Sorry I haven't written in ages, I've got two new stories on the go. One,
'A journey through TV' is posted now, but the other one is only written in
my diary (it has a lock on so no big sisters can go snooping about, hehe).
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Chapter 6 - A sexy French voice
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' Tuesday, 4.45 p.m.
Dear Diary, I'm totally worried about Rogue. She's been missing for ages now. Well, only 3 days, but it seems like forever. There's no one here to yell at me for being too 'perky' (what does that mean anyway, Rogue always calls me that I don't get it), no one here to ignore me and give me cold glares for no particular reason, though I thought I'd NEVER miss those! Things just aren't the same here. Everything goes too perfect. She just had to go just when we were all getting close, didn't she?! Sorry, I'm getting a bit angry now. I just can't control my feelings lately. I've got into trouble at school these past 3 days then I have in years. I'm not the only one, Kurt has too. And Mr Logan is even more solitary then usual. I hope we find her soon, or things won't ever be the same.
Love Kitty xxx'
Kitty shut her diary, and put it under her bed in its usual spot (where no one can find it). Then she sighed and rolled onto her back, resting her head on her pillow. She stared at the ceiling, thinking about the many things that have happened these days. Her, Tabby, Jean and Rogue, rollerblading together, all happy, even Rogue. Kurt's reaction to the Professor's news. Mr Logan's reaction. Herself, Kitty, yelling at a teacher at school because he told her to stop talking, then storming out of the classroom, slamming the door behind her. Just like Rogue sometimes did. At the thought of Rogue, her eyes prickled slightly. Kitty turned on her side, trying to roll away from her thoughts. But instead she found herself facing Rogue's cold, empty bed, which was still perfectly made by Kitty on the morning Rogue went missing.
'She never made her bed,' Kitty thought, a lump rising in her throat. 'I always did it for her.' Kitty's eyes looked around the room, tears blurred her vision slightly, but she blinked them away, a drop occasionally dripping down her cheek. Almost everything reminded her of Rogue.
'She loved those jeans. She never got to wear them,' Kitty thought, her eyes on the baggy, black jeans strung up in a corner, 'Her French homework never did get done,' the exercise book on her desk, incomplete, 'That pen - I said she could have it,' the black biro resting on the French book. Finally her eyes fell upon a photo frame on top of their stereo.
'Kurt gave her that photo frame the other day,' she sniffed, and went over to look at it. It was a large square shape. It was mostly black, but had red twisted up it and silver lettering at the top which Rogue had written herself. It read, 'Me with the team' in gothic writing. Kitty looked at the photo, and that's when the proper tears started, flowing freely down her face. It was the photo that the Professor took in the summer. Kurt was in the pool, splashing Jean who was sunbathing near him. Kitty was on the sunbed next to her, laughing at Jean's horrified expression. Logan had picked Rogue up, and was holding her upside-down by her waist over the pool. Rogue was squirming, looking worried, but she was laughing. Evan was behind Storm, arms outstretched, ready to push her in the water. Storm was oblivious to this, and just stood there with a pleasant look on her face. Scott was nearby, erupting with silent laughter. Kitty smiled, remembering the day, one of the only days where everybody got along. She placed the photo back on the desk, and wandered over to her bed, where she sat down and was just about to start her homework when Kurt teleported in.
"Kurt! How many times have I said, KNOCK before you - "
"Sorry Keety, but its urgent." The blue teenager was unusually solemn, no hint of a joke in his voice or any trace of a smile. Kitty immediately realised something was up.
"W-What is it?" she asked warily, "Is it about Rogue?"
"No. Eet ees more bad news I'm afraid." Kurt paused, sighed, then continued, "Logan's missing too."
*
"Humph. Not the best of situations, eh Stripes?"
"Yah're raght there."
