely deal with myself. Why would you ever think that? You think I want their powers? What for?" I hissed.
"I've never let anyone see me hurt. I would always pick myself up and lock down my emotions, but I come here and all the barriers I've built come crashing down. When I was there I wished for death. When Logan came to my rescue I cursed which ever god existed. You seem to want to remind me that I'm this monster that needs to just disappear or be 'taken care of', but you don't think I know that?" I whimpered.
I saw him sigh before saying, "I'm sorry."
"Keep your sorry," I gritted out.
"Rouge you are not a monster. If anyone should gain that title its Magneto. I'm just frustrated that during this mission the feeling of helplessness never seemed to leave," Scott confessed.
I nodded and in a way accepted his apology.
"We want you to stay, Rouge. Your powers my indeed be dangerous, but I'm certain you will be ale to control them one day. If you stay the road to controlling your powers won't be easy, but I'll make sure that it will be worth it," the Professor said.
I stared at the professor, trying to figure out what to do.
"I like to act on instinct, and my instinct tells me that I should stay. My only promise to you professor is that I will always try my hardest, but my mind is very unstable. I know that, and Magneto knows that, so if I become his ultimate weapon somehow, I'm giving you permission to kill me," I told him.
I felt shock radiating from both of the but I ignored it.
"Rouge I don't thing it will ever come down to that," Scott said.
"The way Magneto was positive that I would become his weapon makes me worried. I need to be assured that if it does come down to that you will haven't any doubts on what to do," I said stubbornly.
"Rest assured your orders will be followed, but I will try for it to not come down to that," Professor X said.
"Thank you."
A/n: To answer a question, yes this is during the first movie. From how she meets Logan to the Statue of Liberty, but after that it's all different.
