The younger students at the mansion cleaned up the street by the time Rouge and Kurt ported to the front gate He proceeded to port into the house leaving her to walk into the mansion grounds, as she preferred. Rogue walked into the house through the rain and remembered the weather report called for a calm nearly cloudless sky today. She decided to go talk to Ororo and see if she could help her. When Rogue reached Storm's suit she quietly opened the door and heard Storm talking on the phone.
"He is here now Mattie, but I doubt he will stay if he makes it through the gunshot wound. He has only told Logan why he was there and he will not want to look at Sarah or Rogue when he wakes up he will just try to get out of here when he wakes up." There was silence while the other person spoke to Storm. "Of course, I will try to get him to stay here or go home to you Mattie but he still does not want to face his demons and you know as well as I do how stubborn that boy can be." Mattie made a quick reply that got Storm to chuckle a little. "Oh Mattie please don't tell John-Luc what happen he will want to be on the first flight up." Mattie gave her affirmation to Ororo. "Thank you, I am going to check on him now my friend good-bye." With that, Storm hung up the phone and Rogue sprinted down towards the elevator to the medical lab.
Once she got out of the elevator, she saw Logan and Beast covered in blood walking out of an operating room both looked exhausted. Logan noticed Rogue first and moved to block her path from the room the two men just left and nodded to someone Rogue did not see. The next thing she knew a collar was around her neck and she was up against the wall.
X-23 was in full on protection mode as she restrained Rogue breathing into the other girl's ear. "He needs to sleep right now he was just shot by a maniac."
Rogue tried to tap into Colossus's power but found that the collar blocked it and all powers as well as her own. "Why are you here?" She asked defeated.
"Gambit freed Laura from Shield while on a job for the Kingpin, but instead of delivering her he brought her here for her safety and was caught just outside the gate by the Friends of Humanity having a protest." Logan said massaging his temples. "Laura let Rogue go I don't want her crushed because you are more protective of him than even Ororo."
Laura let go of Rogue then walked over and started pacing in front of the doors that lead to where Remy slept. Just then, the elevator opened to reveal Storm seeing Beast and Logan in the hallway she asked, "How is he?"
Beast responded with a heavy sigh. "He is stable at the moment but Charles cannot detect him at all. That has me worried even when someone is in a comma he has been able to detect the before." Heading into his office Beast looked deep in thought.
Rogue sank to the floor putting her head in her hands and closing her eyes. Logan walked over to her slowly. "If you promise to let him sleep I will take the collar off and let you see him with Laura after dinner." The short Canadian said in his gruff voice.
Just then, they heard Remy scream, "Non, arête, ne touchez pas les dents Sabre!"
Logan sighed, "At least when he talks in his sleep it is in French."
Laura looked horror struck, "He still won't forgive himself that is why he was always up before me." She collapsed against the door crying.
Logan looked at her concerned, "You figured it out with just that?"
She shook her head refusing to answer or look at him more than that.
Rogue looked at Laura with tears forming in her own eyes. She walked over and held the younger girl to her chest crying into her hair as Laura cried on her shirt. Logan walked over and removed the collar restricting Rogue's powers as sadness swept over them all.
A few hours later during dinner, Hank walked in to administer a sedative so that the visitors Remy would soon receive would not wake him. Only to find the Cajun trying to get out of the room, that Hank and Logan moved him to for observation but he could barely walk. "Mr. LeBeau you must get back to bed even with your recuperative powers you are still too weak to be moving around and do not try to charge anything that would make your chances even worse to make it out of your current predicament alive." Hank said as he caught Remy and carried him back to the bed. "I understand you do not want to be here but it is for your own good. If you refuse to stay in your bed I will have no choice but to sedate you."
Remy allowed himself to be taken back to the bed before he asked, "Is Laura ok?"
Hank looked at the monitors for a moment before turning to his charge and smiling, "Yes my boy she is fine and will be down to see you along with Rogue-"
"NON, I don't want to see Rogue. She will be mad enough when I leave." Remy burst out before Hank could finish.
Hank sighed before asking, "Are you in physical pain?"
