Chapter 38

Secret Revealed

At Bayville high

Dean was sitting with his fellow teammates at lunch explaining his encounter with Billy.

"So he was just beating the crap out of me any way he could. In the end it took all of us to take down this guy" Dean was telling the story.

"So how did you manage to beat him?" Jean asked fascinated at the way Dean told his tale.

"With a little bit of team work, we managed. And I was lucky enough to become friends with both of them in the end" He said.

"Wow" Rogue was surprised, "After all that ya'll became friends"

"It's a little weird I know" Dean admitted.

"So what was the place like?" Evan asked.

"Well it was probably every teenager's dream hang out spot. You could literally do anything you wanted" Dean leaned back on his chair.

"So why didn't you tell the police about it?" Scott asked him.

"Those kids that live there are orphans with nowhere to go, they need a place to stay and grow up away from the streets" Dean said.

Scott could understand. He knew better than anyone else on this table just how bad and lonely an orphan life is. He'll let this matter slide, for the sake of other kids not having to grow up the way he did.

"By the way you described Billy I don't think I would have liked him" Rogue said.

"You're probably right, he's a lot like Pietro" Dean said.

Everyone sighed at that comment.

"Oh man, does that dude ever shut up?" Evan asked out loud.

"Well I haven't found a way yet" Dean got up, "Well I think I'm going to enjoy the rest of my free time outside"

"I'll go with you then" Jean said also getting up.

As they left Jean hooked her arm around his.

Kitty noticed that and her inner gossip girl just couldn't resist sharing her opinion.

"So has anybody else noticed how close Dean and Jean have gotten lately?" Kitty asked.

That question grabbed everyone's attention, particularly Scott and Rogue.

"What do you mean close?" Scott asked.

"Well for a while now they've been spending a lot of time together, more than usual" Kitty said.

"You think maybe those two have something going on?" Kurt suggested.

"Well it wouldn't be too farfetched now would it" Kitty said.

"Why don't you just mind your own business for once Kitty?" Rogue stormed off.

Well that seemed odd, even from Scott's point of view. Rogue never really cared about any kind of gossip the escaped Kitty's mouth before.

"What's with her?" Evan asked.

"I'm not sure..." Kitty said wondering.

Kurt couldn't help but wonder either, something was definitely bugging her. And nothing usually bugs Rogue out.

Later on at the Boarding House

The Brotherhood was just doing their usual lazy stuff like any other regular day. Their recent failure with the X-men had earned them more than enough extra training hours with Mystique that they absolutely despised.

Even with one of their teammates out of the fight they still managed to lose royally. It angered them all how those X-men were always one step ahead of them, what they would do to give them some of their own medicine.

Mystique came down the stairs, "Everyone listen up!"

Everyone stood at attention immediately out of fear of another hour of exercising.

"I know that you've had trouble dealing with Xavier's students, particularly their newest member" Mystique said.

Blob squeezed his fists at the thought of how Dean had humiliated him twice, "Man when I get my hands on him"

"There's something very different about him, he's not like the rest of them" Lance said speaking his mind.

"Yeah yo, he knows some Kung Fu shit" Toad made an imitation of martial arts, "Waa!"

"No that's not it. Why does he have so many different abilities? It's just weird" Lance said.

"I don't care how many he has, he's still not as fast as me" Pietro said boasting.

"That didn't stop him from beating you before" Eileen said putting him in his place.

Pietro's face turned slightly red, "You weren't even there! How would you know?"

"I bet I could have stopped him" Pyro said leaning on the wall as he played with his lighter.

Lance bursted out laughing, "You couldn't even take on Summers, what makes you think you could take him on?"

Pyro grinned and willed the flame from his lighter to grow, "Why don't I show you"

"Bring it on!" Lance said accepting his challenge.

"Enough!" Mystique shouted.

That caught the attention of the two youngsters.

"You both have neither the ability nor the skill to get the job done" Mystique said.

All of a sudden there is a knock on the door which catches everyone's attention.

"Fortunately I've found someone who has both" Mystique said going to answer the door.

Mystique answered the door and Kratos stood there.

Mystique looked unimpressed, "So where is he?"

"He said he had pressing matters to attend to, but he would be visiting soon to continue my training" Kratos said. The young man entered and everyone noticed him.

Eileen was particularly interested in his incredibly chiseled body, 'I think I've found the solution to my problems'

"And that's the only reason he will be visiting?" Mystique asked with an annoyed expression. Magneto had a knack for ignoring her lately.

