IMPORTANT! Due to my lovely ability to miss type things and not catch myself I accidentally missed named Fireblade 'Aiden' his name is actually ' Keir' Sorry for that mishap! I don't think I'm going to go back and change it until the story is finished so apologies to everyone! Also this chapter is kinda random and angsty but it's needed background knowledge for the next two chapters.
The-writing-vampire- Thank you so much for pointing out the whole Aiden thing to me, I completely agree it is not fitting, and whatever was running through my head when I wrote that I'm still not sure. So big kudos go out to you!
Laceylou76- Thank you! It seems that everyone is enjoying the fact that I made John and Wanda a couple in this story, I hope I portrayed them well. Here's the next update as promised!
Fallingstar1011- Thank you! Hope you enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 5: Time of Essence
Soon after the crash sounded they heard the low murmur of cursing in a thin Scottish accent.
Rouge glanced at her sister, eyebrows raised, a look of curiosity and annoyance rolled into one on her face. She burst out laughing and pointed tauntingly at her sister.
"Looks like your lover boy's here, soeur." Rouge quickly turned on her heel, still laughing though it seemed to have darkened and marched off towards her room. Elle let the air escape her lungs, that she hadn't been aware she'd been holding, before opening the door. She let out a sigh of annoyance as she took in the sight before her. A boy no older than nineteen stood before her clad in a dark hoodie and blue jeans, hazel eyes gleaming guiltily and dark brown hair falling into his eyes.
"Sorry Elle, I just er, got worried when I saw the news and eh, he he never mind your fine apparently, I'll leave." As he turned to leave Elle felt herself battling her inner demons against whether or not to let him after all that had happened between them, and she really didn't want Rouge to gut him like a pig... Forcing back all of the protesting voices in her head Elle wrapped her hand around his arm and turned him to face her.
"No it's fine, thank you for checking on us Skye, it means a lot." Elle flashed a smile and watched the boy visibly reel on the spot from her smile. His cheeks flushed red as he glanced at the ground.
"Not a problem." He reassured her looking up and grinning crookedly, something that would have at one time knocked Elle on her knees. They stood their staring at one another for a moment before Elle backed up into the doorway and motioned for him to follow her in. He quickly followed after and stepped into the small apartment complex.
Glancing around the apartment he cleared his throat nervously and questioned "Where's Rouge?"
Elle stepped up beside him and nodded her head towards the hallway. "She ran off to her room."
Skye hung his head and laughed half heartedly "Guess she isn't thrilled I'm here is she?"
Elle only shrugged her shoulders before walking off towards the kitchen. Throwing herself up onto the cabinets she began rummaging through the cabinets.
"Anything you want Skye?" She questioned off-handidly, her voice lacking it's usual prep and life. She quickly began rummaging quicker trying not to look back at the boy propped up against the counter watching her moves carefully.
"No, its quite alright...but by chance can I speak to you?" His voice was low and seemed shaken "You know about my wedding this weekend."
Elle stopped suddenly dropping the box of tea in her hands, forcing back the emotions threatening to come forward, she motioned for him to continue, and began rummaging through the cabinet looking for some obscene object just so she didn't have to look at him.
"Yo-your still coming right?" He more pleaded than questioned, "Cause I really want you there."
"Skye, you know as well as anyone that Gabriela doesn't want me there." She responded, her voice hiding her hurt emotion well. "Tea?" She questioned holding the box up above her head.
Skye rolled his eyes "Like I care what she thinks, speck." Elle smiled at the use of her old nickname, something she hadn't heard since this wonderful engagement had occurred over eight months ago. This had been all his parents idea to make their family soar once again. A marriage into a rich family, it would secure his parents for life, yet they had no concern for how it would affect their only child's life.
"Ciel..." she warned, using his old nickname as if it was the last time she would ever get to say it, " Look I can't, I'm not a part of your life anymore." She whispered choking out that last words, turning quickly she looked away from him knowing that this was a long time in coming. Her final good-bye to her best friend.
"Speck.."
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Rouge growled in annoyance before throwing herself down on the bed. A yelped echoed as she landed on her border collie.
