(A/N: Grrrrrrrrr! Ive just had another of my credit cards choped up! Right infront of me! Do you have any idea how that feels.....My credit cards are my best friends! *Author cries and Alistor bites his lip*..... "Ooops....Guess I spent too much on that motorbike...." Huh? Motorbike? Where?! "Erm, outside...." You bought a motorbike on MY credit card and you never told me! Damn you. *Author runs out to bike and hugs it.* Its myn now! "So....erm....am I still fired?" *SLAP* "Okay! ok." *Alistor folds his arms and sinks into the charactor couch.*)

Chapter 16: Takeing a stride over the line.

"Ah swear Ali! If you call me Baby one more time, ahm gonna take this pencil and shuve it up your nose, now give me back mah sketch pad!!" Rogue screamed as Alistor flicked through the pages and steped to the oposite side as Rogue, with the couch in between them.

"Oh come on baby, you know you like." He laghed out as the sketch book was torn from his hand, and thrown to the floor, Rogue lunged at him over the couch. He stepped aside and triped on his feet, falling to the floor.

"You aint to good on ya feet are ya jackass." She laghed.

Alistor stumbled to his feet and fell into the wall with a lagh and groan of pain. Rogue started laghing, so Alistor threw a pillow at her.

"Fight me!!! Come on, you hit like a girl."

"Havn't ya noticed jackass, ah am a girl!"

"That is true.......Baby." Rogue threw the pillow back at him, and dodged another.

Rogue got up and charged at him, ramming him into the wall, as he gasped with laghter.

"Baby, baby, baby, baby." He laghed as Rogue began to dig her fingers into his side, makeing him jerk about laghing.

"Jackass." She choked out.

"Stop! Stop it, it's unbearable!!!! Ill stop callin' ya baby....Just stop." He laghed out as he sank to the floor, with Rogue still playing at his sides. She stopped and sat on her heels infront of him as he laghed himself breathless. He took in a deep breath and wiped the tears from his eyes, then stood up, walking backwards out the door.

"Come get me b-a-b-y." He said, seeing Rogue jump to her feet, but then he walked into someone. He turned to see Scott scowling at him. Scott pushed Alistor into the wall, clutching his shirt.

"Wow dude, whats the deal!" Alistor yelled as Scott let go and steped away. Be fore Alistor knew it, Scott swong a fist at Alistors jaw, and sent him, spinning to the groung.

Rogue came out of the room, hitting Scott in the arm and pushing him away from Alistor who was just getting up.

"What the hell?!!! You damn phsyco!!" she yelled at him.

"The professer dosen't like this kind of behavior in the mantion! He's nothing but a perv. You never see him hanging about with the guys, always the girls." Scott said, looking at Alistor, who was shocked at the word. Alistor stood up, his expression turned cold and vengefull. He stepped up to Scott, right in his face and said quietley, but in a tone that was terrafieing.

"You call me that again, and you'll never see another sunrise you litle prick!"

"Oh, is that a threat, you pervert!" Scott said.

"Whats up?! Are you jelous cos' Jean likes hangin' out with me? Is that it?" Alistor said, still trying to understand why he just got sucker punched in the jaw.

"Screw you....Your probabley gay anyway." Scott mumbled.

Alistor was about to tear Scott to pieces when Rogue touched his arm and pulled him back. Alistor grunted and stormed off, knocking over a vaise which smashed to the ground perposley.

Rogue shoved Scott into the wall.

"You have no idea what that man has been through Scott!! And if you did, you'd kill yourself for what you just said to him. If this changes him Scott, no-one will keep me from tearing you appart." Rogue pushed Scott again and ran after Alistor, catching up with him at the stairs. He was pissed, he was upset, but most of all he was hurt.

"Alistor...."

"Not now Rogue." He sighed quietley. He'd never snap or raise his voice to her.

"You and I both know that thats bull shit, he's just a jumped up litle son- of-a-bitch. Don't let him bother you."

"I can't help it when he calls me that. I try my best not to be, but I don't know if I am being perverted.... Everything that happend to me, everthing that they did, its made everything so hard for me. I don't know whats normal, and whats not."

"Stop it!! Alistor, you are my best friend! Friends do this kinda thing! And ah won't have you diggin yourself a grave over this, because you are a good man, better than most men Ive met, so stop doin this to yourself! Besides, he's just jelous that Jeans got her eye on you."

