Rogue helped Storm take Pyro into the jet and then let Beast and Storm work on him. She looked down at her gloves and saw all the blood. She was scared for him.

"Are you hurt Rogue?" Poitr asked her from behind her. She shook her head. He looked into her eyes and then looked to Pyro. "It's hard for you to see him like that. Isn't it? Because you used to be friends?"

Rogue nodded. "Yeah. He was ma friend." she said it softly looking back to him as her professors worked to keep him alive in that hideous orange jumpsuit. She just prayed that he kept breathing. She didn't want him to die.

Poitr then said, "We were worried about you. Jubilee almost got Storm to let her come with us even though her training isn't done yet. And Wolverine was totally freaking out." His huge muscular form was still in his metal form. But Rogue was used to seeing him like this. It's why she nicknamed him Mr. Shiny. He smiled down at her and said, "I'm glad you're okay."  

"Thanks Colossus." Rogue smiled weakly back up at him.

Then she heard Storm shout. "We've got to get back to the mansion! Everyone in the jet!"

At her orders everyone got back on the jet. They flew back to the mansion and when they landed Rogue was instantly out of her seat and walking towards Pyro who was still out cold. But she was intercepted by Logan. "Rogue? Are you sure you're okay kid?" He asked her looking down at her.

Rogue looked up at him with her hazel eyes and opened her mouth to answer but she didn't know the answer. She had no idea if she was okay. She was still confused. "Yeah Logan Ah'm fine." she looked away incase he could tell she was lying.

His smile was tight and forced as he nodded his head and reached out to brush the strand of hair and was plastered against her cheek because she was soaking wet and practically shivering. But Rogue recoiled away and looked up at him with fear in her eyes. Logan scowled. "I wasn't gonna hurt ya kid."

Rogue shook her head. "Logan my powers are back! Ah don't want to hurt you." She said very carefully feeling the cold seep down deeper into her. She shivvered and turned away feeling like she was the plague again. The pain spiked in her at the sight of Bobby and Kitty. She turned away and saw Poitr turn back into his regular skin. His blue eyes looked worried as she turned from him and walked out of the Jet following Storm and Beast as they took Pyro to the Medical bay. "Will he be okay?" she asked shivering from being wet and cold for so long.

"You should have more faith in me Marie." Beast told her with a smile.

Just another stab of pain made her look away. She looked to Storm and told her quietly, "Ah took some of his powers to stop the MRD from taking us. Ah don't know it that would hurt him more Ah had no choice."

"It's okay Rogue. He will be fine I'm sure." She told her as she then touched Rogue's shoulder. "I think you should get into some dry clothes before you get sick."

Rogue nodded giving Pyro one last look before she headed down the corridor towards the elevator. She made it into the halls that lead to her room before Jubilee spotted her. "ROGUE!!" she screamed. "Oh my- where have you been I was worried sick are you okay?" Jubilee reached out for her but Rogue jerked back.

"Be careful! My powers!" Rogue barked at her. Then she softened as she saw the hurt look on Jubilee's face. "Ah'm sorry Jubilee. Ah just don't want to hurt ya." she told her quietly as she shivered.

Jubilee nodded and said, "Well that's okay. You need to get some clothes. Let's go." She was ready to go with Rogue.

Rogue looked at her funny. "You don't have to come with me."

"What you think just cause you got your powers back I'm gonna ditch you? That's stupid!" she wrinkled her nose and shook her head and lead the way to their room.

"Thanks Jubes." Rogue told her softly using the nick name she gave her. They went and Rogue changed into a pair of black pants and a hunter green long tee. She put on her long black gloves that only left a sliver of skin to show on her arms. She put on her black and green sneakers. She toweled her hair. But she still shivered and felt cold. She rubbed her arms. Rogue found her fingers itching to play with a lighter she didn't have. The pyro in her head must really miss that damned lighter.

Jubilee finally couldn't take it anylonger as she asked, "So what happened? Bobby said that Pyro nearly got you killed."