"Oops sorry, Keeva." She apologized to the gray dog splotched with black. It barked at her as if lecturing at her before tackling her onto her bed to lick her face.
"Hey! Hey! Stupid mutt!" She laughed as she threw the fuzzball off to the side. "You don't know when to quit do you?" Rolling her eyes, she glanced over at the clock, 5:45 A.M.
"Damn it," she mumbled rolling onto her bed and burying her face into the pillow. It was Monday morning and she had class at 9: 30. Rouge couldn't explain how thankful she was that Angelina had home schooled them and had both her and her sister graduated from high school on their sixteenth birthday, it had been a moment of pure join and happiness. The only down side was that Angelina persisted that they both attend college, so in turn proving her current dilemma.
Whining in annoyance she stood up and stretched her arms up above her head before leaning backwards to pop her back. Maybe she could just sleep through the class it was just Physics after all. Opening the door she could hear Elle speaking to Skye, trying to hide her emotions
. Okay so maybe she'd been too mean to the boy when he got engaged to that witch, but he was the one who had left her sister sitting in the park in tears while it was raining, it was only right for her to tell him to never come back. Yet here he was again hurting her sister for the umpteenth time. Rolling up her sleeves she prepared to walk into the kitchen to drag his out of her house again, that was until she heard Elle whisper "I can't, I'm not a part of your life anymore."
Rouge stopped dead in her tracks, she couldn't believe it. Had Elle finally figured out the truth for herself. Pressing herself up against the wall she listened as the conversation continued on.
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"No Skye," Elle stomped her foot, "You chose your path, and on that path I no longer reside, I'm so sorry." Elle felt the tears streak down her face.
"Elle please." Skye began as he reach for her, as suddenly as he did though he saw the gleam in her eyes that told him he'd broken her to a point of no return. All of the broken promises he'd made her about always loving her and always being there for her, he'd lied to her and had left her dumped on the sidewalk. For the first time he wasn't blinded by his parents foolish reassurance that she was fine, he'd hurt his best friend more than once and yet here he was again doing to her what he'd done a thousand times over.
"Elle..I-I'm so sorry." He looked at her, her beautiful face was scrunched up as she cried, she seemed so small in that moment and that if he touched her she'd shatter. Closing his eyes he laid his hand over the counter and beneath his fingers appeared a rose red as blood. With that he quickly left the apartment, he had to make it right somehow he had to. Yet before he had taken more than a step outside of the apartment something hard hit him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground.
"Your lucky I don't kill you right on the spot," Rouge hissed as she lifted the boy up by his collar pulling his face less than an inch from her own. Her red eyes were alight with rage as her ungloved hand hovered above his face waiting to touch him and drain every ounce of life from his body.
"But I won't do that cause it would only make her hurt more." With ease she tossed him against the railing before pulling her glove back on "and this time I mean it, Don't come back." With that she walked into the apartment and promptly slammed and locked the door.
Skye only looked at the door before he felt his own tears mix with the light rain that had just started to fall what had he done?
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Elle sat in the floor her head leaning against the sink cabinet, how stupid could she be? A low purring caused her to jump, her cat Miko had rolled up next to her rubbing his head against her leg.
"Look's like your all I got left, Mon amour." She picked up the cat and hugged it tightly to her chest as she let her emotions for the first time in her life escape down in tears. She didn't hear the sound of the front door slamming shut or the annoyed voice of her sister shouting curse words at the ceiling.
"Elle, soeur," Rouge stopped when she caught sight of her sister sitting up against the cabinet hugging Miko so tightly that the cat couldn't have escaped, though from the soft purring and licking Rouge could tell he didn't want to go anywhere.
Kneeling next to her sister she pulled her into a tight hug and began humming. Both she and her sister had always had it hard, and this was just another thing to add to their list of 'crappy things'. Rouge held her sister for a time just allowing her to cry until suddenly a small broken chuckle came from her sisters crying form.
"You know what Rouge," she laughed sadly and looked up at her sister "I really wish you would have done more to Gabriela other than just dyeing her hair that nasty hot pink color during the engagement party, I wish you would have cut it too." Rouge forced a laugh as she sat back and looked at the mischievous look growing in her sisters eyes.
