I'mma come outta mah room now [OTA]

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She'd been hiding, not because she was powerless, not because she didn't know what was going on, not because she was scared. No. She was hiding because my god, if it wasn't hard being a teenager again

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Ric had already "searched" the womens' dorms, literally running in, hollering Rogues name and waiting for a response. When he got none he huffed and wandered back out in the hallway wondering where she was.

He was starting to learn that this teenage body had more and more perks as time went by. Okay sure he was as randy as sin and his voice breaking randomly was rather annoying but still he could put up with that.

Bounding past the mess hall, legs and arms arriving before the rest of him did. His stomach was grumbling loudly as he headed for the kitchen, waving a hand at the teenage Rogue.

"Hey Ruby!"

He opened the fridge, hauled out as much food as he could carry and wandered over to the table which Rogue was sat at. Ric stopped and frowned.

"You look.... fucking hell! You look so young!"

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With a frown, almost a glare, and stealing some of his food. "Y'r one t' talk. What are you, like twelve?" She knew of course that he wasn't, just a little too into puberty to be twelve. But still, she didn't really want to be told how young she looked, thank you very much.

"Besides, Ah'm guessin' Ah'm fifteen." She chewed on the piece of cold meat she had, thinking it over. "Ah don't got no powers, so Ah must be."

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"I reckon I'm about sixteen maybe seventeen." Ric would be impressed if Rogue could actually understand what he just said as at that exact moment he had half a bread roll shoved into his mouth and it was soon to be followed by some cold cuts of meat.

He swallowed the mouthful of food and glared at her through his stupidly long hair, shoving it back out of his face with one hand as he rummaged through the pile of food to find something else to munch on.

"A very cute... wait you don't have your powers? Does that mean...?"

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Shaking her head, and looking at him ruefully, Rogue leaned over and poked his nose with a bare finger. "Ah'm completely, and utterly, 'normal'." She even added in the air quotes.

"It's kinda weird, y'know? When Des stripped me, Ah still felt the powers right there. An' now, they're just gone." She wasn't overly concerned. She knew that natural would somehow fix it. But until then, she was powerless.

It felt strange not having Carol's strength.

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Ric finished his mouthful before standing up, walking round and launching himself at Rogue to pull her into a hug. He'd be desperate to do this for such a while now, ever since the power change over, that he really didn't care if anyone walked in and wondered what on earth he was doing.

"You ok? You not feeling too weird without your powers?... you gone to see the cajun yet?" Despite not quite liking the guy, Ric had to admit that he was pretty darn harmless and if the way Rogue was blushing was any indicator she quite liked the thought of him too.

"You know this being a teen thing isn't all that bad!" Ric held Rogue close, for once not having to worry about distressing her if he was careless.