Rogue had taken a shower and was currently getting dressed for the Halloween feast when she heard a knock at her door. She was fully dressed with the exception of her gloves. "Come in." she yelled through the door.

Logan walked into the room and rogue smiled at him. "How'd it go today?' she asked referring to his impromptu visit into town.

"Potter knows." He said simply. "What did you learn from Lupin?" he asked and leant against the door jam.

"Him, Potter's dad, Black and Pettigrew, the guy Black killed, were all best friends when they went ta school here. Black was supposed to be the Potter's secret keeper but then a week later they get a visit from Voldemort. Pettigrew is so distraught that he goes after Black and dies." She said giving him the short version.

"Yeah, the kid over heard the same thing in town. So what do you think of it?" he asked her.

Rogue sighed and shook her head. "It still just doesn't add up. Ah've been askin' around all day about Pettigrew. He was this small kid who was only known because he was friends with the others. He had no talent and no brains, but even a stupid man would know not to go up against Black. He and Potter Senior were apparently prodigies and troublemakers.

"From what ah gather Pettigrew used them for protection 'cause they were the biggest guys on the playground." She said. "Ah can't see him taking the insensitive ta go after Black." She said and looked back up at Logan.

"Yeah I got the same vibe. There's something else going on here." He said. "I think Black is innocent."

Rogue just stared at him a beat. "Are ya sure?" she asked. He nodded. "So what do we do if we find Black?" she asked.

"I dunno." He said running a hand through his hair. "I think its time ya reveal yourself to Black."

Rogue nodded in agreement. "Yeah that's what ah was thinkin' too." She said.

"Well I'm gonna go tell tin man and half-pint, have you told Gumbo yet?" he asked.

"Yeah, ah told him this afternoon after my talk with Lupin." She said.

"What's he say?"

"Thinks we should leave the Gryffindor dorm open. Test the theory, he says tonight would be best since everyone will be at the feast." She said. "Ah gotta say it has merit." She added.

Logan stood there in thought for a moment before answering. "Sounds good, you and half-pint will go to the feast and keep to keep an eye on Potter. Me and the boys will patrol the rest of the castle." he told her and left.

"Bye." She called after him. Logan had never been one for pleasantries and rogue honestly wouldn't have it any other way.

Rogue finished brushing her hair before pulling on her gloves to meet Kitty at the entrance to the great hall. As always kitty looked spectacular, she had even painted her nails to match her outfit. Rogue rolled her eyes good naturedly.

"It's Halloween Kitty, not the prom." Rogue joked.

"Like cant a girl just look nice for a feast?" she asked innocently.

Rogue took a step back and gave her friend the once over. She was wearing a sapphire dress that stopped mid thigh that had a black lace design. Her matching shoes gave her an extra three inches in height. Rogue had to admit that kitty looked gorgeous.

"So is that dress for chasing Black or Piotr?" rogue asked and watched as her friend turned six shades of red.

"Well at least I like dressed up for the feast." Kitty said turning the attention away from her.

Rogue looked down at her own outfit. She was wearing her dark purple ballet warp that hung off her shoulders and her black jeans with the knees ripped out. It was her favorite outfit and she didn't see anything wrong with it. "What's wrong with my clothes?" she asked.

"Nothing." Kitty said. "Remy will love it, but this is a feast, you like totally should have at least worn a dress." Kitty said.

"The boys aren't joining us." Rogue said and then lowered her voice. "We are setting a trap tonight in the Gryffindor common room." she said. "The boys are on patrol why we keep an eye on Potter." She said.

Kitty's face fell immediately. "Ah can take a picture for Pitor if ya want." Rogue offered.

"No." she said dejectedly. "Maybe I can dress up for Christmas." She didn't sound as hopeful as her words suggested.

"Ah'll make sure ya an' Petey are together for Christmas." She said.

Kitty looked up at her and gave her a small smile. "Thanks." She said. "Well we better get to the feast."

Rogue followed as Kitty led the way to the teacher table where they sat. The food was not yet on the table and as the last of the students filtered in, Dumbledore stood. Rogue figured he gave a speech at all the feasts by the way only a few paid attention to his words. Lucky for her and everyone else he kept it short and sweet and soon the food was on the table.

