Rogue stood staring at the plain wood door of the apartment. She was willing herself to go inside. But she was just so damn freaked out by the idea of her whole entire life changing. But hey what the hell it was already changed. She now had a brother. She knew that she had had a great mother who had always loved her children and would have never abandoned them. But somehow the idea of being able to touch freaked her out more than anything else. "Oh come on you aren't supposed to feel like this you are supposed to be ecstatic at the idea of being able to touch and be like any other teenage girl." She said to herself as she continued to stare at the old brass knob. Suddenly she realized what was bothering her so much. If she used the serum would she lose her powers? Would she stop being a mutant? Would she be a completely normal human again (or as normal as Rogue can be expected to be) would she have to leave the institute then? Although it did suck to be a mutant and people treated you like the scum of the earth she still liked the people at the mansion and she would miss all of them horribly if she had to leave. The professor wouldn't make her leave if she didn't want to but it would just never be the same again. She would never be able to have a horribly painful training session with Logan ever again. She wouldn't be able to help any people at all. She would just have to stand on the sidelines and watch, as more and more people became victims in the fights between humans and mutants. If this was the price she would have to pay for being able to touch then she refused to even consider it. The lives of all the people she could help save and the ideologies that the professor had instilled in them were more important to her then being able to touch.

The professor picked up on these thoughts and he laid a gentle arm on Rogue's shoulder encouraging her to at least hear what this Dr.Stevens had to say before she made up her mind completely. He was very touched that Rogue would be willing to give up her own dreams and desires in order to work with him to bring about peace between humans and mutants but he did not want her to look back and wish that she had taken a different path. He knew how badly Rogue wanted this and he did not want o be responsible for taking away probably the only opportunity she would ever get to make it happen. He did not want her to give up her own happiness for his cause. So he subtly encouraged Rogue to open the door to a new life with everything she had ever desired. After taking a deep breath Rogue rang the bell outside the apartment. She heard shuffling noises and the door was almost immediately opened by a middle-aged man who was wearing formal trousers and a shirt. He didn't look like he had gotten much sleep but he smiled warmly at her and invited her and the rest of them inside as he let his eyes wander over everyone else. As his eyes met Clark's he grinned broadly and hugged him as he pulled him into the apartment. After he made sure that everyone had was comfortably settled into a chair and had a steaming cup of cocoa and a cookie he settled into a chair himself and listened intently as the professor explained to him the purpose of their visit. He led them into a lab that he had converted one of the rooms into. He immediately started showing the professor, Mr.McCoy and Logan the basic theory behind the serum and showed them that it was completely harmless. Most of their talk went right over Rogue, Remy, Clark and Kurt's heads and so they ignored the adults and looked around the lab instead. He had a large number of chemicals and seemed to be in the middle of an experiment and all of them stared at the apparatus he had set up instead.

About half an hour later the adults had finally been convinced that the serum really was harmless and Rogue stepped forward hesitantly and asked him the one question that had been bugging her ever since she had arrived at the apartment. "Will Ah still be able tah use mah powers whenever Ah want to?" " Oh yeah. This serum just helps you control your mutant powers better. Initially for about two to three days you will not be able to use your powers at all but after that you will gradually be completely in control of your powers and what's more you will even be able to use the powers you have absorbed from anyone else whenever you want." Rogue was extremely relieved at his answer and though she was still really scared she sat down on the stool and waited for the serum to be injected into her. She closed her eyes tightly and sat still for about ten seconds and then as she felt a tiny prick she heard Dr.Stevens say "I hope you don't mind but I did a few tests on yours and Clark's DNA while you were looking around the lab and it is now officially and scientifically been proven that you and Clark really are siblings." Startled and overjoyed she opened her eyes praying that this wasn't all a dream and she felt the throbbing pain in her arm set in as the serum spread and realized she wasn't dreaming and saw the professor, Logan, Remy, Clark, Kurt and Mr.McCoy standing around her anxious to see if it really worked. She slowly slipped off her glove and touched Remy's hand flinching when she made the contact expecting to hear Remy's thought in her head but after five seconds she finally realized that she only felt his warm skin and opened her eyes to see Remy looking as startled as she did. Without thinking Rogue just pulled Remy into a hug and burst into tears. She had every single thing that she had ever wanted. She now had a brother and she had Remy and she was able to touch. She looked up and saw Kurt watching her with tears in his eyes and she pulled him into a hug and whispered " Yah will still always be mah pesky younger brother." She was rewarded by Kurt's crooked grin and as she pulled everyone else into a hug she wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world

………………………………………………………………………………………………I am so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time but the comp is still screwed up. .It is not finished yet. There is still the matter of Belladonna and the guilds so tune in next time. For the time being plz R& R