Hi everybody!!!! I'm really really really really really really really really really (etc, etc) sorry for making all of you waiting for the next chapter, specially you Phoenix, thank you for your support, and thanks to the other guys who reviewed ^.^ I'm glad there are people who like my story, I hope you like this chapter ^.^ , it was hard for me because of my block and homework and exams and a lot of thing I had to do the last days.... Sorry again!

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Logan, Kurt and Kitty were at the park searching for Rogue. They met at the bench where some minutes ago she shared with her mother.

"Did ya find her track?" Kurt asked worried

"It seems she was here but wasn't alone..." Logan sniff

"Like, this is a public park! anybody can, like, sit on it!" Kitty folded her arms. Logan glanced at Kitty

"But this anybody has blue skin and red hair..."

"Mystique?!" The three kids said at the same time

"I don't think she comes very often to feed the birds..." The adult said sarcastically

"I don't like this..." Kurt was more worried than before "Vhat if my mother did something to my sista?"

"We won't let her harm Rogue... Let's continue searching..." Kurt and Kitty exchanged looks and followed Logan to the parking lot.


A pair of hours passed and anybody could find Rogue anywhere, it was like if she vanished. Logan's team was the first to arrive at the Institute's principal door.

"Are you, like, sure you followed, like, the correct track? We just returned to the Institute"

"I'm sure little pint" Logan grumphed. Suddenly Scott, Jean and Evan walked to them with defeated faces

"Did you find her?" Jean asked blessing for an afirmative answer

"No" was Kurt's simple answer. Evan put a hand on the blue elf's shoulder for support. After that, the x-men went inside the mansion defeated and worried.

"I'm glad you returned, Rogue just arrived a couple of minutes ago and..."

"REALLY?!" Kurt asked excited "Vhere is she?! Is she all right?! Can I see her?!"

"Calm down Kurt, she is talking with the professor right now, I suppose you would see her when they finish" The weather goddess said calmly. Her words calmed the blue boy and for the first time in all the morning, he smiled relieved. The rest of the kids went to the kitchen to eat something, except for Kurt who stood there waiting for his sister. Logan, Ororo and Kurt sat on a coach to wait.

"Is there a problem?" Ororo asked while noticing Logan's worried face

"Maybe..." The man stared at the floor intensely "Stripes met with Mystique at the park"

"What?! are you sure?" The woman was surprised. Logan nooded not taking his eyes from the floor "But she was dissapeared, how?"

"I need to talk with a person..." He remembered Rogue saying it when he left her in her room after the session when she remembered part of her past. Ororo stared at him confused. "She already knew Mystique is alive..." Kurt was hearing attently everything but didn't understand very well what was going on.

"Are ya saying my mother is alive and my sista vent to talk vith her?" Kurt asked worried. The two adults exchanged looks remembering the boy who was with them and then nooded "But vhy? vhy did she do something like that?"

"That's a good question..." Logan tried to seem he didn't know anything but Kurt was difficult to convince

"Ya're hidding something important..." The blue boy stood "Something that has to be with my sista" He stared at the adults who had guilty expressions on their faces "Tell me vhat's going on here, please"

"Sorry bub, but we can't"

"Rogue has to be the one who tell you..." Ororo stood and put her hands on the boy's shoulders.

"Ok" Kurt sighted frustrated and sat again. In that instant Mr McCoy appeared at the door's frame and called for the adults.

"The professor wants us to go to his office" He turned to Kurt and smiled kindly "Kurt, Why don't you go with the rest of the kids and eat something, I'll call you when we finish"

"All right..." Kurt stood up and walked to the stairs. The adults went to the professor's office worried of what would happen there.


Rogue was sitting before the professor when Logan, Hank and Ororo entered to the room. The girl noticed Logan's dissaproving look and stared at her hands on her lap, feeling guilty.

"Now Stripes, tell us where did you go?" Logan folded his arms

"I went to the park to... ahm... walk..." She said nervously, she knew that if she tell them she saw Mystique they would get really mad with her. Wolverine stared intensely at her.

"Don't lie to us! What were you doing with Mystique at the park?"

-Damn it! How do they know...- "We were just talking..."

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"'Cause you weren't going to let me go and I needed to talk to her!" Rogue raised her head and stared at Logan's eyes determined

"Damn! That woman is crazy she could have harmed you...." He raised his hands to the sky

"But anything happened!" Rogue clenched her fits on the arm chair. Logan was about to say something else but the professor interrupted him

"It's enough Logan..." Xavier raised a hand before the man to make him stop "Rogue, you went to ask her about your visions, right?" The girl nooded "Do you think talking with her helped you?"

"Yes, she told me what happened... and a little more..." her face turned sad

"I have to confess you something Rogue, we are not sure if we should continue with the sessions. We are afraid this would affect you baddly" The professor said putting his hands together.

"What?!" Rogue stared shoocked at the man before her "No, professor, I can handle this, I know I can, please, let me continue!" She said with pleading eyes "The information Mystique gave me would help me, I just need to order the ideas in my head..." The professor thought it for a second and smiled.

"Ok, it seems you have taken your decision" He wheeled aproaching to her "Do you think you can handle other session like the last one?"

"Yes, I do" She said with determination in her voice and her eyes.

"All right" The professor put his hands at Rogue's head sides "Close your eyes and concentrate, please" She followed his orders.

The scenary was a park filled with trees. A tall man with brown hair and grayish green eyes was standing under a tree looking at it's foliage, like searching for something

"Hey little one! Where are you?!" He spot at a little girl sitting on one of the tree's branches "Come down, you're going to get hurt!"

"Don't worry daddy, I know what I do!" The girl stood up on the branch and gave him a smile. He shoocked his head.

"C'mon, get down!" The man raised his arms.

"Catch me daddy!" The girl jumped to her father's arms. He cought her and laugh a little.

"You're my little rogue..." He smiled tenderly and cared her head "You know, If your brother were with us, you two would be very good friends..."

"My brother..." The girl stared at the sky and sight saddly "Do you think he is all right?" The man kept quite for a moment, thinking and then gave his daughter a sad smile.

"Yes, he must be" He put the girl on the floor and both walked to a near bench where they sat. "Life isn't always what we spect..." He sighted "There will be hard days in your life and mean people that would like to hurt you, but there will be good people too, who will love you and trust you" He reached for something inside his pocket. The girl stared at him curiosly
"And I know that I won't be with you forever to protect you so..." He had something brilliant on his hand, a golden cross with a thin golden chain. The man put it around her neck "whenever you feel lonely it will remember you that I love you and I'll always be with you" He smiled tenderly "in your heart and your mind" The girl took it in his hand and watched it for a second, then she smiled and turned to her father "No matter what would happen in the future, no matter if the world gets against you, there will be always someone who would love you, who would trust you, you'll never be alone..." he cared the side of her face and smiled "trust him the same way he would trust you..."

"Thank you daddy" She hugged him and he returned the gesture.


Rogue opened her eyes and blinked twice. She raised her hand and touched her cheek then stared at it and noticed something, her fingertips where wet. She was crying...


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I finished I finished!!!!! YYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!! Please review and tell me what you think, ^.^ , anything, good, bad, more less, "you better continue with your life", I don't know, whatever you want ^.^


Date: Sunday September 8th, 2002