3 hours later.
'Rogue please meet us in the briefing room.' Professor Xavier's voice was urgent.
'Finally.' I thought they would never come back, and now I was going to get my answers. By now the Professor's telepathy had worn off so I couldn't read anyone's mind to get a quick summary. I guess the old fashioned way of talking will have to do though.
I was running now. Once I got down to the lower levels I had to stop and remind myself. 'I know nothing about what their about to say. I do not know who the two men are.'
Deep breaths I slowed to a walk and entered the briefing room. Everyone was already seated. Younger Charles and Erik sat on the Professor's right, with everyone else scattered about.
The professor gestured to the seat on his left. I smiled at the two men as I took my seat.
"I didn't know you'd be bringing back guests, Professor." The two men's attention was now completely focused on me. I smiled again.
"Nice jumpsuits." I tired to be funny about it, I didn't need them to think I was making fun of them. Charles gave me a small smile.
"You must be Rogue."
"Yep. That's me." 'Though I wish it wasn't.' Fake smiles Rogue, fake smiles.
Before I could make some comment on how he knew my name but I didn't know his(even though I did)the Professor spoke first.
"Rogue, this is Charles." He gestured to the soft faced man with the blue eyes.
"And this is Erik Lehnsherr." He gestured to the man with chiseled cheeks and emerald eyes, like mine.
Was this a good time to bring up how he had the same name as Magneto? I took a deep breath before turning to the Professor.
Focusing I used what control I had in my head to direct a message to the professor.
'As in Magneto?' I asked. As if I didn't already know. The professor looked a bit startled like he hadn't expected that.
But he pulled himself together quickly. 'Later Rogue, stay after your teammates leave.' I gave a brief nod before turning to Charles and Erik.
"Nice to meet you two."
For about an hour the professor talked about how the government had discovered a small mutant child who posed the ability to time travel. Because she was young her mutation had not fully developed and she couldn't travel far, just a few minutes into the past.
About three months later Senator Shane Jackson had a machine built to amplify the girl's power. Senator Jackson is quite a bit like Senator Kelly. Hates mutants.
Senator Jackson thought he could use the girl to travel back in time to "take care" of the mutant "problem."
He wanted to start at the beginning, the day mutants were discovered. 40 years ago, on the beach in Cuba were Charles and Erik stopped World War 3.
But the machine was built in such a short amount of time that they hadn't run proper tests. As a result a hole was torn in the space time continuum, temporarily, but it was still open long enough that it had caused Charles and Erik got thrown into this time, and unforgettably the mutant girl and the machine were both destroyed.
What really upset me was that the military seemed more concerned with there precious machine than a dead child.
I noticed that the Professor neglected to mention that Charles was a younger version of him.
"Alright we'll talk more about this tomorrow. Meanwhile Charles and Erik are going to be staying with us. Bobby, Kitty, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee you are all dismissed."
They all stood there for a second looking at me. No doubt wondering why I wasn't going with them.
"I need to have a quick word with Rogue." He explained when he saw they were hesitant. With that they slowly filed out.
The older X Men/my former teachers stayed behind.
The door closed.
The Professor looked at me. "I'm rather curious to know how you were able to send me a telepathic message Rogue, only telepaths are ever able to do that."
Uh oh. I was in trouble after all. Everyone was staring.
"Rogue I can assure you your not in trouble, I was just curious."
"Well umm, maybe I just have a strong mind." Stupid answer. Just tell the truth. "I don't really know, I just concentrated."
"Hmm, we'll have to look into that later." When he saw the confused looks from the other X Men the Professor explained.
"Rogue sent me a message asking about our new guests. I didn't want to say anything in front of the younger X Men, but yes Rogue, this is Magneto."
As if I didn't already know that. But I pretended to look somewhat surprised.
"How did you know his name anyway?" Scott asked. Thinking quickly I came up with a solution. "I heard Mystique call him that." That was true enough, she did call him Erik.
Turning to him I explained. "The Mystique from this time, and the you from this time...had a bit of an...altercation with me on Liberty Island, which left some of my hair white as a result."
I twirled my white hair.
"Oh, and here I was thinking it was some sort of fashion statement." I grinned. At least he had a since of humor.
"Nope."
"And it stayed white?"
"Yes."
Charles cut in. "Interesting, what exactly was this 'altercation' that caused you hair to turn white? Was it another mutant?" He sounded eager.
Before I could think of something to say. Scott scoffed.
"Magneto dangled her off the top of the Statue of Liberty, before putting her in a machine that would kill her. But luckily we got there in time and stopped him."
