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Setting : After X2.
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Whisper in Your Ear
Part 1 : 2
She stared silently at her hands, her steady concentration wavering as she heard him approach. She'd recognize those footsteps anywhere, even without his hearing. Yet, her eyes never moved from her thin fingers.
'Piano-player's hand' she'd once heard them described as. Probably something her foster mother had said. She played the piano...
So did Sarah.
And Chris.
Maybe it was them who had the piano-player's hands and not Marie, the Rogue.
The Rogue could possess nothing but pain and stolen lives. She was a thief in the worst sense of the word.
'Damn straight.'
Rogue slammed up her shields as high as they would go. They didn't go far, and the effort of keeping them where they were was a struggle for the exhausted young woman.
There had always been a constant buzz in the back of her mind, remnants of the people she had touched that seemed to forever linger. But recently the buzz has risen to a high roar, pounding in her head every moment of the day.
The nightmares were what she hated the most. They had gotten worse since she absorbed Carol.
'It was an accident.'
Those words she had spoken rang dully in her mind, having no real meaning any longer. Everything about her was an accident. Even her birth...
At least that's what she assumed. Why else would her real parents have given her up, let her be reaised in one foster home after another... And when she had finally found somewhere she fit in, she had her first and last kiss.
'Wasn't even all that good...'
A growl followed the teenage boy's voice, the Logan residing in her mind coming to her defense. As always.
The thoughts were moving too fast...
He came to a stop in front of her, waiting for her to make the first move. He had been that way a lot lately. In person that is. The one locked inside always took charge, now that her own mind was shattering.
"There are big voices, and there are little voices. You're a big voice you know."
Her voice reverberated through the spacious room. Her room. She had moved here not long ago, when the nightmares had first started disturbing Kitty and Jubilee, her former roommates. It was a nice room - lonely sometimes. It amazed her that someone with other people "living" in her head could ever be lonely.
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Review Responses:
____ : Thanks for the review. Hope this makes a bit clearer!
Terminatrix T-X : Well, hope it met your expectations. Thanks so much for reviewing!
08.21.2003
Setting : After X2.
.
Whisper in Your Ear
Part 1 : 2
She stared silently at her hands, her steady concentration wavering as she heard him approach. She'd recognize those footsteps anywhere, even without his hearing. Yet, her eyes never moved from her thin fingers.
'Piano-player's hand' she'd once heard them described as. Probably something her foster mother had said. She played the piano...
So did Sarah.
And Chris.
Maybe it was them who had the piano-player's hands and not Marie, the Rogue.
The Rogue could possess nothing but pain and stolen lives. She was a thief in the worst sense of the word.
'Damn straight.'
Rogue slammed up her shields as high as they would go. They didn't go far, and the effort of keeping them where they were was a struggle for the exhausted young woman.
There had always been a constant buzz in the back of her mind, remnants of the people she had touched that seemed to forever linger. But recently the buzz has risen to a high roar, pounding in her head every moment of the day.
The nightmares were what she hated the most. They had gotten worse since she absorbed Carol.
'It was an accident.'
Those words she had spoken rang dully in her mind, having no real meaning any longer. Everything about her was an accident. Even her birth...
At least that's what she assumed. Why else would her real parents have given her up, let her be reaised in one foster home after another... And when she had finally found somewhere she fit in, she had her first and last kiss.
'Wasn't even all that good...'
A growl followed the teenage boy's voice, the Logan residing in her mind coming to her defense. As always.
The thoughts were moving too fast...
He came to a stop in front of her, waiting for her to make the first move. He had been that way a lot lately. In person that is. The one locked inside always took charge, now that her own mind was shattering.
"There are big voices, and there are little voices. You're a big voice you know."
Her voice reverberated through the spacious room. Her room. She had moved here not long ago, when the nightmares had first started disturbing Kitty and Jubilee, her former roommates. It was a nice room - lonely sometimes. It amazed her that someone with other people "living" in her head could ever be lonely.
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Review Responses:
____ : Thanks for the review. Hope this makes a bit clearer!
Terminatrix T-X : Well, hope it met your expectations. Thanks so much for reviewing!
08.21.2003