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Distribution: Sure just tell me where.
Rating: PG for now he he, (grins evilly).
So chapter three. Quite liking writing this story. Giving me a break from exam work. And hell do I hate exam work. If you like Bobby and Rogue stories may I recommend the stories by 'ramblingsofcrazywomen' they're excellent. Please review, they give me warm and fuzzy feelings, and they make me right quicker.
Bobby sat. It wasn't so bad. He could do this. He could sit in the movie theatre with a girl who wasn't Rogue and not think about Rogue at all. He could do it. He would. Kitty was nice anyway. She was friendly, funny, pretty, and not Rogue. But that didn't mean he hadn't had a good time. If they had just been here as friends he would have been able to handle it. It would have been fun to get out and see a movie. But well . . .they were supposed to be here on a date. He didn't want to be dating anyone but . . .that girl he wasn't thinking about.
Bobby mentally yelled at himself. He had to get over her. She didn't want to be with him, or she couldn't be with him. And now she was keeping things from him, things that she was sharing with Logan but not with him. That hurt more than anything else did. She would share things with Logan but she wouldn't with him. Could there be something going on between the two of them? He didn't think so and he trusted Rogue but then you never knew. There just might be. His face flushed and he gritted his teeth. He was going to have a good time with Kitty, and after this date, he was going to ask her on another.
After a minute, he took a deep breath and reached over. Slipping his hand into Kitty's he felt a stab of guilt. Was he even being fair to Kitty? After all, he was sat here thinking about his ex. He squashed his thoughts. The key word in that sentence was ex.
* * *
Rogue tried to pull back from the Professor grip but it was like steel, "Professor no!"
"Rogue it's all right. You're not hurting me I feel fine."
Rogue stopped pulling and looked down at the Professor. He looked okay; she took a deep breath, "Does that mean I'm okay that this works?"
The Professor smiled, "Yes Rogue. It would appear so."
Rogue was about to yell, to scream and shout and hug everyone in the room. Instead, she just smiled happily and began to cry.
* * *
Rogue sat back in Professor Xavier's office, dressed except for her gloves. They had put a large band-aid over the device on her back; she was worried that otherwise it might come off. They had assured her that it would not but she wanted to be safe, "So, is there any way to permanently fit it Professor?"
The Professor looked at her seriously, "Rouge I know that your mutation has caused you a lot of suffering in the past, but that is behind you now. The device we created has been specially designed so that you can remove it. You press the red circle and it will detach."
"How do I put it back on?"
"Just hold it over the same place and it will reattach. All you have to do is press the red circle again. It may be possible to graft skin over it, as it is so thin. But I would not want to do this. Your power is likely to be the type that will grow. You may be able to actually project it at some point in the future."
"Project it?"
"The same effect but you will not need skin on skin contact. And while this may be dangerous to humans, it may be invaluable to us in the war against violent mutants. As I recall you were the one who was able to stop John. It is important that we at least leave the option open. We would also be interested in teaching you to do this. But we will discuss that at a later date. You can wear the disk as long as you wish. You can also sleep in it."
Rogue smiled, "Thank you. I don't know about the developing the powers part. But thank you for this."
* * *
Rogue walked back down the hall in something of a daze. She had barely heard the rest of what the Professor had said. She had been too busy thinking. She wanted to go and see Bobby.
Rogue thought for a minute and decided to go to her room and change and then go and see him. She turned the corner and saw Bobby and Kitty stood at the door of her room. Had he come looking for her? She stayed quiet and listened.
* * *
"I had a really great time Bobby."
He smiled back at her, "Yeah, me too. Do you wanna maybe . . .do it again?"
Kitty nodded, "That'd be great. Next weekend?"
"Sure. Go out for something to eat?"
"Yeah, there's a new place in town I wanna try."
"Same time?"
"Okay."
