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Confrontations
"Chere, please don't do this, you're making a mistake!" Gambit pleaded helplessly. Rogue turned her back on him and continued packing.
"Gambit, I can't stay! I can't keep living like this. Waking up every morning and having to pretend like there's nothing romantic between us, that we could ever be more than friends." She packed a jacket into her bag.
Gambit raised his voice a little, "And you think dat I can?" He reached over and removed the jacket, and anything else he could grab from the bag to stall her from leaving. "Every day is a struggle Rogue, I see Scott and Jean together and it infuriates me dat I can't show you how I feel about you the way they can."
Rogue quickly turned to face him "And what is that exactly? You never have been able to say it!" She stood there staring hard into his eyes yearning for the three words she knew she would never hear from him.
Just say it! Say it! The voice inside Remy's head screamed at him. Maybe he had never said it before because he had never known love. But he loved her more than any other in this world, that should have been enough, but Gambit was scared. Scared of commitment, scared of being hurt, scared of having a family and being a father like the only one he had ever known. But above all else he was scared of Rogue leaving him. His hesitation had gotten the better of him and Rogue, realizing that even now that she was walking out of his life wasn't enough to make him say it, bit her lip to stop the tears and turned her face away from his gaze.
"Chere, Gambit don't know what he'd do if he woke up every mornin' and you weren't here, I'd lose my mind."
She shook her head sadly "I'm sorry Cajun but I need more than that, and you deserve more than I can give you." Rogue picked up her half packed bag and pushed past him.
"Rogue…" Suddenly she wished that he wouldn't say it, if he did, it would change everything and her head was set on leaving.
"I love you."
She spun around. "What?" Rogue stammered, barely above a whisper.
Now that he'd said it, Gambit couldn't stop; to have her stay he knew that he'd have to bare his soul. "I love you Chere, more than anything else in this world; I have from the day I laid eyes on you. And after everything that we've been through together I can't imagine having it any other way. I know that we don't have it easy; we face a challenge in our relationship that other people wouldn't even be able to comprehend. But Rogue I've never been unfaithful to you, I've had women throw themselves all over me at the bar and told them that I'm not interested. I don't find love easy to say out loud and that's something from my past where I've been burnt. But dat don't mean dat I don't love you because I do Rogue. I do. You're my only Queen of Hearts."
Rogue tried to wipe the tears from her eyes but they wouldn't stop. "Remy I have to leave, that was the most beautiful thing anyone's ever said to me but…. I know I'm not making much sense but I want you to be happy with somebody, I want you to find a normal girl,"
"I don't want a normal girl." He quickly argued.
"I want you to find someone that can give you everything that we've ever dreamed of." She continued, crying, " I can see that you're going to make a wonderful father one day Remy LeBeau and I can't offer you that. It's selfish of me to keep you."
"Rogue," He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his chest. "I would give that all up for you."
Rogue's large green eyes stared up into Gambit's red on black. "I love you too Cajun. But I can't stay, I'm sorry." She broke away from him, grabbed her bag and ran out of her bedroom door.
