[Oh Kurt. You're even less Scott than she is. She holds your gaze, almost amused that you think that you can pull the loyalty card and get her to talk about something she doesn't want to talk about.
...okay, so maybe the loyalty card is a very, very good card.
She stays silent, though, because this isn't a time of her life that talking about with Kurt of all people can go anywhere good.
-'So remember after I threw our mom off the cliff? Right after unleashing Apocalypse? And I was kind of upset and everyone at the Institute was treating me like I'd gone evil or insane or that I was made of glass, and you - you weren't talking to me at all? Gambit was watching the whole time.'-
Yeah. No. But at the same time Rogue realizes that if she doesn't give Kurt something, he'll probably try to get it out of Gambit. And she can only imagine how well that conversation will go. So after the silence between them has gotten nice and thick and made her point that - yeah, she's only talking about this because she chooses to, Rogue tones down her not-quite-glare.]
He didn't take me because I was an X-Man, or because of Magneto, or anything like that. He needed my help. [Pause. A beat of painful clarification, because she's not so sure how true that other sentence was, but she knows this is true:] He needed my powers.
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...okay, so maybe the loyalty card is a very, very good card.
She stays silent, though, because this isn't a time of her life that talking about with Kurt of all people can go anywhere good.
-'So remember after I threw our mom off the cliff? Right after unleashing Apocalypse? And I was kind of upset and everyone at the Institute was treating me like I'd gone evil or insane or that I was made of glass, and you - you weren't talking to me at all? Gambit was watching the whole time.'-
Yeah. No. But at the same time Rogue realizes that if she doesn't give Kurt something, he'll probably try to get it out of Gambit. And she can only imagine how well that conversation will go. So after the silence between them has gotten nice and thick and made her point that - yeah, she's only talking about this because she chooses to, Rogue tones down her not-quite-glare.]
He didn't take me because I was an X-Man, or because of Magneto, or anything like that. He needed my help. [Pause. A beat of painful clarification, because she's not so sure how true that other sentence was, but she knows this is true:] He needed my powers.