Rogue's Love For A Wolverine(COMPLETED)

Chapter 10

The party continued on and everyone had a great time, Logan kept watch over Rogue, most people were intoxicated near the end, so Tony allowed anyone to stay over that wanted to. At some point Tony passed out on a couch with a lampshade on his head, Pepper had gone off to bed, but she had given spare rooms and couches to a few party stragglers, Thor was staying over at Jane Foster's place, but had mentioned he would be by in the morning. Storm and Kurt and Piotr and Kitty and Clint and Natasha left in the evening in the limo. Kernel Rhodes stayed over as did Rogue and Steve. Logan and Remy had each left, though Logan was still worried about Rogue. All the teachers called in as they were all hung over. Charles had all ready planned for that and had arranged fill-ins.
Rogue woke up and was disoriented for a moment with a killer head ache but felt hard muscles under her face and a heavy arm draped over her. She looked at the bare arm and then panicked, worried that she killed the person she was sleeping next to. She sat up with a jerk turning to see who she was laying next to in the bed. Steve woke quickly and sat up.
" Hey! What's wrong?"he asked
" Geez! I was disoriented! I thought I killed whoever I was sleeping next to! " she was breathing hard. She ran a hand through her hair as she gasped for air trying to slow her heart beat. Steve rested a comforting hand on her shoulder.
" Hey! Whoa, it's ok! I'm ok! Look at me! I'm all right, you can't hurt me remember?"
" Hey, did we...?"She asked.
" Oh! No! No! Not that, the wine hit you hard and you passed out, so I carried you to bed, but it was the only bed left, so I joined you. I hope that's ok. I didn't mean to startle you and I didn't make a pass at you. "
" Oh, I see. Wow, I'm sorry for freaking out."
" It's totally all right. Every thing is ok. And we didn't do anything. I wouldn't take advantage of a drunk girl. I promise."
" Thanks Steve. " she sighed.
" Wanna go see the damage? It got pretty rowdy for awhile. I think I'm going to help clean up." Steve asked.
" Yeah, I bet Pepper could use a hand."
" I think so too."
They both got up and went out to the living room. Tony was still passed out with a lampshade on his head and he was snoring.
Steve shook his head." Oh lord."
" Wow, how did that happen?" Rogue asked.
" I have no idea. "
They heard movement in the kitchen. Following the noise they found Pepper loading the dishwasher.
" Good morning!" Steve said.
Pepper turned around and smiled."Good morning guys ! How'd you sleep?"
" Like a rock!" Rogue said.
" Great!" Steve said.
" Great! I'm glad. Can I get you anything? Tylenol? Coffee? I have some made. "
" Yes to both please." Rogue answered.
" Do you have any orange juice?"Steve asked politely.
" Sure Steve, coming right up. "Pepper grabbed both beverages and passed them to Steve and Rogue.
Rogue graciously accepted the steaming mug and the Tylenol . Steve was pleased with his O.J.
" Can we give you a hand with clean up?" Rogue asked.
" Oh! Thanks! Not really, it's nearly done all ready, minus cleaning up Tony." She sipped from her own mug of coffee.
They enjoyed their drinks and shortly Tony came out to join them, yawning loudly.
" Morning guys! Sleep well?" Tony asked.
" Not as well as you ,clearly." Steve said.
" What doesn't everyone sleep with lampshades on their heads?" Tony went straight to the coffee pot.
" Not last time I checked. " Pepper said.
" Well you're no fun! Just kidding sweetie. Hey, do we have stuff to make smoothies?"
" Yeah, in the fridge. "
" Great! Smoothy anyone? Cap? Rogue? "
They both declined.
Kernel Rhodes came out groaning about his headache.
" Rhodie! Good morning!" Tony said. " Smoothy?"
" Nah, but I'll take some coffee and Tylenol if you have it."
"Here you go Jim." Pepper poured and handedhim a mug and some pills.
" Thanks Pepper. " Jim was very pleased.
The morning was spent chatting amongst the group. Rogue was starting to crave a shower and was ready to go home.
" I think I'm going to take off. This was fun hanging out with you guys. " She said.
" Hey, I'll call you a car, no need to take a cab. Avengers and X-men should travel in style. " Tony said and he took out his phone to call for a car service." They'll be by in ten minutes. They're sending a black Rolls."
