The Bet

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A/N: Quick authors note PLEASE READ!!!!! This chap take place in X2 so just as not to confuse anyone anyway on with the chapter!!!!

Chapter 5: The Mansion Is Attacked

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Rogue tossed and turned in her bed. Sweat dripped from her body as fearful moans escaped from her. A muffled scream escaped her as she woke with a start, putting her head in her hands her body shuddered with sobs. It had been one of Logan's dreams. No matter how many times she had one they had always frightened her to the very core. Glancing up she made sure she had not disturbed Kitty or Jubilee before grabbing her coat that hung over the back of her chair and wrapped it around her shivering arms and moving towards the door. She hesitated for a second before grabbing the gloves from the dresser, not feeling quite right without them. Walking out the door she made sure not make any noise as not to wake her sleeping roommates.

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Rogue had been walking around the mansion for what had seemed like hours when in reality it couldn't have been more than ten minutes. She stopped and found herself outside of John's door, so without thinking she knocked and waited for him to answer. Low scratching and banging sounds came from the other side of the door before it was opened by a bleary eyed John.

"Rogue? What are you doing it's two in the morning." He asked shocked to find the girl who had earlier been occupying his dreams was now standing in front of him. Rogue shocked both herself and him by jumping into his arms and bawling her eyes out into his chest. John wrapped his arms around her petite form and pulled her into the room, sighing with relief when he looked over and saw that Bobby was not occupying his bed tonight. He steered her over towards his bed and gently sat her down. "Rogue what's wrong? You have to tell me what's wrong." Rogue looked up at him teary eyed.

"It was one of Logan's nightmares. I've had them before it's just-"She broke down crying again putting her head into the hollow of John neck. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and patted her arm trying to comfort her.

"Shhh it's ok you don't have to tell me." She sniffled slightly and looked up at him. She gasped slightly when she saw his normally pale eyes were now the most astounding blue. "What?" He asked her puzzled at the look she was giving him. She just shook her head and laid it back on his shoulder.

"John?"

"What is it Rogue?"

"What is this thing between us?" He looked down just as she looked up at him their lips centimetres away from touching.

"Well-" A loud, piercing scream broke the silence of the mansion and John and Rogue held their hand up to cover their ears while the mirror that sat on Bobby's dresser shattered and the frequency of the scream. Gunshots were heard fired and the scream stopped. The two looked at each other confused, there was only one person who could scream like that, Siryn. Someone was in the mansion.

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John poked his out of the door and saw student dressed in their nightclothes running left and right. He grabbed Rogues hand and lead her out the only thing on his mind was to keep her safe.

"JOHN!" John and Rogue both turned around to see Bobby standing in the middle of the hallway looking frantic. The other two mutants ran up to him.

"Drake what the hell is going on?" John yelled at him while Rogue lightly squeezed his hand trying to offer a little support. Bobby looked down at their joined hands but then looked around again.

"Their were these people. They broke in and Wolverine took a couple of them out while I came up here to look for you guys. Guys we have to get out of here." John nodded his head and they all started to run to the nearest hidden exit. A light shined through the window before if shattered making Rogue scream and Bobby and John run in the other direction, pulling the terrified girl with them. Running towards the main exit four of the intruders stood there with machine guns. They saw the young teens and took aim at them, a feral yell came from above as the Wolverine jumped from the balcony getting rid of the unwelcome guest in less than five seconds.

"Let's Go." The young teenagers didn't need any further ushering and they ran after the man. They reached the exit and crawled through but Rogue turned back and screamed as Logan shut the hatch after them.

"Guys we have to go after them they're gonna kill him."

"He can handle himself, he's a big boy." Rogue turned to John.

"John please." Reluctantly the two boys followed after the girl. They saw Logan standing their conversing with the enemy. Bobby created an ice wall between them.

"Logan man, come on." John urged the older man.

"Go I'll be fine."

"But we won't." Rogue said her fear coming into her voice. Logan reluctantly turned back and climbed through the hole.

"Keep going the garage should be just up ahead." Bobby was the first to crawl up the shaft, followed by Logan and then John who then helped Rogue out as her gloves kept slipping on the bars. Logan and Bobby hoped into the front of the blue sports car leaving Rogue and John to climb into the back.

