Authors note:
Well lookie here, another chapter for you wonderful readers! ;) I've been so rubbish with updating over the last year, but i'm going to get this done for sure! I'm raring to go! lol. Ok so we had a couple of guesses who the new addition may be, and I'm really happy, because I deliberately made it between two characters, and they were the two guessed, you'll find out just who has joined, a little down the page ;).
Thank you so much for reading, and thank you for reviewing, it makes my fingers itch to write more when I get so many kind words ;)
Enjoy!
At the jet, Logan was sitting in the back in silence cracking his knuckles and staring at the perfect skin where not ten minutes before the lethal looking blades had been
At the jet, Logan was sitting in the back in silence cracking his knuckles and staring at the perfect skin where not ten minutes before the lethal looking blades had been.
Remy climbed in, quickly followed by Bobby, Hank, Jean and Scott.
"Hank start the engines, Ororo will be joining us once we're airborne." Scott said calmly and Hank hastily started the engines.
Remy gently put the girl he was carrying down and started to untie the rope from her pale wrists.
"Be Careful!" The girl snapped and everyone on board looked over to the girl curiously.
"I won' hurt y' cherie." Remy said gently, trying his hardest to look harmless.
"It ain't that Cajun, It's m' skin, it's toxic. You touch your bare skin t' mine, y' die. Or get hurt, an' I get y' in m' head." The girl looked down self-consciously and visibly drew herself inwards, making herself as small as possible, she was only wearing a tiny little tank top and denim short-shorts.
The tension in the jet was momentarily broken by Scott who rushed down to the cargo area of the jet to open the hatch and let Ororo in.
The two rejoined the group and saw that everyone was still sitting in the same terse silence.
"But Logan touched y'." Remy said seriously, finally breaking the awkward silence.
"Which is why m' wounds are healed all up and why I got his memories in m' head." She said looking haunted.
Logan shot to his feet, quicker than they had ever seen, with gloves on now, and he pulled the girl up roughly and snarled into her face.
"You keep everything you saw locked in your head, or you'll lose it. Got me?" He said menacingly, his voice taking on a tone that none of the team had ever heard before.
"Yeah." The girl squeaked looking terrified.
"Logan, leave her alone." Scott said in a commanding tone of voice, not really understanding why he was treating her like this.
Logan roughly pushed the girl down into her seat and with one last warning look, stalked back to his own seat.
The girl sat wide-eyed, and rubbing her now healed wrists, Remy sat down next to her and gently and carefully untied the rope from them.
Hank and Jean decided that the poor girl had certainly been intimidated enough for one day and so they went over together to give the girl some friendly faces to talk with.
"Hello my dear, I am Henry 'Hank' McCoy and I am a doctor at the mansion where we all live." Hank said with a wide smile on his handsome blue, furry face.
"Pleased to meetcha, I'm, well I'm just me. I don' remember m' name." The girl said quietly, looking embarrassed.
"Whatever do you mean my dear?" Hank asked perplexed.
"Well, when those guys took me, I guess I got a knock t' m' head, cause I woke up with a bump on m' temple an' now I jus' don' know things." The girl said quietly with a shrug.
"Amnesia." Hank stated knowingly.
"Our very own rogue mutant." Logan said mockingly from his seat at the back.
"I guess I am. Ok then, I'm Rogue." The girl said she didn't much care for James Logan's attitude towards her.
"Well then Rogue, if you would allow myself and my colleague Jean to take a look at your injuries." Hank said, going into doctor mode.
"Thanks for the offer doc, but as I said earlier, I'm all healed up, thanks to Logan's 'borrowed' powers." Rogue said, shooting a tentative smile to the red head who was hovering anxiously, pleased to see her smile returned.
Conversation on the rest of the journey back to the mansion stopped.
As soon as they arrived however, Rogue spoke again.
"Wow! Ya'll live here?" Rogue asked wide eyed.
"A little better than the trailer park you call home huh?" Logan sniped spitefully.
"I don't have a home actually, and also that's a little pot, kettle, black dontcha think?" Rogue said with her eyes narrowed.
"Stay outta my thoughts, and keep your mouth shut!" Logan snarled and stalked off.
"I guess I'm one o' those people who make friends easily huh?" Rogue asked with a sad smirk.
Remy looked at Rogue with a half smile and gently reached over to squeeze her shoulder in reassurance, when Charles Xavier wheeled himself into the Hangar and greeted his team.
"Hello team, hello my dear, if you would all like to follow me through to the study, I will make the appropriate introductions Charles stated with a wide, kind smile and led everyone through the giant house.
"Ok, so you're all a bunch of mutant super heroes. Scott is the leader, his girlfriend is the resident doctor in training Jean, her best friend is the weather Goddess Ororo, her close friend is scientist Hank, who hangs out a lot with the excitable Bobby, who loves Carol, who arrived with Logan who's best friend is Remy." Rogue stated and then smiled when everyone nodded.
"Cool."
"Yes, quite, well I think that it may be wise if you get settled in, that is if you wish to stay." Charles said.
"That would be great!" Rogue said with a hopeful look on her beautiful face.
Remy smiled when he heard that, he felt drawn to this woman, she was incredibly beautiful, smart, brave and best of all; Southern.
Jean smiled, happy that there was yet another woman to join the mansion.
Ororo however was undecided, she wanted to give the girl her friendship and her trust, but Logan had taken a very strong and very obvious dislike for the girl and Ororo trusted Logan's judgment.
Scott liked the new addition; she was feisty and also beautiful – not as beautiful as his Jean but still very attractive.
Hank smiled, he thought that Rogue would be a wonderful addition to the team; she was taking all of these changes to her life, in her stride which was impressive, especially as she had an enraged Logan to deal with.
