The Gambit's Kin

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A note: Written by me, (can't you tell chapters written by me?) pretty long for once in my life, I'm impressed with myself! (Can't think of a title for the chapter, can't you tell?)


Chapter 7: Talks

"I am, like, so sorry." Kitty said once again

"Don't worry about it Kitty." Tammi replied, letting go of another person's hand she had just shook and taking up the next, focussing on their name

"Seriously. If I had know-"

"It's fine Kitty." Tammi said again

"It's not." Kitty replied, "I feel such an idiot."

"I accept your apology." Tammi said in a bored voice, wondering how long the girl had been apologising for, since she and Remy had gotten off the roof, where had her brother gotten to anyway?

'Probably hiding from the apologies' Tammi thought to herself

"I really am-" Kitty stopped when a gloved hand went over her mouth

"Kitty, the girl said to shut up." Rogue said, taking her hand from Kitty's mouth, wiping it across her jeans and holding it out to Tammi

"Hey," she said gently as the blind girl grasped it "Ah'm Rogue."

"Tammi." Remy's sister replied with a slight smile "You southern?"

"Yeah."

"Mississippi?"

"Yeah."

"Very cool." Tammi finished, grinning as she dropped Rogue's hand, "Tammi thought she recognised your accent."

"Reckoned you'd be able ta." Rogue replied "Kitty, don't apologise ta the girl again, she's heard it enough." She said, noticing the girl was opening her mouth again.

"I was going to ask her if she wanted a soda." Kitty replied

"Non, merci." Tammi said, she had already had a drink, with Remy, on the roof. If the others could smell the drink on her, they had chosen not to say anything. "Has anyone seen Remy?" she asked

"Right here soeur." Remy said, moving over from where he stood by the wall, he'd been watching his sister out of the way of the crowd, just in case she decided to do a runner again, he'd be able to get to her quicker as he didn't have to fight out of the centre of the crowd.

"Montrez-moi de way à de cuisine? L'alcool ne fait pas quelle nourriture fait pour vous remplir."

"Sure thing Tammi." He replied, smiling at the looks of confusion the other were given them. They were learning french at the school, but none of them were able to speak at the speed or vocabulary of the Cajun siblings. Remy walked over to Tammi, taking her gently by the shoulder and leading her off, watching her mouth move as she silently counted the steps. They had to walk slowly for Tammi to be able to count her way down the corridor so she could find the room on her own in the future, and Remy took the time to wonder how he would be able to look after his sister, he was not going to let her be a ward of the state, she was his sister after all, he had to look out for her.

He'd failed at that once before, and she had suffered greatly from it, her blindness making it impossible for either of them to forget what had happened, he couldn't do that to her again, it wouldn't be fair. Or right.

Tammi sighed suddenly, turning her head so she was facing him as they walked

"I know what you're thinking." She said sadly

"Vous êtes psychique maintenant aussi bien puis?" Remy snapped, before wincing "Merde. Tammi, I'm sorry." He apologised

"Yeah. I know you are." She replied, "I'm sorry too."

"What for?" Remy asked

"Pour débarquer cette responsabilité sur vous, je suis désolé. Si je ne vous avais pas téléphoné, vous devriez vous occuper de moi." Remy sighed, taking her other shoulder and spinning her around quickly to face him

"Si vous ne m'aviez pas téléphoné, vous seriez mort" He said seriously "Jamais la parole quelque chose n'aiment encore cela."

"Oui Monsieur" she barked in military tones, a smile flying across her face "I'm sorry I'm being depressing again Sir. Can we keep walking please, Sir?"

"Oui." Remy said with a smile, turning his sister back around and walking her off again. They entered the kitchen a couple of moments later, to find Logan sitting there. His nostrils flared for a moment and he looked up at them, eyes narrowed

"Have you been drinking?" he demanded, Tammi turned her head to Remy

"Est-il ce Logan?" she asked

"Oui." Remy replied with a small nod

"Oh." She fell silent for a second before looking in the direction she had heard Logan speak from, a smile on her face

"No sir. We haven't been drinking, maybe it be de perfume Tammi wears?" she suggested. Logan rolled his eyes and stood up

"Been telling your sister about me I see Gumbo." He growled "You watch out for her, I'm going upstairs." He walked past them, his nostrils flaring as he passed by and a small frown setting into his face.

"Vous pensez qu'il va vérifier son bar-buffet?" Tammi asked after a minute

"Probably." Remy replied "He can't kill us though, Professor X won't let him."

He sat Tammi down in the chair Logan had just left and grabbed them both some food from the fridge, along with two sodas from a cupboard. They sat for half an hour, not talking, they ate in silence as they ploughed steadily through the snacks Remy put on the table. Tammi finally opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by Remy.

"De Professor wants to see us Tammi." He told her, standing up and clearing off the table. Tammi stood up and reached out, placing a hand on Remy's arm, the talk walked from the kitchen.

X

"Come in." Xavier said as Remy lifted his hand to knock on the study door. Tammi raised an eyebrow

"Does he do that a lot?" she asked

"Yeah," Remy replied "You'll get used to it." He opened the door and Tammi walked in, one hand in front of her slightly as she negotiated her way to a seat.

"Good evening Tammi," the Professor said as the girl lowered herself into the seat she'd found "I take it you are settling in well?"

"Oui." She replied, "I am fine."

"I take it there have been no further problems since this morning?" he asked, Tammi shifted uncomfortably but gave him a grin

"Non, it has been fine. Kitty apologises a lot though…" she broke off and grinned broadly again, Remy smirked and leant against the wall, watching his sister casually.

