Spirit Lost

By moi

I know, I know I bet your all like FINALLY!

Well I'm back, sorry yeh'all I had it typed up but it kept getting bumped back on the editing board. Trying to actually finish one of my other stories, now I think I'm going to try to keep an every other weekly schedule, but I can't guarantee anything right now. I'm trying to pull a lot of hours in at my work and do school work and such. Thank you, to all you guys who aren't giving up on me go buy yourself some cookies you're awesome. (I tried to make yeh some but well…..I didn't think you guys deserved that torture so I through'em away.)Well here we go.

If you want to skip this part which some of you have already read go to the next sky-sun-forest-sea thing a couple paragraphs down.

Oh and I had to narrow my chapter title so originally this was it

Sometimes you Must say Goodbye Before you can Say Hello Again: Chapter 7

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Rogue let out a large yawn. Why on earth were they doing this, this early in the morning?Half normal people wouldn't be able to make breakfast let alone take a physical test at their best. Some one had to tell Wolvie they didn't have a healing factor not that she was volunteering, he wasn't exactly a morning person. Hell, he was plain sadistic in the mornings.

The ones taking the test along with her were Pietro, who was very annoyingly peppy in the mornings, Remy and Betsy. Storm had taken Betsy to conduct a different test because she was younger.

Lucky her, Rogue thought bitterly.

"Okay first we're going to test you're mutant abilities. Rogue you just need to write a full evaluation of yours. Make sure to leave nothing out."

She glared at him. Are you sure you don't need an example I'll gladly test it out on you. Yep, she was defiantly cranky this morning.

"Speed boy you go first."

As Pietro went down the elevator and into the danger room Rogue took a seat near one of the controls to fill out her paper which she did true to her word.

Once Wolverine was done testing Pietro's speed, (well technically it was more like Pietro broke the treadmill especially designed to test him) it was Remy's turn.

"Shades off Cajun." Wolverine growled.

"Remy don take dem off, homme." He said coldly giving him a sour smile.

"I've seen blue skin, yellow eyes, claws, half ape, white eyes, white hair, dog girl. Nothin' you got is gonna surprise me."

"It's a trust-."

"You live in a house full of mutants, boy, you're gonna have to get used to your mutation some time. They ain't gonna shock anyone."

Remy's whole body tensed up as he lifted the sunglasses off his face. His eyes glared at them all.

Truthfully, they awe-inducing, scarlet inflamed his irises against a black backround giving off the affect that they glowed.

"Happy?" He asked Wolverine through gritted teeth.

The older man grinned. "Quite. Now get down there and let's see how your powers play."

Remy growled and stormed to the elevator.

Rogue set her pencil down to watch. This might be interesting. Marie agreed silently as she to, watched out of Rogue's eyes.

"Ready Cajun?" Wolverine asked mocking over the intercom.

Remy responded with something that sounded rather insulting in French.

"I'll take that as a yes." Wolverine laughed and turned the testing level up two notches.

Yeah, Wolverine defiantly had morning issues.

The boy pulled out a deck of cards as the system light turned green and robots started to appear.

What was he going to do paper cut'em to death?

It all happened so fast Rogue barely kept up with it. The card seemed to sparkle with a red aura and then it shot from his hand like one of Cyclops's beams. It hit one of the robots head-on and exploded on contact.

Remy then preceded to fire his cards with precise aim, every time he sent a robot flying. No robot got with in a couple feet of him before it was blown away.

After thirty six robots where destroyed Wolverine turned the simulation off and Remy returned to the control room.

"Nice little trick yeh got there Gumbo any other powers?"

Raising an eyebrow at the Gumbo he responded with a shake of his head.

Wolverine turned to Rogue. "You're first in the physical testing since you know how it's done. Let's see what you really got, Rogue." He challenged with a glint in his eye.'

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"And remember what the professor said." He added.

"Don't worry, Ah don't easily forget things." Rogue answered coldly.

She took the elevator down and entered through the titanium doors.

