It had been a full two weeks and Marie was starting to get worried.
Logan had called once and it basically was a 'hey I'm alive don't worry I
will be home soon' and then he hung up. Needless to say it left a lot to be
desired. But she had to admit in the span of the last two weeks she had
grown close to the X-men, well mainly just Storm. She was training with her
and shopping with her, it actually felt... normal. It was a first for Marie
and she liked it. Jean still treated her like and untouchable kid and Scott
like her older brother, she would hang out with him but Jean was always but
a whisper away with him around. So here she was at the mall again with 'Ro,
drinking their coffee and talking about their up coming fall classes. 'Ro
had English classes to teach while Marie was going to teach art. They had
shopped a lot today because Rogue was depressed, and ended up buying gifts
for Logan, Cuban cigars. Really expensive, and Rogue had bought them with
her own money.
"So Rogue, how about we head back, I heard that Kitty was cooking tonight, one of her Mexican dishes I think and you know how long those last." She said with a laugh
"Yeah Ah guess we should, Ah'm hungry anyway" She said. She was silent the whole way back, her stomach was in knots, something was going to happen but she didn't know what just yet. They arrived at the mansion and she told 'Ro she needed to put her bags away and 'Ro told her she would be in her and would see her at dinner.
The mission that Xavier had sent him on was useless, you cant find or help a mutant that doesn't want help or in that fact to be found. So he had returned home not three minutes ago, his scent of smell told him that Marie was out. So he went up to their room and set down his bags. With in moments Logan heard a knock on the door, he sniffed the air and grumbled.
"What do you want doc?" He asked as Jean opened the door and stepped in. She was wearing some sexy little number with her lips painted red and her hair wild and framing her face.
"Well I never said hi to you when you returned home Logan" she said slow and sexily.
"Well hi." He said not noticing her advances or not caring.
She came up to him and pouted "Well that was enthusiastic especially when I was going to ask you on a date tonight." He looked at her puzzled
"But one eye..."
"No one has to know" she said wrapping her arms around his neck and before he could even react her lips were pressed again his.
Marie saw her bedroom door open and almost jumped for joy. He was home. She ran to their door and stopped dead in her tracks, her smiled faded from her face, tears filled her eyes and all the air was knocked from her lungs.
What a bastard! Carol screamed in anger in her head
I'm a bastardWolverine growled
There was Logan lip locked with Jean, in THEIR room. Logan noticed her at the door and broke the kiss quickly, but it was too late she had seen every thing, Jean just smiled and gave a fake surprised glance at Rogue. Marie just dropped her bags and ran down the hall, she ran and ran until she ended up in front of 'Ro's door. That's when she let the tears flow, she couldn't hold it any longer and she started crying hysterically. 'Ro heard this and opened the door in time to catch Rogue when her knees gave out.
"My god Rogue what happened?" She asked and led her into the room. Rogue just followed and shut the door.
There he sat on their bed, he had throw Jean out when he had come back from trying to catch her and she was still in the room. He was pissed, he should have seen she was just trying to ruin his Marie, trying to hurt he. And he let her, he should have known she was going to kiss him but he was so preoccupied he didn't even notice her obviously now clear motives. He had picked up her bag and inside found Cuban cigars, a gift for him, and he had just killed her. He kept seeing the pain in her eyes, the absolute hurt, which he had caused.
Damn it I really screwed up this time He thought about running again, but no he was going to get her back, he was going to make this work, even if she did end up killing him. So he got up and followed her scent to 'Ro's room and knocked.
'Ro answered with a scowl and then slammed the door. "Guess she heard" and as soon as he said that a clash of lightning struck. "Yeah she definitely did". So he sat himself in the hall and waited for her to come out so he could make his apologies and explained himself.
For three weeks Marie totally avoided him and stayed with Storm. For three weeks the weather was a constant over cast or thunderstorm. Storm wouldn't even look at Logan and called Jean, to the amusement of the entire cafeteria, a slut. Even Scott didn't sit with Jean and he was sleeping on the couch.
Marie had fallen into a rut. For the first few days she never left 'Ro's room and never ate. Then she started to leave for long periods of time, Storm found out she was locking herself in the Danger Room for days at a time and trained non stop on the highest level until she would collapse and drag herself back to her room and shower, still avoiding Logan. She would sleep it off, let her wounds heal for a few days and then do it again, barley slept and eating even less. She was looking thin and never smiled. This became her routine.
