Well...so...yeah. Ok, the last one was short too, but I hit writers block. And it was taking too long. So I posted it as it was. Hope you enjoyed it. Yeah...This is me making small talk. Yupyup. Uh huh. Alright. Let's start chapter three shall we? Yes, I think that that's a good idea...This chapter follows part of the plot in X2. There may be another that follows X3 later on. Until then, it's all mine. I'm assuming that you've all seen X2, so I'm not going into detail here...If not, you may want to conside it, since I'm not going into detail.
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Chapter 4
After that day, Vincent never spoke of her past again. For the first couple of months, her life at Xaviers was great. Then it started to go downhill. Vincent started to find herself disliking Rogue more and more everyday. At the beginning, she and Rogue had been great friends. Then they started to find that small habits started to wear on eachother, and they grew apart. Rogue began to spend more and more time with Kitty and Jubilee. Vincent spent more and more time with Bobby, Piotr and John. Soon she was best friends with Bobby. John spent most of his time with them. While Vincent still disliked him, she knew how he felt and kept herself in check while he was around. Soon the six-click was neatly split in half. Then Rogue started to blame Vincent for it.
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After six months of only seeing Bobby at night, Rogue started to get tired of the fact that she never saw her boyfriend. After thinking about it for a while, she decided it was Vincent's fault. If the girl had never come here, Bobby would be spending more time with Rogue. It was a saturday, and Rogue was in her room, lying on her bed. Kitty had a headache and had gone to bed. Jubilee was somewhere in the rec room. Down the hall, Vincent's door was open. Rogue could hear the laughter floating down the hallway. Something in her snapped. She flipped herself upright and flung her door open. As she stormed down the hall toward Vincent's room, she dragged off one of her elbow high gloves. Students backed out of her way.
She stopped at the door and looked in, eyes smoldering. John and Piotr were having an arm wrestling match on Vincent's desk. Bobby and Vincent were playing video games on a portable tv that Xavier had allowed Vincent to buy. Rogue took in Vincent's laughing face and Bobby's grin as they shouted good natured abuse to eachother. With a growl, she yanked off her other glove and threw them both to the floor. Vincent turned, then stood as Rogue stomped toward her. One look at Rogue's face told her that this wasn't a good thing. She backed off a bit, and threw her hand out sideways. Fire raced up her arm, and engulfed her hand. Rogue barely paused.
"You!" She screamed, and lunged. Vincent dodged. "It's your fault!" Bobby stood too.
"Rogue! Rogue, stop!"
Rogue lunged at Vincent again. Vincent parried with her sleeve covered arm. "No, Bobby! I won't stop! That's all you ever say, isn't it? 'Rogue, stop this! Rogue, stop that!It's not Vincent's fault!' Well, it is! It's her fault that I never see my boyfriend! It's her fault that my friends are divided! It's her fault that I never see any of you anymore! It's her fault that I'm always alone!"
Bobby was speechless. Rogue threw a punch at Vincent. She ducked, and darted to the side. Rogue followed her. "I'll show you all! I'll show you that it's her fault! Stupid little slut! Whore!"
Vincent's face went dark. For a moment, she froze. Then the room started to heat up. Piotr and John were pressed against the wall on the other side of the bed. Bobby stepped in between the two girls. "Wait, guys, for a minute! Let's talk this out-"
Rogue tried to elbow past him. "No, Bobby! I'm sick of trying to talk to you! Let's finish this now!" She threw herself at Vincent. Bobby grabbed her and spun her into his chest. Rogue reached up and grabbed his face. Almost immediately, Bobby's normally pale skin went grey. He sank towards the floor. Rogue let him go and turned to face Vincent, an iceball growing in her hand. Vincent responded, stepping forward. Piotr took a chance and dove for Bobby, pulling the limp boy over the bed. John was already gone, running through the halls, yelling for Storm, for Logan, Cyclops, anyone.
Rogue smiled, her face almost demonic looking in the flickering light being thrown off by Vincent. "Go time, bitch."