Bobby had yet another instant crush, and was happy to have another gorgeous single girl at the mansion.
Rogue smiled a little nervously, all of the mutants in the room were scrutinizing her and it made her feel a little uneasy, Remy as if sensing this, came immediately to her aid.
"Hey cherie, Remy be happy t' show y' t' y' room." Remy offered with his sexiest smile.
"Did y' just refer t' yourself in th' third person?" Rogue asked, with her eyebrow raised.
"Did y' voluntarily name yourself Rogue?" Remy asked sardonically.
"Touché Cajun, let's go." Rogue said with a wide smile. The two southerners left the room, Remy not missing Bobby's petulant scowl.
Remy took Rogue to her new room, it was the room nearest to him.
"So cherie, this is y' room!" Remy said dramatically throwing the door open wide with a flourish.
"Oh m' goodness!" Rogue gasped in awe, the mansion was exquisite but her room was something else.
It was huge, the size of two large rooms and there was a massive double bed covered by a luxurious red canopy.
"This is m' room?" Rogue asked in disbelief.
"Sure is cherie, nice eh?" Remy said with a grin.
"Nice? It's beautiful!" Rogue whispered.
There was a mirror on one wall with a big wooden dresser underneath, directly opposite the door was a window with a beautiful view of the grounds.
"An' look at this petite." Remy said, finding himself getting caught up in her excitement.
Remy walked over to a panel, it looked like a light switch but when Remy flicked it, the wood paneled wall shot up to reveal a massive walk in closet.
"No freaking way!" Rogue screeched and threw herself at Remy, wrapping her arms around his neck in her excitement.
Remy closed his arms, carefully around her, thankful of his fully covering uniform and held her tightly.
"Y' gotta lot of clothes chere?" Remy asked with a husky chuckle.
Rogue immediately pulled away and then frowned.
"Well, no. Jus' th' clothes that I'm wearin' it's jus' exciting t' have something so decadent as mine." Rogue said honestly with a small embarrassed smile.
All she could remember of her life was fear and being at the mercy of vicious murdering yobs.
Remy frowned, remembering that this beautiful woman before him had amnesia.
"Tell y' what petite, Remy got some stuff t' do now, how 'bout y' relax, get settled in an' then Remy take y' shopping?" Remy said with a smile on his handsome features.
"What? I can't ask y' t' spend y' money on me!" Rogue frowned.
"Y' didn't ask cherie, Remy offered, see y' soon." Remy said bowing low and then leaving the room with the same flourish he had shown when he entered.
"Why that presumptuous, egotistical…sweet swamp rat." Rogue said with a small smile, happy with the extreme twist her life had taken.
She had awoken, with no idea to who she was, or what she was in a dingy motel room, with three ugly, smelly, filthy, burly men. She had panicked when one of them had grabbed her, his life force being drained into her by there skin to skin contact. She hadn't killed the man, but he would certainly be out for a good long time, and she had got his appalling thoughts in the process, how he and his buddies were going to kill her and the X-men whoever they were.
Then she had been rescued, and Logan hated her, she thought that it was because she had seen his innermost secrets, things he hadn't told anyone, and they were appalling things, she wished that she could help him, but his hatred for her was very deep at the moment, and nothing she did would help, it would more than likely make things much, much worse.
And now she was going to be living here, in the lap of luxury with people who had saved her life, she felt safe again and it was a reassuring feeling, and Remy, the most handsome man, she was sure she had ever seen in her life, was showing an interest and being so very kind to her, it was all too much and Rogue collapsed onto her massive bed and she cried, unsure as to just why the tears were flowing.
Remy had left Rogue's room and stalked straight to Logan's.
"Come in Cajun." Logan said before Remy even had a chance to knock on his door.
"James why man, why didn't y' tell me?" Remy demanded, hurt and saddened by what had happened to his best friend.
"Listen Cajun I told you I didn't want to share what happened!" Logan said angrily, getting to his face and pacing around his room.
"There's a difference between not sharin', and keepin' somethin' like this t' yourself!" Remy shouted getting worked up himself.
"Cajun just drop it." Logan growled.
"Non! Logan what happened?" Remy pleaded his voice shaking with emotion.
"They experimented on me!" Logan roared.
"They cut me open just so they could watch me heal. They cut me, burned me, electrocuted me, and drowned me. Just to see if I would heal and I did. Every fucking time. So then they put molten metal on all of my bones." Logan said his voice harsh with emotion.
Remy stared at his friend in horror and disbelief for several minutes. Then he sat down heavily.
"Shit." Remy cursed and he and Logan looked at each other.
Logan huffed out a laugh.
"Eloquently put." Logan smirked.
The friends sat in silence for a while, Logan felt better, felt as if his secret burden had been lifted.
Remy was glad his friend had finally snapped, so that now he could focus on getting over his ordeal.
"So why don' y' like Rogue?" Remy asked a while later.
"I don't know. There's just something not right about her." Logan stated.
"Do you think it's 'cause she took y' memories?" Remy asked.
Logan knew that the Cajun liked the new kid so he didn't say much; he just wanted to see how this would play out at the moment.
"Yeah that's probably it." Logan said.
"You jus' need t' get t' know her mon ami, she be a good girl." Remy said obviously smitten.
"Ok man, whatever you say." Logan knew to trust his instincts over his skirt chasing friend.
"Well, Remy off t' take the petite out shoppin'." Remy said beaming and waltzed out of the room, leaving Logan to shake his head and watch him go.
Authors Note part 2: Ok this was really hard for me to write, purely because I love Logan and Rogue, and often write them as a couple, however I have a reason for doing what I do, so please don't be discouraged fair reader, it won't always be hatred in the ranks, I hope! ;) xoxoxo