Ishandahalf ~ Haha, I love your review. ;) Don't worry, things are going to
get worse, and hopefully write it out so that it's also very, very funny.
Star-of-Chaos ~ Maybe she will [stop pushing Remy away], maybe she won't... ::evil grin::
Epon04 ~ I don't know about kill, but some revenge is definitely in order, at least in Rogue's eyes.
Irvin ~ Thank you so much for the e-mail! I'm glad you're enjoying it. And I'm going to turn off that No-Anonymous thing, so if you wanted to leave another review (or if someone else who doesn't have an account did), the option's now there.
And the moment you've all been waiting for......
Chapter Fourteen
Rogue flew up to Kitty's room as fast as she could. Forget respecting other people's privacy. Things just got very, very personal.
Rogue looked around Kitty's room. For a second, she almost wished they still shared a room again. When they used to, Rogue always knew where Kitty hid her diary, and the hiding place changed at least once a month.
Not knowing where to really start, Rogue decided to try some of Kitty's old places. It wasn't under her mattress or in her pillowcase. It wasn't in her sock drawer, and it wasn't in the secret compartment that was under her computer chair.
Rogue decided to just start trying random drawers. She found it on the first try.
'God, that was actually fairly easy,' Rogue thought. 'Probably 'cause no one's around to try to steal it and read it.'
The diary was sitting next to a silver box. Rogue remembered that box. Kitty used to keep her Lance things in it. Rogue moved the lid a little, just to see if Kitty still kept those things (and if Kurt knew if she did). And sitting in that box was a stack of letters. None of them had a return address.
'So Lance has been writing to her. I thought he left town?'
Rogue sat down on a chair with Kitty's diary. It was locked. Of course. Rogue sighed, then slipped her pinky under the lock and pulled up. It snapped right off. 'Thank God for these new strength powers.'
Rogue flipped through the pages until she got to the point right after Kurt left. She didn't want to read any details of her brother's sex life with Kitty. She wasn't entirely sure they did have one, but she assumed they did. Or, had. That one time Rogue walked in on them sleeping was bad enough. It took her months to get that image out of her head.
Rogue skimmed a few pages. A lot of them were tear stained in the beginning. The first few weeks Kurt was gone, she figured. Kitty mentioned Lance's letters in there ('So I guess I hadn't needed to look in the box,' Rogue thought). She discovered they were filled with Lance proclaiming his undying love for her, and how Kitty thought it was "sweet, but too late". She found out some information about Logan's "equipment" that she really could've lived without knowing.
But Kitty never wrote a single word about Remy.
'Must be a new plan,' Rogue decided. 'Everyone else rejected her, so she's moved on to him. And I'm sure after him it would've been Scott, then probably the professor.' Rogue shuddered at that thought. Professor X was like a father to them.
Rogue put Kitty's diary away after trying to "replace" the lock, then left her room and went to her studio to think.
'What can I do to fix this? What's the best way to make her pay for what she's doing?' Rogue couldn't seem to stop pacing. Her mind was going into over time. There had to be something she could do to show Kitty that she couldn't have every guy in the world.
Then it came to her. It was so simple.
The best way to get to Kitty is to take away *all* the guys from her. Lance, Piotr and Logan were no problem. Lance and Piotr were gone, and Logan pretty much made it clear that whatever had happened between him and Kitty wasn't going to happen again.
So that just left Remy and Kurt.
Kurt.
He was coming home the next day to see her.
Rogue's eyes lit up as the perfect idea came to her. How didn't she think of it before?
She quickly flew out of her studio. She had work to do.
The next day, everyone was practically bursting with excitement. Well, as bursting as they could be without making anything obvious to Kitty. She hadn't been paying much attention to anyone, anyway. She was thinking about Kurt.
She missed him. It was causing her physical pain, now. Her little flings were just ways to deal with the depression. She knew that now. All she wanted was for Kurt to come back and for things to go back to the way they were.
She and Remy stayed up late the previous night. They watched TV and talked about how Kitty was feeling. He helped her see that what she'd done didn't make her a terrible person, it just meant she was sad. She told him a little bit more about Rogue. They spent hours talking about how if things worked out for everyone involved, then one day they might be related. Kitty had laughed about that, and Remy actually blushed. Kitty could clearly see that if there was a way, Remy would've married Rogue the day he'd met her.
