The Funeral Chapter 7

Thanks to all those who review my story, I need to eat somehow. ;) Oh, yeah, the story is in the movie story line. It takes a few years after Statue incident.

Yay! I have a hundred reviews! I feel so loved. Okay people, I am going to try and do my best with this chapter and if it sux then you can flame me. Oh, and I am using both the movie and book for this.

Okay since Marie is going to have to tale her tale about her time on the road, I started when she entered the bar in Canada, so most of this is what everyone knows and if you don't, get out of this site and buy the book and watch the movies.

Oh, yeah. Thanks to all those that have stuck with my story, It really means a lot to me.

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Marie reached for Logan's hand as she began to tell her tale. Her mother felt a dread fill her chest at the sight of her daughter clutching Wolverine's hand. Her mother listened as the minutes ticked by.

"....I caught a rid with another trucker and he seemed okay, but one day we were talking and he didn't see the car that was stalled in the middle of the road he swerved to miss it and when he did his arm hit my face. He things I got from him..were horrible. He pickups young hitchhikers and uses them for fun. He had planned on doing some of things that he did to those people to me. I even know where he buried some of the bodies." The last part came out in a ragged breath and cracked voice. Logan made an audible growl as he picked Marie up and placed her in his lap.

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Mrs. Knight held her breath as she waited for the rest of the story. Her hands were wrapped painfully around the throw blanket that had been slung over the couch. Right now she never hated her husband as much as she did at this moment. And she hated herself, for being weak and not standing up to her husband and not running and taking Marie with her.

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'A what a crock of shit.' Meredith thought as she watched the man wrap the girl around him as if she were saran wrap. There was no way that Marie had been able to hitchhike all the way from here to Canada. Eight months on the road she could have gotten so far as Boston most likely. Of course Meredith wasn't listening to the first part of the story where Marie used up most of her money buying a ticket that could get her as close to Canada as it could on a bus. She jus shook her head and continued for the time being listing to Marie as she weaves her tale.

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David, like the rest of the house, couldn't help but be pulled into her story. He suddenly felt sorry that his family had caused so many problems for her. But that little voice in the back of his head spoke up, ' Yeah, but she should have told you that she couldn't touch people.' Then the other voice spoke up and won all the rounds, ' But she was always touching people. It her mutation just decided to show up at the wrong time.'

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Jubilee and Kitty left the sofa as Rogue told her mother, and consequently everybody else in the room, what she did when she runaway. They didn't need to hear it; they had her share her story the first night she arrived at the mansion. Plus with all the new students coming in, they kept hearing it. Everybody could recite everybody's runaway tale by heart.

Instead Jubes dragged Kitty off to the kitchen were they found a small t.v. on a kitchen counter. Jubilee quietly squealed with delight as she noticed that it had a cable box. She ran to the counter and found that the box was still on and she turned the television on and sat down when Kitty brought chairs for them to sit in.

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Marie took another deep breath and continued her story. " Luckily for me, he was getting hungry and decided to stop at a bar. I walked in behind him; I didn't trust him to try something then. When I entered I noticed a cage in the middle of the floor, I saw the back of a man and I saw another man being thrown. Every time he hit someone I would hear the sound if metal and I thought I was losing my mind." She snuck a peek at the Wolverine's face to see if he realized what she was saying. She slowly saw his eyes widen in surprise.

"The trucker that was in the corner? The fat one? Why didn't you tell me?" He demanded. She nodded her head and she nuzzled her face into his chest as she felt his arms tighten around her painfully. Marie saw her mother's eyes widen in fear as she looked at the Wolverine's face. She didn't blame her. Marie might have been afraid of the angry look on his face, if it weren't for the fact that he had promised to protect.

Marie cleared her throat and began again. " I was sitting at the bar, drinking a glass of water and looking at the jar that held the tips." She gave a small laugh, " I remember the note that was on it, ' Tipping is not a city in China.' I might have laughed if I wasn't so desperate for money and a new ride. I was watching the news when the man from the cage sat down a few stools down and ordered a beer. He was watching the news too, when the man he had beat in the cage came up to him and he started taunting him. We thought that he was going to leave but he turned around quickly and pulled a knife." Marie's hands moved down to cover those that were around her and squeezed them, silently asking permission if she could tell them about his claws. He squeezed her hands back.

" The man had tried to stab him, but the fighter that beat him was faster and had a surprise. He had claws made of metal. I watched them come out of his hands, two on the side of the guys neck and the middle one coming out slowly. The guy who owned the bar came over to him with the shotgun and demanded that he get out of the bar. While he went to go get his tuff, I snuck into the trailer that held his motorcycle."

Marie looked up at his face again and saw a small smile trying to curve his lips. She let hers show and continued. "He drove for a few miles before I felt the truck come to a stop, and felt the tarp being thrown off me. He told me to get out. I was embarrassed and angry and desperate and so I said that I was sorry and that I needed a ride and thought he would help me. He was going to leave me there and I asked where I was supposed to go. He said he couldn't help me. I asked can't or won't. He told me to pick one. I calling him a jerk in my mind and hoping that he loses his next match." Marie felt her smile get bigger and saw the confused faces on the remainder of the family.

They were probably wandering what was there to smile about in this story. " He only drove a few feet before he stop his truck and waited for me. He didn't have to tell me twice, I knew that I would be safe with him. When I got in he ignored me for all about five seconds before I started asking him questions. He asked what my name was and I told him Rogue." Everybody looked at her in question. She stared at her hands and explained. " It is kinda a thing for mutants who are disowned or given to the school to rename themselves. I chose Rogue for my mutation. ShadowKat is named that because she can phase. Cyclops is named that because he has to wear a visor for his vision. It keeps us separate and helps us remember if we get to comfortable about who and what we are. Anyway, He asked me what kind of name is Rogue and I asked him what kind of name was his. I thought for sure he was going to ditch me then, and he told me his real name and I told him mine."

She turned around which caused Logan to open his legs and she sat between them, she lightly stomped both of her feet to wake them. She winced a little at the pinprick feel she felt. Logan reshifted his arms so that they were still around her. Marie leaned further back; her entire back was pressed along his chest. She smiled when she could feel his chest rise and fall with his breath.

" I had make a crack about his trailer and told that he should wear his seatbelt, when out of nowhere we crashed into a tree. He went through the windshield and landed in a snow bank. I was starting to get scared that he was dead, I mean he went head first from the windshield. I was stuck in the truck and seat buckle stuck. He woke up and had a huge gash in forehead that was healing by itself. Then out of nowhere a huge beast through itself at Him. The huge beast had thrown him on to the front of the truck and he wasn't waking up."

She stopped for a moment and picked up her tea, she hadn't realized how dry her mouth had gotten. She took several long gulps and put it back on the coaster on the table, another of daddy's rules. " His cigar had flown to the back of the camper when we had crashed and had caught some of his clothes on fire. It was getting closer to the propane tank. The seatbelt wouldn't budge and I thought that I was going to die in that camper. Then all of a sudden the snow picked up and the beast looked down the road and there was two people standing in black leather."

She heard Jubilee laughing in the kitchen and had to wander what it was Kitty and Jubes was watching. Then she remembered that their favorite part of her story was coming up. She said excuse me to her audience and yelled out, " Jubes, KitKat! Your favorite part is coming up!" She heard the sound of chairs scraping against the floor and the sound of running feet.

" Their favorite part?" Logan asked. He had arched one eyebrow. She gave a shy smile and shook her head.

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Well? How was that chapter? Let me know if it suck and I can try and fix it. As it said at the end of the Matrix: Reloaded-To be concluded..