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Healing

Title: Healing
Verse: X-Men movieverse
Timeline: post X-Men: The Last Stand
Author: AngelofSnow
Pairing: Rogue/Magneto
Rating: M � sex situations, cursing, general mindfuckery,
mild violence.
Disclaimer: I don�t own the X-Men. I am not making any money
off of this. I think I am losing money actually. They say time is money, well
then I have lost a lot of money. It doesn�t help how poor I was to begin with.
Summary: The Cure is only temporary. While healing Rogue and
Magneto find each other and realize they have more in common than they
originally thought.�

Soundtrack: I
recommend the song �Beautiful Child� by Fleetwood Mac is a really haunting song
for Rogue and Logan. It focuses on how Rogue is no longer a child to Logan or to herself.

Dedication: To Chica Fayme who is joining the army.
Good luck and stay safe.

Notes: Let me
apologize. This chapter was hellish to write. What you previously read as
Chapter 25 was sections I deleted from Chapter 26. I, then, promised you
Chapter 26 would be finished quickly and failed to deliver. I especially
apologize to you XChocolateChipX,
you deserve better than to be left hanging. I then tried to finish the elusive
Chapter 26 only to watch 6,000 words explode to 11,000. To give some idea,
11,000 words is longer than most ff net stories. Worse yet, those 11,000 were
utter crap, unfit to line a bird cage. My darling KumaDaPuma called me out on it. And what you see before you is a
revamped and improved first half of the second edition of chapter 26. Yes, so
it�s like a third edition. Oh my, what a gauntlet I have gone through to write
this. Seriously, it hurt physically. I only pray my energy and time did not go
to waste and you manage to enjoy this.

Chapter
Twenty-Six: A Timex Wasted

Magneto:

The thought taunted Erik and kept
him from sleeping. He mulled it over in his mind, tossing and turning in the
itchy unfamiliar sheets. He was sequestered several doors away from Marie to
keep up appearances. He had grown used to her nightly presence in his bed. The
bed in the mansion felt foreign and large as he slept on the left side.

It was more a feeling than a
thought, but it plagued him all the same. If he allowed himself to he could
feel it in his bones, in the stiffness of his muscles, in the flowing iron of
his blood. It screamed to him, more apparent and real than his own hand in
front of his face. Yet no matter how entirely Erik could feel it, he did not
allow himself to draw the obvious conclusions.

�� He has never
been one to worry unnecessarily. He did not believe in intuition; he believed
in logic, research, and careful analysis. He was a master strategist, always
one step ahead of his opponent, outsmarting trouble before it could catch him.
However, this time he felt, rather than knew, trouble was coming. It was bad
enough he was sleeping with the enemy so to speak; it was the second night the
Brotherhood slept at the X-men�s mansion. Then, there was the matter of Rogue�s
illness and how it had manifested itself only the day before. The Wolverine had
seen her nude and uninhibited under the disillusion she was Mystique. He could
feel his anxiety was centered on Marie. But it wasn�t just her illness that
worried him. It was something else, something he refused to acknowledge, and
something that was beneath him.

As he had drifted off to sleep he
could hear the sound of Rogue and Logan�s
laughter filter through door from the hallway.

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Rogue and Logan:

She had found Logan after she finished working with
Professor Kojak for the night. Kojak had labored diligently to clear Rogue�s
mind and prevent her foreign memories from taking control of her consciousness.
Rogue was eager to see the memories released and to know that she would not
lose her mind. However, this was only a temporary solution and if she absorbed
too many people again, she would be back in the same predicament.

�Rogue had specifically asked Jeri not to erase
any of Erik�s memories. Having her mind painstakingly freed from the plethora
of personalities, left her exhausted and with a headache aspirin could not
quell. She came upon Logan
smoking a cigar and finishing a beer outside on the mansion�s terrace. Logan liked to drink beer
more than he should, but with his phenomenal healing rate, the beer was unable
to ever make him drunk for long.

Rogue didn�t know what to say to
him. She felt distant from him because of all the time they had spent apart.
He�d also been avoiding her since the first night she�d spent at the mansion
and that bothered Rogue. She couldn�t say for sure when the next time she would
get to see her good friend was, and she didn�t want to let their time together
go to waste.

�Really something about Storm and
Dr. McCoy, huh?� She asked, him casually sitting down next to him on the stone
steps. Logan
just took a swig of beer and grunted an affirmative.

