AN: Why Hello! Welcome to another episode of Crazy gone Romy.
Seems the last chapter wasn't as bad as I thought it was, hopefully it was just another minor meltdown. The block is breaking slightly so hopefully this is better than last time. I just finished watching Mirrormask (A great but slightly odd film from Neil Gaiman the guy who wrote Stardust) and was inspired by the insanity so it may be reflected in this chapter, I loved the surreal of Rogue's mind so bare with the crazy. Oh! And I'm going home tomorrow so updates may be more frequent because I will have decent internet! YEY!
DISCLAIMER:
Me: Knock Knock
Random Lawyer: Who's there?
Me: Vic
Random Lawyer: Vic who?
Me: Vic a card, any card HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Random Lawyer: What are you doing?
Me: Laughing at a joke?
Random Lawyer: You're supposed to be doing a disclaimer…
Me: Really? Are you sure? I swear that we were telling jokes because you told me that I didn't own Remy and that was the best joke I'd heard in months
Random Lawyer: But you don't own him and you need to admit it so you don't get sued
Me: Oh! Well no one like to get sued…fine….the X-Men including Remy and Trask and all the other lovely bad guys and characters all unfortunately belong to Marvel…There how's that?
Random Lawyer: Good enough
(I know the joke isn't that funny but its all I could come up with on short notice…I don't work well under pressure…stop staring at me!!! I know I'm odd…GO AWAY!...YOU'RE SCARING ME!!!)
Reviewers:
GardenRiver: It's good to see my crazy is corrupting other minds. Shame you can't remember your dream, I nearly always remember mine and usually they're inspiration for new stories. I'm kinda enjoying my tangent, it's letting me sort everything out so that ending will make more sense and it explains stuff for you viewers at home. Trask is too evil for words but I love him that way and I'm glad my humour is appreciated, sometimes I worry it's too much. Enjoy!
LaceyLou76: But I am a friend to karma and all things connected to cosmic fate! *pout*. I love the list each point made me happier than the last! Hope you like this update, as I said before the block is cracking so hopefully it'll be gone soon!
Sibbytora: AUSTRALIAN!!! How could they do such a blasphemous thing! The only Australian there should ever be in X-Men is St. John! When it comes to characterisation, take my advice that has been hidden somewhere in the chapter….:O……No critique is a good thing really, it means I'm doing my job well……I don't want an awkward silence so how about……PSYCHO RULES!!!!
Wanda W: Ah! Too many questions to answer all at once, 3 reviews are a lot to answer in one reply. Right most of them will be answered in this chapter I hope…I feel bad for hurting Remy like that and there will be a bit from his POV next time I think. Of course Rogue will help the other mutants she wouldn't be an X-man otherwise, its part of the code. Things will get better for the other X-Men but I won't make it too easy on them. I'm really glad that you're enjoying the relationship, between Rogue and Remy emotions where always the key because of her powers. They were always a barrier between the physical relationship so I thought that to have an actual barrier would make it progress better than it ever did in the multiple series. It's good to see that I'm doing it justice. Trask is the personification of every thought I've ever had on the mass murders of our race: Hitler, Stalin, Mengele even serial killers. These people are always proved to be "mentally unstable" or "just following orders" so I thought it would be interesting to have a bad gut that was just evil no excuses just plain old evil. However I think I've made him out to be too insane, oh well, you can't have everything. I'm just glad that you're enjoying it, and your insights are really stretching me to really look into my work and reasoning's so Thank you.
Tfobmv18: I feel sorry for Mutant #12 too. I was stuck at one point during this chappie and I started writing a comedy oneshot called "REVENGE OF No. 12!" to keep me occupied while wracking my brain for how to keep going on this chappie. I might publish it after I've finished this….Anyway thanks for the review and remember Bizarre is Better!
b.a.h.s.f.c..: WOW! You really do have anger issues! I always felt sorry for Cody and I really feel that he's forgotten by some writers so I just had to include him, even if it was just for a little while. Thanks for the review. Hope to hear from you soon.
AnimeFreak218: Welcome New Reader! I have learnt from the crappy connection and I will never complain about my internet at home ever again! I'm glad you liked the chapter, hope you like this on too.
I-love-red-head-ninjas: YEY! Virtual cookie! XD It's great that you like it so much ROMY is AMAZING! And I love Kurtty shame that I'm doing a Lance and Kitty pairing in this, I just liked Kurt's girlfriend in the series. :( Trask really worries me; I'm scared he's so evil he might come out of the computer just to kill me :O Keep reading and reviewing! P.S. I love your name *hehehe*
Kaze no Ato: I cry when I write it sometimes so its great that I make you guys cry too, that sounds odd, I mean, I like that my writing gets the emotions across because that's what the stories all about, emotional understanding and shiz…hope you enjoy!
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LadyMageLuna: Ha! More insane people to keep me company! Rogue's mind is fun, she's slightly insane too. Have fun with your insanity!
