Mp: And Hello my readers! Jamie, tell these lovely people what they've won!
Jamie: You folks have won a chapter 4 to the excting drama REMEMBRANCE.
*Crowd Cheers*
Mp: . . .Who in the heck are all those people? O.O
Jamie: No clue.
Mp: Right, okay on to the story with ya'll...
X-menfan33- But of course everything will go well for them, I mean what can possibly go wrong with a creepy guy watching you from the shadows?
Wolf Skater- Yes more Lorna, of course! Like I've mentioned before, everything in this story has a purpose. Nothing I type is by accident. Yes I am evil, I enjoy it and I know you love it too.
1983Sarah- I'm glad I cracked it too, it's been killing me. And the creepy guy is more than just a set up, but telling you would be a spoiler! And no spoilers.
SwampRat91- I know I'm evil and like I told Wolf Skater, I enjoy it. But I'm the one who should be thank you dear. You stayed awake til 1:50 reading my story! Thank you for that! :) You make me happy.
SUMMARY: Despite it being a year since Rogue's kidnapping, she still hasn't recovered her memories yet. With everyone anxious and worried about Rogue's amnesia and new found control over her abilities, no one's noticing the two storms brewing right outside their door. Can the X-men survive the trails ahead? Can Rogue's and Remy's new (well not really new, not for Remy at least) relationship? SEQUAL TO HIT N' RUN.
And here is a quick age count for reference, if there are any I've missed or someone's age you want to know just message me and I'll post it in the next chapter (Also it's summer time, so no one's really in school, but this is where they plan for school.):
22: Remy LeBeau Out of School, Emma Frost Out of School, John Allerydce Out of School
21: Jean Grey Collage Sophmore
20: Pitro Rasputain Out of School, Besty Braddrock Out of School, Scott Summers Collage Sophmore
19: Rogue Collage Freshman, Wanda Maximoff Collage Freshman, Pietro Maximoff Out of School.
18: Fred Senior, Kitty Senior, Kurt Senior
17: Todd Senior
-New Chapter-
'Thinking'
Sounds
(Author's comments/translations)
-Telepathy-
"People speaking on the phone/Communicator/AP SYSTEM"
"People speaking over video."
~Flashback~
Writen things.
|Computer talking|
/Flashes/
"Pietro-talking-in-super-speed"
"People speaking on the phone/Communicator/AP SYSTEM during flashes."
Also I want to point this out real quick. There is a difference between Flashes and Flashbacks. I had someone PM me about that and I'll explain it. Flashes are quick bursts of memory, that aren't very clear and are mostly going to be associated with Rogue. Flashbacks are someone looking back. These are usually going to be slightly longer than flashes and have distingusable features to them.
~Rememberance~
~Chapter 4: Nose bleed~
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." -Dean Winchester, Supernatural
-Rogue and Kitty's room, 1:30 am-
The room was pitch black with the except of the silver white moonlight that shone through the glass balcony doors, the moonlight dulled by the royal purple curtians. Everyone in the house was in a deep asleep in their beds -well in a bed at least- with their eyes shut and their covers pulled up to their chins. The night was silent, the wind didn't blow and the trees didn't russel. For once in the X-men's life the world was silent and still, the world didn't need to be saved and there weren't any mutants to recruit. Everything today was peaceful in the world right now. Everything was nice, calm, and relaxing in the Xavier Mansion for Gifted students. The sleeping occupaints of the mansion were enjoying this peace, all them planning on sleeping in. All of them except one resident.
Warm arms wrapped around my waist whispering something into the wind. A sweet smell and burst of wind against my face.
The bumpy movements and sound of cards being shuffled.
The smell of swamps, the rocky mvements of a boat.
The sound of stone cracking as wind whipped and twisted around my body.
A hand within mine.
A card. Queen of Hearts fitting with in my hand as the smell of swamp and brimstone approached me. Footsteps. Clothing moving. Speaking. The wind twisting. Blasts. Water. Gators. Cards. Gambit. Wol-STOP.
Rogue awoke with a gasp, her heart racing and sweat dripping from her forehead. Everything felt fuzzy and strange, she couldn't really remember what she had been dreaming about but whatever it was it felt important. Something she needed to know.
"Rogue?" A sleepy voice called from the other side of the room, the sound of rustling bed sheets. "You okay Rogue?"
"Ah'm fahne Kitty, thought Ah heard somethin'." Rogue mummered, her voice a little uneven from the nightmare and from just waking up. "Jus' go back to sleep Kit."
"Okay." Kitty said back, her eye lids dropping as she went back to sleep. Rogue tried to follow Kitty's example, curling back under the covers but unable to sleep. Rogue tossed and turned for minutes or maybe hours before she was finally able to go to sleep. For Rogue the night was filled with nothing, no dreams and no nightmares. Nothing.
