ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 12: DATES AND THE BROTHERHOOD.
Tabitha leaned over to Rogue with a grin on her face. "Well you like? I'd figure he'd be at least easy on the eyes for you."
Rogue tore her gaze from Vincent and gave Tabitha a sharp look. "What are ya talkin' about?" She whispered.
"Oh come off it, you got to admit he's cute and you don't seem to mind his company, plus would you rather have Ray or Roberto along?"
Rogue didn't say anything, sure Vincent was a lot better than being with either of those two, and he was cute and interesting.....she shook her head to clear her mind of those thoughts, she couldn't start to think of anyone like that.
It was too painful to really care about someone like that and not being able to get close to them, which is why she always tried to distance herself from others. She hated that her touch could hurt people, especially those she cared about.
Besides he probably thought of her as just a loner with an attitude problem. She was fine with that, if it prevented others from getting hurt than so be it.
The boys had come up to the girls and Tabitha was quick to grab Sam by the arm. "So are we all set?" Tabitha asked the others, who nodded in unison.
Vincent went to the door and opened up and holding it open for the others and closed it behind them. "I got to ask you Vincent, do you always open the doors for others?" Tabby asked.
Vincent just shrugged and grinned. "Well I was brought up by a priest and I am Canadian, it goes with the territory."
Tabitha and Sam gave a burst of laughter at his joke and Rogue even cracked a smile.
They walked their way to the theatre and talked to way there. Well Tabitha and Sam did most of the talking and mostly to each other. Vincent and Rogue said a few things, but mostly they walked side by side in a comfortable silence.
Rogue turned her head to Vincent "So why did ya agree to this?"
Vince just shrugged. "Well I first off I really wanted to see this film, secondly Sam was literally begging me and I couldn't refuse a friend in need. What about you."
Rogue didn't answer at first "Blackmail" she said darkly.
"Ah" They fell back into a silence, until Vincent spoke up again. "Sorry about that shop getting trashed." He said solemnly.
"It's okay, Ah liked the other place betta and at least no one was hurt."
"Yeah well still, I know you liked the place, that and I'm glad you're okay." Vince said with concern in his voice.
Rogue looked down at her feet. "Thanks. Ah guess ah never said thank ya for savin' meh."
"Don't mention it, plus you did help me out by zapping him at the end, so we're even." Vince flashed her his lopsided grin at her.
Rogue looked up to his face, with that smile he always showed. She liked it when he smiled at her like that it always made her feel better. Rogue even had a small smile of her own on her face then.
Vince saw it and thought how beautiful she seemed when she smiled even slightly, her whole face seemed to light up. "You know you should do that more often." He calmly said.
She looked confused at him. "Do what? Save ya more, or zap others?" she joked.
"No. Smile it suits you."
Rogue started to feel her cheeks getting warm at his comment and quickly averted her gaze. Okay was he just complimenting her again, or flirting again. She was trying to figure out which like she had at the coffee shop earlier that day.
"Hey guys we're here!" Tabitha exclaimed. "Come on let's get inside already before all the good seats are taken."
They went in got the usual things people eat at the films, popcorn and drinks. Luckily the movie had been playing for over a week and the place was not too crowded. Sam and Tabitha sat together, but Rogue and Vincent decided to give them some space and sat behind them.
They all enjoyed the movie, Tabitha had grabbed Sam's arm about halfway through and at the end they were coddled up to each other. Rogue and Vincent sat quietly together. After the film had ended they walked out together.
"Man that was so cool! Right guys?" Tabitha said to the others.
"I'll admit that Capt. Jack character was as funny as a blind sheep dog." Sam said. He didn't notice the weird looks the other gave him at his comment, but they all had learned to ignore those types of things he said.
"I enjoyed that too, plus I found the fencing intriguing, even though that's not my thing." Vincent said.
Tabby looked at Vincent. "Not your thing? I though I heard something about you having your own sword."
Vince almost stopped in his traces, he hadn't shown anyone his weapons yet, and didn't understand how anyone knew. "How did you know about my sword? I haven't talked about it or showed it to anyone?"
