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PSYCHO SCENE
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She had missed the pink brick house with its Logan-cut iron fence and angel fountain. Its green grounds, so peaceful yet the target of many playful early morning trainings. If one looked closely, lighter patches of grass could be discerned from the lush greenery where Amara had burned it. The angel fountain was missing an arm, courtesy of Sam who had hit its frozen-over-by-Bobby body part. Car burns adorned the paving, probably from Logan or Scott, certainly not from Jean's perfect Jeep.
She had missed this place and its people. Her own family.
She made her way unnoticed by the security system to the door. She would have to tell the professor about this major failure in the system. She ran her hand on the porch's railing and noticed it still sported unequal coats of paint. Jamie had never really mastered the art after the Institute's rebuilding. Tears threatened to fall but she held them back. She was happy to be here.
She clasped her hands firmly in front of her after ringing the doorbell ; they were shaking uncontrollably. She didn't know how they would react to her, she had left them after all leaving a vague verbal message through Kitty. In fact, the girl would probably be the only one happy to see her…she hoped. She didn't know what Remy had told them either. Had he made her sound like a demented? A harlot? Someone not worthy of trust?
She bit back a nervous laugh at that…she was someone unworthy of trust.
The door opened and there stood Logan. She should have known it would be him who would have answered. They hadn't heard the alarm go off so it came as a surprise when the doorbell rang. The strongest X-men just had to be the one to answer right? Stupid of her to have hoped it would be Jamie…
Logan stood straighter when he saw her, his eyes hardening. It came as quite a shock to her when he took her in his burly arms in a hug.
"You demented girl…welcome back Stripes." His voice sounded weird to Rogue's ears as if he was holding back tears. She simply hugged him back.
"Ahm sorry."
Her pushed her at arms length and look into her eyes. "In that case you can promise me not to do it ever again…and you can show your sorry ass for an X-men down at the gym twice a day." He smirked down at her from his 5'7.
She threw her head back and laughed.
It was good to be home.
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"It is good to see you safe home, Rogue" greeted the Professor, rolling his wheelchair from across the common room.
She smiled back at him, her first genuine smile since a long time. It seemed that nobody was mad at her. Not even Jean who had claimed that she was losing her bitchy side without her around or Kurt who she had thought would have blamed her for leaving what little family she still had. But in the end, he was simply thankful to God to have brought his sister back in one piece.
A lonely part of her was missing though. She hadn't seen Remy yet. Was he avoiding her or was he simply not here? In either ways, she wasn't going to let those thoughts into speech for this was a beautiful moment, Remy or no Remy.
What she hadn't counted on was the Professor looking through her thoughts…or maybe was she simply transmitting to loudly.
'He hasn't been here Rogue since when you left. Are you still on the run from him?'
Her heart had been soaring since the reunion. Now it came crashing down again. She kept her face emotionless though so as to not alert any of her friends.
'No, everything is alright…'
'I should think not Rogue, you're emitting far too loudly and your thoughts are a tangled web. What is it?'
'Can you reach him, Professor? Telepathically?'
'That I can, dear. Let us leave the common room.'
They both stormed out of the room, Rogue wheeling the Professor in a hurry, leaving the dumbfounded students behind who had only heard the first part of Rogue's story.
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Cerebro had never intimidated her before. Now the room seemed too big to contain her small frame. She felt lost even though she was assured of the door's presence right behind her. The next few minutes were going to be a life-altering event for all the information they would unravel. She would know where Remy was. Then she would take a decision.
"Rogue…"
She let out her breath now only aware she had been holding it.
"… I cannot find him."
Her breath was entirely squeezed out of her lungs, leaving her dizzy.
"Ah don't understand, yah told me yah could find him! YAH DID!" She was losing her temper, maybe even her sanity.
"Rogue, please calm down, I said I would be able to find him but I wasn't aware he could conceal himself. It is almost as if he…uses the same technique as Magneto."
"But, what amAh to do? WHAT CANAH DO?"
'This is not the way to solve problems Rogue.' He then proceeded to put her under the spell of sleep, her body crumbling to the telepath's will.
'Scott, please come down to Cerebro.'
