Not another Rietro fic!

Chapter 3: Memories.

Disclaimer: I do not own Super soaker, Silly string or anything else that is copyrighted in this fan fic!

A/N: All right, now for update # 2! I'm on a roll here people!!! Hell, I might even do two chapters for this one. I've been dying to write but I haven't had the time so now I'm just gonna let it flow BIG TIME! Hope you like. ( Also, I apologize if this chapter is in a different format then usual, I was typing on a different computer. ~Rio~

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Rogue walked home that day, she had way to much to think about and didn't have time for Scott and Jean's lectures right then. What was she going to tell them? Hey guys, I'm going to go over to our sworn enemy's house and probably get into alot of trouble. I'll try to be back before next Monday? Yeah right! Wait why was she even trying to go spend time with the brotherhood?

Other then the fact that they're your family? a little voice said inside of her.

No they are not, the X-men are my family.

I don't think so. The voice sang.

Oh shut up! What do you know?

The same amount as you do I'm pretty sure.

Rogue scowled. Who knew that she would turn against herself so quickly? She sighed. Suddenly she stubbed her toe on a rock.

"Ow!" she cried. "Stupid rock." she hopped on one foot. "What am Ah gonna do?" she groaned.

"Well I don't know, hopping on one foot seems to help."

Rogue turned to see Evan on his skateboard.

"What's up Rogue?" He said, grinning like an idiot. Rogue scowled

"Whadya want Evan?" She sighed.

"Nothing, why do I need to want something in order to talk to you?"

Rogue just gave him a look.

"Alright, maybe a do have a purpose for being here." He admitted, "But I also wanted to just hang with you too."

"Uh huh, sure. Come on Evan just spit it out already would ya?"

Evan sighed. "Alright Rogue, what was up with you and Lance today?" "

Whadya mean?"

Well, uh, are you two..." Evan said uncomfortably. "A couple?" He finally asked. Rogue couldn't stop the smirk that crept onto her features.

"Sorry Evan, no juicy gossip for Kitty today. He didn't want a mutant exposed at the high school because then they might find him and the boys out so he helped me out of a jam, that's all."

Evan sighed. "That's good, I mean, I know it's your life and all but if Scott found out, damn girl, we'd all be in hell."

Rogue managed a smile and nodded. They walked in silence for a while.

"So, what was your problem?" Evan asked finally.

"What?" Rogue said, snapping out of deep thought.

"You know, the 'what am Ah gonna do?' thing."

"Oh that, Ah was just thinkin' 'bout this problem ah got right now."

"Need a good listener?" Evan asked.

"Ah dunno, ah wouldn't wanna upset ya or nothing."

Evan just shrugged. "Its not like you're going to go rejoin the brotherhood or anything." He said.

Rogue flinched and averted her gaze. Evan looked at her in disbelief. "Rogue?" he said quietly. Rogue refused to look at him and Evan finally grabbed her by the shoulders and gently turned her to face him. Her eyes were wet with tears. Evan didn't know what to do, he looked around frantically for someone, anyone to help him. But they were all alone, the only other thing in sight was a small memorial park. Evan spotted a bench.

"Come on Rogue." He said and he led her there and sat her down.

"Do you want to rejoin the brotherhood?" he asked fearfully.

"Ah don't know." Rogue blurted out, choking on her tears. "Ah know ah belong with y'all but sometimes ah lay in bed at night and ah wish so hard that ah could hear Todd playing video games with full blast volume in the next room or have my door blow open because Pietro decided to steal my underwear again. Ah miss being shaken awake at 3 a.m. because Freddie fell out of bed and almost took the whole house with him. Ah miss waking up to Lance groaning in the kitchen, pleading for coffee. Ah just miss them all so much!" Rogue hid her face in her hands and burst into tears all over again.

"Shh, it's okay Rogue." Evan soothed her, rubbing her back. He was confused as hell and had no clue what to do about this but Rogue was still his teammate and she needed his help right now, that was the most important thing right now. Finally Rogue gained control of herself and wiped her tears away. She took out a tissue and mirror from her bag and wiped away her running gothic makeup. She sighed and turned to Evan again.

"Ah guess ah gotta lot of explainin' to do?" She asked. Evan shook his head.

"I'm no psychologist; but I think you really want to talk about this. I'll call the institute and tell them we'll be a bit late coming home." Evan took a cell phone out of his backpack and dialed.

"Gutentag, Kurt zpeaking." Kurt's voice was slightly muffled and Evan guessed that his mouth was full of food.

"Yo Kurt man, what's up?"

"Hey Evan, nothing much, just fixing myself a mid-afternoon snack."

"Cool, anyway, Rogue and I are going to be a bit late coming home k?"

"Cool, I'll tell Scott, cya."

"Later man." Evan hung up and tossed his phone back into his bag. He sat back down beside Rogue. "Now then, where were we?"

