"No," Rogue said looking Kitty straight in her face. Kitty was trying to get Rogue in a pink shirt that looked more like it should be in the children's isle. They had been to 12 different stores so far. Or was it 14, Rogue had lost count. Her feet hurt and she just wanted to go home.
"Told you it wasn't happing 貓咪," Ren said to kitty without looking at her. Kitty looked at Ren in surprise.
"What did you just call me?" Kitty said, Ren looked at her over her shoulder.
"I called you Kitty, why are you looking at me like that?" Ren asked, turning around and facing her fully. Wanda, Sophia, and Jazmine were on the other side of the store looking at shoes and handbags.
"Because you like said it in a like weird langue," Ren narrowed her eyes.
"I didn't realize my mother's native tongue was so weird to you," Ren said in a low tone. Her eye's meant trouble. Rogue stepped in between the two mutants. The tension Ren was giving off worried her, Rouge quickly did a mental calendar to see what date it was. January 17. Damn it, Rogue swore in her head.
"Ren, calm down, she didn't mean anythin by it." Rogue said to her.
"Like what did I say wrong?" Kitty asked.
"Nothin, Kitty."
"What's going on over here?" Rogue took her eyes away from the furious girl in front of her to see the other woman walking over to them with worry expressions.
"You have something against Chinese people Katherine?" Ren hissed. Rogue heard Jaz swear under her breath. Rogue nodded.
"Like NO!" Kitty said offended.
"Rene, she didn't mean anythin by it, so just calm down. She wasn't disrespectin your mother in anyway. She was just askin a question. So chill." Rogue ordered the girl. Ren stepped till she was right in Rouge's face.
"Who the hell do you think you're talking too? Don't think that just because you're such a badass that I won't kick your ass." Ren snarled. Rogue lifted an eyebrow. Challenging Ren to carry out her threat. Rogue knew that she shouldn't be egging the girl on right now, but the Alpha in her demanded that she not back down from the girl. To beat her in submission if need be.
"Go ahead and try it, Cub. Ya want to fight. Okay then, but ya aren't going to take it out on Kitty. She didn't do anythin to ya."
"Okay that's enough." Sophia said. One moment they were in the store, the next they were in the Danger Room.
"Now before you two beat the shit out of each other, explain."
Kitty them the whole thing, while Rogue and Ren started to circul each other.
"You can't be serious! This is why she's so pissed?" Wanda said astonished.
"You guys don't understand, Ren's half Chinese, her mother's side. And tomorrow's the-" Jaz started, but Ren throw one of her psionic black blades at her, right at her face. Jaz stopped the blade just inches from her face. She stepped aside and let the blade fly passed her. Glaring at Ren. Jaz's power was time manipulation. She could stop it, or move forward a few minutes, maybe even a few hours if she pushed herself hard enough.
"I don't give a damn how mad or in pain you're in, try that shit again, and I'll kick your little ass. Got me?" She snapped at her.
"You don't know shit! Jazmine, you either Anna Marie! You didn't see your mother murdered in front of you! You didn't see your father, torture and rape her as a child. And do you wanna know why he did it?! Because she was going to take me away from him and go back to China where she knew he couldn't touch me! You didn't have to live through the horror of my childhood so don't you dare tell me what to do! You don't know what it was like in that house! Strict rules so strict that if you even disobeyed one fucking rule, you'd be beaten and starved, nearly to death. You didn't give your virginity forcefully stolen away from you when you stayed a minute over curfew! You didn't suffer the way I had to! You-"Rogue cut across the room so quick no one saw her move till she backhanded Ren so hard she fell on the floor. The other girl looked up at her with shock and fear.
And the look was giving Ren she had a right to fear her. She looked about ready to kill her. The angry in Rogue's eyes could- no would set her on fire. She had only seen the part of Rogue when she was about to lose control of her Devil like temper. She had once killed an entire group of mutant haters. And she wasn't quick and easy about it, oh no, she was cruel and slow. Dragging their deaths on as long as she wanted so she could watch them suffer. Begging her for the sweet realize of death. Back then, Rogue had many names, Deadly Black Widow, She Devil, Angel of Death, or her favorite, War, after one of the four Horsemen of Apocalypse. Once when Ren asked Rogue why she would rather be called War instead of Death, the other girl answered so calmly and easily- like it was just an everyday kind of question.
"Because War kills more people than Death," Ren feared the girls sanity ever since. And right now, that- not so sane person was staring down at her. Ren backed away from the other girl as fast as she could while still on the floor. But Rogue wasn't going to let her escape that easily. Oh no, no, no. She followed Ren till she trapped herself on the wall. Rogue down at her.
