Chapter Six: The Drake House

And here's Chapter Six! Here, Rogue and Bobby's friendship may be put to the test when a secret is accidentally revealed...

0001234: Thank you for your feedback! And of course I had to have Rogue aspire to be an X-Man! I mean, why shouldn't she? I mean, she's ON THE COVER FOR THIS MOVIE, AFTER ALL. Seriously, why did they bother putting her on the cover if they weren't doing what I'm doing for her character?

thewriternextdoo:

1) Thanks! This was quite a task for me, as I wanted to portray Rogue the way I think she could have or should have been without turning her into a Mary Sue. But really, if I could manage this, than Bryan Singer/Brett Ratner could've done it no problem.

2) Yeah, like I said before, pretty much all of Rogue's best scenes were cut from the films, which was a pretty dumb thing to do in my opinion. And I kinda included the scene with her, Bobby, and Pyro starting a fire three chapters later, but I changed it to fit the current situation.

TieDyeJackson: I'm glad you're caught up! And I'm happy that you not only like my portrayal of Rogue, but you also like my take on Scott and Logan's relationship (I still hesitate to call it 'friendship', haha)! And now that I think about it, and looking it up, I don't know for sure now if they were HYDRA soldiers... Oops! I think I went off of a few movie clips on YouTube (that were taken down) that referred to them as HYDRA soldiers, but oh well; their scenes are done anyway.

Hope10: Admittedly, during the scene in the Jet, when Magneto makes that crack about her hair, she gets more angry than snarky (but it's for a good reason). In the next story, however, there's a bit where, while still angry, she's HELLA snarky, but it's not all directed towards Magneto.

Weee: Hey, long time no see! Yeah, making Mystique their mother in this version was a bit of a challenge, but I did do the best I could. I explain more about it in a couple chapters. And yes! The X-Men are gonna be in the MCU! I really hope Rogue gets to be much more bad-ass in the future!

Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men.

The sun had come up by the time they reached Bobby's parents' house. He found the hidden key and let them all in.

"Mom? Dad?" he called out. "Ronny? Is anybody home?" No one answered. He turned to Rogue, looking over her long black nightgown and realizing how much of her skin was uncovered. "I'll find you some clothes." Then he turned to John, who was playing with his lighter again. "Don't burn anything."

Bobby then led Rogue upstairs to his old room. As he found some clothes for her, she put her two-toned hair up unto a ponytail.

"Hey," she heard Bobby say. She turned around. "I found some of my mom's old clothes. I think they're from before I was born."

Smiling, she took the clothes and checked them out. "Groovy."

Bobby quickly turned around as Rogue slipped out of her nightgown to put the new clothes on. He tried to fight this rare warm feeling he was getting from being a couple feet away from a pretty girl undressing.

A pretty girl that was his friend.

Downstairs in the kitchen, Logan tried to call someone through the emergency phone. "Hello?" But he just heard static. "Come on, Jean. Where are you?"

In the living room, John was staring at Bobby's family photos with envy.

"You can turn around."

Bobby turned around. He thought she looked great in those clothes. Then he remembered what else he'd found.

"These are my grandmother's," he said, handing her white silk gloves.

"Thanks," said Rogue, smiling again.

As she slipped them on, Bobby found himself wanting to ask her something.

"Rogue?"

"Hm?"

"Uh," he started, trying to stay cool (again, no pun intended). "I know I already brought this up with you before, but..."

Rogue, thanks to Professor Xavier's telepathy, quickly realized what he wanted to ask. It was an accident; she didn't quite have full control over it.

"Bobby, I told you," she said gently. "I like you, but just as a friend."

Not wanting to feel the pain of rejection again, as well as feeling anger rise up a bit, he demanded, "Why? You know, I used to think that you had a boyfriend, but –"

"Where did you get that idea?" she asked a little too quickly, looking defensive.

Bobby stopped his rant, staring at her. "You do, don't you?" he questioned her. "Who is it? It's not John, is it?"

"N-No!" Rogue snapped, turning away and feeling sick.

He almost let out a yell of frustration. "Why won't you tell me? You haven't even told me your real name, I thought we were friends!"

"Just STOP!" She spun around and glared at him, her eyes flashing red.

He took a step back. Slowly, he recognized the glow, then starting putting pieces together.

"That's Cyclops' power," he said quietly.

Rogue turned away again, forcing the glow to dim.

Bobby put two and two together, remembering how she referred to Cyclops as Scott when they took his car. "Are you... Is he your boyfriend?!"

"SHH!" she snapped, turning back around. Her eyes were welling up, but she looked almost scarily angry. "You know, this is why I wanted to keep it secret. Everyone would just take it the wrong way, even though I'm eighteen. No one else would understand!"

"No one else?" Bobby repeated in further disbelief. "Let me guess – Logan knows?"

"And the other teachers," she grumbled. "They're fine with it, so why can't you be?" Then she yelled, albeit a bit irrationally, "Why can't you accept that he makes me happy?!"

Without waiting for an answer, she pushed past him and walked out of his room to sit on the stairs, leaving him obviously flabbergasted.

On the stairs, Rogue wanted to cry. Her secret was out. She just knew that when all this was over, the other students would ridicule her and Scott, and she was not sure if she could handle it. She wanted to find him, hug him, and never let go. She unconsciously began blindly reaching out with her borrowed telepathy...

In the X-Jet, Storm tried to contact the mansion, but got no results. "Nobody's responding. I can't get a signal."

"Why don't you take a break? I'll keep trying," Jean offered.

Storm nodded and went to the back of the Jet, where Kurt Wagner, also known as Nightcrawler, was sitting. It turned out that he had been mind-controlled to assassinate the president. As himself, he was actually a kind man who put his full trust in God. Both women quickly looked past his appearance, a blue devilish creature, to see the gentle soul he truly was.

As Storm talked to him, Jean tried contacting the mansion, the professor, anyone. However, she got nothing. Then she felt someone in distress. She mentally reached out to that person, and was surprised to find who it was.

Marie? she asked in her mind.

Jean? How...how are you talking to me? she heard the younger woman ask.

You reached out to me with telepathy, Jean explained. Is everything all right, honey?

Um, actually, no, said Rogue, her shock replaced with urgency. Men invaded the mansion and attacked us!

What?! Jean mentally gasped. Are you okay?

I'm fine, said Rogue shakily. We got some other students out safely, and me, Bobby, John, and Logan are at Bobby's parents' house in Boston. Logan found an emergency phone in Scott's car, and he's been trying to contact someone.

Okay, we're not too far away from Boston. I'll call him, and then we'll come get you.

While Jean began calling the emergency phone Logan had, she felt immensely relieved that he was okay, along with Rogue and the others, of course. But what about Charles and Scott?

"Storm," she called out, "I got a contact."

And there's Chapter Six! Bobby knows Rogue's secret! How will their friendship survive this?

Also, you might be wondering why Rogue is crying about Scott, and might want to call me out on trying to make her more bad-ass while writing something like that (in other words, why I write her acting tougher one moment and then having her beg for Scott, a man, to be with her in another). Well, I'm doing this because, while I think Rogue should be much tougher than she was in the original movies, she's still young here. This is clearly her first, albeit unofficial, mission, so she's not quite sure how to feel about it, not to mention her fight with Bobby has her quite a bit frazzled. And Scott's one of the few people she trusts, as well as her boyfriend whom she felt earlier was attacked, so it's okay for her to miss him and want him back. But it does NOT make her weak.