"I got it. So where would they be?" Kurt had to think. He hadn't really gotten that far yet.
"Vell um, Amara might be at Cassy Sobecke's house. Rogue is probably at Remy's apartment if she hasn't been found-"
"Who's Remy?" Kurt wrote on a napkin he had stuck in his pocket.
"Zis is his address. Ask for Rogue and tell them vat happened." Amanda kissed him on the cheek.
"I love you. 'Bye."
"I love you too, Amanda."
Kurt sprinted as fast as he could to Dorian's house. With it being only a mile away, he had time to negotiate once he arrived.
"Mrs. Leech, please reconsider. Both you and your son vill be safer with us."
"Your professor doesn't want Dorian with you. He told me himself."
"But ze professor wouldn't-" Kurt stopped midsentence. He assumed the only thing anyone would. "I zink you vere visited by our friend, Mystique."
~*~
Meanwhile, Amanda was having trouble finding Amara. She was greeted with anger and hostility at her first venue. Amanda knocked on Cassy's front door. A woman in her late 30's answered the door. Amanda assumed she was being greeted by Cassy's mother.
"Hello Mrs. Sobecke, may I talk to Cassy?" The woman's face changed from kind and inviting to angry and malicious.
"What did you just call me?"
"You're Cassy's mom ri-"
"No, I'm not that brat's mother, thank God, and she isn't home." The woman slammed the door in Amanda's face. Amanda heard a faint voice coming from the side of the house.
"Psst. Amanda. Over here!" She walked around the corner to see Amara and her friend sticking their heads out a second-story window. "Sadly enough, I'm not related to that bitch at the door, Amanda."
"Well, I'm sorry I thought you could be. I guess you didn't hear...or see what's been going on out here then?" Confused looks covered their faces.
"What are you talking about?" a puzzled Amara asked.
"Come on. I'll explain on the way, but we have to find Rogue."
~*~
Rogue was again sitting at the foot of Remy's bed crying.
"Why didn't it work? Ah don't understand. Everything was fahne until that moment." She threw a chair across the room. There was a knock at the door. Rogue stared at the door with rage. It became charged and blew up. Once the splinters cleared, Amara and Amanda poked their heads in the doorway. A concerned look appeared on Rogue's face. She was about to ask if they were hurt when she realized they were staring at her. Rogue came to her senses and threw a blanket over herself.
"Um...Rogue, uh sentinels-attacked-the-Institute-and-are-disabling-our-powers," Amara tried to get the whole thing out before Rogue had time to blow them up too. Rogue stared at them for a second before responding.
"What?" Rogue asked with strong confusion in her voice.
"Well, sentinels attacked the Institute and most of the X-men were captured because their powers were disabled," Amanda stated.
Rogue groaned with annoyance. Why do they havtah attack now, damn it! This really sucks. Oh, what the hell am Ah talkin' about? Ah thought Agatha had neutralized mah mutation. That stupid thin' only worked fer a li'l while. Why would Agatha only make it to last that long? Does she want me tah kill someone? Rogue's thoughts trailed off before Amara interrupted them.
"Rogue? Rogue?" Rogue broke her daze and looked at Amara. "We kinda need to get back to the Professor."
"Okay. Gimme five minutes." Amanda and Amara nodded their heads. Amanda began to turn around and leave, but she noticed Amara wasn't following her. She grabbed Amara and they waited outside the apartment.
Rogue finished dressing. She noticed Remy move slightly in bed. She tried to wake him, but it was a fruitless attempt. She decided to let him sleep off the fun they had just had.
Amara and Rogue couldn't convince Amanda to go back home. She was determined to spend as much time as she could with Kurt. The three of them were able to avoid contact with the sentinels and get to the subway entrance only twenty minutes late. There were very few people in the station. Rogue assume it was a combination of the group of mutants and the rampaging robots in the streets. They were greeted by Dorian, his mother, the Alcolytes (except Gambit, of course), and the remaining X-men.
"Rogue!" Kurt exclaimed. "Ve thought you might have gotten captured. Did Amanda tell you about ze sentinels? I zink Mystique eez behind thees."
"But Kurt, why would Mystique wanna release sentinels on us? This is way beyond what she would do to stop the X-men. Besides, how would she build them?"
"Who said she didn't do eet from inside S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"I did," Logan said. "I talked to Nick Fury a few days ago. Rogue absorbed my healing ability earlier today. She knew the plans were stolen before you did."
Rogue wasn't very sure about that memory. She almost saw herself sitting there talking to agent Fury. In fact, many of the memories she knew weren't her own seemed to put her in place of the true owner of they experience. Was she going crazy? How do memories just changed like that?
"Could I talk to you for a minute?" Xavier asked. Rogue followed him around a corner. Once out of sight of the others, Xavier forced his way into Rogue's mind. She fought hard but her absorbed power was no match for his years of development. Two thoughts came to Rogue: Oh no, and he knows.
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Author's Notes
This was the hardest chpater to finish in a week, and I'm sorry it's not quite 1k words. I kind of have a quota for myself. I didn't reach it this week, but it's pretty packed with stuff. Love the reviews as always. On to the shout outs!
SHOUT OUTS!!
ishandahalf: yea i really liked the kurmanda part too. at first i was going to make that serious, but i think that ending fits better. anyway, ill keep updating weekly and maybe finish in 3 chappies. i know, i keep upping it, but there's so much i can write. i think i will take a break from writing after i finish maybe ill do the sequel a month afterwards. i hav so many other ideas floating in my head. the sequel will be an oc using gavin (the atom guy).
sugarsweet11: yea, i liked writing that part. thanx for the review!
rogue14: thanx for the review!
sage: you are loved man. yea, the kurmanda part was pretty classic. and rogue isnt a character many pple hate. shes so much fun to write about. lots of pple relate to some part of her personality and that makes her a popular character in fics.