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Chapter eight
Rogue stomped up the stairs. She hated it when her powers were out of control. She was just thankful that this time she still knew who she was. The psyches weren't trying to take over. They were just pushing their powers out. She walked into the rec room. She flopped down and laid on the couch. She glanced over at Wanda, who looked to behaving as horrible of a week as she was.
"What's wrong?" She asked, turning over to her side.
"That Aussie retard just makes me so angry sometimes." Rogue stifled a laugh.
"And ya say Remy and Ah are bad." Wanda glared at her.
"You are bad. You are both totally in love with one another." Rogue rolled her eyes. "Don't you do that. You are just to afraid." She spat out quickly.
"You know Ah can't touch." Wanda scoffed.
"Would ya shut up about that already?" Rogue looked at her incredibly hurt. "Listen, Rogue, sorry I snapped, but I can touch and my life is damn miserable. Touching isn't everything. I'd give anything for someone to feel about me the way Gambit feels about you. And if you mention that damn Aussie right now I will hex you into last week!" She finished out of breath. The girls continued to talk about random things. Wanda looked up at the ceiling. "What is it with us and the guys that try to kill us?" Rogue looked at her strangely.
"What?"
"The first time you met Gambit. He tried to blow your damn hand off. First meeting I ever had with John, he almost made me into a scorch mark on a bridge."
"For someone who didn't wanna talk about the damn Aussie retard, ya sure are doing a lot of talkin'." Rogue shut up instantly and listened out in the hallway. "They're out there."
"Who?"
"Remy and John." Wanda and Rogue both looked at each other, before the ducked behind the chair.
"Oh great, I'm as bad as you."
"I ain't in love with the Swamp rat."
"Really." Wanda whispered as she reached into Rogue's back pocket.
"Are ya pinchin' my butt?" Wanda rolled her eyes.
"You don't love him, but what's this? And anyway how long have you been carrying this damn thing around." She said holding up a playing card. It was the queen of hearts.
"Give me that." Rogue whispered angrily. Wanda tossed he the card. Rogue snatched it angrily and put it in her pocket. Wanda tossing the card messed with her balance. She grabbed onto Rogue's shoulder to balance herself. "Oh my gawd!" Rogue yelled.
"What?" Wanda said not hearing the guys enter the room.
"Your touching me." Wanda looked at her hand that was touching Rogue's shoulder. Wanda took her hand away from Rogue. How long had her hand been there?
"Chere, why ya be hidin' from Remy fo?" The girls jumped at the sound of his voice and fell over. Wanda's eyes narrowed at the sight of John. She was still only a tad bit pissed off, but she wasn't one to make the first move, but she needed him right now with all the stuff that was going on. She quickly got up brushed herself up and walked pass John and out the front door. Rogue looked at Remy for a fraction of a second before she went running to the professor.
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Jean put the book back into its place in the library, and looked around. The professor had made the library into his new study until the repairs where done on his. "Jean, is something bothering you? I understand if you are apprehensive about the mutant registration act being passed, but we have numerous lawyers checking the legality of such a piece of legislation."
"It isn't that." She said thoughtfully. "Well it is part of it, but isn't all of it."
"Is it school?"
"I had a conversation with Wanda yesterday."
"About what? If I can ask?" Jean pulled up one of the chairs to one of the tables and sat across from her mentor.
"About her father." The professor had a feeling he knew what she was talking about, but he didn't want to open up any old wounds if it were unnecessary. Jean was silent. She was trying to read him. She wasn't trying to read his thoughts, just trying to read his face, but he was always good at hiding that kind of stuff. "Why didn't you tell us about what happened to him?"
"I didn't see that it was anyone's business. I mean I was entrusted with that information, something he really didn't want anyone else to know." Jean nodded understandingly.
"It's just that... I still hate everything he stands for, but it makes me feel a tad bit sorry for someone who lives in the past like that. Lots of survivors have lived perfectly normal lives though."
"And some haven't, but that wasn't his only trauma, of how people can react to a person's differences." Jean leaned in with interest, but seeing the look on the professor's face told her she wouldn't be getting anymore information. "I'm not comfortable saying anything else, especially things his own children don't know about." Jean nodded.
"Have you figured out exactly what is wrong with Rogue yet?" He sighed and shook his head. They heard the door slam open, and Rogue walked in. She had this look of worry and excitement on her face.
"What's wrong?" Jean said. Rogue quickly pulled off her glove and touched Jean's forehead. "What are you doing?!?!?" She screamed, but got a look of relief on her face when nothing happened.
"I think I know what is going on? Rogue would you please sit." Rogue sat down across from the professor. "I think that your brain is like a sponge, and you have soaked all that you can possibly soak, and you powers turned off. It also explains why all these powers are trying to come out all of a sudden." She nodded.
"But I can touch?"
"For the time being yes." She looked down at her fingers and back up to him. She ran her fingers through her hair. She could touch. This was what she wanted. What she always wanted, but she hated the phrase, 'for the time being'. It wasn't right. Why should she allow herself to get that close to someone, and then have her life sucking skin come back? She stood up. She couldn't handle that. That would be worse then never touching anyone ever.
"Thank ya, professor." He nodded as she left the room.