"I think the professor's working with her," Kitty told him. "I think he and Forge are trying to come up with device that disables her powers or something. Like, you know how Kurt has his image reducer? I think they're trying to make something like that. It would, like, let her be able to touch people, if only for a few minutes."
"Well, I hope they get that one figured out," Remy told her.
Rogue had seen the two of them sitting together talking. She couldn't hear what they were talking about, though. She did notice their body language, though, and it was odd. Kitty wasn't touching him or anything. She didn't even look like she was being her flirty self.
'Must be a new technique she's trying.' It motivated Rogue ever more. She went to her room and made a phone call.
After lunch that day, Jean asked Kitty to go shopping with her.
"You have such a great eye for style and color," Jean told her. "I could really use your opinions."
"Sure, okay!" Kitty agreed. She never needed an excuse to go shopping.
"Great! Leave in about an hour?"
"Perfect!" Kitty went up to her room. She had to straighten it up a little, and then she had to get ready.
"Step one, get Kitty out of the house, check!" Jean grinned. Scott smiled back at her.
"Okay, so Professor, you and Logan are going to stay here and try to cause some diversion in case we get back before Kurt, right?" Jean asked.
"Yes, of course," the professor answered.
"Okay, who's coming to the airport?" Rogue asked. "Besides me and Scott."
"Remy?" Scott asked.
"Anywhere chere is, Remy follows," he answered, taking Rogue's gloved hand and kissing it. She yanked her hand away.
"Whatever you say, Cajun," she snapped. She knew she had to be nice to him, especially if her plan was going to work, but she couldn't help feeling a little angry. Still, it made her a little happy to know that he was still interested, even with Kitty coming after him.
"Jean, how long do you think you can keep Kitty distracted with shopping?" Scott asked.
"I'm taking her to the mall, Scott," Jean said. "How long do you think?"
"Okay, that will buy us at least four hours," Scott said. "And if you leave in an hour, and then we leave half an hour after you and it takes us another hour to get to the airport, and we wait about twenty minutes to collect Kurt and all his stuff, plus get it all into the X-van, then another hour back..."
"Then we should get back at least an hour before Jean and Kitty do," Rogue finished.
"...Right." Scott shook his head. "Alright, let's get a move on, people! We don't have a lot of time left."
Star-of-Chaos ~ Maybe she will [stop pushing Remy away], maybe she won't... ::evil grin::
Epon04 ~ I don't know about kill, but some revenge is definitely in order, at least in Rogue's eyes.
Irvin ~ Thank you so much for the e-mail! I'm glad you're enjoying it. And I'm going to turn off that No-Anonymous thing, so if you wanted to leave another review (or if someone else who doesn't have an account did), the option's now there.
And the moment you've all been waiting for......
Chapter Fourteen
Rogue flew up to Kitty's room as fast as she could. Forget respecting other people's privacy. Things just got very, very personal.
Rogue looked around Kitty's room. For a second, she almost wished they still shared a room again. When they used to, Rogue always knew where Kitty hid her diary, and the hiding place changed at least once a month.
Not knowing where to really start, Rogue decided to try some of Kitty's old places. It wasn't under her mattress or in her pillowcase. It wasn't in her sock drawer, and it wasn't in the secret compartment that was under her computer chair.
Rogue decided to just start trying random drawers. She found it on the first try.
'God, that was actually fairly easy,' Rogue thought. 'Probably 'cause no one's around to try to steal it and read it.'
The diary was sitting next to a silver box. Rogue remembered that box. Kitty used to keep her Lance things in it. Rogue moved the lid a little, just to see if Kitty still kept those things (and if Kurt knew if she did). And sitting in that box was a stack of letters. None of them had a return address.
'So Lance has been writing to her. I thought he left town?'
Rogue sat down on a chair with Kitty's diary. It was locked. Of course. Rogue sighed, then slipped her pinky under the lock and pulled up. It snapped right off. 'Thank God for these new strength powers.'
Rogue flipped through the pages until she got to the point right after Kurt left. She didn't want to read any details of her brother's sex life with Kitty. She wasn't entirely sure they did have one, but she assumed they did. Or, had. That one time Rogue walked in on them sleeping was bad enough. It took her months to get that image out of her head.
