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Get Rogue,

Chapter Seven


Honestly, Rogue hated each time she had to lie. Even though she had learned to get by, by doing so it never quite settled with her conscious, and the guilt always nagged away at her. It had definitely gotten to her when she not only had to trick Logan and the rest of her teammates but to basically lie to his face, knowing that he trusted her, the man she had looked to like a father.

At this moment though she let herself not feel too guilty after all she could not stand Gambit and was eager for the chance to rid herself of the unwelcomed swamp rat even if it meant going to Louisiana with him. And besides as much as she hated to admit it, it was a little fun tricking people especially those who were anti-mutant.

"Oh you poor things. In your condition no less. I hope they catch those rotten mutants who did this to your wife Mr. Lord. And don't you worry about a thing. Just wish we could have been of more help or at least had a spare change of clothes for your wife."

"Thank y' mademoiselle," Gambit gave her a charming grin causing the much older woman to flush under the attention, "Y've done too much already."

Rogue wanted to snort but refrained from doing so. She hadn't liked the cover story, (as if she'd ever carry his demon spawn much less marry the guy) but she had to admit the guy could be very persuasive to have people just hand over their money to him.

"I wish Kelly would have never backed down from his anti-mutant platform. He won't be getting my vote next election, that's for sure," The woman snipped.

Gambit merely continued to smile as she handed them their tickets.

She was mildly surprised that he was able to keep such a straight face especially with her little mutant comment. She had to bite down on her tongue to keep from replying herself. But then she was with the mutant who had sold out his own kind for some money not to mention blown up half of Genosha, all for Senator Kelly.

"C'mon cherie," Gambit started to lead her away. "The train should be leaving soon."

"Whatever." She coldly responded, her distaste for the guy rushing back at all at once.

If he had noticed her sudden attitude change he had chosen not to comment as they made their way to their compartment. It was one of those standard booths with two rows of cushioned, red seats facing each other. The old lady may have been a bigot but she surely was sympathetic. She had not only given them a voucher for their own, private compartment that was isolated from all other passengers per their request. She had even given them some of her own money to buy Rogue a pair of shoes from the gift shop.

Rogue took the seat next to the window, leaving Gambit with no choice but to sit beside her not that he really minded. In fact he attempted to get as close to her as possible only to stop dead in his tracks at one cold look from her. Hell her gaze would have sent Sinister backing up in fear also. And to make sure he stayed away Rogue took off his coat (well she took it off as best as she could, she was stuck with it until they lost the handcuffs) and placed it between the two like a wedge.

Besides acting as a barrier between her and Gambit, Rogue wanted to check up on her arm. It had never stopped hurting. Slowly she peeled off the bandage Beast had wrapped around her arm not two days ago. It felt more like two years ago since she had last seen the mansion and it would be a while until she saw it again. She was stuck heading to a state so close to the one she had vowed to never return to.

The burn that Senyaka had caused had created an ugly scab, one that was starting to peel and seep blood now and there was even signs of bruising around it from Blockbuster. Not for the first time she wished she had touched Logan anyway. Sure he would've gotten mad but he'd get over it.

Rogue was caught off guard when Gambit had suddenly taken her injured arm in his hands. He carefully examined the wound with hands that were surprisingly gentle especially with his calloused fingers. She could feel goosebumps forming all over her body. She wanted desperately to snatch her arm back but as she was often finding herself when Gambit made any skin to skin contact, Rogue found herself frozen. All she was able to do was watch as he fluidly grabbed a roll of bandage from one of his many pockets and began bandaging her arm.

When he was done she swiftly retreated her arm but not before mumbling a quick thanks. She didn't dare look at him for fear of what might happen. No guy had ever had this effect on her and she was scared.

"No problem. Hate to see such a belle femme hurt anyways," He nonchalantly answered, earning a roll of her eyes but otherwise she was still avoiding eye contact with him.

Pleased by her reaction no matter how small it was he continued to egg her on.

"What's wrong mon cherie? There's no need to be scared of moi. No femme should or has ever had reason to be scared of Le Diable Blanc, especially after a night with me." He attempted to scoot closer to her since he could not wrap his arm around her shoulder like he would've like to.