- - Nine Hours Later, Rogue and Kitty's room; 10:30 am - -
Kitty's humming was the first thing that Rogue awoke to on that morning. The energetic song which she awoke to sounded like some upbeat and happy Disney song, probably from the Little Mermaid. "Rogue, are you awake? Mr. Logan said we have a DR before lunch." Kitty said to her sleeping roommate, who groaned and whimpered as she sat up. "Rogue? Are you like okay?" She asked in concern, walking over to her roommates bed and kneeling down. Rogue groaned again and threw the covers back, sitting up slowly and unsurely. Kitty looked at her best friend's pale face, little beads of sweat gathered around her hairline. "Rogue, oh my god, are you okay?"
"Yeah Kit, Ah'm -Ah'm fahne." Rogue said, putting both her palms to her head and cupping it in hopes to stop the storm pounding in her head. "Jus' a little headache is all." 'A really, really bad headache.' Rogue thought with a groan as she slowly stood up, swaying slightly until she could get her balance.
"That seems like a really bad headache Rogue, maybe you should go back to sleep. I can totally tell Mr. Logan that you're sick." Kitty said with a very concerned look, tounching her best friend's shoulder.
"Nah Kit, Ah swear Ah'm fahne." Rogue said, brushing off the concern from her friend and walking over to the dresser where her under clothes lay. Grabbing a pair of underware and another bra, Rogue walked to the closet and grabbed her green X-suit.
"Rogue." Kitty began to protest, but Rogue just held up her hand to halt to Kitty's protesting and hopefully to her worry also.
"Kit, Ah'm goin' to take a shower and then Ah'm gonna go to the Danger Room. Please Kit, jus' don't worry about meh." Rogue said with a sigh. Every word made her head pound more and more, made her more quesy and sick. "Jus' don't worry."
"Okay, if you're like sure." Kitty said unsurly, but she let her friend go on and go to take her shower. Rogue gave a mock salute and Kitty stopped dead in her tracks, that move -that freaking salute- was Rogue. That was new Rogue, no that was the old Rogue. The pre-amnesia Rogue.
"Yeah Ah'm sure, Ah promise." Rogue mummered as she she walked down the hallway, heading towards the hall bathroom that was shared by the four rooms down the hall. The hallway was the "Special Mutants" female dorm that only had five residents in it. There were five dorms in the Xavier Mansion that the residents could be put in.
There was the normal male and female dorm rooms that were on the second floor and were closest to the front of the house, these dorms were just plain dorm rooms that had no special additaves to them. Each dorm could house two people and were equipted so. Two twin beds, a large double dresser and closet, and a balcony. Each dorm also had two bathrooms that was shared amoung the residents.
Then you had the teacher/guest dorms on the third floor of the mansion. The whole floor was bedrooms that housed the teachers of the school and even housed any guests that stay within the walls of the school. Each room had a bathroom, a queen bed, a closet and dresser, and last a balcony.
The last set of dorms were the male and female "Special Mutants" dorm that was located in the back of the second floor. These dorms were assigned to mutants that had dangerous mutation to themselves or to others. Each room was equipted much like the normal dorms with a few very unique exceptions. Each room had special additaves that were designed with their mutants in mind.
Rogue and Kitty in the first room, the one farthest from the main hall were the normal dorms were located yet clostest to the bathroom. Their room had been upgraded first for Kitty Pryde and than later was upgraded again for Rogue. For Kitty all the wires in the room were put high up in the walls and ceiling, so to avoid any accidental short ciruting with the school's secruity cameras and lockdown procedures. For Rogue, and with Kitty's permission, the room's temputared was lowered by ten degress so Rogue wouldn't burn up in her long sleeves and pants. Another feature that was added to the girl's room was an emergency panic button that either girl was supposed to use in case the other girl's power began to evolve or even began to run wild.
Wanda in her own room, her's in one of the middle rooms that lay between the furthest room and the closest room. Her room had been upgraded with her probability powers in mind and had taken Forge and Dr. Henery McCoy weeks to figure out. The room was built with a mutant supresser in it that would activate for an hour when the mutant energy began to build to dangerous levels. The supressor would wake both the room's occupaint and than inform Charles Xavier of the problem.
Emma Frost who again was in her own room, her room was another middle room. Emma's room was designed to keep stray thoughts away by using a thin layer of metal and another invention of Forges, that created an electro repulsor that was targeted on the wave length of human thoughts. The only thoughts that could penetrate the shield are strong thoughts that are directed at the room's occupaint.
And in the last room that was closest to the staircase was a new recruit to the X-mansion, Ms. Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddrock. Her room was set up exactly like Emma's room only with another extra additave. Betsy's room was also designed to observe the woman's body and to activate a mutant supresser in case Betsy's phisically telekentic powers formed in her sleep.
As Rogue was walking through the hallway she passed Betsy, who was had stepped out of the bathroom ten minutes ago. Betsy, a good friend of Rogue's, was freshly showered and had a pleasent smile on her face.
"Morning Luv." An english accent voice said from a jappenesse body as Rogue passed her in the hallway. Rogue nodded and smiled at Betsy, her head still pounding like drums as she made her way towards the bathroom. Her world began to spin, her vision blurring as she swayed and leaned on the wall. "Luv?"
"Ah'm fahne Bets." Rogue mummered, her words slurring as if she was drunk. Two Japanese's hands wrapped around Rogue's shoulders, steadying her and hopefully keeping the young brunette upright and vertical as Rogue tried to focus. "Jus' a li'le hea'ache."
