(A/N: Yea...erm.... Im sorry about the sickening idea about Rogue 'n' mags.... but 'member people, it aint a real marrage. Its fake to the end....as in, no shared rooms, no shared beds...no nastyness....just buisness. And....erm....I promis a litle 'kind' Romy in a couple of chapters or so....but not yet-----dosent Rogue kick ass!YaYrOgUe!)

Chapter 4. Vine and Hysteria

Rogue,sat in a tree, looking over the grounds of her 'husbands' mantion. She knew that there was something wrong with this, but everytime she was on the edge of figuring it out he would give her that injection, and everything just wouldnt matter. She took in a deep breath. Something about that man. With those demonic eyes, beutifull eyes. He was so familiar, why was he so familiar.

Rogue sighed and drifted out of the tree, landing gracefully on the grass, it was warm, yet it was winter, her bere feet playing on the soft mossy grass. She was wearing a white skirt, that was long enough to touch her ankles, with a white tank top. No make up, she felt fake, like this wasnt her. She suddenley went faint as a ......a memory? passed through her mind.

//She was standing on a balconey, she heard a noise and turned to find the guy from the museum standing infront of her. He smiled at her and leaned in, kissing her gentley. His lips were so warm, and his eyes so captivateing.//

Rogue took in a deep breath and collapsed to her knees, her head was hurting so much, and she didn't know why.

"Eric!" She shouted, she didn't want her husband to give her the shot, but she was scared.

She clutched her head and moments later, felt two, heavy, hands grab her sholders, then be pulled up, and taken inside the house. after around 5 minuets, after an injection, she began to feel a litle better-no, calmer. She opend her eyes, to see Magneto looking over her. She was laying on a couch.

"Why didn't you come to me when you started feeling confused." He ast.

"Ah didn't realise that ah was feeling confused." She closed her eyes and sat up, rubbing at her temples. "Eric? Wha do ah have ta have those injections, ah don't remember wha."

"Because of your headachs." He said softley. "Your illness."

"Ah remember now." She said with a smile. "It's a mental illness isn't it?" she said, almost unsure.

Magneto noded at her and brushed her hair from her face. "You should sleep now." He said, scooping up her tired form, and walking her to her bedroom, then crossed the hall into his own.

@~*@~*@~*

Magneto had married the young girl one month after he alterd her memory, to set the scene for her new life, in which she was mentally ill, the condition was controled by a sierum...a seirum which realy amplified the powers that she 'borrowed' in the passed. The sierum also controlled the mamorys that kept trying to beat their way through into her mind, and the power which made her skin leathal.

Magneto had learnt about Mystiques plan to have her daughter killed, and sent his Acolytes to save the girl and bring her back to him. The Acolytes however, onley got there in time to see her fall, and break through the iced over lake that was beneath the cliff. Colossus dug out her body and took her to the nearest base, later finding out that she was thoring out and all her injorys were healing. Thats when Magneto had Mastermind work his magic on her memory, changeing her state of mind, and makeing her forget everything about her past.

However, the effects of the 'treatmeant' were temporary, so a seirum was produced to keep her real memories away for a few hours after every shot. This chemical was mixed in with the seirum that had been created to bring all of the powers that Rogue had absorbed, to her use, and cancel out her absorbing skin untill such a time as when she needed to use it. They rushed out the seirum, so it was weakley tested, so the scientists didn't know the effects that the seirum was haveing on her body.

@~*@~*@~*

Rogue sat up in her bed after Magneto had left the room and walked over to her closet. She changed into some normal jeans and a pair of sneakers, then floated herself out of her window and wen't into town. She knew the place, but everything seemed unreal, like a dream that she was in. She walked to the mall and for some reason went into a bookshop, and picked up a book, then paid for it and walked out, reading it as she walked.

She bumped into a girl with long black hair and turned to face her. She was about to apologise when she noticed the outstanding emerald green eyes, that were exactley the same as hers, and so was the shade of skin, and the lips. The other girl stopped aswell, she looked as if she recognised her.

"Im sorry, I wasnt looking at where I was going." The stranger said, and then turned, hesitentley, to walk away.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Rogue got back 'home' and sat on the couch, reading her book. She listend to the words as she said them in her head, after reading them off the page. It seemed so strange, so quiet in her head, why was it so quiet?. Then suddenley thought 'ah miss this' not knowing why she had thought it in the first place. Then a voice startled her.

