Disclaimer: I do not own X-men in anyway, shape or form. The belong to Marvel entirely. I simply write for my own pleasure. Please do not sue me.
A/N- This chapter.
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Main characters - Rogue, Remy.
Other Characters - Orroro, Logan, Scott, Jean, Beast, Kitty, Bobby, Kurt, Professor Xavier.
Story Details- Slightly AU, I'm changing origins a bit. So it won't be the typical Marie, Irene, Mystique beginnings. Although that doesn't mean I'm completely ditching them. There just going to be twisted is all. If you were in doubt, this is obviously a Romy. To avoid confusion in the future, Rogue can control her powers of absorption, and can also recall other mutants powers. If she uses them too much it weakens her. She can lose control, but only if she's stressed or extremely scared. So basically if she's happy her powers are fine. I did this so her and Remy could have a more interesting relationship in my story as they discover her past.
Editing note- At the moment I'm using word pad, so please excuse the lack of spell check. I'm going to harass my brother to put it on this PC when he gets home. I got a lot of the French and Cajun terms of websites, so I'm hoping there correct. If there not please tell me, as I never learnt French. Also accent wise let me know what you think, I'm trying to keep it true to the characters, while not using the same catchphrases a bazillion times.
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The girl stumbled through the darkness. She tried to run, but her legs were just too tired to move any faster.
Branches caught on her clothes, adding more rips and cuts to her battered body. She felt like she'd been out here for an eternity.
Where ever here was. She'd ran away, from them. She wasn't completely sure how she'd escaped, her mind felt like it was shrouded in fog.
It was as if the harder she tried to remember, the more her brain made her forget.
She continued through the wilderness, she felt a chill go threw her as a breeze blew through her auburn and white streaked hair.
It was cold, and dark and she was alone. It made her sad, yet she couldn't remember why. As she ventured on, the trees began to thin and a few street lights came into view.
She walked onto the deserted road and looked around, why didn't see remember where she was. Where was she supposed to go now.
Her head had began to ache as she grew more distressed. she put her hand to her head rubbing her temples, hoping to ease the tension.
She looked up as she heard the roar of a motorbike as it headed straight for her.
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'What de hell? muttered Remy as he pulled his bike to a stop, to look at the girl in front of him standing in the middle of the road.
She had been rubbing her forehead, and had stopped to look up at him. What sort of girl stands in the middle of the road at this time of night.
It's then that he notices her clothes, or lack of. She's wearing blue hospital scrub pants and a white t shirt, or it was once white but was now covered in dirt and smears of blood.
She continues to stare at him, her green eyes burning into his red on black eyes. She wasn't afraid, unlike most people, who would have run at seeing his eyes for the first time.
As she stood there blood began to seep from her nose. Remy dismounted his bike at the sight ,'Hey chere, you be okay?' he asked, his voiced filled with concern.
Who did this to her, he wondered.
She paused for a moment, as though she was trying to remember how to speak, ' Ah, I, ah dn't know' she said as her voiced cracked, she had begun to sway on the spot, her knees buckled.
Remy rushed forward to catch her, his left arm darting behind her back as she fell, while his right gathered her up under her knees.
He lifted her up and glanced down at her head resting against his chest, she had fainted.
'De boys at home gonna be teas'n me for a week over dis one' he sighed as he walked back to his bike.
His average night had just got exciting.
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'My goddess' said Orroro, her voice riddled with shock as she looked at the battered girl in Remy's arms.
She had opened the door to find more than she had expected.
'What happened to her?' asked Orroro, as she closed the door behind Remy, the were already making their way towards the medical bay.
'Dunno, found de fille in the street, t'ink I made her go weak at the knees' said Remy with a chuckle trying to lighten the tense atmosphere developing around him and the strange girl.
'You do have that effect on a lot of girls, don't you Remy' she said with a chuckle as she remembered Remy's arrival at the mansion a year ago. Half the girls had swooned at the sight of him.
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Logan had heard gumbo's return and had walked down stairs, his nose prickled at the smell of blood.
It's metallic tinge lingered in the air.
He looked around the entrance hall to see Remy and Orroro rushing down the corridor in the direction of the medical bay.
It was then that he noticed the limp body in Remy's arms.
'What happened Gumbo, whose that?' he asked as Remy layed the girl gently down on the nearest bed.
The girl groaned slightly from pain, as her legs contracted out to lie flat on the bed.
The trio looked at her. She had long auburn hair with two white streaks framing her face, a leaf or two had managed to get caught in her disheveled hair.
He hair was placid, but dirtied and bruised. Especially the one forming along her jawline, as though someone had punched her with extreme force.
She had cuts along her arms and legs, having cut through the fabric.
Someone had done a number on this girl thought Logan and he noted several fresh and old bruises on her arms.
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Beast finally arrived, pulling a shirt of his head and large chest.
'Oh my, this is not good' . He said as he pulled his glasses from his pants pocket and placed them on the bridge on his nose.
He pulled some rubber gloves from the box on the instrument table and snapped them on.
