A Rogue's Tale

The Missing Part: Part 3

Rogue had stumped off to Lance's jeep and opened the passenger's side in the front seat. The other boys including Lance, who was driving, approached. She was not in the mood to hear any of their prattle and tried to ignore them. Instead, she opened her novel and tried to read. It wasn't long before one of them brought her back down to earth.

"Hey, who said you could ride shotgun?" Todd asked being a smart ass. He jumped up on the hood of the car and got in her face by leaning over the windshield.

"Don't mess with me, Toad Boy," she said and smacked him in the face with her book.

"Owe!!!! What is this, abuse the toad day?" he asked and jumped down off the jeep.

"Toad, knock it off," Lance said as he got in the jeep and slammed the door. Todd jumped up on the back just as Fred and Pietro got in the back seat.

"So, what's got you pissed?" Lance turned to her and asked as he put the keys in the ignition.

"Those X-freaks," she said.

"Yeah, so," Lance said as he pulled out of the driveway.

"He didn't tell me he was with them," Rogue said without realizing it.

"Does this have something to do with that weirdo who invaded our table at lunch?" Lance asked but had a strange smirk on his face.

Rogue stayed quiet, neither confirming or denying Lance's somewhat accusation.

"Awe, I think little Roguey's got a sweetheart," Todd said and smacked his lips together making kissing sounds. The other boys except for Fred joined in at the taunts.

"Shut up!" Rogue shouted, but the boys wouldn't stop.

"Come on, guys, leave her alone," Fred said and pounded his left fist into his right palm. "Anyone want to fly home?"

"Uh...no," Pietro said and sat back and enjoyed the ride.

Todd wasn't that smart and whispered in her ear. "Don't put lover boy into a permanent coma."

"SHUT UP!" Rogue shouted and reached back into the back seat and grabbed Toad by the shirt collar and threw him out of the jeep. He landed in a rosebush a few houses down from the Brotherhood house.

Lance kept driving just chuckling at what Rogue did to Todd, but he deserved it, not knowing when to stop his teasing. Rogue had a temper, and it did take a lot to really set her off. Once someone did, they had had better run for their life.

Lance parked the car in the driveway, and Rogue got out and immediately stomped up to her room. She didn't want to be around anyone right now and just wanted to be by herself. She thought that she had better get used to it now, because it was probably going to be that way for the rest of her life.

Still she kept thinking about Remy. How could he be with the bunch who had tried to kill her, and even if that hadn't been an issue there was no way she could ever be with him. Her powers would kill him, and she felt herself dying slowly with each passing day.

It was not natural not to touch, but she had no choice. That's just the way it had to be. She had accepted that, but it didn't make things any easier. Still, she couldn't stop thinking about him even though he was in thick with her enemies.

Once she reached her room, she slammed the door and locked it. She had a rough first day of school, and she wanted to put it behind her. She threw her schoolbag on her bed and walked over to the window. She saw that Toad had found his way home and was outside goofing around with the other boys.

She took out her books and thought it would be best to get her homework out of the way. There were only two subjects she had work to do in. One was history and the other was geometry. She hated math classes, but she rather liked history. Sometimes she wished she was born in another century. If she had maybe she wouldn't be like she was, unable to touch. She tried to read the chapter on the battles of the civil war, but she just couldn't concentrate. As an alternative, she took out her sketchbook and started drawing.

Almost a half an hour went by before she finished the stretch. It was of him, that guy that claimed to know her. Why in the world did she draw him? She studied the picture and was about to rip it out of her book and crumple it up, but she couldn't.

A flash came into her mind. She was trapped in an alley by a man, and she suddenly turned around and there he was rescuing her from her attacker. She shook her head trying to get the image out of her head.

"It isn't real," she said silently.

She closed the book and tossed it into her nightstand and tried to go back to studying. She searched her schoolbag for something to write with and found the playing card. It was a bit bend on the end but she smoothed it out and placed it on her nightstand. She wanted to just throw it out and never think of that crazy Cajun again, but even if he hadn't given her that card, she was sure she would have been thinking about it. There was a missing part of her, and she had a feeling he had the key to unlocking it. 

To Be Continued...

More Rogue scenes coming in the next part. Her memory is staring to unlock, but Mystique has a plan to prevent that. Will it work or will Rogue realize the woman has been lying to her.