(A/N: Ok, first off, congratulations to all of you who passed last weeks pop quiz, but I HAVE to give a very special gold star out to *Wizardess Gal* for getting an A+ on a quiz she never even took. That's right, she got one hundred points completely through the extra credit. *wipes a tear from her eye* she makes me so proud!!!
Ok, This chapter is going to be a little short. I'm sorry! I wish I could just jump to the next time I have Rouge and Gambit meet, but I really have to address what the rest of the x-men are thinking about Rouge, and what she is thinking about them, ect ect...
There is some Romy, I mean, she is reflecting on what happened. But don't worry, after this, we get right back in the swing of things, Ooo and big plot stuff coming up in the next two chapters. Like I said a few chapters ago, I got to get from point A to point B, and this chapter is the line that connects them (god that sounds stupid, but you get my point.) Its hard for me to be patient with myself between plot bits, I only hope you guys stay patient with me too ^_^)
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Chapter 9
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Kurt fiddled with his image inducer as he walked down the hallway of the mansion leading away from his dorm room. He idly pulled at the watchband. The image inducer was off, revealing his blue fur. It was Saturday morning, and he was safely inside the mansion, with no threat of an outsider seeing his true form.
Kurt was preoccupied at the moment; he was worried about his sister Rogue. Foster sister or not, Rogue was like a real sister to Kurt.
He had heard through the grape vines, which appear to be all through out the mansion, that Rogue had spent the night in the Med Lab. He had other heard rumors about her being on the roof, which did not surprise him in the least, but he had also heard that she was not alone.
Kurt's eyebrows scrunched together as anger built up inside him at just the idea of Gambit attacking her on the roof. Or what if she had wanted him there? That idea made Kurt even angrier.
'But it's not my place to judge…' thought Kurt as he remembered the argument last night, and the fight between him and Kitty that soon followed. Kitty was mad at him for 'spilling the beans' and spreading rumors about Rogue. Kitty knew she was also responsible, but that didn't help with Kurt's guilt. Looking back, he could see how he had maybe stretched the truth just a little. But then again, he never really got to hear the truth from Rogue in the first place.
Kurt looked down at his feet as he walked into the kitchen. A few other X-Men were making a bit of a commotion. They were sitting down at the table, but Kurt walked over and hopped up onto the countertop in between the pantry and the sink. He swung his feet a little beneath him, with his tail to one side of him. Kurt sighed as he continued to watch his feet.
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"I think Jubilee is winning." Kitty explained as she glanced up from the stopwatch. "You better hurry up Bobby. She has like a full, four spoon lead over you."
"Shut up!" Bobby managed in between bites of cereal.
Bobby and Jubilee were sitting next to each other on one side of the kitchen table, while Kitty sat on the other side. In front of Kitty was a pad of paper, a pen, and the stopwatch in her hand. In front of Jubilee and Bobby, was a mess. They both had a bowl of Captn' Crunch in front of them and were frantically racing each other to see who could finish theirs the fastest. The results were a puddle of milk over the table and scattered bowls and cereal.
"Done!" shouted Jubilee before going into a coughing fit. "I win three to two!"
Bobby spooned a few more bites into his mouth, and then said, while still chewing, "No, we are playing best our of seven, you didn't win yet!"
"Whoa! You said best out of five." Jubilee protested, still trying to catch her breath.
"Yeah," Kitty added, "And that was after she beat you in best out of three."
"Look if you don't think you can take me… Then I'm fine with that." Bobby smirked as he pushed his bowl away from him on the table, and leaned back in his seat.
"Oh no you don't! You're on!" Jubilee shouted as she reached for new bowls.
"Hold on a second," pleaded Kitty, "I got to write down your times… Lets see… Jubilee has the most wins, but Bobby finished a bowl the fastest."
Bobby just smiled and straitened up as he readied himself for another race. He grabbed for the box of Captn' Crunch, but frowned as he shook it upside down and only crumbs fell out. "Oh man, we're out. Got to get another box from the pantry."
Jubilee nodded as she started to get up to get another box of cereal, when she suddenly noticed Kurt Sitting on the counter top. "Hey Kurt, you want to help me take out Bobby in a good old fashioned Saturday morning cereal race?" Jubilee continued to the pantry and opened up the double doors. She gave all the boxes heavy consideration before calling over her shoulder back to bobby, "There's no more Captn' Crunch. Either Trix, Fruit Loops, or… or… Grapenuts."
