Shadowed Past by Morven
Next!!! I'm looking forward to the next one!! Woohoo 'Grim Reminder'!!

The group make their way to the seats in the middle.
Skye: These seats are gonna have our bum grove in them soon!
Peat: Oh yes.
Pad: So, who stars in this one then?
Skye: Nightcrawler.
Pad: Yea!!!
John: Shut up!

We open with Rogue in her room at night talking on the phone.
Rogue: Yeah, I know. Thanks for lending it to me. I thought it was great, especially at the end, where he turned into a werewolf and nobody knew it. Well, I gotta go. I've got 3 finals tomorrow. Talk to you later. Bye.

Skye: Because you always speak to a friend about a book on the phone when your nervous about you exams?
Pad: Weird. I'll be cramming.
Peat: So would I.
John: Peat, you always cram the night before the exam.
Peat: So?
Skye: Any other person would have studied a week before the exam, and still cram for the exam!!
Peat: Oh! That explains why I failed most of them.
John: *Whispering to Skye* That also explains why he failed P.1 (AN Primary 1)
Skye: We were like, 6 at that time?
John: Yup.

She is asleep. Dreaming.
Rogue: [sighs deeply] unh! No--unh!

Skye: Aw! John don't you just want to hug her!!!
John is starring at the screen.
Pad: Well, he's out of it!

There is thunder, growling, and howling. It's in a lab somewhere.
Mystique: Monster! What have you done to him?!
Mystique grabs a baby and runs. Magneto chases her.
Magneto Come back at once!

Pad: Hum......
Skye: Oh yes! Of course I'll come back. Because every woman would come back to man who has experimented on their child!!!

Wolves chase her.
Mystique: *dropping the baby off a bridge and into the river* no! No--no! Aah!
Rogue: *waking up from the nightmare* Aah!!

Pad: Oh!
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Opening credits.
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Scott: Rogue, are you all right? What happened?

Peat: Wow!
Skye: Oh god.
Pad: What?
Skye: Jeans night dress. Could it be any shorter?

Rogue: I--I don't know. I was dreaming... some kind of awful nightmare... With these... these images. It's horrible.
Kitty: Yeah. Her shrieking totally freaked me out. I just about phased through the bed.

Skye: But she never made it to the basement!

Scott: Whoa. Finals must be really getting to you.
Rogue: No. It's not the first time. I've had this dream before. They started when I moved to the institute.

Pad: Someone is telling her to leave and save Mystique's baby!!!

Evan: Unh! What's going on, man? Are you guys ok?
Kitty: Rogue's having creepy nightmares.
Kurt: Whoa. What about?
Rogue: I'm not sure. There's, uh... a castle and wolves. Oh, the poor baby. [crying] I didn't really see his face, but I seem to know- to know him somehow.
Kurt: What? Why are you looking at me like that? What's wrong?
Rogue: It was you!
Kurt: What was me?
Rogue: Somehow--I just know. It was you, Kurt!
Kurt: What are you talking about?

Peat: Girls gone nutso!
John: Hey!

Rogue: In the dream... there was a baby crying. Cry--someone--a woman, I think, I didn't really see her face, was running, and she--the baby was dropped into the river.
Kurt: And you think that baby was me?
Rogue: Why am I having this dream?!
Jean: Maybe the professor can help us sort this out. But let's do it in the morning. It's pretty late.

Skye: Rogue just went to bed 10 seconds ago? Well, actually, 2 or 3 minutes ago.

Professor X *telepathically*: That's all right, Jean. This is important. Rogue and Kurt, please come to the library with Jean. And the rest of you, try and get some sleep. In case you've forgotten, you all have finals tomorrow.
Evan: Man, there's no keeping anything for that dude, is there?

Pad: And the word telepath never came to him?
Skye: No, Xavier was hiding it from him!
Girls laugh while the guys are busy drooling.

In the library.
Kurt: I've always known that my parents adopted me, but they never said anything about me being fished out of a river.
Professor X: Don't worry, Kurt. We'll try to sort this out. Rogue, since this was your dream, I think I should start with you. Would you mind sitting here, please? Now, just relax. Try to think of the dream.
Rogue: You sure this isn't gonna hurt?

Skye: He'll lie.

Professor X: Yes. Now, please, just concentrate.
Dream sequence.
Mystique: monster! What have you done to him?! *chasing, running, etc* oh! Ohh! *the baby goes over the side* no! *we see Magneto and Mystique* why?! Why? [crying]
Mystique watches as Kurt's adoptive parents find him in the river. They pick him up and take him home, happy to have him.

