Chapter 6
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"You're done right?" Rogue looked up at Kitty who was just finishing off her soda.
Kitty released the straw after hearing a familiar sound of air rushing in from the bottom. "Yeah, you ready to go?"
"Yeah, I'll just flag the waitress down for the check." Rogue slumped in her chair a little to pull her wallet out of her back pocket.
"Ok… Hey, um…" Kitty hesitated, "do you mind paying for my food. I mean, I have enough to pay for myself, but then I wouldn't have enough for the clock, I just figured I could like, pay you back when we get back to the mansion."
Rogue seemed annoyed at her request, but the expression faded. "Yeah, sure I guess. I got enough money for it. Just make sure you pay me back ok?" Rogue gave Kitty a look that clearly said 'Cause if you don't...' Kitty quickly nodded, she understood exactly what would happen if she didn't, or rather she knew she didn't want to find out.
Rogue opened her wallet and her eyes widened. She flipped through the multiple compartments, but nothing was there. "What's wrong?" Kitty asked as she idly pushed some French fries around on her plate.
"My moneys… gone…" rogue checked the rest of her pockets, turning up only a few coins.
"Some one took your money?" Kitty's eyes widened as well. "Who would take your money? Are you sure you just took it out of your wallet or something before school?"
Rogue glared across the table at Kitty. "I KNOW I put my money in here this morning." She noticed the Waitress walking towards them, and her annoyed expression faded to one of concern. "I'm sorry Kitty. You're going to have to pay for the food, and I guess we will come back to get the alarm clock tomorrow." She placed her wallet down on the table near the edge. "Look, if you pay for the food, then I'll pay for the new alarm clock ok?"
"Yeah, sure… I guess. I mean, tomorrow is Saturday, so we don't really need to get up early tomorrow anyway right?" Kitty smiled, and so did Rogue feeling less like she had ruined anything, even though she knew it wasn't her fault. "Who do you think took your money?"
"I don't know, I think I would have noticed if some one had taken my wallet out of my pocket, so it must have been before we left the mansion."
"Makes sense. But who would have gone in our room? I mean Kurt is the only one that even comes in our room, and I know he wouldn't have taken your money."
Rogue's eyes squinted a little. "Well maybe I'll just have a talk with the elf when we get home."
"Rogue, you don't think he actually took it do you-" but Kitty was cut off when the Waitress approached the table.
"Are you two done? Can I get you anything else?" The waitress asked with her pencil ready to take down any more orders.
"No, we just need the check." Kitty said as she reached for her purse to pull out her money. But she stopped when she felt the waitress' hand on her shoulder.
"Oh, don't worry about that, your meals have already been paid for. I just wanted to know if you wanted anything else." With that the woman walked away towards the bar area.
Both girls looked at each other, very confused. "Did she just say we already paid?" Rogue asked Kitty in disbelief.
"Yeah, I wonder what she meant." Kitty said as she looked back to Rogue who now had a very annoyed look on her face.
"I think I know exactly what happened…" Rogue said as she crossed her arms. Her eyes were on something at the other end of the dinner. Kitty followed Rogues eyes to see what, or rather who she was looking at. Kitty gasped.
"Bonjour mon cherie." Gambit was now leaning on the small wall behind Kitty's seat in the booth. He smiled at Rogue, but when he was only met with an icy glare, he turned his attentions to Kitty. "And who is your belle ami, chere?" Gambit reached for her hand and kissed it as he bowed a little.
Kitty blushed, and fought back a bought of giggles. "My… my name is Kitty Pryde." She said softly while looking at her hand.
Rogue's face became red with anger. "What the hell are you doing here? I thought I told you to leave me alone!"
Gambit glanced over to Rogue and smiled softly. He then returned his attention to the brunette. "Well Miss Kitty," Gambit laid the charm on thick, "Would you please excuse us. Remy needs to have a little talk with his blonde." [blonde means girlfriend]
Rogue's jaw dropped as she focused on Kitty. Her eyes clearly said 'Don't leave me with this creep!' but Kitty never even gave her a glance. She couldn't possibly pull herself away from his eyes. She silently nodded, as Gambit helped her out of the booth and sent her on her way.