The feast was indeed grand and rogue and Kitty spent most of the dinner reminiscing about all the Halloweens in the past, Kitty more so than rogue. But rogue enjoyed herself the same. It was nearing the end of the feast when rogue looked up in time to see Piotr walk into the great hall, rogue took this as her cue to meet up with Logan and Remy.

The passed each other and made eye contact. Now if Logan was a man of few words then Piotr was a man of even less. He was good natured and friendly but didn't say much. Rogue thought that made him perfect for kitty who could talk enough for the both of them. But rogue knew the man well enough that something had gone wrong with the plan.

The only reason Logan would send Piotr instead of himself or Remy was because something went wrong. They had decided when they first got there that kitty and Piotr would be the ones to guard the boy in case of anything. Colossus could guard the boy while kitty made her escape with him. Logan, Remy and herself were the best fighters and would therefore be the ones to confront Black.

Once rogue was out of the hall she flew with all her speed to the Gryffindor common room. When she reached the painting of the fat lady she saw the gashes in the painting but no fat lady. The frame stood ajar to allow her access and she could hear the muffled voices of her fellow x-men.

She quietly entered to see Logan and Remy by the stairs to the boy's dormitory. "So what happened, where's Black?" she asked noticing he wasn't anywhere in sight.

"He's better than I thought." Logan said.

"Oui." Remy agreed.

"So what happened?" she asked and looked around the room. Nothing looked disturbed in the common room but then again she hadn't seen the rest of Gryffindor tower.

"He came through the front door and came straight up here. He was lucky he didn't run into anyone on the way here. He then went straight to Potter's room." Logan explained gruffly. "The thing I don't get is that he wasn't anywhere near Potter's bed or stuff but was all over the Wesley kid's stuff."

"Maybe he thought it was Harry's bed." rogue said with a shrug.

"No," Logan said shaking his head. "He had to know, he was looking for something, I just don't know what it is."

"But wha' could de red head have dat he would want?" Remy questioned to no one in particular.

Rogue for the most part was confused about the whole thing. She had not even thought that Wesley would factor into this, him or his family had had nothing to do with any of this. "Well Ah'll find out what the hell is goin' on in the mornin' one way or another." She said.

"So wha' do we tell de magic folk?" Gambit asked.

Logan stood thinking for a second. "We tell them I'm tracking him and that we are increasing security. We are going to need to keep someone on Potter at all times now. He already knows that Black is after him so it won't come as much of a shock. We also need to search the castle-" Logan said but was cut off by the voices on the other side of the door.

The feast was over and the students were returning to their dorms. Rogue heard the voice of the older Wesley as he made his way through the crowd.

"Let me through, please. What's the hold up here? You can't all have forgotten the password- excuse me- I'm head boy-" he exclaimed but rogue guessed the rest of the words were forgotten. He had seen the painting without the fat lady slashed to ribbons.

"Somebody get Professor Dumbledore, quick!" he said in a sharp authoritative voice.

Rogue chose at that moment to make her appearance. She pushed the frame open and was hit by at least twelve different spells. Of course none of them did anything. Rogue folded her arms over her chest and looked up at the crowd. "Oh yeah, yall are a bunch of bad asses." She drawled sarcastically.

"What's happened here?" Percy demanded.

Rogue ignored him and lifted a few feet into the air so she could see everyone. She saw Kitty and Piotr not far from Potter. "Now listen," she started gaining everyone's attention. "Ah need all o' yall ta go right back ta the Great Hall." she commanded. No one moved and the head boy crossed his arms over his chest and stood glaring up at her. She summoned her inner Logan, "NOW!" she commanded that would have had any five star general running to do as she ordered.

The command had the desired effect as everyone turned on their heels and left. She floated back down to the ground and saw Dumbledore rushing toward her; he bypassed her to get a better look the portrait. He looked at her "When?" he asked her simply.

"Ah just got here, Logan's tracking him and Remy is workin' on tighter security. We have Kitty and Piotr on Potter, ready to evacuate should the need arise." She informed him. "We sent the Gryffindor's back ta the great hall, ah think it would be best if we emptied all the other houses too."

He nodded and looked over her shoulder. Rogue turned to see Professors McGonagall, Lupin, and Snape hurrying toward them.

