So sorry for the delay, everyone! I was on vacation and just got back today...thought I'd update. ;)
A general disclaimer: the X-Men belong to Marvel, X-Men Evolution belongs to...whoever owns it...in any case, I don't own anyone mentioned within this text.
Author's note: Break it down...I'm not exactly sure the time in which my events take place, it may jump around from season to season, unintentionally, please don't hurt me on that account. I should state now that Rogue/Gambit is my OTP, but that doesn't mean I can't do Rogue/Scott (although I'm not a huge fan). Something I'm even a less of a fan of is Scott/Jean, but that could be popping up in here, too. Someone pointed out to me that in terms of Evolution, Rogue/Scott *is* canon...
Well, whichever, hope you enjoy. If you don't, feel free to flame me. I'll probably deserve it.
NeoVenus22
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Whatever Happens, Happens
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Chapter Four: What Kurt Saw
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There was a knock at Kurt's door, and he'd barely had time to ask them in before Kitty phased through. "You won't *believe* it," she said eagerly, plopping herself down on the bed.
"Vhat?" he asked, spinning around in his desk chair. Kitty was infinitely more entertaining than complex functions.
"Well, you know how Jean was supposed to help me with my homework, and she, like, totally disappeared? Well, *apparently* Rogue and Scott were having a little heart-to-heart in the library, and Jean was totally listening in!" Kitty looked almost gleeful with this news.
It was a lot for Kurt to digest, however. "Vait. Rogue? And Scott?"
"Yeah."
"And Jean was eavesdropping?"
"Yeah!"
"You're kidding, right?"
"I am totally not kidding. Rogue told me everything. And then, Scott came by our room a little while ago, and he and Rogue took off."
"Vhere?"
"I dunno, for a walk or something. Jean's gonna go *ballistic* when she finds out!"
"Vhy?" Kurt asked. "I mean, she's got Duncan, right?"
"Right, but you know she thinks she's got some kind of claim on Scott, too." Kitty stuck out her tongue. "I like Jean and all, but that's totally not fair. As far as I'm concerned, more power to Rogue."
"Vhat is that supposed to mean?" Kurt asked. "Does Rogue like Scott or something?"
"You are *such* a *guy*," Kitty said, blowing strands of hair off her face in exasperation.
There was a rap at the door. "Come in," Kurt said, glaring at Kitty.
Jean's head poked through, and immediately Kitty was wearing a guilty expression, as to fully let Jean know that they'd been talking about her. Kurt wanted to kick Kitty, but he just looked at Jean. "Vhat?" he asked pleasantly.
It took Jean a moment to tear her eyes away from Kitty's face (Kitty, who was staunchly staring at Kurt's bedspread), but finally she looked to Kurt. "Uh...dinner," she said, suddenly remembering what she'd come for. "Dinner's in a few minutes. The Professor wanted me to get you."
"Ve'll be right down," Kurt assured her.
Jean attempted a smile, but left quickly.
"Keety!" Kurt admonished. "You could be a little nicer to Jean, you know."
"But I like, didn't do anything!" Kitty said.
Kurt rolled his eyes, sprung himself from his chair, landed neatly on the bed, took Kitty's hand, and in a cloud of smoke, teleported downstairs.
They ended up in the kitchen, where Evan and Ororo were taking plates into the dining room to set the table. "Need some help?" Kurt asked, and took a handful of silverware.
As the X-Men assembled in the dining room for dinner, Professor Xavier surveyed the table and noticed they were two team members short. "Has anyone seen Scott or Rogue?" he asked.
Kitty glanced at Kurt, even more quickly did her eyes dart to Jean, and she said, "They went off for a walk."
"Jean, could you scan the perimeter for them?" the Professor said.
"No!" Jean said, too quickly, and everyone turned to look at her. "I...uh...I mean...um...I could...could you do it, Professor? I'm sort of tired."
"Very well," Xavier answered, putting his fingers to his temples and closing his eyes. When he opened them again, he looked to Kurt. "They're out in the woods, up on the hill," he said. "Could you fetch them, Kurt?"
"Sure thing, Professor," Kurt said, and within a matter of seconds, he was positioned in a tree at the very edge of the woods, scanning the ground below him.
"Promise me we'll always be friends, okay?" he heard Rogue's Southern drawl.
Kurt had a feeling he should wait a second, and wondered if this was what happened to Jean, that she'd just ended up accidentally listening in. Jean didn't seem like the type to purposely eavesdrop. Either or, he leaned his head over to see around the branch. After a short pause, Scott stepped closer to Rogue and said, "I promise."
And then he kissed her.