Sam looked surprised. "I thought that was just a rumor, you tellin' me you ACTUALLY have a sword."
"Yes, now I'll answer your earlier question Tabitha, if you tell me how you knew about it."
Rogue was getting nervous, she knew it was her, Kitty, Kurt and Jamie who had seen Vincent training with his weapons, and knew that that training secession was a little private.
"Well" Tabby began "Jamie told me about this time he saw you training with a sword and a few other weapons."
Vincent took a moment to think back to the training secessions he'd done and which ones could Jamie have seen, he was definitely going to have to have a talk with Jamie later. "Okay, now for your first question, I was trained in the Japanese arts of Kendo and Iaido."
"Hey isn't Kendo that thing were you put on that armor and fight with those wooden swords?" Sam asked.
"Basically yes, Iaido is using a real sword. Plus European fencing is a totally different style then Japanese, for instance the swords are way different and the Japanese style is design to kill your opponent in as few moves as possible." Vincent told them.
"Whoa seriously?" Tabitha asked him.
Vincent nodded his head.
"Well, well, well, look at what here got here some X-Geeks out on a date." They heard a high pitch and slightly annoying voice say to them.
They turned around and saw the entire brotherhood behind them.
Pietro speed up to Vincent and looked him over. "Sowho'sthissomenewbloodandwhathappenedtoyourface?" he asked, at least as far as Vincent could tell that's what he said.
The slim white-haired motor mouth was also poking him in the chest, now normally Vincent wouldn't care, but with his injured ribs this light speed poking was staring to sting. So he grabbed his wrist with a blur of his right hand.
This left all the Brotherhood except for Wanda who only rose and eyebrow with their mouths open in astonishment.
"WHAT?! Hey no one's fast enough to catch me!" Pietro whined and tried to get out of his grip.
Vincent then got a predatory grin on his face and in a low and threatening voice said "And that's not all I can do."
Vince began to tighten his grip slightly. "owowowowowletgoletgoletgo" Pietro said while grabbing his wrist with his other hand. Vincent let him go and Pietro fell right onto his butt.
Almost everyone including Brotherhood members were snickering at Pietro's misfortune.
"Okay guys come on we were just having a good time out, do we really need to get into a fight or something?" Tabitha said. "Come on for old times sake."
Vince looked at Tabitha "You know these guys?"
"Yeah this is the Brotherhood, I used to live with them." She told him.
Vincent looked them over and started matching up names he heard to the descriptions of these people he heard about.
He looked at a small frail looking kid who looked like he hadn't taken a bath since....well ever. "Ah so that must be Toad" Then looked at the huge kid with a Mohawk "and that must be Fred or Blob" He then looked at an angry looking goth girl (who reminded him a little of Rogue only more pissed off looking) "She must be Wanda" He looked at a tall kid with brown hair and a black shirt. "You must be the infamous Lance."
He then looked at the white haired kid who looked like he was on a 24-7 sugar high. "and Mr. Personality here must be Pietro."
Quicksilver had gotten up by now and was vary pissed off about this new guy. "Yeah and just who are you, and what makes you think you can just make a fool of me like that?" he shouted.
"My name's Vincent Freeman, and I don't think I could do anything to make you a fool, your doing that fine by yourself."
Pietro looked like he had been slapped in the face, while another set of snickers went around.
"That's it your dead." Quicksilver angrily said.
Tabitha moved in front of him. "Whoa there speedy, you REALLY don't want to go up against him."
"Yeah! Well why not?"
"Well let's see." Sam said. "First Danger Room session he beat the entire New Mutants, then defeated the X-Men after that, in a private DR session he destroyed the entire place and took two days to repair, and just today he went one-on-one with The Juggernaut and ACTUALLY won."
The Brotherhood were dumbfounded, and were looking at Vincent in a whole new light. Some were appraising him, while others were getting worried about fighting someone who could do all that.
"Um actually Sam I did have help with Juggernaut." Vincent nodded to Rogue.
"Yo you guys are making all this up right?" Toad asked them.
