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Chapter 13

It was hard to hear anything from within the thundering crowd of mutant haters and mutant themselves who were both shouting aggressively. But what Kitty found the most disconcerting was the deathly silence of those lining up for the cure, she could not imagine having that much self-hatred, yet when she saw some of the people in the line, their mutation impossible to hide she tried to imagine living with it, especially when the amount of mutant haters considerably outweighed the amount of sympathisers in the world, but she could not do that either.

She heard what they were shouting, 'we don't need a cure', over and over again. She didn't disagree with them. But living in the same room with Rogue for as long as she had, watching her friends pile layer upon layer of clothes over her skin every morning made her wonder if these prideful mutants even understood the length that some mutants had to go to because of their mutation, what they missed out on. So while she may have agreed with them she did not agree with the shouting, the veiled insult that those wanting the cure were weak, they were acting no better than the non-mutants on the other side of the street. She wanted to get away from it, find her friend before she had to watch someone walk out that building who had given up a piece of themselves but no matter how hard she looked she could not see even a flash of her friends white stripes. Instead her eyes caught a blonde women clad in a navy blue jumpsuit who seemed to be running frantically towards someone in the line.

"Pete did you see-" Her voice trailed off as she tried to find the blonde who had so quickly appeared had disappeared.

"Da?" He asked glancing at her briefly, noting her confusion.

"Nothing, I guess" He stared at her for a few seconds before shrugging and turning back into the crowd.

Kitty shook her head free of such thoughts and instead focused on Piotr who, slightly in front of her, was making a gap for her to walk through as they searched for her friends.

"How did Bobby like, even know she was alive?" She asked.

"I do not know Katya" He said shaking his head.

"Have you seen someone?" Kitty asked hopefully, grabbing his hand as his pace started to increase.

"Da, I think Bobby and Pyro have found each other" he shouted worriedly over the crowd, his face usually serene face looked panicked as he considered the possible outcome of their interaction.

"Can't they just like kiss and make up" She huffed to herself as he started to push through the crowd with a renewed vigour, Kitty trailing behind him.

"I believe that that is what you Americans would call wishful thinking" he said as his lips quirked up into a slight smile which Kitty returned gladly. When they had gotten close enough to hear their exchange Kitty was glad to hear a calm tone come from Bobby to what she knew would have been a snide remark form Pyro whose dark sense of humour she had once found comfort in.

"I'm looking for someone" Bobby said coolly as he refused to turn towards his once friend.

"Oh I get it, you're girlfriend. Figures she'd want the cure, she's pathetic" Bobby turned to him with a look of shock on his face, how did he know she was alive? Bobby found himself asking, Unless he never knew what happened after he deserted them for Magneto. He found his old rage bonding with his need to defend Rogue as fist started to freeze over.

Pyro smirked creating his own ball of fire, his eyes taking a predatory glint

"Come on Iceman make a move"

Walk away my friend, Piotr thought to himself as he walked towards his friend hoping he would see he was not alone here any longer. He let out a breath as Bobby started to make his way towards him.

"What are you guys doing here?" He asked looking down to see Kitty holding onto Piotr's hand before pushing it to the back of his mind.

"We like totally saw Rogue on TV" Kitty said excitedly.

"So she is here" Bobby said thankfully before looking around again, before he was interrupted.

"Same old Bobby, still afraid of a fight" They all turned quickly to Pyro as he shouted after them, his face lighting up with excitement as his fire grew larger before he propelled the flame towards the clinic then disappearing into the panic that had arose from the sudden flame.

"ROGUE" Bobby shouted as he started to run for the burning building only to be held back by Piotr.

"What are you doing? You said yourself she's here" He said as he carried on his futile struggle against the Russian's bone crushing hold.

"Bobby! BOBBY!" Kitty shouted trying to get her to look at her. "She's not in there" His face turned towards her, his face marred with confusion. "She never made it into the clinic something happened to stop her going in and we have to find her" As his face cleared Kitty knew she'd gotten through.

"Where do we start?" Bobby stiffened his shoulder as he was let go and turned to his friends.

"The Professor said she had used her powers" Piotr said as he looked over the dispersing crowd, suddenly curious as to where Storm and Logan were, surely they see the building.

