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"Dialogue"

"Thoughts"

However in Flashbacks things work out a bit differently.

"Dialogue"

"Thoughts"

Chapter X

"Red-Eyed Disaster"

What a wonderful surprise Mr. La Beau had come back to the institute, much to the displeasure of the fearless leader. Remy, better known as Gambit, had decided that it would be fun to be part of the X-gang once again, well… not really. He came back for a different reason, that reason was named Rogue, the girl whom he had feelings for, which was not very common in him. His feelings for women were usually limited to lust, but with her it was different for some reason. He knew all too well that she would be hard to get but he was not counting on having a rival, much less that rival being the leader of the X-Men, Cyclops. From his observations he knew that the man had some interest in the southern gal, maybe a little too much considering the fact that Cyclops had a girlfriend at the moment.

"Are you here to stay Remy?" asked the deep voice from Professor X.

He shrugged in response "Don't know yet, but I want to try and be part of the team again."

"Well I'm happy to have you back and I'm sure the team will be as well."

"Yeah, right" the former thief said his thanks and goodbye's to the professor and left the office.

"Hey Chuck, I don't have a good feeling about this" came the voice of Logan who came out from the shadows of the office.

The professor sighed, "Let's just wait and see."

{-}

"-and then he asked me to be his girlfriend can you believe it!" the perky Katherine Pryde filled in her friend Rogue with the latest details of her relationship. "Never had I imagined to end up with him!" the girl sighed dreamily.

Rogue pretended to be annoyed but in reality she was extremely happy for friend and her brother, "So now should I call 'Kurtty' the new it couple?" asked mockingly the southern beauty.

"Kurtty? That is fabulous!" not catching on with the burlesque tone her friend intended. Her tone turned to a more serious one, "You know, I always thought I would end up with Lance."

Rogue thought about it for a second and it made sense, Lance and Kitty did have their chemistry at some point, but in the end it wouldn't work out for them of that she was certain. "Personally I'm glad you and Kurt are together"

"You are?" she hugged her best friend, "Aww now we will be like sisters!" the Rogue rolled her eyes.

"May I interrupt you ladies?" the Gambler interjected. After the friends were finished with their hug, Gambit grabbed Rogue's hand, "I'll borrow her for a while." Both walked around the vast gardens of the Institute. "I've missed you." A blunt statement.

A mocking laugh came from the goth girl "As far as I remember you left here with the words, 'Mon Cherie, there's a world of ladies out there, sorry but I can't be limited to one'"

As you may have guessed those two did have some sort of history together after they became closer because of the Apocalypse and related events. However, things didn't last for either of them: Rogue wanted more than the adrenaline rush she got from being with a complex and problematic man such as La Beau; Remy on the other hand was more interested in money and pleasure (that he could not obtain with Rogue) to be in a relationship with her.

He placed an arm around her shoulder, "Well, I've changed and I want you."

She slowly removed his arm from her shoulder, " But I don't."

"It's because of him, isn't it?" he asked without beating around the bush.

The southern maiden felt a chill run down her spine. "I have no idea what you are saying."

He grabbed rather strongly from the wrist and narrowed his dangerous red eyes at her, "You know damn well what I'm saying. It's that stupid Cyclops."

"You are hurting me," she gritted through her teeth," and for your information he has nothing to do with my decisions."

He inched closer to her ear, "If I were you I would be careful." He whispered, after he spoke he let her go "For your information" he started to walk away, "I'm not giving you up that easily."

Gambit was now out of eye sight, "Idiot" she whispered.

"Ouch! I barely got here and you're already calling me names" Cyclops was a couple of meters behind her, any normal human would not have heard her words, but he was a special case, not only was he a mutant but he was also blind to some extent which made him develop his other senses better, such as hearing. "Is everything alright?" he saw her massaging her wrist.

"Yeah everything is fine." She tried to smile, but it was more of a grimace.

He looked at her not convinced at all, "So you're saying this has nothing to do with an upset Gambit that just pushed me a few minutes ago, calling me an idiot as well." He crossed his arms around his chest waiting for an answer.

She sighed and gave a ghost of a smile, "First of all I wasn't calling you idiot, it was actually for Remy. Second, this does have something to do with him but it's not important." She shrugged.

Scott decided not to push the issue anymore. "Have you heard the good news?" he said rather sarcastically. She nodded. "Hopefully he doesn't stay here for long." He whispered to himself.

"I hope so too." Answered Rogue in response, that made Cyclops feel slightly embarrassed, since she was not meant to hear that.

