Chapter Four
Authors note: 1) I do not exactly remember what Logan would call Professor Xavier, but Chuck seems to come to mind so that is what I chose. 2) When I picture the danger room, I think it looks like the danger room from the cartoon X-men: Evolution. 3) In my story, Logan is not as gruff as the movie. He is a lot nicer and not as sarcastic or rude. 4) In the story, I picture there being a separate room where the kids eat called the dining room, and a smaller area called the kitchen to prepare the food the children eat at the school.
Sorry I haven't updated my story lately. I recently started my spring semester of college up again. So you have to be patient with how often I update.
Chapter Four
Rogue woke up on Monday morning to her alarm clock buzzing is annoying tone. She groaned and looked at the clock to see what time it was, and saw that the digital clock by her bedside said 6:00. Squeezing he eyes shut she silently wished that she could turn back time and get a couple more hours of sleep, but knowing that today was Monday, she knew she would get in trouble for missing her classes. She turned the alarm off and sat up looking to see if her roommates were awake yet. Rogue chuckled when she saw Jubilee and Kitty still asleep in their beds. Jubilee was lying on her back with her mouth hanging open, and as she steadily breathed, Rogue could hear her snoring in a quiet purring rhythm. Kitty on the other hand was lying wrapped up in her blankets hardly moving. Rogue smiled and got out of her bed and walked over to her two roommates. "All right you two, time to get up. The alarm went off and we've got two hours before classes start."
"No Rogue, don't be silly we've got plenty of time." Kitty said trying to bury herself farther into her covers.
"You know you wanted me to wake you up early enough for you to get breakfast and get ready." Rogue responded. Jubilee and Kitty just ignored her remark and tried to go back to sleep. "All right, if you are going to be that way. Then you'll get my special wakeup call."
Jubilee only had time to ask what's that, before Rogue pulled the covers off of both Jubilee and Kitty's beds and then pulled them to the ground by their feet.
"Hey" Kitty protested as she sat on the floor. "That wasn't very nice of you!"
"Well you told me to get you up, so get up before I resort to glasses of water dumped over your heads." Rogue said with a smile. She knew that if nothing else could get Jubilee and Kitty up, the threat of water all over them would. Rogue quickly grabbed her shampoo and clothes and hurried out of the room to get a shower stall, breathing a sigh of relief when she finally got in one and heard a train of young mutant girls storming into the bathroom.
An hour later Rogue returned to her room with her hair clean and her teeth brushed. Just as she was leaving to head down to the dinning room for breakfast, Bobby came around the corner. "Good Morning Rogue, are you heading down to breakfast?"
"Morning Bobby, yes I am. Would you care to join me?"
Bobby looked like she had made his day for a second, but hid it by asking about Rogue's roommates. "Do either Kitty or Jubilee want to join us for breakfast?"
"Oh I'm sure they would join us but I'm afraid the two Sleeping Beauties' were being a little lazy this morning." Then seeing the confused look on his face, she continued laughing slightly. "Jubilee and Kitty didn't want to get up this morning, and got a late start to the girl's locker room. Shall we?"
"Sounds good." Bobby said as they walked down the hall to the dining room together. "So after classes today we have training. Do you think you will start your work with Logan today, or will you wait until Wednesday?"
Rogue looked at the others around her and Bobby and said in a quiet voice, "I think I am going to start as soon as possible. That way I will be able to get control of my powers faster."
"Would you like me to stay during the extra training? Maybe I can help you in some way."
"That's very sweet of you Bobby." She was about to tell him he didn't have to stay, but decided that if she was ever going to make a life for herself, she needed to take the first step. "Well Bobby if you really want to stay, I would be ok with that. Thank you."
"No problem." Bobby answered as they reached the dinning room. "Now let's eat."
Ten hours later Bobby and Marie once again met with Piotr by a big group of trees on the schools lawn. They were walking and discussing there day when Logan came up behind them and startled them by announcing his presence with his claws popping from his skin, and laughed as both the boys turned and took a defensive stance letting their textbooks fall. "Hey Logan. Now why did you want to go and sneak up on us like that, who knows we could have hurt you."
