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Chapter 5:
The professor left Scott and Rogue alone to talk and catch up. After they had been talking alone for mere moments, Rogue broke down crying. "Ah'm sorry" she said as she tried to wipe away her tears, "Ah'm just so glad that Ah have someone to talk to again."
"You have nothing to be sorry about" Scott said with a kindness that Rogue had not heard in his voice for a long time, "You have every right to be sad, you've been through so much all by yourself. But I'm going to take care of you now Marie, I'm going to look out for you and the baby."
"Say it again" Rogue said with a small smile through her tears, "I will look out for you" "Not that" Rogue said as she looked into his eyes, "The part where you called me by my real name." "Marie" he said as he looked into her eyes and gently brushed a lock of her hair behind her ear without ever touching her skin, "I will always be your friend Marie, and I will never leave you to deal with anything alone again."
Coming to his senses a little and pulling away from their tearful and joyous reunion, Scott said, "Marie, there's something that I needed to ask you," "Am I, I mean, I remeber that you're pregnant, but I don't remeber if, what I'm trying to say is..." "Are you the father of the baby?" Rogue supplied, "Well yes" Scott said timidly and then quickly added, "I will be here for you no matter what, I just have to know."
"Yes" Rogue said with a sad smile, "Yes" Scott repeated softly in a sad voice, "Oh Marie, I'm so sorry. I should have come up with another way to get us out of there, I shouldn't have let them do what they did." "It's not your fault" Rogue said as she realized for the first time that she truly didn't blame him, "You were just doing what you thought you had to do to protect me."
"Well I am going to protect you now Marie" Scott said as he took her into a big hug trying not to let his worry about being a father affect his voice, "I'm going to protect you and our baby so that nothing like that ever happens to you again." With that, Scott took her into his arms and carried her up the stairs to her room. Scott opened the door and gently place Rogue on the bed, giving her a kiss on the forehead and turning to leave.
"Wait" Rogue whispered before he left, "Yes?" he asked as he turned back from the door to face her, "Please don't leave me" Scott hesitated for only a moment before he walked back over to lie down behind her and whispered, "Never."
After a couple of minutes of simply lying there and holding Rogue in his arms Scott whispered, "Rogue?" "Mm hm" she said as a sleepy response, "Rogue, when we, that day, was it your first time?" After a moment of silence, Rogue nodded into his shoulder, and then in case he hadn't understood she whispered, "Yes, it was." "I'm so sorry that I took that from you Marie" Scott said as he rested his head on her chin.
Feeling safe and comfortable for the first time in a long time, Rogue said, "Ah was sad, and even angry, at first too, but then Ah realized that someday Ah'm going to get to have that experience with someone who Ah love, and who loves me back."
Then turning to face Scott, Rogue said sincerely, "Ah also realized that if Ah had to have that happen to me, there was no one Ah could have trusted more to be in your position, not even Logan. Especially not Logan."
Listening to her words and then hugging her tightly to him, Scott said, "I love you Marie." Scott knew that he loved Jean and that he would continue to love Jean, but he didn't feel that he was being unfaithful to her by telling Rogue that he loved her. His love for Rogue was different than his love for Jean. She was his friend who he could trust, she was going to be the mother of his child, and she needed his love more than anyone else ever did. With those thoughts in his mind, Scott gave Rogue a kiss on the back of her head, and fell asleep with her in his arms.
When Rogue awoke the next morning and saw Scott lying motionless beside her, she immediately got worried, "Scott? Scott can you hear me?" "What?" Scott said drearily as he woke up from his deep sleep, "Yes I can hear you Marie, what do you need" "Oh nothing" Rogue said as a slight blush crept across her face.
"Ah just saw you lying there and Ah thought you might have accidentally touched my skin while you were asleep" "Oh" Scott said as he gave her a small smile and said, "Don't you worry about me Marie, I'm fine now and I'm going to keep my promise," then as he pulled her into a tight hug he said, "I will never leave you to go through something so traumatic alone again."
After they lay in each others' arms for another moment Scott looked up at her bedside clock and said, "I should probably go see what Jean is up to, she might be wondering why I was gone last night."
