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Sinner-Wanda.Rouge

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Wanda found herself staring at still full wine glass in front of her in bordem more than celbration. The other members of the Brotherhood of Mutants were busy celebrating their latest mission, Wanda hadn't been included in it therefore she honeslty ddin't see why her presence was needed. Well not really her father wnaed his second in Command, sense Mistuiqe had dissapeared sometime ago, and his daughter to be present.
There were none in the Brotherhood she liked and even fuwer she coudln't admit to tolerating and that included everyone present in the room. Peatro was her number one in terms of dislikeing his self asserted dominating persoanlity made him extremly difficult to work with, even harder to give orders to when needed.

Toad, though she knew she should call him by his real name. He did that for her but a habbit was hard to break fortunatly he he didn't seem to mind ethier. "I'll be sufficating soon enugh if Peitro has his way. No thank you." She replied loud enough only for him the table was long and though not all members were there, this was a celbration just for the 'Higher' members. The coup attempt on the medicle research company had gone off without a hitch and her father, Magneto, was overly delighted.
Sometiems she had to catch herself and not call him Father.
If she were honest Toad, Mornamer, was probalby the closest she could dare get to trusting in the Brotherhood save for her FAther. Her finger continued to lazily trace the rim of her glass still with it's untouched wine.
'X-Men scattered not evne a threat making the MRD hesitent to even dare look at us. Why would I not be happy and celebrating?' She thaught to herself with bitter sarcasim.
But she knew better than to express her inner musing at such an event and put on a small smile if only for Magneto's benifit. "I'll assume you found some interesting new toys courtesy of our new freinds?" She asked Toad while catching Peitro whispering something to her Father, that would be sometihin to take note of and peofrm possilbe damage control.

Five years. Five years of being alone, again. Rogue would have laughed at the bitter irony if she didn't want to bring attention to herself. It was cold and raining on top of everything else and she was aware of her belly grumblign for food. That was a problem, she needed money and badly but lacked even a nikcle or dime to her name.
New Orleans as much her home as Mississippi had been but she barley remebered it. She had been moved to New Orleans as a young gril, now wondering what the rela reason had been and felt so much more at home. No money, no job and beign a mutent didn't help her case with trying to find work. Everyplace that seemed to want her required she wear something that would risk skin contact.
She'd had taken sleeping at times in a shelter for battered women saying that she was hidding from an abusive boyfreind and that was really all they needed. However due to one gril accidnelty touchig her, Roduge quickly left without a word.
No matter what time it was the streets were crawling with people, even the graveyards. As bad of luck as she knew it to be the graveyards were the safest places for her. Dark no people and no chance of accidnelty sypiring them.
however Gambit - oh she hated him!- had made it a point having found her to make passes of her joining his organization. Her answer was always the same 'Hell No!'. She was sick of beng used by everyone and everthing! The X-Men though hadn't done so in a such a vruel way still had used her!
An old crypt at the farest side of the demetary served as her home more often than she would have liked. She always found what she needed eventually but se knew she coudlnt' live like this much longer.
Least she didn't have to hear someone acutlaly kill her, she'd end up killing them. 'Least i'll just die out here of sickness, exposre or starve .. yeah that so much better.' She thaught bitterly crawling into the small opening that lead to her little santuary form the world. Keeping her bedding on the very far side removed he wet coat and boots only to climb under cold blankets. "Least I got them." She muttered codly while wathcing the the hole at the far end out of habbit.

Wanda understood all to well. She'd much rahter be in her room reading over the varies 'spell' books she had been given by her 'Aunt' Agatha Blackheart. The women was considered as true a wttch as herself and had taught Wanda varies spells. the books she had said were methods of mental training which was more inportnat than phycial with the arts half the time.
Sometimes, when she had still been little and living with Agatha that she had remined with the old woment. At least than she would have been away from the plots, lies and insanity that came wiht dealing with Peitro. Her brother had resneted her for years claimign she was MAgnetos favorite child time and time again. Wanda had fianlly ahd enough and said what she'd been thinking for years 'I'm his favorite because I listen. I do what he asks and I don't go playing games with the people he gives me.' that had .. been a violent confrotnation between the two.
That had also been the first time he had hit her with the intent to truely harm her. Shattering his knee had been her warnign to him.
"Your free to leave if you want." She told him sense no he wans't required to remain much longer and he could easily slip away unnoticed, well till Pietro got boed and saught him out. She along with her brother were required to remain though her darling brother tended to always do as he pleased. "I hoenlty miss the X-Men when dealing with these." Sghe muttered fianlly finding the untouched wine somewhat appealing.