The others watched silently as Beast checked her breathing and pulse.
'She's very weak', he said with concern.
'Will she... 'interrupted Remy.
'Yes, I think she will be okay, but she isn't going to be easy for her' he said as he examined her injuries.
'She has quite a nasty bruise on her jaw' he continued to examine her tilting her head to the side gently as he peered at the bruise, he then picked up her left arm and examined her wrist which was slightly swollen,
'A sprained wrist, many cuts and abrasions, some of these even seem old' he said as he lifted her shirt to look at her abdomen.
She had fresh sutures on her right and left side. Identical size and length.
'Were ever this girl came from, I don't think she was a guest, judging by these wounds. A doctor did this', Beast said with disgust that someone training to save lives could have done this on a human being.
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As Beast continued the examination he found more sutured wounds, one on the back of her neck, just below the hair line and one behind her left ear.
'Do you mean sum homme been cutting her open and sew'n her back up?' asked Remy as he drew his attention away from the girl to look at Beast.
'I do believe so, possibly for experimentation'. said Beast as he took of his glasses to rub the dirt of the lenses with his t shirt. A habit he had when he was worried.
'This isn't the first time you heard about something like this is it?' said Logan from behind Remy.
He had been staring at the girl, she looked like someone. Someone he knew, a long time ago. A time when he'd been grafted with his adamantium skeleton.
'Indeed it is not, we know about the weapon x program with you Logan, but there have been rumours about experiments on mutant children.Someone has been taking children, mostly those who have no family of their own. And taking them to conduct their research on. I'm not sure what their motives are, but I suspect there trying to create a weapon against mutants or trying to manipulate the mutant genome. Make a more powerful mutant. At this stage it has all been speculation between the professor and I.
But know, this girl. She could help us to find the answer', Beast said glancing down at his new patient.
'I think this is a discussion better set for a new day gentlemen', said Orroro as she looked at the clock on the wall. It was late, she turned and left the room silently.
Logan following her after taking one last glance at the girl, it was those white bangs that framed her pale face.
They just looked so familiar. He shook the thought from his head as he left the room. He'd think about it tomorrow.
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Remy still stood next to the bed, his hand had wandered during Beast's talking to grasp the girls hand gently, it was slightly warm.
He rubbed his fingers against her palm, feeling the callouses on her hand, surrounded by her soft creamy skin.
Remy was lost in his thoughts as he looked down at the girl.
'I thought you might need this' said Beast as he pulled a chair over next to the bed for Remy.
'Merci' said Remy as he sat down, his hand still holding hers. It was going to be a long night, and he wasn't going anywhere.
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Her eyelids fluttered as she woke. She found she was looking up at a pristine white ceiling, it smelled clean. Like bleach, like a hospital. She didn't like hospitals.
Her heart began to race as she sat up in the bed. She looked down at her clothes, she was wearing a fresh set of pale green hospital scrubs.
A snore interrupted her thoughts, to her right, it was the man from yesterday, the one with the motorbike. He sat slouched in an uncomfortable chair, his arms folded across his chest, with his head resting back against the top of the chair, his mouth wide as he breathed, a little drool fell down the side of his stubble covered face. She smirked with amusement as she slipped out of the bed.
The medical bay was deserted apart from the two of them. She took note of her surroundings and she rushed to the door and out of the sterile environment.
As she looked at the corridor, she realized something. Hospitals don't have furniture this nice.
The walls were covered in veneered wood moldings. Plush Grey carpet continued endlessly. There were little tables and the occasional chair against the walls, above them beautiful classic paintings hung.
Even a few photographs, she noted and she wandered through the mansion. For that was how it felt. This place was massive. Like a never ending maze or corridors.
The nearest photo showed a group of people, ranging from children to adults. Some looked ridiculous, wearing blue and yellow uniforms. I wonder whose bright idea those had been she thought.
She continued on down the corridor and down the staircase. It was oddly quiet. If that picturedhad been of the houses occupants, then where were they she wondered.
The walls had changed from the beautiful dark wood, to stark steel. Huge double steel doors stood before her, hopefully this leads outside she thought as she pressed the green button and the doors opened.
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'Oh mah' she said as she looked at the sight that greeted her as she walked through the doors.
She was in the snow, in crushed under her feet she took a few steps forward. Pine trees surrounded her, there branches swaying lightly with the wind. snow flakes fell landing in her hair.
She caught a few on her open palm. She had never seen real snow before, not once in her 20 years.
She was awoken from her wonder as she heard people, fighting, talking. A man with black blue hair and a mutton chop beard jumped from out of the bushes.
He looked like a wild man, with rippling muscles evident under his plaid shirt. Her heart had begun to pound heavily in her chest.
'How'd you get in here kid, you okay?' he asked reaching out to touch her right shoulder with his left hand.
She snapped, her powers buzzing at the skin contact.
She felt a rush of emotion, vague memories. Her head felt like it was going to explode, her knuckles burned.
'Whats the deal, Logan?' said Cyclops as he emerged from were Logan had appeared.
