A.N. I'm going to change my pen name. The one I currently have does not really fit my personality. Besides, I've been leaving reviews under this different name. Look out for RedSmileyFace next chapter, which might be sometime in late January.

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Merry Christmas!!

I'm on my time with everyone

I have very bad posture

A small feminine body, dressed all in black with shades, crept through the tunnels of the Xavier Mansion, tunnels that Magneto did not know about, even though he helped to build the school. Remy was told that they were build after Magneto left Xavier's to follow his own ideas of human/mutant relations.

After Hank deciphered the password and was able to hack into the mansion mainframe, he, Remy and Rogue planned a recon mission. Barney gave them whatever supplies they asked him to buy from the store, which included ear communicators and a laptop. It came off of Xavier's account, of course, which Hank had access too.

When Gambit reached a dead end, he stopped for a moment to listen for sound on the other side. When he didn't hear anything, he walked through the metal barrier and entered the danger room. Remy was told it was a gift from Forge, where you could walk through it on one side and it opened up with hard force from the other side. It was relatively a secret in the mansion.

Hank was back at Barney's and made sure that none of the red dots on the map on the computer screen (people) were near Remy's green dot, and silently thanked his stars and garters for such unusual ingenuity on Professor X's part to make a system he could hack into to control the mansion's sensors, including allowing the cameras to go on a continuous loop of empty hallways so the guards wouldn't know someone was sneaking around. It made the tiptoeing around much easier, especially when they got to the computer room.

Remy was wondering why the secret tunnels didn't automatically connect to the computer room, but he was told that the computer room came after the tunnels, during the late 90's computer boom, and it was difficult to connect it to the tunnels. He made his way towards the said place, using his stealth skills, using Rogue's memory of loose floorboards and every now and then changed direction when Hank told him someone was coming his way.

When he finally reached the computer room, Hank informed him of the code to open up the door, and he entered, basking in the bluish glow of the mainframe. And waited for Hank's instructions.

"Ok, Remy, there does not seem to be anyone near the computer room, so place the device in the USB port and press the send button, and everything should be transferred to my laptop. Just be careful, because my computer will not be able to both receive information and show the mansion. You will be on your own for about 10 minutes."

"Got it, mon ami." Remy looked for a hiding place in the room, and cursed. There were none. Praying that something so stupid as hiding under the computer desk would work, he hid under the computer desk, and positioned the swivel chair in front him. He cursed again, knowing that Rogue's body would have back pains in the morning. Not for the first or last time, did he wish he were in his own, lean body, which would have bent nicely in the tiny square hollow underneath the computer.

I'm so tired I can't sleep

I'm a liar and a thief

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea

Distill the life that's inside of me

"Remy! Where are you going?"

"Calm down, mon ami. Remy just checking to see if his body still looks good."

The information was done being transferred to Hank's laptop, and Remy was supposed to be heading towards the danger room exit, but instead he was taking a side trip to the med bay, gloomy as the place was. When he came upon his body, all comatose and good looking, he couldn't help but smile, even thought there was nothing to be happy about, in his own thoughts.

Hank was saying something, but Remy didn't notice, or even care. He then frowned. "I'm sorry, Rogue. Didn't mean to make you go crazy… seem to have that effect on a lot of women, heh… Maybe if I leave, you can have a good life? Remy certainly doesn't deserve it."

He contemplated who would miss him, and came up with only a few people, and they seemed fine banishing him from the only home he loved. He contemplated all the less then legal things he participated in, and not just the thieving, and he prayed that whoever was in charge of the Big Picture would be willing to forgive him. Funny, he never really thought about the things he'd done in life, but ever since waking up in a new body, watching people of another life style then his, and seeing the effects of the Carol incidents; he had something of a wake up call. He didn't know what to make of anything, and how was anything supposed to mix with his past? He was clueless.

He contemplated Rogue, who, in just a few short weeks, knew him more then any other woman he met. And he just had to ruin that rare friendship to take care of some stupid urge? She most likely hated him for giving her something hardly magical, something that most likely made her feel disgusting.

There really wasn't anything worth keeping him around, and he was positive nothing wanted him to stick around.

He heard Rogue screaming in his head that he got it all wrong, but he knew it was just pity. He pulled his cards and bo staff out of the pockets, and placed them next to his real body. "Be sure Remy gets buried with these, ma cherie."

Remy took one last minute to think about what he was doing. Considering it the right thing, he reached for the plug of the machine keeping him alive, and pulled it.

"Remy!! There's someone behind you!"

I'm on warm milk and laxatives

Cherry-flavored antacids

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld

So I can sigh eternally

Rogue whirled around, taking over since the silly Cajun seemed too preoccupied with himself, and glared at the intruder. It was Betsy, in her full X-Men outfit.

"Betsy!" Cried Rogue, assuming an incredulous look, "What are you doing here?"

"That doesn't matter. You are trespassing my lord's lair, defend yourself!" and with that, she lunged at Rogue.

Rogue was surprised, but with Gambit's fighting skills, she was able to dodge the initial attack and was able to pull herself together.

"What's wrong? What did that bucket head do to you?!"

But Betsy was not "programmed" to answer; she instead launched another attack, this time with a close range strategy.

Rogue was able to hold of any serious pain, but she would never have been able to hold her own if not for Gambit's fighting skills inside her head. The fact that the med lab was small and didn't allow Psylocke to attack at 100 percent helped too. They did a dance of martial arts for about a few minutes, when Psylocke pulled back to form her psychic blade, and Rogue didn't waste time pulling back to charge some random object nearby, since Remy's cards where not on hand.

They stood at a standstill for a second, neither wanting to make a foolish move, both eerily illuminated purple and red by their respective powers in the dark med lab.

Rogue was getting impatient though. Afterwards, she blamed the little Carol still in her. As a result, she threw the charged thing–a-bob that she picked up randomly at Psylocke and looked for another object to charge and throw right away.

Psylocke, in the mean time, arched her back, back, and the tiny bomb flew over her stomach and head to explode on the wall behind her (which woke up half the illegal inhabitants in the mansion). When she righted herself from leaning back, Rogue was still looking for an object, so Psylocke lunged towards the preoccupied Rogue, grabbing her from behind, and preceded to position Rogue in a one-armed chokehold. She raised her psychic blade, fully prepared to shove it in Rogue's head/mind, thus knocking her out for a while. However, Rogue's original powers kicked in first to zap Psylocke from the neck to bare forearm contact. Psylocke limped and fell to the ground, out cold. Rogue had a few seconds to process what Psylocke knew about the whole situation, and yelled to Hank,

"It's worse then we thought, Hank!"

"There is no time to tell me now, there are people headed your way! Get out of there!"

And Rogue moved quickly. She first plugged the machine back in, she and Remy were going to have some serious talking to do. Then she ran out of the med lab, running towards a different exit, one that was closer. She escaped the mansion without Magneto or his followers capturing her.

End Credits….

A.N. So I switched the lyrics around. If you notice, don't get too mad . Also, I really liked writing the fighting scene, cause I really wanted to use both of the southerners' powers in one body, so if anyone else likes it too… PLEASE say something about it! I normally don't beg for reviews, but if you even write one review for however many chapters I write, please be about the fighting scenes!

Also…. How about that Remy angst? Was it Too much? Not enough? Horrible??

Thanks to the reviewers!!

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Freak87 – you really know how to boost a writer's ego, don't you? Hope I don't disappoint!