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Who Rogue

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Where The Institute
When Evening, shortly after her arrival
Warning None I can think of
Summary Rogue and Scott catch up, and Rogue learns a couple things...
Format whatevs~

Rogue tried not to take too much time before meeting up with the fearless leader. She was already going through sensory overload... not exactly being in the best state of being when she arrived to begin with. She took a couple moments after meeting with Remy to collect herself and calm down... which thankfully didn't take too long. She was getting to be rather used to this kind of thing -- which she wasn't sure was a good or bad thing.

Finding Scott was simple enough, being the headmaster and all. Finding his office, the door was open. He mustn't have been there long. She walked to the doorway, knocking lightly on the siding. "Knock knock, Shugah." The southerner smiled slightly. He was a sight for sore eyes, that was for sure. Which was strange... since she had to have seen him a couple days ago.

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Scott had just returned to his office after doing a walk through of one of the classes when Rogue knocked on the door. He had been glad to see her show up, even if their relationship during his time wasn't the best it had ever been. Still, she was an old friend and he was glad to see her.

"Rogue," he said, smiling as he stood up from behind the desk. "Thank you for coming to see me."

Rogue shrugged her shoulders a little, walking in. "Well, since y'all asked so nicely..." She crossed her arms across her chest, brows knitting together slightly. This place was sure something else, but she was confident that she was strong enough to live with all the immediate changes that had happened. Sure, there were some things she had to figure out, but it was a break from the concerns she had before arriving to the City. "So... yah said there were things y' wanted t' talk about." Rogue tilted her head inquisitively.

"Mostly I wanted to know when you come from," Scott said, gesturing for her to take a seat as he sat down in his chair.

"People are here from all different times and I'm trying to get an idea of where and when people are from," he explained. He especially had good news for her if she was from before he came from.

Rogue paused before sitting down, nodding a little. "That'd make sense." She crossed one leg over the other, trying to recall the best way to describe where in the timeline familiar to the X-Men she could explain she was pulled from. "We defeated Onslaught." She nodded again. "Gladiator asked some of us t' help stop the Phalanx tah help save the Shi'ar Empire."

"Wow," Scott said, eyes widening just a tiny bit. That was from a ways back. The fact that it was such a major, major conflict at the time but was relegated to nothing more than a somewhat distant memory was a strange commentary on how the X-Men lived.

"That's from a bit before me. There's a lot of things you should know. First, there was an incident on Genosha. Sixteen million mutants were killed by Sentinels sent by Cassandra Nova."

Now it was Rogue's turn to be surprised. "W...What?" It wasn't surprising that Scott was from ahead of her time... she was starting to feel that was nearly the case for everyone... but... Sixteen million....? She couldn't even believe that.

"I know," he said softly, refusing to let himself be blase about the situation. It seemed like so much had happened since then, but those dead still deserved to have the horror of what happened to them respected.

"It was awful."

"Mah Gawd..." Rogue looked down, thoughtfully. She knew Cassandra was capable of horrible things... but that? "Start off with that, Shugah, and Ah'm almost worried to ask what else..."

"We call it the Decimation," Scott said. He couldn't think of a more fitting name for it, because that's what it was, the decimation of the mutant species.

"Mutants all over the world, millions of them, lost their powers. There are only hundreds of us left, and only one new mutant birth since then and there was a lot of bad things surrounding that."

"Ah... can't believe that..." She felt grateful for future generations- that they wouldn't have to suffer the way everyone close to her did and live normal lives- but wiping everyone out otherwise.... Rogue brushed her hair back. She was sure if there was a way to avoid that, or stop it from happening... they tried all they could. Was that what was ahead of her, and everyone she cared about? Seemed like a bleak future. "Tell me there's a silver linin'... somethin'"

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"The baby that was born, Cable said she's our savior," Scott continued, not quite sure how much he should tell her. There was a lot for her to know.

