Rogue was lost in thought when the bus finally stopped at New Orleans. She would have most definitely missed the stop if not for the fact that it was the last stop of the bus. She got up to get off the bus and when she finally managed to reach the door the boy (whose name happened to be Clark and so I will call him that. P.s: thanks Rogue238 for the name) moved to let Rogue through and jumped out of the bus after her. Rogue desperately wanted to talk to him and ask him if he was in some way related to………. her mother. She still had some difficulty in thinking of the woman in her dreams as her mother. But she just couldn't think of any way to just walk up to a stranger and ask him if he just happened to know her mother without freaking them out and while she was still debating as to what to do Clark waved at her briefly before disappearing into the crowd. Rogue strained her eyes to try and get a glimpse of him as he left but she couldn't find his untidy dark auburn hair anywhere in the growing crowd.
Rogue stood lost for a second before she decided to leave and find someplace quieter. It was early dawn and she walked around trying to find a café or dinner that was open. She finally found a small homely looking café. Rogue walked into the café and to her surprise and weirdly enough her relief the boy from the bus was sitting at a table sipping coffee as he went through the paper. He didn't seem to notice Rogue until she went to the counter to place her order. On hearing her voice he looked up and smiled warmly at Rogue and said, "Try the croissant. I guarantee you cannot find better ones in the whole of New Orleans." After Rogue ordered a croissant and a cup of steaming coffee he asked her if she would like to join him for breakfast. Rogue nodded and sat down opposite him. " Hi I'm Clark. Is it your first time in New Orleans?" he asked her as she bit into the croissant Rogue paused for a second savoring the taste of the croissant in her mouth before answering. " I'm Rogue. I came here almost a year ago. But it was a very short trip and I didn't exactly spend it sight seeing so it wasn't much of a visit." she said waving aside all thoughts of Remy. "Rogue huh. That's definitely different." He said. Draining his cup of coffee just as Rogue finished her coffee and muffin he thanked Rogue for having breakfast with him and just as he turned to leave he asked her how long she was going to be staying in New Orleans. Rogue answered that she was staying there only for about five hours. "Ah have another bus to catch at 11 this morning." She explained. He suddenly asked her if she would like him to show her all the amazing sights of New Orleans. He waved his hand dramatically as if he were an actor as he said that and Rogue laughed as she agreed.
………………………………………………………………………………………………They had waited for almost three hours for Cerebro to find Rogue before they really started to worry and they decided to pay heed to Remy and his idea that Rogue might have gone to New Orleans and they headed towards the bus stop to try and find out if Rogue had taken a bus to New Orleans.
When they finally got a chance to speak to the woman at the counter she refused to tell them if anyone who dressed or looked like Rogue had brought a ticket to New Orleans that day as it was against their customer privacy policy. Normally the professor would have tried to convince the woman to tell them but that day he was just so damn frustrated and worried about Rogue that he simply probed into the woman's mind and found out that Rogue had indeed taken a bus to New Orleans. Immediately they went back to the mansion and it was decided that Logan, Kurt and Remy would take the jet to get to New Orleans as fast as possible.
Logan prepared the engine while Kurt loaded the supplies and Remy called the apartment to tell John and Piotr that he was going to New Orleans for a few days. After he hung up the phone he entered the jet and prayed to god that Belladonna did not find Rogue before he did.
………………………………………………………………………………………………Belladonna angrily swore as she packed up her stuff to catch the fastest plane back to New Orleans. She had listened to Remy's conversation with the orange haired maniac and had immediately called her brother to find out what to do next and he had told her to come home immediately. She was still angry that Remy had been so fast to react when Rogue went missing for only a few hours and he hadn't even looked back when he had left her wounded and broken as he ran off to Bayville
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