Chapter 5
'Who was that kid?' 'Why were you so mad?' 'What is your problem?' 'You could have been nicer!'
"SHUT UP!" Rogue panted trying to catch her breath before she fainted. "Stop talkin all at once!" Before they began again she tried to sing just to get them out of her head for the moment. She sang her way to the control room, where she found no one. So she began to look at all the buttons. Rogue grinned, 'Ooo, what to do, what to do?' She began to play with all the gadgets and some how found her way to a simulation. It was one where the player had to attack, the same boy she had just run into. She looked down at the name, 'GAMBIT'. One thought ran through Rogue's mind, 'I Love You, I Love You.' Images of him and Rogue as little kids ran through her mind. So many visions, just like when she touched Irene without putting on her gloves first. She saw the two of them playing in this very room when they were supposed to be training. Rogue began to weep. Just sitting in the control, she started to cry, she had never seen such happiness let alone with her in her vision.
Rogue walked up the stair sort of lagging, when she unexpectedly tripped on the top step, falling right at the feet of the same boy who she had run into before. She looked up to find him staring down at her. Rogue scrambled to get off the floor, when she was offered a hand to help her up out of reflex she flinched away, but succeeded in getting up. When she finally came face to face with him, she looked into his eyes, and had this strange desire to hug him. However, he put his hand back in his trench coat and left. 'What was that?' Rogue looked at him as he walked away, frowning she entered her room. She noticed a note on her bed.
Sorry for runnin into you.
~Remy
'Remy, I've heard that name before.' She began to remember her time here she remembered the room she had shared with Kitty, the girl who had tried to hug her. She remembered how she would wake up and walked downstairs to the kitchen to find her best friend, Remy. 'That's who he is, he's my best friend.' Rogue formed a smile in her mind and congratulated herself on figuring it out. Then suddenly the smile faded as she remembered how he just walked away when she looked at him. She decided she would deal with it in the morning she was already really tired.
12:00 AM
Rogue awoke with a start, 'Another dream, that's all it was.' She tried to get back to sleep but couldn't, so she walked downstairs to the kitchen. To her surprise she found Remy there, just like he always was. He looked up at her in slit surprise that was quickly masked by boredom. He was getting ready to leave when Rogue finally spoke, "I figured out who you are, you're my best friend, right?" He turned to look at her, "I'm sorry you seem to have me mixed up with some else, my best friend left me a long time ago." He turned and left without another word. His voice had a sad angry sound to it, Rogue just tried to figure out what had just happened; he just left her there, it gave her a feeling of abandonment. She had never felt that, only knew it from her psyches. She remembered something at that moment it was the same picture of when she supposedly saved the Professor's life. She remembered something she had before failed to recall.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Now, here are my terms, Rogue comes with me, and I let the Professor live. I'm going to make the decision Rogue's." Mystique said while looking at her daughter. Rogue stared at this woman with such hatred that building began to shake, because Rogue had still not yet learned to control Lance's powers. Mystique still held steady, she was not going to back down. Rogue finally calmed down enough to not take the building down.
"Alright, I'll go with you."
"NO!!! You can't go without me." Remy yelled running into the room.
"Who is this?" Mystique said placing a questioning look on Remy.
"It doesn't matter you can't take her." Remy said while giving Mystique a glare that made his demon eyes glow a furious red. Mystique was about to say something when, suddenly some of the books on the shelves began to glow a bright red.
"What's going on here, Xavier?" 'Remy please calm down, this was Rogue's choice to make.' Remy did calm down but not before running to Rogue, and whispered in her ear.
"Come on Rogue you can stop her use your powers, you can still stay. You can still stay with me." A single tear ran down her face, as she projected with Jean's power, 'I'm sorry Remy, but is what is supposed to happen, I remember seeing it when I was little. I have to go.' Remy looked down and suddenly kissed her and collapsed. One thought ran through Rogue's hand like a lightening, 'I love you.'
~~~Flashback~~~
'I left him, he took the risk of touching me just to tell me he loved me, and I left him.' 'No you didn't, you idiot, you were taken remember.' 'No but, she has a point she could have done what Remy told her do; use her powers.' 'HELLO! She was grabbed and teleported to another location, what was she supposed to do, she didn't know where she was.' 'Yeah, he has no right to say I abandoned him.' 'That's exactly what I was saying.' 'Well if he's going to be like that, then I don't have to like him either.'
