Disclaimer: I do not owe any of these characters or anything... blah blah... I am not making money off this, it is merely for fun and bordem.
Figured to write with a third main character as the perspective. This time it's Rogue. Yes Kurt's in it, again..., but I mean for the main idea to be on Rogue and her troubles. I know all about the Rogue-Kurt paring wars that have been going on and this is merely my take on it, don't dismember if you disagree. Please! To me Kurt and Rogue just have a close friendly relationship, and they both know there is something more between them, something like brother/sister. Just my take. Bombs away to riping apart my story!
It was late into the night when Kitty awoke from her sleep. She peeked at the alarm clock next to her bed, and to her surprise the red lights only showing off 2:48 in the morning. The room was still pitch black, save for the few streaks of light that snuck itself into the room by the window. Reality was coming back to her... why was she awake. What happened? Then it hit her. Rogue, her roommate was tossing and turning all over her bed, screaming in rage and fear, all at the same moment.
Kitty's upset at being woken so early in the morning was lost on her friend. She hurried to her feet trying to get to Rogue and wake her from the nightmare. She cursed under her breath as she stubbed her toe on Rogue's big clunky shoes in the way that hid in the darkness of the room. "Rogue! Rogue, wake up," Kitty called shaking her friend harshly trying to bring her back into consciousness.
Rogue shot up in her bed to a sitting position, so quick in fact that she smacked her forehead right against Kitty's. Rogue's breath was heavy as she tried to catch herself again, however it wasn't working very fast.
"Ouch..." Kitty was rubbing her face... "that was fast. Are you alright?"
"I.... I...." Rogue was trembling all over, she pulled her hands over her face, tears flooding her eyes and dripping down her cheeks. She curled in a ball, trying to gather her thoughts and bring herself together.
"Rogue... Rogue listen to me..." Kitty tried to calm her roommate down, "it's just a nightmare... just a really bad nightmare. It's okay now, you're back to the real world now." Rogue gasped in breath, finally taking control of herself.
"You're right... back in the real world."
"What's so troubling? How was the dream hurting you?" Kitty was hoping these words would help Rogue out into letting her emotions out.
"Nothing! Nothing you can help with. Why don't you just go back to sleep?" Rogue snapped back at her. "Geez... alright. Sorry for helping," Kitty stormed back to her bed and tried to fall back asleep. Eventually she did, however her roommate stayed wide wake. Thoughts raced through her head faster than she could catch them. What was wrong with her?
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The next morning came much too early to everyone, especially to Rogue. She was never able to get back to sleep and crawled out of bed even before her alarm went off. School was still a few hours away but it didn't matter to her. The world was a blur to her as she crept quietly out of her room, trying not to wake the sleeping Kitty, feeling that she had already done enough damage to her roommate for the night. Rogue snuck downstairs to the kitchen, it's linoleum floor a little cold to her bare feet, but she was too out of it and tired to care. A few scoops of the coffee mix into the machine and a few minutes later, presto! She sat, with one hand firmly grasping the mug of coffee, the other hand resting on her face, trying to keep her head up as the morning just blurred on.
In a flash of purple smoke Kurt appeared right in Rogue's face upside-down, his tail grasping a light from the ceiling leaving him hanging. Rogue jumped with fright, Kurt's appearance being the absolute last thing that she thought would happen, especially this early in the morning. "Good morning!" Kurt roared, a broad smile filling up his face.
"Gah Kurt! Don't do that, you scared the bejebbies out o' me!" Rogue screamed at him in a rage. She took one last sip of her coffee before getting up and slamming it down in the sink, then disappearing from the room.
Kurt was just left hanging wondering what happened, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be the cause of anyzing."
"It's alright Kurt, she was like that last night too." To Kurt's surprise Kitty walked into the room with a yawn going to the frige and pouring herself a glass of orange juice. "She woke me up last night screaming about something in her dreams again."
"I'm sorry if it is her dream about me as a child again Keety," Kurt kept a sly grin while still hanging upside-down. Quite a sight to see, especially early in the morning.
"I don't know, I doubt it though. Anyone who'd be having dreams about you for this long would probably have been locked up in a loony bin by now," Kitty mocked him with a laugh. Kurt didn't take too much enjoyment to the comment and resulted to retreating by sticking his tongue out at her childishly. This brought another laugh from Kitty. "By the way Elf, it's not like you to be up so early. To what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Vell vhat about yourself? Trying to kill the oranges while they are still hibernating?" Kurt retorted.
Kitty kept her giggle taking another sip of her juice. "Well since you're never up this early to notice, I'm usually up at this time." She walked past where he was hanging upside-down and gave him a cute pinch on the cheek and left out the kitchen. Kurt gave her another tonguing, this time with added hands wiggling before he teleported off.
