Rogue frowned, another thought occurring to her.  "And there's his adamantium skeleton to worry about," she said, looking at her heavy, sagging belly where Wolverine's body was being absorbed into her.  "Oh, that's gonna be a bitch to pass, if ah can pass it at all..." She didn't really want to think about having adamantium bones stuck in her belly for the rest of her life.  "Maybe if ah eat someone with phasing powers, or..."

 

She blinked, and slapped herself.  "Would y'all listen to yourself, sugah?" she said.  "You're tryin' to fix this, not make it worse.  You already ate Toad, Gambit, Emma and now Wolvie, you can't go... around..." Her voice trailed off as she saw someone in the doorway.

 

It was one of the students.  Cessily Kincaid, the red-headed liquid metal girl known as Mercury.  She was staring at Rogue with wide, metallic eyes, a nervous smile on her face.  Her lithe, slim body was trembling.

 

Rogue gulped nervously.  "Um... Hiyah, Cess."  She wasn't among the students making fun of me earlier! the obese heroine realized with fright.  She didn't get the mental whammy I placed on the others!

 

Mercury grinned weakly.  "I was just... I wanted to ask Professor Logan about a paper for his class..." she said, Rogue's telepathy telling her that Mercury wasn't lying.  Mercury giggled fearfully.  "I... I guess he's not available right now..." 

 

"Ah assure you, sugah, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this," Rogue said, forcing a smile on her face.  But a growing predatory instinct was telling her how useful a liquid metal body would be.  And that amorphous body of hers would be easy to swallow, if she used her telepathy to keep her from morphing...

 

"Oh?" Mercury said, slowly backing away from Rogue, the frightened smile not leaving her face. "That's good... You can tell me about it... later..."  She ran for it, morphing into a wave of silver liquid and flowing down the hall at a shockingly fast speed.

 

"DANGIT!" Rogue shouted, chasing after her.