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Title: The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

Author's Notes: Today I watched the old 90's X-Men and this particular episode had the best Rogue/Remy scene EVER. I mean it was early this morning and I'm still all warm and fuzzy inside. Just thought you might like to hear that

Shout Outs! I'm seriously stunned by all the reviews that I've gotten. You guys rule!

Large amounts of thanks and chocolate chips cookies to: wildcardrose, Aro, CrazySpirit123, HologramX, Lady Sir Henry Morgan, Plague-darkholme, epona04, Elle, Scarlet Stripes, Star-of-Chaos, suzu, catherine, kurai kaiba, Totally Obsessed47, Les723, enchantedlight, Allie and silky black You guys have no idea how much you ROCK MY SOCKS

xpoisonxangelx: Yay! My first reviewer! Choke, Belle, choke. Ok maybe I'm a bit sadistic...but so are you so at least I'm not alone!

IvyZoe: I agree. It drives me crazy when people try to play Rogue off as a total outcast. Don't worry she'll have some friends.

MJK: I think the big incident leading to Rogue's freakhood (so to speak) will be a few chapters down the road, but this one will sort of give you a feel for it.

ishandahalf: Only a little bit hostile. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Hope your ready for a lot more Belle (if I don't stab her with a spork first).

Melphis: I doubt that Kurt and Rogue will be related just because it would be hard to pull off in this setting.

GreenFairyGirl88: The school is actually Bayville high and none of the characters are mutants, as this story takes place in an alternate universe from the one XME is in.

TheDreamerLady: Yeah I know that she's a bit out of character, but that's the beauty of AU. Maybe some evietro but I'm not much of a slash person (but I love femslash, just so you know...)

EmeraldKatsEye: Thank you so much. I've been having a crapy day and your review made me grin like crazy. You are indeed the 26th reviewer. I never dreamed I get so many reviews. I'm still kind of in shock.

roguewannabe29: I hope this is soon enough for ya!

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Rogue sat in algebra II starring at the ceiling and trying to block out Miss Frost's lecture, with pretty much consisted of "So if X is equal to Y minus 2, then Y would have to equal 5, no wait that's wrong, no never mind it is 5, but that doesn't work in the case of 12...oh just let me go check the answer book."

Miss Frost was had just gotten out of college and was probably as qualified to teach math as Belle was. Once Rouge had gone into the room during lunch to retrieve her forgotten folder and found Miss Frost, writing on the chock board and trying desperately to understand the assignment for advanced algebra.

"Rogue, does this make any sense to you," she'd asked pointing to board. Rogue had simply shaken her head and left the room, without even looking at the equation. It was Miss Frost's problem if she was too dumb to understand her own subject.

"Rogue, what did you get?" Rogue jumped at hearing her name.

"Huh?" she asked starring blankly at the teacher.

"What did you get for problem seven?" Miss Frost asked tapping her foot on the floor.

"Uh...I...ah...I mean...I," she stuttered. The other students were starting to laugh.

"Come on Rogue, it wasn't that hard," Miss Frost said smiling slightly.

"Look I..." Rogue felt somebody kick the back of her chair three times, "I didn't" the same person kicked three more times. Maybe they were trying to tell her the answer was three. It wasn't likely, but what the hell it couldn't hurt. "It's three."

"Very good X equals three. I told you that it wasn't hard." Rogue glanced behind her to see who was sitting there. Usually that desk was empty as nobody wanted to sit to close to her.

It was John, the most insane person ever. Apparently he used to date Wanda before he got too cool for socks, as Risty liked to say, and dumped her. Now he went out with some cute little princess of a sophomore.

"Your welcome," he said grinning. Rogue glared at him and turned back around. While she wasn't especially close to Wanda they were still friends and thus she was not going to be nice to John anytime soon.

"So, anyway I'm sure you all know the slope intercept formula it's...um...well actually, Bobby why don't you tell me what it is."

