Patchwork

A few hours Later Rogue was relatively safe back at the mansion. Peter hung around the Cassidy place long enough for the police to show up. They arrested Cassidy and Peter picked Rogue up and swung away he needed to get her back to the mansion as fast as he could. Thankfully he didn't need to look far as the x-men were right around the corner. Peter swung down to the van Rogue gently cradled in his free arm as Logan Scott and Jean got out meeting him.

"We need to get her back to the mansion pronto! Cassidy pumped her up with a lot of shit it's a miracle she's still alive." Peter demanded.

"Ok, Shades you drive." Logan said as he tossed Scott the keys. "Give her to me web-head." Logan reached for the nullifier and switched it off as Peter handed her over to him. "OK get in the van and let's move it!" Logan took rogue and laid her in the Back of the large van he crawled in beside her and placed an ungloved hand on Rogue's forehead allowing her powers to absorb his healing factor, strangely her powers never kicked in. this concerned Logan judging by Rogue's increased heart rate he could tell she didn't have long.

"FLOOR IT SCOTT!" Cyclops knew there must be trouble if Wolverine was calling him by his given name. Scott turned over the ignition and pulled away.

"X-Van to mansion, medical emergency, Rogue has been injected with a massive dose of narcotics and hallucinogens." Peter said in to the com system. "Vital signs are thready and unstable; I repeat Rogue is in severe danger."

"We read you X-van Hank is already prepping the med bay as we speak." Charles answered.

"Tell him that Rogue was injected with an unknown combination of pharmaceuticals." Peter signed off and the group practically flew towards the mansion. When they arrived Logan carried Rogue and ran into the building where Storm was waiting with a stretcher, Logan placed her on the wheeled bed still wrapped in the blanket Peter had covered her with. The duo wasted no time and ran with her to the elevator. They entered the infirmary where Hank was anxiously waiting for his student.

"What's her vitals?" Beast ordered aloud acting in complete medical mode.

"BP 86 over 54, pulse is at 145 bpm and respirations at 9 shallow and erratic. Skin is hot with diaphoresis and an oral temp of 38.4 and rising" Logan answered.

Hank removed the blanket as he began attaching heart monitor lead to Rogue's chest. Beast looked at the readout and it showed her heart beating erratically, he took a syringe and drew some blood, he ran out of the room to a new machine that Stark had provided he placed the blood sample in the machine and set it to scan for chemical traces in her blood and ran back to Rogue. A few seconds later Jean and Storm arrived to give help to Beast, Logan feeling like a third wheel gracefully stepped out besides he wanted to talk to Peter anyway.

"Ok how is she doing?" Beast asked the two women.

"No change." Jean answered. Beast went back to the machine to check the readouts. He looked over the results and found an intricate synthetic opiate PCP chemical combination that Hank had never seen before.

"My god" Beast said as read over the list. He ran to the phone and called a friend of his who worked in at local animal sanctuary.

"Steve this is Hank I need a big favor. Do you have any Diprenorphine on site?"

"Jesus Hank what are you trying to revive an elephant? Why are you in need of Revivon" the voice responded.

"I have no time to explain I have a girl in big trouble here and she is in serious need of 5cc's of that drug. She's been dosed with a highly potent synthetic opiate mixed with PCP and I don't have any in stock here."

"I have a vial just came in today. I'll have my driver there in 2 minutes." Beast hung up the phone and said a quick prayer as the seconds began to slow to a snail's pace as they waited for the life-saving drug. As time passed Rogue's vitals began to slip a little as her brother Kurt teleported in with a small glass container in his hands.

"Here is zee medicine Beast please help her." He said and teleported out.

"Storm prepare 1 cc in a hypodermic quickly." Hank ordered as he handed her the vial.

"1cc ready Hank." Storm said and hank took the syringe and injected it into her thigh. Almost instantly Rogue began to respond to the drug as her Vitals slowly returned to normal.

Hank began feeling a wash of relief crash over him like a tsunami once he had relaxed he became quite embarrassed as he realized what Rogue was wearing or wasn't wearing.

"Um…..excuse me ladies….. I think I should step out." Hank said and the two girls could almost swear that the blue furred mutant actually turned red with embarrassment. Jean and Storm proceeded to remove Rouges underwear and get her into a hospital gown.

Upstairs however the tensions of night were coming to a head the only thing keeping them in check at the moment was MJ and Harry who had decided to hang around until Peter showed back up, imagine their surprise when a certain red and blue superhero showed up. MJ excused herself as Harry began going all fanboy over the publicly debated superhero. She made her way over to the large picture window that overlooked the property and sat down her face went from her normal smiling self and shifted to concern for her friend who had yet to show up since he had disappeared this afternoon. Despite everything MJ secretly enjoyed waking up beside Peter and she wanted to talk to him about it she glanced to the sky and noticed the amber hues of sunset begin to shine through the large trees that lined the winding driveway and with each passing moment she grew more and more upset that her friend was out there somewhere looking for his girlfriend.

Harry on the other hand was so busy asking questions that he bordering on becoming annoying which kinda surprised Peter a lot he never knew his best could act so fixated.

"So how is it you cling to walls….oh, oh, can I have some of your webbing….or maybe you could." Harry kept throwing out question after incoherent question until Peter spoke up.

"Look Mr. Osborne I am really flattered you think of me as the greatest thing since sliced bread but I really need to go peter ran out the door and fired a web-line and swung away. He swung up to his room and quickly got a change of clothes then swung out to the end of the estate he took off his shirt and quickly bandaged his cut up abs then Peter quickly got changed and ran back to the mansion.

