Cardshark 5

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"SHE WHAT?" Kitty practically fell off her bed when Jean told her what happened, only it wasn't the true version. It was a slightly altered biased version.

"I know! I can't believe that Scott would cheat on me. but with I HER? /I That's even worse! And she lied to us, on top of that!" Jean sat on Kitty's bed, and starred at Rogue's side of the room. It was a complete and total mess.

"I'm soooo going to throw those things, like, away ASAP!" Kitty didn't say A.S.A.P, she pronounced it.

"Good idea. I'll help!" Jean hopped up and moved Rogue's CD's under a lamp. She then had the lamp smash the CD's.

"I'll short circuit her stuff!" Kitty then phased through her laptop, stereo and phone. By then, Jean was done with various jobs.

"We did good, Kitty. Let's go inform the others." Jean smiled evilly. This was perfect! She had always hated Rogue, but this was the last straw.

"Right!" Kitty smiled, and phased through the door, grabbing Jean with her.

While all this was going on, Rogue was busy venting out her anger, by going to a movie by herself. She was due to return home at Eleven O'clock, when everyone was asleep.

Her room was pitch black when she walked in. The familiar shuffling sound of her boots against carpet accompanied her to her light. Click. A scream. The sound of pounding feet down the hall. A yawn or too from Kitty. The icy glares of her teammates.

"Who! Who did this?" Rogue all but screamed.

"I don't know, maybe it was your dear Remy." Amara's taunting voice laughed at her.

"No! Who did this? Who ever did, they're gonna pay!" To demonstrate her point, Rogue removed a glove.

"Who cares? Who really cares?" Bobby this time.

I Since when have tha newbies been against meh? /I "What's tha matta? Y'all acting so cold."Rogue looked over her teammates. Everyone was outside her room, (including Kitty, who had phased threw the wall into the hallway.) And everyone (save Scott) was giving her icy glares. "Whay are y'all actin' this way? Someone, tell meh, please!" Her voice was pleading now, but her teammates glares were mocking, even Kurt's, her dear brother.

"You wanna know? Ask yourself. Ask the real you. Ask Marie." The last word that Jean said was dripping with hatred.

"Oh mah God! Scott! You lied ta meh! You told them all!" With that, Rogue ran back into her room, and slammed the door. She didn't stop until she reached her bed. Pulling the warm satin sheets over her head, she cried. She was right. She couldn't trust anyone. She had trusted Scott, and this is how he repaid her? Hatred surged through her body. She screamed as she hit the wall in her anger. CRUNCH, the wall now had the hole in it the size of Rogue's fist. Tears streamed down her face. Ruining her makeup. "Whay meh? Every thang was goin' so great, but." She mumbled to herself, trying to make herself feel better. She was sure everyone had left by now. Kitty was no where to be seen. A knock at the door. "Git owat!" She yelled at the door, throwing a pillow at it for good measure.

"Rogue. It's me, Scott." Came Scott's voice through the door.

"No! Go awahy! You lied ta meh! Ah trusted you with mah secret, and you went an' told everyone! No one's talkin ta meh! Not even Kurt!"

"Rogue, just let me in. I can explain everything. Please, Rogue?"

"Fahne! Open it up. It's already open." She mumbled pulling the covers over her head again. She heard his footsteps across the carpet. The end of her bed sagged a bit. His hand reached out and pulled the covers from her.

"I didn't tell. I never would have. I don't break my promises. Someone must have over heard. I'm so sorry Rogue." This was too much for her to bear, she threw her arms around Scott, resting her head against his chest she cried. "Shhh.. Shh. It's all right. It's all right." He said, rubbing her back carefully, and rather awkwardly. She looked up at him, her green eyes met his sunglasses. It was almost romantic, but the glasses ruined the effect.

"What color are they?" She asked tearfully.

"Wha? Oh, you mean my eyes. Green, but no one will ever see them. My own little bit of angst." He sighed deeply. "You okay now?" She nodded mutely.

"Ah'm gonna take a walk." She said, standing up, and grabbing her leather coat from the bedpost.

"But it's midnight, and there's a blizzard warning. You can't go." He stood up.

"Ah can, and Ah will. Don't bother to tell the others that Ah've gone, they won't miss meh." She opened the window, and supported herself on the ledge. Waving, she moved her feet to the branch, and swung her arms out, grabbing the branch above. She shimmed down the tree as Scott appeared at the window. She smiled slightly, and walked across the lawn, her boots crunching in the newly fallen snow.

