Of Days and Events
By HazelEyes 401
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Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men Evolution, this show and all characters belong to Marvel. I do not own the song "Words I Couldn't Say" all rights to this song belong to the band, Rascal Flatts.
A/N: This is a rather dark chapter so read the whole thing please and you might need a box of tissues.
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Chapter 2: Of Songs and Dreams
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Students, meet me outside Cerebro. The professor's telepathic message informed all students on the grounds as they moved toward Cerebro.
Outside Cerebro, Professor X, Storm, and Logan stood waiting for the students. Rogue and Beast were the first to meet the small group.
"Good morning, Rogue. Are you feeling better?" Professor Xavier asked the young girl, obviously knowing about her fall just a few moments before.
"Ah'm doing fine, Professor. It was my own carelessness." Rogue replied to his concern.
"That is good to know. I'm glad that Gambit was able to help before you were seriously hurt."
"Speaking of which…" Logan growled as he saw the tall Cajun sauntering up to the little group.
Rogue kept looking for the other students but none of them seemed to materialize.
"Rogue, is there something wrong?" Xavier asked the girl as she continued to look nervous.
"Oh, it's just that…. Professor, where are the other students?" Rogue asked.
"They will be along shortly, but for now we must start."
"Charles, why are we meeting here?" Storm kindly asked the professor.
"I have been following Magneto very closely these past few months. After the jem-cutting accident, he made sure to stay low but now he has decided to re-surface." Xavier explained in his calm voice with hands steepled making sure to look Rogue in the eyes.
"Do you think there is a chance he will start up the jem radiation machine again?" Beast inquired with concern lacing his voice. Gambit stepped toward Rogue putting his arm around her shoulders.
"No, I don't believe so. That machine was completely destroyed in our last fight." Xavier continued looking Rogue in the eyes, almost as if he was trying to tell her something.
Rogue…
Rogue looked around as she thought she heard the Professors' voice in her head. Shaking her head, she ignored the voice and Gambit's questioning look. Rogue just smiled up at Gambit and caught Logan's quirked eyebrow.
"So, where is Magneto now?" Logan asked the obvious question.
"I'm still trying to narrow down the locations but it appears that he is at another factory."
"Why is he so interested in factories?" Beast queried.
"I think it has to do with all of the electricity that such a facility can produce." Xavier answered.
"Erik has always been obsessed with turning humans into mutants and he came very close to doing just that a few months ago. I believe the only reason he gave up that avenue was due to Rogue's accident. After we returned with Rogue still in a coma, I informed Erik that his machine takes away a mutant's x-gene and renders them human. Erik was horrified when he learned of this and he returned and turned that factory into dust and scrap metal. I have no doubts that Erik will not ever look to that machine ever again." Xavier continued to explain to the group as Rogue looked around the hallway, now getting creeped out at the lack of people.
"Professor, where is everyone else?" Rogue asked the professor as she turned toward him, his eyes again meeting hers almost pleading for her to understand.
"They will meet us at the factory." Xavier answered as Cerebro notified the group of a mutant's powers activating. Xavier wheeled into Cerebro and took the helmet off the base while the small group filed in.
"It appears to be Quiksilver. He is in a vacant factory in Canada." Xavier described the location.
"Why would Magneto go up to Canada?" Beasts asked the group.
"The area seems to be vacant so if something happens no innocents will get hurt." Storm answered Beast's question.
"What do ya mean if innocents get hurt?" Rogue asked with fear in her voice causing Gambit to place his arm around her shoulders.
"She means, Rogue that Magneto is not going to go easy on us anymore. Up 'til now he and his group have been fighting us to block us and prevent us from defeating his plans. Now things have changed, they are out for blood." Logan grimly explained the difference and the extra need for secrecy.
Do you understand Rogue?
'Understand what?' Rogue questioned Professor Xavier's voice in her head. She looked over at the professor and he was turned speaking to Storm and Beast. Gambit still held his arm around Rogue as a comforting gesture.