"Ah dunno 'bout this Evan, ah mean, Ah know ya don't like the brotherhood and Ah don't wanna make ya uncomfortable or nothing like that." "Don't worry about it, I can stand listening to a few compliments about Maximoff if I absolutely have too." "Alright, so Dr. help the screwed up gothic kid, where should we start?" Evan grinned at the name. "I honestly don't know, they're your memories. Is there anything that really pops into your mind right now?" Rogue thought for a second. "Yeah, Ah can remember somethin'. Ah had been at the brotherhood for a couple days, this was before Pietro came and all. It was just Lance, Todd, Fred and I. Ya remember the day Fred attacked Grey? Freddie forgave me for that of course, but anyway it was a couple days after that…

*Flashback*

Lance was relaxing in front of the television, drinking a coke. "

Hey, yo."

Lance nearly leapt out of his seat. "Jesus Todd! Don't scare me like that." "Sheesh, take a chill pill rock boy. The Goth's asleep."

Lance grinned. "Great, time to rock."

Todd just groaned.

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Freddie was standing outside of Rogue's door when Todd and Lance got upstairs. Todd picked the lock and the three of them crept inside.

*End flashback*

"Whoa, wait a sec, the blob was there and you didn't wake up?" Evan was amazed.

"Ah know, ah couldn't believe it either, but at the time Ah didn't have time to think about that."

*Flashback*

The three boys surrounded Rogue's bed.

"Freddie." Lance whispered. "Get the stuff."

Fred opened a duffel bag he had with him and distributed brightly colored cans to the two boys, then he brought out a large clear bag full of something and quietly ripped open the top. Todd reached into the duffel bag and brought out a small black camera. Lance reached in and took out what looked like a giant gun and then held up his fingers as he silently counted down

Three…two…one…

Freddie emptied ten pounds of Ice water onto Rogue, who immediately woke up with a scream.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!" She jumped up in bed.

*Flash*

Todd took a picture. Lance pumped his super soaker and sprayed even more water on her and then threw the gun on the bed and shook up the bottles he was holding, quickly popping off the caps. Freddie and Todd followed suit.

"Ready," Lance said,

Rogue looked at the cans. "Oh no!" She cried. *Flash* Todd took another picture.

"Aim."

Rogue tried to scramble out of her soaked bed.

"FIRE!"

The boys Pressed down on the nozzles, and five cans of silly string fired at the completely soaked Rogue. Within seconds she was covered with pink, orange, green, blue and yellow. *Flash* *Flash* *Flash*

The boys burst out laughing on the floor. Rogue fumed on the beds. "Oh so that's the way it's gonna be huh?" She said. The boys stopped laughing and looked at her. She reached for Lance's forgotten Super soaker and pumped it up. "Lance…does that thing still have water in it?" Todd asked fearfully.

"Uh…RUN!" Lance cried.

But Rogue had already fired and the boys were momentarily frozen with the shock, with the exception of screaming they couldn't move for a second and Rogue took that time to dash up and close and lock her door. By then the boys had recovered and were grabbing ammunition of their own. The rest of the night was filled with ice water, toilet paper and silly string.

At some point Freddie had broken down Rogue's door and their war had moved into the family room. The next morning when Mystique got home, she found them sprawled all over the furniture, and none of them were a normal color.

*End flashback*

Evan was on the ground, rolling with laughter. Rogue was laughing as well, it was hard not too.

"Oh what I would give to see Mystique's face when she saw that mess!" He crowed.

"Ah dunno, we were terrified at the time, but somehow Todd managed to get a picture of it, all of that is at the brotherhood house anyway."

Evan climbed back onto the bench and nodded.

"I never thought I'd say this, but you know those guys sound like they aren't so bad."

Rogue smiled.

"When Ah first went there I was sure they hated me, then it was like we had the whole love/hate relationship. There were more memorable nights like that one, and then Pietro came and the partying stepped up. Ah swear ya can't be near the guy and not get into trouble eventually."

"You're telling me." Evan said.

"Yeah, but he was a nice guy. And we were all getting along alright and then, Ah found out…"

"Found out what?"

"That Mystique was mah mother." Rogue said quietly.

Evan looked at her in shock. "Mystique?!? You're kidding right?"

Rogue shook her head.

"Wow, that's gotta be rough." Rogue nodded, holding back tears.

"Ah was so confused and ah had a million emotions runnin' through me. But the boys were there for me. They helped me through it. But ah was still unsure about how ah stood with them, until one night…"

"What happened?"

"They gave me a birthday party." Rogue said quietly, a sad smile coming across her features.

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A/N: well now, what do you think? I know I Promised the party but I'm begging patience from you! Please! I just got a wonderful plot idea in my head and I had to go with it! Again I apologize for the lack of updates lately! Oh and this chapter is dedicated to both Pheonix Angel Suyari and MBLte! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR UPDATING!!!!! Next chapter, the birthday party!!~Rio~