" Geez. So fancy. " Rogue said.
" Eh, like I said, style. What kind of car do you have?" Tony asked.
" A mustang, black."
" Ahhh, good old American muscle. Nice! Good choice!"
" Thanks! "
" Cap, you need a car?"
" Rogue, mind if I share with you? We're headed in the same direction."
" Oh that'd be all right." She smiled.
" You two are pretty chummy." Tony observed.
" I just found out that I can't kill Steve."
" Well that's a good thing. " Tony said.
" Its refreshing to not have to worry about accidentally touching some one. I have to be careful all the time. "
" That must be difficult." Pepper said.
" It is.I have learned over many years how to sort of harness my powers and shield them so to speak, but when I get distracted and lose my focus that's when I have accidents. So I wear gloves. " she shrugged.
" Hey Rhodie. This girl, can fly without armored suits."
" Really? "
" Yeah. Wanna see?" She asked.
" Sure if you don't mind. " the Kernel said.
" Sure." She shrugged. She went to the middle of the livingroom and they all followed and watched her levitate in the air.
" She can do that without enginrs and metal, how cool is that? Now, I saw your guys uniforms, and though I do think they're stylish, I think you missy should have some kind of armor, I'm not talking like my Ironman suit, but more like Steve's vibranium Suit. Rhodie, we need to work on something that'll keep her safer in the air but still allow her full range of motion."
" You want me to use government equipment to help you develope it? Tony, come on..."
" No, just a couple of your best R&D guys to help me out."
" We'll see."
" I'll pay them, it can be a side gig."
" You're interested in making me some sort of light armor?" Rogue asked.
" Yes for you and Miss Monro, well, really your whole team, I think n you guys could use a revamp on it. We have so much technology we can use but I'm mostly concerned about you and Storm. Your suits are not very bullet proof, from what I know of Hydra , there's a lot they do with weapons these days, right Steve?"
" Even back in WWII they were very advanced." Steve agreed.
" Well, I think that would be cool. Thanks Mr.Stark."
" Uh! No formalities here, we're going to be a team, just Tony, got it?"
" Sorry." She blushed a little.
" It's ok, but really, let's be casual. Oh, hey, your car is out front, Steve pass on my number to Rogue while you're on your way back, and Rogue, pass it on to your team, anyone needs anything, call us. Infact pass on Rhodie's number too. You never know."
" Ok, so I guess we'll go then." Rogue said. " Thanks for the coffee and especially the Tylenol...my heads starting to feel better."
" Our pleasure, hey, please come over again, Steve give her my number too." Pepper said.
" Sure thing Miss Potts. " he paused," Pepper." He nodded.
"See, a gentleman." Pepper said to Rogue.
" Indeed. Well, see you soon. Have a good day!" She and Steve headed to the elevator.
" Wow, a new uniform." T said wistfully.
" That will be cool, and I agree with Tony that you could use some kind of armor. You never can tell how battle will go. It's a good idea to be safe. "
" I'm kind of excited to see what Tony comes up with."
" He drives me crazy, but he is very smart. Knowing him it'll be top of the line stuff too, and he'll likely include some kind of technology. Oh, um, here I should give you those phone numbers too."
Rogue whipped out her phone as they sat in the car riding back to their part of town. Steve made sure she also had his number just in case.
"Well, this was fun, I'm glad we all spent time together as a group not just training together." Rogue said.
" I agree, I think it'll help our communication even more in the training room. And about this morning, I promise, I'd never take advantage of a drunk girl, in my time we took care of girls and kept them from harm."
" Thanks Steve. I appreciate that. I guess this is my stop. Have a good day, I'll see you in the Danger Room later."
" All right, bye Rogue." Steve smiled.
She waved back and walked up the sidewalk to the school, she was going to just walk home from there. She wanted some fresh air.
As she was walking past some of the housing she forgot that she was near Logan's apartment in the senior team quarters. She was walking toward the park and may enjoying the weather, the sun was shining brightly. Just v as she reached one of the paths that headed toward her home she heard some one jogging up, not paying much attention, her name was called, it was Logan.
" Rogue! Hey wait up." He hollered.
" Logan?"
Slowing his pace he came up to her, and stopped, breathing a bit rough, he had been running for awhile, sweat dripped down his forehead and his hair at the hairline curled up slightly.
