Rogue opened her eyes and realized that she was staring at the back of a seat. Confused she sat up and looked around her. She realized that she was sitting in a bus. She was momentarily unable to comprehend what she was doing in a bus and suddenly it all came back to her-Remy and the things he had told her and his fiancé Belladonna. She panicked and cursed at herself for falling asleep and swiftly removed the wallet from the bag that she had fallen asleep clutching tightly. She counted the money in the wallet and heaved a sigh of relief. It was all there-the 3000 dollars mostly in notes of tens and twenties. Her entire life savings. She had collected the money ever since she had got her first allowance. Relieved that she still had all her money, Rogue leaned back against the seat and looked around at the other people in the bus. The bus was relatively empty and there was only a grandmother with her grand son and another family traveling in the bus besides her. The old woman smiled at her and Rogue politely smiled back and turned to stare outside the window instead.
She couldn't make out much as it was getting pretty dark. As she tried to make out the figures in the dark Rogue noticed a sharp pain in her stomach and she realized that she was starved. She hadn't eaten since lunch and it was already 7:30. But luckily for her the bus stopped at a diner and Rogue got out to grab something to eat. She took her bag with her and entered the diner hoping that they had some edible food. "Although Ah really don't care. Ah would eat just about anything raght now." She thought as she looked at the menu in front of her. She ordered a sandwich to go and the lady at the counter gave her the package in less than two minutes and Rogue paid her and murmured thanks as she left. She climbed back into the bus. As she sat nibbling at her sandwich she noticed a boy about a year or two older than her enter the bus. He was about 6'2 and had auburn hair that fell in locks on his forehead. He was so pale that his skin almost seemed transparent. But what startled her most were his eyes. They were a deep emerald color just like hers. He smiled warmly at the old woman with her grandson and sensing that someone was looking at him he turned in Rogue's direction and as their eyes met he smiled at her and sat down in a seat about two steps ahead of her. Rogue turned away and continued eating her sandwich as she strained her eyes to make out the figures in the dark as the bus moved.
She couldn't get any sleep for the rest of the journey. In fact she felt extremely restless and couldn't stop thinking about the boy who was sitting just two seats ahead of her. She felt like she knew him from somewhere. He reminded her of another face that she didn't seem to remember at the moment. It was about dawn when Rogue finally shut off her I-Pod and stretched looking around. Her eyes rested on the boy who was fast asleep. His head tilted back resting on the head of the seat. Suddenly she realized whom he reminded her of and gasped sharply attracting the attention of the old woman but she really didn't care. All she could focus on was the face of the boy who looked exactly like her mother. He looked exactly like the mother whom she saw burn to death every time she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
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Remy took a deep breath as he finished telling them everything about the events of the weekend. Scott was glaring at him in anger and Kitty's eyes betrayed the fact that she held him responsible for the disappearance of her best friend although she neither said nor did anything to indicate that. Kurt just stared at him in disbelief as he tried to digest everything that Remy had told him. Logan looked like he would have liked to kill Remy and Ororo looked concerned but Mr.McCoy's was just staring at the ground unable to react. Only Jean's face remained calm and undisturbed. The professor finally broke the silence by saying "What has been said and done cannot be changed. Therefore we must direct our attention to finding Rogue. We should pay more attention to finding her above all else." He looked at Scott, Kurt, Kitty and Logan as he said that. They nodded quietly while the professor tried to find Rogue through Cerebro.
Remy didn't pay attention to a single thing that the professor said after that. He had an uncanny feeling that Rogue was in New Orleans. It seemed very impractical but he just knew that she was near New Orleans.
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whoa. I never figured I would be able to write so much but it feels great. I know I'm changing the story. I didn't mean to make it like this but it just felt better this way.
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