The orbs floated down then landed with a thud, Remy winced as Rogue's loose form was jarred violently.
She tenderly ran her hand over face and rubbed her eyes. When Rogue found herself in the cramped orb hurting like hell and with only half of her strength she felt like tearing off something's head, as she shifted she realized how painful that would be so she settled for dreaming about it.
Then she realized that a certain Cajun's arm was around her waist, nearly breaking her back to make sure her skin was covered she realized their position, she was basically in his lap and in the confinement they were pressed up against each other in every way.
She wondered how he hadn't collapsed, her clothes were in tatters after the fight, looking him over quickly she realized he was still was wearing his trench, she sighed in relief and hesitantly leaned back into his embrace.
Remy was overjoyed at her slow acceptance, with most girls it was easy to figure out what they wanted, Rogue was different it was as if she were afraid of, of , herself….
The top of the orb cracked upon with a hiss and cool air rushed in as they began to stand. Remy helped Rogue stand up and kept a protective arm around her waist as they emerged.
The Xmen scrambled out of the mansion as they heard the alarm sound.
The members of the first wave cringed, was today the end of their peace?
Slowly they all made their way out; if today was the end they would go down fighting. Everyone was surprised to see the silver orbs touch down, they watched as Magneto emerged first and slowly the others.
Cyclops had his hand on his visor but it slowly went down when he saw the battered condition of all of the people coming out.
The last orb opened and Remy and Rogue both emerged the vapor from inside the great silver orb covered them for a while.
Scott blushed at how intimate they looked. Rogue was dwarfed by Remy's size and as she leaned back into his embrace she looked almost like a child. Then he looked at her closer and saw the cuts and bruises, the shredded clothes and the rags she was using to cover whatever skin she could. The rings under her eyes made her look haunted; apparently he wasn't the only one to think so.
"Lady! What happened?"
A teenage boy only a few years younger than Rogue rushed forward to greet her but she gave a small smile and waved him away "it's alright, I'm good, we need to speak to Xavier"
Rogue hesitated at the name then spat it out. It was seconds before a red head walked out accompanied by a man in a wheel chair, yards behind them was a short hairy man with an expression of hysteria painted across his face.
Rogue smirked at the reaction her presence brought.
As Xavier made his way over, Rogue stepped out of Remy's grasp and to the right of Magneto, she stood straight with her hands behind her back, her gaze was cold.
Logan tried to stutter some sort of greeting But Rogue ignored it completely as Xavier held out a hand to Eric.
They shook and Xavier turned around to return to the mansion, Eric followed him with Rogue at his side, The rest followed them in, the Xmen parted reluctantly to let the procession in.
Soon Rogue found herself in one of Xavier's meeting rooms with her team on one side of the room, Xavier sat on the other with the original Xmen on the other side (not including any new mutant s except Rahne) a few of the first wave had snuck in and were hiding towards the back.
Tension rose between the two teams and for the first time since their entrance Xavier spoke
"Its nice to see you so soon again Eric, though I would believe this is more than a social call?"
Magneto had taken a seat at the other end of the table and Rogue was standing directly behind him, parallel to Jean grey who stood by Xavier, Wanda and Pietro were at his left across from Scott, only then did Xavier notice his missing son, he didn't comment.
Rahne however was far more worried than Xavier, something had happened, he would have told her they were coming something must have stopped him.
Magneto took off his helmet, the loose strands of hair that lifted as he took it of settled quickly, he set it down beside him, and everyone could see his pale face now that it was not shadowed by the helmet.
"Avalon has fallen, Cataclysm has begun, we have fully evacuated and our people are being spread between any safe houses we have. It is however not safe to have large gatherings of mutants right now. Charles, Lucas was taken, in the attack".
