Chapter 4

Patching Things Up

I'm really sorry that it took me so long to write this fourth chapter. So, please, don't hurt me. I have to work around my friends, family, boyfriend, and my life. Which by the way is very complicated, that is if you know me. Anyways, here it is. I hope you like it and I'll try to keep putting more up as I can.

I noticed how I said Logan lifted Rogue's chin with his hand. He can't do that because of her powers. I'm not sure how to fix it but just use your imagination.

The next morning Kitty had to wake Rogue up about five times before she actually got up. She was almost late for school again. She was really glad that she wasn't because then she would get detention. Pietro would probably have it too.

She skipped lunch and sat by herself thinking about her power again. She wished so much that she was normal. All day she ignored Pietro and after school Rogue sat under a tree just staring into space thinking some more. She was hoping no one would bother her when she felt a sudden whoosh of air. She ignored it knowing that it was Pietro. He just stood there and then knelt down beside her. She tried not to acknowledge his presence.

"What do you want?" she said real annoyed.

"I'vebeenajerk." He said.

"What's ya point?" she said getting angry.

"Iwanttomakeituptoyou." He told her.

"Ya wastin' ya time. Don' ya think ya've done enough damage?" she asked him turning away from him.

"Hey Pietro, you coming?" said Lance walking over to where they were.

"Yeah." He said standing up.

"Lance, can Ah talk to ya for a minute?" she asked him.

"Sure, Pietro go ahead. I'll be there in a second." He said sitting next to Rogue.

"What's up?" he asked her.

"Could ya talk to Pietro for me? Ah mean ask him to leave meh alone." She said.

"Sure. Anything." He told her.

"Okay. Thanks a lot." She said looking up at him. "Do you want a ride?" Lance asked her.

"No, Ah'll walk. Thanks anyways though. Bye." She answered him back. He left but she stayed there awhile still thinking and wanting to be alone.

Rogue didn't have a watch and lost track of time. She saw Kitty walking towards her and wondered how long she had been sitting there. "Hey. Do you know what time it is?" Rogue asked as Kitty stopped in front of her.

"It's after five. What are you doing here? Thinking again? What are you always think about anyways?" Kitty asked her.

"Mah powers, Ah mean about how Ah'll probably not ever be able to touch anyone in mah life again she told Kitty.

"Will you come back to the institute with me?" Kitty asked.

"Yes." She answered standing up.

"It's not your fault you have powers. Just think of it as a gift. For example my power helps me walk through walls, doors, and other things. It can help me walk through locked doors." She told her.

"So what's good about mah power then?" Rogue asked.

"Well.it.it protects you I guess. It also lets you help other mutants by borrowing their powers and abilities." She answered her.

"Don' ya mean hurting people?" she asked.

"I don't know. Let's just drop it for now." Kitty told her.

"Okay." She said walking on in silence for a long while.

A little later in Rogue and Kitty's room, "Are you coming down to dinner?" Kitty asked her.

"No. Just tell them Ah have a really bad headache." Rogue told her sitting on her bed.

"Okay. Are you sure?" She asked again.

Yeah. Ah'll see ya later." Rogue answered her. "Alright.bye." Kitty said leaving the room. She really didn't know what the professor would have to say about Rogue not eating dinner again. She's been skipping dinner for the last three days. She always leaves early or late for school and also skips breakfast. To make things worse, Kitty never sees Rogue at lunch anymore either.

At dinner Kitty tried to sit as far away as she could from Professor Xavier and Scott. The only two seats left though were almost at the head of the table. She sighed and took a seat next to Logan. After fifteen minutes Xavier asked Kitty the on question she didn't want to hear. "Kitty, where's Rogue?"

"She said she had another headache. She's upstairs in her room."

"Okay. Thank you Kitty." He said continuing his conversation with the other adults.

Over the nest week Kitty told the Professor and Scott excuses for Rogue not showing up at dinner. ON night after dinner Scott stopped Kitty to talk to her about Rogue. "Kitty I need to talk to you a minute. It's about Rogue." But then Kitty cut in.