Kurt nearly fell out of the tree. Fortunately, he'd secured his tail around the branch upon his arrival, and he straightened himself, still craning his neck to see what was going on.
The air around Scott and Rogue crackled somewhat, then Scott went pale. Had Kurt been able to see his eyes, he guessed he would have seen them rolling back in his head. He fell to the ground slowly, and Rogue's newly acquired optic blasts proceeded to flare straight through a tree. Kurt waited half a second, then teleported down to the ground.
"Rogue?" he said. "The Professor sent me to get you and Scott for dinner..." He trailed off when he saw Scott on the ground. "Vhat happened?" he said, deciding to feign ignorance. If Rogue didn't want to tell, she didn't have to.
Rogue turned to look at him, her eyes blazing red, but she blinked and shook her head slightly, and they were back to their normal hue. "Ah--" she said, but was cut off when the tree whose trunk she had sliced through started to topple.
"Timber!" Kurt yelped, bending and scooping up Scott in one arm, grabbing hold of Rogue with his free hand, and teleporting back to the mansion.
He collapsed in the doorway to the dining room, Scott being pure dead weight, and considerably heavy. Rogue, looking disoriented, leaned against the doorframe, while Kurt dropped to the floor, his arm around Scott's waist.
The able-bodied at the table all jumped to their feet when they saw the arrival. "What happened here?" Ororo asked. Rogue helped Kurt to his feet, and Logan picked up the unconscious Scott.
"It was mah fault," Rogue said hurriedly, though she looked a bit stunned. "Scott accidentally...he touched me...an'...Ah knocked down a tree, Professor, sorry..."
"I'll take him down to the Med Bay," Logan said gruffly, and left before anyone could protest that Scott should wake up soon.
"You absorbed Scott's powers?" the Professor said.
"Yeah, an' Ah sliced through a tree before Ah could control it," she said, looking at the ground sheepishly. "Ah'll clean it up later."
"Don't worry about it," he answered. "How do you feel, Rogue, okay?"
She glanced off in the direction where Logan had carried Scott, then glanced at Jean, then finally stared at the floor. "Yeah. Ah'm okay."
"Do you want to go lie down?"
"No..." she looked up sharply at Jean again. "Then again, Ah am kinda tired. Not from absorbin' Scott or nothin', just tired. Save me some chicken, Ah'll reheat it later or somethin'."
"Okay," the Professor said, and as Rogue turned away, the Professor, Evan, Ororo and Jean returned to the table. Kurt, however, watched Rogue go, and after a moment, became aware of Kitty standing behind him.
"What, like, happened out there?" Kitty said in a low voice.
"I'll--" Kurt began, then changed his mind. He shook his head and smiled at Kitty in a disarmingly jovial way. "Nothing, I suppose. I don't know. Vhen I got there, Scott was down, and I only barely got them out of the vay of that falling tree."
"But, like, Rogue's gloves were on just now," Kitty said, frowning.
"I'm not a mind-reader, Keety," Kurt said. "That's Jean and the Prof, remember? Let's eat. I'm starving." Still keeping up the cheerfully clueless routine, he took his usual seat at the table and began to dig into his plate.
He figured that if Rogue was going to make up a story, then that meant she wanted to keep it secret, and Kurt saw no reason why he should reveal the truth. He wasn't totally sure what had happened in the woods leading up to what he'd seen, but he knew that no matter what had happened, someone was going to get hurt. Jean, Scott, Rogue...he didn't want any of them to be hurt, but Rogue least of all. They'd all been through a lot, they'd go through a lot more, but Rogue had been through the most, and wasn't as resilient as either Scott or Jean.
Throughout dinner, he was aware of both Kitty and Jean staring at him, but he pretended like he didn't notice, and the second dinner was over, he teleported to his room.
A few minutes later, someone knocked at the door. "I'm busy," he called out, turning the page in his math book, not really wanting to answer any questions.
Kitty phased through the wall. Kurt jumped. "Jeez, Keety, I could have been naked or something!" he yelped.
Kitty reached over and slammed his book shut. "I want answers, and I want them now. What happened out there?"
"I told you, I don't know," he said. "Vhen I got there, Scott was already out cold."
Her eyes narrowed. "I don't believe you."
"Believe vhat you vant to believe, I'm just telling you vhat I saw," he said resolutely. He paused. "Vhy don't you go bother Rogue?"
Kitty stuck out her tongue. "She's already gone to bed."
"Lucky her," Kurt said, and Kitty groaned loudly, phasing through the floor.
Kurt glanced at his math book; he still had a few problems left to do. But he knew he wasn't really going to be able to concentrate. So he just went to bed instead. Avoidance was working for Rogue, why not him?