"Stop pestering me woman" Kratos barked at her.

Mystique eyed the boy carefully. She heard how he took on her boys on his own, controlling him might be an issue, "This is Kratos" she introduced him, "He is the one that will take care of our problem"

At the Hideout

Tim and Billy had been cleaning the place up. Getting rid of any unwanted items that reminded them of Gorgeous George and generally fixing up the place.

The only room that they hadn't checked was George's room. Which was blocked by a metal door.

Tim and Billy stood in front of it.

"Never been in there, always wondered what I might find" Billy said.

"I'm actually surprised you've never been in there" Tim said.

"Believe me, I tried. This damn thing is too strong to break down" Billy said.

Tim moved closer and inspected the door. He knocked on it a few times listening to the sound. Then he tried stabbing it with his staff but it didn't do anything, "I'm 85% sure this is Titanium. Which means we're not strong enough to break it down and I don't have large enough explosives to blow it open"

"So how do we open it?" Billy asked.

Tim knelt, grabbed some tools from his belt, and started tinkering with the lock, "Guess I'll have to do this the old fashioned way"

"What are you doing?" Billy asked.

"Picking the lock" Tim said.

Billy looked at him like that was a stupid idea and laughed, "That's never gonna wo—"

Tim unlocked the door with a smirk, "Wanna bet?"

Billy's face went blank.

Tim opened the door with a satisfied expression.

They entered the room, which was by far the largest bedroom. There was a king size bed, some fancy looking furniture, all kinds of stolen stuff lying around the room.

"Dibsonthisroom" Billy speed talked.

Even though he spoke fast Tim understood what he said, "You can't just call dibs on the new room"

"I just did" Billy said with a cocky smirk.

Tim wasn't going to let him get the room that easily, "How bout this, I'll give you that rematch and whoever wins gets the room" he offered his hand.

"It's a done deal!" Billy said excitingly.

At the Institute

Dean and Jean were currently on their way home from another date. They'd been going out pretty often and still kept it under wraps.

Dean parked his bike in the garage, "So did you have fun?"

"Yeah, a lot" Jean said with a bright smile.

"That's good" Dean said as they walked inside.

"Hey, um I've been thinking" Jean said sounding nervous.

"About?" Dean asked.

"You, me, us. I don't feel like hiding it anymore" Jean wrapped her arms around his neck, "I wanna be able to kiss you whenever I want" Her head leaned closer to his.

Dean leaned closer and their lips met.

The kiss was sweet, gentle as Dean tentatively placed his hands on her hips.

When he pulled back he spoke in a breathy soft whisper, "Not bad for a beginner"

Rogue and Kitty were walking through the hallways chatting about nonsense, well at least Kitty was.

They pass by the top of the staircase and they spotted Dean and Jean kissing at the bottom of it.

Kitty gasped at the sight while Rogue was frozen still.

Both Dean and Jean snapped out of their daydream and noticed Kitty and Rogue.

Dean saw the pain in Rogue's eyes, like her heart was crushed.

Rogue left in a hurry as Kitty ran down the stairs and hugged them both, "Oh my god! I totally knew this was going to happen!"

Jean shook her head, "Why am I not surprised"

"Ok so how long have you been together you have to tell me!" Kitty was ecstatic.

"Um…I have to go do something" Dean quickly went up the stairs.

"What's wrong with him?" Kitty wondered.

"I don't think he wanted anyone to find out just yet" Jean said eyeing him carefully.

Dean ran after Rogue.

"Rogue" he tried catching her attention but she ignored him, "Rogue wait"

Rogue went in her room and slammed the door in his face.

Dean stood there with his head down in shame, "I'm…I'm sorry" he whispered.

At the Hideout

Tim and Billy were both panting, only difference was Tim was on the ground and Billy was standing.

"Yes! I win!" Billy shouted as he almost fell backwards from his fatigue.

They both were ruffed up, bloodied noses, black eyes, scrapes and cuts all over, but nothing too bad.

Tim sat upright, "Good fight" he congratulated him.

"The room is mine!" Billy zipped away.

Tim got on his feet and followed him to the room where the speedster was running around like crazy.

"It's not really that big of a deal anyway, it's just a room" Tim said calmly as he looked around.

"That sounds like something a loser would say" Billy said as he jumped on the bed. When he jumped on it there was clack sound. Like metal on metal.

Tim approached the bed, "That didn't sound right"

"Your face doesn't sound right" Billy said.

