The Circle Stage
Elseworld. A Remy LeBeau with powerful, uncontrolled empathic abilities arrives at Proffesor Xavier's School for the Gifted.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." – Shakespeare, Hamlet
Remy LeBeau arrived at the Mansion halfway to insane.
There were colors everywhere. They burst and sparkled and danced in front of his eyes (godforsaken, devil-touched eyes) and made it hard to see, and it had taken such a long, long time to go to the place that he was going to. The colours made the horizon waver like a desert with snow and ice and trees all around. The colours captured his thoughts and swirled him here and there and everywhere.
Sometimes, when he was closest to sane, he remembered that he was feeling emotions, not seeing colours, and that there wasn't really sparkles inside him at all. Sometimes, when he was closest to sane, he felt an emotion – despair – and knew it for his own.
Mostly he kept walking, because even when he was his farthest away from sane he knew where he was going. When he reached the mansion he walked right into it.
The sounds – bang, thump, bang, scratch, thump – went unnoticed until lunchtime, because all the students were in class, and there was no one around. And someone trying to walk through a solid outside wall can make surprisingly little sound.
In fact, it wasn't until the Professor moved towards the lunchroom (with it's big, wide windows) that Remy managed to manoeuvre himself around (bump, scratch, thump) to the point where he could walk through a window, in his arrow-straight, undeviating line towards the professor (he was slightly more than halfway insane at this point).
His appearance outside the window and subsequent move through the window (it took him several tries) took the residents of the mansion so by surprise that Remy made it almost all the way to professor Xavier before being restrained by Logan and knocked unconscious.
Though he was quickly removed down to the underground tunnels, several of the students reported nightmares for several weeks subsequent to the events.
As Scott would be later heard to despairingly remark: "Leave it to Gambit to make an entrance."
Elseworld. A Remy LeBeau with powerful, uncontrolled empathic abilities arrives at Proffesor Xavier's School for the Gifted.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." – Shakespeare, Hamlet
Remy LeBeau arrived at the Mansion halfway to insane.
There were colors everywhere. They burst and sparkled and danced in front of his eyes (godforsaken, devil-touched eyes) and made it hard to see, and it had taken such a long, long time to go to the place that he was going to. The colours made the horizon waver like a desert with snow and ice and trees all around. The colours captured his thoughts and swirled him here and there and everywhere.
Sometimes, when he was closest to sane, he remembered that he was feeling emotions, not seeing colours, and that there wasn't really sparkles inside him at all. Sometimes, when he was closest to sane, he felt an emotion – despair – and knew it for his own.
Mostly he kept walking, because even when he was his farthest away from sane he knew where he was going. When he reached the mansion he walked right into it.
The sounds – bang, thump, bang, scratch, thump – went unnoticed until lunchtime, because all the students were in class, and there was no one around. And someone trying to walk through a solid outside wall can make surprisingly little sound.
In fact, it wasn't until the Professor moved towards the lunchroom (with it's big, wide windows) that Remy managed to manoeuvre himself around (bump, scratch, thump) to the point where he could walk through a window, in his arrow-straight, undeviating line towards the professor (he was slightly more than halfway insane at this point).
His appearance outside the window and subsequent move through the window (it took him several tries) took the residents of the mansion so by surprise that Remy made it almost all the way to professor Xavier before being restrained by Logan and knocked unconscious.
Though he was quickly removed down to the underground tunnels, several of the students reported nightmares for several weeks subsequent to the events.
As Scott would be later heard to despairingly remark: "Leave it to Gambit to make an entrance."