"Oh I totally forgot about that" Rogue said as she slipped out of bed, "What are you going to tell her if she asks where you went?" "I'll tell her the truth of course," Scott said as he too got out of the bed.
"Ah don't think that she would be so receptive to the truth" Rogue said as she stopped in front of her mirror to look at her growing belly. "Why wouldn't she be receptive?" Scott asked in genuine confusion as he walked towards Rogue, "I mean I know that she made fun of you, but I'm sure that after hearing the truth…"
"Just trust me" Rogue as she turned to face him, "Ah think it might be better if you just held off on the truth for a little while" "Okay, but why?" Scott asked as he looked at Rogue who had turned back to the mirror, "Because" she said as she looked at him through his reflection, "Just because. It's a long story, okay"
"Okay" Scott said as he walked to stand between her and the mirror, "I won't tell her yet, but you have to stop looking in this awful mirror or I'm going to take it away from you" "Ah just feel so fat" Rogue said as she crossed her arms self consciously over her stomach. "You're not fat Marie" Scott said with a laugh as he took one of her hands and moved so that she could once again see the mirror.
"I mean look at you, you're five months along and you can barley even tell that you're pregnant" "Really?" Rogue said appreciatively, feeling immensely glad once again that she had her Scott back. Ever since he had gotten his memories back the night before, she hadn't heard a single peep from the voices inside of her head.
"Ah'm so glad that you're you again" Rogue said as she put her head on his shoulder, "And I'm happy to be back too Marie" Scott said as he hugged her close to him for the hundredth time since his memories had come back. Looking up at him Rogue said, "Um about that Scott, Ah think that maybe you should call me Rogue when we're in public."
"Why?" Scott asked visibly hurt, "Well," Rogue as she looked into his hurt eyes, "Ah think that it would just be better seeing as no one knows my real name and since you told Jean that you had no idea why you would ever have called me Marie, Ah just think…"
"I'm sorry Marie, I'd forgotten that I ever said that. Of course I will call you Rogue in public, I just feel so awful that I did so many things to hurt you once we got back, I mean…" Interrupting him with the kindest smile that she had Rogue said, "Ah know that you feel bad Scott, and a lot of what you did hurt badly, but it wasn't the real you and it's in the past, so let's just move on. Ah forgive you."
"You're right Marie," Scott said as he ended their embrace and headed towards the door, "Let's just move on to a better future. I'll see you at dinner?" Scott asked as he opened the door, "Yeah of course" Rogue responded thinking about the fact that he hadn't wanted to eat dinner with her in a very long time. It feels good to be cared for Rogue thought as she watched him step out of the door.
Just as Scott closed the door behind him, he heard a voice say, "Scott?" Turning around, Scott found himself looking at a very aggravated Jean heading towards him down the hall. "What were you doing in Rogue's room?" Jean asked suspiciously as she reached him, "And where were you last night?" "I…" Scott began as Jean reached passed him and pushed open the door to Rogue's room.
As she saw that Rogue was standing in front of the mirror brushing her hair, Jean stormed into the room and said, "You little slut! You did it again didn't you?" "Did what again?" Scott asked confused as he entered the room behind Jean, "You seduced him again didn't you?" Jean hissed at Rogue as she ignored Scott, "Couldn't get enough, could you? You had to find a way to slip him some mind altering drink again so that you could pretend that he loved you"
"It's not like Jean" Rogue said as she felt an intense feeling of anger surfacing from inside her, "Ah never did any of those things that you accused me of" "Shut up!" Jean yelled as she used her telekinesis to send Rogue flying backwards into the mirror causing her to break the glass.
"Jean!" Scott yelled as she sent Rogue flying, "What are you doing!" "Stay out of this" Jean warned as she turned her attention back to Rogue, "I thought I made it perfectly clear last time how I felt, but obviously you didn't get the message." "Don't touch her Jean" Scott said as he looked at Jean, "You're defending the little hoar!" Jean said as she momentarily forgot about Rogue, "Were you in on this whole thing all along?"