"So someone unconscious" He said nodding as he followed Piotr's actions.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH" Bobby froze before meeting Piotr's gaze and taking off in the direction the scream had come from.

"Or we could like totally follow the scream of pain" Kitty muttered under her breath as she tried to keep up with the two boys who had been gifted with much longer legs than her.

They paused in front of the entrance of a dark alley as one of three figures rose unsteadily from the ground.

"I thought the professor said she only absorbed one person?" Piotr asked looking down at Kitty as Bobby staggered towards the figure.

"Rogue!" He exclaimed with relief.

"Bobby she does not-" Piotr tried to say before Rogue's eyes widened with fear towards the three unrecognisable figures.

"Bobby? Do I know them?" Rogue seemed to ask herself as she tensed at the three recognisable figures. Kitty watched as her friends went blank for a few seconds before her whole body sagged with relief. Rogue met her eys.

"Kitty?" She asked as a small smile spread across her features. "Help them" She said looking at the the two figures that lay at her feet. "Then help me" She said with a slight laugh again as she collapsed with exhaustion.

"I guess she got her memory back" Kitty said slightly baffled at the recognition she had gotten from her friend, it wasn't that she wasn't happy, just confused. She mused over this as she walked towards the unconscious blonde and saw that it was the women who she had seen running earlier, she must have been looking for Rogue too.

"What is it Katya?"

"You know earlier when I like thought I saw someone?" Piotr nodded his and followed her line of sight as she purposefully looked down at the unconscious women.

"I wonder who she is?" Piotr said reaching down to check her pulse. "She's alive, she must be the one Rogue absorbed" She looked at him questioningly. " The man has no veins upraised" he then looked sheepish, "I overheard Mister Logan talking about it" She nodded.

"So who do you think he is?" Kitty said turning her head in the direction the fallen man only to be caught in an icy blue gaze that sent chills down her spine. "hmmm, Pete would you like mind comming Storm".

"I think that would be a good idea" He said following her gaze to the new blonde.

"Mister Logan?" Piotr said hitting the x on his shoulder.

"Colossus?" The gruff voice of Wolverine said from the comm.

"We have found Rogue, she is no longer wake and two other people also not awake"

Wolverine's sigh of relief was loud as he told them to get back to the jet quickly and to bring along the other two.

"Mister Logan wait, there's something else" he said as he watched the peculiar blond wave at him before just continuing to stare.

"Well what is it?" He growled from the other end of the receiver.

"There is a women watching us and she appears to be a mutant"

"And she's just watching you?"

"Da"

"She's probably from the rally, just forget about her"

"But-"

"Just get Rogue back here" Logan said sharply before the communicator beeped to let them know there teammate was no longer on the line.

"I'll get Rogue" Bobby said shrugging as he picked up his girlfriend and started walking off.

Piotr and Kitty shared a look as Bobby left them behind.

"Can you carry her alone?" Piotr asked kindly, to which Kitty nodded as she tried to pull the blondes arm around her shoulder only to drop her when she saw the man stand up behind Piotr, she threw a quick apologetic look at the girl.

"STOP!" She shouted as the man went for his werid looking staff.

"Okay" He said his expression cooling see the small girl. He looked around, his face tightening under glasses as he looked for someone or something.

"Are you looking for Rogue?" Piotr said calmly, turning towards the possibly hostile man.

"You know her?" he said looking up in shock before quickly schooling his features before taking in their strange clothing. "You from Xavier's?" He asked curiously.

"How could you know that?" Kitty was impressed he had worked it out so easily, no one else had.

"Gambit was helping Rogue get there" He said leadingly as his expression became slightly worried again.

"Do not worry friend, Rogue is being taken back to our transportation" Piotr said soothingly as ignoring the fact that the man had addressed himself in the third person and he started walking over to the blonde female who Kitty was once again struggling to get up.

"Thanks Petey" She smiled widely at the huge Russian before turning to the stranger. "You're like totally welcome to come with us" Kitty said happily as pranced over to the man whose stature she now had time to appreciate, looks like Bobby might have some competition, Kitty grinned at the thought. "Come on Petey"

Gambit watched the happy teen walk alongside the large Russian and couldn't help but wonder if these were Rogue's friends. They looked the same age as her and it made him wonder, with Rogue being the beauty that she was if she had a boyfriend she had forgotten.

