'Damn he keeps fit!' Rogue thought as she finally manged to wrestle Magneto to the ground. She knew of course the only reason she had been able to do this was with the help of his magnetic super-strength...which happened to be wearing off.
'No! Nononono! Absorb him now!' The voice screamed at Rogue. Rogue silently agreed with the voice as she quickly brought her hand down to Magneto's face. The pull started after a few seconds.
Rogue winced, it caused a shock in her head, displeasure. But soon she felt the other pull, the sparks of energy that felt warm and tingly.
Alive.
Rogue felt the rush of his memories.
He had such disappointment with the training session, and he agreed with Rogue, the X-Men had neglected their training in favor of late night parties and other ridiculously irresponsible and unhealthy activities.
He had a fascination with the girl, Rogue, her abilities. Magneto wondered what it had done to her, to have to re-live the pain of everyone she ever touched in the past three years. His shock when he learned that Charles had given her no training. A mutant that powerful, with the ability to kill with touch? But then it dawned on him, Charles was afraid of her. Afraid of this fascinating girl living up to her namesake.
Afraid of her turning on the X-Men, becoming the all-powerful mutant she was meant to be. She could easily kill them, in the middle of the night, she had absorbed them all easily enough...whether or not she was being controlled or not she was still fully capable of doing it.
Then he learned of her outburst at the concert. No one had been able to stop her. Jean had gotten a migraine and was sent flying backwards, Scott's optic blasts were easily deflected, Kurt's teleporting had failed, and lastly she had beaten Storm with her own mutation. She had amplified Storm's ability and used it against her, rendered her unconscious. Had she not willingly stopped herself and allowed Charles to wipe her mind, she very well may have killed the X-Men.
The link was cut off as Rogue dimly felt herself snapping back into the real world, she was no longer swimming in his memories, but her vision was still blurry. Rogue nearly fell on top of Magneto, who, like she was still recovering from the contact.
Rogue reached out re-establish contact. But she was slower this time, and Magneto was given the time he needed to prevent it. He grabbed her hand preventing her from touching him.
Rogue, still woozy used her other hand to take hold of his neck, hoping to find some skin. Instead she felt cloth material. She felt Erik's fragment in her head hiss. He was furious.
He hadn't had a mental intrusion in years, his psychic barriers and sometimes his helmet prevented that. But then this girl comes along, so easily getting under his skin, provoking him, before she had so easily gained access to his mind, so easily knew his thoughts.
An intrusion.
A breech of privacy.
An infuriating 17-year old girl, with a mind(and mutation)that could quite possibly rival his own.
'Nuhhh, you were to greedy, small amounts at a time.' The slurred voice chastised.
Magneto took full advantage of her shaky mind and body to successfully twist them to where he was now looming over her, but the girl still had a hold on his collar and had ripped it in the process. Rogue glared up at his angrily before releasing her hold on the torn material and smacking him across the face.
Rogue's assault/slap, in her opinion, made such a nice noise as it echoed through the danger room.
He honest to god hasn't been this angry in months, perhaps years, not even his own children have ever irritated him this much.
He was hissing in her face now as he pinned her arms to the side. She gasped from the shock of it and stared at his darkened green eyes boring down on her. Rogue suddenly realized how close his face was to hers.
Their noses were centimeters apart. Rogue cocked her head to the side and grinned. "About time you stopped getting your ass handed to you." Before she could see him get any angrier than he already was she raised her head and kissed his neck.
This undoubtedly shocked him and the transfer started again. She pressed her lips against him harder trying to get more. Rogue could hear the voice laughing in the back of her head.
He was frozen with shock. Rogue lifted her head away and stopped the transfer, remembering what the voice had said about being greedy. But before he could do anything about it, she bit him.
Somewhat gently at first, before biting harder. Looks like teeth didn't transfer. 'Ohhhh, where is this coming from, getting a little aggressive are we?' The voice laughed. Rogue stopped biting long enough to wonder what the hell she was doing. 'It's ok, not your fault, his personality is probably making you more aggressive with what you want.'
'Ahh, Dammit! I'm supposed to be absorbing him, not giving him hickeys!'
Rogue resumed pressing her lips to his neck, at the same time, his hands tightened on her arms, pushing them down harder against the floor.
That made Rogue's head jerk back. She stared defiantly into his eyes, while he hissed, once again tightening his grip, and since when did having her arms pinned down to the floor feel so...
She reached up and pressed her open mouth against his skin once more. Before she started to drain him again though, she gently nibbled.
