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[Voice, March 8th]
[Written, June 11th]

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Rogue shrugged again, feeling abjectly miserable. She planted an elbow on her knee, leaned on it, and looked at the floor. "He thought he could change my mind 'bout the whole thing. Said he'd leave me alone if I gave him a chance. So I gave him a chance. It didn't work."

She sighed and shut her eyes, "End of story."

"Is it?" He didn't begin to doubt her intentions. Oh, he didn't like it. But there were things people did that were out of their control. He may not have been thrilled with how she handled it, but what's done was done. For her anyway.

"Men like that don't just give up. If they want something, there ain't much that'll stop 'em."

Hell, he knew that. He'd been that kind of man in the past. In some ways, he still was.

"I'll stop him," she said quietly, looking at Logan. "If he comes at me again, he's breakin' his word ta me. I won't abide by that. An' he doesn't want me as an enemy."

So his own desire, she hoped, would stop him.

"He doesn't want us as an enemy." That was the sticking point. "This ain't your solo career, kid. If yer messing with the likes of him, then we all are."

"I'm not messin' with him!" Gawd, how can she make that more clear? "An' this ain't about us. If he comes at me, sure, if he crosses a line, then yeah, but it's not an X-Man vs. Villain thing. Not yet, anyway."

"Yet, Rogue." That was the single most important thing here. Logan had a team to protect. A family. And for as much as he trusted Rogue, he didn't trust that Loki was simply something she could handle on her own. Regardless of the situation.

"What do ya want from me, Logan? Huh? I didn't ask for this! I didn't ask for any of this! I told you as far as I know, it's done. I told him it was done!"

Please, let it be over.

She hated feeling like this. So guilty and ashamed. She wanted to just curl up in a ball and die.

Even when I do something that feels good, it's bad. Even when I try to do right, I'm dragging them all into danger. I really am a monster.

"What I want is not havin' to ask these things. You can do what you want with your own personal life, kid. But whether you believe it or not, this is somethin' that concerns all of us. My job ain't just bein' your drill sergeant, Rogue. Seeing to it that you stay alive, that all of you stay alive, has always been my number one priority. It's why the Prof needed someone like me."

Logan was never around for his sunny disposition. Or because he was nice or good with the kids. He was the leashed bulldog. He kept out the intruders and taught the kids how hard things really were.

Being nice. Being friends didn't come with the job.

There was about a minute where Rogue just sat there, looking down.

"Say I came an' told you this right off. Told ya I'd made time with Loki durin' an experiment, that he--" offered me hope for a normal life "--was good ta me. An' then say I told ya he expressed an interest in me afterwards. What happens next?"

"I'd have suggested you never see 'em again." But not stopped her. Maybe. He was being generous there. He suspected he'd have gone and settled it himself.

"An' that's exactly what I tried ta do," she looked up at him then, eyes hard and wounded. "So what's the problem?"

"You did it on yer own."

"Yeah." Okay. It was a good point. That snuck around and struck home, because... she knew that wasn't how X-Men did things. Although a rebellious part of her suggested how rich that was, coming from Wolverine, she knew he was right. "But... a lot of the stuff that went on between us..." Rogue looked down. "It doesn't get more personal."

And she was ashamed of that, wounded by that, didn't want to fall so far in Logan's eyes as she had fallen in her own.

He was well aware of just how rich it was. As rich as Xavier sending him to try and talk sense into Spyke. Or Logan teaching meditation to rambunctious teenagers.

"I get that, kid. Those are the worst kinds of people to get tangled up with. I ain't even sayin' you did anything wrong. I wasn't half as smart as you are when I was your age. But the Professor ain't here. It's my job to keep this team together, even if I ain't the guy I'd put in charge of it."

The words were out before she could even think, "What team, Logan? It's you, me, and Storm in a world where if ya don't have powers, you're the odd one out. How is that a team?"

To that, he grunted. He knew where she was coming from. The X-Men hadn't exactly been a consistent 'team' in Luceti. "We ain't just a team because we're mutants, kid. It sure ain't why I joined up. Ya just need two people or more who all want the same thing. That's it."

She didn't really have anything to say to that. She couldn't, wouldn't deny this family, wouldn't deny that Logan had the right to be protective - and the responsibility to be watchful.

Rogue stared resolutely at the carpet, the fight gone out of her, leaving only shame and guilt and misery twisting around inside her stomach. "I'm sorry I let ya down."

"There ain't no need for apologizing." He sighed as he leaned back into his seat. Trying to guilt her was the furthest thing from what he was trying to accomplish.

"Just consider this a word of caution."

"Yeah, well... caution given."

That was that. For now. Logan stood back up and took a moment to pop his neck.

"Anyway, I'm heading to the bar." It was a vague enough invitation for her to do whatever she wanted. But it was about as much of an olive branch as he would typically bestow.

She remained curled in on herself, "Yeah, all right."

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