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Chapter 8: A New Set of Wings
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Rogue felt like her arm was about to be ripped off, as she ran or rather was being dragged, God knows where. Having enough she jerked her arm free causing Remy to come to a skidding halt.
" What th' hell was that about? An' why are ya dragin' meh along with ya? Ah want some answers Swamp Rat." Rogue demanded, stomping her foot on the ground. From what she could tell they ran about two and a half blocks away from the bar, leaving Logan behind. It was dark, pitch black, with some light coming from near by taverns, and such, the moon was suppose to be full tonight but you couldn't see a thing with the overcast of the clouds.
" Jus tryin' t' get y' out of dere so y' didn' have t' watch dose fools an' dere talk 'bout how mutants are de scum of de earth an' all." He then shoved his hands into his pockets, as he fished for a cigarette, to calm his nerves.
" They were lookin' for ya though." Rogue accused, she then shivered as the cold wind hit her neck. All she really was wearing was a black pair of jeans and black boots, her black sweat jacket over her favorite black halter top, black gloves, and about a pound of make-up, and her hair was partly pulled up, and partly down.
" Oui..cold chere?" He asked when he saw her shiver. He then had a triumphant smile on his face when he found his cigarette.
" No." She then had to fight back the urge to shiver when another chilling wind blew, as she turned her back to him. Remy smiled and then draped his worn trench coat over her shoulders, she gasped at this and turned around facing and glaring at him. " Ah don't need yar coat. Ah'm fine." Rogue snapped.
Remy put his hands up in surrender and shook his head. " Jus helping de femme, p'tite." Rogue still glared at him.
She was about to say something when three helicopters flew quickly over head. " What th' hell?" She said as she felt herself get jerked down into a dark alley right as about half a dozen police cars and a few SWAT trucks rushed by them.
Remy shoved his back against wall pressing Rogue closely against him, using his right hand to cover her mouth. After he thought they were gone he leaned his head forward to check to make sure the street were clear and safe.
Rogue was freaking out. He was way too close for comfort. She tried to break free but to no avail. Finally he let go, Rogue backed away from him wide eyed and was about to yell at him, but then she heard a man on a blow horn. This caused both Remy and Rogue to turn there heads in the direction and listen. The man yelled out some threats to the mutants in the bar. Then it hit her. " Logan." Rogue yelled as she tried to dash out of the alleyway to find him.
She was then jolted right back into Remy as he snaked and arm around her waist. Causing Remy's coat to fall to the ground, followed by a small piece of paper to fall down right beside it.
" Easy p'tite." Remy tried to calm her down but she refused to listen to him, as she continued to struggle.
" No, let meh go Gambit. Ah gotta help Logan." Rogue cried as she struggled against Remy. Just then the voice over the blow horn yelled out again. Followed by a round of gunshots. Rogue froze and nearly had a heart attack right then and there. " Please let meh go." This time she struggled even harder and almost got free.
" It's suicide Rogue, if y' go y'll get killed." Remy snapped, sounding a little harsher then he intended, but it was the truth. He was also great full that she didn't notice the fact he used her name and she never gave it to him.
" Ah don't care." Rogue snapped back, as she continued to struggle vigorously. " Ah have ta help him." She said looking back to the bar.
" For all y' know chere, he could be beyond y're help." Remy told her truthfully. At these words Rogue's struggle slowed and she bent her head down. He turned her around so she was facing him, he then used his left gloved hand and gently moved her head up to look at him. What he saw shocked him, she was crying. Remy felt so rotten at that moment, he hated to see girls cry and for some reason seeing her cry right then made his heart feel like breaking.
" Please." She asked again weakly, looking at him with the saddest eyes Remy had ever seen, even threw his sunglasses he saw her face perfectly.
" No chere." He said again. He had both of her arms pinned down at her sides and Rogue saw only one way out. Slowly yet quickly she raised her face up to his and kissed him briefly, just enough to knock him out for a while.
Remy was shocked beyond all belief as quickly as the kiss stared it ended and Remy felt himself slipping away into the darkness. Muttering " wow." Rogue then was surrounded with his memories., there wasn't that many actually, but then one memory told her that he was some was a telepath so he must have had them blocked, and for some reason he and some other guy were looking for her. But one memory stuck out to her.
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What's the hold up Creed?" A very pissed off Logan asked. They had stopped outside of a large door that lead to the roof, Creed had handed John over to Logan and was trying to break the lock on the door.
