author's notes: I know1 I know! It's ben MONTHS since I updated! But ive gotten a sudden onslaught of motivation! So YAY! now this chapter gets a bit wonky in the beginning, where Jean tells Xavier telepathically that rogue's left, THEN Jean bumps into Remy. I hope it doesn't confuse you guys! Oh and PLEASE review!

Ch13: All hell breaks loose

Remy paced up and down the hallway outside the girls dorms. Xavier told him to put off talking to Rogue until Jean's seen how Rogue is. He couldn't believe what he'd done! Remy stopped pacing and leaned back up against the wall. He hit the back of his head on the wall, still trying to comprehend that he just violated Rogue's trust and possibly lost her love forever. He slid down the wall. "Stupid. Stupid. Stupid," Remy said to himself, hitting the back of his head on the wall with each word.

"Remy!"

Remy looked up and saw Jean standing over him. "Jean," Remy stood up. "How's Rogue. Did you tell her how sorry Remy is, Because-"

"Remy!" Jean said, cutting him off. "Rogue's run away."

Remy's jaw dropped at the bad news Jean had just told him. Rogue had left the mansion. She left because of him, because of his stupid mistake. "Remy gotta go find her!" Remy replied, but Jean stood in his way and put her hands on his shoulders to stop him.

"No. The professor's asked me to use cerebro to find her. We'll get her back, Remy!" Jean reassured the Cajun.

Remy nodded at Jean's proposal. "Work fast," He replied. Jean nodded and ran down the hall and down the stairs to get to the underground facility. Remy, however, had no intention of staying put. The moment that Jean was out of sight, Remy headed for the garage. He was going to find Rogue the old fashioned way. He knew Rogue wouldn't be stupid enough to use her powers because then she'd be tracked by Cerebro.

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Rogue kept looking behind her, half expecting to see one of the Xmen right behind her. She also expected that Xman to be Logan. He was the best tracker of all the Xmen. But after the argument in the kitchen, both Remy and Logan were the last people she wanted to see.

'How could Remy do this to me!' Rogue thought to herself. 'How could he be so stupid! I can't show my face there ever again!'

Rogue kept driving down the roads, unsure of where she was headed. Before she knew it, she was heading towards the 'Bayville diner'. It was a diner that was situated on the outskirts of Bayville. It mainly attracted Bikers and the odd people just passing through.

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Xavier tracked Logan telepathically to make sure he went to his room. He knew that Logan would go to his room, but Xavier could sense that Logan also wanted to go help search for Rogue. Satisfied, Xavier left his study to meet Jean at cerebro. He wracked his brain, trying to figure out how to fix this mess. Admittedly, he should have stopped it all before it had a chance to blow up like it did. He'd warned Logan about continuing his relationship with Rogue, and he hoped that Logan and Rogue would act like adults and end things. Unfortunately his trust in them was wrong.

Xavier made his way down the hallway and towards the elevator. When he reached it, he pushed the button and waited for it to come up. While he waited, he got a funny feeling in the back of his mind. It was someone in the mansion. Someone was projecting, sending thoughts out. And though this person wasn't a telepath, Xavier could still pick up their thoughts with great ease, as if they were saying out loud right next to him.

'..So sorry, Rogue! Remy find you!.. So sorry! Where could she be?'

Xavier, realising it was Remy, used his powers to try find Remy's position in the mansion. It was then that Xavier realised that Remy was headed for the garage. Xavier asked Remy telepathically, 'Remy, where are you going?'

"To go find Rogue before it's too late."

'Remy, I fear that Rogue might not want you to find her right now. I'll send Kurt, Scott and Hank out to find her.'

"But!"

'No, Remy. Please. I'd prefer you stayed here.'

Remy contemplated ignoring the professor's wishes, but then again, if the professor could tell Remy was leaving the mansion now, he'd surely know if Remy decided to ignore his orders. And so, Remy huffed to himself and walked back into the mansion. He remembered Jean saying she was going off to use Cerebro, so he decided to head down there to see if Jean could find Rogue.

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Rogue walked into the 'Biker bar' and looked around. There was the stereotypical country music playing in the background. The air was musky and smelled of smoke and sweat. It wasn't the cleanest bar in the world, but it'd do. None of the Xmen would expect to see her there. She surveyed the room, just in case. At the bar were two men, sitting stools apart, keeping to themselves. In one of the booths to her right, there was a young biker couple enjoying something pretty greasy for lunch. And at the far right, at the back of the room she saw..

"Ah, shit.."

