Disclaimer: I do not own the X-men.
Summary: It's AU. Rogue runs away from her abusive father when her powers activate and knock him out. Remy is sick of his father who has always controlled his life and runs away to start a life of his own. Wanda and Pietro had been abandoned when they were kids. They leave the orphanage when they turn 15 to start their life anew. Tabitha has always lived on the streets and when her friends get killed in a gang war she flees with her injured friend Lance hoping to find refuge. Kitty has always been a perfect daughter, student and friend until she gets pregnant with her dead boyfriend's baby and leaves home after her father declares that she is the worst thing that ever happened to him in the hopes that she would be able to provide a safe haven for her baby elsewhere.
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Never Looking Back.
Rogue dragged her feet slowly trying to take as long as it possibly could for her to get home from work. It had been a relatively normal day or as normal a day as can be expected if were an antisocial Goth with a useless drunk for a father who would use just about any opportunity to hurt her. She opened the door of the dirty house whose paint was peeling off with her key and quietly slipped inside praying that her father wouldn't hear her sneaking in this late on a school night. She practically ran to her room and locked herself up before she finally sighed in relief but minutes later as she was changing out of the too short skirt and the ridiculous sailor suit shirt that were part of her uniform at the sea food restaurant in the mall she heard her father fall off the couch and his confused voice as he yelled "Rogue are you home?" Rogue didn't reply hoping that her father would think she wasn't at home and would just get drunk again and forget the fact that she existed. But unfortunately for her he was trudging up the stairs before she could find a reasonable explanation for why she hadn't responded when her father had called her. He yanked the door open and Rogue flinched readying herself for the blow on her face that would usually be accompanied by blows on her hand and head but instead she suddenly felt her head reel as memories filled her mind. Memories that did not belong to her.
She fell to the floor in pain trying to make sense of what was happening to her. She tried to clear her head but she couldn't but moments later her father fell on the floor unconscious and his hand slipped away from Rogue's face. For about half an hour Rogue just sat there replaying all her father's memories. After a while her head stopped reeling and she opened her eyes confused trying to figure out what just happened. She looked at her father lying on the floor unconscious looking completely helpless. A part of her desperately wanted to pay him back for all the blows and pain she had had to endure in her lifetime but she was more terrified that she had killed her father. She gathered up her meager belongings and all the money that she had been able to hide from her father.
She had waited to get away from this house and this town all her life. It was the only thing that had consoled her and gotten her through the endless nights when she had stayed awake nursing her aching and sometimes bleeding arms and legs "He was careful never to hit me on the face where people could see the wound." She thought bitterly. She couldn't help but think of her mother who had abandoned her as a child and never looked back. " But with a husband like that I really don blame her." She murmured to herself hurrying up desperate to get out of the house as fast as she could. She liked to think that her mother had been a beautiful woman who had loved her with all her life. It was a comfort to even consider the fact that someone might have loved her at least a little. She finished packing her bag and crossing her fathers unconscious body she left her previous life forever to start a better new one and never once looked back.
At the train station she tried to be as inconspicuous as possible and when she finally got to the ticket counter realized that she didn't know where to go. She looked at the posters on the wall beside the counter and she quickly said, " Ah would like a ticket to Venice please." The woman in the counter did not even look at her twice as she gave her the ticket and yawned loudly as the next person in line stepped up after her. She checked the train timings and realized that the train would leave in an hour. She settled into a seat and for the first time in her life she felt a warm glow of happiness surround her. "Ah've always wanted tah go tah Venice anyways. It is a beautiful city. So different from the places Ah am used to." She thought bitterly but dismissed it from her mind. That part of her life was over. Now that she was free she would make a new start and finally have the life that she had always dreamed of.