10. Years – Bonds – 142 – Kurt/Rogue
It didn't take long for Rogue and Kurt to start acting more like siblings, the siblings they were by Rogue's adoption and Kurt's parentage, but their bond was deeper then the flimsy legal and genetic ties that linked them together.
No one else would ever be there for her like Kurt was, no one, and Rogue knew this from the time she destroyed the statue that was their mother and he forgave her.
As for Kurt, after that period Rogue was nicer to him, kinder, not in the false way of someone trying to atone for a past mistake or hoping to patch up a rift with a few paltry words, but in her every day actions. And while eventually Kurt divorced himself from Mystique entirely, he wasn't sad, or lost, or confused about his family ties, for he had his sister.