PyrusAngel: WooHoo welcome to the next chapter :D This chapter happens at the same time as Chapter 6, but focuses on Rogue instead of Kurt. If you're still confused feel free to leave a review or PM me. Thanks
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That night Kitty dreamed of the man they had passed and who he could have been. Kurt on the other hand had a disaster waiting for him when he arrived back at Raven's house.
Chapter 7: Midnight Secrets
"It wasn't fair," Rogue thought as she walked up to the coffee shop after school, "Kurt gets to go gallivanting around with Kitty and here Ah am stuck in dis hell."
Her day hadn't been that bad, yet, Remy hadn't bothered her, Paint had asked about her paintings again, but Rogue had been able to escape just as the bell rang, and even Logan had seemed extra quiet today.
"Ah just know she's gonna ruin dis," Rogue thought as she walked through the coffee shop door, and sure enough Raven did not disappoint.
"NO you stupid girl. I said they're three dollars now." Raven was yelling at Mia, who cringed slightly, but as the door closed behind Rogue Raven's head bolted up to glare at her.
"Where's your bother?" She yelled.
"He had practice." Rogue said brushing off the question.
"A likely story. You little liar!" Raven yelled as she stormed over and pulled Rogue by her hair into the back room.
"Call Logan if you don't believe me," Rogue yelled not from the pain but because she knew that's what Raven wanted.
"Logan is it? What happened to Gibney?" she asked actual curiosity in her harsh voice.
"I don't know," Rouge said through gritted teeth, "He didn't show up to work one day and Logan was there instead and has been there ever since."
"I see." Raven stated, throwing Rogue down onto the floor causing her to bang her head into a cabinet. "I have to be somewhere tell you brother I want him here by 4 any later and it'll be trouble for both of you," Raven knelt and lifted Rogue's chin so she was looking right into her eyes, "And you are to be home by 11 or else."
"Yes ma'am." Rogue growled.
Raven throws Rouge's face into the cabinet, surely leaving a bruise, before standing and leaving out the back door. Rogue screams at the top of her lungs causing Mia and Clara to come running. Clara sees the bruises forming on Rouge's face and kneels to check her over.
"How bad does your head hurt?" Clara asked, gently touching Rogue's head all over.
"I hate her! I HATE her!" Rogue chanted over and over again, suddenly snapping out of it long enough to bat Clara's hand off of her, "Get back to work. Kurt won't be here for awhile so double shifts."
Rogue stands, shakily and even has to lean on the wall as she ties her apron on. Mia stayed claiming to be waiting for the next batch of pastries, though Rogue knew she had only stayed to watch over Rogue. Rogue ignored her and grabbed the severing tray before heading back out into the shop. She began cleaning and waitressing just like any other day.
Her head was spinning, but she fought through it. She refused to let Raven win, but after a few hours the room was completely swaying like a boat and Rogue knew she couldn't hold out much longer. Suddenly she took a step and felt all her weight falling, thankfully nothing had been on her tray this time, as she walked up to a man who sat alone at a table.
"Miss are you alright?" asked a voice over Rogue.
Rogue looked up to see a blonde haired man with dark brown eyes looking at her with concern. She nodded before collecting herself and going back to the backroom. Mia looked up from her cookie cutting with that same worried look on her face.
"Can you take over for me?" Rogue asked trying to focus on one Mia and not the three she thought she was seeing.
"Sure." Mia replied with a shaky smile.
Mia gently took the tray out of Rogue's hand before walking out to the front room, while Rogue went behind the counter shaking her head a little so she could see better. When Clara saw Rogue she switched, to the back room without a word, allowing Rogue to run the register. As Rogue looked up at her first customer her mood didn't improve.
"Not yah..." Rogue groaned.
"Dat not very nahce Chere, 'nd yah not lookin' tah good der if yah ask Remy." Remy said with a worried grin.
"Ah don' feel good Swamp Rat, so just leave meh beh."
"Aww but Remy wan't mor'e of dose cookies again." Remy said with a pout, " 'Member Roguie the customer' alway's beh right."
"Yeah yeah." She groaned before reaching down and getting the Nutella cookies, "How many yah want?"
"Six pleaze"
"Six?" Rogue asked as she began packing them up.
"Oui, 'nd un black coffee too chere."
Rogue continued his order, her vision clearing a little as she noticed that Remy wasn't wearing the same clothes he had been wearing at school. Currently he was wearing a very tight but very smooth black t-shirt and very very worn out pair of blue jeans under a black trench coat.