Creed just growled in response. For some reason there was a rather large lock on the door and steel hinges so they couldn't break the door down.
Logan growled again, and began to pace. " Ya know mate, a wise Cajun once told me patience is a virtue." John said to the stressing out Wolverine.
" Shut up." Both growled at John, as Creed continued to try and rip the lock off the door.
" Just give me a another minute." Creed added. Just then down below they heard Trask's men below, making there was up.
" Minutes up." Logan yelled as he threw John to Creed and brought out his claws and began to slash at the lock. It did nothing.
" Well that went well." John said sarcastically. Logan growled at him.
In a blinding rage Logan just continued to strike at the lock. Trask's men were getting closer, and with the last of Logan's strength the lock broke away. Right as Trask's men began to open fire on them.
They ran out onto the roof, only to be greeted by several spotlights focused brightly on them. " Out of the frying pan and into the flames." John yelled as he shielded his eyes.
" Shit." Both Creed and Logan cursed as they looked around for a way out.
Some how out of the corner of his eye Creed saw four metal orbs fly by and land three or four roof tops away. No one seemed to notice them. He just needed a distraction, to get over there. He knew he could easily leap the rooftops and get there in no time but he needed a distraction. Creed then looked over and saw Logan an evil idea formed in his head.
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" So you're sure your friends are coming?" Peter's thick Russian accent coming out strong, as he spoke.
" Yes, I'm sure." Kitty answered back, just then Peter looked up and saw the same four orbs fly above and land about a few block away on a rooftop.
" I've gotta go." Peter said as he turned to leave. " You'll be ok right?"
" Ya, I'll be like fine." She then waved good-bye to him. " Will I ever see you again?"
" Maybe." He answered truthfully. They both smiled, and Peter walked back up to her. He gently took her small hand in his large one and kissed it. " I've seen my friend do that a million times, and I've always wanted to try it." Peter said with a small smile on his face as he looked up to her. Kitty giggled and Peter then left, disappearing into the darkness.
Kitty sighed and looked at her hand, and giggled. * Kitty. * A voice yelled from a pen like thing in her pocket.
" Ya, Scott?" Kitty asked a little upset that he spoiled her moment. As she removed the communicator from he pocket, and held it a foot away from her mouth.
* Are you in position? * Scott asked.
" Ya, I see them from here. Three of them. They're on the roof. Trask has them surrounded." She told him, she was a few blocks away from them but she could clearly see them.
* Good, we are almost their now.* Scott said, in a little panicky tone.
* Is she there? * Another voice asked female this time.
" Uh.No she's not Jean."
* What do you mean? * It was Scott again, yelling at Kitty. * You lost her? *
" It was an accident, ok. The Cajun ran her out of there before I could follow um." Kitty tried to defend herself.
* So they have her now?" Jean asked, trying to clarify things.
" Ya they do?" Kitty said disappointed in herself.
* Well, this complicates things a bit. *
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The taste of blood was fresh in her mouth; apparently she had coughed some up. Slowly she opened her eyes. She couldn't even move her eyes with out feeling pain. Her head was pounding and her vision was blurry. She could tell she was lying on her back in garbage no doubt. She knew for sure her legs were broken, her arms and even one of her wings. But she couldn't feel any of it. She couldn't even move her hands either; she had no idea how she was still breathing.
She didn't know what made those jerks leave her alone but she was grateful for what ever it was. The last thing she could clearly remember was one of the jerks choking her, strangling her neck. Maybe he snapped her spinal cord? Maybe?
She figured she was just going to die here. Her spinal cord had been snapped and there was no way she was ever going to fly or walk again. The last thing she wanted was to die but now, living in a wheel chair all her life didn't really sound like living. So at that moment she welcomed death will open arms.
It was then the soft sound of crying made its way to her ears. And for the first time she realized there were two other people in the alley with her. She tried as hard as she could to turn her head to see them, and when she finally managed to the pain was excruciating, but what she saw shocked her more. The girl had just kissed this guy and he collapsed.
The girl appeared to be in pain, as she clutched her head, and then her hands began to glow a deep pinkish color. " Oh no." Rogue yelled as she ripped off her gloves and tossed them deeper into the alley. A semi large blast shook them shaking some garbage about. " Stupid Swamp Rat's powers."