Rogue sat there in complete disbelief. 'How could she leave me like that?' she asked herself. But before she could answer that question, even before she could get out of the seat, Gambit was sitting next to her on her side of the booth. He was smirking wildly.
Gambit placed his hand on the table and slowly pulled her wallet off the table and onto his lap, he knew she would not notice. Even being this close to her, she was to focused on his face, and how she was going to express whatever anger was building up. "Chere, what's wrong?"
Her face contorted with anger as she gazed back at his face of pure innocence. It was like he honestly didn't understand what could have possibly made her this angry. She gave a sarcastic laugh as she released some of her anger.
"What's so funny mon cherie?" Gambit slid the wallet back onto the table, making it look like he was just shifting his weight to see her better.
Rogue shook her head, "I can't believe you sometimes… all the time." She laughed again. "I know you know exactly what your doing to me… and that your doing it on purpose to annoy me…. But every time I go to yell at you, you give me some look, like you don't understand…" she looked angry again, but this time at herself for saying anything to him about what was going on in her head 'Oh great, now he KNOWS he is getting to you.'
Remy just smiled reassuringly. "What makes you think Remy is trying to annoy you? Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, he just want to get to know a belle fillie?" Remy ran on of his gloved fingers over her face to gently push away a strand of white hair that was obstructing his view. Rogue moved her face away from his touch.
"Don't touch me…" she said it softly, and though no tears came to her eyes, she knew they were there, just waiting for her to get upset. They sat there in silence for a few moments. Rogue tried desperately to not think about her powers, to not think of the jerk next to her, and to not think about how Kitty had just left them. Remy had reached over to Kitty's plate, and ate a few of her left over French fries. "What are you doing?" Rogue looked accusingly at him.
"Hey if Remy paid for the meal, he gets to eat something." He said it nonchalantly and casually continued to eat.
"Why did you pay for the food?"
"A gentlemen always pays for a fillie's meal." He took his attention away from Kitty's plate, and placed his gaze squarely on Rogue's. "It wouldn't be a date if Remy didn't pay for everything." He smirked as her temper made another appearance.
"This is NOT a date!" she said sternly through slender eyes.
"How is it not? We are here together…" He moved his face closer to hers, "Alone…" still closer, "I bought you food…" he was now whispering to her only a few inches from her face. He never lost her eye contact.
Rogue bit her bottom lip. 'He is so close…' she thought as she looked down at his lips that were an inch away from hers. She could feel his breath on her face. She let out a silent sigh. 'He is so close!' Rogue pushed him out of the booth and onto the floor. Remy seemed only amused by her efforts as she grabbed her wallet and stormed out of the dinner. He laughed as the patrons on the dinner turned to look at him as he picked him self up and dusted him self off.
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Rogue found herself sitting on a bench inside the mall. She didn't want to walk home, knowing he would without doubt find her. She just wanted to sit there, and get her thoughts together, before she even tried to make her way home. 'Maybe he doesn't understand…' she thought to herself. 'Maybe he doesn't really understand what my powers are. It was all to easy to hide behind all this gothic make up and attitude. Everyone just kept his or her distance. And that's what I wanted, right?' she shook her head as she looked down to her feet. 'Of course that's what I wanted. No one can ever get close to me. I would only hurt them. He doesn't understand at all!'
Her anger was building up again, and she noticed her clenching her own fists. She took a deep breath. Ever sense her powers went haywire, all the adults at the mansion were telling her to try and keep her moods in check. It was enough of a task for any teenager, with out the treat of beams shooting out of her eyes.
"Hey Rogue!" Rogue looked up to see kitty running over to her with some bags in her hands. She sat down on the bench next to her. "Oh man, I'm so sorry I left you alone. I don't know what came over me."
Rogue didn't say anything. Being reminded of her last confrontation with Remy wasn't helping her calm down. 'Not Remy, Gambit!' she told her self. 'Gambit is the enemy.'
"Are you ok?" Kitty looked concerned as she dropped the bags on the floor in front of her.
"I'm fine!" Rogue said defensively as she crossed her arms across her chest. "Atleast I'll be fine…"
"Its about me leaving you isn't it? I'm so totally sorry, I don't know what it was, its like he tricked me or something… I'm really REALLY sorry Rogue."
