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Disclaimer: No animals were harmed during the production of this chapter, however, one tile floor suffered minor injuries.

Chapter 10 – Corner Pocket

"Marie"

"Yes Ms. Monroe?" Rogue stopped and headed toward the teachers desk rather than to the door.

"Do you want to meet with me sometime this weekend to go over this?"

"Huh?" Chelsea was puzzled.

"I know you have problems in this class. I thought I'd offer you the chance to catch up on what you missed with my help. If you wanted to of course."

"Oh. Um, naw ah think I'll be okay... Ah can handle the Civil War."

"We are discussing the French Revolution."

"Oh, my bad. Um I think ah got that one too."

Ororo gave her an 'I don't know about that' kind of look. "Well if you change your mind..."

"Ya'll be the first to know"

"Okay." Ororo was still unsure. Rogue giggled and walked out the door. She turned the corner and immediately the giggling stopped. Boy mind games are fun, she thought and she began to go down to the commons room to meet everyone.

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"Finally!" Kitty yelped as Marie walked in the room. "I totally thought you were standin' us up!"

"Naw, s. Thunderbolts kept me after class ta talk."

"Huh?"

"She means Storm, Kitty." Bobby clarified.

"Oh right." Kitty sheepishly said.

"You break first," John said to Rogue, "and make it good, this may be your only time to shoot."

She took the stick he was holding out to her, placed the cue ball on the table, and said; "Ah'll take that bet, fire-boy"

"It's Pyro..." But his words were lost between the crashing of the stick and the balls scattering about the table. Two stripes went in.

"Wow!" Bobby said.

"We'll ah used to play." Rogue said matter of fact-ly.

"Riiight" Kitty commented. "And I won the tour de France last year"

Rogue blushed. She forgot for a second that she was Marie, not Chelsea. Dang, twice in one day. I gotta work on that.

"Okay okay. Luck ah guess." Yeah right, luck my butt, oh well I guess I'll go easy on them for a bit, be Marie and all. She lined up her next shot and purposely missed, but was successful at putting the cue ball in a spot impossible for Bobby to work with.

The truth was she had played before, tons of times. She spent her time in bars and lounge halls betting the men in pool. Win or loose, she didn't care. She waited until they were good and drunk and stole their money anyways. But most of the time she won, money was at stake.

Bobby attempted to shoot, but missed, as did Kitty. John got one ball in, but failed an easy second shot in Chelsea's opinion. On her next turn, she decided to miss again. And so it went on, Bobby, Kitty, and John playing the way they normally do, okay but not great. Chelsea was trying her best to play as she thought Marie would, but she was getting bored with pretending to suck.

"Eight ball, side pocket," Rogue said, pointing with the stick then lining up her shot. The ball went in and the cue ball was left spinning on the table. John and Bobby were standing, mouths agape staring at her.

"Wow that was good!" Kitty Exclaimed. "Let's play again." She began to set up the balls.

"A little too good." Bobby said clearly puzzled.

Chelsea's head snapped up and she looked at Bobby.

"Have any run ins with Magneto lately?" John asked.

Chelsea looked from one to the other, not knowing what to think. She had fear in her eyes. "Huh?" she finally asked, trying to not let the fear escape her lips too.

"The last time you played that good was after Magneto—"

"John is just a sore loser. Don't listen to them." Kitty said and she took her first shot, successfully breaking up the balls, but getting none in.

"Sore loser, I'll show you sore loser." John said as he took the stick from Kitty in a bravado way and began to walk around the table looking for the best shot.

"What happened with Magneto?" Rogue asked.

John, startled by her question, shot the cue ball which launched off the table and loudly rolled across the tile floor. They all stood, eyes wide, staring at her.

"What are you talking about?!" Kitty Exclaimed.

"You said ah hadn't played this well since Magneto...What? What did he do?"

"Um tried to kill you! Remember? Gosh how could you forget?!" Kitty's expression was one of shock and disbelief.

"Gosh ah'm sorry." Rogue whimpered. She sat down in one of the chairs near the pool table. "Ah was hoping this wasn't going to happen."

