The moment she had parted with Wanda Rogue had been on a mission. Her boots stomped fiercely through out the halls. You could feel her burning rage and all others within the institute knew to stay away from her at this moment. No one knew why she was in such an angry mood and no one had dared to ask her.
Remy stood out side of Rouge's bedroom door, though she walked right on past her room and kept on going. "Chere-"
"Not now!" Rogue shouted with such vigor that Remy was even taken a back and a little unsure whether or not he should question her further, but he needed to know one thing. "Was it something Remy did Chere?" Remy called out to her, he hadn't followed her. "Are y'mad at Remy?"
Rogue didn't even turn around to face him, "It's not you I want to strangle with my bare hands if that's what you mean?" Rogue shouted out as she rounded a corner and was lost from Remy's sight. Remy sighed; at least she didn't want to kill him. It was progress; Remy thought with a sad sigh, he looked at his watch. "Merde." Remy cursed, he was late, and he had to meet a certain speed demon and blue boy in five minutes.
Pietro impatiently tapped his foot at an average of a hundred times per minute. Where is that Cajun? Pietro wonder as he looked at his watch again. Suddenly Pietro saw Gambit running down the stairs towards him. "You're late." Pietro pointed out.
"Hello to you too." Remy greeted him. He then began to search through his trench coat pockets for a slip of paper when suddenly Kurt ported in. "Bonjour." Remy greeted Kurt with out looking up.
"Why can't anyone be on time?" Pietro complained, "So what's this about?" Pietro impatiently asked.
"Give Remy a second and he'll tell you mon ami." Remy instructed the Speed Demon as he then produced a slip of paper with a long list of names on it. "Here is a list of everyone in the mansion besides Rogue and Wanda and a couple others. Rogue is not to know about this she is not to see the list she is not to see you with the list. All these people are to be given," Remy pulled out a second sheet of paper. "This message." Remy then handed Kurt the two pieces of paper. "Got it?" Remy questioned Kurt, Kurt nodded his head.
"Relax I got it." Kurt told Remy waving a hand in the air; Remy grimaced as Kurt ported out.
"And what about me?" Pietro complained.
Remy turned to Pietro and grinned like a cat, "You get to give this message to Wanda, and make sure she does it, or it's your head." Remy threatened with a charming smile, even when he was threatening to kill someone he still managed to look charming.
Pietro read over the paper and gave Remy a funny look, "Are you serious?" Pietro questioned.
"If this plan heads south because of you it's your head." Remy threatened again, his eyes glowing a demonic red. "Got it mon ami?"
"Got it."
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Rogue was having trouble forming coherent thoughts at the moment; everything in her head was a jumbled mess, a bigger mess than it usually was. To put it mildly Rogue was extremely pissed off.
Rogue rounded a second corner and finally she saw it. It felt like she had been walking forever, Rogue's pace quickened. She finally reached the door and grabbed immediately at the handle and with out knocking she barged into the room.
"PROFFESSOR!" Rogue screamed out as she entered the room. The Professor looked a bit shocked but only mildly let it show, Rogue stormed into the room and growled when she saw Magneto sitting in a chair across from Xavier, whom was at his desk. "YOU!" Rogue growled as she literally lunged at Magneto but to no avail.
Magneto's eyes widened in surprise when he saw Rogue lung at him, he was even more surprised when he saw that Logan had caught the girl in mid air and had stopped her from attacking him.
"Let meh go Logan. Now Ah mean it, Ah'll drain you to get to him." Rogue shouted as she kicked and struggled to get out of his grasp.
"Now listen Stripes." Logan tried to calm her down, "What's the meaning of this?" Logan tried to question, but Rogue was wild, she had no control over her body, she was driven by nothing but an uncontrollable rage.
"Ah'll kill you, Ah swear it Magneto, you deserve it you filthy son of a-"
"Rogue!" The Professor scolded, he wheeled over near Rogue and Wolverine, but still at a safe enough distance.
"Stuff it!" Rogue shouted at the Professor, she was even shocked she had spoken to him that way but she didn't care, she was far too angry to care. "You knew you knew the whole time!" Rogue screamed out, "Why didn't you tell her? Or any of us? Why didn't you tell HER!?" Rogue screamed out, she was so angry; tears were now streaming down her cheeks. The Professor held his head down in shame; he knew what she was talking about.