"I'm telling you guys it's all true, didn't you see the news about the Juggernaut today?" Said Tabby.
"Well we could have if SOMEBODY hadn't have blown all the fuses earlier today." Lance said while glaring at Pietro.
"Hey it wasn't MY fault." Pietro argued.
"You're just lucky that father decided to pay the bills again, so we could get replacements." Wanda coldly said to him.
"Ya mean Magneto is back?" Rogue asked.
"Wait a minute Magneto? That guy with the purple cape and stupid helmet, he's their FATHER?" Vincent asked her.
"What you've MET Magneto?" Rogue and the others were shocked to say the least. None of them had heard of this.
Vincent's face grew vary dark then. "Once a vary long time ago, let's just say we didn't get along."
"Yeah well guys can't we leave on a peaceful note, I am on a real date here with Sam and I'd like not to spoil the whole thing by getting into a fight" Tabitha told them.
"Hey if you to are on a date does that mean Rogue and the new guy are dating?" Fred asked her innocently.
"Whoa you mean 'Miss Ice queen' actually has a boyfriend now, how does that work yo?" Toad asked.
"I am not his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, we're just friends." Vincent and Rogue said at the very exact time, and both looking slightly embarrassed.
"And what do you mean by that 'Ice queen' remark you little wart." Vincent gave Toad his most terrifying death glare. This one he reserved for those times he really needed/wanted to intimidate someone, and it had taken him years to perfect it.
Toad had flinched and was slowly moving behind Wanda. "Ah-ah-ah I didn't m- mean nothin' by it."
"Come on guys we got better things to do than get into a fight with the X- geeks." Lance had finally spoken up, when he realized that Toad had seriously pissed of the new guy, and if what the others said was true, he really didn't like their odds.
"Ya what Lance said." Toad then hopped away as fast as he could. The others started to follow, but Quicksilver was slightly reluctant. 'I get even with that guy, no one treats me like that and gets away with it.' He vowed to himself, before leaving to catch-up with the others.
As they left Vincent let out a sigh. "Why is it that every time I leave the mansion, I seem to get into trouble, first was those guys at the mall, then Juggernaut and now The Brotherhood. I must be cursed"
"Oh come on your just being paranoid." Tabitha told him.
"So, a healthy case of paranoia keeps you alert and alive."
"It can also make you worry so much that it could give you an ulcer."
Vincent just shrugged. "That too."
"Besides" Sam said. "You could have taken them."
"Not really that fight with Juggernaut did a number on my ribs, I was bluffing them." Vincent said.
"Serious?" Sam asked him.
"Dude I can barley lift my arms over my head, it took me three minute to put my shirt on."
They all continued to walk back to the mansion, they started to talk about the movie little more and eventually made their way home. As they got in Tabitha and Sam went off together leaving Vincent and Rogue alone.
Vincent was about to leave for his room when Rogue spoke up. "Ya know ya didn't have ta stand up for meh, about Toad saying ah'm an 'ice queen' ah know it's true."
Vincent looked at her to see if she was serious. "Rogue your not an 'ice queen' and I won't stand for my friends being insulted like that."
Rogue raised one of her eyebrows."In case ya hadn't noticed ah'm not exactly miss friendly."
Vincent took a few steps closer to her, so he could look her right in the eye. "You want to know what I see when I look at you Rogue?"
Rogue stared into those light blue eyes of his, she could see he was in his serious mode now. "What do ya see?"
He calmly and caringly said to her. "I see a beautiful young lady, who cares deeply about those around her. I see someone who goes out of her way to protect others from her, so she covers up, and pushes people away so she never hurts anyone.
I see someone who is always there for her friends and even though never shows it, cares deeply about them. I also see the loneliness that goes with it, and the pain it causes having to hide yourself from the world and never touching."
Rogue was speechless. Never had anyone every said anything like that to her, it was like he was looking into her soul with those piercing eyes of his. For a moment she was overcome with emotion.
No one seemed to see the things in her like he had, except for maybe Kurt, Xavier and her closes friends. She could feel tears starting up, and quickly turned away from him.