Seeing this as her chance she called out to Rogue. " Help." She called weakly, grateful that her voice still worked.
Rogue froze at this, she was about to just brush it off and leave Remy there but the voice called again. " Help me.Please." Rogue then gathered her courage and slowly began to walk back deeper into the ally.
" Any one dere?" Rouge called out.
" Over here." Rogue followed the voice and gasped when she came across a very battered girl, and as a side thought, Rogue wondered why she was seeing things in red.
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" Who's bloody idea was it to go on de roof?" John asked, panicky.
" Now's not the time Aussie. Though it as yours." Logan said threw clenched teeth as he growled in frustration.
" And you listened." John snapped back.
" Pyro." Sabertooth snarled. " Pyro, you think you can knock down the choppers?" Creed spoke quickly.
John just nodded. Creed slowly put him down as Trask's men came out and surrounded them. Logan and Creed took this time to attack the men on the roof while John took care of the helicopters.
John then dug into his pocket and pulled out his favorite lighter, it was silver with painted flames on it, he never went anywhere with out it. He then cupped his hand over the lighter and flicked it to light, instantly the flame grew in John's hand as he quickly aimed and threw at the first chopper he saw, the helicopter when down instantly, the sound of the men jumping out of the plane and the men below yelling filled the air. Quickly John got another fireball ready and aimed it at the second. But before he could relight and get ride of the third Creed had grabbed John and began to hop the roof tops to the four metal orbs, leaving Logan to fend for himself.
" CREED." Logan said in a rage as he continued to fight of the men that kept growing in numbers and slowly over powered him.
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" Oh mah Gawd..Are y' ok?" Rogue asked kneeling down beside the battered girl.
" Do.I look..ok?" The broken girl asked in a joking manner, it was then she saw the girl had glowing red eyes, but decided to leave them alone for now. This was her chance to get saved.
Rogue would of laughed at the small joke if it had been any other situation. The girl was pretty beat up. Her cloths were tattered and stained with blood. She had bruises on every part of exposed skin Rogue could see, and her body lay limp, lying helplessly on the ground in the garbage. Her ribs must have been broken on account for the huge amount of swelling she had all threw her chest, and stomach area. Her legs and arms looked to be broken as well, at least fractured. Even her wings looked broken and life less.wait wings? Rogue slowly moved to touch then but stopped when she realized she didn't have her gloves. Her wings were a blood red color, molted from her beating most likely. Small feathers lay life less on her body, and now that she looked harder the girl had a few rather long nails, and few looked broken. Rogue cringed at this. " Does it hurt?" ' Stupid question Rogue, no duh it hurts.'
" Yes and no, I can't ..feel from..my neck..down." She chocked out.
" Who did dis t' y'?" Rogue asked as she continued to stare at the her broke frail body, a little bit of a Cajun accent seeping into her speech.
" A group..of mutant..haters." Right then Rogue felt great pity for the girl, no mutant, no one for that matter should go threw this kind of pain for something they can't control.
" Oh mah Gawd..ah'm so sorry." Rogue knew it wasn't her fault but felt she should still say it.
" Why.you didn't.do..anything." The girl choked out, as silent tears began to fall down her cheeks without her noticing. " What.did you do.to him?"
Rogue knew instantly she was talking about what she did to Remy, and was afraid to tell her. " Ah.absorbed him.ah absorb a part of people when mah skin comes in contact with anothah persons skin." She had to fight back the tears that wanted to come out, she hated her powers, she rarely showed it but she hated them, and wished they would go away.
The girl tried to nod and asked another question she wanted to know. " Why.were you crying?"
At this Rogue remembered Logan. " Logan.ah gotta help him." She got up and turned to leave.
" Wait."
Rogue looked down to her and asked. " Why?" It was a stupid question but it just slipped out.
" Let.me help.you.." She trailed off.
" Ah don't think yar in much of a state ta help any one sugah." Rogue told her truthfully, and kindly. " Ah'll come back fer ya with help. Don' worry."
" Absorb me."
" WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Rogue practically screamed, as her voice echoed threw the alley. " Ah could kill ya if ah..NO!!!!"
" I'm dead any way.I could help you." She coughed a bit of blood, and looked Rogue straight in the eyes. " I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair." Again the silent tears made there way down her cheeks. " I could die.tonight from..internal bleeding..please..I don't want to die knowing I failed...I help you...you help me..simple.."
