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"Bobby, I have to leave." Rogue didn't even bother with the formality of saying hi, because she had been looking for Bobby ever since she woke up that morning, and she really didn't have the energy to break it to him slowly.
"What?" Bobby looked confused. "Where do you have to go, Rogue?"
"I can't tell you." Rogue looked down at her feet, and Bobby moved closer to her to place his hands on her shoulders.
"You can tell me anything." He assured her softly.
"No, really, Bobby, I can't, because I don't even know where I'm going. All I know is that it is something about my power." Bobby looked alarmed at the statement, and looked into her eyes.
"How can you go somewhere when you don't know where it is? How can you trust that this isn't something bad? There was that thing last night, the voice in our head, maybe it has something to do with that." Rogue pushed Bobby away and pulled herself out of his grip.
"Professor Xavier wants me to go." She told him quietly. "And it does have something to do with last night, that is why there's that assembly today, Xavier's either gonna tell us that everything is okay and under control, or that we're all in trouble."
"But why would Xavier want you to leave?" Bobby asked. "It's safe for you here."
"No!" Rogue exclaimed gently, finally understanding what was going on in Bobby's mind. "He didn't suggest that I leave because I'm dangerous, he even let me make my own decision, it's just that… that I need to leave here. There's someone who can help me control my power, and that's just something that I need to do. I want to be able to touch you, Bobby, I want to be able to kiss you."
"But you can kiss me." Bobby pulled Rogue close to him again.
"No, Bobby." Rogue said as she pushed him away again. "I mean without hurting you." Bobby looked disappointed as Rogue stepped further away from him. "Any chance I have at finally being able to control my power, I'll take. Please understand that, Bobby."
"Oh." Bobby looked away from her, then back to her eyes. "Say goodbye to me before you leave, okay?" Rogue nodded.
"Okay." She said before turning to leave Bobby alone outside the back door of the school. She sighed as she glanced back at him and wondered if they'd ever truly be together.
"Hi kid." Rogue had bumped into Logan once more, and he greeted her cheerily, but there was an underlying sadness in him that had been there since Jean had died… or disappeared as Rogue had recently found out.
"Hi Logan." She replied, not even trying to seem happy, Logan looked concerned.
"What's wrong, kid?" He asked. Rogue just shook her head.
"I think you already know." She told him. "I'm leaving."
"Yeah, I did know that." Logan muttered. "And I'm gonna miss you, kid."
"Well, maybe instead of protecting me now, you can protect Bobby for me instead, right?"
"Yeah,
kid. I promise I'll take care of your boyfriend for you, although
he's gonna be a bigger handful than you've been over the
years."
"Thanks, Logan." Rogue smiled at him. "I'm gonna
miss you, too." She reached up and pulled him into a hug, being
careful not to touch him with any of her bare skin. When they pulled
apart, Logan looked uncomfortable. "How can anyone be more trouble
than I am?" Rogue joked to lighten the mood. Logan didn't laugh.
"So, you goin to this assembly thing?" He asked.
"No, I think I'll have to go pack."
"So, when're you leaving?" I was so like Logan to get straight to the point, and Rogue knew she would miss it.
"I don't know." She answered before turning to leave, keeping her feelings inside.
"Don't forget to say goodbye." Logan called out to her.
"I believe that all of us, students and teachers, who weren't asleep just before lights out last night received a message from another mutant. This could, of course, be a hoax, but this individual mutant must have extraordinary power to convey the message to so many mutants from outside the school grounds, and so we are taking this threat to our safety seriously. We were told to 'gather our forces', and so that is what we're going to do. Our older students will have to be trained with the X-Men, we're all going to have to do things we don't usually do around here, because all of us together are stronger, and I think that whoever sent the message meant a whole lot more than just to gather our X-Men. We may have to teach each of you individually to use your own special skills to defend yourselves if an attack does come." Professor Xavier took a breath and looked over to the door of the school's gym, where Rogue was standing, listening intently to his speech. She, like him, obviously understood the severity of the warning, especially since she knew who it had come from. Xavier didn't believe that she truly knew what kind of danger there was, and the danger that she would be in when she went to Jean. As Rogue stood watching him, her eyes began to fill with tears, and Xavier made another gap in his speech by drawing in another breath. Xavier could have cried for the poor girl. Her mutant power had caused her nothing but pain her whole life, and now was no exception.
"Just remember." He continued. "That although we're teaching you fighting skills, you're only meant to use them for your own self-defence. I don't want to see any fights in the halls of this school." He stopped speaking again as Rogue moved from the doorway. "I also have to inform you all that one of our students will be leaving. I suggest that no one ask any questions as to where she is, or inform anyone outside of this school about her going. I also suggest that until she leaves, that no one should make her upset about this."
"So who's leaving?" Came a voice from the back of the gym as Rogue moved up to the front onto the stage. She took the microphone when professor Xavier handed it to her and looked out to the room full of people.
"I didn't think I should go without saying goodbye to all of you." She said shakily to everyone. "Yeah, I'm the one who has to go, and I know that there will be some of you out there who will be happy to see me leave. A lot of you think that I am dangerous somehow, but that is why I'm leaving – to get a better hold of my power, and I just… I just hope that those of you who don't want me to go will understand why I have to." The room was filled with a different silence than the respectful one that occurred during Xavier's speech. No one moved in his or her seats, and Rogue took a deep breath before ending her own speech. "Please, take Professor Xavier's advice and don't ask me where I'm going, because you know that I can't tell you, and it would break my heart to have to tell you that personally." She handed the microphone back to Xavier and moved quickly past the rows of her silent peers and teachers. Bobby quickly stood up to follow her and Professor Xavier watched them thoughtfully as they left the room.
I
have to say again, thank you for the reviews. It helps to get
congratulations and helpful hints about my writing. Sorry about the
typos. I didn't even notice it because I was skim reading. I think
my computer changed the spelling for me, but I don't know… I
PROMISE I'll never spell ROGUE wrong again. :p – and you'll
also be happy to know that I re-posted the last chapter, Rogue free
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Feel free to correct me on any other really bad typos because I
find it funny :p
Eyliena