He spotted the girl. She was staring down at her knuckles, it was then that she screamed in pain as three bone claws erupted from her knuckles, blood oozing out as her skin ripped apart.
The girl fell to the floor on her knees staring at her hands howling in pain.
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'End simulation 3275' yelled Cyclops. The world around them disappeared, and reverted back to that of steel. Behind Logan and Cyclops, stood Kitty, Bobby, Kurt, Orroro and Jean.
'Like oh my god' shrieked Kitty as she saw the girl, her hands were shaking as she tried to calm her breathing. It was then that the claws withdrew back into her hands.
The cuts were healing over.
'What did they do to you?' said Logan as he once again attempted to approach the girl. He recognized the claws like his own.
She scrambled back at his approach, grabbing her shoe off her feet. She clutched in it her right hand squeezing hard, she held it out like a weapon, and it began to glow a bright fuscia color.
She wasn't sure why she'd done it, it was almost like a instinct. Some part of her mind knew how to do it and had reacted instantaneously.
Logan hunched down, his arms resting on his bent legs and he looked at her.
'You don't need to do that kid'. he said as he reached with his left hand out to take the shoe from her.
She reluctantly released the charge and the shoe returned to its normal white color before she gave it to his outreached hand.
'My names Logan' he said as he put out his right hand to help here to her feet, being mindfully not to take her left wrist which was bound in gauze.
'Ah'm Rogue' she said. Logan handed her back her shoe and she slipped it back on her to her bare foot.
'How did you do that, it was way cool' said Bobby as interrupted the silence that hung in the air. The people next to him stood equally surprised.
'I ah, don't know. I think mah power was supposed to be to absorb others powers. But they ah did sumthin' to me. The Doctors, they, made me recall people ah'd touched. If ah concentrate, its like part of them is awakened and their powers come to meh. Ah'd only just discovered mah power when th'y took meh.' looked down as she continued, her face saddened as she remembered ' ah kissed Cody a boy ah liked and he end'd up in a coma, the men came a few days later. They took meh and Irene, but Ah haven't seen her since'. said Rogue, she was still coming to terms with what had happened to her.
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She was going to continue, but was interrupted when Remy ran into the Danger room. Dried drool on the side of his unshaven face, his clothes crumpled from his uncomfortable sleep.
'You had me worried chere' he said as he exhaled, trying to catch his breathe. He'd been searching all over the mansion when he had awoken to find her gone from the med bay.
'Mah name ain't chere, its Rogue' she said, as her fiery attitude returned to her.
'I know but you be dear to Remy' he replied as his eyes flashed at her green ones.
The other x-men stood, watching the two southerners banter with amusement.
'At least im not guache' she said in response to his appearance in the Danger room.
'You speak a little French, eh chere, I like dat in my filles' he said, laying down his trademark charm.
'I ain't you chere and I sure ain't your girl, cajun' she retorted as she noted his distinctive accent, a smile played on her lips.
'You been down to the Big easy then, my southern belle?' he asked, duly noting her Mississippi drawl.
'Ain't dat far down the river, you know' she smirked. The two southerners were interrupted by the others.
'We should probably take you to the professor' said Cyclops. Always the voice of reason and the boring.
She looked over at him, to see his weird visor, she'd been so wrapped in her attention to Remy that she hadn't taken any notice of the others.
There was a small brown haired girl, who looked like she embodied the word ' cute'.
Next to her was a boy with blue skin, black hair, yellow eyes and a tail. He was fidgeting with his hands, twiddling his cloved fingers together.
Next to him was a blue eyed blonde haired boy, the one who spoken before. A white haired woman and next to her a red head.
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Remy noticed her observations of his team mates.
Having sense of mind to make the introductions. 'I be Remy LeBeau or Gambit, dat is Logan or Wolverine, then we have Kitty Pryde or Shadowcat, then day blue boy be Kurt or Nightcrawler, then we have da belle Orroro or Storm and Jean Grey. Oh and deh homme with de funky shades be Scott or Cyclops, but you can call 'em anal retentive', Remy said with a laugh.
Next to him Logan let out a laugh. Rogue could see that Scott was far from impressed about Remy's comment about his attitude towards life.
'That's why I'm the leader and your not' ,said Scott, his response was obviously the best he could come up, albeit childish.
He walked out of the danger room trying to retain his composure.
Jean Grey followed him trying to stifle a giggle at the joke taken out at her boyfriends expense.
'Is it always like this' she asked as she turned back to Remy. She was beginning to like this place
'Its like Days of our lives around here, only I be a lot prettier dan EJ Wells' he said with a smirk.
She had to agree with him. It was amazing how quickly she'd begun to feel comfortable. She could get used to this place.
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Please review, as feedback would be awesome. I sort of made this story up last night of the top of my head, and just finished this chapter this morning. I haven't written anymore yet, so any suggestions will be used!
Also, i've never watched Days of our lives, but a little googeling helped. Scott James is hot, but he's got nothing on Remy hehehe. :D
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