Chapter 4

"I really like what you've done with the office Emily." Berty stated as he looked at his office that used to be littered with clutter but now, thanks to Rouge, the place was clutter free. "The last time it was this clean was when we first set up here."

"It was nothing Berty, ay don't mind. Just doin' m'hy job, least ay could do for ya really." Rouge smiled sweetly at Berty while pushing a brown, which once was a shocking white, piece of hair behind her ear. She had been working at 'Kinsley & CO' for just over two weeks. It was an 8am-5pm job but at $4 an hour, cash in hand job, she wasn't going to complain.

"You, Emily, are a real assist to this company. John and Karen keep on tell me how great you are and I agree. Don't know what we will do with out you." Berty claimed. He was sitting at his desk looking at Rouge, who was standing near the door. He was wearing another tweed suit this time in a dirty mustard colour, but it did match the stain on his shirt quite nicely. "In a way of saying thanks come out for a drink with John Karen and me."

"Ay don't know if ay should." Rogue meekly replied.

"Go on it's the least I could do! You deserve to be treated; you've worked so hard these past weeks. I'm paying, just the one drink then you can leave if you like." Berty's red face pleaded with her.

"Ay suppose I could ave the one drink."

"Great! I will pick you up at... say 7.30? No better make it 8. Where do you live again?"

"Just three blocks from here, but ya don't ave to pick me up, I can walk." Rogue smiled pleadingly back at Berty. She didn't want him to pick her up from the hostel. It was a rough place. She didn't need him to realize were his receptionist lived; he would fire her on the spot. Who would want to employ someone who lived in a hostel?

"Twaddle why would I want my star employee to walk this rough streets alone?" Berty's yellow teethed smile looked out of place and clashed with his tomato like face. "I wont have it at all. So which street is it?"

Rogue knew she couldn't get out of it now; she will be out of a job in less than 5minites from now. She did see that notice in the barbershop looking for a hair sweeper; maybe she could apply for that. But she did enjoy this job as poor paid, as it was it was still a great atmosphere to be in.

"It's the women's hostel down 5th avenue." Rogue held her breath hoping her doom would not come if she didn't let out the oxygen that was contained in her lungs.

"Oh, I see." Berty looked thoughtful for a moment before continuing. "Well, that will not do at all, no employee of mine lives in a hostel."

"Ay understand Berty, ay shall go and gather m'hy stuff and leave."

"Damn right your leaving, I'm taking you to that hostel and getting your stuff. You're coming to live with my family and me." Berty face cracked in to a big grin at the look of shock that Rouge was projecting. "That hostel is a rough place, no place for a young girl such as yourself."

"Tell me about it!" Rouge laughed at the relief that flooded her. She gets to keep her job and move out of that dingy hostel. Life was picking up for her. Her relief was so great that the wards he had created around her mind to keep others out broke for a fraction of a second. A fraction that was all that Professor Xavier needed to know she was still alive.

Sitting in his office, at his desk, professor Xavier was deep in his work when a sound burst of relief come flooding through his mind. It was Rouge and she was happy. The happiest she had been in a long time. He had to inform Logan but what if bring her back only made her more depressed than she was to begin with? Should he send out Logan to return his child or let her go?

A/N—Everyone shout and cheer because I have uploaded a chapter! Yay woo go Sammis! I know I said I would upload at the end of June but a lot of stuff has been happening with La Resistance. La Resistance is the sixth form group at my school whose aim it is to get rid of out nasty/evil head teacher Dr Cooper. We have been successful because now he has been fired! Yay go us!

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