A/N: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS AGAIN. I'VE DECIDED THAT MAGNETO AND XAVIER WILL GO AGAINST ROGUE BUT APOCALYPSE WILL ALSO SHOW UP, I THINK. HIS ROLE WON'T BE THAT BIG. NOTHING IMPORTANT. SO WE HAVE TWO BAD GUY'S SO FAR. AND MYSTIQUE'S BACK. YAY! ANYWAY, HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER. ROGUE IS A LITTLE OUT OF CHARACTER IN MY OPINION BUT I HAD TO MAKE HER NICE IN THIS CHAPTER. YOU GUYS WANTED A ROGUE/WANDA FRIENDSHIP, SO HERE IT IS. ANYWAY, ENJOY AND MORE REVIEWS.

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Rogue sat quietly in her room, as she stared in the ceiling in the dark. Her hands were clasped on top of her stomach and she was scowling.

"Christ!" She hissed in the darkness, no one hearing her.

Wanda was the other room next to her, trashing and turning.

Nightmares, Rogue thought. She turned to her side, grabbed her pillow and put it over her head, almost stifling herself.

"Ugh!" She groaned as she swung her legs to one side and walked sleepily out of bed to Wanda's room.

"Wanda!" She hissed, shaking the other girl. Wanda was covered in sweat, her eyebrows creased into a frown. "Wanda!" She said louder but not loud enough for anyone else to hear.

She slightly slapped her on the cheek and in an instant, Wanda's hand was around her throat.

"What are you trying to do?" Wanda demanded angrily. "Kill me?"

"You had nightmares." Rogue replied as she yanked the hand off of her.

"Whatever. Get out of here." She declared.

"So much for thank you." Rogue muttered as she got off Wanda's bed.

"Sorry, I'm not good with nightmares." Wanda whispered as she dressed the blanket on top of her.

"I never thought I'd see the day that you-Wanda Maximoff would say sorry." Rogue grinned.

"Don't push it!" Wanda scowled.

"Okay, okay." Rogue said, raising her hand in mock surrender.

"What is it with you and your sarcasm?" Wanda asked; her voice slightly bitter.

"What is it with you and your attitude? You act like you're miss 'thang'." Rogue retorted, glaring at the other girl.

"Oh, don't even talk. You act exactly the same-like you can kick everyone's ass." Wanda replied just as nastily.

"Well, I can." Rogue said.

"So can I." Wanda declared, slightly smiling.

"Well, that makes us even then."

"Yeah. Why are you still here again? I'd like to sleep now." Wanda asked.

"Can't sleep. I get nightmares like you. And since you're already up, I'm going to bug you." Rogue declared as she sat on Wanda's bed.

"Excuse me?"

"That's right. I'm staying." Rogue declared, not truly understanding what the hell she was doing. Perhaps, it was time for things to change.

"Not if I kill you first." Wanda warned precariously.

"Whatever. You know you can't kill me. We'd last the whole night just trying to kill each other." Rogue declared.

"Ugh! You really like to make me miserable." Wanda groaned. As much as she hated to admit it, Rogue was right. "So, what is this? Girl talk? Bonding? Ugh, don't even go there, X freak." Wanda said with a face. "Just because you *saved* from my nightmare doesn't mean we're going to be buddies."

"Whatever." Rogue scoffed. "Think of it as a truce. Let's try not to kill each other. We have other things to worry about."

"Like?"

"Xavier, the X freaks as you like to call them and your father." Rogue explained.

Wanda looked at her hesitantly. "Why the hell do we have to worry about them? I mean, I don't care about the X freaks and as for my father, all I have to do is find him, then I can kill him."

"Just because the X men are after me doesn't mean they don't think of you as a threat. When I was there, the professor declared you as highly dangerous." Rogue replied quietly.

"I'll take that as a compliment." Wanda stated. "So why'd you leave them anyway?"

"Because they were acting all weird around me. My brother was afraid of me. He didn't have to say it. I could see it so clearly whenever he looked at me. He tried to be nice but he couldn't help it." Rogue explained. "The professor was suspicious of me. He had me watched by none other than his two best students--Scott and Jean."

"Some way to make you feel accepted." Wanda scoffed as she rolled her eyes.

