Xperimenting Xmas, The Prelude

Since I have finished writing X-Men 4, The Rogue and Gambit Experiment, ideas and mutant plot bunnies are nagging at me.

I decided to embody them in this collection of drabbles that will give you snippets of Rogue and Gambit's life a rough eight years after the epilogue.

The story: After being cured, being jump-started, sleeping with Remy, being assaulted, getting better, finding that her biological family was close, avoiding the Hellfire club menace by melting Emma Frost's cold heart, becoming a big sister, becoming a mother, adopting her late archenemy's daughter and having a second child, Rogue thought that life was going to be easy-peasy. Now co-headmistress with her husband of the Southern School for Gifted Youngsters, her life kind of settled... or at least as much as it could. A fateful month of December shows her that a super-hero life is never really uneventful.

The characters: Find here below the characters you will encounter in the drabbles.

Anna Marie LeBeau, AKA Rogue

Remy LeBeau, AKA Gambit

- co-headmasters of the SSGY (Southern School for Gifted Youngsters, MS)

Olivier "Oli" LeBeau, 12 years old son of Anna and Remy

Isabella "Izzie" LeBeau, 12 years old foster daughter of Anna and Remy, natural daughter of BellaDonna

Rebecca "Bekka" LeBeau, 8 years old daughter of Anna and Remy

John Logan AKA Wolverine, Anna's dad

Ororo Munroe AKA Storm, Logan's wife

- co-headmasters of the XSGY (Xavier's School for Gifted Younsters, NY)

Kendra Logan, 14 years old daughter of Logan and Ororo

Katherine "Kate" Pryde Rasputin AKA Shadowcat

Piotr "Peter" Rasputin AKA Colossus

- co-headmasters of the ISGY (Illinois School for Gifted Youngsters, IL)

Sarah Rasputin, 11 years old daughter of Kate and Peter

Piotr Jr "Pete" Rasputin, 9 years old son of Kate and Peter

Emma Frost-Summers AKA White Queen

Scott Summers AKA Cyclops

- co-headmasters of the MIGY (Massachusetts Institute for Gifted Youngsters, MA)

Megan Summers, 13 years old daughter of Emma and Scott

Alex Summers II, 11 years old son of Emma and Scott

Christopher "Chris" Summers, 9 years old twin son of Emma and Scott

Christina "Tina" Summers, 9 years old twin daughter of Emma and Scott

Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee

Robert "Bobby" Drake AKA Iceman

- co-headmasters of the PSGY (Pacific School for Gifted Youngsters, CA)

"Lili" Drake, 7 years old daughter of Jubilee and Bobby

Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock AKA Psylocke (in her British body)

Warren Worthington III AKA Angel

- She: retired supermodel / he: CEO of Worthington Enterprises

Elizabeth "Beth" Worthington, 12 years old daughter of Betsy and Warren

Kymri Wagner

Kurt Wagner AKA Nightcrawler

- She: housewife, former pirate in alternate dimension / he: action movie actor

Tyler "Ty" Wagner, 6 years old twin son of Kymri and Kurt

Talia Josephine "TJ" Wagner, 6 years old twin daughter of Kymri and Kurt

Cerise Wagner, 2 years old daughter of Kymri and Kurt

Cecilia Reyes

Henry "Hank" McCoy AKA Beast

- co-deans of the McCoy-Reyes Clinic that specializes in medicine for Mutantkind

Ciaran McCoy, 15 years old son of Cecilia and Hank

Francesca McCoy, 12 years old daughter of Cecilia and Hank

Miguel McCoy, 8 years old son of Cecilia and Hank

Tessa Bishop AKA Sage

Lucas Bishop

- She: former XSE / he: current XSE

Charles Xavier AKA Professor X

- former headmaster of XSGY, current spokesperson for Mutantkind right and Mutant/Human relationship.

The Schools:

SSGY Southern School for Gifted Youngsters

XSGY Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters

ISGY Illinois School for Gifted Youngsters

MIGY Massachusetts Institute for Gifted Youngsters

PSGY Pacific School for Gifted Youngsters

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