" Not really sugah. I've never absorbed a full physic befoh." Rogue said afraid and a feeling a tad guilty, she wanted to help her, but at what cost.
" There's..a first time.for everything.. Please." She asked again. She felt weaker like she was slowly slipping into the unconscious.
" Ah." Rogue didn't know what to do. Sure she needed this girls powers to help her save Logan but at what price. " Ya won' try an' take ovah mah body. Will ya?" This was Rogue's greatest fear. Most physics she absorbed tried to at one point take over her body, even the smallest ones, but a full physic? She didn't really want to take that risk.
" I won't" She tried to reassure her.
Rogue then took a deep breath. This was the biggest decision of her life, she would be stuck with this girl in her head forever, and she didn't even know her name. " What's yar name?"
A little thrown off by the question she had to think. " Alex Cooper. Yours?" Rogue thought for a moment that she could have been related to Max, but shrugged it off. Cooper was a pretty common last name right?
" Rogue." There was another small silence then Rogue took another deep breath and sighed. " Alright." The girl's eyes widened with happiness, and if she could of Rogue knew she would be hugging her now. " Ah hope ah'm not gonna regret this." Rogue said as she raised her bare hand over Alex's for head.
" You won't." Rogue nodded, with that Rogue placed her bare hand on Alex's forehead.
Alex tried as hard as she could to refrain from screaming for as long as possible. She felt her life force slowly get pulled away from her. Rogue had to fight the urge to pull her hand away from Alex's forehead, all these memories of her's came flooding into her, and she was having a problem keeping who she was inline.
Rogue's back all of a sudden tensed up and she cringed as she felt two small wings pierce threw the skin of her back and grow. By now both girl were screaming in pain as Rogue felt her nails begin to grow into razor sharp claws about a foot long. She gasped when she actually looked down at them, almost breaking her hold on Alex. Slowly the memories of Alex Cooper stopped flowing into her mind, and Alex's screams died down, until she was silent and Rogue's powers stopped absorbing.
Rogue slowly lifted her hand from her forehead, and gasped when she saw, Alex's pale life less face. She couldn't tell if she completely absorbed her or if Alex had died. Either way Rogue felt like shit for what she had just done.
She looked down at her hands and saw her knew claws, and gently touched her knew elegant blood read wings.
Did it work? Rogue heard a small voice ask. She spun around, her knew blood red wings slowing her down a little, to see who was there but saw no one. Then it clicked it was Alex, it had worked.
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Authors Note: Oh my God that was hard to write. Way harder then I expected but hey I'm done. I wanted to have it out sooner, but I think it was worth the wait. I find that it is hard to write this when I'm not at school, there I don't have a lot of things distracting me, so I can write. But oh well. I hope I can come up with the next chapter before next Wednesday but no promises, it just depends on my mood, and other things. PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok here we go for all those that are a tad lost. A lot happens in this chapter so I will try to clarify for all of you that are lost.
The chapter starts with Remy dragging Rogue away from the bar. She hears gunshots and wants to go back and save Logan, but Remy stops her. To get free she kisses him, which completely throw off are Cajun Charmer. So now he is out of it till next chapter. He had some minor telepathic abilities so Rogue didn't get a hold of all his memories, just the fact that he has been looking for her, nothing about Magneto and his plans for her. All she saw was him and Creed looking for her, and one memory that she can't ignore. And if you don't know what memory I'm talking about go back and read Chapter 3 part 2 please.
Then we go to see how Creed, Logan and John are doing. And for some reason I decided to put in a huge door that gets in their way, why you may ask. I don't know why honestly, I just liked the idea. One the roof, we see that Magneto knows what's going on so he sends his little flying metal orbs to save his lackeys. Then we check up on Peter and Kitty, Peter sees the orbs and decides to leave Kitty. Kitty then gets a call from Scott and Jean basically telling her they are on their way. Kitty then tells them that she lost Rogue. Then Creed decides to ditch Logan, and grabs John to back to the base, hoping that Remy has Rogue. Leaving Logan to fend for himself against Trask's men, but to make my story better Logan is going to get over powered and is going to need some help.
Then we go back to Rogue and the girl from before that got beaten up. Alex Cooper. Alex is basically going to die in the alley. There is no way really to save her. The only way she will be able to live on is if Rogue absorbs her. So after much debate she does.