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"Them things'll kill you." Wanda said as she slid down one of the columns and sat. "I thought you were gonna quit."
"Tried." Lance said quickly. "You don't need to come out here and talk to me, because you had a fight with your boy-toy." She scoffed. She didn't remember him being such an asshole, bu then again all the times she knew him, he was in a Kitty induced daze.
"You're a bastard, you know that? And to think I wanted to have a serious conversation with you." He looked at her.
"About What?"
"That day I came to see you."
"Aw shit Wanda why do you have to bring that up?" She glared at him.
"I'm sorry. I had a right to be mad, but I shouldn't have gone off the way I did. You were right not to tell me. I wouldn't have believed you anyway." He looked at her almost as if he were in shock.
"Wanda Maximoff is apologizing. This is unheard of." He said sarcastically. What was his damn problem?
"Fine be an ass. You do realize you are 24 fucking years old. I think it's time to stop with the melodramatic teenage angsting bullshit." She said as she stood up to leave.
"Wait." He said as he grabbed her arm to keep her from going. She glared at his hand on her arm, and he quickly removed it, remembering the pain one of her hex-bolts caused. He couldn't for the life of him figure out why Todd would keep bothering her, after being hexed. "I wanna ask you something." He said rubbing the back of his neck. She looked at him skeptically. He could tell she was trying to read him.
"Shoot."
"Do ya think that if circumstances were different we would've worked out? It's not that I want to start anything. I was just curious." 'What was it with everyone and their curiosity about what would happen if their lives were different?' Wanda thought to herself. She couldn't blame him though she often thought about how her life would be different had she not been put away. She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, and started to shake her head.
"Nope." He laughed. "You have a type Lance, and I don't fit into your super happy peppy valley girl type. That's all you date. You like it because they have no problems of their own, and they can spend all the time in the world that they want going over your problems with you. I am far to damaged for your tastes." She stated matter of factly. It was true. That is all he ever dated.
"You should apologize to him." He said looking down at her. "You deserve some happiness."
"Not a chance in hell. Why on earth do you think you know what I am thinking when it comes to him anyway?" She said walking back into the house. She closed the door. She really should apologize to him. She did start it, but he still had no right to say some of the things that he said. His words had stung at her, mostly because they were right.
"You should be in bed. Wanda, you promised you'd take it easy." She looked at Hank.
"I'm fine. I was just about to go upstairs." She replied. He knew she was lying. He shouldn't have made that deal with her, but he be damned if he was going to hear nothing but 99 bottles of beer on the wall for the next four days.
"Excuse me." She said leaving the conversation and going straight up to Gambit. "I need to speak to Rogue. Have you seen her?" He shook his head.
"Not since she take off earlier." Her eyes got big. She knew not that Rogue's ability to touch wasn't what was keeping her away from him. It was her own issues.
"I figured she'd see you. Now that she can touch, she can stop her angsting, and be all happy with you already."
"What?"
"Read my lips. She....can....touch." She spelled out for him like he was stupid. All of a sudden and earthquake ripped through the mansion. Gambit caught Wanda before she fell. "You're gonna have to deal with that though."
"You, ok, p'tite?" He asked. He wanted to run to Rogue, but knowing Wanda's injuries. He still wanted to make sure she was fine before leaving.
"Go get her. I'll find someone else to talk to."
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Gambit walked up to Rogue's door and straightened himself out before he knocked on her door. She opened it. Why couldn't he just leave her alone?
"What do ya want?" She spat out angrily, trying to cover her nervousness. He walked right in. "Listen Swamp Rat, Ah don' know what ya are tryin' to pull, but Ah want ya to get out."
"Remy know ya secret, Chere."
"Are ya insane? Ah'll absorb ya."
"You can't."
"Damnit as soon as Ah can control this shit. Ah am so gonna hex Wanda into oblivion or runnin' off her damn mouth." He grabbed her waist pulling her closer to him. She tried to pull out of his embrace. He shook his head as she twisted away from him. "Don' do this to meh. Ah can't handle it." She said looking down. "It may not stay lahk this, and Ah can't be touching ya, and getting used to ya, and lovin' ya only to have it taken away." She said letting tears flow freely.
He wiped her eyes with his fingers. His bare fingers. She felt electric. "Isn't that more da reason to enjoy da time ya have?" He said as he brought his face closer to hers. She stepped away.
"No." She could see the hurt in his eyes, but what on earth was she supposed to do. She watched as the look of hurt on his face turned to one of determination. He stepped up to her. He could sense her nervousness.
"Shhhh. It's ok." He placed a finger on her chin, and brought her face up to his. She looked up at him with those green tear-filled eyes. He brought his lips to hers. He kissed her sweetly. He controlled himself from overpowering her. He broke it, and stood back. Rogue touched her lips for a moment. She had a shocked look on her face. He looked at her waiting for a reaction any kind of reaction. He was half expecting her to throw him out, when she stepped back up to him and grabbed the back on his neck, bringing him down to her level. She kissed him still half expecting to feel a pull from her powers. She could feel his hands on her hips as she deepened the kiss and leaned into him. Her fingers found themselves entwined in his copper hair. She broke it and looked at him breathless. She stepped away not knowing what to do now. She looked around the room nervously. "Let's have dinner tonight?" He said. She opened her mouth to full out reject him. She couldn't put the both of them through this. It wasn't right, but her mouth betrayed her.