"Little isn't the word for it dear." Betsy said as Rogue leaned onto her. Betsy put a hand to Rogue's forehead and winced. "You're burning, come on. We need to get you to Hank." She said, but Rogue couldn't hear her over the rush of blood that became increasingly louder with a every second that ticked by. "Luv? Can ya here me?" Betsy tried again when Rogue didn't respond physically or verbally to her earlier sentence.
Footsteps against hard pavement. The pain of hitting someone else. "Sorry." A heavy word spoken between two people. The bitter stab of sadness and a warm hand grabbing me.
"Rogue?" Betsy tried again and twisted Rogue's body so she could see the teen's face. Blood dripped from Rogue's nose and her eyes were now a pale gray. "Oh god, Rogue!" Betsy said, holding the girl close and trying to keep her upright as she began to drag the limp girl through the halls of the female "Special Mutants" dormitory.
The bumps of a train as the boards creak under my movements. The groggy fog of unnatural sleep fading away as I open my eyes. Cards shuffling in a distance.
"HELP! I NEED HELP!" Betsy shouted into the hall, hoping that someone would hear her in one of the other rooms. Kitty, the only person in her room in their dorm, phased through her wall and into the hallway.
The smell of swampy lands and of the night air as the boat rocked sothingly as we cross the river. Fireflies that pass us and swarm, making the moonlight night sky look a little more brighter and more romantic. Creak. The whistle of wind.
"Oh my god!" Kitty shouted as she ran to her friends with wide eyes and a fearful look. "Like Rogue?" Betsy frowned again when Rogue didn't respond to her friends' attempts at getting her to respond.
CRACK! SNAP! WHOOSH! CRACK! CRACK! Pain and fear. The cold wind against my skin. So cold even with long sleeves. Fear as men fell and their guns clattered to the floor. The house ripping against the ragging winds outside.
"Kit, under her other arm. We'll get her down stairs." Betsy said sternly and Kitty followed the older woman's orders, wrapping Roge's right arm around her neck. Betsy wrapped Rogue's left arm under her neck much like Kitty did and together the two began walking down the hallway to hurry to the Medical Lab. The two's speed increased as much as possible, each of them holding Rogue tightly.
Dripping wet and freezing under the night sky, sore muscles and heavy hearts. A warm hand gently catching mine and a warm body behind me. "...watching over you." A sentence whispered into my ear.
"Hurry Kitty, her tempature's going up." Betsy urged as the two half-carried and half-dragged their friend down the large staircase that lead down stairs, each of them getting more worried by the second as more blood began to drip out of her mouth and now starting to leak out of her ears.
Thin and bendable cardbord. Rough around the rounded edges and old but not too worn. The smell brimstone and the sounds of steps. A question. An answer.
Kitty and Betsy could hear talking within the kitchen, they could tell that at least two of the teachers were there, so they changed their direction. "Me first, than you." Betsy instructed and Kitty nodded as they got closer and closer to the square arch that lead into the kitchen. Like planned Betsy turned sideways and entered the arch first, her and Kitty still supporting the limp Rogue. Inside the kitchen, Logan jumped out of his chair in alarm and Ororo turned in her chair abruptly.
"Stripes!" Logan shouted as he ran to the three girls, taking his daughter out of their arms and holding her bridal style. "Half Pint, get Chuck. NOW!" Logan shouted and Kitty ran off to do as told, phasing through anything that could get in her way. Kitty ran through the main foyer of the mansion, passing by several confused and worried teens and adults in her presuit to find Professor Xavier. Just as she phased through Scott Summers, Jean Grey had used her telekentic abilities to stop her. The redhead lifted Kitty off of the ground and suspended her ten inches above the solid oak floor.
"JEAN!" Kitty shouted angrily, kicking her feet as she tried to break the telepath's hold on her body. "Let me go!" But Jean didn't yield, keeping Kitty in a strong hold as the sound of a door opening and wheels turning reached the ears of everyone in the foyer.
"You can put Kathrine down now Jean." Charles Xavier said and Jean nodded, putting Kitty back down onto the ground. "I got your distress call Kathrine, let's go." Charles said seriously and Kitty nodded, walking along with Charles as his chair went as fast as possible.
-Jean, please find Hank for me and inform him that he is needed in the Medical Bay.- Charles projected to the woman and Jean nodded seriously, a worried look on her face. -Jean?-
-Professor, What's going on?- Jean asked through the link, a wave of worry and fear seeping through their connection. Charles sent a reasuring calm back to Jean in hope that it would calm her down.
-It's Rogue. Now hurry.- Charles sent back and Jean nodded even though Charles' back was turned towards her and she knew he could see it. Putting both her pointer fingers to her temples, she began to search the mansion for the resident doctor.
This is where we stop. What is exactly up with Rogue?
And there's a little suprise for the first person to guess what was in the box from two chapters ago. I've given enough clues, the question is though can you piece them together? Well we'll see. :)
(And yes I know you were supposed to see the date in this chapter, but then I thought of something and well you'll see their date in good time. I've got plans, big plans for this story. Enjoy! And please review! ~Maniac Productions)