Disclaimer: The x-men don't belong to me, they're Marvel's property.

Author's Note: Here's another chapter of Waited for so long. To tell you the truth guys, I never intended on extending the story. :) Here you go.

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Waited for so long

by Samman

Part III

"What happened chere?"

The forbidden words echoed in his own ears as Remy's heart pounded wildly in his chest. He had heard the literary term from people and in books, but right now, he could not give an explanation anyone how is knees were weakening and shaking madly at the sight of Rogue.

He himself did not know how he had kept himself from standing stable when his eyes had captured Rogue's form on the floor. Somewhere in the back of his mind where everything was not numb, he heard Jean call Beast for help.

The woman who Remy had once come to love to death now slumped on the floor, soft lips that used to be pink were half open and a shade of yellow blue-Remy could not figure that out.

Her head was twisted half against the tub and was partially titled against the floor, the blood soaked hair that Remy remembered was auburn and white was spilled across the shiny floor in such manner that if somebody would squeeze it shut, blood would drip from it like excess water flows from a towel after it's squished…

"Dieu Dieu Dieu" Remy repeated the mantra that he had been repeating in his mind but now his senses were free and open. "Jean ask dem t' hurry up!"

He moved quickly and kneeled down on the floor with a loud thump. His hands reached to check her pulse, and he did…but a very very faint one…

Then keeping his hands on the floor on her either side, he closed his eyes shut and lowered his face to hers. Remy would not have ever prayed so much to God in all those years like he did right now in his mind with all his heart as he tilted his ear near her mouth to see any signs of her breathing.

Remy's heart was going to stop…he didn't feel her breath…

No No No No No. He closed his eyes shut as he froze in his place but once again, he lowered his ear deeper to her lips to check for any signs although he could see by himself that she was all pale…yellow…white…and blue but he did not want to believe what his heart told him.

But then it came…the softest rush of air on his cheek and Remy's eyes widened knowing that she was there...but they were going to loose her anyway if they did not try anything soon.

Without hesitation, Remy moved quickly and kneeled down on the floor, his arm reached up to her arm that was twisted under her waist. Biting his lips, and not caring that he might break an already cracked ligament, Remy's hand slipped inside the hollow where her arm was stuck and as carefully as he could, he brought the arm out of that irregular position.

Thankfully he was wearing gloves. The thought did not even go over in his mind that: Rogue was invulnerable and how could she possible get hurt so badly, and like this?

"'Ro?! I need y' help 'Ro…c'mon she's goin' to be fine- jus' listen t' me right now. I need you right now 'Ro." Remy said as he didn't know what and how to adjust Rogue's figure whose head bled intensely.

"'Remy-she's not…she's not—Remyy.." The fearless thunder-stricking Goddess who was not scared when they fought with the greatest of enemies now stood behind Remy. With her limp hand clasped over her mouth, tears flowed freely down her chocolaty cheeks as she violently shook her head.

She did not believe Remy, she saw her teammate dead. Dead. Rogue…Dead.

"No 'Ro she's goin' t' be fine! She has to!" Remy looked at Rogue and slipped an already bloody hand under her fragile back. He slightly shifted her up with one hand.

Somehow Ororo realized that they could save her if there was still time and taking a step back, she turned around and jerked the towel out of the hanger. She handed it to Remy who practically snatched it from her.  "T-take this."

After taking the towel from his free hand, Remy slid it under Rogue's head and held her unsteady, bloody hair with his hand. He picked her in his arms, and tried to adjust her quickly that her bloody head drooped against his shoulder slightly slithering down because of the instability. The towel remained on Rogue's neck and head as Remy tried to walk out, and tried to stop panicking.

"Where the hell are they?!" Ororo's rage busted out of her body when she yelled out the words that represented her as Storm—not Ororo. She had yanked off Rogue's plain white bed sheets and now stood awaiting Remy to come near her. As he did, Storm nearly wrapped the whole, long white cloth all over her as Remy lowered himself to make Ororo able to do so.

Just in time, Beast and Jean burst through the room. Hank, the mansion's doctor walked in with confidence and without asking for details when he saw Remy with a very injured Rogue in his arms, Hank parked the neatly arranged the stretcher against the wall.

"Oh my Stars and Garters…" Hanks eyes were dazed as he moved closer to Remy who was already trying to somewhat lay Rogue down on the soft stretcher that had complex medical equipment attached underneath it.