"Tell me about it. Anyway, I just couldn't take it anymore. The other kids were being all cautious around me. I guess they were afraid too." She said, sighing deeply.

"Well, they should be."

"Really? So, you're finally accepting that I'm very powerful?" Rogue asked curiously.

"Don't get cocky now, X freak." Wanda replied.

"I'd apreaciate it if you dropped that." Rogue said snappily.

"Okay, okay, geez, touchy much." Wanda answered.

"Hey. I'm sorry about the whole 'mental hospital thing'. That was harsh." Rogue said sincerely. She hadn't meant what she said before.

"Whatever. Since you apologized, I'll stop with the x freak and name calling." Wanda smiled.

"Okay." Rogue nodded.

"So what was that whole deal with you and my dumbass of a twin brother today?" Wanda asked curiously, watching Rogue's reaction.

Rogue shrugged offhandedly. "He was being a jerk to me. Lance said something to him and well, it's over now."

"So you and Lance?" Wanda asked narrowing her eyes, a curious look on her face.

Rogue frowned, looking shocked. "No! Eww! No offence to Lance but I think of him as a brother. That's just wrong."

"Okay. Just asking. Besides, I don't think Pietro would be happy with that." She said with a small smirk.

Rogue raised her eyebrows questioningly. "Oh?"

"Please, don't even act like you don't know." Wanda scoffed. "He likes you. It's so obvious. Too bad he has to be a jerk to every girl he likes. I mean talk about stupid."

Rogue smiled. "You're nice." She said sarcastically.

"Well, he is stupid. If he likes you, he should just say it." Wanda declared insistently.

"He did and I slapped him." Rogue announced.

Wanda shook her head, trying to hide her amused smile. "Oh."

"Yeah." Rogue smiled. "But I had a reason."

Wanda nodded. She had heard from Todd--the now official annoying gossip box in the Brotherhood house. "So, what exactly are your new powers? I mean I know you can absorb people." She queried.

Rogue shrugged her shoulders. "Last month, I absorbed Mystique at a concert. I got too much of her power and went ballistic. I kept changing into the people I absorbed." She began. "Anyway, after that I found out that her powers stayed and I can reverse it."

"Reverse it?" Wanda echoed, not understanding what she meant.

"Yeah. I can change things by touching them." Rogue explained.

"So, if I told you to turn Toad into a rat, you would?" Wanda asked, getting incredibly curious.

"I could but I won't." Rogue chuckled. "He's not that bad. Just maim him once in a while and he'll leave you alone."

Wanda nodded; approving. "What else can you do?"

"I can shape shift into the people I absorbed and I can also use the power that they have." She answered.

"Oh."

"Oh?" Rogue echoed not liking the tone.

"Yeah. Oh." Wanda repeated. "That makes you very powerful." She declared.

"You're stating the obvious." Rogue acknowledged, crossing her arm in front of her.

"No wonder Xavier wants you dead." Wanda said.

Rogue frowned, getting offended. "He doesn't want me dead." She insisted.

"Okay, if he doesn't want you dead then he wants to use you." Wanda stated.

"Again, obvious." Rogue spoke up.

"Why don't you just kill him? I would." Wanda declared; proud of her ruthlessness.

"Because unlike you, I don't kill people unless provoked." Rogue replied firmly. "And even then, I just try to weaken them."

"That'll get you kill one of these days." Wanda muttered.

"Right." Rogue said mockingly. "I'd like to watch them try to kill me."

"A little proud X frea---Rogue?" Wanda asked, quickly correcting herself.

Rogue smiled.

Good.



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"Are you sure they didn't kill each other?" Pietro asked Lance as they peered into Wanda's room.

Rogue and Wanda were sprawled on Wanda's bed, sleeping on opposite sides of the bed. Apparently, they'd both fallen asleep there.

"I'm pretty sure." Lance asked, also peering.

"They're breathing." Blob declared.

"Oooh, girl to girl action. Kinky." Todd declared as he poked his head into the room and everyone looked at him like he had just said the nastiest thing in the world.

"That is my sister in there." Pietro hissed, frowning at him. "I wonder what happened." He asked aloud.

"Who knows? They look okay." Lance answered. "I think."

Pietro nodded as the four guys walked away from the room, afraid that they might wake up and snap. Everyone knew how moody the girls were when they wake up.