Bobby grit his teeth, he was getting over Rogue, this was a good thing, and he could do this. He slipped an arm around Kitty's waist and pulled her to him. He lowered his head and gently kissed her. She slipped her arms around his neck and returned the kiss. After a few seconds they separated, "See you tomorrow?"
Kitty nodded, "Goodnight."
Kitty slipped in the door and Bobby turned and walked down the hallway. Rogue couldn't physically move for few seconds.
* * *
She walked down the hall and to the door. He hand rested on the handle but she found that she couldn't quite push the door open. Her heart was pounding too loud in her chest, she was afraid that everyone would hear it. She rested her head on the door silently for a few seconds, she could hear Kitty and Ju inside talking about Kitty's date, " . . .he was so sweet. When he reached out in the middle of the film to take my hand, he looked so nervous. He said that we should go out again next week . . ."
Ju cut her off, "Look, I know that you're excited but I don't really want to talk about this. He's Rogue's ex and as hard as she tries to deny it, I know that she still has feelings for him. It feels like I'm betraying her just talking about this."
Kitty hesitated, "Do you really think that she'd mind? It's been almost a month, I thought she'd be over him?"
"Kitty are you blind? She's been depressed since they split and so has he. I can't think why he'd ask you on a date."
Kitty made a shocked sound, "Oh gee thanks. Maybe he likes me. Has that thought ever occurred to you? And I've always thought that he was good looking and now I find he's actually nice too. If Rogue wanted him for herself she shouldn't have broken up with him."
"Kitty you know that it's not that simple. She was afraid of hurting him because her powers . . ."
Kitty was angry though and she cut her friend off, "Okay, so say she does like him still. Does that mean that she can never be with him because of her power but even though she can't no one else can either? That's ridiculous."
"Look Kitty I'm just saying that . . ."
"Never mind I'm going to bed."
* * *
Rogue couldn't force herself to go into the room after that. Ju had known tonight when Rogue had come back to the room and she hadn't told her. But she knew why. Ju was in the middle of Kitty and Rogue, her two friends. Not a nice place to be.
Rogue sat down on the sofa. She didn't know what to do. She hadn't told Bobby about the tests because she didn't want to get his hopes up. But he had just moved on without her. This hurt more than she thought possible. Her eyes stung and she cried again. She almost laughed when she thought about how she'd cried earlier tonight and how happy she'd been. Now she didn't know what to do with herself.
About an hour later, she crawled into bed. Fine if Bobby wanted to move on then fine. She could move on too. She'd show him just how over him she was. Her mind was made up. Rogue could be stubborn when she wanted; she stubbornly decided that he was going to see how much he didn't matter to her anymore. She also stubbornly ignored the tears on her face.
* * *
Bobby sat at the breakfast table. He had hardly slept. He felt so horribly guilty. And he knew that he shouldn't feel that way. He hadn't really done anything wrong. He didn't even feel guilty about betraying Rogue, he felt guilty about betraying himself, what he felt, what he knew was real. He felt as though he had turned his back on what he felt and that made him a bad person.
He sat with a bowl of cereal, not at all interested in eating it when he heard one of the guys give a wolf whistle. Not really bothered but mildly curious he turned around to see whom it had been directed at.
At first, he didn't quite trust what his eyes were telling him. But after a few seconds, when she didn't vanish he knew that it was Rogue. She was wearing a denim skirt that was little more than a belt, tan tights, and knee high black boots. Her shirt was black and very low cut in a v. Her hair was down around her shoulders as she walked up the centre aisle to appreciative stares all around.
Bobby almost choked on his cereal as he stared at her. She looked amazing. He had the intense desire to go over and take her hand just to prove that she was his. But she wasn't. The guy who had whistled at her called out, "Rogue. Hey, come sit here."
She turned smiled and went to join him at his table. Bobby felt as though she had kicked him in the gut. Fine she wanted to do that. That was just fine.