A general disclaimer: the X-Men belong to Marvel, X-Men Evolution belongs to...whoever owns it...in any case, I don't own anyone mentioned within this text.
Author's note: Break it down...I'm not exactly sure the time in which my events take place, it may jump around from season to season, unintentionally, please don't hurt me on that account. I should state now that Rogue/Gambit is my OTP, but that doesn't mean I can't do Rogue/Scott (although I'm not a huge fan). Something I'm even a less of a fan of is Scott/Jean, but that could be popping up in here, too. Someone pointed out to me that in terms of Evolution, Rogue/Scott *is* canon...
Well, whichever, hope you enjoy. If you don't, feel free to flame me. I'll probably deserve it.
NeoVenus22
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Whatever Happens, Happens
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Chapter Four: What Kurt Saw
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There was a knock at Kurt's door, and he'd barely had time to ask them in before Kitty phased through. "You won't *believe* it," she said eagerly, plopping herself down on the bed.
"Vhat?" he asked, spinning around in his desk chair. Kitty was infinitely more entertaining than complex functions.
"Well, you know how Jean was supposed to help me with my homework, and she, like, totally disappeared? Well, *apparently* Rogue and Scott were having a little heart-to-heart in the library, and Jean was totally listening in!" Kitty looked almost gleeful with this news.
It was a lot for Kurt to digest, however. "Vait. Rogue? And Scott?"
"Yeah."
"And Jean was eavesdropping?"
"Yeah!"
"You're kidding, right?"
"I am totally not kidding. Rogue told me everything. And then, Scott came by our room a little while ago, and he and Rogue took off."
"Vhere?"
"I dunno, for a walk or something. Jean's gonna go *ballistic* when she finds out!"
"Vhy?" Kurt asked. "I mean, she's got Duncan, right?"
"Right, but you know she thinks she's got some kind of claim on Scott, too." Kitty stuck out her tongue. "I like Jean and all, but that's totally not fair. As far as I'm concerned, more power to Rogue."
"Vhat is that supposed to mean?" Kurt asked. "Does Rogue like Scott or something?"
"You are *such* a *guy*," Kitty said, blowing strands of hair off her face in exasperation.
There was a rap at the door. "Come in," Kurt said, glaring at Kitty.
Jean's head poked through, and immediately Kitty was wearing a guilty expression, as to fully let Jean know that they'd been talking about her. Kurt wanted to kick Kitty, but he just looked at Jean. "Vhat?" he asked pleasantly.
It took Jean a moment to tear her eyes away from Kitty's face (Kitty, who was staunchly staring at Kurt's bedspread), but finally she looked to Kurt. "Uh...dinner," she said, suddenly remembering what she'd come for. "Dinner's in a few minutes. The Professor wanted me to get you."
"Ve'll be right down," Kurt assured her.
Jean attempted a smile, but left quickly.
"Keety!" Kurt admonished. "You could be a little nicer to Jean, you know."
"But I like, didn't do anything!" Kitty said.
Kurt rolled his eyes, sprung himself from his chair, landed neatly on the bed, took Kitty's hand, and in a cloud of smoke, teleported downstairs.
They ended up in the kitchen, where Evan and Ororo were taking plates into the dining room to set the table. "Need some help?" Kurt asked, and took a handful of silverware.
As the X-Men assembled in the dining room for dinner, Professor Xavier surveyed the table and noticed they were two team members short. "Has anyone seen Scott or Rogue?" he asked.
Kitty glanced at Kurt, even more quickly did her eyes dart to Jean, and she said, "They went off for a walk."
"Jean, could you scan the perimeter for them?" the Professor said.
"No!" Jean said, too quickly, and everyone turned to look at her. "I...uh...I mean...um...I could...could you do it, Professor? I'm sort of tired."
"Very well," Xavier answered, putting his fingers to his temples and closing his eyes. When he opened them again, he looked to Kurt. "They're out in the woods, up on the hill," he said. "Could you fetch them, Kurt?"
"Sure thing, Professor," Kurt said, and within a matter of seconds, he was positioned in a tree at the very edge of the woods, scanning the ground below him.
"Promise me we'll always be friends, okay?" he heard Rogue's Southern drawl.
Kurt had a feeling he should wait a second, and wondered if this was what happened to Jean, that she'd just ended up accidentally listening in. Jean didn't seem like the type to purposely eavesdrop. Either or, he leaned his head over to see around the branch. After a short pause, Scott stepped closer to Rogue and said, "I promise."
And then he kissed her.