Rogue touched his face, and pulled him into her arms. Scott realy got to him this time, she shook with angar.

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Rogue found herself in a dingey room of a three bedroomd house. The walls were brown, with water stains running down, and a dirty brown blanket over the windows cutting out all light. She was in a bedroom, on the matress, sprawled on the floor, lay a small boy, about 5 years old. He had black hair and Crystal bue eyes. It was Alistor.

The boy was clutching at his stomach, his other arm looking week as he suppurted himself haveing a coghing fit. The door swong open, and a man with a beard stepped in, he was skinny and his eyes were almost black. He yelled something at the boy, but she couldn't quite hear. He stomped over to the boy and kicked him in the side, as blood spated on the wall beside the boy and he cryed....so alone.....so helpless.

The room changed, flashing hundreds of other scenes of a simalar nature, untill the room stopped around her. A white bathroom, with a 12 year old boy sitting at the edge of a bath, when the door swong open and a woman walked in. She looked like a prostituit, but she wasn't, she was his foster mother....Alistors foster mother. Rogue mentally shut her eyes, effectiveley blacking out the event that took place in that bathroom, but nothing could cut out the screams, or the beggs to stop, the pleading before the silence and a slammed door. Rogue mentally opend her eyes again, seeing the young boy huddled in the corned, stairing into space as he rocked, tears falling silentley as he egnored them.

The scenery, change, showing 6 more images of this nature, and then flipped back to when he was 4-10, it happend freequentlwy, untill he was 15, and he finaly stopped crying afterwards, and just took the beatings along with the touching and everthing els. He couldn't stop it, he was empty inside so he took it with out a single yell of pain or scream of fear. All these people where horrid, they abused him so much, but those who were nice to him, there were 2 women, got beaten almost to death for treating him like a normal kid.

He blaimed himself for thair pain. The last thing Rogue saw, was an houre long beating, and then Alistor being roled up in a carpet and thrown off a bridge, before he hit the water, she sat up screaming frantically. She found herself stairing into Alistors eyes, eyes that were worried and tired. Kitty sat up, and looked at them, figuring that she was okay, so she wen't back to sleep.

"You didn't just have one of my dreams did you?" Alistor said regretfully. Rogue just looked at him. 'How could he be so kind, gental and happy when all that had happend to him. How coul'd he buerry that and move on.' Rogue thought before wrapping her arms around him tight, avoiding his skin. He put his arms around her and closed his eyes.

"I am so sorry Rogue."

"Don't be stupid, it aint your fault. Neither was what those men did ta Maggie and Catherine. It was just the lifestyle they were in." Rogue said refuring to the two women who treated him right. Alistor didn't say anything, but Rogue knew he was crying, so she lay him down on her bed, and took the cover off of her and placed it on him, then she lay ontop of the cover and put her arm around his chest, then they fel to sleep.

Rogues alarm wen't off, it was thursday morning, 6am. She reached out grogily, and smaked it off the bedside table, tearing the wire from the plug, and smashing the plastic on the flor.

"I agree." Said a half asleep voice from behind her. She turned around and saw Alistor rubbing at his eyes. "Are you crazy? 6am, what are you thinking." He yawned out.

"Well ah have ta go ta school." She said, closing her eyes, and tucking her hands under her face as she curled up in a ball. Alistor let out a lagh and poked her head.

"Wake up." He said with a lagh as Rogue grunted and turned over.

"Go away. Ahm tired, you an' your'e damn dreams keepin me awake all night!"

Alistor raised his eyebrow and pushed Rogue off the bed, with a squeel and a thump.

Kitty sat up quickley and darted her tired eyes around, seeing Alistor laghing on Rogues bed, and Rogue stumbleing to her feet.

"Ahm gonna kill ya ya jackass!!!" Rogue lunged at him, and he scrambled back in panic, falling off the bed himself.

"Ow! ow ow ow, I give up, it's to early!" He said rubbing the back of his head, as Rugue stopped and crossed her arms.

"Jackass." She mumbled, and snaped her head towards Kitty wo was laghing, tangled in her sheets.

"You two are like, totaly insain do you know that."

Rogue grabbed Alistor by his vest and smiled evily, as she draged him along the floor.

"Save me Kitty!" He said. Kitty just laghed and watched Rogue throw him out of the door laghing as she closed it behind him.