"Dang it, don't call me that Cajun. It's Rogue, R O G U E. And ah know these handcuffs don't allow us a lot of room but back off," She snarled at him back into her, "if you even look at me I'm gonna bite your head off" mode.

Smirking cheekily he was about to comment when suddenly their compartment door was flown open, startling the both of them. Both southerners were soon staring at none other than Deadpool.

"I'm baaaccckk!"


Genosha was a lot different from the last time Bobby had been there. The changes really shouldn't have surprised him especially after all that the mutant island had been through over the last year. But it still came as a shock seeing the once great nation shattered. He still couldn't believe that Magneto had down this to his own empire, his own people who he had claimed he was trying to help.

The Blackbird was parked out on the shore, there having been no other place to park the massive jet. There was still rubble everywhere from the Sentinel attacks but there were also signs of rebuilding. One of the buildings he was positive Kurt had told him had collapsed was already halfway done.

"I don't get it? Why are we waiting here? Shouldn't we be doing something, anything," Forge asked after they had been standing besides the jet for the last five minutes.

"Don't you ever listen Forge? I swear you're as bad as Bobby sometimes." Kitty rolled her eyes.

"Wanda wanted to personally greet us when we landed. She mentioned something about finding out some information on Deathstrike that she wanted to tell us right away and in person," Kurt answered, taking pity on the normally scattered brained mutant.

Just as he said this the X-Men noticed a few mutants making their way towards them. Expecting to see the familiar brunette in red, Kurt was surprised instead to see whom he surmised to be Polaris. He had not actually met her in person but Wanda did talk a great deal about her younger sister and he felt as if he had already known the green haired mutant. Following her were Dazzler and Blink.

"Nightcrawler," Polaris acknowledged first. "The Scarlet Witch wanted to meet you in person but she's busy dealing with the Kleinstock bro…" She started to say before the sound of a communicator went off. Giving them a small, apologetic smile she answered it as she turned her back to the X-Men though that didn't stop them from listening to her conversation.

"Yea I'm with them right now. I thought you were!"

"They've been taken care of? That's good…"

"Wait! What?"

"I'll be there soon with the others."

"What's going on? Is Wanda alright?" Kurt asked; a concerned look on his face as he gazed at Polaris.

"Trouble." Was all she answered before they were all teleported, courtesy of Blink, to the heart of Genosha.

The first thing they saw was the Scarlet Witch fairing off against Spiral whilst Mecury was fighting against random Reavers. It wasn't until Kitty was almost hit with a fireball that the X-Men saw Lady Deathstrike fighting against someone they had not seen in a long time, Sunfire or Shiro Yoshida. The ill-tempered mutant was someone hard to forget especially his rather violent fights with Rogue.

Scott quickly reverted to leader mode and wasted no time in giving out orders. Pixie and Paige were ordered to the sideline with Sam watching over them. Storm, Ice-Man, Jean and Polaris were ordered to join Sunfire against Deathstrike. Nightcrawler didn't wait for Cyclops to finish before he ported off to join the Scarlet Witch as the rest of the X-Men went to help Mercury.

Teleporting Wanda at the last second to avoid what would have been a rather nasty hit, Kurt gave her a toothy grin when they landed.

"Trouble seems to follow you, no?"

Returning the smile, she wryly replied, "It comes with being a mutant Kurt. I thought you'd catch on by now especially since you are an X-Man."

"Can't argue with that," He responded as the two dodged another attack from Spiral who had wasted no time in chasing down the two.

"Why are you here Spiral," Wanda questioned, hexing a piece of metal to wrap around her six arms, leaving no room for movement.

"That is no concern of yours witch," She spat out, glaring as she broke free. But before she could do anything, Polaris appeared with a struggling Lady Deathstrike in tow who was hovering two inches off the ground. Soon enough Spiral was stuck in the same position as the Japanese assassin.

About to resume questioning the two, Shiro landed in a flurry of a blaze right in front of them. Removing his mask, he glared at all those ahead of him.