"I'll start you on level one and slowly the computer will take you up to more challenging levels." Wolvie's voice explained over the intercom as she took off her raggedy burgundy sweater revealing a tight black camisole. She went through a couple stretches while he continued to speak.

"I'll shut it down when I think you can't handle any more." Rogue guessed he was only telling her this for the newbie's sakes.

Before she had stopped at level 5, a pretty moderate level but most of the others had only gotten to 3 or 4. Wolverine held the record at 26, considering he couldn't really die it seemed a little unfair. Well he had gotten her up this early in the morning for this stupid test she mine-as-well break his record Rogue thought with a smirk.

Unfortunately she couldn't go all out because this was Marie's body. The muscle and bone structures were different, not majorly, but enough for her to notice. It had taken her a couple months to build Anna's body up to her standards, with Marie's it had taken two years. The body would never be exactly as her birth body, there was always an unfamiliarity about it, something that wasn't quite right.

At least she wasn't knocking things over any more, Rogue sighed bitterly.

The green light flashed and before her eyes the huge room transformed into a dark ally. Standing in front of her was one of the faceless Danger room robots, this one was about her height and weight dressed as a teenager boy.

This was how the test started you fought onward untill more joined and slowly you became hopelessly out numbered. The Danger room then tested your fleeing skills.

It gave you places to hide, also sometimes a few obstacles to over come. If you stayed hidden the robots would "find" you, driving you out, then engage you into a fight. It lasted untill the programmer decided you could no longer continue.

If you progressed during the fight the robot's immature attacks grew more advanced and tactical, soon more joined. Sometimes the land would shift under you to test your fighting skills in different terrain.

Rogue took the robot in front of her down with one simple kick spinning around to plant a fist into the gut of another robot who, as she predicted, just appeared behind her. Luckily the robots were programmed to react as if they were humans so the thing crumpled to the ground pretending to have it's breath knocked out.

She lost track of how many she took out before they started to appear in tens soon flooding the ally and street. "Conveniently" a rusty fire escape appeared on the building behind her. Now she was supposed to flee it seemed.

The girl climbed up it swiftly stopping at the top to watch the crowds in the street disappear.

Rogue smirked, she had an idea.

Turning back she feinted fleeing onto the roof but spun at the last possible minute and smashed the back of her heel clean through the rusty bar that attached it to the wall. That was going to hurt in the morning, Rogue winced. Ignoring the pain, she threw her weight into the railing wrenching the thing forward, yet it still didn't fall.

Crap! She needed this to work! Again she thrusted her body into the railing it moaned in protest but finally gave way. Rogue jumped from it as it fell onto the ally way of men.

Landing on her feet she let the momentum swing her into a roll then she stood from it when she reached the street.

There was now time to gloat as the Danger room realized what she had done and the landscape now turned underneath her again.

Now a new scenery was materialized around and under her. Rogue was now deep in a forest over ridden with bushes.

Hmm….well she had never seen this happen before.

Gunfire broke through the silence bullets whizzed past her. Pain exploded from her ear drum. Cursing she dropped to the ground and crawled army style under a nearby bush. Rogue was still swearing under her breath as she cupped her ear.

She had to find the gunman.

That meant making herself a target again to see which direction the bullets were coming from. Rogue sighed reluctantly, this bastard better not lay another bullet on her, she thought with a growl.

Standing, her eyes barely caught the bullets path. As quickly as she could calculate in which each had come from she was on the ground again.

What was this? The bullets were coming in random direction changing in seconds. Where was it coming from?

Unless… the computer was trying to test her fleeing skills now. Giving her something impossible to take down because it didn't exist, all she could do was hide.

Rolling further into the bushes Rogue ignored the flaring in her shoulder. She pulled the branches around her weaving them into a thin but covering wall.

Then the girl laid her head down turned to the side to watch for any feet that might walk by. Breathing in and out she slowly calmed her body, untill all her functions were completely silent.

After what felt like a half hour she wondered again if Wolverine had shut down the simulation and they had all gone out for donuts….That's when canine howls pierced the air. Shit, dogs! They had dogs!

