"Sentinel Facility 12 miles ahead and closing." Cyclops said as he taped his fingers on the screen of the Blackbird.
"Never thought I'd see the day Professor X would have us break into a facility controlled by the government." Rogue said as she stared out the window into the dark night.
(24 hours earlier)
"This, unfortunetly is a route I never wished to take, and hope to never take again." Professor X started out across at the other X-men leaders.
"But I'm afraid my sources have confirmed that sentinels will be coming to the schools starting tomorrow, and we need information."
"Professor, with all due respect I thought we were supposed to be the good guys here." Cyclops said angrily.
"I have more bad news I'm afraid. Right now Congress is debating weather or not to start having sentinels patrol this institute and the Brotherhood Boarding House on a daily basis."
"We don't have much of a choice." Storm spoke. All heads nodded down in acceptance. "While Cyclops, Erik, and Rogue carry out their mission I will be in Washington fighting this." The Professor turned to Jean.
"Jean pack your things, your coming with me, I wish I could take you two Hank, but we simply cannot afford to leave the institute without a doctor at the moment."
Beast nodded. "I understand, Charles."
"Good, then we are all in agreement that this must be done. Hank, Logan and Ororo will watch the children tonight. The rest of you know your mission, and Erik don't forget to take down the cameras and security alarms, it would not help my political fight in Washington if the X-Men were seen breaking into a government facility."
"Perhaps I haven't been the best influence on your dear Professor." Magneto said as he turned back to her.
Rogue shook her head and grinned. "Maybe not, but then again we aren't exactly in the best of situations." He nodded.
"Yes, but even I'm surprised Charles would resort to options such as this." Magneto sighed. Rogue nodded and turned back toward the window.
'Prof's getting desperate.' Rogue realized. 'I wonder if this is going to impact Magneto in any way.' Rogue stole a look back at Magneto. Wearing his usual purple and red armor with his helmet sitting on the seat behind him. 'We're just beginning to get him back on our side, what if he goes bad again?'
Rogue winced at that thought. 'Then we'll loose Peter and we'll have to fight humanity and Magneto's Acolytes. As much as I hate to admit it, Magneto has become an valuable member of the X-men, and better him with us than against us.'
'You want to touch him don't you?' The voice asked mischievously. Rogue closed her eyes. 'Ignore it, ignore the urges.' She told herself again and again.
'I bet if you come up from behind him and catch him off guard you could knock him unconscious.' Rogue inhaled and out-haled.
'And once he's unconscious, take him to his room, lay him on the bed, and kiss him!' 'No no!' Rogue told herself as she shivered imagining it.
'Then for as long as you want you can give him a peck on the lips, wait for him to recover, then do it again. Could even make out with him if you wanted.'
'He's the most powerful mutant on the planet, class four, he'll recover without any permanent damage done.'That made Rogue stop and think for a moment. Could be so easy.
'And when he wakes up, even if he remembers something he'll think it was all a dream.' The voice was so tempting, so convincing. Rogue shivered again at the thought of making out with him.
'No, no, it's Magneto for crying out loud! No, it's...no!'
"We're landing about half a mile from the coordinates, Cyclops said as he unbuckled himself. Magneto nodded and put his helmet on. Rogue brought herself back to earth as she nodded and stood up.
"Now remember to take out the security cameras, and prevent the alarm system from going off." Cyclops said as he opened the ramp for the two.
"Professor X wants everything. I mean everything." He reminded them.
"You have nothing to fear young Cyclops, I have done this sort of thing before." Magneto said casually, as if he did this kind of thing on a regular basis.'Wouldn't be surprised if he did, it's Magneto for crying out loud...god Cyclops looks like an idiot, Magneto has had close to 48 years of experience with mutant activities and a nineteen year old is lecturing him?'
Rogue shook her head at Cyclops's foolishness and stupidity.
"Rogue!" Magneto grabbed her arm and slammed her against the wall. "Freeze...
He whispered. "Something's not right, there's and odd amount of metal coming toward us."
Just then a thin blue light came from the end of the hall before blasting Rogue and Magneto. Magneto stumbled for a few seconds before getting up, Rogue, however, lied on the ground without moving.
