G and Flex talk

"Rogue is incredibly crafty, a lot of people might be blind to the fact that she might still be a part of the X-Men." G said, looking Flex over.

In turn, Flex felt an anger rising in him as G spoke to him.

The leader of the Muties was questioning him with a suspicion that he hadn't shown in the past.

Like he knew Flex wasn't telling him the whole story, which meant that he wanted to put the screws to him until he broke.

Normally Flex would just ignore G implying that he was being played by someone, but things were very different now.

"Look, I'd know by now if she was still with them, they tossed her aside." Flex responded, showing a lot of faith in Rogue.

For Flex, even after everything he'd had done for the Muties, it felt like G speaking to this told Flex just how much he trusted him.

G wasn't trying to piss him off, so he decided a different tact...for now.

"What's Rogue's mental state at the moment?" G asked, surprising Flex.

G softening up caught him off guard, so he decided to be honest in return.

"She's in a weird spot right now, we should probably keep going very slow with this one." Flex responded.

G nodded at that, Flex was clearly trying to protect Rogue and that made G want to press him on it, but, given how things had gone earlier, that probably wasn't the brightest move.

"So, have you two gotten close?" He asked Flex.

"Not yet, we're friendly but I'm trying to get closer to her." Flex said.

G saw right through his lie, so he put a mental pin in that.

There would come a time where he'd have to throw this whole conversation in Flex's face.

G had already decided that Flex was going to be a problem if things went sideways, so he wanted to start stockpiling ammo very quickly.

"Fair enough." He said.

"So, what do you think she'll add to the Muties?" G asked, wanting to get Flex to let his guard down.

"She's a seasoned superhero, so she'll probably make for a great field leader for a strike ****." Flex said, hoping that would be enough to get G off his back.

"You're probably right about that, but we won't actually know until it's time." G responded, not being able to resist that last comment.

Flex didn't respond to that, feeling like it wouldn't be all that smart to push back.

For the next half hour they discussed random Muties issues, with G making sure to be as complimentary as possible towards Flex, hoping that would cool things down enough for him to ask one last question about Rogue.

When he felt like the time was right, he went in for the kill.

"Do you really think Rogue will be comfortable visiting you with Stud around all the time or do you think it would be better if you kept her away and visited her instead?" He asked, giving him a chance to choose his own destiny on this one.

Flex looked at him and answered.