Charles faltered and frowned a little but other than that nothing changed. Eric growled at his apathy
"We need to rescue him"
Charles raised an eye brow "while I understand that it is a great inconvenience unfortunately it is a rather great risk to enter what ever compound he's been taken to all just for one man"
Eric raised a fist to slam to the table in frustration, damnit Charles he is your son!
Wanda and Pietro were ready to bare teeth and Rogue already had her adamantium flowing, Remy moved over to calm her, hey didn't have energy to waste.
Rahne let out a small growl and slightly changed forms at Xavier's callous treatment of his son.
When she felt her claws dig into her palms she shifted back, looking down at her palms she discreetly rubbed the blood away on her jeans.
Magneto thought quickly for a reason Charles would understand. With Betsy's help all of their team was blocked from psychic invasion and many of them grinned at Jean Grey's frustration.
"Charles realize now, how powerful a mutant your son is, this shall not be like the stasis you placed him in. He will be turned into a weapon. Imagine all of that power with no restraint beating down upon this institute and then the rest of the world!"
Finally Xavier looked troubled, "perhaps you are right, I can supply the X-jet, and possibly a small team and a medbay for later, in the mean time you may all feel free to stay here until you have recovered, until you are battle ready".
Rogue leaned down on the table glaring at the dignified man in the chair "look Chuck, ah ain't lettin Luke stay there longer than possible, we'll be heading out bah tomarrah"
"Mrs. Howlett you hardly seem ready to jump into another battle, there is always time, Lucas shall survive, he's a strong boy"
"Firstleh, DON'T call meh Howlet, I don't ain't gonna deal with shit lahke that, I hear it again and ah'm gona go inta yar head and take that name away from evreh damn memory you got! Ah go bah Lesher. Secondleh, we go tomorrow, ah unlike you care abut Lucas and ah ain't makin him wait"
Charles said nothing, he looked at her over his steepled fingers with narrowed eyes then after a few moments took a breath and spoke "very well Ms. LENSHER I shan't mention it again, and if you insist so deeply upon my son's rescue I suppose we can do so, Eric brought up a valid point in saying that such power in the militarie's hands could indeed be dangerous, Rahne will show you to your rooms while I talk to Eric"
Rahne stepped forward slowly and the others followed, Rogue stayed by Magneto's side
He looked at her with a small smile and nodded to the door, he would tell her what has said later, she needed her rest.
Rogue started out the room but paused before she crossed the threshold, as she turned her head even Logan shuddered at her glare "You don deserve to call him your son, don't do it again"
Charles looked affronted but did nothing When they were gone and Eric Magus Lensher sat in the room With Charles Xavier, Xavier looked up with pained eyes to his once great friend "it had to be done, sacrifice one for the many, you understand , you did it too! I did the right thing didn't I?"
The silver haired man looked at his friend, he himself had only just made amends,, maybe it was time Charles did too.
"No, we both made mistakes, I have begun to repent. I believe now Charles it is your time. The means I am surprised to find does not always justify the end"
Charles looked shocked, he had heard over and over again that his son's incarceration had been a mistake but he had disregarded it but now hearing I from someone who he knew and respected, it had finally begun to sunk in.
Eric left Charles sitting in his chair, his head burrowed in his hands silent tears coursing down his face.
Rahne showed each of the mutants to a room, most f them were sharing with others. The first wave member had all volunteered their rooms but since most of them were already sharing it was a tight fit.
Close to the end when there were two empty rooms left Remy, Rogue, Wanda, and John looked at each other. John awkwardly rubbed his palms together
"So me and Remy in one room, you sheilas in the other?"
Wanda perked up an eyebrow at him
"ooor me and Wanda here could share a room?"
Before Rogue could protest Remy grabbed her rag clad arm and pulled her into a room, he grabbed the bed on the right side of the room and lay down
"Chere this closet looks like it got some clothes, think it might be a good idea if you change into something a little less… ripped"
His salacious grin came "ooor if you you're' happy he way you are that's fine. Rogue gave a small snort and walked over to the bureau.
