Spirit Lost
By moi
Well I hope you like the first. Again more will be explained in later chapters. Here it goes.
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A shining light hit her eyes as she opened them making her squint from the intensity. As pictures began to form in her blurry vision she found herself in the hospital ward.
Lying on a cot in front of her was the still unconscious medal winged boy from before. Next to him also on a cot sat a very light blond haired boy flipping through a magazine at the super speed. His hair was gelled back into spikes and he wore a simple hospital gown as she did. On the fifth turn of a page he noticed she was up.
"Finally one of you people are up!" He said dramatically tossing the magazine aside. "I-have-been-here-in-this-bed-for three days now! And-not-one-of-you-has-said-a-word! I've-read-those-magazines-now-for-the-fourth-time-today! I-really-think-I-have-them-memorized-now-."
He was talking so fast she could barely comprehend what he was saying but she had made out the first sentence.
"Three days!" Rogue exclaimed. "I've been asleep for THREE DAYS?"
"Actually-I-only-said-I-had-been-sitting-here-by-myself-for-three-days. That-doesn't-account-for-the-fact-that-I-was-asleep-for-two-days. So-I-suppose-technically-you've-been-asleep-for-five-days-and-I-suppose-I-wasn't-technically-alone-because-that-white-haired-lady-came-to-see-me-sometimes,-and-that-bald-dude-too,-giving-me-food-and-stuff,-asking-me-if-I-needed-anything. What-was-her-name..?Monroe..Vonroe….-"
This time she was ready for his onslot speed so she was able to catch most of what he was saying. Five days for a stupid bullet wound! "I was asleep for five days? What happened?"
"Well. The-Vonroe-lady-said-you-were-a-resedent-of-this…schoolplace-and-that-you-took-a-bullet-to-the-shoulder-while-you-guys-were-rescuing-us-and-you-"
"Fainted, I know. Wait you were the one in the emergency cot. How's the legs?" Marie couldn't help adding.
"Oh-fine-healing-up-real-nicely. Ms.Vonroe-Lady-says-I'll-be-running-around-tommorow."
"Tommorow?" Rogue asked bewildered.
"Super speed. Fast metabolism." He explained.
Nodding she sat up slowly. She was a little dizzy at first and there was a muscle splitting pain in her right shoulder but nothing too bad. Standing up Rogue cautiously tried out her legs. Everything seemed to be working fine. Except for a couple cramps her body felt alright.
"Wait-a-minute-your-leaving-me-with-this-drone.-Come on,-I-haven't-had-a-decent-conversation-in-ages.-Or-at-least-it's-felt-like-ages-for-me.
Rogue wondered if they hadn't given him a wheelchair because of his mouth or because of the stairs.
Unfortunatly Marie felt pity for him. "How about I get Piotr to carry you down in a wheelchair?"
"Oh-we-already-tried-that-but-he-got-halfway-down-the-stairs,-stopped-and-brought-me-backup-saying-he-had-to-do-something-important. Of-course-I-don't-believe-that. I-mean-I'm-not-stupid. He-."
"I'll make him promise." Marie assured starting to get annoyed aswell.
He seemed satisfied with that because he let her go with a simple wave.
As soon as the ward door closed behind her Rogue gave a sigh of relief. Now to get to her room with out anyone noticing and giving her the 'Are you all right?' 'I was so worried.' 'hug' routine. She felt nearly naked, her gloves (someone had left there for her) were the only real cloth made thing on her body besides her under garments which had been left on.
Rogue slipped down the hallway avoiding any places that someone might be. Finally she reached her room in the girl's dorm. Shutting and locking the door she gave a smile and flipped through her closet looking for something other then paper to wear. She chose an old red hoodie and a pair of jeans. There that would have to do for now she'd risk a shower later when everyone knew she was up.
Leaving her room she headed towards the Common Room that was the best bet at where most of them would be. Entering she saw Bobby, Kitty, Jubilee, Piotr, Storm and Xavier, also about all of the prisoners from the Friends of Humanity Base.
Rogue let Marie's personality take over as she nervously greeted them pretending to be really in pain.
"Marie?" Bobby called coming over but Kitty beat him there. She gave Rogue a tight hug sending shudders of pain down her arm and causing her to wince.
"Oh sorry Rogue I forgot." The statement made the real Rogue inwardly raise an eyebrow. Really? You forgot? She thought sarcastically, but Marie ignored her comment.
"Oh that's okay."
Kitty kept her arm around her so all Bobby could do was give Rogue's hand a squeeze.
"It's good to see you Marie. That bullet wound really took it out of you." Xavier greeted with a warm smile.
"Why don't you come meet our guests? I believe you already met Pietro. He wouldn't have let you leave with out that at least." Storm offered.
Marie forced a weak smile. "I kind of promised him Piotr would carry him down in a wheel chair."
This made Piotr raise an eyebrow and he responded calmly. "And how will you fulfill that promise?"
