Chapter 10: Dinner at 10pm

Rogue sat in the booth of the diner, Alistor sitting oposite as she listend to his order, she had the same, and they sat in silence as Alistor staired at Rogue's diverting eyes, as they looked everywhere but to him. He let out a small chuckle makeing Rogues eyes snap up, and finally meet his, with a bad attitude spread over her face.

"What?!" She snapped.

"It's funny." He said simpley.

"Whats funny?"

"You...... Youre trying your'e best not to look at me." He said, still amused.

"Well maybe ah don't wonna look at you." She fired back at him.

"Then why are you?" He said with an eyebrow raised and a smirk on his face as he folded a napkin into a fan that stood itslef up.

Rogue moved her eyes again, now focussing on his fidgeting hands as he tapped them on the tabletop. He smiled again, makeing his eyes shine even more.

"So. Marie, what do you do? Y'know, whats youre power?" He said.

"Mah name is Rogue. Marie is mah real name, but no-one knows.......Besides you."

"Then it's a privalidge to call it you?" He said with a happy tone to his voice.

Rogue smiled as she looked to the gloved hands that rested on the table. She looked at him again, and then pulled off one of her gloves. She looked at her hand, flipping it over, running her eyes over the pale skin on the back and palm of her hand, then she held it up to his face so as he could see her skin. He raised an eyebrow as he watched the smile on the corners of her lips.

"If ah was ta touch you with mah skin. Ah'd absorb all your powers and memeries, Ahd probabley kill you if ah held on fer to long. Then once ah got you in mah head..... ahd always have you there, tryin ta take controle, along with all the rest." Her smile faded, and she brought her hand back to her and put her glove back on.

"Wow." He said with regret. "So, you can't touch anyone, and anyone you touch stays in youre head?"

Rogue nodded, going quiet again.

"How old are you?" He ast changeing the subject for her sake, and not quite knowing how.

Rogue looked up, her emerald eyes, finally meeting his crystal blue ones.

"Ah just turned 18, yesterday." She brought back the tiney smile at the edges of her lips. "What about you?"

"Im 21. Just turned last week."

"Where are you from?"

"All over. Was born in Washington DC tho. Ive been moved around the countrey since I was 3." He stopped abruptley and lost his smile, a sudden wash of fear spreading over his expression, which lasted a split second as he gulped and smiled again at her. "I just travel allot."

This was followed by a small silence as a waitress brought over thair food. The young woman smailed at him.

"Kate told me to tell you that she was pritty." She said motioning over to Rogue, the waitress looked at her with a beaming smile and set down her food, then looked over to the litle girl who stood in the kitchen doorway, her face coverd with golden locks of hair as she smiled at Rogue. The waitress left with a smile and a thank you from Alistor. Rogue noticed him smile and wave at the little girl as she waved back and then was shood into the back by the cook.

Rogue looked to Alistor, and then to the glass of coke she started drinking from.

"I almost ran her down eirlyer." He explained as he pulled apart his sandwich and started eating it. He said it so plainley as if it was an everyday occurence that made Rogue choke on the fizzy drink as she tried not to lagh.

Alistor looked up worried and bit back a smile as tears formed in Rogues eyes.

"Are you...."

"Ahm fihn." She chocked out, and then sat in the silence again. Rogue looked over to the motel across the road, it was old looking and run down. "Is that where yer stayin?"

"uhm hu." He said nodding and swallowing a moutfill. "Over priced and crappy." He smiled. "I don't recomend it."

Rogue laghed a litle bit, and then felt someone was standing at the side of her so she turned, jumping at the sight of Scott standing looking at her. Alistors stair had been fixed on him for some time as he just staired.

"Crist Scott!! What the hell!"

"Do you have any idea what time it is?! Curfew is at nine. Its now 10! Logans gonna kill you, you had danger-" Scott stopped noticeing Alistor who was listening. Rogue rememberd that Scott didn't know him so she jumped in..

"Oh sorry, Scott this is Alistor. This is Scott. He's a bit like a board." Rogue said to Alistor who turned around laghing, but trying not to be rude. Scott looked between the two and scowled at Rogue as he grabbed her arm and began to pull her out of her seat.

He pulled her outside as Alistor followed. It didn't make him too happy, seeing how Scott was pulling Rogue about.

"Get off me Scott! Are you insain!"

"No Rogue, Im extremeley pissed. Ive had to give up my night with Jean to come looking for you, so please stop wasting my time and get in the damn car so we can go home." Scott said harshley.

"Hay!" Shouted Alistor as he stepped up to Scott, standing almost in his face, then he lowerd his tone. "Can you please not pull her about like that. she's not a toy." Alistor was quite serious.

"Hay, this isn't your'e buisness alright. "

"Yea it is. You DO not put your'e hands on a lady. EVER."

Rogue stepped up beside the two, and parted them with her gloved hands. Something about this realy bugged Alistor. He over reacted whenever a man raised his hand or shouted to a girl, something that was rooted deep inside him, fuled by something in his passed. It was all shown in his eyes.

"Alistor?" She said quietley, seeing the care free expression return to his face as he stepped away, and nodded to Rogue before he turned and wen't back inside the diner with a smile to Rogue and a wave at the door. Rogue punched Scott in the arm and got into his car.

"What was that all about?" He said sturnley as he started up the car and drove off.

Rogue didn't have much peace that night. Everyone was up waiting for her when she got home, the atmosphere could be cut with a knife.

Scott had compleatley droped her in it, by saying she got picked up by some wackey high strug guy that was going to start a fight with him. After hearing what Scott had said, the instructors and the proffeser wouldn't listen to her trying to explain about the men in the ally. Rogue even tried to tell the proffeser with her mind but he wouldn't let her finish then ither, so she stormed up to her room extremeley angrey.

A why'll later, Logan followed her, and talked to her in the hallway of the bedrooms. She told him about the gang of men in the alley, and all about Alistor. But then Logan ast about Mustique, and why she was with her today because he could smell her so strongley on Rogue. Rogue blew up at this, altho she didn't mean to.

"It's none of your'e buisness Logan!"

"Yes it is kid. If your'e in trouble-"

"NO! Logan if ahm in trouble ah can saught it mahself so just mind your'e own fuckin' buisness!!" Rogue immediatley closed her mouth at the last remark, seeing logans face turn the way it did after thair argument last year with the school issue.

"Fine! If you wont it that way, then make your'e own damn mistakes! Just dont come to me whan everthing goes wrong!" He hissed and then turned an walked away.