Girls: Aww!!!
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Kurt: Well, did you see anything else?
Professor X: Apparently, Rogue, your dream isn't a dream. It's a repressed memory, not just your imagination.
Kurt: But if I'm in it, then why is she having the dream? Shouldn't it have been mine?
Rogue: Yeah, professor, what's going on?
Professor X: Well, I'm not quite certain. You must've absorbed the memories of someone who, indeed, knows about Kurt's past.
Kurt: She touched me! back when we first met, remember, Rogue? Maybe you got those memories from me.

Skye: And that would explain why she was having them now, how?
Pad: Because Rogue it close to him?
Skye: But she also touched Mystique too.
Pad: Shut up. You said it was a Kurt ep.
Skye: I never lied. Just never said that it was his dream.

Professor X: You were just an infant in the dream. It is possible that you could have memories that far back.
Kurt: Probe my mind now, professor! To find out more! Maybe I've got more memories about what happened later.

Skye: You were brought up as an annoying elf, move on!

Professor X: Yes, that might help, but--but not tonight. We've had quite enough excitement, I think, for now.
Kurt: But, professor!
Professor X: Tomorrow, Kurt, after school. I promise. *Kurt sighs*

Pad: Oh, poor little fuzz ball.......
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Next day at school.
Professor X: You've been carrying a terrible burden for many years, Mystique. Rogue's recent contact with you seems to have given her some of your darker memories- nightmares about a very unfortunate incident involving an infant.
Mystique: You're fishing. You know nothing.
Professor X: I know about your relationship with the boy, Mystique. What I don't know is what Magneto did to him. Why did you run that night?

Skye: *Mystique's voice* Because I wanted to stretch my legs.

Mystique: Dear, dear Charles, how incredibly frustrating for you to realise that that amazing mind of yours knows so very little, really.
Professor X: What were you to up to in that dreary castle? Was it worth the loss of your son?
*memory flash* Monster! What have you done to him?! *end flash*
Mystique: No! Get out! Get out now!
Professor X: And just in case you're curious, he turned out to be a very fine lad. [telepathically] Logan, I've got the coordinates.
Logan: Fire away. *he takes off in the jet*

Skye: Yea!!!!!!!
Pad: Now we're all happy.

Rogue: Hey, Kurt, wait up! What's the rush?
Kurt: You know. Prof said we'd look for more answers after school.
Rogue: Right. You sure you want to know?
Kurt: What? Of course! Hey, wouldn't you? I mean, haven't you ever wondered who your real parents were?

Skye: I always hope I never knew who mine were.
Pad: Don't be silly! You'd want to know.
Skye: Yea, but I wouldn't have to live with them!

Rogue: I guess so. Yeah, sometimes, but Irene was always a good mom to me. I mean, sometimes she could be real strict and all, but...
Kurt: My adoptive parents were great, too, but I always felt that they were keeping something from me. whenever the subject of where I came from came up, they were always vague. They never mentioned anything like the stuff in your dream.

John: Yes, because Mystique went up to them in her normal form and told them what happened before hand.

Rogue: Maybe they didn't know. Or maybe they were just trying to protect you.
Kurt: How, by hiding my own past from me?
Rogue: Kurt-
Kurt: Listen, maybe you can live without knowing, but I've got to know the truth about my life! I'm outta here! *ports away*

Skye: And no one notices?
Peat: how come he's wearing normal clothes one minute and his uniform the next?
John: Leave it to the fate's.

Scott: Man! What was that about?
Rogue: He's still really worked up about last night.

Peat: Ah yes, because that girl he had was one.......
Pad: Peat! *Whacks him over the head with a mallet, which knocks him out.*

Scott: Ah, well, we'd better go find him.
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Pietro and Mystique outside the school.
Pietro: Are you sure about this? I mean, I've seen the defences they've got around that place.
Mystique: Don't worry. You're fast enough. You should be able to get in and out of there undetected.
Pietro: Why is it so important? I mean, what are you telling that blue-furred freak?
Mystique: Never mind. That's none of your business. Just deliver it!

Pad: He's not a ‘blue-furred freak! He's an elf!!!
Skye: And proud of it! *Group stars at her, apart from Peat* Sorry, got caught in the moment.
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In the mansion.
Logan: *on the radio* Looks like this is the place, Charles. I'll set her down in the woods nearby, go in on foot.

