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I know its been like a month since I've updated, but I've been busy and I had a short session of writers bog!

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Anyways, here's chapter 8!

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Explosion of Every Kind Chapter 8: Rude or Sweet Awakening?

She laid thrashing in her hospital bed. Side to side, up and down arching her back almost to the point of snapping in half. Her eyes shut tight as she rolled and kicked. Then her head started battering back and forth as she began to scream and holler, "No! No! Noooo!" Rogue let out a deafening screech then shot up in her bed, awake and hyperventilating. "Wha-what?" She was bewildered and terrified. "Wher-where, where am Ah?" Her breathing still shallow.

Rogue looked down at her trembling hands as Gambit came running in against the Professor's orders. Xavier had thought that since he was the victim of her attack, he should not be the first one she sees when she wakes up. But when Rogue started screaming the two X-men that had been charged with keeping him out of the infirmary provided his adrenaline-pumped body little challenge.

"Rogue!"

She was still hyperventilating and seemed very lost. Gambit ran to her side and put his arms around her. The weird thing was she nuzzled herself as close as she could physically get into his strong chest. "Wher-where am Ah?"

"The infirmary," he answered breathlessly.

"Wha-what happened?"

He squeezed her as tight as he could into his chest but couldn't find the right words to answer her question. She looked around petrified then asked, "Why is mah arm in a sling, Gambit?"

Once again he squeezed her tighter, scared to answer her questions.

"Gambit, answer me." She had started to retract her body from his, but his sturdy arms prevented her from drawing away any more than half a foot. "Gambit, answer me," she repeated.

"You…I…we…well…" he had no idea what he was going to say, but he knew he had to say something soon.

Gambit's silence only increased Rogue's worry and panicked hands. She had no memory past running to the danger room door and demanding to be let out. And that awful dream she just had… it was as if everyone she absorbed was attacking her.

"Gambit," she edged him, "What happened?"

He squeezed her tighter again, and although she was scared and desperately wanted answers, she let him. Rogue would never admit this to herself or anyone else but she loved the feeling of his muscular, warm upper body.

After reveling in her body's warmth and feel, Gambit started to repeat the events of the day before, "You, you ran t'de doors and, well, I followed y'and when I got there, you, you had faint'd I t'ink…and when you woke up you, well…"

"Went mad," Xavier finished as he came in.

"Ah what?" she breathed.

"Rogue, have you been able to use the powers of the psyches locked inside you before?"

"What?" she was shocked, "of course not." Then she turned to Gambit, "Why'd he ask me that?"

"Rogue," the Professor said, "You used three peoples' powers yesterday within minutes of each other."

"That's impossible, ya know Ah can't control mah mutation lahke that." She paused for a second then asked, "What happened? Ah want the whole story." And she got the whole story. Since the Professor didn't know the intimate details Gambit was forced to tell her. It was the first time she had ever heard him stutter.

When he had ended, Rogue's face froze in a horrified look; her head began shaking violently back and forth, she pushed out of the safety of Gambit's arms and kept repeating the same word over and over: no. "No, no, no, no, no." She was inching her way away from him and fell off the bed with a thud.

"Rogue," Gambit said with increased worry.

She kept backing away from him while repeating that same word. "Ah knew something like this would happen, but y'wouldn't leave!" she shouted. Then she went back to shaking her head. She backed into the window on the south side of the room that overlooked the backyard. Her face looked like a feral puppy that was being cornered by animal control, even though the two men were on the other side of the room.

Gambit slowly crept his way toward her with his hand extended. She didn't move but she kept shaking her head. He was a few feet away now. When he got to her he lifted her up bridal-style. Rogue she was in shock and didn't fight when he touched the clothed part of her skin. He carried her back to the bed and laid her down. Her head still shaking no, but not as brutally.

Gambit decided to lay next to her; half propped up against the wall and positioned her head to rest on his chest as their legs intertwined. Perfectly safe because he was completely covered, even though she was in a hospital gown.

"Did y'mean it?" Gambit asked her.

She vaguely looked up, still with a petrified look on her face. "Mean what?"

"What y'said as we fought each other."

"Ah…uh…what did Ah say exactly?"

"Y'said y'had t'kill me because I made y'want t'touch."

Rogue drew in breathe like she wouldn't have a chance to do it again in years. "Ah…Ah don't know."

She was lying of course and they all knew it.

There was a long pause, Gambit knew now wasn't the time to pry, so he just pressed her closer to him.

The Professor had waited a respectable amount of time before saying to himself; "If you can choose which powers to use when you want…" then he trailed off.

"It ain't gonna do me, or anyone else any good if Ah can't control them." She snapped then lifted herself off of Gambit's chest and continued, "Ah have enough trouble containing mah own mutation, Professor."

"Yes, yes I know Rogue and I'm not trying to push you into anything, but we always knew this could be a possibility."

"Yeah, but we were supposed t'work on that when Ah was in complete control, and Ah definitely am not in complete control."

"I know," Xavier contemplated. He raised his hand up and placed his chin in it, thinking of everything that had recently happened quietly to himself.

A silence had settled in the room that was quite unnerving. Xavier was the one to break it by stating, "I think you're in good hands. I'm going to meet with Beast and see what he makes of this."

Both Gambit and Rogue nodded their heads. When he was gone, Rogue slowly lowered her head to its original resting place that Gambit had designated when he crawled into the bed with her. She was still scared of hurting someone else, especially Gambit again, but she forced herself to relax and soon matched Gambit's breathing as they harmoniously rose and fell together.

'She tries to murder me and now she's asleep on my chest. What'll happen next?'

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