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Rushing into the club Rogue was late and she had to be on stage in five minuets. Quickly dressing in the ladies bathroom Rogue came back out adjusting her black satin gloves and the white dress shirt she wore her black pants all Velcro in place so that when she ripped them off they came off evenly. Standing behind the curtain she awaited the announced like every night. "And now put your hands together for the lovely, the seductive Miss Rogue." Smiling slightly to herself Rogue shimmied out of the curtain her long locks of brunette hair curled just lightly on the tips. This night Rogue started out dancing at the pole grinding with it between her legs suggestively, there was a crowd of men that had come in off a bus for some kind of convention in town tonight and they were pretty rowdy. So rowdy that Rogue didn't notice the same pair of piercing eyes watching her.
Ripping her shirt open Rogue had watched strip tease earlier that week and had been practicing to rein act a scene from the movie. Dancing around in her bra, pants and long opera gloves Rogue was really putting on a show tonight. Just as she was about to spin around the pole and rip her Velcro pants off she felt a hand grab her arm. Panicking she looked up and one of the men who had crawled up onto the stage with her. Jerking pulling trying to get away from him his hands where getting so dangerously close to her poison skin. "BENNY!" she screamed for the bouncer. But he was having a hard time getting through the crowd of rowdy men who were making all the usual customers into animals too. "BENNY!" She screamed again when suddenly she jerked forward as the man that had a hold of her arm was thrown off of the stage and standing before her was the dark man who'd been watching her that night. His eye's where the most intense hazel she'd ever seen and she stood frozen to the spot. Turning Rogue ran off the stage and into the arms of a waiting 'Candy' holding up a long shelved shirt for Rogue to slip her arms into quickly. "Oh my God Rogue are you okay you must have been so scared well honey its okay don't be scared we get some of those creeps everyone once and a while." Candy talked so fast sometimes you could hardly understand a word that she was saying.
Peaking back out from behind the stage curtain the man was gone but there was an all and out bar room brawl going on out there now between the costumers and the bouncers. Shaking her head a little bit Rogue quickly grabbed her duffel bag and headed out the back entrance still very visibly shaken. Stumbling through the parking lot to her car Rogue looked up at the truck that was parked next to her car, there was a man sitting inside rubbing his knuckles. Looking closer it was the same man that had thrown the drunken bastard off of the stage. Sucking in a deep breath she walked over to the driver's side and tapped on the window.
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Logan's knuckles where just itching to let the claws out, the Wolverine inside of him was howling for another fight he could never turn down a challenge. Rousing from his thoughts Logan heard someone tap on his window. Turning his head sharply his expression softened a little bit as he looked at the girl outside of his truck. Opening the door he stepped out, he stood almost a head taller then her. Scanning her up and down Logan figured without the six inch heels on he would've stood taller.
"Ah...Ah just wanted to thank ya fer what ya did back there...that guy scared the heck outta meh." the girl breathed touching her chest as she nervously laughed.
"No thanks are needed darlin, can't resist a damsel in distress." Logan said, stopping for a second and knitting his brows together. 'Where the hell did that come from? Damsel in Distress? This ain't no fuckin fairy tale.' Logan quickly shrugged it off.
"Well thanks anyways." She said again shifting her weight from one foot to the other before cursing under her breath and reaching down she pulled off one heel and then the other. "Damn heels, honestly Ah only wear them on stage Ah'd break mah neck if Ah had to wear'em all the time." She said now standing barefooted on the wet ground.
Logan hadn't heard an accent like that in...ever now that he thought about it. Smiling a little bit. "Where you from darlin you don't talk like your from anywhere around here." Logan said now beginning to put on a little charm and for reasons he didn't seem to know why it was just oozing out of him.
"Oh.. Ah'm from the south, Ah was born and raised in Mississippi and Ah moved here after-." The girl broke off her features darkening a little bit. "Ah just moved here." She finished.
Suddenly stumbling from inside the bar the drunken creep was straightening his clothing after being man handled by the bouncers and thrown out of the club. Looking up he stared for a second at the two people talking in the parking lot, why is was that stripping and that dick head who tossed him off the stage like he was a fucking rag doll. Gathering up his gusto he trotted over to the two. "Hey...hey you." he said stumbling a little bit but regaining his balance quick enough.
Logan looked up over the girls head as she turned suddenly shrinking back a little bit her back pressing into Logan's abdomen. Jumping a little bit she whirled around realizing it was the man who'd helped her. Looking at the girl reassuringly Logan stepped in front of her and stepped up to the drunk standing intimidating taller then him.
"I ain't talkin to you jack ass I'm talkin to the girl now get outta my way." the drunk said trying to shove Logan out of his way. Logan didn't budge but grabbed the guy by the collar of his dress shirt. "Oh what she your girlfriend or something." The drunk said, man some men just didn't give up even when they where about to get there asses kicked.
"Yeah she is now, so back the fuck off." Logan said shoving the guy backwards as the rest of his buddies came laughing and stumbling out of the club. Some of them looking over at there friend a group of them came walking over. "This guy giving you trouble Frank?" a short pudgy bald headed man asked stepping up next to his friend.
Logan glanced back at the girl for a second before letting Frank go and through a good right hook at the guy who'd come to help him as the rest of the group came strolling up to help.
"Get in the truck, kid." Logan said quickly walking back to her yanking the room open and shoving her in through the driver's seat. Slamming the door shut behind them Logan locked them and started the trucks engine and revved it burning rubber as he drove out of the parking lot. The Wolverine inside of Logan's head was calling him a pussy for running away from the fight. But the part of Logan that wasn't all carnal knew that he couldn't take on that bunch of drunken losers without scaring the fuck out of the girl. Glancing over at her Logan was already getting onto the free way before he thought to ask her where she lived to take her home. They where going to be on the road together for a little while which Logan didn't seem to mind right about this moment. Wolverine was fuming with anger.
"Hey, hey kid. I'm sorry I should turn arou-." Before Logan could finish his sentence good, the girl snapped.
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"NO!...no.. Ah mean no its okay...Ah don't care about going back...Ah've been wantin to get away from that place for the longest time." She said. Before wondering what the hell she was thinking? She was in a truck with a strange man no changes of clothes nether but her purse and her heels. Rogue wasn't afraid of him trying anything with her, she'd sucked up plenty of different assholes on the road to Anchorage and through her meditation she knew she could survive another one. But deep down inside Marie was scared to death; she didn't want to hurt anyone else. And for uncertain reasons, she didn't want to hurt him. Almost like a driving force inside of herself told her to merely stick it out. She didn't know him from Adam, but with him and as strange as it sounded inside of her head a voice told her that she was safe.