She opened it and found a soft purple sweater around her size, it was the darkest shirt in the closet, she sighted and looked at the pants, the only things that wasn't a pair of Capri's in her size was a pair of blue jeans.
She sighed and picked them up, walking over to the joint bathroom she quickly changed, when she emerged Remy was waiting for her with a nervous face
"Chere, I been wantin to say this fir a long time, never really knew how to go about saying it though, so now I'm jus gonna come right out and say it" Rogue stopped, oh god please no, he was not about to do this. Not now, not with her skin, damned mutual attraction, the raging hormones of a teenager and she couldn't freaking touch!
HE stuttered about for few moments in front of her, it was funny, he was 24 and acting like a little boy with his firs crush. She started to open her mouth to tell him to stop where he was when a pair of lips crashed down on her. She stood stunned when his arms quickly wrapped around her, she leaned into the kiss a little then it started.
The drain.
She felt his worries for her when she was in battle, she felt his love for her when he held her in the orb.
She felt his confusion at what as happening now
All this and a lifetime more.
She let out small scream as he collapsed in her arms. She pulled away and scared at her glowing hands, willing the light away it receded.
Catching a glimpse of her eyes in the vanity net to her she stumbled back into a corner and fell to the floor in a sobbing heap.
She hadn't absorbed anyone in so long, and now all the voices in her head which she was usually ale to so easily ignore had turned into thousands of screams, each pounding against her head like , she let out another scream muffled by her knees.
And so for few minutes Rogue sat huddles in the corner clutching her head and staring at the fallen Cajun with her glowing red eyes full of tears.
Logan had been passing by the room, unsure of whether or not to confront this daughter f his.
Now that he knew he had a daughter he wanted badly to talk to her, now that he had accepted it. Months after it had finally sunk in Logan went to a bar and had drunken himself silly, he could have handled that better. Gotten answers done something, anything! And yet now she was gone.
Upon her return Logan had done everything he could to
Muster the courage to confront her.
He had heard a scream from this direction earlier, at first he had been ready to rush over, but then he figured it was probably someone having fun, Rogue was strong enough to handle herself,
That much had been proven.
But as he traversed down the corridor the scent of fear filled his nose and for the first time in years James Logan Howlett felt true panic.
He ran through the halls and to the door he knew was hers and who ever she had chosen to bunk with.
He tore through the wood like wet paper and peered inside claws bared, On the floor was the Cajun, a part of Logan wanted tear the Cajun in two for being Rogue's
Marie Roommate, Marie? What in? Why had hat name popped up?
Anyway, he knew that they were close, quite frankly Logan was afraid that if he found out how close he might have Cajun blood on his hands.
Looking closer It didn't even take a second to find Rogue; she was sitting in a corner sobbing.
He made his way to her cautiously, when he knelt down and tapped her shoulder he recoiled when he saw her wearing the Cajun's eyes.
"Kid?" he faltered after that, what in heavens name was he supposed to say?"
She looked at him and rasped out words he couldn't hear after a while he began to catch words
"The voices
Pleas stop
The screaming
It hurts
Stop
Help
Help
Help
"
Logan stood up ready to get the professor when something inside his made him turn around and place his bare hand on her forehead as if checking her for a fever. He felt the drain and for a brief moment his memories returned, and with it waves of sorrow. And then they were gone
All save one new memory, the awareness of her birth power. Rogue gasped as the new power filled her. It filled her with light, safety, it held the voices at bay and healed her mind, it mended the cracks, the tears didn't go away but the pain did.
Then she was blind.
Logan shuddered as she pulled away, his daughter. He knew her curse and pitied the poor girl, so much had happened, so much would happen. He weakly tucked her hair behind her ears and stood to return to his room, already she was stirring. If it had worked then she would be fully lucid upon her wake and that was not something he had the energy to deal with.
Rogue woke up minutes after the darkness consumed her.
