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The atmosphere in the hall had reached new heights of awkward silence, it had been five minutes since Rogue and her brothers had appeared and not a word had been spoken since. All the students were looking at each other, nervousness and anticipation warring on their faces as they waited, the professor and a Hank, the new doctor had come into the hall at some point, Scott and all the others were still standing frozen in the corner.
The five newcomers were still standing just inside the French window, coolly observing the dance, sneers and smirks carefully painted on their faces, giving off an impression of powerful superiority. Their clothes only increased the image they were projecting. The boys were all in black dress trousers, with different colour silk shirts, in Todd, Pietro and Lance's case they were worn open over form fitting white wife beaters. Todd was in forest green; Fred in grey/blue, the colour of a storm; Pietro was molten silver; Lance was black shot with small silver threads. Pietro and Lance were standing by Rogue; Lance had an arm wrapped around her waist, Pietro was just behind her left shoulder, arms crossed, the other two were on either side of Lance and Pietro, arms folded like Pietro, and each one looked deadly, but it was Rogue that exuded the real power.
She stood in the centre of her family; her brown and white hair was left loose, falling in gentle waves to the small of her back. Her arms hung down at her sides and she had obviously dressed for the dance. A long black dress that flared out gracefully from her waist, it had thin spaghetti straps, but the most unusual feature was the white gauze attached to the straps and on a band around each of her wrists, forming a cape of sorts.
During the oppressive silence she looked around the hall, it was well done, but after all the places she'd been a bit simplistic, and very yellow, Jubilee must have been on the decorating team. She swept her eyes over the large blue man standing just behind the professor, he must be the new doctor Scott had told her about, her gaze lasted a little longer on the professor, her empathy could sense the surprise rolling off him, but there was also a sense of pride. She could see Kitty, Jubilee and Bobby huddled at the front of the crowd, Bobby seemed to be locked in a staring contest with Lance and the rest of the boys, she could feel the heat of their stares rushing past her, Kitty was cringing, occasionally looking up at her, then looking down as though she was ashamed, as well she should be. Jubilee was the only one staring at her, smirking at her Rogue sent a whisper of a thought to her ex-friend who was dressed in a small, tacky, bright yellow dress.
"You're not worth my time."
With a smug look Rogue walked forwards, passed the onlookers, any who thought it would be a good idea to try something was quickly dissuaded by the looks of the young men who were with her.
Proudly they walked over to the huddle of teachers, without pausing Rogue reached on her tiptoes and wrapped her arms around Logan.
"I missed you."
"Me too kid."
Did you give Bobby that black eye?"
"Yep."
"Cool."
The entire exchange was quiet and to the point, but neither made any effort to hid the quiet chuckles when they looked over to Bobby to admire Logan's handiwork, the good news was that Bobby had somehow found a suit that matched his colourful eye.
"See, we brought her back in one piece for you."
Sardonic humour was threaded through Todd's voice, he still couldn't believe these idiots hadn't thought they would look after they're own baby sister. Well, you couldn't really call her Lance's baby sister anymore because that just brought up very bad thoughts, and they looked happier dating anyway.
"Just as well you did."
That was Scott, about that time the tension between the males went up a few notches as they all started glaring at each other, for o good reason other than they liked doing it, that or it was something about being face to face as they had been corresponding regularly by e-mail. Shaking her head and laughing softly she walked through the alley created by the two groups of warring males and caught Ororo up in a hug that was gladly returned.
"So you guys want your presents?"
With that they departed in a cloud of blue smoke provided by Kurt and Rogue. The hall was left in uproar as all the students started shouting complaints to Xavier.
"She can't stay here!"
"She's dangerous."
"It's her fault Jean's dead, you can't expect us to let her stay here again."
"Did you see those thugs she was with."
"SILENCE"
The thought ripped through their heads, quieting them all to the same degree that Rogue's reappearance had, except this silence was mental as well.
"This is Rogue's home as well as yours, if she wishes to be here and to bring her brothers with her then she is free to do so. And if I here one more word, mentally or verbally, about Rogue of her guests there will be serious repercussions. Now go back to your rooms. The ball is cancelled. Now!"
They scarpered. They had never seen the professor lose his temper like that before, it was a terrifying sight. Within thirty seconds the hall was devoid of life apart from Hank and the professor.
"What now?"
The soft voice sounded out of place coming from the large blue 'monster', but it was a valid question.
"That is up to Rogue and her family. I phoned her foster down in Mississippi a few months after she had left, in her opinion Rogue should stay here for a while. But I'm afraid it is up to her, and if those boys don't agree, she will not stay."
With that they left the hall, the Chinese lanterns still glowing.
Hi, please review; I wasn't sure if I'd one this right. I had this image in my head of how it should be but I'm not sure if it came out right.
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