Disclaimer: No, I don't own the X-Men. I do own Raven and Lightning, though.

Reviews:

To Cat2Fat900: Don't worry, it wasn't his baby. (He left that one at home with Ralph) Raven is a very cruel person, sorry. DPD, Dimensional Police Department. Those who live outside of reality. It's complicated, and Raven and Lightning are very afraid of them.

To Rogue Gal: Thank you. Glad you like Raven. I'll see about the Romy, but seeing as Rogue is going to be asleep through most of the rest of the story. . . Well, you'll have to settle for flirting during the breaks.

To Crash Slayer: Yup, light Kiotr is best since I don't know how to do a Russian accent. Lol.

To Kyo-Kitty: Thank you very much. That is funny.

To Lyrit Liltrick: Thank you. Yup, here's your invisible cookies for figuring it out. :)

A/N: This scene comes complete with a surprise ending!

Sleeping Beauty

Scene 6: A Fallen Princess

Rogue comes out of her dressing room and glares at Jean, who is laughing. Rogue is wearing a beautiful blue dress and golden necklace. She hates the dress with a passion. Gambit whistles at her and she turns to glare at the Cajun. "What? Ya got a death wish, Swamp Rat?"

"Maybe. Mais Remy t'inks you really look like a princess in t'at dress, cherie."

Rogue does something that startles Jean, she smiles at him and blushes. "Thank ya, Sugah." Then she grabs her long dark blue cloak and quickly heads towards the stage.

Raven comes out of the shadows and walks up to Remy, "Aw, wasn't that sweet, Lightning?"

"It sure was." He says yawning as he steps into the light.

"What are you laughing at Jean Grey? Ya look a whole lot worse than Ah do!" Rogue is heard, yelling at Jean, who is back in her original red fairy outfit, complete with wand, wings and tied on hat.

"No! No, it's not that!" Jean says laughing. "You look fine, but I don't think I've ever seen you in a dress before."

"What about that vampire play Kitty and Rogue were in?" speaks up Evan. "She wore a dress in that."

"Yeah, and Rogue, like, wears a skirt, like, every day." Kitty speaks up.

"Yeah, but they're gothic dresses not, not like this. . ." she's still laughing.

Gambit is getting angry. Scott is getting embarrassed. But before either of them can do anything, Rogue's gloves are off and she knocks Jean unconscious.

"Oh, great. Thanks a lot Rogue." Raven sighs. "Now we have to wait for her to wake up."

"Oops. Sorry, Ah just sorta lost it." Rogue looks down. "Can Ah take off the dress?"

"No." Lightning speaks up. "Ya know, Raven, we could do the part without her." He looks at her significantly.

"No."

"Please. It won't be too long. Rogue didn't touch her that long."

"No."

"Aah, come on, Ravie."

"Ain't gonna happen."

"Why not?"

"Because I said so, that's why."

"You sound like your mother."

"Good!"

Just then, the argument is stopped by Jean waking up. "Feel like laughing now, Miss Priss." Rogue asks her.

"Uh, no. Can we just get this over with?"

Raven grins triumphantly at Lightning. "Sure thing, Jean. Lights! Camera! Action!"

The scene opens on a forest, with the three fairies, Jean, Kitty, and Tabby walking a figure in a dark cloak. They walk across the stage, looking around apprehensively and go across a bridge. The scene changes to outside of a castle. They walk across it until they come to a hidden door. It leads them to a spirling staircase which they climb silently. Jean holds onto Rogue's gloved hand.

The scene changes again to an empty hallway. Jean sticks her head out of an archway. She looks either way then whispers, "Come along, now." The others follow her into the hallway and to a door. She motions for the others to follow her into the room. The scene changes to a beautifully decorated bedroom, fit for a princess. "Alright, in here, dear." Jean tells Rogue.

Tabby shuts the door and sighs with relief while Jean and Kitty lead Rogue gently to a vanity. "Bolt the door, Tabitha. Katherine, close the drapes." Jean orders. The girls do as they are told. "And now dear," she says turning to Rogue and motioning for her to sit at the vanity. "This one last gift dear child for thee, a symbol of thy royalty." The three fairies wave their magic wands and Jubilee makes sparks. Pietro then runs in with a golden crown and shoves it into Jean's hand. "Hey, that hurt!" she cries and earns a very sour look from both Raven and Lightning. Pietro is laughing off stage until Wanda shuts him up by hexing him to the floor. "A crown to wear in grace and beauty." She places the crown on Rogue's head. "As is thy right and royal duty."

At these words Rogue seems to remember that she must never she the love of her life again and starts sobbing with her head burried in her arms. Technically, Rogue is laughing her head off because of Pietro's joke and she's been counting how many times Jean has had to call her "dear." Lance blows Kitty a kiss, and Fred and Todd start teasing him. Kitty scowls at Lance and turns her attention to Piotr, who looks like his about to clobber Lance.

"Oh, it's, like, my line isn't it?" Kitty says started. "Oh yeah, Now, Dear." She starts to comfort Rogue, but Jean grabs her arm.

"Come. Let her have a few moments alone." Jean says and the fairies leave the room. The camera follows them back to the hallway.

"It's that boy she met." Tabby sighs with a merry glint in her eye.

"Whatever are we, like, going to do?" Kitty sighs.

The camera goes back to the "sobbing" Rogue. There is a blazing fire in the fire place. Pyro is supposed to douse the flames so Mystique can step into the fireplace. Raven looks around. "Alright, where's John?"

