The Gift part 1
Based on the Animated Series. I own nothing. Basically, if you recognize a character, it's not mine. Enjoy.
Jean, Storm and Rogue were out shopping in New York. The three of them tried to go out at least once a month, a girl thing. They basically attacked a few stores until they decided to split up to go to stores the other two didn't want to go. They always found their way back to the car at around 3. Rogue was all done with her shopping and decided that she was going to take her time going back to the car. She noticed a truck speeding in the parking lot but it was far away and not heading in her direction. She was still keeping an eye on it while she searched for the car. She saw a woman walking in the parking lot and saw that the truck was heading right for her. Without thinking, Rogue dropped her bags and ran in the direction of the woman. She pushed her out of the way just in time. The truck never stopped.
"Oh my god, are you alright." Rogue asked.
"Thanks to you, I am." The woman looked at her savior.
She smiled and then looked in the direction of the mall, where Jean and Storm were coming out, running for their friend. Rogue turned around to see them almost beside her now. They asked her if she was ok and why she would run for the truck in the first place. Rogue told them that she saved the woman's life. Jean just looked at her, confusion in her face and in her voice.
"What woman? We just saw you and the truck."
"This woman." Rogue pointed to her side and noticed that she was gone. "Where did she go?" She looked around but it was as though she had vanished. "Ah'm not crazy Jean. There was a woman."
"Come on, we should be heading back to the mansion." Ororo replied, unsure if her friend was right or not.
The trip back home was somewhat silent, except for the music playing on the radio. Rogue kept quiet in the back seat, thinking about how odd it was that the woman just left without giving her more information. Rogue would have loved to get her name and to make sure she really was ok, she did push her kind of hard and Rogue wanted to make sure she didn't hurt her.
She got out of her reveries when the car pulled into the driveway. The three women exited the car and walked into the house. Rogue decided to go to her room, she wanted to empty her bags and see all the things she bought today.
She unpacked her bags and caught a glimpse of the clock. She remembered that she had a training session in a few minutes so she decided to get ready for it. She was supposed to meet Jubilee there but when she got closer to the danger room doors, she noticed Gambit standing there, waiting for her.
"Where's Jubilee?"
"She couldn't make it, somet'in about a meetin' wit de professor. I thought maybe I could take her place." He said.
He had that grin again and Rogue wasn't sure how she would be able to concentrate with him around. It had been getting harder to focus on anything when he was in the same room with her and she hated the fact that he distracted her like that. She made sure, though, that he didn't know this. It would surely make his day if he ever knew that she couldn't stop thinking about him. True, they had been going out for some time now, but with her powers, it was impossible for them to have a physical relationship, as much as they wanted to.
They entered the room and Rogue noticed that Logan was in the control center. The simulation started and the two of them were now in full combat with some sentinels. There were blown up buildings everywhere that helped a bit with cover. Rogue was hit on her shoulder by an energy blast from one of the robots. She fell but recovered pretty quickly. She looked at Remy and nodded to him that she was ok.
She knew that Logan had a tendency of cranking up the simulation almost at the end of the program and from the amount of time that they had been there, she knew it was going to happen very soon. She looked for Gambit again and saw that he was heading her way. He yelled at her to move, they had a sentinel on their tail. Gambit was able to destroy it with some debris he had grabbed and charged. They were still running and Remy saw a gap in the wall that they could use for a few minutes, just enough time to evade the robots and think of a plan to destroy as much as they could. When they got almost next to the opening, he grabbed Rogue by the shoulders and pushed her in.
She felt something she never had before, something was very odd about the situation they were in now. For a split second she couldn't put her finger on what it was and then it hit her. Gambit was holding her by the shoulders and the one that got hit was bare. She could feel his skin on hers and now she only looked at his hand where it rested on her. She was almost in total shock and couldn't get her eyes off her shoulder. Then she looked up at Remy and he was looking at her with almost the same expression. She pushed him away, not sure what was happening to her but in that instant, she yelled out at Logan to turn off the simulation, that something was wrong. The illusion disappeared and she ran out, leaving Remy to wonder what he had done wrong. Logan walked in and saw the confusion on the Cajun's face.