"Yuck! Grapenuts? What are you thinking?" Bobby asked as he stuck his tongue out at the idea. "I don't care about the other two, surprise me."
"Ok… um…" Jubilee randomly pulled out a box. "Trix it is! So Kurt you in?"
Kurt shook his head. "No thanks, I'm not hungry…"
"What!" shouted the three other teens in the kitchen as the box of Trix hit the floor.
"Wait, Kurt isn't hungry?" Jubilee shook her head in disbelief as Kitty and Bobby stood up and walked over. "Is that even possible?"
"Yeah man, you feeling ok?" Bobby asked as he placed a hand on Kurt's forehead.
"I'm fine." Kurt said a little annoyed as he moved away from Bobby's hand, "I'm just not hungry."
"But YOU don't get 'just not hungry'. Its not normal." Stated Bobby as he picked up the Trix box and put it on the counter near the pantry. "Something has to be wrong."
"Are you upset about Rogue?" Kitty asked in a hushed voice, even though Bobby and Jubilee were easily with in hearing distance. The three teens looked on at Kurt awaiting his answer.
"Of course I am, she is my sister…"
Suddenly all four of them heard a low growl, and turned to see a sweaty Wolverine in the door way. "What the hell happened in here?!" He walked over to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. With the towel around his neck, it was apparent he had just finished a Danger Room session. He squirted almost half the bottle into his mouth before returning his intimidating gaze back to the students. "Well?!"
Kitty spoke up first, "Bobby and Jubilee were having cereal bowl races and-"
Jubilee cut her off. "And I was winning too, but-"
"But actually," Bobby added taking a little step foreword in front of Jubilee. "I was about to win, and-"
"And I had NOTHING to do with it." Kurt finished as he put his hands up in his defense.
Wolverine just shook his head, "Look I don't care who did what, and who beat who, all I care about is WHO is going to clean up this mess."
"Well I'll just be going then, see you guys…" Kurt said as he tried to get off the counter and walk calmly out the door.
"Oh no you don't blue boy," Wolverine grabbed onto the collar of Kurt's shirt, "we work as a team, remember, so you are going to stay right here and help out your fellow team mates."
"Oh man… But I didn't even do anything."
"I don't care, now get cleaning." Wolverine started to make his way for the door.
"Hey, why aren't you helping, I mean, you're part of the team too you know." Everyone regretted Bobby's words as soon as he said them.
Wolverine just laughed, "Nice try kid, now get scrubbing." With that Wolverine left the kitchen.
"Bobby do you have a death wish or something?" Jubilee hit Bobby's arm as she went to go grab a broom and a dustpan from the corner of the room.
"Or are you just stupid?" Kitty asked as she hit Bobby in the other arm. Jubilee then handed her the dustpan.
"Hey. Watch it."
"I think your right Kitty," Kurt added as he ripped off a few sheets of paper towel off of the roll, "I think he is just stupid, or… are you feeling ok Bobby?" Kurt mocked as he placed his hand on Bobby's head. The two boys started laughing as Kurt handed him the roll of paper towels.
They all split up into their separate jobs. Kitty and Jubilee cleaned up the floor and put away the dirty dishes, as Kurt and Bobby wiped clean the table.
Jubilee leaned on the counter as she turned to the boys at the table. "So what did you hear happened to Rogue anyway Kurt?"
Kurt paused and then stopped what he was doing to look up at Jubilee. "I don't know, I heard a lot of things…"
"Well I heard that she was up there with her boyfriend Gambit." Bobby fluttered his eyelashes as he said the acolyte's name, and Jubilee started laughing. Kurt gave him a glare and he quickly stopped.
"Well I heard she was up there with him," Interrupted Jubilee, "But they were fighting each other, like he broke onto the property and attacked her."
"Really?" Kitty asked as she turned towards Jubilee, "Cause I heard that Mr. Logan got in a fight with Gambit, and Rogue fell off the roof because of it. And that's why she had to go to Med Lab"
"What?!" demanded Kurt.
"Yeah Kitty, you can't believe that." Bobby added as he shook his head at Kitty.
"Yeah, she didn't fall off the roof, that's stupid." Jubilee added.