Rogue would have gien anythign for a drop or warmth and the New Orleans' rians were getting older as the winter began setting in. She'd need to findd shelter for when that happened perhapes another shelter were she could blend in. The first time it took Gambit awhile to find her and part of her considered syphoring him into oblivion for showing up in the middle of the night in her room.
She'd been thankful she'd had all her clothes on.
The few cnadels she had needed to be saved alonng with the matchs, lamp oil and bulbs. She had learned to ignore unpleasent smells though at times when she wans't moving they crept up on her. Though the crypt wwas old and it's occupents buried someitmes .. it really stnak.
Her moth eatne blankets and pillow smelled much better than this place at times. 'LEast no 'coon in her tongiht.' Having to chase a racoon out of her hidding spot was more toruble than it was worth half the time, mainly for the teeth and claws.

Wanda had nothing to say to that Toad's turncoat actions hadn't left many members sure of his loyalties than again she hardly blamed Taod himself. "I find root him to the floor a good way making him rethink his current course." She said simply Taod could in fact expel sticky flem, as disgusting as that was but a Mutant coud never pick what they got for powers.
Perhapes Magneto would be in such a mood as to allow her to elave early and .. be elsewhere. Wanda, out of the corner of her eye, caught Peitor talking with Domino and leanign far closer than what was needed. The look on the woment's face said everythign, she wanted to shot him right in his pride and leave him to bleed out.
Wanda felt a twinge of sympathy for her.
Standing from her seat she glanced at Taod if only for a moment. "Given everyone's cheery mood slipping away wont be noticed." Her father would notice her absence and she hoped she ocudl persuade him to allow her leave.
Though given he seemed in such a good mood and having an indepth conversation at the moemtn perhpaes she coudl let it go this once. Looking at Taod again. "I'm goign out. Room for one if your interested." That was her invitation to him.
She prefered at itmes beign alone but she udnerstood Mort's fear of being alone with Peitor regardless of other's being in the room.

'Oh God no!' Rogue was suddenly up and alert hearing Gambit. She had happed against hope he wouldn't have found her so soon, but luck or hope had never been on her side. "Don't evne think about it!" She warned staying with her back flat agaisn tthe wall wile reaching for her boots with one hand and holding onto a small knife in the other, a concelled knife mind you.
As foolish as it had been to hoep you he wouldn't find her, he alwasy found her, she wasn't int he mood for anythign he had to offer. She only neded one hand to get her boots on fortuantly, only because they were starting to wear down to the poitn of tieing them being useless. Object worked agaisnt her in Gambits case, his pwoers beign able to eltrify and explode anytign he touhed made any hand held weapon a possible instrument of her own death.
She just needed her bare hand to deal with him.
"I already told you to screw off and leave me alone! What part of that are you to stupid to understand?" She snapped outnow standing thoguh lacking her coat she felt the full blunt of the cold now. Antoehr thing to bruise him it seemed.

Giving the Taod his space Wanda debated on whetehr to acutlaly leave the grounds or not, her Father wouldn't allow it though. The faintest memroy flickered ot her suddnely as she headed down the hallway that lead to her room of running into the woods to play only to have her father find her. He hadn't been that nesecarily angery with her more wondering why she had run out in the dead of night and nearly giving him a heart attack. Her response had been as childish as her true reasons. 'I wanted to dance under the moon.'
Like her father and brother's room Wanda's room was away form the others and more extravagent. Openign the door she noticed her unexpected visitor. "Lorna? What are you doing in here?" She asked seeing her younger sister sittign on her bed. She didn't dislike her younger sister's company but tongiht she just didn't desire company.
"I got lnely and Father wouldnt let me come to the party." The young girl explaiend genuelly sad and uncertain of herself.
"It was a boring party Lorna you wouldn't have liked it anyway. and as for bieng lonely ..." Well she could have her little sister stay with the night if she wanted. "you cna stay if you like." She told her sighing slightly while beginning to remove her coat and look for somethign more confrtonale to wear.

'Don'tmake me throttle you again.' Rogue thauh tand let her thaught be clealry seen in his eyes. Gambit was a wild card, no pun intended, there were amny times he had helped even saved her but there were far more times he double crossed her and even tried to sell her out. She didn't trust him as far as she coudl throw him, and dending on what she had at the moment could be quite a distnace.
"You make a habbit of fallowing women into graveyards on rainy nights?" She asked him whiel not moving anywhere near him. She didn't ahve the X-Men anymore and she didn't need htem she'd been fine on her own long before and and she'd be fine long after them. Outside the rian was gettign heavier and the sound of thunder was hear rolling in the distance. 'Great another thing to worry about.' She thaught angerly now having a storm and Gambit both to contend with.
"The only chance you'd hav eof me kissing you is if you were possibly the last living hting on the planet and evne than I still woudln't." She threw back at him. That one time having his powers had been benficial but afterwards she felt odd and srange more than other mutatns she had syphored.
It had nothign to do with the fact that had techinally been her first kiss.