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Rogue's day just wasn't any better. It wasn't that things just got worse and worse, but that her mind kept falling into decay and wouldn't notice anything around her. She had gotten through many of her classes without really knowing it, the images from the night before still plaguing her mind. She had seen them so many times over the past months, but they kept growing in length. Whenever she thought they were at an end and couldn't possibly go any farther, they did. There was something more in that castle in Germany that anyone really knew. It still bothered her to the point of insanity. It wouldn't leave her alone, it kept with her throughout the day, it even showed all the faces and haunting.... KURT!
"Rogue... hey.... slow down," Kurt's voice tried to calm her down in the halls passing between classes. "You look terrible like something has been bugging you."
"I'm fine fuzz ball, just leave me alone!" Rogue's voice was harsh as she brushed past him and took off down the halls. She couldn't help but clutch her head as the images kept forcing themselves into her mind. She couldn't help it.
The images kept haunting her into the night. The same thing. The castle, the cloaked lady, the baby, the wolves, the crying.....
She shot back up in her bed again, sweat dripping off her face... or was it tears again? Again she was breathing heavily trying to calm herself. Her instinct took her to the clock that displayed 3:46 in bright red numbers. She glanced at Kitty who was still asleep, luckily. Rogue grabbed her head again, trying to get the visions from her head but no luck. She couldn't stand it! These had to end and there was only one thing that she could do. It was off to Germany to find this castle somewhere. There had to be answers there, there just had to be.
Within the hour she was already awake and in the garage of the X-men. She had already picked the lock and stolen the keys to one of the old cars that just sit around and collect dust. However she needed one last night, the castle's location.
It was still pitch black, however the sun would soon start to rise. The only light that shown upon Rogue's face was that of a small computer monitor in the blackbird that listed the log of the plane. Mississippi, the time the X-men came to try and recruit her; British Columbia, there's the time Logan took off to that lab from the news; here it was! The castle in German, Logan had flown there during Kurt's whole terbacle with her dreams. Last she knew, the castle was set off and exploded upon Logan's entrance. In a hurry Rogue scribbled down the coordinates and rushed to the car, trying to turn the engine that hadn't been started in months.
"Com'on you stupid thing, before anyone wakes up," she cursed. She tried again, this time it finally turning and starting up. However before she could give thanks, a cloud of purple smoke exploded in the passenger seat, and once cleared, showed Kurt in his battle suit grinning mischievously.
"And just vhere might ve be going? On a mid-night stroll?"
"Kurt! Just get the hell out of here! Leave me alone for once will you?!" Rogue just wouldn't let anything get in her way. Friend or not. Kurt however snatched the paper with the coordinates.
"Germany huh? Castle? You'll certainly need a guide on your trip and no one knows zhe place like I do." Kurt offered her another smile.
"I don't need you're help, just get out of here before I throw you out!" The rage inside Rogue exploded. She wanted these visions out of her head and she didn't care who stood in her way.
"Vell, the vay I see it," Kurt's smile became even more sly with his hint of proposition, "you're not supposed to be taking off. So I guess your stuck huh? That is of course unless you take me vith you and now so I don't have zhe chance to go vake anyone else up and alert them to vhat you are doing." Kurt gave her a friendly wink that just aggravated Rogue even more.
"You are such a jerk!" she screamed in rage, slamming her foot on the accelerator and taking off in the car, with Kurt in the passenger seat, bombing through the streets of Bayville. "Why do you even want to come along? You don't even know what I am doing."
"Vell someone has to keep an eye out for you, besides vhich I owe you vone," Kurt leaned back in the car seat, reclining and relaxing.
"Owe me one? for what?"
"The vay you helped me get over the whole Mystique thing, besides vhich, this still involves the dream so it still involved me. It's my turn to help you get over your nightmares," Kurt replied.
Rogue turned her head at him for a moment before returning her eyes to the road. "And how do you know that this is about my dreams and about you in them?" Rogue was very surprised to hear Kurt know almost exactly why she was running.
"Vell those are zhe coordinate for zhe castle in your dreams, am I correct?" Kurt asked inquisitively.
This time it was Rogue's chance for questions. "This is merely longitude and latitude numbers, how do you know that they are for this castle in Germany? Even if you are from there, I'm sure you don't know the exact numbers for this place, especially if you don't remember it ever besides my dreams."
This caught Kurt off guard and left him reeling for answers. "Er... umm...." Kurt knew that he was busted.
It then suddenly all hit Rogue and she got it. "You knew the coordinates because you snuck onto the blackbird too and look at them. In fact you've got them memorized because this paper doesn't even say anything about a castle, just has numbers."
Kurt knew that he was caught and didn't answer, he just turned his face to look out the window. The sun was starting to peer it's way over the horizon and the first streaks of light broke itself into the world. The car kept going down the freeway towards New York City and the airport. Germany was only a plane ride away.
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