Pietro, Blob, Toad, and Risty were sitting in the living room of the brother hood house. Risty visiting Toad. Pietro glared at the Goth. He could tell that she was using Toad to just be able to be here… she knew something fishy was going on between the X-men and the Brother Hood and she pretended to be friends with them to find out what.
Lance was currently in the other room. He had just left to go call Kitty. He had had fun on his date with her and wanted to set up another one. Pietro scowled. ThatdudesgoingtogethimselfintroubleoneofthesedaysbytryingtodateanX-girl! He though while glaring at the kitchen door now.
Not that long after he first went in to call Kitty he came out, his face pale.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Risty asked.
"Could you go home now?" Lance asked her in a shaken sort of way.
"What's going on?" Risty asked, glancing from Lance, to Toad, then back to Lance.
"Yeahman what'sup? Kittyturnyoudownforanotherdate?" Pietro teased.
"Oh, still after Mis. Pryde are you?" Risty asked teasingly. Pietro glared at her again. Howdidsheknowhehadeverwentafterher? Andhowcouldsheunderstandme?!
"Nothing like that… she just got back from a mission." Lance said, plopping down into a rather big chair.
"Yeah, so?" Blob asked in his usual dumb voice.
"Risty, we'd really appreciate it if you left." Lance said suddenly.
Risty put her hands on her hips. "If something went wrong at the Xavier's institute then I want to know about it! They're my friends too!" She said firmly.
"Thengoaskthemaboutit!" Pietro growled. Risty didn't reply though, just glared at Lance.
"HeyBlob, wanttoescortMis. Wildeoutofourhouse?" Pietro asked.
"Come on yo, I'll probably tell her anyway!" Toad defended.
By now Blob had stood up and made his way to Risty. Suddenly her eyes flashed yellow and she glared at the big boy. Then… an all too familiar voice erupted from the teen's mouth. "Something bad's happened at the mansion! I know it!" She had by now walked to Lance and grabbed the stunned boy by the collar and pulled him to his feet. "What happened?!"
"M-m-mystique?!" Pietro questioned, jumping to his feet.
Mystique turned her head in Pietro's direction and he backed away from those fiercely glowing eyes.
"Okay okay I'll tell you! Just calm down!" Lance said, his face having gone even paler. Mystique then let Lance go and he dropped onto the chair again and Mystique's eyes went back to the normal Risty Wilde eyes.
The rest of the Brother Hood looked expectantly at Lance who sighed. "Kitty said that they had just gotten back from a mission. Rogue had been kidnapped and when they found her…" He trailed and winced.
Risty tensed and glared menacingly at him as if telling him he better continue. The other brother hood members began to get worried too. Sure the Goth had left them, but she had been one of them and she always would be, even if she was also an X-man.
"They found her with a knife imbedded in her stomach." Lance finished with a grimace and he flinched away from Mystique whose eyes went wide.
"She'sbeenstabbed?" Pietro asked in surprise.
Lance nodded.
"Is she alright?!" Mystique demanded.
"I don't th- I don't know." Lance amended quickly.
"What were you going to say the first time?!" Mystique demanded, her eyes turning yellow again.
Lance winced again. "I don't think so. Kitty thinks she might be dead." He finished.
There was a long silence. Mystique stood frozen, Lance frightened that Mystique would take anger out on him, Todd's eyes were wide, Pietro just gaped, and Blob looked as if he was about to cry.
"Let's go visit her yo!" Toad said suddenly.
Lance shook his head. "Kitty said that only Ororo, Xavier, and Logan have been able to see her since she left the place."
"Why?!" Mystique asked suddenly.
"Huh?" Lance asked confused.
"Why was she kidnapped? And by who?!" Mystique demanded.
Lance shrugged. "They don't know why. They don't even know anything about her capturers. Logan killed one though… when he saw the condition Rogue was in." Lance replied.
Pietro saw Mystique's lip curl up a bit in satisfaction. She then stood up straight and out of her fighting stance. "I'm staying here until we get more news!" Mystique demanded.
"Heeeeeey guys!" It was Tabitha. Mystique instantly shifted back to Risty and she glared at the boys.
Tabby walked into the room. "Oh, hi Risty. What are you doing here?" She asked.
Blob opened his mouth to speak but Mystique beat him to it. "Just visiting Toad. My family's out of town though and I'm going to be sticking here for a couple of days." She then added a little venomously. "I didn't know you were staying here."
Tabby shrugged. "Xavier's institute didn't work for me." She said. "Well, I'm going to my room. Don't know where you plan to sleep." Tabby then turned and walked away.
"Is she occupying my room?!"
Toad gulped.
She is?!" Mystique demanded.
"She blew the door down!" Blob said.
"You let her stay in my room?!"
"Not like we thought you were coming back!" Lance retorted.
"What was that?" Mystique demanded.
"You disappeared! What were we suppose to do?!" Lance growled.
Mystique shifted into her blue form and began to ascend the stairs. Toad quickly followed after her.
"So, Roguey's dying?" Pietro asked.
"Or dead." Lance replied, turning to the silver haird boy. "Kitty says that she looked pretty dead to her when they found her and Scott; who had been holding her; was covered in her blood. Kitty sounded pretty depressed though and I could only just barely understand her."
"But they don't know if she's dead?" Blob asked in a concerned voice.
Lance shook his head. "They haven't been allowed to see her."
The boys were then silent. The silence was soon broken though by some screaming and then a loud 'Boom!' The boys then ran up the stairs to separate the women. When they got upstairs though the room was basically demolished from Boom Boom's bombs… but Boom Boom herself was unconscious on the floor and Mystique was hovering over her.
"That's what you get for blowing up my room!" Mystique growled. She was going to continue but Pietro picked Tabby up and in a gust of wind he was gone so Mystique couldn't do to her what someone had done to Rogue.
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"How're we going to tell them Chuck?" A gruff voice broke through the silence. The three other adults looked up at the grief stricken Canadian.
In the middle of the four was a table and a two tone haird girl lay limply on it. Her wrists were thickly bandaged and so was her stomach. Her skin was as pale as snow but her blood stained clothes had been removed and replaced with a night gown. Her face was washed and so were her arms and stomach. There was no blood to be seen now, though they knew she was missing plenty. That was exactly why a tube ran from Logan's arm and into Rogue's.
Xavier looked around at his workers. It was hard to believe what had just happened. How or why this had happened was still a secret to them. It was like someone had just broken glass though, as if they had all lived in a little glass world where everything was perfect. They got action but not too much. No one was ever seriously wounded and they even had peaceful moments, nearly normal. Suddenly it had been broken though. Even Charles felt frightened. He didn't feel as safe as he used to.
Charles folded his hands and rested his head on it but kept his eyes on the limp figure of Rogue.
"I don't know Logan, I just don't know."
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Okay… enough dragging this out. Next chapter is the last… and you'll find out when your dying to find out. lol.
Anyway… keep your eyes pealed for my new story pwease. It should be coming out the same day the last chapter of this day so… yeah
Cinderelly: I didn't seriously make you cry did I?! . Sorry if I did.
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