Rock Me
Disclaimer: I don't own X-men: Evolution at all in any way, shape, or form.
Summery: Mystique never convinced Rogue to join the Brotherhood and the Professor didn't detect her. She ends up in Bayville with no place to stay, no friends, no answers, and doesn't know who to trust. She finds herself outside of a house hungry, tired, and scared. She knocks on the door and finds three guys that'll rock her world...
AN: All the 15yr. olds are Freshmen, 16yr. olds are Sophomores, 17yr.olds are Juniors, anyone who's 18 is a Senior. This is my first Rogue fic so constructive criticism is allowed, but no people being plain rude.
Thanks to: Everyone who's reviewed so far. Especially Spectra2 who helped me straighten some things out with my info. I hope you all like the next chapter.
Vote for Rogue's BF(boyfriend): A Romy pairing is in the lead!
Scott:0 Remy: 5 Pietro:1 David:0 Blake:0 Adam:0
Evan:0 Lance:0 Bobby:0 Todd:0 Dejuan:0 Brian:0
Robby:0 John: 1
Chapter 2
When she awoke she found herself in a small bedroom furnished with a TV on top of a coffee table, two dressers, a desk and chair. Her bag was set aside in a corner.
Rogue got out of bed went downstairs to find her savior(s). The smell of food lead the teen into the kitchen where she saw three teenage guys cooking dinner. One was over the stove stirring a pot of pasta and sauce, another was making a salad, while the last was setting the table and laying a basket of rolls on the table. He was the first to notice her.
"Hey!" he said gaining attention. "Sleeping Beauty's awake!"
The other two boys looked towards Rogue giving her a better view of them.
"Hi, I'm Adam," said the guy who'd been cooking over the stove. He was tall, lean and muscular, with short spiky brown hair, icy blue eyes, he wore a cross earring in his right ear, a black wife-beater, and jeans. Rogue noticed that he had a tribal tattoo on his left arm.
"I'm Blake," said the boy who'd addressed her as sleeping beauty. He was Rogue's height if not a few inches taller, he had chin length black hair, green eyes, he was built slightly thicker than Adam in the muscle department, he wore a black T-shirt and shorts, and he had the same tribal tattoo on his right leg as Adam.
"And I'm David," said the last boy who'd been making the salad. He was just as tall as Adam, he had hazel eyes, he had an earring in his left ear, short messy brown hair, he was lean and muscular, he was wearing a blue wife-beater, jeans, and had the same tribal tattoo on his right arm as Adam and Blake.
"Ah'm Marie," she said nodding towards each boy. "Thank Y'all for helping me. Ah've got money to pay you with if Y'all let me stay the nigh'." She bit her lip and waited for a response that came almost instantly.
"No problem. Don't worry about the money," said David. He gestured towards the table and Rogue sat. "Have dinner with us and we can talk about how a southern gal like you, ended up here."
David went back to the stove while the other boys sat down. When he came back to the table he had a big bowl of pasta. He set it down and took a seat as his brothers began to grab anything edible.
"You'd better grab some quick. They'll have it all before you know it," he grinned at Rogue. Once everyone was settled Adam decided to break the ice.
"So, how'd you get here, if you're from the South?" he asked stuffing a roll into his mouth.
"How'd ya know Ah'm from the South?"
"Your accent."
"Oh. Well, Ah'm not sure Ah should tell Y'all about that. Ya may be scared of meh aftah Ah tell ya." Rogue rubbed her hands on her skirt nervously.
"Go ahead. We won't hurt you." Rogue swallowed as she shook her head.
"No, but Ah could hurt you." She stood up and started to walk out of the room. "Ah shouldn't even be here. Thanks fuh everything. Ah gotta get outah here. Ah'm too dangerous."
"Wait!" Blake said reaching across the table and grabbing Rogue's arm. Missing the clothed part of her arm he shouted out immediately as he felt his energy drain into her. Rogue wrenched her arm away and looked at Blake in horror.
"No!" she screamed as Blake fell to the floor panting. Rogue ran out of the room and back upstairs into her room as Blake's friends went to check up on him. She couldn't stand to look into their eyes after what'd happened. They knew she was a freak now. They'd hate her before they'd even know anything about her.
She heard coming up the stairs so she ran to the door and locked it. As she grabbed her duffel bag she heard a knocking on the door.
"Marie!" Adam said through the other side. "Marie, open the door! It's okay! Blake's okay. You didn't hurt him. Come out so we can talk!" He sounded earnest and Rogue wanted so much to believe him, but she couldn't. She'd seen the way mutants were treated by normal people. They were hated and feared all at once. She couldn't handle it.
"No! Go away and leave meh alone! Ah want to leave!"
"You can leave...after we talk. We know what's happening to you!"
"Ah know what happenin' to meh too! Ah'm a freak with powahs that can kill!" Rogue shouted angrily.
"So am I," Adam shouted through the door. "We all are. Trust me and I'll show you."
"No!" Rogue opened the window and looked outside. There was a large tree right next to the window. One of its branches reached out to the window and was far enough for Rogue to climb onto. She dropped her bag onto the ground and reached out to jump onto the branch. She shimmied down the tree and prepared to leave. She bent down to grab her bag and turned to leave when she bumped into what felt like a brick wall. Looking up she saw David frowning down at her.
"Uh, hi?" she said meekly before turning so she could run. David grabbed her arm and started to drag her back into the house.