"I'd like that." She said quickly as he left. She looked around the room and flopped on her bed. "What the hell have Ah done?"
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'Does she ever shut up?' Wanda thought to herself as she threw the nearest pillow on her face in an attempt to suffocate herself. She had walked around to find someone to talk to, but she found something wrong with everyone. She finally told herself she would talk to the next person she came up to, and it was her luck that person just happened to be Kitty. She moved the pillow to see Piotr just staring at Kitty like everything coming out of her mouth was wonderful. Kitty had finished giving Wanda advice, which consisted of an apology, and for the past twenty minutes had been going on about... Well to tell the truth Wanda had blocked the vast majority of the conversation.
"Wanda?"
"Huh?" She said absentmindedly at the sound o her name.
"Are you still planning on taking that trip to Northbrook?"
"I don't know." She said. She hadn't even told Pietro about this little piece of information and it had been two days.
"Oh ok." Kitty said happily as she continued to talk about whatever it was Kitty talks about. Wanda sighed.
"Fine. I'll talk to him." She said standing and leaving anything to get away from the happy couple.
"I, like, thought that she would never leave." Piotr smiled at her.
"But she had a problem."
"And I solved it for her." She said snuggling her tiny frame against his larger frame and going for the remote.
"Katya you weren't driving her crazy on purpose, were you?" She nodded. "We should have dinner tonight at that Italian Place you like." He could feel Kitty smile.
"I'm perfect right here." He rolled his eyes. "Don't roll your eyes at me." She stated still looking at the television. How on earth did she know that? "You don't constantly have to dote on me." She said softly turning to him. She kissed him. "You've made it perfectly clear how you feel. So you don't have to keep it up."
"That is what a Gentleman does." She smiled at him. He was right.
"If you really want to."
"I will go make the reservation."
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"Can we talk?"
"Wanda wot ya talk about?" She glared at him. He looked down. "I didn't mean it like that." He said as he pulled his shirt over his head. She had looked all over for him, and found him working out. 'Not bad.' She thought to herself in her head. He looked at her strangely. 'Great he prolly saw me staring at him. I really need to watch myself.'
"I know you didn't mean that. I wanted to talk about our issues. I mean something made us blow up at each other." He rolled his eyes. He really didn't want to talk about it. What was he gonna say the reason he blew up was because he thought that she was going to say something he wanted to hear, but he got upset when she didn't? When did he turn into such a girl? "We can pretend nothing happened, and then go on with all these issues over our head, or we can actually talk about them."
She had no clue what she was saying. She didn't want to talk about the majority of the stuff that she had said to him. All she knew was that for the past two days she felt insane and had no one to talk to. No, she didn't have him to talk to. Rogue was cool and all, but she had to face facts the girl had enough problems of her own. She smiled. That girl could touch now maybe she would get a little happiness right now.
"Hello."
"What?"
"Why are ya smilin'?"
"Sorry."
"I think we were both worked up from the stress of the week. I mean you in the hospital, and then the MRA passin'. We both said some things we didn't mean." He stated quickly. He obviously didn't want to talk about it either. She had been right he has always had this rejection complex that would probably be his downfall.
She couldn't figure out exactly what to make of his reaction. She had obviously read him wrong, usually when she called him on his shit. He fixed it. He probably was scared about his writing, but most people are with their art. She looked down. She probably just misinterpreted the looks he often gave her into something more than what they really were.
"I'm sorry." She whispered. He looked at her. That was a totally new face he was seeing.
"So am I." He said hugging her. He rested his chin on the top of her head. 'nice smelling shampoo' he told himself. She backed away and he could see a new look of worry on her face. "What's wrong?" She sat down on the nearest bench, and he followed suite.
"I think I found my mom." She said quickly. "I think I'm gonna go to Chicago and see." He nodded. This was huge, and he had no idea what to say. Him the great writer speechless. She shouldn't be having this conversation with him. She should be having it with Pietro. "I want... I need you to come with me." He looked at her skeptically.
"Have you talked to your brother?" She shook her head, and he stood up running his fingers through his hair. "I never thought I would ever side on behalf of Pietro, but you have no right what-so-ever to keep this information away from him. He deserves to know." She looked up at him incredibly stressed out.
"He can't know. I have my reasons. I'll tell him, but not right now."
"He should be going with you." She rolled her eyes. "He won't forgive you. I have no clue how to even begin to help you out with this, but he would know. He went through it with you." He could see some tear build up in her eyes.
"All his life he's been rejec... I have my reasons. Please just come with me." She said softly.
"I seriously don't think I'm the right person, luv."
"But you'll come?"
"Of course." She smiled.
"I'm gonna go pack." If Pietro didn't already hate him, he sure would now.
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Wanda looked at the bedroom door. "I hope Rogue isn't going at it in there. Lord, knows that's the first thing I'd do." She said as she lightly rapped on the door and entered. She saw that Rogue was in the bathroom and she took a quick look around her side of the bedroom. A bunch of stuff was already packed. After Audrey Micheals's arrest, they were gonna go back to their other jobs. She pulled out a suitcase and began putting some clothes in there.
