AAAAAANNNNNDDDDDD i'm back... again with the using of the way Gambit talks in the comics, coz it sound cute just with out the third person..yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tee hee
3: Hints and Tips
"What, you following me now?" She huffed turning to shoot him a frown.
"I lost out on a lot thanks to you Chère," He stuffed his hands into his pockets.
"Jus' curious to how you did it,"
"Chère ain't my name!" she spat in discomfort.
"Care to fill me in?" His grin pulled up into more of an arrogant shade rather than it's so far cocky one, instantly causing the young brunette to quicken her strides.
"Well sorry you lost out, but you gotta play the hand your dealt," Lu called back
"Wise words, but dat Ace wasn't dealt, so jus' how'd you managed to get it, Chère?" The gambler questioned, putting more emphasis on the unfamiliar and unwanted pet name.
"I don't know Perdant, pure luck perhaps?" She wheeled around on her heels to face him, flicking her brow up after throwing in her own French pet name, just for him.
A small chuckle lifted his chest lightly as he threw his green hazel eyes down, one corner of his lips lifting up a notch higher.
"Let's start over, shall we?" He flicked his eyes back up as his tone became soft and encouraging.
"Gambit, but for you it's Remy Lebeau," the gambler winked as he held his hand out for her to take, his eyes connecting with her own soft shaded eyes.
"…Lucy," She finally replied, slowly taking his hand in an obvious untrusting manor, almost as though his hand was a snake poised to strike.
"Beau Lucy," He bowed his head slowly, lifting her hand to his lips and leaving a soft kiss.
"Umm, ok… Mr. Lebeau…" She trailed awkwardly, breaking the eye contact and quickly turning her head, unsure on where to look, handshakes she could handle… a kiss on the hand… to her it wasn't normal and she was unsure how to act.
"Aw Chéri, no need for formalities," He grinned slyly.
"Say's you, kissing my hand as a greeting," She shot back.
"And you know my name now," She pulled her hand back out of his gentle grip.
"So the French Dear, Darling, Cherished whatever can stop,"
"If you shed some light on the Ace trick," Remy countered, his arrogant grin returning.
With a scoff Lucy turned on her heels and continued with her walk, causing the odd talking man to jump into action, quickly following after her.
"Belle, you actin' like you 'ave somethin' to hide," He voiced his observation as he fell into step next to her.
"No I'm not! I have nothing to hide!" She yelled, once again stopping her walk with a stropy stomp of her foot.
"Then you won't mind fillin' Gambit in," he grinned, flicking his brows up.
"There is nothing to fill! That card never left the table, Dan said all he needed was an Ace, so I just hoped it was an Ace hiding there and low and behold it was!" She threw her arms up, in irritated defeat.
"Happy?"
"So, jus' to clear dis up, I lost my game, 'cause you hoped the card was an Ace?" His disbelieving look caused her hand to twitch, the sudden need to slap a stranger never being so strong than it was this moment.
"Yes! What else do I have to say! I just pictured an Ace hiding on that card and there it was, can I go now?" Lu huffed impatiently.
"Now, we 'ave a problem 'ere Chère," Remy started.
"Ugh, what now…" She groaned hanging her head back lightly as she looked at the sky lightly before turning back to him.
"Ok… what?"
"Dis is the deck played," He dug a pack of playing cards from his pocket and passed them to her.
"…Ok?" The confusion was smacked across her face.
"And the Ace you played," He held up the decorated Ace of spades between two fingers.
"So…" She blinked wide eyes in a silent ask for a hint on what he was getting at.
"Take a quick look threw dat deck Chère," He nodded towards the cards in her hands to which she sighed and opened.
"What am I looking for?" she mumbled shuffling threw them.
"Tell me what cards you're seein'"
"Wha…Are you serious!" She huffed.
"Quicker you do it the sooner you can leave Belle," He gave a coy shrug.
"Again with the names!" She huffed before turning to the cards with a sigh.
"Right…nine of diamonds, three of clubs, jack of hearts, queen of clubs, two of spades, six of diamonds, Ace of diamonds, seven of diamonds…this is stupid," She frowned looking up, before a deeper frown fell over her face as Remy simply waved a hand for her to continue.
"…Jack of spades, king of hearts, three of hearts, nine of hearts, Ace of clubs, king of diamonds, four of spades…this is annoying, What am I looking for!" She burst only to get no reply and another simple wave of the hand.
With a grumble she shuffled threw the cards quickly, mumbling out every now and then.
"…Five, eight, eight, Jack… Ace of hearts, two, four, four…diamond, diamond, seven, clubs, king, three, Ace of spades…Ohhh," After staring at the fourth Ace she chanced a sheepish look up, only to get a very smug look as Remy waved the other Ace of Spades at her.
