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Wrong Side of Right
Chapter 9
The gentle roar of the motorbike soothed her as it sped along the otherwise still road, the peacefully dangerous silence of Alkali Lake rested to the left, yet she barely gave it a look as she travelled by…
"Rogue?" the voice had a slightly worried edge to it and succeeded in snapping Rogue from her daydream. She was sat on a bench in Ororo's garden, surrounded by the silence brought on by the dusk. Kitty was crouched in front of her, a worried look on her face that slowly changed to a smile as Rogue blinked at her.
"What?" Rogue asked
"Rogue! Friday night!" Kitty said happily "Me and Jubilee have got it all ready – just like old times!" Marie blinked again, and a soft smile spread across her face.
Before she had left the Institute, Friday night's had always been a sort of ritual with the three friends – at first as a wind down from school, and then gradually progression to a way to keep themselves sane the night before long-awaited dates the next night. 'The Friday Night Ritual' involved a lot of popcorn and ice-cream, films of varied genres and ratings, nail varnish and facemasks and the traditional 'sit-and-bitch'.
"Ah'm coming," Marie smiled, Kitty grinned wildly, leaping to her feet and holding out a hand to Rogue. Her own gloved hand grasped it, and she pushed off the bench.
A pain shot through her stomach, and the garden span.
"Are you okay Rogue?" Kitty asked, seeing the pained expression on her friend's face as her eyes snapped closed.
"Ah'm fine," Marie said once the dizziness had passed, and she opened her eyes to look at Kitty's pale, worried face "Really, ah'm alright."
"Logan'll be coming back soon." Kitty said quietly. The Canadian had been gone for nearly four weeks now, Rogue was near on her seventh month of her pregnancy, and was worried on where her friend was
"Yeah," she whispered, before a smile slide onto her face "Come on then Kit', let's go and obey 'The Ritual'" Kitty giggled, throwing one more worried glance at her friend – who now appeared to be fine – and led the way to Jubilee's room.
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"-I mean, the guy's a total jackass, and he expects me to go with him tomorrow." Jubilee's sentence was punctuated by a loud pop of gum
"You'll go with him," Kitty said slyly, grabbing up another handful of popcorn "He'll come round, all rugged and everything, with the prospect of going out to a movie, and you'll go. Besides," she paused to flick a kernel at her Asian friend "It gives you an excuse to go shopping." The two girls broke into giggles, stopping to cast their other friend a worried look.
"Rogue?" Jubilee called out "Are you okay? You're real quiet."
Rogue snapped her head up; the three of them were sprawled on Jubilee's bed – Jubilee on her stomach at the top of the bed, Kitty curled up at the foot, and Marie between them, resting up against a huge stuffed bear one of Jubilee's ex-boyfriend's had won her at a fair
"Ah'm alright," she said softly "The baby's just being quiet."
""Probably listening to the film," Jubilee commented, flipping herself upright and settling right next to Marie "What's that sweetie? You want Auntie Jubes to shut up long enough so you can learn to play Bullshit? All you had to do was ask!"
Rogue stifled a giggle and lazily hit her friend, and Kitty burst out laughing, settling to flick more popcorn at the others until it turned into a full-scale popcorn war.
A hesitant knock at the door stopped the battle, and Kitty leapt up to answer it. She tensed up as soon as the door opened
"What do you want?" she asked curtly
"I need to speak to Rogue." Marie and Jubilee tensed at Bobby's voice, and Kitty turned her head to look at the two-tone
"Ah'll speak to him," she said "Give me a sec." She rose slowly, and an avalanche of popcorn fell from her as she did so. Brushing a few stray kernels from her hair, she walked over to the blond male standing nervously at the door
"Can we talk? alone?" Bobby asked warily, casting a look to the two girls on the bed
"Whatever you say to me can be said in front of Kitty and Jubes." Marie replied shortly, crossing her arms protectively over her stomach. Bobby's eyes followed the movement, lingered on her stomach, and then nodded
"I know I did something you can't forgive me for…" he started
"You slept with another woman!" Rogue pointed out harshly
"Yeah, that," he agreed "But I now that the baby's mine, and I want to give a hand in raising it." A soft smile spread across Marie's face and she leant forwards so that her face was inches from his
"You ain't my baby's daddy!" she yelled, making him jump and the girls snigger "You don't mean anything to me and me and my baby don't need you around!"
"Rogue-" Bobby started, trying to reason with her
"Don't you dare, Bobby Drake!" she screamed "You could have been mah baby's daddy but you had to sleep with that slut!" she prodded him in the chest, making him back up slightly into the hall "And ah know what you tried to do with mah best friend! You disgust me! How many other women have you tried to get together with whilst we were together? Ah don't need you to be a part of mah baby's life, ah don't care if ah never see you ag-" the rest of her sentence was lost in a strangled gasp as she staggered against the door, arms moving to grasp her stomach
"Rogue!" the yell came from both of her friends and Bobby, and Jubilee and Kitty leapt from the bed to grab the two-tone and help her sit on the floor
"Ah'm alright," she gasped out "Ah'm fine," she gasped again as more pain coursed through her abdomen and clutched for Jubilee's hand "Mah baby," she whispered "Something's wrong with the baby!"
"It's alright Rogue, calm down," Jubilee said, trying to keep the worry from her voice and face "Just breathe, it'll be okay…"
"Go and find Miss Munroe!" Kitty barked to the frozen Bobby as she grabbed a pillow to try and make the stricken girl more comfortable…