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Chapter 5: Problems

The smirk that had been brought to her face at the sound of the door locking behind her, vanished as soon as she saw his face. "What's the matter?" Rogue cried running forward.

"I need to talk to you" Remy said soberly.

Rogue felt as though her stomach had dropped to her feet. Remy didn't often use the first person, and when he did, you knew he was deadly serious. "What is it?"

"Remy must go home."

"Why?"

"My father died." He said, no emotion in his voice. "As the Head of the Thieves' Guild, my father had the right to chose his successor. Jon Luc has made me the new head of the Family. I must return to 'rule' the family."

Rogue was devastated; He was going to leave her. He was returning home to his family. "Ah-" she began.

Remy cut her off quickly, "Just until I can put somebody else in charge," he said reassuringly. "I don't know how long that will be, but I'll be back as soon as I can."

Making up her mind in an instant, Rogue turned her head and stared directly into his eyes. "Ah'm coming with you."

"Non" he said immediately

"Yes"

"Non," he repeated. "My family is not to be trifled with, besides, Remy don't think you're friends could handle another unexplained vacation."

"Ah don't care" she said stubbornly "Ah am coming." At his begrudging nod she continued, "As for my friends, Ah'm sure we can think of something…"

Rogue pushed her piece of chicken around her plate, smiling to herself; she counted 'five, four, three, two, one…' RING.

'Shit' she though angrily. Already there was a hitch in her plan. Kitty, who had been a little closer, had answered the phone first. "Hello?"

Conversation stopped, as it always did when the phone rang. "Marie? No I'm sorry there's no Marie here." She started to hang up.

'Screw you, Remy' she thought half angry, half amused. Jumping out of her chair she cried, "Kitty, wait!"

Kitty stopped inches from the phone; ignoring the extremely confused looks for her teammates she grabbed the phone. "This is Marie"

'Marie?" Kitty thought bemused. She listened closely as Rogue spoke. "This is Marie…. Oh, hi Aunt Julie, how are you…." They grew worried as Rogue's tone grew worried "Is he alright?… No….Yes, I'll be there." She hung up the phone.

Her roommate turned to the Professor, she spoke quickly, panicked. "Professor, my Uncle was in a car accident, he's in the hospital. They're not sure if he isn't going to make it. Can Ah"

"Of course-" Professor Xavier interrupted. "I'll have Logan go with you."

"No!" Rogue demanded. Everyone else failed to notice the panicked expression that shown on her face for a brief second before it quickly disappeared. The Professor looked at her,

"You can't go alone."

"But this is a family matt-"

"I must insist that someone go with you."

"Fine" she muttered. Kitty could tell she was extremely displeased, but she couldn't understand why. Having Logan go with Rogue wouldn't be so bad, it would be a good thing actually, he could look after her. Her mouth fell as Rogue continued. "But not Logan, Kitty."

The Professor looked deeply into her face, surprised etched on his face. "Very well. When do you leave?"

Kitty saw the relief washing over Rogue's face, although she wasn't sure anyone else did. "Tomorrow morning." Answered Rogue.

The Professor nodded and Rogue grabbed Kitty's hand. She pulled her hard up the stairs, when they got into their room Rogue closed the door with a snap and locked it.

"What the-"

'Oh this is so not good.' Rogue thought angrily 'Why can't Ah just go alone. This is complete bullshit." Her ravings were brought to an end by Kitty, "What the-"

Rogue's hand flew to Kitty's mouth. "Shh" she hissed. She pushed Kitty onto her bed and drew a deep breath "Listen Kitty, my aunt didn't just call, my uncle wasn't in a car accident, and Ah'm not going home." Ignoring Kitty's "But-" she continued, the words spilled out of her mouth in one breath, "My friend had a family emergency and needs to go home for a while, Ah'm going with him."

"But-"

"Ah was supposed to go alone. But since the Professor insisted that someone come."

"You brought me." Kitty finished.

"Yea, Ah figured you were-"

"The most likely not to get you in trouble."

Rogue nodded. "Well that and… and you are the person Ah trust most with this."

"So are you like going to tell me everything."

"Kitty-"

"Listen, you're, like, one of my best friends and everything, but if you don't tell me what going on I, like, won't play along when the Professor asks." She said. Rogue recognized the tone in her voice. Once Kitty's mind was set on something, she didn't easily give up.

"Fine." A humongous grin broke across Kitty's face. "But you have to swear, and Ah mean really swear that you won't tell anyone or say anything."

"Yeah, yeah, I won't, I like promise"

"I mean it Kitty."

"Yes, Ok. I won't say anything to anyone."

Rogue drew a deep breath. "Ah told ya'll that after Ah lost control, Ah used the last of mah strength to tap into Kurt's powers and teleported out. A mutant found me and nursed me back to health. He said he could teach me how to control my powers. So he trained me. What I didn't tell you was that it was Gambit."

"Gambit!" Kitty exclaimed "One of Magneto's Acolytes, Gambit?"

"Yea" Rogue mutter looking at her feet. "He's not as bad as he seems. He's….He's actually a really good guy."

"And…" Kitty prompted looking expectant.

Rogue marveled at Kitty's ability to just accept things and ask questions later. "And, like Ah said he trained me. Taught me to how to control my powers,"

"How could he teach you when, Professor Xavier couldn't." Kitty blurted out, apparently the ability to not ask questions didn't reach as far as Rogue had originally thought. Sighing she continued,

"When he was little he couldn't control his powers, everything he touched exploded. Ah guess that was motivation enough to learn to use his powers, quickly. He had to learn to think before he touched, just like me. The Professor couldn't teach me something that he hadn't thought of." At Kitty's confused looked she tried a different tactic. "Remy taught me to understand my power, showed me how to push away my power, something the Professor doesn't quite understand. The Professor tries to teach us to accept our power, to let it be a part of who we are. But in my case it was the opposite, I needed to reject my power, to refuse my power the control it demanded."