"If you don't mind me asking," he struggled, "why do you hate him now?" he scratched his neck and felt uncomfortable asking, but he really wondered why, because as far as he remembered the Goth had some infatuation with the gambler.

She fidgeted, "Well-"

She was interrupted by a red-head "So here you were" Jean grabbed Scott by the arm and saluted Rogue, "Hope I'm not interrupting anything." She said innocently.

"Not at all." Answered Rogue in the same fashion. "I'll see you guys later." She sighed.

"Wait-!" Jean called, "If you are not busy tonight why don't you come with us, to dinner?"

She felt uncomfortable, and had the gut feeling that something was not right, but nonetheless she answered, "Sure, why not?"

{-}

The white-striped-haired girl was having second thoughts about her decision. She really shouldn't have accepted Jean's invitation. Who would want to be a third wheel? She should have invited someone at least, maybe Kurt or Kitty, even Spikes. What is even worse, was the stupid outfit Kitty made her wear, at least it had dark colors. It was a tight black pencil skirt, with a dark purple, more likely a plum color, dressy shirt with lace over, she wore a dark and fancy jacket over it, and thank God was able to wear some black converse with black laces, yeah this was because Kitty wanted to live for a couple of more years, and making Rogue wear 5-inch heels would have prevented her of that.

"Life could not get any worse." She said under her breath, as she arrived at the restaurant.

A few seconds after, Scott and Jean stepped out of the red convertible. He was wearing dark slacks and a dressy red shirt with a black tie, Jean the other hand was wearing a green Greek styled dress that reached a couple of inches above the knee. Yeah, they made a good couple, and yes, Rogue also felt disgusted at the thought.

As they walked inside Jean spoke to the butler, "Reservation for four. Under Grey, Jean Grey."

"Four?" Rogue wondered, at least she wouldn't be alone and have to torture herself with the lovebirds. Before reaching their table I man wearing all black stood up.

"Ah! Mon Cherie! You are finally here." Said the red-eyed man.

This was going to be a long night.

"Remy! What a pleasure, glad you were able to join us." Jean pulled Scott with her and took a seat. Meanwhile Remy pulled out a chair and asked Rogue to sit.

After they ordered their meals, Jean put her plan in action, "I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you both make a cute couple, don't they Scott?" she laced their hands together.

Scott felt really uncomfortable, especially with that question. He only shrugged really, he definitely could not agree with Jean, but he could neither say what was really on his mind

'No way! She deserves so much better.'

Remy smirked at the couple in front of him, and shared a secretive yet knowing glance with the telepath. "I believe so too, wouldn't you agree Cherie?" He touched her bare elbow with his gloved hand. She instinctively pulled away.

"Don't touch me." She said sourly. "Very clever Jean" she thought.

"Why did you guys break up anyways?" the red-head was not going to let the power-sucker off that easily.

She flinched; she really did not want to answer that. Remy took notice of how uncomfortable that made Rogue feel and decided to help her out.

"We needed time, you know." He grabbed Rogue's hand and answered, "But I feel it's time to get back together. That's why I came back, to be with my beloved."

Not buying it, and with the curiosity eating him up Scott asked, "Why did you guys 'need time'?" Gambit shot a death glare at Scott, and Rogue did the same. Nonetheless this was getting amusing to Jean.

"None of your business pretty boy." Sneered the former thief. Acting in accordance to the plan he proceeded, "So how did you too get together, not that it was unexpected"

Cyclops was about to answer the same way Remy had just answered, but Jean answered herself, "Like you said, it was not unexpected, we were meant to be and here we are" she looked at Rogue in a way that says This-is-my-man-go-get-your-own way. "I'm sure we will even get married in the future, right Scott?" she asked with her innocent smile.

Oh poor Scott, this dinner was proving more difficult than what he initially thought. "Yeah" he answered quite uncertain and with a strange feeling of guilt that washed over him, when he saw Rogue's emerald eyes loss some of their liveliness at his answer.

"Good for you, hopefully you stay away from other girls, with your wifey around." Gambit said mockingly. Yet, Scott knew it was more of a threat to keep away from Rogue, and now that Remy had made it clear he wanted to get back together, Summers knew things were bound to get ugly.

Rogue smacked Remy on the head, "What's up with you, leave him alone." She told him harshly. "Mind your own business La Beau."

"Ow my baby got mad." He pouted and she rolled her eyes in response. He grabbed her hand and this time she didn't pull away. "I think we are bound to end up together too." He said this in a playful tone, but Scott knew it was serious, it was a guy thing after all.