"Well I'm just telling you what I heard…"
Kurt leaned against the table as he crossed his arms, "Did any of you even talk to Rogue yet?" Kurt shook his head disapprovingly as he got a unanimous 'no' from everyone. "Then no one here should be talking about it." Kurt dropped his soggy paper towels into the garbage as he left the room on his way down to the Med Lab wing.
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Rogue slowly stretched as she stifled back a yawn. She sat up in bed as she looked around the room for a clock. She couldn't find any, but judging by how bright it was, it was probably somewhere between ten and eleven am. Slowly she remembered where she was. She was in the Med Lab. But she felt fine, why was she in Med Lab. She looked through the glass window separating her from Dr. McCoy's office. He wasn't at his desk.
Then she remembered the night before. How Gambit had surprised her, and how she slid down the roof and had cut her knees and shins. And how she had almost fallen off the roof completely, if Gambit hadn't saved her.
'Saved?' she thought, 'If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have fallen.' But all in all she was grateful that he was there to grab her hand, though she would never admit it to another living soul, especially not Gambit.
Her eyebrows scrunched together a little in contemplation as she recalled everything he had said to her. The words rang through her thoughts and even through her very soul 'Because someone should…' she heard them again in the back of her head.
'He seemed so genuine when he had said it, so authentic…' Rogue filled with anger, and as much as she tried, she couldn't seem to aim any of her rage at the Cajun. She was angry, even furious that he had said something she had wanted to hear coming from Kitty, her 'best friend' or the Professor, or anyone else at the institute. But no, the enemy had said it. The enemy had seen through her mask quicker, and better than any of her so-called friends. Even if she hadn't actually told him her name when he asked, at least he HAD asked. She has been at the institute for so long, and no one had even asked her what her name was, or when her birthday is, or anything personal. She had always told herself they weren't asking because she pushed them away. But she pushed Gambit away even more than she does any of the X-Men, and HE had asked her. Now it became clear that they didn't ask because they didn't care. None of them cared did they?
Just then Rogue noticed a figure walk by the slightly tinted glass window outside her room. Her Rage subsided as best she could as she noticed the doorknob turn slowly. Kurt stuck his head into the half open doorway with pleading eyes, "Can I come in?"
Rogue laughed lightly at how cute he was trying to be and nodded for him to enter. He shut the door behind him as he made his way for the chair near her bed. Rogue sat up to face him.
"How are you feeling Rogue?"
"I'm fine. I was kind of looking for Dr. McCoy to see if I could leave soon."
"What happened? Were you here all night?"
Rogue suddenly flashed back to a few moments ago. When she was yelling internally that no one at the institute cared about her. She shook the feeling away, knowing that Kurt did care for her, even if he doesn't know when to shut his mouth. But the overwhelming feeling that even Kurt, her 'brother' hadn't asked her still remained. "Nothing much. I was up on the roof last night, and I almost slid off, and I cut my shins up a little. Really, its nothing big at all. But Logan made me go to Med Lab."
"Oh…" Kurt paused, not wanting to ask what he had to ask next, "Were you… were you alone on the roof?" Kurt dropped his eyes to the floor, not wanting to anger her more.
Rogue's eyes squinted a little as she stared back at Kurt. "What do you mean?"
"Well…" Kurt started to play with the tip of his tail nervously in between his fingers. "A couple of kids were talking and…"
"Oh my god! Everyone is already talking behind my back?! None of them were there, they don't know what happened, and there they go spreading more rumors. But did any of them even ask me what happened? NO!" Rogue was talking more to herself at the moment, when she suddenly remembered that Kurt WAS here asking her what had happened. She smiled inwardly, feeling a little relief that he at least cared to get her side this time. "What were they saying?" she asked in a calm tone that caught Kurt of guard.
"Well they were saying a bunch of things… but all the stories had Gambit in them." Kurt paused, "Was he on the roof with you last night?" He raised his eyes to hers, and his face seemed almost defeated before she could answer.
Rogue looked back at him sympathetically, "He was, but let me explain…"
Kurt smiled lightly allowing her to continue. He wasn't going to jump to conclusions, not this time.
"I had a bad dream, and I went up to the roof to get my head together…" She frowned softly remembering the dream, "And before I knew it, he was right behind me, I didn't ask him to be there or anything."
"Did you to fight him? is that how you almost fell of the roof?"
"No, not exactly. When I saw him, I guess I got startled, and fell backwards." Rogue purposefully with held the complete truth, that she had been so close to him, and that she had actually pushed herself off of him when she slipped.