* * *
Rogue wished that she could gloat over the expression on Bobby's face as she went to sit with some guy that she didn't even know. But she couldn't. He was hurt and she saw it. She had hurt him. She couldn't feel . . .she was surprised to Bobby get up and walk farther into the hall rather than out of it. Her face hardened as he sat down next to Kitty.
* * *
Bobby said his goodbyes to Kitty as he went off to his own lesson. One he had with Rogue. As he turned the corner he saw Rogue and the guy stood next to the door. She was touching his arm and laughing at something funny he had just said. He saw red. That was it. He marched forward, "Can I speak to you for a minute Rogue?"
The guy turned, "Hey, back off man, I'm talking to the lady."
"I wasn't asking your permission I was asking Rogue."
"Whom I'm talking to."
Bobby was about to snap back but Rogue interrupted, "What is it?"
"I just need to talk to you."
Rogue didn't move, "I 'm talking here to someone else."
Bobby tried to take Rogue's hand and pull her away but the guy stepped between then, "Look, we're busy. Why don't you just back off?"
Bobby tried to manoeuvre round the guy but he pushed Bobby in the chest. Bobby, if he was honest had just been waiting for an excuse. He lashed out catching the guy hard across the chin. There wasn't a minute to think after that. The fight broke out in earnest. They were scrambling over each other, hitting wherever they could. Rogue was yelling at them both in the background but the blood was pumping too hard in his head for him to hear what she was saying. The next thing he knew he felt electricity shock through him. The guy was using powers on him? Fine he could do that. Before anything else happened, Bobby pointed with an open hand to the guy and shot a jet of ice at him.
He shot again and the guy hit the floor. Rogue ran over to him, "Bobby stop. Please stop. You're going to really hurt each other."
Bobby pulled himself together enough to register that the guy, whoever he was had a bloody nose and a steadily darkening black eye. There were going to be ice burns on him as well. He could also feel an ache on his ribs.
Rogue, ignoring the other, slipped her arm round Bobby's back and helped him to his feet, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. Just need to sit down. You can go back to your boy toy."
Rogue scowled, "Don't pull that on me. It's not fair."
"Not fair? You done hurting me yet?"
Rogue pulled away from him sharply causing him to stumble, "How was your date? Enjoy it?"
"What? Oh, that."
"Yes, that. Don't come the high and mighty with me. You don't have the right. Do you have any idea what I have been through for you and now you do this?"
"What you have been through for me? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing. Look, it's fine. I move on and you move on. But don't think that only you can do it."
Bobby glared at her, "You're the one who broke up with me. Remember?"
"I remember. It appears I was the one with a brain."
She turned and stalked out of the room. Bobby was seething. Fine she wanted them to move on. They would both of them. And he wouldn't care. He wouldn't.
* * *
Rogue lay on her front reading. It had been two weeks since the fight and she hadn't spoken to Bobby. Kitty had gone out for her date the next Saturday and then one the next Saturday. She always tried to come back and not talk about it. But Rogue could tell from the gleam in her eyes that she'd had a good time. It wasn't fair of her to be mad at him. She'd said they should move on and he had. She just . . .she didn't want to. She still loved him, she always would. She'd been prodded, poked, and tested for him. She wanted to be with him and now that she could, she couldn't.
Rogue sighed, it was just so lousy.
* * *
She crept through the grounds of the school. They had a job to do, Mystique signalled over her shoulder and Magneto and Pyro followed her. They had to get the files.
Pyro as it turned out had been an invaluable addition to the brotherhood. He had told Magneto about the files. They listed every official around the world, every person in power who was against mutants, and for that barbaric registration act. Magneto had decided; if they were unwilling to accept mutants, then they would have to be eliminated. But to do that, they needed to get the files. The people in the school, the students, the teachers, even Charles himself would fight. They would have to be careful.
Pyro smiled, he was glad that he had been able to help. It made him feel valuable. Important, needed. He had only asked for one thing in return for the information and eternal loyalty, he wanted to get rid of the mutant who had nearly killed him.