"What the hell was that back there?" John asked loudly. Logan shook his head.

"Stryker, his name was Stryker."

"Who is he?" Rogue's voice trembled as she asked causing John to look over at her.

"I can't remember." John wrapped his arms around the shaking girl and she leaned into him for support. "Storm and Jean are in Boston so we'll head that way."

"My parents live in Boston." Bobby muttered gloomily under his breath.

"Good."

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The sun was just touching the sky as John woke up. Looking down he saw Rogue snuggled against him and memories of the night rushed at him. He held Rogue a little tighter wanting nothing more than to protect her from the horrors of the world. Logan looked at the display from the rear view mirror. Maybe he had been wrong about the boy.

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Rogue felt herself being shaken awake and looked up to see John face staring down at her. She looked around and didn't recognize anything she saw.

"Where are we?"

"Drakes house we need a place to crash for a while until we can meet up with Jean and Storm." Rogue nodded her head and walked closely to John as they entered the house. When Bobby's calls received no answers he went to look for some clothes for the others to wear, John right behind him. Rogue walked around and stared at the photos on the walls before heading upstairs to find the others.

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John walked into Bobby's room and found Rogue looking at a poster of a snowboarder on the wall. He put his hand on her shoulder to her know that he was here. She turned and smiled at him and he felt as if his heart had stopped before he shook his head to rid himself of the thoughts.

"Bobby found some of his mom's old cloths. He thought they might fit you." He handed her the clothes and turn to walk out but her voice stopped him in his tracks.

"John."

"What is it?" He turned to look at her and she walked up to him.

"About last night, I just wanted to say thankyou." She smiled up at him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before her powers pulled at him and turned around to get changed.

"Anytime Rogue. Anytime." He whispered to himself as he walked out.

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Logan, Rogue, John and Bobby sat in the living room with Bobby's family sitting on the other side of the room. His parents had looks of horrified shock on their faces while his little brother Ronny had one of unconcealed anger. Rogue saw the look of hopelessness on his face as his parents asked him if he had tried not being a mutant. Moving from her place next to John she moved to sit next to Bobby, squeezing hand to try and reassure him that he was not alone on this. Ronny huffed and stormed out of the room heading upstairs. Everyone turned to Logan as a beeping noise came from his front pocket.

"Oh that's me." He mumbled and walked out of the glass screen door leading outside. John and Rogue got up leaving Bobby to talk with his parents.

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"So how are you? With the whole school being attacked thing I mean? Rogue asked John. John just shrugged.

"Rogue-"

"Marie." She said quietly.

"What?" He asked her.

"My real name its Marie." He smiled at her and walked up to stand in front of her. She took a step back worried for his safety.

"Maire." He tested the name on his tongue. "I like it."She looked up at him and gasped at how close they were. John started to inch closer to her until he was only a millimetre away.

"John" It came out as more of a whisper. "I don't want to hurt you."

"Then don't." With that he grabbed her arms and pulled her into a fierce kiss. Rogue tried to build the mental blocks in her mind that the Professor had taught her in a vain attempt to block her powers. When that didn't work and she began to feel the drain flowing into her she pulled away and put her gloved fingers to her lips. John leaned against the kitchen island for support, the blue veins that came from contact with Rogues skin slowly fading away.

"Are you crazy? You could have been hurt." She yelled at him. He sighed and jumped up to sit on the counter, getting out his lighter he began to rhythmically click in open and shut. Rogue felt the noise sooth her so she walked over to sit next to him. "I just... I don't want you to get hurt. You're my friend Johnny."

"Is that all I am?" He asked turning to look at her.

"I..I."She found that she couldn't finish. She was luckily saved as Logan burst into the room.

"Come on kid we gotta go." Rogue and John walked up to him and when Bobby joined them walked out the door. All over the front lawn were cop cars with police officers with guns trained on them.

"Everybody down on the ground."Called an office standing to their right. Logan popped his claws out and the policeman looked at them fearfully. "You drop the weapon." He shouted.

"I can't." Logan hadn't moved half an inch before the cop got scared and fired at him. Rogue screamed as he fell to the floor blood dripping down from the place were the bullet had been fired.