Rogue walked upstairs sad but determined to never hurt like that again, no one would make her feel like that again.
The Next Morning
'Rogue, remember you have your first Danger Room session.' Rogue groaned, 'Oh yeah,' she got dressed into her new uniform and made her way down to the room. She looked around and noticed that everyone was there. 'Whoa! What's wit all the people?'
"Well, Rogue since we work as a team we practice as one as well," Jean said smiling at her. 'Ha! What a suck up.' Jean's warm smile abruptly changed to an icy smile, as she told Rogue, 'And don't forget we all have powers.' Rogue smiled just as coldly as Jean had and projected to her, 'Don't think I've forgotten.' Rogue walked past her and stepped into the large room where the simulation she had made had been, while everyone in the other room tried to figure out what had just happened between Jean and Rogue.
"Alright, everyone come into the room," the speakers projected Wolverine's voice. Rogue looked up into the control room. As everyone entered, the room began to change, Rogue looked around, she remembered this but it was still in awe to her that a room can change to thousands of different landscapes. 'Come on Rogue stop standing around and help us,' Jean was still mad at the way Rogue treated her. Rogue laughed to herself. When out of the blue she remembered a lesson her mom had made her learn. This was just like the simulation that Mystique had made her work with, it was perfect she had the golden opportunity. Rogue grinned, 'Time to get this party started.' She went inside her mind to find Pietro's power and took off her gloves. 'It's so simply all I have to do is run from one to the next, they would never expect it.' Immediately her plan went into action. She had finally gotten a sample of everyone's powers in a record time of 50 seconds. However, there was one small problem she didn't think anyone would be late to practice.
"What happened? Where's Logan? What did you do?" Remy shouted at her. Then stopped as he looked at her hands, they didn't have the gloves she always wore, Remy looked around and figured out what had happened. Angry, he swiftly took out his staff, he wasn't afraid to hurt her she had hurt him after all. Rogue turned around to find Remy in a fighting stance, that Mystique had taught her a long time ago. 'Well, this will be fun.' Rogue flipped toward Remy, while Remy stayed where he was. When she finally got to him he she tried to knock him off his feet with a quick swipe to the legs, what she wasn't expecting was to have her leg rammed into a pole. Rogue looked up at him he smiled coldly at her and said, "Looks like you have a lot to learn." Rogue jumped to her feet and tried to hit him but he blocked it, then she tried again and again. Finally she grabbed his shoulders and flipped over his head and him in the back of his legs. He immediately fell to the ground with two very dead legs. Right before she touched his face he said, "You know you'll be hated for this." Rogue paused for a second, she knew that but she didn't know if she wanted to be hated. 'Oh come on Rogue have I taught you nothing, emotions will be your downfall.' Rogue hated that voice inside her head she hated Mystique she didn't care if she was hated. She touched Remy face and got up to leave the room.
'Rogue please come to my office, now that your lesson is done.'
Xavier's Office
"Rogue, what happened why did you do that?" the Professor said.
"You're the telepath, why don't you tell me?" Rogue calmly replied.
"I can't, your mind would have too many answer, with all the voices. Please, Rogue just let us help."
"Look all I need is a bed to sleep in, food to eat, and a roof over my head, I don't need these little sessions." Rogue was ready to get up and leave.
"You don't even want to learn how to control your powers?"
"Temptin offer Xavier, but I don't want to control them." Rogue got up and left, as she walked to her room, she decided to pack and find another place to go.
"Hey Stripes where ya goin?" Rogue turned to find Wolverine standing in the door she just walked out of.
"Ain't nobody gonna what me here now."
"What gave you that idea?"
"Remy told me."
"Don't believe what that boy says he just don't like new people." Wolverine looked away as he said it though. So, Rogue didn't really believe him, but she didn't really have a place to go anyway.
"Fine." She walked up to the door and before she walked past Wolverine, she whispered one word, "Thanks." Wolverine smiled as she made her way up to her room.