"No worries, Cherie. I won't let anyt'ing happen to you." Gambit whispered in her ear as she looked up to him.
Rogue silently wished that they didn't have to go on this mission she just liked being in Gambit's arms and enjoying his calming presence. So strange that she never noticed how calm the Cajun actually was even when they were fighting. Gambit's fighting style was to relax and wait for the attacker instead of jumping in, this is what made him so dangerous…or so Logan says. At the moment, Rogue didn't care she wanted to be near him but she didn't know how to tell him she liked this.
Just as she was about to say something, Professor Xavier spoke to the group again.
"Now that we all understand the situation we will all be traveling to Canada and we all must be on our guards. Quiksilver is there and we never know what he is capable of doing. Rogue I would ask you to stay behind but I know you better than that. Even if I begged you, I know that you would come anyway so I won't even try to stop you. Just be careful." Xavier wheeled over to her as he squeezed her hand and gave a knowing look to Gambit who nodded an affirmative to a silent question.
The group went their separate ways to prepare for the fight. After everyone had dressed, they all sat in the X-Jet where Rogue sat in the back wearing her mutant-powered necklace beside Gambit. Storm and Wolverine sat at the controls flying the jet out of the compound toward Canada, while Professor Xavier and Beast sat just behind acting as navigators. Rogue and Gambit enjoyed the peace in the back as they talked.
"Is there somet'ing on your mind, Cherie. You seem distracted." Gambit asked as his red eyes probed her light green ones.
"Well, it's nothing really but Ah am a little worried about this fight." Rogue admitted more to herself than to Gambit.
"Dere is not'ing to worry 'bout, Cherie. I will always watch you and I won't let anyt'ing hurt you ever again." Gambit reassured her as his hand enclosed her gloved one.
"Ah know that, ya never did try ta hurt me even when ya could have."
'Like on that train when ya kidnapped me ya crazy Cajun. Ya had nothing ta stop ya from attacking and killing me but ya were so easy with me. Ever since then ya've kind of stayed away and I sort of missed it. What the heck am Ah thinking!?!' Rogue furiously shook her head from side to side to expel that talk from her mind. She glanced over at Gambit and he didn't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary.
"Ya right, we'll be just fine." Rogue then squeezed Gambit's hand as he looked down to her.
Xavier spoke up behind Storm to announce their arrival. The factory seemed calm enough the building was nothing to look at but appeared as an empty warehouse with a giant parking lot and several street lamps. The only difference was the many power lines that connected to the building to indicate that building had the potential to create a lot of electricity as Professor Xavier had stated earlier.
"Everyone it is time. We must find out what Magneto is up to and stop him." Xavier announced as the plane landed and they marched out of the jet. As Rogue stood beside Gambit to leave the plane, he slipped a card to her. Rogue let him continue out of the plane as she looked at the card, a Queen of Hearts. She looked at it once more before she put it in her pocket for safe keeping.
Everyone was on their toes as they looked around and began to head for the building. At the doors, they still had not seen any other mutants or any sign of life. There was not a trace of evidence that the building was being used on the outside.
As Wolverine opened the door, the group saw just how active Magneto was at the moment. The entire warehouse was filled with walls of metal standing 12 feet tall forming an intricate maze that would be impossible to navigate.
Quiksilver ran up to the group slowly waving at them before zipping beside Rogue and dashing off to disappear in the maze.
"You-better-be-careful, it-gets-dangerous-in-here." Quiksilver's words echoed through the maze of metal.
Logan led the way into the maze everyone was on their toes because they could not see very far in front due to the walls. Professor Xavier rolled closely behind Storm and Logan then Beast fell behind Storm leaving Rogue and Gambit to bring up the rear. Rogue looked around the little bit of the room that they could see before everything happened.
Logan stiffened up as his metallic bones came under the control of Magneto while the walls of scrap metal disbanded circling above the group finally opening the room up. Magneto floated in the center near the ceiling directing the waves of metal to separate the group between Storm and Beast. A mass of metal slammed between the groups as they dodged the metal mass.
