As We Were

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Review Response:

RikaTabithaStarr—She knew the word? ::looks around madly:: I'm sorry, it's been a long week, locked up at my cabin... Le sigh. Um... Well, my friends refer to me as SheaMichael, (A very popular pairing with my friends. They all want us together.) It may possibly be shortened to Shael. Which just doesn't work. At all.

keikabee—Amen to that!

rage-girl-05—In one of the chapters I wrote this week, I mention their lives being a soap opera. Or was it Kitty? Or Jubilee? Well, one of them mentions it.

Panther Pendragon—I completely agree. You're great too, you New Reviewer, you!

Sweety8587—Hey New Reviewer! Or at least, I'm under the impression that you are. You've got the triangle thing right. I'm a bit too lazy to go into further detail, as it's late, and I just got home, but yeah!

Wandathetiger—No foreshadowing for you!

Loneraven—Hey! That's a good idea! Well, all three of them are good ideas. I'm pretty sure you may get all of your three wishes, as ::sings:: I'm your genie, I'm you friend. I'm sorry, Little Shop of Horrors is my bitch.

SickmindedSucker—Alas, yes, Rogue=idiot. Both her and Remy are. I know, but Betsy enjoys making things complicated. Friggin' little slut... ::applauds:: That's all I have to say right now. And I like your title for Besty and Ally. The Dumb Shit Twins.

TheHotChick—No clue.

IvyZoe—Thank you, You just made me realize that I used the wrong word. EVERYONE: I MENT THAT ROGUE IS ::ASGT can't think of the word:: HELPLESS AGAINST TELEPATH ATTACKS! Yeah, that's what I mean.

pyros-gal—Yep, and if all of the reviewers are clueless, I enjoy torturing you and making you yell at me to bring on the Romylicious jazz. It's fun.

TheDreamerLady—Ah, that's where Rogue got the word Romy. I forgot. ::shakes head:: Amanda, I ish pathetic. Muy, muy pathetico. GROOVY CARPET! I needed a new carpet!

DemonRogue13—Thank you. I donno if they did.

Lady Farevay—Oh, yes, I got a personal letter from the Prime Ministor asking me to take up current residency. ::rolls eyes:: Actually, it was The Queen. Only it wasn't any of them. Thank you for loving me even more! For I love you just the same! And I must be on something!

silky black—I'm addicting! Yay! Yeah, you've got it. Run-ons rock my socks.

Missperfect5—Okay, I pick... Missperfect5! The Newbie Reviewer! I think maybe they may do some of both. You never know. I tried to spell 'never' with a 'k' just now.

PomegranateQueen—I'm sorry that I ruined your jumping. But at least you got to slide down a tube. You should be slightly happy that they at least made out. Prepare for more!

DemonicGambit—Betsy ish evil, so of course she'll do bad things. Ooh! What type of things would you be throwing at me?

Ishandahalf— Michael. I lurve Michael. HI MICHAEL! He actually told me that since he's gone for two days, every time I want to call him, just to update instead. Yeah, you should go see Clue. Hallelujah, hallelujah, I can't believe I spelled that right! I like your idea of how to make peace with each other. What type of tea? Shall there be crumpets involved? TO answer your question, they may never fix it. Maybe I just used the word 'ROMY' as a red herring (Like communism. Go rent Clue and you'll get it.) to lure in all you reviewers. Don't put it past me either. Trust me, it's worse. And humiliating. And rather evil. But it provides for some oogling. That's another good word. Oogling.

Dreamcatcher89—Oh yeah! ::dances:: Oh, and in case you haven't caught on yet, this isn't a ROMY. There shall be no ROMY in this fic, what-so-ever. I just used it to lure you all in and give me reviews! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Makeup and make out, oh, yes, they may possibly will shall.

Leafee LeBeau—Hey! Thanks for all the reviews, Newbie Reviewer! My inbox had 70 emails when I got home. A bajillion of them reviews. Yeah, they do make better friends. I actually make Warren seem a lot younger and semi-out of character because well... in Evo, he, like Roberto, don't have enough lines to HAVE a personality. So I can mold it to my will. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Lord-Chilluh—Yet another Newbie! Heya! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It has come to my attention, that if you only read the review response to your self, that I have used the wrong word. I used the word 'immune' to describe Rogue towards telepathy. That's when she has her powers. But in her current state, without them, she is helpless against them! Thank you and have a nice day!

Remy was fuming when he walked into the living room.

