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: This is my first Rogue fic so constructive criticism is allowed, but no people being plain rude.
Vote for Rogue's BF(boyfriend): Romy still in the lead!
Scott: 1 Remy: 7 Pietro: 6 David: 1 Blake: 2 Adam:0
Evan:0 Lance:0 Bobby:0 Todd:0 Dejuan:0 Brian:0
Robby:0 John: 2
Chapter 4
"Blake? Marie?" Adam called into the empty house. After getting no answer he added, "I guess they went out for a while." Rogue and Blake then entered the house laughing at some joke they'd shared on their way back. Rogue smiled at Adam and David.
"Hey," she said. "What's up?"
"Nothin much," David answered. Taking in the guitar his little brother held he asked, "How'd you do on your lessons?"
"Awesome!" Blake answered for her as he set his guitar down in a corner of the living room. "She learns fast and she's already got the basics down."
"Cool. Marie, we wanted to talk to you about something."
"What?" Rogue raised a suspicious eyebrow and waited.
"We want to take you to meet Professor Xavier. He's a mutant too and he runs a school for gifted kids, or mutants, whichever. He and his colleagues teach the kids to control their powers. They wanted us to join them, but we didn't want to. You may need an extra bit of help with your powers, but you don't have to move out if you don't want to. You could just go there for lessons after school with us. When Adam told you that I make them work on their powers he meant to say I make them come with me on sessions with the Professor, and his friends, to work on our control." Rogue gulped audibly and nodded her agreement.
"W-when?" she asked.
"Now. We have a session in thirty minutes."
Professor X!" Kitty cried running through the mansion halls. "David and the guys are, like, here! And they, like, brought a girl!"
"Yes, Kitty," Professor X said as he appeared from nowhere. The two made their way through the halls to the front of the mansion. "I know."
When he got to the front he told Kitty to go and collect the other members of the team. He saw that David, Adam, and Blake had arrived for their training as usual and had brought the friend David told him about.
"Hello," he said rolling towards her and extending his hand. "I'm Professor Xavier. You must be Rogue." The young girl nodded and shook his hand letting go of it quickly, even though she wore gloves.
"Yeah," she said.
Professor Xavier inclined his head behind him knowing that by then his team had all appeared and was standing behind him.
"This is my team and family," he said. "Scott, Jean, Ororo, Evan, Kurt, Kitty, and Logan. They're also known as the X-men." He did not expect for the teenager's face to suddenly go pale and to start backing slowly away from him.
"X-men?" Rogue asked nervously backing away from them. Adam, Blake, and David all ran towards the doors and blocked them after recognizing her signs of flight. By the time Rogue reached the door she was barred in by the three brothers. She turned her face defiantly up at them.
"Let meh go!" she hissed venomously.
"Negative," Blake returned firmly.
"Let meh go right now! Ah don't want tuh hurt ya, but Ah will if Ah have tuh." She reached toward her right hand and prepared to take off her glove. The Professor and the X-men watched this scene in stunned silence. The Professor finally broke the threatening silence.
"What are you so afraid of?" he asked softly slowly going closer to her. He stopped only when he saw that the closer he came the farther away she tried to get.
"As if ya don't know!" she said. "Y-ya had one o' yur goons attack me."
"Goons? I don't have goons. But what did they look like?"
"Ah don't know. He was a guy in tights with silver claws. He told me Ah was dealing with tha X-men." Logan blanched. He extended his claws and Rogue almost took off her glove to drain Blake, but she was stopped by David.
"Like these?" Logan asked roughly.
"Yeah," she swallowed nervously.
"It wasn't me. I've never seen you before in my life." He looked to Professor X as though pleading his case.
"It's alright, Logan. I know who it was," Xavier said assuringly.
"Mystique," Logan growled. He retracted his claws even though saying the name made him want to do the opposite.
"Exactly."
"Who, the shape shifter?" Rogue asked confused. The Professor looked at Rogue sharply.
"You know her?" he asked.
"Slightly. She wanted meh tuh join tha Brothahood. Ah was so shocked tuh find out Ah was a mutant that Ah ran away. Why?"
"She tricked you. Cerebro missed your mutant powers surfacing, due to interference, and she must've believed that I was on my way. She tried to scare you so that if we ever showed up, or you met us later, you'd never want to join us. You'd be too scared."
"How do Ah know ya tellin' tha truth?" she asked. She'd finally stopped fighting Blake and allowed him and his brothers relax once they saw that she wouldn't run.
"You have to trust us and ask yourself if you really trust them," Xavier said gesturing towards Blake, Adam, and David. "Do you really believe that they would take you to people who only wanted to hurt you?"
"No," she answered immediately surprising everyone with her faith.
"So...do you trust us or what, Stripes?" Logan asked.
"Ah'm thinkin' about it." Logan grinned. He liked the kid already.
"Yes, well, I believe we should get on with training. Follow the others and they'll give you a suit," Professor X said.