"You knew!" She shouted again, Rogue continued to struggle; she continued to struggle with all her might. "And you!" Rogue directed towards Magneto, "How could you! Your own DAUGHTER! HOW COULD YOU?!" Rogue screamed out, she had stopped struggling and was just shouting as Logan held onto her just incase she tried something.
"Rogue…"Xavier started calmly, Rogue snapped her head around and glared at him, the Professor was shocked and hurt by the glare, pain and burning rage was clear and easy to see in her eyes when she looked at him. "It was for her safety." The Professor tried to explain.
"Bullshit!" Rogue snapped out.
"Hey." Logan scolded, Rogue pushed away from him with a force unmatchable, it completely threw Logan off guard, and he had no idea where that had come from.
"Fuck you, you probably knew too. And you all were hiding it from her. You were hiding the truth and who she really was." Rogue shouted out to Logan, but it was also meant for the three of them.
"What are you talking about?" Logan questioned angrily, he was not at all happy this entire situation.
"Don't play dumb." Rogue shouted, an eerie wind began to blow about the room and outside the weather began to gray, which was strange considering it was a nice spring evening. Rogue turned her attention to Magneto who had been saying nothing through out all of this. "WHY?" Rogue shouted, she marched up and had gotten right up in his face. "Cause I know it wasn't for her safety." Rogue bit out, "It was for your safety it was so you didn't get what you very rightly deserved." Rogue screamed out, Eric could see the tears flowing from Rogue's eyes, he could feel the pain and anger in her voice, but he felt no pity, he stood there and listened.
"You locked up your own daughter when parenting got hard. And then when she tried to get you back for all the pain and suffering you caused her you BRAINWASHED HER!" Rogue shouted, "You took the fucking easy way out of parenting and made her think that you were this great father. But your not! YOU FAILED!" Lightning clashed about outside followed by bouts of thunder, the wind howled and it began to rain. "You don't deserve to be called a father, not by Pietro and definitely not by Wanda. Do you feel any guilt? Do you feel any thing at all?" Rogue asked him, her voice beginning to calm down a bit.
"You disgust me." Rogue bit out slowly to him, Rogue then turned around and walked away from him, being near him at the moment made her skin crawl. She was glad she had no parents now; she didn't want to risk them being as twisted as Magneto.
"Rogue." The Professor once again jumped in, he didn't look happy. He wasn't happy at all, he knew Rogue's reasons but felt she had no reason to act like that.
Rogue snapped her head around and glared at him. "Ah have every reason." Rogue answered him before he said anything, as she continued to walk away. "By doing nothing, you're just as bad as him." Rogue told the Professor coldly, "You're no better than him." Rogue repeated, "I have no respect for you at this point, Professor." Rogue told him, it broke her heart to tell the man she had so highly loved and respected, he was like a Grandfather to her, but now she couldn't hate him more.
Rogue walked past Logan, but said nothing to him, she left them alone and the moment she left the thunder and lightly stopped, just as the rain. They all stopped as Rogue had left the room.
Logan calmly closed the doors behind Rogue; he said nothing as he did so. Logan than walked up to Magneto and glared at him. "Yes?" Eric asked calmly but before Magneto took another breath Logan sent his fist right into Magneto's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.
"Logan." The Professor called out in surprise.
Magneto doubled over and Logan held him up, his fist still driven into his stomach. "That is only a small fraction of the pain that I know you've inflicted on your poor daughter." Logan growled out, "Rogue was right; you don't deserve to be there father. You didn't try then and you don't try now"
Logan pulled away from Eric; he was literally growling as he walked up to the Professor, he stopped right in front of him. "Did you know?" Logan asked slowly and deadly. The Professor said nothing, but merely nodded his head in shame. But before Logan left he said, "I'm disappointed in you Charles."
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"Hey kid." Logan greeted Rogue lightly, he had finally found her, it took him a couple of tries but it was only because he was angry.
"Hey." Rogue said sadly and meekly. She didn't look up at him, she had her knees curled up and she rested her hands on top of them and her head rested on arms. She was still crying a little bit, she was more shaken up than anything else. She was afraid that she was going to get kicked out of the institute for her outburst. She didn't want to leave; this place had become her home.