"Then what happened?"
"Um…" Rogue thought what would be appropriate to tell her very over protective brother. "Well he caught my hand when I fell off the roof and pulled me back up. And then Logan busted onto the roof, and tried to attack Gambit."
'Good' Kurt thought as he smiled to himself. "That's it? Oh man, you are going to be so mad at Bobby …"
"What did he say about me Kurt?"
"Well he was calling Gambit your boyfriend and stuff…"
"What! I'm going to kill him! What was everyone else saying? No wait, it doesn't matter, if they are saying ANYTHING then I'm going to kill them." Rogue started to get out of bed and made her way to the door. After opening the door, she turned and looked at Kurt who was just standing up. "Thanks Kurt…"
"For what? Squealing on Bobby? Any time-"
But she cut him off with a smile, "No, for asking me what happened. I know I'm not the easiest person to talk to, and I… I appreciate that you tried." With that she was out the door and down the hallway. She was still in her pajamas, and decided to stop off in her room to change into normal cloths and a pair of gloves before having a little 'talk' with a certain trio of mutant storytellers…
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(A/N: ok there you go, I really like how this chapter ended up. I think its funny how much I hated Jubilee in the old cartoon, but I like her so much in this one. I mean honestly, she was SO useless in the old X-Men chartoon! What was her super power? Fireworks? All she did was make sparklers! lol no seriously, if you're a huge Jubilee fan, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but she was just the kid in the old cartoon you know? She was the person who ALWAYS got kidnapped and everyone had to go save, or she triggered some alarm and got everyone caught, and all that stuff. But in the X-Men Evolution cartoon, because the whole institute is kids, she gets to actually have a personality, instead of being 'the kid'. And personally, I like the personality they give her. She has got a 'one of the guys' type of persona, and she is always hanging out with Bobby and his guy friends. What do you guys think about Jubilee?
Ok, so I know there was no Gambit 'in' this chapter, but I think I am doing the next chapter from his perspective, kind of, well, you'll see when it happens. As always, If you can think of a good title for this chapter, tell me in a review. I was thinking 'A Good Old Fashioned Saturday Morning Cereal Race' but it seems to long, Oh Well! If you think of somehting better, or if you like that title, tell me ^_^
See you soon!
Ok, This chapter is going to be a little short. I'm sorry! I wish I could just jump to the next time I have Rouge and Gambit meet, but I really have to address what the rest of the x-men are thinking about Rouge, and what she is thinking about them, ect ect...
There is some Romy, I mean, she is reflecting on what happened. But don't worry, after this, we get right back in the swing of things, Ooo and big plot stuff coming up in the next two chapters. Like I said a few chapters ago, I got to get from point A to point B, and this chapter is the line that connects them (god that sounds stupid, but you get my point.) Its hard for me to be patient with myself between plot bits, I only hope you guys stay patient with me too ^_^)
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Chapter 9
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Kurt fiddled with his image inducer as he walked down the hallway of the mansion leading away from his dorm room. He idly pulled at the watchband. The image inducer was off, revealing his blue fur. It was Saturday morning, and he was safely inside the mansion, with no threat of an outsider seeing his true form.
Kurt was preoccupied at the moment; he was worried about his sister Rogue. Foster sister or not, Rogue was like a real sister to Kurt.
He had heard through the grape vines, which appear to be all through out the mansion, that Rogue had spent the night in the Med Lab. He had other heard rumors about her being on the roof, which did not surprise him in the least, but he had also heard that she was not alone.
Kurt's eyebrows scrunched together as anger built up inside him at just the idea of Gambit attacking her on the roof. Or what if she had wanted him there? That idea made Kurt even angrier.
'But it's not my place to judge…' thought Kurt as he remembered the argument last night, and the fight between him and Kitty that soon followed. Kitty was mad at him for 'spilling the beans' and spreading rumors about Rogue. Kitty knew she was also responsible, but that didn't help with Kurt's guilt. Looking back, he could see how he had maybe stretched the truth just a little. But then again, he never really got to hear the truth from Rogue in the first place.
Kurt looked down at his feet as he walked into the kitchen. A few other X-Men were making a bit of a commotion. They were sitting down at the table, but Kurt walked over and hopped up onto the countertop in between the pantry and the sink. He swung his feet a little beneath him, with his tail to one side of him. Kurt sighed as he continued to watch his feet.