Rogue sighed. She knew it wasn't Kitty's fault, as much as she may have wanted it to be. Not because she wanted to be mad at Kitty in particular, but being able to point the anger inside her at anyone would allow her to vent. "I know Kitty… Its ok."
"I called the mansion on a pay phone a while ago; someone's coming to pick us up. I was just hoping I could find you before anyone got here."
"Did you find a new alarm?"
"Yeah, and don't worry, its not a SpongeBob SquarePants clock." Kitty smiled after noticing Rogue's face lighten up a little.
"Good…" Rogue trailed off. "Do you know who is coming to get us?"
"No clue." But Kitty was cut short when they both saw a very familiar figure at the doors in front of them.
"Half-pint, Stripes, lets go." the two girls got up and began to pick up Kitty's bags. They followed Logan out the doors and into the X-van. Rogue and Kitty got in the back and Buckled up. Logan wasn't much for talking. So Kitty and Rogue silently decided to stay silent.
Kitty was intently reading the back of the box on her new alarm clock. While Rogue was absentmindedly rolling her wallet imbedded her two hands. She had never put it back in her pocket, and now that she was sitting down, she couldn't. She casually flipped it open, and almost gasped when she saw her money was back. And along side the bills, was a playing card, the ace of hearts.
Rogue assumed that Gambit had used her money to pay for their food. 'What a jerk." She thought as she pulled out the money to count it. But all thirty dollars was back. She silently cursed at him, as the X-Van pulled into the mansion's gates.
(A/N: Ok, like I said, I got some cool stuff coming up, and I am trying my absolute hardest not to rush through any of the fights. I don't really love these past two chapters as much as the four before them. I mean, I kin of like the confrontation between Rogue and Remy, but I think I screwed up Kitty a little. I don't know, I just don't like how Kitty and Rogue were in these two chapters. I mean its not horrible, but… I don't know, maybe I'm just being to picky…
Any way, so, I got to go celebrate my Birthday…I should be able to get some new chapters in by this week end, so look out for that. Thanks again for all the awesome Reviews!!!)
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"You're done right?" Rogue looked up at Kitty who was just finishing off her soda.
Kitty released the straw after hearing a familiar sound of air rushing in from the bottom. "Yeah, you ready to go?"
"Yeah, I'll just flag the waitress down for the check." Rogue slumped in her chair a little to pull her wallet out of her back pocket.
"Ok… Hey, um…" Kitty hesitated, "do you mind paying for my food. I mean, I have enough to pay for myself, but then I wouldn't have enough for the clock, I just figured I could like, pay you back when we get back to the mansion."
Rogue seemed annoyed at her request, but the expression faded. "Yeah, sure I guess. I got enough money for it. Just make sure you pay me back ok?" Rogue gave Kitty a look that clearly said 'Cause if you don't...' Kitty quickly nodded, she understood exactly what would happen if she didn't, or rather she knew she didn't want to find out.
Rogue opened her wallet and her eyes widened. She flipped through the multiple compartments, but nothing was there. "What's wrong?" Kitty asked as she idly pushed some French fries around on her plate.
"My moneys… gone…" rogue checked the rest of her pockets, turning up only a few coins.
"Some one took your money?" Kitty's eyes widened as well. "Who would take your money? Are you sure you just took it out of your wallet or something before school?"
Rogue glared across the table at Kitty. "I KNOW I put my money in here this morning." She noticed the Waitress walking towards them, and her annoyed expression faded to one of concern. "I'm sorry Kitty. You're going to have to pay for the food, and I guess we will come back to get the alarm clock tomorrow." She placed her wallet down on the table near the edge. "Look, if you pay for the food, then I'll pay for the new alarm clock ok?"
"Yeah, sure… I guess. I mean, tomorrow is Saturday, so we don't really need to get up early tomorrow anyway right?" Kitty smiled, and so did Rogue feeling less like she had ruined anything, even though she knew it wasn't her fault. "Who do you think took your money?"
"I don't know, I think I would have noticed if some one had taken my wallet out of my pocket, so it must have been before we left the mansion."
"Makes sense. But who would have gone in our room? I mean Kurt is the only one that even comes in our room, and I know he wouldn't have taken your money."