Vincent wasn't sure what possessed him to say such things, it looked like he had upset her. "Rogue listen I-" He tried to apologies but she had run off to her room.
'Damn nice going you idiot.' Vincent chided himself.
MEANWHILE AT THE BROTHERHOOD HOUSE
The Brotherhood had just returned home.
"I can't believe the nerve of that guy, who does he think he is?" Pietro was still angry with earlier.
"Calm down Pietro, from what I heard from Kitty your lucky that guy didn't shatter your wrist." Lance told him.
"Who nearly shattered my son's wrist." Came a deep voice.
They turned around and found Magneto standing in their living room.
"Father your back!" Wanda exclaimed happy to see him. Wanda's mind still had the false memories Mastermind had put in her head.
"Yes Wanda I'm back, now what happened?" he commanded.
"Well you see the X-geeks got this new guy Victor or something" Pietro said.
"Vincent, Pietro he said his name was Vincent." Lance told him.
Magneto looked directly at Lance. "Vincent?! His name wouldn't happen to be Vincent Freeman would it?"
"Uh yeah, he said you two met." Lance looked at Magneto closely, if he didn't know any better he'd had sworn that Magneto was actually worried.
"You are to stay away from him, he's too dangerous for you to take on." Magneto ordered them. He knew all to well what that boy was capable of, and now he had joined Charles. This wasn't good, he had hoped he would have stayed out of this, or at least changed his mind on humans.
No, this was not good at all.
BACK AT THE MANSION
Rogue had run straight to her room and closed the door. She leaned her back against it and slid down it onto the floor. Her heart was racing, not because she was angry with him, but because those things he had said touched her deeply.
She didn't know what to think anymore, she knew in her head that nothing could happen between them, but in her heart....in that moment he told her what he saw in her, she wanted nothing more than more him to hold her in his arms.
That was a dangerous thought, and the reason she ran, she couldn't allow herself to get that close, to feel that way, yet she did. The more time she spent with him, the more she suddenly realized she liked him.
Her heart felt like it was flying and breaking at the same time. When her powers manifested she knew she would never know love, yet here she was falling for this mysterious boy from up north.
He was a complex boy, sensitive, caring, and compassionate, then he was goofy and funny, other times he seemed serious and there was a darker side to him. She loved that smile he put on, and he always seemed to make her either smile or feel better.
It was cruel that she found this great guy and she couldn't get close to him, plus he might not even feel the same way, what would anyone in their right mind would want a girl that they couldn't touch.
She began to cry. She didn't know for how long, but she was brought out of it when there was a knocking at her door.
"Rogue can I came in." Came Vincent's soft voice.
"No. Please just leave meh alone." Her voiced cracked saying it, she hoped he didn't pick up that she had been crying.
"Rogue please let me in." She didn't respond. She sat on her bead and wiped the tears away.
"Rogue are you all right." It was Vincent's voice but it came from behind her. She looked around and saw him coming in from the balcony. He must of flown up to her window, she thought.
She quickly turned away, she didn't want to see that she had been crying. But it was too late he had. He moved over to her and sat down beside her.
"Rogue.....I'm sorry if anything I said hurt you.....I...."He tried to finish. The thought that he might of inadvertently hurt someone he liked was hard on him.
She looked over to him and saw the concern and hurt in his eyes. "It-it not you that's upset meh, it's the fact that yur this great guy and ah....ah find myself liking you....more than ah should....when you said all those things they touched meh and ah....for a moment ah just wanted ya to hold meh..."
She couldn't finish and there was an uncomfortable silent between them for a couple of seconds. Then like so many other times he surprised her. Vincent put his arm across her shoulder and was drawing her closer.
"What are ya doin'?" She was beginning to panic.
"I trust you, now do you trust me?"
Her face was just a few inches from his, and she looked into those hard yet beautiful blue eyes of his. She nodded.
"Then just let me hold you." He whispered.
She allowed herself to put her head on his shoulder, careful not to touch any skin with her face and wrapped her arms around him. He did the same with his arms, and they just sat there holding each other.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 13 CALM BEFORE THE STORM
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CHAPTER 12: DATES AND THE BROTHERHOOD.