Anyone unaware of the full situation watching this might have found it amusing. A young Goth tied to the roof wearing a weird helmet and one rollerblade, and a middle-aged man attached to the wall by strips of metal with a strange looking collar on. But to anyone who was, it was pretty serious. To them it was Rogue with Magneto's helmet on to stop psychic brainwaves tied to the roof, and Wolverine (who most definitely WASN'T middle-aged) tied to the wall by strips of adamantium (powered by our Master of Magnetism himself) wearing a collar that takes away mutant powers. (AN Those who have seen X1 the movie knows the position Wolvie's in, but he can't use the same method of getting free as he has that collar on.)
"Stripes, how'd this happen anyway? Why didn't you come back to the institute that night?"
"Believe meh, Logan, this wasn't mah idea . . . " Rogue explained it all to Logan, listening intently. When she finished, Logan asked,
"So you've just been here all the time?"
"Yep. Tied to that roof. Not the comfiest way tah be kidnapped." Rogue answered with a sigh. Logan gave a weak chuckle, and Rogue asked, "How come yah here anyway?"
So, Logan also explained his story. " . . . and after I searched the Brotherhood house, the entire mansion and the grounds surrounding it, and all the record stores in town, I thought of Bayville High. So I came here, and caught hold of your scent. I was following it, then Magneto found me."
'God. I never knew he cared that much.' Rogue thought, then said, "Did thah Professor know?"
"No, I never told him. But - " Logan was interrupted by a loud crash outside, and Magneto yelling. He was so angry Rogue and Logan couldn't make out half of what he said.
"RARGH . . . TABITHA . . . BE CAREFUL WITH MY TRAINING EQUIPMENT . . . EXPENSIVE . . . HURTING OUR TEAM . . . USELESS . . . "
This was followed by a squeak of "Sorry" which was presumably Tabby.
"What're they doing out there?" Logan growled, peering out of the small, grimy window at the four mutants.
"Training for their 'Big day'." Rogue answered bitterly.
"Big day . . .?" Logan asked expectedly.
"Oh mah gawd! Ah neva told yah - "
"Told me what?"
" - We have a chance tah wreck thah plan but Ah neva told yah - "
"What plan?"
" - Gawd how could Ah be so stupid - "
"What plan?!"
" - we maght be able tah in time - "
"YAAARRRGHH!" Logan growled/yelled. Rogue looked at him, shocked.
"Sorry," he said, "You wouldn't shut up. Now what plan?"
"The plan is - " Rogue gulped " - to kill the X-men."
* "Something must have happened to Rogue." Lance said decidedly.
"Yeah, Wolverine never would come round usually, yo!" Toad agreed.
"Well, whatarewewaitingfor?WeneedtorescuehersheisstillourfriendreallyI'msureshelike susreallywehavetogogether!" Pietro said/gabbled. The other three looked at him with blank faces. Pietro sighed, then repeated slower.
"What_are_we_waiting_for? We_should_rescue_her_strictly_speaking_we_are_still_friends."
"Yeah," said Fred.
"What can we do? We need to know where she is, what to expect, which mutants will be there . . . " Lance listed.
"We could ask the X-men, yo?" Toad asked Lance.
"Yeah," said Fred.
"Let's go!" Pietro said. A second later he was in Lance's jeep.
"To the mansion!" Toad yelled dramatically, and they drove off.
*
"It's no use Storm." Professor X sighed, removing his Cerebro helmet, "I can't find either of them anywhere." (For those of you who haven't realised, the Prof. can't detect Logan on Cerebro coz he hasn't got any mutant powers at the mo coz of the collar)
"Relax, Charles," Storm said reassuringly, "We shall find them."
Suddenly an alarm went off throughout the mansion.
"There's someone trying to break in." the Professor said, and they wheeled/flew out of Cerebro.
MEANWHILE AT THE GATES
"Come on Avalanche!"
"Humph, I'm making a dramatic entrance here!"
"Us three could have been through there in a second, yo!"
"Whatever Toad. I've got it open now. Oh look, there's the X-men."