"We need to find her," said Dumbledore. "Professor McGonagall, please go to Mr. Filch at once and tell him to search every painting in the castle for the Fat Lady."

"You'll be lucky!" said a cackling voice.

It was Peeves the Poltergeist, bobbing over the crowd and looking delighted, as he always did, at the sight of wreckage or worry.

What do you mean, Peeves?" said Dumbledore calmly, and Peeves's grin faded a little. He didn't dare taunt Dumbledore.

Instead he adopted an oily voice that was no better than his cackle. "Ashamed, you're Headship, sir. Doesn't want to be seen. She's a horrible mess. Saw her running through the landscape up on the fourth floor, sir, dodging between the trees. Crying something dreadful," he said happily. "Poor thing," he added unconvincingly.

"Did she say who did it?" said Dumbledore quietly.

"Oh yes, Professorhead," said Peeves, with the air of one cradling a large bombshell in his arms. "He got very angry when she wouldn't let him in, you see." Peeves flipped over and grinned at Dumbledore from between his own legs. "Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black."

Dumbledore nodded and McGonagall ran off in search of the painted woman. Rogue just knew it was going to be a long night as Snape suddenly turned on her. "And where were the mutants during this attack?" he asked snidely.

Rogue was starting to lose her patience with this man. "Ah was watchin' over Potter and the rest of the student body with Kitty while the other three were patrolling the castle an' the grounds. Logan caught his scent comin' from the dark forest and headin' ta the castle but Black was already long gone by the time he made it here." The lie slipped easily off her tongue.

"We were sent here ta protect Potter, now get off our backs an' let us do our job." She said.

Snape for the most part looked startled by her outburst. But he recovered quickly; he pressed his lips together and turned to Dumbledore for instruction. He was then ordered to clear out his house before beginning the search for Black.

Logan had returned from the forest shortly after midnight right after the castle had been declared Black-free. Rogue was currently getting ready for her daily run. But this morning would be a little different than the others today she would find out what the fuck was going on. She had stopped by the kitchen on her way out to pick up her normal doggie bag of scrambled eggs and sausage.

She was about to walk out the great doors when a certain demon eyed Cajun stopped her. "Can ah help you?" she asked while cocking one hip out.

"Oui," he said with a cocky smirk. "but dats no' why Ah'm here." He said and rogue couldn't help but smirk. He was getting to her against her will.

"Then why are ya here?" she asked him.

"Ta make sure ya careful." He said as he wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her closer.

Rogue tensed, this wasn't like their usual playful banter, this was a serious side of Remy and it was making her uncomfortable. "Ah will." She told him trying to look anywhere but his eyes. She wasn't sure why she was still in his embrace but she couldn't bring herself to move.

He took his gloved finger and lifted her chin so her eyes met his. "Ya worry me chere. Stay safe so dis Cajun don' gotta be a murderer too." He said and then bent down and placed a kiss on the top of her head.

She didn't know what to say as she moved out of his arms. She continued walking to the door and turned her head to look back at him he was staring after her and rogue suddenly felt her blood boil. He was staring at her ass again!

"Ah'm gonna pluck those eyes right outta their sockets one day Cajun." She threatened before continuing out of the castle. She could practically feel his smirk as his eyes returned to her ass. Sometimes she really hated him.

It didn't take her long to get to the spot by the lake and there he sat waiting patiently by the bank. He didn't seem particularly agitated but then again it was hard to get a read on a dog even if he was human. She took a seat next to him and opened up the bag and placed its contents on top for him to eat. He greedily dug in and rogue wondered where to start.

"Ya know Ah'm thinkin' ya need a name." she said as she rubbed behind his ears, her hand close to the scruff of his neck in case he tried to bolt. "How about Sirius Black?"

He froze and rogue knew she had him. "Ah've known it was ya for awhile now, my momma's a shape-shifter so ah know the signs." She explained. "What ah don't know is why you were in Potter's dormitory last night but all over Wesley's stuff."

The animal slowly turned its head to face her. "Ya must know we are mutants by now, the short grumpy one has heightened smell an' hearin' as well as a healin' factor." She explained.

The dog sighed and started to transform into the man he truly was. He stood tall and rogue thought he might try to run again but instead he sat down next to her. Still after weeks of her sneaking him food he looked thin and unhealthy. His hair was wild and tangled his skin shallow and pale. He looked like a man who had just escaped prison and was on the run.