Crunch, crunch crunch. Her hands in her pockets, Rogue trudged across the park, stopping to sit on the swings. Her feet dragged as she rocked back and forth. Her tears had ceased coming, the waning moon shown bright on patches of snow in front of her. She shivered. Sighing, she got back up. The snow was coming more steadily now, and the wind was windier. I Ah best be headin' back ta tha institute. Not lahke anyone cares. /I She thought bitterly. She must not have been watching the road, or where her feet took her, but Rogue suddenly found herself falling. Falling. down, where she landed with a painful sounding CRUNCH. Rogue bit her lip to keep from crying out. She looked around at her surroundings. She was in a ditch, and her foot was beneath her. She tried to move it, but found it too painful. "Ahhh." She let out a slight whimper. I Someone, help me! Please! Ah'm sorry! Ah didn't mean ta offend ya. Someone.. Please. anybody. please./I Her trail of thoughts stopped as her eyesight went. Along with it, her sense of smell, sense of warmth and cold.

Scott sat bolt upright in his bed. It was Rogue. Something had happened to her. He silently cursed himself. He should never have let her go off wondering at night. Stepping out of bed, he rushed to the door, threw it opened and ran down the hall to. Who should he go get? Jean was very anti- Rogue at the moment, as were the rest of the students. Logan would kill him for waking him up. Ororo. He best not go into her room. Mr. McCoy. He didn't know where his room was. That left Professor X. But where else? He asked himself. He ran down the hall and knocked on Professor X's door. "Professor! It's Rogue! Wait! I mean, this is about Rouge!" Scott continued to pound on the door.

"Scott, I heard. What is it about Rouge?" The Professor asked, as Scott pounded mid-air, not realizing that the door had been opened, the result was him narrowly missing Professor X's face.

"She went out for a walk, at midnight, and I'm pretty damn sure that something's happened to her. It's Two. She's been gone for two hours! And there was a blizzard!" Scott said, his face showing a light uncertainty.

"There is not much we can do. Where do you suppose she went?" He asked, looking at Scott.

"The park." Scott answered, that's where she always went when she needed to get away from it all.

"Good. Go wake the others, tell them to suit up. We have a park to search. I'll wake up Logan." The Professor added, seeing the look on Scott's face.

Fifteen minutes later, the troops were assembled in the foyer, and were grumbling loudly.

"Why are we doing this again?" Kitty asked, looking at Jean.

"Beats me. She's a traitor." Amara whispered.

"Okay. We're going to search the park. In groups of two. Kitty and Jean, Amara and Bobby, Jamie and Ray, Roberto and Sam, and Kurt and me. Ready? Let's go." Scott said, motiong for the door. With much grumbling, everyone got into their groups, and walked out the door.

"Rogue!"

"Rogue!"

"You filthy traitor! Where are you, damnit?" (Bobby.)

"Marie! Marie D'Ancanto! You better get your ass out here, or when we find it, we'll kick it!" (Sam.)

"Knock it off you two! We're here to find her, not torment her!" Scott called over the din. He couldn't see it but Sam and Bobby rolled their eyes.

"Scott! Over here! I think I've found her!" Kurt called, bamphing over to Scott.

"I thought that we were supposed to be together." Scott said, a slight warning in his voice.

"Ja, but never mind zhat! I found her, over 'ere!" Kurt's tail grabbed Scott's leg, and they BAMPHED to the ditch. However. It was empty.

"Y' two are too slow. Remy got 'ere firs' and he has saved t' Rogue." Remy called from on top of the hill. Kurt and Scott turned to face him. He had Rogue, limp in his arms.

"X-Men! Get over here! NOW!" Scott yelled upward. With in thirty seconds, the rest of the team was assembled with Scott and Kurt.

"Put her down, and ve'll leave you alone. If you don't ve'll attack!" Kurt said, worried about his sister.

"Remy don't believe y'. He knows that y' won't when he has da cherie in his arms." The snow was lessening, the blizzard was stopping.

"We'll give you one more change. Put Rogue down." Scott threatened, raising his hand to the dial on his glasses.

"Non."

"X-Men, take him!" But Remy was gone. They stared wide-eyed at the spot where he was.

Remy was knocking the best he could on the door of the Brotherhood house.

"Eh? What do you want, Yo? Oie!" Todd had answered the door. "Lance! Pietro! Wanda! Freddie! Yo! We've got ourselves an Acolyte and a X-Geek at our doors!" Todd yelled into the house.

"What is it? I was sleepin' on the couch." Lance's voice came.

"Lance!" The sound of someone being hit.

"Owww. Wanda. That was mean."

"I AM mean! Get used to it! Who is the Acolyte and X-Geek, Todd?" Wanda asked, her footfalls coming closer to the door.

"We've got ourselves a Gambit, and a Rogue." Was all Todd said, as Wanda opened the door fully and gasped.

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A/N

See previous disclaimers.

~ASGT, the almighty one who has to go to her neighbors to watch X-Men tonight. Life sucks, doesn't it? Oh yeah, and her sister is a future Avril Lavigne in training, and that's a BAD THING! I hate Lavigne!