Sure enough, the X-men (minus Rogue, Logan and the Newbies) were running/flying/porting/wheeling outside to greet their visitors.
"X-men! What have you done with Rogue?" Lance demanded. As he was the current leader of the team, he felt it was his job to state their purpose.
"Lance?" Kitty questioned. "What are you - "
"Ve haven't dun anyzing with Rogue! Vhat have you done with her?" Kurt interrupted.
"We wouldn't do anything to Rogue! She was our team mate before she was yours!" Pietro yelled.
"So? That doesn't change anything!" Scott yelled back.
"X-men, Brotherhood!" the Professor yelled in their minds. Everyone fell silent and turned to look at him.
"Thankyou," he said aloud, "We would not have gotten anywhere by shouting. Now, Brotherhood, why are you here?"
"Because you've done something to Rogue ad we wanna find out what!" Fred shouted at him. "We haven't done anything to her. How did you find out about Rogue?" Evan asked.
"We don't know exactly what happened, yo. Wolverine came to our door this morning and asked for Rogue. We figured something must be wrong, yo, and you Xmen might know what." Toad explained.
"Rogue's been kidnapped actually." Kitty said angrily. Only god knows why she was angry, she just was.
"What?" All the Brotherhood said at once.
"Why don't you use that detecty-thingy to find her?" Fred asked.
"I've been trying." The Professor answered, "But for some reason it can't find them anywhere."
"Them?" Pietro asked.
"Rogue and Logan." The Professor replied gravely.
Pietro paled. "But if Logan went missing - "
" - and he's really tough - " Lance continued.
" - WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Toad finished, hopping round like a constipated toad. Oh wait, he is one.
"How're we gonna find them Professor?" Jean asked.
"I don't know." The Professor sighed. That was when everyone started to give up hope. If even the Professor didn't know . . .
"Looks like you need Remy's help after all, non?" said a voice from behind the gate.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Ok, sorry about slight cliffhanger but I bet you all know who the voice belongs to! Please read my Bio & add me to your msn account if you're nice!
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Thanks for reviewing, don't stop now! ^_^
Chapter 6 - A sexy French voice
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' Tuesday, 4.45 p.m.
Dear Diary, I'm totally worried about Rogue. She's been missing for ages now. Well, only 3 days, but it seems like forever. There's no one here to yell at me for being too 'perky' (what does that mean anyway, Rogue always calls me that I don't get it), no one here to ignore me and give me cold glares for no particular reason, though I thought I'd NEVER miss those! Things just aren't the same here. Everything goes too perfect. She just had to go just when we were all getting close, didn't she?! Sorry, I'm getting a bit angry now. I just can't control my feelings lately. I've got into trouble at school these past 3 days then I have in years. I'm not the only one, Kurt has too. And Mr Logan is even more solitary then usual. I hope we find her soon, or things won't ever be the same.
Love Kitty xxx'
Kitty shut her diary, and put it under her bed in its usual spot (where no one can find it). Then she sighed and rolled onto her back, resting her head on her pillow. She stared at the ceiling, thinking about the many things that have happened these days. Her, Tabby, Jean and Rogue, rollerblading together, all happy, even Rogue. Kurt's reaction to the Professor's news. Mr Logan's reaction. Herself, Kitty, yelling at a teacher at school because he told her to stop talking, then storming out of the classroom, slamming the door behind her. Just like Rogue sometimes did. At the thought of Rogue, her eyes prickled slightly. Kitty turned on her side, trying to roll away from her thoughts. But instead she found herself facing Rogue's cold, empty bed, which was still perfectly made by Kitty on the morning Rogue went missing.
'She never made her bed,' Kitty thought, a lump rising in her throat. 'I always did it for her.' Kitty's eyes looked around the room, tears blurred her vision slightly, but she blinked them away, a drop occasionally dripping down her cheek. Almost everything reminded her of Rogue.