"So like when did Rogue get her memories back?" The small brunette asked. "Oh and I'm Kitty also known as Shadowcat and this is Piotr, he goes by Colossus".

"What? Gambit did not know she had them back" he said his mind faltering at this news, maybe that's why Rogue left, not just to get the cure but cause she don't need Remy anymore, he thought to himself casting his gaze to the ground.

"Oh maybe it like was a recent thing, she didn't recognise me when she first woke up, it took her like a minute" Kitty kept rambling and did not notice the shock flash across his face.

"She woke up? And she was Rogue, green eyes and all?" Piotr looked at him strangely but Kitty just smiled.

"Of course it was Rogue, who else would it be?" She asked as they finally came upon the jet. Remy let out a whistle of appreciation as the door was lowered to allow them on.

"What took you so long?" Storm asked as the door closed behind them.

"Well, Gambit woke up" Kitty said as if that explained it all as she went over to her friend who lay on the table with a smiling Wolverine and tense Bobby. Gambit watched the blonde man enviously seeing his hand holding Rogue's.

"So Kitty tells me you helped the Kid get here" Wolverine said sitting down next to Gambit while keeping his eyes on Rogue.

"Oui" he said shortly, before turning to the man next to him and letting a small smile flirt with the corners of his mouth.

"Monsieur claws, been a long time" Gambit said taking off his glasses to let the other mutant see his eyes while attempting to hide the shock at seeing the man had not aged a day, even he looked older than he did then and his aging process was slower than most due to all the extra energy.

"I thought I recognised you, you were on that god forsaken island right?" Logan said gruffly as he looked upon the blonde with distaste.

"Oui, you didn't know who Gambit was, that fixed?" he said curiously.

"Nope" Logan smiled ruthlessly, "Still no clue, so what's your name kid?"

"Gambit, and not a kid" Logan raised an eyebrow at that. "Remy Le Beau" Logan nodded.

"Well I feel like I already owe you for something I don't remember, so 'bout time I owe you for something I do." Logan got up to go to the pilot seat.

"Wolverine, the blonde, you know who she is?"

"Iceman, sure he's Rogue' boyfriend" he said smiling wickedly, Gambit didn't fail to the note the pleasure Logan seemed to get from the way he cringed. "oh, you mean the girl" he smirked at the Cajun. "no ,you?"

"She said her names Agent Danvers, Carol" He looked to see if there was a flash of recognition.

"Doesn't ring any bells. You there when the kid absorbed her?" Gambit knew this was a trick question as well as a genuine inquiry.

"No but she did tell Remy" He said as Logan face tensed.

"What do you mean she told you, if you weren't there...?"

"When chere woke up, the first time, she thought she was Carol, even her eyes were blue" Logan looked startled at this news and not just a little worried.

"You got anything else important to tell us?"He asked as harshly trying to keep the worry out of his voice.

"Oui" Remy said but before Logan could ask any further questions the white haired women cut in.

"It can wait, everyone will want to hear about it" She said as Gambit turned to look out the window only to see an Ivy covered mansion that looked as if it should be in the far out in the English countryside.

"Welcome Mr. Le Beau to Xavier's school for gifted youngsters" Gambits admiration of the mansion he intended to stay at was short lived disturbed as it was by Kitty's scream of horror. Turning to the mall teen quickly he saw Rogue flicker. He shut his eyes, shaking his head in confusion before opening them on the bed he expected to find Rogue but she was nowhere to be seen. He flicked his eyes to Piotr who seemed in just as much shock as he was suddenly grabbed by the collar.

"This women watching you?" Logan said as Piotr tried to keep a calm face as the shorter man growled. "What the hell did she look like?"

There is honestly no excuse, I'm so sorry it has taken so long, I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Okay so Kitty and Piotr are based of their EVO selves because I love the Kitty from their and Piotr should not ever be american, he is russian.

Hate me to your hearts content for be a terrible author but please don't hate the it because you don't like the actual characters, but again you are free to hate mine idea of them if they don't seem in character :D