"You really pissed her off this time. What did you do?" Wolverine asked, almost laughing.
Gambit just looked at him. "I swear, I didn't do anyt'in dis time. I'm gonna go and see what's wrong."
"Maybe you should leave her alone." Logan added but Remy was already out of earshot.
Rogue finally made it to her room, shut the door and started pacing back and forth. She would only stop to look at her shoulder, thinking that maybe there was a piece of material that was preventing him from touching her but there was nothing there, and she did feel his hand on her. She examined her shoulder again and saw that her uniform was singed from the blast. There was no way something could have been covering her. She started pacing again, mumbling to herself that this was impossible. There was a knock on her door and she was seriously thinking that she wanted to be alone for now. She knew who was on the other side of the door and she knew that he would want an explanation for what happened. The only problem was, she didn't know herself.
She opened the door and let him in.
"So when did it happen and when were you gonna tell me?" He sounded a bit hurt.
"Ah swear, Ah didn't know Ah could touch you. Ah still don't know if Ah CAN touch you. It must have been a fluke; Ah don't know what else it could be."
"Seriously, dat's your explanation? A fluke?" He smiled. "You need t' test your theory? Remy can be your guinea pig." He grinned at her and she so wanted to wipe that smirk off his face.
"And if it was a fluke, you wanna end up in a coma?" She scolded. But there was something deep inside of her that really wanted to see if she could touch him, hoping that she could touch him. "Ah don't wanna hurt you."
"Don't worry about me, Henri will make me all better if dis doesn't work." He moved in closer to her and wanted her to make a move.
"What if my powers kick in, what if Ah hurt you, what if...?" He cut her off with a kiss.
It was like she was in a dream and she was almost afraid that it might be. She broke the embrace and looked into his eyes. She loved him so much, and now that she could touch him, it scared her. She had no clue if her control would last.
"Ah'm sorry Ah can't do this." She pushed him further away and turned around.
"What are you talkin' 'bout? We kissed and nothin' happened. I thought dat's what you wanted?" He turned her around so she could see him.
"It is. Ah'm just afraid of what might happen next. Ah don't know how long this will last." She lifted her hands to look at them. "What if Ah lose control of my powers when we're making love? Or we fall asleep and Ah wake up next to you to find that Ah killed you during the night. How can Ah live with myself if that ever happened?" She was almost shaking from the terror.
He lifted her chin with his hand. "What if tonight is de only night we have? If y' don't take advantage of dis, you'll be kickin' y'self later on."
"Remy, Ah can't. Please understand. If Ah spend tonight with you and lose control of my powers tomorrow, how could Ah go on without having you again? At least this way, Ah don't know what Ah'm missing."
"We've been waitin' for somet'in like dis for while now. If I were in your shoes, it'd be a risk I would take. But I understand, you don't wanna be wit me, it's fine." He sounded really crushed and she couldn't say she blamed him. "Do what you want; I need to get out of here." He rushed for the door and she tried to stop him.
"Remy, don't be mad." She wanted him to know how terrified she was, wanted him to understand.
"I'm not mad, chere. A bit disappointed, dat's all." He looked at her again and her heart was doing summersaults. It had to be this way. "I'll see you tomorrow." He told her as he left.
The door closed and Rogue was in tears. This was tearing them apart. She looked at her shoulder again, thinking about his hand there. "Why did it have to happen that way?" She was frustrated now.
She thought the hot water could wash away the fears she was experiencing but it still nagged at her. She turned off the water, stepped out of the shower, grabbed her robe and made her way to her room. She couldn't get him out of her head, something he said. "What if tonight is de only night we have?" He was right; she would kick herself if she didn't take that risk. She decided that she would go to him; she wanted to share this night with him. She got dressed in record time and almost ran to his room. She knocked on the door.