Tabitha leaned over to Rogue with a grin on her face. "Well you like? I'd figure he'd be at least easy on the eyes for you."
Rogue tore her gaze from Vincent and gave Tabitha a sharp look. "What are ya talkin' about?" She whispered.
"Oh come off it, you got to admit he's cute and you don't seem to mind his company, plus would you rather have Ray or Roberto along?"
Rogue didn't say anything, sure Vincent was a lot better than being with either of those two, and he was cute and interesting.....she shook her head to clear her mind of those thoughts, she couldn't start to think of anyone like that.
It was too painful to really care about someone like that and not being able to get close to them, which is why she always tried to distance herself from others. She hated that her touch could hurt people, especially those she cared about.
Besides he probably thought of her as just a loner with an attitude problem. She was fine with that, if it prevented others from getting hurt than so be it.
The boys had come up to the girls and Tabitha was quick to grab Sam by the arm. "So are we all set?" Tabitha asked the others, who nodded in unison.
Vincent went to the door and opened up and holding it open for the others and closed it behind them. "I got to ask you Vincent, do you always open the doors for others?" Tabby asked.
Vincent just shrugged and grinned. "Well I was brought up by a priest and I am Canadian, it goes with the territory."
Tabitha and Sam gave a burst of laughter at his joke and Rogue even cracked a smile.
They walked their way to the theatre and talked to way there. Well Tabitha and Sam did most of the talking and mostly to each other. Vincent and Rogue said a few things, but mostly they walked side by side in a comfortable silence.
Rogue turned her head to Vincent "So why did ya agree to this?"
Vince just shrugged. "Well I first off I really wanted to see this film, secondly Sam was literally begging me and I couldn't refuse a friend in need. What about you."
Rogue didn't answer at first "Blackmail" she said darkly.
"Ah" They fell back into a silence, until Vincent spoke up again. "Sorry about that shop getting trashed." He said solemnly.
"It's okay, Ah liked the other place betta and at least no one was hurt."
"Yeah well still, I know you liked the place, that and I'm glad you're okay." Vince said with concern in his voice.
Rogue looked down at her feet. "Thanks. Ah guess ah never said thank ya for savin' meh."
"Don't mention it, plus you did help me out by zapping him at the end, so we're even." Vince flashed her his lopsided grin at her.
Rogue looked up to his face, with that smile he always showed. She liked it when he smiled at her like that it always made her feel better. Rogue even had a small smile of her own on her face then.
Vince saw it and thought how beautiful she seemed when she smiled even slightly, her whole face seemed to light up. "You know you should do that more often." He calmly said.
She looked confused at him. "Do what? Save ya more, or zap others?" she joked.
"No. Smile it suits you."
Rogue started to feel her cheeks getting warm at his comment and quickly averted her gaze. Okay was he just complimenting her again, or flirting again. She was trying to figure out which like she had at the coffee shop earlier that day.
"Hey guys we're here!" Tabitha exclaimed. "Come on let's get inside already before all the good seats are taken."
They went in got the usual things people eat at the films, popcorn and drinks. Luckily the movie had been playing for over a week and the place was not too crowded. Sam and Tabitha sat together, but Rogue and Vincent decided to give them some space and sat behind them.
They all enjoyed the movie, Tabitha had grabbed Sam's arm about halfway through and at the end they were coddled up to each other. Rogue and Vincent sat quietly together. After the film had ended they walked out together.
"Man that was so cool! Right guys?" Tabitha said to the others.
"I'll admit that Capt. Jack character was as funny as a blind sheep dog." Sam said. He didn't notice the weird looks the other gave him at his comment, but they all had learned to ignore those types of things he said.
"I enjoyed that too, plus I found the fencing intriguing, even though that's not my thing." Vincent said.
Tabby looked at Vincent. "Not your thing? I though I heard something about you having your own sword."
Vince almost stopped in his traces, he hadn't shown anyone his weapons yet, and didn't understand how anyone knew. "How did you know about my sword? I haven't talked about it or showed it to anyone?"