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"I think Jubilee is winning." Kitty explained as she glanced up from the stopwatch. "You better hurry up Bobby. She has like a full, four spoon lead over you."
"Shut up!" Bobby managed in between bites of cereal.
Bobby and Jubilee were sitting next to each other on one side of the kitchen table, while Kitty sat on the other side. In front of Kitty was a pad of paper, a pen, and the stopwatch in her hand. In front of Jubilee and Bobby, was a mess. They both had a bowl of Captn' Crunch in front of them and were frantically racing each other to see who could finish theirs the fastest. The results were a puddle of milk over the table and scattered bowls and cereal.
"Done!" shouted Jubilee before going into a coughing fit. "I win three to two!"
Bobby spooned a few more bites into his mouth, and then said, while still chewing, "No, we are playing best our of seven, you didn't win yet!"
"Whoa! You said best out of five." Jubilee protested, still trying to catch her breath.
"Yeah," Kitty added, "And that was after she beat you in best out of three."
"Look if you don't think you can take me… Then I'm fine with that." Bobby smirked as he pushed his bowl away from him on the table, and leaned back in his seat.
"Oh no you don't! You're on!" Jubilee shouted as she reached for new bowls.
"Hold on a second," pleaded Kitty, "I got to write down your times… Lets see… Jubilee has the most wins, but Bobby finished a bowl the fastest."
Bobby just smiled and straitened up as he readied himself for another race. He grabbed for the box of Captn' Crunch, but frowned as he shook it upside down and only crumbs fell out. "Oh man, we're out. Got to get another box from the pantry."
Jubilee nodded as she started to get up to get another box of cereal, when she suddenly noticed Kurt Sitting on the counter top. "Hey Kurt, you want to help me take out Bobby in a good old fashioned Saturday morning cereal race?" Jubilee continued to the pantry and opened up the double doors. She gave all the boxes heavy consideration before calling over her shoulder back to bobby, "There's no more Captn' Crunch. Either Trix, Fruit Loops, or… or… Grapenuts."
"Yuck! Grapenuts? What are you thinking?" Bobby asked as he stuck his tongue out at the idea. "I don't care about the other two, surprise me."
"Ok… um…" Jubilee randomly pulled out a box. "Trix it is! So Kurt you in?"
Kurt shook his head. "No thanks, I'm not hungry…"
"What!" shouted the three other teens in the kitchen as the box of Trix hit the floor.
"Wait, Kurt isn't hungry?" Jubilee shook her head in disbelief as Kitty and Bobby stood up and walked over. "Is that even possible?"
"Yeah man, you feeling ok?" Bobby asked as he placed a hand on Kurt's forehead.
"I'm fine." Kurt said a little annoyed as he moved away from Bobby's hand, "I'm just not hungry."
"But YOU don't get 'just not hungry'. Its not normal." Stated Bobby as he picked up the Trix box and put it on the counter near the pantry. "Something has to be wrong."
"Are you upset about Rogue?" Kitty asked in a hushed voice, even though Bobby and Jubilee were easily with in hearing distance. The three teens looked on at Kurt awaiting his answer.
"Of course I am, she is my sister…"
Suddenly all four of them heard a low growl, and turned to see a sweaty Wolverine in the door way. "What the hell happened in here?!" He walked over to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. With the towel around his neck, it was apparent he had just finished a Danger Room session. He squirted almost half the bottle into his mouth before returning his intimidating gaze back to the students. "Well?!"
Kitty spoke up first, "Bobby and Jubilee were having cereal bowl races and-"
Jubilee cut her off. "And I was winning too, but-"
"But actually," Bobby added taking a little step foreword in front of Jubilee. "I was about to win, and-"
"And I had NOTHING to do with it." Kurt finished as he put his hands up in his defense.
Wolverine just shook his head, "Look I don't care who did what, and who beat who, all I care about is WHO is going to clean up this mess."
"Well I'll just be going then, see you guys…" Kurt said as he tried to get off the counter and walk calmly out the door.
"Oh no you don't blue boy," Wolverine grabbed onto the collar of Kurt's shirt, "we work as a team, remember, so you are going to stay right here and help out your fellow team mates."
"Oh man… But I didn't even do anything."
"I don't care, now get cleaning." Wolverine started to make his way for the door.