"Be careful Remy…You do not want--" Hank was harshly cut off by Remy's harsh words.

"Shud-up Hank-I'm not listening t' dat crap right now." Remy did not give Beast the chance to assist him to anything and himself lay Rogue down who was wrapped in covers that were now stained dark red.

[Hank Please don't talk back to him right now. I know you won't.] Jean who was also startled by Remy's attitude gave Beast a mental note to him who nodded in response and was rapidly fitting the oxygen mask closely over her nose and mouth. It would provide assistant breathing.

Jean saw Ororo move up beside Remy and look at Rogue with dazed blue eyes. Jean wanted to reach out to Ororo but there was no time and it had already been almost six to seven minutes since they had first seen Rogue's lifeless form on the floor.

Without a word, Jean ran out of the door to tell others, she preferred not to call the other x-men telepathically because they would all come running upstairs and it would cause all sorts of problems.

"She does not have her powers. Oh dear." Hank panted as he adjusted a tight band around Rogue's forehead to stop the blood from flowing anymore. He did not turn around when he heard Cecilia Reyes come up from behind and stand around him. She pushed Remy out of the way and together they wheeled the stretcher out of the room.

"I've got the ER ready. We need to speed up Hank." Cecilia said with a worried frown appearing on her forehead.

Remy grasped Ororo's hand and squeezed it as he helplessly looked at Beast and Cecilia Reyes take Rogue out of the room in an emergency. Ororo's eyes glistened with tears and she turned her head to look at her Remy. "Go Remy, she might need you."

He had to go. Of course he did. He was just giving room to the professionals to take over the scene. "Yeah 'Ro, she needs me." Remy pulled her arm and took her fast out of the room along with him.

His steps were loud and swift in the hallway and finally Remy ran at the end point where the elevator was closing with Rogue and the doctors inside. He went inside and the elevator slid shut. Remy could barely make out one side of Rogue's face that was covered with a very bad bluish purple bruise which was also beginning to swell.

"Everyt'in' will be alright Rogue." Remy's hoarse voice sounded hollow in the elevator as he stood on her opposite side, his eyes scanned the blood all over her body, his head tilting in the process.

Cecilia Reyes was crouched down fixing some tools underneath the stretcher on which Rogue lay, while Beast untangled the IV tubes that were spread all around the wounded mutant. He thanked Remy in his mind for not being destructive as the Cajun usually was in these rare situations—or accidents with Rogue.

Remy on the other hand, slightly touched her oxygen mask, trying to adjust the tubes going on either side of it. The silent elevator soothing him, giving him a sign that Rogue would be saved.

The yellow button that said 'Floor 1' lightened red and the elevator came to a halt. It wasn't even fully opened that the three x-men rushed Rogue into the emergency room.

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Storm stood on the same place, on the same floor where Remy had left her. He had ran and made it through the elevator. Now Storm stood alone and rested her head against the wall, her head tilting up and eyes closed tightly. It looked like she was more depressed than afraid, and more of it was not over Rogue's accident. It was something else.

Never mind. I'll take the stairs. Storm arched her eyes and with graceful steps, she went to the stair case and retreated down the stairs.

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"Scott!"

The loud shriek nearly caused Scott to drop the plate but he caught it in mid air before it fell in the dirty pile of dishes. Bobby snapped his head and looked at her with wide blue eyes, Jubilee startled too.

"Jean--"

Jean cut him before he got a chance to speak and Scott held her shoulders before she got the chance to explain. "Scott—huh—something happened to Rogue oh god Something happened to her, I couldn't find her and we went to her—huh-room and we..Scott oh god--"

"Slow down Jean, what happened? What? Now…" Scott shook her with his hands on her shoulders and Jean wiped off sweat from her forehead. Bobby stopped working and came towards them. He did not forget to hold the younger mutant---Jubilee's hand readying her for whatever news they were going to receive.

"We found her body on the floor. And there was blood all over. They-they took her to the ER." Jean gulped down the water that Bobby just handed it to her.

Scott frowned, not forgetting that Rogue was invulnerable. After all, something had been going on between them that Jean had been hiding, she had been acting strange lately. But he did not care right now, they had an x-man down. "Jean. Let's go."

"Wait what about the Professor?" Bobby broke in.

"Professor already knows. He's on his way now." Jean said.

