Rogue and Gambit stood in front of Dumbledore's desk in confusion. The older man sat behind his desk with his hands folded and watched the two mutants. Rogue was suddenly struck with how much Dumbledore and Xavier were alike. But of course Magneto had the same mannerisms too so maybe it was just an old people thing.
"Ah'm a little confused professor, did ya say ya wanted us to travel back in time ta twelve years ago?" she asked, she couldn't have heard him right. She knew of time turners, in fact the Granger girl had one so she could attended all of her classes this year. But even those time turners couldn't go back years, it was an impossibility to travel into the past more than five hours.
"Rogue a few years ago I came across an ancient time turner found in a tomb near the tomb of Apocalypse. It was buried deep under rubble, but I managed to dig it out." He explained. "Anyway a few hours ago I received this," he held up a thick letter. "it's a letter from myself in the future. It tells what all has happened since the day Lily and James Potter died.
"It is their deaths that need to be prevented. Harry may have been able to stop Voldemort, but he didn't defeat him. he comes back to power when Pettigrew returns to him at the end of this year."
"Wait." Rogue said, interrupting Dumbledore. "Ya know about Pettigrew and Sirius?" she asked hurriedly.
"Yes my dear, as I said it's all in the letter." He explained to them.
"So why me an' Rogue?" Remy asked, speaking up for the first time.
"Because Rogue is the only one who can stop him, and you are the only one who can help Rogue keep control of her mind." Dumbledore said gravely. "This needs to be done, you two are the only ones who can do it."
Rogue looked to Remy who was staring right back at her. after a moment they seemed to come to a silent agreement. "Wha' do we need ta do?" Remy asked.
"I have here a list of all the Horcruxes and how to destroy them." He said as he handed the list to Rogue. "A Horcrux is an object a dark wizard hides part of his soul. There can be an infinite number of Horcruxes and they are very hard to destroy. The only way they can be truly destroyed is if they are broken to where even magic can't fix it." he explained.
Rogue nodded and looked down at the list, they could do this, she told herself. they had to do this, they couldn't let the future happen. They had to protect the potters and kill Voldemort at all costs. Rogue knew the drill, the weight of the world always rested on her shoulders and once again she was forced to save it. she nodded to herself.
"When do we leave?" she asked.
"Tonight." he said and stood up from his desk. He walked around and up a flight of stairs to a loft above.
It was only a few moments before he came back down holding a large time turner. It looked ancient and had many of the same markings that Apocalypse's machine had had on it before it had been destroyed.
"You will need to turn it twelve times. You should end up in this office and hopefully I will be here, if not don't go looking for me, just wait." He instructed. "When we meet give this to me." He said and handed them a large and thick envelope.
He took a deep breath before continuing. "You are our only hope." He said and rogue thought his voice might have cracked slightly. "Do everything you can to prevent this future." He said.
The two mutants nodded and stepped back from him. Remy held on to the envelope and her hand while rogue turned the turner back twelve times. it was sudden as lights began to flash and the room began to spin. Rogue gripped Remy's hand tighter in case either of them was thrown off into the swirling time space continuum. Rogue shut her eyes tight in hopes that it would reduce the felling of dizziness that had over taken her.
Then as sudden as it had come it stopped. Rogue opened her eyes to look around, they were still in Dumbledore's office, but it was different, it was older. Rogue looked down at her hand that was still clutched in Remy's. "Ya can let go now." she said.
He just smiled at her and gave her hand a squeeze. "Ya know ya like me holdin' ya hand." He said with a million dollar smile.
Rogue frowned and yanked her hand away from his. "Cut it out Cajun."
Rogue didn't see Dumbledore anywhere. She didn't even since anyone else in the office. And that was when the door opened and several people stepped into the room at once. The first was Dumbledore, who looked exactly the same, she briefly wondered if he had always been the same age. The next was a notably younger Snape who, along with a younger McGonagall stepped around the headmaster and took aim at her and Remy.
"Stupefy!" they yelled simultaneously.
Rogue stepped in front of Remy quickly, blocking him from the attack. The spells hit her squarely in the chest but didn't do anything other than make her chest tingle a little. "We just wanna talk." Rogue said holding her hands up to show surrender.
"Who are you!" McGonagall demanded, her wand still pointed at them. Rogue thought it set them on edge that their spells had no effect on her.
"My name is Rogue an' this is Remy." Rogue said, they needed to move fast and all this questioning was wasting time.
Minerva, Severus." Dumbledore chided "Let us hear what they have to say." He said as he walked over to his desk and sat down.
Remy walked over to his desk and handed him the envelop. "Dis would be better if we could so dis in private." Remy said referring to the two Professors.
