The Mardi Gras Gambit
Arthurs Note: As always we own nothing (& make no money for this or any of the stories we write on fanfition)
Wait it's not as always.
There's a "we" in there.
If you're wondering why there's a we in there and not an I, well it's because me and my #1 fan (she made me put that in there by the way) .52 are writing a fanfiction together.
If you didn't care, oh well I (mere888) am most certainly not going to lose any sleep over it.
Just to let you know the fabulous .52 is my good friend and most likely is my #1 fan (it would be creepy if she wasn't because that would mean I had a crazy stalker otherwise).
Anyway I know .52 very well, she actually introduced me to fanfiction about 2 or 3 years ago and I have unfortunately been obsessed with it ever since.
When we started writing fanfiction I asked her if she wanted to write one with me. She of course said "YES!"
This story is our take on how Gambit and Rouge would get together in the Movie; since the people who decided what goes on in the Movies apparently don't want to put Rouge with Gambit.
An interesting Romy is sure to await considering how crazy we can be when we brainstorm together.
Basically the story's about Rouge getting mysteriously sent in to the past and Wolverine following after her. Wolverine is trying to figure out what happen to get them sent back in time by himself. He tells Rouge to stay out of trouble till then. That doesn't happen. Rogue very quickly gets mixed up the Guilds when she becomes friends with...
I didn't like the age difference the Movies set for Rouge and Gambit (if they ever did let them get together); so I messed around with the time line a little bit to make it a little smaller.
Rouge: is 20.
Belladonna: is 16 but looks older.
Remy: is 16 in the past most people think he's about 21 though. He looks like he did in the movie but has red on black eyes. Trask messed up his DNA a little so he looks a little older and Trask gave Remy brown eyes for a little while but it is wearing off. Most of the scenes for the past are set mostly in 1989 New Orleans, just after Wolverine took down Trask base.
The Source likes Remy but not romantically, Remy is her favorite thief.
.52 thought it sounded like the Source was saying my favorite thief sarcastically, she's not.
The present is set in 2004, about 2 months after Alcatraz.
Remy is 30 in the present but looks about 25 years old because again Trask mess up Remy's DNA little (not the worst side affects you can get from being forcibly experiment on), he does age though.
Chapter 1: The Beginning
~ It was this moment that started it all.
This moment decided everything.
The moment that changed history form what it could be.
It's funny how something so little can change the course of someone's lives.
Though I guess that's just how things are.
It was the Beginning.
This was there Beginning.
The only question how would it end. ~
Deep within the swaps of New Orleans 1988- 12:08 1 week after Mardi Gras.
(Sources point of view)
They are interesting groups to interact with that was for sure.
They are the type of people that are always ready to move, violent, cunning, and/or so thick headed it was a wonder they are capable of thinking.
Too bad it gets a little boring to listening to the same fight after a few hundred year.
They are Thieves and they are Assassins and they (this came as no surprise to the Source) were fighting (verbally) with each other again.
To be honest the Source thought it was kind of funny.
The peace treaty hadn't been signed for 10 minutes and not only were they already fighting, but they were fighting about how to keep the peace between the guilds.
The fight was just an old grudge match that never seemed to change.
Looks like this year's off to a bad start Source thought, but then again when does the year ever start off right with the Guilds.
The Source didn't even take the time to listen to the ideas they were fighting about this year, they were just the same old solutions that didn't really help anyway.
Of course it would be the year she didn't listening that someone would suggest something that might actually break a treaty 9 minutes after it was signed.
She know it was time to stop ignoring them when Julian started lunging at Remy, her favorite thief and yelling, "Comprend bien, tu parles à un con! Le cerveau il etait en option chez to!" (You're so stupid, people pity you! The brain was optional for you!)
Great something exciting most of happened and she had missed it.
The Source didn't even have taken the time to figure out what was going on.
Because after Julian had tried to kill Remy (Julian is currently being restrained by the way) he turns to the older thief who was known for be very thick headed, yelling, "Vous voulez ma soeur de se marier que dus! De toutes les choses!" (You want my sister to marry that thief! Of all things!)
The Source sighed the older thief most have suggested marring off the children of the high family's to create peace, which of course was an old concept that had never worked out for the Guilds.
The Source was really wondered how the older thief managed pass his tilling, not for the first time either.
In theory the marriage would work out.
But the thing about theories is that though they can work people could very easily not make them work.
Especially if though people had anything to do with the Guilds.
You most certainly didn't want to add something as complicated as a marriage to the Guilds.
The Guilds had always had trouble with basic peace treaties and theories as it is.
No one had ever been stupid enough to even say anything that involved a marriage between the guilds during the peace talks (or fights) in a hundred years.
The idea was even crazier because it would involve Julian the future leader of the Assassins, sister Belladonna and her favorite thief Remy LeBeau getting married.
The idea was crazy and would never work but the damage had already been done though.
It was the kind of idea that once said stayed in a person's head.
And an all-out war would most likely come because of such a stupide theory.
The Source had started to see the Guilds future changing before her eye because of this idea.
As the Source looked to the future she could see that the fight was still verbal but that wouldn't last long though.
The Source ignored it all.
The future that resulted in Julian losing his life to Remy, the loss of her favorite Guild member through exile (only because she refuses to let the Assassin's kill him) and a very bloody war for the Guild.
In hopes to see a way to change this outcome the Source continued to look forward into the future.
But it looked like there was no hope.
It was all going to happen thought if the Guild contended down this path.
For next 16 years would be nothing but pain and suf... WHAT!
The Source continued looking forward in time not shore if she should believe what she sees; it seemed so unreal.
But it was what she thought it was.
It was her favorite Guild member (who was clearly going to turn in to a womanizer in the next few years) settling down with a women who's literally untouchable and is more stubborn then Remy LeBeau (which the Source though should not be humanly possible).
Remy LeBeau was going to settling down because he fell in love!
How more unbelievable could you get.
It could also be the solution she needed to stop the all-out war before it began.
The Source was starting to come up with a plan there were just a few major problems with using that plan though.
The Source looked forward for other ways, she found none.
The Source stopped looking at the future, then looked to the Guilds.
Stupidity is among us, the Source thought.
It seemed like the marriage idea had made everyone go mad.
Not that everyone wasn't already.
From the looks of thing the marriage idea was starting to become a serious plan for the Guild.
It seemed once some Guild members thought about it they started to believe it was a good idea.
At least many higher up Guild officials didn't seem to like the idea.
Everyone was yelling, except Remy.
Julian and Belladonna were making there dislikes of the idea known (too bad they were being ignored at the moment).
The Source had to decide what to do.
Weather to let the future continue as it was or risk what could come to by changing the course of time with her plan.
Just when the Source was about to stop the fighting when Remy finally spoke up, "Je ne suis pas marier sais pas à jamais!" (I'm not getting married not know to ever!)
Remy joined the fight with everyone else not realizing what he had done.
When the boy said this as though he could see the future, the Source became angry.
(There's an unspoken rule in the Guild never declare your what your fate will be in front of the Source, because it would very easily anger her.)
Unfortunately for Remy that was what made the Source decided to use the pain she had come up with (or barley come up with) to stop the war.
The Source was going to teach that boy a lesson favorite thief or not.
And she would make sure that Remy would soon learn that things never happened the way you though.
It wasn't that good of a plain and could very easily go wrong if she wasn't careful.
But she had decided what to do and she wasn't going to change her mind now.
So the Source spoke up to get the Guilds attention.
With all their eyes on her she said a prophecy that would change the Guild forever...