"Let meh go!" Rogue squirmed. Throwing her hand out towards the tree. She was shocked to see an electricity ball come from the hand and hit the tree blowing a hole through it. David let her arm go when he saw she was too stunned to move.
"Now will you come back in with me?" he panted softly. He looked at Rogue meaningfully. "I think we all have some explaining to do." Rogue nodded dumbly and followed him into the house where Adam and Blake were sitting in the living room waiting for them.
"What happened?" Adam asked looking at Rogue's pale face and David's drawn one.
"She threw electricity through a tree." He escorted Rogue over to the couch and sat down next to her. "Will you tell us what happened in the kitchen?" Rogue nodded slowly. She opened and closed her mouth many times before finally speaking.
"Ah-Ah'm a mutant. My powahs ain't exactly people friendly. Ah have the ability to drain someone's life force and powah. Ah guess that's what I did tuh Blake. Ah'm sorry. Ah should've told ya, but Ah was scared that Y'all would think Ah'm a freak and report meh or somethin'."
"Well," Blake said winking. "You don't have to worry about that. How'd you end up here?"
"Well, Ah was at a party and was dancing with a guy named Cody. We fell somehow and he grabbed onto mah arm and touched mah skin. I drained him and when Ah left he was in a coma. Ah think he's bettah now because he ain't in mah head any more. That's kind of a side effect. Whoevah Ah drain, Ah get a bit of their personality stuck in mah head. Too many of 'em in there an' who knows what'll happen. Ah'm still figurin' some things out.
"Anyway, Ah went tuh my fostah-mothah and she said that she knew a woman who'd help meh. Ah believed her and we came here on the first fligh' we could get. When we got heh she sent meh to an abandoned parkin' lot alone and left meh. Ah saw some woman come out. Ah think she said 'er name was Mystique." Rogue missed the sharp intake of breath from the three boys.
"Well, Ah ran away from 'er because Ah couldn't believe that Ah was a mutant. And Ah ended up heh somehow. What about Y'all?" she asked suddenly. "How'd Ah end up throwin' electricity at a tree?" David sighed and ran his hands through his short brown hair.
"Well, first things first. We're not friends or roommates if that's what you're thinking," Adam told her. "We're brothers. David's seventeen, I'm sixteen, and Blake's fifteen. Our parents died two years ago and David somehow found a way to keep us all together. We've been living on out own every since. Our parents were loaded, so we have plenty of money, but David makes us work anyway."
"So what about ya powahs?" Rogue asked looking at the boys curiously.
"Well, we discovered we had them right after out parents died. There was a whole scene with Child Protective Services and..." he shrugged. "Lets just say they won't bother us ever again. David's had us working with our powers everyday after school and we've learned to control them. I've got the power to blow things up with my hands. No fire balls or anything. I just concentrate and an explosion happens."
"I can create and throw electricity, as you already know," Blake said.
"And I can think of something and it will appear in my hand. Kind of materializing," David explained. He was silent for a moment before finally saying what he'd been thinking. "But here's the deal. You don't have anyplace to stay and we have an extra bedroom so..."
"So why don't you live here with us?" Adam finished when it seemed Rouge didn't understand.
"Are ya sure, sugah?" Rogue asked uncertainly.
"Yeah! She called me sugar- I mean sugah-I mean-oh whatever! She called me a pet name! You've just made my day," Adam grinned and Rogue smiled. "And yeah. We need more people around the house."
"But there are some rules," David butted in.
"Oh here we go," Blake sighed. He turned his head from his brother and whistled as though to ignore him.
"One: you have to go to school, two: you have to help out around the house, three: we have to work everyday on our powers after school, four: you have to have a job for spending money, and five: never ever use your powers for bad. We only do good in this house." Rogue nodded.
"Okay," she said slowly. "Ah can do that, but Ah have a rule of mah own. Don't call meh Marie in public. Call meh Rogue. Marie just doesn't seemed tuh fit anymore."
Adam smiled. "If we're going by codenames now, then call me Blast, Blake is Shocker, and David is Form. Only call us that if we're using our powers. Actually," Adam said standing. "I'll show you the best part. Follow me." He lead Rogue to the garage with his brothers tailing him.
When they reached the garage Adam opened the door and showed Rogue what looked to be a rehearsal room. It had been carpeted and insulated and changed into a real room, but it still had a garage door. There were a set of drums, some amps, two bass guitars, and two lead guitars, four microphones, an acoustic guitar, and some speakers.
"Wow. What's all this?" Rogue asked stepping into the room and looking around.
"This is our rehearsal room. We're in a band," Blake said giddily.
"What's with the extra microphones and guitars?"
"They were on sale," David said defensively as Rogue picked up an acoustic guitar and played around on it with her fingers. "Two-for-one."
"Cool. So what's your band called?" Rogue asked still playing around with the instrument.
"We haven't decided on a name yet, but we're trying to play for the welcome back high school dance," Blake told her. "We need another person to sing and play. Can you?"
"Ah don't know. Ah've never tried before. Ah guess Ah could try if you helped me. Ah'd love to learn how to play this thing."
"No problem," Blake said. "I'll teach you. But we'd better go on to bed now. I'm kind of tired and I'd like to get some rest. We've got work tomorrow, but right after I'll show you how to play and teach you some of the songs we've got here and maybe you could write some of your own."