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Rogue felt like her arm was about to be ripped off, as she ran or rather was being dragged, God knows where. Having enough she jerked her arm free causing Remy to come to a skidding halt.
" What th' hell was that about? An' why are ya dragin' meh along with ya? Ah want some answers Swamp Rat." Rogue demanded, stomping her foot on the ground. From what she could tell they ran about two and a half blocks away from the bar, leaving Logan behind. It was dark, pitch black, with some light coming from near by taverns, and such, the moon was suppose to be full tonight but you couldn't see a thing with the overcast of the clouds.
" Jus tryin' t' get y' out of dere so y' didn' have t' watch dose fools an' dere talk 'bout how mutants are de scum of de earth an' all." He then shoved his hands into his pockets, as he fished for a cigarette, to calm his nerves.
" They were lookin' for ya though." Rogue accused, she then shivered as the cold wind hit her neck. All she really was wearing was a black pair of jeans and black boots, her black sweat jacket over her favorite black halter top, black gloves, and about a pound of make-up, and her hair was partly pulled up, and partly down.
" Oui..cold chere?" He asked when he saw her shiver. He then had a triumphant smile on his face when he found his cigarette.
" No." She then had to fight back the urge to shiver when another chilling wind blew, as she turned her back to him. Remy smiled and then draped his worn trench coat over her shoulders, she gasped at this and turned around facing and glaring at him. " Ah don't need yar coat. Ah'm fine." Rogue snapped.
Remy put his hands up in surrender and shook his head. " Jus helping de femme, p'tite." Rogue still glared at him.
She was about to say something when three helicopters flew quickly over head. " What th' hell?" She said as she felt herself get jerked down into a dark alley right as about half a dozen police cars and a few SWAT trucks rushed by them.
Remy shoved his back against wall pressing Rogue closely against him, using his right hand to cover her mouth. After he thought they were gone he leaned his head forward to check to make sure the street were clear and safe.
Rogue was freaking out. He was way too close for comfort. She tried to break free but to no avail. Finally he let go, Rogue backed away from him wide eyed and was about to yell at him, but then she heard a man on a blow horn. This caused both Remy and Rogue to turn there heads in the direction and listen. The man yelled out some threats to the mutants in the bar. Then it hit her. " Logan." Rogue yelled as she tried to dash out of the alleyway to find him.
She was then jolted right back into Remy as he snaked and arm around her waist. Causing Remy's coat to fall to the ground, followed by a small piece of paper to fall down right beside it.
" Easy p'tite." Remy tried to calm her down but she refused to listen to him, as she continued to struggle.
" No, let meh go Gambit. Ah gotta help Logan." Rogue cried as she struggled against Remy. Just then the voice over the blow horn yelled out again. Followed by a round of gunshots. Rogue froze and nearly had a heart attack right then and there. " Please let meh go." This time she struggled even harder and almost got free.
" It's suicide Rogue, if y' go y'll get killed." Remy snapped, sounding a little harsher then he intended, but it was the truth. He was also great full that she didn't notice the fact he used her name and she never gave it to him.
" Ah don't care." Rogue snapped back, as she continued to struggle vigorously. " Ah have ta help him." She said looking back to the bar.
" For all y' know chere, he could be beyond y're help." Remy told her truthfully. At these words Rogue's struggle slowed and she bent her head down. He turned her around so she was facing him, he then used his left gloved hand and gently moved her head up to look at him. What he saw shocked him, she was crying. Remy felt so rotten at that moment, he hated to see girls cry and for some reason seeing her cry right then made his heart feel like breaking.
" Please." She asked again weakly, looking at him with the saddest eyes Remy had ever seen, even threw his sunglasses he saw her face perfectly.
" No chere." He said again. He had both of her arms pinned down at her sides and Rogue saw only one way out. Slowly yet quickly she raised her face up to his and kissed him briefly, just enough to knock him out for a while.
Remy was shocked beyond all belief as quickly as the kiss stared it ended and Remy felt himself slipping away into the darkness. Muttering " wow." Rogue then was surrounded with his memories., there wasn't that many actually, but then one memory told her that he was some was a telepath so he must have had them blocked, and for some reason he and some other guy were looking for her. But one memory stuck out to her.
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What's the hold up Creed?" A very pissed off Logan asked. They had stopped outside of a large door that lead to the roof, Creed had handed John over to Logan and was trying to break the lock on the door.
