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Chapter 4: Notes part 2
Rogue woke with a shudder and opened her eyes to find a pair of red on black ones staring back at her about an inch away from her face. She shrieked, but Remy's hand covered her mouth before she could alert the rest of the mansion.
"Holy! What wer' yah think'in Gater Brains?" Rogue said in a harsh whisper.
"Remy didn' get ta see mon chere wa'ke up last tah'me. So dis tahme he didn' wan'ta miz it." Remy whispered back before he stood and walked back and closed the open French doors.
The cool spring air seemed damp, icky, and cold seemed to chill Rogue to the core, since it was only a reminder that she hadn't seen or heard from Logan in over half a year. Rogue sat up while she watched Remy pace back and forth from the French doors to the foot of Rogue's bed finally stopping when he had seen Rogue sit up fully on the bed.
"Chere yah ain't gonna hurt dis here Cajun r' yah?" He finally asked his ruby eyes meeting Rogue's sleepy emerald ones.
"Ah guess Ah can't since yur'all soaked." Rogue fussed finally noting Remy's soaked trench coat, dripping hair, and even his boots were sitting on the bathroom floor as she stood and walked over to him.
" 'Y r' yah here Gater Brains? It must of been pour'in buckets when yah got here." Rogue reprimanded him as she examined his trench coat before turning toward the bathroom to get him a towel.
"Remy 'new yah cared 'bout him, Chere." Remy commented as he sat on Kitty's wooden stool while he watched Rogue search the bathroom for something.
"Ah 'new it! Ah should'a screamed." Rogue groaned while she threw the large black towel at him.
"Aww but den y' would'a missed Remy chere." Remy laughed while sneaking up behind her and wrapping her up in a big bear hug.
"AHH! Alrahght yah wet rat let meh GO!" Rogue laughed as Remy shook his head from side to side causing a cascade of rain water to fall from his long brown locks.
"Oh so chere's a wet rat now?" Remy asked before letting go of Rogue and high tailing it around the room while she chased him.
"YAH'R GONNA BEH A DEAD RAT WHEN AH CATCH YAH!" Rogue screamed while she chased him.
Rogue had just cornered Remy and was about to beat the living daylight out of him, when there was a knock on her door. Rogue turned toward it panic evident in both her's and Remy's eyes Remy quickly ducked into Rogue's closet while she made her way to the door.
"Who is it?" Rogue asked trying to sound like she had just woken up.
"Like Rogue?" Came Jubilee's loud voice causing Rogue to open the door to see the Asian girl on the other side.
"Oh, Morn'in Jubs."
"Yeah alright Rogue? I thought I like heard screaming?"
"Ah had a dream dat a rat came out of da swamps durin a mission an' it began eatin' all of y'all. An' den it went afta' yah and Illya so I yelled. Sorry bout dat...it was a real'y strange dream."
"You can say that again...Well breakfast's like in a few minutes. Wanna go?"
"Naw, I don't feel up tah food, righ't now."
"I can like kind of see why. Well then see you later Rogue." Jubilee called as she turned and waved as she disappeared down the hall.
Rogue waved after her before closing and locking her door only to find that Remy had long ago come out of the bathroom and was now going through one of her photo albums. Rogue wasn't to bothered by it, she had been the one who had left it out, but what she did find strange was that he had changed out of his jeans and into a pair of black sweats, while his trench coat had been thrown over her desk chair once again. Rogue sub-contagiously pulled her trench coat tighter around her making sure that it covered her skimpy shorts and tang top underneath.
"Hey chere what be dis?" Remy asked as she made her way over to lay across her bed to look over his shoulder at whatever he was pointing at.
Rogue spotted her old map of the world and her map of the US that had a red flag on top of all the cities that she wanted to go to and all the places she wanted to see. Tears came to Rogue's eyes as she remembered the last time she had told someone about her traveling and that guy had also been her power's first victim.
"Chere?" Remy called her back to reality, "Quel est le problème"
"Oh! Sorry Rems, its just... The last tahme Ah explained dose maps to a guy he... He became mah power's firs't vic'tahm."
"Remy sorr'y he asked." Remy said as he began to close the book.
"Naw Ah-Ah'm gonna tell you," Rogue said with a smile as she snatched the book out of his hands and laid it on the bed.
Remy laughed before laying down next to her careful not to get to close to her skin for fear that she would shy away. And so Rogue animatedly explained her fantasy trip around the world. What cities she would see and what countries she would travel to and which were her favorite places.
"Remy al'ays dreamed of goin' ta Monte Carlo."
