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Chapter 7

Rogue put her mobile on the bed side table, she had finally finished unpacking and was exhausted. She lay her head back on the light green soft pillow that lay at the top of the her spacious double bed. She decided to sit up and walk around for a while, if she kept laying down on the comfortable bed she would probably fall asleep and as much as that sounded like a great idea she knew she would regret it later. She put her bare feet down onto the green fur rug by her bed and walked across the warm cream carpet. She walked over to the pine desk that was placed by her large wardrobe, she slid her fingers across the surface, when she looked at them there was no dust to be found. It didn't surprise her, Aunt Irene had probably been in her room either that or her Mother, had been in to make sure it was clean for her stay. She had forgotten how good it felt to have your own room, your privacy. She glanced around the room that held all her childhood memories, good and bad.

On the back wall was her double bed with a green duvet. All four walls were painted in two different shades of green, when she was young it was her favourite colour as she grew older she started to lean more to the purples and blacks. On the left wall was a large straight mirror, Raven had put it in her room when she was about 11, she had said that every young girl should have a chance to look at her reflection once in a while. By the mirror was a large window with green curtains that were held to the side by a tie, most of the time the window was open. She used to love waking up to the fresh morning air sweeping across her face, she loved the way it was so refreshing and pure.

On the right wall there was a book shelf, full of many different books, she loved to read. One of the first things she could remember was her Mum reading her a book about fairytales until she fell asleep. This was before she had been adopted by Raven, back when she was Anna Marie, she used to live with her biological mum, Priscilla, she couldn't remember much about her mum but she did remember her long blond hair and her piercing blue eyes, she was one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen. Her farther, Owen, was a strong man, that's all she really remembered. It hurt her to think about them, her mum had died of cancer when she was four and her father had turned to drink after her death. He used to come in and scream at her he said it was her fault her mother had died, every night she would be beaten. She was only six years old when she had decided that if she didn't leave she would die there. One night her father had completely lost it with her and after beating her had thrown her out of the house, she ran to the train station. It was pouring down with rain and the wind was strong and fast she knew she had to get as far away from her father as possible. She walked through the rain her salty tears mixing with the water coming from the sky.

She walked over and sat on one of the old wooden rotten benches. She pulled herself up by her hands and swung her little legs whilst trying to hold back more of the tears that wanted to fall. Just as she was about to lean back on the worn out bench a little boy with black hair and very light brown eyes came towards her. If you didn't look closely enough they could be mistaken for a bright vibrant yellow, he came a little bit closer and gave her a nice cheeky boy smile. The little boy then ran off and grabbed a tall dark haired woman's hand; the woman came over towards her and looked into her watery emerald eyes.

"Are you all rite sweetie?"

She recoiled from the lady's touch, "Ah'm fahne, thank you."

"Are you sure? It can't be nice sitting out here in this weather." Raven smiled at her to reassure her.

She began to cry again, "ah have nowhere else to go." She fell into Ravens lap and let all the tears she had been keeping inside flow freely. It was from that moment she stopped being Anna Marie and became Rogue. She may have lost the little girl she used to be but she gained a family and a new life.

She shook the memory from her mind; and looked over at the four photographs on top of her desk. She picked up the one closest to her, in the picture you could see the Mississippi river and a large tree. You could see Raven and Eric in a loving embrace on top of a large picnic blanket, and a younger Kurt and Wanda playing in the large tree. Kurt was hanging upside down and Wanda was trying to climb to the top to prove to Kurt she could. She was chasing after Pietro near the bank of the river and Lorna was playing with their childhood dog, whilst laughing at her and Pietro.

It was funny, a week before Pietro and Kurt were clashing whenever they were in the same room. Lorna wouldn't come out of her bedroom and was playing her music so loud that it made the walls shake. Luckily her and Wanda had clicked straight away; they just smiled and said 'hi', then ran off to climb the large oak tree in the back garden.

The second picture showed Raven with her arms around holding her; it was taken when she was 13 years old. The picture beside that had Wanda, Pietro, Kurt, Lorna and her all sat together. It was Kurt's 15th birthday and the party had just finished. It was one of those rare moments were they were all together and getting along, the last picture was of her when she was 14. She was sat on the seat on the front porch and was laying in the arms of Cody her childhood sweetheart and her best friend. Just as she was tracing her fingers across the old treasured photograph, there was a large thud from behind her.

She turned around and saw a boy she hadn't seen in years laying on her bedroom floor in front of the window. "Uh that used to be a lot easier gal."

"Cody!" She walked over to him and helped him to get up. "What...what are yah doing here?"

"Ah figured ah'm home from Berkley and your home from LA, ah it was rude not to drop by. Well I wasn't expecting it to be that literal. But yah know we could hang out like old times, what d'ya say darling."

She gave him a weak smile, "oh Cody ah would love t' but things are different now, ah'm seeing someone."

His face fell, he then paused for a second, and after a while a small smile spread across his lips. "Well we don't have to do any of that stuff, we'll just go back to being best friends."

"Cody yah sure?"

"Yeh Roguey roo, ah mean if we don't hang around with each other, who else is there in this godforsaken town."

"Ah guess yah got a point, ah mean we were friends before all of the dating stuff, right?"

"Don't worry about it Roguey roo, ah'm sure ah can resist mah southern sweetheart for a few weeks. The question is can yah resist meh?" He wiggled his eyebrows and gave her a smirk.

She hit him on the arm and made a short giggle, "don't worry ah think ah can resist, and stop calling meh Roguey roo, unless yah want meh to give yah a dead arm."

