Friends
By: Kryptonite
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*One Year One Month Four Days After*
" Rogue I'm so glad you decided to stay. I see you've been all set up." The boy let a low whistle. " A room all to yourself. How'd you manage that?" Rogue paused in her 'unpacking' to look at her guide.
" Nightmares." He shifted uncomfortably at her deadpan tone.
" I see you opted for a dog collar." He mentioned, motioning vaguely towards her neck. Rogue unconsciously tugged at the collar of her turtleneck, trying to hide it. " No, it's okay. I went the same way." He pulled the neck of his sweater away from his throat, revealing a flash of obsidian-colored metal, identical to her own.
" What's your mutation… uh, Doc?" Rogue asked, trying to be nice. He laughed dryly.
" You really wanna know?" Doc spoke, tilting his head to the side slightly, his jet-black hair falling across his face.
" Yeah." Rogue stopped what she was doing, tucked back one of her white locks and sat down on the bed.
" I wasn't able to touch anyone. Haven't been able to for about six years. I discovered my mutation when I was ten. Anyone I touched was instantly healed but I took their disease, cut, bruise, etc into my own body. As I've grown my own healing ability continued to grow. By now, taking their problems into me shouldn't be such a problem but when I was eleven, and Dr. Langford found me, I had just taken the stab wound out of my older brother. I was bleeding to death and no one would help me because I was a mutant." Rogue noted the pain and bitterness in his voice.
" Ah'm sorry." Rogue startled herself, yanking her hand back. It had been a long while since her old Mississippi accent had shown through. " I mean, I'm sorry. That you had to go through that." Doc just smiled at her.
" I'm sure you're stories just as interesting." Rogue shrugged, a half smile on her face.
" Not really. Kissed my then-current boyfriend when I found out. Couple of weeks later everything had settled down and everything was pretty much forgotten. Didn't even know it was me. I went to a dance with this other boy… he kissed me. They were both put in a coma for weeks. I left town after that."
" Sounds rough."
" I still have them in my head."
" Ow." Rogue nodded. " So you staying for a while?"
" A little while." Rogue agreed, staring down at her shoes. A hand suddenly entered her view.
" You can always use friends. Even if it is only for a little while." Doc grinned at her happily, nothing but trust and honesty shining in his bright blue eyes.
Friends are what humanity is all about. Companionship, without which humankind would be lost. But it is this need for companionship that will destroy a human, break their heart and rip their soul to shreds. Life is a lonely existence, except for the few moments when 'friends' break through and stick together.
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A/N: Alright, this first shout goes to Acacia Jules. Thank you for taking the time to review first off, but since I know you are never going to get to this point in my story (which is entirely your choice) I can pretty much say whatever I want. Yes, after a certain amount of time you would be dead. But doctor's have successfully revived patients after that amount of time and longer. Not to mention, she still has Logan's memories, therefore taking the stretch that she still might have part of Logan's abilities buried somewhere in there.
Also, if you had continued reading you would realize that I answered most of your questions in later chapters. Now I do admit that if you aren't caught by the second chapter you aren't ever going to find out and in a way that's a flaw but who in their right mind would give away everything to their story in the first few chapters?? And to go and dig myself into a hole I don't wanna be in, maybe you should take a closer look at some of your own stories before you go and critique mine without reading all the way through.
So Syd, Veronica and jupiterhime all get fresh chocolate cookies. Thank you for making me feel better after Acacia's rather dumb review. Though I have to say I am quite proud of the fact I've only gotten two flames for this entire story *thinks* Yes. I am very proud of that fact.
And just one more thing, in the book that is a totally better, extended version of the movie. She kissed David in her room and then a couple of weeks later went to a school function with Cody. He kissed her in the middle of a dance and went into a coma. She was bared from entering the school after that.
Have a good life everyone, catch ya on tha flipside.