"If you want it that way." Vincent responded. Then, before Rogue could react, she darted forward. Her flaming hand came up and pressed itself into Rogue's face. There was a sizzling sound and Rogue screamed. Vincent pulled away, but not fast enough. Rogue grabbed her throat, pushing them both over onto the bed, Rogue on top. Vincent could feel her power being pulled. With a yell, she brought her feet up and kicked Rogue as hard as she could in the stomach. The girl flew across the small space and slammed into the wall on the other side, sliding down into a pile on the floor. Vincent sat up, gasping. Then Logan entered the room, followed by Storm and Cyclops.
"Enough!"
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The two girls hadn't been seen in weeks. The word was that Rogue was in the med lab downstairs, along with Vincent. No one really knew for sure, except for the teachers, Bobby, John and Piotr. The first refused to answer questions, and the others were sworn to silence. Life at the mansion went on.
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Rogue had a scar in the shape of a hand across her face. Logan had allowed her to pull some of his power, but not enough to heal it completely. He said that as much as he loved her, this was something she needed to remember, and if that was what it took, so be it. While in the med lab, she was forced to wear a shirt with gloves attached. To get it off, someone else had to unhook it for her. She was still in a state of delirium.
Vincent was in a seperate room, kept asleep by Xavier himself. Her powers weren't as easy as Rogue's to incapacitate. Unlike John, she didn't need a lighter. And even if she did, she could still project things into others minds, and read them as well. The only option was to keep her asleep until she was ready to be woken. This was quickly becoming priority, as Vincent's body grew unbearably warm every time someone approached her with a needle, so she wasn't on an IV, and therefore wasn't getting food, though John was able to force water into her body three times daily. The two girls were kept seperate, and Rogue was locked in her room when no one could stay with her. Vincent was considered safe to leave in an unlocked room. That was a mistake.
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She had been fighting with the professor for control since he'd put her under. After a few weeks of letting her power grow, she waited until his power weakened. It happened the same night that Stryker attacked the mansion. Rogue had been let out ages ago, her scar barely visible, her mental state returned to normal. Vincent felt Xaviers power weaken and disappear. She sat up and looked around. She recognized this place. This was the first place they'd taken her when she'd arrived, in the basement. She stood ensteadily and staggered to the door. No one was around. She was getting out of here.
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The first thing she noticed when she reached the first floor was the silence. Then footsteps, coming behind her. She turned to find a dark clothed man with a gun leveled at her at the same moment that Siren began to scream. Moments later, she walked away. Wind streaming through an open window swept away the smell of burning meat and the ashes that were all that was left of the man.
She proceeded up the stairs, incinerating men as she went. She passed through a crowd of children, her powers allowing her to go unnoticed, though she stopped to close the door of the escape tunnel behind them. She had reached the fourth floor when she heard a minor explosion, Rogue scream, and glass shatter. Then Bobby, John and Rogue barreled around the corner and straight into her. "Whoa." She steadied Bobby. "What's happening?"
Bobby stared at her, mouth open. "Bobby!"
He shook his head. "I don't know!"
Vincent let him go. John grabbed her arm. "Come on!" They took off down the corridor, dragging Vincent with them.
"Freeze." Four men leveled their guns at them as they reached the foyer. They stopped. Vincent stepped forward. There was a yell as Logan launched himself into the middle of the men. In seconds, they were dead. "Let's go." Logan headed toward the front door. It flew open before the reached it. Through it, they could see a helicopter hovering, and more men advancing. "This way!" They followed him down the hallway. As they filed into the escape tunnels, Logan closed it behind them. Rogue stopped.
"Guys, we have to help him. They're gonna kill him!"
"He can handle himself!" John responded.
"Bobby!" Rogue pleaded. Vincent snorted. Rogue shot her a glare, then headed back to the entrance. Bobby followed. Vincent kept walking, passing John as he stood in indescision. Moments later, the others caught up with her. Logan swung her into his arms as they passed.
A few minutes later, Cyclops' car peeled out of the garage with all of them inside.
"What was that back there?" John demanded.
"Stryker. His name is Stryker." Logan responded. Vincent stiffened. Bobby and John, whom she was crammed in between, both looked at her.
"Yes, Vincent. I think this is the same man." Logan answered her unspoken question.
"Where're we going?"
"Storm and Jean are in Boston. We'll head that way."
Bobby looked up. "My parents live in Boston."
"Good."