'Who was that kid?' 'Why were you so mad?' 'What is your problem?' 'You could have been nicer!'
"SHUT UP!" Rogue panted trying to catch her breath before she fainted. "Stop talkin all at once!" Before they began again she tried to sing just to get them out of her head for the moment. She sang her way to the control room, where she found no one. So she began to look at all the buttons. Rogue grinned, 'Ooo, what to do, what to do?' She began to play with all the gadgets and some how found her way to a simulation. It was one where the player had to attack, the same boy she had just run into. She looked down at the name, 'GAMBIT'. One thought ran through Rogue's mind, 'I Love You, I Love You.' Images of him and Rogue as little kids ran through her mind. So many visions, just like when she touched Irene without putting on her gloves first. She saw the two of them playing in this very room when they were supposed to be training. Rogue began to weep. Just sitting in the control, she started to cry, she had never seen such happiness let alone with her in her vision.
Rogue walked up the stair sort of lagging, when she unexpectedly tripped on the top step, falling right at the feet of the same boy who she had run into before. She looked up to find him staring down at her. Rogue scrambled to get off the floor, when she was offered a hand to help her up out of reflex she flinched away, but succeeded in getting up. When she finally came face to face with him, she looked into his eyes, and had this strange desire to hug him. However, he put his hand back in his trench coat and left. 'What was that?' Rogue looked at him as he walked away, frowning she entered her room. She noticed a note on her bed.
Sorry for runnin into you.
~Remy
'Remy, I've heard that name before.' She began to remember her time here she remembered the room she had shared with Kitty, the girl who had tried to hug her. She remembered how she would wake up and walked downstairs to the kitchen to find her best friend, Remy. 'That's who he is, he's my best friend.' Rogue formed a smile in her mind and congratulated herself on figuring it out. Then suddenly the smile faded as she remembered how he just walked away when she looked at him. She decided she would deal with it in the morning she was already really tired.
12:00 AM
Rogue awoke with a start, 'Another dream, that's all it was.' She tried to get back to sleep but couldn't, so she walked downstairs to the kitchen. To her surprise she found Remy there, just like he always was. He looked up at her in slit surprise that was quickly masked by boredom. He was getting ready to leave when Rogue finally spoke, "I figured out who you are, you're my best friend, right?" He turned to look at her, "I'm sorry you seem to have me mixed up with some else, my best friend left me a long time ago." He turned and left without another word. His voice had a sad angry sound to it, Rogue just tried to figure out what had just happened; he just left her there, it gave her a feeling of abandonment. She had never felt that, only knew it from her psyches. She remembered something at that moment it was the same picture of when she supposedly saved the Professor's life. She remembered something she had before failed to recall.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Now, here are my terms, Rogue comes with me, and I let the Professor live. I'm going to make the decision Rogue's." Mystique said while looking at her daughter. Rogue stared at this woman with such hatred that building began to shake, because Rogue had still not yet learned to control Lance's powers. Mystique still held steady, she was not going to back down. Rogue finally calmed down enough to not take the building down.
"Alright, I'll go with you."
"NO!!! You can't go without me." Remy yelled running into the room.
"Who is this?" Mystique said placing a questioning look on Remy.
"It doesn't matter you can't take her." Remy said while giving Mystique a glare that made his demon eyes glow a furious red. Mystique was about to say something when, suddenly some of the books on the shelves began to glow a bright red.
"What's going on here, Xavier?" 'Remy please calm down, this was Rogue's choice to make.' Remy did calm down but not before running to Rogue, and whispered in her ear.
"Come on Rogue you can stop her use your powers, you can still stay. You can still stay with me." A single tear ran down her face, as she projected with Jean's power, 'I'm sorry Remy, but is what is supposed to happen, I remember seeing it when I was little. I have to go.' Remy looked down and suddenly kissed her and collapsed. One thought ran through Rogue's hand like a lightening, 'I love you.'
~~~Flashback~~~
'I left him, he took the risk of touching me just to tell me he loved me, and I left him.' 'No you didn't, you idiot, you were taken remember.' 'No but, she has a point she could have done what Remy told her do; use her powers.' 'HELLO! She was grabbed and teleported to another location, what was she supposed to do, she didn't know where she was.' 'Yeah, he has no right to say I abandoned him.' 'That's exactly what I was saying.' 'Well if he's going to be like that, then I don't have to like him either.'