"Ah bet'yah did an' still do, sug'ahr."
"Oui." Remy said with a lopsided smile before he wrapped an arm around Rogue's hidden waist, "But Remy needs da rig't fille ta go with him."
"Ah just bet, Swampy." Rogue said as she rolled her eyes before stashing her photo album away.
"So chere, what were so impor'ant 'bout dat New York trip with da chaton dat you could't tell Remy 'bout it in da note?"
"Well...When Kit and Ah went ta New York an' we got caught up in dis mutant vs. human problem. We had den been thrown be'ween the two like a rag doll, and when Ms. Marvel came to break up all da fightin' the mutants rioted, knockin' her out of da sky. Dey den rushed her causin' Kitty an' Ah ta get separated, da people pushin' meh got to the poor woman fahrst. Ah was den pushed an' Ah... landed on top of Ms. Marvel...The crowd thought Ah had started a dog pile so dey den piled on top of us, only crushin' us more. Den afta some point in time I could tell dat my powers were pulling brinin' someone in but by the time Storm an' da others broke it all up an' pulled me off of Ms. Marvel Ah had absorbed her... to the point that Ah kept her powers and now she's in a coma...fer who knows how long."
When Rogue was finally done her story Remy was in a daze. She had been in that mass he had seen on TV? She had new powers... and a woman some where was in a coma for who knew how long?
"Chere, r' yah okay?" Remy asked unsure that he wanted to know the answer.
"Yeah. Ah was a little shaken at da time, but Ah'm good now."
"What're yah'r new powers?"
"Ah can fly." Rogue began by floating straight up into the air before flopping back down onto the bed, "Super Strength." This time she grabbed a near by baseball and squeezed it lightly, but it still popped like a balloon, "Higher endurance, stamina, a butt kick'in healin power, and sorta like a seventh sense thing according to Hank."
"And yah still got yah'r own toxic skin ta boot." Remy added with a smirk.
"Ah guess Ah do, when yah put it dat way."
"Well Remy sorry dat you had to go throu'h al'dat without him ta lend yah a sho'der, chere."
After that Remy began teaching Rogue how to play poker, which she then began to obsess about to the point that Remy just had to laugh. The only weird thing was out of the hundred or so times they played that day Remy never got his Queen of Hearts, not even once, and each time Rogue did she always wound up winning that hand. Remy could only shake his head at his rotten luck, or maybe the card had taken some sort of liking to Rogue like it had to him.
Rogue left the room only once to between 4 pm and 5 pm to get them both something to eat. Remy this time hide his things under her bed and then hide up on the roof until Rogue came back with two plates full of junk food, as well as sandwiches, and even soda though Remy had said he would have preferred something with an edge.
"Ha! Dat's a good one' Rems. Dis be a school 'member?" Rogue had asked before popping in a movie which just happened to be Labyrinth.
Like any pair of friends they lay on the bed with their horde of food with them, laughing at everything. Once Labyrinth was done Rogue put on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland at around 7 pm. She cranked the volume up knowing that her neighbors knew not to bother her when the sound was blaring.
Now it just so happened that Rogue and Remy had gotten a little toooo comfortable because during their third movie, Sherlock Holmes, Remy found his fingers running smoothly through Rogue's bouncy, curls of auburn hair as if he was stroking a cat. Rogue was even smiling from ear to ear as his hand traveled from the top of her hair all the way down. But it was on one of these strokes that Remy's hand over shot, his fingers landing completely on Rogue's forehead.
Both mutants sat stark still. Rogue's emerald eyes grew larger when she didn't feel the normal pull from her powers. Remy's eyes stared deeply into Rogue's as she turned to look at him, before he pulled his hand away from her skin and moved in toward her lips. Rogue was about to pull away when the sensation of his warm breath against her lips made her body freeze.
Remy's lips soon landed atop her's causing Rogue's heart to soar as her powers didn't kick in. The kiss grew steadily deeper as Rogue's starved sense of touch was roused, and boy was it starved! Remy pulled back minutes later because he was sure Rogue was out of breath, and so was he for a matter of fact.
"H-How?" Rogue stammered through her heavy breaths.
"Easy chere. You don't have da moon's destiny. Yah just happen ta be One Touchable."
"Yah only flatterin' yah'r self Gaiter Brains!" Rogue said as she whacked his head before adding, "But it'd be a nice thought."
"See Remy knew yah loved him."
"Non! Ah LIKE Remy."
"Non YAH LOVE Remy cause yah kissed him back."
"Ah-Ah-Ah was caught up in da moment!"
