Black Velvet
Chapter 4
Disclaimer: See chapter one…
A/N: N/A…
Previously…
"Yes, I shall watch what I hear from her from here on out." Laura said seriously.
"Sure, now, if that's all ya wanted from meh, go away, Ah still have a book to read." Rogue said as she got up to escort Laura out and shut the door without waiting for a reply.
"So, Cher, we be alone, in yo bed chambers, at last." Remy said seductively, as he left his cards forgotten on the table.
"Yup, Swamp Rat, alone at last." Rogue said with a mischievous grin and locked the door.
Now…
Remy ran his hands over Rogue's muscled thighs as she wrapped her arms around his neck as he laid the two of them on the bed. He kissed down her neck as she tangled her fingers in his hair and locked her legs around his waist. He was about to continue his feather light kisses back up her neck when he heard a knock at the door.
"Um, Gambit, are you, like, gonna sleep in Rogue's room all day, or what?" Remy heard a girly voice say through the fog in his head. He couldn't place who it belonged to, so he shook his head and continued his work.
"Hello? Gambit, like, totally wake up, Mr. Logan is gonna catch you in here, and you know it, like, won't be pretty." Rogue said from beneath him, only it was with a Valley girl accent that only one person could have beheld. He gave her a confused look, and the next thing he knew he fell on the floor on his back on the wind was knocked out of him. Once he caught his breath he looked around at his surroundings. The first thing he noticed was that it was in the middle of the day, not midnight. He was, however, still in Rogue's room, with an annoyed Kitty Pryde standing over him with her arms crossed.
"What happened, Petite Chat?" Remy asked, thoroughly confused.
"You fell asleep in Rogue's room. Again." Kitty said indignantly, obviously this had happened more than once.
"Where be da feme?" Remy asked, looking around the room to see that Rogue was, in fact, missing from where he had last seen her on her bed talking to Laura.
"I think she's down by the gazebo with Laura. Maybe Kurt. Maybe both. You should go see." Kitty said and left the room.
"Cherie…" Remy said whispery to himself as he looked out the window towards where the gazebo was down by the water.
Down by the gazebo…
Remy was walking along the all too familiar stone paved pathway that led to the Rogue's favorite spot to sit and think when he stopped adruptly at the sound of people talking. He couldn't understand what they were saying, so he moved closer until he could see and hear them. Like Kitty had said, Rogue, Laura, and Kurt were inside the gazebo having a heated discussion.
"Rogue, you are so… so…" Kurt said, stammering to find the right word.
"Pigheaded." Laura supplied.
"Yes, thank you, pigheaded. You now have answers to some of your questions. Like who your parents are, where you come from, and how you got to where you are." Kurt said, trying to make his sister see reason.
"Ah didn't want 'em. Not like that. It would have been better if the Professor had told me." Rogue said, leaning against the railing with her arms crossed and her gaze focused on the ground. Remy heard a hint of remorse in her voice that took him back to four months ago, after Jean had talked him out of leaving.
Flashback…
Remy was walking down the stoned paved pathway for the first time, getting directions from one of the younger students, heading toward the gazebo, where Jean had said Rogue would be. He rounded the corner and stopped short when he saw Rogue pacing the small space, kicking at the ground and talking out loud to herself.
"Stupid Swamp Rat, who does he think he is, looking at my crap like that? Is he crazy? Must be, none of the others go prowling through my stuff, not even Kitty, and we shared a room together! Not to mention he had the audacity to say my lyrics sucked, what a jerk!" Rogue said and kicked at the railing on the far end, by the water, and leaned on it, letting out a frustrated sigh.
"Actually, Chere, that's not what Ah meant." Remy said as he walked up behind her, deciding this was a good time to make his presence known.
"What do you want? Haven't you tormented meh enough? You're supposed to be leavin', Ah figured you'd be gone by now, as much in a hurry you were to get packed. What are you still doing here?" Rogue asked accusingly, turning her trademark glare on him.
"Well, Chere, Ah was, but a little birdie convinced me to give it another go." Remy said as he casually leaned on the railing on the opposite end of Rogue.
"Jean? That sneaky little…" Rogue said and glared in the direction of the mansion.
"You're welcome." Jean said to her telepathically.
"Stay outta mah business, Quean Bee! And get outta mah head!" Rogue thought irritably.
"You'll see the light." Jean said and gave Rogue and Remy their privacy.
"You need to not hang out with that girl, she's a bad influence." Rogue said seriously, looking back at Remy with a glare.
"Right, a prim and proper school girl is a bad influence on me, Gambit, Remy LeBeau, King of Thieves, and Ex-Acolyte. Yes, Ah'm sure she is." Remy said sarcastically, with a roll of his eyes.
"Jean Grey is anything but innocent, you'll see soon enough. Again, what do you want? If yer just here to mess with mah head, go away, Ah prefer to be alone." Rogue said and turned her back on him.
