Lance's POV

I glared at the X-Men as they retreated into they're precious X-Van. Shadowcat glanced back at me. Our eyes clicked and she got into the van. For once I didn't feel bad about what I did to her. I looked and saw Pietro still had his arm around Rogue. "I'll be in my room." I said walking up the stairs.

I went over to my bed after I shut my door and fell backwards on to it. Folding my arms I put them behind my head. Things were getting complicated and all I could think about was Rogue. She has my memories in her mind and it was probably killing her. I didn't mean to inflict harm onto her, but she needed to know the truth. There was a knock at my door. "Go away!"

I heard the doorknob turn and the door open. "I'm warning you." I said starting to get up but stopped when I saw who it was.

"Are ya still goin` ta warn me?"

"No, um.. come on in and shut the door behind you." I said sitting up in my bed now.

She did what I asked and walked over and sat on my bed with me. "Are ya okay?"

"Yea, I'm fine."

She looked and saw the photo album. "Mahne's somewhere in mah room at tha Institute."

"Well, feel free to look at it. We have almost the same pictures in it." I said handing it to her.

We flipped through the photo album and laughed at the pictures. "I'm sorry."

"What `bout?"

"Touching your skin. I just thought you needed to know the truth."

Rogue shut the album and touched the side of my face with her gloved hand. "It's okay, Lance. Ah think ah always knew some where deep down insahde of me dat ya lahked me, but ya were always with Kitty so ah kind of vetoed it."

Rogue's POV

I didn't know what else to tell him. I did know that I wanted to kiss him, but if I did I would hurt him again and I seriously didn't want that. "Hey don't worry about it Roguey." He said calling me my nickname. He was the only one I ever let call me that. Okay well once in a while Pietro, but mostly Lance.

"So what do we do now?" I asked him finding that I was completely clueless.

"Well, I would defiantly kiss you, but wait until my strength comes back." He said chuckling.

"Ya would?"

"Yea, I would." He said taking my one hand and kissed me fingers and moved my fingers to my lips. I didn't know how to react to that either. It was a kiss, but it wasn't a kiss you know. But it was nice. "So Pietro an` ya fightin` over me?"

Lance chuckled. "Where did you ever hear that?"

"From Tabitha."

"That annoying nuisance."

I laughed. "Ya never answered mah question."

"Maybe we are and maybe we aren't."

"No teasin` Lance."

Pietro's POV

I was leaning against Lance's door listening to Rogue and Lance talk. One more second of Lance stealing my girl away from me and I was going to burst in there and kill him. I saw Tabitha coming up the stairs and dashed into my room. No was in hell I was going to be caught. I was trying to think of ways to get Rogue to like me and not Lance.

Fake flowers were defiantly on my list, but not the plastic type. Those really suck so I was thinking silk. Maybe I could buy her some new gloves, she could always use them. And with my speed I could get it for free, both of them, but it wouldn't really be symbolic towards her. I thought some more. If I used my speed to kiss Rogue I could make it quick enough for her not to drain my powers. I defiantly needed some more research on it first."