Onwards to Chapter 1.
Oh, something I forgot in the prologue:
Unfortunately I do not own the copyrights to X-Men:Evolution. Those belong to Marvel Comics. This is a fanmade work.
Thank you.
Charles Xavier sat behind his desk, looking over his first class. Kurt and Kitty were on either side of Rogue trying to console her, as she sat with her head in her hands. Logan looked ready to kill, while Hank and Ororo were trying to keep him calm. Scott and Jean both looked pensive but ready for action. Evan was absent, as he'd returned to the Murdocks after the Apocalypse incident had been resolved.
"What now?" Rogue had raised her head, looking almost reserved.
"I'm sorry, Rogue. I don't understand what you're asking," he replied.
"It ain't like Gambit to be caught on film," she paused. "Unless he wants to be."
The group stared at her.
"Like, why would he want to be caught?"
"Sendin' a message maybe?"
"That MRD facility isn't far," Logan put in. "He might be trying to make mutants look bad, make our lives a little harder."
"I highly doubt that's the case, Logan, but I agree that this will impact our image negatively," he paused then turned to thst group. "Scott, Jean, Ororo, and Hank, I want to see if you can find Gambit, capture him, if you can, and bring him back here for questioning. Kitty, you've gotten very good with computers, see if you can access the MRD files and find out what he stole. The rest of you, don't act rashly."
While the others went to change and Kitty went to hack, Rogue, Kurt, and Logan were left with the Professor.
"What's the deal, Chuck? I'm the best tracker you got, and you know it."
"Yes, Logan, you are," came the calm reply "but you, Kurt, and Rogue have more... personal ties with Gambit. I don't want you finding him alone."
Logan would try to kill him for what happened with Rogue, Kurt would try and get him alone with Rogue, and Rogue, herself, was emotionally susceptible to whatever he might do.
"Please, just stay in the mansion tonight."
Logan tried to argue, and Xavier quickly dismissed Rogue and Kurt so as to speak with him privately.
Kurt walked with Rogue upstairs and back to her room, making a few attempts to strike up a conversation, but she was too distracted to make more than one or two word replies. When he bade her good night at her door, she didn't answer at all.
Rogue walked over to her desk, opening the top draw on the right side. Reaching in, she pulled out a single playing card. fingering the edges, she returned to her long abandoned book and bed. Though she knew she wouldn't get any reading done, and she doubted she'd sleep either.
Laying back on her bed, Rogue closed her eyes and raised the card to rest against her forehead like a charm. She remained like that for some time after that, never falling asleep.
Rogue's eyes snapped open at the loud blaring of the alarm. Card in hand, she jumped from her bed and ran to the window. Someone had activated the mansion's defenses.
She scanned the grounds from her window, searching for the intruder. There. A figure leapt over one of the lasers, making a beeline for the door.
Working fast, Rogue opened her window and, sliding the card into her back pocket, leapt out, landing with a soft thud in the grass. She ran along the outside wall. Kurt and Bobby had already made it onto the front steps, closely followed by the others. Logan was no where to be found.
Adrenaline pumping, Rogue managed to get between the X-Men and the intruder before anyone could attack. She knew who it was, and she didn't want him hurt. The figure stopped in front of her hunched over and breathing hard.
Someone had shut down the defenses and all was quiet except for the combined panting of Rogue and the man before her. She noticed that he wasn't wearing his trench coat, but it wrapped around something in his arms.
"Rogue, chère," he looked up at her, red irises on black sclera just like she remembered, "please, ya gotta 'elp 'er."
Rogue looked down in surprise at his offered hands, or rather, what they held: a girl.
Told you it'd be short, I'll try to get the second chapter up before my party on Saturday. My mom'll be outta town next Friday so we're celebrating my birthday early.
Fixed the flow and some grammatical errors, same with chapter 2. I'll get chapter 3 up soon. Probably not today though.
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