Now I'm accually going to be so evil that I don't continue the scene inside the "hospital-room", instead you'll see what happens in the meanwhile.

I know it's short, please don't be mad...

In Rogues bedroom was Jubilee and Kitty still standing, staring at the door where their friend just had busted out when Kitty told them what she had heard when she sneaked down and followed the boys to the hospital. Jubilee sighed, what a mess! She sat down on the bed, shaking her head, while Kitty took place next to her;

"Now what do we do?"

When Kitty didn't answer Jubilee looked at her. The other girl had lifted up one of Rogues big puffy pillows and revealed a paper under it. It seemed that their friend had tried to hide it so that nobody would read it…then they shouldn't either, it was probably private…

Smiling like kids on Christmas and giggling a bit they opened and started to read.

Slowly their faces turned from excitement into disbelieving and in the end chocked.

They looked at each other. This wasn't just some any-day-rumour, this was serious! They had to tell the professor, now! Or at least some of the teachers, they had to know this!

They both darted towards the door as one being, Kitty grabbing her friend, not bothering to open it. They ran through the corridors, darting into the professor's office only to finding it empty. Not bothering to complain they hurried to the next one, where they luckily found Storm, correcting some poor students test. Trying to catch their breaths Kitty held out the paper to their teacher with a;

"…found…in Rogue's room…"

Storm gave them a suspicious look before reading the paper. She kept her serious face, though it grew more and more tense, and in the end she stood up;

"Thanks a lot for telling me this, now go back to what you were doing and I will find Charles and speak to him…"

With that she walked out, leaving the two girls at the desk.

When she didn't find him at his office she sent out a "mind-message", trying to get into contact with him;

"Professor, where are you?"

"At the hospital, is something wrong?"

"Yes, and very urgent! I'm on my way!"

"Good."

A lot of students turned their heads in surprise as they saw their teacher running by, but that didn't bother Storm. Stupid girl not to tell them, didn't she realise how dangerous this could be?!

When she arrived at the lag/hospital she faced a little confusing scene; Scott was phasing back and forth at the door, and under the watch from Piotr Rasputin Logan was trying to reason and comfort a Rogue that was crying and pushing him away, not wanting him to touch her. No wonder, Storm thought. The professor gave her a wondering look because of that, but she just took a deep breath and handed him the paper. She got a scared wondering look from Rogue at the sight of the paper, and she gave the girl a look that confirmed her worries. Rogue let out a little gasp and stared at the professor, new tears rolling down her cheeks.

The old man however for once didn't try to comfort his student. Instead he read the paper with a more and more concerned look, and after a while mumbling;

"I don't believe it…"

Scott stopped his phasing and looked up at the professor's voice, and Logan quit with his attempts to get an explaining word from the girl to stare at the man. Scott was first to opening his mouth;

"What is it?"

The professor never took his eyes of the paper;

"It says…"

He lost himself again, putting his chin in his hand and continued to read, and reread. Instead Storm picked up where he quit;

"It says that the "cure" (she almost spat out the word, and Rogue twitched a bit at it) isn't really the cure they made it sound like. It's more like a drug!"

Everyone but the professor stared at Rogue, who was sobbing worse than ever. But Storm didn't mean to stop there;

"Just like with the mutant-child they took it from, this is not permanent. When then boy leave the area, you are free to use you powers again, and just like that the "cure" leave your system after a while. At every third week you have to get a new dose to continue to suppress the mutant gene. This was delivered with the letter, according to this." She pointed at the paper in the professors hand.

Scott looked from the letter to Rogue;

"Is this true?"

Rogue let out a whimper and nodded, hands pressed against her mouth. Storm continued with a voice hard as a stone;

"And you have been taking this ever since, even though it says that it is potentially dangerous and maybe already have caused some peoples deaths? Even though it said you'd have to take a bigger dose after a while when you grow used to it? That instead of informing us so that we could help you, you kept it hidden?!"

Rogue just continued to nod, still under the gaze of all the others. Logan then took a suspicious glance at his hands, and confirmed that he indeed had thin red makings between his fingers, scars after his claws, after touching the girl's skin.

The professor sighed and put down the paper in his lap;

"I don't know what to say about this. Rogue, go down to my office and wait there until I come. Not, the rest of us have some other matters to take care of. I would see it clear to enter now."

And with that he started to wheel towards the door; that Scott automatically opened for him. Rogue ran away as fast as she could, leaving it to the teachers to take care of the mess inside...

I still beg you to leave a comment and tell me if you want someone to die, I'm open for ideas!

I'll soon write again, after allt the tests this week...