"Ouch, that arm has feeling you know."
Rouge was cranky; she knew she was being a bitch and unaccommodating but she couldn't help it they'd been at this testing for ages and it wasn't getting any easier and worst of all she hadn't been told about any breakthroughs.
"We're all done now, so stop complaining!"
Rogue could tell Ororo was teasing her but she couldn't get happy and joke back she was way too depressed.
All she wanted was for them to give her a pill or a shot or anything and send her on her way, back to bobby, at the thought she smiled, she always smiled when she thought about him, oh no that's right, lately there hadn't been a lot of smiling, against her better thought she'd told bobby about the tests and how they where going to try to fix it but now she was regretting that she made the choice to tell him,
"He's been too hopeful" she thought to herself "while I've been setting myself up for failure he's pinning our whole future on this working out when it probably won't."
"You can go now Rogue"
Rouge jumped at being pulled out of her thoughts and she smiled a rushed goodbye to Ororo and walked off to find Bobby.
Rose d'anticarto shivered as she looked out over the view before her, oak trees, grass and a stone pavilion. She loved this view, it was soo soothing to her.
As she stood looking out over her home she drifted back to the past, watching her beautiful daughter Marie play in the pavilion with her nanny, then her dolls and eventually playing hostess to her guests, she'd grown up in that pavilion.
Rose turned to the French doors that entered her home, she sighed and reminded herself, "she's gone now and she's not coming back, better to let go." But she couldn't help looking back one last time.
Professor Charles Xavier sat up a little straighter in his chair as he listened intently to a report on the radio.
" Increased levels of radiation have been detected in Missippi, it is not yet classified what is causing the radiation but the council has assured the residents that it is not harmful…"
as the news readers voice trailed off Charles couldn't help thinking something else was going on, maybe it was magneto working on another scheme to 'win' mutant freedom, then again it could just be natural.
"Stop obsessing" Charles scolded himself, "it could be anything, not everything leads to Eric."
"So did Ororo have anything for you."
"No, no progress."
"it'll happen Rogue."
"I know it's just…"
"What?"
"Well, what if it doesn't."
"Then we think of something else and find another way."
"Bobby…"
"No Rouge, I don't wanna hear it, I'm with you because I want to be and the fact that we can't be intimate right now and may never be is not enough to scare me off, no more discussion on the subject."
Rogue smiled and leaned up to give Bobby a quick kiss, God she loved him, he always made her feel better, no matter what."
