Rogue
glared at Aliana and swung at the Asian’s face, “You can’t have him! Ah love Remy!”
“You
did a great job showing it to him when you left him in Antarctica,” Aliana
stated and Rogue flew down and picked her up, dropping Aliana twenty feet to
the ground.
Aliana
resurrected a shield which stopped her fall, “If you loved him you would not
have left him to die!”
Rogue
rammed into the Asian woman, beginning to think she was winning the fight. Aliana’s eyes turned black
as she grew weary of the fight. After duking it out for almost an hour, she began to use her
powers.
Rogue
picked up Aliana again and slammed the Asian woman into another building. This angered the Asian woman further and her
eyes changed once more, this time it had red tinged to the blackness.
Rogue
suddenly felt hot and noticed a red blob starting to surround her. She screamed plummeting to the ground as she
literally burned. Aliana resurrected a
shield and saved Rogue as the computer ended the program. The Asian woman then stopped the plasma and
began to heal the southern belle.
When
Rogue regained consciousness, she found Aliana looming above her, “He’s been
hurting and you’ve been dragging this out for far too long. All of you have, time to leave it in the
past.”
“Why
are you doing this?” Rogue asked weakly looking at her black eyes that were tinged with red.
“Because
no one else will,” Aliana whispered and calmly walked out of the danger room,
bleeding.
*********
Her
eyes were closed as she healed herself in the
bathtub. She had successfully finished
the last wound when someone knocked on her room door. She got out of her tub and wrapped a black
robe around her.
“Yes?”
she cracked the door to peer at
“You all right, darlin’?” he asked
pushing his way inside.
“Um,
yes,” she clutched her towel tighter, “can we have this conversation when I put
some clothes on?”
“Oh,
uh, yeah, sorry, I’ll wait outside,” he replied looking a bit embarrassed.
She
opened the door again when she was fully clothed and allowed the wild man into
her room, “Okay, so what did you want to talk about?”
“You
did a good thing today,” he said, “Someone needed to fix the Remy and Team
issue.”
“I
know,” she nodded.
“Are
you okay? You looked worse for wear when
you left,” he studied her.
“Nothing
food and sun will help,” she shrugged and he looked at her strangely, “I have
to regain my energy through those means.
If not I’ll go into a coma to conserve energy until everything is back
to normal.”
“Does
Chuck and Beast know about that?”
“Yeah,”
she played with her hair a bit, “they know, speaking of which I have some food
to consume.”
***********
Aliana
was sitting beneath the weeping willow tree near the lake. She had been there almost all day, having
brought enough food and water with her to do so. She was building her energy. She did not anticipate how much her plasma
bomb and healing ability drained her.
She
reflected upon the fight between her and Rogue.
She never fought that way before, especially when it came down to
training. Her anger was never so out of
control either. It disturbed her to a
point, especially when Rogue said she had the devil’s eyes.
How would she know anyway? Has she been to hell? She wondered and shook her head.
She
avoided the X-men for the day though.
She didn’t want to look at them, she even
considered disappearing, but that wasn’t really her style. She might have been a runner but she never
left anything behind.
She
took a pebble and threw it at the lake.
It skipped a good six times before it sunk into the water. She remembered how she first learned how to
skip a stone, it took her so long to get the hang of
it.
Suddenly
another pebble was thrown out onto the water and she
became aware of the smell of smoke.
Aliana looked up and found Remy leaning against the tree.
“I’ve
been trying to find you all day, chere,” he replied
without looking at her.
“I’ve
been here,” she shrugged as she pulled her knees to her chest.
“How
are you feeling?” he asked taking a seat next to her.
“I’m
getting there,” she answered, “a couple of hours of sun and sleep and I’ll be
good to go.”
“Good,”
he nodded and then queried, “Why?”
“Why?”
she looked at him confused.
“Why
did you fight Rogue? She could have
killed you,” he took her hand and squeezed.
“They
weren’t treating you right, Remy,” she replied simply, “someone had to make a
stand.”
“Petite,
you didn’ have to do dat,”
he kissed her hand.
“That’s
what I’m here for,” she squeezed his hand.
He
pulled her close to him and held her, “Tank you, petite.”
“Don’t
thank me,” she said, “you don’t have to.”
“No one
has ever done dat for me, petite,” he murmured
against her hair, breathing in the smell of vanilla.
“I said
I would share your burdens with you, I wasn’t lying,” she said finding herself
relaxing to the sound of his heart beating.
“Petite,
let’s go watch a movie,” he murmured.
“Ok,”
she nodded and followed his lead to his boathouse.
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