Rogue really just wanted to kill herself. She had just left Dumbledore's office and was walking toward her room with Remy in tow. Albus had wanted her and Remy to take the day off on Sunday. He had said it had already been cleared with Logan. Did she really look that over worked? She just wanted to kill herself sometimes.

"So chere wha' should we do?" he asked her.

"We should stay apart." She snapped at him. As soon as they left Dumbledore's office Remy had begun to plan their day out. Rogue had tried in vain to get him to leave her alone but to no avail.

He slung his arm around her shoulders. "Come on Cherie." He pleaded and rogue was amazed he could still manage to sound cocky. "Jus' give me a chance." he asked her.

"Why?" she asked exasperated. "Nothin' can happen; it'll never get further than dating."

"How do ya know? Have ya ever tried?" he asked her.

"No cause ah know what happens when ah get close ta people." She was getting really tired of having this argument with him over and over again.

Remy pulled her closer. "Ah'm no' Cody an' Ah'm no' Carol. Ya aint gonna hurt me." He said trying to reassure her but rogue wasn't having any of it.

She pulled herself out from under his arm. "Please just stop. Ah always hurt people close ta me, it's inevitable." She said before turning and leaving him standing in the hall.

Rogue hated it when people tried to get close to her. She was fine just being friends with people but when they tried to get closer to her that's when things went downhill. Logan was really the only one she let get close and that was only because he was just like her and distanced him from people too. But Remy was pushing her limits until she gave up and then he started pushing again.

She entered her room and closed the door behind her. She had to hurry and find dry clothes for tonight's practice most of her clothes were wet and beginning to mildew. She began shuffling through her drawers and eventually came across a sweater and jeans. She pulled out a think pair of socks and her CAT boots. She found her favorite pair of waterproof, insulated gloves and pulled them on.

Now off to the Gryffindor common room. She had decided that today she was going to get the Granger girl to put a water repellent spell on her. She walked up the stairs and down the hall to where the painting of Sir Caddagon hung. She missed the fat lady; this painting took the job too seriously.

"Ah oh, Fair Lady!" he called and rogue rolled her eyes, here it goes. "I'll be needing the password young Lass." He requested.

"Don Quixote is a git." She said.

"Alas!" he exclaimed. "How am I to deny you lass when you are such a good judge of character?" He exclaimed and the frame swung open.

Rogue rolled her eyes and stepped into the common room. She looked around and saw the Wesley kid first, his bright red hair only second to that of Pyro. Next to him with her face buried in a book was Granger. Rogue didn't see any sign of Potter yet so he must still be up in his room. She made her way over to the duo who looked up at her startled.

"Hi," she said and took a seat in the arm chair next to her.

Granger paused, "Hi."

"Listen, ah was wonderin' if ah could get ya ta place a water resistant spell on me. Ya think ya could do that for me." Rogue asked her politely.

"Oh!" she seemed surprised by her request. "Of course." She said and stood up. She pulled out her wand. "Impervius." She said.

Rogue felt sudden warmth spread all over her body. "Thanks sugar." She said as Granger sat back down.

"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is your power?" she asked timidly.

Rogue smiled, she was getting used to the fact that witches and wizards were fascinated with her. "My power is ta absorb the powers, abilities and memories of anyone ah touch through skin ta skin contact." She explained.

"So you take others powers away?" Wesley asked appalled.

"No, it's like ah copy them. See when ah touch someone ah take a part of their mind and it stays in my mind. Their powers fade after a little while unless ah hold on too long then ah keep them permantly. Ah always keep their memories and their abilities come back at random times, like one mornin' ah woke up and could only speak polish." She explained.

"That's wicked." Ron said.

Rogue smiled and looked up to see that the Wesley twins were coming over to join the group. "Oy, are you here to escort our little Harry to the quidditch field again?" one of the twins asked.

"Yep." She said. She liked the two they reminded her of her brother Kurt and Bobby, one of the younger x-men.

Just then harry walked down the stairs in his practice uniform. He looked around at the group. "Ready?" he asked.

Rogue stood up and followed him to the exit with Fred and George. It didn't take long to get to the field. Harry for the most part liked to ignore her and pretend she wasn't there, rogue was okay with this. What she dreaded was when Fred and George decided to use every pick up line they could think of on her.

"Did it hurt?" Fred asked her as they went out the great doors.

Rogue resisted the urge to groan. "Did what hurt?" she asked against her better judgment.

"When you fell from heaven." He said smugly.

Rogue turned to him. "About as much as when they kicked ya outta hell." She said sweetly making the boys laugh.

This continued until they parted ways at the locker room. Rogue then took her place in the stands close to the locker room just like every other day. Only today was different, Sirius Black was waiting for her. She smiled at the big black dog who looked healthier then when she first met hm. And in his own doggie way he grinned back.

"Come to watch Harry?" she asked him.

He nodded his head and stood up as Potter flew out of the locker room at top speeds. Rogue patted the dogs head to calm him. "Don't worry, he'll be fine an' if he does fall Ah'll catch him." she said trying to reassure him.

But like a worried parent watching his child go off on his first day of school, it did nothing to ease his worries. Rogue laughed inwardly as she watched potter zoom around.

"So Dumbledore seems ta think ah need a break and he also decided that Remy needs one too. Ah think he's tryin' ta set us up." she told Sirius. "Have ya ever known him ta do that?" she asked after a moment.

