Chapter 6:
The bee and the pollan.
"Get out." Remy's flamming eyes burned into Fiona's cool blue ones.
"Aw, Rem's you can't make me leave, or shall I just go and tell St. John that you came crawling into my bed the other night?" She perched herself on a stool by the kitchen counter and sipped her coffee.
"That was my bed, that you crawled into, I was so drunk that I barely noticed you were there that night, that's hardly crawling into bed with you, nothing happened Fiona, and it never will." Remy was fuming at this point.
"Well who is he going to believe? His darling sister, or his womanising team mate?"
"Well actually sis, I think I might believe Gambit." St John popped out from behind the door, "I think its time you went home."
/Never run from your problems\
Rogue sat in a small coffee shop on a tiny cobbled street in Germany, half of her had expected all the houses to made out of gingerbread here, and although the houses were made out of the same bricks and mortar the whole place still held some sweet European charm which was extremely different from America.
"What are you thinking about Rogue?" Kurt asked. Rogue had been in Germany with him for about a week and although he was thrilled to see his sister he couldn't work out why she had come to see him so out of the blue, it would only be a few weeks till Thanks Giving and he'd had planned with everyone to come back for then.
"Nothing really." But she carried on staring down the street, it looked like a street you would imagine a couple walking along holding hands at the end of their first date, she was thinking about the chip which she now had installed in the back of neck. "I can control my powers know."
"What?! How? When?"
"The Prof gave me this chip thing, its really helped, I can touch people now," Rogue carried on staring down the street. "I still haven't touched someone, its been so long I don't want it to be with just anyone, I want to feel their heat, I want to be able to rest my head on their shoulder and smell them, I want to be so close to them that I can see every tiny scar, every blemish, I want to hear their heart beat. It wouldn't just be the touch but it would everything, and I'm not going to waste that." She turned her head to look at Kurt who was staring at her with his mouth open slightly.
"Rogue, who are you in love with?" Kurt looked straight into her eyes and saw the shock in them.
"Don't be silly Kurt, who could I possibley be in love with?"
"Well actually Rogue, that was the question I just asked you..."
"Kurt, you still love Amanda right?"
"Well, I still think of her."
"If she hurt you, if she... if she slept with someone you couldn't stand, could you forgive her?"
"Its hard to say Rogue, how could you ever know the whole story?"
"What if she swore to you it didn't happen, that the other person was lying."
"Then, in all honesty Rogue, I would wonder why I was still in Germany."
Rogue snapped her head around to find Kurt was being deadly serious.
"I'll see you in a few weeks, mien scwester, and I expect to meet this 'king of hearts'"
/I have missed your lips and everything attached to them\
Nick was setting up ready for another performance at the live bar, this would be his last performance in New York before he moved on, he had had rinsed too many bank accounts in New York now and couldn't afford to stay for risk of getting caught.
There was one more target in the audience he had his eye on. He knew which song to sing to get her to do exactly what he wanted, he figured since this was his last night in New York he should play the 'I have to leave tomorrow and it feels so unfair that we only got to spend so little time together' line and take her home. It was the safest way to operate,
as long as he got the purse early in the night so she noticed it was missing early on in the night, she would never suspect him as long as he stayed with her.
Rogue had just pulled up outside the live bar, she knew he'd be here, and she wanted to get Kitty's money back and get this creep behind bars. She stepped out of her jeep, she was dressed in extremely tight black jeans and a form fitting black high neck cotton top with short sleeves, her hair was pulled back into a loose bun and she had strands of platinum hair falling around her face. She stepped into the foyer of the club and could hear the last line of that song, that song that had once sent tingles down her spin which now made her mad.
She stepped into the club and had a uick look around, Nick was just stepping of the stage and into the arms of some girl, Rogue watched his hands and saw him slip into the girls handbag and remove her purse and slip into his pocket. Rogue saw this as her que to enter.
"Hi Nick!" She said smiling, and as quick as you can blink she wipped her hand into his pocket and removed the girls purse and gave it back to her. "I think this is yours, I'd be more careful in future." The girl took the purse gratefully and after a few seconds of looking shocked she turned to Nick and slapped him across the face and left.
"Look, I don't know what you think your doing Anne but shall we take this outside? Hmm?" Nick said as he began to lead the way.
Rogue followed him antisipating his next move. They went outside the club and Nick pulled Rogue around the corner and threw her against a wall.
"Look you little slut, you've messed with the wrong guy. I'm not one for mercy." Nick eyes glowed with rage.
"Good, because nor am I." Rogue gave Nick a small shove which, with the help of her super strength, sent him tumbling to the floor, he looked up at her with confusion. "Now tell me were Kitty's money is."
"Your one of those freaks! Get away from me!" He spat back at her.
Rogue flared up and slapped him with her bare hand whilst activating her power, taking enough of his memories to find Kitty's money and also his consciousness. She stepped over his motionless body and out of the alley way.
/Never again will I miss you\
Rogue sat at the dinner table and looked around at her family, the people she come to love and appreciate. She thought about how it wasn't so long ago that she didn't even know what she had. It had taken her years to finally be truly grateful to all these people for they have done for her.
She looked over at Jean and saw her wipe some gravy of the corner of Scotts mouth and then kiss him tenderly. She still hadn't touched anyone without her power yet. She was saving it, but unlike in Germany she was admitting to herself who that person was and although she hadn't seen him yet she knew she will and when the time was right it would all fall into place.
"Rogue?" Kurt leaned over and spoke to her softly so no one else would her but not quietly enough to arouse suspicion and attention.
"Yer?"
"What ever happened about that guy?"
"What guy Kurt?"
"The guy we spoke about in Germany."
"Oh, well I don't know I haven't seen him since really, I had some stuff to sort out when I got back and I just haven't had the chance."
"Well you had better get a move on, I go back to Germany in a few days and I don't want to have to go back and then threaten this poor bloke by email."
"Why would you have to threaten him?"
"It's part of being a brother you know? You have to sit them down and say 'hey you, you hurt my sis and I'll break ya balls'"
"You know what Kurt? You really shouldn't do Italian accents." Rogue and Kurt both laughed at this and the matter was left whilst they ate their Thanks Giving dinner.
/I don't want the world to see me because I don't think that they would understand\
"Guys, GUYS!" Rogue yelled over the noise of the other shoppers.
"Like, what Rogue?" Kitty asked.
"I think I'm all shopped out, I'm justy going to go sit in the food court and grab a coffee I think."
"OK Rogue, we'll come find you in a minute then yer?" Jean responded.
"Sounds like a plan to me" Rogue smiled at Kitty and Jean, since everything that had happened she was happy that they had finally settled into a compromise, Rogue would go shopping with them and enjoy it, however Rogue would also bugger off every now and again to sit and have a cup of coffee, being around people still intimidated her a little and shopping (although a lot more enjoyable since she didn't feel like she was being dragged) did get tiresome.
Rogue headed towards the food court in the huge shopping centre, she stepped onto an escalator and moved downwards, she looked around the food court at all the tables, it was busy, really busy there didn't seem to be a table left, she stepped of the escalator and moved towards the coffee shop, she bought her coffee and turned around. Still no tables. She started to do a circuit of the floor to try and find someone sat by themselves to join when she saw them. Those ruby red eyes looking down into their coffee. She navigated her way through the tables and stood next to the man.
"Do you mind if I join you?"
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A/N hehehehehhehehehehhehehehhehehe incase you couldn't guess, I do believe the next chapter will be full of Romy fluffyness )
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hahaha! I might write it tonight... I might not, but by the looks of it its going to be the last chapter.
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