"Ah came here to talk to you, but if you're just going to give me attitude, I'll go."Remy said and stood up straight, waiting for an answer.
"See ya later." Rogue said without turning around.
"Ya know what, Rogue, you are a selfish, spoiled, rude, and obnoxious little brat. Ya don't care about anyone but yerself, and Ah can't, for the life of me, figure out how anyone deals with you. How do they do it?" Remy asked honestly, his frustration getting the best of him.
"This is who Ah am, if ya don't like what ya see, leave me alone." Rogue said as she whirled around to face him again, obviously angry once again.
"No, Chere, it ain't about what others think or like when they look at you, it's about what you see. You don't like what you see." Remy said giving her a knowing look.
"Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about." Rogue said crossing her arms defensively.
"Ah think ah know you better than you know yourself." Remy said, taking a few hesitant steps towards her.
"That's a lie, Ah know who Ah am." Rogue said, balling up her fists.
"Rogue, you've been trying so hard to be what everyone else wants you to be, you don't even know who you really are anymore, who you were before your powers defined you. You lost it." Remy said sympathetically.
"You lost it too!" Rogue said throwing her arms down at her side. Remy saw some emotion in her eyes that he couldn't identify. "Ah saw it. Before Jean Luc took you in, you were different." Rogue said quietly, and as soon as it had come, what Remy had seen was gone. They were both quiet for a few minutes, in a somewhat tensely understanding silence.
"Ah'm gonna stick around for a little while, if that's okay wit' you." Remy said, not looking at her.
"Sure, if ya want. Ah don't care what you do." Rogue said with a shrug, a small smile playing on her lips.
"Sure ya don't." Remy said, giving her one of his famous smirks. "I lied to ya, Chere." He said after a minute, looking slightly apologetic, shifting a bit.
"Big shocker there." Rogue said in mock surprise without turning around.
"I thought your song lyrics weren't bad. Pretty good, actually, if not a little weird." Remy said with a slight draw of his brows.
"Thank you." Rogue said in a dignified tone after a few minutes. Then, without saying anything, she turned around and left Remy alone to head back for the Institute.
…}Back to Present{…
Remy shook his head, ridding his mind of the memory, straightened his jacket, and walked confidently up to the three adopted/possibly genetic siblings with a sly grin on his lips.
"Bonjour, ladies," Remy said as he walked briskly up the few steps of the gazebo, then turned to Kurt,"and their little frère."
"What do you want, Swamp Rat?" Rogue asked, giving him a bored.
"You two ladies left poor little moi all alone." Remy said, trying his best to look hurt through his smile.
"You'll get over it. Why were you spying?" Rogue asked, a suspicious glint in her eye.
"Not spying, mon Chere, just hanging around." Remy said, leaning next to Rogue on the railing, not missing the mean glare he got from Kurt as he did so. "And, no, it would not have been better for the Prof to tell you, because then you would be mad she didn't tell you herself. Then who wins? Nobody, you see how these things work?" Remy asked, not noticing the amused look on Rogue's face. "Why are you smiling?" Remy asked when he did notice.
"Because in this case you won. Ah'd already decided to smooth things over with Logan a few months ago on my own." Rogue said with a shrug.
"You didn't say anything before, because?" Kurt asked, a little annoyed.
"Because it's so much fun watching you all squirm." Rogue said as she walked out of the gazebo. "Besides, how else am I gonna be entertained?"
"That's a little bit twisted, Chere, even for you." Remy said as the three of them followed after her.
"Yeah, well, you just can't pick the crazies these days, can you? It's how Ah was raised." Rogue said with a gleeful smile.
"Schwester, are you seriously gonna sit down with Logan and talk like civilized people?" Kurt said, astonishment evident in his voice.
"Course not, first Ah'm gonna have the Prof go through what Ah got from Mystique and make sure it all adds up, then we'll sit down and talk like civilized people. Hopefully." Rogue said the last word as an afterthought. No one could predict how Logan would react in any given situation, but she was determined to have as little shouting as possible, in the holiday spirit.
A/N: Okay, peeps, that's about as good as it's gonna get. This thing was written over a period of about two weeks. Anyway, I had started to write chapter four, but it didn't flow with number three so I had to write a completely different one as I was too far into it to start over, so I just wrote a whole new one. The next one will be up tomorrow. Hope you guys liked, please review and tell me how it went, because I didn't go back and read it, so I'm not sure. The next one will be better, since I now have to write one chapter a day, it's the 5th of Dec., in order for these things to be ready to go up on time so you guys don't have to flame me.
Also, Rogue is flip flopping between emotions because, like I said, this was written sporadically in the span of two weeks, but do not despair, I'll figure a way to explain that in the story. It was an error by the author that the characters will fix. Something like that. Okay, I'm off to write the next one. TTFN!
-fnk