Chapter 6 Rogue Loses It

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Saturday morning.

Farmer was talking with Carlton at National FOH HQ over the phone.

"Listen," said Farmer, "I want to tell you about the person who brought Jameson to our attention. His name is Graydon Creed. He's a good kid, and should do well in our organization. But he has one or two problems - a semi-loyalty to his half-brother who is a mutant, and his parents were mutants themselves. Although they apparently abused him for his wild-type-ness and so that is why he joined us in the first place.

Carlton thought for a moment. "So, when should we do it?"

"Monday. Send Jameson back to work, and have him meet Miss Ferguson on the top of the Bugle. She will push him off to his death with 'Death to Humans' written on his forehead. Any later and people will notice Jameson is missing. As it is, they've only not noticed because of his proclivity for sneaking away.

"Monday morning it is, then."

Meanwhile, at the Institute, Rogue was crying in the bathroom.

Kurt knocked on the door, and when she told him to come in, he did, finding her sitting on the toilet, fully clothed, sobbing her eyes out.

"Vhat's wrong?"

"Ah... Ah was violated last night. Ah don't even remember it. Ah... Ah discovered this morning."

"How?"

Rogue shot a dirty glance at Kurt. "Kurt, Ah am... Ah was... a virgin."

"So vas I before that thing at the teenager club vith Vanda [A/N see The Essex Plan]. But I didn't know that ve had done anything until she came back vith a blue, three-fingered baby."

"Kurt. It's different. Ah am a girl. Remember sex ed?"

"Oh. OH. Vait, you mean zat you... er... lack certain... zings zat used to be... zere?" As usual, Kurt's accent increased when he became nervous.

"Yes," stated Rogue coldly. She grabbed Kurt's hand with her ungloved hand. Kurt started for a moment before remembering that she had lost her powers temporarily. "Ah... Ah think it has something to do with Sauron and his attacking me."

"Sauron deed zis?"

"Kurt, calm down. You're sounding... like some German out of a Looney Tunes cartoon."

"Sauron. Did. This?"

"No, Ah... Ah was not this way when Ah was being examined. But Ah think Ah was... bred with someone here. Like you and Wanda..." Realization dawned on Rogue's face. "Magneto! He was attacked too!"

"So he's the one vith whom you..."

"Oh, no!"

Wanda barged into the bathroom. "What is wrong here? I heard you sobbing from my room."

Kurt looked at Wanda. "Remember vhen you and I conceived Talia?"

"Of course not. We were drugged by Mr. Sinister, remember?" Wanda was not at her best in the mornings.

"Vell, it looks like Rogue just had a similar experience."

Wanda looked shocked, then concerned. "With whom?"

"Your dad," sniffed Rogue.

"That's not funny!" screamed Wanda, who was about to hex Rogue through the wall.

Rogue looked up and sniffed again. "No. No it's not. But he and Ah were both attacked last night. And then Ah wake up this morning to find mah self deflowered. Now, unless someone at the Institute decided to rape me in my sleep, the only possibility that Ah can see is that it was another of Sinister's breeding experiments. And seeing as we both were attacked by someone, in my case, Sauron, we're the most likely ones to be manipulated. Probably the chemical we were injected with left us open to suggestion or something."

Wanda just stared. T.J., wearing cute bunny pajamas, walked in, and stared at Rogue.

"Auntie Roguey? What's going on. Why are you sad?"

"Ah'm likely pregnant."

"Pregnant? You're going to have a baby? That's bad?"

Kurt didn't want to explain the specifics to T.J., particularly anything that might give her a hint of the fact that her existence was brought about by what basically amounted to third-party rape. She knew that babies came out of women, that a man was needed for a woman to have a baby, and that the man and women should love each other, but the specifics, including the idea that there was a particular act involved, had not been explained to her. Moreover, she was always under the impression that Kurt and Wanda had wanted to have her, and the fact that she was the product of Sinister's breeding experiments had never been explained in her presence.

"It's... it's complicated," explained Wanda. "It involves... well, let's just say we'll explain when you are a little older."

"Was Rogue naked with someone?"

"VHAT?" screamed Kurt.

"I saw a man and a woman get naked on TV and then later they said they were having a baby. Only she didn't know if the baby was his or the gardeners."

"When did you see this?" asked Wanda, seething.

"With Tabby. She had taped it and was watching and I came in and watched with her."

"Tabby and her da... stupid soap operas!" hissed Wanda, catching herself before she swore in front if her daughter. Since Tabitha had rejoined the Institute, she had been taping soap operas every day. Apparently, she was not above watching them with little kids.

"If Rogue got naked with someone, is her baby the gardeners?" asked T.J.

"We don't have a gardener," answered Kurt.

"Then does that mean she can't be pregnant?"

"Uh, T.J.? We're having waffles for breakfast," suggested Wanda.

Talia squealed and forgot all about nudity, gardeners, and pregnancy. She ran down to the kitchen on all fours, leaving Wanda behind.

"Listen, Kurt, you're good at the sensitive stuff. You deal with this." Wanda left and went after T.J.

Kurt sighed and began talking with Rogue.

A few hours later, Beast was examining Rogue, and finally made a comment. "This is strange, but it appears that your body chemistry will not allow you to take a morning-after pill or use any form of post-coital birth control. You would almost certainly get very sick."

"Is this part of my mutation?"

"Actually, I have not seen this in you before, and it is very, very obvious. Any blood tests I ran would show something odd, and its interaction with various hormones would be quickly revealed."

"So what are you saying?"

"Whoever arranged this between you and Erik - if it is Erik you were intimate with - obviously wants to make certain that you are pregnant and that you carry the baby to term. If it is Mr. Sinister, it does make sense that he would do something like this."

Rogue had a thought. "Does this mean that if I do have a baby, Sinister also has a way to control it?"

"Possibly. I don't know. Technically, we can't even tell if you are pregnant just yet, but it appears to be highly likely."

Suddenly there was a ring at the door. Scott and Bobby answered it. It was Todd and Lance.

"Have you seen Pietro?" asked Todd to Scott.

"Since when?"

"Since last night, yo?"

"No."

Lance frowned and took over from Todd. "Do you have any idea where he might be?"

Scott put a hand on his chin. "I'm going to assume that this means that Pietro is missing. Sorry, I have no idea where he might be."

Todd glanced behind him to see Laura walking up the path. "Yo! That's the principal's daughter!"

"I am here to see Kurt," she intoned sweetly.