Sam looked surprised. "I thought that was just a rumor, you tellin' me you ACTUALLY have a sword."
"Yes, now I'll answer your earlier question Tabitha, if you tell me how you knew about it."
Rogue was getting nervous, she knew it was her, Kitty, Kurt and Jamie who had seen Vincent training with his weapons, and knew that that training secession was a little private.
"Well" Tabby began "Jamie told me about this time he saw you training with a sword and a few other weapons."
Vincent took a moment to think back to the training secessions he'd done and which ones could Jamie have seen, he was definitely going to have to have a talk with Jamie later. "Okay, now for your first question, I was trained in the Japanese arts of Kendo and Iaido."
"Hey isn't Kendo that thing were you put on that armor and fight with those wooden swords?" Sam asked.
"Basically yes, Iaido is using a real sword. Plus European fencing is a totally different style then Japanese, for instance the swords are way different and the Japanese style is design to kill your opponent in as few moves as possible." Vincent told them.
"Whoa seriously?" Tabitha asked him.
Vincent nodded his head.
"Well, well, well, look at what here got here some X-Geeks out on a date." They heard a high pitch and slightly annoying voice say to them.
They turned around and saw the entire brotherhood behind them.
Pietro speed up to Vincent and looked him over. "Sowho'sthissomenewbloodandwhathappenedtoyourface?" he asked, at least as far as Vincent could tell that's what he said.
The slim white-haired motor mouth was also poking him in the chest, now normally Vincent wouldn't care, but with his injured ribs this light speed poking was staring to sting. So he grabbed his wrist with a blur of his right hand.
This left all the Brotherhood except for Wanda who only rose and eyebrow with their mouths open in astonishment.
"WHAT?! Hey no one's fast enough to catch me!" Pietro whined and tried to get out of his grip.
Vincent then got a predatory grin on his face and in a low and threatening voice said "And that's not all I can do."
Vince began to tighten his grip slightly. "owowowowowletgoletgoletgo" Pietro said while grabbing his wrist with his other hand. Vincent let him go and Pietro fell right onto his butt.
Almost everyone including Brotherhood members were snickering at Pietro's misfortune.
"Okay guys come on we were just having a good time out, do we really need to get into a fight or something?" Tabitha said. "Come on for old times sake."
Vince looked at Tabitha "You know these guys?"
"Yeah this is the Brotherhood, I used to live with them." She told him.
Vincent looked them over and started matching up names he heard to the descriptions of these people he heard about.
He looked at a small frail looking kid who looked like he hadn't taken a bath since....well ever. "Ah so that must be Toad" Then looked at the huge kid with a Mohawk "and that must be Fred or Blob" He then looked at an angry looking goth girl (who reminded him a little of Rogue only more pissed off looking) "She must be Wanda" He looked at a tall kid with brown hair and a black shirt. "You must be the infamous Lance."
He then looked at the white haired kid who looked like he was on a 24-7 sugar high. "and Mr. Personality here must be Pietro."
Quicksilver had gotten up by now and was vary pissed off about this new guy. "Yeah and just who are you, and what makes you think you can just make a fool of me like that?" he shouted.
"My name's Vincent Freeman, and I don't think I could do anything to make you a fool, your doing that fine by yourself."
Pietro looked like he had been slapped in the face, while another set of snickers went around.
"That's it your dead." Quicksilver angrily said.
Tabitha moved in front of him. "Whoa there speedy, you REALLY don't want to go up against him."
"Yeah! Well why not?"
"Well let's see." Sam said. "First Danger Room session he beat the entire New Mutants, then defeated the X-Men after that, in a private DR session he destroyed the entire place and took two days to repair, and just today he went one-on-one with The Juggernaut and ACTUALLY won."
The Brotherhood were dumbfounded, and were looking at Vincent in a whole new light. Some were appraising him, while others were getting worried about fighting someone who could do all that.
"Um actually Sam I did have help with Juggernaut." Vincent nodded to Rogue.
"Yo you guys are making all this up right?" Toad asked them.