Trains, collapse, sleep, heal and do it again. It wasn't the Rogue everyone knew and just that worried the mansion. They didn't even know about her self-hatred and her feeling of worthlessness. She felt that she had brought this upon herself, that she had made Logan so unhappy that he would kiss anyone. That was what fueled her rage.
Rogue had perfected herself on every level and scenario that the Danger Room had to offer. Her speed and agility doubled and her fighting technique was flawless. She was now fighting a simulated Sabertooth when Bobby over rode the circuits and caused the program to shut down as he walked in. Her body suit was in pieces and he blushed but she was pissed.
"Bobby Ah'm sure this could wait." She said frustrated.
With out another moment of hesitation he said "sorry Rogue, I wouldn't have done this if you weren't endangering yourself."
And with that he blasted he with ice that sent her flying against the wall, and before she could retaliate he was blasting her with more ice, freezing her to the wall, her head the only thing exposed. If she hadn't been so exhausted she might have been able to escape but this was her second day in the danger room. But none the less bobby was having a hard time making the ice thick enough to restrain her. Her struggling stopped as another person came through the doors.
"Logan" she said angrily.
"Now Marie this was the only way I could have talked to you with out you running off." He said trying to explain himself.
"Ah'm not going to listen to a word you say, you told me you didn't love her and then the first thing you do when you get home is kiss her? Yeah Ah don't want to hear a word." She said turning her head away form him.
"Then just open your skin darlin' let me show you." He said pleadingly.
She didn't even realize it but Carol had taken over with the help Wolverine. And when Logan touched her face the connection opened and she saw and felt the kiss. Jean had forced it on him. Jean the slut had did this intentionally to hurt her. Logan fell backward and unconscious and bobby rushed to help him. With a loud growl and a sudden burst of energy Rogue broke the ice and checked on Logan before flying out of the Danger room and towards the Teachers Housings.
By the time Logan regained consciousness (seconds after Rogue flew off) and ran to Jeans room to warn her but Rogue was already there. She was suspended in mid air being held back from Jean by Colossus, Scott, John, Kurt and Jeans telepathy and they were still fighting a losing battle. Rogue was inching forward so Bobby and Logan rushed in to help.
"Starting to lose you strength are we Jeanie?" She said with venom in her voice.
Jean was getting really tired, sweat was beaded on her forehead and her hands began to shake. Rogue was strong and she didn't know how much longer she was going to be able to hold her. Jean spotted Orro in the doorway, nodding her approval but not lifting a finger to help. Rogue was still struggling against six of the strongest x-men of the house. Jean let go of her grip on Rogue, she couldn't hold her any longer and Rogue jerked forward, a huge grin spread across her face as she was dragging the men behind her, those days upon days in the danger room had really help out. But just inches away from Jean's face, Rogue fell and was pinned on the floor.
Logan had let go of her and jumped on top of her, pinning her to the ground. "Oh please Logan, Ah could bench press you sugah." She said in her thick southern drawl. She tried to move him but couldn't, he had imbedded his claws in the floor for leverage and pinned her in such a way that he had the upper hand, she couldn't get enough leverage to get him off.
"Damn, ugh, Ah was just gonna ruffle her feathers a little bit." She said but the men just laughed
"Oh is that so. That's why it took SIX of us to TRY to hold you back?" Scott smirked
"Look Scott she deserves everything she was going to get, an eye for an eye." She said with anger growing in her voice.
"Then that means you should kiss me right?" Scott said with a smile plastered ear to ear on his face, well until he heard Logan's lower and territorial growl.
"No Scott," she said calmly "she hurt me so I get to hurt her. But Ah'm calm now." She said calming her breathing rate
"Are you calm now?" Logan asked and she shook her head. So he sheathed his claws and helped her up. She straitened herself out, dusted herself off and started to walk out the door when she made a quick turn. She turned to Jean and slugged her square in the nose, breaking it and giving her a black eye.
The others stared in awe, they were all too slow to stop her so they didn't even try. Rogue just turned around and cracked her knuckles and her neck.
"See totally calm and now totally relaxed." She said leaving the room and the gawking men. 'Ro broke the silence with a loud laugh, they all turned to her with puzzlement.
"What that was hilarious?!" She said turning and walking off chuckling to herself.
"That's on hell of a woman you have there Logan good luck." Scott said patting him on the back and checking on Jean.
