<div class="floatleft">(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/338/6/9/x_23_backshot_by_idelacio-d5n10z0.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Name:</strong>  Laura Kinney / X-23<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong> Hydra base outside city limits<br/><br/><strong>Time:</strong>  <br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong> Rogue (Anna Marie), Open.<br/><br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>  As pictured to left.<br/></span><br/><br/>The very same thing is going through the mind of Laura as she waits for Rogue to calm down.   She really did not know how to approach Logan, who she looked to as a father figure she never  had.    She really wanted a relationship with him.   To truly be one of the X-Men and not feel like she didn't belong.<br/><br/>An it wasn't just about Logan running off.  Now Anna Marie turn from her.   The only reason she could give herself is that she truly was not one of the X-Men.<br/><br/>The door suddenly opens to the room.  Rogue stands within it.   Drawn out of her own revery of thought.   Laura looks up,  noticing the redness of teary eyes that Anna Marie has.   Who beckons her to come into the room.<br/><br/>Rogue would see Laura push up off the wall she leans back on her.  Her movement lethargic, almost listless.<br/><br/>Rogue turns to begin cleaning up the mess she makes.   While doing so she would go on about Logan and Remy.  Remy being Gambit,  who really is hot.    It draws  Laura briefly out of her melancholy.   She wait for Anna Marie to quit going on.<br/><br/>"I am sorry, I don't belong.  Its not you, its me and the reason he left.  For that I am sorry."<br/><br/>Not one to cry,  trained to be emotional detached.   A cold blooded stone cold killer.   Tears now trickle down the sides of her cheeks.   She turn to head out, not wanting Anna Marie see how hard it has affected her.<br/><br/>She feels so very vulnerable in the moment.      As she turns abruptly to hide the tears that come.  An old habit comes flaring forward.  As the claws rip through the skin of her left hand.   She would take and rake the claws across the forearm of her right arm.   Drawing blood, as she in that moment turns to her self slashing.<br/><br/>Rogue would not see the actual slashing across the arm.  But the blood that begins to drip out rather rapidly for a few moments.   Right before the wounds seal back up with Laura rapid healing factor.   Through the fresh blood would be upon the floor and would take far longer to dry.<br/><br/><br/><br/>