My soul for Your Kiss- Part 1

By Kenne Morrison

Disclaimer:The following story contains characters that belong solely to Marvel Comics.The events that occur herein, however, are completely made up by the author and do not reflect in any way things that have occurred in the actual comics.This story is for entertainment purposes only, NOT FOR PROFIT.

The door to Gambit's room stood slightly ajar, and Rogue stood in the hallway struggling with whether she should go in.

"But what would ah say to him? How do ah put into words how ah feel right now. How can ah expect him to forgive me for what ah have done?" As she pondered these things, her mind went unbiddingly back to the fateful kiss.

It was the end of the world as a crystal wall closed all around them. They were surrounded by other members of the x-family, but all she was focused on was him. How she was about to die without ever having felt her lover's lips press firmly against hers. She would never experience her breath intermingling with his. Her powers as a mutant made it impossible for her to touch flesh-to-flesh without stealing the other person's powers, memories, and very soul. What was worse was that whoever she touched lapsed into a coma and there was a risk that it would become permanent. That she would live the rest of her life with that person's essence trapped inside her head. That had happened to the Avenger Ms. Marvel and Rogue had never been the same. She would forever struggle with emotions and memories that were not hers. However, she longed and ached for Gambit's touch, Gambit's kiss. Gambit held her hand as they watched their world enveloped within the crystal wall.

But she could not feel the warmth of his hand, the softness of his flesh, because she wore gloves that prohibited her powers from activatin. Gambit stood looking out at the crystal sky and she was mesmerized by his handsome features. The sharp jagged outline of his chin, his scruffy unshaven face that looked like through so much but refused to give up. She noticed his red eyes and even though a tiny voice questioned how he got such unusual eyes, Rogue refused to question its strangeness instead embrace its uniqueness. Then she fought back the impulse to run her hand through his brown hair that was fine, but looked like it hadn't been washed in a couple of days. His rugged and unkempt manner only heightened Rogue's attraction to the "Ragin' Cajun". Then almost as if he was hearing her thoughts, Gambit turned to look at her with a look that betrayed his own desire to embrace for a forbidden kiss. Before she could catch herself, Rogue pursed her lips and crooked her head while closing her eyes. Next thing she knew, she felt another pair of lips carressing her own. She felt Gambit's love and passion for her explode into his lips. As the crystal globe that spelled death for her world closed, Rogue felt complete bliss envelope her soul and wash away a decade of pain and longing.

Only, the world did not come to an end, for somehow their world was lost for four months as another reality had taken their place in space and time. When they all woke up from oblivion, Rogue was dismayed to discover that Gambit had indeed lapsed into a coma as a result of their given in to a forbidden kiss. The expertise of Dr. Henry McCoy or Dr. Moira Mactaggert served nothing for they could not begin to determine how long his coma would lapse. Not even powerful telepaths like Professor Charles Xavier, Jean Grey or Elizabeth Braddock could reach into Gambit's mind and pull him out of his deep slumber. So Rogue decided to run away from it all to try to erase the pain and guilt. It was only because Bobby Drake tagged along that she ever returned to the x-men and only family she had.

Now even though Gambit had recovered, Rogue did everything she could to avoid the inevitable confrontation that threatened to tear her apart. As she peeked into his room and saw him tossing in his sleep as if he was caught in some battle, her heart begged her to go to him and try to ease his struggle. Yet she resisted because she was not even sure if he was wiling to forgive her for what she had done. Instead, Rogue turned away and went to the danger room, the facility where the x-men honed their abilities. If she could emmerse herself in a training program, she could force herself to forget what was raging inside her.

Two days later, Gambit was sitting at the breakfast table eating a plate of eggs and hash browns. He had been invited to go with most of the x-men into Salem Center to do some shopping, but when he looked and saw a panicked expression on Rogue's face, he had declined saying that he needed to work on his motorcyle. But the truth was the motorcycle was running better than ever thanks to a total overhall the last time Forge visited the mansion. Gambit could sense the distance growing between himself and Rogue and he know the reason for it too. He knew it was because she was horrified at the things she discovered when they had kissed and his life had poured into her. He did not blame her for treating him like Hitler because he knew that what he had done was as bad as Hitler's actions towards the jews. Gambit discovered that he had lost his apetite. Standing up, Gambit strolled out of the kitchen and took the back stairs up to his bedroom. Within minutes, he was fast asleep.

"Attention, Xmen! Come into the meeting room instantly!" The powerful presense of Professor Xavier in the mind made for a very lousy wake-up call and Gambit cursed out loud because of the intrusion. Old baldy better learn to use the intercom or he's going to get a kinetically charged ace of spades up his ass! Gambit grumbled as he got into his battle gear and proceeded down the three floors to the to the meeting room in sub-basement one.

When he got there he scanned the room to try to determine what could be wrong. He noticed Archangel, Psylocke, Iceman, Beast, Cyclops, Storm and Rogue had also responed to the summons.

"Cerebro just located four new mutants, and I want you to split into teams of two to fine them" Professor xavier stated as he rolled into the room from his private study. "Each team will take a blackbird to the four locations. Iceman and Beast will take the one located in Egypt. Archangel and Psylocke will locate the one in London. Cyclops will go with Storm to find the one in Russia while Gambit and Rogue will go find the one in Brazil."

"Excuse me, suh, but could ah tag along with cyclops instead, I would like to speak with him on the way over." Rogue inquired drawing a couple of confused looks from some of the others.

"Very well, Rogue will join Cylops and Gambit will go with Storm. You are dismissed"

Gambit turned to follow Storm to Blackbird, but his heart sank when he thought of how despised he must be in Rogue's eyes that she couldn't even team up with him on a mission.

END OF PART ONE.


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