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chapter 3! revised 8/15/10 please review!

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"Open your eyes Marie" wait, wasn't her name rogue? "Look at me. You have to open your eyes"

She did, she opened her eyes and she did something else, she smiled a tiny, one sided, honest, beautiful, and warm smile. I heard the wolverine let out a breath.

Unconsciously I started to come closer when I saw her lips moving. She was trying to say something.

"...I knew...you would...come...for... me, Logan" That apparently did it for him. He carried her and didn't even glance at me and just walked as fast as he could to the exit.

Who is this girl? And how does she know Logan, on first name basis?

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Rogue was finally coming back to consciousness. Something that she learn a while back was to always asses her surroundings before letting anybody now she was conscious.

She couldn't feel anybody near, her body still ached but for some reason she felt rested, she wasn't tied up, which surprised her, and she heard the constant beeping of a cardiac monitoring machine.

Immediately her eyes shot open she heard the beeping go faster, her breathing was erratic and she was gasping for air. She sat down so fast that she got dizzy, but she had to focus on the task at hand. Somebody made a mistake, so this was her time to escape.

"No more experiments" she said to herself and started to rip all the sensors that were stick to her body. The cardiac machine emitted a flat sound when she ripped the sensor on her finger. She also took out the IV on her hand; she glanced around her again, apparently nobody has notice the sound from the cardiac machine; no cameras in sight either.

She moved her feet to the floor but was still dizzy and her sight was blurry, but she can't let that stop her, this could be her only chance. A swoosh sound called her attention and a door was opening, she had to act fast.

Beast, or Dr. McCoy, ran to the med lab as fast has his... paws would let him. A medical device that he always carried with him announced him that a heart monitor registered a flat line, meaning no heart beat on a patient. The patient on that specific room was no other than the recently found Rogue. He, of course, alerted the X-men of the situation.

To his surprise what he found in that room was definitely not what he was expecting, an empty bed. He walked further in to the room allowing the door to automatically close behind him; he didn't see the shadow that slipped out through the door.

When she hit the hall she ran as fast as she could without looking back. Suddenly she stopped in front of an opening in the hall that holds what appeared like mannequins with strange uniforms. She frowned is thought and got closer to the displayed mannequins. Was she dreaming? This couldn't be real. Could it?

With teary eyes she got even closer to the uniforms in the display section. There it was in the left side of the uniform and engraved X. A tear ran down her cheek but she didn't seem to notice. With a slow motion she raised her hand to meet the glass protecting the uniform. The glass felt warm to her trembling hand.

"Oh gawd, please, please don't let it be a dream" she said to herself in a tiny whisper "please" She closed her eyes tight and kept repeating that mantra to herself, she was so focused that she almost didn't feel the person behind her.

"Is not a dream chere" she heard a low voice say behind her.

She opened her eyes, took a deep breath and started to turn very slowly to face the voice. Only one of two things could happened, either she would face that after being able to escape she was still captured because she got sentimental, or she was truly home, and either way she would be facing reality.

When she fully turned around her gaze was met by a muscular chest covered by a black fitted t-shirt. She kept looking up and read on black eyes were staring back at her. Who would have known that reality was handsome?

He took a step back almost as if to give her space and with a small bow said "Welcome to the Xavier Institute for the Gifted" with a small smile on his lips.

Her poor heart couldn't take it anymore. She let out the breath she was holding and the tears just got a live of their own and started to pour out of her eyes.

"I'm at Xavier's" It seemed that she was trying to convince herself. She remembered that she wasn't alone and cleaned her tears "Who...who are you?"

The stranger in front of her looked at her and his smile got even bigger "My name is Remy, enchante" he said with another bow.

"Remy? ..." she looked deep in thought "Ah remember now! You where the one who helped me, Ah thought I was dreaming'" he notice how her accent came at float when she was nervous and that make him smile even more, she really was pretty "wait" she said interrupting his thoughts "if you are real and I'm at Xavier's then that means that Logan.."

"Yes petit, Logan was also real. And I reckon he was looking for ya' non? You left the med bay and everybody was worried" he said to her almost as if scolding a child.

"Ah didn't know where ah was" she said to him a little offended "And besides I don't like hospitals" she cross her arms in her chest and looked away "you wouldn't understand" she said quietly.

Remy felt bad for reminding her of that place but if she only knew that he understood exactly what she was feeling.

She was escorted to the med lab by that guy: Remy. Once they got there Dr. McCoy performed a full body check up to make sure that everything was ok, even though she was feeling strong enough to be walking. That guy Remy offered to be the assisting nurse but was politely decline by Dr. McCoy and Rogue, well, not so politely by Rogue.