"Sure we will." She took a bite from her pasta and then confessed, "As if… I would rather marry Angel than you."

Ouch! Yeah that was a stab to the heart alright, and to the pride and ego of Remy La Beau, he only met this "Angel" guy once, but he hated him already. Scott and the other hand, felt some anger inside of him, as if Angel was all that. Sure he was good looking, and had money, and had cool none deadly powers, and was charming, and a perfect gentleman… what was the point again? Ah! Yes! Angel was not that perfect, although no defect came to mind yet.

Nothing eventful happened after that, except for the fact that Remy tried to pay the dinner with a stolen credit card (not a former thief after all), much to the disproval of Scott, who ended up paying everything.

"AHHHH!" yelled one of the waitresses, "Mutants!" of course, none other than the Brotherhood.

"We only wanted some soup lady." Said the Blob while smashing tables and everything that was in sight.

Toad was taking all of the food that was within his range and thought of it as 'grocery shopping' or better yet, 'grocery taking'. Maximoff, or Quicksilver, was stealing wallets and jewelry, and last but not least Avalanche was causing havoc on the outside of the place. It was time to take action.

"Everyone get ready." Said the fearless leader, he changed his regular shades to his fighting visor.

"Way ahead of you." Answered Gambit, who took out a deck of cards and directed them towards the enemy, these of course exploded on contact.

"You guys never learn" answered the Rogue, she took off her gloves. Jean levitated tables and chairs and directed them towards the Blob and Toad. Toad was taken out easily, the Blob not so much.

Rogue was having a one-on-one fight with Quicksilver, not a very successful one, she kicked, he dodged, she punched, he dodged. He punched, she tried to dodge, and it was a fair fight if not for the flying chair that came her way and made her lose concentration which in return ended up with a punch below her chest, damn did that hurt. Remy and Scott were busy with Avalanche and Jean with the Blob, but when the three heard Rogue cry out in pain they took matters more seriously.

Remy shoot some of his deadly cards in different directions to distract the Avalanche and Scott took the opportunity and shot a deadly laser on his chest, which left him unconscious. Rogue pretended to have fainted and Quicksilver got close to see if she was dead or something, how naïve. Feeling him close, Rogue stretched out her hand and touched him, he instantly fell unconscious on top of her. She acquired his speed and in a fraction of a second was standing three meters away from the speedster. The Blob was already outside dragging his friends along to their home. Unfortunately, Gambit had thrown one of his explosive Queen of Hearts, which so happened to land next to a bowl of spaghetti, which so happened to explode and cover Rogue with its contents.

Wonderful dinner, wouldn't you say?

{-}

After two showers and Kitty's constant "You owe me a new shirt." Rogue went out for a walk and stared at the full moon, trying to forget the pain on her abdomen, apparently that punch did damage her ribs and left a nasty bruise. She sighed; at least she couldn't complain that her life was boring.

"Nice evening wasn't it?" asked the voice she knew all too well.

"Lovely."

"How are your bruises doing?" he asked with concern.

She touched her bandages slightly, "They're alright, Storm says they will take a couple of days to heal, but nothin' serious."

"That's good to hear. Oh, I have this for you." He gave her their journal and went back to the Institute because the professor had asked him for help.

"Dear Rogue,

So many things have happened lately. I kept thinking about what the lady at the fair told you, she was weird right? And the images that we saw, no comment, they were out of this world. But don't worry I doubt we would ever face something like that, I mean, nothing is worse than Apocalypse.

Also, I want to thank you for letting me be part of your life and your past, I was truly amazed that you invited me to go with you to see your parents. I'm sure they were wonderful people.

Just between you and me, I hate Gambit's guts! He can be so out of line you know?

But I envy him, he's very open about his… feelings for you, what really happened between you two? I know I've asked you, but 'curiosity killed the cat' right?

Moving on, are you ready for graduation? I wonder how our lives will be after graduation, will we go to college? For me, I'm seriously considering staying at the Institute as a teacher, with all the newbies I feel I can be a good influence, maybe make a difference for the better. Then again I also have other dreams, but only time will say what happens.

Oh! I heard from Kurt that he was going out with Kitty! I saw that coming, they make a good couple right? Evan owes me 20 for that, he always thought that Shadowcat would end up with Avalanche, I had my doubts.

The dinner today was the best I've ever had (not really) you looked very nice, the converse were a nice touch. Which reminds me, would you really marry Warren? I can't believe that, he just isn't your type."

She smiled at the journal entry "I have a type?"

{x}

That's it for now folks.

Everyone better be enjoying your Summers!