"What do you think you're doing," He snarled.

Wanda and Poloris were taken back by his brash attitude especially after saving him though the X-Men remained unfazed, already used to his temperament.

"How dare you interrupt my fight?"

Her eyes narrowing, Wanda was not going to let him talk to her like that.

"Listen here you little punk we just saved your ungrateful ass."

"Did I ask for your help?" He countered.

Seething, Wanda tried to keep from lashing out at him and managed to instead grind out through clenched teeth, "Watch that tongue of yours before you lose it."

"Oh yea, I'd like to see you try. I bet you can't even lay a hand on me." He challenged in a condescending and haughty manner.

"A hand, no." Wanda smirked as she made to hex him only for Kurt to take her hand in his.

"We have more pressing matters to deal with." He spoke, bringing all their attention back to Spiral and Deathstrike.

"Why are you on Genosha?"

Spiral merely regarded him with a cold look. It was Lady Deathstrike who answered but not with the answer they wanted.

"My quarrel is not with you X-Man. Release me or you will be next."

"What exactly is your quarrel with Rogue and Sunfire?" Storm spoke up.

At the mention of their names Deathstrike become even more incensed and Poloris struggled to keep her hold over the assassin.

"Her and those brats will pay for what they did. No one dishonors my family."

Before Storm could ask any more questions, two blue twisters of raw power formed out of nowhere around the two and both were gone in an instant but not before Spiral gave them a mocking wave.

"Now look at what you did. You let them get away you incompetent fools." Shiro scowled, adding a few Japanese swear words into to his little tirade.

"Is he always like this?" Lorna asked the closest person to her which happened to be Bobby.

"Unfortunately. But you should count yourself lucky, he can actually be a lot worse. Get him and Rogue in the same room and it'll make a fight between the Hulk and Wolverine look like a pillow fight."

At that Lorna giggled. She knew of the Hulk and knew Wolverine's temperament so it much have been bad when the two of them were together.

When he heard her giggle, Bobby started to grin. He hadn't really paid her much attention before but now that he was actually looking he noticed ho pretty she was. Blue had always been his favorite color but green was a very close second.

"Shiro why was she after you?" Scot asked in his normal monotone voice though his hand was on his visor, acting as a silent warning.

His lip curling, he nonetheless started to talk. "Where's the gaijun cow? Don't tell me she finally decided to ditch you guys too."

"Rogue's whereabouts doesn't matter at the moment Shiro. Just tell me why they attacked you." Scott demanded.

"Yea because we don't even know where she's at." Forge added his own two cents, causing a collected groan to come from the group.

"Forge!" Kitty was the first to reprimand him. "We said we weren't going to mention that."

"Sorry." He apologized, slowly inching his way to stand behind Colossus.

"Some team leader you are. First you disband then you can't even get your members back and when you finally do you keep losing them." Sunfire sneered. "It was a good thing that I had enough foresight to leave when I did."

Scott immediately reacted to that comment. Grabbing him by his collar he was about to let fists fly when Shiro powered up. Pushing the former leader of the X-Men away from him both were immediately stopped by a lightning bolt that landed right between them.

"Stop this, the both of you," Storm sent a pointed look to Cyclops, "Or I promise you I will not miss the next time."

"Now Shiro tell us what you know."

Crossing his arms, he looked away but still answered in a low growl. "That's the thing, I don't know anything. All that Lady Deathstrike sputtered out was something about some dishonor we brought to her family."

"We," Jean questioningly stated.

"Yes we. Here this might explain it."

As he said that he shoved a photo into Storm's hands. "I managed to swipe this off of that crazy subeta."

Right away everyone surrounded Storm, peering over her shoulder to look at the picture. It was obviously an old photograph that looked like it had seen a lot over the years but on it clearly showed a younger looking Sunfire, a thirteen year old who could only be Rogue, a girl they had never seen before and Mystique.

"I don't even remember taking that picture. I've never met Mystique or that other girl and I didn't meet Rogue until I joined you guys and that was when I was fifteen."

TBC