"Whatcha doin'?" Wanda turned around. Rogue was standing at the door in a black dress, little sleeves and all.
"You look amazing. Where are you going?"
"Ah could ask ya the same thing." She said sitting down at the vanity.
"I'm going to Northbrook with John." Rogue looked at her strangely.
"Isn't that Kitty and Lance's hometown?"
"Yep good ole suburbia america. Where you going?"
"Out."
"With?"
"Remy, ok." Wanda got this huge smile on her face.
"I knew it. What happened did you guys just jump each other?" Rogue laughed.
"You goin' with John? Gonna stay in a hotel? Will there only be one bed?" She said sarcastically.
"Actually you have the right idea. Take it nice and slow." Rogue looked at Wanda shocked. She walked over to the girl at the vanity. "First times suck."
"Ah ain't gonna sleep with him."
"But still, believe me I know, first everythings suck. First kisses..." Wanda noticably shuddered.
"Oh my Gawd, who was it?
"Who was what?"
"Your first kiss." Wanda shook her head violently.
"I have to be on my deathbed before that information ever comes out."
"It had to be one of the brotherhood boys. Ah know it wasn't your brother, and Ah don't think Lance would be a horrible first kiss. It was Todd or Fred." She stated sounding shocked at her realization.
"It wasn't intentional. Todd stole Kurt's image inducer and he looked like a hot, blonde, Swedish ski instructor." She shuddered again. "I think I'm gonna have a seizure." Rogue started laughing.
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"Good evening, Robert."
"Good evening, Erik." Robert said with his eyes flashing yellow. Magneto got a smirk on his face. "You'll be happy to hear that things are going ahead of schedule. You'll be able to get out of here in a few days."
"So I have noticed. I have enough metal to break out of this place in a blaze of glory. We will make a stand Mystique." He said softly. "This Mutant Registration Act will not go through without a response from us." Mystique nodded smiling.
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Gambit shoved his sunglasses up his nose and glanced at his watch. She changed he mind. She had to of. He heard something at the top of the staircase. He watched as Pietro followed his sister out to the car, obviously arguing about something, but he didn't pay attention. He saw her at the top of the stairs and smiled. She walked up to him.
"Quit starin'."
'Ya look breathtakin' chere." She blushed. She always blew off whatever he said, using her mutation as an excuse, but she couldn't do that anymore.
"Ya don't look so bad yourself, shugah." She took his arm as he escorted her to Rogue's car. He went to unlock the door. "How the hell did ya get my car keys?" He looked at her and gave her a devilish grin.
"Get in."
"Ah don't know if Ah want ya drivin' my car, Swamp Rat. You ain't insured." He sighed as she got in the car.
He didn't drive very far until they got in the park. He quickly ran around the car to give Rogue his arm.
"Something tells me, Ah didn't dress raght."
"It's fine," he said. They went into this clearing. There was picnic set up with candles all around.
"When?"
"Money goes a long way, chere, especially to teenage mutant boys who want to take the fille of their dreams to da movies." She chuckled and sat down, as he poured the wine.
"It's so beautiful out here."
"Let's just say dat Remy owes Storm a favor."
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She should have known better. She should have known better than to tell Pietro that she was going to go to Chicago for a couple of days and expect him to let her go quietly. He wanted to know why she was going.
"Pietro, I can't tell you right now. I'll call you in a couple of days."
"But you can tell me anything."
"I know I can, but this has to wait." Pietro jumped when he heard the trunk slam.
"Ready to shove off, luv."
"Of course, you can't tell me." He said under his breath. Wanda scoffed and rubbed her temples.
"Listen, I will call you. I promise, and you will know what is going on. You just can't know yet." He looked at her defeated. "You don't have to stay here. Ya can go back to work, and I'll be there in a few days." He nodded. She hopped in the passenger seat, and John got in afterwards, but not without a dirty look from Pietro first.
"He really hates me."
"He has a jealously issue."
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AN: this is the kind of chapter that comes with no planning. If you couldn't tell most of this chapter I filler, but it was much needed filler. I am going to spend spring break doing this story, since I am too broke to go anywhere fun. I though I should kinda explain where this is going. When I first though up this story it was going to be one long story, but I have found out that there actually is an ending and a time jump then more of the story, and while the stories are directly related. The first one definitely has an end so, there will probably be a sequel. I also hope to work on this depressing JONDA one shot that is in my head. I will try to have that done during spring break.
SickmindedSucker - Thank you for reviewing. I love reviews. The fight was a necessary evil to add some more angst type stuff into their relationship, because you can never have enough angst. Rogue took the compliment. I jut think she was too jumpy not to.
DemonRogue13 - I have something planned for Rogue's powers that I have never read about doing, but I don't think it will fit in the first one.
Caliente- very random but great review, which reminds me I reviewed one of your wondermous stories and you need to update. I am glad you enjoyed my pitiful attempts at humor. I can be funny, but sometimes I have this fear that people won't get it, or they will and then think I am a dork but oh well. You are probably gonna hate the way their make up went, because it kind of put them back at ground zero. When all people seem to want them to do is make out already.
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Chapter eight
Rogue stomped up the stairs. She hated it when her powers were out of control. She was just thankful that this time she still knew who she was. The psyches weren't trying to take over. They were just pushing their powers out. She walked into the rec room. She flopped down and laid on the couch. She glanced over at Wanda, who looked to behaving as horrible of a week as she was.