Rogue spun around with a fierce scowl and said, "That's not what happened at all. He doesn't even know what the hell he's talking about! Stupid frosty the snow man can kiss my ass!" Rogue slapped a hand over her mouth. She shook her head and explained seeing Jubilee's wide shocked eyes. "Ah absorbed some of Pyro's powers to save us from MRD."

"So there for you're going to have some of his personality traits for a little while." Jubilee nodded still looking a little shocked.

"Right." Rogue told her as she wished she could get warmed up. "I'd like to go check up on him. He was hurt." She got up and they both walked out. Jubilee was dressed in a bright yellow camisole and jeans with yellow high tops. She was blowing bubles with her gum.

They were getting to the elevator when Logan came out of it and saw Rogue shivvering. He was in his street clothes and had his leather jacket on. "Hey Rogue. You look like you're freezing Kid." his gruff voice said around the cigar he was smoking.

Rogue nodded nervously. "Ah'll be alright. Just going to take some time to get warm." she told him.

"Well here. You need this more than I do." Then Logan took off his jacket and handed it to Rogue.

She took it being to cold to blush. "Uh. Thanks Logan." Rogue put it on. It smelled like him with a twang of cigar smoke.

They got into the elevator and Logan looked at them suspiciously. "No. Sorry Jubilee but if Rogue is going where I think she's going you can't tag along. Pyro is too dangerous." Logan told her holding the door open.

"But-" Jubilee tried to argue.

"No. You ain't done with your training yet. You can't go kid." Logan told her gruffly.

Jubilee got out of the elevator with a sour look. "I'm not a kid!"

Rogue saw the pointed look from Logan to be careful. "Watch yourself Rogue."

She nodded and the elevator closed and she went down and walked to the Medical ward where the doors open to show Pyro on a table like gurney/bed with IV's in him and Beast was bandaging his neck wich had a few cuts from the glass. He was still unconscious.

"Rogue could you come give me a hand? Storm had to step out." Beast asked her.

Rogue nodded and moved to help him. She reached out with her black gloved hands and as gently as she could she lifted Pyro's head up as Beast wrapped gause around his neck. Rogue looked down at him and saw that he only had his pants part of his jumpsuit on. His torso was covered in bandages that in some spots were already tainted red with blood. But at least he was clean. Beast got done with his throat and taped it and then started wrapping a bandage around his forehead twice then making it cover his left eye.

As he was doing this Rogue noticed something on the back of Pyro's neck. She moved his head just a little so she could see it. To her horror there was a bar code tattooed to the back of Pyro's neck. "Oh my- oh John. What did they do to you?" Her voice was filled with sympathy and a soft pain.

Beast finished and said, "It seems I have a lot to talk about with the president about this new military force called MRD. They have been taking the ex-mutants from the prisons and bar coding them along with other nasty things." He looked down at the boy on the table and frowned. "He has a bit of a fever from his lacerations being infected. But I've got him on antibiotics. So he should be fine soon." Beast then turned and was about to leave.

Rogue stopped him when she saw that Pyro's hands were cuffed to the table. "Wait Beast can't you take these off. He's not in any shape to run off."

Beast turned and looked over at her and said. "I'm sorry. Storm ordered him to be detained till we figured out what to do with him."

"What do ya mean what ta do with him? We have ta help him! He's-"

Storm interrupted her. "He is dangerous Rogue. He nearly killed Bobby the last time he attacked with Magneto. The restraints will stay on." She was very adamant about it.

Rogue looked from Storm to Pyro and stepped up to her. "Storm Ah want ta try ta bring 'em back. Ah think that he could come back to the XMen." She saw the look that Storm was giving her. Like it was a lost cause. "Please Orora. At least let me try. Professor Xavier would have let me try."

Storm sighed. "You can try Rogue. But don't get your hopes up. Some mutants are so angry that all they want is to see the world burn." Then she turned and said, "Come on Beast. We have a conference call with the pentagon upstairs. Rogue you can stay down here but don't touch those restraints. That's an order." then they left.