Tim ignored him and looked underneath the bed. There was a metal cellar underneath it, "Hold on, get off the bed"

"Screw you it's mine" Billy said.

Tim rolled his eyes and flipped the bed over with Billy along with it, "Hey!"

He opened the cellar and saw a staircase leading deeper underground, "Looks like George had something to hide"

Billy zipped over to him and was about to say something before he saw the cellar door, "Well what do we have here?"

"Then let's find out what that is" Billy said.

They went down into the cellar, their bronze weapons lighting their way through a dark hall

Eventually they found themselves in front of a door, not a metal one, just a regular neon green door.

"What do you think is in there?" Billy asked.

"One way to find out" Tim said.

They kicked the door open. It was pitch black, hiding whatever was inside.

Tim took a step in, and flipped the light switch.

It was a decent size square room with a round table in the middle with four seats around it. On every wall there were these shelves that were piled with plastic wrapped bricks full of green herbs.

Tim nodded, "Oh so that's where the drugs were"

Billy slowly walked forward, with his eyes widened, as if he were hypnotized.

"Billy are you ok?" Tim asked.

Billy slowly stepped forward and grabbed some of the bricks, "I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH OF IT IN MY LIFE!" he ran around the room like a maniac throwing around the bricks, "THERE'S SO MANY KINDS!"

Tim laughed at Billy's reaction.

Billy was on the floor trying to make a pot angel with all the bricks.

"You know we can't keep it, right?" Tim said.

Billy went from joyful to depressed, "WHAT? WHY?!"

"The hell are we gonna do with all this pot? We're not gonna sell it" Tim said.

Billy zipped over to Tim "Who said anything about selling?" he said with a wicked grin.

At the Boarding house

"This guy? Hell no, I'm not working with him" Lance said glaring at Kratos.

"You don't have much of a choice" Mystique said.

"What so now we're getting another strongman? I thought you don't like doubling up" Pietro said.

"I don't, he's not just a strongman. Magneto guaranteed me that" Mystique said.

"Good" Fred walked up to Kratos and glared at him, "Cause that's my job"

Kratos chuckled like he didn't take him seriously.

"I say we give the hunk a chance" Eileen said staring lustfully.

"Whatever, just don't get in our way" Pietro said before zipping away.

All the others left the room except for Mystique and Eileen.

"They don't seem fond of me" Kratos noticed.

"That doesn't matter, what matters is your ability to deliver what Magneto promised" Mystique said.

"I will do what is required of me" Kratos said as he went upstairs to his room.

Eileen couldn't help but stare at him as he left.

"And you" Mystique snapped her head at her.

Eileen stood at attention.

"It seems like your good looks are for nothing girl" Mystique said looking disappointed.

"Hey I tried ok, plenty of times, but he's not as simple as other boys" Eileen said referring to Dean.

"Well you no longer need to concern yourself with him, I'll let someone else handle Dean" Mystique said.

At the Hideout

The room was filled with thick smoke.

Tim and Billy sat at the table across from each other, both with wide grins on their faces.

"I feel kinda funny" Tim said feeling the effects.

"Yeah, but it's a good funny" Billy smirked.

"It's weird" Tim looked around, "It's like everything is in 3D"

"Your face is in 3D" Billy joked.

Tim got an idea from that. He created an illusion with his mind.

All of a sudden Billy saw something phase out of the wall. It looked like a stereotypical ghost from old movies and it was slowly approaching him.

Billy saw the ghost and looked terrified.

"Hooooh!" It made a weird sound, "I am the ghost of cannabis! I have come to destroy your lungs!"

Billy screamed like a girl and zipped around the room in a panic, "Ah! It's gonna smoke my lungs!"

Tim laughed so hard he fell off his chair.

At the Institute

The next morning Kitty returned to her room after breakfast to find Rogue sitting by the window looking outside. Kind of like the way Dean does.

"You didn't come down for breakfast" Kitty noticed.

Rogue shrugged slightly, "Wasn't hungry"

"Rogue is everything...you know, alright?" Kitty is only asking because even by Rogue's standards this brooding session had gone on some time.

"I don't know, is it?" Rogue asked back which caused Kitty to frown in confusion.

Kitty grabbed a chair and moved it next to Rogue so she could sit down, "Like what's the matter Rogue? I mean you have been seriously quiet since last night" The silence continued, "Are you angry at Dean?" There was a twitch in Rogue's features that Kitty interpreted to mean she has nailed the issue, "You are, aren't you?"