" Hey, I want to talk about last night. "
" What about?"
" Well, when things got rowdy you told me to fuck off, I thought maybe we could start there. I also want to talk about what you said about Erik."
" Wait, what? I told you to fuck off?" Her memory was very fuzzy on the previous night.
" Well, me and Remy...because we may have gotten into a bit of a pissing match."
" Over me? I thought Remy was going to back off?" She saw a log and went to take a seat on it. Logan joined her.
" Well, he thought I was being overbearing toward you. So he stepped in and we ended up having some words, you in turn told us both to fuck off and then you went back to the balcony and Steve followed you out. I think he may be carrying a torch for you by the way...He stepped in and told Tony that if he didn't ask us to take it outside he was going to take us both outside and well...you know how those things go. Anyway, I saw you pass out but he wouldn't let Remy or I near you. So we took off. I just want to say I'm sorry if I was overbearing, I just, care Rogue." He ran his fingers through his hair.
She sighed, " I have to apologize at least a little, I truly don't remember any of that part of the night, so I can't tell you what I was feeling right then. I definitely don't remember telling you both to fuck off. And I really don't remember passing out. I woke up in bed with Steve, and I freaked out because I thought I killed him."
" You went to bed with him?!" His voice rose a little.
" Nothing happened, I passed out like you said, but he slept b ext to me because it was the only other bed. We didn't do anything. "
" How do you know? You don't remember much of last night!"
" It's a gut feeling, I believe him."
Logan sighed, " Fine, I'm going to trust you in that. You know your comfort level, so I'll stop, but now I want to talk about what you said about Erik. Do you remember that part?"
" That conversation I remember. And Logan, I still mean it, I meant every damned word. " she looked him in the eyes and her eyes were cold as ice.
" Rogue..." he warned.
" If I get the chance, I'll kill him. I'll do it!"
" Look at me!" He took her by the shoulders and maintained eye contact. " That makes you no better than him! That makes you just like him!"
" I don't care! He doesn't deserve to live! He's hurt so many people! So many mutants !" Her voice caught in her throat and angry tears sprang to her eyes. " It needs to stop!"
" Then we detain him forever! We'll find a way!"
" H-he always e-escapes! He always finds a way!"
" Well maybe the Avengers can help us find a better way!"
" We have so little time to figure out how to hold him! If he's dead then I will sleep better at night Logan! Maybe once he's gone I'll stop having some of my nightmares! I just want to be at peace! That'll never happen as long as he's alive!"
He let go of her shoulders and saw such pain in her eyes." We can find a better way. Stark has a lot of technology at his disposal, there has to be something, or even his friend Kernel Rhodes maybe, he's with the government he has a lot of access. Don't be like Erik! Be better than him!" He rested his forehead on hers, " Be better and beat him. Don't be him!" He felt a slight tug at his lifeforce, but it was very minimal. His healing rate was far faster than her draining power at the moment.
" My mind hurts Logan." She said.
" I know sweetheart. And I'm so sorry that you have some of my memories. Christ I wish you'd let Charles wipe it away for you. Just let him free you from the burden Rogue. It's not your pain to bear."
" I never let him in to wipe things away. When you were gone it was all I had left of you." Her tears flowed so freely." I didn't want you gone from me. " her body trembled and Logan reached up and stroked her cheek , watching her eyes.
" Sh-h-h, it's all right now, I'm back and I promised I'm not going anywhere. Just. Stop pushing me away and let me in. Let me back into your life Anna Marie. Please. I know it was fucked up the way I did things, but just let me be here now. Let me make things up to you."
She sobbed and lunged for his chest. Logan wrapped her up tight and held her until she calmed down.
" I still feel the way I do about Erik, nothings going to change with that. " she paused and brought her head back up, making eye contact with him again." I will try to let you back in, but I need you to be patient. I'm trying to let go of my anger toward you."
" Well, what can I do to help? Need to slap me again? Punch me? Tell me." Logan stroked her jawline, his eyes lingered on hers.
" I don't know what I need." She said softly.
