Rogue snorted with fury as she stomped down the hallway.
How could one person harbor so much annoying? Wouldn't he just explode from the pressure of his own smugness?
"Hey Rogue," Kitty leaped up next to her, still loitering in the same hallway she had been in before.
Rogue turned very slowly to meet Kitty's eyes, trying to dispel the murder written out in her own. "That bad, huh?" Kitty smirked.
"Gambit's lucky I didn't drain him dry. Only, that would have required touching him. And I do not want to do that." Rogue raved, but not loud enough that Logan would be able to hear from wherever he was in the house. Not only would Logan be furious if he found out what Gambit had just said to her, Cyclops, Beast, and Nightcrawler would help Logan kill Gambit in the most inconvenient way possible. This was her family- they protected her, even if it was just from one jerk.
"Uh-huh." Kitty mused, only keeping stride with Rogue by phasing through tables and walls. "You know what I think?" Kitty teased.
Rogue rolled her eyes and felt the ghost of a smile cross her lips. "What?"
"I think you like him." Kitty giggled.
Rogue stopped dead. Kitty half-way phased through a table by accident with Rogue's sudden halt. Neither of them saw the figure that had been following Rogue duck behind a column.
"You think what?" Rogue hissed. Obviously she had misheard Kitty. The very idea of being around that man made anger spark in the back of her mind.
"You like him." Kitty sang with a laugh and phased through a wall into another room before Rogue could wrap her hands around her throat.
"I do not like him!" Rogue screeched, not caring who heard. In fact, she wanted everyone to hear!
Her fist pounded the wall on the spot where Kitty had disappeared and she let out a small cry of frustration before she continued to walk down the hall.
Remy sauntered out from behind the column he had been forced to take refuge with a huge grin on his face.
"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much." He said before continuing to tail her from a distance. If he had to follow her around for the rest of his life, which could very well be reduced to the next few days if Wolverine caught him, he would protect her from the something bad he felt was coming. Soon.
That was part of the plan.
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"I do not like him!" Wolverine heard Rogue scream from somewhere in the house. He turned quickly, ready to run after her, but he stopped himself when he recognized the scream of one of angry passion, rather than one of fear.
Logan shook his head slightly and remembered that he had left her in a room with that thief. Judging by the octaves her voice had just reached, he was going to pay for that one.
Logan wondered vaguely if he was still going to have to refrain from killing Gambit later as continued to walk down to the underground hanger. He had to talk with Forge over security.
This had been the second time that man had snuck on to the X Mansion. Though he had been a bit more direct when he had actually entered the mansion- if Gambit could get in a few minutes, the MRD could probably get in within an hour… two tops.
He flexed his fingers and took a few deep, angry breaths in the elevator, resisting the urge to break something. Rogue was in trouble, and even though he had broken some promises to her he had always kept one. He had promised to keep her safe.
And today sure as hell wasn't the day he was going to break that promise.
The date on the warrant had been marked for yesterday afternoon. The MRD was coming. Soon.
"Cyclops," Logan called out with his communicator.
"Yeah?" Came the answer shortly.
"Get Nightcrawler and go check on Rogue. Make sure all of the sensors in her room are still active."
"Why?" Cyclops replied after a moments pause.
"Just do it!" Wolverine snapped.
"Storm." He reached out again.
"Yes, Logan?" The thickly accented voice responded.
"Quickly do a perimeter check and make sure that Gambit has left."
"Logan…" Storm's voice was full of concern.
"Don't argue." Logan commanded and then clicked off the communicator.
This was going to be a long day.
"Forge!" Logan yelled for the scientific mutant when the elevator doors opened.
"Oh Jesus! You already saw!" Forge sat straight up and the panicked look on his face drove the thoughts of reminding him of security from his mind.
"Saw what?" Logan said hesitantly, unsure if he wanted to know the answer.
"Uh…" Forge swiveled one of the monitors toward him and Logan recognized it as one of the security feeds. "I don't know how he got past all of the sensors."
"Mother…Sonova… Jesus…" Logan couldn't exactly come up with the correct curse to describe the situation.
There was a man standing directly outside of the front door. He was wearing a red suit and full mask with two black splotches over the eyes and guns strapped to every available space that wasn't inhabited by knives.
The man looked up at the camera.
"Hey Logan! I'm looking for someone named Rogue, you wouldn't happen to know who that is, wouldya?" The man asked the camera.
"Wade?" Logan stared at the screen in disbelief. Wade Wilson; better know as Deadpool, was a mercenary and a crazy. He was also the last person he wanted looking for Rogue.
"Oh dear…" Deadpool said as his body started to jerk. "My arm's moving again." His arm spasmed slightly and then leveled a gun at the camera. "Oh well," Logan could almost see Deadpool's loony smile through the mask. "Seeya inside, Logan!"
There was a sound of a gun shot.
The feed went dead.
An explosion rocked the house.