Kurt nearly fell out of the tree. Fortunately, he'd secured his tail around the branch upon his arrival, and he straightened himself, still craning his neck to see what was going on.
The air around Scott and Rogue crackled somewhat, then Scott went pale. Had Kurt been able to see his eyes, he guessed he would have seen them rolling back in his head. He fell to the ground slowly, and Rogue's newly acquired optic blasts proceeded to flare straight through a tree. Kurt waited half a second, then teleported down to the ground.
"Rogue?" he said. "The Professor sent me to get you and Scott for dinner..." He trailed off when he saw Scott on the ground. "Vhat happened?" he said, deciding to feign ignorance. If Rogue didn't want to tell, she didn't have to.
Rogue turned to look at him, her eyes blazing red, but she blinked and shook her head slightly, and they were back to their normal hue. "Ah--" she said, but was cut off when the tree whose trunk she had sliced through started to topple.
"Timber!" Kurt yelped, bending and scooping up Scott in one arm, grabbing hold of Rogue with his free hand, and teleporting back to the mansion.
He collapsed in the doorway to the dining room, Scott being pure dead weight, and considerably heavy. Rogue, looking disoriented, leaned against the doorframe, while Kurt dropped to the floor, his arm around Scott's waist.
The able-bodied at the table all jumped to their feet when they saw the arrival. "What happened here?" Ororo asked. Rogue helped Kurt to his feet, and Logan picked up the unconscious Scott.
"It was mah fault," Rogue said hurriedly, though she looked a bit stunned. "Scott accidentally...he touched me...an'...Ah knocked down a tree, Professor, sorry..."
"I'll take him down to the Med Bay," Logan said gruffly, and left before anyone could protest that Scott should wake up soon.
"You absorbed Scott's powers?" the Professor said.
"Yeah, an' Ah sliced through a tree before Ah could control it," she said, looking at the ground sheepishly. "Ah'll clean it up later."
"Don't worry about it," he answered. "How do you feel, Rogue, okay?"
She glanced off in the direction where Logan had carried Scott, then glanced at Jean, then finally stared at the floor. "Yeah. Ah'm okay."
"Do you want to go lie down?"
"No..." she looked up sharply at Jean again. "Then again, Ah am kinda tired. Not from absorbin' Scott or nothin', just tired. Save me some chicken, Ah'll reheat it later or somethin'."
"Okay," the Professor said, and as Rogue turned away, the Professor, Evan, Ororo and Jean returned to the table. Kurt, however, watched Rogue go, and after a moment, became aware of Kitty standing behind him.
"What, like, happened out there?" Kitty said in a low voice.
"I'll--" Kurt began, then changed his mind. He shook his head and smiled at Kitty in a disarmingly jovial way. "Nothing, I suppose. I don't know. Vhen I got there, Scott was down, and I only barely got them out of the vay of that falling tree."
"But, like, Rogue's gloves were on just now," Kitty said, frowning.
"I'm not a mind-reader, Keety," Kurt said. "That's Jean and the Prof, remember? Let's eat. I'm starving." Still keeping up the cheerfully clueless routine, he took his usual seat at the table and began to dig into his plate.
He figured that if Rogue was going to make up a story, then that meant she wanted to keep it secret, and Kurt saw no reason why he should reveal the truth. He wasn't totally sure what had happened in the woods leading up to what he'd seen, but he knew that no matter what had happened, someone was going to get hurt. Jean, Scott, Rogue...he didn't want any of them to be hurt, but Rogue least of all. They'd all been through a lot, they'd go through a lot more, but Rogue had been through the most, and wasn't as resilient as either Scott or Jean.
Throughout dinner, he was aware of both Kitty and Jean staring at him, but he pretended like he didn't notice, and the second dinner was over, he teleported to his room.
A few minutes later, someone knocked at the door. "I'm busy," he called out, turning the page in his math book, not really wanting to answer any questions.
Kitty phased through the wall. Kurt jumped. "Jeez, Keety, I could have been naked or something!" he yelped.
Kitty reached over and slammed his book shut. "I want answers, and I want them now. What happened out there?"
"I told you, I don't know," he said. "Vhen I got there, Scott was already out cold."
Her eyes narrowed. "I don't believe you."
"Believe vhat you vant to believe, I'm just telling you vhat I saw," he said resolutely. He paused. "Vhy don't you go bother Rogue?"
Kitty stuck out her tongue. "She's already gone to bed."
"Lucky her," Kurt said, and Kitty groaned loudly, phasing through the floor.
Kurt glanced at his math book; he still had a few problems left to do. But he knew he wasn't really going to be able to concentrate. So he just went to bed instead. Avoidance was working for Rogue, why not him?