"What's wrong?" She asked, turning over to her side.
"That Aussie retard just makes me so angry sometimes." Rogue stifled a laugh.
"And ya say Remy and Ah are bad." Wanda glared at her.
"You are bad. You are both totally in love with one another." Rogue rolled her eyes. "Don't you do that. You are just to afraid." She spat out quickly.
"You know Ah can't touch." Wanda scoffed.
"Would ya shut up about that already?" Rogue looked at her incredibly hurt. "Listen, Rogue, sorry I snapped, but I can touch and my life is damn miserable. Touching isn't everything. I'd give anything for someone to feel about me the way Gambit feels about you. And if you mention that damn Aussie right now I will hex you into last week!" She finished out of breath. The girls continued to talk about random things. Wanda looked up at the ceiling. "What is it with us and the guys that try to kill us?" Rogue looked at her strangely.
"What?"
"The first time you met Gambit. He tried to blow your damn hand off. First meeting I ever had with John, he almost made me into a scorch mark on a bridge."
"For someone who didn't wanna talk about the damn Aussie retard, ya sure are doing a lot of talkin'." Rogue shut up instantly and listened out in the hallway. "They're out there."
"Who?"
"Remy and John." Wanda and Rogue both looked at each other, before the ducked behind the chair.
"Oh great, I'm as bad as you."
"I ain't in love with the Swamp rat."
"Really." Wanda whispered as she reached into Rogue's back pocket.
"Are ya pinchin' my butt?" Wanda rolled her eyes.
"You don't love him, but what's this? And anyway how long have you been carrying this damn thing around." She said holding up a playing card. It was the queen of hearts.
"Give me that." Rogue whispered angrily. Wanda tossed he the card. Rogue snatched it angrily and put it in her pocket. Wanda tossing the card messed with her balance. She grabbed onto Rogue's shoulder to balance herself. "Oh my gawd!" Rogue yelled.
"What?" Wanda said not hearing the guys enter the room.
"Your touching me." Wanda looked at her hand that was touching Rogue's shoulder. Wanda took her hand away from Rogue. How long had her hand been there?
"Chere, why ya be hidin' from Remy fo?" The girls jumped at the sound of his voice and fell over. Wanda's eyes narrowed at the sight of John. She was still only a tad bit pissed off, but she wasn't one to make the first move, but she needed him right now with all the stuff that was going on. She quickly got up brushed herself up and walked pass John and out the front door. Rogue looked at Remy for a fraction of a second before she went running to the professor.
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Jean put the book back into its place in the library, and looked around. The professor had made the library into his new study until the repairs where done on his. "Jean, is something bothering you? I understand if you are apprehensive about the mutant registration act being passed, but we have numerous lawyers checking the legality of such a piece of legislation."
"It isn't that." She said thoughtfully. "Well it is part of it, but isn't all of it."
"Is it school?"
"I had a conversation with Wanda yesterday."
"About what? If I can ask?" Jean pulled up one of the chairs to one of the tables and sat across from her mentor.
"About her father." The professor had a feeling he knew what she was talking about, but he didn't want to open up any old wounds if it were unnecessary. Jean was silent. She was trying to read him. She wasn't trying to read his thoughts, just trying to read his face, but he was always good at hiding that kind of stuff. "Why didn't you tell us about what happened to him?"
"I didn't see that it was anyone's business. I mean I was entrusted with that information, something he really didn't want anyone else to know." Jean nodded understandingly.
"It's just that... I still hate everything he stands for, but it makes me feel a tad bit sorry for someone who lives in the past like that. Lots of survivors have lived perfectly normal lives though."
"And some haven't, but that wasn't his only trauma, of how people can react to a person's differences." Jean leaned in with interest, but seeing the look on the professor's face told her she wouldn't be getting anymore information. "I'm not comfortable saying anything else, especially things his own children don't know about." Jean nodded.
"Have you figured out exactly what is wrong with Rogue yet?" He sighed and shook his head. They heard the door slam open, and Rogue walked in. She had this look of worry and excitement on her face.
"What's wrong?" Jean said. Rogue quickly pulled off her glove and touched Jean's forehead. "What are you doing?!?!?" She screamed, but got a look of relief on her face when nothing happened.
"I think I know what is going on? Rogue would you please sit." Rogue sat down across from the professor. "I think that your brain is like a sponge, and you have soaked all that you can possibly soak, and you powers turned off. It also explains why all these powers are trying to come out all of a sudden." She nodded.
"But I can touch?"
"For the time being yes." She looked down at her fingers and back up to him. She ran her fingers through her hair. She could touch. This was what she wanted. What she always wanted, but she hated the phrase, 'for the time being'. It wasn't right. Why should she allow herself to get that close to someone, and then have her life sucking skin come back? She stood up. She couldn't handle that. That would be worse then never touching anyone ever.
"Thank ya, professor." He nodded as she left the room.
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"Them things'll kill you." Wanda said as she slid down one of the columns and sat. "I thought you were gonna quit."