Wolf mage: I think I'm a magnet for crazy people; all my reviewers seem to be. Great you're enjoying yourself!
missunderstood: I think it's odd that I write the evil character the best don't you?....I like changing POV it's fun and gives different perspectives, two sides to every story and that. Nice evil laugh but not as good as his *!Lightning, scary organ, screams!* MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Kii: hmm….I don't know how to take that…..are you royalty or something?.....I control Trask so you can't threaten me like that…….By the way, I think that you have forgotten that I am Your ruler!!! You really are insane to try and stand up to me!....and that is a slightly odd dream but if it happened while you were asleep than I guess it is one….
Your Ruler
Bloodandvanity
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To my other reviewers, I love you greatly and can't wait to hear from you in the future. They make me warm and fuzzy inside and give me all the inspiration I need to keep writing.
InspirationandStrife
ChamberlinofMusic
Cullenlover-1901
My-Angel-Wings
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Jewel and Koal (although you didn't review you shall be mentioned because I miss your words)
Malaise
There is no coming to consciousness without pain~
~Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, 1875 – 1961~
I was on sensory overload. I was still in darkness but I could smell smoke, not the lovely woody smoke that came from the fires we had back at the mansion during the winter, but the smoke that came from petrol, almost like car fumes but slightly cleaner. I could feel hard rock beneath me hinting at the outdoors and a dry, sour taste was on my tongue exactly the same as when I wake up after sleeping with my mouth open all night. All this added to the biggest hangover of all time was enough to leave me dizzy and bewildered. All I could gather was that I wasn't with Remy yet, but there was someone else here as a giggle drifted towards me through the confusion.
Eventually Rogue was able to open her eyes and what she saw made her close them again and groan. Before her the Australian Acolyte sat crossed legged and grinning manically as he flew a flaming dragon around a small dark cave. A stray thought flitted across her mind. What happened to the house? However that was quashed by the fact that she still wasn't awake and now I'm stuck with a madman, great, just bloody fantastic.
"Oi! Sheila! You awake yet?"
"Yeah, Ah'm up"
"Ace! I was worried I might need to call for an Ambo, not that we would get one seeing as we're in you're head but you never know. Ever sucked up a doctor or something? It would be great if you had a nurse, oh the fun I could have…" He petered off into the realm of fantasy.
"You are not having sex in mah head!"
"Well it's not like you're getting any!" And once again he was lost to the world, but not before he had converted his dragon into a school of fish that were now swimming in formation, sometimes spelling out words or joining together to form a larger picture.
After a while Rogue started to get worried. It had been a long time and he still hadn't returned from the clouds. She was about to ask if he was Ok when he spoke.
"What was the last thing you ate?"
"What?"
"Well you know they say "you are what you eat" well that means I'm a bikkie (biscuit) so I was wondering what you were."
"Are yah just slightly mad or criminally insane?"
The orange haired pyromaniac considered her for a while with a sobered expression, so long in fact that Rogue was worried that he had become lost in his thoughts once more. "You're not the only one who hears voices Sheila, but that doesn't mean we're insane. I've tried that. They give you the pills and send you on your merry way. You spend the next year feeling as though you're in a fog. Living but not quite there, not quite affected by the outside world, not even when your girlfriend runs off with another bloke. So don't judge what you don't understand Chook (chicken). I live the way I live and I like it." Rogue stood shocked. Granted she'd never spoken much with John. Just the occasional insult slinging while fighting, the usual banter between enemies, but she'd always thought him insane. Everyone did, he was the Mad Bad Lad from the Land Down Under and wasn't expected to string a meaningful sentence together just to burn stuff. But now it seemed that he had been overlooked and dismissed. It was exactly like she had felt while at the mansion sometimes. Just as the deep moment had come it disappeared as he asked.
"Wanna play?"
"Play what?" Rogue's headache was still pounding away and John's mood swings were tying her in knots.
"I make my fire people and make 'em act something out, like on the telly, come on, give it a burl!" He looked so sweet and boyish as looked up at her, almost bouncing on the floor with the prospect of a new playmate. His eyes shining with a huge grin on his face once more.
"Ok, but Ah'm being a girl, Ah don't wanna put on any stupid voices, Ah'm not in the mood."
"YEY!" The pure, unadulterated happiness on his face made Rogue feel as though there was no trouble what so ever in the world. That nothing could ever hurt them if they stayed in their little bubble, or cave for that matter. She wished that Remy was here to share this feeling with him, he was so tortured. Not just physically but internally, he carried so much with him; guilt, fear, pain and most of all loneliness. To even witness a moment of sheer joy would be the greatest gift that she could ever give to the battered man that had stolen her heart and she was almost heartbroken at the thought that she couldn't give it to him. Maybe if they ever really got out of this, and he wanted to stay with her, they could befriend the eccentric Acolyte, she was tired of fighting them anyway. They were all the same, so what was the point?