Rogue dragged her eyes from looking out to her friend, "I wasn't at first" she explained.

"But" Kitty prompted Rogue to continue.

"But as I thought about it more...you know how Mystique lied to me. Used me to try and hurt all of you. But Dean has been lying to me as well. I thought we might have had something special…" Rogue said.

"Maybe so but let me ask you this, do you think he tried to use you like Mystique did?" Kitty asked her with sincerity.

"Why are you so interested in defending him?" Rogue had to ask.

"Because he's my friend and you're my best friend. I don't want you two to ruin your friendship just because of one kiss. Don't just think that it's over just because he might be with Jean right now, things can change"

Rogue contemplates Kitty's words. The fact that Ms. Popular was ruining her love life wasn't the issue right now. It was that she thought she had a chance with Dean. She hates people who lie and keep secrets from her because it has been done too often to her in her life to manipulate her and all for their own benefit and not Rogue's. But was it Dean that made up that lie, or was it her own mind?

"Rogue I'm like sure Dean didn't mean to hurt you and I'm sure he would apologize if he knew how you felt"

"Yeah well it still doesn't make me feel any better" Rogue said still brooding.

Standing in the observation room were Charles, Logan, and Forge.

Inside the Danger room, Dean was standing in full gear ready to test the newly made gravity simulation.

"Now are you sure you want to do this?" Forge asked.

"I'm positive" Dean replied.

"Things might get ugly kid" Logan added.

"We'll never know until we try, now let's fire this baby up" Dean said stretching out.

"Ok, the machine's maximum right now is 10x so I'll start out with 2x Earth's gravity" Forge said.

"Nonsense, crank it up to 10x" Dean said.

Forge's eyes widened, "Are you insane! You'll weigh 3000 pounds!"

"Put it to 5x, I'm sure that'll be plenty of a challenge" Logan said.

"Fine, now let's do this" Dean said feeling pumped.

"Ok, adjusting gravity in 3...2...1" Forge activated it.

There was a rumble inside the Danger room but besides that Dean didn't feel any different.

Suddenly Dean felt like an elephant had jumped on his back. He had trouble standing, his limbs felt like they were each holding a ton and that's not even counting his torso.

The sign of struggle was obvious on Dean's face but he still had plenty of fight left in him. He put all his energy into his legs and back, and after a good solid minute of struggling he stood upright. This was the most he ever sweated, there were small puddles all over his feet.

Dean tried to move his feet but it seemed as if they made roots into the ground.

In the observation room Logan could see at this rate Dean might pass out from exhaustion, "Shut it off" Logan told Forge.

Forge turned the gravity back to normal.

The second the gravity returned to normal Dean collapsed panting.

Logan made his way down to the Danger room and stopped right in front of Dean to get a better look at him, "Now let me guess. This gravity simulation is by far the most painful thing you've ever done. But since it's so challenging, you're gonna wanna do it every day of the week, right?"

Dean looked up at Logan and gave him a thumb up before going back to panting.

"Yup, that's what I thought" Logan lifted him up "Let's get you to the infirmary and see what the damage is"

They brought him in and examined him.

"Well it seems there is no permanent damage to your body" Charles said scanning Dean's body, "All I see is very strained muscle" he removed the top of the scanner.

Dean got up feeling the burn of his sore muscles, "You can say that again. Its gonna take me a whole day to recover from this"

"No pain no gain kid" Logan smacked Dean's back.

Dean winced at the pain "Don't do that again"

Logan smirked, "Now on a side note, whenever you use the gravity simulation someone else should be there just in case something happens to you. You wouldn't want to be stuck in there with all that weight, right?"
"If it'll keep you off my back fine, but for now I need some air" Dean got off the scanner and almost fell from the weight of his body.

Logan lifted him up, "Whoa easy there, your still in bad shape"

Dean pushed him off, "Yeah well if I'm going to be feeling like this every time I do it I have to get used to my sore body" he stood on his own and slowly walked out.

Charles looked at Logan, "Well at least that will keep him busy for a while"

"Definitely for a while" Logan added.

At the Boarding house

Kratos was in his new room, pondering on his life. He'd gone through quite a transition, going from Sparta to New York. The place felt…safe, too safe for his liking. He was used to living in an environment where at a moment's notice he'd need to be ready to fight, and kill. Seeing as how Europe is vastly more monster packed than America he's been battling them from a very young age, hence his lack of hesitation for killing.