Pad: Her?
Skye: The Blackbird.
Pad: Aren't you even a little bit jealous?
Skye: Of what? Once he meets me he'll love me.
John: Depends on what kinda mood your in.
Skye: Lets not go there! *Laughs*

Professor X: Good. Keep me informed.
Logan: Right. Logan out.

Pad: Why not say, ‘Wolverine out'? It would be wise to use his code name on a radio, you never know who could be listening.
John: Yes, because they're people who would want to listen to Logan and can hunt him down easily.
Pad: There might be.

Professor X: [thinking] Quicksilver.
Kitty: Hey, who opened a window?
Knock on Kurt's door.
Kurt: "if you want to know the truth, come to the new mall construction site at sundown. Come alone." why not? *ports out*
Scott: [knock on door] Yo, Kurt! Professor X says he may have some info- Kurt? Kurt!
Pietro is on the phone.
Pietro: That's what the note said, I'm tellin' ya. She's gonna meet that little blue creep tonight. And that Wolverine guy and the Blackbird were gone, just like you said.

Skye: You were saying something about the name Logan?
Pad: Fine then, be like that!
John: He sure got around the place.
Skye: his heart beat is meant to be faster than that of a human, 25 times faster, I think.

Magneto: Hmm. As I feared. Good work, Pietro. Now I need you to do something further for me. get the others and intercept Nightcrawler before he gets to Mystique. She must not tell him what he wants to know. I have to take care of a visitor.

Skye: Feared?
John: He can take on Logan!
Skye: Oh, Mystique.
Pad: What?
Skye: mystique is going to see Kurt and tell him the truth about his past.
Pad: Which is?
Skye: What Magneto did to him.
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Logan is outside the creepy castle type place. Climbing walls and whatnot to get in.
Logan: Hmmm.
Professor X: Wolverine, report.

John: Humm.

Logan: It looks like I was expected. I think this place was some sort of... [sniffs] lab or something, but whoever was running it pulled out recently. Real recently. Huh? *notices a bomb* Sorry, doc, I gotta sign off now!

Pad: How did he survive that?
Skye: Survival training. He was in the army before he was shoved into Weapon X, he knows different skills. Isn't it great?!
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Back at the mansion.
Scott: Jean! Kurt's taken off. The professor wants us to check out his room.
Jean: So what are we looking for?

Pad: A big elephant!
Two look at her.
Skye: Yea, right.
John: Like that'll happen.
Skye: Your more likely to have angles fly out of you bum!
John: Skye!
Skye: Ah! I never swore!

Scott: I'm not sure. Professor X seems to think Kurt might have had a visit from Pietro this afternoon.
Jean: Quicksilver? Here? But how?

John: ah. Now I see why Peat is so attracted to her. She appears to be as slow as him!

Scott: Hey, you know how fast that dude moves. And I guess he'd get past the mansion security with no problem.
Jean: Oh, no. Scott, look at this. *Shows him the letter that she found in one of Kurt's drawers*
Scott: Get the others. We gotta move.

Pad: Really? I was hoping for a drink.
Skye: Yea, martini!
John: Woohoo!!!!!
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At the construction site.
Kurt: Ok...so I'm here.
Mystique: Hello, Kurt.
Kurt: Huh? You! You're the one in Rogue's dream! Who are you? Why don't you show yourself?
Mystique: You already know me... son.
Kurt: No! No, it's impossible! What happened to me? Why didn't you-

John: Took a line from Star wars there.
Skye: Nah! just went for a bit of a Star wars theme.

Fred drops in with the rest of the Brotherhood.

Pad: Earthquake!!!! Run!!!!
John: No, its all right, it was just Fred taking a step.
Group laugh.

Pietro: Whoa. Far as you go, fur boy. This conversation's over.
Mystique: Get out of here, all of you!
Pietro: No can do, boss lady. We have other orders.
Kurt: Whoa! What kind of game is this, Mystique?

Skye: *Mystique's voice* I was planning on playing naked twister!!!
They laugh.

Pietro: Aah! Ha! That was easy.

Group laugh harder now.

Scott: Wrong! It just got hard!
Fred: Get 'em! Arrghh!
Evan: Hey, wart man... uh-oh. Lick this!

Skye: *Half laughing* Suppose you couldn't watch this?! That would be dodgy!!!!!
Group are almost ready to explode.

