Rogue should have been the happiest girl in the world. Remy was there for her. They could touch. He was such an..amazing kisser, as in he could get her feet out of earth with one touch. But still, there was something that didn't really fit in the picture. Logan.

"Where do you think you're going Stripes?"

Shit.

"To the library."
"Why?"
"To get some books for my homework."
"You got all the books you need in a huge library down the hall. Right there." He pointed a huge door at the end of the lobby.

"Umm..yeah, but it's a little crowded in there so I'm just going to enjoy the silence. At the library. Alone."
"Alone?"

"Yes."
"Okay, Stripes. When should I pick you up?"
"Pick me up?"
"Yes. It's going to be dark when you get out of there."
"It will?"
"Yes."
"Okay…how'bout you trust me an' my abilities to defend myself, after all, I've go poisonous skin, right?"
"It won't harm any sentinel."
"There won't be any."
"You can't know."
"You can't protect me."
"I'll pick you at eight."
"No, you won't."
"Yes, I will, you should better wait me in front of the library at eight. Or else…"
Fuck you.

"Okay. Bye Logan"

She left to the library. She got in, talked to the woman at the reception and went the way she shown her. It was the back door exist. And right there, he was sitting on the steps, with a cigarette between his lips. A smile lighted his face as she appeared. He stood up.

"Chere.."

He crushed his mouth on her lips, holding her back with one hand, in the other keeping the cigar. She started to fly. Five days ago he shown her his new power. Now she was in his arms again, feeling every piece of skin on his face.

"Mmm tu est tres belles mon amour…"

"Do you speak English? " She giggled. A tingle went to her whole body as he breathed in her neck.

"Yes, I do, but when it comes to expressing feelings it comes easier in francais…"

"Well, can you translate?" She asked smiling.

He kissed her gently and said:
"It means 'you are beautiful, my love' "

She blushed and turned around, so she was in front of him while he was hugging her from her back.

"Oh no." Rogue suddenly said when he tried to kiss her again.
"No?" he asked surprised.

"Not that. That!" she said pointing something little and black at the end of the street. It was getting closer. It had long hair. Long brown hair. Long nails. It was riding a bike. A red bike. It was Sabertooth.

"What does he want?" Remy asked angrily.

Sabertooth was very close now, so close they could see the dust on his boots.

"You, Gambit."

Silence.

"I want you. And your treasure."
"Well I don't want you so go away." He said moving in front of Rogue. He got a card out of his sleeve and charged it.

"Did Magneto send you?"
"Who gives a shit on what Magneto sais? I have orders from the top!"
"The top of what?" Gambit's voice was getting really annoyed. Rogue was confused. Was he afraid of Sabertooth?
"You really wish you knew, don't you, LaBeau? Well guess what, Magneto will either join my master, either die, so you can make a decision right now."
"What is really going on, dumbass?" Remy asked frowning.

"What side are you on, Gambit? I see you have abased yourself dating an x-men. Are you fool enough to join them?…"
Gambit smiled.

"Fool enough or smart enough?"
"Fool. Against Essex you have no chance."
Remy blinked.

"Essex?" He seemed to lose his breath. What was going on?

"Welcome back to earth, LaBeau." Sabertooth grinned, showing his pointed yellow teeth.

"What's going on, Gambit?" Rogue asked unsecure.

She never saw Remy so scared. Even frightened.

"Rogue, could you please go back to the mansion?"
"No, I have to wait for Logan to pick me up at eight."

"Is Wolverine your father or something?" Sabertooth grinned. "No problem Rogue, I'd like to see him, i miss beating him off."
"Well that's good, Saberbutt" a harsh voice said. " 'Couse I missed you too"

Wolverine jumped from the roof, with his claws out. Sabertooth smiled and gave Remy another weird look.

"Just consider the offer Gambit. You know where to find us"

And before Wolverine could touch the ground, he left on his bike. Rogue was starring after him. Who was Essex? And why was Remy afraid of him? And what did he mean with "welcome back to earth" ?

"'Til next time Sabertooth. And now you two…"
Before Logan could say anything else Remy said:

"I'd like to join the x-men. I asked Rogue to meet me here so she could tell me what did that exactly mean. I don't want to get myself in something I can't handle. But I sure can" he grinned.

Logan was speechless. And he stayed like that until professor's office, where Gambit tolled him he wanted to join the x-men.

"Would you mind if I looked in your head to see if you are telling the truth?"
"Not at all, mon professor."

Xavier touched his forehead and closed his eyes.

"Yes, you seem to be telling the truth."
Logan grunt.

"Rogue, could you show Mr LaBeau his new room?"
"Yes sir. What room?"
"Number 435, as Bobby's roommate."
"Okay . C'mon Remy."

He followed her out of the room and as she was showing him around he stopped her suddenly.

"Rogue..are you going to tell them?"
"'bout what?"
"About us!"

"Not yet."

"So the professor reads minds. And so does the readhead. And you chose not to tell them?"

"I chose to be silent for now, since we don't know how things will…"
He pressed his lips against her, cutting her idea off. She put her arms around his neck. Theirs tongues danced in silence, until he moved a step back.

"That seemed pretty clear to me" he smiled.

"It's not funny Cajun!" She said annoyed that she enjoyed every moment of his kiss.

