Right becaus you all waited so patiently for Chap2 i'm gonna give you 3 early.
Thaks for all the reviews but Ish ya gonna be kinda disappointed cos theres no hot and steamy romyness. Sorry.
Chapter 3: What Rogue Craves
() Dreaming ()
Rogue moved through the mansion grounds towards the woods. She had gone through the now normal part of her dream but now she was coming to the next part. The part that she hated to admit that was her favourite part. She approached the edge of the woods, pausing as she did every time. She then walked on into the dark woods. She looked around the gloom and soon spotted the dark figure of the man. She went up to him. He reached out with an un-gloved hand and trailed his index finger down her check. She closed her eyes and sighed at the simplicity of the touch and how good it felt. She opened her eyes and looked up. She went up onto tiptoes as he leant down and their lips meet in a sweet kiss. She broke away and opened her eyes. She saw red-on-black and jumped back. She looked up at his face and saw with horror that it was Gambit. This was new, she thought as she backed away. She turned around and came face to face with another man. She backed away from him but she tripped and fell. She sat on the forest floor looking up at the new silhouette. Behind her the figure of Remy had stopped as if frozen on the spot. She turned to the new man.
"I can help you." He told her simply. She looked up at him.
"Who are ya?" she asked. He ignored her question.
"I can help you; I can give you what you crave." He told her. His voice was calm, deep and smooth. She looked up at him. "Take my hand and I can help you." He told her as he reached out. Rogue looked at the hand and then back at the man.
"No" she told him. As soon as she said it the images around her faded away. The woods, the creepy man all faded. She spun around and saw one image still there. It was the image of Remy, smiling at her taking hold of her bare hand and pulling her in for a kiss that she didn't want to end.
() Reality ()
Rogue sat up in bed with a gasp. She brought her hands up and saw that they were trembling. She gulped and brought her knees up to her chest, rested her head on them and hugged them to herself. She sat like that for a few calming herself down. She went over the dream in her mind. The end had turned strange. She could still hear that voice and feel Remy's lips on hers. Unable to still for any longer she went to the bathroom. She jumped into the shower and scrubbed herself trying to erase the memories of her dream but it wasn't working. She sighed and shut off the water. She quickly dried herself and left the bathroom. She went to her room and threw on her clothes for school that day. She glanced at the clock and saw it was half past six. She went up to Kitty's bed and shook her shoulder with a gloved hand. Kitty groaned and tried to shake her off but Rogue was persistent and eventually Kitty gave up and got up slowly. Rogue sighed and gathered her stuff for that day and walked down the stairs. She stopped off in the kitchen where Logan was reading the paper and grabbed a juice. She was just finishing it when Remy walked through the door fully dressed and wide-awake. Rogue blushed beneath her makeup and quickly left telling Logan to tell Scott she was walking.
She walked down the drive and out the gate. She sighed and walked on thinking about her dream. She was wondering what the man meant. "I can help you." Rogue remembered the words. Help her? How can he help her, she had all the help she could want didn't she? She decided to go and ask the Prof to help her control her powers. She sighed; she had reached the intersection and was about to cross the road when a car pulled up in front of her. She saw Scott was driving with Jean next to him and Kitty, Kurt and Colossus in between them in the back.
"Rogue. You walking to school?" Scott asked. Rogue rolled her eyes.
"What does it look like?" she asked acidly. Scott held up his hands in surrender while Jean just glared. Kitty and Kurt were laughing and Piotr was smiling at Kitty.
Scott put his hands back on the wheel and sped off heading towards school. She crossed the road and walked on quickly realizing she was going to be late if she didn't hurry up. She was walking on when a bike pulled up beside her. The driver turned to her and smiled, her heart did a back flip. It was Remy. She gave him a small smile back and he handed her a helmet. She took it and put it on. She clambered on behind him and he took off sharply causing her to grab hold of him. She put her arms around his waist more securely as they sped through the streets towards the school. This is nice, she thought, the closeness that Ah feel with him Ah don't feel with anyone else.
Remy felt her hold on tighter a she took a bend quickly. He liked it, he had to admit it, he enjoyed having her arms wrapped around him. He was confused, sure he liked girls but he never had this kind of feeling for them. He sighed and carried on driving. He pulled up in the school car park and climbed off. He turned round to help rogue off but she was already standing upright with her helmet in her hand. She pushed the helmet into his hands with a smile.
"Thanks for the ride Swamp Rat." She told him before turning away. Remy reached out and took her hand. He loved her smile. She looked at him.
