Story: The Wish
Chapter: 1- To touch
Chapter Rated: Rated PG-13 for now, for bad language, MILD sexual content, may turn into R soon and add real content. Right now, it’s mild because there’s kissing and passion, but I don’t consider that R, geez, I had my first kiss in first grade! And trust me, it was passionate –grin-
Pairings: Umm, it starts with Bobby/Rogue, but Bobby’s getting some horns in the end Rogue/Logan and so far another pairing is Kitty/Collosus
Disclaimer: I don’t owned them, if I did, would I be writing this? Lol Maybe
Notes: Another X-men fic! Yes kill me please this is my third one, but I’m on an X-men streak (that’s what happens when you watch X-men 2, 15 times on HBO) and I’m getting ideas like a monsoon, I can’t just let it go to waste (even if it is 7:52am and I have school tomorrow, SO? X-MEN MUST PREVAIL!) So unlike my usual pairings, this one I decided to take a risk with Rogue/Logan (even if he is a thousand years old –exaggerating- ) and I’m going to do each chapter in POVS (Point of Views) or try at least, so there may be a chapter where there’s both. And I might not be good writing about them like if I knew them, so feel free to kick me about that. Just bear with me, shoot me, do whatever you like, but after you read this chapter, pleeeease? Remember, to review!

Marie's POV

4 years had passed since I first arrived at the Institute. It's been one year since Jean died and 3 months since Bobby and I made it into the X-men. But hey, who's counting? We were somewhere in Mississippi. A city called Jackson, but I wasn't sure. Since Bobby and I were the more normal looking ones they made us walk around to see if we saw anything odd. We were at a Carnivale. I didn't even know these existed anymore and it kind of made me uneasy being around so many people. I wore a long leather jacket and gloves, which people glanced at me odd for, but didn't pay attention. Bobby was at my side, holding my hand and never letting me go. Sometimes I wondered why he was still with me. I was afraid to ask him, but I felt guilt when I was with him. I was depriving him of a real romantic life and I had almost convinced myself once to break up with him, but Kitty convinced me not to. I sighed looking around for anything that may appear 'odd', but how would I know? The professor sent us to look for a new mutant, one that he had heard calls from, and was being kept here. I stopped for a moment noticing Logan walking quickly between the crowds.

"You OK?" asked Bobby looking back. I smiled and nodded. Logan didn't talk much to anyone anymore. He and Scott barely looked at each other. Scott was still beat up about Jean's death and Logan too, but I wasn't sure what was keeping him at the school. He did go out, but this time it lasted only days and he got drunk in his own room. The professor didn't really approve, but I guess he thought the same thing I thought. He was safer inside and that made the rest of the world safer too. I still had a sort of crush on him so I found it better for me if he indeed stayed. Even if I was 18 now, he still called me kid and probably didn't acknowledge the fact that I had grown, immensely, but I had changed so much from the 'runaway kid' he found. It was all sealed the day my father actually came for me. My mother was dying and she wanted to see me before she died. Apparently they had discovered a tumor in her brain. It helped me in ways that I couldn't understand. My powers still haunted me, but I had what I called a little shelf in my mind where I put all my worries and problems, trying my best not to pay attention to them for the time being. Until I was alone.

Suddenly I heard a ringing in my ear. It was a flute. I looked to my right and there was a woman playing an odd shaped flute inviting me to come to her stall. I pulled Bobby and he followed me no questions asked.

"Welcome. I feel a wish rustling inside of you, dare to make it come true?" she asked, a sultry voice hidden behind a veil. Her face was hidden, but her body very well exposed. It was a very nice dark skin tone and green eyes glittering like if they had fire in them.

"Come on Ro-, Marie, let's go" he said, not sure if to use my mutant name in front of a civilian, I smiled.

"All work and no play. Come on Bobby, its not gonna hurt" I said, and then glanced at the lady. "How much is it?" I asked.