"Ok the rest of you down on the ground."Bobby was the first one to follow the command and was on the floor in a second flat. Rogue reluctantly followed not wanting to end up like the man that once stood before her leaving John the only one standing.

"Come on kid we don't wanna hurt you." The blond, female officer called from the left of them. John took out his lighter and started up the flame.

"You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about on the news?" He looked down at Rogue who had yet to take her eyes off her dead father figure and rage filled him. "I'm the worst one."Before the police officers had a chance to comprehend that John made the fire from his lighter grown and threw a huge current of it towards the unsuspecting officers. Their screams filled the yard as John flamed any thing that moved. Rogue looked up and realized that this wasn't John they were dealing with, this was Pyro. Without thinking she pulled off her glove and clamped her hand on Pyro's ankle. The fire was immediately called back to him and Rogue used the temporary ability she had gained from him to stop the fire from doing any more damage. Gushing winds came from up above and the three teens looked up and saw the infamous X-Jet looming above. Logan's eyes popped open as the wound healed itself. He stood up and looked around at the damage his eyes flying to John who just grinned sheepishly back at him. Together the four of them ran through the carnage and over to the jet.

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Rogue jumped as she saw an unfamiliar blue man sitting in the seat behind Storm.

"Guten Tag." He greeted and Rogue managed a small smile and nod in the strangers direction. She went over and took a seat in front of John who had refused to look at her since her display of power on the front porch of the Drake residence. She sighed and went to trying to figure out how the seat buckles worked, she was so engrossed in trying to figure them out that she almost fell out of he seat and Storm had many swift turns to avoid the Army Jets following them. John looked over and saw that she was having trouble at the last second as the missile Dr. Grey had been unable to stop tore away at the back of the X-Jet. Rogue flew from her seat, the wind howling around her and grabbed the first thing she saw, Johns seat. He reached over and grabbed her hand pulling her to him and holding on so that she would not go flying and fall to her death. Rogue tucked her head underneath John's chin as the winds wrapped viscously around the pair. The two felt the jet go into a tailspin and clung to each other for dear life. Rogue fell from his arms as the jet suddenly came to a halt and fell to the front of the cockpit harmlessly. Looking up the X-Men saw one of their most terrifying enemies, Magneto.

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After the camp had been sent up Rogue decided she would go for a walk, so she headed for the trees hoping to find somewhere to clear her head. Walking into a clearing she saw John sitting on a rock playing with his powers. She watch as he made a small fire bird followed closely by a kitten. Smiling she walked over and sat next to him

"Hey." She said hopping that he hadn't been avoiding her.

"Hi." He replied before going back to his fiery creations. She sighed and was thankful that he hadn't told her to get lost. Her head snapped up abruptly and he closed his lighter and turned to look at her. "Why'd you do it Rogue?"

"Do what?" She asked thoroughly confused.

"Stop me from frying those bastard cops to a crisp. I was only doing it to protect you." He muttered the last part and looked down at his hands. She put her hand under his chin and turned him to look at her.

"Because you were out of control Johnny and you scared me for a while." He looked at her trying to see her sincerity in the statement.

"Marie." Her true name slipped from his tongue. "The last thing I wanted to do was scare you as I said before I was only trying to protect you." She lad her head in his shoulder and breathed deeply. His smell filled her sinuses, it was an odd mixture lighter fluid and that natural manly musk that all men had. She yawned and John chuckled at her. "I think someone had a big day."

"No kidding. I got all your thoughts bouncing around in my head that would tire anyone out."

"Do you wanna go back?" He asked her.

"No." She shook her head. "I wanna stay here with you." Burrowing her head deeper into his shoulder and before she knew it she had drifted off to sleep as John watched over her for the night.

A/N: Ok guys that chap took forever to write and i'm sorry to tell you that i will probably only be able to update once a week from now on because school is kicking my ass. Any way leave me a review, it can be you birthday present to me which is on Saturday. Whoooooo gonna be 14 boo yeh!! LOL but please pleaseplease review because this story is my baby and i wanna see it loved (i've been haveing lots of sugar so sorry if i'm being weird.)

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