'She loved those jeans. She never got to wear them,' Kitty thought, her eyes on the baggy, black jeans strung up in a corner, 'Her French homework never did get done,' the exercise book on her desk, incomplete, 'That pen - I said she could have it,' the black biro resting on the French book. Finally her eyes fell upon a photo frame on top of their stereo.
'Kurt gave her that photo frame the other day,' she sniffed, and went over to look at it. It was a large square shape. It was mostly black, but had red twisted up it and silver lettering at the top which Rogue had written herself. It read, 'Me with the team' in gothic writing. Kitty looked at the photo, and that's when the proper tears started, flowing freely down her face. It was the photo that the Professor took in the summer. Kurt was in the pool, splashing Jean who was sunbathing near him. Kitty was on the sunbed next to her, laughing at Jean's horrified expression. Logan had picked Rogue up, and was holding her upside-down by her waist over the pool. Rogue was squirming, looking worried, but she was laughing. Evan was behind Storm, arms outstretched, ready to push her in the water. Storm was oblivious to this, and just stood there with a pleasant look on her face. Scott was nearby, erupting with silent laughter. Kitty smiled, remembering the day, one of the only days where everybody got along. She placed the photo back on the desk, and wandered over to her bed, where she sat down and was just about to start her homework when Kurt teleported in.
"Kurt! How many times have I said, KNOCK before you - "
"Sorry Keety, but its urgent." The blue teenager was unusually solemn, no hint of a joke in his voice or any trace of a smile. Kitty immediately realised something was up.
"W-What is it?" she asked warily, "Is it about Rogue?"
"No. Eet ees more bad news I'm afraid." Kurt paused, sighed, then continued, "Logan's missing too."
*
"Humph. Not the best of situations, eh Stripes?"
"Yah're raght there."
Anyone unaware of the full situation watching this might have found it amusing. A young Goth tied to the roof wearing a weird helmet and one rollerblade, and a middle-aged man attached to the wall by strips of metal with a strange looking collar on. But to anyone who was, it was pretty serious. To them it was Rogue with Magneto's helmet on to stop psychic brainwaves tied to the roof, and Wolverine (who most definitely WASN'T middle-aged) tied to the wall by strips of adamantium (powered by our Master of Magnetism himself) wearing a collar that takes away mutant powers. (AN Those who have seen X1 the movie knows the position Wolvie's in, but he can't use the same method of getting free as he has that collar on.)
"Stripes, how'd this happen anyway? Why didn't you come back to the institute that night?"
"Believe meh, Logan, this wasn't mah idea . . . " Rogue explained it all to Logan, listening intently. When she finished, Logan asked,
"So you've just been here all the time?"
"Yep. Tied to that roof. Not the comfiest way tah be kidnapped." Rogue answered with a sigh. Logan gave a weak chuckle, and Rogue asked, "How come yah here anyway?"
So, Logan also explained his story. " . . . and after I searched the Brotherhood house, the entire mansion and the grounds surrounding it, and all the record stores in town, I thought of Bayville High. So I came here, and caught hold of your scent. I was following it, then Magneto found me."
'God. I never knew he cared that much.' Rogue thought, then said, "Did thah Professor know?"
"No, I never told him. But - " Logan was interrupted by a loud crash outside, and Magneto yelling. He was so angry Rogue and Logan couldn't make out half of what he said.
"RARGH . . . TABITHA . . . BE CAREFUL WITH MY TRAINING EQUIPMENT . . . EXPENSIVE . . . HURTING OUR TEAM . . . USELESS . . . "
This was followed by a squeak of "Sorry" which was presumably Tabby.
"What're they doing out there?" Logan growled, peering out of the small, grimy window at the four mutants.
"Training for their 'Big day'." Rogue answered bitterly.
"Big day . . .?" Logan asked expectedly.
"Oh mah gawd! Ah neva told yah - "
"Told me what?"
" - We have a chance tah wreck thah plan but Ah neva told yah - "
"What plan?"
