Chapter Four
"Okay, everyone, I've got a special treat for you today." Rogue said to the class.
"What is it?" A little girl asked.
"We're going to learn how to sew." Rogue said. She gestured to the door and Bobby brought a sewing machine into the room.
There was a murmur of complaints going through the room. Rogue looked at Bobby and raised an eyebrow. "I've gotten Storm's permission to go on a field trip."
All of the whining stopped. "Where?" asked one of the students.
"Since Zach can time travel, I've decided to go back to the Salem Witch Trials. There's one problem. You all have to know how to sew, because before we leave, we are going to sew our own old-fashioned clothing." Rogue informed them.
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Meanwhile, Storm was in the teacher's lounges, talking to a friend of Charles's
"I need her here for the one part. The second is pretty much universal." The guy said.
"Hold on." Storm replied.
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Back in History, Rogue was showing the kids how to thread the machine. Storm's voice came over the intercom system and told her to report to her immediately.
"Can you take over for me?" Rogue asked Bobby. He had a free period, so he was there with her.
"Sure." he replied.
Rogue ran out of the room and all the way down the hall. When she got to the teacher's lounge, she was out of breath. "You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. This is Forge. He is a friend of Xavier's." Storm introduced. She paused a moment, then continued. "I'm sorry, but we need you to be on the X-Men team, and I worry for you."
"I've made sure that I am careful." Rogue stated.
"Yes, but we've come up with a solution, if your okay with it." Storm added.
She signaled toward Forge. He got up and pulled something out of his pocket. "Missing this?" he asked, showing her a ring with a huge orange gem in it.
"Yeah. That's my engagement ring. I never take it off." Rogue informed them.
"That is precisely why we took it. For what we are about to tell you, we needed things that you always kept with you." Storm intervened.
"I have a knack of taking ordinary things and making them extraordinary. That ring now let's the wearer become intangible. Like your friend, Kitty Pryde, which without her we couldn't do this. You can now walk through solid objects."
"What?" Rogue asked in disbelief.
"As long as you wear this, you can walk through anything." Storm repeated for her.
"Now, I need your wedding ring." Forge said.
Rogue covered her hand. "Why?"
"You never take it off, right?"
"Yeah."
"Like I said before, we need something you wear all the time."
"What are you going to do with it?"
"We're going to infuse it with a mutant power, so you will have two. The problem is, there are so many powers out there, and we can't decide which one to choose." Forge said.
"Give me a moment." Rogue said, putting on her ring. She walked over to the wall, and slowly put her hand through it. "Wanted to test it out before I ran full force at it." she explained. Then she was gone.
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Bobby was getting everyone set to go when Rogue came running through the wall. "Class dismissed." she said, grabbing Bobby's hand and phased them both through the wall.
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Back in the teacher's lounge, Bobby was told everything. "This is amazing." He said. "You'll be able to go with us on missions again."
"We need another power." Storm reminded them.
Rogue bit her lip and looked at Bobby. He wasn't psychic, but he knew what she was thinking.
"How about my power?" he offered.
"Wonderful" Forge said.
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Three days later, everyone was in the teacher's lounge, laughing. Rogue had just gotten her ring back that day and everyone wanted her to try them out.
"Again. " Peter said. Rogue smiled, got up and ran back and forth through the wall.
When she came back in and sat down, Storm said, "More ice."
Rogue looked at Bobby. After a nod from his, she created a huge ice sculpture on the middle of the room.
"Together." Kitty shouted.
Rogue and Bobby joined hands and together they turned the teacher's lounge into an ice palace.
After a few more minutes of talking, Rogue and Bobby suddenly stood up. "We best be getting to bed." she said.
"Yeah, got early classes tomorrow." Bobby agreed.
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Later that night, if you walked by their room, you could hear the headboard being smacked against the wall.