After the funeral time seemed to slip through Rogue's fingers and before she knew it two weeks had past. She sighed as she walked to her room from her last class. It was Friday and she couldn't have been in more need of a break. She had to write report after report and the 'Weapon X' secret was beginning to take its toll. To top it all off, Bobby was getting very distant and suddenly became "too busy" for her. She threw her books on her desk and sat down on her bed.

As soon as she did so, Jubilee burst through the door.

"Mail call!!"

"Thanks." Rogue mumbled.

"Come on, girl. Life can't be that bad."

"Want to bet?"

"Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I'll see you at dinner."

Rogue rolled her eyes as Jubilee left the room and opened her letter.

*~*~*

"Hey, has anybody seen Rogue?" Scott asked as he walked into the front lobby.

Logan, Jean, and storm shook their heads.

"Now that you mention it, she wasn't at dinner." Storm said crossing her arms over her chest, "It isn't like her to skip meals."

"She got a letter today. I gave it to her three hours ago." Jubilee commented as she walked into the room with Bobby and Kitty.

Scott and Logan exchanged glances.

"Who was the letter from?" Scott asked not liking where this was going.

"I don't know. Some business.......a legal firm, I think."

"What?"

"I don't know. I just glanced at it."

"I'll go check it out." Scott said getting up from the couch.

"Rogue?" he asked knocking on her door.

No one answered.

"Rogue??!"

No one answered.

"I'm coming in."

He grabbed the door knob only to find it was locked. Instantly he reached for his glasses and took them off for two seconds. He blasted the knob clean off and kicked the door open.

Rogue sat on the bed staring at the wall. She didn't even seem to notice he was there and that her door was completely ruined.

Scott followed her gaze and saw the small hole in the wall. He looked back at Rogue who was cradling her hand that hand swollen tremendously.

"Oh, Rogue." He whispered, "What happened."

"The day before my parents died......." she started, unsure if she could continue, "On the day before my parents died, they had gone to......."

She cut off unable to finish. She looked down at her hand, crying as Scott sat down on the bed next to her and pulled her close to him.

"We heard a noise. Is everything alright?" Jean asked as her Logan, Storm and pretty much everyone else who was in the lobby ran to, and gathered around, Rogue's room. Rogue didn't notice.

"They were going to disown me! They were filling for it the day before they died. They didn't want me anymore. Even though I wasn't there they couldn't stand the thought of having me for a daughter. They were so ashamed of having a damn 'mutie' in the family!"

Scott looked up at Jean helplessly. She walked over to Rogue and gently began to examine her left hand.

"I hate them." Rogue sobbed into Scott's shoulder.

"Shh. Don't say that. You don't really mean it."

"No! I hate them! I HATE THEM!" She screamed.

She pulled away from Scott and, with a look that wasn't her own, she said in a low, shaky voice, "They deserved it. They deserved to die!!"

"Ok, everybody leave." Storm said as she ushered the other students to leave.

"You heard the woman, move!" Logan yelled getting more of a reaction from the kids.

"It's ok, Rogue. We'll get your hand fixed up and you can eat your dinner. We'll get this hole in your wall patched up. Everything will be fine."

But it was too late. A shadow had been cast on Rogue's soul and somehow Jean knew that she had just lied. Something was about to happen and after it did, nothing would be 'fine'.

*~*~*

Mystique walked into Magneto's office finding John and Magneto already seated, waiting for her.

"Sorry. The conversation lasted longer then I thought."

Magneto nodded in understanding, a sick, twisted grin on his face. John sat there smiling too. He knew how clingy Bobby could get.

"How is it going?" Magneto asked.

"Better then expected. He is a very easy target."

"The documents have been sent and Rogue has reacted the way we wanted her to. It is time that we move into the next stage of our plan."

John and Mystique nodded.

Soon, very soon Rogue would be theirs.

A/N: Sorry about how long the update was. This story is moving too slow for my taste so I am going to step it up a notch, so get ready. Hope you liked this chapter.