Chapter 2: Once a Memory
As the sun broke through the clouds, opening in a new day Rogue ran, moving like a shadow through the still deserted streets. In this same moment Remy was stretching his arm across the bed to touch her warm skin, only to find emptiness where she should have been. Bolting upright he saw her clothing gone along with his trench coat and knew she'd left of her own free will. Releasing himself from the covers he found his hand grasping the nearest object; a lamp from the bedside table. Pulling it free from the socket he threw in at the carefully shut door where it smashed against the hardwood throwing shards around the room. Blood ran down his arm where the fragments had cut him, his anger and hurt built and the room took on all the pain.
Rogue saw her destination growing within her sight sooner than would have been seen but any normal person, but she was normal and with the use of stolen powers she'd ran fast enough to reach the destination in less time the usual. Crashing through the door tears blurring her emerald eyes she found the one she looked for.
"Let me have him back" she cried falling to the ground while clutching her chest in phantom pain.
"All in good time" came the reply from behind the desk, the speaker with her back turned "All in good time"
The speaker turned, inspecting her perfectly lacquered black nails before looking up her dark hair revealing her face and looking at her new partner. The pain was clearly evident in Rogues emerald eyes that were glistening in still yet to be released tears.
"Let him be just a memory now" Sage told the other girl "You'll have him back in time"
Flicking a silent finger her other accomplice emerged from the shadows and touched the girl collapsed on the floor, using their power the accomplice erased all unneeded information, leaving only fleeting, dream-like memories of Remy behind. He was only a memory to Rogue now a dream yet to come true.
Remy stood amongst the chaos, the room a destroyed mess as though a bomb had exploded. Blood flowed freely from his many wounds as free-flowing tears mingled with the red. A gentle knock sounded on the door before a brown-haired girl poked her head in, not bothering to open the door.
"Remy" Kitty called out phasing the rest of her body through the door
Remy felt his legs collapse under him as his legs gave way, his mind hardly noticed as all he could think was the she was gone again.
"Remy" Kitty tried again "What happened?"
"She's gone" was all he could say in reply
Kitty nodded understanding who he meant before she carefully helped him up coaxing him into going to the Med. Bay.
Rogue opened her eyes to find herself collapsed on the floor, her memory a blur of how she'd got there, although how she got there was a mystery she knew why she was there and what she had to do. Pulling herself to her feet she left the room to do her mission, a distant fleeting memory haunting her as she went. All it was the haunted her was a memory of a handsome Cajun with red on black eyes that couldn't leave her mind, but its only a dream, a distant memory she kept telling herself as she walked. Only a memory.