"Gambit, Sinister, and Mystique all kidnapped her. Sinister to do... what he does. Gambit and Mystique because they believed she could heal you from a... condition you had. Even if it meant you'd kill the baby when you touched it. Fortunately, you both survived, and the baby wiped your slate clean. All the psyches you had in your head from over the years were gone."

At first, Rogue didn't think much of a single mutant child being born. Brows knitting together, she found it hard to believe Gambit and Mystique would work together willingly... but this kid would help her get all the psyches out of her head? ... it was almost touching they'd work together to help her.... but the child...? "...Ah suppose if nothing happened to the kid, no harm done..." She gave Scott a curious look. "right...?" Now this was getting hairy. How could she know that everything was for the better? Sure, he was telling her now that her condition could be helped... if anything else, to get rid of the different personalities of the past that plagued her mind....

"Well, some of us consider Gambit and Mystique willing to risk you killing a child because it might help as 'harm done'," Scott said, only half trying to disguise the loathing he had for what the two did.

"But something else happened," he continued. "I don't know what, but in my time, you're not just cured of the memories but your abilities are under control. You can touch people without hurting them or absorbing anything."

Small worry about the child that 'cured' her panged in her chest. And then Scott said something that was just.... a bit much. In his time, she could touch people without her powers taking charge? Now that just sounded like a fairy tale. Rogue's green eyes grew. "Wh... Scott, that's impossible." She almost sounded offended... as if Scott was the type to toy with her -- which he wasn't -- and in the back of her head she was trying to remind herself of that fact.

"Rogue, you should know by now that nothing is impossible," he said, giving her a smile. He knew how long she had wanted something like that and also how long she had resigned herself to that not being possible.

"You can take and use powers at will without hurting others, also," he added. "And you're very good at using them."

And then, Rogue's expression of disbelief pulled to a smile. So it was possible. It was completely and utterly possible... she almost felt like crying... it was the best news she had heard, well, ever. "You wouldn't play a girl, would yah?" She laughed softly in her voice, her face brightening with the possibility. "Mah gawd... H-how?" She wasn't sure how much Scott was willing to tell her about it, but she figured if he had gone this far explaining things, he might as well give her the whole story.

She had been struggling with her abilities since the day she discovered them... while the mutants around her harnessed their abilities, she stood by in heavy envy... When she joined the X-Men, she found a home and a family... but she never grasped what she had joined the team for in the first place; control. In fact, control over her powers was something of a distant dream to her, that she had near completely given up. She was convinced that her whole life, until the day she would die, she would never be able to touch another living creature with her powers in tact. She began hating her own mutant identity... and even in her new found family, she felt a sense of alienation.

She waited eagerly for Scott's response, almost literally at the edge of her seat.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not entirely sure how," Scott had to admit. If things were less hectic back home, he would have gotten to the bottom of it by now, but there were other things he had to take care of.

"All I know is that you, the Professor, and Danger, ahhh, Danger is the Danger Room, it became a sentient computer program, were in Australia and something happened there that helped you out."

[ooc: I couldn't find any instance of Scott learning exactly what happened, and I didn't feel comfortable just assuming he would.]

Rogue deflated a bit, leaning back against her chair. She brushed her hair back and let out a breath as if she had been holding it for his response. She shrugged her shoulders, smiling a bit to him. "It's alright, Scott..." Rogue sat upright. "Ah guess Ah'm just glad to know its possible." Which was more than she had going for herself in the past. "..Thank you." She laughed lightly. "Now the trick's gonna have'ta be figuring out how it happened..." Which wasn't much for her confidence, since she figured she had been doing all she could up to this point to gain control. What wasn't she doing, or what hadn't she done in the past?

She turned her head slightly. "...Am Ah all caught up... because Ah have some questions..."
[ooc: :D np, works out fine <3]

"That's about it, as far as I know," Scott said, not sure if he should bring up Selene and the zombies or not. Maybe he could save that for later.

"At least for now. If you've got some questions though, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them."

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