Magneto looked up to see a black machine with a red triangle on it's chest. With a raise of his hand the chest piece and a few other pieces, on his knees, elbow, and neck.
Magneto then wrapped one arm around Rogue's knees, and the other around her neck before shattering the roof and flying out of there.
Fire fell from the sky as she did. Falling so hopelessly, without her mother or father. "Alex!" She shouted as she turned to her blond little brother.
She reached across and pulled his parachute before pulling her own, but a piece of the fire came out of the sky and hit her parachute. "Alex!" She screamed again as she fell to the ground fast.
"ALEX!" The ground rushed up to meet her as she faintly heard a whispered scream of "Scotty!"
"MOTHER!" The little girl screamed as she reached out across the rubble. "DADDY!" She screamed again. Her mother looked up at her, blood trickling down the side of her lip, and smiled before reached out and lightly touching the girl's hand.
Things were falling from the sky, terrible things. A piece of the wreckage hit the girl in the head. She stumbled backwards as her mother faded from view and more things hit her and hit her, until eventually they started to pile up on her. Slowly the light faded out, little by little.
"Is he ready?"
"Hurry up before it cools!"
"Gentlemen today we are going to make history!"
"I present to you, Weapon X!"
She thrashed in the water and tried to move. Needles were coming toward her. She despreatly thrashed some more. They stopped about an inch from her skin.
She stopped thrashing in relief. Then the needles moved in one quite motion into her skin. Hot metal filled her, she could feel it boiling, seething underneath her skin.
"I want his memory erased."
Blood, mud, fire, gas. "Back to work!" They yelled at her and threw a shovel in her direction.
Bodies, so many of them. Family, friends, her friends, her family. She looked down at the newly imprinted tattoo on her skin and tears rolled down her face.
So many of them, and so few of us kept alive to shovel them away
"Rogue." She dimly heard a name calling out to her. "That's it Rogue, come back to us." She turned her head as she shook. Tears freely rolled down her face.
"Rogue?" The voice asked confused. She didn't answer him as she turned her face into the pillow and cried into it. "Charles!" The voice called out. 'Dr. McCoy.' Rogue realized. 'It's Dr. McCoy talking to me.'
There was silence as Rogue continued to cry into her pillow. She hadn't dreamed of these things in nearly a six months, why were they coming back now?
"Oh, dear." Professor X said. "Oh, dear god." He repeated as he closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.
"Rogue." He spoke. "Rogue, I'm so sorry, I hadn't realized...
"What?" She asked as she turned to him. "You know then?" She whispered. "Rogue, after your first incident with Apocalypse, I put up mental barriers to prevent this from happening, but it appears they were torn down."
"Mental barriers?" She whispered. He nodded.
"You...without my CONSENT?!" She screamed. Pain, betrayal, and trust were shattered within her. "Were you ever going to tell me?" She asked as more tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Rogue I-"
'GET OUT!' She thought angrily. He winced. 'GET OUT!' She screamed much louder this time. He sighed. "As you wish."
'Why would he do that to me if he knew the only chance for me to gain control of my skin would be to let the memories and fragments run loose?' She asked herself.
'Oh god.' She realized. 'I haven't heard the fragments in so long, that's why, oh god. Erik, the others, why didn't I realize?'
More tears rolled down her face.
Smack! Rogue's fist made contact with the punching bag. Smack! Her other fist made contact as well. Her feet also made contact. "Son of a Bitch!" She hissed as she hit it again.
"Son of a Bitch!" She yelled a little louder. "SON OF A BITCH!" She screamed at the top of her lungs as she continued to his the punching bag.
"Rogue what's going on?" Magneto asked as he walked up form behind her careful not to get close in case she spun around and attacked him instead of the punching bag.
"The Prof is an ASS!" She shouted before turning and realizing who was speaking to her, and what she had just said. Rogue blushed a deep shade of crimson.
"I-I-
She was a loss for words.
He shook his head. "Rest easy, Rogue. I've already heard about what happened and what Charles did. He told me before he left." He gave her a sympathetic look that he rarely wore.