"I don't know what you're talking about Jean." Scott said calmly as he lifted his hand to his visor, "But you really need to calm down before you hurt someone." "What are you going to? Shoot me?" Jean said huffily as she walked past him. When she reached the door Jean turned back to look at Rogue one last time, and said with all the anger and confusion inside of her, "I don't know what you did to turn him, but I swear that if I ever get a chance, I will finish what I started that night."
After Jean had left Scott turned to Rogue and said, "What on earth was that all about!" "That's what Ah was afraid would happen if you told her where you'd been" "Okay so you were right" Scott said as he sat down on the edge of her bed, "But you didn't answer my question, why would Jean go off like that? I've never seen her so mad, and what sis she mean by making herself clear last time?" "Aright," Rogue said as she sat down on the bed next to Scott, "Ah'm going to start at the beginning, and Ah just need you to listen."
"Now first of all, you have to understand that Jean was just very upset. Ah don't know if you noticed but before Jean left she was projecting some pretty strong emotions. She was hurt and angry and confused. Ah know that she truly is the good person that you believe her to be." "Okay" Scott said becoming eve more confused by Rogue's statement, "But that still doesn't excuse what she did, and how can you be so calm about this whole thing?"
"Oh, Ah'm not calm Scott, Ah'm mad, really mad. But Ah've had two months to deal with my anger, and you've only had a couple of minutes." "Two months?" Scott as he became really lost, "What do you mean two months?" "Why don't Ah just explain the story to you."
"It all started on the day that Logan left. He wanted to know who the father of the baby was, and obviously Ah couldn't tell him, so he left." "Logan left because you didn't tell him that I was the father?" "Oh honey," Rogue said with a small sad laugh, "Ah thought everyone in the school knew that."
Looking into her sad and hurting eyes Scott said, "You still love him, don't you?" "You still love Jean after what she just did, don't you?" "Well yes, but I just thought that maybe after what he did…" "Why don't we just get back to the story" Rogue said as she steered him away from that very painful topic.
"Anyway, after Ah couldn't tell him about you, Ah tried to think of a way to tell him that you were the father, and obviously Ah was projecting thoughts because Jean heard me and began to walk away. So Ah followed her into one of the classrooms to try and explain. That's when she first yelled at me about her whole idea that while we were at the plant Ah seduced you and put you into some sort of drugged up state in order to pretend that you loved me."
"Where did she come up with that idea?" Scott asked in bewilderment, "Well Ah guess that it sort of made sense seeing as Ah had acted like Ah desperately wanted you to remember everything and to be close to me. So Ah guess that after hearing that the baby was yours, that was the conclusion she came to. Anyways, she got a little angry and held me up to a wall with her powers. It felt like some sort of hand was strangling me and then everything started to go black."
"Jean tried to kill you!" Scott said in shock, "Ah don't think that she really realized what she was doing until after the professor's voice sounded in our heads. Then she lowered me down the wall and left, and we haven't really talked to each other since then."
"So Jean attacked you and Logan left on the same day? How on earth did you handle that?" Scott said with a real sympathy in his voice, "Not very well" Rogue admitted as she unconsciously looked down at the scars on her arms, then when she noticed that he was looking too she hurriedly said, "But that's another story. Anyway Ah think that you should go and explain the whole story to Jean, maybe then she might understand and forgive you." "Yeah I'll go and talk to her in a minute. But I just want to be sure that you're okay first."
"Scott," Rogue said being completely honest with herself and him for the first time, "Ah've been not okay for quite awhile now, but Ah think that maybe that's changing. Either way, your leaving now certainly isn't going to change whether or not Logan left or whether Jean accused me of awful things." Then trying to remove the look of hurt from her eyes she said, "Besides, Ah think one of us deserves to live happily ever after, don't you? Go and talk to your fiancé, that's the best way that you can help me right now okay?"
Giving her the biggest smile that he had, Scott said, "You're the best friend that I ever had Marie, and I love you for that." Then he stood up ash he gave her a kiss of the top of her head, and headed out the door to find Jean.
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