Chapter 2
I got out of bed and went to see Bobby. He was still sleeping, looking peaceful. Once I had reassured myself that he would be fine I left to get a snack in the kitchen. I found Logan drinking a root beer (probably from lack of alcohol in the school). He turned in my direction as he heard my approach.
"Sleep well?"
"Yeah, kinda, I think I'm getting a headache."
I opened a cabinet and fished out a bottle of Advil, taking a pill and rinsing it down my throat with a glass of juice.
"So what are you doing in here? I would have thought you'd be in the danger room with the others."
"I was waiting for you, and I got thirsty. Wanna go to the danger room?"
"Hmmm, I guess, I've been wanting to go for a while, I miss the action." We left the kitchen to go suit up in the tight leather outfits of the X men.
I waited for Logan in the hallway, waiting for him to exit the bathroom. When he did I didn't remember the suit fitting him that snuggly. I looked down at my suit, which was also sort of tight. We began walking down the hallway. I saw Logan flexing his fingers, preparing to release his claws I guess.
"Have you gotten any better at following the attack plan?"
"No, not really," he smiled.
I gave him a look. "Naughty! How many times have I told you?" I snorted, "bad."
Logan grinned like a wolf. "I am bad. You have a lot of training to catch up on by the way."
I groaned.
He chuckled. We arrived at the danger room. The door opened to reveal the rest of the team. Storm (Ororo Munroe), Beast (Hank McCoy), Colossus (Pete Rasputin), (Bobby would have been there but he's still in the infirmary), Kitty Pryde (Shadow cat), Night crawler (Kurt Wagner), and then had Jean and Scott been alive they would have been on the team as well.
Storm was punching in the code on a keypad for the drill we would work on today. "It's about time you showed up Logan. You missed half of the drill yesterday."
"I know, I'm bad with timing things just right."
Storm narrowed her eyes at him. Then looked to me. "Oh, Rogue, it's nice to see you. Nice to have you back on the team."
I smiled, hiding behind my gloved hand. Logan caught my eye and winked, making me blush the slightest bit. Then the danger room doors opened and the simulation began.
The simulation had actually gone well. We were attacking a sentinel again. Kurt (aka Night crawler) transported from place to place, moving people closer to the hulking robot, mimicking the moves of chess pieces. Colossus was a big distraction, so that others could get close enough to attack the sentinel. Storm made the areas about the robot's heads foggy, while Kitty helped Kurt get teammates closer to attack. (Had Bobby been there he would have been freezing the ground at the sentinel's feet). Like how we maneuvered before the whole Alcatraz problem, at one point, Logan had Colossus throw him at the sentinel. Kitty also helped disable the robot by running inside it and taking out wires and such. A few moments later the sentinel fell to its knees and the program faded. As Logan returned to the ground, he landed on his feet like always, meanwhile puffing a cigar that he had managed to light during the past ten minutes. He grinned around the cigar and I smiled back, noticing Kitty looking at me funny. She shrugged and walked out of the room with Pete's thick arm around her shoulders. I watched them exit.
Logan approached me, "Good job, kid."
"You too, fur ball."
"Hey now, Fur ball is Beast, I am not a blue fuzzball."
"Hm...big bad wolf."
He put his arm around my shoulders and brought my ear to his mouth. "Keep an eye on that Bobby boy of yours."
I looked at him for a second. "Okay." He kept my gaze for a moment then let his arm drop and walked off to go shower.
I watched him walk away, my thoughts drifting back to Bobby. I went to go visit Bobby again and I found him awake. He smiled when he saw me. He moved to kiss me but I backed away. "My powers are back."
Bobby frowned, "oh."
"Yeah....the cure wasn't so permanent."
He looked a bit saddened. I spoke again, "Bobby, I don't think our relationship is working out."
"I know. I was going to say something about that soon."
"So we're breaking up?"
"Looks like it."
He hugged me. "Still friends?"
"You betcha."
Bobby smiled and walked out of the room. I stood there, still processing what had just happened. Bobby and I had just broken up. Was it because my powers returned? Was it because our chemistry just wasn't there anymore? Probably some of both; a relationship needs physical interaction too. What's the fun if you can't kiss your boyfriend without putting him in a coma? While I was pondering all this Logan walked in, always right when i needed him.
"Why do you look so sad?"
"Bobby and I just broke up."
"Did that, BOY, just dump you??"
"I think I'm the one who dumped him, I don't remember."
"Aw, come here, kid."
I walked into his arms, relaxing as his steely arms wrapped around me. i hooked my hands together behind his back. Logan brought up a hand to rest on the back of my head and I rested my forehead on his shoulder.
"He didn't deserve you. It's okay, Marie." I smiled weakly, though he couldn't see.
