"So what are you going to do?" Jaz asked Rogue as she can to stand beside her on her balcony.

"Nothin'," Rogue said simply as she leaned against the rail, looking up at the sky.

"Excuse me?"

"Ya heard meh, nothin',"

"Why not?"

"Wha' is there ta do? Ah told him Ah was pregnant when he left meh, told him Ah looked for him, and that our son had died hours after his birth. There ain't nothin' more ta say," Jaz popped her in the back of her head, she glared at her.

"Don't be stupid, Anna. You just don't say stuff like that and think that things will go back to the way they use too." Jaz said.

"They don' have a choice. If Ah were single then maybe. But Ah'm not, Ah'm a married woman."

Jaz looked at her. "I noticed you didn't say happily married woman…" Rogue rolled her eyes.

"Don' even try ta start somethin'. Ah don' want ta hear it."

"I'm not starting anything. I'm just saying that Mr. Richy Rich has been keeping you in that house a lot lately, going with you almost everywhere, it's almost like he's smothering you," Rogue stood.

"Instead of worryin' bout meh marriage, why don' ya go worry bout someone elses."

"How are your parents' doing?" Jaz asked suddenly. Rogue looked away from her. Things were even getting worse with her parents and Rogue couldn't help but feel that it was all her fault. Their arguing had stated when Rogue and Warren had announced that they were getting married. And it only got worse when Remy showed back up. Rogue sighed.

"Still fightin', Ah'm worried about them. Ah can't help but feel that Ah'm sort of the cause." Jaz stood up and put her arm around her best friend.

"Hey don't feel that way; I'm sure they're just going through a rough patch. We all do." Rogue just nodded.

"So have you talked to Ren today?" Rogue sighed again. It had been a couple of days since the incident in the Danger Room and Ren was avoiding Rogue as much as possible. But it wasn't like Rogue was going out of her way to see her either.

"Nope." Rogue said, popping the "p".

Now it was Jaz's turn to sigh. "You guys have got to work this out. You don't want to leave something like this on a bad note."

"Ah know, Ah know. Ya know Cam's still givin meh dirty looks though righ'." Jaz snorted.

"You plunged knives into his wife's chest. Any happily married man would still be pissed off at you. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to kill you yet."

Rogue shrugged. "He can try."

"You need to apologize."

"But-" Rogue started to protest, but Jaz wasn't having any of it.

"Yes I know what she said was wrong. But what you did was worse. You stabbed one of your own best friends in the chest because she said your deceased child's name! That was uncalled for. Sure you could have hit her. But you didn't. Sure you missed all the arteries that could have killed her, but it was still wrong. So stop being such a baby and go apologize already." Jaz snapped. Rogue grunted in response. She knew what she had to do; she just didn't want to do it.

Instead of enduring the heavy uncomfortable silence, Rogue grabbed the edge of the rail and back flipped off it and landed perfectly on her feet.

"Show off!" Jaz yelled down at her before she too jumped off the balcony rail, landing on her feet like a cat. Rogue laughed, flipped her off and headed back inside. She had finally found Ren inside the kitchen making her something to eat. Rogue looked at Ren for a moment, not sure what to say.

How about sorry? Ula asked smartly.

I don't need your attitude. Rogue said. Geeze, she's been takin after meh.

"Ren… Ah'm sorry. What Ah did ta ya was wrong, and Ah was way out of line. Ah hope that ya can forgive meh." Rogue said as she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, a sign that she was nervous.

Ren sighed. Put down what she was holding and gave Rogue a big hug.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have acted like a child. And I had no right to mention your son. I hope you can forgive me." Rogue hugged her back tightly.

"Forgiven." Ren nodded.

"So, have you talked to Remy yet?" Ren said as she they sat at the island eating lunch. Rogue sighed.

"Ah wish ya and Jaz would get off that already, there's nothin ta say."

"Rogue how can you say that? You two-"

"Are over. And no matter what, that wont change." Rogue said stubbornly.

"You sound like you want it to."

"Ah love my husband." Rogue snapped.

"Yeah, I get that. But are you happy with him. The Rogue I know wouldn't have given up being a x-man. No matter what anyone said. And you loved teaching, anyone could see that. And I know you and Warren's dad don't get along, nor do you get along with his step mom. Hell I remember you saying that you were going to kill them one day. And you didn't look like you were kidding either. Warren's changed you. And it's not a good kind of change. I see you two when you fight around here. You just give up after a while. That's not you. Not the girl saved all our asses and became best friends with. But what I want to know, where did she go?"

Rogue looked at Ren for a moment, not sure what to say. Is that true? Did she really just stop trying to fight Warren? Ren was right, Rogue found herself fighting less and less with him and just giving up and doing it instead of standing her ground. This was THE ROGUE. No this was Anna, Cody's Anna. The Anna that just went along with it, just for the sake of not having to argue; Rogue sighed.