And since he left Sparta he's found himself thinking about his little brother and mother, his brother Deimos was a half-blood like him but his godly parent is unknown. But unlike Kratos, Deimos doesn't have his brother's battle ferocity. Which begs the question if his brother can survive on his own.

Kratos shakes those thoughts out of his head, Magneto has told him before that thinking of his family will only slow him down.

Eileen walked in his room and closed the door behind her. She was wearing a thin black silk robe.

"What are you doing in here?" Kratos asked curiously.

Eileen walked up to him slowly swaying her hips, "I just came to see if you were ok" she said clinging to his warm body.

Kratos couldn't help but stare down at her chest, "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Oh I don't know, maybe you were feeling lonely" Eileen said feeling his defined pectorals.

Kratos smirked, "Maybe you're the one who's feeling lonely" he kissed her.

Eileen wrapped her arms around him and embraced him in a deep kiss.

In response Kratos lifted her up and pinned her against the wall.

Eileen backed away to gasp for air, she stared at him with a lustful expression and licked her lips, "Sit down" she pushed him onto his bed.

Eileen then took off her robe, revealing that she wore nothing but purple underwear, exposing her amazingly curved body. She jumped on him and started unzipping his pants.

At the Institute

Dean woke up from his early sleep. He got up from his bed and noticed that the soreness was completely gone. He checked the time on his phone, 9:23 pm.

'Well that did the trick, let's go try it again' Dean went downstairs into the subbasement. As he was on his way to the Danger room he passed by the gym and noticed Rogue going at it on one of the heavy bags.

Dean stayed by the doorway and watched Rogue beat up her imaginary opponent from afar, 'I wonder if she thinks that's me'

Rogue gave the bag a good one two combination, then a left hook, followed up by a right uppercut. She kicked the midsection and then followed up with a jab and a right elbow to the face.

"That's actually not bad" Dean admitted.

Rogue looked back and noticed Dean, she simply ignored him and continued pummeling the heavy bag.

Dean knew Rogue worked out but he never actually watched her do it before. Rogue seemed to have a raging fire inside of her that she just wanted to bring out and it seemed her fists were the most efficient way to do that right now.

He came closer to her in order to watch her better. She had good form, and it seemed that even for a person her size she could still pack a punch.

Dean noticed the heavy bag moved too much so he went behind the heavy bag and held it still to make it easier for Rogue.

"Look Rogue, I wish you didn't find out the way you did. Believe me I wanted to tell you, I just didn't know how" Dean said with a frown.

Rogue pretended like he wasn't there so she moved to a different bag.

Dean moved behind that one as well, "I know you're pissed, you have every right to be"

Rogue gave no answer as she continued punching and kicking the bag.

"But pretending to not notice me is a little childish don't you think?" Dean asked.

Rogue started to look irritated and moved to the sliding heavy bag. It was like any other punching bag except the purpose of it was to hit it hard enough to make it slide across.

Dean watched Rogue hit the bag with various combinations and end with a powerful hit that sent the bag sliding, she proceeded to do this multiple times. He couldn't help but notice that heavy bag's flaw.

If he couldn't make her talk through reason Dean had other methods, "You're doing it wrong"

Rogue stopped what she was doing and finally snapped, "What do you mean I'm doing it wrong!"

Dean couldn't help but smirk at his accomplishment at her reaction.

"What's so funny?!" Rogue asked.

"I made you talk" Dean said smiling at her.

Rogue took a second to just look at him. That damn smile always gets to her, it makes it difficult to stay mad at him. She went back to hitting the sliding bag, "Congratulations, you want an award?" she asked sarcastically.

"No, I just want you to talk to me" Dean said sincerely.

Rogue sighed and stopped hitting the bag, "What do you want me to say? That I'm mad at you for kissing Ms. Popular Jean? You're not my boyfriend, and you're never going to be. That's been made clear" she turned around and grabbed her towel to dab the sweat off her face.

"Has it? Why do you think that?" Dean asked curiously.

Rogue looked at him like the answer was obvious, "Because you chose her over me"

"That's not true, I didn't chose her. You weren't exactly a choice" Dean reluctantly.

Rogue was about to blow up on him but Dean stopped her.

"Wait" Dean urged her, "Let me explain what I mean"

Rogue calmed down, "Fine"

Dean took a deep breath, "I have to be honest with you, I like you, like a lot. More than I do Jean"

Rogue still didn't look convinced, "I think there's a but coming"

"I would have asked you out before anyone else…but the reason I didn't is because I can't touch you" It pained Dean to say this but it was true, "What would we do if we went out? I can't have sex with you, I can't kiss you, hell I can't even hold your hand"

Rogue began to see the bigger picture, "But how does that justify you going out with Jean?"