"Yeah man, just don't make her mad. Ever." Collosus said leaving with the others.
Logan just smiled, he didn't care this just, again, proved she was a perfect mate for him. With that he went back to his room to find all her stuff back in its proper place and her passed out on the bed with one of his shirts on. He just smiled and picked her up and tucked her under the covers, then silently crawling in next to her. And for the first time in over a month they both had a restful night sleep.
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"So Rogue, how about we head back, I heard that Kitty was cooking tonight, one of her Mexican dishes I think and you know how long those last." She said with a laugh
"Yeah Ah guess we should, Ah'm hungry anyway" She said. She was silent the whole way back, her stomach was in knots, something was going to happen but she didn't know what just yet. They arrived at the mansion and she told 'Ro she needed to put her bags away and 'Ro told her she would be in her and would see her at dinner.
The mission that Xavier had sent him on was useless, you cant find or help a mutant that doesn't want help or in that fact to be found. So he had returned home not three minutes ago, his scent of smell told him that Marie was out. So he went up to their room and set down his bags. With in moments Logan heard a knock on the door, he sniffed the air and grumbled.
"What do you want doc?" He asked as Jean opened the door and stepped in. She was wearing some sexy little number with her lips painted red and her hair wild and framing her face.
"Well I never said hi to you when you returned home Logan" she said slow and sexily.
"Well hi." He said not noticing her advances or not caring.
She came up to him and pouted "Well that was enthusiastic especially when I was going to ask you on a date tonight." He looked at her puzzled
"But one eye..."
"No one has to know" she said wrapping her arms around his neck and before he could even react her lips were pressed again his.
Marie saw her bedroom door open and almost jumped for joy. He was home. She ran to their door and stopped dead in her tracks, her smiled faded from her face, tears filled her eyes and all the air was knocked from her lungs.
What a bastard! Carol screamed in anger in her head
I'm a bastardWolverine growled
There was Logan lip locked with Jean, in THEIR room. Logan noticed her at the door and broke the kiss quickly, but it was too late she had seen every thing, Jean just smiled and gave a fake surprised glance at Rogue. Marie just dropped her bags and ran down the hall, she ran and ran until she ended up in front of 'Ro's door. That's when she let the tears flow, she couldn't hold it any longer and she started crying hysterically. 'Ro heard this and opened the door in time to catch Rogue when her knees gave out.
"My god Rogue what happened?" She asked and led her into the room. Rogue just followed and shut the door.
There he sat on their bed, he had throw Jean out when he had come back from trying to catch her and she was still in the room. He was pissed, he should have seen she was just trying to ruin his Marie, trying to hurt he. And he let her, he should have known she was going to kiss him but he was so preoccupied he didn't even notice her obviously now clear motives. He had picked up her bag and inside found Cuban cigars, a gift for him, and he had just killed her. He kept seeing the pain in her eyes, the absolute hurt, which he had caused.
Damn it I really screwed up this time He thought about running again, but no he was going to get her back, he was going to make this work, even if she did end up killing him. So he got up and followed her scent to 'Ro's room and knocked.
'Ro answered with a scowl and then slammed the door. "Guess she heard" and as soon as he said that a clash of lightning struck. "Yeah she definitely did". So he sat himself in the hall and waited for her to come out so he could make his apologies and explained himself.
For three weeks Marie totally avoided him and stayed with Storm. For three weeks the weather was a constant over cast or thunderstorm. Storm wouldn't even look at Logan and called Jean, to the amusement of the entire cafeteria, a slut. Even Scott didn't sit with Jean and he was sleeping on the couch.
Marie had fallen into a rut. For the first few days she never left 'Ro's room and never ate. Then she started to leave for long periods of time, Storm found out she was locking herself in the Danger Room for days at a time and trained non stop on the highest level until she would collapse and drag herself back to her room and shower, still avoiding Logan. She would sleep it off, let her wounds heal for a few days and then do it again, barley slept and eating even less. She was looking thin and never smiled. This became her routine.
Trains, collapse, sleep, heal and do it again. It wasn't the Rogue everyone knew and just that worried the mansion. They didn't even know about her self-hatred and her feeling of worthlessness. She felt that she had brought this upon herself, that she had made Logan so unhappy that he would kiss anyone. That was what fueled her rage.