"What?" Bobby asked, coming and sitting beside her.

"Well, ah don't know how to explain... After my meeting my parents, and their um, not welcoming me... Ah was so upset. Ah ran away from the house. Ah was crying... Ah don't even know where ah was going. Ah just ran away from there, away from them."

"Oh Rogue." Kitty came to sit beside her and put her arm around Rogue's shoulder.

She was on the verge of tears now, "Anyway, ah don't remember what happened. Ah remember the horn and looking up ta see a car... Ah woke up later at a clinic. The Doctor said that once the driver and witnesses found out ah was a mutant they didn't care and just left. He took me to his clinic cause his brother is a mutant, so he knows how ah feel. Anyway ah hit my head on the ground pretty hard, and he said it may affect some things for a while, but that it should go away with time.

Ah left the clinic two days later. He wasn't too thrilled, but ah had to leave there. Since then ah can't remember huge chunks of time."

"Is that what you were talking about when I saw you in the courtyard today?" John asked.

"Yeah, but ah was hoping it would go away before ah had to say anything."

"Maybe you should have it checked out?"

"Ah'm okay really."

"Maybe Kitty is right, I think you should." Bobby added, "I can talk to beast tomorrow in class if you want, he can check you out."

"Ah'm fine really. Look ah already have it stitched up and everything."

"You got stitches? Let me see!" Rogue bent forward so Kitty could see the stitches she gave herself using Mystique's power just moments before.

"See ah've already been checked out by a doctor so big, blue and fluffy doesn't need to help."

Bobby gave Rogue a look but decided to drop it for now.

"Okay so, um... John scratched big time." Rogue got up and went to retrieve the ball from the floor in the far off corner of the room. "So ah think it's my turn. Now where to put the ball so I can kick ya'lls ass?" She lined up a shot and succeeded in getting a ball in. "Oooh Kitty, we're stripes again."

"Maybe she has seen Magneto" John whispered to Bobby.

"About that," Rogue said overhearing what he said, "What happened?"

Bobby told her the story of how magneto kidnapped her. John and Kitty filled in the parts that he missed. Then they began to tell her all the stuff that "went down" as Kitty put it, at Alkali Lake.

"Oh," Rogue said, this is good to know. So I'm supposed to be good friends with Logan I can do that. It's kinda funny though, I don't think Logan likes Bobby too much. Neither do I so far. How can this Rogue chick like him? He's such a pansy!

"And what does all this stuff have to do with pool?" Rogue asked after listening to their story and taking it all in.

"Nothin'" John replied, "Oh you mean that." He finally understood what she was getting at. "Well after he almost killed you, you got some of his powers for a while. The day you got back to school we all played pool in here. You made a magnetic force field around the balls, or somethin' like that. Anyway you won every game we played."

"Oh" She chuckled a bit. "Did ah do anything else?"

"Well you flew around the courtyard for a little bit-"

"Flew? Bobby please Magneto doesn't fly, he hovers. You hovered around the courtyard." John corrected. "Other than that and helping the professor you didn't do much else."

"What did ah do for the professor?"

"Long story, but basically you helped him find out what new abilities Magneto had with his mutation." Kitty said with a tone that made it obvious she was annoyed attention was not more on the game... and her. "Now it's your shot again Rogue."

"Oh sorry." Rogue took her shot and decided she had gotten enough information for one day. Plus they believed her cheesy amnesia story. Now all she had to do was talk to Misty just incase they made her meet with big blue.

"Eight ball, corner pocket." She shot and sunk it.

A/N: I decided to finish this chapter up today because I got done my stupid exam early. Woo Hoo!!! Anyway I hope it pleases my one fan.

Oh and also I have the next chapter already written, but I have been kinda wondering if I should have Kitty and Piotr dating in it, or just be friends. I am not sure... Please review and tell me if you liked this chappy, and also what you would like to see between Kitty and Piotr, if anything. And Hey I'm always open to suggestions!!!!!