Hello. It's time for chapter two of "For What It's Worth." There aren't really any Author's Notes at this point…I don't own anything…With that let the story continue!

MisfitGirl13

And Love is Not a Victory March

Rogue looked at her reflection in her dresser mirror. She had been staring at herself for the past hour and a half at least. She reached up an ungloved hand to her cheek. She had been crying, but after the first ten minutes she had stopped trying to push the tears away. She looked into her eyes and saw that she was on the verge of more tears, but she did not let them escape.

"Damn it, Remy!"

She said as she banged her fist onto the dresser. She did this too hard and it caused the dresser to crack.

"Shit!"

Then her door opened to reveal Kitty Pryde in the entrance. She had on a blue jean skirt with a red top and her hair was pulled back in a messy ponytail. She looked from Rogue to the cracked dresser and then back again. When she spoke she sounded worried and troubled.

"Rogue are you like okay?"

Rogue turned around and saw Kitty. She then looked back at the broken dresser and said softly,

"Guess Ah still don' know my own strength."

Kitty didn't laugh. She just walked over to Rogue and stayed a few feet behind her.

"Why don't you go downstairs to see Remy off? I mean you are like his girlfriend…"

Rogue cut her off at the word 'girlfriend' with one look of her emerald eyes.

"Ah am not Remy LaBeau's girlfriend."

Kitty tried to hide her surprise at her roommate's comment but undoubtedly failed.

"What do you like mean? You're like not his girlfriend?"

Rogue let the few tears she had been trying to hold back slowly fall. And although she made an effort to wipe them away, they came too fast for her to get all of them. Kitty reached her hand out and wiped them away for her.

"Kitty, Remy and me had a relationship based on trust. And he couln' trust me enough to tell me why he had ta go back ta Louisiana, and then he didn' trust me enough ta take me with him. If he can't trust me, then we can't be togetha."

Kitty let her hand drop from Rogue tear stained face. She stood back and looked Rogue in the eye. Then she said something that Rogue would have never expected from Kitty Pryde.

"Rogue, you and I both know that that's bullshit."

"Excuse you?" Rogue said rather harshly.

"Rogue, you like love Remy! I've like seen the look you get in your eyes when he holds you. I've like heard the way you laugh when he tells you one of his stupid jokes. I've noticed the way he looks into your eyes and the way that you can never stop smiling when you're around him. If you're gonna let this one thing ruin your relationship with him, then you are like not the girl I like thought you were!"

Rogue stared at Kitty in disbelief. Kitty was lecturing her! She was telling Rogue all the things she already knew and didn't need reminding of.

"Kitty, Ah…"

"Save it, Rogue. I have a date with Piotr."

Kitty grabbed her bag from her bed and left the room leaving Rogue to wonder about what had just happened.

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Remy looked back at the miles of road behind him. It hurt him to know that Rogue wouldn't be waiting for him when he returned but he knew that she had left him and there was no changing her mind at this point.

He recalled that morning.

He was standing at the top of the stairs and the whole mansion had gathered to wish him a safe trip.

He said good-bye to Piotr who had given him a bone crushing hug and wish him a safe journey. Wolverine had managed a "Keep outta trouble Gumbo." Kurt simply nodded his head and shook his hand. Scott and Jean had said good-bye together and all the young mutants who didn't really know him just said to have a good trip.

Then Kitty rushed in late as usual.

"Like bye Remy! Come back soon."

She gave him a quick hug and then Remy managed to ask what had been bothering him all morning.

"Kitty, where's Rogue?"

Kitty looked at him and then shook her head. Remy nodded and told Kitty to tell her good-bye for him. Then he got on his bike and headed south.

He snapped out of the memory and stared instead at the road ahaead of him.

He revved his bike up and kept going, occasionally glancing into the rearview mirror and thinking about what he had left behind.

I'll find a way ta let you in cherie.

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Rogue turned in her sleep. She looked over at Kitty. What she had told her eairler that day had planted doubt in Rogue's mind.

Slowly she got out of bed. She opened the door and let herself out into the hallway. She wasn't sure where she was going, and she wasn't sure if she cared. Somehow she found herself on the roof staring into the night's sky.

However, she found it distressing that she was up here without Remy. The two of them usually spent nights together staring at the Northern stars and agreeing that the stars looked brighter in the South. She let a sigh escape her lips. After what Kitty had told her, she felt guilty about breaking up with Remy. She felt even worse that she hadn't told him bye.

Her heart ached for her swamp rat. As much as she wanted to be mad at him, she couldn't find in her heart. She knew he had to have a good reason foe leaving her behind. She only wished she could know what it was. She went to the side of the roof and silently jumped off hovering in the air. She needed to take a walk.

She landed softly on the ground. She started walking towards the gazebo near a cliff. She sat down here and started to think.

She sat there for well over three hours. She wasn't surprised when she watched the sunrise over the horizon…But like she and Remy had agreed on before, the sun rising, just like the night's sky, was better in the South.

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Remy stepped away from the mailbox he had just dropped a letter in. he hoped it would find its way to New York soon.

He walked down the streets of New Orleans…He was in a sense 'home.'

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Logan walked up to Rogue who had just finished eating breakfast. A week had passed since Remy had left and she hadn't heard a word from him. It surprised her when Logan handed her a letter and said,

"I guess the Cajun doesn't have a fixed address just yet, Rogue."

Wondering what he was talking about Rogue took the letter and looked down at the address. It was from New Orleans.

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Alrighty then! There is chapter two! Hope ya'll liked it and please review. Til next time!

MisfitGirl13