Who Is She?
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Chapter 12 : First Impressions
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Summary: Rogue confronts the x-men about being held captive by them. But instead of a fight they actually talk this time. They are so busy making first impressions of each other that they loose track of what they are all there for. How will they react when they notice Rogue isn't wearing the inhibitor collar anymore, after they recently put it on her themselves? Will Rogue tell them what is going on or will she just get angry again and demand more answers? And why is Rogue so concerned about Remy anyway? What is their secret, how do they know each other?
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I am so sorry I didn't update yesterday like I said I would. My brother was an idiot and went building climbing again but then instead of climbing back down he jumped off a one and a half storey high building and didn't bend his knees right. So the doctor said I had to take him to the hospital for x-rays n all that, which took hours, but luckily he only nearly broke his knees so he's just got supports round them n won't be able to do too much running or climbing buildings for a while, lol. I am glad he's alright anyway and he's getting me the new Left for Dead maps on Xbox to say sorry for putting me through so much trouble and he wanted me to say sorry to y'all too for making yah wait for this chapter.
So my bonfire night was certainly eventful, lol. Hope everyone who celebrates it had a good time. 'Remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot' and that's all I remember of the rhyme, lol. ^__^
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Thanks again for all the story alerts and favourites and especially the reviews;
cappsy : Thank yah for reviewing. Sorry about the spelling mistakes I keep making in my recent chapters, as soon as I can I will go back and read over then and fix them. I am glad yah thought it wasn't boring; it gives me more hope for my writing. Yeah, I was going to put something in at the end about where Remy was and what had they done with him but I decided to leave that for this chapter instead so that I could bring him in and add some Romyness to the next chapter. The end was a bit strange, I know, with her suddenly shouting at them but it was supposed to show her anger and that she was trying to not slip back in to being good, after all she was trying her best to be evil. I am gad you like how I put the inhibitor collar on her, I agree that it isn't something Xavier would usually do but I thought that in this case because Rogue is so powerful and a generally difficult person they had to put it on her so that she couldn't hurt anyone, it was a precautionary thing. Also the necklace is going to be another of those important little details in this story, jut like the playground is so I wanted to introduce it in to the story somehow and this seemed a good and quite interesting way to do it. Well, I am glad you are still hooked on my story and I hope yah will like this chapter too. By the way, I love long reviews, so thanks again. :"]
the-writing-vampire : I hope yah had a nice time at your sisters. I was actually about to post this chapter up when I saw your review, lol, just in time. I am glad yah liked my previous chapter and I hope yah will like this one too. Thanks for more questions by the way, they are helping to keep my mind working on this story and they let me know what people want to know about the story too so then I include information that answers them and it makes my story more easy to understand. The conversation will be more in the next chapter than this one to be honest but there will be a lot of talking and explaining things I can assure you. And yes I will be having Remy intervene later to calm Rogue down. The other x-men all react differently to Rogue, some are defensive around her whereas others just want to help her. Rogue isn't big on family, she has always been more of a loner and she likes it that way, having Remy in her life is enough for Rogue and she won't see Kurt as a sibling and won't even mention Mystique around him until later on in the story. Rogue may start to trust others a bit more, but Remy will be the only she is going to trust and believe for a long while. I have decided that she may stay at the mansion for a while but I haven't thought of if she will ever actually stay there or not yet. Thank yah for another great review and I eagerly await your next one. ^,.,^
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Disclaimer : I do not own the x-men
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The strange man in the wheelchair asks her to step in to his office please and for some reason he seems trustworthy so before she really thinks about what she is doing she agrees and follows him with the others silently trailing behind her in to an office type room.
Then suddenly coming to her senses she realises that her escape has been foiled and she switches to plan b, outrage.
"I woke up here, alone in this strange place and I demand an explanation. Who are you people anyway and what do you really want from me?" Rogue yelled at them as the door to the professor's office closed and their conversation was contained within the confines of his room.
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Scott became immediately tense, worried that she will try to harm them while Jean seemed calm and was being understanding towards the Rogue, Logan was his usual unreadable self but behind his mask the girl intrigued him and he watched her carefully and Storm became quite defensive, but because of her own past she was also very understanding. The professor ignored the girl's outburst a few moments prior and now watched the Rogue curiously, intrigued by her attitude and even more so by her powers, he had never met anyone at all like her before. This would be his greatest accomplishment; if he could help this girl then maybe he could even help mutants like his old friend magneto who were just as bad as this Rogue. He felt waves of not wanting to give up emanating from Jean's mind, at least someone would see his side of things he told himself, proud that Jean was so much like himself in some ways because just like himself she doesn't want to give up on dangerous mutants like this Rogue. He addressed Rogue now; "I will answer all of your questions very soon Rogue but for now I need you to calm down. I understand that this is a very difficult situation for you but you need to trust us. My name is Professor Charles Xavier." He then points out the others in the room and introduces them to her. "This is Scott, Jean, Logan and Ororo. We are the good guys here, we just want to help you that's all."