Logan smiled and simply replied "Oh yeah, I guess I should be more careful. How was your day you three?"
"Good. I had a fun time getting my roommates out of bed this morning." Marie answered "They were being extra lazy this morning and wouldn't get up. So I deemed myself to get them up by pulling them feet first out of their beds."
"Good work." Logan said chuckling. "You teenagers are all lazy these days. If anybody asked you to get up early you'd probably have a fit."
"Very funny, you're lucky we've reached the danger room, or I would have frozen you to the ground where you were standing." Bobby said jokingly. Everybody knew that Logan was as tough as nails, and couldn't be stopped by anyone. "How long is training going to last today Logan? Last time it got cut short because of Rogue's unexpected power advancement."
"Well it depends on two things. Whether the professor wants to make up for lost time, and whether you would like to start you personal training tonight or do it another night." Logan said while looking at Rogue for an answer to his question. "It will be no problem to start tonight. I got nothing to do tomorrow."
"That would be great Logan. Like I said in the professor's office I want to get control of my powers as soon as possible."
Logan nodded in acknowledgment at what Rogue said as they all walked into the danger room. The danger room looked as it usually did before training started, completely empty with smooth shiny walls and floor. It looked like a normal room, but the four mutants knew that appearances could be deceiving. Especially at Professor Xavier's school. Logan looked up to the programming area and saw Professor Xavier punching buttons, and setting up a training exercise. He looked up and saw that the final members of his X- men had arrived and got on the intercom. "Ah, there you all are. Today I would like to start out with a training exercise to see how Rogue's new powers will respond. Scott, Jean, and Aurora are already changing in to their uniforms. Once you all change, we will start the simulation."
"Ok Chuck. We'll be right back." Logan answered. He was going to ask Professor Xavier about training with Rogue, but was interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a mutant next to him.
"Guten Abend everyone." Kurt Wagner warmly greeted the group.
Rogue was startled by his sudden appearance but smiled at the blue skinned mutant. He looked so much like a monster that many thought he was cruel and heartless on the inside. Rogue knew though that he really was a very caring good-hearted man, who could always make her feel better. "Hi Kurt, how was your day?" She warmly greeted him.
"It was fine frauline." Kurt answered with his thick German accent. "I went to visit a church close to the school and heard the choir practicing. It was very beautiful."
"That's good. We are all going to change for training, are you going to change or are you going to stick with the clothes you are wearing?"
Kurt looked at his baggy pants and shirt and smiled. "I think I will keep my clothes on. I like to be free, not confined by the tight suits the others wear."
"I hear you Kurt. I don't especially like he suits either." Logan chimed in. "But what can you do."
"We'll see you in a few minutes Kurt. I don't think the professor wants to delay training any longer." Rogue said and looked up to the programming booth.
An hour later, the X-men had finished their training exercise and a series of power workouts to help strengthen each mutants individual power. Bobby was once again freezing flying disks, while Colossus was breaking chunks of rock with his armored body. Professor Xavier looked around at his X-men, and was proud with how they were accepting their powers and who they were. He knew there were so many mutants out in the world that didn't want to admit that they were different. He looked around and decided that he would give them all a break and keep training short tonight. He pushed a few buttons and the whole training room shut down. The metal disks Bobby was shooting at, and the huge rocks Colossus was breaking all disappeared. "I think you have all worked hard enough tonight. Go on and relax. We will get back to training on Wednesday." He said to his X-men.
"Thanks Professor." Piotr said happily. "Are you coming Bobby?"
"No I think I am going to stay down here a little while."
"Ok man. See you later." Piotr smiled as he walked out, he knew there was a very specific reason why Bobby was staying behind.
"Ok Rogue would you like to get started?" Logan asked as the rest of the X- men left the danger room. "I noticed that when we were doing the training exercise today, your powers didn't kick in. The Professor was thinking it was because you did not feel personally threatened. I am going to come at you, and let's see what happens."
