There's something about her expression, even as she rolls her eyes and shakes her head that tells him the very thing he knows that he knows but feels the need to find out all over again. Was the mutant comment too low? Hell, he'd called her worse - but maybe now it was different? Hell, he hoped not.

Taking a moment for himself, and another to mumble something to his pilot, he takes off up the stairs after her, pausing when Rogue does - flashing her a grin.

"How does a week away from all this sound to you?" Even as he says it, he slowly makes his way up, until he's right behind her, hand on the railing - close to her back, only slightly shorter because of the step difference.