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[Kurt has some messages he needs to leave. None of them have to do with that Brigade business, because he's not really apologetic about people not liking his and Mikage's prank. Nor is he eager to fess up being in a girl's body anyway. However he does need to pass on some news about one of his team mates...]

I guess it's pretty obvious by now, but if anyone didn't know, Kitty's back home now. Which isn't fair, because I was totally here before she was! Pretty lame, yeah?

[It's obvious this happened long enough ago that it doesn't bother Kurt now. It doesn't hurt that going home is a GOOD thing and he's just disappointed she got to go home before him. After all, he changes the subject almost immediately. He's doing this mostly because of Anne and partly because Rogue endorsed it in her own way.]

So... does anyone here like acting? Back in Bayville, I was in a drama club, which was pretty cool. Anyone else into that kind of thing?

[Outside of that, Kurt is in his usual haunts. At home playing video games, hanging around on whatever roof he feels like being on, or DEFENDING THE ALAMO in the Battle Dome. Disturb as you will. If you're just doing something interesting out in the open, he may disturb you against your will.]

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[Point - and Rogue raises her mug in Kurt's direction in acknowledgment of that fact. That wasn't what she meant, though, exactly, she'd wanted to ask if he was doing anything horribly suspicious like terrorizing kittens or charging up the fountain for kicks (hey, she LIKES that fountain).

Coming out of the bar? She's only surprised he was by himself.]

He said he'd been here a few days before deignin' to inform us of his presence.

[Kurt gives an absent nod to that as well as a half hearted raising of his glass.]

He probably knows everything about what we've doing...

[A somewhat glum note enters her wry tone.] I wouldn't be surprised. He watched me for weeks 'fore he kidnapped me. He'd have ta know we wouldn't be exactly keen on havin' him here [...although her feelings may be a bit more complicated, she still wasn't exactly jumping for joy] and he's too damn slippery ta put us on our guard until he's satisfied with what he knows.

[...disturbed by your sister's knowledge of the Acolyte, Kurt, or chalking it up to post-absorption effects?]

[He's kind of hung up strictly on one detail.]

He kidnapped you? When!?

[Eh-heh-heh, opps? She thought she'd mentioned that to him, if she'd realized he didn't know she would have handled it with more tact. Or made the attempt. Possibly.]

Right before I got here. 'member when I told you that you came after me?

I remember that. But I didn't know it was because of him.

[And to think! He let Gambit off so easily!]

[Rogue gives him a look that, if it could somehow be verbalized, would translate into 'You're thinking something male and stupid right now, aren't you.'

But then she sighs and looks away.]

Well, it was. But you don't need to worry about that, we settled it.

[Explanations? Psh, what are those?]

[Wow, way to tell him everything there. Don't think you're getting off that easy.]

Yeah? Settled it how?

[She sets her mug down hard and turns to - well, not quite glare at Kurt, but some sort of hard stare close to it.]

Settled it so it's not an issue anymore, all right?

[...yeah, the tacking of a question onto that means that even Rogue knows Kurt is going to need to hear more of the story than this. Doesn't mean she'll let up in her not-quite-glare yet, though.]

[He's tempted to let the matter drop. On the other hand, what would Scott say right now? He certainly wouldn't just drop it. Besides, he isn't asking her about some jerk at school. This is one of Magneto's men, even if they aren't working together now.

So he crosses his arms and assumes the kind of expectant look Scott would have in this kind of situation.]

It's an X-Men issue.

[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.

[Man, he was starting to think this wasn't going to work. He was wondering maybe if the glowy eyes trick would help make him look more intimidating... or just frightening. Fortunately the 'he needed my powers' line quells his suspicion. It also lowers his opinion of Gambit quite a bit. He knows good and well how Rogue feels about that.]

I see.... would he do it again?

[Would he? Rogue... doesn't know. She'd like to say that she doesn't think so, but...]

He had a good reason.

[There is a distinct hint of 'So it's all right because apparently I'm a slot machine and all that I'm good for is 'insert coin, get power use of choice' in her tone there.

...Did she want to say this? No, not at all.]

He needed me to help save his father. His adopted father.

[That's right, Kurt. Gambit the evil kidnapping Acolyte was more willing to help his bastard father than your sister the X-Man was to save your mother. And she knows this is exactly what you'll think, because she can't think anything else when it comes to herself. She hates what she did... and wishes she could say she would have done things differently, now.]

[The thought does occur to him and he slouches back in his chair miserably. This was making him think of things he'd tried to forget about in Luceti. He doesn't know what Gambit's situation with his father is like. For all he knows, the adopted father could be as great as Kurt's own adopted dad. In the end, he decides not to focus on that. His response is delayed as he decides what he needs to say.]

There's never a good reason to kidnap someone.

[She slumps a little in the silence. Yup, this is why she didn't want to talk about this with you, reason number 3.a. Something like challenge sparks in her gaze at that - because yes, duh, Kurt, but aren't you listening to what she's saying?]

I ain't saying that what he did was right. But at least he didn't manipulate me into lettin' him spy my friend or brainwash me into unleashin' the Apocalypse. I'll take what I can get.

[Since this is all I am, and all I'm good for.]

[Ouch, Rogue. Ouch. He knows good and well that Mystique isn't a saint. He wouldn't defend her actions or even as a person. He's not even sure why she's trying to bring her up in all of this and it's starting to annoy him.]

This isn't about her or whether Gambit is worse than she is, Rogue. Our mother isn't here. [Or anywhere.] He is.

[She wasn't trying to throw stones, Kurt - she was explaining her perspective. She gives him a look that's a bit 'Ugh, why do I bother' and 'You asked for this, don't blame me if you don't like the answers.'

But enough pointless self-disclosure. Though pain has tightened the corners of her eyes at Kurt's 'our mother,' she just - sighs and appears to disengage.]

I know. All I'm sayin' is - I don't think he's a bad person. I know he's done a lot of bad things but I know evil. He's no Sabertooth. [Or Mystique.] I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him, but we don't have to worry about him tearin' up the streets of Luceti.

Yeah, I guess so.

[Something about this all doesn't feel right to him, but he's not sure what else he's going to be able to get. He suspects something more went on when she was kidnapped. She wasn't exactly defending Gambit, but she was being more amicable than seemed right. But it's not like there was anything he could do about that.]

[His actions were lousy, but he gave her a chance to make a choice - to help someone do what she should have done once before. As far as Rogue goes, being an extremely private person, she thinks she's explained things more than sufficiently.

Because she knows what it's like to be desperate and make bad choices, even if you won't like yourself very much afterwards.]

If he steps outta line, we'll deal with it then. [...] Until then, it wouldn't hurt ta share our resources. He's a powerful mutant an' a smart planner - might be good to have on our side if things get crazy around here.

[Crazy like drafts and Malnosso.]

[Well, this isn't exactly a bad idea. He's not exactly sold in it, but it's certainly logical. His gut instinct tells him that no good will come of it, but it's not like that's always been right.]

Exactly what resources are you talking about?

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[Shrug.]

Right now just information. An'... not trying to kill each other when we meet on the street. I'm not saying we forget like any of this ever happened, but just... wait and see.

[Okay, that is completely reasonable. Time to force things to be lightened up, so he grins.]

Just as long as he's not getting an empty room here, I'm good with that.

[Rogue recoils.]

I'd sooner bunk with Duncan!

... I heard he didn't get his football scholarship.

[What? It's conversational.]

[...well, that's a stunning change of subject. She blinks a bit and then takes a sip of tea before pronouncing dourly:]

Into every life, a little rain must fall.

[Cry her a river.]

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