Rogue's eyes squinted a little. "Well maybe I'll just have a talk with the elf when we get home."
"Rogue, you don't think he actually took it do you-" but Kitty was cut off when the Waitress approached the table.
"Are you two done? Can I get you anything else?" The waitress asked with her pencil ready to take down any more orders.
"No, we just need the check." Kitty said as she reached for her purse to pull out her money. But she stopped when she felt the waitress' hand on her shoulder.
"Oh, don't worry about that, your meals have already been paid for. I just wanted to know if you wanted anything else." With that the woman walked away towards the bar area.
Both girls looked at each other, very confused. "Did she just say we already paid?" Rogue asked Kitty in disbelief.
"Yeah, I wonder what she meant." Kitty said as she looked back to Rogue who now had a very annoyed look on her face.
"I think I know exactly what happened…" Rogue said as she crossed her arms. Her eyes were on something at the other end of the dinner. Kitty followed Rogues eyes to see what, or rather who she was looking at. Kitty gasped.
"Bonjour mon cherie." Gambit was now leaning on the small wall behind Kitty's seat in the booth. He smiled at Rogue, but when he was only met with an icy glare, he turned his attentions to Kitty. "And who is your belle ami, chere?" Gambit reached for her hand and kissed it as he bowed a little.
Kitty blushed, and fought back a bought of giggles. "My… my name is Kitty Pryde." She said softly while looking at her hand.
Rogue's face became red with anger. "What the hell are you doing here? I thought I told you to leave me alone!"
Gambit glanced over to Rogue and smiled softly. He then returned his attention to the brunette. "Well Miss Kitty," Gambit laid the charm on thick, "Would you please excuse us. Remy needs to have a little talk with his blonde." [blonde means girlfriend]
Rogue's jaw dropped as she focused on Kitty. Her eyes clearly said 'Don't leave me with this creep!' but Kitty never even gave her a glance. She couldn't possibly pull herself away from his eyes. She silently nodded, as Gambit helped her out of the booth and sent her on her way.
Rogue sat there in complete disbelief. 'How could she leave me like that?' she asked herself. But before she could answer that question, even before she could get out of the seat, Gambit was sitting next to her on her side of the booth. He was smirking wildly.
Gambit placed his hand on the table and slowly pulled her wallet off the table and onto his lap, he knew she would not notice. Even being this close to her, she was to focused on his face, and how she was going to express whatever anger was building up. "Chere, what's wrong?"
Her face contorted with anger as she gazed back at his face of pure innocence. It was like he honestly didn't understand what could have possibly made her this angry. She gave a sarcastic laugh as she released some of her anger.
"What's so funny mon cherie?" Gambit slid the wallet back onto the table, making it look like he was just shifting his weight to see her better.
Rogue shook her head, "I can't believe you sometimes… all the time." She laughed again. "I know you know exactly what your doing to me… and that your doing it on purpose to annoy me…. But every time I go to yell at you, you give me some look, like you don't understand…" she looked angry again, but this time at herself for saying anything to him about what was going on in her head 'Oh great, now he KNOWS he is getting to you.'
Remy just smiled reassuringly. "What makes you think Remy is trying to annoy you? Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, he just want to get to know a belle fillie?" Remy ran on of his gloved fingers over her face to gently push away a strand of white hair that was obstructing his view. Rogue moved her face away from his touch.
"Don't touch me…" she said it softly, and though no tears came to her eyes, she knew they were there, just waiting for her to get upset. They sat there in silence for a few moments. Rogue tried desperately to not think about her powers, to not think of the jerk next to her, and to not think about how Kitty had just left them. Remy had reached over to Kitty's plate, and ate a few of her left over French fries. "What are you doing?" Rogue looked accusingly at him.
"Hey if Remy paid for the meal, he gets to eat something." He said it nonchalantly and casually continued to eat.
"Why did you pay for the food?"
"A gentlemen always pays for a fillie's meal." He took his attention away from Kitty's plate, and placed his gaze squarely on Rogue's. "It wouldn't be a date if Remy didn't pay for everything." He smirked as her temper made another appearance.
"This is NOT a date!" she said sternly through slender eyes.
