[fic] Five Times Mike Almost Asked Rogue Out
The first time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they were stood in the Mansion kitchen, sharing a cold soda after a gruelling training session, and the words caught in his throat when she tipped her bottle and her head back, talking long swallows. He stumbled over syllables and she looked at him funny and he cracked a lame joke and changed the subject.
The second time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they'd had showers and changed and were in the TV room. He'd managed through waving and pointed glances and telekinetic nudging to clear the room, and was just turning to say, "so, I was thinking", when Rogue yelled "son of a bitch!" and chucked the remote so hard at the screen that it exploded, leaving after images of Graydon Creed on the back of his eyeballs. She was gone by the time he could see clearly again.
The third time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they were sat on the roof of a building under the cover of night, spying on the Friends of Humanity. Rogue was looking through her spyglasses, headphone in one ear attached to a laser microphone pointed at a window opposite. Mike had just finished stammering his way to the end of his proposal when she sighed, rolled over, and informed him it was his watch -- and he realised she hadn't heard a word of it.
The fourth time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they'd broken into the Friends facility to find out who had supplied them with alien weaponry and promptly walked into a trap. Despite the way she kept trying to change the subject back to their team, and did they have back-up, and had they told anyone, she couldn't quite remember, he'd actually got to the end of his rehearsed "dinner and a movie" speech before realising that the Rogue he was talking to was a Skrull imposter.
The fifth time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they were back to back, fighting Skrulls and Friends and when Mike yelled "go out with me!" Rogue yelled back "What?!" because, what with the continuous explosions and screams of agony, the noise level was pretty high.
"Oh, screw it," said Mike, and blew up the entire base.
Rubble rained down around them. The rumble faded to a whisper.
"So, as I was saying," Mike said.
"Yes?" said Rogue.
"I was wondering if, well, you'd like to--"
Suddenly, Magneto burst into the ruin and saved them from the cloaked shape-shifting Skrull ship blowing the base up had revealed.
"Oh, my," said Rogue.
"Oh, goddamn it," said Mike.
The second time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they'd had showers and changed and were in the TV room. He'd managed through waving and pointed glances and telekinetic nudging to clear the room, and was just turning to say, "so, I was thinking", when Rogue yelled "son of a bitch!" and chucked the remote so hard at the screen that it exploded, leaving after images of Graydon Creed on the back of his eyeballs. She was gone by the time he could see clearly again.
The third time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they were sat on the roof of a building under the cover of night, spying on the Friends of Humanity. Rogue was looking through her spyglasses, headphone in one ear attached to a laser microphone pointed at a window opposite. Mike had just finished stammering his way to the end of his proposal when she sighed, rolled over, and informed him it was his watch -- and he realised she hadn't heard a word of it.
The fourth time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they'd broken into the Friends facility to find out who had supplied them with alien weaponry and promptly walked into a trap. Despite the way she kept trying to change the subject back to their team, and did they have back-up, and had they told anyone, she couldn't quite remember, he'd actually got to the end of his rehearsed "dinner and a movie" speech before realising that the Rogue he was talking to was a Skrull imposter.
The fifth time Mike tried to ask Rogue out, they were back to back, fighting Skrulls and Friends and when Mike yelled "go out with me!" Rogue yelled back "What?!" because, what with the continuous explosions and screams of agony, the noise level was pretty high.
"Oh, screw it," said Mike, and blew up the entire base.
Rubble rained down around them. The rumble faded to a whisper.
"So, as I was saying," Mike said.
"Yes?" said Rogue.
"I was wondering if, well, you'd like to--"
Suddenly, Magneto burst into the ruin and saved them from the cloaked shape-shifting Skrull ship blowing the base up had revealed.
"Oh, my," said Rogue.
"Oh, goddamn it," said Mike.