"$5" she said.

"Five dollars for a wish!" Bobby complained, I hushed him and took five one dollar bills out of my pocket and handed it to her. She smiled and showed me a bowl.

"That's a wishing well? Umm can I have my money back?" I said actually having doubts.

"I must warn you, this is not just a wishing well, this is the real thing. I give you a coin, a special coin and you place it in the water. You must touch the water with your skin. If the coin sizzles and the water boils, your wish will not be granted and if it does nothing, you must retrieve your coin back and keep it, as a symbol of your wish" she said.

"What a coincidence" said Bobby, stating the obvious fact that the water would probably do nothing. She smiled and took a coin from underneath the counter.

"There is something special about these coins. Many people have wished on one coin, their wishes never come true and I retrieve them. But the strength of their wish still lies here, waiting to be tapped into by a wish worthy of fulfilling. But you must be clear on your wish, only one wish" she said. I smiled and took the coin. It looked nice. It had strange symbols on it which I had no idea what language it was. Maybe Storm could figure it out. She told me to wait and sprinkled a little dust on the water, Bobby looked at her annoyed at first but then as the water turned into a silver color his eyebrow raised, maybe a bit impressed. She waved her hand, signaling me to put the coin. I took of my glove and was ready to do it when she stopped me, touching my hand. I drew my hand back quickly and didn't give my powers enough time to react.

"I forgot, one very important procedure. You must hold the coin to your stomach, your heart and then your mind, before you dip it and place it into the water" she said.

"Oh" I said finally breathing, having held my breath hoping nothing stupid happened. Bobby was just staring at her suspiciously now. I looked in front of me and very foolishly did as told. Thinking very hard on my wish as I did so. I wasn't sure why I was doing it. But there was something in the music she played that called me, that flute. It was like a desire. Like when you see a pair of shoes in the store window you just have to have. You know you have bills to pay, but those shoes are calling you and next thing you know, you are wearing those shoes and crying over your bills.

I dipped the coin into the water, which was actually oddly warm and as it lay there. The water just turned clear and did nothing else.

"Your wish will be fulfilled. You are very blessed, now keep this coin and be sure, that you will never lose it and it will never lose you" she said. I could notice a smile behind that veil. I could see it somehow. I put on my glove before taking the coin. Suddenly a scream was heard.

"Let's go" said Bobby. We ran into the direction everyone was running too.

"Mommy mommy! Can we go to the wishing place one more time, pleeeeeease" said a pleading boy trying to make his mom let go of his arm who was trying to power walk, but her son kept holding her back.

"No, honey, we have to go home, now!" she yelled straining.

"But mom, I want to try another wish! I made up my mind, I don't want to own Disneyland, I want a billion dollars. This time the water won't boil mommy, I know it won't!" he said. My mind stopped racing for a moment as I tried to fight my way through the crowd covering my face. The water boiled for him? I shook my head and kept running as I saw a big tent and two men outside with guns. I nodded to Bobby as he raised his arms and froze their weapons. I quickly kicked one, and punched the other before he could respond. At least Logan trained me to fight.

I went inside and saw him fighting off a bunch of people. Storm was holding someone, the new mutant I assumed. But where was Scott? I ran to Storm and kneeled beside her. Then I drew back seeing the mutant in her arms. It was a girl, her skin completely red, but in scales and her eyes black.

"Marie, take her. Scott is coming with the jet soon. I have to help Logan" she said. I nodded and took the girl further from the fight. Bobby had joined them too. I sighed.

"Hi, what's your name?" I asked the girl who was trembling.

"They call me Magma... I don't know my name. The bearded lady called me Danah" she said. My eyes opened a little wider. If they called her magma then it was pretty clear what she could do.

"That's a pretty name, Danah. You know who we are right?" I asked. Ever since Jean left, I was in charge of the psychology part which killed me cause I was always afraid I'd trigger something that might lead these kids into suicide. But it made sense in the end. Only someone who has been through pain can handle another person with pain and if they made a poll of the mutant with the worst pain because of their powers, I'd win.