"Hey, why aren't you helping, I mean, you're part of the team too you know." Everyone regretted Bobby's words as soon as he said them.
Wolverine just laughed, "Nice try kid, now get scrubbing." With that Wolverine left the kitchen.
"Bobby do you have a death wish or something?" Jubilee hit Bobby's arm as she went to go grab a broom and a dustpan from the corner of the room.
"Or are you just stupid?" Kitty asked as she hit Bobby in the other arm. Jubilee then handed her the dustpan.
"Hey. Watch it."
"I think your right Kitty," Kurt added as he ripped off a few sheets of paper towel off of the roll, "I think he is just stupid, or… are you feeling ok Bobby?" Kurt mocked as he placed his hand on Bobby's head. The two boys started laughing as Kurt handed him the roll of paper towels.
They all split up into their separate jobs. Kitty and Jubilee cleaned up the floor and put away the dirty dishes, as Kurt and Bobby wiped clean the table.
Jubilee leaned on the counter as she turned to the boys at the table. "So what did you hear happened to Rogue anyway Kurt?"
Kurt paused and then stopped what he was doing to look up at Jubilee. "I don't know, I heard a lot of things…"
"Well I heard that she was up there with her boyfriend Gambit." Bobby fluttered his eyelashes as he said the acolyte's name, and Jubilee started laughing. Kurt gave him a glare and he quickly stopped.
"Well I heard she was up there with him," Interrupted Jubilee, "But they were fighting each other, like he broke onto the property and attacked her."
"Really?" Kitty asked as she turned towards Jubilee, "Cause I heard that Mr. Logan got in a fight with Gambit, and Rogue fell off the roof because of it. And that's why she had to go to Med Lab"
"What?!" demanded Kurt.
"Yeah Kitty, you can't believe that." Bobby added as he shook his head at Kitty.
"Yeah, she didn't fall off the roof, that's stupid." Jubilee added.
"Well I'm just telling you what I heard…"
Kurt leaned against the table as he crossed his arms, "Did any of you even talk to Rogue yet?" Kurt shook his head disapprovingly as he got a unanimous 'no' from everyone. "Then no one here should be talking about it." Kurt dropped his soggy paper towels into the garbage as he left the room on his way down to the Med Lab wing.
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Rogue slowly stretched as she stifled back a yawn. She sat up in bed as she looked around the room for a clock. She couldn't find any, but judging by how bright it was, it was probably somewhere between ten and eleven am. Slowly she remembered where she was. She was in the Med Lab. But she felt fine, why was she in Med Lab. She looked through the glass window separating her from Dr. McCoy's office. He wasn't at his desk.
Then she remembered the night before. How Gambit had surprised her, and how she slid down the roof and had cut her knees and shins. And how she had almost fallen off the roof completely, if Gambit hadn't saved her.
'Saved?' she thought, 'If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have fallen.' But all in all she was grateful that he was there to grab her hand, though she would never admit it to another living soul, especially not Gambit.
Her eyebrows scrunched together a little in contemplation as she recalled everything he had said to her. The words rang through her thoughts and even through her very soul 'Because someone should…' she heard them again in the back of her head.
'He seemed so genuine when he had said it, so authentic…' Rogue filled with anger, and as much as she tried, she couldn't seem to aim any of her rage at the Cajun. She was angry, even furious that he had said something she had wanted to hear coming from Kitty, her 'best friend' or the Professor, or anyone else at the institute. But no, the enemy had said it. The enemy had seen through her mask quicker, and better than any of her so-called friends. Even if she hadn't actually told him her name when he asked, at least he HAD asked. She has been at the institute for so long, and no one had even asked her what her name was, or when her birthday is, or anything personal. She had always told herself they weren't asking because she pushed them away. But she pushed Gambit away even more than she does any of the X-Men, and HE had asked her. Now it became clear that they didn't ask because they didn't care. None of them cared did they?
Just then Rogue noticed a figure walk by the slightly tinted glass window outside her room. Her Rage subsided as best she could as she noticed the doorknob turn slowly. Kurt stuck his head into the half open doorway with pleading eyes, "Can I come in?"
Rogue laughed lightly at how cute he was trying to be and nodded for him to enter. He shut the door behind him as he made his way for the chair near her bed. Rogue sat up to face him.
"How are you feeling Rogue?"