"Has anyone heard about Rogue?" Peter asked playing up that he had been out all afternoon looking for her.

"Relax kid Spider-man brought her back." Logan said barely hiding his temper.

"Yeah Pete you should have been here it was so cool." Harry spouted off.

"Yeah he can be a real cool guy sometimes." Peter played it up.

"Wait a minute you know Spider-man?" Harry asked and Peter just looked at his friend as his eyebrows scrunched together.

"Yeah I do Harry who do think provided all the pictures of him to the daily bugle and he visit's here quite often." Peter said only half lying to his friend.

"Oh yeah right." Harry said once the realization hit. Peter turned back to Logan how was obviously doing everything in his power not to ring both kids' necks.

"How is she?" Peter asked the senior instructor but all he got was a shrug in response.

"You have some serious talking to do there bub." Logan said to Peter and Peter knew this was going to be a long night. He walked in to the kitchen away from his friends and began laying out the whole scene leading up to him finding Rogue.

"So all this got started over some spoilt rich brats feelings being hurt." Logan spouted off forgetting his anger toward the young wall crawler for now when Hank came up wearing Kurt's Holowatch around the two visiting guests. Peter shot over to Beast anxious to get an answer to how Rogue was doing.

"She is stable for now she hasn't regained consciousness yet….we almost lost her." The Professor had rolled out of his office and joined the group.

"I have just gotten off the phone with the police and the Hardy families lawyer. It appears that Cassidy is being assessed by the county psych doctors their claiming he is to insane to stand trial." Peter cringed thinking that Cassidy would get away with what he did. "I know how you must all be feeling right now but he is off the street and in police custody so consider this a win for us, However the Hardy family is taking a strict stance saying their daughter had nothing to do with the events of what happened. It appears that this Felicia girl is very good at covering her tracks. Their lawyer is looking to have any charges filed against her dismissed." Peter reached into his pocket and pulled out the tape recorder from earlier.

"Maybe this will help?" Peter said as he handed the device over.

"Where did you get this?" Charles asked.

"Found it on the steps with a note saying it was a gift from your friendly neighborhood Spider-man." Peter lied once more, he hated doing it in front of his friends but he had to protect his identity as well as his friends. Charles took the recording device and played it as he heard the taped confession of Felicia and what she did.

"I don't know how much weight his will carry Peter but it's something." Charles said as Storm entered the room.

"Storm is everything….." Peter drifted off as Storm held up her hand to appease Peter's fear.

"She is sleeping comfortably I just came up here to get her a change of clothes." Kitty jumped up and told her she would get them for her and ran off. MJ walked over to Peter and asked if they could talk alone Peter agreed and the two walked outside for what little privacy they could find.

"Some night huh tiger?" MJ said with obvious confusion and nervousness in her voice.

"Listen MJ last night….." MJ Covered Peter's mouth quieting the young teen.

"Peter you don't need to apologize, none of this was your fault in fact if anything the blame should be laid on all of us you tried to warn us and we didn't listen."

"I should have tried harder or something and because I didn't we all got drugged you and I spent a night together in the same bed without any thing between us and my girlfriend almost died." Peter turned away, tears beginning to sting his eyes. MJ placed a hand on Peter's face turning him to face her.

"She must really mean a lot to you." Peter just nodded at MJ's statement. "She's a lucky girl tiger; I guess we truly weren't meat to be." MJ smiled and gently placed him in a hug.

"Thank you MJ, oh just so you know I never peaked even though part of me was seriously tempted." Peter said sarcastically.

"Who wouldn't be tiger?" MJ smiled and turned back to the mansion. "Harry and I are gonna head back to the hotel give you and your friends some time alone." MJ walked back in and grabbed Harry and told him they should be leaving he wrote down his phone number and handed it to Kitty telling her to give him a call sometime and then they left. Peter stayed outside for a while the cold helping to clear his thoughts.

"I suppose you want to be alone?" Charles said as he rolled up behind Peter.

"I just need some time to think Professor if that's all right." Peter replied

"Of course Peter but while you're out here I want you to consider something." Charles said ominously

"And what would that be professor?" Peter said sounding like his ego had deflated.

"I want you to consider breaking up with Rogue." Charles said flatly.

"What?" Peter asked amazed that Charles would even suggest such a thing.

"I'm sorry Peter but you cannot deny that since you have arrived things have not gone smoothly you have been in fights at school, been infected by a parasitic suit, turned into a spider, and now this whole deal with Rogue. In all fairness Peter I should be kicking out of the institute. We try to live under the radar and your actions have seriously compromised that ability so I must seriously consider that as an option." Charles said adamantly.

Peter lowered his head as he heard the professor speak and a part of him considered what the professor said.

"Will you please give a few minutes alone so I can think Please?" Peter asked quietly and the professor bowed his head and left. The professor rolled into his office and went to his computer he keyed in his ID and began typing away. For weeks he had worked on trying to gain access to this server and every time he failed meeting one firewall after another he had one trick left. He began typing away entering line after line of hacker code until finally he gain access.

"Perfect" he exclaimed and began his work.

Down in the infirmary Rogue began to wake up her head was splitting with a bad headache she looked around and as her vision cleared she saw she was back at the mansion.

"Hello beautiful welcome back" Rogue heard Peter's voice and smiled at her boyfriend.

"Hi…ugh…my head feels like it has been in a whack-a-mole game for a week!" Rogue lamented.

"Look Rogue I have something to tell you and rather than drag this out I am just going to come out and say that I don't think we should continue seeing each other anymore also I am leaving the mansion and the X-men." Peter said leaving Rogue shocked and stunned.