"The lady told me you were mutants.. that you'd take me somewhere safe" she said. I studied her carefully. She couldn't be older than 13. Her hair was black, long to her hips and she looked really thin.

"That's right, you're one of us and we're going to take you to a great place. A school for the gifted. We're gifted. There no one will hate you because you're different, because we're all different and we cope with it together" I said. Suddenly I jumped, startled at her change. Her skin was human now, a little pale and her eyes were actually a maroon color.

"I change into that when I'm scared or stressed..." she said looking down embarrassed.

"It's all right, kind of makes me feel good I helped" I said with a smile. Suddenly we both screamed and she changed again. Logan had crashed right next to us. A big man, human man just gave him the punch of his life or hit him with something, since if he had punched him, he would've busted his knuckles because of Logan's metal skeleton.

I kneeled next to him and shook him a bit. "Logan? Logan! Wake up darn it" I said, he groaned and looked at me, staring into my eyes for a moment before quickly standing up and jumping on the man who was walking towards us. I gulped. We hardly talked and when we accidentally bumped into each other he would stare at me then walk off without saying anything.

The only reason why he trained me was because the Professor asked him to and he had to do the same with Bobby. He actually gives classes now on self-defense, but he didn't like the fact that mine was private. Given the fact that Logan could heal, our skins touching wouldn't be such a bad thing. Logan could heal quickly of whatever I absorbed, but it made Bobby jealous, mad jealous. Suddenly a strong wind was blowing the tent.

"Come on, let's go" I said standing up and then surprised again by a pop in the air. Nightcrawler.

"Need a lift?" he asked in his German accent. I smiled and nodded as he held us close and took us to the blackbird.

"Scott! Don't you think it's dangerous having the jet around civilians?" I asked guiding Danah to sit down and buckling her belt.

"Yeah, but not if we leave fast enough, besides if we don't go soon, Wolverine mind end up doing more damage than this bird could" he said. I grinned. At least that part of him remained intact. His loathing for Wolverine, his sarcasm more or less.

Everyone started coming in, including Bobby, Kitty, Colossus, Jubilee and Storm.

"Everybody here?" asked Scott.

"Wait, Logan!" I said telling him not to take off. Logan quickly jumped inside before the hatch closed, just in time.

"Honey, I'm home" he said with a grin directed to Scott. I smiled at his remark as he looked at me with the tail of his eye. I noticed a grin in his lips, but he didn't say anything. Bobby came to me and asked me if I was OK. I was still looking at Logan and I noticed an annoyed look in his face.

"Yeah, I'm OK Bobby" I said.

"Let her breathe, Bobby, geez" said Jubilee annoyed.

As we flew home the professor was waiting for us outside.

"I'm afraid we have another problem" he said as everyone just groaned upon hearing the word problem. I just smiled as I guided Danah towards the professor.

"He's a good guy, he'll help you out, I promise" I said. Danah nodded with a smile, her look normal.

"What's up, professor?" I asked.

"I've detected an odd mutant activity in Alaska; if I'm not mistaken there are three missing politicians that were last seen on a skiing vacation. Now, there must be a ransom for them, but if the kidnapers are mutants than we have more to worry about. I'd like you all to look into it" said the professor.

"We'll get right on it, professor" said Scott.

"But I need to pee" moaned Jubilee.

"All right, you don't all need to go. All those who feel tired can go to their rooms" said the professor acknowledging the fact that some where still kids. Only Jubilee and Kitty left, Jubilee just said to wait for her because she did have to pee but she wanted to go and due to the fact Kitty was PMSing she was in no condition to keep on. She kissed Colossus before leaving. "Marie, why don't you go rest too" said Logan, not even looking at me.