Distribution: Sure just tell me where.
Rating: PG for now he he, (grins evilly).
So chapter three. Quite liking writing this story. Giving me a break from exam work. And hell do I hate exam work. If you like Bobby and Rogue stories may I recommend the stories by 'ramblingsofcrazywomen' they're excellent. Please review, they give me warm and fuzzy feelings, and they make me right quicker.
Bobby sat. It wasn't so bad. He could do this. He could sit in the movie theatre with a girl who wasn't Rogue and not think about Rogue at all. He could do it. He would. Kitty was nice anyway. She was friendly, funny, pretty, and not Rogue. But that didn't mean he hadn't had a good time. If they had just been here as friends he would have been able to handle it. It would have been fun to get out and see a movie. But well . . .they were supposed to be here on a date. He didn't want to be dating anyone but . . .that girl he wasn't thinking about.
Bobby mentally yelled at himself. He had to get over her. She didn't want to be with him, or she couldn't be with him. And now she was keeping things from him, things that she was sharing with Logan but not with him. That hurt more than anything else did. She would share things with Logan but she wouldn't with him. Could there be something going on between the two of them? He didn't think so and he trusted Rogue but then you never knew. There just might be. His face flushed and he gritted his teeth. He was going to have a good time with Kitty, and after this date, he was going to ask her on another.
After a minute, he took a deep breath and reached over. Slipping his hand into Kitty's he felt a stab of guilt. Was he even being fair to Kitty? After all, he was sat here thinking about his ex. He squashed his thoughts. The key word in that sentence was ex.
* * *
Rogue tried to pull back from the Professor grip but it was like steel, "Professor no!"
"Rogue it's all right. You're not hurting me I feel fine."
Rogue stopped pulling and looked down at the Professor. He looked okay; she took a deep breath, "Does that mean I'm okay that this works?"
The Professor smiled, "Yes Rogue. It would appear so."
Rogue was about to yell, to scream and shout and hug everyone in the room. Instead, she just smiled happily and began to cry.
* * *
Rogue sat back in Professor Xavier's office, dressed except for her gloves. They had put a large band-aid over the device on her back; she was worried that otherwise it might come off. They had assured her that it would not but she wanted to be safe, "So, is there any way to permanently fit it Professor?"
The Professor looked at her seriously, "Rouge I know that your mutation has caused you a lot of suffering in the past, but that is behind you now. The device we created has been specially designed so that you can remove it. You press the red circle and it will detach."
"How do I put it back on?"
"Just hold it over the same place and it will reattach. All you have to do is press the red circle again. It may be possible to graft skin over it, as it is so thin. But I would not want to do this. Your power is likely to be the type that will grow. You may be able to actually project it at some point in the future."
"Project it?"
"The same effect but you will not need skin on skin contact. And while this may be dangerous to humans, it may be invaluable to us in the war against violent mutants. As I recall you were the one who was able to stop John. It is important that we at least leave the option open. We would also be interested in teaching you to do this. But we will discuss that at a later date. You can wear the disk as long as you wish. You can also sleep in it."
Rogue smiled, "Thank you. I don't know about the developing the powers part. But thank you for this."
* * *
Rogue walked back down the hall in something of a daze. She had barely heard the rest of what the Professor had said. She had been too busy thinking. She wanted to go and see Bobby.
Rogue thought for a minute and decided to go to her room and change and then go and see him. She turned the corner and saw Bobby and Kitty stood at the door of her room. Had he come looking for her? She stayed quiet and listened.
* * *
"I had a really great time Bobby."
He smiled back at her, "Yeah, me too. Do you wanna maybe . . .do it again?"
Kitty nodded, "That'd be great. Next weekend?"
"Sure. Go out for something to eat?"
"Yeah, there's a new place in town I wanna try."
"Same time?"
"Okay."