Toad: Aah! Aarrgghh!

Group are very close to exploding.

Fred: *in a cement mixer* Let me outta this thing! Aah!
Lance: Time to rock and roll!
Rogue: Rock and roll this, creep!
Lance: Huh? Unh!
Pietro: Come on, shades! You can't hit me! I'm too fast. You can't hit me, can you? Ha ha ha!
Scott: Jean, I could use a little help here!
Pietro: Hey, no fair! Whoa-o-o-ohh!
Lance: Aah! Aah! *Rogue takes him down*
Jean: Rogue, over there!
Rogue: I see her! Going somewhere? Me and Kurt have a few questions we need you to answer.
Mystique: I'm afraid it's too late for answers. Far too late.

Skye: *Mystiques voice* I cannot explain my actions! I need to be naked!!
Pad: *Rogue's voice* An' why's that?
Skye: Because I'm an addict!!!

Rogue: *using Lance's powers. Not so fast.
Mystique: Oh, oh, ohh! Oh! *morphs into a crow and flies away.

John: Can you picture that if you could only hear it?
Group laugh again.
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Logan: So the dreams Rogue was having were really Mystique's.

Group laugh again at the last scene they made up.

Professor X: I'm afraid so. Rogue must have picked them up when she touched her. Mystique may very well be the boy's mother, but we may never know the truth now. There was nothing left of the lab?
Logan: Nothing. Whoever was running it didn't want us finding anything, but before it went kablooey, it looked like the kind of place Dr. Frankenstein might've been comfortable in.

John: Oh god! Metal picture of Frankenstein naked!!
Whole group: Ewww!!
Peat: Ugh......

Professor X: Genetic experimentation on mutants... I hadn't realised that he was willing to go that far. And poor Kurt.

Pad: Well, what was done to him? As his girlfriend and future wife I demand to know!!
Skye: Oh geez, power trip!
John: Please place your head between you legs and........
Skye: Kiss you bum goodbye!
John: just take it from ‘Chicken Run'?
Skye: So?

Scott: So when are you going to tell Kurt about all this?
Logan: I'm not so sure the elf needs to know. At least not yet. Some of this stuff could be pretty damaging.

Pad: How would he know!!!???
Skye: First hand, the blades?
Pad: Oh.......

Kurt and Rogue sitting on the balcony upstairs.
Kurt: I--I still can't believe it. Mystique is my mother?
Rogue: Listen, Kurt, who really knows? I mean, that's one seriously disturbed lady. Maybe she's just messin' with you.
Kurt: I guess, but there is a certain resemblance.

Pad: Oh no!!
Skye: it gets worse in the second season.
Pad: Oh no!!!

Rogue: Hey, look, that doesn't mean anything. Let's just wait till the Prof finds more answers for you. Then you'll know for sure.
Kurt: Somehow, I think he already knows more than he's willing to tell us.
Rogue: Maybe, but if he does, he's probably got good reasons for not telling you.
Kurt: Yeah, sure.
Rogue: And listen, Kurt, I really do know what you're going through. We'll both keep looking, and we'll find our answers together someday. Ok?

Pad: NO!!!! *Starts crying*
Skye: Hum, well, I'm glad we bought that boat, we'll need it after Pad's finished.
The two inch up higher onto their seats as Pads tears flood the theatre.
John: Oh yea.

Kurt: Yeah, ok.
Rogue: Hey, it's almost time for school, and I've got finals. I gotta finish getting ready. So do you.
Kurt: Thanks, Rogue.

John: Oh, poor Rogue!
Skye: John, hurry up with the boat!!!! Or it'll be poor us!!

Over to Bayvile. Mystique is staring out the window. A girl gets out of her mother's car.
Girl: Thanks for the ride, mom. See you after school.
Mystique looks sad.

Skye: Aw. Done?
John: Yea, hope on.
Skye: All righty. *Hopes on and pulls Peat with her, John takes Pad* So, how do we open the door?
John: We could float around here again and watch a past ep?
Skye: Sure. But we won't be staying in one spot for the whole time.
John: Its something to do.
Skye: Like ‘Mission impossible'.
Waugh and Sharp look at them from the film room.

Sharp: We have to leave!!!
Waugh: Well, Pad's upset. She's flooded the whole room, let's see how they'll like ‘Grim Reminder'.
They hear Skye cry out ‘Yes!!!'
Sharp: It won't do anything to them.
Waugh: Shut up!! They'll care...........

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