There she saw Avalanche and Toad playing pool. Thankfully they hadn't seen her yet, so she tried to make for the bar without attracting their attentions. Fortunately, she got to the bar and sat down, with her back to the enemy. The bartender approached her. He was young, she guessed he was 25 or so, with dirty blonde hair that was short and scruffy. He wore a sleeveless flannel shirt and had tattoos all over his arms. "What do ya want, sweetie?"

She hated being nicknamed like that, especially when a stranger did it. But, given the place she was in, she shouldn't have been so surprised. "Just beer," she replied and took a quick look over her shoulder to see if the brotherhood had seen her yet. Thankfully they still hadn't. The bartender handed Rogue her drink and gave her a wink. 'Argh! Soon as ah drink this, ah'm outa here!' She thought to herself. 'Bottom's up!'

Rogue sculled her beer and cluncked the beer mug back on the bar. She pulled some money out of her pocket and placed it on the bar. She thought she'd be able to get out of there with no trouble, and finally be on her way to.. wherever. Apparently not.

"Well, lookie who we got here!" Rogue got up off her stool and turned around. There stood Lance, still holding his pool cue. Toad was right behind him, crouching close to the ground, as he usually does. "And what are you doing here, hmm?"

Rogue didn't say anything to them, knowing that Lance wouldn't show his mutant powers in public.. or would he? Instead of saying anything, she smirked at him, as if she knew something he didn't. Knowing that she was about to leave town, she didn't mind a good fight, go out with a bang and maybe embarrass the shit out of the two boys for being beaten up by a girl!

"What's so funny!" Lance asked, with a little hostility in his voice.

Rogue's smirk went away, and she smiled sweetly instead. "Nothin'," she said innocently. She then turned and head towards the door, with a swish in her hip, attracting the attentions of all the men in the room. She even made one of the older men fall off his stool as he leaned back too far to check her out. Rogue heard the thud and smiled to herself.

She wasn't entirely sure, to be honest, what to expect next. But when she got to her bike, she thought she was free to leave Bayville and escape the horror that was everyone finding out about her and Logan. 'I still don't know what I'm going to do about that!' She thought to herself.

Just as Rogue got on her motorbike, she saw Lance and Toad running out of the bar. "Hey, Xfreak!" Lance called out.

Rogue sighed to herself. Now that she was on her bike, she just wanted nothing more than to leave Bayville. "What do you want now?" She asked, getting off her bike.

Lance smirked. "What do you think?"

Rogue smiled. She needed to let off some steam. Who better to take her problems out on than a willing guinea pig! "Bring it on, grease monkey!"

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When Remy reached to large silver doors of cerebro, Jean was already in there, trying to find Rogue. He could hear through the thick metal doors the humming sound that cerebro makes and he hoped that Jean could find Rogue and fast. He needed to tell her how sorry he was. But there was no way he could go in there now that Jean had started the machine up. So he leaned back on the wall next to the doors of cerebro and waited. If circumstances were different, he would have asked Logan to go out there and track her down with his super smelling senses. But things were not different. Remy still hated Logan. He still wanted to pummel Logan for sleeping with Rogue and also for almost killing him!

As he turned the corner in the underground complex, Xavier saw Remy deep in thought. "Remy?"

Remy lifted off the wall and stood up straight. "Professor. Is there any way for you to tell from here if Jean's found Rogue yet?"

The professor shook his head. "Unfortunately Jean hasn't mastered her abilities enough to operate cerebro and communicate telepathically at the same time. We will just have to wait until she's finished searching for Rogue," Xavier explained. "However, if Rogue uses her powers it'll help Jean find her a lot faster."

Remy nodded. He figured that if the professor were in there instead of Jean, things would be running a lot faster. "How long do you think she'll take?"

"Hard to tell," Xavier replied. "Just be patient, Remy. We'll find her."

Remy didn't want to wait. "Well then, if Jean gonna be a while, then Remy want to search for Rogue de' ol' fashioned way."

Xavier raised a hand in a 'stop' motion. "No, Remy. I've already explained that I've asked Kurt, Scott and Hank out there looking for her. After the commotion in the kitchen earlier, I really don't think you or Logan should be there to find her."

Hearing Logan's name , Remy got mad. "And what's going to happen to him!"

Xavier understood Remy's predicament. Even after reading Logan's thoughts the day before, and seeing it all from Logan's point of view, Xavier understood fully why Remy was so mad. Like Xavier, Remy believed that Logan should have known better than to form a romantic attachment to Rogue –a student who's been living there since she was 16! Even though Remy was the one to leave Rogue, he still always saw her as his girl. "Logan will be restricted to his bedroom for the time being."

Remy crossed his arms and leaned back against the wall. "Somehow Remy don't think that gonna keep him."

