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The next morning when Rogue woke up she didn't remember what had happened last night. She was just lying there wondering why she felt so tired.
Then she saw a glimpse of red out of the corner of her eye, a little red heart, strange she thought sleepily. She sat up abruptly, suddenly wide awake of course she was tired she'd been up half the night with Gambit.
Her hand jumped to her neck, she felt a smooth black plastic collar with a mettle clasp there, "oh no" she whispered.
Rogue made sure to take a shower with lots of soap to wash away any faint smell of Gambit before going downstairs.
Almost immediately after leaving the bathroom she ran into Storm. "Rogue" said Storm. "Oh hey Ororo" said Rogue trying to sound as casual as she could. "Rogue are you all right? You're normally vary fast out of bed but today even Kurt was down earlier then you". "I'm, I'm fine. I just haven't slept much the past few days. So I guess I was catching up" said Rogue. Storm seemed to buy it.
Next Rogue met Kitty while having breakfast. "Oh my god Rogue you look awful did you like stay up all night or something?" Kitty exclaimed when she first saw Rogue. "What? No Kitty" Rogue said "I mean it took a while to get to sleep but..." she trailed off.
"Well I hope you're ok you know we have a training session with Logan today" then Kitty noticed the collar "like cool is that new?" "Uhh not really I found it in my room I think it's from before I came here" Rogue invented wildly.
The rest of the time until Logan's training session she just mopped around in her room wishing it was nightfall, she was sure Gambit would come again, or at least she hoped he would.He wouldn't be cruel enough to leave me with this stupid collar on would he? I can't believe he tricked me, I cant believe I was dumb enough to play the stupid game with him she thought angrily.
Then another thought came to mind, she wanted to touch Gambit, well not particularly Gambit, at the moment she was pretty pissed with him, but she did want to touch somebody, anybody. Of course she thought, ah can't touch anyone around here or I'll have to explain this stupid predicament.
Though Logan's claws might actually be able to cut through this stupid collar, it would be a whole lot easier and less embarrassing to get Gambit to take the dam thing off, ok possibly not less embarrassing but at least then it would be over and she could forget about the whole thing.
But do I want to forget about it? Do I really want to go back to never being able to touch someone? She thought gloomily.