Creed just growled in response. For some reason there was a rather large lock on the door and steel hinges so they couldn't break the door down.
Logan growled again, and began to pace. " Ya know mate, a wise Cajun once told me patience is a virtue." John said to the stressing out Wolverine.
" Shut up." Both growled at John, as Creed continued to try and rip the lock off the door.
" Just give me a another minute." Creed added. Just then down below they heard Trask's men below, making there was up.
" Minutes up." Logan yelled as he threw John to Creed and brought out his claws and began to slash at the lock. It did nothing.
" Well that went well." John said sarcastically. Logan growled at him.
In a blinding rage Logan just continued to strike at the lock. Trask's men were getting closer, and with the last of Logan's strength the lock broke away. Right as Trask's men began to open fire on them.
They ran out onto the roof, only to be greeted by several spotlights focused brightly on them. " Out of the frying pan and into the flames." John yelled as he shielded his eyes.
" Shit." Both Creed and Logan cursed as they looked around for a way out.
Some how out of the corner of his eye Creed saw four metal orbs fly by and land three or four roof tops away. No one seemed to notice them. He just needed a distraction, to get over there. He knew he could easily leap the rooftops and get there in no time but he needed a distraction. Creed then looked over and saw Logan an evil idea formed in his head.
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" So you're sure your friends are coming?" Peter's thick Russian accent coming out strong, as he spoke.
" Yes, I'm sure." Kitty answered back, just then Peter looked up and saw the same four orbs fly above and land about a few block away on a rooftop.
" I've gotta go." Peter said as he turned to leave. " You'll be ok right?"
" Ya, I'll be like fine." She then waved good-bye to him. " Will I ever see you again?"
" Maybe." He answered truthfully. They both smiled, and Peter walked back up to her. He gently took her small hand in his large one and kissed it. " I've seen my friend do that a million times, and I've always wanted to try it." Peter said with a small smile on his face as he looked up to her. Kitty giggled and Peter then left, disappearing into the darkness.
Kitty sighed and looked at her hand, and giggled. * Kitty. * A voice yelled from a pen like thing in her pocket.
" Ya, Scott?" Kitty asked a little upset that he spoiled her moment. As she removed the communicator from he pocket, and held it a foot away from her mouth.
* Are you in position? * Scott asked.
" Ya, I see them from here. Three of them. They're on the roof. Trask has them surrounded." She told him, she was a few blocks away from them but she could clearly see them.
* Good, we are almost their now.* Scott said, in a little panicky tone.
* Is she there? * Another voice asked female this time.
" Uh.No she's not Jean."
* What do you mean? * It was Scott again, yelling at Kitty. * You lost her? *
" It was an accident, ok. The Cajun ran her out of there before I could follow um." Kitty tried to defend herself.
* So they have her now?" Jean asked, trying to clarify things.
" Ya they do?" Kitty said disappointed in herself.
* Well, this complicates things a bit. *
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The taste of blood was fresh in her mouth; apparently she had coughed some up. Slowly she opened her eyes. She couldn't even move her eyes with out feeling pain. Her head was pounding and her vision was blurry. She could tell she was lying on her back in garbage no doubt. She knew for sure her legs were broken, her arms and even one of her wings. But she couldn't feel any of it. She couldn't even move her hands either; she had no idea how she was still breathing.
She didn't know what made those jerks leave her alone but she was grateful for what ever it was. The last thing she could clearly remember was one of the jerks choking her, strangling her neck. Maybe he snapped her spinal cord? Maybe?
She figured she was just going to die here. Her spinal cord had been snapped and there was no way she was ever going to fly or walk again. The last thing she wanted was to die but now, living in a wheel chair all her life didn't really sound like living. So at that moment she welcomed death will open arms.
It was then the soft sound of crying made its way to her ears. And for the first time she realized there were two other people in the alley with her. She tried as hard as she could to turn her head to see them, and when she finally managed to the pain was excruciating, but what she saw shocked her more. The girl had just kissed this guy and he collapsed.
The girl appeared to be in pain, as she clutched her head, and then her hands began to glow a deep pinkish color. " Oh no." Rogue yelled as she ripped off her gloves and tossed them deeper into the alley. A semi large blast shook them shaking some garbage about. " Stupid Swamp Rat's powers."
Seeing this as her chance she called out to Rogue. " Help." She called weakly, grateful that her voice still worked.