"Ah'm sorry about yah girlfriend John, it must have hurt, after…"
"Life is pain Princess, anyone who says differently is selling something, I've got my eye on another bird anyway."
"Really, who?"
"That Wanda chick, she's a real wild one,"
"Yeah, Ah lahke Wanda, we're friends, and if yah hurt her Ah'll hurt yah,"
"Don't worry, I'd never hurt a Sheila, I'll even protect her from the rabbits."
"Rabbits?"
"They're trying to take over the world, the government's keeping it hush hush but its happening." He gave a knowing nod and then proceeded to make his fire people as though everything he had just said was totally normal and made complete and utter sense. "Right, this is Owen." He indicated towards the male fire person, he seemed to be tall with an average build, but that was all Rogue could make out, although the "actor" was perfectly formed he was still made of fire and that meant that the detail was lost. "And this is Pricilla," This time he indicated towards the female figure. Again there was a lack of detail but the "actress" was tall but this time slim and with hair down to her waist.
The tugging sensation had returned but this time with more force. But John just continued with his "stories". "We need to give them a surname." He mused out loud.
"Why?"
"You need to get into the character. This is art, not some village theatre it needs to be perfect. You must soak up the very essence of your role and to do that you must know their every little secret. You must become the character."
"Fahne, how about Cooper?"
"Too plain, I want them to be different, maybe a foreign sounding name?"
"Ducoeur?"
"Too French…I know D'Ancanto!"
The tugging sensation exploded in her mind. Wave upon wave of memories crashed over her fragile being. Picnics, late night movies with popcorn and way too much chocolate, birthdays, Christmases, arguments, hugs and kisses. Family. Eventually they stopped, fading into the background as though they had never been there in the first place.
The light that had been shining in through the entrance to the cave grew brighter and brighter drowning every thing else out. Rogue sat there paralysed with no ideas as to what was happening. Then sounds started to fill her ears, at first she thought it was John but as she looked around the cave he was nowhere in sight.
It was a conversation between two voices that were now burned into her brain: the voices of her mother and father.
"Mum? Dad?" She called into the ever brightening cave. However the voices continued conversing with no recognition of the fact she had spoken. Rogue was still unable to make out every word but sometimes phrases wound jump out at her. From the tone she guessed that they were having an argument.
"How could you?............You're own daughter's birthday…………work obsessed……….nothing more important than family!" Her mother's voice argued. A phantom, whispering and muffled and then loud and clear, ebbing as though the clarity was dictated by the ocean.
"Family is important………..money is important too………lay offs……….boss's been riding me……….sorry………..never happen again………..love my girls" defended her father. His voice had the same fluxing quality but Rogue was unconcerned by it. All that mattered was the words. Each intelligible phase showed that her parents had loved her. That the dreams that she had never dared to wish were a reality had actually been her life. She had had a regular family; love, security, a home.
However the twist in her heart was not grief over the loss of that life. It was grief over the loss of her real family, the X-Men. She had survived fine without parents. She had made her own and she was happy with it.
She had love: her brother Kurt, her father Logan and the other students at Xavier's were a multitude of crazy cousins even the Brotherhood were family.
She had security: she had been shown how to take care of herself, although she had hated the 5am Danger Room sessions she appreciated them, no-one would ever hurt her if she had any say in the matter.
And the mansion was her home, most of the memories that she had that were worth having had been made there. She wanted it back, but knowing that she had once had a "conventional" life soothed a part of her that had always resented others for theirs.
Her thoughts were abruptly cut short by a shout from her mother's ghost voice.
"OWEN!"
With a screech of tires Rogue was thrown against the cave wall, the intense light coming from the entrance so bright now that it burned her eyes. A scream echoed around her, permeating her being, filling her every sense with fear and agony.
The brightness enveloped her world, shutting everything else out and she knew what she had just relived. The beginning of her new life. The death of theirs. This was the day that she had lost her parents. The day she had stopped being Anne D'Ancanto to become Marie Darkholme. But now she was neither, she had lived both those lives and now they were through.
Her life had changed her, but it had made her stronger. She had been it all and yet none of it.
She was Rogue. But she was not alone. She had the X-Men and Remy all she needed now was to return to them both. To break free of her prisons, mental and physical.
She couldn't wait to introduce Remy to Logan.
AN: So all Rogue there got slightly deep as well... She'll probably be waking up soon, though next chapter will still probably be kinda weird too, I'm enjoying it slightly. Johnny boy's here! I do love him and his insanity! Hope you do too! Thought I might tell you this piece of hilarity, I did that "What Marvel Superhero Are you?" Quiz on facebook and apparently I am GAMBIT!!!! I didn't cheat or anything! I'm jazzed cause I miss Romy as I haven't been reading them so other people's stuff doesn't influence mine. Hope you enjoyed yourselves. We will see you again in our next instalment, same place, don't know about the time though.
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