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She woke up in a dark unfamiliar room. Everything lay unmoving and quiet. As her senses came slowly back to her, she could smell the smell of hospital. Not a smell of sickness but rather a smell of overly disinfected surroundings, a smell that she could also feel on her tongue. Her hearing came back next. Soft breathing was discernable very near her. But at the sound of regular breathing, slow and heavy, she knew that the person was asleep. Her sensitive nerves at the end of her finger tips were awakening also. Clenching and unclenching them, she felt sensation coming back to them. Finally, her eyes focused.
There lay Kitty. Rogue should have known. There wasn't a better friend, more faithful and loyal, than Kitty.
Slowly Rogue extended her fingers so as to touch the sleeping girl's face. Kitty, however, woke up brutally and shot straight through the air in surprise.
Rogue smiled at her. "Yah're cutting the circulation in mah leg, Kit."
Kitty only laughed. "Even arousing from deep sleep you're a pain in the ass."
"Truthful to mah name!"
"Yeah, well it's good to have you back, psycho…you were at it for three days. Prof didn't go easy on you…What did you do? Come on Rogue, spill it out!"
"Ah did nothing!"
Kitty looked on sceptically.
"Ok, maybe Ah freaked out just a bit…"
"Man, Rogue, this was not some regular PMS psycho scene… the Prof went all zombie on you…"
"Ah can't find Remy."
"Is that a bad thing?"
Rogue's eyes widened. "Of course!"
"Now, don't go all psycho on me too…I would point you out that you left for a long time Rogue… No news means bad news, right? So I was just extrapolating…"
"Extrapolating? What the...? Yah're the one going mental!"
"I'm cultivating myself. Geez, you're such a retard!" But she was smiling as she said that. "So…" Rogue could see Kitty's curious stare and she could almost feel the words that were dying to escape her friend's throat. Eventually, the burst free. "What happened?"
And Rogue told her everything that had been since her departure.
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"A total psycho, I'm telling you!" yelled Kitty to no one in particular.
"Why, yah're such a good friend tellin' me the obvious!" replied Rogue.
"Hey, I'm not the one who screwed up badly…way badly."
"Way badly isn't an expression Kit."
"What would you know about that, low Southerner?"
"Ah won't bother…" More seriously, she added "Ah know Ah've screwed it up. Ah just don't know what to do with the mess."
"Hey, Rogue, truthfully, how do you, like yourself alone, feel?"
"Dead. Ah'm desperate Kit.Ah love him."
Kit got up and did a little twirl. "Then, as the mutant of love, I command you to seek out your true love and run blindly to him!"
Rogue raised an eyebrow and snorted. "Yah, well, the running thingy won't work.Ah don't know where he is… He could be anywhere on the continent!"
Kitty grinned. "Do not fret, the mutant of love is flying to your rescue." She sat back down in her chair. "The Prof succeeded. He located Remy in the Big Apple. Somewhere there." Her grin grew larger if possible.
"Oh, nice, somewhere in a thousand miles radius."
"Rogue, come on. I'm sure you can find him. Who cares if he's a professional thief that can hide at his will. Really, no biggy. He's probably just waiting for you to find him…In any case, just ask around…No it doesn't sound like a plan made by a miss-goody-two-shoes-in-pink…It might actually work. Mutants aren't that hard to find when you have the right contacts… something like ANGEL!"
"Yah're right.Ah just can stay here whenAh knowAh could be…running blindly to him, is that it?"
"You are an apt pupil, my child!"
"Oh, please!"
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When she had gone, Kitty just had to smirk. It had been so utterly simple to convince Rogue to rundown Remy.
"I so rock… the mutant of love strikes again!"
She couldn't help but dissolve in a fit of giggles.
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A/N Hey ya all! No, the world did not end! I am back…a little late, but the fact remains : evosmylife has resurrected! I'm going a little melodramatic here…
Anyway, I reread the whole thing…and, man, did it sound cheesy. But cheesy is good, so bear with me!
I would do some shout outs but it turns out it's been such a long time I don't know who got sick of waiting for the tenth chapter, who will still read this fic and all that stuff.
Silver Ink, I do remember this though : X-JEAN FOREVER! (uh, scary…)
I know it's really demanding (you need to rebuild this trust we used to share…sniff, sniff) but please review so I know I can still count on some reviewers!
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