A/N: hey ppl sry it took so long, i sorta lost mah floppy so i couldn't get to upload chapter 10, and i was too lazy to rewrite another one, but luckily i found mah floppy. hehe. Anywayz here's chap.10. hope u enjoy it!

When they got to the diner it was almost full but they were lucky enough to find a booth to sit in.

"Hi, can I take your order?" The waitress asked.

"Uh, sure I'll have two eggs over easy two, strips of bacon, corn beef hash, and home-made fries and, a cup of coffee. You guys?" She asked them.

They gave the waitress their orders and she told them that she would be back with their orders.

During the time in between the arrival of their meals the three of them had loosened up. They argued and joked around and argued some more. They ate their meals like that too. When they finished Bobby was laughing so hard that they practically had his coffee spill out of his nose.

"Well I think I've had to much coffee. I need a beer." Marie said after a moment.

David looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Habit I picked up from Logan." She shrugged and waved for the waitress and turned back to them. "Bobby?"

"Sure."

"David? Do you drink?"

"No. I, uh, think I'll stick to coffee."

She shrugged, "Your choice."

The waitress approached.

"Two beers and another coffee please."

"I need to see some I.D."

"Sure." Bobby and Marie took out their I.D.'s and showed them to her.

"What kind of beers do you guys want?"

"Uh.... A Smirnoff, and... Bobby? Which do you want?" Marie said.

"I'll take a Bacardi."

"Okay, I'll be right back with them then." She said and walked away.

Just then a loud group of seven guys walked in and sat at the booth in front of them.

"Shit." Marie hissed and looked away trying to cover her face.

"What?" Bobby and David asked.

"Stan's here. Fuck. " She whispered.

He must've realized something because Stan looked up, saw her and whispered to his friends. They all quieted down, looked back at them and got to walked over.

"What the fuck are you doing here bitch?" Bobby chuckled as their beers arrived.

"What the hell are you laughing 'bout?" Stan sneered at Bobby.

"You really don't wanna know."

Stan slapped his open palms on the tabletop and glared at Marie. "I'll ask you one more time. What. The. Fuck. Are. You. Doing. Here?"

"Why should I answer you?" She took a sip of her beer made a face, and handed it to Bobby and he blew on the opening, it turned ice cold, and gave it back to Marie.

"Thanks." Rogue said to Bobby and then she turned back to Stan and asked him. "Tell me, why should I answer you?"

Bobby laughed and took a sip of his beer. "She's got you there dude."

David looked stunned no one stood up to Stan. The people who did usually landed in the hospital.

In a flash Stan had him by the collar and dragged him up from the table.

"What the fuck is your problem? You brain damaged or something? The little bitch kiss you or somethin'?" Bobby had a smirk on his face.

"Yeah as a matter a fact she did a couple of times actually, well a lot more than that." Bobby confessed still smirking at him.

Marie laughed.

Stan let go of Bobby and took a fistful of Marie's hair and dragged her up to his face.

"What are you fucking doing here?"

Bobby's smirk had disappeared into a sneer.

"Let her go." He said in a low, dangerous voice.

"Or what?" His friends laughed.

"Or this." Marie said as she slammed her fist into his face. As she did that, her beer had fallen to the ground and shattered. He let go of her hair and staggered back. His friends closed in on them.

"Let's take this outside. I don't want people to get hurt cuz I am really pissed now, and you don't want to see me pissed. You touch her like that and I get real mad." Bobby warned.

Bobby and Marie walked outside into an alley without waiting for an answer from Stan.

Stan and his friends followed them, along with David who stood at the mouth of the alley. Watching.

"So you want powers or no powers? Huh guys?" Marie asked

They just looked at the two of them.

"Okay let's make this fair, no powers."

They kept staring at them.

Bobby and Marie stood there looked at them and waited for their first move no one made it yet. Bobby started towards Stan but Marie held him back. "No, he's mine, he messed up a perfectly good beer when he oh so nicely pulled my hair."

Bobby grunted and gave a small nod.

Nothing happened.

Then every thing happened.

Three of Stan's friends jumped Bobby but he blocked one's fist and kicked him in the mid-section that sent him to the floor he punched the other one in the face and kicked one in the stomach.

They were all alive but groaning and moaning after he was through with them.

While he was doing that the other three guys jumped Marie. One of them tried punching her but she dodged it and gave him a blow in the stomach, which sent him on the ground. The other charged her but she just dumped him into the dumpster behind her. The third guy punched and kicked like a black belt in martial arts. Marie rolled her eyes. Show off She thought. He charged her and punched left and right and she dodged left and right. When he did a roundhouse kick she gave him a solid kick in the back, hard enough for him to fall but not hard enough to break it.

Once everyone was on the floor groaning and moaning except for Stan who was watching her.

Then she turned to him.

"You still wanna try me?" She asked.

"Impressive. But you should know that I'm pretty good at martial arts too. Figured I'd need it since you mutants would be around."

"Give me your best, hotshot."

He smiled. And went for her.

He punched and kicked while she dodged and punched throwing no kicks but had her left hand was at her side waiting for a perfect attack. Then it came, she gave him a solid punch in the stomach then she kicked him in the groin. And side-kicked him in the stomach and he was kneeling-but not on the ground-looking at her.

"Coward." She sneered at him. "You really think I asked for this? You think I wanted to do this? You know why I know how to do this? Why I had to learn this? All of this fighting?" She waved an arm around at the bodies on the ground of the guys who fought them. "Because of people like you, people who think you're better than us because we're different, -you can't handle it so you say 'what the hell we'll just beat the crap outa them'. - Well I'll tell you what. You're not. As a matter of fact you know what?" She asked. Stan was already up, looking at her dangerously. She laughed out loud, unfazed from the look he was giving her. "I pity you, and everyone else who thinks that." She grabbed him by the collar and rammed him against the wall and lifted him a couple of inches off the ground, just for good measure.

"Next time I hear that you or your one of your buddies over there are bothering anyone and I mean anyone I'll come after you personally, and when I do I'll break every single one of your bones in your body if I have to, to knock some fucking sense into you, you got that?" He nodded fearfully. She dropped him on his ass.

Bobby was next to David when she was finished and they walked up to her. Bobby was grinning and David was just in awe. Marie smirked.

"Man, remind me never to mess with you. Ever. I hope you guys didn't break anything." David said smiling.

Bobby and Marie smiled. "Nah don't think so. You Bobby?"

"Nope, Xavier would kill us if we did. Although it would've been fun." Bobby said regretfully and sighed.

Marie made a hand gesture to lead the way. "Well we should get going now if we wanna get back home before Logan kills us. So David, lead the way."

A/N 2: thanx fer da reviews: hopeless romantic chick aka jessey, fudgebrowne, angel-kind- sorta, and the babe with white streaks in her hair.