"I'm fine, I can do this" I said raising an eyebrow at him.

"We have a training session tomorrow, you'll need your energy by then" he said still looking forward.

"I said I can do this" I said. I heard him mumble something under his breath. Bobby put his hand on my shoulder and smiled. I knew he was going to go with me, no question about that. Sometimes it annoyed me that he was glued to me. Sometimes I wondered the real reason of why I was with him. If it was because I loved him or because he loved me. I wasn't sure. But I knew that no one made my heart beat like Logan, which made me feel guilty and angry since I knew he only felt a father position over me or maybe even brotherly, who knows. Jubilee came back quickly very relieved. As we flew very quickly to Alaska I closed my eyes for a moment embracing the thought of sleep telling Bobby to wake me up when we got there.

I dreamt of Logan for the ten thousand time. We were always touching in my dreams... and no one got hurt. I woke up soon enough by the sound of the ship landing and then Bobby shaking me. I yawned and nodded, while noticing the look Logan gave me. I wasn't a baby and I wished he'd stop treating me that way. I quickly stretched and stepped out. We started walking on the snow which wasn't easy. Thankfully the leather suits provided enough warmth and my gloves made it easy too. Logan said he smelled smoke so we followed his nose. Jubilee called him the bird from Fruit Loops and I snickered.

As we climbed on top of a hill Logan told us to stop, we did. I felt the snow suddenly sink under my feet and I noticed it was as if I was standing in a hole or making one. But I didn't weight that much so I didn't really understand. I did fall into the snow, but it led into a cave. I fell on logs of wood and ashes. Apparently whoever made the fire had it so strong that it melted the ice above. I refrained from screaming, but I was heard as I saw three guys looking at me hungrily.

"Well, well, look what we have here. Angels do fall from heaven" said the first guy as he started to grin at me. I didn't stand up, instead I just started crawling back thinking there'd be an exit, but nothing, it was covered and there were three tied up men there. The politicians I guessed. I turned around to see one of the guys pulling me up.

"Let me touch that pretty face" he said. I glared at him just waiting for him to do it, wanting to drain his powers. He wasn't human clearly, his eyes were yellow.

"Go ahead" I said as I kept the thought in my mind. I'd drain his powers to the very last drop. Before he could touch me Cyclops blasted the snow exit and Logan ran to the guy that was grabbing me, like a crazed beast. Bobby helped me up as Jubilee used her fireworks on the other two and Bobby froze them at the first chance he saw. I wondered why I had even come, my powers didn't really help much, but at least I did something. I untied the politicians. They were unconscious which would be good for us in the end. Everything finished quickly; given the fact these mutants were amateurs. As soon as we put the politicians in a safe place where they'd be found. Logan glanced at me.

"I told you to stay behind,” he said then with a sigh he added "remember your training session tomorrow" he said before leaving the ship since we arrived already.

"Looking forward to it" I added defiantly. I groaned, that put me in a bad mood. Bobby tried to talk to me, but I told him I was tired and just wanted to go to sleep. Jubilee followed me to our room.

"That Logan has something for you, all right" she muttered.

"I don't know what his problem is, ever since Jean died he's been on my case" I complained taking off my clothes.

"Yeah, well, he's a man" said Jubilee throwing her hands in the air.

"Would you two shut up? I was actually sleeping, now I have cramps again" kitty complained. I gave a light chuckle.

"Sorry, we're having men issues" said Jubilee, an emphasis on the word men.

"Yeah, I heard and if you want my honest opinion I just think he's afraid to lose you. I mean the guy doesn't really care about most of us; he does what he does because the professor tells him to, but you and Jean have always been a different story. He took care of you guys for free and who knows, maybe he's learned to love you. But don't take my word for it, I'm just following the obvious" said Kitty before going back to bed. Jubilee stared at her, and then switched her glance at me. I was dumb struck. Could she be right? Could that be true? No, Logan wouldn't. Well, now that Jean was dead I did have a chance and sometimes that kind of attitude meant something... Jubilee walked towards me jumping on my bed as I already put on my pajamas.

