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"Stop it." Quicksilver growled at Pyro as he flicked his lighter open again. They were walking down the hallway of a mutant research base. Guards had attacked them, but Scarlet Witch tossed them aside as if they were mere insects.

"Why did you need us to go with you again?" X-23 growled at Wanda.

"Backup, just in case things are too easy and for entertainment." Scarlet Witch answered her. She glanced to her side to see John had his eyes lowered. "If you continue to look there, you're going to find yourself in the wall." She growled.

Pyro straightened his gaze away from Wanda's ass. Quicksilver narrowed his eyes at him. "If you even dare putting the moves on my sister, I'll kill you." He warned.

"What are you going to do? Talk me to death?" Pyro rolled his eyes at him. Quicksilver quickly grabbed Pyro's lighter and held it in his hand.

"Unless you want your nightlight back, you'll not go anywhere near my sister. Got it?" Quicksilver warned the other mutant.

"I promise I won't go anywhere near your sister." John said while his other hand was behind his back with his fingers crossed.

X-23 rolled her eyes and glanced behind her at the boys. She could smell a lie a mile away. The question was would Wanda care if she gutted them both right here? 'I'll save it for later.' She thought to herself.

"Freeze mutants." Five guards yelled as the raised their rifles at the young mutants. Scarlet Witch glared at all of them and raised her hand when X-23 smacked it away.

"Let me have my fun for once." The brown haired girl growled. Wanda sighed in annoyance. She just wanted to get Avalanche and go home. She didn't want to wait around while they slowly took out the guards one by one.

"Put your hands up." The guards yelled again. X-23 smirked and unsheathed her two claws from her hands. "Put those away now!"

X-23 only ignored them and charged right at them. One of them shot her in the shoulder, which didn't seem to faze her. The gunshot wound healed as quickly as it hit.

The brown haired mutant's claws sliced through two of the guard's guns, leaving them defenseless before she stabbed them. Two others were about to shoot when Quicksilver sped over and knocked them both into the wall before they could even blink.

The last guard trembled as he slowly backed away. "Okay, I'm done waiting." Scarlet Witch snarled as she hexed the last guard into the ceiling. "Can we go now? According to our trackers, Avalanche should be right around the corner." She told them.

"Fine." X-23 snarled as she followed behind Wanda and John.

"So, what you plan on doing when you get back to base?" Pyro asked the Scarlet Witch, who only shrugged. "Well, I was thinking of going out to a movie, if you are interested?" He suggested to her.

"Sure, whatever." Scarlet Witch muttered as she hexed off a door to the cell and found a young man sitting on a bunk with semi-short brown hair.

"What took you so long?" Avalanche sneered as he got up.

"We wasted our time to save this?" X-23 growled.

"If you know what's good for you, you will shut up and follow us. Unless you want him." She motioned towards Pyro. "To burn you alive and after you cool down. She'll" she motioned towards X-23. "Will cut you into little pieces." She warned.

"Fine, I'll come." Avalanche whispered, trying to show he wasn't scared, even if he was terrified.

X-Jet

"I can't believe he found her." Logan said with a hint of happiness in his voice. Ororo gave a small smile and nodded.

"Yeah it is wonderful." The weather goddess spoke. She looked out the window and at the ground with a sigh. 'Now you will forget about me and go chasing after Jean. Just like every man that has entered into the mansion.' She thought to herself.

"Uh Storm?" Logan got her attention. She turned to face the front to find the skies had darkened and it began to hail.

"Oh, sorry." Ororo apologized as she concentrated on making the weather sunny. 'This is petty of me to be jealous.' She spat at herself. 'I should be glad that Jean is alive and that Scott is alright.' She thought.

"Man, I wonder how the hell she survived. I mean, there was no way anyone could have survived that wave." Logan commented. Ororo nodded and turned away to look out the window again.

Stormed closed her eyes to concentrate on peaceful things instead of their mission. 'Think of your garden. The plants blooming to life. Just like Jean.' Ororo opened her eyes.

"But in the end she chose the man she really loved: Scott. I may have wanted her to choose me, but I respected her no matter what." Ororo remembered Logan saying this to her when Scott had just left. She had believed him and deep inside her, she had hoped he had meant it and not just saying it.

'We'll find out.' Ororo thought to herself as she turned her attention to the front of the jet.

X-Mansion

A motorcycle pulled up next to the gate and the young woman on the back of it climbed off and handed the young man her helmet. "Thanks for bringin' meh back." Rogue said to Remy. "Though, Ah could have stayed there a little longer. It wasn't that bad." She told him.

"Nah, chere. Y' deserve a better life. One where y'll be safe and with people to take care of y'." Gambit replied to her.

"Ah don't know protectin'. Ya saw that Ah could take care of mah self." Rogue protested.

"Dat was only Vertigo. Y' wouldn't do well if she brought some of de others to help her. Believe moi, de Marauders don' play fair. Dey are like a pack of wolves dat attack anything dat goes near dem. Mess with one, de rest get mad." Gambit told her.

"Glad Ah didn't have ta witness that." Rogue said to herself. "We could hang out some more." She suggested. She really didn't want to see him go back to those awful people.

"Wish I could, chere, but I got a flight to catch in three hours." Gambit sighed. He really needed to get back. He was supposed to be leaving to Florence, Italy to pick something up for Sinister. "Maybe when I get back, I take y' somewhere nice." He mentioned to her. Rogue smiled at him and nodded.

"That would be great." She said.

Remy smiled at her. "I'll see you around, chere." He said before he kissed her hand and let it go.

Rogue watched as he took off down the street on his bike. "Bye." She whispered.

"Rogue?" She heard Jubilee's voice from behind her. She turned to see Kitty, Jubilee, and Bobby walking towards the gate.

"Where have you been? We've been looking everywhere for you." Bobby told her.

"Sorry about that. Ah just visited a friend." She lied to them. It was only partially a lie.

"Next time tell us!" Jubilee said before she hugged Rogue. "We were so worried. Even talked to Logan, but he had to go on a mission."

"Ah promise Ah will." She swore to them.

"That reminds me, its Mall Day. You know what that means." Kitty smirked. Bobby groaned at the thought. "Me and Jubes will get the car." She said before the two other girls took off towards the garage.

"Can I ask you something?" Bobby questioned his ex-girlfriend.

"Sure." Rogue shrugged.

"You weren't really visiting a friend, were you? You followed that guy who broke in, didn't you?" Bobby asked. Though it sounded more like he was accusing her than asking a question.

"Ya Ah did." Rogue answered like it was no big deal.

"Are you nuts? You could have gotten killed. We wouldn't have been able to-" Bobby's lecture broke when Rogue cut him off.

"-listen ta me! Ah don't need ta hear this. Ah am not a child, Ah can make mah own decisions. Ah'm sick of everyone tellin' meh what ta do and decided what mah fate is gonna be. Ah'm the one that decides. No ya, Logan, or the Professor." She snapped. "And just so ya know, he ain't that bad of a guy. He brought meh back, didn't he?" Rogue told him before heading towards the garage.

She huffed and put her hands inside her pockets. Her left hand connected with what felt like a playing card. She took it out to see the Queen of Hearts staring back at her. A gave it a small smile and turned it over to see a number written and a message below it.

"If you ever need anything, chere. Don't hesitate to call."

End of Chapter 10

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