Rogue finished stitching Kitty's dragon back together at around 10:00 PM. 'What a way t' begin summah vaca…' Rogue thought. She sighed as she checked over the dragon. It took her four hours to put it back together. That is understandable for any normal teenager…but not Rogue. While she was with Irene she was taught to be a lady. That meant knowing how to cook, sew and do laundry. Deep inside Rogue felt like she failed Irene, she hadn't acted very lady-like earlier. 'Poor Kitty. Mahbe Ah should le' her take meh shopin', let her pick out some new clothes for meh…' Rogue thought. Rogue propelled herself off of the bed and walked out into the hallway. She paused in front of Kitty's door and knocked. After a few minutes the door opened a crack and one bloodshot eye peaked out.

"Yes?" A hollow voice asked. Rogue cringed at the thought of causing that to come forth. Rogue sighed and pushed on the door lightly.

"Can Ah come in?" She asked. Kitty stared into her eyes and saw the pain and resentment lounging around in them. Kitty nodded and moved away from the door. Rogue pushed it open and walked in with Lockheed behind her back. "So…" Rogue began.

"So…come to destroy anything else of mine?" Kitty asked tearfully. Rogue shuffled her feet and shook her head 'no'.

"No…Ah…wanted to give this to you…" Rogue handed Lockheed to Kitty, searching her face for any emotion. Kitty took the dragon and looked at it carefully for a couple on minutes. After what seemed like an eternity Kitty raised her head and cracked a watery smile.

"Thanks Rogue…you don't know how much this means to me." Kitty whispered.

"Yeah…well, g'nite…" Rogue turned and began walking to the door. She heard a soft 'goodnight' from Kitty and paused. She placed her hand on the door frame and turned to face her. "Kit?"

"Yeah?"

"Would ya like t'…go shopping…wit' meh t'morrow?" Rogue asked slowly. Kitty's face brightened at that sentence.

"Like, sure! Oh, tomorrow is going to be the best day!" Kitty squealed. Rogue smiled faintly and walked into the hall and closed the door. She sighed and blew the hair out of her face as she walked back to her room for a good nights sleep.

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Rogue awoke next morning to the wind blowing through her opened window and the birds chirping. She rolled over and looked at her clock only to see it was 5:30 AM. "Damn birds…wah do they have t' make so much noise?" Rogue grumbled. She swung her legs out of bed and winced as her feet touched the cold marble floor. She left her room and tip-toed down the stairs into the kitchen. To her surprise she found it empty. "Whoa…it's like the twilagh zone…" She mumbled. Ever since she had been at the institute she had never been the first one up. Ever. Rogue turned on the faucet and began to put coffee beans in the coffee maker. She put the canister under the water and than poured it into the coffee machine. She put the pot back under the coffee pourer thingy and turned it on. 'Ehhhhh those birds need t' die!' She thought, getting annoyed by their incessant chirping. Rogue sighed and pulled herself onto the counter top, rubbing her head. She had one major headache. 'Ugh…mah eyes hurt…is tha' normal?' she thought. Rogue turned and went into one of the many cabinets and pulled out some Tylenol. She stopped as she heard a faint whispering and looked around. "Hello? Is anyone there?" She asked. No one answered so she popped open the bottle and downed some pills without water. "Uh…' Rogue said as she got off the counter, still rubbing her head. She heard a few more whispers and looked around.

"Ah'm going crazy…" She thought as they began to get louder and clearer.

'Humph…that coffee smells good…'

'Oh…my chest…'

'…like, its ok Lockheed, Rogue fixed you!'

"Oh mah gahd…" Rogue thought panickedly. "Turn it off!" Rogue screamed as she heard yet some more thoughts of her fellow housemates. She clutched her head and shrieked as the coffee pot exploded into a million pieces spewing scalding hot coffee everywhere. A spark ignited from the coffee light socket and set an oven mitt on fire. Rogue stumbled to the table as the pots and pans began to shake and clang together, and the silverware drawer opened and flew around the room. Knives and forks penetrated walls and circled around Rogue as she began to hover in the kitchen. "Oh…" Rogue moaned as the door flew open to show an alarmed Wolverine.

