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CH. 1 – ROAD TRIP!
It had been
over a year since Logan left and six months since he returned. Since returning, Logan took Marie under his
wing and trained her in preparation for her hopeful promotion up to the big
team with Jean, Scott, Logan and Ororo.
She was well skilled in hand-to-hand combat, mental endurance and power
control for use against the X-Men's enemies.
To him, it was like a master teaching a pupil the art of
improvement. To Marie, it was more time
to spend with the man she had a crush on.
She enjoyed the time she spent with him. And of course, she still attended school, although she was close
to graduating from the high school program of Xavier's school.
One day in
early March, Marie had a particularly stressful day. Scott had been unmerciful with US History and calculus had been
horrible with Ororo. She couldn't wait
for Spring Break in a few weeks. She
wanted to take her car out for a long drive on the roads of Westchester. She had saved up months for her new forest
green Honda Civic with the vanity plates "ROGUE 1." It was the envy of all the students. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. It was Logan.
"Hey
darlin.' Heard about your day today
from Scott and Ororo. You OK?"
"Yeah, ahm
just over school. Ah want Spring Break
to be here so bad. But I got a few more
weeks to go. My brain is beyond
scrambled and fried. And ah really
wanna drive mah new car. It's sitting
in the car so sad lookin' from me not bein able to drive it. Ah wanna go somewhere!"
"Then how
'bout you and me go now darlin.'" She
gazed that "yeah right" look in his direction.
"You've got
to be jokin' sugah. You know the
professor won't let me go anywhere, and especially that vindictive Scott
Summers. He's ruthless."
"What if I
talked to them all, Chuck, 'Ro and ole One Eye and cleared it with them
all?" Marie gasped.
"You mean…"
"How about
the biggest party city in the world?"
She looked confused. "You, me,
and Mardi Gras in New Orleans." She had
a stunned look on her face. "Actually,
we're takin' a cultural trip to examine the historical side of the Big
Easy. Just at the same time as Mardi
Gras." A grin spread across his
face. "However, Rogue," the smile quickly
faded. "The main condition of your
going from Mr. Biggus Dickus Scott Summers himself wants a four page paper on
some historical aspect of New Orleans.
But I'm sure we can squeeze that into our four day vacation…"
Jubilee
giggled. "So you are actually cutting
class with Logan to go to New Orleans???"
She was against the idea of her hooking up with Logan. Kitty was smiling, as Marie was packing for
her trip.
"I'm happy
for you Marie. Maybe you'll meet someone nice down there. Enjoy your time off." She looked at Jubes, and Jubes grin spread
across her face. She grabbed Marie by
the hand, carefully, and stopped her.
"Now Marie,
you have to promise us one thing."
"What is
it?"
"PROMISE
FIRST!"
"Fine. What is it?"
"Marie, you HAVE to get us
some Mardi Gras beads." A look of
horror appeared on Marie's face.
"Oh
no. OHHHHHH NO. Jubes, I…"
Jubilee's glare equaled death if Rogue did not go along. "Ok, Ok. FINE." Kitty and Jubes laughed heartily as Rogue continued packing.
"Better
leave your bras at home!" Kitty joked.
"Shut up."
Said Marie.
Marie woke
up early and got ready for her long car trip ahead to New Orleans. Logan would
be doing most of the driving since his healing factor could make up for lack of
sleep. Scott and Xavier watched over
them as they loaded their luggage into the car.
"Remember
your assignment Ms. Rogue." He offered
her a hug. "And enjoy yourself and be
careful down there."
"Ah think
that a Southern belle can handle herself; especially with Logan." Xavier answered that comment.
"You two
have decided to go down at a very wild, crazy and unpredictable time of year
for New Orleans. Enjoy yourselves, but
be careful."
"We will
professor." Marie then opened the
driver side door, and Logan took shotgun.
She carefully drove out onto Greymulkin Lane during a late season
snowstorm. Marie drove through
Westchester, headed for the New Your Throughway.
They drove
through nine states and passed by cities from Trenton, NJ to Pascagoula,
Mississippi until they crossed Lake Ponchartrain leading to New Orleans. Logan gently nudged a sleeping Rogue.
"We're here
darlin.'" She awoke to see the pearl of
the Deep South, New Orleans, Louisiana.
When she was growing up in Mississippi, Marie had heard many tales of
the majesty of New Orleans. She
realized at that instant that all the stories were true. Logan drove on to the twin towers of the
Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Orleans.
Logan gave the keys to the valet and the bellhop offloaded their
luggage. Somehow, through his wonderful
powers of persuasion, Logan got them a room up on the top floor, offering a
beautiful view of the Crescent City. It
was truly a majestic symbol of the South and the Creoles that had been living
in the city for hundreds of years. They
slowly unpacked their bags.
"Well
darlin,' whaddya wanna do first?" Marie
really wanted to explore the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, but she was
after all there to "learn."
"Ah think
ahd like to go to the National D-day Museum to explore what Andrew Higgins
contributed to World War II and how he won the war for the Allies with his
small, flat bottomed amphibious landing craft." Logan's eyes shot up.
"Someone
did their homework…" He chuckled at that.
"Yeah. I think we should get the
painful part over first, then enjoy ourselves." They unfinished packing, then arm in arm, headed off to the
National D-day Museum.
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