Please, I would never have even let Marie offer if I didn't know you would rather take up ballet then carry that boy down the stairs, Rogue thought.
"Here Marie this is the small boy you were carrying." Ororo gestured to the boy no older then five doing a jigsaw puzzle with another older girl. The brown haired boy gave her a shy smile looking down at the puzzle piece he was nervously fingering in his hands. That's when she recognized him as the boy who had been crying on the jet. He had gotten a hair cut and had gotten large hand-me-downs from Flea, she guessed, because it carried the sign of the Punisher, Flea's favorite hero.
(A/n If you didn't know Flea is a name the cast and crew made up for one of the extras that showed up a lot. He got the name because he was gymnastic on the side and could do all kinds of flips and such. There is a mutant in the one of the comics named Flea but I don't know much about him, but I liked the idea of the character the Cast and crew made up. So now you might hear of him in my story a little. He has the power to jump at amazing heights like a flea hence the codename. In X2 he was the one Piotr showed his drawing of Rogue and Bobby too. If your interested. Oh well if your aren't)
"His name is Jamie." Storm informed her. Marie gave a gentle smile and leaned down to hold her hand out to him.
"Hi Jamie, I'm Rogue." She introduced. Always she introduced herself as that, because in truth, that was who she was, but most people just called her by Marie. I guess it seems more appropriate to them, Rogue thought with an inward shrug.
Jamie carefully placed his hand in hers and gave it a little shake. That was all it seemed he was going to do until he raised his brown eyes to her and whispered a thank you.
"Your welcome." Rogue said just as quiet as he had, giving him a genuine smile and a wink.
"And this is Betsy one of the girls in our group." Turning her attention to the girl on her left she was met with a strikingly beautiful Asian girl. Her hair fell down one inch past her shoulders and was layered in unique fashion with the last layer dyed purple giving her bluish eyes a violet feel in the light. She wore what could only be Jubby's clothes fitting into them stylishly. She must be around the age of fourteen or fifteen.
"It's Psylocke." The girl grumbled but she offered a smile to Rogue and shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you, Psylocke." Rogue said shaking the girl's hand. Betsy had a touch of British accent that sounded good in her clear voice.
"And the other little girl that was with us is Rahne." Ororo pointed to a puppy chasing it's tail in the corner. "Rahne."
The puppy looked over wagging it's tail as it transformed into a tiny girl who looked close to six or seven. Her short hair was brown and pulled back into two French braids at the sides of her head. Freckles dashed across her button nose and her wide olive eyes fluttered with long lashes. Her outfit defiantly was one of Kitty's, it consisted of a pink plaid skirt and a white tee that must have been pinned up to fit her.
"Hello Rahne." Rogue smiled as the girl broke out in happy grin revealing a missing tooth.
" 'Ello! Did thaht hurt? It looked like it 'urt. I remembeh there was lot's of blood doesn't that mean that it 'urt? I got lot's of booboo's but Mrs. Roe made'em all better. Did she make yours betteh too?" She rambled in a light Scottish accent.
How could those bastards ever hurt a child like this or like Jamie? They were just children, she thought in disgust.
Rogue gave a sad smile and gave Rahne's shoulder a squeeze. "Yes it did hurt and lot's of blood usually does mean it hurts. Hopefully you will have a lot less 'booboos' here."
Storm then steered her towards the rest of the group, two boys sitting on the couch. One looked to be maybe a few years older then her. His dark red hair fell over his face and sunglasses covered his eyes. There was a little morning stubble on his cheeks and he wore what was probably Piotr's clothes. The other boy had spikey red almost orange hair with blue eyes that looked at her unimpressed. He held an attitude that Rogue reminded her of something she carried at that age. She was fine with it. It was good to have a little rebel in you as long as he didn't aim it at her.
"This is Remy and Ray." A smirk crossed the older boy's face and he took her gloved hand to lay a kiss on it. Well, well, well, a charmer, Rogue thought as inwardly rolled her eyes.
"Remy was 'opin' to meet da fille who took a bullet to da shoulder and didn' notice it till it was pointed out teh her."
If it hadn't been for the years of intense training Mystique had put her through since she was five Rogue would have stiffened and paled. Luckily she didn't move a muscle. Just play it low key, she told herself, he would grow bored with this topic of curiosity eventually.
Rogue let Marie give her gentle smile and said "It must have been the adrenalin. That was my first real 'action packed' mission."
He let her hand slip from his with a nod. "Of course, adrenalin really does a numbeh on people."
Cajun, that was it, defiantly Cajun. Maybe around Louisiana or a state close to there, maybe even Mississippi. Rogue pushed that thought away, it held too many bad memories some not even hers.
Again ignoring the thought her eyes finally fell on the last member of those they rescued. He narrowed his eyes as she offered her hand to him. "Hey Ray, I'm Rogue."