Storm walked in the med lab and offered Rogue some clothing, so that she could get that hospital gown off.

She changed into a pair of faded jeans and a purple, of the shoulders, long sleeve shirt. When she came out she was greeted by a smile form both, Storm and doctor McCoy and a wolf whistle from the resident Cajun. Strangely this made her blush. Not that she would show it.

"You are looking a lot better Rogue" said doctor McCoy, "Now is your responsibility to drink a lot of fluids and start with a soft food diet until your body gets use to it, after all that time without solids you want to let your body slowly adjust"

"Yes Doctor McCoy" she said looking at the floor. In all honesty she felt bad for running away when he only wanted to help.

"Now please, just call me Hank. Most people around here do" he said smiling to her.

"Yes ...Hank. Thank you" he smiled at her embarrassment.

"Rogue... child. It is great to have you back" said the weather goddess. She came closer and wrapped her in a warm hug, one that Rogue didn't returned. This didn't go unnoticed by Gambit, who notice how Rogue's whole body stiffened at the contact.

"We are happy that you are back. There is a new room ready for you on the third floor" she started saying while stepping out of the embrace "I know you probably would have prefer your old room but with all the new student we have gotten, it is a difficult task to keep a room empty these days"

"It's all right ...storm. I... I don't mind really" said Rogue while she placed a strand of white hair behind her ear.

"Parfait! if you don't mind stormy, s'il vous plaît" finally said the Cajun. "Allow me the pleasure of showing this belle dame to her new room" he didn't give her much time to think about his offer because he immediately grabbed her hand and dragged her out of the med lab with only giving a two fingers salute and a fast "à bientôt"

"Well, leave it to our own resident Cajun to get our little Rogue out of her shell" said Hank.

Storm let out a deep breath and rubbed the back of her hand to her forehead "That scares me much more than you could ever imagine my dear Hank"

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche" said the fury doctor.

"Well if it's danger he wants, he made the right choice my friend" ended the weather goddess as she walked out of the room.

-third floor-

"Can you stop for a friggin' second?" she screamed while he continues to pull on her in the third floor hall "you...you...swap rat!"

That made him stop and give her a confuse look that was soon replace by a big smile

"Swamp rat?" he told her scratching his chin "I kinda' like that actually, and besides I thought you would be more grateful to poor Remy for taking you out of the med lab and..."

"And what?" she said finally getting her wrist out of his grasp

"And... away from stormy" he did notice when her eyes drifted to the floor. "You really thought Remy wouldn't notice chere" he raised her chin with two fingers so she could look at him.

The moment her eyes found his it was like hypnotism. She couldn't look away and she couldn't even remember why she looked at him in the first place. It was just impossible to look away.

He was in the same boat, totally captivated by her beautiful emerald eyes. He notice how her lips parted slightly and there was nothing more that he wanted to do in the world but to crush her lips with his.

But the moment of 'magic', per say, was broken by a big explosion that blew up a wall behind Remy.

"Sorry Mr. Lebeau" said the kid while rubbing his head after coming through the wall head first.

"Cannonball! what has Remy told you about using your powers inside the mansion, this is the third wall this week. Storm is going to lose it" he said to the kid while turning his back on Rogue.

"Sorry Mr. Le'beau, I swear I'll fix it" said the kid looking a little nervous.

"Kid..." he turned around and notice that Rogue had her back to him "Sorry chere, are you all right? The petit idiot didn't scare you right?" he said a little more concerned

"No" she said a little too quickly with her back still turn to him "um, no of course not, um, is this my room here?" she said pointing with her head to the door at her right.

"Um, oui." he said a little confused by her attitude.

"Oh well, great, thanks" she disappeared behind the big door, and he could hear her locking behind her.

Now he was definitely confused. "What the..." he said to himself while scratching his head.

"Ahm, did I interrupt something Mr. Lebeau?" said the kid known as cannonball even more embarrassed now.

"Non, let's go before storm strikes you with lightning and Remy means literally"

-Behind rogues room-

Her back was pressed against the door; her breathing was fast and shallow.

She raised her hands in front of her eyes and then she holds her breath and closed her eyes tight. When she opened them again she let out a slow breath.

They were still there, three bony claws protruding out from her knuckles.

"Dear Lord, What is happening to me?" she slid down until she was in a seated position.

She rested her head on her knees and started thinking: "If I was Logan how would I get those back in?"

thats chpater 3 please review