~Okay… I know I haven't updated in forever, but please forgive me. School started, and it will take up a lot of my time. Not to mention that I also have two other stories I'm working on. *pants* I'm just 'busy'! lol Pwease forgive me.~

Scott drove the vehicle in his X-men uniform. They were still looking for Rogue. Cerybro couldn't pick her up, and everyone knew that she wouldn't use her powers unless it was 'extremely' important or an accident. So after a quick scan, they decided to just search for her; Jean and the professor scanning the areas.

The professor was in the car with him, so was Kurt and Kitty. Jean, Evan, Ororo, and Logan were in the other. They were all pretty weird. Kurt was being freakily quiet and so was Kitty. They both just watched as the professor frequently put his hands to his temple and concentrated.

After a particularly long one, Scott asked, "Any trace professor?"

"Not sure. Continue to the next town. I thought I found something that might be her, but it was too far to be sure." Xavier replied. "I'm going to see if Jean's had any luck."

"Use the communicator prof. Don't wear yourself out anymore then you have to." Scott said, trying to make himself worry about anything other then the missing rogue.

That was difficult though. What if something bad happened to her? And why was she missing? Could she have been kidnapped? It just didn't sound like her. She was a tough girl, tougher then him. Could she have run off though? He had been a bit of a pest to her hadn't he? She could have just run off, couldn't she?

_Sorry Scott, you're thinking kind of loudly. You all are actually, but to answer you're question, I don't think that she could have. She'd have to have moved on foot and she couldn't get that far very fast._ The Professors voice said into his mind.

_She could have hitch hiked…_ Scott replied hopefully.

_Yes, she could have..._ The professor agreed.

They continued to ride in silence in the direction the professor had told Scott to go.

After a bit the Professor searched again. After a short moment, his eyes snapped open. "I've found her!" He exclaimed.

"You found her?!" Scott asked excitedly.

"Yes, continue to the next town. She's in the outskirts." Xavier replied. He then pulled out the communicator.

"Did you find her chuck?" Logan's gruff voice called through the communicator.

"Yes. Jean knows where I am. Follow her directions." Xavier replied.

"Okay, but when you found Rogue, could you see her? How's she doing?" Logan asked.

"I could see her. She has indeed been captured…" A low growl could be heard. "and it looks as if they've roughed her up a bit."

Scott swerved slightly and Logan's growl got louder. "She's close, right?" Logan asked.

"Fairly." Xavier answered calmly. "Just follow us." Xavier then clicked the communicator off.

"Is she going to be alright?" Kitty asked in a small voice.

"Yeah, vhat's going on? Vhy did someone kidnap Rogue?" Kurt asked.

Xavier shook his head. "I do not know yet Kurt, but Kitty, I'm sure she'll be fine. It looks as if she got in a fight's all." Xavier assured.

Kitty smiled faintly and nodded.

Scott didn't do or say anything. His heart was pounding in his chest. He was so worried about Rogue! She would be fine though. The professor was right. They'd find her, help her out, and they'd leave. Everything would be okay; it'd be just fine. This was nothing, just another mission.

'Then why am I so scared?!'

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"Remind me again what was on that disk!"

"Everything sir! Our locations, the people we're black-mailing, what we're black-mailing them with, and our connections to them. We lost all our workers!"

Her head throbbed in pain and her body felt rusted over as she heard the voices converse. Her cheek hurt really badly and it felt as if metal was cutting into her wrists.

"And now Mystique has all of it!" A man growled in anger making Rogue flinch. The man had been Sandy.

"Sir, she's awake." The woman said.

There was a moment of silence, then Rogue felt a gloved hand grab her neck. She was then being shook and the metal cut deeper into her wrists and she felt blood trickle down her arm.

Rogue opened her eyes to look into the brown eyes of Sandy. She was in an upright position; limp; but the metal shackles on her wrists held her up. She quickly put her weight on her shackled legs to relieve the stress on her wrists. Blood immediately began to run down her arms, but she ignored it and kept her eyes on the man in front of her.

"Where's Mystique and stop playing around!" Sandy growled, his hand tightening around her neck.

"Ah don't know!" Rogue growled.

With another growl, Sandy's hand tightened even more, to the point that she couldn't breathe. She tried futilely to catch her breath, but Sandy wouldn't loosen his grip. She began to wriggle, but Sandy just pushed her against the wall behind her and continued to hold her there.

Finally, when Rogue felt as if she was about to faint, the pressure was relieved and she gasped for air. Sandy then left her for a second and when he turned around he was holding a long knife.

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Logan watched the telepath out of the corner of his eye. She was concentrating so she could give him directions. He wished she'd hurry. Rogue was like a daughter to him and if anything happened to her…

He shook his head. 'Don't be thinking like that Logan. She's a tough girl, she'll take care of herself.' He assured himself.