"What the- Stripes! Turn it off!" Rogue couldn't answer; she was lost in her own little world battling her psyches. The fridge tipped over and the fire had spread, igniting the whole kitchen wall. The kitchen windows shattered as Storm and Jean rushed in.

"Jean, get the professor!" Storm cried as she tried to blow the silverware out of the windows.

"Right-" Jean began, but was interrupted.

"No need, I am here." Said the Professor as he wheeled into the kitchen. "Rogue, can you hear me?" he asked her. When Rogue didn't answer he placed his hands to his face.

"Charles, what are you going to do?" Storm asked.

"I am going to telepathically enter her mind and try to help her control her psyches…if I fail, Jean, I expect you to try and knock her out. I'm going in." The Professor is probably the most powerful telepath in the world, yet even he had trouble entering Rogue's mind. He wove his way through Rogue's mind, trying to break down mental shields and make it through the never ending maze that is her mind. Xavier eventually came to a stop at a rectangular box that he suspected the battle was preceding. He knocked down the wall and entered to find a pitch black abyss. "Oh dear…" he whispered as he glided in. He heard a faint sobbing in a corner and turned to see a huddled form on the ground. He made his way over a crouched down to the form's level. "Child, it is alright." He said comfortingly as he placed a hand on the girl's shoulder.

"No! Professor! It's a trap!" Rogue's voice echoed. Xavier turned and saw Rogue being held back by the Sabertooth psyche and the Blob psyche .The girl chuckled as she grabbed his hand. Xavier gasped as the broken girl before him melted into Mystique. Mystique twisted and kicked Xavier in the stomach sending him flying into the wall of the chamber. Psyche- Mystique grinned as a form of the Juggernaut body slammed Xavier. Rogue struggled to free herself, but was slammed into a wall by Psyche-Blob.

"We rule over this place…there is no stopping us." The voices of the psyches said in syndication. Xavier gasped as Psyche-Cyclops shot a beam at him. "No…" he whispered as the beam hit him. He fell to the ground, broken and exhausted. The psyches swarmed around Rogue and pig-piled her. She tried to fight but was pushed under the crowd of psyches, all wanting a place to vent their pent up energy. Xavier telepathically threw them off to find a bloodied version of Rogue in a fetal position.

"Rogue! Take control! This is your mind! OWN IT!" Xavier gasped. Rogue shook like a leaf on the ground but raised her head ever so slowly.

"Ah can't…Ah'm no' strong enough…" she said as she fell into unconsciousness. Xavier was attacked by the psyches once again, thus forcing him to leave. As he re-entered his body he gasped for breath and watched as Jean knocked her unconscious. Xavier surveyed the damage. Storm had put out the flames and jean had made the rest of the silverware stick into the wall. The kitchen was a wreck. Xavier sighed and turned his chair around.

"Logan, bring Rogue down to the infirmary. Then you and Ororo must meet me in my office. Jean, collect the new recruits and get started on cleaning up this mess." The Professor said. Choruses of OK's were heard as he exited the room. He sighed and closed his eyes.

'I don't want to have to do this…' he thought sadly, "But its for the good of the team."

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So…this is the next chapter! I just got done re-writing three chapters of Who Knew? So I'm kind of tired. Heh…Hope you enjoyed! Review answers below!

Scoobyd0530: Glad you liked the Angst, I hope I did it right. Heh.

Epona04: You liked the psyches? Awesome!

Human Lightshow: You'll kill me, huh? Well then…I guess I'll just have to make this a Scrouge...haha…seriously…it'll probably be a Romy ficcy, how could it not?

Sleepy26: AH! You're my first review! You think it's a good start?! WOHO!