"Woah!" Bobby said, looking up from his magazine. "What's eating you?"

"Does it matter?" Scott asked, he and Jean were sitting at the table, immersed in a game of cards. Jubilee, Kitty, Kurt, Piotr, Rahne, Dani, and Sam sat there, watching TV.

"Yes, it matters!" Remy snapped, turning coldly to look at Scott.

"Gambit, calm down," Jean said... well... calmly.

"How can I calm down?" Remy glared at her, but she didn't flinch.

"Why don't you tell us what happened?"

"Oh, I'll tell y' what happened all right," Remy said. "After Rogue woke up, Warren went off t' get 'er an' ice-pack, an' we got t' talkin' an' I said dat if she din' love me no more den she'd kiss me. She did, n' den Warren walks in, an Rogue accuses me o' rapin' 'er!" Remy said in one big breath. Jean and Scott and Bobby all exchanged a look.

"What?" They all asked, as Remy told them slower what happened.

"That isn't Rogue," Logan said, walking in, taking a swig of beer.

"And did you?" Jean asked.

"NO!" Remy yelled.

"Chill out," Bobby said, putting his hands on Remy's shoulders and pushing him into a chair.

"What's going on now?" Alex asked, walking into the room with the newest recruits in tow.

"Bring in the calvaries," Bobby sighed.

We are, Jono said, smiling, looking at Lorna, who was looking at Alex.

"So what is going on?" The cuckoos all said together.

"Must Remy explain again?" Remy asked exasperatedly. "All I want t' do now is climb under mon bed an' die."

"That would do some of us all a favor," Scott muttered. Jean looked at him sternly and kicked him under the table.

"Ow!"

Try aimin' a bit higher, Jono looked at Jean.

"Good idea, I'll try that next time." Scott looked aghast at Jean and Jono.

"Can you all be quiet?" Dani asked, looking at everyone. "I'd like to watch a movie!"

"Ve vould," Illyanna said. "But ve all vant to know vhat has just happened to make Remy so upset."

"I agree," Paige said.

"They're too young!" Jubilee protested. "So you can't know!"

"We'd just get Sam to tell us anyway," Jay pointed out.

"And they would tell the rest of us!" Lorna proclaimed.

"Fuck," Remy mumbled, before telling the rest of them the story again, grudgingly too, I might add.

"Fuck is right," Lorna agreed.

And that was when Rogue walked through the door... naked.

I am evil.
"Warren," Rogue said suddenly, looking up at him. It was just a few moments after Remy had left. "Ah'm gonna go take a shower."

"Okay," Warren said. "I'll leave then." He stood up and then left.

Rogue felt a strange numbing sense wash over her as she stepped into the shower. She quickly washed her hair, shaved, etc. However, when she stepped out, she only towled her body before stepping outside the bathroom and calmly making her way down stairs.

She heard the distant laughter as she stepped down the stairs as Besty and Ally came around the corner. Betsy's hands were on her temples, and Ally was madly giggling.

Once Rogue stepped off the bottom step, she quickly made her way to the over-flowing living room.

"Fuck is right," She heard Lorna say in a far off watery voice. Everyone turned to stare at her, but she had no idea why. She was blissfully un-aware. Suddenly, the numbness was dropped from her, bringing the cold sting of reality back to her. She was cold, and everyone was starring at her.

"Oh my god," Scott breathed, as Jean placed her hands over his eyes.

"Nice," Jay and Alex said, nodding their heads.

Rogue now knew what was happening as her breath quickened and her eyes brimmed with tears. She instinctively covered herself. Not like doing that ever does much good.

Logan was the only one who could think straight, probably being the only man who'd seen a naked woman more than once in the room. Besides Remy, obviously. He quickly removed Remy's coat forcibly and draped it over Rogue, leading her out of the room.

Betsy and Ally were rolling on the ground, crying, their stomachs hurting from laughing so much.

"That. Was. Brilliant." Ally gasped between breaths and laughing.

"Oh, she so got it!" Besty agreed. They stopped laughing as soon as a shadow fell over them. Betsy and Ally looked up slowly, seeing not the evil badger that they had expected, but instead the trench-coat less burning eyes of a Cajun.

"We're through," was all he said as he walked off.

"Fuck," Ally said, looking over at a shocked Betsy.

Yes, I know it's short, but I've gotta get to bed! And it seemed like a good place to leave off. Next chapter'll be longer, I promise!