"Ok." Rogue simply replied. The next thing she knew Logan had brought out his claws and was coming at her. She had only a second to dodge his claws before she felt her powers again. She knew her skin was starting to change, but this time it didn't feel as bad. She felt a slight tingle and looked down at her body and watched as her skin changed to the black armor like substance. She looked up at Logan and saw that he was watching her. Rogue thought for a moment and decided that if he was going to come at her than she might as well come at him. She raised her fist and swung at him almost punching his face before he ducked out of the way. Rogue smiled because now she was a threat and not the weakling without any powers. She then decided to step the fighting up a notch and started using the karate techniques Professor Munroe had taught her to attack Logan. She punched and kicked with precession until she noticed a chance to get Logan down. She kicked out his feet with a well placed round out and pushed so he landed on his back. She then leaned over him with her knee on his chest to keep him down and simply said, "Do you yield?"
"Ok Rouge, you win." As Rogue let him go, and he started to stand up, Logan thought that while she had her armor out, it would be a perfect time to test out how dangerous her armor was to human skin. "Rogue how about we test out your armor now. I am going to sit here on the ground, and I want you to touch my face with your hands. Concentrate on hurting me and don't worry about what will happen. The professor has this theory that if you learn to control your powers, you will be able to not only bring forth your armor whenever you want, but also control how lethal your skin could be. So let's do it, hit me with your best shot!"
"Ok." Rogue said uncertainly. She closed her eyes and thought about hurting Logan, but only enough to give a slight discomfort. She carefully put her hands on his face and could right away feel what was happening. She felt like she was waking up and getting stronger with each passing second that she touched Logan. She opened her eyes and saw that Logan wasn't slightly uncomfortable, but was wincing in pain. She let go and watched as Logan slumped to the side barely staying conscious. Bobby ran up and grabbed Logan keeping him from completely falling over. He watched as the metal on Rogue's body armor seeped back into her skin. Once Rogue saw her own skin again she quickly rushed over to Logan and bent down to make sure he was all right. "Logan, are you ok?"
"Yeah kid I'll be fine. I guess we will have to work on that." He joked to lighten the mood. "I'd say you did a pretty good for today, lets continue next week."
"Ok. Are you sure you will be all right?"
"Yeah don't worry about me I'm healing up all ready. I'll see you later." Logan assured her.
Rogue was still apologizing and asking Logan if he was all right as Bobby lead her from the danger room. Bobby kept trying to assure her that everything would be all right, but was having no luck. "Don't worry about Logan, Rogue. You of all people should know how tough he is. He will be all right."
"But he could be lying and not telling me if I really hurt him." Rogue kept insisting.
Bobby finally turned Rogue around and spoke slowly and directly into her face. "Rogue, be quiet. Like I said, you know how tough Logan is. He will be okay."
When she finally said ok, she realized where they had actually made it to in the school. They had made it back to right outside of Rogue's room, and she was suddenly very aware of how nervous she was standing with Bobby outside of her room. "So, I guess this is good night then. Good night."
"Oh yeah, I guess this is where we part ways." Bobby said, slightly less nervous about the situation he was in. He looked at Rogue, and thought what the heck this is my chance. The next thing Rogue knew, Bobby had grabbed her and kissed her. She was completely surprised and wasn't sure what to do for a second. But then she realized that it did not feel weird for Bobby to kiss her. The last time they had kissed at Bobby's house, they did not really get the chance to enjoy their kiss before Rogue had started to hurt him. Now it felt really good knowing she wouldn't hurt him at all.
Rogue thought she could have stayed kissing Bobby all night, but was drawn away by the sound of people coming down the hall. She quickly pulled away and opened her door to go into her room. She closed the door, and smiled as she turned back around and opened it again. She looked at Bobby's retreating back for a second and then called his name. "Bobby. I had a really good time tonight. I'll see you tomorrow." Rogue closed the door again, and leaned against it smiling and realizing how happy she was all off a sudden.
Little did she know that on the other side of the door, Bobby was smiling and feeling the exact same way.
