~ Thoughts~

_ Telepathic conversation _

"Speaking"

= Reading of a letter or E-mail=

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Rogue didn't learn anything new, but she did learn how to remember things. She had to she was going to get killed if she ever met someone that fought like Laraknid. She was going to be sore in the morning, she hadn't remembered anything but never let your opponent know when your weak or when your injured. She had a few bruises but the only ones that would be noticeable was the one right beside the scratch she had on her eye but a little makeup would cover it. She took a shower and played with Lil' Man and ate then went to bed. ~Wonder if he sleeps. Where would he sleep? Hope we hurry up with this I want to be with Remy. Tomorrow I'll speed it up. ~ Those were Rogue's last thought before she went to sleep.

* Tap tap tap tap * Rogue heard this noise and woke up. She tried to ignore it but it wouldn't stop. * Tap tap tap tap tap tap * she groaned in annoyance. * Tap tap tap tap tap tap * She rolled one her belly and put the pillow over her head. Still it wouldn't stop she kicked her feet about and threw the blankets off. She went to her bathroom and brushed her teeth and walked around her room trying to figure out where the tapping was coming from. It was coming from around her bed; she looked and saw her favorite animal asleep. She looked under her bed and saw the air vent. ~Ah ha~ she thought.

"HEY!" She screamed in a groggily voice.

"Hello?" came a voice.

Rogue as sleepy and mad, as she was had to smile. He had no clue where the voice was coming from. She was going to try and have fun. "Ereeeet lololooooo," she made funny sounds and noises with her mouth.

She stopped for a second and listened. There was noting, no questions or fast breathing. Nothing falling from him turning around so fast, trying to determine where the voice was coming from like people in the movies. All of a sudden someone was tickling her.

"AHHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" She screamed then she was pulled from under the bed.

"What's so funny?" Laraknid asked.

"You ha ha tickled ha ha me by accident I guess," she replied.

"Why'd you scream?" he asked.

"I heard you tapping through the vent and it woke me up, I had to have some fun," she said adding a mocking apologetic tone.

"Ah I should have known," he said.

"How'd you get here so fast? I mean your two floors down," Rogue said raising an eyebrow.

"Ever seen 'Queen of the damned'? Wait I know if you did or not and you did. Well yeah we move fast," he said. "Anyway I'm glad your up. Get refreshed and dressed.in uniform."

"What? Why?" Rogue grew excited with curiosity.

"I'll tell you when your ready," he said then left.

Rogue got up and went to her closet and opened it. There right in front of her was her old uniform, which she made some adjustments to when she was bored a few months back. It was still such a dark green you would get confused to whether it was green or black, but it used to cover all skin to her neck, now her skin showed in her chest and her breast area had a rip across the shirt just to be more cute. And since the months past she grew more curves and filled it out more, she thought it shrunk. She took it out and put in on and brushed her hair and applied the dark green lipstick. Rogue looked at herself in the mirror and noticed her hair was longer well the brown part her white bangs were the same.

"Can I bring my oh so cute Lil' Man with me?" Rogue asked.

"Why not I'm sure he has been quite angry at you for forgetting him for a bit," Laraknid said seriously.

"Lets go my little thief," Rogue said but then she thought about Remy when she said thief.

Her eyes narrowed for a second then went back to normal. She was mad she couldn't be with him and at the fact that he didn't come sooner. She knew this would be good for everybody that she stayed away but what about her? What was good for her? She knew it was being selfish but she would only be so vibrant for so long. She then realized that she for a second forget she couldn't touch, she loved the feeling of forgetting sometimes.

"Ready?" she was taken from her thoughts.

"What? Yeah I am but what are we doing?" she asked.

"Your first recruit," he handed her a file full of papers. " Her name, Monica Champion. Irene made it very specific that today is the day her powers would show." He said.

Rogue looked at the file it was true in Irene's handwriting it said that she would get her powers at school and she wanted Rogue to be waiting for her when she ran out of school in fear. "Do you know what her power is or will be?" Rogue asked.

