This story takes place Post-"Day of Recovery" with a few changes.
1. Scott didn't leave Mystique at the military base.
2. Rogue and Pietro are a couple.
"Magneto's alive." Wanda, followed by Toad, growled out as she entered the campsite. I glanced up shock. What? It couldn't be.
"Wanda, all of us, especially you, saw Magneto die." Lance stated.
"If you watch the scene in slow motion you see, my dear brother," she spat, "save him at the last second." I moaned slightly in shock. Before this, I thought maybe Pietro hadn't had anything to do with this whole ordeal, but now...Now, there was no denying it. Pietro was on Magneto's side. I felt like I was going to throw up. I hurriedly stood up and rushed deeper into the woods. I could hear the others calling after me, but I didn't want to be around then. They didn't know what it felt like for the person you thought you loved to betray you. Betray everything you stood for, everything you lived for. They didn't-couldn't- understand. I collapsed at a lake in the forest. I glanced up into a tree to see a bird's nest with tiny, baby birds in it. The birds chirped merrily. I stared at them pityingly. How ignorant, you little birds. But one day you will wake to find out that your safe nest has been ripped from you, because you are different. Enjoy your ignorance while you can, because it will be gone sooner than you think.
"Rogue." I glanced up at Ororo. I smiled weakly at her. She returned an equally patheic smile.
"I am sorry. You may think that no one understands, but I do." I searched her eyes and I knew she understood. There was so little we all knew about Ororo.
"Stormy." Ororo stiffened and turned. That man was standing across the lake staring at us. I gasped slightly as his beautiful eyes landed on me. He pulled a deck of cards out of his trench coat pocket and shuffled them.
"Remy." Ororo acknowledged. Remy. Odd and mysterious, it suited him.
"Remy is 'ere for de chere. Don't make Remy 'ave to hurt you, Stormy." He stared into my eyes and I almost, involuntarily, stepped towards him. Ororo shifted my to behind her.
"You can't have her. Why? Remy? Why are you working for Magneto?"
"He pay Remy well." He threw a card. Ororo pushed me and herself away from the blast. We scrambled up.
"Run, Rogue!" Lightening crackled as Ororo's eyes glowed. I took off into the forest. A gust of wind picked me up and carried me. My eyes widened when I realized it wasn't the wind.
"Pietro."
1. Scott didn't leave Mystique at the military base.
2. Rogue and Pietro are a couple.
"Magneto's alive." Wanda, followed by Toad, growled out as she entered the campsite. I glanced up shock. What? It couldn't be.
"Wanda, all of us, especially you, saw Magneto die." Lance stated.
"If you watch the scene in slow motion you see, my dear brother," she spat, "save him at the last second." I moaned slightly in shock. Before this, I thought maybe Pietro hadn't had anything to do with this whole ordeal, but now...Now, there was no denying it. Pietro was on Magneto's side. I felt like I was going to throw up. I hurriedly stood up and rushed deeper into the woods. I could hear the others calling after me, but I didn't want to be around then. They didn't know what it felt like for the person you thought you loved to betray you. Betray everything you stood for, everything you lived for. They didn't-couldn't- understand. I collapsed at a lake in the forest. I glanced up into a tree to see a bird's nest with tiny, baby birds in it. The birds chirped merrily. I stared at them pityingly. How ignorant, you little birds. But one day you will wake to find out that your safe nest has been ripped from you, because you are different. Enjoy your ignorance while you can, because it will be gone sooner than you think.
"Rogue." I glanced up at Ororo. I smiled weakly at her. She returned an equally patheic smile.
"I am sorry. You may think that no one understands, but I do." I searched her eyes and I knew she understood. There was so little we all knew about Ororo.
"Stormy." Ororo stiffened and turned. That man was standing across the lake staring at us. I gasped slightly as his beautiful eyes landed on me. He pulled a deck of cards out of his trench coat pocket and shuffled them.
"Remy." Ororo acknowledged. Remy. Odd and mysterious, it suited him.
"Remy is 'ere for de chere. Don't make Remy 'ave to hurt you, Stormy." He stared into my eyes and I almost, involuntarily, stepped towards him. Ororo shifted my to behind her.
"You can't have her. Why? Remy? Why are you working for Magneto?"
"He pay Remy well." He threw a card. Ororo pushed me and herself away from the blast. We scrambled up.
"Run, Rogue!" Lightening crackled as Ororo's eyes glowed. I took off into the forest. A gust of wind picked me up and carried me. My eyes widened when I realized it wasn't the wind.
"Pietro."