Rogue skimmed a few pages. A lot of them were tear stained in the beginning. The first few weeks Kurt was gone, she figured. Kitty mentioned Lance's letters in there ('So I guess I hadn't needed to look in the box,' Rogue thought). She discovered they were filled with Lance proclaiming his undying love for her, and how Kitty thought it was "sweet, but too late". She found out some information about Logan's "equipment" that she really could've lived without knowing.
But Kitty never wrote a single word about Remy.
'Must be a new plan,' Rogue decided. 'Everyone else rejected her, so she's moved on to him. And I'm sure after him it would've been Scott, then probably the professor.' Rogue shuddered at that thought. Professor X was like a father to them.
Rogue put Kitty's diary away after trying to "replace" the lock, then left her room and went to her studio to think.
'What can I do to fix this? What's the best way to make her pay for what she's doing?' Rogue couldn't seem to stop pacing. Her mind was going into over time. There had to be something she could do to show Kitty that she couldn't have every guy in the world.
Then it came to her. It was so simple.
The best way to get to Kitty is to take away *all* the guys from her. Lance, Piotr and Logan were no problem. Lance and Piotr were gone, and Logan pretty much made it clear that whatever had happened between him and Kitty wasn't going to happen again.
So that just left Remy and Kurt.
Kurt.
He was coming home the next day to see her.
Rogue's eyes lit up as the perfect idea came to her. How didn't she think of it before?
She quickly flew out of her studio. She had work to do.
The next day, everyone was practically bursting with excitement. Well, as bursting as they could be without making anything obvious to Kitty. She hadn't been paying much attention to anyone, anyway. She was thinking about Kurt.
She missed him. It was causing her physical pain, now. Her little flings were just ways to deal with the depression. She knew that now. All she wanted was for Kurt to come back and for things to go back to the way they were.
She and Remy stayed up late the previous night. They watched TV and talked about how Kitty was feeling. He helped her see that what she'd done didn't make her a terrible person, it just meant she was sad. She told him a little bit more about Rogue. They spent hours talking about how if things worked out for everyone involved, then one day they might be related. Kitty had laughed about that, and Remy actually blushed. Kitty could clearly see that if there was a way, Remy would've married Rogue the day he'd met her.
"I think the professor's working with her," Kitty told him. "I think he and Forge are trying to come up with device that disables her powers or something. Like, you know how Kurt has his image reducer? I think they're trying to make something like that. It would, like, let her be able to touch people, if only for a few minutes."
"Well, I hope they get that one figured out," Remy told her.
Rogue had seen the two of them sitting together talking. She couldn't hear what they were talking about, though. She did notice their body language, though, and it was odd. Kitty wasn't touching him or anything. She didn't even look like she was being her flirty self.
'Must be a new technique she's trying.' It motivated Rogue ever more. She went to her room and made a phone call.
After lunch that day, Jean asked Kitty to go shopping with her.
"You have such a great eye for style and color," Jean told her. "I could really use your opinions."
"Sure, okay!" Kitty agreed. She never needed an excuse to go shopping.
"Great! Leave in about an hour?"
"Perfect!" Kitty went up to her room. She had to straighten it up a little, and then she had to get ready.
"Step one, get Kitty out of the house, check!" Jean grinned. Scott smiled back at her.
"Okay, so Professor, you and Logan are going to stay here and try to cause some diversion in case we get back before Kurt, right?" Jean asked.
"Yes, of course," the professor answered.
"Okay, who's coming to the airport?" Rogue asked. "Besides me and Scott."
"Remy?" Scott asked.
"Anywhere chere is, Remy follows," he answered, taking Rogue's gloved hand and kissing it. She yanked her hand away.
"Whatever you say, Cajun," she snapped. She knew she had to be nice to him, especially if her plan was going to work, but she couldn't help feeling a little angry. Still, it made her a little happy to know that he was still interested, even with Kitty coming after him.
"Jean, how long do you think you can keep Kitty distracted with shopping?" Scott asked.
"I'm taking her to the mall, Scott," Jean said. "How long do you think?"
"Okay, that will buy us at least four hours," Scott said. "And if you leave in an hour, and then we leave half an hour after you and it takes us another hour to get to the airport, and we wait about twenty minutes to collect Kurt and all his stuff, plus get it all into the X-van, then another hour back..."
"Then we should get back at least an hour before Jean and Kitty do," Rogue finished.
"...Right." Scott shook his head. "Alright, let's get a move on, people! We don't have a lot of time left."