Author's notes: Hey, thanks everyone for the reviews! And since I have absolutely no life today because it is Labor Day (What a great holiday, don't you agree?) I'm going to thank all of you individually!
Mutant Fangirl: Thanx for the review, it's much appreciated! I was a little afraid no one would catch on to the whole foreshadowing of the two of hearts. To answer your question, I don't know who the mutant Rogue was fighting was I kinda made him up. Thanx again and please keep reviewing with suggestions and such.
Carla-p: Thank you for reviewing my story. I'm glad you liked it. I tried to capture Rogue's personality the best I could. So as Eeyore says, "Thanks for noticing!" Please keep reviewing and reading!
Smirnoff Ice Lover: Thank you for the brutal honesty, as much as it hurt I'm glad you pointed it out. In fact if you go back to chapter one, you'll see I edited it the best I could according to your suggestions. Thank you so much for review, please keep reviewing and keeping me in line! Thanks a bundle! And just for you honesty, I'm dedicating this chapter to you! Please enjoy!
Panther Nesmith: Thank you for the review and as requested, Here is more!
butt monkeys: Thank you for reviewing, and here's the update, only a day after the first story was posted, pretty good, huh?
Caliente: Thank you for the review! The fight thing just seemed like the Rogue thing to do. Please keep reading. I hope I don't disappoint you!
ishandahalf: Here you go, though no Remy this chappie, I promise he will be in the next chapter with all his hunkiness! Please don't give upon me though and keep reviewing!
Sarah-Crysala: Sorry, not a lot of new info in this chapter but it helps set up the plot, I will try to comply with your demands in the next chapter though.
Thanks again everyone! Love ya lots for reviewing. Please feel free to flame me when ever, I can take the heat. I don't believe that this it the best chapter but I promise to make it better and repost it if that is everyone's general concenus (Ooooooo! Such big words!). On with the story!
Dedication: To SmirnoffIce Lover for the blunt honesty!
Memories of YouDarkness, it had always been near and dear to her heart. Where everyone else found the void cold and unfeeling, she had found it warm, comforting, and even inviting. It was in the darkness that Rogue felt most at peace. The blackness seemed so unreal, so unearthly. In reality, she could never be touched, never be loved, her entire life had been a cauldron of rejection and uncaring. But here, in sleep she was wanted, caressed, and adored. Here amongst her imagination, nothing was missing, nothing was astray, and she was able to be herself. It was here, in the void, that she was free. But all good things must come to an end sooner or later, and dreams are no exception. Like a mirror, the intrusive and harsh rays of light, and a whirlwind of terrifying memories of hers as well as those of her victims shattered Rogue's dream of darkness.
Slowly opening her eyes and grumbling at having to wake up at all, Rogue sat up looking at the room around her.
"Where the hell am I?" she breathed angrily. The room was ordinary enough with silhouettes of a bamboo grove painted against a pleasantly lighter green on the walls. Rogue was lying on a four-poster bed that was a deep mahogany color and had a canopy with a black mesh material hanging from it. The pillows and sheets that Rogue was enfolded in were black as well but the sheets were toped by an emerald green comforter. The window coverings and the window seat cushion were black as well. There were hints of the accent color everywhere you look as well as the staple color of green. The entire room color scheme tied in very nicely. It was the kind of room Rogue had always dreamed of having, only one problem, it wasn't hers at all.
Getting up quickly, she ran to the door only to find it locked. 'Shit!' she screamed in her head, 'Okay Rogue, Calm down. What you need, sugar, is a plan of escape.' Looking around, she spotted the windows and nearly yelled in happiness and hit herself in the head for forgetting about them. Running over to one of the three windows she positioned herself on the window seat and opened the window without any resistance. Looking down to see how far she would have to jump/ climb to get to firm ground, she gasped at what she saw. The only thing below Rogue's room was about a 100-foot drop to rocks and the ocean. Even if she levitated herself out the window and down to the ocean, she didn't know which way land was, or even how far away it was. A knock at the door broke Rogue from her thoughts of horror and inability to escape. Turning around and preparing for a fight, she watched the door open to reveal Mystic.
"You've got to be kidding me! I gave up a nice soothing nightmare for you! I should have known you were behind this! You just can't stand to see me happy with the X-men, can you? You always have to try and ruin all that's good in decent in my life! Why can't you just leave me the hell alone?"
"Because I love you Rogue," Mystic said coolly, " And I know that you love me too, I am the only mother you have."
"Your not my mama, hell, you've never been my mama! Irene was the one who took care of me and raised me! You just pretended to be there!"
"Don't talk to me like that, honey," Mystic replied slightly irritably.
"Don't talk to me at all, snake!" Rogue yelled angrily, "Why can't you just leave me and Kurt alone? Why can't you just let us accept that you can't control us and have no place in our lives anymore?"
"Because, my dear, a mother is never truly out of a child's life, they are always there in some matter or another."
" The only way that you are still in Kurt and my own lives is you haunt our nightmares!"
"Shut up! Really Rogue, what have I ever done to you to make you so angry at me?"
"How can you even ask that? You manipulated and lied to me! You destroyed who I was for you own twisted purposes! You never cared about who I was or what kind of person I'd become! All you ever cared about was what kind of power I'd have and how it could effect your plan!"
"Are you quite finished now?"
"You wish I was I have so much shit on you it ain't even funny!"
"Well, too bad because I'm cutting you off. Soon, you won't remember any of this. And you and I will be working hand in hand."
"Come again?" Rogue asked confused tilting her head slightly.
" Soon I will make all those bad memories go away."
"Thanks, but no thanks I rather like remembering why I loathe and despise you. It keeps me from ever joining you."
"But you see that is why I need those memories gone. Rogue I need you willing, devotedly helping me in order to accomplish my goals."
"That's something else about you I hate, it's always about you. Can't you ever think about someone else's well being besides your own?"
"No one but you matters."
"Yeah, right, whatever."
"Well as much as I would adore continuing this discussion, we need to get to work erasing your thoughts.'
"Not if I have any say in this whole thing," Rouge said under her breath before reaching up with a bare hand and touched Mystic's face.
"Rogue, my dear, did you really think I can unprepared?"
"Wha-, ahhhhhhh!" Rogue screamed in pain as an electric bolt sent Rogue flying into a wall.
"Really, Rogue, I can't believe that you thought escape would be that easy." Mystic said while slowly walking up to Rogue's limp form.
"I didn't," Rogue breathed before pouncing on Mystic and catching her by surprise, " you don't know how long I've wanted to do this," Rogue smiled wrathfully and started to punch her opponent, "This is for Kurt! This is for all those lies! This is for manipulating me! This is for never caring! This is for ruining Kurt's life! And this, this is for ruining my life!" Rogue said knocking the blue shape shifter unconscious, "Anger issues? What anger issues?" she said getting up and searching her "mother" for the keys. Leaving through the door and locking it securely behind her Rogue shape shifted into Mystic's form and attempted to search for whatever exit she could find.