Rogue had perfected herself on every level and scenario that the Danger Room had to offer. Her speed and agility doubled and her fighting technique was flawless. She was now fighting a simulated Sabertooth when Bobby over rode the circuits and caused the program to shut down as he walked in. Her body suit was in pieces and he blushed but she was pissed.
"Bobby Ah'm sure this could wait." She said frustrated.
With out another moment of hesitation he said "sorry Rogue, I wouldn't have done this if you weren't endangering yourself."
And with that he blasted he with ice that sent her flying against the wall, and before she could retaliate he was blasting her with more ice, freezing her to the wall, her head the only thing exposed. If she hadn't been so exhausted she might have been able to escape but this was her second day in the danger room. But none the less bobby was having a hard time making the ice thick enough to restrain her. Her struggling stopped as another person came through the doors.
"Logan" she said angrily.
"Now Marie this was the only way I could have talked to you with out you running off." He said trying to explain himself.
"Ah'm not going to listen to a word you say, you told me you didn't love her and then the first thing you do when you get home is kiss her? Yeah Ah don't want to hear a word." She said turning her head away form him.
"Then just open your skin darlin' let me show you." He said pleadingly.
She didn't even realize it but Carol had taken over with the help Wolverine. And when Logan touched her face the connection opened and she saw and felt the kiss. Jean had forced it on him. Jean the slut had did this intentionally to hurt her. Logan fell backward and unconscious and bobby rushed to help him. With a loud growl and a sudden burst of energy Rogue broke the ice and checked on Logan before flying out of the Danger room and towards the Teachers Housings.
By the time Logan regained consciousness (seconds after Rogue flew off) and ran to Jeans room to warn her but Rogue was already there. She was suspended in mid air being held back from Jean by Colossus, Scott, John, Kurt and Jeans telepathy and they were still fighting a losing battle. Rogue was inching forward so Bobby and Logan rushed in to help.
"Starting to lose you strength are we Jeanie?" She said with venom in her voice.
Jean was getting really tired, sweat was beaded on her forehead and her hands began to shake. Rogue was strong and she didn't know how much longer she was going to be able to hold her. Jean spotted Orro in the doorway, nodding her approval but not lifting a finger to help. Rogue was still struggling against six of the strongest x-men of the house. Jean let go of her grip on Rogue, she couldn't hold her any longer and Rogue jerked forward, a huge grin spread across her face as she was dragging the men behind her, those days upon days in the danger room had really help out. But just inches away from Jean's face, Rogue fell and was pinned on the floor.
Logan had let go of her and jumped on top of her, pinning her to the ground. "Oh please Logan, Ah could bench press you sugah." She said in her thick southern drawl. She tried to move him but couldn't, he had imbedded his claws in the floor for leverage and pinned her in such a way that he had the upper hand, she couldn't get enough leverage to get him off.
"Damn, ugh, Ah was just gonna ruffle her feathers a little bit." She said but the men just laughed
"Oh is that so. That's why it took SIX of us to TRY to hold you back?" Scott smirked
"Look Scott she deserves everything she was going to get, an eye for an eye." She said with anger growing in her voice.
"Then that means you should kiss me right?" Scott said with a smile plastered ear to ear on his face, well until he heard Logan's lower and territorial growl.
"No Scott," she said calmly "she hurt me so I get to hurt her. But Ah'm calm now." She said calming her breathing rate
"Are you calm now?" Logan asked and she shook her head. So he sheathed his claws and helped her up. She straitened herself out, dusted herself off and started to walk out the door when she made a quick turn. She turned to Jean and slugged her square in the nose, breaking it and giving her a black eye.
The others stared in awe, they were all too slow to stop her so they didn't even try. Rogue just turned around and cracked her knuckles and her neck.
"See totally calm and now totally relaxed." She said leaving the room and the gawking men. 'Ro broke the silence with a loud laugh, they all turned to her with puzzlement.
"What that was hilarious?!" She said turning and walking off chuckling to herself.
"That's on hell of a woman you have there Logan good luck." Scott said patting him on the back and checking on Jean.
"Yeah man, just don't make her mad. Ever." Collosus said leaving with the others.
Logan just smiled, he didn't care this just, again, proved she was a perfect mate for him. With that he went back to his room to find all her stuff back in its proper place and her passed out on the bed with one of his shirts on. He just smiled and picked her up and tucked her under the covers, then silently crawling in next to her. And for the first time in over a month they both had a restful night sleep.
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