"Remy bet if he were ta do it again yeah'd love it!"
"Ah Would-" But Rogue never finished since Remy captured her lips in another sense crippling kiss.
"Too...Je t'aime mon chere." Remy whispered after they had broken the kiss.
"Ah-Ah-Ah..." But Rogue couldn't come to say it because there was a sharp knock on the door.
"Stripes. Turn it down!" came Logan's unexpected outburst.
Remy and Rogue's eyes grew huge at the unexpected voice. Remy jumped off the bed, while Rogue stripped off the trench coat before pulling her own dark green sweat shirt on. Remy then jumped into her closet just in case Logan decided to come in since no thief could get past that man's nose. Once she was sure Remy was covered Rogue turned down the movie before turning and walking cautiously to the large door.
"Stripes don't worry." came Logan grumble of a chuckle as she hesitated to open the door.
But after he had said that Rogue threw the door open and jumped into the short metal skeleton man's open arms, though she was sure to bury her face in his protected chest rater then his half covered neck.
"Ah missed yeah sooo much Logan."
"And I'm sorry dat I didn't call, darlin'. You and Storm got the worst of it according to Hank. But don't worry kid I'll be stayin for a while this time around." Logan reassured her.
"Good. Now if yah don' mind Ah'm turnin' off dat movie and goin' ta sleep fer real dis time." Rogue said before pulling out of the hug and disappearing back into the room amazingly without Logan smelling Remy on her.
Rogue did as she had said and quickly shut off the DVD player and the TV. She then hit the lamp switch, leaving her in the semi-moonlight of … 2 am. Rogue moved to the closet, but wasn't at all surprised to find it empty. With a sigh of disappointment Rogue traded her sweatshirt for the trench coat and was quickly off to dream land.
Remy on the other hand clambered out from under her bed with his things. He quickly made up a note and hide it beside her pillow before disappearing out into the morning darkness with the last of spring's chilly bite quickly following him as he ran to the farthest motel room he could find. (its the end of March)
Mon chere,
That darn Wolvie! Messin up our time together. Well my moon like chere that just means you got to tell me what you were gonna say the next time Remy comes to visit his chere. Oh and by the way you still owe Remy that back massage! Don't think movies, food, kisses, and skimpy clothing will save you from that. And don't worry Remy will brave any rain, sleet, snow, thunder, lightning, and whatever else Stormy and Mother Nature can throw at him if it means more time with his chere.
With love,
Remy
To The stupid Rat that stole my sanity,
Well the good news is that Logan didn't smell you, though I am thinking of feeding you to him if you get me angry. And maybe I will asked Storm to make all of the above to happen the next time you come by just out of spite and too hold you to that. So Kitty's been catching on to the whole note passing idea so begin to look in other places for my notes because now I have to keep them from my brown nosing roommate. Oh and next time you come I have to show you the perfect shirt for you online. So what's your latest heist idea because I might just have an idea for you.
Rogue
Dear chere,
Lookie chere Remy found it under the balcony this time! Well hope you found yours! So it took Kit five months to figure it out and it took Henri a month. Remy think Kitty's just a tad slow or are you that sneaky Roguey. Remy's headin to New York for a little, but then he thinks he's headed west again. Why what's chere's idea? If it involves anything red and lacy Remy always in!
Hoping and Wishing, Chere!
Remy
To The stupid Rat that looked in my computer,
Really Swamp Rat I would say I was surprised that you said that, but then I think about it and its not that surprising. How did you sneak the note into my computer? Wish you could have stayed I would of showed you the latest stuff I got on the last trip to the mall. Well my idea was to send you to get those jewels from the Washington DC museum of history. But then I thought it might just be to hard you your gaiter bait brain. Kits gonna be away that spring weekend (April 24) I know its short notice, but it would be so Hot if you could come.
Warm and waiting,
Rogue
Rogue hide the note under the balcony once again and the next day it was gone, but the odd thing was that throughout that entire day she didn't get an answer. She saw no powdery blue note though she look throughout her room and her things. It wasn't on her pillows, in one of her books, tucked into the door frame, her shoes, Rogue had even gone as far as the check her underwear draw and even her jewelry box.
The days passed without word from the Cajun and slowly tears came to Rogue's eyes every night as she began to think up reasons as to why he would have suddenly stopped and cut off all connections to her. Kitty had even asked her once what had happened to the pale blue notes, but Rogue's only answer had been to let a tear fall down her cheek before answering.
"What blu' notez Kit?"
-TBA-
Well the ending wasn't fun, but the first part was! R&R because I love it when you do!