" Let me try..." he couldn't finish his words, he felt caught in her gaze and he knew he had to kiss her. So he did, he sank his fingers into her hair and guided her to his mouth. Her breath caught and she felt her heart flutter. She clutched at his tank top to remain steady on the log. He didn't gently place his lips to hers, he devoured her with an animalistic need. One hand stayed at her scalp holding a fistful of her hair, but he used the other to draw her closer against him. The moment was all theirs, anything going on around them they were completely oblivious to. Which was a bad thing, because in the trees lurked Victor Creed, longtime nemesis and half brother of Wolverine. A twig snapped and suddenly Logan went rigid, he caught Victor's scent. His eyes snapped open and he pulled away from Rogue.
" What? What is it?" She asked nervously.
" Victor!" He hissed. Be ready, I'm not sure which direction he's coming from, but he's coming. " they both got to their feet in a hurry. Wolverine drew his claws, and Rogue checked to see if she still had bone claws, and she did so she drew them.
They stood back to back.
" Victor?! I know you're here! Come out!" Logan hollered.

A dark chuckle came from the brush, then a growl, and Victor sprang on Rogue. She screamed and tried to struggle. Wolverine pounced and ripped Victor off of her.
" Get off her!" Wolverine threw Victor." ROGUE! GET OUT AND GET HELP!"
" No! I'm helping you! " she yelled. " Fuck off Victor!" She was beyond pissed and her adrenaline was pumping. She found a big rock and flew up above, dropping the rock on his head distracting him just enough for Wolverine to make another strike pinning Victor to the ground. Wolverine's claws pierced Victor's shoulders.
" Nice little makeout session guys! I was starting to get turned on! I bet she's a fighter! I like it when they fight. " Victor said an evil sneer on his face.
Logan withdrew his claws and went to punching, the sound of adamantium fists clanged on Victor's head. Rogue came down from where she levitated.
" Hold him down Logan! Hold him down and I'll end this!"
" No! You can't kill him! We will apprehend him! Find out what he wants!"
" At least let me drain him enough to knock him out then!" She pleaded.
" All right! All right!" Logan said.
Just then one of Victor's hands broke free and he swiped his claws across Logan's face.
" Raaaaaaaaaaaar! " Logan screamed.
" Logan!" Rogue screamed in horror." I'm going to get you , you son of a bitch!" Rogue said.
" Come on baby! Bring it!" Victor had thrown Logan off him and was immediately back on his feet turning toward Rogue.
She jumped high in the air hoping that the sun would mess with his eyes, it did some but when she landed her strike he still managed to rip at her hip and tore her pants to shreds across her hip.
" Fuck!" Rogue screamed." You fucker!" Blood was starting to flow but she had enough contact with Logan that her quick healing helped prevent it from being fatal.
She got up and watched as Logan made another strike. This time pinning Victor to the log they had been sitting on. The men growled and snarled at eachother.
" Rogue! Get over here and start draining him before he gets back up!"
" On it! I'm coming!" She came up behind Victor's head and removed her gloves, then she placed her hands on both sides of his head and instantly started to drain him. He was surprised by how fast she could make an effect on him. His struggling started to slow.
" What do you want Victor?" She asked.
" Hehe like I'd tell you!" He chuckled starting to sound sleepy.
" Tell us!" Logan said.
" I won't!" He said.
" Let me end it Logan! Let me!" Rogue pleaded.
" No! We need answers!"
" You won't have to deal with him any more!"She yelled.
A sigh escaped Victor as he lost consciousness. They both stopped.
" Let me end it! I know what he's done to you! I have your memories! I know!" She was frantic. Logan dropped his grip on Victor and moved to her taking her shoulders in his hands , she kept just her fingertips on Victor to maintain control of him, preventing him from waking up."
" Look at me. Rogue, look at me!" He softened his voice to try and ease the tension. " We need to restrain him and get him back to headquarters for questioning. No doubt it has something to do with Erik. But let's find out. "
She was breathing erratically, but focused on him.
" Come on, we gotta restrain him now! "
" OK, OK. If you carry him I'll keep my fingers on him just a little so he doesn't come to."
" All right, let's do this. " Logan bent down and hoisted Victor onto his shoulder, leaving Victors head hanging over his back so that Rogue could get control.
Rogue called Headquarters and let them know they were coming with a prisoner. Piotr, said he'd alert Charles and Director Fury, they'd all meet up there.
Logan and Rogue did their best to hurry. Logan wanted to have his questions answered.