Authors note: 1) I do not exactly remember what Logan would call Professor Xavier, but Chuck seems to come to mind so that is what I chose. 2) When I picture the danger room, I think it looks like the danger room from the cartoon X-men: Evolution. 3) In my story, Logan is not as gruff as the movie. He is a lot nicer and not as sarcastic or rude. 4) In the story, I picture there being a separate room where the kids eat called the dining room, and a smaller area called the kitchen to prepare the food the children eat at the school.
Sorry I haven't updated my story lately. I recently started my spring semester of college up again. So you have to be patient with how often I update.
Chapter Four
Rogue woke up on Monday morning to her alarm clock buzzing is annoying tone. She groaned and looked at the clock to see what time it was, and saw that the digital clock by her bedside said 6:00. Squeezing he eyes shut she silently wished that she could turn back time and get a couple more hours of sleep, but knowing that today was Monday, she knew she would get in trouble for missing her classes. She turned the alarm off and sat up looking to see if her roommates were awake yet. Rogue chuckled when she saw Jubilee and Kitty still asleep in their beds. Jubilee was lying on her back with her mouth hanging open, and as she steadily breathed, Rogue could hear her snoring in a quiet purring rhythm. Kitty on the other hand was lying wrapped up in her blankets hardly moving. Rogue smiled and got out of her bed and walked over to her two roommates. "All right you two, time to get up. The alarm went off and we've got two hours before classes start."
"No Rogue, don't be silly we've got plenty of time." Kitty said trying to bury herself farther into her covers.
"You know you wanted me to wake you up early enough for you to get breakfast and get ready." Rogue responded. Jubilee and Kitty just ignored her remark and tried to go back to sleep. "All right, if you are going to be that way. Then you'll get my special wakeup call."
Jubilee only had time to ask what's that, before Rogue pulled the covers off of both Jubilee and Kitty's beds and then pulled them to the ground by their feet.
"Hey" Kitty protested as she sat on the floor. "That wasn't very nice of you!"
"Well you told me to get you up, so get up before I resort to glasses of water dumped over your heads." Rogue said with a smile. She knew that if nothing else could get Jubilee and Kitty up, the threat of water all over them would. Rogue quickly grabbed her shampoo and clothes and hurried out of the room to get a shower stall, breathing a sigh of relief when she finally got in one and heard a train of young mutant girls storming into the bathroom.
An hour later Rogue returned to her room with her hair clean and her teeth brushed. Just as she was leaving to head down to the dinning room for breakfast, Bobby came around the corner. "Good Morning Rogue, are you heading down to breakfast?"
"Morning Bobby, yes I am. Would you care to join me?"
Bobby looked like she had made his day for a second, but hid it by asking about Rogue's roommates. "Do either Kitty or Jubilee want to join us for breakfast?"
"Oh I'm sure they would join us but I'm afraid the two Sleeping Beauties' were being a little lazy this morning." Then seeing the confused look on his face, she continued laughing slightly. "Jubilee and Kitty didn't want to get up this morning, and got a late start to the girl's locker room. Shall we?"
"Sounds good." Bobby said as they walked down the hall to the dining room together. "So after classes today we have training. Do you think you will start your work with Logan today, or will you wait until Wednesday?"
Rogue looked at the others around her and Bobby and said in a quiet voice, "I think I am going to start as soon as possible. That way I will be able to get control of my powers faster."
"Would you like me to stay during the extra training? Maybe I can help you in some way."
"That's very sweet of you Bobby." She was about to tell him he didn't have to stay, but decided that if she was ever going to make a life for herself, she needed to take the first step. "Well Bobby if you really want to stay, I would be ok with that. Thank you."
"No problem." Bobby answered as they reached the dinning room. "Now let's eat."
Ten hours later Bobby and Marie once again met with Piotr by a big group of trees on the schools lawn. They were walking and discussing there day when Logan came up behind them and startled them by announcing his presence with his claws popping from his skin, and laughed as both the boys turned and took a defensive stance letting their textbooks fall. "Hey Logan. Now why did you want to go and sneak up on us like that, who knows we could have hurt you."