Rogue doesn't feel any calmer by his words but thinks more about acting reasonable as she realises that there are five powerful mutants against her in this confined room and she didn't stand a chance against them right now if she upset them since her powers were rather weak from her earlier use of them. So she visually calmed down on the outside while containing her panic and anger within herself. They were all silent for a moment, the x-men observing the Rogue as she studied them as she took some deep breaths to clear her mind a little.
Logan could see right through her façade though; this is exactly how he was at first, before the professor helped him. He knew that she needed their help but she wouldn't want it, she was a little different to him in that way.
However what Logan didn't know was exactly how different she was, at least not yet anyway. Unlike him she was forever acting to trick others and lull them in so that she could wait for the perfect moment to strike, She didn't care about anyone else except Remy of course and she didn't mind who she hurt on her way to the top of her evil throne she so proudly sat upon. At times she even made herself believe that she was worthy of help and acted a little like her old self again but on the inside she was still the same bad girl, even if she preferred not to believe it herself as others did.
Knowing that the professor was probably keeping his mind open for their thoughts on the Rogue Logan projected his thoughts out towards him, explaining that they needed to reassure her. Logan's observations of her showed exactly how he felt and the professor took them in to consideration, just as he did with the others. Then the professor went on to see what the others thought of her. Ororo's opinion wasn't against her or for her, she saw the Rogue as dangerous but in need of help, like she had once been. She saw herself in the girl and sincerely wanted to help but was wary because she had first hand experience of the intense power the girl possessed. Jean seemed to agree with Ororo and had a very similar view of the Rogue, she wanted to see the good in the girl and refused to give up on her so easily, she wanted to reach her, to help her. Scott's judgement however was the complete opposite; he very much disliked the girl and saw her as a major threat that needed to be dealt with, now. He didn't like that she had been able to take them all down so easily in a fight and he was already fighting the urge to take matters in to his own hands but he knew it want his decision so he just continued to see her as being too dangerous to deal with and too far gone to help.
Rogue watched as the mutants stared at her and the one called Scott even glared at her. Scott's opinion of her was already very obvious, he hated her and she could tell from the two women, Jean and Ororo that they wanted to help her, along with the professor, her powers were strong enough to pick that up but when it came to Logan
She just couldn't read him, he was blank, his face giving nothing away as if set in stone and she could sense no feelings about her coming from him, this frustrated her but she decided to let it drop as she realised something. Rogue became tense as she felt the psychic link between this man and the mutants she had fought earlier. She didn't like a great many things and one of those was when people were keeping things from her. Usually she could create her own psychic link and listen in on their thoughts but her head was killing her right now so she could barely concentrate on what was going on let alone using her abilities.
Then the professor picked up an alarming realisation from Scott and he himself stared at the Rogue now, along with Scott and Jean who had also felt the distress. The Rogue wasn't wearing the inhibitor collar; instead, around her neck was the simple necklace she had been wearing before they got her medical attention. How had she removed the inhibitor? The professor hated to have to use it on her and had felt so guilty but now here she was but it wasn't around her neck where he himself had placed it to ensure the others safety from her uncontrollable powers. What was going on? He didn't understand and from the looks on the others faces as Jean told them what Scott had noticed, neither did they. He thinks for a moment before making the judgement that it would be best to just ask her about it instead of making her mad again.
Rogue pushed the headache to the depths of her mind, attempting to ignore it as she looked up at the mutants and realised that they were all staring at her suspiciously for some reason. What could she possibly have done now? She wondered as she glared at them, ready to spring in case this was part of an elaborate scheme to kill her, she couldn't be too careful, being evil always made you have many enemies and subsequently no trust in anyone. As a matter of fact, being evil was her lifestyle, it was how she chose to live, sure it had its bad moments but there were a lot of perks to it too. Was this why they had taken her, were they trying to change her? They would fail and she was resolute on that, she knew it because so many had tried to bend her to their will before and all had failed disastrously in the end.
After minutes of staring at each other the Professor sends a message of calm through the x-men's minds and addresses the Rogue once more. "I am sorry for asking but we are so curious, you see. How did you remove the inhibitor collar we placed around your neck? It just isn't possible."
