Rogue, A Crowd Of Her Own

Author: Icy Flame
Chapter Four

"Who, may I ask, was the one who took Miss Maximoff's pulse?" Beast inquired, turning to the boys. They didn't answer at once, all looking quite drawn out over the death of their teammate, and sister. Slowly Todd stepped forward, removing himself from Wanda's prone form, and raising his hand.

"Ah yes well mister Tolensky I believe we need to have a discussion about the art of first aid."

"What are you getting at Hairball?" Pietro spat infuriated, and slowly. Never a good sign. Whenever Pietro felt the need to slow down it never resulted positively, at least not for the other person.

His twin was dead and all this asshole could think about was that Toad needed lessons in first aid? He grumbled to himself and glared at the blue haired man. Weren't they always saying what good people they were? Weren't they always blathering on about how much more high and mightier they were the Brotherhood? How can they hold them selves in such opinions when they clearly were heartless monsters? Where the fuck do they get off pulling shit like this? It just wasn't right. He couldn't lose his sister this way. They were supposed to live forever. How could she leave him? Why? Why did she leave him? Didn't she see that he still needed her? That she couldn't leave yet? Not yet. Not ever.

"What the hell are you going on about! My- sister-just-died-and-your-lecturing-about-first-aid-lessons! What-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you?"

Beast had the grace to look abashed. A light purple coloring filling his cheeks as he gazed at the albino colored boy. Shaking his head, he sighed, placing a hand on the younger male's shoulder only to have it shoved off.

"Don't EVER touch me!"

Beast made no reply to the order, somewhat taken aback from the gesture.

"It seems young mister Maximoff that mister Tolensky won't be the only one joining me."

"What!"

"Haven't you ever had first aid in health class before boys?"

Having received a look that said, 'Are you on crack?' he just shook his head once more. Pietro was fed up this was just ridiculous. Pietro saw red. His anger began to raise, heart rate elevating higher than humanly possible. Turning in the blink of an eye, he rammed his fist into the wall right beside Dr. McCoy's head, leaving a fist sized imprint.

Beast didn't even blink at the arm right next to his head.

"Mister Maximoff you sister is not at all deceased."

Pietro jerked up and looked straight at him, blinking rapidly. Taking it as a sign that he held his attention, Hank continued to explain himself.

"Mister Tolensky merely misplaced his hand, missing any pulse due to the areas he measured having no main arties or veins. In retrospect it was quite a sad attempt, however valiant."

"You mean my sister isn't dead!" Pietro gave paused, letting this concept overwhelm him. Then he turned towards Todd, "I'm-going-to-kill-you!"

Said mutant let out a high pitch squeal as he took to the ceiling. Pietro didn't let that get to him, speeding at the wall he traveled up it and onto the ceiling alongside Todd. Grabbing the green-tinted mutant and returning to the ground, he began to throttle the younger teen. Beast was about to intervene between them when Lance stepped in front of him.

"What's wrong with Wanda then?" Lance asked, skeptical of Beast's examination. The battling duo had disappeared when Hank pushed past Lance to separate the two boys.

Quicksilver appeared in the room not a second later, grinning like the loon he was, Todd's shouts having ceased. Although a banging sound from the hallway continued. Xavier decided to not ask which room Todd had been locked in, returning his attention to the matter at hand.

"She has a pulse. Miss Maximoff merely fainted, due to a lack of energy. She over drew her powers and as a result was unable to support her body any longer. A few days of rest will recuperate young Miss Maximoff and then she'll be as fit as a fiddle!" Beast grinned, baring his fangs slightly. Pietro just jerked his head in a nod and then sped over to the chair nearest his sister's bed.

Lance and Freddy were at a lost as to what they should do. Neither wanted to join Pietro on his bedside campaign for Wanda but they didn't want to explore the mansion and run into X-geeks either. Sighing they were about to sit down when Xavier cleared his throat.

"There are some questions I would like to ask you two, if that's alright?" Charles hinted, motioning for them to follow him. Scrunching his nose Fred followed, Lance glancing once back at Pietro before following Xavier also.

Scene Change

Scott scrubbed at his car, murmuring about new recruits and their disrespect for other people's things. He swore to avenge his car as he scrubbed a muddy paw print off it. If he were a normal teenager, he would expect the mark to be from a pet. Being a mutant, the mark was more likely to be from a fellow student. After his speech with Jean he'd decided to take a drive, only to discover his beloved covered in paw prints.

"Whoa Scott, v'at did your car ever do to you?" Everyone's favorite fuzzy elf asked.

Scott looked at where was scrubbing and noticed that'd he been washing the same area for tens minutes. In fact, the entire car was cleaned.

When the professor had told everyone to stay out of the main hallways he had decided to stay in the garage to clean up his vehicle. When he'd found the lovely new mud job someone had applied to the car he'd set about perfecting her once more... that had been a few hours ago.

"Oh"

"So v'hat v'ere you thinking about mien freund?"

"I…it's nothing Kurt." When he received a disbelieving look, he continued. "Really, why don't we go get some gut bombs?"

Kurt nodded, making a mental note to ask Scott later about his problem. He let the lie pass and ported into the passenger seat. After all, he never turned down an offer for food.

Scott sighed, and ran a hand through his hair making it rumbled. How can you tell your best friend that you were upset because his mother was staying with them? Scott started the engine and peeled out of the driveway. There was no way that he could cautiously go about and say 'Hey Kurt what's really bothering me is that Mystique, your mother, you know the woman who tried to kill me a few weeks back? Yea well her staying at my home kind of gets on my nerves? You understand right buddy?'

What kind of position would that put the elf-like teen in? Choosing between his friends and his biological mother. Scott remembered all to well what happened last time that Kurt wanted more answers about his past. He was willing to risk his safety and meet Raven alone at a construction sight only to be trapped by the Brotherhood. If the X-Men hadn't have shown up then they just might be one elf short today. Shaking off his morbid thoughts, Scott plastered on a fake grin and laughed at the joke Kurt just told.

Scene Change

Rogue was coming around. Her vision was blurry. There seemed to be a light at some far off point. Shaking her head to clear her sight, she stood up. Rogue placed her hand on the wall as she steadied herself, when she realized that the surface under her hand was jagged. Exploring the texture better she figured it must be rock, the temperature was low and had a layer of condensation on it. Holding back a shiver at the horror-movie environment, she began to move forward.

"Damn this place is creepy. Almost like that fieldtrip."

The room seemed to swirl as memories of her past over took Rogue's senses. There was a flash of visions before her eyes. A women was coming at her, a women who had blue skin. There was a boy there too. He looked to be around seventeen, and had brown hair. He was hanging off the edge of a cliff. The vision flew past her as she saw the boy coming up fast, as if she had jumped. A bird cawed and took off into the air.

The sight disappeared before her eyes, like a dream. Rogue shivered, crept out by the memory. Who were those people? And why did she remember that?

"Why the hell did you make me see that?"

Sighing, Rogue began her journey forward; the walls of the room seemed to give as she pushed against them. Do rocks normally allow you to pass? Another memory seemed to keep along her senses, yes she knew a girl who could pass through anything. But how was that possible? Giving up trying to chase phantom notions, she walked faster. There seemed to be a figure standing in the distance.

End Scene

Note

Some reviewers questioned the affects the lack of oxygen would have on Wanda. She never stopped breathing, only Todd checked her, and he was wrong. Wanda merely passed out from over taxing her energy.