"Ok, so it's an extra Ace," She shrugged.
"I didn't put it there,"
"No, and I'll let you in on a little secrete, I had it fixed so no one would be dealt an Ace," he tapped his nose lightly.
"Ugh! You fixed the game and come after me because it didn't go your way!" Lucy scoffed.
"Point is you shouldn' 'ave won," He shrugged.
"And 'cause of the stunt you pulled, I'm missin' a very lucky lady,"
"Yer ok…" The brunette huffed, stacking the pack back together.
"You lost me way back,"
"Spades are black no?" Remy raised a brow as he took back the pack of cards held out to him.
"Yer, so?" She shrugged.
"I'm thinkin' you need another look at dis," He held the odd Ace out; till finally he could see pieces click in the woman's mind.
"…It's red?" She stated dully, blown away she never noticed.
"Nothin' gets past you Chère," He grinned mockingly.
"Why is it red?" Lu blinked, utterly lost once more.
"'Cause it was my queen of hearts," he cleared.
"Was?"
"Don' play dumb with me Chère,"
"It's Lucy! And I'm not! I have no idea what you are on about, so far all I have is…Dan was dealt the queen of hearts and when I turned it over it was a red ace of spades…" She waited for the nod of approval before heaving a sigh and giving a small shrug to show that's all she knew.
"I'm jus' wantin' to know how you did it," He shrugged.
"Then hopefully I can 'ave my queen back,"
"…Are…Are you on drugs?" Lucy finally gaped after a long pause.
"The hell is wrong with you!"
"Jus' want my lucky lady back," He stated for the umpteenth time.
"Buy a new deck like a normal person!" She yelled before turning back around, quickly shouting.
"Oh wait! That's the sane way of doing things!"
"You changed 'er easy enough, can't be that hard to change 'er back?" he followed after her casually.
"You are out of your mind! Are you really doing this for a card?" She questioned lightly.
"I'm curious too," he shrugged.
"Well I can't help you with that, I'm in the dark just as much as you!" Lu huffed.
Digging her hands deep into the pockets of her black, A-line trench coat her fists continued to curl up tighter, if she hadn't of bitten her nails off at work due to boredom, then she'd defiantly have stab wounds in her palms.
She'd been walking for twenty minutes and after zipping threw a busy market and hitting the underground she'd come to the sad realisation, she couldn't shake him.
She had avoided heading home for the obvious reasons and it had wound her up to the point of snapping. She should have been worried to have a stalker, but seeing as they had talked and she knows his motives, she was hardly threatened, just extremely peeved.
Dropping her head down with a heavy sigh she stopped her walk as she came out of the underground station, turning on the path to take in the man leaning against the wide, open tiled exit.
"Will you please, go away," She sighed tiredly.
"You know what I want," He simply shrugged.
"No, I don't… I don't even understand you," her face was visibly defeated and tired.
"You talkin' 'bout my accent?" A brow raised on his forehead as he stepped down from the entrance, his height dropping slightly, but not by much as he still held a good six-foot.
"…No!" Lucy found the strength to frown as she shook her head with a scoff before quickly darting off in a fast walk once again.
Her concentration was taken away from her destination as she worked hard on dodging other pedestrians and getting away from the gambler.
She ducked and weaved her way as fast and sly as she could, almost speeding up into a trot, as she neared the traffic lights, if she caught them quick enough, he might not.
"Easy Cher," His smooth voice called as she made to duck round the last person in her way of crossing, but the hand cupping her elbow pulled her back in her stride, causing her to swing her arm around like a propeller.
"GET OFF ME!" She yelled, spinning to face him as she took a stumbled step back to create some distance, her balance faltering as her heel hit an awkward end of a paving stone that jutted up from it's place lightly, her ankle giving an odd twist all helping to cause her leg to give out, her other quickly jumping into save her, the rest of her body following in a counter balance as she fell past the line of people blocking the crossing, finally righting herself in the slip stream of traffic.
Already jumped gasped and strangled shouts where heard as the waiting accident came to a slow close.
As Lucy's eyelids fell open to resemble the look of an animal caught in the headlights, she realised how oddly entrancing a moving vehicle was when it was set on a dead on collision and no matter what little help it did, her face turned to a slow cringe as she held her arms out in front of her in a last attempted at protection while her mind screamed 'Stop' her eyes shutting to hide the disappointment when that car did not do what she wished.
The force she felt was new, nothing like she had expected, the shove that threw her back against the hard, wet tarmac road, she'd never been hit by a car so she had no idea was it should feel like, but surely there should be pain?
But no, oddly enough it simply felt like she had been shoved over and became quickly tried.
Fa lalalala
...untill next time