Rogue bursted from the brush wincing as the branches ripped at her open arms. Stretching her legs into far lengths she ran at full throttle carefully eyeing the ground for mole tunnels or roots as she went.

She stood still for a couple seconds gathering energy in her legs and letting it spring her up to one of the branches on a nearby tree. Gracefully she climbed her way to the next sturdiest branch she could find.

Once she had put a good distance between herself and the ground Rogue used all of her momentum to swing to a branch on another tree. Using this method she got herself a few yards away before she let herself climb down again.

That should have taken care of any robotic hounds that might have followed her. As soon as Rogue had that thought her surroundings changed again, (she was really getting sick of this), now she was in a flat field with two faceless robot men. So this was the fight stage? She cracked the first ones "neck" quickly and then worked on getting the other off her back in which he had jumped. Punching him in the face she somersaulted over succeeding in flipping him off.

As she surveyed the scene two more showed up to add their number to the other two who were getting up easily.

Okay they won't stay down, maybe she could change that.

After maybe twenty more taken down Rogue was finally starting to breath heavy. Now there was at least ten with top fighting skills that kept standing. They were relentless barely feeling the punches she laid on them.

She grunted as a robot got a shot past her defense landing in her gut.

Damnit! Why did it have to be today, and in the morning!?! Another couple robots joined the fray.

Now, she'd just have to bring it up a notch!

Taking a deep breath she stopped trying to block and let her fury out.

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Remy PoV

Remy couldn't keep his mouth from falling open. It was insane, she was close to rivaling his own skills, and that wasn't easy to admit. After that little stunt with the falling fire escape the level had moved up to 10. Now it was at 20 and she was still going strong.

Uh oh….one of them had a gun. Rogue was on him in a flash knocking him away and stealing the weapon. Exactly what he would have done….

Still fighting she picked her shots carefully taking out the ones she could. She wasn't the best he'd seen but she hit everything she aimed at.

Glancing around the room he found he wasn't the only one shocked. Pietro sat blabbering dumbfounded to Wolverine who was just staring his eyebrows furrowed.

This went on for at least 30 more minutes and the girl was bumped up to 25(A/n convenient no?). Rogue was now soaked thoroughly her hair was escaping her pony and threatening her eyes. Still her weariness was barley showing in her fight work. It was as if it was doing it's work on it's own.

Remy watched her closely. Every moment or two he had seen her eyes flash towards them, that's when he remembered the level monitor under their viewing window.

She was checking her level? Why?

Wolverine let out a very audible growl when the monitor finally reached 26. "Rogue I'm shutting it down you're exhausted.

The striped hair girl sent a glare up before taking out one last robot upping her level to 27. She smirked. "Alright now yeh can Wolvie." The girl said in a sickening sweet tone. "Happy?"

He slammed the virtual reality off and Rogue grabbed her sweatshirt. Sweat gleamed off her thinly clothed body making Remy raise an eyebrow. That's before he noticed blood leaking through the bandage on her shoulder.

Logan must have spotted it too because he called down to her again. "Go down to the infirmary have yourself checked."

The wiped girl nodded and left through the medal doors.

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Rogue PoV

She held her arm which was starting to throb. Maybe going all out after receiving a bullet wound recently hadn't been the best idea she had ever had but it sure beat the look on Wolverine's face.

Rogue was still smirking when she entered the infirmary. Usually the older members of the X-men took turns looking over the med bay so she probably would have to wait a couple minutes. Sighing she gazed around hoping to find some supplies she could patch herself up with when she saw the boy with the metal wings from before.

He was still lying on his stomach but he was cleaned up little better then the first time she had seen him. His blonde hair was still long but some one looked to have washed it and cut it to his chin. She guessed he was maybe a year younger then herself, but he had to be taller. His chin was nicely chiseled and his muscles looked well used.

Warren, that's what the professor had called him. What was with the wings? Rogue wondered as she examined how the X-men had levered the two heavy metal things up. They had to be larger then the boy himself and equally as heavy. Was this part of his mutation or did the scientists do this to him?

Ah remember him…Marie's voice echoed softly in the back of her mind.