"Ive told you before that your not to leve the mantion." Magneto said, as he walked into the room and took the book from her. "Your not well enough to be outside on your own. What if your mind decides to take that time to slip, and fall into one of your delugions."

Rogue staired into those icey blue eyes. He looked so, uncaring. "Ah know. Ahm sorry, but ah had ta get out. It juss gets so....clostraphoc somtimes."

"Well, that is just something that you have to deal with. now please, don't go behind my back." Magneto snaped at her, throwing the book to the floor.

"Ahm not Your prisoner!" She yelled and then closed her mouth. 'Where did that come from'.

Magneto shook his head, then turned to a case on the coffe table and pulled out a seringe, but inside, wasn't the normal clear liquid. This stuff was dark blue, and the last time she had it, was when she used her power to throw him across the room after he yelled at her. He gave it to her to teach her a lesson, and she never wanted to be put into that kind of sleep again.

"Ahm sorry Eric." She said, swallowing hard and looking to her fidgeting hands. "Ah don't need that. Ahm just tired thats all."

"No! Your not tired, your slipping back to how you were before we were married. Your becoming unreachable."

"No. Please." She sobbed out. "Ah can controle it. ah don't even feel confused." She pleaded with him, not to have the injection.

"Im sorry Marie, but you know what the doctors say. If you get violent at all, then you have to have the medication."

"Please. Ahl...." She closed her eyes, letting a tear drop. She was confused, very confused. She was replaying scenes in her head that couldnt possabley be real, could they? She stood up and looked to her feet. She could easily take him down with her powers, but she was scared of him.

Magneto ground his teeth and sighed, dropping his arms to his sides."Can you promis me that your mind isn't slippin?" He said, lowering his tone. Rogue nodded, and he brought his hand up to her face and wiped the tears away. "Then go to your room, and work on the plans for the next museum hit. Remember, we need these gems, or this wont work."

Rogue noded and walked, briskley, away, up to her room. Now she did feel fake, something about this life didn't quite figure. Rogue began to recall memories and people, how was she seeing these people. Who were they. She didn't feel mentally ill, but she was constantley told how ill she was, yet she was first in command over the Acolytes. She gave thair orders, and training sessions. Why would someone who is mentally ill be alloud to have so much controle over her husbands plans.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The next day, Rogue was at the Acolyte base, closest to Bayville. Her husband had conned yet another two powerfull mutants into joining his teem, and Rogue had to test them, to see how good thair abilities are.

She stood in the center of a dome like room. She had just had her shot, and was feeling her usual bitter self after haveing the usual clear blue shot in the mornings. She was wearing a pair of low cut leather pants, with stilettoe boots, along with a deep red, strapless top. Her arms were bere, apart from the wrist length, leather gloves on her hands.

Her hands were behind her back as she stood, awaiting the new arivals, ocasionally glanceing over the three Acolytes who stood, unmoveing infront of her. Sabertooth, Colossus and Pyro. She bagan to frown, makeing Pyro gulp. He rememberd the last time she was frustraited. He was sen't flying across the room, then had a metal bar wraped around him. Knocked him out for two days.

Magneto took that time to float into the room, with a young man and a young woman following behind. Pyro let out a relieved sigh and continued to stair at the wall behind Rogue. Magneto set himself down on the floor, and signaled the two young mutants to stand in line, so they did.

Rogue looked them over. Siblings obviousley, brother and sister Vinessa and Anton DeValie. The girl was aged around 20, with a well toned bodey, as if she lifted waights every day. She had dark skin, of mixed race with icy grey eyes, she was around 5 foot tall. Her hair was blond, long to the middle of the back, with the last 2 inches died red. She wore red cargo pants, with a red tank top, and black gloves with the fingers missing. The young girls arms were bere, but on them, were black tatoos of vines of some sort, leading all the way to her elbows. Her power was that she was able to release the tatoos on her arms, and outstreatch the vines to take ahold of anything that shewanted, and squeeze the life out of it. Her code name was Vine.

The male was 6 foot tall, with middle arm legth blond hair, made into drealocks, he was 16 years old. He also had dark skin, with grey eyes, and an extremeley well toned body. He wore a black vest-type shirt, with red cargo pants that were tucked into his black boots. He also wore black gloves with the fingers cut out. He was able to create a blinding white light, that will temporarily blind anyone who sees it. His code name was Hysteria.

Rogue looked them over once more, then smiled and put on a pair of sun glasses, as did Vine and Magneto, and smiled. Nodding at Hysteria, as he closed his eyes and began to glow. Then, moments later, the light pulsed out from his body, and Colossus, Pyro and Sabertooth fell to the floor, covering thair eyes.