"I know. I'm worried about her too. Every time I try to talk to her about is she either ignores me or changes the subject. I have to go. Nice talking to you." She said as she turned around Scott just watched as she ran upstairs and disappeared down the hall.

When Kitty entered the room Rogue was sitting on her bed staring out of her window into the darkness. Kitty silently walked towards the bed and sat down beside her. They sat there fro about an hour until Kitty broke the silence. "I need to talk to you." She said still staring out the window. "I'm worried about you. You're not eating and I can tell you're losing a lot of weight. What's wrong?" Kitty asked her.

"Nothin', everythin's fine." Rogue told her.

"You're lying. Something's definitely wrong. You can tell me." She said touching Rogue's shoulder.

"Ah've been thinkin' about my future with and without mah powers." She told her.

"Will you just promise me that you'll start eating?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah, Ah'm getting' tired though. Ah'm just goin' to bed." She answered standing up.

"Alright, I'll see you in the morning. Good night. "" Kitty said getting dressed for bed.

"Good night." Rogue said climbing into bed.

Since Rogue went to bed early she got up really early (about 5 a.m.). She quietly got dressed and left the room trying not to wake her up. She went downstairs and into the kitchen. She wasn't the lease bit surprised to see Logan sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper like usual (How early does this guy get up anyway?). Rogue walked in as if nobody was there. She went to walk out the back door when Logon questioned her. "Where you go so early in the morning? The sun's not even up yet." He asked putting down his newspaper for once and looking straight at her. "Ah just need to go out and get some fresh air, that's all." She told him and starting walking out the door again. Logan just picked up the paper and started reading it again.

Rogue didn't know where to go and she didn't want to go and sit under the same tree she always did for fear someone would find her (like Kitty or even Pietro). She walked to the back of the school and climbed on top of the roof to think some more and watch the sunrise but mainly to be alone, again.

Kitty woke up at about 6:30 finding that there was no trace of Rogue anywhere. Her bed was made and her bag was gone. She went downstairs and into the kitchen at a little after seven. She sat beside Logan and just stared at him. After a minute he answered her unspoken question. (No, neither one of them is telepathic.) "Rogue left at six thirty." He said not putting down his newspaper. "Okay. Thanks Logan." she said getting up and leaving out the back door.

Rogue walked across the roof to the far end sitting on the ledge and staring out over the vast space of Bayville, NY. She was sitting there on the ledge when someone else zoomed by sitting on the other side of the roof. "Leave meh alone and go away." She said standing up and quickly turning around. Rogue was surprised to see that it was Pietro and then remembered the brief quick motion she heard so of course it had to be blue. "What do you want?" she asked him turning around and sitting on the ledge again.

"Ishouldaskyouthesamething." He said really quickly sitting down beside her.

"Ah don' want to talk to ya. Please leave meh alone." She told him sternly.

"Whythisismyplacetothinknotyours." He said back to her.

"It's a free country and Ah can do wat ever Ah want." She scooted away and turned her back on him.

Pietro zoomed around to the other side of her but she turned around the other way. Again, he went to the other side of her. This time she stood up walked to the other side of the roof and sat down at the very edge of the ledge.

"Will-you-just-talk-to-me-for-a-minute?" he asked her talking very slowly and almost normally for her. He even slowly walked towards her very closely like a normal person.

"No, Ah'm not going to talk to ya."

Pietro sat beside her again and kept scooting closer to her.

"Are ya tryin' to annoy meh?" Rogue asked him scooting away.

"Yeah, basically. You're-running-out-of-room-to-move-backwards-anymore."

"Ah don' care. Ah'm goin' to tell ya one last time. Go away and leave meh alone." She told him yet again. Forgetting she was at the edge of the ledge Rogue scooted back one more time.

Pietro grabbed her arm quickly as she fell off the roof. He caught her by the arm and was holding her as she hung two stories from the ground. "Don' let go." Rogue told him as she started freaking out.

"You-just-told-me-about-ten-times-to-go-away-though." He told her sarcastically.

"Ah'm about to fall off the buildin'! Ah will kill ya if you let meh go!" Rogue paused a minute looking down at the ground. "Just pull meh up, NOW!" She said yelling at him.

