Note: Guten Tag is German for hello
Amigo is Spanish for male friend
Nina is Spanish for little girl
Perra is Spanish for bitch
Adios is Spanish for good bye
Monsieur is French for mister or sir
Cher is French for dear
Hola is Spanish for hello
Chica is Spanish for girl
Gracias is Spanish for thankyou
- I want to thank all my loyal readers for encouraging me to keep this series going.
Rogue and Gambit went to the boathouse. Jean Grey was on the couch reading. Gambit knocked on the door.
"Come in!", Jean yelled. Gambit and Rogue walked in.
"What's wrong?", Jean asked looking up from Little Women. It was one of her favorite books.
"I need yah to find somethin' fo' me in mah head", Rogue said sitting down.
"What exactly?", Jean asked.
"Mah family. I saw 'em in mah dreams. Remy said I could see yah since yah a telepath and yah could find 'em fo' me", Rogue said.
"Well all right", Jean said. She positioned herself so that she sat directly across from Rogue. The women sat there for a moment staring at each other as Jean worked her way into Rogue's mind. Then at about the same time their eyes closed.
Gambit watched on in curiosity.
Rogue and Jean stood in a hallway. One door was faint and barely visible.
"I think dats it", Rogue said walking over slowly to the faint door.
Jean looked for a doorknob. There wasn't one so she used telekinetic force. It slowly opened. There was a bright light coming from the door.
"I guess this is mah chil'hood", Rogue said and stepped into the doorway. Jean followed close behind.
"This is dah fam'ly picnic. I saw it in mah dream", Rogue said. Jean nodded and watched the scene.
3 little girls chased each other around. 2 of them had auburn hair and green eyes. The other one had black hair and blue hair. All of them had on green floral printed sun dresses and green sandals. The oldest one, the one with black hair and blue eyes suddenly stopped running. She looked into the deep savannah.
"It's someone out 'der mama", the girl said. "Probably jus' a jackrabbit Macy", the mother said from the picnic basket but she got up nervously anyway to look. "I'm gonna go look mama", Macy said and disappeared into the savannah.
"I'm goin' to sleep" Christina said and went over to the picnic blanket and laid down.
"I'm goin' into dah savannah", the youngest girl said. "Dats me", Rogue said.
"Denise be careful", the mother warned. Denise nodded and went into the savannah.
"After dat Mystique took me", Rogue said.
Suddenly the two women were jerked roughly out the memory and into the hallway again. The door to this memory slammed shut and vanished.
"What happened?", Rogue asked. "We weren't supposed to see that memory", Jean said.
Then 7 more doors appeared in the hallway.
"Better go see those before they disappear to", Jean said. She went to the first door and used her telekinesis to open it.
Rogue gasped soon after the two women entered the room. "Dats me with Mystique".
An auburn haired little girl of about 6 or 7 years old was at a bedside. Two old women were also there. Mystique (in her true form) was in a bed holding a bundle wrapped in a blanket. She looked like she was really tired. One of the old women had a heavy German accent.
"Vhat vill you name him Raven?", the old women asked.
"Kurt. He will have his father's last name: Wagner", Mystique answered.
"Kurt Wagner's a proud name", the other old woman said.
"Can I hold him Raven?", the auburn haired little girl said.
Mystique looked at the two old women. They both nodded.
"All right but you must not get attached Rogue. Be careful with Kurt", Mystique said. She gently handed the bundle to Rogue. "Elevate his head Rogue", Mystique said.
Rogue looked down at the baby. It had blue skin and yellow eyes just like Mystique. Rogue smiled at the baby and it smiled back. Rogue gave the baby her pointer finger expecting it to wrap it's tiny hand around her finger but instead something else from under the blanket grabbed her finger. The baby laughed. Rogue peeked under the blanket and was shocked to see a tail.
"Raven, Kurt got a tail!", Rogue said.
Ssssssssh Rogue. Me and Helga have some things to discuss. So Helga you'll take Kurt with you to Germany?", Mystique said.
"Yes", Helga said.
"What exactly will you do with him?", Mystique answered.
"Put him somevhere he'll be safe. People vill come to accept him", Helga said.
"Well hopefully he'll be happy wherever you take him. You can proceed to take him. I'll come back for him when I need him", Mystique said and laid back on her bed and closed her eyes. The other old woman put a warm cloth on Mystique's forehead.