"She has a point" Jubilee whispered.

"Of course I have a point" Kitty groaned before turning to the other side of the bed and putting a pillow over her ear. Sometimes we wondered other than walking through walls maybe she had bionic ears.

"I don't know, Jubes" I said with a sigh.

"I mean look at you, you're all grown now. You're not a little girl anymore. Everyone knew you had a crush on him, but since he had a thing for Jean he wouldn't look at you... I don't want to say anything, but maybe thanks to Jean, you might bag the guy" said Jubilee.

"Jubilee, he's older than the professor" I said.

"Yeah, but does he look it? Other than the weird hair style, he looks fine to me" said Jubilee.

"But Jubes, even if I had a chance, I can't touch him" I said.

"You can't exactly touch Bobby either and you're with him" she said.

"That's because Bobby's different..." I muttered throwing myself on the bed tiredly.

"Yeah, because he 'loves' you. Let me tell you something about Bobby, I hear he makes a lot of weird noises in the bathroom. You're turning him into a pervert. You should just release him, literally, unless you look forward to marrying him and the only sex you could have is cyber, phone or solitary masturbation" said Jubilee. I laughed in disgust and hit her with my pillow.

"Does the word 'shut up' mean anything to you! Geez, and if you want my personal opinion-"

"Of course we want your opinion princess, we thirst for it, we die for it" said Jubilee dramatically.

"Shut up, Jubilee. Like I was saying. You have a better chance with Logan, he's self healing, and maybe if you have sex with him, he'll heal 5 days after. You never know, but Jubilee is right about Bobby. He hasn't cheated on you, because everyone is afraid they'll get 'touched' by you, but he could always go get a hooker" said Kitty.

"Oh my gawd, Kitty" said Jubilee covering her mouth.

"What?" asked Kitty rubbing her eyes to look at whatever surprised Jubilee.

"You said the word hooker, why I won't be surprised if pigs fly tonight!" said Jubilee, just after receiving a pillow blow from Kitty and Jubilee returned it. I smiled seeing them fight, not really wanting to join them given the fact that accidents could happen, but I didn't feel like it either way. What they had said struck a cord in my mind. They were right. In every way.

That morning I woke up very early. Well, Kitty woke me up because I didn't hear my own alarm, but Kitty being the lightest sleeper in the story of the universe heard it. It was 5am and I didn't look forward to waking up, but I didn't want to be late to Logan's training since he was there 30 minutes early and I usually liked to surprise him by being early myself. I put on some gray sport running pants that were long, sneakers, a white sports bra and a black long sleeved jacket that was zipped up in the front. I jogged to the kitchen and grabbed myself a quick cereal. I looked at the microwave to see the time. 5:35am. Logan was already there. I jogged to the danger room. I was in shape from all the training. I actually had small muscles, but had them good. Even Jubilee envied me for them. My butt looked bigger, making Jubilee joke if I was doing 'butt exercises' and my breasts were growing to boot making Jubilee joke I would fall forward every time I tried to kick or something. The doors opened for me and I already saw Logan getting ready. He looked at my feet. He'd tell me to take them off, but he knew why I wore them. I couldn't risk touching him with a kick, he could resist getting hurt by them. He wore some baggy black pants and white tank top.

"You're early" he said.

"I always am" I muttered with a smile.