�They have been working together a
lot.� He suggested. He didn�t want to turn and look at Marie. The last thing Logan wanted to do was see
her hauntingly beautiful form sitting beside him. Whenever he saw Marie he
couldn�t get the image of her naked, ready, and willing body responding to his
from his mind. It was hard to even be in the same room as her. His body
automatically thought of her as a potential mate and reacted to the smell of
her.

�You know after Jean died, Ah
thought there was something between you and Storm. You two seemed to understand
one another real well.� That caught Logan�s
attention and he looked over at Rogue in disbelief. He looked scruffy in his
jeans and white ribbed wife beater. It was late and he was sweaty from the
heat.

�Nah, Storm and I.
Not likely. She�s not my type and I�m not hers. Storm isn�t into bad guys�� the way Jean was. Logan
remembered his conversation with Jean at Alkali Lake.
Girls flirt with the dangerous guy but
they don�t go home with him� He wondered if Jean and he would ever have
worked out. Not too likely either. Logan
took another swig of beer, immersing himself in his inner thoughts for a few
moments. Marie on the other hand, she understood him. She had his memories though.
Perhaps when she didn�t have them anymore, she wouldn�t want him around either.

�I think you could be into bad
guys.� Logan
said. He meant it as a joke, but he knew that Rogue had once had a heavy crush
on him. Yes, she would be into his type. The beer continued talking: she would
be into dangerous guys like him. He could tell. Something about the way she
moved her hips now that she was back at the mansion. Like she was just asking
for him to notice and do something about it.

�Oh, yeah I like bad guys.
Powerful, dangerous ones too. Especially ones who can bend metal with their
bare hands.� She continued his joke, saying it sarcastically, but she was
reminded of the man she was currently sleeping with. He was bad, dangerous, and
very powerful. She wondered if Logan
would get why she had agreed. She had been hinting at her relationship with
Magneto.

�You better watch out. Dangerous
guys are likely to get you in trouble.� He said a wide smirk on his face as he
looked at her. He was remembering Marie�s shy confession of her crush and then
her lusty, furious kisses.

�Rogue had no memory of the incident in her
bedroom. To her, Logan
was still joking with her; he hadn�t gotten that she had been referring to
Magneto. He was oblivious, like all
X-men. No, she rephrased that, he was
oblivious like all men.

�Just what kind of trouble suga?� Rogue whispered low and conspiratorially.

�Well I�ve had a hankerin� to do something all day.� He stood up and took
her hand to help her up. �Come on.�

Wolverine swaggered down the
hallway with Rogue at his side. His smile stretched from sideburn to sideburn.
The cigar and beer had helped his mood tremendously and it felt right to have
Marie by his side again. Despite the unfortunate circumstances that had brought
her back to the mansion, it was very good to see her happy and know that she
was making some progress to control her mutation. He held her hand as they
walked, just because he could.

�Somethin�
about this guy bugs me.� Logan
said stopping in front of Juggarnaut�s guest room at
the mansion. Everyone else had gone to bed, and it was likely the large oafish
man was asleep as well. �Wanna get into some trouble
Rogue?�

�By all means.� How could she
possibly resist Logan
when he was smiling? How could she resist Logan
when his butt looked so tight and cute in his blue jeans? How could she resist Logan ever?

With Logan�s help, she had crept into Juggarnaut�s room then. The enormous man was sound asleep.
She worried they might wake him, but his snores resembled a fog horn and if he
could sleep through that, he could likely sleep through anything. They found
his steel helmet resting reverently on the night stand next to his bed.

Rogue giggled infectiously as took
the helmet down the hall and out to the garden surrounding the mansion. Logan
and her were in a rowdy adrenalin high mood as she held the helmet up before
him.

�Where we gonna hide it?�

�Right in plain sight. I got a good
idea.� His smile was devilish as he unleashed his claws. It was dark but the
light from the mansion and the moon illuminated the grounds well. Logan kneeled in front one
of Ororo�s pink petunia plants. He clawed the ground
furiously in a circle around the plant, then retracted his claws and pulled the
plant and surrounding earth up. �Bring the helmet.�

They stuck the helmet in the ground
then, replanting the fuscia pink petunia inside it.
Marie had missed Logan�s
playful side. There wasn�t much time for playing around at the Brotherhood.
Their work for the cause was too serious. But the school had always existed in
a more insulated atmosphere from the realities of the mutant human situation.
It wasn�t such a good thing in reality but it had its advantages.