Remy lay back in bed closing his eyes to protect them from the light before nodding. Hank walked over to the IV that was giving Remy fluids and injected the mix of a sedative and painkillers into the man's system. Before making a few final checks and leaving the room to wait for the visitors. Remy tried to stay awake but could not keep his eyes open and fell back into his nightmares.
Rogue and Laura stepped off the elevator and saw Hank sitting beside Remy's door. They slowly approached the big blue mutant with caution. Rogue was the first to speak.
"How is he doing Mr. McCoy?" Her concern for Remy filled her voice to the point she was about to cry.
Hank looked up at them. "He was awake a little while ago I had to sedate him to keep him calm enough for visitors." Hank looked away before continuing. "Rogue he did not want you to see him out of fear of what you will think when he recovers and leaves us."
Laura held Rogue's arm tightly to restrain the striped mutant. "Is he asleep now?" She asked with the calm callousness of a killer.
"Yes he is but are you sure you both want to see him now he could wake up soon. I do not know how his mutation reacts to the sedative. He might wake up again soon as he regains his strength sedatives may not be as effective against him and he has a natural block against telepathy to the point Charles cannot detect him even with Cerebro." Hank said sounding tired from the day.
The girls nodded but still entered the observation room and sat in two chairs on either side of the bed. Remy was softly mumbling in his sleep as if in pain. He weeped, "Laissez-les vivre et je vais travailler pour lui, je ferai tout ce que vous demandez."
Rogue stroked a tear away from Remy's face as he cried in his sleep. "What did he see down there that we miss?" She asked mostly to herself as she watched him.
After a few hours of sitting with Remy the girls, head back up to their respective rooms. Remy starts to regain consciousness after Hank went to bed for the night. Marrow sneaks down to the med lab pecking in to the observation room she saw Tabitha sitting beside her mentor.
Remy moaned rubbing his head. "Stupid monkey man drugging moi like that it feels like mon head was just under de knife." Opening his eyes Remy quickly closes them again saying, "Merde, I hate hospital rooms ta bright in here."
Boom-Boom laughed at him. "It is only a little bright in here you stupid Cajun."
Marrow used this opportunity to sneak into the room and get a better look at her knight.
"Dis place is full of nosey people an' de lights are not for dose whose eye are meant far de dark." Gambit complained as he sat up. "Petite pass moi mon glasses dey in de inner pocket of mon coat you just past."
Marrow froze as Gambit addressed her with such a pained voice. Tabitha laughed at the little girl. The girl the turned and threw Remy's coat at him smirking as it fell over him.
"Now dat aint very nice petite." Gambit said as he rummaged through his coat. As he pulled out his extra pair of sunglasses, Remy continued to talk to the person who threw his coat at him. "I have had a rough week wi…" Gambit stopped talking the moment he put his glasses on and saw who was in the room with him.
Tabitha burst out laughing at Remy's expression. Marrow was both confused and hurt by his reaction to seeing her. Gambit's first word upon regaining his voice were unexpected, "Foutre la merde." His next actions were equally unexpected he removed all the sensors and tubes connected to his body and proceed to get out of bed and limp to the elevator. Once he reached the elevator, the doors opened to reveal a worried Logan his old drinking body.
"Turn your butt around and get back in the bed or I knock you out and carry back Cajun. You are not leaving until you talk to her bub." Wolverine said as he pushed Remy back away from the elevator.
"Merde, Logan homey I can't even go for a walk in the middle of the night when two petites wake moi up?"Gambit pleaded with his old friend.
"Nobody is down here I just came down to see if you were awake and playing cards like you used to do before it all hit the fan." Logan said as he picked Remy up and carried him over his shoulder back to the room. Upon seeing the girls, Logan set Remy down. "Right, What the heck are you two kids doing down here it is after lights out and Hank said no visitors when he is not around." Wolverine was pissed. "Now all of you get to your own beds."
Tabitha and Marrow dropped their heads and headed up stairs to their own beds.
Logan handed Remy a deck of cards and a beer. "Drink and deal LeBeau tonight I win."
Gambit looked at Wolverine like he was insane. "You are joking right. Even trapped in a bed you can't beat moi. I have been playing cards since I was a kid."