"Wanna talk about it?" Logan asked her as he sat down beside her on the wet ground.
"Not really." Rogue answered quietly, wiping a tear from her eye.
"If I talk will you listen?" Logan asked quietly. Rogue gave a faint nod and Logan continued. "I want you to know that the way you acted was wrong." Logan started out, Rogue groaned. "But I couldn't be more proud of you Rogue." Logan said with a gruff smile.
Rogue's jaw dropped as she raised her head up and looked at the gruff Canadian. "Beg Pardon?" Rogue asked lightly, she was seriously confused.
"You heard me." Logan told her.
Rogue smiled, but than frowned, "Is the Professor mad at meh?" Rogue asked seriously, she was so scared.
Logan scratched the back of his neck, "Honestly I don't know, I think if he's going to be mad at you than he'll also be mad at me too." Logan told her.
"Why?" Rogue questioned.
"I didn't know, Rogue, I didn't know Magneto did that to Wanda. So my anger got the better of me and I punched Magneto." Logan explained to Rogue, "Now I'm not saying what I did was right, but he did deserve it."
Rogue frowned in disappointment. "Now why do you get to hit him and Ah don't?" Rogue asked.
"Because you're a student." Logan answered.
"So. Why does that matter?" Rogue asked disappointed she didn't get to hit Magneto.
"It doesn't." Logan answered; Rogue gave him a blank stare. "It's just not right for a student to hit an adult." Logan trued to explain.
"But it was alright when he was my enemy?" Rogue questioned.
"Yes. I mean, well yes-but…" Logan trailed off, she had trapped him. "It was instinct for me to stop you. Next time if he does something that stupid you can hit him." Logan told her.
"Promise?"
"I promise Stripes." Logan told her putting a comforting arm around her.
"Am Ah gonna get kicked out?" Rogue asked she had been so afraid that she would be.
"Where'd you get that idea?" Logan asked her gruffly, "Rogue you are an X-Man, and once an X-Man always an X-Men. You're stuck here kid." Logan told her a gruff smile playing at his lips, Rogue smiled as well, she felt much better now.
"Am Ah gonna get in trouble?" Rogue looked up at him and asked.
"Fifty fifty chance." Logan told her, "But if you do I'd have to punish myself as well." Logan said to her as he looked up at the crisp night sky. "It is beautiful out here tonight isn't it?" Logan pondered aloud.
Rogue looked up as well, it was crystal clear out, and it was so amazing Rogue thought. "Yeah it is." Rogue agreed allowed. She continued to looked up at the sky and remembered what she had said to the Professor, "Is the Professor hurt by what Ah said?" Rogue questioned meekly, she felt some guilt at the moment.
"By what both of us said Stripes, he's going to be pretty ashamed and hurt for a while." Logan explained to Rogue, he than stood up and reached into his jean coat pocket and pulled out a cigar.
"Do you want me to apologize to him?" Rogue asked meekly as she hugged her legs even closer.
"Did you mean what you said Rogue?" Logan asked her, Rogue nodded, "Than apologize for the fact that you hurt him, but not for what you said. Then you would be lying to yourself, and that isn't right." Logan told her as he lit his cigar and puffed out a few clouds of smoke. "There's nothing worse than being lied to about who you are." Logan said allowed Rogue looked over to him but didn't dare speak. "It's tuff having to deal with nightmares of things you feel you should perfectly remember, of feeling like your missing a big chunk of something in your life." Logan slowly explained Rogue wasn't sure if he was talking to her or just talking. "No one should ever have to go through the hell of trying to figure out who they were. They should be trying to figure out who they are now, but never who they used to be. It's a sad life when that is the case, very sad. When that happens," Logan took a long drag on his cigar and than slowly released the smoke from his mouth, "You have my life." he said sadly, his voice hollow.
Author's Rant: OMG I seriously think this is one of my better chapters. I seriously love this chapter, there is so much raw emotion in it and I love it. This chapter just flew from my finger tips. It was so much fun to write, and I just love it. No really fluffy moments, no real couple moments at all, but I think it works very well with out it. Let me know what you think please! READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!
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Drum Roll…………….
Kitty and John – 48
Kitty and Piotr – 28
Kitty and Pietro – 13
John and Wanda – 52
John and Amara – 26
Toad and Wanda – 53
Toad and Tabby – 18
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