He nodded his head slightly and then looked away. The real Rogue would have grabbed him by the ear, dragged him outside and gave him little talk southern style on how to treat a lady but Marie would never do something like that.
She just kept her hand out in front of him till finally Ray realized she wasn't going to leave until he shook it. Taking her hand with defiant glare he sent a small shock to her.
"Sorry, always happens to me." Ray explained with just a touch of a smirk.
Sorry my a-. Rogue gave a sugary smile as she leaned down. "There's a reason why I wear gloves do you want me to take them off and show you what happens to me all the time." She whispered threateningly. Rogue had compromised with Marie they were both getting kind of sick of this kid and didn't want to have to deal with his attitude later.
His eyes widened in surprise but that soon turned into respect. "No thanks."
It was almost tempting to give him a smirk but she wasn't about to tempt fate. It was bad enough the x-men had witnessed that little exchange she didn't need them to get suspicious. Giving a small smile Storm then ushered her into the kitchen to get a real meal in her stomach. That's where she found Logan drinking a root beer, the closest thing he could come to beer that Xavier allowed in the school.
"Hey kid, good to see you up." He grunted as she turned down Storm's request to cook her a meal. That's what she liked about Logan he didn't show his feelings unless he wanted you to see them. Grabbing some left over Chinese she took a seat next to him.
"Nice to be up." She said putting Marie's personality to the aside in case she needed it later. Rogue let herself come out more around Logan then the others.
"How's the wound?" He asked taking a sip of his pop.
"Not to bad." Rogue mummered as she wolfed down her food forgetting her guard. Scolding herself mentally she kept eating keeping her pulse in check. Logan might hear even the slight pick up of her beating heart if she didn't. Mystique had taught her this to pass lie detector tests but it was handy for other things too.
" 'Not too bad'? Stripes it's a bullet wound." He stated skeptically.
She shrugged her non-injured shoulder. "It probably just looks worse then it actually is." As she said this she realized her mistake and cursed her mouth again. Could she be this off guard because of a bullet wound? Well it was Marie's body so maybe that's what was affecting her.
"You're talkin' to a guy who's had many bullet wounds. I know for a fact they hurt just as bad as they look."
All she could do was shrug again, she didn't trust her mouth at the moment. Rogue could feel his eyes examining her. "You're a lot tuffer then I thought kid."
"Oh thanks, Logan." She replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she took another bite of food.
Rogue was almost done with her fourth box of Chinese when Bobby entered.
"Hey." He greeted, sitting down across from her. "I was awfully worried about you."
Was that before or after you were getting cozy with Kitty Rogue thought. She didn't really like the boy that much. He was cute but there's only so far you can get on looks. Marie had feelings for him though so Rogue dealt with the boy.
Marie gave him a caring smile. "You shouldn't worry so much."
That's when Kitty walked in, speak of the devil. "Bobby come o-o-on Jubby and Betsy like so-o-o challenged us to a foose ball game." She then saw Rogue and sent her a smile. "Wow Marie, way to put it away."
There wasn't anything upfront nasty about the sentence but Rogue could defiantly hear a slight sneer in her voice.
"Well Kitty I haven't actually eaten in five days." She replied with raised eyebrows. Kitty pulled on Bobby's arm.
"Please, please!" She begged. "Marie wouldn't mind she's busy eating."
Bobby sighed and threw Rogue an apologetic look before following Kitty out.
As the kitchen door swung shut Wolverine gave a low whistle. "That girl got's some balls to try that in front of you."
Marie shrugged picking at her food. "I trust him." Marie's opinion not hers, for all she cared Bobby could run off with the little tramp they'd do each other some good.
(A/n Alright for those who like Kitty and are reading this I must apologize. I never meant to make her the enemy and later on it won't be that way. I personally don't like making anyone the bitchy snot because I don't think that suits their character. Yes there are characters you might not like but that shouldn't mean you can distort their personalities into something malicious. Like let's use Scott, he's a reasonable guy, but he plays by the rules most of the times. It doesn't make him an all around boyscout, that's just his character. Though it can be pretty damn funny when people get crazy with it Oh and Rogue doesn't necessarily feel those things she's just a little angry at the moment, even if she doesn't like the guy.)
Wolverine raised an eyebrow but just grunted and went back to his root beer.
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Well I'm going to end it because the next ones pretty long and it was originally connected with this one. Oh and I did take that little Kitty and Bobby bit from what I've heard of X-3 but I added that in there when I was typing it. And don't worry Kitty's not going to be forever like that. She'll get better. Well that's all thanks to Unforgivable Horror for reviewing I don't know exactly how to respond using the new system but I'll find out later for now I don't think they'll mind me sayin' thanks. Well next chapter comin' soon.
Well
Cheerio
Gotta go
Tatah
Au' revoir
Say my adieu's
And 'I'll miss you's'
Bye
Chained2aMask