"You're daft if you think we would leave you here alone with Dumbledore." Snape said with a scowl. "You two are probably assassins sent to dispatch Dumbledore."
"Sugar, if Ah was sent ta kill him, ya two couldn't have stopped me." She said with a sweet smile.
His scowl deepened. "DO not worry for my safety, if you like you can stand right outside the door and wait." Dumbledore said.
McGonagall turned and walked to the door and gave them a stern look as if to say 'hurt him and you have to answer to me'. Snape never took his eyes off rogue as he retreated from the room and shut the door.
Rogue and Remy waited while Dumbledore read the letter he had written himself, it only took a few minutes before he looked up with an odd expression on his face. "This can't be true." He said quietly.
"Ah'm afraid it is that's why we were sent." She explained.
"Yes, yes." He muttered looking down and looked up quickly. "Do you know where all the Horcruxes are?" he asked.
Rogue pulled the list from her jeans pocket and handed it to him. "Yes, yes we need to begin immediately." Rogue had honestly expected a little more resistance on his part but he took this all in as though it was perfectly normal.
"I will need to induct you as members of The Order of The Phoenix. We will need to leave immediately, Mr. Lebeau if you could let Minerva and Severus back into the room." he said and Remy went to the door and opened it to a sour Snape.
"Minerva, Severus, meet the newest members of the Order." He introduced them.
Snape looked absolutely outraged. "You can't be serious!" he raged.
"Are you sure Albus?" McGonagall asked uncertainly as she sized the two mutants up.
"I am." He said with finality. This is Remy Lebeau and Rogue I will explain all at the headquarters." He said standing up. he picked up what appeared to be a snow globe and held it out. "Minerva if you could be so kind as to stay behind and watch over the school."
"Of course." She said and bowed.
"Right then." Dumbledore held out the snow globe, it was a portkey.
Remy, rogue and Snape all reached out and held onto the seemingly harmless object. And then once again rogue was spinning through time and space. There was a sudden jolt and the four of them found themselves a kitchen of sorts. Rogue looked around and saw many men and women all starring at her and Remy. Rogue recognized Sirius and Remus at once, she had to admit that Sirius was rather handsome back in the day. She saw a man with messy black hair, his arm around a pretty little red head with a bundle in her arms. The Potters.
"Dumbledore, who are they?" asked a concerned Remus.
"Is everyone here?" he asked ignoring Lupin for the time being.
"We came as soon as we got the call." A startling scared man with a glass eye said.
"Good everybody gather in the meeting room." he said and swept out of the room in one fluid motion.
Rogue thought it best to follow him and not linger. She followed him into a dining room with a large round table, he sat down at the far end and rogue stood behind him alongside Remy. The rest of the Witches and wizards filed in and took their perspective places around the table.
"So now are you going to tell us what this is all about?" a redheaded man asked.
"Yes Arthur, it has come to my attention that Voldemort has created six Horcruxes." There was swearing and scowling from each member at this. "The young man and woman behind me are mutants."
"No you can't bring mutants in to our war!" Bellowed one wizard.
This went on for a moment or two before Dumbledore held a hand up and the room immediately went silent. "I know we said we wouldn't bring mutants into our war. But Miss Rogue here is the only one who can defeat Voldemort."
"And what can she do that's so great" asked one high strung witch with frizzy brown hair.
"Well why don't I let you explain that." He said turning to rogue.
Rogue absolutely hated it when people asked her her powers. "My power is ta absorb anyone Ah touch. When ah absorb them ah take their powers, physical abilities and memories. The powers fade after a while, ah always keep the memories. If ah hold on too long ah can kill who ever Ah'm touchin' an' ah keep their powers." She explained.
"So you plan on permanently absorbing the Dark Lord?" Snape asked. "You just want his powers!" he accused.
"Severus, if you do not trust them at least trust me." Dumbledore said. "Now the first order of business will be to destroy the Horcruxes."
"Wait" Potter said. "Shouldn't we wait for Peter and the others?" he asked. Rogue felt herself scowl and received a sharp poke from Remy. She wasn't supposed to know him or anyone else for that matter.
"Ah'm afraid we have a spy within the Order." Dumbledore told them causing whispers to go around the table. "I alerted you all to the meeting because I knew for a fact that none of you were the traitors."
"Do you know who then?" Lupin asked.
"Not for sure and until I do no one is to approach any of the members who are not in this room right now." rogue had never seen him so serious in fact she had thought he was a little loopy. "And no one is to say anything about this meeting, as far as everyone in this room is concerned Rogue and Remy do not exist and this meeting and what you learned in it never happened either."
