i'm truely sorry for taking so long to have another post but please forgive me I was preparing for the SAT, took the SAT and doing tons of homeowork. I've had my friend helping me with posting other storys because I have those already written out and I write this one off the top of my head. Please enjoy.

Chapter Fourteen: Q&A

Mystique was beginning to hate the mansion more and more every second she was there. The professor was actually agreeing with her when it came to weather or not they should be back on the campus by now. The only thing more irritating than the fact that he was agreeing with her was that he wouldn't admit that maybe the Wolverine couldn't handle himself and that he had failed, or hopefully Rogue had killed him. Not that she would mind the latter situation much but then who knows how long she would be stuck in this god damn hell hole.

Then for the first time she did something she knew that she would never do again. She prayed that Wolverine please still be alive and be able to succeed. She qualified her prayer by adding a 'just this once' and only because she knew that if Wolverine wasn't alive to make her Rogue wouldn't come back so she would be forever trapped.

She shivered at the thought of forever staying in a house filled with good-too shoes. God that was frightening.

The little girl who had spoken to Mystique earlyer now laid down in her bed thought about the woman more.

Why was she being held here?

The older students said she was bad. None of them really explained anything though. Did they think she couldn't handle it. She could she was tuffer than they thought.

Still she wondered if they were all actually being held prisioner here. Quickly she dissmissed the idea. Students left here all the time. Some came back others didn't.

Sarah closed her eyes now that she was more tired. She still wanted to learn more about the strange blue lady though. She was determined.

Rogue and Wolverine kept glancing over at Remy but for different reasons. Rogue was curious as to why Remy would decide to go and when did he make up his mind. He seemed fairly happy living with his new makeshift family and leaving them didn't make much sense to her. Despite having been inside his mind she could not fathom how he came to the solutions he did. He didn't make sense to her at all. Wolverine was wondering if Remy had planned this from the beginning or if he had even given it a second thought before deciding to jump on his bike and join them for the ride.

A few hours later and a few hundred miles out of town Wolverine led them to a motel, and bought one room. Both Rogue and Remy argued with him about this at first because they now each held a good amount of the guilds money and didn't want to share a room.

"No!" Wolverine snapped angrily at them, "Sinister is searching for someone and we don't need to draw attention to ourselves. Getting to the mansion with as few problems as we can manage is our ultimate goal right now."

Remy opened his mouth to argue but Rogue cut him off, "It's no use arguing with him when he's like this, unless you want to fight him over it." Remy was going to say that was fine with him but she didn't let him say anything as she continued, "And you don't want to fight him because we are trying to avoid causing a scene. Besides he does have a point."

Wolverine didn't react but he was smiling on the inside and Remy knew it. Wolverine had thought he'd won but Remy knew he'd show him differently later when Rogue wasn't around to protect him. "I gotta go call Chuck. He's probably worried 'cuz I haven't checked in for a while now."

Rogue shrugged, as if to say, 'do what you want, I don't care.' And Wolverine stocked off while Remy and Rogue headed over to the room to wait for him.

When the door closed behind them Rogue asked, "When did you decide to come with us?"

He answered easily, "I planned on coming from the beginning. What have you taken from my head?"

"Nothing. Why do you want to come at all?" Rogue shot back at him.

"Because I feel like it. Who's Sinister?"

This stopped Rogue cold. She wasn't expecting such a serious question when all that was being asked were questions of no or little consequence. Of course he probably didn't know just how big of a deal his question was to her.

"Sinister," she began slowly as if trying to find the words that would best help her get him to understand, "Is someone who enjoys his experiments, lives for them. He uses people, more specifically mutants, as the lab rats for a majority of them in an attempt to make a more successful race of people.

Remy watched her carefully but neither spoke for the longest minute of their life. "Why do they want you back at the X-men's place so quickly?" Remy asked finally.

He couldn't understand her huge importance because there were so many of them surely they could have waited a day or so longer and it wouldn't have killed them.

The moment the question had come out of his mouth Rogue looked away from him, and closed her eyes tightly while clenching her teeth. "Mystique only wants to tell me what's going on and she's not a patient person. I imagine she wanted to come herself and they had to lock her inside the mansion. Besides if worse comes to worse I would be the best at forcing the information out of her, or checking to make sure she's not just lieing."

Remy looked at her and then answered with what they both knew was not a question but a fact, "You'll use your powers and take the information directly out of her head."

