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I kind of miss the whole...50 of us under the same roof, you know?
Who: Kitty and Rogue
What: Rogue pays a visit to Kitty and is cuddly
When: After Rogue got done with Logan
Where: Kitty's flat
Status: complete
Rating: Pg-13

Rogue was risking burns as she hopped on her bike and got ready to head out. Half her clothes weren't in any wearable state, so she'd said fuck it and gone as is. She tucked her Bluetooth into her ear, dialed one Kitty Pryde before she started off. When the girl finally answered. “Where are you?” Was the greeting.

“Uh. I’m sitting in my new apartment staring at a lot of boxes, what’s wrong? Are you okay?”

Rogue laughed, a genuine laugh, before she spoke again. “Oh I'm okay, well I have some killer bruises. I need to have a freak out moment. You game for that and ice cream?”

“Luckily I just stocked the fridge, I’ll text you the address.” Kitty shooed a cat away. “See you in a bit!”

Rogue checked the text when she hit a stop light and it wasn't long before she found the place. She shook her hair out as she knocked.

Kitty opened the door, then stared. Rogue was practically naked, her clothing (what was left of it) in tatters. She’d either been through a fight, or worse. “Who did this I’ll kill them.”

Rogue laughed, eyes bright, then she shook her head, still laughing. She hadn't bothered to drag Logan from his box in her head to take care of the bruises, so she was moving stiffly. “Feed me.” She teased. “No need to kill him, promise, I just didn't feel like going home first”

“Oh.” Oh. OH. Kitty flushed, and tried to not openly check Rogue out as she let her in. “How’d you not get pulled over?”

She had no desire for women but she didn't mind her friend checking her out either. “I'm that good" she laughed as she stepped inside. “But I need to have a moment, no regrets but yeah still”

Damn. Kitty would be willing to make a mistake too. “Are you sure there’s no regrets? I mean it’s… Logan, right?”

Rogue leaned on the door and nodded. “I enjoyed it. He enjoyed it. I am capable of no strings attached, and the best part? I didn't kill him once.” She said proudly.

“Not even a little? You weren’t trying hard enough,” Kitty joked. “Beer in the fridge, let me uhm...get you a robe.”

She laughed as she went to fetch them beers. “I'm just happy I kept control that long. I'm exhausted though. That was every bit of control I had”

“Congrats, I think.” Kitty smirked at her, then disappeared to find a robe. It probably wouldn’t quite fit her, but close enough.

Rogue stretched and took a long drink of her beer. “Hey it’s progress.” She didn’t mind giving Kitty an eye full. She was feeling good, which meant that she was relaxed.

The eyeful was patently unfair and a reminder of her own shattered love life. But it was a nice eyeful and honestly Kitty had always been curious. And a little jealous. “What do you think will happen now?”

She shrugged. “We’ll see. Doubtful anything serious, not even gonna worry about it.” She could do no strings attached. She was going to prove that. Everyone called her clingy. “Now? Now i drink a beer, and flump around with a good friend and attempt to stop being a hermit?”

Kitty shrugged. “Not being a hermit is probably a good thing lady. You always lock yourself up and we honestly need to call you on it.”

“People are exhausting and the last thing I reallllllly want is to get anyone else stuck in my head.” Rogue smiled a bit. ‘I even hide in the kitchen at the cafe now, I have gotten a semblance of control but I traded it for the constant noise in my head”

“Maybe we can figure something out. Like an inhibition collar.” It wasn’t really a permanent solution but it might give Rogue some measure of peace when surrounded by a lot of people. Kitty opened a beer for each of them and tried once again to not stare at Rogue’s chest.

Rogue smiled faintly. “Don't have a clue. It's like I haven't figured out how to win yet, you know?’i get some control, but I lose ground elsewhere.” She tilted her head back to take a long drink from the bottle..

"I wish I could help." Kitty rested her chin on her fist. Her own life was such a huge mess, but she still wanted to be there for her friends. "It would be easier if everyone was in the same place again."

“My house is big and empty you know" rogue shrugged a bit. “It is what it is. I've drifted apart from almost everyone I was friends with, and it's my own fault”

Kitty looked around her apartment, which was small and compact and kind of represented where she was disappearing into a shell. “That’s probably not entirely your fault. Sometimes our friends leave us.” They always leave us.

“I pushed them away. You and Logan really are the only two who I can't kick out of my life. But you're welcome to the house. Since Lina left and all”

“I just moved in here,” Kitty said. Not that she couldn’t afford to break the lease. And she did worry about Rogue. She eyed her from across the table, trying to decide if Rogue was genuinely in a good mood.

Rogue shrugged. “Offers there when ever" she was in a good mood, she was still feeling the good after sex feels, but there was something under the surface. Since when did Rogue act on her desires?

“Yeah, okay.” Kitty got up, came around the table and hugged Rogue. Hey she was acting weird but maybe she just needed a hug. And god knew Kitty needed cuddles after sex, and logan probably didn’t always deliver.

Rogue smiled and returned the hug. She was grateful for her friend. She let out a little sigh and nodded. “No worries, I haven't spent much time there lately"

"Because it's so big and lonely?" Kitty frowned, hopping up onto the table in front of Rogue. "Clearly we need to do something about that."