Helga walked over to Rogue. "Guten Tag Kurt", Helga said taking Kurt from Rogue and then she left. Rogue watched Helga leave with Kurt.
"Why'd she take Kurt?", Rogue asked. "Because Rogue, Kurt won't be accepted here in America", Mystique said with her eyes closed.
Again Jean and Rogue were yanked out of the memory and the door slammed shut and vanished.
"Lets try this one", Rogue said. She went to the next door. Suprisingly this one had a doorknob. Rogue turned it and went in. Jean was behind her.
Mystique in her true form was sitting in a doctor's laboratory. An auburn haired girl was lying on an examination table unconscious. She'd obviously been knocked out by drugs. She looked about 8 or 9 years old. Just then a gray haired male doctor enters the office. He greets Mystique not at all shocked by her appearance. Then he walks over to the girl.
"So what is it for this time Raven?", the doctor asked. "One of your infamous brain surgeries Tracey. I don't want her to remember anything before she became mine", Mystique said. "For what purpose?", the doctor asked. "You know for what purpose Tracey", Mystique said then she picked up a People magazine and started flipping through the magazine.
The doctor started cutting the auburn haired girl's hair until it was close to her scalp. Then he got a razor and shaved off the remaining hair. The auburn hair was now lying in three scattered piles on the floor. Then the doctor got a Kleenex tissue. He poured rubbing alcohol on it and then wiped it on the girl's head. Then the doctor picked up a scalpel. Then the memory flashed forward.
The girl from the operation table was now in front of a mirror. She was looking at her bald head and the stitches. A tear slowly came down her right cheek. Mystique walked in then.
"Rogue your hair will grow back", Mystique said obviously annoyed.
Rogue turned to Mystique. Her green eyes were narrowed in anger. "Why'd yah do this ta me?", Rogue said.
"It's for your own good Rogue. Everything I do is for your benefit Rogue. Uh..by the way do you know your other name?", Mystique asked.
"What'cha talkin' 'bout. Rogue's da only name I evah had", Rogue said turning back to the mirror. Mystique smiled. "See everything I do is for your benefit", she said and left.
The memory just disappeared and the two women found themselves back in the hallway of Rogue's memory.
"Lets try this one", Rogue said and turned the doorknob and went in.
"Dats Cody! Da first boy who eva kissed me!", Rogue said. She didn't want to see this memory but she had to know more about her past.
"Cody! Cody! Cody wake up!", an auburn haired girl said. She leaned over a convulsing Cody who was lying on the grass.
"Rogue what happened?", Mystique said from a second floor window.
Rogue didn't answer. She sank to her knees with tears streaming down her face.
"She absorbed Cody's powers Victor", Mystique said turning to Victor who was leaning on the doorway smoking a cigar.
"Kill the little bitch", was all Victor said. "No Victor! She has many things to learn. Go take Cody to our doctor. Don't touch Rogue", Mystique said. Victor grumbled but left to do what Mystique said.
"Lets go to another memory. We're about to be yanked out anyway", Jean said. "Okay", Rogue agreed. After they left the memory the door vanished.
Again there was a doorknob. Rogue turned it and walked in.
Macy, Christina, and Rogue's mother were sitting on a bed crying.
"Will we evah see Denise again mama?", Macy, the oldest, asked.
"I don' know", Rogue's mother sobbed.
"Who was dat blue lady I saw Denise wit'", Macy asked.
"You saw her?", Rogue's mother asked suddenly focusing all her attention on Macy now.
"Yea'. She took Denise wit' her didn't she?", Macy asked.
"Dats none of yah concern Macy", Rogue's mother said.
"She did. Yah jus' don' wanna tell me!", Macy said.
"Go to yah room Macy!", Rogue's mother yelled.
"Yah know why dat blue lady took Denise and everythang mama! Yah do!", Macy said and climbed off the bed and left the room.
"I miss Denise mama", Christina said.
Rogue's mother hugged Christina closer to her and continued sobbing. Just then Rogue's father came into the room.
"Cassie ah can' believe yah let Raven take Denise. Ah mean don' yah remember da nightmare Raven put yah through?", Rogue's father said.