"Yes actually, she will have the power to turn her opponents into objects or animals. People like to call it a type of witchcraft, because in the movies they only seem to turn people into frogs and whatever. She will run out from the school entrance in about well a few hours actually. It will take you about an hour to reach her school. You are to watch her observe her if you like. If not just look over her file." Laraknid said in a stern voice, it reminded her of Nathan.

"Well what about you?" she asked back closing the file.

"I have her room I know what she likes and dislikes and so I will have her room ready," he replied.

"How do you know she'll come? I mean she has a family doesn't she?" Rogue asked.

"Yes and no. They are her foster family. You'll deal with them later. Now I'm going to let you know now that you two are nothing alike. Don't be bitchy and be patient. Be nice and get to know her, don't be distant this is the beginning of a team, a family. You need to trust them and they need to trust you, or this will never work. Don't be selfish or too serious. You will learn about her and she will learn about you, don't think just because she never knew you before that it none of her business okay?" he said.

"Okay okay I get it. Tell me how different are we? And won't I look weird standing in front of a school in the middle of the day wearing something like this?" she asked point to herself.

"Well you and Jean are galaxies apart like you said to Scott once before. You and Monica are even further apart, but you will get along. She isn't too preppy or snobby. You like rock she likes rap, you like to be dark and unnoticed and she likes to be noticed. You like southern spicy food and she has never tried it, you dance but she grinds. Maybe you two can have fun showing each other your own world, if I were you I'd highly take that into consideration." He said. "Your outfit you should be used to it, and it looks a lot better than that spandex."

"Okay I'm going now but I will stop and eat, we will I mean," she said correcting herself when her ferret nudged her.

"Why did you name him Lil' Man why not spot or dipstick from the look of his tail?" Laraknid asked.

"Well you know the answer to that but lets ask him if he wants to be renamed." She said and the little ferret jumped off her and came back with an old big game card.

"He wants to be named big game?" Laraknid said in disbelief.

Rogue grabbed the card and turned it around and smiled. "I think he wants to be call Lucky," she said.

He nodded his little head and stood on his tail and squealed. "Okay then Lucky it is," Laraknid said.

Rogue held her arm out and let him crawl on her and rest on her shoulder. She walked put the door making sure to grab her trench coat and license etc. She got in the car and started it. ~ More further than even Jean, I don't hate her so I won't hate Monica. Right? Hopefully. ~ Rogue thought then arrived at IHOP.

"Lets go eat," she said to Lucky.

They walked in and it was already pretty full of people. She sat down and pulled out her license for her pet saying that he was well trained and could go in public restaurants. "May I see that ma'am?" some lady asked.

Rogue gave it to her and she nodded. "Thank you what would you like?" she asked.

"Butter milk pancakes and orange juice please, just on for him," she said feeling ridiculous.

She watched as the waiter left and laid back crossing hr arms over her chest and making herself aware of everything. Suddenly as she strained to listen to everything and tried to determine what the sounds were and where they were coming from she heard a husky voice.

~Oh god Remy. Who else? ~ She thought and listened some more. She realized she didn't want to know who else was there.

"Here you go ma'am, enjoy your meal," said the waiter as she arrived with hot pancakes and cold orange juice.

Rogue nodded a thank you and began to eat. She kept her coat on so not to make anybody nervous. She pulled out Monica's file. She flipped a few pages and found a picture. = Monica Champion. Brown eyes. Brown hair. Five foot five. Health fine has all her shots. = Rogue looked a little further down. = Very social loves loud music and full of energy. = Rogue stopped reading having finished her meal.

She had no clue how she ate three pancakes in such a short amount of time but oh well. She grabbed a twenty out of her wallet and laid it down on the table. The yip was pretty big but she paid no mind. She walked to the bathroom with Lucky on her shoulder. She passed the X-men but didn't realize it after all she only heard them but never knew where they were.

"Rogue?" it was Xavier, what was she supposed to do?

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The plot is slowly coming along; at least that's what I hope. Anyway the next chapter will not be to far behind.