�It�s good to have you back Marie.�
Logan said and
brushed his dirty hand across the top of her head, messing up her hair.

�It�s good to be back.� She said
against the side of his cheek as she hugged him.

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Magneto:

He had hoped that by some
miraculous divine intervention his loyal Brothers might be able to coexist with
the X-Men for the sake of Rogue�s treatment. To that effect he had even given
them a stern lecture to remain on their best behavior when they arrived at the
mansion. Even Juggarnaut had tried to listen, though he was close to deaf in
his steel helmet. Or at least, Erik hoped he was just unable to hear. At times
Juggarnaut appeared so dense, he wondered if there was a brain inside the
helmet at all.

The following morning he learned
there wasn�t. Juggarnaut had awaked to discover his helmet missing and run amuck
through the school bullying young mutants to reveal its location. Juggarnaut
without his helmet, managed to be dumber than Juggarnaut in his helmet, Magneto
noticed quickly. It took the British man an astoundingly long time to guess
that his sometime rival Wolverine was behind the helmet�s disappearance. The
Wolverine had taunted Juggarnaut to the point where he charged him. Wolverine
was able to dodge him easily but Juggarnaut being unable to change direction
once he picked up momentum went hurtling through the wall of the mansion.
(Another item added to Magneto�s Bill).

Now Magneto was left to apologize
to Storm and pay for repairs to not only the mansion but Juggarnaut himself.
Without his trusty helmet the buffoon had chipped a tooth crashing through the
wall and suffered a concussion. The man was worse than a baby when hurting. He
whined and complained so Catalyst and Dr. McCoy had to sedate him while they
attempted to find him a dentist. When no dentist would agree to treat the huge
mutant, Catalyst and Dr. McCoy had been forced to devise a dental procedure
themselves. (Another item added to Magneto�s bill. Custom dentistry is not
cheap).

Magneto wondered why he put up with
the British behemoth. Juggarnaut was only good in fights against humans; superior
mutants always thought up a way to defeat him despite his formidable brawn.
During fights Erik would often take guilty pleasure in watching Juggarnaut be
cleverly routed. That was as long as his own life wasn�t in danger and the
man�s defeat didn�t hurt his cause. Juggarnaut was really just a pawn,
certainly expendable and Magneto would gladly send him into the fray first.

Few of his mutants garnered special
status in battles. There were those whose abilities were vitally useful to his
cause: such as Callisto, Mystique, and Catalyst. Pyro
was one of the few in whom Magneto saw great potential. Although Pyro was angry
and defensive, a typical young man, he was smart and loyal to what he believed
in and he now believed firmly in Magneto�s cause. Magneto imagined that the boy
could one day be an immense asset, perhaps even take over for him, should the
event of his death ever occur.

And then there was Rogue. Putting
aside Magneto�s feelings for Rogue, and it was hard to do that, there was her
vast power. She could take down almost any mutant or any human in a few
seconds. She could absorb anyone�s powers, learn anyone�s thoughts. If
Professor Kojak was successful at teaching Rogue to expunge the excess memories
herself, Rogue could potentially steal someone�s powers for good. This made
Rogue one of the most deadly mutants on Earth. Although her current powers were
not as useful as say his magnetism or Phoenix�s
telekinesis, she might one day be able to have any mutant�s powers. This meant
nothing was beyond her.

Erik only worried what absorbing
another mutant might do to her. He had Kojak researching several things like
how Rogue might be able to drain someone without receiving their memories, how
she could clear the foreign memories herself and whether a full absorption
meant she received the physical characteristics of her target. Rogue already
had his white streak of hair, and he was rather partial to her keeping it.
Still, Erik was concerned about her. He knew how much using her powers meant to
Rogue but he wanted her safe. He would not be able to stand another episode
like the one at breakfast four days ago.

�� To this end,
Rogue worked with Professor Kojak much of the day as the rest of the
Brotherhood stalked around the mansion wary of the fact they were hardly
welcome. Erik noticed that in her free time Marie sought out the Wolverine. As
the days past, they were always seen together, catching up on old times. When
Erik wanted to find Marie she was inevitably with the hairy man laughing,
listening to country music, out for ride on his motorcycle, or practicing in
the danger room.