Logan smiled and simply replied "Oh yeah, I guess I should be more careful. How was your day you three?"
"Good. I had a fun time getting my roommates out of bed this morning." Marie answered "They were being extra lazy this morning and wouldn't get up. So I deemed myself to get them up by pulling them feet first out of their beds."
"Good work." Logan said chuckling. "You teenagers are all lazy these days. If anybody asked you to get up early you'd probably have a fit."
"Very funny, you're lucky we've reached the danger room, or I would have frozen you to the ground where you were standing." Bobby said jokingly. Everybody knew that Logan was as tough as nails, and couldn't be stopped by anyone. "How long is training going to last today Logan? Last time it got cut short because of Rogue's unexpected power advancement."
"Well it depends on two things. Whether the professor wants to make up for lost time, and whether you would like to start you personal training tonight or do it another night." Logan said while looking at Rogue for an answer to his question. "It will be no problem to start tonight. I got nothing to do tomorrow."
"That would be great Logan. Like I said in the professor's office I want to get control of my powers as soon as possible."
Logan nodded in acknowledgment at what Rogue said as they all walked into the danger room. The danger room looked as it usually did before training started, completely empty with smooth shiny walls and floor. It looked like a normal room, but the four mutants knew that appearances could be deceiving. Especially at Professor Xavier's school. Logan looked up to the programming area and saw Professor Xavier punching buttons, and setting up a training exercise. He looked up and saw that the final members of his X- men had arrived and got on the intercom. "Ah, there you all are. Today I would like to start out with a training exercise to see how Rogue's new powers will respond. Scott, Jean, and Aurora are already changing in to their uniforms. Once you all change, we will start the simulation."
"Ok Chuck. We'll be right back." Logan answered. He was going to ask Professor Xavier about training with Rogue, but was interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a mutant next to him.
"Guten Abend everyone." Kurt Wagner warmly greeted the group.
Rogue was startled by his sudden appearance but smiled at the blue skinned mutant. He looked so much like a monster that many thought he was cruel and heartless on the inside. Rogue knew though that he really was a very caring good-hearted man, who could always make her feel better. "Hi Kurt, how was your day?" She warmly greeted him.
"It was fine frauline." Kurt answered with his thick German accent. "I went to visit a church close to the school and heard the choir practicing. It was very beautiful."
"That's good. We are all going to change for training, are you going to change or are you going to stick with the clothes you are wearing?"
Kurt looked at his baggy pants and shirt and smiled. "I think I will keep my clothes on. I like to be free, not confined by the tight suits the others wear."
"I hear you Kurt. I don't especially like he suits either." Logan chimed in. "But what can you do."
"We'll see you in a few minutes Kurt. I don't think the professor wants to delay training any longer." Rogue said and looked up to the programming booth.
An hour later, the X-men had finished their training exercise and a series of power workouts to help strengthen each mutants individual power. Bobby was once again freezing flying disks, while Colossus was breaking chunks of rock with his armored body. Professor Xavier looked around at his X-men, and was proud with how they were accepting their powers and who they were. He knew there were so many mutants out in the world that didn't want to admit that they were different. He looked around and decided that he would give them all a break and keep training short tonight. He pushed a few buttons and the whole training room shut down. The metal disks Bobby was shooting at, and the huge rocks Colossus was breaking all disappeared. "I think you have all worked hard enough tonight. Go on and relax. We will get back to training on Wednesday." He said to his X-men.
"Thanks Professor." Piotr said happily. "Are you coming Bobby?"
"No I think I am going to stay down here a little while."
"Ok man. See you later." Piotr smiled as he walked out, he knew there was a very specific reason why Bobby was staying behind.
"Ok Rogue would you like to get started?" Logan asked as the rest of the X- men left the danger room. "I noticed that when we were doing the training exercise today, your powers didn't kick in. The Professor was thinking it was because you did not feel personally threatened. I am going to come at you, and let's see what happens."