Beast, Rogue and Gambit were able to see their opponents: Quiksilver, Avalanche and Blob. The first to attack was Avalanche as he collapsed a wall of metal they barely managed to dodge. Gambit charged several cards from his deck and threw them at Avalanche causing him and Blob to be thrown back as Quiksilver escaped. Blob charged toward Beast as he was slammed through a wall of metal. Blob smirked at the hole Beast made in the metal but became confused when Beast did not come back out. Blob moved toward the hole so he didn't see Beast kick the giant into the hole safely immobilizing him. Beast observed that Blob was safe and immobile before he moved to find Professor Xavier.
Rogue was facing Quiksilver at the same time as Gambit was facing Avalanche. Gambit threw another charged card at Avalanche to throw him off balance so that he could run up to him and knock him out on a pile of metal.
Rogue was having more difficulty with Quiksilver, he was running around nothing more than a blur to her as she took her glove off of her hand he had finally stopped. Rogue approached behind only to watch him run behind her, fingering her necklace.
"You-know-I-heard-about-youraccident and Iknowthatyoucan'tfightwithoutthis." Quiksilver sped talked as he snatched her necklace away from Rogue.
Before he could move, she touched his face with her bare hand and was surprised to see nothing happened. Gambit looked over to Rogue just in time to see Quiksilver run off and throw Rogue down. Gambit saw red in more ways than one as he watched Rogue fall painfully to the ground and he started over to but was stopped by Blob. Between the fighting, Avalanche had woken up and freed Blob from his metal prison. Blob chose the unwise decision to block Gambit from going to help Rogue, and she needed help.
Rogue quickly realized that she should have stayed behind because she was not able to do anything as Pietro played with her running and waving her necklace just in front of her. Rogue knew she might not be able to fight with her powers but she was smart enough to fight. Her mind went through several scenarios and took stock of her surroundings and she got an idea on how to fight. Instead of following Pietro, she turned and ran away after his cries of outburst he followed her. She then hid in a corner of a wall waiting for Pietro to find the glove she dropped in the center of the passage. Pietro stopped in a cloud of dust and gingerly picked up the glove and stared at it almost willing it to produce Rogue. She quietly waited until she felt Avalanche's tremor to pull out a loose pipe and collapse the wall on top of Pietro before he could escape. Rogue came out of hiding to smile at the pile of metal that screamed for revenge and protesting to get out.
Rogue dusted her hands off and was blind-sided by Blob's hand across her cheek throwing her a good three feet. Rogue fell on the concrete floor groaning and looked up at Blob before the metal beside him glow red. Gambit jumped over the charged pile of metal to pick Rogue up and run off as the metal exploded, again throwing Blob into a wall of metal.
"Are you okay, Cherie?" Gambit asked as he started to look her over.
"Yea, Ah'm fine Gambit." Rogue answered as she saw his trenchcoat had been torn and a small cut on his right arm.
As Rogue started to touch Gambit, they were both thrown by metal pieces clinging to their clothes. Magneto stepped down looking at his fallen henchmen and he grew very angry. Gambit was able to wriggle free after he blew up the pieces that kept him airborne as he was making his way over a wall of metal was thrown on him all thanks to Magneto. Rogue looked at the pile of metal as Magneto began fashioning it to be smaller and smaller. She screamed and threw off the metal that was holding her down.
"GAMBIT!" Rogue screamed his name as she ran to Magneto only to be thrown back unconscious and heading for a metal wall. She was fortunate as Beast caught her before she made contact, holding her limp form he could only watch as Xavier and Storm threw Magneto against a wall knocking him unconscious and finally releasing Logan.
Logan ran over to Beast and carried Rogue back to the X-Jet as Xavier and Storm headed the same way. Beast ran to the pile to try to help Gambit but stopped after he dug a few pieces away. Beast hung his head low and mumbled a few words after which he ran to the jet also looking back with tears in his eyes.
Rogue's eyes fluttered as she awoke to find herself in the jet with the Professor, Beast, Logan and Storm but was disappointed at not finding Gambit.
