"So did y'all pick security yet?" Rogue asked as she came down stairs.
The institute kids were on the floor sitting in a circle. All the furniture had been moved aside. Tabitha and Lance were missing.
"Yes, Rogue we have." Jean said in her I-am-the-Best tone.
"Who'd yah pick? Boom Boom and Rock Boy?" Because, if you did you'd have less sense then I thought, Rogue thought.
"We just picked Alvers" Scott said jumping to his girl friend's side. He wrapped his arm protectively around her and she rested her head on his shoulder. Rogue just rolled her eyes.
"Well, he's not doing a very good job."
"Wait, what?!" Kitty jumped up "What do you, like mean?"
"You can't possibly mean that someone broke in. That's impossible." Jean said.
"Well, unless somebody besides Amara has really long brown hair and is running around upstairs, there's an intruder."
"Hey! I'm back!" Tabitha suddenly walked in holding a Poland Spring bottle. "What's with the shocked faces? I told you I'd be back any minute."
"Not you… Her…" Sam said pointing at Rogue.
In the security room…
This is going to be easy. No would dare come here. They probably just wanted to get rid of me. I didn't want to play a stupid game of truth or dare anyway. Well, I could use it to my advantage… No! Get a hold of yourself man! Kitty hates you now. She's fallen for that Russian dude. I hate him…. Lance thought.
Lance was so deep in his thoughts he didn't even notice a girl run across the main hallway or the security signals beep.
Back in the common room…
"What did Rogue do? Start talking like Kitty?" Tabitha asked.
"Very funny Tabby." Kitty said sarcastically.
"Thank you." Tabitha replied.
Kitty just rolled her eyes. Tabitha walked over and laced the water bottle in the middle of the circle.
"Well, this seems like a good time to start our game. Don't you think?"" Tabitha quipped.
"What?!" the rest of the students yelled.
"Well, I'm guessing something bad happened and since no one wants to tell me-" Tabitha started.
"Rogue says someone has broken in", Pitor said.
"Well, it's true." Rogue quickly said in her defense.
"Still, and excellent time to start our game." Tabitha nodded.
"Excuse me?!" the rest of the students yelled.
"Well, since no one is going to volunteer to go check it out this is the perfect way to get someone to go" Tabitha replied.
Pietro ran over to the center of the circle and stood next to Tabitha.
"She's right" he said "I want to spin first though, Tabs, so go sit down."
Tabitha gave him an evil look and stalked off. She sat next to Ray and waited for Pietro to spin the bottle. Pietro waited until he had everyone's attention, ran his hand through his silver hair, and span the bottle. Everyone watched it anxiously hopping that it wouldn't land on them. The bottle slowed down.
Upstairs…
Laura was stalking through the halls of the institute looking for Wolverine. She had been walking around for a few minutes and still couldn't find him.
Why can't I smell him? Is this place really that big? She thought as she turned and entered another hallway.
This place is like a maze. A giant maze. How do people not get lost in this house? She asked herself silently as she was about to pass Rogue's room.
She stopped short and unsheathed her claws. She had heard breathing coming from inside. She peered inside the room through the cracked door. The room was half purple and half rose colored. One side was very neat and the other side wasn't as clean. On the purple side a guy was sleeping on the bed.
He must have gotten lost too, she thought sheathing his claws.
She continued to aimlessly walk the halls in search of the man who's DNA she had.
In Rogue and Kitty's room…
Remy stirred in his sleep
He was running through the swamps the guild close behind him. They wanted him to marry thing femme named Belladonna to make peace between the two guilds. He was too young to get married, no matter what kind of reputation he had. You'll like her, his 'father' had told him, she's your type. He shuddered. His 'dad' knew nothing about him. That's when he threw cards at him and started to run. He didn't know where he was going, but it wasn't going to be any church. His father soon recovered, for he had only half charged the cards, and yelled for the rest of the guild to get his. His half brother and half-sister were close behind him. That's when he started to feel the ground move under his feet. He fell to his knees the guild getting closer and closer. Then the ground around him started to rise up. He soon came face to face with Magneto. I will help you, Magneto had told him. I will save you from your family that only wished to use you. He out stretched his hand toward him. Remy looked up at him and then took it. He was young and scared. He had no one else to turn to, no one he could trust…
Remy jolted up. No, he thought, I can't think about that. My family they're in the past now. I have a new family here now just like the professor said. He looked around.
"Well, look where I am." He said out loud to himself.
This would be a good time to find out more about Rogue, he thought, I won't be spying just looking.
He sat up and looked around.
What's that, he thought looking over at Rogue's desk clearly marked by the pair of black gloves sitting there.
On the desk was a dark purple book. Remy got up and walked over to her desk to have a closer look. 'Journal' was printed neatly on the front of the book with silver thread. He picked it up. It had a velvet exterior and lots of random phrases written on it in black and silver ink.
Journal, Remy thought, I wonder what's in hear. He began to open the book.
REMY!
He jumped and turned around slamming the book closed. "What?!" he asked.
Don't you know better than to read a girl's diary?
"What? I'm a desperate man here." Remy replied opening up the book again.
You're just lucky I have to go back downstairs and narrate.
"Ya, sure" Remy said sitting on the bed. "You get back to your story now petite.
Back in the common room…
The bottle had landed on a few people. Everyone had chosen truth so far.
"Y'all are a bunch of wimps." Rogue said.
"Actually this is really good blackmail material." Pyro said. He had been writing down everything everyone said.
Rogue laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Alright! Kitty it's your turn to spin.' Tabitha said.
Kitty got up to spin the bottle. She was blushing fiercely. She had just admitted that she like Pitor and Lance. She was extremely embarrassed and if it was up to her she would have ran in a corner and hide but Jubilee stopped her by shooting little fireworks at her feet. She got to the middle or the circle and kneeled down to spin the bottle. She red button down t-shirt was getting to small for her and her belly button was showing. If the students didn't know better they would say she was doing it on purpose but they knew Kitty wanted anything but extra attention now. Kitty could feel everyone staring at her anxiously. She turned around.
"Will, you guys, like, stop staring at me?" she demanded.
Everyone quickly turned around. Kitty sighed and kneeled back down. She span the bottle. It span for a while and then landed on Illyana.
"Ok Illy. Let's, like, get this over with. Truth or Dare?" Kitty asked.
Everyone stared at her.
'Ummm…." She said.
Suddenly her powers kicked in. She felt like it was her duty to protect her friends and family.
She looked up ambition burning in her blue eyes.
"Dare." she said.