"How is it not? We are here together…" He moved his face closer to hers, "Alone…" still closer, "I bought you food…" he was now whispering to her only a few inches from her face. He never lost her eye contact.
Rogue bit her bottom lip. 'He is so close…' she thought as she looked down at his lips that were an inch away from hers. She could feel his breath on her face. She let out a silent sigh. 'He is so close!' Rogue pushed him out of the booth and onto the floor. Remy seemed only amused by her efforts as she grabbed her wallet and stormed out of the dinner. He laughed as the patrons on the dinner turned to look at him as he picked him self up and dusted him self off.
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Rogue found herself sitting on a bench inside the mall. She didn't want to walk home, knowing he would without doubt find her. She just wanted to sit there, and get her thoughts together, before she even tried to make her way home. 'Maybe he doesn't understand…' she thought to herself. 'Maybe he doesn't really understand what my powers are. It was all to easy to hide behind all this gothic make up and attitude. Everyone just kept his or her distance. And that's what I wanted, right?' she shook her head as she looked down to her feet. 'Of course that's what I wanted. No one can ever get close to me. I would only hurt them. He doesn't understand at all!'
Her anger was building up again, and she noticed her clenching her own fists. She took a deep breath. Ever sense her powers went haywire, all the adults at the mansion were telling her to try and keep her moods in check. It was enough of a task for any teenager, with out the treat of beams shooting out of her eyes.
"Hey Rogue!" Rogue looked up to see kitty running over to her with some bags in her hands. She sat down on the bench next to her. "Oh man, I'm so sorry I left you alone. I don't know what came over me."
Rogue didn't say anything. Being reminded of her last confrontation with Remy wasn't helping her calm down. 'Not Remy, Gambit!' she told her self. 'Gambit is the enemy.'
"Are you ok?" Kitty looked concerned as she dropped the bags on the floor in front of her.
"I'm fine!" Rogue said defensively as she crossed her arms across her chest. "Atleast I'll be fine…"
"Its about me leaving you isn't it? I'm so totally sorry, I don't know what it was, its like he tricked me or something… I'm really REALLY sorry Rogue."
Rogue sighed. She knew it wasn't Kitty's fault, as much as she may have wanted it to be. Not because she wanted to be mad at Kitty in particular, but being able to point the anger inside her at anyone would allow her to vent. "I know Kitty… Its ok."
"I called the mansion on a pay phone a while ago; someone's coming to pick us up. I was just hoping I could find you before anyone got here."
"Did you find a new alarm?"
"Yeah, and don't worry, its not a SpongeBob SquarePants clock." Kitty smiled after noticing Rogue's face lighten up a little.
"Good…" Rogue trailed off. "Do you know who is coming to get us?"
"No clue." But Kitty was cut short when they both saw a very familiar figure at the doors in front of them.
"Half-pint, Stripes, lets go." the two girls got up and began to pick up Kitty's bags. They followed Logan out the doors and into the X-van. Rogue and Kitty got in the back and Buckled up. Logan wasn't much for talking. So Kitty and Rogue silently decided to stay silent.
Kitty was intently reading the back of the box on her new alarm clock. While Rogue was absentmindedly rolling her wallet imbedded her two hands. She had never put it back in her pocket, and now that she was sitting down, she couldn't. She casually flipped it open, and almost gasped when she saw her money was back. And along side the bills, was a playing card, the ace of hearts.
Rogue assumed that Gambit had used her money to pay for their food. 'What a jerk." She thought as she pulled out the money to count it. But all thirty dollars was back. She silently cursed at him, as the X-Van pulled into the mansion's gates.
(A/N: Ok, like I said, I got some cool stuff coming up, and I am trying my absolute hardest not to rush through any of the fights. I don't really love these past two chapters as much as the four before them. I mean, I kin of like the confrontation between Rogue and Remy, but I think I screwed up Kitty a little. I don't know, I just don't like how Kitty and Rogue were in these two chapters. I mean its not horrible, but… I don't know, maybe I'm just being to picky…
Any way, so, I got to go celebrate my Birthday…I should be able to get some new chapters in by this week end, so look out for that. Thanks again for all the awesome Reviews!!!)