Bobby grit his teeth, he was getting over Rogue, this was a good thing, and he could do this. He slipped an arm around Kitty's waist and pulled her to him. He lowered his head and gently kissed her. She slipped her arms around his neck and returned the kiss. After a few seconds they separated, "See you tomorrow?"
Kitty nodded, "Goodnight."
Kitty slipped in the door and Bobby turned and walked down the hallway. Rogue couldn't physically move for few seconds.
* * *
She walked down the hall and to the door. He hand rested on the handle but she found that she couldn't quite push the door open. Her heart was pounding too loud in her chest, she was afraid that everyone would hear it. She rested her head on the door silently for a few seconds, she could hear Kitty and Ju inside talking about Kitty's date, " . . .he was so sweet. When he reached out in the middle of the film to take my hand, he looked so nervous. He said that we should go out again next week . . ."
Ju cut her off, "Look, I know that you're excited but I don't really want to talk about this. He's Rogue's ex and as hard as she tries to deny it, I know that she still has feelings for him. It feels like I'm betraying her just talking about this."
Kitty hesitated, "Do you really think that she'd mind? It's been almost a month, I thought she'd be over him?"
"Kitty are you blind? She's been depressed since they split and so has he. I can't think why he'd ask you on a date."
Kitty made a shocked sound, "Oh gee thanks. Maybe he likes me. Has that thought ever occurred to you? And I've always thought that he was good looking and now I find he's actually nice too. If Rogue wanted him for herself she shouldn't have broken up with him."
"Kitty you know that it's not that simple. She was afraid of hurting him because her powers . . ."
Kitty was angry though and she cut her friend off, "Okay, so say she does like him still. Does that mean that she can never be with him because of her power but even though she can't no one else can either? That's ridiculous."
"Look Kitty I'm just saying that . . ."
"Never mind I'm going to bed."
* * *
Rogue couldn't force herself to go into the room after that. Ju had known tonight when Rogue had come back to the room and she hadn't told her. But she knew why. Ju was in the middle of Kitty and Rogue, her two friends. Not a nice place to be.
Rogue sat down on the sofa. She didn't know what to do. She hadn't told Bobby about the tests because she didn't want to get his hopes up. But he had just moved on without her. This hurt more than she thought possible. Her eyes stung and she cried again. She almost laughed when she thought about how she'd cried earlier tonight and how happy she'd been. Now she didn't know what to do with herself.
About an hour later, she crawled into bed. Fine if Bobby wanted to move on then fine. She could move on too. She'd show him just how over him she was. Her mind was made up. Rogue could be stubborn when she wanted; she stubbornly decided that he was going to see how much he didn't matter to her anymore. She also stubbornly ignored the tears on her face.
* * *
Bobby sat at the breakfast table. He had hardly slept. He felt so horribly guilty. And he knew that he shouldn't feel that way. He hadn't really done anything wrong. He didn't even feel guilty about betraying Rogue, he felt guilty about betraying himself, what he felt, what he knew was real. He felt as though he had turned his back on what he felt and that made him a bad person.
He sat with a bowl of cereal, not at all interested in eating it when he heard one of the guys give a wolf whistle. Not really bothered but mildly curious he turned around to see whom it had been directed at.
At first, he didn't quite trust what his eyes were telling him. But after a few seconds, when she didn't vanish he knew that it was Rogue. She was wearing a denim skirt that was little more than a belt, tan tights, and knee high black boots. Her shirt was black and very low cut in a v. Her hair was down around her shoulders as she walked up the centre aisle to appreciative stares all around.
Bobby almost choked on his cereal as he stared at her. She looked amazing. He had the intense desire to go over and take her hand just to prove that she was his. But she wasn't. The guy who had whistled at her called out, "Rogue. Hey, come sit here."
She turned smiled and went to join him at his table. Bobby felt as though she had kicked him in the gut. Fine she wanted to do that. That was just fine.