"Ya wanna tell me about it?" she asked. He sighed and was quiet for a few moments. "My mutant ability is ta drain the life outta whoever ah touch, ah take their powers, abilities an' memories. Either way Ah'm gonna know what happened so unless ya want me ta lay ya out start talkin'."

He looked truly startled at this. "Well I guess it all started when we found out Voldemort was after James." He started and rubbed a hand through his hair. "Dumbledore had ordered him to go into hiding with Lily and Harry, said he needed a secret keeper had even offered to be it himself.

"But James," he said with a distant smile. "Wouldn't have any more burden placed on his shoulders. Told him that I would be the secret keeper, I tried to get him to change his mind. I mean what if Voldemort got his location out of me? I could never live with myself.

"But James had faith in me, too much faith if you ask me. We were all set for the charm when I had the brilliant idea that Peter should be the secret keeper. No one would ever suspect that rat. The deatheaters would come after me not him." Black was in his own little world now, reliving the memory.

"I had suspected for some time that Remus might be Voldemort's spy, but low and behold it was Peter." He said the name with such disgust that rogue couldn't help but shiver. "The second I heard the news I rushed to the scene. Their house was in ruins and I didn't know what to do. But luckily Hagrid was there with Harry craddeled in his arms. He had a terribly scar on his forehead from the curse.

"I told Hagrid to give him to me; after all I am his Godfather." Rogue was surprised at this. Lupin had said that Black and James were like brother, rogue just didn't realize how close that was.

"But he said he had orders from Dumbledore, Harry had to go to live with Lily's sister." He snorted. "A muggel who hated her, James and Harry. I should have kept my temper, gone somewhere to cool off. But no I gave my flying motorcycle to Hagrid and went off to find that traitor.

"I finally cornered him on some muggel street; all I could think about was killing him. He was shouting something or other, later I found out he was accusing me of betraying Lily and James. The bastard was setting me up. As soon as I tried to kill him he transformed in to the rat that he is and escaped.

"For the last twelve years I had believed I had killed him. I thought it was worth being in Azkaban for life if I had killed him, but then I saw this." He said and pulled a tattered and folded piece of paper out of his pants pocket.

He handed it over to rogue who opened it. It was a newspaper clipping of the Wesley family, the whole lot of them. They were waving from what looked to be Egypt. And there on Potter's friend shoulder sat a rat. She looked back up to Black who was glaring at the picture. "Is this who ah think it is?" she asked.

He nodded. "I knew it was him from the moment I saw the picture. Me, James and Peter had learned to become Animagus in school." He explained, not taking his hardened eyes from the picture. "I must have seen him transform a hundred times, I knew all the markings. And then I saw his paw, again I was told later that the largest part of him they had found had been his finger. And then what do I see in the picture, a rat missing a finger."

Rogue looked down and sure enough his left paw was missing a digit. "Now everything makes sense." She said. "Ah knew somethin' wasn't right from the moment we got here."

"You're the only one then; everyone else thinks I'm guilty." He said sullenly. "The only friend I had left probably hates me."

Rogue decided not to comment on that. "Look Ah'm gonna help ya out, but ya can't go breakin' into the castle again. Got it?" she asked.

He looked up again startled. "Really? How can you help me?"

"Ah dunno yet, just keep meetin' me out here. Ah'm gonna have ta run all this by Logan first." She said. She already had plans forming in her head of ways to trap Pettigrew.

"The short hairy guy?" he asked and she nodded. "Do you think he'll believe me?"

"If ah say so then yeah he will. He could have tracked ya down last night but didn't, he knew somethin' wasn't addin' up either."

Black nodded and took a bite of sausage. "Who's the man with brown hair and the weird eyes who runs with you sometimes?" he asked.

Rogue didn't know why but she had to force away a blush. "Oh that's Remy, his power is ta kinetically charge any object and make it explode." She said.

He turned to her and gave her a wolfish smile. "He likes you."

Rogue through her head back and groaned. "Yeah, yeah ah can't seem ta get rid of him." she said. She liked talking to Black; he was growing on her as fast, mush like Remus had. After she talked to Logan she would need to talk to Dumbledore, he would be a tremendous help.

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