Rogue walked upstairs sad but determined to never hurt like that again, no one would make her feel like that again.
The Next Morning
'Rogue, remember you have your first Danger Room session.' Rogue groaned, 'Oh yeah,' she got dressed into her new uniform and made her way down to the room. She looked around and noticed that everyone was there. 'Whoa! What's wit all the people?'
"Well, Rogue since we work as a team we practice as one as well," Jean said smiling at her. 'Ha! What a suck up.' Jean's warm smile abruptly changed to an icy smile, as she told Rogue, 'And don't forget we all have powers.' Rogue smiled just as coldly as Jean had and projected to her, 'Don't think I've forgotten.' Rogue walked past her and stepped into the large room where the simulation she had made had been, while everyone in the other room tried to figure out what had just happened between Jean and Rogue.
"Alright, everyone come into the room," the speakers projected Wolverine's voice. Rogue looked up into the control room. As everyone entered, the room began to change, Rogue looked around, she remembered this but it was still in awe to her that a room can change to thousands of different landscapes. 'Come on Rogue stop standing around and help us,' Jean was still mad at the way Rogue treated her. Rogue laughed to herself. When out of the blue she remembered a lesson her mom had made her learn. This was just like the simulation that Mystique had made her work with, it was perfect she had the golden opportunity. Rogue grinned, 'Time to get this party started.' She went inside her mind to find Pietro's power and took off her gloves. 'It's so simply all I have to do is run from one to the next, they would never expect it.' Immediately her plan went into action. She had finally gotten a sample of everyone's powers in a record time of 50 seconds. However, there was one small problem she didn't think anyone would be late to practice.
"What happened? Where's Logan? What did you do?" Remy shouted at her. Then stopped as he looked at her hands, they didn't have the gloves she always wore, Remy looked around and figured out what had happened. Angry, he swiftly took out his staff, he wasn't afraid to hurt her she had hurt him after all. Rogue turned around to find Remy in a fighting stance, that Mystique had taught her a long time ago. 'Well, this will be fun.' Rogue flipped toward Remy, while Remy stayed where he was. When she finally got to him he she tried to knock him off his feet with a quick swipe to the legs, what she wasn't expecting was to have her leg rammed into a pole. Rogue looked up at him he smiled coldly at her and said, "Looks like you have a lot to learn." Rogue jumped to her feet and tried to hit him but he blocked it, then she tried again and again. Finally she grabbed his shoulders and flipped over his head and him in the back of his legs. He immediately fell to the ground with two very dead legs. Right before she touched his face he said, "You know you'll be hated for this." Rogue paused for a second, she knew that but she didn't know if she wanted to be hated. 'Oh come on Rogue have I taught you nothing, emotions will be your downfall.' Rogue hated that voice inside her head she hated Mystique she didn't care if she was hated. She touched Remy face and got up to leave the room.
'Rogue please come to my office, now that your lesson is done.'
Xavier's Office
"Rogue, what happened why did you do that?" the Professor said.
"You're the telepath, why don't you tell me?" Rogue calmly replied.
"I can't, your mind would have too many answer, with all the voices. Please, Rogue just let us help."
"Look all I need is a bed to sleep in, food to eat, and a roof over my head, I don't need these little sessions." Rogue was ready to get up and leave.
"You don't even want to learn how to control your powers?"
"Temptin offer Xavier, but I don't want to control them." Rogue got up and left, as she walked to her room, she decided to pack and find another place to go.
"Hey Stripes where ya goin?" Rogue turned to find Wolverine standing in the door she just walked out of.
"Ain't nobody gonna what me here now."
"What gave you that idea?"
"Remy told me."
"Don't believe what that boy says he just don't like new people." Wolverine looked away as he said it though. So, Rogue didn't really believe him, but she didn't really have a place to go anyway.
"Fine." She walked up to the door and before she walked past Wolverine, she whispered one word, "Thanks." Wolverine smiled as she made her way up to her room.