"I'm telling you guys it's all true, didn't you see the news about the Juggernaut today?" Said Tabby.
"Well we could have if SOMEBODY hadn't have blown all the fuses earlier today." Lance said while glaring at Pietro.
"Hey it wasn't MY fault." Pietro argued.
"You're just lucky that father decided to pay the bills again, so we could get replacements." Wanda coldly said to him.
"Ya mean Magneto is back?" Rogue asked.
"Wait a minute Magneto? That guy with the purple cape and stupid helmet, he's their FATHER?" Vincent asked her.
"What you've MET Magneto?" Rogue and the others were shocked to say the least. None of them had heard of this.
Vincent's face grew vary dark then. "Once a vary long time ago, let's just say we didn't get along."
"Yeah well guys can't we leave on a peaceful note, I am on a real date here with Sam and I'd like not to spoil the whole thing by getting into a fight" Tabitha told them.
"Hey if you to are on a date does that mean Rogue and the new guy are dating?" Fred asked her innocently.
"Whoa you mean 'Miss Ice queen' actually has a boyfriend now, how does that work yo?" Toad asked.
"I am not his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, we're just friends." Vincent and Rogue said at the very exact time, and both looking slightly embarrassed.
"And what do you mean by that 'Ice queen' remark you little wart." Vincent gave Toad his most terrifying death glare. This one he reserved for those times he really needed/wanted to intimidate someone, and it had taken him years to perfect it.
Toad had flinched and was slowly moving behind Wanda. "Ah-ah-ah I didn't m- mean nothin' by it."
"Come on guys we got better things to do than get into a fight with the X- geeks." Lance had finally spoken up, when he realized that Toad had seriously pissed of the new guy, and if what the others said was true, he really didn't like their odds.
"Ya what Lance said." Toad then hopped away as fast as he could. The others started to follow, but Quicksilver was slightly reluctant. 'I get even with that guy, no one treats me like that and gets away with it.' He vowed to himself, before leaving to catch-up with the others.
As they left Vincent let out a sigh. "Why is it that every time I leave the mansion, I seem to get into trouble, first was those guys at the mall, then Juggernaut and now The Brotherhood. I must be cursed"
"Oh come on your just being paranoid." Tabitha told him.
"So, a healthy case of paranoia keeps you alert and alive."
"It can also make you worry so much that it could give you an ulcer."
Vincent just shrugged. "That too."
"Besides" Sam said. "You could have taken them."
"Not really that fight with Juggernaut did a number on my ribs, I was bluffing them." Vincent said.
"Serious?" Sam asked him.
"Dude I can barley lift my arms over my head, it took me three minute to put my shirt on."
They all continued to walk back to the mansion, they started to talk about the movie little more and eventually made their way home. As they got in Tabitha and Sam went off together leaving Vincent and Rogue alone.
Vincent was about to leave for his room when Rogue spoke up. "Ya know ya didn't have ta stand up for meh, about Toad saying ah'm an 'ice queen' ah know it's true."
Vincent looked at her to see if she was serious. "Rogue your not an 'ice queen' and I won't stand for my friends being insulted like that."
Rogue raised one of her eyebrows."In case ya hadn't noticed ah'm not exactly miss friendly."
Vincent took a few steps closer to her, so he could look her right in the eye. "You want to know what I see when I look at you Rogue?"
Rogue stared into those light blue eyes of his, she could see he was in his serious mode now. "What do ya see?"
He calmly and caringly said to her. "I see a beautiful young lady, who cares deeply about those around her. I see someone who goes out of her way to protect others from her, so she covers up, and pushes people away so she never hurts anyone.
I see someone who is always there for her friends and even though never shows it, cares deeply about them. I also see the loneliness that goes with it, and the pain it causes having to hide yourself from the world and never touching."
Rogue was speechless. Never had anyone every said anything like that to her, it was like he was looking into her soul with those piercing eyes of his. For a moment she was overcome with emotion.
No one seemed to see the things in her like he had, except for maybe Kurt, Xavier and her closes friends. She could feel tears starting up, and quickly turned away from him.