Erik began to get frustrated that
all her spare time was given to the Wolverine. It was bad enough he had to
endure staying at Charles� school and putting up with all the pacifist mutants,
his dear Marie wasn�t around to calm him. It was beginning to show too. He had
been making a cup of Earl Grey tea in the kitchen when two young female mutants
entered whispering. They underestimated his hearing because he could easily distinguish
every word.

�Is that him?� The short haired
Asian one had asked her friend. Erik believed it was Ms. Pryde,
but he wasn�t sure.

�Yup, he and the Professor used to
be lovers.� Her friend answered, whispering even lower, but Erik could still hear
them.

�That�s unreal. He�s like a million
years old.� The Asian one replied trying hard to appear as though she wasn�t
starring at him, which she was. Erik stopped making tea and fought hard not to
turn around and stare back at the girl.

�And evil too.� Her friend looked
her straight in the eye as they sat down by the counter. Her eyes betrayed her
hatred and fear of Erik. She remembered what the scene at Alcatraz
had been like.

�Who do you think was on top?� The
Asian one asked giggling.

�Jubilee, that�s just gross.� Her
friend forgot to whisper. Erik slammed the tea cup down and the metal spoon
went flying into the marble countertop. Erik�s magnetism had flung it with such
force it lodged two inches deep into the marble.

�I was,� he looked directly at
them. They froze at the unexpected comeuppance. �It would behoove you to learn
some manners.�

�� He went back
to making his tea; his hands shaking violently from rage. He needed his Marie
to keep him calm and he needed this to end soon.

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Magneto:

Magneto told himself that he was
putting up with the X-Brats so that Rogue would be able to use her powers for
his cause. But Erik knew there was another reason. One which he was loathe to
admit even to himself. Beyond the usual concern for a member of his
Brotherhood, there were the growing feelings he had for Marie. He had tried to
fight them, knowing how inconvenient, nay inappropriate they were. But he had
lost.

When Charles had died, he had lost
his oldest friend. Charles had been the only person Erik had left from his
youth. But that loss had been cushioned by the entrance of Rogue into his life.
She shared all his memories as though she had been there with him. She
understood him as no one but Charles, the world�s most powerful telepath, ever
had. (Erik knew it said something about himself that he preferred lovers who
were able to read his mind but he didn�t want to ponder what).

However, all that was about to
change. Professor Kojak would erase his memories from her mind and Erik couldn�t
help but wonder if his relationship with Marie would change as a result. Would
she still understand him? Would she still want him as a lover without that bond
between them? He wasn�t entirely sure.

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Magneto and Rogue and Logan:

�� The next day
Magneto caught them playing basketball late in the afternoon.

�� It was in
the 90�s and sweltering out. As Logan
dribbled the ball it was so soaked with sweat it slipped out from under his
fingers and rolled to the side of the court. Logan was as dripping wet as the ball. He
took a quick sip of water from a nearby bottle and then pulled his wet white
t-shirt off. Rogue gasped as she saw him standing in only his black basketball
shorts. She should have been used to the sight of a half-naked Logan, she had seen it
often enough. But his fantastic body never ceased to make her heart beat
faster.

�� Erik had
been standing in his room in the mansion, irritated by the whir of the central
air conditioning that had disturbed his nap. Ignoring how much it would
increase Ororo�s electricity bill, he had walked over
and opened his window. Immediately he was greeted by the sound of basketball
dribbling. He had recognized the two figures on the basketball court easily.
They were his Marie and the Wolverine. Curious as to what his Marie saw in the
wild, uncouth mutant he was unable to turn away and stood their watching them
undetected from above. It turned out one thing Marie saw in the Wolverine was
his generous muscles. It hurt Erik to see the way Marie could not take her eyes
off of Logan.

�� No fair. I
can�t play without my shirt.� Marie said, trying not to sound as winded as she
was. And it wasn�t just from the heat and exercise. Sometimes she swore Logan undressed in front
of her just to torture her.

�� No one said
you had to wear it, did they?� He taunted her, greedily gulping down more water
in mouthfuls. It was so fun to get Marie�s gander up. Flirting with her was
comfortable and came naturally.

�� Ok then.�
She said. If he was going to dish it out she would make him take it too. She
would not concede this battle. She took off her green Harvard t-shirt to reveal
her black Nike sports bra.

