Pietro zipped into the house and sighed. He had ran around all night so he wouldn't come into the house with blood shot eyes and made sure all of his tears were gone. It was nearly midnight when he saw the lights turn on. "Hey guys what are you doing up?"

Lance glared angrily at his supposed-best friend. "Why don't you tell us."

"I went for a run."

"Really just a run?" Fred asked cracking his knuckles.

"Yea just a run."

"See anyone yo?" Todd asked curiously.

"Nope, no one important." He said heading upstairs but was stopped by Lance. "What's your deal?"

Lance had waited all day at home for Pietro to return. He was holding in all his anger until he got home. When he did he acted cool and casual like nothing had happened. Seeing him head upstairs. He followed and punched the wall right in front of Pietro's face causing him to stop. "Why don't you tell us."

"Yea please do." Fred said blocking the bottom of the staircase.

"Well what do you want to know?" Pietro asked calmly.

"We want to know why a very angry Kitty-cat called and started screaming over the phone, your name was used quite a bit along with some harsh words to go with it."

"How should I know?" He said trying to get pass Lance.

"Well I think you know a lot more then you're letting no Pietro." He said so coldly that Pietro shivered slightly. "And why don't you start by telling us why you broke up with Rogue."

"I…" He started to say. "It just wasn't working out."

"Don't give me that crap." Lance said making the house shake slightly. "You told me yourself you loves her and would never hurt her for anything in the world and the next thing I hear is from my hysteric girlfriend yelling at me for something you did. She told me Rogue hasn't been able to stop crying since you broke up with her and the only males she lets near her is that little kid Jamie.

"It just wasn't meant to be okay so back off." Pietro said getting free and raced into his room and locked the door.

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"Rogue it will be okay." Jamie told her quietly.

Rogue shook her head and kept crying. He looked up sadly at Jean, Kitty, and Rahne. "Why?"

"Jamie come on let's go talk okay." Jean said leading the kid out of the room where Rahne and Kitty took his place on the bed.

"Why did he hurt her?" Jamie sniffed not liking to see Rogue sad.

"Sweetie we don't know." Jean told him. "But I promise you that we'll find out."

"She was happy and smiled all the time and even played games with me like checkers and chess and video games too. Now she's too sad." He said knowing crying over something like Rogue being broke up by Pietro wasn't his fault or acting his twelve year old self, but he couldn't help it. "I want to help her smile again."

"We all do Jamie, but things like this take time. Rogue… she liked Pietro a lot and he hurt her a lot too."

"Will she ever smile again?"

"She will, I promise."