"Ah'm tired of hearin' ya whine about ya childhood. How damn hard it was. Ya think ya are the only one who had a fucked up childhood. Or life before Ah found ya? Trust meh ya ain't. Not by a long shot. Do ya hear them complainin' bout it? "Boo hoo hoo, meh childhood was just so sad and painful," No! They suck it the fuck up and get over it. And ya think ya had it worse? Ya didn't. Ya wanna take a walk in my shoes and see what Hell Ah lived? Because trust meh, ya life will look like some spoiled little rich's compared ta mehin. Ya arent' the only one in here that had a fucked up childhood. Meh Mamma did, Wanda did, Jazmine did, hell even Kitty's wasn't all peaches in cream. Everyone in this whole damn school as a fucked up past, some worse than others. And they don't go around threatin ta kill they friends neither! So don't think ya the only one, damnit. Don't think ya the only one who suffered. Just thank Gawd that ya able ta see another day with the man ya love. Every day may not be all sunshine and rainbows. But ya have each other and friends who will stand by ya side no matter what. So stop through this damn pity parties for yaself. It's pathetic. And ya ain't pathetic."
Ren couldn't stop the next words that came out of her mouth. Though after seeing the hurt look on her best friend's face, she wish she had.
"Just like Ace?" Without warning, Rogue changed her fingernails into long knives and plunged them into Ren's chest. Dead between her breasts, the other women in the room screamed in horror as the blades made contact. No one moved. No one spoke, no one breathed as they watched the two of them. But they were ready to strike if Rogue had made a move to kill Ren.
Ren screamed in pain as the searing white hot pain hit her. She couldn't breathe and she began to cough up blood. Using her other hands, Rogue pointed her bladed tipped pointy finger at Ren's throat. Her words were low and clear. A dark promise laced with poison seeped into her words like a Black Moomba's poison as she spoke them.
"Say his name again, and friend or not. Ah will kill ya." Then Rogue tore the knives out of Ren, changed her nails back, flicked the blood of her hand, and disappeared.
Rogue sat in front of the fire in one of the comfoters in the second living room. It was raining outside. Heavily in fact. She didn't even move as she heard the front door open and shut. Warren walked right into the second living room where he knew his wife would be. She loved to look at the fire as it crackled and hissed, when it rained. He'd rushed home when the Professor told him about what happened in the DR and told him to check on Rogue. Rogue didn't even look at him as he walked in. Just kept staring at the fire, he walked up to her and kneeled on one knee and too her hand. She didn't so much as blink.
"Rogue," No answer.
"Rogue?" Silence.
"Damn it Anna! Say something." Warren pleaded. He didn't want her to go back in relapse again. He couldn't bear to see her not sleep, not eating, not bathing, just sitting in that damn room. Staring at everything, yet nothing at all. He would not let her go back to that dark time.
"Yes, Warren?" Her voice was hollow and empty, Warren flinched.
"You have to snap out of it, Rogue! Do you hear me? I'm not letting you go to that dark place again. Not again. You have to come back to the present now Anna do you hear me?" Warren pleaded. Slowly she turned her head to him, her once green emerald eyes were filled with life. Now, they were nothing but hollow shells of their former glory.
"You don't understand." Warren stood up and glared down at her. Angered by her words. Didn't understand? How could she say that? It hit him almost as bad as it hit her.
"How dare you say that?! You don't think I felt something when-" Rogue stood up suddenly, and punched him hard enough to send him flying away from her. She toward over him, the fire shadowed half of her, making her look terrifying, lightening flashed.
"Ya don't understand the pain Ah went through. Ya only felt a mere fraction of meh pain." Rogue said before she stormed out into the wild thunderstorm. A loud thunderclap shook the sky when she slammed the door shut and disappeared into the night. Warren sat there for a moment, stunned. But quickly got over it and quickly called the Professor. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't fly out in a storm like this. His wings weren't strong enough, and to even do it was suicidal.
While the other's checked on Ren, Jaz ran out of the DR and head straight for the only person she could think of that could help Rogue in a time like this. She just prayed that he was in his room tonight. Jaz pounded on the door hard enough to break the damn thing down. When suddenly the door swung open and Jaz almost fell inside.
"Avez-vous perdu votre esprit, ce qui est sacrément importante-" Jaz cut the man off.
"Rogue's in trouble, and she needs your help!" Jaz snapped.