Skye: Chapter 3. Here is the unexpected relationship. And it's NOT Rogue and Elska!

Chapter 3: New Friend, Old Friend

Elska sat down on the bed that looked like no one slept in it.

The professor had told her through his mind-reading telepathy thing that dinner would be a further twenty minutes although her new roommate Rogue would only be about ten. She was hungry, but she was going to wait until everyone had finished eating then grab something.

So she sat in thought.

Logan had seemed nice, and she got a light aura from him, but it was concealing things that had happened in the past…things which he couldn't remember. Nevertheless, she liked him. He knew when to stop talking, even though he didn't exactly know what to say – it was a start she guessed. He had a very sarcastic sense of humour which was almost annoying but she loved it. And he had been nice enough to stop and give her a lift when everyone else had drive past her without a second glance. He had even carried her when she couldn't walk. Then there was his mutation: she had been quite scared when she saw it but Logan seemed totally at ease with hers, not that he should be. Because hers was just as destructive as his.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud bang. She jerked up. A girl who was quite a few inches taller than her (but then again, most people WERE taller than her) with brown hair and two white streaks at the front. Her eyes were deep brown and her skin was pale, although most of it was covered.

"Hi," Elska said, standing up. "You must be Marie?"

"Rogue," she replied coldly. "Are you Hybrid?"

"Elska, or Ellie," she said as lightly as she could. "Was dinner any good?"

"It was…OK, I guess?" Rogue said uncertainly. "Listen, I might as well be straight with you: there's no point in being my friend because you can't touch me. If you do, I absorb your memories, you take some of mine. I 'borrow' your powers and then you might die."

Elska shook her head.

"I'm different."

She approached Rogue and touched her shoulder. She felt a little dizzy, as if a magnetic force was pulling and pushing their minds. Rogue's power was strong but her's was stronger. The sensation quickly passed as Elska's skin adapted.

Rogue gasped.

"You…you can touch me…"

"Oh, well done," Elska said sarcastically.

Rogue screamed then leapt at Elska. They hugged tightly and laughed. After a few seconds, Logan kicked the door open, claws out and yelling something about 'attacks'.

"Is everything OK, Logan?" Rogue asked.

"Apparently so!" he growled angrily. "Why did you scream?"

Elska and Rogue looked at each other. Friendship bloomed instantly between them and they laughed loudly.

"Logan, it's something girls do to-"

"-to emphasize their excitement of a recent event," Elska finished for her.

Logan went slightly pink, then stormed away. Rogue and Elska glanced at each other and laughed again.

It had been a long time since Elska had had a real friend, particularly a girl who she could be herself with.

Rogue opened her mouth to say something, but a loud rumbling stopped her. A head appeared on Rogues wall and slowly and entire body phased through the wall and chest of drawers.

"Oh, you must be the new girl. I'm Kitty. Now hurry up, Rogue! There's a fight on the basketball court! Bobby versus John!"

Kitty grabbed hold of their wrists and pulled them through the wall then the crowd. Rogue looked extremely uncomfortable. And Elska felt it. It was as if some skin-tight material was compressing her as she passed through other people.

She wasn't much of a fight person but she recognised the name…form somewhere.

When she stopped trying to remember who he was, she found herself at the front of a crowd and looking onto two boys. One was on the ground and he was spitting feeble wisps of frost at the other who was standing above him, fire blazing out of his hands.

"That's Bobby and John," Kitty yelled over the screams of 'Fight, fight!'. "Or Iceman and Pyro."

"Isn't this a school? Where are the teachers?"

"Probably on their way," Kitty said.

"John, no!" Rogue screamed.

Elska looked up and then it happened. She remembered and she couldn't understand why she hadn't before then…or why she intervened.

John raised his hand, a fireball ready. Bobby cowered.

"John, no!" she shouted.

Elska wrapped her hand around his wrist and knocked it to the side. The fireball flew away and eventually hit the ground.

Everyone was silent. A gap appeared in the crowd and Xavier wheeled through, followed by Logan, a man with sunglasses on, grasping the hand of a woman with red hair and bringing up the rear was a woman with dark skin and white hair.

"Ellie?" John asked, looking anguished.

"You said you were going to stop this!"

"Elska, I can see you have this under control, however," Xavier looked up at John. "My office, now."

Elska let go of her cousins arm.

Skye: Told ya! ;) please review!