She stood silently and looked at the vanity again. Her eyes still hadn't returned, with a startled glance to Remy she saw that he was waking up.
This was going to be sad, so long she had hidden her power form him now things were going to get bad. She let one tear fall mourning what could have been, then composed herself.
Remy opened his eyes wearily, his head was hurting and he felt like some sort of slug. Then his thoughts came back. Rogue!
He had all but confessed to her, he remember with a small smirk what a good kisser she had been, wow it had been a while since he had had a kiss like that. Then it occurred to him he was still on the floor, why was he on the floor?
Oh no, had they been attacked?
He felt someone shake him and he opened his eyes a little wasn't in shape for fighting!
Little wider allowing the light in. He winced and sat up, when he saw that it was Rogue that had roused him
, he let out a sigh of relief at her presence, she was fine. He looked around, nothing looked out of place. Hadn't they been attacked?"
"chere-"he stopped in stunned silence when he saw her eyes.
Rogue stood and walked over to her bed, she sat down quietly and Remy could feel concern rise up in him as he saw the tear tracks on her face and the condition of her hair.
"Chere, what just happened?"
Rogue didn't say anything for a while, "Mah powers, Mah real powers"
Remy looked confused
"The ones I was born with, the reason ah was taken"
Remy didn't look any different but tried to say something
" So what exactly are yo powers chere, and whyd you use em on me? I mean if you didn't wanna kiss, y'coulda just said so, m' srry fo that though"
Rogue looked pained as she replied "trust meh, nothin for you to apologize fo, mah powers- mah powers, ah absorb, things, ah can suck the lahfe outa a person. One touch and their, memories, their powers, their lives, are mahne"
Remy still didn't understand why she used her powers on him. Then everything fell into place and he realized the truth. The reason why she shied away from touch, why she concealed her skin and why she avoided crowds. Why she was covered from head to toe even with that beautiful body.
It was nature's greatest trick, the Cajun playboy had finally found the perfect woman, and the perfect kisser and she couldn't touch.
"You don't have control do y'chere?
Rogue shook her head no
Overwhelmed by this new bit of knowledge Remy started to get angry "Why didn you
tell us befo chere? I though we agreed on no more secrets!"
Rogue didn't say anything for a minute listening to Remy rant on, she finally stopped him as he was mentioning the others ignorance to this new fact as well " Ah didn't wanna tell ya cause it'd change everything, ah didn't wanna deal with the pity"
Remy stopped and stared at her, she looked afraid, her sable eyes were large but the crimson was slowly fading into her usual hunter green eyes. He looked at her and for the first time ever saw that behind all the bravado and strength there as fear.
Remy took a seat next to her, discreetly slipping on a pair of leather gloves, he grabbed her hand and didn't say anything until she stopped being tense
" m'sorry fer that chere, shouldna gotten angry bout that, how bout you and I go to sleep for now, d'accord?"
Rogue gave him a smile that made his heart soared and nodded. She waited for him get up and return to her bed but he didn't "You gonna move anytime soon Cajun?"
"Nope chere, I can work around the no touching, Remy already told you how he feels, and he knows you feel the same, we've slept together before one more time wont hurt!"
Rogue looked at him incredulously his suggestive remark was not lost on her but she didn't quite understand how he was still so accepting. Remy smirked at her look of confusion
"come on petit, need our rest for tomorrow now don we?"
Rogue was getting ready to protest when Remy wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her down onto the bed with him, her arms were pinned to his chest, and he was
covered in his duster and gloves, they hadn't been able to find pajamas but this was fine.
He buried his face in the crook of her neck and thanked god for turtle necks. Rogue squirmed about for a few minutes not wanting to use her powers
"Cajun, move"
Remy let out a fake snore and Rogue chuckled, a few more minutes of struggling only resulted in being crushed against him further.
Rogue eventually let out a sigh and fell asleep against him, disbelieving that he had accepted her powers so simply. A vague worry deep in her mind wondered though, what had made the pain go away after she absorbed Remy?