"Dat be ok petite. And please call Remy by his name not Swamp Rat." He told her with a charming smile. He brought her hand up to his lips and kissed the back of her gloved hand. She blushed and turned around and walked away up the stairs throwing him one last glance and a small smile.
Rogue walked to up the stairs throwing one last glance at Remy before entering the building and walking towards her locker. She reached her locker and put in the combination to open her locker. She quickly got out her books for her lessons and closed the door. Then it her she was falling for him! She slammed her locker and banged her head against it.
"Stupid girl, stupid, stupid girl" she muttered to herself.
"What you done luv?" asked an English voice from behind her. Rogue whirled around to find her purple haired friend.
"Oh Risty, it's nothing. Just stuff at home." She told her. Risty smiled and took her arm.
"I've got something that'll cheer you up!" She told her as they walked down the corridor arm in arm. "There is a concert on Friday night that we just have to go to. I have tickets so you don't need to cough up the cash." Risty told her as she went on to explain it. The concert had all of their favourite bands playing and Rogue desperately wanted to go.
"So you coming?" Risty asked her excitedly.
"Well Ah definitely want to but Ah have to ask at home." Rogue told her genuinely excited. "Ah'll see ya later." She told her as she went into her classroom for another boring day.
Rogue sighed she had been bored stiff all day. She really hated school. She began walking along the road towards the institute. She was going to ask about the concert on Friday and she wanted to clear something up with the Prof.
She made her way up to the Professors study and knocked on the door. She heard the Profs voice resound in her head telling her to enter. She went in and found the Prof sitting behind his desk talking to Ororo. He smiled at her and indicated for her to come in. Ororo got up and left arranging to carry on the talk later. The Prof indicated for Rogue to sit down in the sea that had just been vacated. She perched on the end of it and watched the Prof.
"Well Rogue what can I do for you?" he asked calmly, looking her in the eye. Rogue quickly made sure that her mental defences were up so the Prof wouldn't get any information that she projected and began.
"Well, Ah was wondering when ya would begin to help me with mah powers." She started, "what Ah mean is that ya help everyone else but ya haven't started to help me. Ah really want to control it so Ah don't hurt anyone. Ah wanna be able to touch, Ah wanna be half-way normal." She explained looking at him with stern and determined eyes. The Prof paused and looked at her for a long time before he spoke.
"I will begin to help you in due course." He told her, "For the moment I would concentrate on your school and team work." He continued. Rogue frowned slightly.
"Ok" she told him trusting that the Prof was correct, "oh by the way, would it be alright if Ah went to a concert on Friday?" she asked as she rose up and tucked the chair under.
"I don't believe that it would be advisable, do you remember what happened last time?" he asked, "We would not want a repeat performance that could affect the versatile peace that we have at the moment." He then turned back to the papers on his desk and ignored her allowing her to leave. She stalked to the door and yanked it open. She then proceeded to slam the door and stomp to her room. When she got there she found Kitty was on the phone to someone so she grabbed her wallet and went out. She walked down to the park and sat down in one of her favourite spots and tried to calm down. The Prof had been so harsh in his choice of words. She couldn't help what happened last time; no one had expected it at all. She was sitting on the floor with her back to a tree and she proceeded to bash her head back on the tree trunk.
"Dat not be a good idea petite." A smooth voice told her. She looked to her left and saw Remy standing there. For the umpteenth time that day she blushed beneath her thick make-up. He sat down next to her with a smile. "What be de matter?" he asked softly.
"Ah wanna go out on Friday night." She told him. His smile widened.
"Remy be happy to take you any where you want." He told her. She smiled at him slightly.
"Ah don't wanna go out with ya," she told him and laughed when he acted wounded. "Ah was gonna go to a concert with one of mah friends, Risty, but when Ah asked the Prof he said no saying he didn't want something like last time to happen." She went on, her smile disappearing and being replaced by a frown. Remy watched her closely taking in the features of her face and the different expressions she had when she talked.
"What do you mean last time?" he asked curiously
"Well," Rogue started with a sigh, feeling the old emotions stir up inside her "a few weeks ago I kinda went a little crazy. When I absorb people a part of them kinda gets stuck in me. I had so many different personalities in mah head trying to take control that Ah kinda trashed a concert. It took a lot to try and get control again but the Prof helped me to clear mah head." She told him slowly wondering why she found it so easy to tell him this. The story just kind of slipped out as she told him but she was amazed to see pain cross his face.
