A/N: Okay so this is set when the cure is being created sort of thing but just for the sake of my story Jean,Scott and the Professor are already dead. Okay this isn't a great chapter either but i needed to get them to hang out so the befriending thing could work it's way in. I have reviewed and edited chapter 4 so Tabitha's powers have been changed to be something more suitable, if you read the first versions then you may want to scan through that chapter again to find out what Tabitha's revised powers are. Enjoy guys.
The world beyond her window was a sun-kissed world, showered in early morning dewdrops that glisten with all their elegance in the new day sun. She knew the day that had come was a beautiful the kind to lay by the pool in but her mutation disallowed this from happening for her. Her skin remained covered though the heat of the new day tried to tempt her out into the open. Shrouded in attire that seemed unlikely for the weather she sat alone in her room only the comforts of the music box notes surrounded her. Outside the wind drifted the happy sounds higher to her window, tempting her with the fun she was missing out on. She didn't dare leave the room to submit herself to the temptation though in her heart she forever anticipated the day in which she might be able to be free of her layers and join in with the fun. They all knew of her mutant but still Rogue didn't quite feel safe enough around them, she felt as though she was looking in from the outside and wasn't mean to be part of their world. She didn't quite get along with the other students and after the deaths of Scott, Jean and the Professor she seemed to become more secluded pushing herself away from the students and giving up Bobby to Kitty. She just didn't feel comfortable around people so much anymore, she felt like she was Alice and this was her wonderland, an unreal place where she wasn't at home in.
A gentle knock on the door brought Rogue out of her trance like state her mind registering on the lack on music drifting from the music box on the floor beside her. Pulling herself up from where she was seated she moved to open the door to find herself face to face with the new girl. Tabitha entered the room through the now open door without waiting for her entrance to be allowed.
"So I heard from Storm you don't get along with all the other students here you know? So anyway I think that's probably a good thing anyway, they don't look like your type you know? Anyway I'm new here right, and Storm said to find you and get you to show me around be my escort and all that blah blah stuff."
Rogue looked outright shocked at this newcomer, she was way wild and freaky but in a cool kind of way, more like Rogue's style. Maybe she could truly find a friend in this new girl. Rogue did the girl a favour and gave her a quick, non-boring tour of the mansion before the two collapsed in the rec. room to watch movies while the other students overran the grounds.
Tabitha looked over at the sleeping girl while she waited for the person on the other end of her phone to pick up. They'd worked their way through a pile of movies until late into the night at which point Rogue had fallen asleep leaving Tabitha free to speak.
"She seems ok." She told the person when the picked up "I can befriend this girl easily she's so not like the others who are way preppy and out there. She doesn't seem to get along with many of the residents here though and apparently she seems kind of secluded from others. You should try and hurry back though, I get the feeling she feels right out of place here and there is no way I'm going to try and make that girl stay when she doesn't want to"
She listened to the reply from the other end before hanging up. She carefully lay a blanket over Rogue before returning to her own room. This mission was going to need a bit more thinking to make it work.