"Damn he is ripped." Rogue felt her cheeks blush at this thought.
"Chere?" came Remy's voice.
Rogue's head bolt up to look into his face. He was smirking at her, which made Rogue's blood boil, or was it because of the butterflies that had just developed in her stomach. Either way Rogue turned and rang up his order before dismissing him for the next customer.
As Rogue's day continued stupid Remy LeBeau continued to occupy that one table closest to the counter. He would also insist on coming up and ordering more cookies or coffee from Rogue, even though Clara tried to serve him several times he would only be served by Rogue. Soon enough Rogue was sure Remy had single handedly eaten all of the shop's Nutella and Chocolate Chip Cookies as well as drunk two full pots of coffee. It was already 10:30 pm and thankfully Rogue was finally cleaning the shop and kicking the last of the customer's out, but when she got to Remy he stopped her before she could say anything.
"Chere, Remy been wonderin' if yah would let him walk yah home." Remy asked, needless to say Rogue was speechless.
"A-A-Ah guess. Just ahhh give meh a coupl'e minutes'," Rogue stammered heading back to the counter.
"Sur'e thang, chere." Remy called back to her still smirking.
Rogue went into the back and collapsed on a chair in the backroom. Mia looked at her concerned.
"You alright?"
"Remy just ask'd tah walk meh home..." Rogue mumbled.
"No WAY!" Mia squealed, but Rogue bolted up from her seat to cover the girl's mouth.
"Shhhh...he's still in the shop."
"Well you've gotta go home with him. Here." Mia giggled, pulling off Rouge's apron and looking at Rogue critically.
Rogue had been wearing a simple black long sleeve shirt and black skinny jeans. Mia snapped her fingers before rushing behind Rogue and back into the coat room.
"Here...Try this on." Mia called pulling out a red leather jacket, "Its mine I usually wear it when Cody comes around, but I think it'll suit you better."
Rogue speechlessly tried on the coat and was shocked at how fluidly it slipped onto her shoulders, she usually had to hem stuff to do that. She smiled softly and hugged Mia before grabbing her bag and heading back out to the shop. She collected herself before ducking under the counter to see Remy at the door waiting for her. Rogue waved to Clara before flowing Remy outside.
"So chere lead da way." Remy offered with a smirk.
Rogue began the walk back to the home from hell, rolling her eyes a little at Remy's advances.
"Why yah doin' dis Swamp Rat?" She asked.
"Just wantin' tah talk Roguie."
"Don' call meh dat!" She growled hitting him playfully on the shoulder.
"As yah wish, River Rat." He smirked.
"What'eva." Rogue said rolling her eyes.
"So what'cha been up tah in art? Draw anymor' of dose dark 'nd scare sketches?"
"Ah guess yah could call dem dat.." She thought absentmindedly "Paint always does."
"Why yah draw such stuff, River Rat?" Remy asked, Rogue studied him for a moment before answering.
"Ah'll tell yah the day yah show meh your eyes." Rogue concluded.
"But..." Remy began but Rogue cut him off.
"Don' yah argue with meh!" Rogue warned him, Remy smirked and then sighed.
"D'accord." Remy agreed before changing the topic, "Ev'r play 20 questions chere?"
"No."
"Wanna?"
"Yah not gonna beh pervy will yah Swampy?"
"Remy promise he won't."
"Fin'ah, first question."
"Hmm." Remy thought for a moment "Favorite animal."
"What?" Rogue asked shocked at his question.
"Yah favorite animal, chere can't beh dat hard." Remy chuckled softly.
"Umm..." Rogue had to think about it for a few moments before her teddy bear popped into her head "Bears."
"Hmm Remy thought yah beh more of a tiger kinda gale." Remy thought aloud.
"My turn Swamp Rat," Rogue announced "Hmm, Favorite place yah wanna go some day."
"Monte Carlo," Remy answered without hesitation, "Favorite childhood toy?"
"Mah teddy bear. Weirdest dream yah ev'r had?"
"Remy was once a teapot 'nd people had been peein' in tah him."
"Dat is weird..." Rogue mumbled nearly speechless.
"Oui, Favorite song?"
"Shark... I mean Stand in the Rain by Superchick. Do you have a job?"
"Oui, Remy be part of da family business. Favorite place to be yourself?" Rogue was silent.
"Can I pass?" she finally asked him after a long pause.
"Of course..."
The questions continued spanning over any topic known to pop culture. The longer they walked the longer they talked, Rogue even found herself taking the back roads not really thinking about home for once but about the conversation she was having. She couldn't help her heart faltering when she saw the house just as a clock somewhere tolled midnight.
