Rogue was shaking in his arms, shock sending her into a panic. Remy gently placed her on the countertop, that being the only suitable place to put her at the moment.
Remy's safe house was a good distance away from the X-men and the only reason he had been able to get there in such a speedy manner was the sports car he had stolen, and then the countless other traffic laws he had broken.
He shrugged slightly to himself as he peeled off his coat. Need inspired invention.
Rogue mumbled something incoherently and hugged herself closer.
"Merde!" Remy looked down at the blood stains that covered nearly everything he had touched.
"Gambit?" Rogue muttered, it obviously just registering with her that someone was there.
"I'm here." He tried to make his voice soothing as he went through his own pockets, looking for a different pair of gloves.
"Did I get shot?" Rogue asked. He noticed the way she bit her lip and the shine on her face from her silent tears.
"Ya did. It wasn't your best moment." He smiled at her warmly and relished the success he felt when he found a pair of gloves with fingers still intact.
"It doesn't actually hurt as much as I thought it would," Rogue admitted with a wince. "It's just cold."
Remy paused a precious moment to sympathize with her before pressing on her shoulder so that she was laying flat on her stomach.
"That's called 'shock', chérie." He peeled up her soaked shirt away from her stained skin and located the hole in her back, unable to enjoy the feeling of actually taking her shirt off under the circumstances. "This, however," He took a deep breath and prepared his mind for the screaming. "This will hurt a lot."
He went to retrieve the bullet.
-
Logan watched as Deadpool stared at his own wiggling feet, Logan didn't know if he was so infatuated with them because he had just reassembled his legs or because he could finally move his own body. Hell, for all Logan knew, Deadpool just spent hours out of everyday staring at his feet, the man was a loon.
"Deadpool," He called.
"Yes?" Deadpool stood and pranced around for a few moments.
"…Nevermind…" Logan decided he didn't actually want to know everything that Wade did.
"Logan!" Someone called his name from behind and he turned quickly to see Cyclops, Nightcrawler, IceMan, Storm, and Shadowcat running towards him.
"What happened?" Kitty said, looking around at all of the damage.
"The MRD happened." Logan grumbled.
"Not entirely true my hairy Canadian friend." Deadpool said.
"Logan…" Cyclops looked at Deadpool, who was juggling a few bullet casings while humming the theme song from 'Golden Girls'. "Who is that…?"
Logan put his face down in his hands. "Everyone," He saw that they were all staring at Deadpool with something between amused and disturbed curiosity. "This is Deadpool…"
"Hi everyone!" Deadpool waved and then walked around Kitty in a tight circle. "Seven… maybe an eight if your hair didn't look so dumb."
"Hey!" Kitty protested, tugging on her hair self consciously.
"Logan," Nightcrawler looked around the destroyed room. "Vhere is Rogue?"
Logan felt a growl crawl up his throat. "Gambit."
That got everyone's attention.
"Whoa, what do you mean 'Gambit'?" Bobby spoke up, furious. "I thought you said the MRD did this."
"Hey, chill out." Deadpool said, obviously thinking he was just hilarious. "The MRD didn't do this. The Mutant Isolators did this. And hot chick is probably safer with Gambit wherever they are then here."
"Mutant Isolators?" Bobby looked at Deadpool like he was crazy, and then added. "…Hot chick?"
"Yeah, you know the smokin' one with the white stripe in her hair and the bullet in her back." Deadpool said while pantomiming a curvy figure.
"Bullet?" Kitty looked panicked.
"Deadpool!" Logan yelled and Deadpool responded despite himself. "Stop talking!"
"Logan," Scott stepped forward with his usual chilled demeanor. "Tell us what's going on." He said sternly.
Logan thought for a moment about blaming it all on Wade, but sighed and told them the story.
…
"So, Gambit took Rogue to keep her from having her powers manipulated and turned into a weapon so that the MRD could give powers to the Sentinels." Kitty summarized once Logan had finished.
"Yes." Logan said, eager to go find Rogue.
"How do we know all of this?" Storm asked, obviously perplexed by Logan's wealth of knowledge about things that had only been set in motion the day before.
Logan jabbed a thumb in Deadpool's direction, who had somehow managed to get a can of soda from somewhere and was drinking it through his mask.
"He's like the little brother we never tell people we have." Kitty commented as everyone stared at Deadpool.
Deadpool finally noticed the attention. "Want some?" He held out the can.
"This is serious!" Logan slapped the can out of Deadpool's hand.
"Oh no!" Deadpool went down on his knees in front of the puddle of soda. "Babs! You killed her!" He wept.
"Uhm… Logan…" Nightcrawler stared at the spectacle along with everyone else. "Is he alright?"
"I really don't know."
"Can we trust him?" Cyclops asked.
"Probably not," Logan answered. "But he's our only hope of getting Rogue off the hook with Sinister, Weapon X, and the MRD."
Everyone continued to stare at the man, already having abandoned the soda, had some how found a bag of chips from somewhere and was trying to eat them through the mask.
"…Rogue's doomed…"
-
Rogue was in a dazed twilight zone. Reality and fabrication mashed together in a whirl pool of nonsensical colors. There was only one simple fact in this world, and that was- there are no facts.
She couldn't remember anything past her crawling on the ground behind the grandfather clock.
The man in the mask.
The other man with the key on his belt.
She reached out for it…
Slap. Slap. Scrape. Slap. Scrape. Slap.
What was that? …
Slap. Scrape. Scrape. Slap. Scrape. Slap.
It would be a whole hell of a lot easier to concentrate without it.
Scrape. Slap. Slap. Slap. Scrape. Slap.
It almost sounded like…
Scrape. Scrape. Slap. Slap. Scrape. Slap.
Playing Cards…
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(Hook) Bahaha! Hate to leave you there, I know how much everyone hates it when it ends like that C: I just wanted to tell you guys how much I love your replies. I'm glad you had fun reading it, because I was having way to much fun writing it. (Deadpool is hilarious to write for) Thank you all!