Eric Rose out of his bed with a yawn and saw that neither of his children had awoken yet.
He grinned at the position they were in, Wanda burrowed deep in her blankets while Pietro had a death grip on a pillow.
He stepped onto the cold ground beneath his feet and shuddered a little, his uniform had never been something comfortable to sleep in but the rest had been welcome. HE lifted a hand an forced the mattress springs in both the twins beds to leap up flinging them both onto the cold floor.
With screams of protest they all got ready, he checked his watch and saw that the others to would be readying themselves now. Last night he had figured out with Cerebro's and Betsy's help where Luca would be for the rest of the day. He would inform Rogue and then they would attack.
Rogue woke up in a cocoon of leather. It was cozy and smelled good so she went back to sleep
Remy woke up slowly, wondering who exactly was wrapped around his chest, when he opened his eyes lazily and saw that it was Rogue embracing him he grinned, and pulled her closer to himself.
His eye caught the numbers on the clock and he gave a mall groan, damnit!
"Chere, 's time to wake up chere"
Rogue growled at the being who dared wake her, when she noticed her exact position she blushed and pulled away
"tahme for some action Cajun!'
Remy looked at her a little worried, she looked ok but he didn't know if she really was. She grinned at him again and untangled her self from him. Slowly they both readied themselves for the morning.
Eventually Magnetos team and Xavier's team found themselves in the same meeting room from he day before.
Magneto announced that four about four hours midday that day Lucas would be on a high security plane being transferred to a new center. That would be when they struck.
The black bird would hold only so many people, and they couldn't afford to have anyone fly outside and give away their position so the final team was decided by Rogue, Magneto, and Xavier as
Rogue
Magneto
Gambit
Phylock
ShadowKat
Sabertooth
Scarlet Witch
X23
Wolfsbane
Wolverine
Storm
Rogue didn't very much like the list but understood that these were the ones with the best chance to be of any use today.
So the Eleven mutants boarded the plane suited up in new Kevlar uniforms. Magnetos crew tore of all the Xs on their uniforms and disposed of anything yellow.
They were all simple black suits, Rogue tore hears of at each shoulder, it would be good to have a wide berth to grab. Storm took her place on the plat form and the jet took off.
Within an hour they were tailing their target. Storm had pulled up a cloud cover, Betsy was levitating Shadowkat over to the top of the ship, and dropping her, Shadowkat would phase through circuitry and computers and then be caught by Betsy, they repeated this a few times until the aircraft went into panic mode,
Rahne piloted the ships close together and then Betsy made a rampart and the mutants boarded.
Rogue Rook out soldier after solder, he adamantium defending her effortlessly.
Remy was on the other side of the ship, in the main computer room keeping an eye on his teammates form the monitors, he yelled out warnings to whoever he could using the PA
"ey X chere don be going that way 's a dead end"
"Oi Wolvie, batard, get ready you got 12 heading your way
" Rogue chere, to the left then the second door on your right"
Rogue quickly found the Room Lucas was being held in , X had caught up to her and they both lifted Lucas' sedated form from the table having easily sliced through the restraints.
They stepped over the bodies and made their way back to the ship. Remy saw from the monitor room what was happening and spoke the code they had agreed on to signal success
" Boli Trask hearts Twilight!'
The nonsense phrase told all the mutants it was time to return and so within an hour Rahne and Rogue were at Lucas's side helping him wake up. An hour after that they landed in front of the mansion
Xavier was waiting for them by the time they were out of the Jet. Beast had a gurney ready and Rogue rushed her brother to it in a panic. Soon he was loaded into the medbay and all they could do was wait.
Hey all Quill here! Long time no see I know I know, well its my bday so I though I should do something special so here you are! Btw I don't own it.
New summary time! If someone thinks they can write a really good summary, send it to me and ill use it!