"Where's Gambit?" Rogue demanded as she walked toward Xavier talking to Beast as Storm and Logan flew the jet.
"I'm terribly sorry Rogue," these were all the words Xavier could say as her eyes grew dark and she stumbled to her seat holding her head down so that no one could see her tears. She silently placed her bare hand at her neck where her necklace had been then reach into her pocket to remove the card that Gambit gave her before the fight.
'Ya stupid Cajun, ya needed this card more than ah did. Now, you're…you're…' Rogue could not bear the thought of knowing where he was as she cried again.
The flight back to the mansion seemed infinite to the group as all became hyper aware that one important member was missing. Rogue stayed silent crying her eyes out until she didn't feel anything at all. As the X-jet landed, Rogue subconsciously walked out the jet and put on her normal clothes as she went to her room to remove a box in her closet.
The box held her most precious possessions, the most prominent being five playing cards. Rogue then blindly walked to her bed and sat on the edge with the box open as music drifted into the room.
In a book- in a box- in the closet
In a line- in a song I once heard
In a moment on a front porch late one june
In a breath inside a whisper beneath the moon
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There it was at the tip of my fingers
There it was on the tip of my tongue
There you were and I had never been that far
There it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms
And I let it all slip away
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What do I do now that you're gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn't say
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There's a rain that will never stop fallin'
There a wall that I tried to take down
What I should have said just wouldn't pass my lips
So I held back and now we've come to this
And it's too late now
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What do I do not that you're gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn't say
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"The Queen of hearts?" Rogue looked up in the box car as Remy held up a card from his solitaire game.
"My lucky lady. She's gotten me out of a whole lot of jams." Remy kissed the card in his hand.
"Then I need a deck of those." Rogue replied as she continued to watch him play solitaire.
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The words I couldn't say
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"You needed this card more than I did." Rogue spoke to air as a tear splashed down on the card startling her. Stroking her face to find more tears had found the way to the surface.
Ignoring her tears she peered back into the box and counted all of the playing cards that Gambit had given her over the months for a total of six. Gambit had given Rogue six of the same card: the Queen of Hearts. As the meaning of these cards hit her, her tears came forth with a vengeance telling her she was a fool for not telling him when she had a chance and now she would never see or talk to him again.
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Should have found a way to tell you how I felt
Now the only I'm telling is myself
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What do I do now that you're gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All i can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn't say
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What do I do now that you're gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldn't say
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The song on the radio ended as Rogue walked out of the mansion to stand at the front door, staring down the drive at nothing. As she stood out there she felt a gush of wind and saw metal flowing around her body, looking up she saw Magneto floating down with his hand controlling the metal and creating a cocoon around her. Rogue started to panic as she couldn't move or speak watching the light disappear and waiting for the crunch……
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"AHHH," Rogue screamed as she shot out of the bed scaring her brother who promptly teleported causing Rogue to breathe in sulfurous fumes.
Kurt ported to the ceiling as Rogue doubled over in coughing fit as he hits himself for being scared.
"Bitte erschrecken Sie mich nicht wie diese meine Schwester.(1)" Kurt cried in German, as he jumped back to the chair beside Rogue's bed.
"What happened? How did I get here? Where is Magneto? And, Gambit?" Rogue asked her brother who only stared at her as if she had gone crazy.
"Vat are you talking about? Ve haven't heard from Magneto in months and Gambit isn't here right now." Kurt explained.
"What? But we were fighting him just yesterday." Rogue tried to make sense from what just happened.
"Vat do you mean: yesterday? Rogue, you have been in a coma for the past four days ever since we found you in the library. Apparently, you had fallen from the ladder trying to reach a book." Kurt explained as he reached over to the phone to call Beast to come and look at Rogue.
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A/N: Did anyone really think I would kill off Remy? This is a Romy story and you can't have a Romy without Remy. Anyways this was a hard chapter to write because of what I had to do but it is very important and you will see why in the next chapter. In the meantime, please read and review.
(1) "Please, Do not scare me like that, my sister."