Chapter Eleven- Hot Oil
Author's note- Sorry about the longness of this chapter...I guess I got a little carried away lol.
Five hours had passed and Rose was still sat there, in the exact same position with her head resting on the marble worktop. Her hair was covering her face from view so she couldn't see anything around her. She hadn't fallen asleep, she hadn't stopped thinking. Sunlight started to creep through the window behind her and she felt it hit her back, gently warming it. But she didn't move. She just didn't feel like it. She sighed just as someone entered the room.
"Piss off Wolfy…" she mumbled tiredly knowing he could hear her.
I'm not in the mood…
"Nice to see you've cheered up" he said sarcastically as he looked around for anything to eat, "how did you know it was me?"
"I'm psyc-" she stopped herself from saying something she had always said when she had just known something, "I'm not even gonna say it…"
What's he doing?
She heard cupboards opening and closing and the sound of pans and other things. She raised her head in curiosity and saw him pouring oil into a frying pan and breaking a couple of eggs in a bowl and he tried to make an omelette. She watched him with a bemused smile on her face, the first attempt he had to throw away because shell ended up in the mixture, the second attempt ended up burning in the pan. He put the black omelette on to a plate and looked at it. He got a fork and was about to eat it when Rose spoke.
You are kidding me right?
"Your not seriously going to eat that, are you?" she asked not even trying to hide the look of disgust on her face.
"Why not? You want one?" he gave her a sideways look.
"Erm no…I'm not hungry and…have you seen the colour of it?" she stared to the coal black mixture of egg, cheese and ham that made her feel sick.
"What? Can you do any better?" he teased her as he started to cut it up with a knife and fork.
Yes…a hell of a lot better…
"I can't do any worse" she said with a smirk appearing on her face.
He laughed, "Go on then" he handed her the pan and she accepted it walking around to the gas cooker.
We'll see who wins the cook off then…
She emptied the old oil out of the pan and put some new oil in as she placed the pan over a low heat. She then got two eggs from the fridge and broke them into a bowl throwing away the shells. Rose then added some grated cheese and chopped up ham to the mixture and stirred it. She poured it into the pan turning up the heat. After a few moments she turned it allowing both sides to be cooked evenly and she placed it on a plate after she checked the middle with a fork to make sure it was done.
She looked incredibly proud with herself as she let Logan inspect her yellow omelette, "well?"
He looked at her, "thanks"
He tried to pick up the plate but her hands were quicker and she retreated to the other side of the kitchen with the plate in her hands, "err…nah I'm kinda hungry after all".
Like I'd let you have it anyway…
Logan shook his head and ate his burnt omelette as Rose ate her perfectly done one. He finished before her and left with out saying another word to her. Once she had finished eating Rose started to clean up just as some kids entered the kitchen. Two guys and two girls.
What now?
She was just about to clean the pan when a blond guy walked up to her and looked at her questioningly, "Kitty? Are you sure Dew got it right?"
Do you mind?
A small girl with short brown hair tied back into a pong tail stepped forward from behind a big guy with huge muscles and a girl with black hair and a white stripe that covered the front part of her hair and was pushed behind her ears.
"Yeah, she said level four and psychic" the girl said and she was another American. She looked at the guy with narrow eyes and smiled at Rose in apology.
The guy looked at Rose again and said, "Well…I'm not paying until I see her move something or read my mind…"
You'll have to wait a long time then…
"Bobby, leave her alone and just pay Peter, he got it right" the girl with the black and white hair said.
"Yeah, just pay me the twenty bucks…" the big guy said as he leaned against the worktop of the island.
I can't stand this anymore…
"But…" he was about to say something more when Rose spoke startling him.
"Hi…" she said still holding the pan with one hand.
"Hey" the two girls said in unison looking kindly at her.
The big guy said, "Hi", looking her up and down.
Bobby looked at her again and apologised, "hey, I'm sorry…Bobby" he held his hand out to her and she accepted it, shaking hands with him.
Ice man I'm guessing…
"Rose" she replied and noticed that the girl with the weird hair was looking away with sadness in her eyes and rubbing her hands together.
What's up with her?
"I'm Kitty" the small girl said.
Dew's roommate…
The big guy looked at the others and said, "Peter"
Tin guy…
The other girl looked back at her and smiled, "I'm Rogue"
Oh…well I…that explains it…she must be scared of the cure wearing off…
"So where do you come from?" Bobby asked her as she turned around and put the pan down on the side freeing both of her hands.