"But-I'm-supposed-to-leave.." But she cut him off quickly.

"PIETRO!" She screamed at him. "Ah don' care what Ah just said a second ago. Help meh. What, are ya just goin' to leave meh here to fall?"

"Well, I-could, but-then-again, I-could-help-you. If-I-think-about-it- though.alright." Pietro grabbed her with both of his hands and trying to pull her up as best he could. "It would be a lot easier if you would stop squirming. I'm not going to let you fall, trust me, for once in your life."

She all of the sudden stopped everything and looked up into his icy blue eyes. 'He's raht, why would he let meh fall? He would never be able to live with his conscious.' Rogue stared at him into those deep icy eyes and Pietro into her emerald green ones. They were lost in a world of their own when her hand slipped out of his grip. Pietro came back to the real world and pulled her up.

"Pietro.." She said lost for words. But instead of words she ran up to him giving him a hug not thinking about her powers. He followed embracing her with his strong arms. Holding each other they stared deep into one another's eyes.

She slowly pulled away from him. He relented and released his grip on her. She turned around and walked a couple of steps away. She turned around again facing him. "Thank ya. Ya saved mah life. This still doesn' make up for what you did, but Ah'm glad that ya were there for meh. Thanks Pietro." She walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek leaving him on the roof to daze into space for awhile. He was left there whilst his cheek was red from their skin to skin touch. He didn't mind though, he actually wanted to feel it again. Pietro didn't care about the results but he wanted her, needed her.

Kitty arrived in the kitchen at a little after seven. She sat beside Logan and just stared at him. After a minute he answered her unspoken question. (No, he is not telepathic.) "Rogue left at six thirty." He said not putting down his newspaper.

"Okay. Thanks Logan." She said getting up and leaving out the back door.

Rogue went to go sit under her usually tree with her bad on the ground beside her. She sat there with her legs crossed and her eyes closed leaning against the tree.

Pietro, after finishing his daze left the roof to go find her. He zoomed beside her, "Hey." He said waiting for a reply. "Areyousleeping?" he asked.

"No." she answered.

"I-was-wondering-what-you're-doing-later," Pietro said sitting beside her.

"Nothin' with ya." She said still not moving an inch but her hair lightly blowing in her face from a light breeze.

"Well,-I-still-wanted-to-make-it-up-to-you-for-what-I-did." He said quickly. "Why-did-you-come-down-here-by-yourself?" he asked.

"It's none of ya business. Ah wanted to be left alone and to get away from you and everyone else."

Kitty walked up to Rogue's usually thinking tree to see Pietro talking to her. "Your friend's coming." He said since she had her eyes closed.

"Hi Kitty." She said.

"Hey Rogue. Is he bothering you?" she asked glaring at him.

"No, he's fine." She said.

"Why did you leave so early?" Kitty asked her.

"So Ah could come here and be alone but then he showed up. What time is it?" Rogue asked.

"It's almost seven thirty." Kitty said sitting on the other side of Rogue and leaning against the tree.

"So, RoguecouldI" Pietro asked again.

"Can ya what?" Kitty asked not liking the question.

"Ah'll hav tah think about it. What did ya hav in mind?" she asked back.

"I-could-take-youout-todinnerorthatnewclubintown. Wecouldgoseeamovieifyouliketoo." He said.

"Okay. Ah'll have to think about it." She said. The three sat there in silence for about two minutes when he left to join the gang. Kitty and Rogue sat there in silence until the five minute bell rang.

At lunch Rogue sat outside at her corner table by herself. She watched as all the X-Men went and sat with their friends. Then she saw Pietro, he was walking her way until he turned to sit with the brotherhood. Kitty came to sit with her when she saw what Rogue was staring at.

"Have you decided like if you're going to go out with him?" Kitty asked sitting across from her.

"Ah'm not sure. Pietro said he wanted to make up for what he did." She said.

"I wouldn't like trust him if I were you. If you like decide to just keep a close on him." Kitty told her.

"Kitty, it's not lak he's a criminal or something. Ah'll tell him yes after school." She told her giving Kitty a weird look.

