Redemption

Chapter Fifteen

"Daken, calm down,"

"Calm down? Calm down?" I bellowed. "You're telling me to calm down?" 

"Daken, please,"

"Please what? Please shut up? Please go jump off a cliff or something?"

"Daken, I think you're overreacting,"

"Am I overreacting?" I bellowed. "Just get out of my room, or better yet, my life! I was actually doing good before you stupid X-men showed up! I had a job and a life! All you had to do was mess it up, like you always do!" 

"I didn't mess anything up," said Charles. "That was your hot-headed father and his hot-headed friends! Don't judge the rest of us on them! Don't take out your anger over them on us!"

"You could have done something!" I said. "You could have intervened, you were there when they attacked me on the docks! You were there!"

"I saved your life!"

"I DIDN'T NEED SAVING FROM SOMEONE LIKE YOU! SO KINDLY GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOM AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE!"

There was a silence, my last sentence hanging in the air. The whole island probably heard that but I didn't care. I pointed at the door, reiterating my statement. Charles looked like he was about to sat something but didn't, proceeding to wheel out of my room.

Once he was gone, I grabbed the only stuff I had — it was just clothes I had gotten from Charles and a few books that weren't mine but I don't care — and stuffed it all in a bag I had nicked from one of the X-men.

I opened the window, preferring not to take the long route through the school, and slipped out. Thankfully there was a weather vane next to my window and I dropped down it, landing a bit hard on the ground but not hard enough to do damage. I ran toward Utopia Docks (that's actually what it's called) and found that there was only one speedboat — it was the only boat in the dock — left. I jumped in and unhooked the boat from the dock. I pushed away from the dock and started the engine.

"Where do you think your goin'?"

I turned to see Rogue running onto the dock.

"I'm leaving," I said. "You're not doing anything to stop me."

"I'm not stoppin' you," she said with a smile. "I'm comin' with you, if you'll 'ave me."

I returned her smile, "Hop in,"

She did, her smile growing wider.

"Where's Rogue?" Logan demanded.

"I don't know, I haven't seen her since yesterday," said Iceman.

"Logan!" said Scott, running into the room. "There's something you need to see!"

"What is it?"

"Just hurry!"

Logan sprinted after him.

"Look," said Scott, pointing at the docks. "The last speedboat is gone!" 

"I can't believe it was this easy to get of Utopia," said Rogue as they left the speedboat at the San Francisco dock.

"Why'd you leave?" I asked, shoving my hands in my pockets. "Don't you have everything at Utopia? The X-men love you."

"That's the problem," said Rogue. "Everyone treats me like a baby and I hate that. You were the first person not to. You didn't ask about my mutant power, I was the one who asked that. You don't care about what I can do and everyone else does."

She stops, looking angry. I stare at her while we walk.

"What?" she demanded.

"Your different from what I thought," I said.

"What did you think I was like?"

"A goodie-two-shoes," I said bluntly. "Every X-men and mutant kid who goes to Charles' school think that because their heroes they get this discount on everything, but in reality heroes are stupid, like, really stupid."

Rogue blinked at me.

"Hey, if you get a speech, I get a speech,"

"Fair point,"