"Yes, I suppose she would." Xavier replied with a smile "Remy, I take you have decided over becoming Tammi's legal guardian?"

"Oui, I'll do it. My soeur needs me to do so after all." Answered with a small smile.

"Excellent." The Professor said, steeping his fingers (A.N. Mr Burns moment… hehe:P I don't think steeping is the word for it, I give up…) "I'll have that sorted out as soon as possible, in the mean time we need to sort out a room for you, and perhaps a trip to the mall for new clothes…"

"Wait a minute." Tammi cut in, looking up at the professor, or roughly where we was sitting anyway "What about school, I mean, I won't be able to do normal schooling like the others will I?" Remy looked at his sister in surprise, he was going to ask that question himself, without Tammi being their encase she got upset about the topic, but she was quite boldly putting it forward, obviously not wanting everyone to pity her completely for being invalid. Xavier looked at her steadily; his eyes flickered to Remy for a moment as he pondered over what the girl had said, he hadn't really thought of this slight problem before hand.

"We could find someone to teach you," he said eventually "Or I'm sure we'd be happy to teach you ourselves. You can both go now, I'll tell you when everything's been worked out." The two nodded, Tammi standing and walking steadily over to the door, having counted her way into the room earlier, she exited swiftly, Remy following closely.

"Remy?" Xavier called before the young man had gotten out of the room

"Yes Professor?" Remy asked, already having a feeling he knew what the Professor was going to say

"I would like to ask you not to drink on the premises, the same goes for your sister." He gave Remy a smile as he closed the door.

X

"That went well…" Tammi said. They were sitting up on the roof again, this time with two bottles of soda and a large packet of chips between them.

"Better than expected." Remy replied. Throwing a crisp over the edge of the roof. "Couldn't have hoped for anything else."

"Logan hasn't asked over de Jim Bean yet." Tammi reminded him

"Nous devrions tout être très reconnaissants de celui" Remy replied. Tammi peeled her sweater off; it was pretty warm up on the roof at that moment, laying the clothing on the roof behind her, she leant back so her head was resting against it and gazed up at the sky… sort of.

Remy watched her in silence for a moment, his gaze falling to her left arm, where the stitches were visible, it would no doubt need to be bandaged, Dr McCoy had said something about that, but Tammi had left the infirmary before he could do anything, she'd have to go back down to get it sorted, or she'd catch the stitches or something drastic like that.

As if she knew what Remy was doing, Tammi put her right hand over the stitching covering it from his view.

"You'll need it to be bandaged." He told her, explaining why he'd been staring

"Okay." She replied

"How did it happen?" Remy asked, he'd been thinking about it all day, after Hank had told him it couldn't have been done when the tanks had exploded, he'd been trying to work out how she'd gotten it ever since.

Tammi sighed, she knew he'd ask, she just wasn't sure if she could tell him, after all, she had killed that guy…

"Before you came…" she started wobbly, sitting up "One of de assassins came into my room, he threatened me, told me not to move 'or else'. I knew it wasn't you or da from he voice, I attacked him! She turned her head to Remy, tears starting to run down her face "I got de knife from my boot and stabbed him! He must have gotten me whilst I was trying to hit him. Mon Dieu Remy! I killed him! I'm a murderer! De mob are going to have my neck for it…" she sobbed quietly then, everything she had been feeling after she had killed the man dying into heart-wrenching sobs, Remy frowned at her obvious guilt, and wrapped an arm around her shoulders

"Calme vers le bas Tammi" he said soothingly in french "Ce n'est pas votre défaut"

"It is!" she cried, "I killed the guy Remy, you know what dat means?"

"That you are still alive." Remy said grimly "If you hadn't got him, he'd have killed you, and wouldn't be feeling badly about it, let it drop Tammi…"

"Let it drop?" she repeated "Remy I killed him! I can't let that go!" he pulled herself from her brother and stood, rushing forwards so that she almost fell off the roof, but managing to catch herself in time as she climbed through the window, her cries echoing back up to Remy.

"Tammi!" he yelled after her, standing up and grabbing her discarded sweater, he ran after her.


Translations:

(There are a lot in this chapter, oops. My french ran away with me…)

Non, merci – no thank you

Soeur – sister

Montrez-moi de way à de cuisine? L'alcool ne fait pas quelle nourriture fait pour vous remplir - Show me the way to the kitchen? Alcohol does not do what food does to fill you up

Vous êtes psychique maintenant aussi bien puis? – So you are psychic as well now then?

Pour débarquer cette responsabilité sur vous, je suis désolé. Si je ne vous avais pas téléphoné, vous devriez vous occuper de moi. – I left this responsibility on you, I'm sorry. If I hadn't phoned you wouldn't be stuck with me.

Si vous ne m'aviez pas téléphoné, vous seriez mort – If you hadn't phoned me, you'd be dead (Damn, that's a bit blunt)

Jamais la parole quelque chose n'aiment encore cela. – Never say something like that again.

Oui Monsieur – Yes Sir.

Oui - Yes

Est-il ce Logan? – Is this Logan?

Vous pensez qu'il va vérifier son bar-buffet? – Do you think he's gone to check his liquor cabinet?

Nous devrions tout être très reconnaissants de celui – We should all be very grateful of that.

Calme vers le bas Tammi – Calm down Tammi

Ce n'est pas votre défaut – It is not your fault

I think that's them all, there were a lot, oops…


To Our Reviewers:

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