"Whatever. I got to go. See ya let, bye." Kitty said getting up to dump her lunch tray.

Rogue stayed a little longer to watch Pietro and his friends until Pietro met eyes with her. She quickly looked away. Rogue waited a minute and then got up to leave.

Again after school Rogue sat under the same tree. She hoped that Pietro would come talk to her just this once. She sat there for almost twenty minutes waiting. Rogue gave it five more minutes when she gave up, grabbed her back and stood up. Taking about five steps she felt a whoosh of air in front of her.

"Waitingforme?" he asked.

"No. Why would Ah be waiting for ya?" she said.

"To-give-me-my-answer. Ineedtotalktoyouanyways. Haveyoudecidedyet?" he asked her yet again.

"Yes, Ah will. Where are weh goin'." Rogue asked.

"It'll-be-a-surprise." He said.

"Okay. What time should Ah be ready?" Rogue asked him.

"About seven, yeah, seven's fine. Can I walk you home?" he said.

"Yeah, Ah guess." She told him. They talked until they were in front of the mansion.

"Pietro, remember this is not a date. It's just to make it up to meh. Okay?" she sad,

"Yes, of course. See you later, bye." He said.

"Bye." She said. He stood there and watched her walk to the door.

As soon as she got to her room she told Kitty about their talk while getting a dress to wear. She finally picked the one she had worn to Pietro's house party a couple weeks earlier.

"So he didn't like say where you were going?" Kitty asked.

"No. He just said that it would be a surprise and that he would pick meh up at seven. Would ya do meh a favor though?" Rogue asked.

"Sure. What is it?" Kitty said.

"Would ya answer the door? Ya know how Scott is." She said

"Yeah. Sure."

"Oh, and since dinner is at six thirty," Rogue started to say.

"Okay. I will, don't' worry about it." Kitty cut in.

"Thanks a lot Kitty, ya the best." Rogue said giving Kitty a hug of gratitude.

"I know. You know what? You should let me do your make up. They talked for like two and a half hours (or until about six fifteen). "Ah better start getting' ready." Rogue told Kitty picking up her dress.

"Okay. You get you dress on while I pick out some make-up for you," she said walking over to their mirrored desk/vanity. A few minutes later, "Here, come sit down. I'm going to like try something new for you." Kitty told her directing to the chair.

"Are ya sure?" Rogue asked her.

"I'm positive. You should wear lighter colors."

About ten minutes later...

"There you look great. I like this look for you." Kitty told her putting lids back on bottles and other.

"Yeah, ya right. Ah'm not makin' any promises for it bein' permanent though." Rogue said trying not to smile.

"I like it when you smile. You have a beautiful smile. You look great." Kitty said.

"Thanks again Kitty. Ah don' know what Ah'd do if ya weren't mah friend" Rogue said.

"So what should we do for the next half hour?" Kitty asked.

"Ya go down to dinner. Ah'll stay here." Rogue answered.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive. Ah'll be fine go." Rogue almost demanded.

"Okay. See ya in a bit." Kitty said walking through the door and downstairs.

Rogue paced back and forth across the room. She sat on the bed for awhile and then paced some more not being able to sit still. She kept looking at the clock as the minutes went by as slowly as possible. It seemed like hours until at last Kitty walk I the room at five till seven.

"Hey." Kitty said walking through the door again.

"That seemed lak the longest half hour in mah life." Rogue said. "Sorry. I tried to hurry. I'm going to go ahead and go downstairs. See ya in a minute." Kitty said walking through the door for the third time.

Rogue was sitting there wait for the doorbell. She heard it and practically fell off the bed. She walked out of the room and downstairs to see Kitty answering the door.

"HeyKitty, I'mhereforRogueassheprobablyalreadytoldyou." Pietro said.

"Hold on." Kitty said as she turned around to see her walking down the stairs.

"Hey Pietro," She said.

"See ya later." She whispered to Kitty on her way out the door.

"Bye." Kitty whispered but Pietro could still hear the two of them.

Okay, I hope you like this little bit of my story. There is a lot more to come so please be patient. Please read & review. If you have any suggestions to make my story better please feel free to tell me all your ideas.