Quest to the Past
Author: Illussen
Chapter 4: I can't
Anna shut the door of her room and fell on the bed crying. After a minute someone knocked at her door.
"GO AWAY!!!" she yelled. Instead the door opened revealing a concerned Rogue. "I told y'to go away!" she said.
"But ya don't want me to go away." Rogue answered.
"What do y'want?" Anna asked.
"Apologize for Scott. Ya know he's an idiot and his words aren't deign of yah attention."
"But how could he even think that I was capable of killin' my sister, the one I sacrificed my self. How could he?" Anna asked sobbing.
"He hates the fact the professor accepted ya here when he didn't agree. That's why. Everything that happens here is put on the responsibility of the one he hates the most. He and Miss Perfect Little Red Head are with the blaming."
"Fuck them. I won't accept their insults anymore." she answered.
"Anna, ya aren't talking serious. Ya're not leaving the Institute."
"Yes, I am. I'm tellin' y' Rogue. The Brotherhood is piece of cake."
"Ah know. But if ya go, ya'll just show Scott that you're weak."
"I don't care."
"Anna, Ah won't let ya go. Logan won't let ya go. Storm won't let ya go. Dean won't let ya go. Speaking of which, ya missed quite a show."
"What?"
"Well, Dean wasn't in the kitchen when ya argued with Scott. A moment after ya left he came in. He saw Mina then asked meh what happened. Ah explained in few words and Dean just turned around and- well, let's just say that Scott will have a very big and ugly bruise for a very long time on his jaw. Then professor, Logan, Hank and Storm entered, found out what happened, lectured Scott and gave him a very big punishment and took Mina somewhere." Anna stopped crying.
"All this in one minute?" she asked.
"Yes. Now, ya're not leaving aren't ya?"
"Rogue, don't make things harder for me..."
"Anna, why to go? Here is the only place that ya have people to care about ya and people to love ya? Why to throw that away?"
"Yes, but I have people that hate me and that are ready to kill me." Anna added.
"Knowing the Professor, he'll send Mina home. There is no way of letting her stay here knowing the fact that she just tried to kill you cause Dean loved you and not her."
"How do you know about that?"
"Well, Ah touched Jean 'accidentally' yesterday and got her power. So I entered Mina's mind when she woke up and found out."
Knock. Knock.
"Who is it?" Rogue asked.
"Scott." Rogue and Anna looked at each other.
"I don't want to see him." Anna mouthed.
"What do ya want?" Rogue asked.
"Talk with Anna."
"She doesn't want to." Rogue replied.
"Just one minute." Anna nodded.
"Fine, enter." Scott entered as Anna looked up at him. The bruise was how Rogue described it, very big and more in the right side. And it was hard not to smile when seeing it.
"What do y'want, Summers?" Anna asked.
"Apologize." he answered making the 2 girls look at each other then back at him.
"Excuse me?" Anna asked.
"I want to apologize from you because I told you were a murderer. You didn't deserve it." he explained, his eyes on the ground.
"Y'realize that I can't forgive y'just like that. If that's everythin' y'had to say, then y'can go." Anna replied.
"Fine. I have one more thing to say. Don't leave the Institute because of me. You're a valuable member of the team and there's no sense to lose you because a stupid accusation."
"I'll think about it." Anna retorted.
"Night." Scott said and left.
"Professor Xavier sent him." Anna said when Scott left. Rogue nodded.
"Still, ya're not leaving, aren't ya?" Rogue asked. Anna closed her eyes.
"I don't know what to do, Rogue..."
"I know. Ya're staying whether ya like it or not."
Knock. Knock.
"Who could it be now?" Anna asked. Rogue raised her shoulders.
"Who is it?" she asked.
"Dean." Rogue looked at Anna then back at the door.
"Come in." Slap! Rogue looked at Anna that just slapped her behind her head. "Ouch!"
"Hi." Dean said as he entered. Rogue smiled as Anna was ready to slap her again.
"Hi." Anna answered. "What's up?"
"Wanted to talk with you." he answered.
"Well, Ah have to go." Rogue said as she rose from the bed. Death glare from Anna. "Bye." she said and left and closed the door behind her. Dean and Anna looked at each other for some moments until Dean decided to break the silence.
"You've been crying..."
"I couldn't laugh at what happened." Anna answered.
"I'm sorry." he said.
"For?" Anna asked confused.
"Because I left you alone with Mina. If I'd have been there, none of these would have happened."
"Don't talk foolish. Mina had lost her mind and I'll never forgive her for what she did." Anna said.
"Did she hurt you?" he asked concerned.
"No. She has a big weakness in her powers. She doesn't know how to hide her steps. Someone with a good hearin' would spot her immediately." she explained trying to stay calm when he approached the bed and sat on an edge.
"You don't care for her anymore?" he asked.
"Yes, I do. We were best friends since we were little. It hurts me to see her this way. But professor says that he'll send her to her parents to take care of her." she explained.
"It's the best." he said.
"Y' don't like her just one bit?" Anna asked curious. Dean looked at her.
"No. You know who I love." he said staring in her eyes.
"And y'know that this is impossible." Anna said.
"Why? Why now?" he asked somehow pleading with his eyes to love him.
"Because I can't..." Anna began. What she was about to say broke her heart in two.
"You can't what?" he asked.
"I can't love you." she said and turned her eyes. Don't be stupid!!! Yell that you love him!!! Yell!!! Her words shocked him.
"Why?" he asked surprised.
"If Mina would ever come in her mind and she would hear that I'm involved with y', she would go crazy again and hunt me all my life. And I don't want to be obligated to do again what I did." she explained. I'm lying, you idiot!!! I'm lying!!! Just one kiss and I'll yell to the world that I'd do anything for you!!! Dean rose abruptly from the bed.
"Jesus God, Anna!!! When will you stop sacrificing yourself for Mina? When?" he asked, his voice raising.
"Dean, just forget me." she said looking into the ground.
"Fine." he said as he left and shut the door. Anna rose from the bed and ran to the door. She put her hand on the knob but changed her mind. She turned around and put her back on the door.
"Come back, idiot." she whispered as she fell down, tears in her eyes. "Come back, I love you." she said once more her tears watering the carpet.