Wanda grins, "No clue."

Bobby speaks up, "I can ice it for you."

"No, that won't work. That won't work at all! Mystique could slip and fall. I want John back here now!" Raven yells.

"Calm down, Raven." Lightning says soothingly.

"Don't tell me to calm down! Where is Pyro?"

"I'll get him," Logan says. He comes back a few minutes later with John who is wearing several casts and cowering.

"The flames." Raven points. John nods. The scene starts over again with Rogue who is having a hard time making her laughter look like crying. The fireplace is blazing and the flames start to die down.

John starts crying when they finally are out completely. "My flames. My beautiful flames."

"It's alright." Wanda whispers in his ear. "I'll take care of you." John screams. Raven glares at them.

Mystique in her lovely devil costume steps into the fireplace. "Ouch! This is still hot!"

"Stick to the script!" Lightning calls.

She stands there staring at Rogue and then is replaced by a little glowing green ball. Forge set it up. It can hover and has a green lightbulb in the middle. It's also remote controled.

Slowly, Rogue sits up and stares at the glowing ball as if in a trance. The ball explodes. "Oops, sorry." Forge says. "Don't worry I got another one, just in case."

Raven puts her head in her hand, "Why me, Lord?"

Forge puts the new glowing green ball in place and they resume filming. Rogue stands up, still staring at the green ball. The cloak falls from her shoulders. She starts walking towards it.

Outside in the hallway, Tabby and Kitty are sitting on a bench. Jean in pacing. Tabby skirms angrily. "Oh, I don't see why she has to marry any old Prince."

"Now, that's, like totally, not for us to decide, dear." Kitty says calmly.

Inside the room, Rogue walks closer to the staircase and a secret passage opens up. The balls backs into the new opening and Rogue is still following it.

Outside the room, all the fairies are pacing. "Maybe we, like, should tell King Charles about the boy." Kitty says to Jean.

"Well, why don't we?" Tabby asks her.

"Listen!" Jean says, putting her head to the door. "Mystique! Rogue!"

The run into the room. They all say "Rogue? Rogue, oh!" They gasp as they see her following the glowing ball.

"Oh, why did we leave her alone?" Jean says. "More like 'Why can't we leave her alone?'," she mutters.

"Ah heard that!" Rogue shouts back.

They all start calling, "Rogue! Rogue!" as the passage way closes. They start pushing against it.

Tabby asks, "Remind me why three fairies are pushing against a magic wall? I mean, what is my motivation for not using magic?"

Jean sighs, "Because we just spent the past sixteen years not using magic and we forgot about it. Okay?"

"Whatever. I still think it's stupid."

"How about, like, your motivation is to, like, not piss Raven off?" Kitty says.

"Yeah, that'll work."

Rogue is following the green ball up another spiraling staircase. She rounds a corner. The hallway is black except for the light of the glowing ball.

The fairies are still pushing and grunting against the wall when Jean backs up and points here wand at the wall. "Here." The passage way opens again. They rush in calling for Rogue. "Where are you?"

The walls echo the sound of "Rogue!" and "Where are you?" as the fairies search the hallway. They go up the staircase.

Rogue is still slowly climbing. At the top of the staircase is an open door. She enters the room, her emerald eyes wide and stares at a spindle in the middle of the room. Her hand reaches out to touch it. "Be careful not to break a nail, chere." Gambit teases.

"Shut up, ya Swamp Rat! You're breaking my concentration!" He laughs. She goes back to being in a trance and her hand reaches out again.

"Rogue! Don't touch anything!" Tabby calls.

Just as her hand is about to touch the spindle. She hears Tabby's echo and pulls her hand back.

"Touch the spindle!" Mystique's voice is heard. "Touch it, I say!" Rogue reaches out with one finger and touches the tip of the spindle.

The fairies run into the room and gasp, but what is in front of them is Mystique in her devil costume and a long red cloak. "What's with the cloak?" Kitty whispers.

Mystique shrugs, "It was better than nothing." She then says loudly, "You poor, simple fools." She grins because it's what she really thinks of the three girls in front of her. "Thinking you could defeat me. Me, the Mistress of All Evil! Well, here's your precious princess!" She laughs manaically and pulls on her cloak. Lying on the floor upside down and still as death, is Rogue. Her crown in lying beside her. The fog macine returns as Mystique leaves in a puff of green smoke.

"Rogue!" Tabby says as the faires gather around her still body.

"Oh, like, Rogue!" Kitty sobs, mostly because she just stubbed her toe.

"Oh, I'll never forgive myself." Jean cries, pinching herself. Rogue is immensely enjoying the attention, mostly because Jean is making a complete fool of herself.

"We're, like, all to blame." Kitty says still crying over her stubbed toe, as the camera settles on the window.

"And cut! I have a gift for all of you." Raven says.

"Really?" Rahne cries.

"What is it? What is it?" Pietro asks.

She hands out brocheres. "Acting lessons with Cat2Fat900!"

"Aah, man." They all say, well, except for Pyro who hugs his brochere tightly and mumbles happily about squirrels and squipmunks.

Raven and Lightning laugh evilly and decide to leave before a fire breaks out or they start argueing again.

A/N: Waves at CF. Hee hee, deciding to give Pyro a little joy, just for you. Lol. Alright, next up, While Rogue sleeps, the three faires decide to put everyone in the kingdom to sleep as well. While doing this, they learn a startling secret and must act quickly, before it's too late!