"Ok." Rogue simply replied. The next thing she knew Logan had brought out his claws and was coming at her. She had only a second to dodge his claws before she felt her powers again. She knew her skin was starting to change, but this time it didn't feel as bad. She felt a slight tingle and looked down at her body and watched as her skin changed to the black armor like substance. She looked up at Logan and saw that he was watching her. Rogue thought for a moment and decided that if he was going to come at her than she might as well come at him. She raised her fist and swung at him almost punching his face before he ducked out of the way. Rogue smiled because now she was a threat and not the weakling without any powers. She then decided to step the fighting up a notch and started using the karate techniques Professor Munroe had taught her to attack Logan. She punched and kicked with precession until she noticed a chance to get Logan down. She kicked out his feet with a well placed round out and pushed so he landed on his back. She then leaned over him with her knee on his chest to keep him down and simply said, "Do you yield?"
"Ok Rouge, you win." As Rogue let him go, and he started to stand up, Logan thought that while she had her armor out, it would be a perfect time to test out how dangerous her armor was to human skin. "Rogue how about we test out your armor now. I am going to sit here on the ground, and I want you to touch my face with your hands. Concentrate on hurting me and don't worry about what will happen. The professor has this theory that if you learn to control your powers, you will be able to not only bring forth your armor whenever you want, but also control how lethal your skin could be. So let's do it, hit me with your best shot!"
"Ok." Rogue said uncertainly. She closed her eyes and thought about hurting Logan, but only enough to give a slight discomfort. She carefully put her hands on his face and could right away feel what was happening. She felt like she was waking up and getting stronger with each passing second that she touched Logan. She opened her eyes and saw that Logan wasn't slightly uncomfortable, but was wincing in pain. She let go and watched as Logan slumped to the side barely staying conscious. Bobby ran up and grabbed Logan keeping him from completely falling over. He watched as the metal on Rogue's body armor seeped back into her skin. Once Rogue saw her own skin again she quickly rushed over to Logan and bent down to make sure he was all right. "Logan, are you ok?"
"Yeah kid I'll be fine. I guess we will have to work on that." He joked to lighten the mood. "I'd say you did a pretty good for today, lets continue next week."
"Ok. Are you sure you will be all right?"
"Yeah don't worry about me I'm healing up all ready. I'll see you later." Logan assured her.
Rogue was still apologizing and asking Logan if he was all right as Bobby lead her from the danger room. Bobby kept trying to assure her that everything would be all right, but was having no luck. "Don't worry about Logan, Rogue. You of all people should know how tough he is. He will be all right."
"But he could be lying and not telling me if I really hurt him." Rogue kept insisting.
Bobby finally turned Rogue around and spoke slowly and directly into her face. "Rogue, be quiet. Like I said, you know how tough Logan is. He will be okay."
When she finally said ok, she realized where they had actually made it to in the school. They had made it back to right outside of Rogue's room, and she was suddenly very aware of how nervous she was standing with Bobby outside of her room. "So, I guess this is good night then. Good night."
"Oh yeah, I guess this is where we part ways." Bobby said, slightly less nervous about the situation he was in. He looked at Rogue, and thought what the heck this is my chance. The next thing Rogue knew, Bobby had grabbed her and kissed her. She was completely surprised and wasn't sure what to do for a second. But then she realized that it did not feel weird for Bobby to kiss her. The last time they had kissed at Bobby's house, they did not really get the chance to enjoy their kiss before Rogue had started to hurt him. Now it felt really good knowing she wouldn't hurt him at all.
Rogue thought she could have stayed kissing Bobby all night, but was drawn away by the sound of people coming down the hall. She quickly pulled away and opened her door to go into her room. She closed the door, and smiled as she turned back around and opened it again. She looked at Bobby's retreating back for a second and then called his name. "Bobby. I had a really good time tonight. I'll see you tomorrow." Rogue closed the door again, and leaned against it smiling and realizing how happy she was all off a sudden.
Little did she know that on the other side of the door, Bobby was smiling and feeling the exact same way.