"Well its still not too late.." Rouge grinned as Elle laughed sadly.
"I wish," she said rolling her blood shot eyes at her sister, "Our luck is so crappy."
She giggled as Rouge tried to stand but tripped over Miko.
"Don't even start." Rouge growled her pride wounded, suddenly a big ball of fur landed square on Rouge's chest causing her to yelp. Keeva sat there his head cocked to the side looking at Rouge.
"Damn mutt," She muttered as she threw Keeva off and looked at the clock, 6:55 A.M.
"We'd better get ready," Elle murmured tears still streaking down her face, but slowly dissipating, she'd always been so good at hiding her emotions. Standing up she held her hand out towards her sister and helped her up. "Let's get ready so we can get to class."
Rouge nodded numbly as she watched her sisters retreating form knowing that this was a wound that would be a long time in the making of healing and she only hoped she would realize that there were bigger and better things out there for her instead of that damn Scott trying to sweep her off of her feet. She sighed in relief all of that pain would be over after Saturday when he got married to that stuck up woman with the perfect body and hair.
She could still remember the way his parents had praised her as though she were the best thing in the world during the engagement party, telling him how much better she was than Elle and that he'd made the right choice, and how they had critiqued everything about Elle that night when she came for the sake of Skye. Rouge would have killed them in an instant had it not been for Elle's pleading.
She growled and looked down at her gloved hand, she had the power to destroy whatever she wanted, yet she never could seem to destroy the things that hurt her sister. She damned their powers that had made their parents abandon them, leaving them with no one except Angelina, who wasn't there haft the time anyway, and had always been so concerned with their gifts that it seemed it was the only reason she kept them around.
But, alas they had made it through childhood and only had to get through the next five months and then they would be free from Angelina's hand, she just hoped the court would rule in their favor. Sighing she darted off towards her room to change into something more suitable for school, seeing as the leather might cause her to get a few stares from here and there.
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Rogue looked over at Wanda as she drove through the busy streets of downtown Bayville. Something wasn't right and it didn't seem to have anything to do with Keir or his little adventure.
"Wanda what's gotten into ya?" Rogue asked, looking for even the slightest change in the Scarlet Witches face but none came, and her reply was nothing more than silence. She'd been acting strange ever since she had came out of the gas station, and Rogue was at a loss as to why.
Kicking the car up to a higher speed she cut up and around the cars ahead of her and quickly shot through an exit onto the interstate. They drove in silence for a time, Rogue had quickly realized that they were no longer going to the dance club, but their new destination proved to be a mystery to Rogue.
Suddenly the scarlet witch pulled off of the interstate and drove down multiple streets til they came to a sight Rogue had never wanted to see again in her life. The mall that her children had died in. It had been abandoned after the accident and now remained vacant except for the few homeless that took resident in it during the rain season.
"No, Wanda take meh back rahght now." Rogue could feel the panic rising in her chest, but the scarlet witch ignored her and continued driving into the parking lot, pulling right in front of the mall entrance, Wanda killed the car and slid out.
"Ah ain't going Wanda there ain't no way ya can make meh." But before Rogue could protest Wanda had hold of her arm and was dragging her into the store, kicking and screaming, literally. Rounding the halls Wanda drug a hysterical Rogue down the long corridor towards the store covered in caution tape. Ripping through it she let go of Rogue's arm only to be punched in the nose so hard it sent her flying against the wall.
"That's it, what in your sick mind made ya think Ah want to be here." Rogue put both hands on her hips and glared at the woman lying limp in front of her eyes. Suddenly though her body began to shift taking on the form of another sight Rogue wished to never see, Mystique.
"Hello my daughter, quite the circumstances we've come to meet at this moment." Rogue swore her heart stopped in her chest at that moment.
Author's note: Okay so this is the most random chapter ever, but I had to show it for the next chapters so please bare with me.
Also in case your wondering Skye's powers are the ability to control the earth, as in plants and such, which is where the rose came from. Also Skye is not a bad guy he just kinda got caught up in the wrong thing at the wrong time. Yay cliffhanger!
Next chapter should be out within the next few days I'm about start on it. R&R please!!!!!