Everyone nodded in consent. "Now I have here a list of all the Horcruxes and their locations." He said producing the same piece of paper rogue had handed him not to long ago. "The first is in the home of Lucius Malfoy.
"Severus, I will need you to retrieve it. it is a diary with blank pages." He said. "He must not know that it is gone, do you understand?" Snape nodded.
"The next is Salazar Slytherin's Locket, it is being hidden the cave with the lake of Inferi." He turned to a man who had been called moody. "Mad-Eye, assemble a team and take it out." The man nodded.
"James, you know Hogwarts castle better than I do, the next Horcrux is in the Room of Requirement. You need to find and destroy Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem." Potter nodded with a smile.
"The next will be most difficult, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup is being held in the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts." Rogue watched as most of the magic folk cringed. "Remy and Sirius will retrieve it."
"With all due respect why is he coming with me?" Sirius asked.
"Because Ah'm a master thief, ever heard o' de thieves guild?" he asked. Most of the room nodded, Remy smiled and took an elaborate bow. "Remy Lebeau, at yo' service." He said.
"Now wait a minute, I know Jean-Luc Lebeau, he has two sons and neither are as old as you." Said a little wizard with a grey beard.
Remy opened his mouth to spin an elaborate lie. "I had wished to keep this from you but it appears that I cannot." He said bowing his head. "These two are form the future, I sent them back to this day to prevent a terrible future."
The room was silent as this information sunk in. "We have until Halloween night, to kill Voldemort we need to destroy the Horcruxes."
"Now the next one, Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, it will be held in the Gaunt Shack. Lupin, put together a team to destroy it." he told him. "Now the last one is in his snake familiar. It will have to be destroyed on Halloween night, the night that Rogue will destroy Voldemort." Dumbledore sighed. "These Horcruxes can't just be broken or shattered, they must be destroyed beyond magical repair."
"Besides her powers what makes her so capable of taking down Lord Voldemort?" Snape asked. Rogue rolled her eyes, he clearly didn't like the thought of entrusting the future into her hands.
"Trust me you don' wanna be on de wrong end o' her temper." Remy said. rogue shook her head, why everyone seemed to think she had such a dangerous temper was beyond her.
"So is she just going to absorb enough of him to knock him out or enough to kill him?" Lupin asked. It was like when they had first met all over again, he was absolutely fascinated with her mutation.
"If ah absorb all of him then ah could lose control of my mind." She said but continued at the confused looks. "when ah absorb someone a piece of their mind always stays in my mind. If ah absorb too much of someone it tears down my mental shields and all those other personalities fight for control. Not only could it kill me but ah could kill a lot of other people." She explained.
"Great our fate is in the hands of a ticking time bomb." Snape muttered irritably.
"Oh shut it Snivellous." Sirius snapped at the man who sent a scathing glare at the Marauder.
"You all know your assignments, we have exactly a month before Halloween. James, Lily may I have a word with you?" Dumbledore asked. The couple nodded and stayed put while everyone else including rogue and Remy.
They emptied out into a sitting area where most just milled around in little groups. Rogue longed to go over and talk to them but she knew it would be suspicious if she acted too friendly with someone she had never met before. But rogue didn't have to worry about being alienated for long because Snape marched his way over.
"Just so you know I'll be watching you mutant." He spat. The rest of the room went silent as they watched the exchange. "I don't trust-"
"Yeah ah get it." Rogue said cutting him off. "Ah may not be a mutant but ah aint retarded, ya don't need ta repeat ya self every ten minutes. Ah can only stand ta look at ya for so long." She said before turning away from him, hoping he would take the hint. It seemed that she had overestimated his intelligence as he grabbed her arm to spin her around to face him.
But rogue of course was quicker she turned and grabbed him by the front of his robes and lifted him two feet off the floor. He looked down at her in fear and embarrassment. "Look ah don't like ya an' you don't like me, so how about we avoid each other till my job is done." Rogue suggested. "Cause trust me sugar if you wanna start some sorta war then ah guarantee ya aint gonna come out on top." She threatened and set him down.
He looked pale but his eyes spoke of defiance. "I'm not afraid of you." He said.
"Ya should be homme." Gambit warned. "Ah seen her take out whole armies."
Snape tore his eyes away from rogue to look at Remy. From the corner of rogue's own eyes she could see his demonic iris's glowing and knew that he was using his empathy to get Snape to leave.
"Fine." He said in a huff and with a loud crack he apperated out of the headquarters.
There was a loud applause from Sirius on the other side of the room. "You just became my favorite, sorry frenchie." He said causeing several people to chuckle.
A/N
I hope to at least get a few reviews this time if not then I'll just discontinue the story.