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aaronlisa (aaronlisa) wrote in fic_variations, @ 2007-08-05 20:11:00

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[The X-Men (movieverse)] Wolverine/Rogue // The Four Seasons
Title: Summer
Author: aaronlisa
Rating: FR13
fic_variations Prompt/Claim: The Four Seasons // Wolverine/Rogue
Spoilers: Set after the first movie.
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: The X-Men belong to Marvel Comics & Twentieth Century Fox.
Author's Notes: none



The summer months had soured for Rogue when she had first discovered that she was a mutant. After the fateful summer afternoon when she had kissed her first boyfriend and almost killed him with that same innocent kiss, Rogue had never felt comfortable during the summer. And as Jean Grey lectured her, it just hammered home the negativity that the summer months held for her.

“It’s not that I don’t understand how you feel Marie, but you need to accept that Logan is a grown man and you’re still a child. You should be falling in love with boys you own age, like Bobby or John. And not pining away for Logan.”
“I ain’t pining,” Rogue defensively said as she crossed her arms against her chest.
“Then why do you keep pushing Bobby and John away? And why do you insist on wearing those dog tags?”
“Maybe because I could kill them if I accidentally touched them,” Rogue replied, ignoring the second question.

Jean stopped pacing in front of Rogue and she turned to face her, her eyes narrowing as she took in the sight of Rogue.

“Marie, you’re not even giving them a chance, and a relationship isn’t all about touching.”
“They’re teenage boys, how long do you think conversation and long looks will be enough? And I almost killed Logan, do you think that any of the boys here would survive dating me?”
“Marie, these things can all be worked out. There are ways to get around your powers. If you would just come to the lab, I could start to help you,’ Jean promised.
“Mah name is Rogue, and Ah ain’t some guinea pig for you poke and probe,” Rogue angrily stated, her accent thickening.

She glared at the older woman before storming out of the kitchen. Rogue was starting to hate Jean Grey and her insistence on improving Rogue’s life. The good doctor just didn’t understand the horror that filled Rogue when she thought about kissing someone, even someone like Logan. And that was even if Jean could promise to teach her to control her powers. In Rogue’s eyes, Jean wasn’t really interested in helping her; she just wanted to push her away from Logan.

It wasn’t as if Rogue didn’t know that she had a silly crush on Logan and that he’d never look at her in the way that she dreamed that he did. She knew that Logan would never look at her in the way a man looks at a woman; the way he looked at Jean. It was just that having a silly crush on Logan was safer than trying to date the Bobbies and Johns on this world who wanted her but would eventually want more from her. They’d always want something that she could never give them.

Rogue collapsed on her bed and she pulled Logan’s dog tags out from under her shirt. It was a harmless infatuation on a man who would always be unattainable to her and it would always be safe for her to feel this way. She knew exactly why Logan had given her his dog tags and it wasn’t because he was secretly in love with her. Jubilee and Kitty might believe that his promise to return was proof that the great Wolverine was in love with her, but Rogue knew the difference between being in love with someone and loving someone.

No matter what the high and mighty Jean Grey thought, Rogue knew that whatever Logan really felt for her, it wasn’t something that the great love stories were made out. To put it simply, they had bonded at Xavier’s mansion and neither of them had unreasonable expectations for the other. They shared a friendship and Rogue knew that her schoolgirl crush on the older and very unattainable Logan would always remain one-sided.

**END**