A brief look of understanding passed over her face. "And now?" she said, prompting Rogue to continue her story.

"Now he's got some trouble at home."

"What kind of trouble?"

Rogue hesitated, "Ah-"

"I won't play along unless I know everything."

"Remy is a thief." Ignoring Kitty's shocked, somewhat horrified look she continued. "He's from a very deadly family of thieves. His father is the head of the family."

"That would make him, like, the-"

"A Prince of Thieves, of the Thieves' Guild." Rogue agreed. "His father was killed last week, and Remy was made the new head of the family. He has to go home to preside over the family."

"For how long?"

"Until he can find a way to make someone else the head." Kitty nodded. Rogue looked at her pleadingly, "So, think you could keep my secret?" she asked half hopefully half desperately.

Kitty thought for a moment. She nodded again. "What do I have to do?"

"Basically all you have to say is that we went to my Aunt's house in Mississippi we stayed there for however long, and that my uncle was in really bad shape but managed to pull thorough in the end."

A sudden though occurred to Kitty "Marie?"

Kitty watched in amusement as Rogue blushed " You don't honestly think Ah was born 'Rogue'." She smirked at the look on Kitty's face.

"I'd never really, like thought about it before."

"My real name is Marie D'Ancanto."

Kitty giggled. "Marie, I, like, think its so you."

Rogue scowled. "Oh another thing, the Professor will expect you to have picked up on this at my aunt's."

Kitty looked at her roommate, her face had gone deep red and she looked…ashamed? Kitty didn't giggle this time she looked seriously up at Rogue.

"Mah family, they don't about my powers. They don't know anything about the Institute."

Kitty frowned "Where do they think you are?"

Rogue muttered something incoherently; Kitty frowned trying to piece together what she heard. "Sorry?"

Rogue took a deep breath, "They think that Ah'm… that Ah'm in a mental institution."

"They what?" Kitty exclaimed.

"After my powers surfaced and Ah took Cody's memories Ah kinda went, well, rogue. Irene told everyone that Ah had had a mental breakdown and was sent to a private hospital in New York."

"What!"

"Well you need to understand something, they aren't really my family. When Mystique adopted me she used the name Sara D'Ancanto. By all accounts she was a normal person, she had a day job, she cooked and cleaned, and she had a house and neighbors. What everyone else, including me didn't realize was that she was actually a mutant. Since she was gone so often, probably killing people," she muttered darkly to herself. "She would leave me with my neighbors, Julie and James. Ah was there so often that they became like family to me. They gave me presents on my birthday and holidays, they came to my school plays, and they comforted me when my mother" She spat the word "left. Mystique and Irene fed them the usual lie that Ah had a skin condition, so they don't know anything about me being a mutant."

"What!" Kitty looked at her shocked and horrified. The fact that anyone thought Rogue was mentally unstable was laughable. She knew how much it must be killing Rogue that the people she cared about, as she obviously did, thought there was something wrong with her.

"Yea" she muttered, clearly embarrassed,

Understanding that the conversation was getting to be a little too much for her roommate, Kitty changed the subject. "So Gambit, huh?"

A smiled played across Rogue's face, "Yeah"

A sudden revelation hit her "Like, oh my god. He's the one you've been sneaking out to see." She sniggered.

"You know about that?" Rogue demanded

"Like, yeah. I stay awake each nigh you're gone." At Rogue's some what suspicious look she continued, "to, like, make sure you come home ok. So are you guys, like, together."

Rogue's face turning pink was the only answer Kitty needed, she giggled happily. "I'm, like, happy for you, Rogue."

Rogue stared at her. "You're happy. Happy that Ah'm seeing Remy."

"Well I, like, wish that you could have chosen someone who wasn't, like, evil." At Rogue's scowl she held up her hands. "Formerly evil." She amended "But I'm, like, glad you found someone." She stood suddenly and faced Rogue. Her voice suddenly serious she said, "But if he hurts you in anyway, I'll, like, sink his ass to the Earth's core."

Rogue laughed and stood also, she hugged her friend fiercely and said. "Thanks, thanks for understanding."

Kitty laughed, surprised at how much Rogue had told her. Her roommate was notorious for only giving half-truths. Half-truths, half lies, and whole nonsense. Nothing she said could be taken a face value, what she said always made sense, it always added up, even the details were good. But if you knew the truth, what she said was ludicrous, complete nonsense, and yet, unless Kitty was very much mistaken, Rogue had been almost completely truthful. It was obvious to Kitty that Rogue had left many things about her time at Remy's and her relationship with him out, but she felt that this was probably the most open Rogue had ever been with her.

When Rogue finally let Kitty go, Kitty giggled again and ran to her dresser, "Come on we've got to pack!"

AN: Hey guys sorry I didn't update earlier, I was on vacation. It was fantastic. My mother's family is from a little country in Central America, like in the Caribbean. So I spent a week on the beach, scuba diving, swimming, and getting a tan.

Anyways, about the Chapter, so I hope you guys liked it. We learned why the title is Half Lies, Whole Nonsense, I hope you thought it was… I don't want to say cool, but for lack of a better word…cool, entertaining, makes sense, like it….that kind of stuff.

I'm about to start writing the next chapter, right now. So I'll post really soon, I hope. School starts on Monday, yucky, but I'll try. Please review. They make me feel really special. :).

Oh, yeah we'll learn why Jon Luc made Remy the head of the family, even though he only like him for his powers, and Remy ran away a long time ago