"Tried." Lance said quickly. "You don't need to come out here and talk to me, because you had a fight with your boy-toy." She scoffed. She didn't remember him being such an asshole, bu then again all the times she knew him, he was in a Kitty induced daze.
"You're a bastard, you know that? And to think I wanted to have a serious conversation with you." He looked at her.
"About What?"
"That day I came to see you."
"Aw shit Wanda why do you have to bring that up?" She glared at him.
"I'm sorry. I had a right to be mad, but I shouldn't have gone off the way I did. You were right not to tell me. I wouldn't have believed you anyway." He looked at her almost as if he were in shock.
"Wanda Maximoff is apologizing. This is unheard of." He said sarcastically. What was his damn problem?
"Fine be an ass. You do realize you are 24 fucking years old. I think it's time to stop with the melodramatic teenage angsting bullshit." She said as she stood up to leave.
"Wait." He said as he grabbed her arm to keep her from going. She glared at his hand on her arm, and he quickly removed it, remembering the pain one of her hex-bolts caused. He couldn't for the life of him figure out why Todd would keep bothering her, after being hexed. "I wanna ask you something." He said rubbing the back of his neck. She looked at him skeptically. He could tell she was trying to read him.
"Shoot."
"Do ya think that if circumstances were different we would've worked out? It's not that I want to start anything. I was just curious." 'What was it with everyone and their curiosity about what would happen if their lives were different?' Wanda thought to herself. She couldn't blame him though she often thought about how her life would be different had she not been put away. She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, and started to shake her head.
"Nope." He laughed. "You have a type Lance, and I don't fit into your super happy peppy valley girl type. That's all you date. You like it because they have no problems of their own, and they can spend all the time in the world that they want going over your problems with you. I am far to damaged for your tastes." She stated matter of factly. It was true. That is all he ever dated.
"You should apologize to him." He said looking down at her. "You deserve some happiness."
"Not a chance in hell. Why on earth do you think you know what I am thinking when it comes to him anyway?" She said walking back into the house. She closed the door. She really should apologize to him. She did start it, but he still had no right to say some of the things that he said. His words had stung at her, mostly because they were right.
"You should be in bed. Wanda, you promised you'd take it easy." She looked at Hank.
"I'm fine. I was just about to go upstairs." She replied. He knew she was lying. He shouldn't have made that deal with her, but he be damned if he was going to hear nothing but 99 bottles of beer on the wall for the next four days.
"Excuse me." She said leaving the conversation and going straight up to Gambit. "I need to speak to Rogue. Have you seen her?" He shook his head.
"Not since she take off earlier." Her eyes got big. She knew not that Rogue's ability to touch wasn't what was keeping her away from him. It was her own issues.
"I figured she'd see you. Now that she can touch, she can stop her angsting, and be all happy with you already."
"What?"
"Read my lips. She....can....touch." She spelled out for him like he was stupid. All of a sudden and earthquake ripped through the mansion. Gambit caught Wanda before she fell. "You're gonna have to deal with that though."
"You, ok, p'tite?" He asked. He wanted to run to Rogue, but knowing Wanda's injuries. He still wanted to make sure she was fine before leaving.
"Go get her. I'll find someone else to talk to."
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Gambit walked up to Rogue's door and straightened himself out before he knocked on her door. She opened it. Why couldn't he just leave her alone?
"What do ya want?" She spat out angrily, trying to cover her nervousness. He walked right in. "Listen Swamp Rat, Ah don' know what ya are tryin' to pull, but Ah want ya to get out."
"Remy know ya secret, Chere."
"Are ya insane? Ah'll absorb ya."
"You can't."
"Damnit as soon as Ah can control this shit. Ah am so gonna hex Wanda into oblivion or runnin' off her damn mouth." He grabbed her waist pulling her closer to him. She tried to pull out of his embrace. He shook his head as she twisted away from him. "Don' do this to meh. Ah can't handle it." She said looking down. "It may not stay lahk this, and Ah can't be touching ya, and getting used to ya, and lovin' ya only to have it taken away." She said letting tears flow freely.
He wiped her eyes with his fingers. His bare fingers. She felt electric. "Isn't that more da reason to enjoy da time ya have?" He said as he brought his face closer to hers. She stepped away.
"No." She could see the hurt in his eyes, but what on earth was she supposed to do. She watched as the look of hurt on his face turned to one of determination. He stepped up to her. He could sense her nervousness.
"Shhhh. It's ok." He placed a finger on her chin, and brought her face up to his. She looked up at him with those green tear-filled eyes. He brought his lips to hers. He kissed her sweetly. He controlled himself from overpowering her. He broke it, and stood back. Rogue touched her lips for a moment. She had a shocked look on her face. He looked at her waiting for a reaction any kind of reaction. He was half expecting her to throw him out, when she stepped back up to him and grabbed the back on his neck, bringing him down to her level. She kissed him still half expecting to feel a pull from her powers. She could feel his hands on her hips as she deepened the kiss and leaned into him. Her fingers found themselves entwined in his copper hair. She broke it and looked at him breathless. She stepped away not knowing what to do now. She looked around the room nervously. "Let's have dinner tonight?" He said. She opened her mouth to full out reject him. She couldn't put the both of them through this. It wasn't right, but her mouth betrayed her.
"I'd like that." She said quickly as he left. She looked around the room and flopped on her bed. "What the hell have Ah done?"
