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Rogue had just woken up; she sat up slowly in bed. She glanced out the window it was clearly not morning. What had woken her? She normally slept through the night without many problems.
She was about to go back to sleep when suddenly a voice sounded "morning chere" she gasped and quickly looked at the place the voice had apparently came from.
The dark silhouette of a man was leaning on the windowsill across from her bed. "Who, who are you?" Rogue said even though she was pretty sure who he was, but this was after all, the last place she expected to find him.
The last time she had seen him was a month ago in Louisiana, when he had kidnapped her. "Aww you don't remember me, I had hoped Gambit left more of an impression then that!" He said at the same time walking closer and sitting on the foot of her bed.
"What are you doing here" Rogue said "ah thought you stayed in Louisiana?" "I did stay for a little while but I could never leave you forever, so I came back, got back around a week ago, did you miss me chere?" Gambit said, with his characteristic sideways smile. Rogue would have blushed had she not still been in extreme shock at the sight of him.
Suddenly some of the anger she still had from there last encounter came flooding into her head and she said "Get out, it may have escaped your notice Cajun, but it ain't polite to break into someone's room in the middle of the night." "Oh would the day have been better?" He said with another smile then continued, "I had actually hoped we could maybe play a game" as he said this he pulled a deck of cards from his pocket, "its just that I've gotten pretty tired of solitaire."
Rogue was shocked, he'd actually taken the trouble to get past the mansions defenses and break into her room just to play cards? Here was a man with some serious time on his hands.
"I don't play" she said. "M'kay then we play something else" he said, "how about truth or dare?" She stared at him. "I saw you play it last night with Nightcrawler and, and" he faltered unable to remember. "Kitty" Rogue said almost automatically, then "wait, you've been spying on me!" Gambit ignored that and said "Right Kitty, so chere wanna play?"
Rogue thought did she want to play? She always enjoyed playing truth or dare with Kitty and Kurt but would she with Gambit? Just off the top of her head she could come up with a whole bunch of dares and truths she didn't much care to do or tell him. But then she thought back to the times she had enjoyed with him in Louisiana, at least part of that trip had been fun, why not play the game, how bad could it be anyway?
"Ok Rogue said truth or dare?" "Dare" he said. Ok she thought for a second then said "show me a card trick." "Thought you'd never ask chere!" He pulled a card from his deck. The ace of hearts. He twirled the card between his fingers then flipped it in the air. The card glowed with energy but instead of exploding as his cards normally did, the energy seemed to dance around the edges of the card then go out, leaving just the red heart, now with slightly singed edges, behind, which landed in Gambit's hand. He held it out to Rogue with a cheerful "for you chere"
Rogue took the heart and looked at it for a second, forgetting that they were still in the game until Gambit said "ok Rogue truth or dare?" "Umm dare." "Ok I dare you to stop calling me Gambit, I have a name its Remy!" "Ok Remy" Rogue said "truth or dare?" "Truth" Rogue settled on something she'd wondered about more times then she cared to admit. "Last month why did you stay in Louisiana? Why didn't you come back with me?" She said trying to sound casual and not like she cared too much about the answer. "Well chere I had to take care of some stuff back there. And sides I wasn't sure I was wanted here, you know, what with the warm welcome Wolverine gave me last we met" Gambit said.
"Yeah but that was only because you..." but before she could finish Gambit cut across her saying "truth or dare?" Rogue sighed with annoyance but decided to drop it. "Dare" she said. Gambit reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic looking black collar with a mettle snap in front. "Let me put this on you" he said. Rogue, feeling quite bemused said "a dog collar?" "It is not a dog collar" he said "it's a necklace and I want to see you wear it, unless of course you want me to win the game?
" Rogue rolled her eyes and moved closer so that she was sitting right in front of him. The collar looked quite harmless after all. She held her hair away from her neck. Gambit smiled and gently snapped it around her neck, nothing happened. "Pretty" was all Gambit said.