"It is a perfectly justified and understandable reaction." He assured her. "Why?" She asked. "Why would he do that if he knew putting barriers up would keep me from gaining control?"
Magneto stared intently down on her. "I'm not going to lie to you Rogue, I have a theory, but you are not going to like it."
"Tell me." She demanded.
"Charles, after three years, has finally realized what you are capable of, he realized you had more potential and power that Jean Grey and himself."
"And?" She asked as her eyes watered, she knew her answer now, she just didn't want to believe it. "He knows you could be more powerful that Apocalypse, and myself, and himself combined. Jean Grey has the potential for almost limitless power, while you my dear girl, you have to potential for limitless power."
"Raven and Destiny both realized this when you were very young." He continued.
"He didn't want me to gain control." She finished for him.
Tears rolled down her face. "I trusted him." She whispered. Rogue turned around and gave the punching bag another punch.
"OF COURSE!" She shouted.
"Why would he let an emotionally and mentally unstable teenage girl gain control and have limitless power? Even if it meant ending her dreams of ever being able to hug, or to shake hands, or even kiss!" She continued to assault the punching bag.
Magneto let this go on for a few minutes before grabbing her gloved hand and pulling her towards him.
Tears were still streaming down her face. He sighed before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a tissue. he used it to protect his finger as he gently dabbed her tears away.
She didn't stop him as more tears fell. He stopped for a moment before looking her over. "Charles also mentioned you haven't had any form of physical contact for three years." He spoke.
Before she could nod or reply he moved his hands to her back, which was protected by her black tank top and gave her a forceful push into his chest.
Rogue gasped before she melted and rubbed her head into his chest and moved her gloved hand to his chest. She didn't seem to realize what she was doing until after about two minutes. She blushed hotly for the second time and tried to remove her hand but his hand reached out to grab hers and led it back to his chest. A sign that it was alright.
Magneto kept one hand on her back as his other hand came up to gently smooth her hair. She sighed as the tears stopped flowing. "Erik, thank you."
She froze in horror of what she'd just said. Oh god had she called him Erik? He pushed her back a little so he could stare quizzically into her eyes. "I-I'm sorry, I've just gotten used to calling your fragment Erik."
His expressed softened out. "Ah, of course. You many call me Erik if you wish." He smiled down at her.
"Erik, this-this seems a little, like something you wouldn't do." She blurted out. "Seriously when was the last time you comforted a crying girl?" She asked.
"You didn't enjoy it?" He asked. "You seemed quite soothed by it." Rogue felt color rise to her cheeks again.
"I-I was, it was really nice, but you still haven't answered my question." She stared up into his eyes determined to see if he'd lie or not.
"Rogue, you have done nothing, to deserve being put though all this pain." He told her. "You done nothing to warrant being hospitalized twice in less than one month because of your own mother."
"And you certainly do not deserve the pain of others." He said knowingly. "Oh." She looked at the ground. "You know."
"Yes, my girl. And despite what you may think, I'm not angry, it is a remarkable gift, but untrained, it can be painful."
"Your not angry about me knowing your every secret?" She asked surprised. "No." He answered. "Really Rogue I don't understand why your surprised, you have after all seen everything I am."
She nodded. "Yes, I have. How long have you know about my... abilities?"
"Your referring to your highly advanced form telepathy I assume."
She sighed. "Yes, and it's not highly advanced."
He chuckled. "My dear, I beg to differ. A telepath can see one's memories. You can re-live them from the holder's point of view, no telepath can do that." He pointed out.
She shrugged.
"I'v had some idea about your mental abilities since you and your brother decided to pay me a visit in the desert."
"Really dear, did you expect me to believe Charles was the one that was responsible for finding me?" He chuckled. Rogue smiled before yawning. "I's late, and after an attack like that you need to rest."
She smiled at him. "Goodnight Erik." She said as she made her way to her room with her anger no longer present.
I was going to update sooner, I come back to my computer Sunday and happen to loose EVERYTHING on this chapter. Honestly I don't think I've ever cursed so much in one day!
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