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Chapter 7
Recap
"I said it might there was no telling if it would stay dormant or not." Professor X raised his hand when Logan was about to shout again. "From the information I gathered, it seems it was awake and listening in when I told her what happened. Thus it knew only to move during when she was away or in the night. When we were all asleep."
"You mean that.. thing was listening in and planing when to strike?" Jubilee asked, saying what Kitty was thinking.
"Yes. Unfortunately her mind was already under so much stress, I couldn't sense it."
"Chuck?" Logan asked from his brooding spot.
"Yes, Logan." Charles responded, dreading what he would ask.
"If I don't wake her up, can I go in?"
"No. Her mind is in a fragile state anything can upset her, even if she is asleep. Don't think of going in."
~Later that night.
Logan knew he shouldn't be thinking about it. He turned to look out the window in his bed. It was a full moon the night he saved her from Magneto, just like this night. He got out of bed and walked to the kitchen, Jubilee was there just starring into her apple cider, it smelled like.
"I'm worried about her." She sighed.
"I am too, kid." He sat across from her at the island. "Drink up the rest of that and go to bed." She nodded and drank the remaining liquid inside her yellow mug. She bade him good night and went to her shared dorm.
He made up his mind then. He was going to see her. He got up and walked out of the kitchen and made his way to the secret elevator. As he rode down the Professors words rang in his head. What if she got lost in her mind if he woke her up? NO! He was going to see her, he berated himself for doubting himself. Due to his memory loss he didn't know if he doubted himself before but he knew it was the first time in fifteen years.
~Meanwhile down on the medical floor.
"All they want to do is control you." A sweet-seducing, lullaby voice whispered inside Rogues head. "You're a level five mutant, but the professor didn't tell you that did he?.. Do you want to know why your precious Logan comes back? He comes back for the Doctor Jean Grey, who is so much more prettier and older than you. Your barely out of your preteen years and you have a crush on the mighty Wolverine. Face the bitter truth, Your. Only. A. Cover-up, and you know it too." Rogue shot up from her light sleep screaming 'Stop it!'. At the moment Logan walked in with a long sleeve and gloves on and rushed to her side trying to calm her down. Metal bent, not by magnetic force, when the voice spoke to her again. "See he's only here to see if the doctor is around." With those words and her already fragile state she let go. Going to live in the memories of the past, where she was happy.
"Rogue, Rogue! You need to calm down!" Logan tried to calm her. All of a sudden, she stilled. "Are you alright, Marie?"
A moment passed as her held her to his chest. "My name is not Rogue." He hummed, quietly confused. "It's not Rogue either." He looked down at her to see her eyes turning from her doe brown to a fiery red. He felt a sinking feeling in his stomach as he realized this wasn't his Marie he was holding. He sniffed a bit and her fruity scent was gone, replaced by an ashy wood smell. He felt something grab hold of him and smash him against the back wall. The last thing he saw was the equipment surrounding her short out and start to spark. Then black.
~Anna\Sparks third-person POV
"Are you sure the Charles said that she was awake and we should check on her?" Sparks asked running down the hall of the lower levels with Storm and Cyclops.
"Well if he wasn't sure why would he tell us to?" Scott replied sarcastically.
"Where's Jean?" Storm asked.
"With the Professor." He answered. They all slowed down as they reached the medical bay. The door opened automatically and they saw the havoc that had been caused by machines monitoring her were sparking. The electricity was quickly cut off by Anna who absorbed the remaining energy.
"What happened down here?" Sparks whispered. "Logan!" She shouted when she saw him lying next to a deep dent in the wall. She gently shook him awake, he roused with a questioning 'Hmm'.
"Logan, what happened?" Storm asked while Scott walked to the security cameras to check out what happened.
"I don't know, she was- she looked like she was waking up from a bad dream. She was screaming. I think I scarred her or something but I do know that she has another mutation." He rubbed the back of his head but the goose egg that was there had already diminished.
The doors slide open and Charles and Jean came in. Charles tone was disappointed and urgent. "You do realize what you've done. You couldn't leave her alone for a night. A single night Logan, just one. You do know that the Phoenix can start a mental degrade on her mental state. If we ever do get the Phoenix out of her mind she might be insane to an incurable level." He wheeled out of the room and they all followed him out. He went to the end of the hall to the giant round door. It scanned his eye and gave the soft 'Welcome Professor.'.
"I need to find her before she does something to jurassic." He wheeled into Cerebro.
~ Rogues third person
She walked into the old chapel were the mutant rally was being held. She was dressed like when she ran away from home. Funny, she thought, home is were I'm going. This was just a pit stop, she was just resting on a street corner when she over-heard some people talking about the cure and the rally. She decided to make a stop over there. She slipped into an empty corner and listened to the man on the small stage.
"This cure is voluntary. Nobody's talking about extermination." The skinny, tall man said.The door opened letting a gust of wind in and the one man she hated the most walked in. "No one ever talks about it. They just do it. And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day, when the air is still and the night is fallen, they come for you." He said walking to the front, his strong voice and posture demanding respect and attention.
"Excuse me-" The man tried to interrupt.
Then Magneto ignored him and addressed the crowd. "Only then do you realize that while you're talking about organizing and committees, the extermination has already begun. Make no mistake, my brothers, they will draw first blood. They will force their cure upon us. There is only question is, will you join my brotherhood and fight or await the inevitable genocide. Who will you stand with, the humans or us?" His eye's scanned the crowd searching for free soldiers. Rogue stepped forward after some other people around her age went and stood behind him. "What about those of us that need the cure?" She hide her face in the shadow of her hood. "My dear, nobody needs the cure." He replied in a warm tone. She drooped her hood and his eye's widened for a second before returning to normal. "Rogue-" He started. "My name is Marie, Eric." She said sharply. "Marie, what happened to you?" Pyro asked coming out from behind Magneto. Her state was terrible. Despite the sleep she had gotten in the med bay she had dark circles around her eyes and a sickly pale tone to her skin. "In short, I died." She then addressed the crowd raising her voice to quiet the others. "The cure is not mandatory, but if you are unhappy with your mutation it is completely your choice weather you get it or not." She glanced at Magneto to see if he would challenge her or not but he stayed silent. Unbeknown to her her eyes had turned to the fiery ash color when she glanced at him. He smiled at the back of her head a plan already forming in his mind. She then left with out another word. End chapter 7 I'm not going to be able to post for a while, don't know how long, but still. Reviews are eye-candy.