"Denise will have powahs she won' be able to control", Cassie said."Hopefully Raven's takin' care of Denise".
"Yea....hopefully. I'm goin' out don' wait up", Rogue's father said and left the room. He couldn't take it anymore. His youngest daughter with one of the coldest and most manipulative human beings on the planet. It was bad enough that Raven now had legal custody of Denise or Rogue Darklholme as she was now known.
Suddenly the memory disappeared. The two women were in a pure white room and there was one door left. The two women slowly walked to the door. As they approached the door slowly opened on it's own apparently.
They stepped inside the door and found themselves in a smoke filled bar. The bartenders were all female and were dancing on the bar counter. All the people in the bar were talking but Jean and Rogue could only hear the conversation of two men who were playing pool.
"So amigo how ya want me to get your nina?", the dark haired man said. He was obviously of Spanish heritage.
"Denise or Rogue ain' a lil' girl. She shoul' be 16 by now", the other man said with a distinct Southern accent.
"I think that's your father Rogue", Jean whispered. Rogue nodded.
"Okay how do yah want me to get Rogue from that perra?", the dark haired man said.
"Go up to Marylan'. Take Roxy with you. Get Roxy to befrien' Rogue and lure her out of dat place. Mystique's poisonin' her mind now as we speak. Do yah know Cassie still has nightmares cuz of Mystique?", the man with the Southern accent said.
"Poor thing. Well we bettah hope we save Rogue soon", the dark haired man said.
"I'll give yah 30 grand fo' savin' Rogue and I'll give yah a months time", the Southern man said.
"Deal amigo. Well adios I got a pregnant girlfriend at home", the dark haired man said and left.
Suddenly the room cleared until it was pure white and then another door appeared.
As the two women approached the door opened on it's own. They cautiously stepped into the door.
A slim young woman with long strawberry blonde hair and the dark haired man from the bar stood outside a fuse box. The young woman held the flashlight.
Rogue woulda recognized those sapphire eyes from anywhere.
"Roxy!", Rogue said. "You know her?", Jean asked.
"She was my only friend while at Marylan'. I had a very sheltahd life fo' years", Rogue said.
The man picked at the fuse box until the building they were near went completely dark. The house now blended in with the nighttime.
"We've accomplished it Gonzalez", Roxy said with a French accent.
"Roxy go find Rogue. I'll stop Sabretooth, Mystique, an' Destiny, the dark haired man-Gonzalez-said.
"On it monsieur", Roxy said and ran off into the darkness. The man watched after her for awhile and then ran off into an opposite direction. As soon as the man entered the building he got a call on his cell phone.
"Hola?", the man said.
"Gonzalez I've entered de building. I'm proceeding to Rogue's bedroom. We'll meet you outside by de fuse box. Bye," Roxy said and hung up.
She ran over to the staircase and went upstairs. She'd spent enough time here when Mystique wasn't around and Destiny wasn't baby-sitting Rogue to scope out the place. She knew this place like the back of her hand and she truly did enjoy her time spent with Rogue.
"I'm almost 'dere", Roxy thought to herself. She stopped outside Rogue's bedroom door and knocked softly.
Suddenly she heard a noise behind her.
Gonzalez threw open Mystique's bedroom door. His AK-47 in his hand. He quickly sweeped his flashlight across the room. Mystique or Sabretooth or Destiny weren't in the room.
Gonzalez picked up his cell phone. He dialed Roxy's cell phone. He had to warn her.
"Rogue what are you doing out here?", Roxy asked.
"I wanted some watah. What'cha doin' here?", Rogue said.
"Uh...we're getting you out of here. Mystique's poisonin' your mind", Roxy said.
"No..I wanna stay", Rogue said.
"Why cher?", Roxy asked.
"She takes care of me", Rogue said.
"You have a real family down south who cares for you. That's why I'm here. To take you to them. Me and my friend Gonzalez will you take you to them. Follow me", Roxy said. Rogue looked like she was considering it when suddenly she gasped.
"I don' think so girlie", a gruff voice said from inside Rogue's room. Rogue backed away as a clawed hand grabbed Roxy into Rogue's room. Rogue backed away as the clawed hand grabbed Roxy into the room.
There was no answer on Roxy's cell phone.
"Oh my god", Gonzalez said. He went up the same staircase that Roxy had.