Rogue froze at this, she was about to just brush it off and leave Remy there but the voice called again. " Help me.Please." Rogue then gathered her courage and slowly began to walk back deeper into the ally.
" Any one dere?" Rouge called out.
" Over here." Rogue followed the voice and gasped when she came across a very battered girl, and as a side thought, Rogue wondered why she was seeing things in red.
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" Who's bloody idea was it to go on de roof?" John asked, panicky.
" Now's not the time Aussie. Though it as yours." Logan said threw clenched teeth as he growled in frustration.
" And you listened." John snapped back.
" Pyro." Sabertooth snarled. " Pyro, you think you can knock down the choppers?" Creed spoke quickly.
John just nodded. Creed slowly put him down as Trask's men came out and surrounded them. Logan and Creed took this time to attack the men on the roof while John took care of the helicopters.
John then dug into his pocket and pulled out his favorite lighter, it was silver with painted flames on it, he never went anywhere with out it. He then cupped his hand over the lighter and flicked it to light, instantly the flame grew in John's hand as he quickly aimed and threw at the first chopper he saw, the helicopter when down instantly, the sound of the men jumping out of the plane and the men below yelling filled the air. Quickly John got another fireball ready and aimed it at the second. But before he could relight and get ride of the third Creed had grabbed John and began to hop the roof tops to the four metal orbs, leaving Logan to fend for himself.
" CREED." Logan said in a rage as he continued to fight of the men that kept growing in numbers and slowly over powered him.
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" Oh mah Gawd..Are y' ok?" Rogue asked kneeling down beside the battered girl.
" Do.I look..ok?" The broken girl asked in a joking manner, it was then she saw the girl had glowing red eyes, but decided to leave them alone for now. This was her chance to get saved.
Rogue would of laughed at the small joke if it had been any other situation. The girl was pretty beat up. Her cloths were tattered and stained with blood. She had bruises on every part of exposed skin Rogue could see, and her body lay limp, lying helplessly on the ground in the garbage. Her ribs must have been broken on account for the huge amount of swelling she had all threw her chest, and stomach area. Her legs and arms looked to be broken as well, at least fractured. Even her wings looked broken and life less.wait wings? Rogue slowly moved to touch then but stopped when she realized she didn't have her gloves. Her wings were a blood red color, molted from her beating most likely. Small feathers lay life less on her body, and now that she looked harder the girl had a few rather long nails, and few looked broken. Rogue cringed at this. " Does it hurt?" ' Stupid question Rogue, no duh it hurts.'
" Yes and no, I can't ..feel from..my neck..down." She chocked out.
" Who did dis t' y'?" Rogue asked as she continued to stare at the her broke frail body, a little bit of a Cajun accent seeping into her speech.
" A group..of mutant..haters." Right then Rogue felt great pity for the girl, no mutant, no one for that matter should go threw this kind of pain for something they can't control.
" Oh mah Gawd..ah'm so sorry." Rogue knew it wasn't her fault but felt she should still say it.
" Why.you didn't.do..anything." The girl choked out, as silent tears began to fall down her cheeks without her noticing. " What.did you do.to him?"
Rogue knew instantly she was talking about what she did to Remy, and was afraid to tell her. " Ah.absorbed him.ah absorb a part of people when mah skin comes in contact with anothah persons skin." She had to fight back the tears that wanted to come out, she hated her powers, she rarely showed it but she hated them, and wished they would go away.
The girl tried to nod and asked another question she wanted to know. " Why.were you crying?"
At this Rogue remembered Logan. " Logan.ah gotta help him." She got up and turned to leave.
" Wait."
Rogue looked down to her and asked. " Why?" It was a stupid question but it just slipped out.
" Let.me help.you.." She trailed off.
" Ah don't think yar in much of a state ta help any one sugah." Rogue told her truthfully, and kindly. " Ah'll come back fer ya with help. Don' worry."
" Absorb me."
" WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Rogue practically screamed, as her voice echoed threw the alley. " Ah could kill ya if ah..NO!!!!"
" I'm dead any way.I could help you." She coughed a bit of blood, and looked Rogue straight in the eyes. " I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair." Again the silent tears made there way down her cheeks. " I could die.tonight from..internal bleeding..please..I don't want to die knowing I failed...I help you...you help me..simple.."
" Not really sugah. I've never absorbed a full physic befoh." Rogue said afraid and a feeling a tad guilty, she wanted to help her, but at what cost.