"If you ever say anything like that again, Todd, I will kill you." He threatened.

"Hey, can't a guy dream, yo?" Todd asked.

"Well, why don't you keep your nasty little dreams to yourself next time? God you make me sick." Lance growled.

"Yo, just because I have an active imagination does not mean I'm 'sick'." Todd retorted stubbornly.

"Whatever. Now, shut up. I'd like to eat my breakfast without hearing about your nasty remarks." Pietro said.

The four of them sat around the table eating pancakes that they had previously stolen to last for the week. Blob had the largest stack.

"Morning." Rogue said as she entered the kitchen, stretching her arms to her sides.

"Yeah, morning." Wanda echoed as she followed Rogue.

"What's up with you two? Are you friends now?" Blob asked curiously.

"Don't even go there." Wanda glared at him.

"Not even close." Rogue smirked, looking over at Wanda, not glaring or thinking of killing her.

"I swear, girls are weird. One minute they're trying to kill each other, the next they're all friendly." Todd muttered, shaking his head in confusion.

"Todd, if you don't shut up, you're dead." Wanda warned.

"And then they're trying to kill some guy." Pietro piped in.

"Well, if guys weren't such jerks, we wouldn't even try to kill them." Rogue retorted willfully. She glared at Pietro who just shook his head.

"And then there's p.m.s. I tell you, don't go near a girl when she's on her-"

"Pietro!" Wanda yelled.

"Okay. Okay." He surrendered.

"So, yo, you two want to tell us why you're friends..err...not trying to kill each other?" Todd asked.

"We called a truce." Rogue answered.

"That's a first." Lance declared quietly. "And good."

"Why?" Blob asked intriguingly

"Because we need to destroy our enemies so later, we can kill each other." Wanda explained as she and Rogue sauntered out of the kitchen.

"Oh." Lance said whispered, a confused look on his face.

"Like I said, weird." Todd whispered so that the girls wouldn't hear him again.

"I heard that!" Rogue yelled from the living room.



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Magneto floated over the balcony with ease, his dark cape billowing around him. The French doors swung open, allowing him entry.

"You wanted to talk?" He asked; his voice low and dark. He barely touched the ground as his large frame formed a shadow in the rather bright room.

"We need to make a deal, old friend." Xavier declared as he nodded.

"And what deal would this be, Charles? You know that I don't support your belief in saving humanity." Magneto replied.

"I know but humanity is not a priority right now. We must destroy a common enemy." Xavier declared solemnly.

"Apocalypse?"

Xavier shook his head, his face devoid of any emotions. "Rogue."

"I thought she was one of your prized students." Magneto replied, his voice evident of his surprise.

"She was. Now, I've received some information that she is the last key." Xavier declared warningly. "We can't allow her to release Apocalypse into the world."

"The last key? Where did you get this information?" Magneto demanded.

"I have my sources. Now, are you going to help me?" Xavier replied cryptically. "As much as you want to destroy humanity, I don't believe you want to destroy the world."

Magneto nodded, his face hidden in the shadows. "Very well, you have the Acolytes' support." Magneto declared reluctantly.

"Good." Xavier grinned.

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The door flung open, followed by a loud bang and Mystique stood in the doorway, her yellow eyes determined and troubled.

"Should we do something?" Todd asked quietly as he cowered behind the three other guys who were backing away from the very dangerous looking Mystique.

"Hey, boss. Good to see you." Lance said hesitantly.

"Shut up!" Mystique hissed.

"The house is clean. We didn't trash anything." Todd spoke up fearfully.

"I noticed." She said glaring at all of them. "Something's up here." She added as she narrowed her eyes, looking at all of them suspiciously.

"Well, well, if it isn't my mother." Rogue's heated voice interrupted all of them. She glared at Mystique as she approached her. Her stance was proud, determined, hinting no sign of fear or hesitance. Rogue's eyes narrowed, staring directly at Mystique's. "About time you showed up."

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A/N: OK, SO THAT WASN'T THE MOST EXCITING CHAPTER BUT I HAD TO BRING MAGNETO AND MYSTIQUE INTO THE STORY. I COULDN'T STALL ANY LONGER. AND I HAD TO START THE ROGUE/WANDA FRIENDSHIP. ANYWAY, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.