Rogue sighed and looked down to John. She noticed even his knuckles were bandaged. She sighed and reached out with her gloved hand and gently touched his hand. "John...Ah'm sorry. Ah wish Ah could have changed your mind to go with Magneto. Ah know how right he makes everything he does seem. Ah had to ignore him in ma head for the longest time and believe me sometimes he made it seem all so clear that they were our enemy. But then Ah had other voices to remind me that he was wrong. Ah can't tell ya how many times Logan's voice was the only thing keeping ma here in the mansion. Keepin' ma sane. Ah wish Ah could'a been that voice for you." Rogue saw his adam's apple bob up an down as he swallowed. He then shifted in his sleep letting out a small sound that was between a groan and a whimper.

Rogue brought her hand up to the hair that was falling in his good eye. His brow was beaded in sweat from the fever. "Ah'm sorry they did this to you John. Ah'm sorry we let that horrible man manipulate you into some kind of weapon. You're not just some mutant that can be dangerous." Rogue then let her hand come back to check one of his bandages on his abs. "You are ma friend John." she said in a whisper.

Pyro then groan again and shifted his fingers twitched and he started to mumble, "Rm-ro...roo..." then he took a deep painful breath in and his eyes started to flutter open. His eyes were blurry and he mumbled, "Light-lighter? Ro whur isss ma lighter?" he asked her in his fever state.

Rogue smiled a painful smile. "It's okay John. Ah'm holding your lighter until you get better. So you have to rest okay?"

His brown eyes gazed up at her hazel eyes and then down to his cuffed wrists that were tied down to the table. "Oh. You're jus a dream again." John sighed like he knew something was a lie. He thought she was a hallucination. "Well it usually is you for some reason. So when are you gonna start yelling at me for being a traitor? That's usually  your whole act. What is this? Some other kind of torture my head worked up for me?" John chuckled then grimaced at the pain it caused.

Rogue stood up and touched his shoulder and said, "John Ah'm real. You escaped from the MRD while they were transferring you to a more secure location remember? That's when you found me and Ah got you help because you were hurt. Remember?"

John looked up at her and his eyes seemed to clear for a moment and he asked her as his walls came back up, "So when are the XMen going to throw me back in the clink?" he sneered at her.

Rogue shook her head and  brought her hand away from him. "Ah asked if you could stay here for a while. Storm said that...if Ah could convince you to come back that you could stay here."  Rogue told him as she shivered even with Logan's jacket on. "Ah think Ah can get them to even let you come back to school." she waited for his reaction.

He sneered at her, "Yeah that's my dream come true. Please Rogue let me go back to school with all the kids that think I'm nothin but trash. Oh please won't you let me?"

Rogue stood up with a huff and yelled, "Ah don't think you're trash you jerk! Can't you get that through that thick skull of yours?" She was about to turn and go when John tried to sit up but failed and fell back on the table.

"I didn't mean it like that Rogue. I don't lump you in with those other mutants. You're like me. You know the biggest reason I left with Magneto? Because that day I saw those policemen shoot Wolverine I realized that that was probably going to happen to all of us "un-safe" mutants. The humans would eventually pass that damned registration act and the mutants that were a danger to society like me...and you. They would cart us all off and either throw us in a cell or just execute us for the greater good of man kind. Do you think the other mutants could understand that? Huh? They don't have powers like you and me. They might actually get by the registration without being imprisoned or killed. But not us. Not with what we can do. I can burn people alive and you can kill with only touching someone. You know as well as I do that we would be the first to go."

Rogue stood in fear knowing he was right. Knowing deep down that everything he was saying was the truth. And it was scaring the hell out of her. It shown in her eyes. "John..." she breathed his name as if pleading with him to stop.

John looked up at her and smiled that hopeless hate filled smile. "Every day there are hate crimes against Mutants. I thought if I could just-" but John stopped talking and turned away and said, "I was tired of playing by the rules when the human's weren't." He looked back to her with eyes that seemed to scorch her with the truth in their depths.