RP for tm_magneto

[tm_rogue]

Rogue still couldn't quite believe it. Skids was just gone. Didn't say a word, nothing. Just took the snowmobile and never returned. She was intent on ignoring Toad's and Avalanche's negative remarks. Skids was just a kid, so was Av, but she never really thought the girl wanted to be there. She just wanted a family. Something Rogue understood all

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[tm_magneto]

Erik looked up as Rogue entered. "I am seriously considering disbanding the Brotherhood of Mutants and moving to Las Vegas. There, I will open up a Vegas show manipulating metal into shapes to wow the crowd of witless humans. I will put you in a dress and you will be my assistant. And then you will touch the hapless volunteers and shock them with your power. We'll be millionaires."

He took off his reading glasses and threw them on the desk in disgust. "I might be more successful at that than mutant liberation. Perhaps I could keep the cast together."

[tm_rogue]

Rogue bit her lip to stop herself from laughing. "Ya don't mean that. Ya'd get bored of Vegas in a week." She sat down on the edge of the desk and picked up his glasses. "Would it be a pretty low cut dress?"

She placed the glasses into the case and set it down, picking up his hand. "Just cause a scared kid left doesn't mean ya ain't successful."

[tm_magneto]

"Yes, right after Pyro. What am I doing wrong, Anna? Should I demand they start signing contracts? Do they think I am not serious about what we are doing, here? Do they only believe me when I am orchestrating attacks or planting bombs?" Erik looked at her, shaking his head. "We have to leave. I don't know if I should find Skids and drag her back here, or let her go and hope she doesn't reveal too much of whatever it is she knows."

[tm_rogue]

"We're not draggin' her back." She's adamant about that. "If'n she doesn't wanna be here ain't no point in forcin' her."

Rogue squeezed his hand. "It ain't your fault. None of it. This...its a hard life an' Pyro is comin' back. You'll see. He just needs ta find a balance is all. He's in love."

[tm_magneto]

"So am I, and yet, here I am," Erik said testily. He stood up, and squeezed her hand before he began his usual pacing. "This is going to get out, I am sure. That Magneto cannot keep his soldiers together, because they run off to--" he scowled, turning on his heel. "Where did she go? Do you know? I won't go after her, but Rogue, if you know, I expect you to tell me."

[tm_rogue]

"All I know is that she's safe." Rogue flicked a piece of lint off her arm. An' I ain't usin' my telepathy ta find her.

"Spin it ta work for ya. It ain't that they run away, its that ya allow those who serve no purpose for the greater good ta leave. Or somethin'." She shrugged, not quite able to look at him.

[tm_magneto]

He stared at her, hard. "You're upset, of course." Erik walked over and put his hands on her shoulders. "Anna. I know that you are upset. She left and she didn't tell you. I can't imagine you would be pleased if I declared Sally an anathema and an enemy of the Brotherhood."

[tm_rogue]

"Why can't we just leave her alone?" She shrugged off his hands and stood, moving to the window to stare out at it.

"So she doesn't wanna be in the Brotherhood. So she wants to be a regular kid an' just be able ta live for once. What the hell is so wrong with that?"

[tm_magneto]

Erik crossed his arms over his chest. "I see. You think her betraying us and leaving without the courtesy of actually talking about it, after making promises of loyalty to me, to the Brotherhood?" His voice sharpened. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

[tm_rogue]

"No." She didn't turn around.

[tm_magneto]

"Anna," Erik snapped. "I am not going to wake up tomorrow with the last snowmobile gone, and no trace to be found of my girlfriend, am I?"

[tm_rogue]

"What?" She turned, unable to believe he just asked that. "Of course not."

[tm_magneto]

"Then why are you acting so strange? Anna," Erik said, slightly exasperated, "If you are angry at Skids, you do not have to pretend with me. I am glad you are thinking on how we can spin this to our advantage, but you don't have to give me Brotherhood PR." He smiled tightly. "Are you angry? Don't tell me what you think you should feel, either. There is no reason for us to do that. I am angry. I gave that girl a home and she turned me away for, what?"

He shook his head, and then began rubbing her shoulders. "Talk to me."

[tm_rogue]

"She didn't even say goodbye." Rogue stared out the window, not allowing herself to enjoy his touch. "I should understand. I didn't say goodbye any of the times I left."

She moved away, sinking into his chair. "I don't like understandin' how my mother must've felt."

Rogue twirled in the chair, turning so she was away from him. "But I'm glad she's got a chance ta just be a kid."

[tm_magneto]

"Ah." He understood. "Anna. This is a hard life. And you can say that, as much as you want, that you shouldn't be angry or that you should understand."

He smiled humorlessly. "How many times have I left my own children? For my cause. And now, my soldier leaves me to have a normal life, and I am angry. It doesn't make sense, does it?"

[tm_rogue]

She flicked at his chair. "No. It ain't ever gonna."

Rogue took a deep breath, forcing herself to stop wallowing. "Now what're we gonna do? We can't stay here. I'm sure ya know that."

There, cool and collected.