"Ah don't know. Ah guess it's just somethin' Ah've been doin without realizing it. And speaking of Warren's parents, Ah'm goin ta a dinner party tanight. Ya wanna come, Ah forgot ta ask Jaz if she and Jay wanna come, and Ah also have ta ask, Kitty if she and Pete wanna come, and then Wanda and Damon ta." Rogue said, switching topics. Ren could have called her out on her change of topics, but instead decided to let it go.

"Yeah, sure, I'll tell Cam when I see him." Rogue nodded and left the room. Ren watched after her with a deep frown on her face. She was very worried about Rogue.

"Why are they here again?" Warren asked as he and Rogue got out of the car. Rogue looked back to see her tigers doing the same.

"Because if Ah got to put up with ya mutant hatin friends and family, Ah'm gonna at least have a little fun with meh friends." Rogue said harshly. Rogue knew her husband's family and her father-in-law's were mutant hatters without even really knowing them. Rogue could just tell by the looks of disgust she got from them. Warren even had the nerve to tell her to dye the rest of her hair brown, which she bitch slapped him for. Telling him that she was proud to be a mutant and that he was just have to live with that fact that she wouldn't be changing her mind.

"Come on, let's get this over with." Rogue said heading toward her friends.

The night started out like any other, laughing, dancing, and drinking, Rogue was actually having fun, something she never really did at these parties. But her friends made it bareable, that is, until dinner came around.

"So are your little friends here mutant's too." Warren's step-mother, or as Rogue liked to call her 'Queen Hoe' sneeringly asked. Rogue looked up at her, tilted her head slightly.

"Ask them, there sittin' right there."

"The word I believe you're looking for is 'seating' my dear." One of her father-in-law's friends said. Rogue cut her eyes at the woman. She gripped her knife a little tighter. Luckily Kitty came to the rescue and probably saved the woman's life.

"Like yes we like are. And we're proud to be mutants."

"Being a mutant isn't something you should be ashamed of." Jaz said calmly as her eyes flicked over to Warren.

"Why should you be proud of being a freak?" Warren's father asked.

"You do realize that we get the "freak" gene from our father's don't you?" Damon said with cold eyes.

"Besides I don't know why you hate us so much, we do save all your lives countless times." Wanda said.

"I believe that woman shouldn't be fighting at all. Your wives. Your duties are with keeping the house clean, cooking dinner of your husband, and making sure that your husband has everything he needs." Queen Hoe said. (AN: LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT CRAP) Kitty, Wanda, Ren, Jaz, and Rogue froze in place. But really pushed them over the edge was when she added.

"You four young ladies should learn that from your friend Rogue. Even though she is a mutant, she knows that her place behind her husband. Even though she came up from the backwoods of Mississippi, even a redneck such as she, understands that." Rogue looked over at Warren, and so did the other Tigers. Waiting for him to respond. But he didn't, he just sat there, like he didn't hear a damn thing.

"Ya just gonna let her say that shit bout meh?" Warren just sat there.

Rogue turned her furious gaze way from her husband to his step-mother.

"Look here ya lil golddiggin' hoe. ONE: Don't mistake meh for some submissive bitch that's just gonna lay down at take that kind of shit. TWO: Ya damn right Ah'm proud ta be a mutant, and meh place, isn't behind meh husband, its beside him. Even when he's wrong. THREE: Ya damn right Ah came from Mississippi, Ah'm a riva rat and fuckin proud of it. Just because Ah came from Mississippi don't make meh no redneck, Ah happen ta have all meh teeth, and know how ta act, unlike ya. FOUR: Ah know what I meant ya little bitch so don't try and correct meh speech. And FIVE: All ya, mutant hattin, golddin', bastards can… KISS MEH MONKEY!" Rogue shouted at stood, sending her chair flying back. The room looked at her in shock, except her friends who were laughing their asses off.

"Rogue what the hell is wrong with you? You can't take to my mother that way!" Warren snapped. Glaring at her. Rogue turned and glared right back.

"Well, lookie here. Meh husband has a fuckin tongue now. Provo." Rogue said as she began walking to the door. On her way out she heard someone ask, "monkey?" Rogue turned. And looked at everyone and said,

"Meh pussy, meh cookie, meh TWAT!" Rouge said giving them a Michael Jackson move. She could hear her friends howling with laugher as she stormed out the door. As she got into her car with a slam, Warren ran and stood in front of the car. He was livid.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? How the hell do you think I'm going to get home?" Rogue looked at Warren like he was stupid. Because let's face it. In that moment he was.

"Warren, ya at ya parent's house, full of unused cars that ya Daddy doesn't use, Drives just waitin ta take ya anywhere ya wanna go, and ya have fuckin' wings. Find a way home, Dumbass!" Rogue said as she threw the car into revisers and speed of. Leaving the vale laughing his ass off at her and her husband seriously pissed off.