Why do you wanna know?
"Erm…England" she said sheepishly as she turned back round and leaned against the worktop.
"Told you" Kitty said as she folded her arms and looked at the others with a proud smirk on her face.
"Kitty…the bet was on her power not where she was from" Peter said as he play punched her in the arm and she pulled a face back at him.
"Still got it right though" she persisted and this made Rose smile.
I like her…
Bobby turned his attention back to Rose, "so…how did they get you?"
What?
"Get me?" she asked looking quizzically at him then at the others and finally back to him.
"Yeah you know…how did they find you?" he explained for her.
"No idea…I was in a French lesson and…" she looked away remembering her previous life.
"Well Xavier came to get Kitty. Me and Peter got a letter and Rogue was brought here with Logan" he explained how each of them had found their way to the school and Rose nodded.
Got it…
Bobby walked a little closer to her and reached behind her for a glass. Rose moved out of the way accidentally moving the pan and it fell to the floor full of hot oil. Most of the oil had it Rose on her right arm; she held it close to her as she screamed in pain. Bobby moved her out of the way as quickly as he could and held his arm out to the rest of the falling oil. To her astonishment ice came from his hand and hit the remaining oil mid air. It froze instantly and smashed on the floor.
Whoa…damn it! Stupid frigging oil!
"Are you okay?" he asked her still holding her in his arms and when she didn't answer he told her, "let me see"
He was talking about her arm and she showed him, everyone gasped in horror as they saw the burns that covered her forearm.
"Kitty, go get Xavier" he ordered her and the girl did as she was told running through walls so she could get there quicker.
Eh? They can't run through walls!
Rose's face portrayed how much pain she was in but she refused to cry or scream out more than she already had done, she didn't look at her arm and after a few moments Kitty came running back through the door with Xavier, Ororo and Logan trailing in behind her, they all had the same shocked look the others had had when they first seen it.
Yeah… don't just stand there! Do something!!!
But then Rose felt something weird happening to her arm, it felt like someone was covering it in fine silk and taking the pain away. She looked down at her arm and was amazed to see the flesh rebuilding itself over the wounds, with in a few moments there was no sign of the oil burns at all.
She looked at Bobby who was still holding her, his right arm over her shoulder and his other arm holding on to her left arm in an effort to keep her upright, and then she looked at everyone else in the room. Rogue, Kitty and Peter were all confused and looking at each other, Peter's face then fell as the others smiled. Ororo and Logan were equally confused but then relieved once they realised she was no longer hurt and Xavier's face was one of worry but his eyes were calculating something Rose didn't want to know about.
Don't know that then do you?!
Rose stood up slowly and felt her arm, "how the…"
Bobby finally let go of her when he realised there was no more danger around and he looked at Rogue who simply ignored him and looked away refusing to meet his eyes.
Kitty smiled at Peter who said, "Damn it…Bobby why did you have to be right?"
Bobby smiled at his friend and rubbed his fingers together indicating he owed him money.
"Wow…I guess the kid's full of talents you didn't know about Professor" Logan said as he smiled and left the room.
Ororo smiled at her, relieved that she was okay and then left the room as well. Xavier looked as though he was about to say something but thought better of it and left as a large group of students gathered outside the door and Rose heard them talking about what could be happening.
"Is it that new girl?"
"Has someone got hurt?"
"Who do you think she is anyway?"
I think I'm going to be very popular for some reason…
Peter spoke as the silence got stranger and he looked at the clock, it was eight thirty, "well we better get to class…"
He, Kitty and Rogue left at once and it was just Rose and Bobby left in the room.
He spoke as she started to pick up the frozen oil and frying pan, he bent down to help her, asking her, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah…thanks for pulling me out the way…of the rest of it I mean…" she smiled at him as she said it and they put the shards of ice and pan in the bin.
"It was no problem…look do you want to meet up after class? You can't know many people here" he asked her, looking at the floor.
Meet up? Should I? I don't know anyone here my own age really…
"Well that's true," she thought about his offer carefully, "okay…"
"Cool, we meet out of the basketball court after lessons" he told her as he walked out of the room. He smiled at her just before he disappeared behind the door and she smiled back.
Rose sighed and rubbed her arm again. After a few moments she made her way out of the kitchen, up the stairs in the lobby and up to her room for a shower and some sleep.