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'Does she ever shut up?' Wanda thought to herself as she threw the nearest pillow on her face in an attempt to suffocate herself. She had walked around to find someone to talk to, but she found something wrong with everyone. She finally told herself she would talk to the next person she came up to, and it was her luck that person just happened to be Kitty. She moved the pillow to see Piotr just staring at Kitty like everything coming out of her mouth was wonderful. Kitty had finished giving Wanda advice, which consisted of an apology, and for the past twenty minutes had been going on about... Well to tell the truth Wanda had blocked the vast majority of the conversation.
"Wanda?"
"Huh?" She said absentmindedly at the sound o her name.
"Are you still planning on taking that trip to Northbrook?"
"I don't know." She said. She hadn't even told Pietro about this little piece of information and it had been two days.
"Oh ok." Kitty said happily as she continued to talk about whatever it was Kitty talks about. Wanda sighed.
"Fine. I'll talk to him." She said standing and leaving anything to get away from the happy couple.
"I, like, thought that she would never leave." Piotr smiled at her.
"But she had a problem."
"And I solved it for her." She said snuggling her tiny frame against his larger frame and going for the remote.
"Katya you weren't driving her crazy on purpose, were you?" She nodded. "We should have dinner tonight at that Italian Place you like." He could feel Kitty smile.
"I'm perfect right here." He rolled his eyes. "Don't roll your eyes at me." She stated still looking at the television. How on earth did she know that? "You don't constantly have to dote on me." She said softly turning to him. She kissed him. "You've made it perfectly clear how you feel. So you don't have to keep it up."
"That is what a Gentleman does." She smiled at him. He was right.
"If you really want to."
"I will go make the reservation."
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"Can we talk?"
"Wanda wot ya talk about?" She glared at him. He looked down. "I didn't mean it like that." He said as he pulled his shirt over his head. She had looked all over for him, and found him working out. 'Not bad.' She thought to herself in her head. He looked at her strangely. 'Great he prolly saw me staring at him. I really need to watch myself.'
"I know you didn't mean that. I wanted to talk about our issues. I mean something made us blow up at each other." He rolled his eyes. He really didn't want to talk about it. What was he gonna say the reason he blew up was because he thought that she was going to say something he wanted to hear, but he got upset when she didn't? When did he turn into such a girl? "We can pretend nothing happened, and then go on with all these issues over our head, or we can actually talk about them."
She had no clue what she was saying. She didn't want to talk about the majority of the stuff that she had said to him. All she knew was that for the past two days she felt insane and had no one to talk to. No, she didn't have him to talk to. Rogue was cool and all, but she had to face facts the girl had enough problems of her own. She smiled. That girl could touch now maybe she would get a little happiness right now.
"Hello."
"What?"
"Why are ya smilin'?"
"Sorry."
"I think we were both worked up from the stress of the week. I mean you in the hospital, and then the MRA passin'. We both said some things we didn't mean." He stated quickly. He obviously didn't want to talk about it either. She had been right he has always had this rejection complex that would probably be his downfall.
She couldn't figure out exactly what to make of his reaction. She had obviously read him wrong, usually when she called him on his shit. He fixed it. He probably was scared about his writing, but most people are with their art. She looked down. She probably just misinterpreted the looks he often gave her into something more than what they really were.
"I'm sorry." She whispered. He looked at her. That was a totally new face he was seeing.
"So am I." He said hugging her. He rested his chin on the top of her head. 'nice smelling shampoo' he told himself. She backed away and he could see a new look of worry on her face. "What's wrong?" She sat down on the nearest bench, and he followed suite.
"I think I found my mom." She said quickly. "I think I'm gonna go to Chicago and see." He nodded. This was huge, and he had no idea what to say. Him the great writer speechless. She shouldn't be having this conversation with him. She should be having it with Pietro. "I want... I need you to come with me." He looked at her skeptically.
"Have you talked to your brother?" She shook her head, and he stood up running his fingers through his hair. "I never thought I would ever side on behalf of Pietro, but you have no right what-so-ever to keep this information away from him. He deserves to know." She looked up at him incredibly stressed out.
"He can't know. I have my reasons. I'll tell him, but not right now."
"He should be going with you." She rolled her eyes. "He won't forgive you. I have no clue how to even begin to help you out with this, but he would know. He went through it with you." He could see some tear build up in her eyes.
"All his life he's been rejec... I have my reasons. Please just come with me." She said softly.
"I seriously don't think I'm the right person, luv."
"But you'll come?"
"Of course." She smiled.
"I'm gonna go pack." If Pietro didn't already hate him, he sure would now.
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Wanda looked at the bedroom door. "I hope Rogue isn't going at it in there. Lord, knows that's the first thing I'd do." She said as she lightly rapped on the door and entered. She saw that Rogue was in the bathroom and she took a quick look around her side of the bedroom. A bunch of stuff was already packed. After Audrey Micheals's arrest, they were gonna go back to their other jobs. She pulled out a suitcase and began putting some clothes in there.
"Whatcha doin'?" Wanda turned around. Rogue was standing at the door in a black dress, little sleeves and all.
"You look amazing. Where are you going?"
"Ah could ask ya the same thing." She said sitting down at the vanity.