Logan choked on his water. He hadn�t expected
her to take him up on his dare. He had just been playing with her, not� He
hadn�t wanted to see how beautiful she looked sweaty and panting hard. Her
ample chest heaving up and down with the movements of her lungs as the sweat
ran in rivers down her flawless newly touchable skin. Despite having seen far
more of that skin, there was something about seeing it covered by the mere
scrap of fabric of her bra that made Logan
twice as aroused. He wanted to extend his claws and rip that bra off her. It
was a test of his willpower for Logan
not to act on the overpowering animal urge to take her right there on the
asphalt of the basketball court. He had always been the one to protect Marie.
Now she needed protection from him. It was driving him crazy that she made him
think such thoughts.

�� Erik
watched, taken aback, as Rogue threw off her sweaty green T-shirt. The incident
with Juggarnaut�s helmet had been inappropriate
behavior but now Marie was prancing around in front of the Wolverine in nothing
but a bra. It was bad enough that under Mystique�s influence Logan had seen her even less attired. But
Erik could excuse that, Marie was sick and needed treatment. This, however, was
a willful act. She was wantonly flirting with the Wolverine. Erik felt his
blood rise and he could feel the iron flow of it speed up as his anger rose. An
architects� lamp skidded towards him across the desk in the far corner of his
room.

�� Logan met Marie�s wicked,
triumphant grin as he dribbled the ball back to center court. Rogue was quick
and nimble on her feet. She danced around him, blocking him and trying to make
a swipe for the ball. Logan
faked and turned past her, heading for the basket. He shot and the ball hit the
backboard squarely. It should have gone in, but it bounced off the metal rim.

�� Rogue took
the rebound, dribbling around Logan.
He had longer arms then her and he blocked her shot effectively, stealing the
ball away from her. She was a fighter and scrambled to block him from taking
the shot. It was unnecessary. He must have rushed the shot because again it
looked good, but failed to go past the metal rim.

�� Logan caught the rebound
and began dribbling but his adamantium-filled fingers slipped on the ball again
and it got away from him. Marie got possession and scored against him. She
passed the ball back to Logan who held it in his hands.

�30 for me. 27 for you Logan.� He
must be getting old he thought. He was worse than usual. Marie smiled saucily
at him and her flushed cheeks and lush red lips looked sinful. He wanted to
kiss her then and moved forward.

Erik saw it. He saw Logan lean in for a kiss.
What was going on here? Erik snapped
his wrists and below him on the basketball court Logan�s claws unsheathed, slicing the
basketball to smithereens. Startled by what had happened Logan pulled back from kissing Marie at the
last possible second.

Erik peered down and studied
Marie�s face to see that she looked momentarily disappointed. He could hardly
believe what was happening. The minute Rogue was back at the mansion she was
falling into the Wolverine�s open arms! Perhaps once she got her gifts under
control she wouldn�t want him anymore. Perhaps that was the only reason she was
ever interested in him. They certainly didn�t have much in common. Maybe she had just used him for help with
her mutation and good sex, he flattered himself. It wouldn�t be the first
time a mutant had done that.

The lamp on desk raced towards him
and crashed into the near wall with a bang. Its glass light bulb shattered on
impact. Its rotating lever arm lay in pieces. (Another item added to Magneto�s
Bill). Outside in the garden a copper sundial shook violently, beginning to rip
from its foundations. (Another thing added to Magneto�s Bill). Before he lost
his temper entirely, Erik stepped away from the window.

In the relatively dim light of his
room, he made a resolve. He would not let the incident bother him. No, he
wouldn�t. He was Magneto, the most powerful mutant in the world, after all.
What did he have to worry about? And Rogue�She was just a member of his
Brotherhood and nothing more he told
himself.

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Rogue and Logan:

�� Logan had unleashed his
claws by accident, and sliced the basketball to smithereens. Rogue let out a
frustrated sigh. That inevitably happened when she played against Logan.

�� What�s that
the 19^th basketball you�ve clawed against me?� She said kneeling to
pick up the orange tatters.

�� It�s only
the 18^th. Sorry, Marie.� He looked cute when he apologized.

�� Nah, don�t
be. It happens.� They gathered the remains of the basketball and brought it to
the side of the court where their shirts and water bottles were. Rogue picked
up her water bottle and took a long gulp. Then a second, just in case. Without
warning she poured the rest on Logan.

