Spirit Lost

By moi

Well thanks to all who reviewed lovetoread, enchantedlight, lunafan, lalalalala, Freak87, Nettlez, and Halo's horns. Very nice to see someone enjoyed it. Well onto another chapter where things will get a little more interesting.

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Rogue woke to sun peaking through her blinds, and dancing in her eyes. Ah, weekends, such a wonderful idea.

Rolling over she turned her head to check her alarm clock. 8:00?

"Too early." She moaned and threw her covers over her head in attempt to go back to her beautiful world of sleep. A half an hour later she finally gave up and decided to head down for breakfast.

Arriving in the kitchen she found Betsy, Remy, Jamie, Piotr, Flea, Kurt and Scott all eating breakfast. Partially empty or empty silver trays lined the counter leaving her to only guess what had been there.

She wrinkled her nose at the half bitten toast and crumbs that were scattered across the last tray. One reason she skipped breakfast, Rogue thought, or made her own.

Reaching into the top cupboard she grabbed a jelly filled doughnut from Kurt's secret stash. You had to keep your food hidden around here or the others would be on it like flies.

Rogue turned offering Kurt a warm smile as he handed her a cup of coffee. The wonderful liquid of life, she sighed contently as she sipped the hot substance. She still found it peculiar seeing Kurt here, not because of his looks but because she remembered him as Mystique's son.

Rogue had only seen him a few times as a child but that was enough to remember him by. It was strange that he had no memories of Mystique's existence in his past but she wasn't about to go reminding him. No one would want to remember something like that Rogue thought bitterly.

"Hey Remy, where'd you that awesome tattoo?" She heard Flea ask. Everyone's eyes turned to the picture peaking out the side of Remy's muscle shirt. It was a snake wrapped around a large gem initialed in the middle was a sentence in old Latin.

Shocked, she forgot to control her instincts and inhaled a sharp breath.

This wasn't the first time Rogue had seen this. In her younger years she specifically remembered a tattoo almost exactly like that. It had been on one of Mystique's 'business' partners, it was the symbol of the Thieves' Guild.

"Sometin' da matter, chere?" It seemed like a friendly curiosity to everyone else but Rogue could make out the very hint of coolness in it. This guy was good at masking his feelings but she had been trained since she was young by the best mask maker of them all. If he hadn't been wearing those sunglasses she would have easily spot a glint in his eyes.

Fortunately the eyes weren't the only thing that gave away emotions, the slight, very slight, twitch of his lip indicated it hadn't been a friendly confusion which the teen had felt in that moment. There were other tiny subtle things but it had been mostly the mouth that had given him away.

Pulling Marie's personality up quickly she gave a sweet smile. "Oh it's just really beautiful I mean I've always seen them before but never up close did it hurt?" It was a messy lie but for now it would have to do.

Maybe if she played naïve he would buy it.

"A lil. Nothin' compared to a bullet wound." He smirked a little more then necessary.

Keeping her smile up she let a blush slightly unfold on her cheeks. She had to act normal so he didn't think he could use that against her.

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Remy (PoV)

He examined the blushing girl from behind the shades Ororo had provided him. There was nothing extra ordinary about his tattoo. It was actually rather blunt and bland yet he had seen the flicker of shock in her eyes it had only lasted a millisecond but it had been there.

After a few minutes he grabbed for the milk at the other end of the table which moved his collar up, covering the tattoo. Hopefully that would be the end of the questions.

Though he might believe that these X-men were good people he had been taught never to trust anyone no matter their appearance. That's what led him to tread so warily in front of this 'Marie'. She carried the look of innocence but something was off about her.

Remy scanned her with his empathy only to find nothing abnormal. No feelings of hate or shock or worry, nothing that might make him suspect she was lying. Maybe he was just being paranoid but he wouldn't bet money on it.

As the new x-residents had been given the tour of the mansion he had memorized every hallway, hide away and escape route in the huge school. He and the others rescued were given each a guest room till another was prepared for those who wished to stay. When they had first gotten here they were patched up by the few doctors who didn't mind mutants or were mutants themselves from the near by hospital. The doctor's didn't ask about what had happened simply provided future treatment or prescriptions, took the money and left.

Brought to the rooms each of the ex-prisoners had been given a good night's rest, a good meal and a hair cut done by one of the students who had some history in cosmetology. It had felt like heaven, when Remy had awoke he thrashed out thinking that his rescue had just been a dream.

This morning the Professor called him to his office. "Remy since you are quite old enough to make your own decisions and take care of yourself. You are free to leave or you are perfectly welcome to stay. Again it is your decision and we will respect fully whatever choice you come to."

Remy wasn't sure about anything at the moment. He had no where to go and the minute he took a thieving job the Assassins would know and hunt him down.

This was the best place….for now.

In the afternoon Wolverine gave them the tour of the underground floors and the Danger Room. Remy watched closely as metal man and ice boy gave a demonstration of some basic training scenarios.

