AN: Heya ppls here ya go, just a quick note I've edited all of my spellings of Ollie into how its written in the new GeNext comic some of you may know about, to Oli - I preferred my way but oh well I like to be accurate, just in case anyone noticed the swap.

Bekka

Rogue laid her new baby down into the incubator to sleep. It was time for her to sleep too she noted, she was exhausted. The last of the visitors had left her to get some rest and Remy took this opportunity to tell his wife everything. He was so nervous, what if she hated him? He had to try, he looked at her settling down into the pillows and sighed, she was so beautiful and god how he missed her. He entered the room quietly and saw her eyes were closed. He stepped over to the incubator to get the first proper look at his daughter. It brought a tear to his eye. He wanted to hold her but was afraid of waking her. Suddenly it was too late and her eyes shot open, she started to cry so he picked her up gently.

"Shhh, my petite, papa's here don't cry." He soothed.

Behind him he heard the sharp voice, "Who's there?" Remy turned around. "What in the world?" Rogue gasped. Her voice chocked in her throat and tears fell from her eyes. "I must be dreaming."

Remy walked over to the bed holding their daughter who had silenced her cries in her father's warm embrace. "God she's beautiful Anna, we did good huh?" He asked sitting on the edge of the bed.

"You're alive? Remy….I don't believe this." She stammered.

"First of all Chere, I can't start to tell you just how sorry I am for putting you through what I have, Olivier too, but I had to protect you."

"I don't understand."

"A few weeks before Peru, Belladonna contacted me. She had become more powerful in the South than I could have thought possible. She ran the underground, gangs from every front. She said she needed my help. I turned her down flat of course, but she doesn't like being told no." He paused to study Anna's face, her reaction.

"Go on." She managed, still trying to stop crying. She was in shock, Rogue wanted to be bitterly angry at her husband, but she couldn't find the strength.

"That's when she threatened you and our son. Said she'd hurt you, and kill Oli, that's how deranged she was. I told her it wasn't going to happen and she could forget it. I hung up the phone. The next day we took Olivier to the park, I never mentioned it to you at the time but we were being followed. I quickly realized Belle's men were everywhere, they watched us at the park, and on the walk home. Then the warning came. On the news that night I saw a woman had been grabbed at the park, right after we had left. She was robbed and beaten and left for dead. She survived because she was found by a passer-by. Belle called me straight after and asked me if I'd seen the news. She said next time it would be you they grabbed. It made me realize I couldn't be with you every minute of the day, protecting you."

"God Remy, why didn't you say something?"

"I couldn't, Belle made me play on her terms. I knew I could keep my family safe by working with this mad woman. She made me swear to keep it a secret and I told her I would find a way out of the X-Men. But I couldn't do it alone. I went to Emma Frost and asked for a favour. She cloaked my mutant signature from the Professor so my death was believable."

"Wait a minute," Rogue interrupted. "How did you know about the baby, and when I went into labour? The Queen of Hearts on my windowsill…that was you?"

"Yes. I almost came to you then, I was so close, but Belle was onto me, I swore that no-one knew I had snuck back to the mansion."

"But in the morning it was gone, I thought I had dreamed it…who was helping you keep this a secret?" Anna demanded.

Remy sighed. "Logan."

Rogue's eyes grew wide.

"Before you get angry at him I made him swear to keep it from you, it was to protect you and Oli. I couldn't pull this off by myself, I needed him in Peru, to make sure you were out in time and I was still able to get out. I had a mini air tank in my coat that I could breathe through until the way was clear. My foot was never really trapped, it was all an act. You have to believe me Anna, if there had been another way…"

"If I could get out of bed I would kill that swamp witch for taking my husband from me." Rogue wiped the tears away and put her arm across Remy's chest, hugging him close. "Argh," he winced.

"What's wrong?"

"Hold her for a minute." He passed their sleeping daughter over to her mother and unbuttoned his shirt. Rogue gasped at the scars across his chest. Some welts were fresh.

"What has she done to you?"

"My punishment, for sneaking back to see you, I did it many times, I couldn't stay away, I just couldn't tell you and it almost killed me."

"I'll kill her myself."

"Non ma Chere, that's up to me. I thought I'd have taken her down by now, but this little petite came early, I can't stay much longer, I couldn't hide where I was going from her, and I'm surprised I made it to New York without being apprehended."

"Remy you can't go, please not now, we'll tell the X-Men, we'll help you, just don't leave me again." She pleaded.

"I wish it were that simple, but I can't risk more lives, this is my fight."

"Our fight." Rogue squeezed his hand.

"I'll have Wolverine keep in contact, and I've got Emma masking you and Oli and this little one from Belladonna. I'll tell her you've gone to stay with family. She's got psychic mutants working for her and if they probe the mansion they won't find you here." Gambit kissed Rogue long and hard on the mouth. "I promise you Chere, I'll be home as soon as I can, as soon as I've taken her out." He stood up.

"Wait…" Rogue said. "We haven't named our daughter."

Gambit smiled. "I've always liked Rebecca?"

"Rebecca? I like it." She replied. "Bekka LeBeau."