Authors Notes: Hello guys another chapter, I'm gonna try to get this done pretty swift, because I'm going to America in 10 days for three months and there won't be any updating then. So I'm going to soldier on. Please be aware that whilst some things are similar to the comics lots of others will be my take on things. Just to clear that up ;) xox

Chapter 26

Rogue lay slumped in her cell, too tired to even cry

Rogue lay slumped in her cell, too tired to even cry. She didn't know what was going on, she remembered waving the jet off with Carol and The Professor, everything after that was a blank.

She often suffered from blackouts; she assumed that they were due to her head injury and amnesia.

She knew that she hadn't killed Carol: Carol was invulnerable, super strong and could fly. The only way that she could have killed Carol would have been to drain her with her skin, and if she had used her skin she would have Carol in her head and her powers – none of which she had.

That didn't stop her from being scared though and she was; scared of what the Wolverine would do to her, he hated her.

The others believed that she had done it too, even Remy and that had hurt the worst, and how could he have believed the worst of her so easily?

Rogue whimpered and hugged her knees to her chest, feeling more alone than ever. She sighed sadly and let sleep overtake her.

Remy ran down the stairs and all the way to the lower levels, he was joined on his was by Ororo and Logan. Scott, Jean and Mystique were already down at the holding area.

There was a great smoking hole in the metal cell wall and Rogue stood there, her eyes were black on burning red. Remy saw his own eyes staring back at him.

Logan roared and threw himself at Rogue, she didn't even flinch, just shot red lasers from her eyes, blowing Logan back into a wall.

Remy looked wide-eyed at his friend, seeing that Rogue had blown chunks of his skin off, he also saw that the metal covered his skeleton too, not just the claws.

Thankfully even as Logan lay unconscious, his body started repairing itself.

Ororo's eyes went white and the temperature in the room dropped drastically.

"My child, I do believe you need to cool off." Ororo said coldly.

Rogue looked at Ororo and smiled mockingly, ice crawled up her body from her feet to her head until she looked like an ice sculpture.

"Too Late!" Rogue called and using Bobby's powers she froze Ororo's feet to the floor.

Remy's eyes widened, the voice didn't sound like Rogue's at all, it was missing the honeyed drawl.

Rogue flew at Ororo and quickly touched her face knocking the weather witch out.

Rogue let out a loud scream, her eyes bled to pure white and two bands of hair that framed her face turned pure white.

And then all hell broke loose.

Ororo was incredibly powerful and she kept herself under tight control at all times. Rogue had none of that control and the room went into chaos.

Gale force winds started to rip around the room, moisture got whipped around and starting to freeze in massive clumps of ice that pelted the mutants.

Rogue screamed and the wind blew impossibly harder causing pressure to build in the room, until Rogue stood alone in the middle of a vortex.

"Scott what do we do?" Jean implored knowing that they could well all suffocate from the pressure Rogue was exerting, either that or she would call lightning and electrocute them all in this small metal room.

Scott looked grim, but he made a decision on the basis that he had to keep his team safe, he reached up and fired his lasers – directly into Rogue – at full blast.

Rogue should have been killed, but due to Carol's powers she was just hurt, badly.

Jean looked horrified at the horrific burns covering the southern mutant, she tried to ignore the smell of scorching flesh and went into doctor mode, and she ordered Remy to take Rogue to the medical bay whilst Hank tended to the already recovering Logan.

Remy looked at Rogue, wondering how he could have been so wrong about her, and why seeing her in such a bad state broke his heart.

Jean hooked Rogue up to several monitors and tended to her wounds as best she could, but Rogue fell into a deep coma.

Mystique stared at the scene, a look of horror on her face, she wasn't sure what was going on, but things weren't adding up for her, she didn't like this mansion, she didn't trust any of the people in it; for look at how quickly they had turned on one of their own.

Mystique wanted to return to the haven that was the castle, she missed Victor already, they had a bond, one that couldn't really be explained, but she had always believed in soul mates, and Victor was the closest she had ever come to finding someone that matched her perfectly, other than Erik; but she and Erik had been forced to share the same ideals, that's what the lab had done to them. Victor was something else to her. He was unique.

Bobby had watched the entire scene with wide-eyes, in the space of a week his haven had been reduced to a hellish nightmare. He had seen the woman he adored, dead on the floor; the invincible woman had been killed, what did that say about his mortality?

Rogue, the other woman he adored had been the one to take Carol's life. She could have so easily killed him too; she had obviously absorbed his powers. What made him so special that he should live whilst Carol died? Bobby didn't think he could take much more, his whole life had done such a massive turn around and now he didn't think he liked it so much.

Scott immediately went to his bathroom and threw up. He couldn't believe what he had just done to Rogue, he knew that she needed calming down; he knew that he was right in using his 'gift' on her. He also knew that there had been no need to use the power that he had, he didn't know why he did, but he had meant to kill Rogue, and that knowledge frightened and sickened him. The look of her burned body, the smell of her charred skin: That would haunt him for a long time to come.

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