"Sorry Roguey roo can't resist." He smiled at her and moved a little further away, Rogue picked up one of the pillows on her bed and hitting him over the head. He put his arms up in defence and picked up the other pillow on her bed. They raced around her room whacking each other with the pillows and laughing as if they were 8 years old again. They both fell down onto the double bed and he began to tickle her into submission. He leaned down to kiss her and their eyes connected, she quickly moved out from underneath him. "Sorry Cody ah can't."

Cody got up off of her bed and straightened out his brown t shirt. His sky blue eyes looked angry, he was insulted that she had led him on and then just said no. 'What gives her the right.'

"Cody ah'm really sorry, but ah still wanna hang out with yah." She gave him a small smile as she couldn't see the evil expression on his face.

The hatred and disgust changed into a nice coy smile. "That's all rite Roguey, mah fault as much as yah, course we can still go out. How about tomorrow night?"

"Sounds good." Just as Cody was about to say something else there was a knock on her bedroom door.

"Anna sweetheart, dinners ready." Raven walked into her daughter's room and saw the blonde haired blue eyed Cody Robbins from next door. "Hello Cody, how's your mother?"

"Fine thank you Mrs Darkholme."

Raven smiled, "Good to hear. Would you like to stay for dinner Cody?"

"Yeh if that's all right with yah. It gives meh chance to catch up with Roguey roo."

Rogue gave him a gentle glare and Raven smiled, she moved aside for her and Cody to go past her and through the door. "It's good to have you home dear."

"It's good to be home mama." She smiled at Raven and then grabbed her hand, Raven returned the gesture and they walked out of the door and downstairs.

LOS ANGELES

"Something smells good." Tabitha came into the large state of the art kitchen, Ororo was standing in front of the stove stirring something in a large pot. "Heya Ororo."

"Good evening Tabitha, hungry." Ororo smiled at her and pointed towards the food.

Tabitha's eyes lit up and looked ravenously at the food, "I'm starving, and when is dinner?"

"In about 10 minutes, do you know where Lexa and Logan are?"

"No I haven't seen Lex since earlier on, and I haven't seen Logan since breakfast. I could go look for them if you want me to, but I have no idea where they would be."

Ororo stood there in thought for a while, she then moved over to a little cupboard near the back door and got a set of keys off of one of the hooks. "Here, take these and go out to the garage, I'm 99% sure that they will both be there."

"Ok." She took the keys and went out the back door; she navigated her way around the winding path and down to the large garage at the bottom of the garden. She turned the keys in the lock and opened up the large steel door; she looked inside the garage and at the back could see Logan and Lexa. Lexa was sat on top of the work bench, whilst Logan was getting a tool out of the read toolbox that was on the floor. He was using it to work on one of the four bikes that were in the garage. At the moment he was working on the Harley Davidson with the black paint work and deep dark green writing across the side saying 'The Rogue'. Lexa saw her and waved at her to come over.

"Tabs, what's up?"

"Ororo asked me to come get you for dinner, chica."

Lexa jumped off of the wooden workbench and tapped on her father's shoulder. Logan turned to look at his daughter, "All right Lex, tell Ro I'll be in after I wash up."

Lexa rolled her eyes and gave her father a small smirk, "fine as long as you do, I know you dad, you say you'll only take a minute, but then you end up taking a few hours."

Logan made a short laugh, "I promise darling." He then gave her another smile, Lexa did the same and then walked out of the garage with Tabby. She started to think about the past and how things were different now. She remembered when she lived up in Canada with her mum, Yuriko, and her dad. But when she turned 7 everything changed, her mum left to pursue a fashion career and Logan decided to move him and her to LA. Sometimes she did miss her mum, but then she would remember the reason why she wasn't here. Lexa decided that her dad was the only parent she needed, as long as she had him, she could survive anything. She came out of her thoughts when she walked into the kitchen and saw Ororo finishing off the amazing spread that was set out on the large pine table. 'Maybe I do have a mum after all.' The smell wafting through the air was beautiful, the food looked absolutely delicious. There was a mixed green salad, a dish of mixed vegetables and rice. A large bowl of sweet potatoes and a rack of succulent lamb.

Tabby's mouth fell open and her eye's enlarged, "Oh my god Ororo this looks gorgeous, I haven't seen a meal like this in...well ever."

Ororo let out a short chuckle, "Well thank you Tabitha."She sat down at the head of the table, and then Lexa and Tabby sat on either side of her. "Lexa where is your..." Logan walked through the door and smiled at his finance, he then walked over to the sink and washed his hands.

"So glad you could join us Logan." Ororo gave Logan a small smirk, and then looked over at Lexa and Tabby who were trying to conceal their giggling.

"Sorry darling stripes bike needed more work than I thought." Logan walked over to the chair opposite Ororo, he gave her a special smile and then everyone started to fill their plates with the delectable food.

Tabby swallowed the piece of sweet potato in her mouth, "this is immense Ororo, and by the way thanks for letting me stay with you guys."

"Your very welcome Tabitha."

"Yeh you may be a bit wild, but you're a good kid."

Lexa's mouth dropped open, "wow dad I think that's one of the nicest things you've ever said."

"Yeh well don't get any ideas Lex." Logan laughed and then lent over to ruffle up her hair.

"Dad!"

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Thanks for all the reviews, I love writing this story and I have loads of ideas for the rest of it. Next time I'll probably focus a little more on Remy and John. There will probably be a scene with Lorna and Eric too. Keep reading and reviewing. PLEASE (uses puppy dog eyes.) :-)