"Oh, is that all, I thought there was something seriously wrong by the way y'all were staring at me." She sighed as she realised that there would be no fight, even if she would have inevitably lost she forever relished the idea of a good battle. "I have a very precious object to me that I was given as a young girl by my mother. That is one thing I remember clearly from my past. She told me that it may come in handy one day, she had a knack for knowing things before they happened, she knew a lot about the future. I don't remember much about her but I believe she was also a mutant. The day she gave me this precious object she left and was never seen again. I am not going to let you know what it is that cancels the inhibitor collar because as you must understand I do not exactly trust y'all so I will keep this my secret so yah cant have it for yahselves." The others' eyebrows rose slightly at this but they understood, something as powerful and useful as that was obviously not something to be shared with strangers. Rogue continued to explain about the necklace but never revealing what it was exactly that she owned that was an anti inhibitor. "Anyway, the last time someone tried to control me with one of those power inhibitor things I found that the thing my mother had given me repelled its power. It completely cancels out the power of the collar with it's own power, which as far as I can tell is to unlock things. It's a bit like a key, it unlocks hidden latent powers, it unlocks people's emotions, feelings and even their memories and thoughts – but not of the person who has it – and it also stops certain things from working, not mutant's powers exactly but it keeps people out and protects the owner against change and infiltration, so telepaths cant see inside the persons mind and power inhibitors cant block the power because it flows free thanks to the special object. It is certainly a very useful thing to possess and has saved me more than once. It is something very powerful, passed down through my family from mutant to mutant and it is not to be messed with, its power can't be used greedily, only through necessity does it work. It is hard to explain it really, but it is indeed a special artefact that many would kill to get their hands on. The only reason I am telling y'all this is because I believe that yah wont harm me to get it and if I didn't tell yah how I can cancel out the power inhibitor then yah would have been very suspicious of me and wouldn't tell me something I desperately need to know." Rogue finished explaining it to them.
"Anyway, can we get to my questions now? You can ask me whatever you like later, as soon as you tell me everything I want to know."
They were all still as they waited for her to begin, agreeing that she should ask them what she wanted to know first so that they could get the basic questions out of the way. But what they were expecting her to ask first was more along the lines of who were they or where was she. What she did ask them very much shocked them all.
"I guess the main issue here really is, where is my Remy?" She demanded an answer from them in a menacing tone, wanting to make sure he was all right before they continued with the more her centred conversations. She is very distressed that he has disappeared since she was unconscious and for some reason she needs to know that he is okay before anything else. She had never felt this way about anyone before but now she has this strange tugging feeling that is forever centred on pulling her to Remy who she now even puts before herself. It was so 'good' of her, very unlike her usual evil self. Was this another of her tricks, she felt like a crazy person with different varying personalities of good and evil so she could never be sure of herself. Normally she wouldn't care about anyone but since she had woken up from being unconscious she felt a little different, a bit more human, which she hated yet loved in different ways at the same time.
The professor had never been so intrigued as he was now, this Rogue was certainly very interesting and was obviously worth helping if her first question when she is surrounded by powerful mutants is about someone else's well being. Especially since his first impression of her had been that she was very much self centred and concentrated on only what benefited her, this was a completely different attitude than he had thought. He didn't understand if he was being tricked, being mislead by her perhaps so that she could strike when their guard was down or if, as he hoped, this was possibly her real self. Was this her real personality managing to break through for a moment?
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So that was the twelfth chapter of 'Who is She?' I hope it was okay and that y'all liked it.
I know, it was rather short but I am still working on making the chapters increasingly longer as I go along, so some will be a lot longer than others depending on the times when I am more in to writing the story.
I checked over this chapter more than once so there shouldn't be as many grammatical or tense mistakes. But please let me know if you spot any major ones, I would be grateful. :"]
Sorry I didn't do Rogue's accent very well in this chapter, to be honest I kept getting sidetracked by things. I keep trying but my proper English way of speaking keeps getting in the way. If anyone has any tips on how I can improve then please let me know.
In the next chapter Rogue will be continuing her conversation with the professor and the other x-men and then nearer the end Remy will come in and there will be some Romyness.
The next few chapters have less action and may be a little boring in places but hopefully y'all will like them anyway. In the next few chapters there will be a lot of focus on Rogue and her training and a bit of Romyness too. I assure you this story will get a lot more interesting as it goes along, with a few confusing twists here and there. ^__^
I will be posting two chapters up tomorrow and two on Sunday before I go back to my routine of one or two every week until I finish the story. I hope to have this story finished by Christmas because I am going to be starting my first story 'The Vampire Within' back up again along with a new story, 'Loosing My Mind' which is a Vampire Knight and X-Men crossover.
Thank yah for reading and please review
…Anie