" There's..a first time.for everything.. Please." She asked again. She felt weaker like she was slowly slipping into the unconscious.
" Ah." Rogue didn't know what to do. Sure she needed this girls powers to help her save Logan but at what price. " Ya won' try an' take ovah mah body. Will ya?" This was Rogue's greatest fear. Most physics she absorbed tried to at one point take over her body, even the smallest ones, but a full physic? She didn't really want to take that risk.
" I won't" She tried to reassure her.
Rogue then took a deep breath. This was the biggest decision of her life, she would be stuck with this girl in her head forever, and she didn't even know her name. " What's yar name?"
A little thrown off by the question she had to think. " Alex Cooper. Yours?" Rogue thought for a moment that she could have been related to Max, but shrugged it off. Cooper was a pretty common last name right?
" Rogue." There was another small silence then Rogue took another deep breath and sighed. " Alright." The girl's eyes widened with happiness, and if she could of Rogue knew she would be hugging her now. " Ah hope ah'm not gonna regret this." Rogue said as she raised her bare hand over Alex's for head.
" You won't." Rogue nodded, with that Rogue placed her bare hand on Alex's forehead.
Alex tried as hard as she could to refrain from screaming for as long as possible. She felt her life force slowly get pulled away from her. Rogue had to fight the urge to pull her hand away from Alex's forehead, all these memories of her's came flooding into her, and she was having a problem keeping who she was inline.
Rogue's back all of a sudden tensed up and she cringed as she felt two small wings pierce threw the skin of her back and grow. By now both girl were screaming in pain as Rogue felt her nails begin to grow into razor sharp claws about a foot long. She gasped when she actually looked down at them, almost breaking her hold on Alex. Slowly the memories of Alex Cooper stopped flowing into her mind, and Alex's screams died down, until she was silent and Rogue's powers stopped absorbing.
Rogue slowly lifted her hand from her forehead, and gasped when she saw, Alex's pale life less face. She couldn't tell if she completely absorbed her or if Alex had died. Either way Rogue felt like shit for what she had just done.
She looked down at her hands and saw her knew claws, and gently touched her knew elegant blood read wings.
Did it work? Rogue heard a small voice ask. She spun around, her knew blood red wings slowing her down a little, to see who was there but saw no one. Then it clicked it was Alex, it had worked.
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Authors Note: Oh my God that was hard to write. Way harder then I expected but hey I'm done. I wanted to have it out sooner, but I think it was worth the wait. I find that it is hard to write this when I'm not at school, there I don't have a lot of things distracting me, so I can write. But oh well. I hope I can come up with the next chapter before next Wednesday but no promises, it just depends on my mood, and other things. PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok here we go for all those that are a tad lost. A lot happens in this chapter so I will try to clarify for all of you that are lost.
The chapter starts with Remy dragging Rogue away from the bar. She hears gunshots and wants to go back and save Logan, but Remy stops her. To get free she kisses him, which completely throw off are Cajun Charmer. So now he is out of it till next chapter. He had some minor telepathic abilities so Rogue didn't get a hold of all his memories, just the fact that he has been looking for her, nothing about Magneto and his plans for her. All she saw was him and Creed looking for her, and one memory that she can't ignore. And if you don't know what memory I'm talking about go back and read Chapter 3 part 2 please.
Then we go to see how Creed, Logan and John are doing. And for some reason I decided to put in a huge door that gets in their way, why you may ask. I don't know why honestly, I just liked the idea. One the roof, we see that Magneto knows what's going on so he sends his little flying metal orbs to save his lackeys. Then we check up on Peter and Kitty, Peter sees the orbs and decides to leave Kitty. Kitty then gets a call from Scott and Jean basically telling her they are on their way. Kitty then tells them that she lost Rogue. Then Creed decides to ditch Logan, and grabs John to back to the base, hoping that Remy has Rogue. Leaving Logan to fend for himself against Trask's men, but to make my story better Logan is going to get over powered and is going to need some help.
Then we go back to Rogue and the girl from before that got beaten up. Alex Cooper. Alex is basically going to die in the alley. There is no way really to save her. The only way she will be able to live on is if Rogue absorbs her. So after much debate she does.
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I hope this was helpful to those of you that couldn't really follow what I wrote. Any more questions please e-mail me.
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Until the next chapter: Old Friends
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Enjoy : )