It was amazing technology, he thought watching as the whole medal room changed into yet another illusion. He had never seen anything so advanced in his life and in his line of work he had seen a lot of incredible things. They were lastly shown the hanger where they got a better look at the jet that helped rescue them. There were two, the Black Bird and the newest edition the Velocity a very beautiful black helicopter.

This Xavier guy must be loaded, he thought as he glanced around at the equipment kept there.

Once they were through with that they were taken to their new permanent rooms in the girls and boys dormitories. They were very basic but they were allowed to make there own personal touches with the professor's money. Lastly they were taken out shopping with Ororo and Scott as chaperones. They were allowed to get eight outfits and any personal items they might need.

He himself wasn't picky, he'd just steal anything else he may need later. Seeing a brown trenchcoat, he smiled, …. maybe he'd pick out a few things.

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Rogue (PoV)

Tonight was the official 'Welcoming' dinner. Marie and Kitty were both asked to help Ororo make a huge banquet for tonight with everything ranging from steak, to salad, to fishsticks.

(A/n Not to be sexist! Feminist power! They just happen to be cooking dinner, I mean can you picture Scott in an apron?...Well maybe another chapter….thoughtful)

Heading to her room she changed out of her flour covered jeans and into a white blouse with embroidered flowers on it and another pair of jeans. Rogue looked in the mirror and wrinkled her noise. Well it could be worst, she thought letting her wavy hair down.

As she came to the stairs she met Bobby who took her gloved hand and gave it a squeeze. Inciting a smile from Marie as they entered the dining hall.

"Hey Bobby come sit with us!" Kitty called down the length of the table. She sat towards the left end with Piotr at her side and Jubilee a seat over. Across from them sat Betsy Remy and Flea. "Oh sorry Marie, I totally forgot to save you a seat."

Marie gave a forced a smile. "Well then we can go sit somewhere else." She said as she pulled Bobby down to a couple open seats near the littler ones. Pietro was brought down and set at the Professor's left.

I wonder if that was intentional, Rogue inwardly smirked.

Warren, the boy with the medal wings was still unconscious, she had spoken to Scott and he said the doctors had proclaimed the boy to be in a self induced coma. The operation must have been so disturbing that Warren's mind just shut down. Scott said Xavier had been trying to reach the boy every spare moment he could find, but it was no use. The professor had said he had found nothing, just broken fragments of memory then mearly an emptiness. He also said it was normal for a comatose patient but something felt wrong about it.

What could those people have done to him, she sighed in disgust.

Excluding Warren everyone was here, even Logan.

"To welcome our new residents into our lives we have this wonderful meal laid out for us cooked by Ororo." Everyone gave a thankful applause. "And her not so voluntary assistants Marie and Kitty." Again applause sounded this time with a slight laughter at Xavier's little joke.

"May you live a good life-."

At that moment the doors at the left end of the hall slammed open to reveal a man dressed in military garb with ski mask covering his face. His cold eyes searched the room before finally finding Rogue and they turned into a glare of pure hatred. Before anyone could comprehend what was going on he jumped on the table and started running strait for her. Pulling out a long butcher knife he picked up speed knocking things aside as he went and jumped for her.

By now Mystique's training had kicked in and she thrusted her legs up and into his stomach using his own momentum to send him flying over her head and into the wall. (A/n yeah yeah that had four and's in it get over it.) Unfortunately she was in a chair which had tipped backwards as Rogue had flung her attacker over her head, sending the girl rolling into the man's waiting, knife wielding arms.

Quickly she grabbed the hand that was threatening to slit her throat and held it back the best she could with her still mending arm. Using a little trick a friend in the 'business' taught her she smashed her head back into the nose while grinding her heel into his foot hearing a definite crunch.

He faltered and that was all she needed. Rogue slammed his wrist on it's weak point breaking it smoothly over her leg which let the knife fall to the floor. Jamming her elbow between the rib bones, hopefully hitting organs, she kicked the knife under the table and punched him in the face.

Rogue then swiftly searched the man like she had so many before. She found two hand guns on him and knife in one of his boots which all went to join the other under the table out of the man's reach.

By then Logan had recovered and was slamming the man into the wall his claws at the man's neck.

"Logan, wait. Calm yourself before you lose control." Xavier scolded as he rolled over.

Scott stepped forward, hand still on his glasses, as he pulled the man's mask off.

Rogue gasped and her bright emerald eyes widened as she gazed unsteadily at the man's face.

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Now, now, before you grab your pitchforks and jello, know this there is hardly a point in a story that presents itself so prettily as a cliffhanger. So this won't happen often and I'll get the next chapter as soon as I can so please no slaughtering. Everything will be explained in the next chapter. At least maybe or the one after that. Another thing I wanted to add I know in the movie Xavier's was really just a large school and I really like that angle but not for this story. So in my story there is no hundreds of students. Well I believe that's all thanks again to those who reviewed. Keep reviewing you might get a cupcake with sprinkles.

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