"No, it's not. It's beautiful."
"Shut up. This is your room. See yeah tomorrow at the Danger room session."

"Wait, what's your room's number?"
"345. Why? "
"Just asking"

"Oh no…no no no no, you are not coming in my room, which is Kitty's room too!"
"Lance's Kitty?"
"Yeah."
"Don't worry chere, I'll be very silent. Just get on your balcony around midnight."
"I won't"
"See you then." He said and closed the door of his new room.

Rogue just starred at the door without being able to believe what just happened. She won't go on the balcony. She won't? No. She was in love with Remy. No she wasn't!

"Yes, I am." She said with a calm voice. Now that's weird. How do I know I love him? Just the thought of his grin, his eyes, what to say about his lips, his whole person… it's like I'm on drugs or something. I should talk to someone 'bout it. But who? Logan? Yeah, sure, or I could just pull Remy off a cliff myself and make it easier for him. But who could she talk to? Kurt? No. Jean? No way. Kitty? Like, omg, you are into him? And like, you kissed? Like omg, how? Wait until I tell the whole institute !Yeah, Kitty ain't an option. Tabitha? She would suggest her to make out with him in front of Logan and Storm or something. Amara. Amara was cool. And she could trust her. But she wasn't such a friend. They were hanging out and all, but she was much closer to Boom Boom. But still…What about Wanda? Yes, she was friends with Wanda! And she could trust her. And she was honest. Okay, she was going to call Wanda and talk to her.

"Going somewhere, chere?" a smooth voice purred. HOW could he have such a sexy voice?

He just entered her room without knocking. What a gentleman.

"Not at all Gambit. Can I help you?"

"Well I was wondering if you could show me how to get on the roof."
"Why on earth would you do that?"
"Oh, you ain't romantic at all chere. So are you showing Gambit?"
"If you really want me to.." she said pushing him out of her room and closing the door after him. She shown him the way to the roof. Once they were at the top of the building she realized what a wonderful view it was from there.

"Wow. This really looks cool"

"It does, doesn't it" he said getting closer to her. She was insecure. She was frightened. She was in love. She wasn't. She was.

His arms searched for her waist and embraced her. She couldn't help it but put her arms around his neck. She moved her finger down his neck, to his chest. He had an amazing shape, she could feel every muscle he had. He took her hand and kissed it. Rogue blushed.

"How are you doin' this, Cajun? And why ?"

"I thought I explained you chere. You own my heart. I can't stay away from that, can I?

"I guess not " she said closing her eyes. She didn't know what she actually wanted, all she knew was that it involved being in HIS arms. He took advantage of her closed her eyes and kissed her lips once again.

She kissed him back. Mmmmm…

"Chere you know how to make a homme go crazy.."

"No I don't. But you sure know how to make a girl go crazy." She giggled. " We should go now. Kitty must be wondering where am I."
"She wasn't in your room when I came."
"No, she was watching tv. But now she's sure in our room. For now, you shut up 'bout this, am I clear?"

"Mais oui, mon amour. You can trust Remy." He grinned. "With your heart."
She sighed.

"I already have, you fool."
He kissed her once again, wanting her, loving her.

"See yeah later, chere."

She waved and left to her room. Then she turned once again and watched him lighting a cigar. She smiled and went down the stairs.

"Rogue, like, where have you been?"
" Around." Rogue said with no expression on her face. Or at least she hopped she had no expression.

"Wow, like, Gambit joined us! Can you believe that?"
"Yes."
"Yes? I mean, yes, you two always had some sort of connection or something. But still, is he liable?"

"I would trust him with my heart." Rogue said smiling.

"Oh no." Kitty said with a shocked face.

"Oh no what?" Now Rogue was actually worried. Has she said something? Something wrong?

"You have the…the smile!"
"What smile?"
"The 'guy' smile!"

"'Guy' smile, what the fuck?"
"I mean, the ' I met a cute guy' smile!"

Oh fuck.

"What are you talking about?"
"Are you like, into Gambit?"
"His name is Remy and.."
"AHA you see!"
"See what?"

"You are like, totally into him" Kitty said grinning.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

"NO I'm NOT!"

"Sure sure" Kitty said ironically. "And I don' like Lance either. And we didn't kiss" she said with the same tone.

Rogue blushed.

"OH MY GOD. You kissed?" Kitty asked shocked.

It's worst than I thought! WORST!

"When ? TELL MEEEEEEEEE"
Rogue couldn't do anything but tell her all the story. Well, she left the Sabertooth story out of that. She didn't fully understand that part. And that's not what Kitty wanted to hear anyway. She was a gossip eater, but Rogue wasn't going to let her tell anyone.

"Why not?"
"Because I'm not sure 'bout anything. And I want to talk to the professor."

And Wanda.

"Okay, I promise I won't say anything."
"If you do, I'll tell Lance about the diary."
"About what?"
"Your diary. And what's in it. Especially about Bobby. Or Colossus." Rogue grinned.

Yeah, she was a bitch, but Kitty was a bigger one. A bitch that had fantasies with someone else than her boyfriend, and wrote about it. Probably it was about she actually got together with Lance, but still, what the fuck? Rogue was ready to do what she had to to keep the secret. At least for now.