"I'm fine. I was kind of looking for Dr. McCoy to see if I could leave soon."
"What happened? Were you here all night?"
Rogue suddenly flashed back to a few moments ago. When she was yelling internally that no one at the institute cared about her. She shook the feeling away, knowing that Kurt did care for her, even if he doesn't know when to shut his mouth. But the overwhelming feeling that even Kurt, her 'brother' hadn't asked her still remained. "Nothing much. I was up on the roof last night, and I almost slid off, and I cut my shins up a little. Really, its nothing big at all. But Logan made me go to Med Lab."
"Oh…" Kurt paused, not wanting to ask what he had to ask next, "Were you… were you alone on the roof?" Kurt dropped his eyes to the floor, not wanting to anger her more.
Rogue's eyes squinted a little as she stared back at Kurt. "What do you mean?"
"Well…" Kurt started to play with the tip of his tail nervously in between his fingers. "A couple of kids were talking and…"
"Oh my god! Everyone is already talking behind my back?! None of them were there, they don't know what happened, and there they go spreading more rumors. But did any of them even ask me what happened? NO!" Rogue was talking more to herself at the moment, when she suddenly remembered that Kurt WAS here asking her what had happened. She smiled inwardly, feeling a little relief that he at least cared to get her side this time. "What were they saying?" she asked in a calm tone that caught Kurt of guard.
"Well they were saying a bunch of things… but all the stories had Gambit in them." Kurt paused, "Was he on the roof with you last night?" He raised his eyes to hers, and his face seemed almost defeated before she could answer.
Rogue looked back at him sympathetically, "He was, but let me explain…"
Kurt smiled lightly allowing her to continue. He wasn't going to jump to conclusions, not this time.
"I had a bad dream, and I went up to the roof to get my head together…" She frowned softly remembering the dream, "And before I knew it, he was right behind me, I didn't ask him to be there or anything."
"Did you to fight him? is that how you almost fell of the roof?"
"No, not exactly. When I saw him, I guess I got startled, and fell backwards." Rogue purposefully with held the complete truth, that she had been so close to him, and that she had actually pushed herself off of him when she slipped.
"Then what happened?"
"Um…" Rogue thought what would be appropriate to tell her very over protective brother. "Well he caught my hand when I fell off the roof and pulled me back up. And then Logan busted onto the roof, and tried to attack Gambit."
'Good' Kurt thought as he smiled to himself. "That's it? Oh man, you are going to be so mad at Bobby …"
"What did he say about me Kurt?"
"Well he was calling Gambit your boyfriend and stuff…"
"What! I'm going to kill him! What was everyone else saying? No wait, it doesn't matter, if they are saying ANYTHING then I'm going to kill them." Rogue started to get out of bed and made her way to the door. After opening the door, she turned and looked at Kurt who was just standing up. "Thanks Kurt…"
"For what? Squealing on Bobby? Any time-"
But she cut him off with a smile, "No, for asking me what happened. I know I'm not the easiest person to talk to, and I… I appreciate that you tried." With that she was out the door and down the hallway. She was still in her pajamas, and decided to stop off in her room to change into normal cloths and a pair of gloves before having a little 'talk' with a certain trio of mutant storytellers…
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(A/N: ok there you go, I really like how this chapter ended up. I think its funny how much I hated Jubilee in the old cartoon, but I like her so much in this one. I mean honestly, she was SO useless in the old X-Men chartoon! What was her super power? Fireworks? All she did was make sparklers! lol no seriously, if you're a huge Jubilee fan, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but she was just the kid in the old cartoon you know? She was the person who ALWAYS got kidnapped and everyone had to go save, or she triggered some alarm and got everyone caught, and all that stuff. But in the X-Men Evolution cartoon, because the whole institute is kids, she gets to actually have a personality, instead of being 'the kid'. And personally, I like the personality they give her. She has got a 'one of the guys' type of persona, and she is always hanging out with Bobby and his guy friends. What do you guys think about Jubilee?
Ok, so I know there was no Gambit 'in' this chapter, but I think I am doing the next chapter from his perspective, kind of, well, you'll see when it happens. As always, If you can think of a good title for this chapter, tell me in a review. I was thinking 'A Good Old Fashioned Saturday Morning Cereal Race' but it seems to long, Oh Well! If you think of somehting better, or if you like that title, tell me ^_^
See you soon!