Chapter 3

Hang Over Author's notes and whatnot

The next morning Kitty got up early, started getting ready for school so she could take care of Rogue. "Kitty?" She said weakly while her friend was applying make-up.

"Hey, how are you feeling this morning?" Kitty asked her, like a totally different person.

"Ah still feel a little dizzy with a really bad headache an lak Ah'm goin' to throw up." She said honestly gripping her stomach and rolling over on her side.

"Hold on." She said. Kitty brought the bathroom garbage can to her, placing a bad in it then set it beside Rogue's bed. She also got a glass of water, setting it on the wooden nightstand just incase she did throw up all of the alcohol she had consumed the previous night. "You're going to have to stay home from school. You've got a hang over from last night. Lance's orders were for you to stay home and get some rest. Your fever is finally broke, at last." Kitty told her switching Rogue's one last time washcloth with a fresh one, for the last time before she would leave for school.

"What happened?" Rogue asked again, not remembering anything after leaving the brotherhood's.

"Well, by what Pietro told Lance and me, he found you in a bar. Pietro said that you had had way too much to drink and got there just in time because you passed out in his arms. So he took you to their house and you slept for about 2-3 hours until you demanded to be brought back to the institute." She explained, out of breath from talking too fast.

"Nobody can find out." Rogue insisted.

"I can tell them you left early. Don't worry about a thing. I got you covered. You just stay here and rest." She said.

"Whatever weh do Logan cannot find out. Oh, and Kitty, Ah just want to say thanks. I do in fact remember the things Ah said to ya last nigh' an Ah'm so sorry, Ah was just upset." Rogue apologized.

"You're like welcome. You get lots of rest so feel better. I'll see you later." Kitty said going downstairs after grabbing her bag. She then went into the kitchen ready to face Scott's twenty questions.

"Good morning Kitty. Did you have a good time last night?" Scott asked sarcastically after Kitty had walked into kitchen.

"Yeah, it was like totally awesome. I had so much fun; thanks for asking." Kitty said with the biggest smile ever as she remembered her night with Lance in the park.

"Kitty I need to talk to you outside for a minute." Scott told her.

"Okay." She replied following him out the back door.

"Kitty I want to talk to you about last night. Now, being the leader, I have to make sure the rules are followed by all of the students. I know that you and Rogue came home after midnight last night. You're hiding something from me." He said looking down at her. Kitty hated this, she couldn't even see his eye from behind his glasses and his expression was so blank.

"There's nothing to hide. We stayed out like really late. That's all. I'd better get going so I'm not late for class. Bye, have a great day Scott." She said walking away.

"Where's Rogue? Is she still sleeping?" Scott asked her.

"Nope. She left around seven this morning." Kitty called, not even turning around to answer Scott's question. 'I hate lying to Scott but I promised Rogue. I can't like break my promise to her.' Kitty told herself.

Kitty tried her best to avoid contact with the X-Men, especially during lunch so she didn't have to answer any questions. She saw Scott walking towards her lunch table and tried to walk away quickly but he called after her and she couldn't just walk away like she wanted to. "Kitty! Have you seen Rogue? I haven't' seen her all day." He asked curiously now standing in front of her.

"Um…I like just talked to her. She said she wasn't really hungry so she's skipping lunch. She had to talk to one of her teachers anyways." Kitty answered him.

"Okay. I'm just checking." Scott said then walked away not sure whether he should believe her or not.

Back at the mansion Rogue was still sick with her hang over.

Logan was walking down the hall when he thought he sensed Rogue. He just continued thinking he was imagining things when he was walking by her room and was pretty sure he heard someone moaning from inside. 'I must be going crazy, they're all at school.' He told himself when he heard it again. He walked toward the door and slowly opened it.

When he looked inside he saw Rogue lying curled up in a ball gripping her stomach. He walked slowly towards the bed and stopped when she looked up at him. He could smell a faint scent of alcohol on her. This made him a little upset knowing she had been drinking.

"Logan? What are ya doin' here?" Rogue asked him in a soft voice.

"I should ask you the same. Are you okay kid?" Logan questioned.

" Yeah, Ah'm," She suddenly stopped, leaning over the bed throwig up in the waste basket that Kitty had set there for her. Rogue gave another groan as she rinsed her mouth once before laying back down.

"You were drinking. I can smell it all over you. I'm disappointed." Logan said looking straight at her.

"Big deal, lak you don'." She reminded him.

"It is a big deal and it doesn't matter if I do. You're too young to be drinking, anyways. Kitty should've known better." He said lectured.