"Good, let's start" he said not even giving me a chance to stretch he launched on me. I evaded him and hit his back with my leg. I was good at evading, but Logan was good at hitting. 15 minutes later it was starting to get serious, he took out his claws. I knew he wouldn't hurt me, what he usually did do was rip my clothing and we'd count that as a hit and those were harder to evade. I kept dodging, even doing splits and somersaults. He told me to stop playing the gymnast and fight. Next thing I know he clawed my hand, not cutting it but ripping my glove perfectly. Those were my favorite gloves, I growled and lifted my leg as high as I could to kick his neck in a sensitive spot, I then jumped on him hitting him with my elbow in his spine, which hurt me more given the fact of his bones, but I knew I hit the right muscle. My glove fell. Damn it! He ripped it so perfectly, from wrist to my middle finger that it fell on the ground. I groaned as I pushed Logan's body to face upward since he wouldn't respond.

"Logan, you slashed my glove! You gave me those you know" I complained, but he didn't respond. "Logan?" I asked as I shook him with my other gloved hand. "Logan!" I asked. What happened next made my heart stop. He had tricked me. The usual 'enemy pretends to be dead, killing you in the end' trick. But that wasn't what made my heart stop. He was sitting on my stomach (a little lower than that) pinning my hands down. Both my gloved and non-gloved hand. He wasn't hurting. I couldn't see his veins pulsing and he looked perfectly normal. He noticed this but much later than I did. He looked at my hand then parted his from it. He trailed his finger around it sending chills down my spine. He was touching me and I wasn't draining him. For some reason I moaned. It wasn't sexual, but the fact I hadn't been touched by a man, a real man was killing me. I opened my eyes which had been closed because of the effect. I felt his hot breath on my face. He was facing me closer now. I looked into his eyes, they were suffering eyes, something inside them was screaming and I could hear it. That's when he kissed me. My first real kiss without any consequences. I groaned and pulled him to me, begging this not to be a dream, but not really caring. If it was, I could take it, I'd wake up happy. I took off the other glove and put my hands inside his shirt wanting to feel him. He understood my plea and just took it off. That was what a man's chest looked like. I let him kiss my neck as I kept touching him. He let me sit up to take off my jacket, unzipping it impatiently. I felt his chest on mine, more importantly, his skin on mine and it was breath taking. I felt like my heart was going to explode on how fast it was beating. His kisses sending bolts of electricity to every brain cell I had. He was kissing my breasts now, but I still had my bra on, it wasn't anything over the edge. Though I wouldn't have minded. I let him keep going as he kissed my stomach. That's when he stopped, with a frustrated growl he stopped resting his cheek on my stomach.

"Logan.. what's wrong?" I asked.

"This.. isn't right" he muttered. I sighed as I let my fingers brush his hair. Something told me inside this wasn't a dream and I was about to face the harsh reality of it. He sat up and put his face in his hands. I sat up and kneeled in front of him kissing his fingertips.

"Logan.. I...You know how I feel about you, don't you?" I asked my heart had slowed down but now I felt it sinking.

"I know.. and I.. I... I can't take advantage of you that way, Marie. Look we have to go to the professor, obviously there's something wrong here" he said standing up.

"Wrong? You called this wrong? This is the first time in my life I feel something right!" I yelled as I stood up abruptly. He took my face in his hands and pulled me into another kiss. If that was to shut me up, it worked really well.

"I know, we'll talk about us later, first the professor" he said. I nodded quickly as he took my jacket from the floor and told me to wear it, as he put on his own shirt. I tried to think positive for a moment. Well, if he used the term 'us' it meant something good, right?

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So, how’s that for a beginning? Are you breathing? I hope so! I have to say this is one of the few fics I just started like –Wham!- Nuclear bomb! But I’m playing with the idea of Rogue controlling her powers and don’t worry, it won’t be magic mumbo jumbo, let’s just say that old lady somehow has powers of her own, IN a way it wasn’t really her, but I’ll let you find out the rest on your own. Oh also, may I remind you, I have a bad memory so there are certain facts I don’t remember about the X-men’s style of handling situations etc. So beeeeeear with me, thank you! Oh and do take time and review, they’re helpful and inspire me to write. Now, I’m going to hide before my other reviewers from my other X-men fics try to kill me because I am practically ‘cheating on them’ LOL