(A/N: It's done! Uhh....I don't have much to say in the beginning note, so I'll just say 'enjoy!!' Oh yea, and watch out for the language!)

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This is a Rietro!!

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And Lancitty!!

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No Jott or Scean (Scott/Jean)! Sorry others!

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Chapter 3: Freak on a Leash

Something takes a part of me. Something lost and never seen.

Everytime I start to believe, believe

Something's raped and taken from me... from me.

Life's got to always be messing with me. (You wanna see the light)

Can't they chill and let me be free? (So do I)

Can't I take away all this pain. (You wanna see the light)

I try to every night, all in vain... in vain.

Sometimes I cannot take this place.

Sometimes it's my life I can't taste.

Sometimes I cannot feel my face.

You'll never see me fall from grace

Something takes a part of me.

You and I were meant to be.

A cheap fuck for me to lay

Something takes a part of me.

-Rogue (KoRn - Freak on a Leash)

She walked the long walk back to the institute.

It was getting cold.

So she rubbed her arms to keep herself warm.

'I'd better hurry. It'll get dark soon.' She thought looking up to the sky. 'Maybe....I should have....taken Scott's offer.' Then thought 'No! I'm better off on my own! I don't need his pity to survive.' She continued walking.

'It's just so hard....to take everything in. There are so many things that I'll probably never figure out.' She sighed. 'Stop being so melodramatic.'

"Just suck it up 'n deal with it." She told herself.

At the Brotherhood....

Someone enters in the front door.

The occupants of the house hear it open. "Whose-?" Lance started to ask but then realized "Oh, it's you. Where have you been?"

"Yea. It shouldn't have taken this long for you to run the streets, Speedy." Todd said.

He didn't say anything as he walked past them.

"Pietro?"

He still ignored them as he went upstairs to his room.

"What's with him?" Fred asked.

Lanced shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey Lance?" Todd started.

"Yea? What's up?"

"You give that message to Kitty?"

His face fell a little "Huh? Oh, yea." He said without anyone noticing the melancholy look on his face. 'That letter told her what I had to. But it didn't say what I wanted it to. I didn't add the important part......Kitty, I'm sorry.'

Pietro fell onto his bed and just layed there, staring at the ceiling.

He took a deep breath.

And then exhaled.

'Damn it, Rogue. Why do you do this to me? No one has ever made me feel this cruddy. Well, the only girl who did make me feel this guilty Wanda.'

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FLASHBACK

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At a home in L.A., two children play outside.

"Slow down, Pietro!" You're fast!"

"Youshouldknowhowtokeepup!" a small Pietro said as he sped around her.

"Well, it's not fair when you're using your powers like that!"

"Sowhydon'tyouuseyours? Oh, wait! You can't! 'Cause you don't have any!" he teased and stuck his tongue out.

She hated it when he teased her like that it just made her so mad. She thought it was so annoying and it got on her nerves so much. That's when all of a sudden; an oak tree was lifted up in midair. Before he could realize it, there was the oak tree that had landed only centimeters away from Pietro.

Pietro, was of course, was in shock as he asked "D-did you do that?"

"I. . . . .I don't know." She stammered "I'm. . . not sure w-what happened."

"You-you tried to kill me." He said in an astonished tone. "You tried to kill me!!" he said with more fear in his voice.

"No! Pietro, I didn't! It was an accident!" she tried to tell him.

Pietro didn't hear a word she said as he sped in the house "DAD!!!!" he screamed.

"Pietro, you know there is no screaming allowed in the house." Erik said

"But dad, Wanda tried to kill me!" He said in a serious tone.

"What? She's your sister she wouldn't do anything to hurt you."

"Yes, she would! She made the tree fly and try so it gets to kill me!" the six year old explained.

Magneto started to tremble a little 'Is it possible that....her mother?' he tried to think of a reasonable explanation. "How did she move the tree?"

"Wa-w-with her p-powers! D-duh!" stating the obvious.

Erik started to relax a little more 'Wanda doesn't have powers. All of them where passed on to Pietro. He is still a child and he has an imagination.' He smiled at his son "Pietro, you must have had your eyes playing tricks on you. How hot is it outside? Maybe you should stay inside for a bit."

