It takes awhile for Rogue to even realize someone else is outside the building trying to get her attention.
The second she'd realized she was locked in, she started to panic. Her lungs closed up, leaving her wheezing, desperate for air she'd been unable to pull. Her vision started going grey along the edges. She'd gotten pins and needles in her fingers and toes. And she'd been very, very certain that if she didn't get out she wouldn't survive.
It's not surprising; the whole thing reminds her far too much of where she'd come from. But it does leave her splashing around in the water, looking completely petrified.
And when she finally does notice Jack and manages to pull herself together enough to give him the information he needs to unlock the doors, she spends the entire time he's gone certain that he's not coming back. That he's going to leave her in here.
Her relief when that doesn't happen, when the doors open and the water drains, is nearly palpable and she barely hears him when he mentions monsters, too focused on the fact that she's not locked in anymore that she doesn't even realize that she's made a soft sobbing noise as she steps out of the room.
"Remind me that I owe you... and... what?" The comment about the monsters finally clicks. But even that doesn't seem as frightening as what she'd just gone through. It should. But.
And he sounds almost too calm to actually take him seriously.
The Fringes
The second she'd realized she was locked in, she started to panic. Her lungs closed up, leaving her wheezing, desperate for air she'd been unable to pull. Her vision started going grey along the edges. She'd gotten pins and needles in her fingers and toes. And she'd been very, very certain that if she didn't get out she wouldn't survive.
It's not surprising; the whole thing reminds her far too much of where she'd come from. But it does leave her splashing around in the water, looking completely petrified.
And when she finally does notice Jack and manages to pull herself together enough to give him the information he needs to unlock the doors, she spends the entire time he's gone certain that he's not coming back. That he's going to leave her in here.
Her relief when that doesn't happen, when the doors open and the water drains, is nearly palpable and she barely hears him when he mentions monsters, too focused on the fact that she's not locked in anymore that she doesn't even realize that she's made a soft sobbing noise as she steps out of the room.
"Remind me that I owe you... and... what?" The comment about the monsters finally clicks. But even that doesn't seem as frightening as what she'd just gone through. It should. But.
And he sounds almost too calm to actually take him seriously.