Rogue decided that it wasn't worth listening, so she pulled out a pen and started doodling on the back of her binder. This was her favorite pastime in boring classes. The front was already covered in spiders and horses, and cheerleader eating snakes. Today, she decided, was a good day to invent a snake that ate everyone who spoke in the third person.

Rogue was hard at work on a gigantic serpent that covered the entire back cover of her binder when the bell rang. She sat at her desk waiting for everyone to leave before she got up. Rogue had just left the room when she felt someone put their arm around her shoulder. She panicked.

"Let go of me!" she shirked jabbing her elbow into the stomach of whoever was behind her.

"Umph," said her 'attacker' letting go of her. It was none other than John...again.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Rogue demanded.

"Are you ok?" he asked ignoring how badly his stomach hurt. "You're all shaky, and pale...well even more pale."

Rogue held up her hand to see that it was indeed shaking violently, her heart was beating so hard she felt like it might explode.

"Why'd you do that? Did ya lose a bet or something?" Rogue demanded again, her voice shaking. She crossed her arms in front of her and starred at John. They were starting to attract a large group of people. Great even more proof that I'm crazy.

"No, I just wanted to say hi, to ya," John said. He looked sort of nervous. "But if you don't want to say hi back, I'll just be off to science." Rogue watched him push his way through the crowd and disappear.

She wished that everyone would stop starring at her and leave. She definitely couldn't walk through that big of a crowd. Rogue could handle being touched a little bit when there was fabric in-between her and them. But having someone throw their arm around her shoulder was way too much.

She let out a sigh of relief as the crowd slowly started to wander off towards class. As Rogue walked to her locker she considered the possibility of skipping the rest of the day.

She had PE next which was by far her least favorite class, not because she wasn't athletic but because she had to wear the gym uniform of shorts and a t-shirt and because she was constantly in trouble for refusing to participate. Not to mention the fact that Remy was in the class.

After PE she had drama, which was with Scott and Jean. She'd had enough of them holding hands for one day. And after that it was chemistry where she was lab partners with Belle. So far they had already caused three small explosions. She really didn't feel like blowing anything else up

It seemed to be as good a day as any to cut. Rogue shoved her books into her locker and walked into the nearest bathroom. She'd learned the hard way that trying to leave the school during the passing period when teachers were still out in the halls didn't work at all.

This had been the worst day she'd had in a long time. It had all started out with her alarm clock malfunctioning and shirking two pitches higher than it usually did a couple of minutes after midnight. Even though Rogue was far from being superstitious, she knew that it had to be a sign not to get up.

Unfortunately Irene hadn't agreed with her, so here she was sitting in the bathroom stall waiting for her chance to escape.

Time passed slowly but after a while the hallways got quiet and the bell rang signaling Rogue's chance. Once she was sure the halls were clear, she ran out of the bathroom and hurried out the small back door.

It was freezing outside. Sometime that morning the first snow of the year had fallen and coated Bayville in white. Rogue loved the cold. She could never explain it but there was just something about being frozen to the bone that made her feel good. Maybe this day wouldn't be so bad after all.

As Rogue walked the snow crunched under her combat boots and her fingers quickly turned numb. It reminded her of the song her last foster family liked to play around Christmas time. "Walkin' in a winter wonderland" or something like that. Rogue had never cared much for the song but she couldn't help sing it softly now. "In the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Parson Brown..." she couldn't remember the rest but it had something to do with marriage.

Rogue probably should have known things were going to well. She had made it a block or so away from the school when she heard a familiar voice behind her.

"Lovely weather we're havin', wouldn't you say so, chere?"

Rogue jumped nearly a foot at hearing this, she turned quickly around to see a very smug looking Remy.

"I have to say that I loved your rendition of "Winter Wonderland"."

"Go to hell Lebeau," she snapped unable to think of anything better to say.