"What's the matter?" she asked turning to face him fully bringing a gloved hand up to his cheek.
"Don't worry petite, Remy be an empath, he can feel your pain, and it is so strong." He told her. Rogue pulled her hand away and he took hold of it moving closer to her. He gave her a small smile and she gave one back allowing him to continue to hold her hand. He took this as a good sign and moved to be next to her and put his arm around her shoulder. Even though Rogue liked it she moved away from him so he wouldn't touch her skin that was exposed at the top of her neck. She smiled at him and got up and began walking slowly to the exit. Remy followed her and walked next to her all the way to the mansion keeping a firm hold on her hand. Together they walked into the mansion, still holding hands. It was later then they had anticipated and it was now eight in the evening. They were greeted by Logan who eyed them suspiciously. They immediately let got of each other's hands. Remy smiled at the man and walked off up the stairs, Rogue moved to follow his example.
"Stripes I want to talk to you." He barked at her. He led her away from the area where the other students were and closed the door.
"I don't want you to be getting too – attached- to the Cajun." He told her looking her in the eye. "He's bad news."
"What do ya mean?" Rogue asked setting her face to betray no emotion.
"He is a player. He's the kinda guy who gets a girl once and then leaves her. He likes the challenge and when that's gone he drops them like a hot potato."
"What!" Rogue exclaimed her anger rising. "Logan you've known him what, all of two days and already you're condemning him."
"I don't want to see you or any one else getting hurt." He told her sharply.
"What do ya mean? Are ya gonna have this talk with every female in the mansion?" she asked glaring at him.
"No. I mean he seems to have taken a shine to you and with you the way you are that's not good."
"What do you mean "the way Ah am"? Ya mean mah power?" she asked hitting boiling point.
"I just don't want you to get involved with him." Logan told her shortly.
"Oh so now you're making mah decisions about who I talk to now? Well Ah'm sorry but that ain't gonna happen." She shouted at him, "Ah will see, talk to and do what Ah want with whomever Ah please, whether ya like it or not!" And with that she turned on her heal and stomped out. She went past the rec room where all the younger mutants were pretending to watch TV and act like they hadn't heard anything. She sighed deeply and went to her room wondering why everyone wants to control her when she can't even control herself.
Thaks for all the reviews but Ish ya gonna be kinda disappointed cos theres no hot and steamy romyness. Sorry.
Chapter 3: What Rogue Craves
() Dreaming ()
Rogue moved through the mansion grounds towards the woods. She had gone through the now normal part of her dream but now she was coming to the next part. The part that she hated to admit that was her favourite part. She approached the edge of the woods, pausing as she did every time. She then walked on into the dark woods. She looked around the gloom and soon spotted the dark figure of the man. She went up to him. He reached out with an un-gloved hand and trailed his index finger down her check. She closed her eyes and sighed at the simplicity of the touch and how good it felt. She opened her eyes and looked up. She went up onto tiptoes as he leant down and their lips meet in a sweet kiss. She broke away and opened her eyes. She saw red-on-black and jumped back. She looked up at his face and saw with horror that it was Gambit. This was new, she thought as she backed away. She turned around and came face to face with another man. She backed away from him but she tripped and fell. She sat on the forest floor looking up at the new silhouette. Behind her the figure of Remy had stopped as if frozen on the spot. She turned to the new man.
"I can help you." He told her simply. She looked up at him.
"Who are ya?" she asked. He ignored her question.
"I can help you; I can give you what you crave." He told her. His voice was calm, deep and smooth. She looked up at him. "Take my hand and I can help you." He told her as he reached out. Rogue looked at the hand and then back at the man.
"No" she told him. As soon as she said it the images around her faded away. The woods, the creepy man all faded. She spun around and saw one image still there. It was the image of Remy, smiling at her taking hold of her bare hand and pulling her in for a kiss that she didn't want to end.
() Reality ()
Rogue sat up in bed with a gasp. She brought her hands up and saw that they were trembling. She gulped and brought her knees up to her chest, rested her head on them and hugged them to herself. She sat like that for a few calming herself down. She went over the dream in her mind. The end had turned strange. She could still hear that voice and feel Remy's lips on hers. Unable to still for any longer she went to the bathroom. She jumped into the shower and scrubbed herself trying to erase the memories of her dream but it wasn't working. She sighed and shut off the water. She quickly dried herself and left the bathroom. She went to her room and threw on her clothes for school that day. She glanced at the clock and saw it was half past six. She went up to Kitty's bed and shook her shoulder with a gloved hand. Kitty groaned and tried to shake her off but Rogue was persistent and eventually Kitty gave up and got up slowly. Rogue sighed and gathered her stuff for that day and walked down the stairs. She stopped off in the kitchen where Logan was reading the paper and grabbed a juice. She was just finishing it when Remy walked through the door fully dressed and wide-awake. Rogue blushed beneath her makeup and quickly left telling Logan to tell Scott she was walking.
