Perfect

By: Kryptonite

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Overbearing panic attack entrenching my veins
In an hour I'll be ok
I pray this pain will go away permanently someday
I'VE seen more than...
I should have to...
I'VE seen this on my own

" Rogue's been different lately." Scott spoke one morning weeks after the already recluse child had shut herself off from the entire mansion. Logan just shrugged, clenching an unlit cigar between his teeth as he read the sports section.

" Rogue, phone." A body followed the head, holding the phone before it.

" Hello?" Rogue asked into the receiver, not bothering to get up from her seat. She calmly and resolutely hit the power button a moment later. Not a minute passed before the phone rang again, it's shrill buzz echoing around the cafeteria.

Sighing Rogue answered the phone, leaving her seat to exit from the room.

" When has Rogue ever hung up the phone?" Scott asked, trying to get Logan to do something. Logan had shifted his attention to Rogue during the exchange.

" She said she wanted to be left alone."

" Jesus Logan, she didn't mean it literally. She wanted room to breathe.

'Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter

" Rogue? Something wrong?" Logan asked later that night. He'd been listening without actually listening for the sound of her favorite car leaving the driveway as it did every Monday, Wednesday and Friday without fail.

" Why do you care?" She asked quietly, turning a page in her book.

" I don't. Just curious is all." He answered, sitting in a chair near her.

" If you didn't care you wouldn't be curious." Rogue pointed out, not lifting her eyes from the black print on the white pages.

" You're right. Rogue we had an argument, nothing we haven't gotten over before. I know you didn't mean it when you said you wanted to be left alone and I forgive you-"

" You forgive me?" She interrupted, voice sounding incredulous. " Shouldn't it be you asking for forgiveness?"

" Me? What did I do?!" Logan answered, sitting up and leaning towards Rogue.

" Everything! You wouldn't just let me live my life!"

You probably think that I hold resentment for you
But, uh uh, oh no, you're wrong
'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do
I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through
So I wanna say thank you

" Fine be that way." In his anger Logan had lit his trademark cigar.

" I will." Rogue answered, splashing her glass of water in his face, putting the cigar out in one easy move. She left a spluttering Logan. Five minutes later he heard the squeal of tires on the driveway as she disappeared into the night.

" Smooth Logan, real smooth." Scott commented from the doorway.

" Bite me, Boy scout."

" Where?" Scott grinned and took advantage of Logan's shock by slipping away.

Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
It makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter

" Rogue?" Logan asked, in a scene extremely reminiscent of a time weeks' earlier.

" Not now Logan." She answered, avoiding the light and the staircase to go the long way to her room.

" You're bleeding." He stated, stopping Rogue in her tracks.

" It's nothing." She tried to shuffle off again.

" Doesn't smell like nothing. Bet it doesn't look like nothing." Rogue turned towards the light, letting Logan see the extent of the damage.

" Now will you let me go to sleep?" For the second time that night Logan was in shock, seeing something he had not expected. While his mind processed that Rogue had been badly beaten she disappeared to her room.

" Sleep well kid. Because in the morning I'm hunting down the bastards that touched you." Logan growled, getting up off the step and heading for his own room.

Reoccurring drowning effect entrenching my brain,
I hope you'll be ok someday,
So I can say that you moved on in the right way...
WE'VE seen this and
WE'VE breathed this and
WE'VE lived this on our own...

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A/N: Probably not the best song (Fighter by C. Aguilera) but I had the idea for a way to get Logan and Rogue over their stubborn pride. Enjoy.

Edit- I added lyrics from Taproots Poem. Maybe not as good as one song but it works, right?