"B-but, dad! Sh-she r-really did move the tree!" Pietro tried to say "I sawed it! Really!"

"Pietro, you know your sister isn't strong enough to do that. And as you know, all my powers were transferred to you."

"Nah-uh! Th-then h-how did she move the tree?"

Erik sighed and said "Fine, I'll go outside with you and prove to you that Wanda did not move any trees." He started to walk outside with Pietro following him from behind. "And I thought we got rid of your stuttering."

When he got outside, he was awestruck by the sight before him. His daughter, Wanda was sitting with her hands covering her face and leaning against the fallen tree.

Wanda noticed her father was there and she lifted her head up and looked straight at him.

Her tearstained face that looked up at him.

A face that told him an apology that he would not take.

"I'm sorry daddy."

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END FLASHBACK

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Pietro opened his eyes and shook his head to wipe away the memory, but it was no use ridding of it. 'Wanda.' It will be forever locked in his memory just how all the other tragedies and hurt are stained there.

He took off his shirt and pants. Then sleep overtook him......in his boxers.

It was quiet.

And dark.

Those were the two main things that she didn't get back at the institute.

'I should really hurry. It will be too dark to see soon.'

She stopped when she heard a noise. It sounded like footsteps in the grass, and they weren't hers.

"Is-is someone there?"

There was no answer.

'Stop it right now! There is no one following you! It was probably some sort of animal.' She started walking again.

Then came something unexpected.

Rogue felt something crack in the back of her head.

She put her hand behind her head to feel what it was....

It was so sticky and gross.

She never thought of eating it again after seeing it all over her hands

Eggs.

She heard laughter.

She turned around and saw headlights turn on.

'A truck?' she thought 'What the hell?'

"Go back to the shithole you came from, you freak!!" she heard someone yell from the truck as it drove off.

She quickly realized who said that "GO TO HELL, DUNCAN!!" she yelled back at them. 'They all will! After they all die! And I wish that was soon.' She didn't mean it, but she was pissed.

She saw the lights at the institute. 'Great. I'm almost there!' she thought happy to finally get back.

And she started running.

Inside the kitchen at the institute.....

"Somevwones here." Kurt said looking out the window.

"What? It isn't the brotherhood, is it?" Scott assumed "They're going to try to join again." He sighed "Lance wasn't exactly a success when that happened."

"No." Kurt said "It's Rogue."

"Rogue's finally back?"

Kurt nodded "She looks tired. Should I go get her?"

"Yea. She's had a long day."

"No." said a third person.

They both turned to the doorway to see Jean. "She got herself in trouble and she should take pay the price."

"I knew it!" Scott pointed to Jean.

Kurt and Jean gave Scott a questionable look.

"Knew vwat?" Kurt asked.

"This isn't Jean!"

"Scott, what are you talking about?" Jean then thought 'Has he lost it?'

"Can't you see?!"

Scott was getting looks from the others saying 'are you nuts?'

Scott gave an agitated sigh "It's Mystique!"

"What?!" Kurt said shocked.

"What is wrong with you?!" Jean said just as shocked.

"Can't you see how heartless she's being. Only mystique could be that bad!"

"Scott, I can't believe you-"

"And I bet that's why you didn't know where Rogue was! Because you couldn't find her!" Scott finished with "So transform and say 'You were more clever than I inquired, Scott'." He said in an imitation Mystique voice.

He waited for the transformation that he was prepared for. What he wasn't prepared for was what would happen next.

Jean walked up to him and slapped him across the face.

She didn't say anything, but thought a lot.

'Scott! You motherfucking bastard! How could you think that I am that heartless bitch?' She bit his head off with her telepathy 'So are you implying that I'm a bitch?'

"No, I wasn't saying that!" he tried to explain

"Of course I'm not a bitch! Are saying that I'm like the mother to that bitch, so which I am the bitch who gave birth to a bitch."

"Jean what are you saying?" Scott said being completely confused.

"She's sayin' that ah'm a bitch like my mother." Everyone turned to see....

"Rogue, you don't have to be such a fucking bitch! My god! I try and try to make things easier for you and try to be like a mother that you should have, but you don't want to do that do you?!"