�� You smell
worse than the inside of the Danger Room.� He stood there dripping wet and
Rogue realized her mistake. He looked more handsome than ever.

�� Oh yeah?
Well, kid you don�t smell so good yourself.� He picked up his water bottle.

�� Oh no ya don�t.� She ran away from him and they chased each other
erratically around the basketball court for several minutes until Logan managed to drench
Marie. Then they collapsed onto the stone steps, exhausted but joyful and sat
drying in the sun.

�� Ah don�t
know Logan, but
ah think you�re out of shape. Ya never used ta let me beat you.� Rogue�s accent returned when she was
with him. She enjoyed not having to watch her pronunciation carefully.

�� Hey, you
haven�t been here to practice with. What was I supposed to do Marie?� Logan looked down at his
damp T-shirt. He didn�t particularly want to put the dirty shirt back on. He
looked over at Rogue who had made no move to put her t-shirt back on. The itch
of desire grew again in his lower stomach.

�� I�m sorry Logan. Ah woulda left you if it hadn�t been important. Ya know that, right?� He did. �It�s not like you ain�t left me before.� She regretted her statement the
minute she finished it. Logan�s
brown eyes looked hurt and he moved his head away from her.

�� You know
I�m sorry about that Marie. I-� She interrupted him.

�� We�ve been
through this. I know you are.� They sat in silence for a moment, the air
pregnant with thoughts they did not voice.

�� Can ah tell
you somethin� ah haven�t told anyone else at the
school?� She was hesitant to say this. She wanted to tell Logan everything, for there to be no secrets
to stand between their friendship. But she couldn�t tell him everything yet.
She�d start small.

�� Sure.� He
acted nonchalant but she could tell she�d peaked his interests. His ears always
perked up like a puppy when she did. They twitched a little now.

�� Not only
did ah learn how to stop my skin from hurting people when I touch them�� She
paused for dramatic effect. �But ah learned how to drain people from far away.
Ah don�t even have to touch them anymore. Ah can control it too. Ah can knock
someone unconscious and read their thoughts from thirty yards away.�

�Rogue that�s�� Logan�s voice trailed off. The gears turned
in Logan�s
head. So that�s why she had absorbed too many memories. Logan pieced the puzzle together and figured
her new abilities were likely the cause of her current illness.�

�Great. Ah know right?� She smiled,
proud of how much work she had put into learning how to control and use her
mutation. Her skin was no longer a curse to her. But it had taken a lot of work
on her part to make it that way. She�d never need the Cure again, now that she
had control of her own life.

�No, Marie. That�s not great.
That�s� horrible.� Marie�s head snapped around to look at her friend. �Marie,� Logan�s eyes pleaded with
her. �If you use your skin like that, to �drain� someone your hurting them.
Badly. I can�t believe you want to do that Marie. Is Magneto making you use
your mutation like this?�

�No Logan. He�s� I thought you�d be happy for me.
I�m not a bad fighter anymore. I can take down anyone now. I�m not a liability
anymore.� Rogue tasted the salty tears on her lips before she realized she was
crying.

�Rogue, unlike everyone else�s
powers yours are only good to hurt people. They only work on humans. They don�t
cut through metal or wood, pass through walls, or produce fog for cover. Your
mutation aims at living things and sucks the life right out of �em. You shouldn�t want to use your mutation at all Marie.� Logan didn�t want her
using her mutation if it was going to cause incidents like a few days ago. He�d
rather she never used it.

�But Logan it doesn�t kill people. It just drops
them unconscious for a few hours or days. Depends how good my precision is. You
know that things are terrible right now for mutants. Ah gotta
have some way to defend myself. Ah ain�t gonna be
helpless in a fight no more Logan.
Ah wanna be useful. Ah wanna
help mutants.�

�Magneto�s gotten to you then. The
old Rogue would have seen this was a bad thing.� Rogue physically pulled back
his words hurt her so. �Is that why you�re here to look through the Professor�s
files? To learn more ways to kill?�

�No. I told you Logan. I have too many memories in my head.
Professor Kojak is just helping me to clear them.� Logan didn�t look convinced in the slightest.
He knew she was lying and it pained him to hear it.