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Logan paced up and down the length of his bedroom. He knew that if he refused to stay in his room, the professor could more than easily make him think he wants to stay in his room. Hell, the professor cracked a joke about making Logan think he's a 6 year old girl and even have Jean braid his hair if he smoked indoors again. He sat himself down at the foot of his bed. He remembered back to the argument. When he started the argument, he knew he'd get Remy worked up but the last thing he expected was for his relationship with Rogue to be let out. Then again, looking back, he did start the argument in front of the others, so of course the other students would be suspicious as to what the argument was really about.

He remembered Kurt asking numerous times what was really going on. The others knew that somehow the argument related to Rogue, but none of them really conceived the idea of Rogue and Logan having a sexual relationship, even for a short time. Logan didn't regret starting the argument with Remy, but he did however, regret the way the secret came out. He remembered the look on Rogue's face as Remy yelled it out, "You slept with Rogue!"

She was warning Remy to stop it right before he blurted it out. "What she sees in that idiot, I'll never know."

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Rogue stood over Toad and Lance's unconscious bodies. The fight was quick as she knocked them both out cold. Even though both of the boys had better active powers then Rogue, they both sucked at hand-to-hand combat.

Her scuffle with the two Brotherhood boys must've caused a bit of a ruckus, because the bartender was now standing in the doorway to the bar, staring at her, jaw practically hitting the floor. "That was the best fight I've ever seen for a girl! He exclaimed.

Rogue was surprised he didn't tell her off for fighting. "Ya not mad ah caused a fight?"

"No way! Those two trouble-makers are in my bar all the time. They should be at school, not hanging around here so early in the mornin'. Come on. Lemme buy you a drink for such a good fight."

Rogue smiled. "Sounds good, but ah got tah go. Those two aren't gonna be too happy when they wake up," Rogue explained, sticking her thumb in the direction of the unconscious bodies on the dusty ground. The cute bartender looked disappointed. "But have ya got anythin' tah go?"

The bartender smiled again and went back into the bar. Rogue took the opportunity to zap the power from Lance. She knew that the xmen were looking for her, and hat this would alert them to her to her presence. However, she had an idea to slow them down. By now, the bartender had returned with a can of pepsi. He tossed it to her and she caught it with ease. Rogue looked at it quizzingly. She was standing outside a bar, and the bartender didn't give her any alcohol!

"Don't want you drinking and driving, now!" He smiled.

Thankful for the bartender's concern for her wellbeing, Rogue walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks for that," she said, before making her way to her motorbike. She put the can in her backpack, figuring she'd save it for later, since she didn't know where she was going.

As she reached for her helmet, the smitten bartender called out to her, "Can I see you again?"

Rogue smiled at the poor guy. If he knew she was a mutant, he probably wouldn't have asked her that. "No.." Rogue replied, still smiling at him, flattered for him trying. She then put on her emerald green and black helmet and rode off, leaving Bayville.

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Remy was getting seriously impatient. Jean had been in cerebro for an hour now. 'Surely it doesn't take that long to find someone!' he thought to himself. He figured that maybe the professor heard it, because Xavier then explained to him 'If she hasn't found Rogue in 5 minutes, I'll tell her to stop searching."

Uncannily enough, the doors to cerebro opened just as the proceffor finished talking. Jean came running out. "I found her! But we have to be quick! She's leaving town!"

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Remy somehow managed to convince the professor to let him join the rest of the xmen when they headed to the bar Rogue had stopped at. Remy, looking more like a regular there than the rest of the squeaky-clean Xmen, he went in alone and talked to the bar tender.

"She's your girlfriend?" The bartender exclaimed. "Damn! She's some catch!"

Remy leaned against the bar. "What do ya mean?"

"She beat the hell out of these two guys and then said she had to go," The bartender explained.

"Did she say where she was headed?"

The bartender ran a hand through his scruffy hair. "Nah." He then looked at Remy and raised an eyebrow. "You two have a fight or somethin'?

"Somethin' like that." Remy then walked out of the bar and repeated to the others what the bartender had told him.

So far on the outskirts of Bayville, they guessed that Rogue probably headed out on the main highway closest to the bar. And so, they all got into the minivan and drove. However, a few miles out of Bayville, there was a roadblock of sorts. Kurt was forced to stop the car. Remy took the opportunity to get out and run up to the massive wall blocking the road. It was a wall of stone. Like a cliff sitting in the middle of the road.

Jean stood behind Remy as he looked up at the massive wall in front of them. "Remy don't get it," Remy said softly, knowing that someone was behind him.

Jean saw it when she was hooked up to cerebro. "Avalanche was one of the guys that Rogue beat up at the bar. She sapped him of his powers and I guess she used them to slow us down with this wall."

Remy placed a hand on the tall dark brown rock wall. "Nothin' can slow Remy down."