Abducted
Kurt Wagner sat in silence at the long table in the dining room. It was well past 7, yet the students weren't eating. Instead they were waiting for two people; Logan and Rogue. There had been no sign of either of them for the last hour. Kurt glanced around the table. Scott and Jean had gone out for dinner; they wouldn't be back for hours, the new recruits had gotten tried of waiting so they too went out, the Professor and Hank were checking for them on Cerebro, and Storm was checking the grounds. Kitty was the only one left in the dinning room besides Kurt. Kitty was sitting at the other end of the table, lost in her own thoughts. She seemed slightly distressed about something, and kept glancing out the window nervously.
Kitty suddenly jumped up, "I can't take it anymore! I'm going to the Danger Room; I know Logan must be there. Maybe Rogue is there too."
Kurt started to follow her, "Kitty, why would either of them be in the Danger Room? I thought they had their training session earlier. Is there something else going on? If so, we need to tell the Professor."
"Um, no." Kitty looked back at him guiltily, "Well kinda, yeah. Can you promise not to tell?" Kurt nodded. "The other day when Rogue absorbed Logan's like thoughts and stuff she found out that he has a, thing, for Storm."
Kurt ran in front of her and pushed her against a wall. His fear suddenly turning into anger at her, "What did you do exactly?"
"Nothing," Kitty said as she phased though his hands. She had never seen Kurt mad before; it was starting to scare her.
"No, don't lie. I know you Kitty. You could never let something like this alone. No, you did something, and your going to tell me what it was."
"Fine. We tried to hook them up."
Kurt froze, "You did WHAT? You do know that your talking about Logan don't you? You do remember who Logan is right? You know, the guy with a killing streak, bad temper, and a set of FUCKING CLAWS!"
Kitty yelped as he yelled at her, "I know, it was stupid! But I didn't think either of them would need to know it was us. Then Rogue wanted to talk to Logan about it, she thought that it would be okay…"
"You let her go alone? God Kitty, I thought you were smart! Please tell me that you've told the Professor."
Kitty looked down and slowly shook her head.
"Fine. Well at least this can't get any worse." Kurt stared into space, thinking about how he should act. "Fine, I'll go to the Danger Room; if it's still there that is…Logan must be really pissed." Kurt looked to Kitty, "You go see if you can find Rogue. She must be around here somewhere." Kurt turned away from her, "You really screwed up this time Kitty, I hope you realize that," with that he teleported away.
Kitty exited the mansion, feeling completely guilty, "It's my fault, I shouldn't have even suggested fixing them up. It was so stupid, and then letting Rogue go to talk to Logan about it…God I'm such an idiot!"
Kitty walked over to the garage, that's where she had last seen Rogue heading. She walked in, and called for Rogue, "She's not here. Where does she usually go when she's mad? Not in our room, not in the Danger Room or the Gym, not in the garage. Where is she?"
Then it suddenly hit her, the gardens. Kitty had seen Rogue go there whenever she was mad or depressed. It was a private area, not many people went to the gardens; except of course Storm. Kitty made her way over. She followed the trail though into the center of the garden; there was a fountain and benches there where Rogue could sit and relax.
"Rogue? Rogue, you out here?"
Kitty walked over to the bench, and sat down. The moon was shining brightly, lighting up the area with an eerie glow. Kitty glanced around, if Rouge wasn't here where else could she be. Kitty turned to walk down one of the paths when something caught her attention. There laying in the fountain was one of Rogue's gloves. Kitty jumped up of the bench and ran over to the fountain. Dipping her hand in she grabbed the glove and looked it over, inside the glove was a note. Kitty read it over, her eyes widening.
"Oh my god, Rogue!" Kitty turned and ran towards the house, phasing though anything that got in her way.
Logan stood in the center of the Danger Room. Around him laid the scattered remnants of robots and machines that he had been fighting. The fight hadn't lasted long; nothing could survive an angry Wolverine. Retracting his claws, he walk over to one of the control panels, "This was too easy, there must be a harder setting."
A loud "bamf" noise and the smell of brimstone signaled Logan that he was no longer alone, "Elf, now is not a good time."
"Well you had better make the time," Kurt snapped.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Logan asked, the chance of a mission slightly cheering him up.
"Rogue's missing."
Logan's frown deepened, "Why should I care?"
Kurt opened his mouth to respond but at that same moment Kitty phased though the wall holding a glove in her hand, "Rogue's been kidnapped!"
Grasping Kitty's hand, Kurt turned to Logan, "Coming?"
Logan grabbed Kurt's hand and the three teleported to find the Professor.
"Now Kitty, I need you to calm down and explain to me exactly what happened." Professor Xavier sat in front of Kitty, trying his hardest to calm her while Hank tried to reach Rogue on the communicator.
"Alright, sorry. I'm just so scared and what if he kills Rogue…" Kitty started breaking down into tears again.
Logan walked over to Kitty and leaned forward so that their faces were almost touching, "Who did this? Who took Rogue?"
Kitty seemed to calm down immediately, "Sabertooth. He took her." Suddenly Kitty jumped to her feet, "But you can't go Logan! If you do Sabertooth will kill her!"
"How do you know this Kitty?" asked Kurt.
"He left a note, in the glove. It said that if Wolverine leaves the mansion that he'd kill Rogue." Kitty turned to the Professor, "Don't let him go Professor! Please don't."
"Please Kitty, calm down." Xavier turned to face Kurt, "Kurt would you please take Kitty upstairs to the kitchen and go call the others. I believe that we will need all the help that we can get."
"Yes Professor." Kurt grabbed Kitty's hand then with a loud "bamf" noise teleported away.
"Chuck, you and I both know that Sabertooth wants me to go hunt him down," Logan stated.
"Yes, I know. However, he is holding on of my students hostage and will not take a chance on her life. So as I told Kitty, you will not be going on this mission."
Logan opened his mouth to argue, but was cut off by the entrance of Hank and Storm, "Professor, I tried reaching Rogue, but I was unable to contact her. However, I was able to locate her position by tracing the radiation emitted by her ring. She's in an abandoned warehouse about an hour north of here," Hank reported.
"Good, ready the Blackbird, we'll leave as soon as the team is assembled. Storm, Logan, I want you two to stay here with the recruits." Xavier started to leave, Hank behind him as he spoke telepathically to Storm, "Logan is not to leave the mansion. If he tries to, stop him…at all costs."
"Yes Professor," Storm replied.