He jerked his neck to the side, sucking in a breath, groaning softly before twisting them again. Once she was on top again, he used magnetism to push her off of him, a few feet apart from each other.
For a moment they stared at each other, Rogue observed his heavy breathing, and both staring shocked at their assaults on each other. His eyes were clouded with confusion and something else...
Rogue's itch to use her mutation took over her as she lunged for him again, this time seizing his neck with her left hand, ready to take more of his life force. To be honest she was tempted to latch onto his neck again.
"It was an outrage Hank! We arrived in Washington, only to be sent back! They claimed that they hadn't established whether or not mutants had a right or even a say to defend themselves, and I wasn't able to object! I have no voice in the conference whatsoever."
Professor Xavier sighed angrily as the doors to the sub-level opened. "Oh, my stars and garters." Beast exclaimed. "I can scarcely believe it's come to this, they refuse to acknowledge our rights?" Storm exclaimed loudly.
"Neither can I." Scott said as he put his arm around Jean, pulling her closer. Wolverine whistled. "What are you going to do about this Chuck?" He asked as they made their way down the hallway.
"For now I'm going to make several calls and prepare a case with the help of Moira MacTaggart. In the meantime, before I'm allowed back into Washington, how has the students training been going? On the way in I picked up several angry thoughts about training sessions." Professor Xavier directed this question at Hank.
"Apparently they are very rusty and now have double the training sessions." Hank replied dryly.
"Hmp, as long as their training and not destroying something I'm happy." Wolverine stated. As the six staff members reached the large doors.
"Actually Logan, the behavior at the mansion has been extremely well lately, no incidents of any sort." The Professor smiled lightly as he punched in a number code.
"It's a relief. And it fills me with pride to see everyone behaving so well." Professor Xavier said as the danger room doors opened to reveal a disheveled Rogue and Magneto, literally at each others throats.
For a moment, it was like time had simply stopped. The six other staff members stared in shock, surprise, and disbelievingly at the last two members of the senior staff.
Both of which had their hair messed up, Magneto had his collar torn, and Rogue had her hands around his neck. Magneto's fist balled hands were glowing threateningly blue with energy.
"What is the meaning of this, STOP it NOW!" The shocked and slightly outraged Professor Xavier shouted. Both Rogue and Magneto turned to see the rest of the small group.
Under normal circumstances, had Rogue been in her right mind, had she not possessed the personality of Magneto in her mind Rogue would have stopped imminently and explained herself.
But she did have Magneto's personality possessing her at the moment, and she was not in her right mind. 'How dare he! Charles telling me what to do, I will not have it!' Rogue thought angrily.
Before Magneto could respond to the Professor, Rogue raised her hand bitch slapped him across both cheeks, before punching him in the nose.
If Magneto had forgotten his anger, or his boiling fury had been subdued by Rogue's draining, to say it would be back would be an understatement.
Magneto threw Rogue across the room for the umpteenth time and shot electricity at her. Rouge winced and fell to the ground. He was giving it all he had, but unfortunately Rogue didn't have time to throw up a shield and was hit, dead on in the chest.
She howled in pain and anger as her back hit the wall. When his attack ceased, Rogue peeled off metal from the walls and launched them at him from every direction. He easily deflected some of them, but others were not so easy.
When Rogue stood, she was completely unaware of the drop of blood making it's way down her cheek from a cut on her forehead. She advanced as quickly as she could to him on the other side of the room. Her hands were glowing, and her eyes sparked lightning.
He also chose a fighting stance as they prepared to tear each other apart.
"I said ENOUGH!" Professor Xavier shouted. Soon Jean, Logan, and Storm were at her sides trying to grab her arms. Rogue shook them off forcefully. She looked across from her to see Erik receiving the same treatment from Scott and Beast.
"Explain yourselves!" Professor Xavier commanded angrily as he stared the two of them down, torn uniforms, bloody nose and slapped reddened cheeks with Erik, and A small amount of blood seeping down from the side of Rogue's face.
Rogue's mind eventually cleared as she felt the hum of the metal die down.
"After training-session disagreement gone a tad too far." Rogue offered. As she stopped fighting Logan, who had her hands pinned behind her back.
Professor Xavier glared at Rogue before giving Magneto a long and much more hardened glare. "What could that look possibly be for Charles, the child started this!"
"I started this?" Rogue shouted angrily. "And you call me the child?"
