So I know it has been a long time since I wrote this and honestly I had completely forgotten about it. I haven't picked up an x-men comic in a very long time because I didn't like my favorite characters anymore, I hated how they were being written. So here we are years later and I'm slowly falling back down the X-rabbit hole in hopes that my heroes are soon to be resurrected to their former glory... please let new astonishing be good! So anyway at this point the story is not going to be cannon with the comics anymore as too much has happened and it just wouldn't make sense …. and away we go!

Ah can feel those eyes burning into me. Red glowing orbs staring me down as I stand at the head of the jet trying to talk shop with Logan. God Ah miss that feeling, that heat that grows inside me every time I sense his heated gaze on me; like a man dying of thirst lookin' at a cool glass of water... that longing.

Ah shifted my stance just a little, just enough to accentuate my posterior assets, to give him a tease and play into his game... just like old times. Ah know that Ah got his attention now, and Ah can feel my own longing for him pool around me. Ah know he is probably sheepishly smiling to himself that Ah played into his game and Ah want nothin' more than to turn around and see that smile. Ah want to see if Ah can still draw him in with just a simple movement. To drag him down with me into that intense game of wanting... look but don't touch.

This used to be our favorite game; all those years when Ah couldn't touch, when all we really had was sight and sound and smell and so on... everything but touch, well skin on skin touch that is. It made us creative in how we showed our desire for each other, that bottomless abyss of hunger that always drove us to be together. There was a time when all Ah had to do was run my laced covered hands on his body and whisper sweet nothings into his ear to push that man over the edge of desire. Imagine; Gambit the world renown ladies man, the southern Lothario who seduced beautiful women on every continent... brought to his knees by middle school tricks.

That game was always two sided though. He could turn me into a puddle of hormones with a simple gesture... when his eyes glowed a deep red with desire for me. When he would run a lone finger down my spandex covered stomach and bite down on his bottom lip, like that mere simple act was burning his skin to the touch. When he would give me that look from across the room like I was a hot cherry pie sittin' lonely on the window sill just waitin' to be stolen. Was he lookin' at me like that right now?

Ah couldn't help myself; I took a peak from over my shoulder, trying to be sly about it so as not to draw attention from the others present in the jet. Sure enough he was giving me one of those smoldering looks, I could almost feel the heat radiating off of it. It always fascinated me that two people could create such a transcendent fever when in proximity to each other, and no one else occupying the same space could feel it... the heady languid thirst that could fill the room and only be felt by those two people. We loved that part of the game; making love to each other from across the room with nothing but subtle glances and meaningful movements.

While I may have had Remy's eyes, his hearing was otherwise occupied by a very pissed off Frenzy. There was definitely something going on with them, whether it was serious or not I didn't know... I had been so preoccupied with my own messy life that I had no idea what was going on in his. What if he wasn't really serious about getting back together... what if Ah was just setting myself up here; walking into a sick mind game he was playin' for all the pain that Ah had caused over the past year. He had seemed sincere when we were sitting on those rocks on Utopia, when he had re-offered his love to me. But his name wasn't Gambit for nothin' and a small pit of doubt started to open in my stomach... Ah would deserve it if he was playin' me.

Ah tried to push that nagging feeling away, no point in getting worked up before ya know what's goin on right?

While I got lost in my own negative thoughts I didn't realize that Ah was still lookin' at Remy and he at me, and unfortunately that's when Frenzy noticed as well. Her eyes seared into me with a jealous hate that I haven't been party too since my last run in with Bella Donna; Remy's assassin ex-wife, and while Frenzy's look wasn't as crazed and murderous, it was definitely up there.

I looked away then, turning back to my forgotten conversation with Logan, my cheeks burning red from having been caught in a lust-filled stare down by Remy's 'maybe' girlfriend. I could feel my own jealousy rising at the thought of Remy looking at another woman the way he had always looked at me; like the rarest jewel in the world that only a master thief could get his hands on. How dare she even think... ok girl calm down, ya still don't know nothing yet and yet again you still have it comin' for everything you put Remy through. Ah'm a horrible person.

There's that familiar self doubt... my oldest companion. Always right beside me to ruin any happiness Ah may feel; of all the voices in my head you were always the strongest.

"Rogue; are you listening." I heard Wolverine say to me gruffly.

Dammit, keep your composure girl, you so weren't even listening and we're already on thin ice with the man.

"Sorry Logan; was just thinkin' bout somethin' is all" I apologized, "What did you say?"

Logan gave me a quick annoyed glance; "I said were ten minutes out, I let Storm know that we're back for good."

"Ok good." I replied back a little absently, my mind still preoccupied with heated memories.

"We'll have some time to get settled but she wants us all to have a little chit chat with each other about whatever." He said still annoyed; "Point is let's just keep our heads down till she gives us the 'what's what' of the new school eh."

"Gotcha" I said, nodding my head.

"Let the others know will ya." Logan asked.

I nodded again in acknowledgement; took a subtle deep breath to calm my nerves and turned around to face my fellow companions.

"Alright ya'll!" I loudly stated getting everyone's attention; all eyes landed on me, smoldering eyes, murderous eyes, and totally indifferent eyes... all on me. "Storm's welcomin' us home with open arms... however she want's us all to have a little 'kum ba yah' moment with her and the others at the school, so let's all be on our bestest behavior till we get everything sorted out." I said in my most sickeningly sweet southern accent to lighten the mood, giving everyone a playful wink and flashing my down home smile.

And there they were, those red eyes still boring into me... Ah knew then that whatever we had started on the rocky shores of Utopia was far from over.