And they continued the game a few more rounds until on Gambit's turn to dare Rogue he suddenly said, "kiss me!" Immediately a look of hurt came into Rogue's eyes she turned away from him and said bitterly "you know ah cant, you know what'll happen if ah do" "Come on Roguey try it, you may like what you find" Rogue glared at him, "its not about liking it, its about one touch and you'll be out cold, its about one touch and I'll be stuck with a head full a your thoughts and memories, an don't call me Roguey"
Gambit didn't flinch at her cold voice in fact he looked slightly amused, "there are worse fates" he said. He's so annoying Rogue thought well he's asking for it. She reached forward and grabbed Gambit's gloved wrist forward pulling his ungloved fingers close to her face and very quickly grazed them with her lips.
But something was wrong she hadn't got the usual rush of memories and thoughts that she normally got from touching someone. She looked up; Remy was still sitting up looking unharmed in fact he was smiling.
"What's going on? What did you?" Rogue's hand shot to her neck, the collar. "What is this?" She breathed. "Power inhibiter" Gambit said looking pleased with himself. "Wow" Rogue said then suddenly she pulled the collar hard, it wouldn't come off.
She looked at Gambit who was sitting there watching her struggle with the collar. "Well" she said, "how do you take this thing off?" "Only the person who put it on can take it off he said slyly, in this case me. I don really know why that is but..."
She moved closer right in front of him so there was only a few inches in between them. She lifted her hair away from her neck and waited. Gambit stared into her face, something about his eyes looking at her this close made Rogue have to look away.
"Gambit take it off" she said quietly. "You want it off this fast?" He said at the same time lifting one of his hands and caressing her face. Rogue shuddered at the touch and suddenly the full extremity of her situation crashed over her. Here she was completely helpless sitting on her bed a few inches away from a man she hardly knew!
She scrambled to get away from him while staring the whole time into his lustful red eyes and accidentally fell over onto her back."Rogue! Chere" He said suddenly looking more surprised then lustful, "you know I wouldn't hurt you!" He reached out a hand to help her up.
Rogue in a panic scrambled away from him and off the bed then ran across the room as far away as she could get. Gambit stood up. Rogue flinched suddenly noticing how much taller and stronger then her he was.
"Chere I thought you wanted to touch people?" Gambit said taking a step closer. "Stay away from me!" Rogue said while weakly tugging at the collar.
Now she really regretted having her room so far away from anyone else's, they wouldn't hear her even if she screamed. "So that's it, you don't trust me at all? You'll only come near me when you know you can drain my powers? Before you had the upper hand and I still came near you even though you could knock me out with a single touch, now when you can't do that anymore you don't even trust me?" Gambit said angrily.
The fear in Rogue's eyes was suddenly replaced by both relief and shame, "Remy am'm sorry" she said walking closer and stopping in front of him "I just, I was just so shocked" She looked up at his face and suddenly felt a strong desire to touch him, to kiss him, to let him do whatever it was she was afraid of him doing before.
He seemed to know what she was thinking because he took a step closer and gently put his arms around her drawing her closer Rogue laid her face sideways on Gambit's chest.
They stood there for a long time neither really wanted to stop, eventually Rogue fell asleep in Gambit's arms. Gambit picked her up easily and carried her to the bed where he laid her down gently.
As he stood over the bed watching her he thought, thought about the moment when Rogue had first discovered that she was touchable and she'd knelt in front of him on the bed and asked him to take the collar off, at that moment he really had wanted to do all the things that he knew were racing through her head.
Would he have done it if she hadn't acted so horrified? He hadn't expected this at all, all the girls in his life so far had practically thrown themselves at him, naturally he just assumed Rogue would too.
He leaned over and gently placed the little red heart on Rogue's pillow next to her, before quietly putting his trench coat back on and slipping out the window into the night.
Note. I don't care to change all Rogue's I's to ah's and so on, also I don't really remember how much of an accent Gambit had in X-men evolution. so you guys can each decide for yourself whether they have accents or not. Thanks for reading and i hope you like it!