* * *
Rogue wished that she could gloat over the expression on Bobby's face as she went to sit with some guy that she didn't even know. But she couldn't. He was hurt and she saw it. She had hurt him. She couldn't feel . . .she was surprised to Bobby get up and walk farther into the hall rather than out of it. Her face hardened as he sat down next to Kitty.
* * *
Bobby said his goodbyes to Kitty as he went off to his own lesson. One he had with Rogue. As he turned the corner he saw Rogue and the guy stood next to the door. She was touching his arm and laughing at something funny he had just said. He saw red. That was it. He marched forward, "Can I speak to you for a minute Rogue?"
The guy turned, "Hey, back off man, I'm talking to the lady."
"I wasn't asking your permission I was asking Rogue."
"Whom I'm talking to."
Bobby was about to snap back but Rogue interrupted, "What is it?"
"I just need to talk to you."
Rogue didn't move, "I 'm talking here to someone else."
Bobby tried to take Rogue's hand and pull her away but the guy stepped between then, "Look, we're busy. Why don't you just back off?"
Bobby tried to manoeuvre round the guy but he pushed Bobby in the chest. Bobby, if he was honest had just been waiting for an excuse. He lashed out catching the guy hard across the chin. There wasn't a minute to think after that. The fight broke out in earnest. They were scrambling over each other, hitting wherever they could. Rogue was yelling at them both in the background but the blood was pumping too hard in his head for him to hear what she was saying. The next thing he knew he felt electricity shock through him. The guy was using powers on him? Fine he could do that. Before anything else happened, Bobby pointed with an open hand to the guy and shot a jet of ice at him.
He shot again and the guy hit the floor. Rogue ran over to him, "Bobby stop. Please stop. You're going to really hurt each other."
Bobby pulled himself together enough to register that the guy, whoever he was had a bloody nose and a steadily darkening black eye. There were going to be ice burns on him as well. He could also feel an ache on his ribs.
Rogue, ignoring the other, slipped her arm round Bobby's back and helped him to his feet, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. Just need to sit down. You can go back to your boy toy."
Rogue scowled, "Don't pull that on me. It's not fair."
"Not fair? You done hurting me yet?"
Rogue pulled away from him sharply causing him to stumble, "How was your date? Enjoy it?"
"What? Oh, that."
"Yes, that. Don't come the high and mighty with me. You don't have the right. Do you have any idea what I have been through for you and now you do this?"
"What you have been through for me? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing. Look, it's fine. I move on and you move on. But don't think that only you can do it."
Bobby glared at her, "You're the one who broke up with me. Remember?"
"I remember. It appears I was the one with a brain."
She turned and stalked out of the room. Bobby was seething. Fine she wanted them to move on. They would both of them. And he wouldn't care. He wouldn't.
* * *
Rogue lay on her front reading. It had been two weeks since the fight and she hadn't spoken to Bobby. Kitty had gone out for her date the next Saturday and then one the next Saturday. She always tried to come back and not talk about it. But Rogue could tell from the gleam in her eyes that she'd had a good time. It wasn't fair of her to be mad at him. She'd said they should move on and he had. She just . . .she didn't want to. She still loved him, she always would. She'd been prodded, poked, and tested for him. She wanted to be with him and now that she could, she couldn't.
Rogue sighed, it was just so lousy.
* * *
She crept through the grounds of the school. They had a job to do, Mystique signalled over her shoulder and Magneto and Pyro followed her. They had to get the files.
Pyro as it turned out had been an invaluable addition to the brotherhood. He had told Magneto about the files. They listed every official around the world, every person in power who was against mutants, and for that barbaric registration act. Magneto had decided; if they were unwilling to accept mutants, then they would have to be eliminated. But to do that, they needed to get the files. The people in the school, the students, the teachers, even Charles himself would fight. They would have to be careful.
Pyro smiled, he was glad that he had been able to help. It made him feel valuable. Important, needed. He had only asked for one thing in return for the information and eternal loyalty, he wanted to get rid of the mutant who had nearly killed him.