"I'm going to Northbrook with John." Rogue looked at her strangely.
"Isn't that Kitty and Lance's hometown?"
"Yep good ole suburbia america. Where you going?"
"Out."
"With?"
"Remy, ok." Wanda got this huge smile on her face.
"I knew it. What happened did you guys just jump each other?" Rogue laughed.
"You goin' with John? Gonna stay in a hotel? Will there only be one bed?" She said sarcastically.
"Actually you have the right idea. Take it nice and slow." Rogue looked at Wanda shocked. She walked over to the girl at the vanity. "First times suck."
"Ah ain't gonna sleep with him."
"But still, believe me I know, first everythings suck. First kisses..." Wanda noticably shuddered.
"Oh my Gawd, who was it?
"Who was what?"
"Your first kiss." Wanda shook her head violently.
"I have to be on my deathbed before that information ever comes out."
"It had to be one of the brotherhood boys. Ah know it wasn't your brother, and Ah don't think Lance would be a horrible first kiss. It was Todd or Fred." She stated sounding shocked at her realization.
"It wasn't intentional. Todd stole Kurt's image inducer and he looked like a hot, blonde, Swedish ski instructor." She shuddered again. "I think I'm gonna have a seizure." Rogue started laughing.
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"Good evening, Robert."
"Good evening, Erik." Robert said with his eyes flashing yellow. Magneto got a smirk on his face. "You'll be happy to hear that things are going ahead of schedule. You'll be able to get out of here in a few days."
"So I have noticed. I have enough metal to break out of this place in a blaze of glory. We will make a stand Mystique." He said softly. "This Mutant Registration Act will not go through without a response from us." Mystique nodded smiling.
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Gambit shoved his sunglasses up his nose and glanced at his watch. She changed he mind. She had to of. He heard something at the top of the staircase. He watched as Pietro followed his sister out to the car, obviously arguing about something, but he didn't pay attention. He saw her at the top of the stairs and smiled. She walked up to him.
"Quit starin'."
'Ya look breathtakin' chere." She blushed. She always blew off whatever he said, using her mutation as an excuse, but she couldn't do that anymore.
"Ya don't look so bad yourself, shugah." She took his arm as he escorted her to Rogue's car. He went to unlock the door. "How the hell did ya get my car keys?" He looked at her and gave her a devilish grin.
"Get in."
"Ah don't know if Ah want ya drivin' my car, Swamp Rat. You ain't insured." He sighed as she got in the car.
He didn't drive very far until they got in the park. He quickly ran around the car to give Rogue his arm.
"Something tells me, Ah didn't dress raght."
"It's fine," he said. They went into this clearing. There was picnic set up with candles all around.
"When?"
"Money goes a long way, chere, especially to teenage mutant boys who want to take the fille of their dreams to da movies." She chuckled and sat down, as he poured the wine.
"It's so beautiful out here."
"Let's just say dat Remy owes Storm a favor."
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She should have known better. She should have known better than to tell Pietro that she was going to go to Chicago for a couple of days and expect him to let her go quietly. He wanted to know why she was going.
"Pietro, I can't tell you right now. I'll call you in a couple of days."
"But you can tell me anything."
"I know I can, but this has to wait." Pietro jumped when he heard the trunk slam.
"Ready to shove off, luv."
"Of course, you can't tell me." He said under his breath. Wanda scoffed and rubbed her temples.
"Listen, I will call you. I promise, and you will know what is going on. You just can't know yet." He looked at her defeated. "You don't have to stay here. Ya can go back to work, and I'll be there in a few days." He nodded. She hopped in the passenger seat, and John got in afterwards, but not without a dirty look from Pietro first.
"He really hates me."
"He has a jealously issue."
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AN: this is the kind of chapter that comes with no planning. If you couldn't tell most of this chapter I filler, but it was much needed filler. I am going to spend spring break doing this story, since I am too broke to go anywhere fun. I though I should kinda explain where this is going. When I first though up this story it was going to be one long story, but I have found out that there actually is an ending and a time jump then more of the story, and while the stories are directly related. The first one definitely has an end so, there will probably be a sequel. I also hope to work on this depressing JONDA one shot that is in my head. I will try to have that done during spring break.
SickmindedSucker - Thank you for reviewing. I love reviews. The fight was a necessary evil to add some more angst type stuff into their relationship, because you can never have enough angst. Rogue took the compliment. I jut think she was too jumpy not to.
DemonRogue13 - I have something planned for Rogue's powers that I have never read about doing, but I don't think it will fit in the first one.
Caliente- very random but great review, which reminds me I reviewed one of your wondermous stories and you need to update. I am glad you enjoyed my pitiful attempts at humor. I can be funny, but sometimes I have this fear that people won't get it, or they will and then think I am a dork but oh well. You are probably gonna hate the way their make up went, because it kind of put them back at ground zero. When all people seem to want them to do is make out already.
evanescence kicks ass - here is the next chapter thanks for reviewing, and evanescence really does kick ass.
ishandahalf- I love problems of all kinds. I love that term quick like a bunny on crack. I am going to incorporate into my everyday conversations.
Amieva- more hiding behind chairs. More ROMYNESS. Hope you enjoy this and I also have to say to you. Update please.
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