She walked down the drive and out the gate. She sighed and walked on thinking about her dream. She was wondering what the man meant. "I can help you." Rogue remembered the words. Help her? How can he help her, she had all the help she could want didn't she? She decided to go and ask the Prof to help her control her powers. She sighed; she had reached the intersection and was about to cross the road when a car pulled up in front of her. She saw Scott was driving with Jean next to him and Kitty, Kurt and Colossus in between them in the back.
"Rogue. You walking to school?" Scott asked. Rogue rolled her eyes.
"What does it look like?" she asked acidly. Scott held up his hands in surrender while Jean just glared. Kitty and Kurt were laughing and Piotr was smiling at Kitty.
Scott put his hands back on the wheel and sped off heading towards school. She crossed the road and walked on quickly realizing she was going to be late if she didn't hurry up. She was walking on when a bike pulled up beside her. The driver turned to her and smiled, her heart did a back flip. It was Remy. She gave him a small smile back and he handed her a helmet. She took it and put it on. She clambered on behind him and he took off sharply causing her to grab hold of him. She put her arms around his waist more securely as they sped through the streets towards the school. This is nice, she thought, the closeness that Ah feel with him Ah don't feel with anyone else.
Remy felt her hold on tighter a she took a bend quickly. He liked it, he had to admit it, he enjoyed having her arms wrapped around him. He was confused, sure he liked girls but he never had this kind of feeling for them. He sighed and carried on driving. He pulled up in the school car park and climbed off. He turned round to help rogue off but she was already standing upright with her helmet in her hand. She pushed the helmet into his hands with a smile.
"Thanks for the ride Swamp Rat." She told him before turning away. Remy reached out and took her hand. He loved her smile. She looked at him.
"Dat be ok petite. And please call Remy by his name not Swamp Rat." He told her with a charming smile. He brought her hand up to his lips and kissed the back of her gloved hand. She blushed and turned around and walked away up the stairs throwing him one last glance and a small smile.
Rogue walked to up the stairs throwing one last glance at Remy before entering the building and walking towards her locker. She reached her locker and put in the combination to open her locker. She quickly got out her books for her lessons and closed the door. Then it her she was falling for him! She slammed her locker and banged her head against it.
"Stupid girl, stupid, stupid girl" she muttered to herself.
"What you done luv?" asked an English voice from behind her. Rogue whirled around to find her purple haired friend.
"Oh Risty, it's nothing. Just stuff at home." She told her. Risty smiled and took her arm.
"I've got something that'll cheer you up!" She told her as they walked down the corridor arm in arm. "There is a concert on Friday night that we just have to go to. I have tickets so you don't need to cough up the cash." Risty told her as she went on to explain it. The concert had all of their favourite bands playing and Rogue desperately wanted to go.
"So you coming?" Risty asked her excitedly.
"Well Ah definitely want to but Ah have to ask at home." Rogue told her genuinely excited. "Ah'll see ya later." She told her as she went into her classroom for another boring day.
Rogue sighed she had been bored stiff all day. She really hated school. She began walking along the road towards the institute. She was going to ask about the concert on Friday and she wanted to clear something up with the Prof.
She made her way up to the Professors study and knocked on the door. She heard the Profs voice resound in her head telling her to enter. She went in and found the Prof sitting behind his desk talking to Ororo. He smiled at her and indicated for her to come in. Ororo got up and left arranging to carry on the talk later. The Prof indicated for Rogue to sit down in the sea that had just been vacated. She perched on the end of it and watched the Prof.
"Well Rogue what can I do for you?" he asked calmly, looking her in the eye. Rogue quickly made sure that her mental defences were up so the Prof wouldn't get any information that she projected and began.
"Well, Ah was wondering when ya would begin to help me with mah powers." She started, "what Ah mean is that ya help everyone else but ya haven't started to help me. Ah really want to control it so Ah don't hurt anyone. Ah wanna be able to touch, Ah wanna be half-way normal." She explained looking at him with stern and determined eyes. The Prof paused and looked at her for a long time before he spoke.