Rogue was backing away from her bedroom when she bumped into Gonzalez. She whipped around.
"Who 'r you?", she asked. "A friend of your papa's nina. My name's Gonzalez. Do you remember your father?", Gonzalez said. Rogue thought for a second. "I don' think so", Rogue said after a moment.
"Have ya seen Roxy?", Gonzalez said. Rogue pointed to her bedroom door. "Gracias. Could you go downstairs to the kitchen and wait for me?", Gonzalez said. "No I gotta go to Mystique", Rogue said being extra careful to not run into Gonzalez. He wanted to stop her but he knew what her mutant power was. Why was she so loyal to somebody who's only using her? Gonzalez thought to himself.
Gonzalez remembered Roxy and went to Rogue's bedroom. He slowly opened the door and peeked inside. It was deathly silent.
Roxy? Chica?", Gonzalez said softly. Then he saw it, a figure lying motionless the floor. He walked over to it slowly.
The figure had no clothes on the bottom part of the figure and what was left of the shirt was ripped. A large bloody gash was on her stomach and she was lying in a pool of her own blood.
Gonzalez covered his mouth and backed away. "Oh....Roxy", he said. He had considered Roxy a little sister. Suddenly a clawed hand reached from behind Gonzalez and pulled him into the shadows. Then there were sounds of a struggle.
Rogue watched from the doorway with her hands over mouth to keep from screaming or throwing up. Mystique stood next to her.
"Thats what happens when somebody tries to take you from me", Mystique said smiling.
Suddenly the memory disappeared and another one appeared in it's place.
A figure wearing all black with long auburn hair with a white streak down the middle of it walked down a path in a park.
The girl had her head down but occasionally would glance over her shoulder. It was obvious she was talking to herself.
Can' believe I'm even thinkin' 'bout this. I mean 'da guy thinks I'm his enemy and I wanna to go to him fo' help? I mean I absorbed 'da all powerful Ms. Marvel's powers 4 years ago but I still feel her in mah head and dey considered Ms. Marvel a friend. 'Da X guy an' his groupies hate mah guts. No way they'll help me. Maybe if I beg they'll help me cuz I can' control control mah powers and I can' trust Mystique. She used me fo' 14 years. Glad I finally escaped her but now where can I go? I don' remember my real family. If I got one. But at 'da X guy's school all 'da children seem so happy and peaceful. 'Dey done found a place where 'dey are safe and can use 'der powers freely. Unless da smiles are fake. Maybe dey know I'm 'dere and 'r just actin' when I come to watch. How can 'da group of da most hated children in da world be so happy when so many people hate 'dem? Do 'dey know or care or maybe da school makes 'dem happy. I mean it's bad enough 'dat 'dere kids an' people hate 'em but 'dey go 'round dat school like 'dey in da Brady Bunch or somethin'. I'm gonna go watch 'da school again.
By now the girl has reached the end of the park path. She crossed the street and got on a public bus that came a few moments later.
"That was the day I went to Xavier fo' help", Rogue said.
"I think it's time to leave Rogue. There's no more memories of this in your head", Jean said. Rogue nodded. Jean closed her eyes and in a few minutes Rogue and Jean were back sitting in the boathouse.
"Rogue I have good news for you. We can help you find your family. I saw their names in your memory. Your sisters names are Macy and Christina, and your parents name's are Cassie and Henry. We'll help you find your family", Jean said.
"How soon can we find 'em!", Rogue said.
"In a few hours. I can also find a way to contact them if you want to contact them", Jean said.
"I'll have ta think about 'dat", Rogue said.
Just then Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops walked in.
"Morning everybody", Scott said.
"Cyke I can see mah real family. Jean found 'em", Rogue said.
"Thats great Rogue. You deserve to see your real family after all these years", Scott said and left.
"Thanks Cyke", Rogue called after him.
"Oh before I leave Rogue I saw your real name. It's Denise. I'm going to see Charles and we'll find your family. I promise", Jean said and left.
"Denise. Dats a pretty name but Rogue'll define yo' mysterious smile an' eyes forever", Gambit said.
"Gambit I forgot you was 'dere. Yah really like my name sugah? It sound so unfamiliar to me", Rogue said.
"Yea' its a beautiful name cher", Gambit said. "Matches yah perfectly".