"Chere...Chere what beh wrong?" Remy asked worry etched into his voice.
"Ah'm late...she'll beh mad." Rogue mumbled.
"Chere." Remy said taking Rogue's hands in his, "Do yah want Remy tah meet'cha on da roof? 'Cause yah know we'still got duex more questions tah ask." Rogue looked into his eyes for a long long long moment before sighing.
"Sure Swampy." She smiled weakly before taking the first step up to the house.
Rogue took a deep deep breather before opening the door. Sure enough there Raven stood in the sitting room to Rogue's left, hands on her hips and glaring at Rogue. In seconds Raven was on her slamming the door shut and pulling Rogue's hair until Rogue had been dragged to her knees
"I. TOLD. YOU. 11!" Raven yells pronouncing each of her points with a powerful fist to Rogue's stomach.
Rogue steeled herself. She refused to scream that would only please Raven, and worry Remy. "Why do I even care what Remy thinks?" She asked herself as Raven continued to pummel her from all sides. Rogue continued to protect her face with her arms, but knew for a fact the rest of her was well beyond black and blue. A sudden sharp pain signaled the fracturing or worst the breaking of a rib or two. Rogue's only saving grace was when Raven's business phone rang, which allowed Rogue time to escape up to her room.
She collapsed on her bed tears flowing now as she stifled her sobs. Rogue could hear Raven screaming into her phone not that that was anything out of the ordinary. Rogue continued to cry until there was a soft 'tap tap tap' coming from her window. She wiped her eyes before turning and looking at her window.
There on the tiny window sill sat Remy. Rogue couldn't help the wet sob she let out as she crossed the room and opened the window. Remy smirked at her before jumping up to the roof holding a hand out for her to take. Rogue hiccuped once before taking the hand and was shocked when he lifted her up in one strong lift.
"Wow. Strong rat ain't cha?" She asked with a soft laugh.
Remy was silent as he ran a hand over her cheek, brushing over a new scratch that Rogue hadn't noticed was bleeding a little. Rogue stared into Remy's sunglasses covered eyes, but she didn't have to see his eyes to know he was angry or something just as intense. Rogue turned her head out of Remy's hand and looked down at the roof, that look shook her to her very core.
"Guess dat's just what an adopt'd chil'd gets." Rogue commented still looking away from him.
"Nah chere. Remy never got hit, and he beh ad'pted, tah." Remy explained leaning back on the roof.
He then began to tell Rogue about living on the streets, piking pockets, stealing food, and the day Jean-Luc took him away from all that. At some point during Remy's story Rogue had laid down beside him. By the end of his tale though Rogue was honestly shocked, but she let a soft smile cross her lips.
"Remy 'y yah always wearin' sunglasses at night?" She asked thinking the best choice was to go back to their questions game.
"Dat beh Remy's lil secret, chere." Remy stated holding a finger up to his lips while he smirked.
Rogue stuck her tongue out at him, "F'ahne. Den it'beh yahr turn Swamp Rat."
"What do yah dream 'bout Roguey?" He asked as he sat up a little and leaned on one arm now so he could look Rogue right in the face.
"Ah wanna just disappear 'nd get away from everythin' 'nd everyone. Maybeh live alone somewhere with lots of woods 'nd freedom."
"Dat could get lonely pretty fast chere. Yah sure yah don' wan't a lil company?" Remy asked taking one of her gloved hands and kissing while still looking over at Rogue.
"Dat's the point yah charmer." She stated pulling her hand away from him "What about you Remy?"
"Remy don' normal'y have dreamz...not dat he can 'member at least."
"Dat's sad.." Rogue murmured, "Hey yah still got one mor' question, make it good Rems." Rogue continued sleepily.
"Hmmm, Craziest thing yah've ev'r done dat you don' regret?" Remy asked completely awake that odd intense feeling still emanating from him.
"Ummm..." Rogue thought "I didn' kill yah ass when yah screwed up mah sketch..." She murmured and the next time Remy looked down at her she was asleep.
Remy smiled softly before picking her up bridal style and taking her back to her room. He laid her down in her bed and pulls off her shoes, before tucking her under her covers. Just as Remy turned to leave however he spots a burnt teddy bear sitting above Rouge's bed. Remy reaches out for the bear and sees a half chard red ribbon tied around the the bear's left paw. Remy growls before jumping out of the window and heading back home, his mind a million miles away.