"Rogue what were you thinking, you absorbed him?!" Jean asked horrified expression on his face. "Keep your mouth shut, Perfect Princess, I was teaching that arrogant bastard over there a lesson!"
"Oh, I'll teach you a lesson girl! And it won't be one you easily forget!" Magneto threatened.
"LIAR!"
"CHILD!"
"HYPOCRITE!"
By now they were well ready to attack each other again. Beast and Scott had tighten their grips on his arms trying to hold them back.
"You are BOTH acting like children!" Professor Xavier stated. Both Rogue and Magneto stopped struggling to listen to him.
"I cannot and will not have my senior staff members behaving like children! If we weren't in such a dire and desperate situation I would suspend you both, but with the situation in Washington, the Sentinels, and the threat of other mutants we cannot afford fighting within our own ranks! Is that understood?"
Rogue nodded her head, grudgingly accepting his words, Magneto stared him straight in the eye.
"I don't care who started this, but it will never happen again. Now maybe you'd like to explain what you were thinking, Rogue first." Professor Xavier's tone was still angry, but less so than a few minutes ago.
"His magnetism protected him Professor, it makes him stronger than most mutants, he could take it...not like I killed him." Rogue protested, knowing the Professor had been referring to her using her forbidden abilities.
"Erik?" Professor asked, knowing it was unlikely he was going to get more out of Rogue.
"She could have absorbed Wolverine's healing, had she been badly wounded, but seeing as how she absorbed my magnetism, as the girl pointed out, that seemed unlikely she would sustain serious injury."
"I don't want to hear excuses." Professor Xavier stated. 'Well that's all your going to get.' Rogue sent that though his way.
The Professor lowered his eyes in anger, he had obviously received it.
"Well in any case apologizing to each other would be punishment enough for now."
Rogue snorted.
Magneto scoffed.
The words "Not likely" hung in the air.
"Ah, well, for the moment we don't have time for your stubborn attitudes. Rogue, we have a situation, your going to have to miss school. The both of you get cleaned up, changed into some civil clothes, and meet me in my office in thirty minutes."
Logan released Rogue's hands and turned to leave with the Professor. She stole a look at Magneto to see he still had darkened eyes, that flickered over to the over side of the room, where she had launched her strange attack on his neck, to have him respond equally strangely.
Rogue shivered, shook her head, and retrieved her gloves before retreating into the elevator.
In the next chapter we are definitely going into exploring the psychs/fragments in Rogue's head. And Magneto and Rogue both going to consider how they felt about what happened in the danger room.
Here's some fun facts I realized one night while reading about how much people hated Rogneto:
1: Some people aren't fond of the age gap, he's three times her age, physically and mentally not so far apart, but still. But it seems to be OK when Wolverine,(who is FIVE times Jean's age,) dates Jean Grey? Wolverine was born in 1880's.
2: He's a former supervillan and a murder. Ever heard of Emma Forst, the Queen of the Hellfire Club/murderer that dated x-Man Cyclops?
I don't mean to offend anyone, so please try not to go crazy with anger, but when you think about it, is there really any other reasons why Rogue/Magneto is hated?(other than the two reasons I stated.)
BTW: I did some research, apparently in Evolution Magneto's eyes are green. I know in the comics there blue, but this is Evo, so I'll stick to green.
BTW: And concerning Rogue's name: In the movieverse she's "Marie", but in the Comics she's "Anna". It was never stated what she wanted to be called in Evolution, so I'll need your advice. Marie or Anna?
tx peppa: I heart when Rogue is in kick ass mode too! I think she's going to come down from her little "episode" this time, maybe not next time though.
Sanny: Thanks, always nervous about doing fighting scenes.
Batty QUEEN: Thanks for your review!
Marigab: Rogue and Magneto having sex in the danger room and angry Professor? Now there's an idea I like! I would kill to see a photo of them kissing or something with angry Prof. in the background! X) I'm glad my story can cheer you up.
Angelpaint07: I likes the fight part two! Thanks for the review!
Tabitha Black: Got that right Magneto is SCREWED! Rogue kicks but!
1983Sarah: With Rogue and her mutation their is almost always struggling before she can control it. Thanks for the review!
Midnight Lost: Believe me, Rogue may calm down this time, but she will get darker.
Ophelia193: Your right, Rogue is one of the only people that can hold their own against Magneto and come out alive.
Powerpad5: Glad you enjoyed the chapter!
Guitarhero097: Yeah it's been almost a month(about 22 days to be exact) I'll try no to leave you guys hanging often.