10. Emotional Girls

"I need a bubble bath," said Marina, leaning back in the passenger's seat.

"Bloody 'ell girl! You've just spent the last week in a tub o' watah and now you want more?" exclaimed Toad from the back.

Mystique and Marina both made snorting noises, and Toad moved to the corner of his seat, extremely annoyed with the two women.

"So how did you know where to get me?"

"Little Miss Skunk Stripes told me you were taken," replied Mystique.

"Skunk stripes? Do you mean Rogue?" Asked Marina, her eyebrows raised in surprise.

"The very one." They drove on in silence as Marina frowned out the window. She knew that the brotherhood had taken Rogue again, and she was trying to stem her anger. Mystique may be her friend, but she could sure be immature sometimes.

I lay back in my seat, extremely tired. I was glad I would be let off school for the day; I was too tired from the mission to feel like working. When we stepped out of the jet, Professor Xavier was waiting for us, a concerned look on his face.

"What's wrong Professor?" asked Storm, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"It's Rogue, she's missing." I let out a sigh. Why she was the one who always got taken, I don't know, but it made everyone very tense, especially Logan.

"Have you looked for her," asked Logan.

"Yes, and I can't find her anywhere. I strongly suspect that Eric has something to do with this."

With both Rogue and Marina missing, things were pretty chaotic around the mansion. At least with Marina, we could say she just went out for awhile, with Rogue it was harder to hide the truth.

The Professor decided that the kids had a right to know of her disappearance and announced it to the kids. When Kitty and Jubilee started crying and hugging each other, I thought I would be sick.

I hope the Professor wasn't considering making those two X-Men…or women, because they defiantly couldn't handle stressful moments. It's so like girls to cry about something instead of taking action.

Well Kitty and Jubilee decided to become vegetarians until Rogue was found, but since they only ate Tofu hamburgers and hotdogs any way, it made no difference than before Rogue had left. Dinner was quiet until a phone shattered the wall of silence. No one wanted to answer the darn phone, and unfortunately, I was the one sitting closest to it so I had to get it.

"Hello?"

"Uh Hey," came a nervous voice from the other end.

"Rogue?"

"Yeah it's me." I couldn't believe it was her. Why was she calling? Had they let her go?

"Ro-"

"Just listen to me. This is Bobby right?"

"Yeah."

"Kay. I just wanted you to know that I've left on my own free will, and I'll be back soon. Oh and Marina is here as well, so don't you worry about her either."

"Marina's with you. Where a-"

I didn't finish my sentence before there was a click on the line…Rogue had hung up.

Rogue looked at the telephone that she had just hung up. If she had talked to Bobby for to long she might have changed her mind about helping the brotherhood.

"Who did you reach?" asked Mystique from across the room.

"Bobby."

"He your kid, Rina?" said Mystique turning to Marina. The water angel gave a small nod, no emotion displayed on her face.

"What do you mean Marina's 'kid'?" asked Rogue.

"So how long do you think this mission will take?" asked Marina, ignoring Rogue.

Mystique shrugged, and sat down in a chair. Rogue would have demanded to know more, but just then Magneto came in, John close on his heels.

"Hello your worship," Said Marina, sarcastically.

For the first time, Magneto noticed Marina.

"Oh no. Not you. Mystique, I thought you had decided not to make friends with trash," Said Eric, glaring at Marina.

"I agree, I was about to ask Misty why she was still with you."

Toad and Rogue both snickered at this, but where shut up by a fierce look from Magneto.

Marina put her feet up on the table and grinned, she had won this battle. Eric wasn't about to kick her out, he was after Ken, and she had interacted with him. He had to admit that she was valuable to the brotherhood.

"I don't see why I gotta help you catch some git named after Barbie's boyfriend," complained Toad. He had been whining ever since he had been put into the car, and was getting on my nerves.

I looked at Rogue, who was sitting quietly beside the green man. I felt guilty for injecting her in the forest, I really didn't like seeing needles, let alone using them, so I have no clue how I managed to get her in the right place.

"What are you looking at?" Rogue looked up to see me staring, and was glaring at me. I guess she hadn't forgiven me for my trick.

"Nothing," I said, looking out my window. I was the third person in the backseat. Mystique and her gorgeous friend were up front, talking quietly to one another. Mags was somewhere, working on his marvelous plan, he didn't have to be squished in the backseat of a crummy old car.

Mystiques friend turned around in her seat and looked me in the eyes. I rapidly began to feel nervous, as though her blue eyes were burning into me.

"Are you telepathic?" The woman's gaze broke and she smiled a beautiful sunny smile.

"Nope. I'm Marina Ocean."

"Pyro," I said, taking her outstretched hand.

"Nice to meet you Pyro. So have you worked for that Old Bag of Snot for long?"

I couldn't help but grin. Marina really didn't like Magneto and she made no effort to hide it.

" 'bout a month."

"Where were you before that?"

I saw Rogue glance at me and quickly look away. "I was at Xavier's."

"Ah." Marina glanced at Rogue and then turned back to face forward.

I looked at the back of Marina's head for awhile, but soon turned to stare out the window instead.

I tried to focus on something in order to drain out Toad's grumbling, which he continued to do for the next hour. He finally shut up when Rogue fell asleep, her head drooping onto his shoulder. It was obvious that Toad didn't like having her there, but he wouldn't do anything to wake her up.

I tried not to look in her direction, wishing that it was my shoulder she was leaning on instead.

....there i updated! are you happy Muse? :D I am. I'll try to update again soon.