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Title: You Had Me At Goodbye

Rating: NC-17 for language and sexual situations

Genre: Romance, Drama

Verse: X1/X2/Comicverse/AU

Summary: Jean and Logan's relationship has grown, and has been taken to the next step. Rogue decides she and Scott can play the very same game to win Jean and Logan's jealously. But what if in the process Rogue begins to have feelings for Scott? How will Logan react, and how far will he go to keep her?

Feedback: Always.

Chapter 1

They were at a bar, talking like pals until some guy came over behind Logan, whispering something in his ear.

"Excuse me," Rogue said.

"Fuck you bitch," the guy said, standing up straight to be incredibly tall. "You and your poisonous skin-"

Logan cut him off by grabbing the guy's neck.

"Logan!" she shouted at him.

The guy grunted a laugh, looking at Logan.

"You her bodyguard? Ain't you the guy that's some kind of animal with claws? Didn't you stab your little girlfriend once?"

"You shut your mouth or I'll give you a vasectomy the hard way," Logan said, extending his claws.

"Logan," Rogue warned, not wanting him to hurt anyone. But the guy kept egging him on and she knew Logan wasn't exactly good at handling this sort of situation without resorting to violence. "Logan don't…please," she said firmly.

She walked over to him and took off her glove; the entire place was quiet as they watched. Rogue placed her bare hands on the guy.

"No, no don't!" the guy said, and was surprised that when she touched him nothing happened.

"But I can still stop you in your tracks, so don't tempt me," she warned. "What's it like to have two mutants holding you, able to take your life at any moment?"

Thinking that she was helping Logan realize that they'd already won, she removed her hands.

"Logan, come on," she said, finished bothering with the shallow-minded individuals that surrounded her. "This guy isn't worth it."

"Go outside, Rogue," Logan told her.

Everyone was watching with fear in their eyes. No one moved though.

"Wolverine, you better listen to her, your little slut's-"

Logan sliced a shallow cut against his throat.

"Logan!" Rogue said loudly, the fear for the other man's safety evident in her tone. "You do this and…" she trailed off, letting him know exactly what would happen between them if he killed this guy. "Logan, let him go. Please," she said tensely.

She could see the struggle within him, and knew exactly when he'd given in to her, and he could see that she was right. He still looked pissed as hell though. He shoved the guy away from him and walked angrily towards Rogue.

"Good thing you got that poisonous bitch to keep you in line," the guy shouted as they turned to leave.

"Shut up!" Rogue said, looking back at the guy. "Only a dumb son of a bitch talks like that, knowing he could kill you instantly," she said, walking out with Logan.

The cool air hit her fast and she hugged herself to keep warm. She yelped in fear when Logan grabbed her and knocked her hard against the wall.

"Don't you ever interfere like that again," he said to her, his eyes narrowed in little slits.

"Jesus," she whispered, still recovering from him shoving her against the wall.

"Do you hear me?" he shouted at her, shaking her.

"Dammit Logan! Was it gonna be worth it? What did I do? Embarrass you? Make you look like less of a man because you listened to some little woman and didn't kill that guy?"

"I was handling it-"

"Oh really?" she said, trying to shake free of his firm grasp but found herself unable to. "How? By killing him? Oh that would've been intelligent—let go of me!" she shouted at him, fighting to get free, but instead his grip on her arms strengthened and she momentarily gave up and looked him straight in the eyes. "What bothers you most, Logan? The fact that there's someone out there who cares about you, who WANTS you to be alright or the fact that a woman embarrassed you? Go back in there if it'll make you so DAMN happy and shove your claws through that pig! Or better yet, stab me and teach me a lesson!"

She saw his eyes soften a little and when she felt his hands loosen around her, she shoved him off of her.

"You're a real pain in the ass, you know that?" she said. "I care about you, YES, but I'm not gonna watch you kill someone!"

She sighed and walked away. Why wasn't she ever afraid of him? It really pissed him off. He watched her walk off in her blue jeans, boots, and black leather jacket. She was fucking gorgeous. He'd seen her just barely a woman, and now she was a woman completely. From the first time he'd seen her, covering as much of herself as she could, she'd worked to blend in, to be plain. Now it was different. She was a woman; a woman with confidence. Sometimes, he forgot who he was dealing with.

Rogue banged loudly through the front door and threw her jacket on the couch that Scott was currently occupying.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" he asked.

"Logan's being an ass," she said bluntly as she sat on the edge of the couch, clutching her shapely legs to her chest.

"You'll get no argument from me," Scott Summers said, as he flipped through channels.

Rogue then regretted bringing up Logan at all. She knew Scott's engagement to Jean was on the rocks because of Logan and that they had practically broken up. Jean was always denying any romantic feelings towards him but it was more than obvious to anyone that she was pretty much embarrassing herself by being so persistent in her flirtations and affections for him. Scott was depressed and Rogue worried sometimes that he would turn into a serial killer, or take his visor off and shoot the hell out of Logan.

"Where's Ro?" Rogue asked.

"Teaching, and I'll be teaching again in about fifteen minutes. Xavier's working on fighting for our political rights."

"Good," Rogue said. "I'll help him out with that as soon as I finish my classes at med-school."

And with that Rogue got her books together and left the mansion, glad to be gone for a good four hours.

To Be Continued~~