Just to let you know, this chapter is much less serious. Why? Because I'm sick and the musical at my school owns my soul and I don't have time to delve to much deeper into the incredibly twisted plot this will end up having. Basically, I needed to update and not get too totally intrigued by my own demented mind's work.
Chapter 2
"So… Mystique's your mom, even though she helped Magneto try to kill you?"
"Yeah. She's not my biological mother though. She was my foster mother along with another mutant before the D'Ancanto's, the ones that abused me. And, um… Kurt, can I, uh, talk to you real quick?"
"Yes," he replied, slightly confused as to why Rogue would want to talk to him. She motioned for him to follow her, and they walked out of Xavier's office leaving a bunch of confused mutants there. The two of them ended up at the lake outside, and Rogue awkwardly attempted to begin the conversation.
"Kurt, what do you know about your real family, not the circus people but your actual parents?"
"I don't know very much. Rogue, vhy is it important?"
"Well, ya see… Mystique… um… apparently she masqueraded as a German woman for a while, she got married to this really wealthy German man and um… she's your mom. She slipped into her real form in labor and then she had a mob after her right after she had you. She… she abandoned ya. Ah'm real sorry Kurt." She slipped into her Southern accent at the end; it always thickened when she got emotional.
"Does zat make you meine Schwester?"
"Ah guess it does. Ah mean, if ya don't wanna think o' meh as your sister Ah completely understand, Ah probably wouldn't want meh as a sister either…"
"So I have a little sister? Zat's vonderful!" She looked at him like he'd lost his mind for a minute. He sure was taking this well. Then it occurred to her that she now had an older brother. She grinned broadly at him.
"Do ya wanna go back and tell the others? They're probably really confused right now." Kurt nodded in agreement, and they walked back to Xavier's study together, his arm over her shoulder though avoiding skin-to-skin contact.
When they got back to Xavier's study, Rogue indicated she wanted Kurt to be the one to tell everyone, and he willingly obliged. Beaming, he exclaimed, "Rogue is meine Schwester!"
Kitty, being the genius she is, asked, "Your what?"
"My sister!" And to think everyone had thought they'd learned a lot about Rogue already.
"How does that work? And how come you didn't know?" Kurt's face darkened, as did Rogue's. They had quickly become friends since Kurt became an x-men and this recent news had if anything strengthened the friendship. Despite being younger, Rogue became suddenly protective.
Defensively, she said, "He's Mystique's son, he didn't know cuz she couldn't," she kindly said couldn't instead of didn't, "keep him. Any questions?" The way she said 'any questions' clearly indicated that if there were they had best not be voiced unless the person wanted to deal with an angry southern mutant. Because of that, no one said anything. "Good."
"Uh, Rogue?"
"Yeah?"
"How come you never told us about Mystique before?"
"I never thought you needed to know, and before I never looked into her memories so I didn't know about Kurt."
"Ok," was the perky brunette's simple response. She was a nice girl but sometimes Rogue couldn't help but wonder about her intelligence. Just then Kitty seemed to think of something Rogue didn't want to think about. The girl got this mischievous grin and Rogue was mildly frightened that whatever this was about involved her. "Rogue?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you know what you need to get your mind off all this?"
"…No…"
"You need… SHOPPING!" Kitty enthusiastically said.
"Shopping?" Rogue meekly responded. She rarely went shopping, in fact she hadn't been to a mall since joining the x-men, and wasn't quite sure it was safe to go shopping with Kitty.
"Yep. Is that like, ok Professor?"
"I believe it's an excellent idea Kitty," the bald man answered while smiling kindly.
"I can't. I don't have any money. Sorry Kitty." Rogue was, for once, happy she was broke.
"Don't let that prevent you from having fun Rogue. I'll pay for it." Professor Charles Xavier handed Rogue a credit card. "All the students that need money have one, Kitty included, and I don't see why you should be excluded." Damning the professor's generosity, Rogue reluctantly agreed to go shopping with Kitty. She had no idea what she was in for.
"Now that you have control," Kitty babbled while she and Rogue walked down to the car, "you can wear clothes that show some skin!" Rogue whimpered slightly but Kitty didn't notice. Scott, who was walking with them since he'd be driving, did notice and laughed slightly. Rogue glared in response. He just laughed harder.
"Uh, how much skin are you talking?"
"Well, what's your body like?"
"What?" Kitty didn't answer, instead she decided to examine Rogue for herself. Rogue was wearing a loose shirt, and Kitty pulled it as tight as possible to discover that Rogue was thin. She had good legs, and now Kitty only needed to know one more thing to decide exactly how much skin she'd be forcing her friend to show.
"What's your bra size?" Scott noticeably stopped walking, and Rogue noticed. Smirking, she said, "C-34."
"Oh my God, I hate you! I'm only an A-36!" Rogue laughed, and Kitty blushed when she realized Scott was listening. Mumbling something about men, Kitty continued to the car, followed by Rogue and then Scott. "By the way," Kitty added to Scott, "you're dropping us off and picking us up but not shopping with us. We can't get discounts by flirting if you're hovering over us." Scott raised an eyebrow but didn't protest. He'd heard about shopping with Kitty and it was not something he wanted to experience.
The three of them drove in silence to the mall, and when the girls jumped out of the car Kitty immediately began interrogating Rogue about her current wardrobe. The answers clearly were not what Kitty wanted to hear. "We've got a lot of work to do. Well, where do you want to start?"
"Um, Kitty?"
"Yeah?"
"I've never been to the mall here before."
"What! Ok, we'll go to every clothes store first, stop for lunch, then deal with shoes and accessories." Rogue had no idea that shopping required a schedule, which just made Kitty further determined to make this trip to the mall last for many hours. Rogue was probably Kitty's best friend, and apparently the girl had been living in the Stone Age. Kitty was desperate to correct what she viewed as a terrible tragedy.
The first store they entered was Forever 21. Kitty threw tons of clothes at Rogue, choosing to 'selflessly' make this day all about Rogue, and getting no clothes for herself.
The first outfit consisted of jeans that, surprisingly, were too baggy on Rogue, and a low-cut striped shirt that fit Rogue perfectly.
"What size jeans are those?"
"5 talls."
"They aren't tight enough. I'll be back with 3 longs. Give me all your jeans." Rogue obeyed, and Kitty soon returned with at least a dozen pairs of 3 talls. "Now change into your next outfit," Kitty ordered. Rogue couldn't help but wonder if there was such a thing as a shopping Nazi, because if so she knew she was friends with one.
Several hours later Scott came to pick up Rogue and Kitty. When he pulled up and saw the two of them his jaw dropped. This was definitely unexpected. What, you may ask, made the seemingly emotionless leader react this way? It wasn't the fact that Kitty had no shopping bags and Rogue had at least 12, nor that Rogue didn't look angry about this, or even about the giant 'Victoria's Secret' bag that Rogue was carrying. It was… well, Rogue. Kitty had clearly decided she needed a complete makeover and as much as Scott would fervently disagree… he had to admit, he liked it.
"What the hell are ya staring at Scott? What, do you not recognize us or something?"
"What? Oh, um, nothing. Of course I recognize you," he laughed nervously. She just sighed and got in the car.
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