"What would a belle fille like you be doin' out here in the cold," he asked grinning. Rogue really would have liked to slap him. But that would haven't meant making contact with his face, with she was not going to do.

"Have you been following me?" Rogue asked.

"Of course not. But now that I think about it, aren't you truant?"

"So are you."

"Ah but therein lies the difference between you and me. I'm a senior so I have five free periods each semester. You're a junior so you don't."

"Then why'd you waste one to follow me?"

Remy ignored this question.

"Listen, you meet me in the library after school today, and agree to do your half of this assignment and I'll just walk off and forget I ever saw you. But if you tell me to kiss your ass again, I'll call the truancy officer."

Rogue pondered this for a moment before answering.

"Why do you care so much about this, damn, report anyway?"

"Because I want to graduate high school and move on with my life. I don't think that's too much to ask! Do you?" When Rogue didn't answer Remy reached into the pocket of his trench coat and pulled out his cell phone.

"Ok fine!" Rogue said quickly. "What time?"

"Five, at the public library." And with that Remy turned around and left.

Rogue watched him walk away. Her day was officially ruined. Just when things were looking up Mr. Tall Dark and Sexy, had to ruin it for her. Although she had no intention whatsoever of meeting him at the library, the encounter had still put her in a bad mood.

Suddenly the cold didn't feel refreshing it just felt cold, her toes and fingers were more sore than numb, and once again the whole world was against her. She was slightly comforted by the thought of Remy sitting in the library waiting, in vain, for her to show up, but only slightly.

Maybe she should just go home now. Irene was at work. When she'd left the school she'd had big plans of going to Bob's CDs. Even though the name sucked the store was awesome. It definitely beat all the crapy little chains that were taking over Bayville. But now she didn't have energy.

So much for her day looking up. Rogue turned right and the end of the block and trudged home. Today was only Monday; it was going to be a long week.

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It was nearly six o'clock and Remy was sitting by himself in the library. He couldn't believe that he was stupid enough to trust Rogue. What made him think that she would show up? He actually had wasted a free period on that bitch. He'd been walking down the hallway to the locker room when he'd seen her go out the door. Figuring that it was his chance he'd decided to follow her.

"Damn," he muttered. He'd tried to occupy himself with picking which author to do the report on. But every biography was even more boring than the last .

"Hi, Remy," he heard a high-pitched voice say.

"Hey, Belle," he said looking up from the book he was reading. "How are you Jean?" he added seeing the annoyed looking redhead.

"I'm fine," Jean, answered curtly, "we have to work on our project now."

"Come on Jean, I just want to talk to Rem for half a second," Belle whined as Jean tried to drag her off.

"Yeah Jeannie why don't you get started and Belle will be over in a little bit," Remy said using his best charming smile.

Jean opened her mouth to say something, but then noticed Scott and Kitty on the other end of the library. She walked off rolling her eyes, and muttering under her breath.

"Why are you here by yourself?" Belle asked sitting down on Remy's lap.

"Rogue never showed up," he said twirling some of Belle's blond hair around his finger.

"I'm sorry hun," she sympathized. She leaned back against his shoulder and kissed him on the cheek. "But I bet you have something planned for her tomorrow don't you?"

"Of course," Remy lied. He had no clue what he was going to do.

"Good she'll be sorry she ever tried to mess with Remy Leblue."

"Lebeau."

"Oops. Sorry Rem," Belle said standing up. "We really should go somewhere. Libraries make my head hurt."

"I completely agree," Remy said as he stood up. He wrapped his arm around Belle's waist and kissed her.

"Get a room!" somebody shouted.

"We were just about to do that," Remy answered good-naturedly.

As they left the building Remy was unable to concentrate on his girlfriend's meaningless chatter. All he could think about was Rogue, Finally he decided that Bell was right:

Rogue would be sorry she tried to mess with Remy Leblue.

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Gags Remy/Belle I think that I'm going to be sick now. Be sure to review everyone.