Vincent wasn't sure what possessed him to say such things, it looked like he had upset her. "Rogue listen I-" He tried to apologies but she had run off to her room.
'Damn nice going you idiot.' Vincent chided himself.
MEANWHILE AT THE BROTHERHOOD HOUSE
The Brotherhood had just returned home.
"I can't believe the nerve of that guy, who does he think he is?" Pietro was still angry with earlier.
"Calm down Pietro, from what I heard from Kitty your lucky that guy didn't shatter your wrist." Lance told him.
"Who nearly shattered my son's wrist." Came a deep voice.
They turned around and found Magneto standing in their living room.
"Father your back!" Wanda exclaimed happy to see him. Wanda's mind still had the false memories Mastermind had put in her head.
"Yes Wanda I'm back, now what happened?" he commanded.
"Well you see the X-geeks got this new guy Victor or something" Pietro said.
"Vincent, Pietro he said his name was Vincent." Lance told him.
Magneto looked directly at Lance. "Vincent?! His name wouldn't happen to be Vincent Freeman would it?"
"Uh yeah, he said you two met." Lance looked at Magneto closely, if he didn't know any better he'd had sworn that Magneto was actually worried.
"You are to stay away from him, he's too dangerous for you to take on." Magneto ordered them. He knew all to well what that boy was capable of, and now he had joined Charles. This wasn't good, he had hoped he would have stayed out of this, or at least changed his mind on humans.
No, this was not good at all.
BACK AT THE MANSION
Rogue had run straight to her room and closed the door. She leaned her back against it and slid down it onto the floor. Her heart was racing, not because she was angry with him, but because those things he had said touched her deeply.
She didn't know what to think anymore, she knew in her head that nothing could happen between them, but in her heart....in that moment he told her what he saw in her, she wanted nothing more than more him to hold her in his arms.
That was a dangerous thought, and the reason she ran, she couldn't allow herself to get that close, to feel that way, yet she did. The more time she spent with him, the more she suddenly realized she liked him.
Her heart felt like it was flying and breaking at the same time. When her powers manifested she knew she would never know love, yet here she was falling for this mysterious boy from up north.
He was a complex boy, sensitive, caring, and compassionate, then he was goofy and funny, other times he seemed serious and there was a darker side to him. She loved that smile he put on, and he always seemed to make her either smile or feel better.
It was cruel that she found this great guy and she couldn't get close to him, plus he might not even feel the same way, what would anyone in their right mind would want a girl that they couldn't touch.
She began to cry. She didn't know for how long, but she was brought out of it when there was a knocking at her door.
"Rogue can I came in." Came Vincent's soft voice.
"No. Please just leave meh alone." Her voiced cracked saying it, she hoped he didn't pick up that she had been crying.
"Rogue please let me in." She didn't respond. She sat on her bead and wiped the tears away.
"Rogue are you all right." It was Vincent's voice but it came from behind her. She looked around and saw him coming in from the balcony. He must of flown up to her window, she thought.
She quickly turned away, she didn't want to see that she had been crying. But it was too late he had. He moved over to her and sat down beside her.
"Rogue.....I'm sorry if anything I said hurt you.....I...."He tried to finish. The thought that he might of inadvertently hurt someone he liked was hard on him.
She looked over to him and saw the concern and hurt in his eyes. "It-it not you that's upset meh, it's the fact that yur this great guy and ah....ah find myself liking you....more than ah should....when you said all those things they touched meh and ah....for a moment ah just wanted ya to hold meh..."
She couldn't finish and there was an uncomfortable silent between them for a couple of seconds. Then like so many other times he surprised her. Vincent put his arm across her shoulder and was drawing her closer.
"What are ya doin'?" She was beginning to panic.
"I trust you, now do you trust me?"
Her face was just a few inches from his, and she looked into those hard yet beautiful blue eyes of his. She nodded.
"Then just let me hold you." He whispered.
She allowed herself to put her head on his shoulder, careful not to touch any skin with her face and wrapped her arms around him. He did the same with his arms, and they just sat there holding each other.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 13 CALM BEFORE THE STORM
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