"Turn left here." Jean said a bit weakly. She was exerting herself. Logan wondered why. Her and Rogue had never been close and as far as Logan knew, they both had reason to not like each other.

He had caught wind of the rumor about Scott turning Jean down. That had shocked him! He figured Jean just had needed a reason to use her powers on something, and now that she had something to use it on, she was over using it.

Logan shook his head as he began to worry about Rogue again. 'She's gonna be fine!'

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"You injured me, you injured my men, don't think I won't do it!" Sandy said, beckoning toward the knife in his hand.

"Ah don't know where she is!" Rogue yelled.

Sandy didn't listen. He walked toward her and held the tip of the blade to her stomach. "For the last time, where's Mystique?" He demanded.

"Fer the last tihme, Ah don't know!" Rogue replied, not taking her cold green eyes off of Sandy's. She could feel the blade against her stomach. She didn't want to provoke him, but she knew that if he was going to do it she knew she wanted it to happen because she wounded his ego.

He pushed the tip just enough to pierce skin and Rogue winced in pain.

A hand landed on Sandy's shoulder. Rogue traced it to the face of the woman she had fought. "We have intruders! They all seem to have powers, and they even have a monster, look!" The woman said hastily.

Sandy glanced at what the woman was looking at. "How much time till they get here?" He asked, eyes suddenly on Rogue again.

"Five minutes. Ten if we're lucky." The woman replied.

"Alright, go, I'll be behind you." Sandy replied, but his eyes still didn't leave Rogue. The woman left though.

"And that's Kurt isn't it? The monster, the freak, the demon, and the son of a de-" He stopped as Rogue, without thinking, spit in his face.

Sandy's face went red and with a single fierce movement, the blade of the knife was thrust into Rogue's stomach. She gasped in pain and stood, paralyzed, knowing every movement would cause her pain.

"Two choices…" Sandy said hurriedly. "make this more painful," He continued, beginning to slowly turn the knife. Rogue hissed in pain, clenched her jaw, and closed her eyes tightly as if to block out the pain. Her eyes began to water as he continued to turn the blade agonizingly slow. "Or I could finish it quickly. Tell me where Mystique is!" He finished.

Rogue didn't answer him; she felt that if she eased any part of her body, she'd begin crying. Tears of pain where already streaming down her face. She didn't want him to see her cry!

"They're close!" He whispered urgently. She then heard him run away, leaving Rogue, now limp in the shackles, a knife embedded in her stomach.

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They had split up. Kurt with Scott, Kitty with Jean and Evan, Ororo and Xavier, then Logan. They were all searching for the Goth. The place they found her at was nearly completely deserted. Logan had found one guy who had admitted to helping in Rogue's capture, but that all he had done was drive the vehicle and wasn't even told why she was being kidnapped.

Kurt was holding onto Scott's shoulder teleporting him from room to room. So far they hadn't found anything. Kurt had been teleporting them in and out of rooms and they hadn't found a single thing.

Finally they came to a rather large room. Kurt was the first to see her, and Scott heard him gasp in horror. Scott quickly followed his gaze and saw what Kurt was looking at. His heart stopped as he looked at her. Blood was slowly trickling down her arm from her wrist, her cheek had a huge bruise, but the worst thing, the thing that sent a cold chill throughout his whole body was the handle protruding from her stomach.

"Rogue!" Kurt called out, running to her side and staring at the wound as if sickened. He looked away, but looked extremely pained. Her eyes were shut and Scott wondered if she even knew that they were there. He couldn't move though, and his eyes were glued to the teen, even though he was begging himself to look away. He could hear his heart pounding in his chest, he couldn't feel his legs at all, and his throat was so dry that he couldn't speak. 

"Scott…" Kurt begged, looking away from the Goth.

Scott understood what Kurt was asking and he forced himself to approach the girl. As he approached he noticed her cheek glistened and realized that tears had come down her face. A rage began to burn in his chest as he stood only a little away from Rogue.

He aimed at the shackles on her feet first and broke them. He then broke the one's holding onto her wrists. She immediately began to fall forward and as Scott caught her, a scream of pain escaped her lips but she remained limp and Scott followed her to the ground, holding her tightly.

As soon as he was on the ground holding her, he turned her over onto her back and she whimpered in pain. Her eyes were open and he noticed that she tried to smile at him, but couldn't force a smile onto her lips. It would have reassured him, but he could see it in her eyes that she was already fading.

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Yes, I know you are all hating me right now… you can flame me.. I'll understand. lol.

SugarSweet11, lildaisygirl24, and many others, thank you for telling me about the episode. Even though I wanted to see it though.. I still missed it. *slaps forhead*

 Terminatrix T-X: An axel kick? It's like a round house kick, but when you're aiming for something on the ground. It's for kicking people who are down. I'm not very good at describing those things though. Lol. Sorry.

Sorry that I'm not replying to all, but I have to get off the computer.

^Crysala^