"Perfect." Rogue said with a smile.

~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Rogue was in the second museum, and was leading the Acolytes through the break in. She got in, got out, and gave the two gems to Colossus, and the Acolytes left. Rogue had just had her shot, so she was thinking 'clearley'. She was about to get onto her motorcycle when a beam of white light hit her keys from her hand. She spone around to see a group of people standing around her.

All of the x-men were standing behind her. She looked around and growled to herself. She didn't need this right now. She was very buisey.

"Rogue? Please, we just want to talk with you." Storm started as she stepped forward, with Spike close behind.

"She ain' Rogue no more." Gambit corrected.

"Y'all are the x-men aint ya?" Rogue said with a sigh.

"Yea. And so were you." Scott said, as he stepped closer.

Rogue had a sudden flash of a diner, and being dragged into a car. She shook it off and took one step closer. "Back off or ahl have ta hurt ya."

"Can't you see. Your Out numberd by 6. 7 of us, one of you." Icman said as he stood with his arms crossed.

"Ya chalengin' meh kid?" She said with a smirk.

"No. Were not.....come on stripes....it's just us." Logan started.

"Realy. Well ah don't know who y'all are so, ah gues ya should leave." Rogue said, she turned her head to Jean, who had her fingers on her temples. "Stop it!" She yelled at the girl who was trying to get into her mind. She waved her hand and Jean wen't flying, so Scott reached for his viser and he wen't the same way, after she had taken his viser and crushed it.

Storm didn't wan't to fight, but she had to, and her and Iceman started towards Rogue, who roled her eyes back and stomped onto the floor, makeing it shake, so everyone lost thair balence and fell. Rogue and Storm took the fight way up into the air, useing so much power that a feild of electrical energy spone around them, caused by the static that they were both creating.

Rogue zaped Storm with electricity and used her telekanesis to smack Storm into the ground, with plenty of force. She landed again and coverd herself in a layer of black crystal, and powerd up, shooting out beams of white light at everyone els, with 4 times as much power as Onix had. Logan shot out his claws and stepped towards Rogue, when he felt all the metal in his body start to twist, as Rogue held out her hand and made a twisting motion.

Even shot out some spikes at Rogur, but she telaported away, reapearing behind him, then phased through a kick, and sent Evan flying Into Beast. Rogue felt herself being lifted off the floor so she turned to Jean and used her power against her. Onley Rogue was at least 6 times stronger that Jean.

"Stop this!" A voice bellowed out, and everyone turned to see Magneto floating in the air, just outside of the battle. Rogue imediatley stopped and walked over to him, her head bowed down on her chest as if in shame.

Rogue shook her head at the pain that just occurd from no-where. She fell to her knees week, and Remy twitched, he wanted to go to her. "Ah think ah need mah shot." She said, clutching her temples. Magneto held out his hand and she took it, then passed out in his arms. Magneto left withought a fight.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Rogue woke up in her room. She had a nightmare about a child being beaten and abused, and another where a man was being operated on. She gasped and went into the batheroom, splashing her face with cold water. She looked at her reflection, she looked sick. Her skin was paler than normal, and her eyes were sunken in. She felt week all the time, and useing her powers made her worse, along with every shot of the seirum what she took. She clutched the shower cutain as she collapsed to the floor, knocking a glass which smashed in the bath.

She leaned up against the wall, and breathed heavy, and hard. Then Magneto came into the room, sitting on the floor infront of her. Her vision was becomming blurey, but she could just make out him takeing a seringe from his pocket.

"NO!" She yelled, flinging her hand out, and throwing the seringe across the room. "Keep it away from me! Ah don't need it." She screamed at him. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the wall as her breathing calmed. She opend her eyes and stood up, faceing Magneto. "Ahm fihn...... see, ah don't need the shot." She said plainley before walking out of the room and getting back into her bed.

"Marie?" Magneto started.

"It was just a nightmare thats all." She said as she sat up to face him, switching the light on.

"What about?"

"You." She said looking to her hands.

"Me? What happend?" He said, now sitting on the edge of her bed.

"Ah was followin ya, flyin over new york. because you hurt somone...and me... then something happend and I started ta fall, untill an angel caught me." She lied about her nightmare, this was one of the memories that flashed before her eyes when she was late for her shot. She watched a wave of panic, that lasted a split second run over her husbands face, then she smiled at him, she shouldn' have said that.