"Picture this in your mind. Imagine we started dating, and after a while we started liking each other. Do you know how much it would hurt, to want to kiss someone, but literally not be able to?" Dean asked.

"I…know exactly how that feels" Rogue frowned.

"Every time we would be around each other it would be torture. And I know going out with someone else isn't exactly better, but I tried to keep it a secret for a reason. I didn't want you to know because I knew you'd be mad" Dean said.

Rogue nodded, "I get it, and thanks for trying but I guess that didn't work" she turned around and went to grab her things.

Dean heard Rogue sniffling so he ran over to her.

Rogue had little tears forming in her eyes.

Dean felt terrible inside, "You can't give up hope, one day you'll control your powers and you'll never have to worry about this again. Just please don't cry" he pleaded.

Rogue punched Dean in the face, hard, then she wrapped her arms around him and let out her tears, "It's hard to stay hopeful sometimes" she admitted.

Dean rubbed her back to comfort her, "I know, but you're strong. And if anyone can get through it it's you" he encouraged her.

Rogue wiped away her tears and looked up at him, "How do you know?"

Dean shook his head, "I'm not sure what it is but there's something about you that makes me believe you can do anything"

"You have that same thing too" Rogue said with a smile.

Seeing her cheer up made Dean happy, "I may not be with you right now, but if you ever need someone to lean on. I'll always be there" he promised.

"I'm gonna hold you to that" Rogue warned him.

"I'm fine with that. By the way you were still fighting wrong" Dean reminded her.

"Ok explain to me how I was fighting wrong?" Rogue asked crossing her arms.

"Alright, kick that bag" Dean said pointing to the sliding bag.

"Fine then" Rogue stepped back to give herself some room before giving the bag a hard-left kick sending it sliding to the other side.

Dean went to the other side, "That was a good kick, but you're still doing it wrong"

"Ok then, show me how it's done expert" Rogue said backing away.

Dean entered his stance and sent a powerful right kick to the bag with explosive sound but it didn't move an inch. He turned the bag around to show the spot where he hit it. The hit had created a small hole and a tiny bit of sand was pouring out of it.

Rogue's jaw dropped.

"Now would you rather push your opponent or finish your opponent?" Dean asked referring to the break in the bag.

Rogue went closer and inspected it, "You literally made a hole just by kicking it, and this was my favorite one"

"Don't worry about the bag, a little duct tape will fix that up" Dean said, "But the power of the kick itself needs to be precise and needs to be focused. And just a reminder, I barely used any real power. A normal trained person could do this" he walked out.

Rogue grabbed her stuff and followed him, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to use the gravity simulator" Dean said.

"Forge finished it?" Rogue asked.

"Yeah, we tested it out before. Really put a strain on me, Logan even advised me not to use it alone" Dean said.

Rogue nodded, "So what you're saying is you need my help" she said with a smirk.

"I don't need anyone's help" Dean said proudly.

"Well according to Logan, you do" Rogue said.

"If you want to help that's fine, I don't mind" They made their way into the Danger room and Dean showed her how to operate the simulation.

"So I put it to 5x earth's gravity right?" Rogue asked.

"Yeah, and only shut it off if I pass out ok?" Dean replied.

"Ok, I'm turning it on" Rogue turned it on and there was a rumble inside the Danger room.

Dean prepared himself for the weight.

When the weight hit him it felt slightly easier than last time but still difficult. He stood up straight and slowly lifted his foot to take a step. His foot touched the floor CLACK. Then the other foot CLACK. He went to lift his foot again but he started to struggle, he lost his balance and dropped to the floor. He tried to get up but the weight was too much.

Rogue saw the struggle on Dean's face. She immediately shut it off and ran inside the danger room.

Rogue helped him up and noticed how heavy he was for the first time and that this was the first time she's ever seen him sweat.

Dean looked at her panting, "Go back...and turn it on"

"There's no way I'm turning that thing on again, your exhausted" Rogue argued.

"I can still go—"

"Bullshit, now move your ass" Rogue said sternly.

Dean made a sort of growl noise and then started walking slowly. How the hell is this girl bossing him around?

'He spends too much time with Logan' Rogue thought.

Author's note: Ah that's too bad for Rogue, the two of them would have been perfect. Although we never know that the future holds ;)