Rogue had reluctently agreed to stay where Gambit had sugested to her. The 'house' was small and cramped but larger than what she had been living in for the last five years. Electricity, gas and heating along with food and some money.. Rogue knew exaclty what game Gambit was playing with her. There was no way she was goign to even give him the satisfaction of her graditude, evne though she owed him her life.
The winter rains hammered the roof and Rpogue was aware had she remaiend int he cemetary she woudl have been floaded and drowned. However know that he knew where she was he made freqwuent visits to her and each time she always kept him as far from her as possilbe, a few times he tired stealing a kiss form her and she tried to punch him, only to have him roughly grab her wrist and fgive her subtle reminder that she was in fact the weaker one here.
His age didn't bother her oddly. Depsite nealry being twice her age or what she coudl wager Gambit didn't look it and could be mistaken for half of it. "Hurry up already." She glared at the wet clothes drying with irratation. She was forced to wear a black tank top while waiting for her shirt and jacket to dry. They had been rank with dirt, sweat and various other unpelasent smells.

Wanda tried her best to not draw attentiont o herself while out and about, though men always noticed her evne when she had been young. Ignoring the looks, the pick up line and the cat calls as she walked the dark streets she was out simply to be and away.
MRD's patroled heavily and she was takign a risk she knew but there was somehtig she needed to do. While waiting for her turn to cross the street she did her best to ignore a group of six MRD agents harassing a woment and a young boy. It wasn't her buisness they always harassed anyone evne nonmutants on the mere assumption that they might be.
The womens warnigns didn't bother her nore hearing the sublte threats issued by the agents but suddnely hearing the tell sign sound of her suddnely being struck across the face braught Wanda to a full attention.
The woment was lying on the ground her son crying trying ot reach his mother while the agents restrained him with far more force than needed for a boy his age and sixe.
'No human or not ... that's not right..' She thaught briefly before she moved without thinking.
"Put him down." She said loudly her head wasn't thinkign clealry and drawing attentin ... no she shouldnt be dong this. She was supposed to be remined unnoticed and hidden.
"This is none of your buisness Ma'am stnad aside." One agent said lookign over at Wanda.
"It is my buisness. Put him down. Now!" She stated with immense force her anger rising her fists clentchign and the dark red aura suddnely envelopign them. Suddnely everythign was in slwo motion, the looks ont heir face ssaid everythign along with the mother and sons.
And Wanda found her arm moving forward with such speed a wave of enrgy flying forward and an agent went straight into a wall flaling to the ground and lifeless.

Knowing she had nothign else to do didn't make Rogue feel any better. She'd rahter pretend he wans't there wathcing her and she told herself if she glared at her clothign they would dry faster, alas that was not the case. Also knowing he wasnt going to leave her alone usnless he was somehow entertained left her with very little choice. "Fine. But only to the game." She said sitting down acorss form him, cards weren't her lucky game and they seemed to bless Gambit with unnatural luck.
Not to mention the basrard had an amazign poker face. Those eyes didn't help ehtier.
She felt naked and vonerable without her long sleeves and coat over here, and especially in Gambit's company. "I'm not kissing you even if you win just so you know." She said stubbornly as he shuffled and dealt their hands.
Glancing at her hand she already knew she was goign to lose.

"Hardly an interutpion Mister Wagner." Wanda replied with as much politeness as she could muster given the sitiaton.. Her powers fully on and visible for all to see she felt no fear towards the MRD she felt some delight at the fact they were about to become splatters on the walls.
"I'd say this is coincidence us meeting up at sunset for a fight. Romantic to some extent but not really what I would have chosen I fear." She commented while firing another bolt and disabling their radios, there was no need in having more insects show up.
"Though your still aloen and not with your friends I take it?" she asked as the two dodged and evaded numerous attempted blows from the humans.

Dazzler didn't nesseacrly enjoy the ealrier shifts, the lowlifes at those tiems tended to be far more touchy feely than they should. The late night crowds weren't always better but they knew the rules far better than some of these did. Walking away from the table she just served she cuaght the looks and glances, mainly for her tattoos her peicring or her hair sometimes her body she stopped caring long ago. Replacing the lip and nose peicrings and putting them above her eye instead alogn with growing her hair to cover her scalp again made her look more femine than she had with the X-Men.
"Your here earlier than usual." She said standing next to Taod while sorting hew the glasses she picked up formthe tables along with the tips, they at least gave her spendign moeny fi nothign else.
Already knowing his usual order she didn't bother looking up as she walked aroudn th bar to get it. Placing the bottle and a glass in fornt of him she didn't tkae his head down demeanor as a sign of depression, just tryig to hide.
Dazzeler considered blidnign the new gril for makign her work this damned early the next time she saw her. Or maybe jsut scare the living daylights out fo her instead.