***Disclaimer: I don't own Gambit or Rogue.***
Author's Note: This is a short fic exploring the problems in Gambit and Rogue's rocky relationship.
Circles
"Why do you always push me away, huh? Why can't you understan' dat I love you, dat I'd never hurt
you?" Gambit didn't know whether to shout or cry. For now he was just standing across from her in
the X-mansion's living room, having the same argument they'd had several times before.
Rogue glared at him, angry tears streaming down her cheeks. "Why do you THINK, Remy? Maybe because
you're not exactly someone to be trusted! Maybe because Ah have trust issues to begin with? Maybe
because Ah have these powers, that won't let me be near anybody, that create a physical barrier
between me and the world? God, Remy, can't you see that? This is never going to work!" She almost
screamed that last sentence.
"We'll make it work! Haven't you ever heard the sayin', chere, love conquers all?" He gave a short,
bitter laugh in response to his own ill-timed joke. "You don't trust me now, neh? But I can make you
trust me. Jus' give me a chance, Rogue, just one chance..."
"Ah GAVE you a chance, Remy, and you lied to me! You kept things from me, from the rest of the X-Men...
it's too much to forgive! Don't ask me to forgive you, or forget."
"Rogue, I love you. Dat's all I can give you, my love. An' I don't know how to make you understan'
that that's all we need to make it past all dis..."
Rogue shook her beautiful head sadly. "Ah can't...Ah can't do this anymore. We just keep goin' 'round
in circles, day after day, week after week, month after month...we're not getting anywhere, Gambit.
Don't you see? We're just wasting our time."
"When is love ever a waste of time? You an' me, we been through a lot, more dan any couple should
ever have to go t'rough...but we're still here, neh? We're still together."
"That's why Ah have to break this off right now. Neither of us deserves any more hurt. We've had
enough for several lifetimes, Remy. I'm setting you free. I'm letting you go."
Remy LeBeau stayed silent for a while. He didn't want to be set free. He didn't want to be let go.
What he did want to do right then was take Rogue in his arms and tell her he'd give anything to
make it work.
He crossed the room in three long strides and put his hands on her shoulders. She looked into his eyes,
with those beautiful emeralds of hers, at the moment shrouded in sadness. "Listen to me, chere. Don't
give up on me now. Please, not now." He was almost begging her then, and he waited for her response
with bated breath.
Rogue looked away for a moment. She couldn't keep looking at his eyes, his dark, mysterious eyes.
She felt she might drown in them if she looked any longer. She bowed her head. "I'm sorry, Remy," she
said softly, and pulled out of his grasp, turning towards the stairs, walking quickly back to her room.
She pulled the door closed behind her and sank to the floor, burying her head in her hands and sobbing
uncontrollably.
Gambit stood for a moment, his head and heart processing what he had just heard. It was over, it was
really over. He had nothing left anymore, nothing to look forward to except the rest of his life, to
be spent hurting over this one woman, this angel who had come and gone so quickly, whose presence
had been so short yet had seemed like forever. He couldn't stand, suddenly, and his legs crumpled
beneath him and he finally let the tears flow, trying to shut thoughts of her out but failing
miserably. "Rogue..." he said to no one.
Two hearts, made as one, then torn so roughly apart, to form a wound that would never, could never,
be repaired. And the world wept for this lost love, as the two lovers wept for each other.
***
The End
Author's Note: This is a short fic exploring the problems in Gambit and Rogue's rocky relationship.
Circles
"Why do you always push me away, huh? Why can't you understan' dat I love you, dat I'd never hurt
you?" Gambit didn't know whether to shout or cry. For now he was just standing across from her in
the X-mansion's living room, having the same argument they'd had several times before.
Rogue glared at him, angry tears streaming down her cheeks. "Why do you THINK, Remy? Maybe because
you're not exactly someone to be trusted! Maybe because Ah have trust issues to begin with? Maybe
because Ah have these powers, that won't let me be near anybody, that create a physical barrier
between me and the world? God, Remy, can't you see that? This is never going to work!" She almost
screamed that last sentence.
"We'll make it work! Haven't you ever heard the sayin', chere, love conquers all?" He gave a short,
bitter laugh in response to his own ill-timed joke. "You don't trust me now, neh? But I can make you
trust me. Jus' give me a chance, Rogue, just one chance..."
"Ah GAVE you a chance, Remy, and you lied to me! You kept things from me, from the rest of the X-Men...
it's too much to forgive! Don't ask me to forgive you, or forget."
"Rogue, I love you. Dat's all I can give you, my love. An' I don't know how to make you understan'
that that's all we need to make it past all dis..."
Rogue shook her beautiful head sadly. "Ah can't...Ah can't do this anymore. We just keep goin' 'round
in circles, day after day, week after week, month after month...we're not getting anywhere, Gambit.
Don't you see? We're just wasting our time."
"When is love ever a waste of time? You an' me, we been through a lot, more dan any couple should
ever have to go t'rough...but we're still here, neh? We're still together."
"That's why Ah have to break this off right now. Neither of us deserves any more hurt. We've had
enough for several lifetimes, Remy. I'm setting you free. I'm letting you go."
Remy LeBeau stayed silent for a while. He didn't want to be set free. He didn't want to be let go.
What he did want to do right then was take Rogue in his arms and tell her he'd give anything to
make it work.
He crossed the room in three long strides and put his hands on her shoulders. She looked into his eyes,
with those beautiful emeralds of hers, at the moment shrouded in sadness. "Listen to me, chere. Don't
give up on me now. Please, not now." He was almost begging her then, and he waited for her response
with bated breath.
Rogue looked away for a moment. She couldn't keep looking at his eyes, his dark, mysterious eyes.
She felt she might drown in them if she looked any longer. She bowed her head. "I'm sorry, Remy," she
said softly, and pulled out of his grasp, turning towards the stairs, walking quickly back to her room.
She pulled the door closed behind her and sank to the floor, burying her head in her hands and sobbing
uncontrollably.
Gambit stood for a moment, his head and heart processing what he had just heard. It was over, it was
really over. He had nothing left anymore, nothing to look forward to except the rest of his life, to
be spent hurting over this one woman, this angel who had come and gone so quickly, whose presence
had been so short yet had seemed like forever. He couldn't stand, suddenly, and his legs crumpled
beneath him and he finally let the tears flow, trying to shut thoughts of her out but failing
miserably. "Rogue..." he said to no one.
Two hearts, made as one, then torn so roughly apart, to form a wound that would never, could never,
be repaired. And the world wept for this lost love, as the two lovers wept for each other.
***
The End