Rogue nodded and looked at her friend. “There were so many people there and now it's just me. I don't mind, but I don't know. I got used to people around.”


Kitty planted a foot on the sides of the chair Rogue was sitting on, one leg on either side so as to prevent escape. "Something tells me you do mind, you just don't want to admit it to yourself. I kind of miss the whole...50 of us under the same roof, you know?"

There was...what. The two of them, Logan and Laura, Emma and Jean. Ororo. Hardly enough to justify all moving into a huge mansion or something. And Rogue's house wasn't big enough for all of them.

But it was a nice thought.

And it was rare rogue and Emma got along long enough to be in the same house any ways. Rogue looked up at Kitty and smirked.

“You think I'm going to pull my usual and bail?” A brow arched before she smiled. “but yeah, it would be nice. We're a big group of anti social social butterflies aren't we?”

Kitty was tempted to suggest the idea sometime. "I dunno, but you'll have to get past me." She smirked at Rogue and wriggled her feet against Rogue's hips. "Anti-social is an understatement."

Rogue attempted to look innocent. “Ok so that's mostly me" she laughed a bit. “I like people, I just like them around. I like the company that isn't in my head”

"Is is bad? Or good? Or does it depend?" Part of Kitty wouldn't mind not being alone.

Rogue tilted her head for a moment, bumping her hip against kitty's foot. “Both. Depends on the day, and who's being the loudest. Random joe on the street is annoying but people I know? Not so awful. “

"Maybe ask Jean to exorcise some of the demons?" Kitty leaned back on the table a bit, trying and mostly failing to resist the urge to nudge Rogue with her toes. God, was she so fucked up she was flirting with the straightest straight to ever straight?

She was. But it wasn't like rogue didn't have at least one lesbian and a handful of bis in her head. It didn't phase her as much as it used to. “Maybe? It's a zoo in here some days”

"Worth a shot." Kitty leaned forward again, resting her elbows on her knees. "Sometimes I wonder if I could cut out some of my memories. Xi'an and Rachel and Gaz." It had been so long and sometimes Xi'an would hurt or Rachel would. And Alyssa and Gaz were recent, fresh wounds.

Rogue smiled a little. “I don't think I want to cut the memories, they're very much part of who I am.” Even if certain people keep bouncing in then back out of her life. “But their memories can go. Though I still tease Logan, I got the weirdest set of memories from him.” Because having a sex dream that wasn't yours was so much fun.

"Yeah." Memories made you, even the bad ones, the little scars that built up time after time. Kitty lowered her eyes, her head falling forward a little. She immediately flushed and looked up again, because views and angles and Rogue hadn't really bothered to cinch up the robe she'd given her. "Logan is weird, of course you'd get weird memories."

Rogue burst into laughter. “God, weird I think is an understatement. Try waking up at three am to a random sex dream that so isn’t starring yourself.” she snorted with laughter. And no, Rogue hadn’t bothered, she practically flashed all of the OC on the way over, at least she trusted Kitty.

“Usually my random sex dreams star myself, yeah.” Kitty laughed. Her cheeks remained red. “Except that one time Jean broadcast...everywhere on accident. Which no one ever talks about. Uh, time displaced Jean.”

“Well that is still different.” she snickered a bit. “I might have texted him when I woke up and yelled at him.” not that he could control what she had gotten, but hilarious nonetheless.

“That must have been hilarious.” Kitty could imagine his reaction. “Who was it with?”

“Good question, please don't make me remember!” She laughed.

“Come on.” Kitty nudged her stomach with her foot. “Talk!”

Rogue leaned back away from the poking foot before getting that lost in thought look as she shuffled through before smirking. “At least once Domino, I think Jean was in there at least once too, dude but the best part?” She rubbed between her eyes. “Waking up mid dream orgasm and the claws coming out, like really?”

“Ow. You know I didn’t need to know that part.” Kitty suddenly had regrets, but Dom and Jean made a certain amount of sense. “I’d ask what it’s like as a guy but I was in a man’s body a bit and I had a very enthusiastic girlfriend at the time.”

Rogue laughed “You said spill it so I did.” She grinned though. “Yeah it was weird. I got swapped when I first started dreaming so it's not as weird, but it's way weirder remembering it through someone else's eyes.”

Kitty noded. “This place is so weird. But it’s not as weird as some of my dreams.” She pulled her feet away from Rogue and wrapped her arms around her knees.

Rogue nodded. “They can be pretty fucked up honestly.” A slow little shrug. “It could be worse, I guess. I don't want any more dreams though.”

“I hope you don’t get any.” Kitty chewed on her lip. “Do you want to borrow a sweat shirt or something? You can get home without being pulled over?”

Rogue nodded. “Yeah I should be able to get back home fine. I got here after all.” She kissed kitty's forehead. “You're a great friend, thank you”

Kitty flushed, then nodded. “Uh. You’re welcome. Just be careful, okay?”

Rogue waved a hand at her, tossing the robe aside and heading back out to her bike.