"I will begin to help you in due course." He told her, "For the moment I would concentrate on your school and team work." He continued. Rogue frowned slightly.
"Ok" she told him trusting that the Prof was correct, "oh by the way, would it be alright if Ah went to a concert on Friday?" she asked as she rose up and tucked the chair under.
"I don't believe that it would be advisable, do you remember what happened last time?" he asked, "We would not want a repeat performance that could affect the versatile peace that we have at the moment." He then turned back to the papers on his desk and ignored her allowing her to leave. She stalked to the door and yanked it open. She then proceeded to slam the door and stomp to her room. When she got there she found Kitty was on the phone to someone so she grabbed her wallet and went out. She walked down to the park and sat down in one of her favourite spots and tried to calm down. The Prof had been so harsh in his choice of words. She couldn't help what happened last time; no one had expected it at all. She was sitting on the floor with her back to a tree and she proceeded to bash her head back on the tree trunk.
"Dat not be a good idea petite." A smooth voice told her. She looked to her left and saw Remy standing there. For the umpteenth time that day she blushed beneath her thick make-up. He sat down next to her with a smile. "What be de matter?" he asked softly.
"Ah wanna go out on Friday night." She told him. His smile widened.
"Remy be happy to take you any where you want." He told her. She smiled at him slightly.
"Ah don't wanna go out with ya," she told him and laughed when he acted wounded. "Ah was gonna go to a concert with one of mah friends, Risty, but when Ah asked the Prof he said no saying he didn't want something like last time to happen." She went on, her smile disappearing and being replaced by a frown. Remy watched her closely taking in the features of her face and the different expressions she had when she talked.
"What do you mean last time?" he asked curiously
"Well," Rogue started with a sigh, feeling the old emotions stir up inside her "a few weeks ago I kinda went a little crazy. When I absorb people a part of them kinda gets stuck in me. I had so many different personalities in mah head trying to take control that Ah kinda trashed a concert. It took a lot to try and get control again but the Prof helped me to clear mah head." She told him slowly wondering why she found it so easy to tell him this. The story just kind of slipped out as she told him but she was amazed to see pain cross his face.
"What's the matter?" she asked turning to face him fully bringing a gloved hand up to his cheek.
"Don't worry petite, Remy be an empath, he can feel your pain, and it is so strong." He told her. Rogue pulled her hand away and he took hold of it moving closer to her. He gave her a small smile and she gave one back allowing him to continue to hold her hand. He took this as a good sign and moved to be next to her and put his arm around her shoulder. Even though Rogue liked it she moved away from him so he wouldn't touch her skin that was exposed at the top of her neck. She smiled at him and got up and began walking slowly to the exit. Remy followed her and walked next to her all the way to the mansion keeping a firm hold on her hand. Together they walked into the mansion, still holding hands. It was later then they had anticipated and it was now eight in the evening. They were greeted by Logan who eyed them suspiciously. They immediately let got of each other's hands. Remy smiled at the man and walked off up the stairs, Rogue moved to follow his example.
"Stripes I want to talk to you." He barked at her. He led her away from the area where the other students were and closed the door.
"I don't want you to be getting too – attached- to the Cajun." He told her looking her in the eye. "He's bad news."
"What do ya mean?" Rogue asked setting her face to betray no emotion.
"He is a player. He's the kinda guy who gets a girl once and then leaves her. He likes the challenge and when that's gone he drops them like a hot potato."
"What!" Rogue exclaimed her anger rising. "Logan you've known him what, all of two days and already you're condemning him."
"I don't want to see you or any one else getting hurt." He told her sharply.
"What do ya mean? Are ya gonna have this talk with every female in the mansion?" she asked glaring at him.
"No. I mean he seems to have taken a shine to you and with you the way you are that's not good."
"What do you mean "the way Ah am"? Ya mean mah power?" she asked hitting boiling point.
"I just don't want you to get involved with him." Logan told her shortly.
"Oh so now you're making mah decisions about who I talk to now? Well Ah'm sorry but that ain't gonna happen." She shouted at him, "Ah will see, talk to and do what Ah want with whomever Ah please, whether ya like it or not!" And with that she turned on her heal and stomped out. She went past the rec room where all the younger mutants were pretending to watch TV and act like they hadn't heard anything. She sighed deeply and went to her room wondering why everyone wants to control her when she can't even control herself.