Jubilee clutched to Bobby's arm and bit her lip tightly, and Bobby reassured her by patting her shoulder. "Don't worry Jubes, we still haven't found out what happened."

Together, both of them left for the infirmary after Jean and Scott did.

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"Would anyone mind giving me accurate information that what exactly happened?" Scott asked, standing with his arms crossed on his chest. He looked at Remy who was sitting on the couch with his both hands' fingers entwined as he rested his elbows on his knees. Professor listened quietly, trying to take in what happened and how he was not able to detect Rogue's presence.

Remy jerked his head up at Scott's question and he looked at Jean who was sitting on the couch beside him. Ororo, who stood against the wall beside Scott, noticed Remy clenching his teeth and his jaw tightened.

The few x-men had met there in large, spacious room beside the ER and were now discussing the cause of Rogue's injury. Jean sat on the couch beside Remy with her head in her hands.

"It's better dat y' ask dat question from y' wife." Remy glanced at Jean before looking at Ororo who shook her head to him, signaling him not to pick out any fights at that moment.

The mansion doctors, Beast and Cecilia had not let Jean in the emergency room and insisted that it would be better if she stayed outside. Jean snapped her head at Remy and scowled.

"What do you want from me Remy?" Jean asked, her words sharp and stern.

Scott held his hands up to stop any one of them from speaking. "Waaaait a minute, I think there's more it than I so far know. Jean you need to tell me what happened because I do not have a single clue about what's going on."

Remy started shuffling his cards over and over, his attitude being noticed by every one. Jubilee and Bobby sat on the other sofa set, watching and listening to every tensed x-man in the room.

Taking a long breath before saying anything, Jean started. "Scott I don't know what happened to Rogue, I swear to God I don't know anything except that Rogue was missing and that's when I went to check up on her. That's all I know--"

"Dere's more t' it." Remy leaned back and never took his eyes away from his bostaff that he was shuffling with his nimble fingers.

"You're trying to say that Jean is lying?" Scott's temper was beginning to boil, he himself was not being able to deal with Remy's accusations towards his wife.

"I'm not sayin' dat she's lyin', but somet'ing's missin' 'ere." Remy paused to look at Jean who arched her eyebrows defiantly at him, daring him to ask her whatever he had thought.

"Go 'head Jean, what do y' think is de cause o' Rogue's. It definitely isn' dat someone came t'rough de bat'room window and banged 'er against de floor, last time I saw 'er I knew she was invulnerable." It hurt him as much to say as much it hurt to think about it.

Jean shifted her eyes to look at Professor who had been quiet the whole time, listening to the all the possibilities that might have happened. [Tell them about her powers Jean, now is the best time. We do not know yet…if Rogue will be with us anymore…]

[Alright Professor.] Jean nodded and looked at Scott who urged her to explain them whatever she knew about.

Scott and Remy both looked at Professor, both of their eyes squinting at him, both of them suspecting him to be having knowledge about Rogue's accident that they did not know.

Ororo stood silent, her lips in a pout, and blue eyes glancing at the people in the room every once in a while. She looked at her wrist watch. 4:45. It had been almost two hours, and the doctors were not coming out. Her heart throbbed slowly in her chest whenever her eyes would drift to the disturbing sign 'Emergency Room' glowing in bright red color.

Sighing loudly, Jean nervously tugged a strand of red hair behind her hair and then she was ready to tell them the news. "I feel so sad to be the one telling you this, this was supposed to turn out good…" As her voice quivered, she paused and bit her lip.

"Remy, you remember she came to me this morning?" Jean turned her neck to her right to see Remy nodding slightly.

"Yeah, so…?" Remy said.

Jean gulped and prepared herself to face the outbursts of the x-men after they'd hear the news…especially Remy's. "She told me that she controlled her powers. She touched me Scott, with her uncovered hand."

Remy closed his eyes tightly the instant she said those words, his heart not being able to take so much…Remy buried his head into his hands and his fingers curled around his hair.

On the other hand, gasps were heard from every one in the room except two people, Professor and…Storm.

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A/N: I'm sorry that it's taking longer for me to write whether Rogue is alive or not because first I had decided to let Rogue die…but the reviews somewhat are close to convince me to not let her die…but I'm confused…tell me people, what should I do? I won't forget to thank you guys for the incredible reviews that you've submitted…except it would help a little more if you tell me what to do with Rogue. Ta ta!