�And Magneto put those memories
there. Tell me Rogue how many helpless people did he have you absorb? That�s
why your mind�s overflowin�, ain�t
it?�

�No!� She was furious now. How
could Logan
twist everything out of proportion so? �Did it ever occur to you Ah can make my
own decisions? Magneto didn�t put me up to anything. Ah was the one who wanted
to learn how to use my powers. Ah wanted to help him and the Brotherhood, Logan, because they are
the ones standing up for mutants right now. Have you seen the news at all or
are ya living in a bubble? There�s a war on. The
government�s locking mutants away if they ain�t
registered. I don�t know how they haven�t closed the school yet.� Rogue slowed
her tirade, looking at her best friend, willing him to understand. �I don�t
want to be hurt again. I don�t want to see anyone I love hurt again. I wanna be able to do somethin� for
once. I wanna have some control over my life, Logan.�

He sat there watching her for a few
minutes, not happy about her new powers, but able to grasp why she wanted them.
Rogue hadn�t had it easy over the years and he could see the way it had
affected the girl. He remembered how meek and scared she�d been when they�d
introduced themselves in his old camper van. She�d come a long way from there.
She stood up for herself now. She was a woman and not a girl anymore.

�No more flying lessons, I guess.�
He pulled her into a hug and she stopped her mutation as her head rested
against his wet chest, her long brown hair sopping down her back. She breathed
in the smell of cigars, sweat, and beer and felt at peace.

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Rogue and Logan:

�� Rogue knew
the instant her work with Professor Kojak began to pay off. She felt better
than she had for many weeks, a fact that became plain to her negatively--she
did not feel ill. She stood for a moment under the shower and tried to remember
her tenth birthday party and the pi�ata her parents had set up in the backyard.
Her head didn�t hurt. Not one bit.

�� Her first
thought was to run and tell Erik. She did so after dressing but was
disappointed not to find him in his room. Before she could search for him
anywhere, she ran into Logan
on the stairs and ran down, two stairs at a time, to embrace him.

�� Logan!� She squeezed him
as tightly as she could and the Wolverine let out an adorable �Humph.� In a
wave of joyous euphoria, she kissed him on the forehead, on the ear, on his
cheeks. Then, she pulled back and giggled whimsically in delight.

�� It�s workin�! Clearin� my memories.
It�s workin�!� She told him in a rush. Logan�s eyes lit up.

�� That�s
terrific darlin�!� And he pulled Rogue back into a
bear hug, lifting her up and carrying her down the stairs. At the base of the
stairs, still hugging her, he spun her around in a circle only setting her down
when she began to look dizzy.

�� When he set
her down, she looked up at him, her world spinning from dizziness. Logan looked at her, his
Marie, eyes glazed with happiness, face all aglow, standing like she could
hardly touch the ground� and he kissed her. He scooped her up in his large,
powerful arms; while he leaned down to press his lips against her own.

�� Rogue was so
shocked her mutation kicked in for a second before she could stop it. He did
not deepen the kiss, only letting his tongue dance delicately over her soft
lips. He kissed her and twisted his head to lean to the right, shifting his
lips. Finally ending the kiss he rubbed his left cheek against hers in an
affectionate petting motion.

�� Rogue was
stunned and her breath caught in her throat. Logan had kissed her! Logan! And from the pull of her mutation she
had gained the knowledge of his attraction to her. She could scarce believe
this was happening. How many years had she dreamed of how his lips would feel?
How many nights had she imagined him taking her in his arms just like this? How
many times had she hoped against hope that he would return her feelings? She
had dreamed, imagined, and hoped for so long she had given up on Logan. She had conceded
that he wanted Jean; she had grown to see him as only a friend. She had found
Magneto. But now all those buried feelings rose from deep within her. Every
second they gained ground in her mind, forming again all the old hopes, old
fantasies, and old dreams.�

�� When Marie
looked up at Logan
he was red from embarrassment, but she did her best to encourage him with a
smile.

�� Unbeknownst
to the couple, at the top of the stairs lay a Timex Chronograph stainless steel
wristwatch warped beyond repair.

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Notes: So what
mutant used Magneto for help with their mutation and good sex? You�ll find out
before the end of the story. It�s just a funny joke storyline, nothing big.

Scenes were based on real events: Magneto watching from the
window was. I awoke one sunny morning last summer to look out my window and
catch my then boyfriend kissing my friend outside.

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