Chapter 10
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"Well done, Mystique," Magneto complemented the woman behind him, studying Kurt and Ororo, who were tied up by thick rope. Though Nightcrawler was unconscious, his head drooped against his narrow chest, Storm was awake, glaring at them and struggling to free herself of the old rag they were gagging her with.
Darkholme smiled and was about to reply when Magnus cut her off.
"Still, the boy is your-," he started.
"It doesn't matter. As you said, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs," she responded coldly, her blue face as blank as stone.
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"What would they want with Kurt and Ororo?" Logan asked, folding his arms across his broad chest and watching Xavier.
"I am not sure. Nor do I know where they are."
"Cerebro isn't picking 'em up?"
"No. And I am not sure why," the professor said, moving across the room in his wheelchair. Wolverine followed, his bushy eyebrows knitted in worry.
"Then how are we gonna find 'em?"
"I think I know someone who can help us," Xavier told him, pressing the button on his intercom and leaning over it to speak. "Ms. Cotrez?"
"Yes?" The biology teacher answered.
"Could you please send Marie to the office?"
"Right away."
As Xavier was turning off the intercom, Logan raised one black eyebrow.
"What do ya want with Rogue?"
"I believe she can help us find the Brotherhood, since she absorbed some of Aileen's memories."
"Uh-huh. And what if she can't?"
"Then I don't know what we will do," the professor grimly admitted. There was a soft knock on the oak door, and Xavier told the person to let him or herself in. It was Marie, trying to look calm, though the way she nervously tugged at her emerald green shirt told otherwise.
"Um, am Ah in trouble?" She asked, looking defiant yet frightened.
"No, of course not. Sit down," the professor said soothingly, gesturing to a nearby bench, "we think you can help us find Ororo and Kurt."
"How can Ah do that?"
"The memories that you absorbed from Aileen-,"
They both noticed Marie's uneasiness when he said this.
"What is it, Marie?" the professor inquired.
"It's jus', well, since Ah absorbed her memories, Ah can't sleep at night."
"Why?"
"Ah keep seeing shadowy images, of people hurtin' me, and Ah'm so scared." Marie seemed embarrassed to be confessing this to Logan and Xavier. They looked at each other as Rogue lowered her head, rather shamefully.
"But Ah want to help them," she whispered.
"You do not have to," the professor said.
"No. Kurt is mah-mah friend. An' Ah saw wha' they were plannin' to do to him."
The professor wheeled closer to her.
"What are they planning to do?"
"They-they's gonna use him as a martyr, and broadcast it everywhere. Ah don't know why Ororo's there, but Ah think they jus' had to get her outta the way."
"Good Lord," Xavier gasped, "Do you know where they are?"
"Yeah, Ah think so."