"Jean, don't do this." Scott placed a hand on her shoulder.

Jean threw his hand off her shoulder and turned around "And why can't I?! I've been locking in my feelings so long that it's driving me nuts! You can't except that I'm being myself for once!" she turned back to Rogue

"And you! I've tried and tried to give you some good advice. Good advice that you should really think about taking if you want to go to a good college after high school and be something!" Jean was breathing hard because of all her yelling. "I've made my decisions and they have made me what I am now. How about you talking a try at making a decent one."

Rogue was breathing hard as well, but it was from anger. The tears were slowly making their way down her cheeks. "Ah don't make those decent decisions because ah don't want to be just like ya." She tried not to cry. 'I won't let her see me cry. It's a weakness to show what she can do. That she won.' She walked out of the kitchen and headed to her room. She would go and collect herself there.

"She is so ungrateful. After all I did for her...." Jean muttered as she left the room through the other door.

This left Scott and Kurt in silence.

Until Kurt spoke up "So is Jean really Mystique? My mother?"

"I wasn't sure for a while, but there is proof she's still Jean."

"I'm not sure if I zee zat as a good ting or a bad ting."

She entered her room, trying to be careful not to awaken Kitty.

She wasn't expecting her to be up, but then again, there were a lot of things she didn't expect today.

She caught Kitty with a sharp object in her right hand 'A knife? What is she planning on-?' then she quickly realized 'Oh my god!'

She ran over and grabbed the knife from Kitty. "Give it back!" Kitty growled at her.

"What da hell do ya think yer doing?!" Rogue asked.

"Ending it all." A tear rolled down Kitty's face.

"All ya fuckin preps are such idiots!"

"And why am I an idiot?" Kitty frowned.

"Well, first off, ah saw how you was holdin that knife. And if ya were trying to slit yer wrists, then ya were cutting on the wrong side of yer arm." Rogue explained pointing to Kitty's slightly cut arm "And second off, why were ya tryin ta do it? Wait! Don't tell me! Yer boyfriend dumped ya or yer crush doesn't like ya?"

"How did you know?" Kitty asked, surprised that she knew.

"All ya preps are alike in some stupid way." Rogue sighed as she sat down on her bed "So he doesn't like ya....big deal! There are a ton of other boys who you could do and they'd be lot better than the guy ye're after."

"Promise you won't tell?. . . . . .about the ending my life thing. . . . . . .and who the guy is?" Kitty asked as she sat down beside Rogue.

"Yea, if ya don't tell anyone 'bout this." She pulled her cigarette out of her purse.

"Is that-?" Rogue cut Kitty off.

"Yea, it is." She smirked as she lit it "The last of my sanity."

"I won't tell if you won't tell. . . ." she bit her lip a little ". . . .that I'm in love with Lance."

Rogue started coughing like earlier like she was with Pietro. "God. . . .damn it!" She said in between coughs.

Kitty ran to the bathroom and got her a cup of water and gave it to Rogue.

She gulped it down fast. She exhaled. "Why is it, that all the shockin news has to come when ah'm havin me a ciggie?"

"Maybe it's a sign that you should stop."

"Yer kidding, right?" Rogue muttered through her cigarette. "Me, quit?" she chuckled a little. "So what did ol' Rocky do this time?" getting back to the real issue.

Kitty got up and got the letter from her end table. "He did this." She said as she handed it to Rogue.

Rogue read it with the letter in her left hand and the cigarette in the right. "This aint Lance's letter."

"What are you talking about? He gave it to me at lunch."

"Just 'cause he gave it to ya doesn't mean he wrote it."

"Well, then who wrote it?" Kitty asked anxious to know.

She blew out smoke as she said that "Mystique did."

(A/N: I'm finally done with this chapter! I'm on a roll! I've got the stuff for the next chapter all planned out! So expect a quick update sometime next week! I'm glad to get the support from you guys for this story. I'd like to make a special note that some of the characters will have drugs being used, so that is why I put this up to a rated R level for others. And there will also be some limey stuff. And possibly a lemon, possibly! You know, I just don't understand. Why people aren't too fond of rietros....................Oh well! Review time!! )