Ah thought yeh couldn't remember much of the base? Rogue asked. Marie had completely lost it when Rogue had absorbed her.

In the middle of her melt down, Rogue guessed, her brain must have locked away the memories of what had happened. Before Rogue had shared her own memories with the physc, Marie didn't remember a thing of that hell hole.

Rogue had almost wished she would have left the girl that way.

Yes, but Ah remembeh him…Ah think Ah saw when he was brought in. Ah really thought he was an angel sent there teh rescue us. Everyone in the cells next to me called out teh him. He looked so sad…but he didn't have medal wings when Ah saw him, he had gorgeous white feathers………

Rogue waited for her to realize what they had done.

Wait-.They couldn't have-. They were terrible but to do that…that's just sick! The innocent physc cried.

She herself wasn't that surprised, they had already done so many other things why not this.

"Excuse me did you want me to look at that?" She didn't notice the voice had come from in the room for a couple seconds then she jumped.

In shock she realized she didn't recognize that voice. Her eyes snapped around the room checking the perimeters thoroughly.

"Up here dear."

Swearing, Rogue looked up and had to gape, not that she hadn't seen someone blue before, but he was massive. Blue hair covered him smoothly his face was contorted into something like a cross between a wolf or maybe a feline and a human. His eyes were large then most humans yellow slitted orbs hiding behind a pair of sensible frames. His large body was dressed in a pair of black pants and a long white lab coat it's ends hanging down his back as he hung upside down holding a book.

Jumping gracefully down he landed gently beside her. "I'm sorry if I frightened you." He sighed with an educated tone. "I always forget I don't look like I once did."

The, what she now assumed was a mutant man, walked to the large desk in the corner and set his book down.

Rogue shrugged. "We're mutants, yeh appearance isn't that frightening if yeh used to it like me. Yeh just startled me that's all. Do yeh always hang out on the ceilin'?"

He grinned, showing off sharp powerful teeth. "It is rather comfortable. I have only just arrived, my name is Henry McCoy. Your professor found me a week ago it seemed one of the components in my experiments were off, there fore I've taken on this form and have become a 'menace', as they say, to society. At first I did not believe such common prejudices would keep me at bay but it appears there are more people then I have expected against mutant kind. So I decided to this place might be more to my liking. "

"So yeh not a mutant?"

"No, I am a mutant but rather, I was with out this blue form before." Mr. McCoy explained some what sadly. "Now your professor has so kindly offered me a possession in this infirmary."

"You're a doctor?"

"Among other things, yes. Now maybe I should attend to that." He gestured at her shoulder. "You must be Marie. Your records say that you gained a bullet wound most recently."

He carefully unwrapped it, causing Rogue to wince. "Actually that's probably gonna change soon, mah real name's Rogue. Long story.'

The doctor smiled. "Interesting maybe I will hear about it some day."

The corner of her mouth turned up. "Maybeh." Her eyes turned back to Warren. "So what do yeh think about his condition?"

Mr. McCoy looked to the boy sadly. "It is defiantly a self induced coma. Sometimes our brain simply can't accept what has happened so it just shuts down and sometimes the patient comes back in a few days but sometimes…he merely stays within the comfort of his coma forever." He added. "I certainly hope that this is not one of those cases."

"Me neither." Rogue and Marie whispered together.

"Well with your professor working on him each day he has a better chance then most." The man said again cheerful as he finished.

She gave him fake smile for his troubles. "Thank yah for seein' to this. Ah'm sure we'll meet again around 'ere."

"Hopefully not for the same reason." The blue man moved back to his desk and his book as Rogue again looked at the boy.

She sighed then offered another nod to Mr. McCoy before heading out the door straight into Cody.

He looked up and away quickly hoping to pass her.

"Wait Cody-." She called, surprised when he actually stopped. Now she didn't know what to say, she really wasn't expecting the boy to stop. "We should talk before yeh go." The girl finished lamely.

He nodded still not looking at her.

"Now work for yah?" Rogue asked.