"Scott!" I chastised him. Clearly Scott didn't like the idea of Erik being here.
I have enough of his memories to know that Erik, this Erik, didn't deserve to know like this, because this Erik would never do such a thing. This was Erik after all, not Magneto, yet of course.
"Scott, he did the wrong things for the right reasons. Besides I'm sure the this Erik, will do nothing of the sort."I was firm.
Erik looked shocked. "Why would I do such a thing?" He asked. The professor sighed.
'This is going to take a while.'
2 hours later Scott had finally calmed down and everything had been explained.
"Erik, I knew something like this would happen if you killed Shaw. We are very lucky to have gotten sucked into the hole. Maybe now you will consider changing your ways."
Erik sighed and crinkled his forehead. This was a man that clearly didn't like being told what to do.
Finally he sighed,"Yes, you are right Charles." He turned to me.
"I am very sorry for what had happened on the Statue of Liberty." I gave him a smile. This Erik wasn't so bad.
"It's okay, Magneto from this time did that, not you. And I kind of like the hair."
"I can't believe you Rogue, he tried to kill you!" Scott yelled again. Damn just when we had calmed him down too. How could I not forgive him when I had his memories?
"Scott, I'm not the type to hold a grudge." That was a good answer. Scott still looked upset, and now Erik had that look on his face again.
Thankfully Charles came up with a solution. "Why don't we move to another topic? I've learned about everyone's mutation but your's Rogue, what is your mutation?"
I froze. Dammit! Of all the topics to pick.
"I-I have deadly skin." The room was so silent you could hear a pin drop. "If someone touches my skin, I absorb their life force, and in the case of mutants their mutations, for a short period of time. And if I hold on long enough I kill them."
'Until I have a nightmare of theirs anyway, not to mention their memories.'
I held my palm up. "That's why I wear gloves."
"Interesting." He said with that accent of his. I couldn't blame him for not saying anything else.
"Rogue I wasn't going to tell any of the younger X Men, but since you already know who Erik is you might as well know that Charles is a younger version of me." The Professor seemed to have saved the day for breaking the silence.
"Oh." I was getting real sick of people telling me things I already know.
"Yes, well I think that's enough for one day. Everyone is dismissed." I got out of there quickly and headed for my room.
I was able to get a few hours sleep, this time I was cursed with the nightmare of Kurt. Though he had a good family, that didn't stop him from being harassed and called the spawn of the devil.
Most of the kids were heading off to bed, but I decided I needed some ice cream.
On my way to the kitchen I passed by the rec room. "OMG Erik is soooo hot!" I stopped for a moment. Kitty was soooo annoying. "I'm so gonna make a move on him." Didn't she already have my ex boyfriend? And Erik hadn't even been here for 24 hours! What a slut!
I mean so what if he is kind of attractive? With a firm looking chest and nice abs...
'No Rogue! NO!' I chastised myself as I shook the thoughts out of my head and headed to the kitchen. Thankfully it was empty.
Quickly I retrieved my favorite ice cream flavor, peppermint.
Just as I was beginning to enjoy it Charles walked in. OK maybe he wasn't all that bad, sure it was kind of depressing for me this morning, but he didn't know.
He gave me a warm smile.
"Hello Rogue."
"Hi."
He stood there uncomfortable for a moment before he spoke.
"I am sorry if I upset you earlier today, I can tell you don't like to talk about your mutation." I forced a smile.
"S'okay not like you knew." 'And your probably afraid now.'
He gave that smile again. "No Rogue, I'm not afraid." I realized for a moment that he had read my mind. He immediately apologized.
"Forgive me, I won't read your mind again without permission."
"It's okay." Not like I really cared anyway. "Why would you think I would be afraid?"
He was sitting next to me now. "Because everyone else is." I whispered softly.
"When I walk down the halls students flinch. If I take off my gloves for a second, people scream, but the worst was when I absorbed the Professor."
I looked into his big blue eyes. "I was able to read minds, and I couldn't control it. That was when I figured out kids called me Miss Untouchable, and dead weight because I'm not really supposed to use my mutation, so I'm kind of useless."
"That's terrible."
"Yeah well you would have heard it soon, had you not heard it already." I gave him a knowing look.
He sighed. So he had. I wonder if it was from the younger students or one of my teammates.
"It's not your fault." He whispered. "I know. Thanks." I guess he has a way of making people feel better. Maybe him and Erik staying here will be kinda nice.
Sorry for the slight Kitty bashing, but hey someones gotta be the bad guy here. I can ease up on that if you guys want, and any ideas would be welcome since I'm kinda unsure about how this story's gonna go.
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