" - Gawd how could Ah be so stupid - "
"What plan?!"
" - we maght be able tah in time - "
"YAAARRRGHH!" Logan growled/yelled. Rogue looked at him, shocked.
"Sorry," he said, "You wouldn't shut up. Now what plan?"
"The plan is - " Rogue gulped " - to kill the X-men."
* "Something must have happened to Rogue." Lance said decidedly.
"Yeah, Wolverine never would come round usually, yo!" Toad agreed.
"Well, whatarewewaitingfor?WeneedtorescuehersheisstillourfriendreallyI'msureshelike susreallywehavetogogether!" Pietro said/gabbled. The other three looked at him with blank faces. Pietro sighed, then repeated slower.
"What_are_we_waiting_for? We_should_rescue_her_strictly_speaking_we_are_still_friends."
"Yeah," said Fred.
"What can we do? We need to know where she is, what to expect, which mutants will be there . . . " Lance listed.
"We could ask the X-men, yo?" Toad asked Lance.
"Yeah," said Fred.
"Let's go!" Pietro said. A second later he was in Lance's jeep.
"To the mansion!" Toad yelled dramatically, and they drove off.
*
"It's no use Storm." Professor X sighed, removing his Cerebro helmet, "I can't find either of them anywhere." (For those of you who haven't realised, the Prof. can't detect Logan on Cerebro coz he hasn't got any mutant powers at the mo coz of the collar)
"Relax, Charles," Storm said reassuringly, "We shall find them."
Suddenly an alarm went off throughout the mansion.
"There's someone trying to break in." the Professor said, and they wheeled/flew out of Cerebro.
MEANWHILE AT THE GATES
"Come on Avalanche!"
"Humph, I'm making a dramatic entrance here!"
"Us three could have been through there in a second, yo!"
"Whatever Toad. I've got it open now. Oh look, there's the X-men."
Sure enough, the X-men (minus Rogue, Logan and the Newbies) were running/flying/porting/wheeling outside to greet their visitors.
"X-men! What have you done with Rogue?" Lance demanded. As he was the current leader of the team, he felt it was his job to state their purpose.
"Lance?" Kitty questioned. "What are you - "
"Ve haven't dun anyzing with Rogue! Vhat have you done with her?" Kurt interrupted.
"We wouldn't do anything to Rogue! She was our team mate before she was yours!" Pietro yelled.
"So? That doesn't change anything!" Scott yelled back.
"X-men, Brotherhood!" the Professor yelled in their minds. Everyone fell silent and turned to look at him.
"Thankyou," he said aloud, "We would not have gotten anywhere by shouting. Now, Brotherhood, why are you here?"
"Because you've done something to Rogue ad we wanna find out what!" Fred shouted at him. "We haven't done anything to her. How did you find out about Rogue?" Evan asked.
"We don't know exactly what happened, yo. Wolverine came to our door this morning and asked for Rogue. We figured something must be wrong, yo, and you Xmen might know what." Toad explained.
"Rogue's been kidnapped actually." Kitty said angrily. Only god knows why she was angry, she just was.
"What?" All the Brotherhood said at once.
"Why don't you use that detecty-thingy to find her?" Fred asked.
"I've been trying." The Professor answered, "But for some reason it can't find them anywhere."
"Them?" Pietro asked.
"Rogue and Logan." The Professor replied gravely.
Pietro paled. "But if Logan went missing - "
" - and he's really tough - " Lance continued.
" - WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Toad finished, hopping round like a constipated toad. Oh wait, he is one.
"How're we gonna find them Professor?" Jean asked.
"I don't know." The Professor sighed. That was when everyone started to give up hope. If even the Professor didn't know . . .
"Looks like you need Remy's help after all, non?" said a voice from behind the gate.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Ok, sorry about slight cliffhanger but I bet you all know who the voice belongs to! Please read my Bio & add me to your msn account if you're nice!
As usual, the more reviews the better!
Thunderfox 150