Sirius tore his attention away from Potter to look at her and she could have sworn that he gave her a wolfish grin. "And how did that turn out?" she asked taking the hint that Dumbledore indeed liked to play matchmaker.

Sirius turned his head back to Potter and nodded at him. "Ya kiddin'?" rogue asked as her face deadpanned. Sirius shook his head no and rogue groaned. "Course not, what was ah thinkin'?" she asked sarcastically to herself. The man in the dog's body beside her started to shake with laughter.

"Ya know, ah don't mean ta be rude or anything," rogue started after a few minutes of silence. "But ya need a bath."

The dog snorted. "Just cause ya an escaped convict is no reason ta neglect ya hygiene." She said with a smirk.

It was then she decided that that's what she and Remy would do Sunday. Get him some decent clothes and toiletries and he would be like a new man, almost. "Do ya know what size clothes ya wear?" she asked him.

He did a movement with his shoulders and rogue assumed he shrugged. "Well tomorrow for breakfast ya can transform for me an' ah can get an idea." She said.

He nodded and returned his full attention to the witches and wizards flying over head. Rogue however began planning on what all he would need to get properly cleaned up. he would of course need soap a razor and deodorant. She could probably get Remy to pick that stuff up. after all he would know more about what a man needs. She would get him cloths and a store of food, because breakfast just wasn't enough.

Her thoughts then drifted to Pettigrew, the rat. The more she hung out with Sirius the more she grew to hate the foul little man. Maybe Remy was right and she was spending too much time with him. but she couldn't help it, he was almost like Logan only with a larger vocabulary. Rogue decided that she needed to clear his name, sure he had meant to kill Pettigrew but he hadn't so technically he was innocent. Rogue wondered if double jeopardy applied in the Wizarding world as it did in the muggel world.

It wasn't much longer until the Gryffindor quidditch team finally landed. Rogue bid adieu to Sirius as she floated down to meet Potter and the twins.

"Back so soon?" one of the twins asked. Tomorrow she would start marking them so she could tell the difference. "I knew you couldn't resist me." He said puffing out his chest.

"Oh yeah." Rogue said sarcastically but smiled despite herself. "Actually ya two remind me of my brother." She said with a sneaky smile.

"You have a brother." Potter blurted out as he spoke to her for the first time.

"Yep, he's blue an' furry with a tail." She explained. "He's a teleporter an' loves ta play jokes on people."

"How do you like that Gorge." The twin she assumed to be Fred said to his brother. "We remind her of her furry blue brother."

"Maybe we should set our eyes for someone who doesn't have a brother to compare us to." The other twin said. both boys stuck their noses in the air before walking back to the castle.

Rogue chuckled as the two left and turned to Potter who had a grin on his face. "Well its nice ta finally hear ya talk ta me." Rogue said as the two made their own way back to the castle.

"Yeah," he said a little nervously. "Sorry about that, it was just that you seemed to be my assigned babysitter." He admitted.

"Don't think o' me as a babysitter, Ah'm more like a body guard." She said hoping he would get the point.

"I don't need protection, I can take care of myself." He said a little harshly, probably more than he had meant. "I have fought off attackers before."

"Yes a Basilisk and Qurill." She said. "Now don't get me wrong they are pretty powerful opponents." She said so he wouldn't fly off the handle. "It's just Ah've had more experience, Ah've fought against Magneto, Mr. Sinister and did ya know Ah'm the one who defeated Apocalypse?" she asked him.

"No I didn't know that, we are supposed to be studying about him next month." He said.

"Ah know, Binns has asked me ta come speak for the classes." She told him and he could tell she wasn't looking forward to it. "When ah was your age ah would have done the same thing." But of course what teenager would have wanted a babysitter.

"Do you know what it's like to be this, hero, and always have people after you?" he asked, sure that she would say no.

"Yeah, ah do. Think about it sugar, my power is ta absorb anyone ah touch. Ah can have any power ah want plus the memories of whoever ah touch. Ah'm always havin' ta fight of some megalomaniac." She told him as he went pink from assuming too much. "When ah was yo' age ah had run away an' was on the road for three years till ah met Logan at a bar in Canada.

"Why do ya think ah call myself rogue?" she asked him but he had no answer. "Ah have ta push everyone away from me, but it's made me strong an' independent. O' course ah also have trust problems because o' it." she added as an afterthought.

They remained in a silence the rest of the journey back to the Gryffindor tower. Rogue had suspected that he had resented her and the others for following him around. She had resented it when the professor had insisted she have someone with her at all times after she had lost control. At least she didn't follow him to the bathroom like the x-men had done to her. one slip in control and she was a child who needed constant supervision. She still occasionally caught Scott or Jean checking up on her, even going so far as to make sure she was still in her bed in the middle of the night.

Rogue and Potter parted ways when they reached the portrait hole, harry to his dormitory, rogue to her own room. She wanted to head to bed early tonight so she could get up early and meet Sirius. She planned on bringing him an orange so he wouldn't get scurvy. She entered her room and stripped down. The spell Granger had cast worked wonders, she was so much warmer then she had been the last couple of nights. Mostly because she wasn't soaked head to toe. She crawled into bed and drifted off to sleep hoping that maybe tonight the nightmares wouldn't come.

A/N

Sorry I had a bit of writers block on this one but keep reviewing it helps