"Kitty wasn' with meh. Ah was alone. Ah ran away from her an everyone else because Ah needed to beh alone for awhile last nigh'." She told him becoming cross.

"That still doesn't give you any right to go into a bar." Logan told her firmly.

"Can weh talk later? Please?" Rogue begged of him weakly.

"Fine, but we're not done talking. I'll be back later to check on you. Get some rest kid." He said leaving the room and shaking his head. Rogue tried to sit up but got dizzy so she gave up and tried to go back to sleep.

Kitty hurried from class to class avoiding all the X-Men that she could. She was hurrying to her last class of the day, English when she ran directly into Pietro, falling on the floor and dropping all of her books. "Sorry. I'll just be on my way." She quickly apologized.

"Letmehelpyou." Pietro offered to her holding out his hand.

"Thanks. I really should be getting to class." Kitty said turning to leave.

Pietro grabbed her arm though preventing her from leaving. "Hey, how'sRogue? Isshealright?" He asked her hastily really worried about Rogue.

"I wouldn't let her come to school, like you said. She didn't have a fever anymore but a really bad headache. It's not like she could stand up straight for two seconds anyways." She told him.

"CouldyoutellherthatI'msorry? I didn't mean to makehersomadlastnight." Pietro sighed and looked away staring into space down the hall.

"I'll try. I got to go or I'll be late for class. Maybe you should come over later to see her." Kitty said kind of sorry for the guy.

"Okay. I'llthinkaboutit." The both walked separate ways and went to class.

Kitty almost jumped out of Scott's car before it stopped. She ran inside with only the thought of Rogue upstairs. "Someone's in a hurry." Scott said to Jean stepping out of his car. "What's the hurry?" He asked her as if Jean would know the answer.

"I don't know. Maybe she has to go really bad." Jean said laughing with Scott and the other students that got of the car.

Upstairs Rogue was still lying in bed sleeping but was rudely awakened by Kitty bursting into their room practically slamming the door behind her. "Hey. How are you?" She asked taking Rogue's washcloth to the bathroom rewetting it with coldwater.

"Not as bad as this mornin'. Ah threw up once while talkin' to Logan." She said turning over her side.

"So he knows? I wonder if she told anyone, like the professor." She said looking a little worried.

"Ah hope not. He said he could smell it all over meh. Ah hope not. What do ya think Professor Xavier would say if he did?" she asked Kitty.

"I don't know. Oh, that reminds hen, I literately bumped into Pietro. He said to tell you that he's really sorry and that he didn't mean to make you so mad last night." Kitty said to her.

"Ah don' care what he says. Ah don' forgive him. He used meh. Pietro doesn' lak meh." She said getting louder as she spoke.

"If he didn't, why did he always talk to you in detention? Also, why did he invite you to his house? I know for a fact that he's never asked another girl to his house before. I would have heard about it from Lance." She told Rogue.

"Ya have a point but Ah still won' forgive him." She said pulling herself up and leaning against the wall crossing her arms.

"Well, he's coming over later. You have to talk to him. Do you want anything?" she asked her changing the subject.

"Ah just want a shower." She said.

Right after that Logan knocked on the door hearing voices inside. Kitty went to open the door. As she did Rogue an across the room into the bathroom, slammed the door, and threw up again.

"Hey. What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing. I came to talk to Rogue." He said.

"Maybe you should come back a little later." Kitty told him. Logan just walked away without answering. Kitty shut the door and went to check on Rogue.

Across town at the brotherhood house Pietro was in his room trying to think of what to say to Rogue. He sat there for an hour. He finally gave up and ran over to the mansion. When he got there he just stood there staring at the door. He was thinking about ringing the doorbell when someone opened the door. Of course it had to be Scott. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"IneedtotalktoRogue. It'sreallyimportant." He said quickly.

"Don't you think you've done enough damage?" Scott asked him.

Just then Kitty walk through Scott. "She's upstairs. Come on." Kitty said grabbing his hand pulling him through Scott. He turned around and watched Kitty run up the stairs catching up with Pietro who had already zoomed up them.

Kitty led him to their room. As she opened the door she saw Rouge laying face down on her pillow. "Wait here: she whispered to Pietro closing the door. She walked up to her bed and sat on the edge beside Rogue. "Rogue." she bent down and whispered, "Pietro's here to see you." At that Rogue sat up, grabbed her gloves, and leaned against the wall instantly. "I'll be right back," said Kitty leaving the two alone.

"Kitty, wait," she called her but she already left.

They stared at each other untril Rogue spoke. "What do ya want?" she demanded. Eh steped closer towards her.

"Icametoapologizefrowhathappenedlastnight." He said taking a couple steps closer.