Cody looked up at her in surprise then quickly away again. "Sure, out on the patio? It's where Ah was goin' before."

"Good-a place then any." She shrugged.

It was a quiet walk to the patio and it felt like took forever even though it was only a couple minutes.

Finally she asked. "Do you want teh talk to Marie? She wants me to do it."

He gaped and Rogue took that as a yes. Sinking down she let Marie's physc take her place right before Rogue added. "Just remembeh Cody she's not real. She's only a copy of Marie's soul. The real Marie's dead."

She knew it hurt phsyc-Marie but it had to be said. No more mistakes…she didn't want this boy anymore delusional then he already was.

"Is that really you?" He asked in disbelievement.

"Yeah." Marie nodded Rogue's head.

"What color did yeh want mah tux to be at Prom senior year."

She smiled softly. "Yellow cause it was gonna match mah dress. We had a rather long argument about it but in the end yeh said yeh'd wear a yellow corsage."

He searched Rogue/Marie's eyes and Rogue pulled away quickly when he tried to wrap his arms around her.

A tear escaped Rogue's eye as Marie's heart twinged. "Ah'm not covered."

He looked at what she was wearing then at his own bare arms. "Yeah Ah guess you aren't…"

Cody shook his head in a frustrated manner. "Why did you do it Marie?! Why!!!? Why would the girl Ah love do something so stupid!?"

"Yeh don't know what it was lahke Cody." Marie turned away. "It was so terrible, the stuff they did to us. It was nothing you could ever imagine. Even if you witnessed it from afar, it was…"

"But the girl Ah knew wouldn't give in like that. That's why it was so easy to believe that Rogue did this to you. It was so easy to hate and live only for that. Now Ah'm lost…Ah'm lost Marie! My whole life was centered around getting' revenge! Now what am Ah to do! Tell me!!!"

Tears stung her face as they poured down by the bucket load. Rogue never remembered a time that she cried. This feeling was strange to her.

"Ah'm sorry Cody!Ah'm so sorry!Ah thought yah were dead what was the point of livin'? If yeh were dead and my parents hated meh-! The world hated meh Cody!!!!! Ah couldn't be strong…there was no point." Marie finished.

Cody swallowed hard tears glimmering in his own eyes he turned away. "Now what?"

The statement was so simple yet the answer was beyond difficult. "Yeh will live Cody. You can survive without meh." She offered him sweet smile. "You're good at that. Me, Ah don't exist. Ah'm dead, so Ah guess Ah'll just tag along with Rogue and maybe one day Ah'll just disappear from her forever…." The girl shrugged. "It's probably gonna be alot harder then that. Ah mean what Ah said are just words…the rest is up to you. Ah'm sorry…"

(A/n I know, I know a little corny, but in a cute way.)

He nodded. "Me too." With that he kissed her hard.

That's when Rogue snapped back in place. As fast as she could, the girl slammed her fist into his solar plexus. Cody fell to the ground but luckily or not so luckily was still conscious.

"Ah'm sorrah too, but don't eveh eveh do that again." She commanded softly. Brushing the burning water from her face she left to go back to her room.

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Remy PoV

He was heading back to his room to take a nice long shower when he passed Rogue and knew something was wrong. Her eyes and face were red as she walked by. Before he could stop himself he opened his mouth.

"Is somethin' wrong chere?" Bete, bete, bete, (for all those who actually know French couldn't put the accents on my computer font.) why on earth did he do that!? He was so stupid! He wasn't supposed to act caring to the beautiful girl who could and probably would, put up a hassle for him here.

She looked up and all that argument fell away. "Marie's tears not mine. Ah never cry." The girl seemed not to know that she was talking to the boy she would have killed last night with out the slightest thought. With that sentence she simply walked away leaving one baffled Cajun.

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Already hoped yeh enjoyed. Added on little more then I was gonna but here yeh are. Sorry again about the lateness. Now yeh'all just push that little button on the side and tell meh what you think because I know a lot of you who read this aren't reviewing you bad bad people so REVIEW! Please and thank you makes the world go round that' why it's not spinning so well.

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