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"Mom? Dad? Ronny?" There was no answer. They followed Bobby into the house.
"I'll get you some clothes." Bobby told Rogue. Then he turned to face Vincent, who hadn't said a word since they ran into her in the mansion. "I'm sorry, but I don't think that there's anything that'll fit you. I'll look." Vincent shook her head.
Bobby followed Rogue up the stairs. "Don't burn anything." He said over his shoulder. The two pyrokinetics glared at him. Vincent went and sat in the living room. John followed her. Logan headed into the kitchen to look for something to drink.
Vincent sat with her eyes closed while John looked at the pictures around the room. Seconds later, the door to the expensive house opened. Voices echoed down the hall. Vincent smiled, her eyes still firmly shut, as she listened to Bobby explain.
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Ronny was staring at her again. Vincent could feel him. She had cracked her eyelids when the family entered the room, but had shut them again just as quickly. She set her head on John's shoulder when he sat beside her, monitoring the thoughts of the people in the room, smiling at Logan's flat tone when Bobby's parents asked what he taught. But, boy, did that stare get annoying. He was checking her out, dressed as she was in only the med lab female patients clothes, a tank top and spandex shorts. She opened her eyes and met his stare. He blushed and looked at Bobby. She felt his disgust for Bobby when he showed his parents what he could do. And she also felt his intentions when he stormed upstairs. She let him go. These people weren't her friends anymore. She liked John more than ever before after she felt his immense hatred for Rogue, which now matched her own. She also echoed his feeling of getting away from them as soon as possible.
She felt the police coming long before they arrived. When Logan entered the room and told them that they were leaving, she dragged herself up off the couch and followed. She felt a little remorse when one policeman shot Logan in the head, but it wasn't enough to make her move to help the others with her. When John reacted, she strengthened his response, pushing the fire farther, making it burn hotter. She let it go when Rogue grabbed John's ankle. She didn't really care what happened. If the police died, big deal. They knew their job was dangerous when they went to the police academy. Plus, she knew they were all alive anyway. She sighed as she followed the others onto the jet. She, like Bobby, turned once more in yard to look up at the house. Bobby's family was standing in an upstairs window. She sent a vision to them all, and felt their fear in her head. Maybe now they would know not to mess with mutants. She blew a sarcastic kiss to them all, then boarded the jet.
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On the jet, she had fun playing with Rogue's head. She planted double vision in her mind, screwing the girl up as she tried to hook her harness. When the government jets sent missiles after them, she laughed. The back of the jet blew as a missile exploded just behind it. Rogue was sucked out the hole. Kurt, a teleporter that Storm and Jean had picked up, saved her. Vincent sighed. That was no fun.
A few feet from the ground, the jet stopped.
"Jean?" Storm asked.
"It isn't me!" Jean replied.
"No," Vincent said, finally speaking. "It's him." She pointed out the front. Magneto stood on the ground below them, Mystique beside him.
"When will these people learn how to fly?" Vincent heard him ask. 'When indeed?' She thought.
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That night, Jean tried to talk to her. It didn't help. Vincent was able to block her at every turn, without saying a word. She had never been close to Jean, and she was even less so now that she knew that Jean had been helping the proffessor keep her asleep. Jean soon gave up.
The night was uneventful. Vincent refused to enter the tent that had been designated to her and Rogue, instead sitting up almost the whole night, eavesdropping on the adult's conversation.
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Author's Note:
There. That one was longer, I think. Yes, I know that the Vincent in this one doesn't much seem like the one I was developping in the last two chapters. Here's a kind of explanation: Vincent has a thing against humans anyway, for what they did to her sister and herself. That's the only reason she stayed at Xaviers as long as she did. The reason Vincent and Rogue grew apart was that Rogue was too bossy, and Vincent has major problems with authority, which is why she also doesn't get along with Scott/Cyclops, whom she has joined John in calling Professor Stick-Up-The-Ass. Rogue started to find it annoying how she couldn't push Vincent around so much after she got used to living at Xaviers. Several small fights ensued, all of which ended with Jubilee and Kitty siding with Rogue. So that's why she doesn't get along with them either. Feel free to ask questions, and review. I even accept flamers, but be assured that I don't thank you for them. Thanks for reading!