Rogue nodded and turned back to Remy with her eyes harder than before. "Yes, even if she tells me I'll probably still use my power on her because she isn't someone that you can just trust and would lie to anyone without a second thought in order to get people to do things that would only benefit herself."

"You don't trust her at all."

"No, never."

Remy nodded and the door opened for Wolverine. He seemed kind of irritated and he looked to them and said to Rogue, "Mystique is getting pretty irritated with Chuck and the rest that are watching over her. Seems to think they're just gunna let her walk out the door whenever she feels like it to try to track us down."

"I wouldn't mind if they did, then I could just kill her and get it over with, but as long as we're at the mansion we both know Xavier won't let me." Rogue grounded out through her teeth as she thought of sucking Mystique dry, but they again if she did that she'd be stuck with Mystique's conscience inside her forever.

Wolverine chuckled, "Know what you mean stripes, but Chuck would let you off before he let me off. Cyc wouldn't have minded as much I don't think. Only tried to stop me 'cuz they kiss Chuck's ass."

Remy listened and he asked, "So all of these X-men are really just a bunch of do-gooders? They never have any fun?" as he said the last word he turned to Rogue to smile and wink at her.

She rolled her eyes. God this was going to get irritating if Remy didn't stop flirting. He had seemed like a bit of a player before but now it seemed like it wasn't just for fun but that he truely couldn't stop. Wolverine wasn't as good at hiding his annoyance as Rogue and that became clear as he growled and said, "Gumbo get to bed we're going to leave before dawn. If we do we'll be back in time for the last danger room session."

Remy raised an eyebrow at the name he had been dubbed and the thing about the danger room but he complied as he took a bed. He already knew that Rogue would take the other and Wolverine would take the cot in the middle. He was deffinatly not trusted by Wolverine, but then again he was a theif.

"Night." Rogue said before shutting off the night and getting in to bed but none of the three got any real sleep not completely trusting their companions.

The professor leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. He had really hoped that they could be here by now as the sun was already setting but it didn't seem like they would be arriving tonight. Still he was extreamly worried for their safty considering the fact that Sinister was still hell bent on causeing problems and who knew what kind of damage they would cause. Plus if it happened to be near where ever Rogue and Logan were he was pretty sure that they would get involve but there were only two of them and both had a tendency to find trubble, or maybe it just followed them. He wasn't sure.

Now though he was flirting with the idea of sending some of the X-men out to search for them if they weren't back by tomorrow. Any number of things could have happened already and maybe he was only making it worse by waiting. Still though if nothing had happened and Logan was just taking a bit longer to convice her than he had originally thought or had to take it slow to let some of her anger dissolve sending others out to look for them would deffinately not help Logan at all and would probably make things a whole lot worse and Rogue a whole lot angryer.

The professor let out a sigh in exaushtion because he was completely clueless as to how he should handel this situation seeing as he wasn't even aware of what the situation was exactly only that right now he could either save the day or make it a hell or a lot worse for everyone.

He settled on waiting two more days as a maximum before he would decide...he was cut off by he phone ringing.

The professor answered it and was thankful to her Logan on the other end say, "Sorry it took a while Chuck."

"Oh it was no problem at all Logan. Have you found her?"

There was a grunt on the other side of the line, "Yeah I got Stripes and saying she wasn't happy about it would be on hell of an understatement. She just about killed me before I could say on word. In fact if her friends or whatever hadn't been there I might've been mailed back in about a millon peices."

"Uhmm." the professor mumbled nodding his head, so she really did have somewhere to go when she left. "Well now I must ask when you plan on getting back seeing as we still have Mystique here and she is no where near happy about it."

"Right right. Well we should be back sometime tomorrow but."

Logan stopped and now the professor was left waiting but he didn't continue, "What is it Logan?"

"Well one of Rogue's friends decided that he was coming back with us."

"Did you explain that this sancuary is made only for mutants?" he asked though with a bit of curiosity. It wasn't like Logan to just take things and he wasn't a quiet person so why hadn't he told Rogue's friend that he couldn't come or mention this sooner?

"Thing is Chuck he is a mutant. I don't like the guy though I think you should find an excuse to kick the guy out as soon as you can."

"No Logan we can't do that. If he's a mutant then our welcome extends to his as well. Thank you for the call I assume that you must be getting back to them now."

"Yeah, well see ya later Chuck."

With that the line went dead and the professor was thankful that they were alright and were almost back. Honestly he had no idea how much longer they could seriously consider detaining Mystique for.