"Well, ya should. Ya had no right to make meh believe such stupid things." She said looking away from him.

"It'snotentirelymyfault." He said really quick getting annoyed.

"What did ya say?" she almost yelled.

"It'snotmyfaultyougotdrunk. Sureyougotmadbutitwasyourchoicetodrink." He said again.

"If ya never would have asked meh to come,"

"Fine, don'texpectmetobenicetoyouagain. You'retheonewhosaidyouwouldcomeandyou draggedKittyintoittoo." He said back.

"Leave her out of this." said Rogue feeling her eyes start to tear up. "It was her fault." She said so quietly he couldn't hear her.

"What?" he said stepping even closer.

"It was her fault." She yelled at him. "She kissed Lance so ah went outside and ya made meh run off." She said a little softer.

"Sowhyareyoumadatme?" he asked her. "It's your own fault you can't touch anyone," he almost yelled at her this time a little slower.

"Shut up" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

Logan was on his way to talk to her for the third time when he heard her scream. He came busting into the room to see Kitty heard her too on the back to their room and she hurried in after Logan. Pietro was standing near the bed just staring at her.

"What did you say to her this time?" she yelled at him.

"Nothing." He answered quickly.

"If it was nothing then why is she crying?" she asked a little softer this time.

"Isaiditwasherfaultshecan'ttouchanyone." He said.

"I think you should go.' She told him sternly.

"Fine. Onemorething, Rogue,youreallyneedtolearnnottobesosensitveyouweakling. Again, it'snotmyfaultyoucan'tstandotherpeopletouchin." He said quickly.

"Get OUT." She yelled at the top of her lungs again. He zoomed out of the room and left.

Rogue tried her best not to cry as Kitty came over and sat on the edge of the bed. Her bottom lip was trembling from trying not to cry since Logan was in the room. "Just cry. He's a jerk and you know it. I'm sorry Rogue. I asked him to come over and talk to you. It's all my fault." Kitty said rubbing her back for comfort.

"It's not. It's his not yours." she said quietly. She started sobbing and then looking up she saw Logan still standing there. Rogue tried really hard to stop crying but it was no use at all, the tears just came to her eyes. She had a bad pain in her chest. 'I feel so stupid for believing and trusting Pietro. I can't let Kitty and especially Logan see me cry but I just can't. It hurts, the pain's too much.' She sat there thinking things over. "I can't." she said as best she could while crying. Then, all of the sudden Rogue started crying even harder and fell down face first into her pillow to try and hide her crying from Logan but it was no use.

"I'm sorry Logan but I think that." but before Kitty could finish Logan just nodded his head and left again. He decided that he would just have to talk to her tomorrow.

Rogue sat there for about two hours crying her eyes out until she fell asleep. She woke up about two in the morning since she had gone to sleep in the late afternoon. Rogue couldn't go back to sleep. She still had a sharp pain in her chest that wouldn't go away. It kind of felt hard for her to breathe but not as bad as it was a couple of hours ago. Rogue decided to wonder around the mansion for a while. She ended up at the kitchen table with a glass of water and some aspirin on the table for a bad headache she had from crying.

Logan went to check on her when he too had awoken in the middle of the night. He found that she wasn't in bed he went searching all over the mansion till he found her in the kitchen still silently crying. He saw tears running down her face. Her eyes were all red from crying herself to sleep earlier. "Hey kid. You feeling alright?" he asked her but already knowing the answer.

"Does it look lak Ah'm okay to ya? Sorry.. Ah couldn' sleep, Ah have a huge headache, Pietro is a jerk, Ah just came down here to think." she said staring down at the table.

"Can we talk?" he asked taking a seat next to her.

"Sure, let's just get it over with." She said looking up at him in the light of the moon through the kitchen window. "Ah know Ah'm too young to drink. Ah don' know why Ah did it, Ah just did." She said looking away from him.

"I can't say that I know exactly what you're going through, but I can try and help if you will let me. You know that you can come and talk to me anytime you want to. Just promise me you won' do it anymore. Okay?" he said lifting her chin up with his hand gently.

"Ah have a question?" she said pausing for a minute. "Did ya tell the professor?" she asked looking straight into his eyes.

"No, I didn't see any reason to." He answered.

"Thanks, Logan" she said giving him a hug. He gave in just this once and hugged her back.

Rogue took the aspirin and went back to bed to see if she couldn't get at least a little more sleep.

Okay, well that's it for Ch. 3. I hope you liked it a lot. I don't know everything about X-Men Evolution but if you have any questions please ask and I will try my best to answer all of them. Thanks. Please R&R.