Family Ties
Lady Starlight so kiss my ass
Chapter Thirteen – Their Night.
Her arms were wrapped tightly around his waist while her head rested on his back. When Rogue had come into the garage Remy had already been waiting for her. The Thief had stared, stunned. When he finally got back the use of his vocal cords he had helped her onto his bike and they had quickly left.
Remy turned sharply and Rogue's grasp tightened. They rode in silence, as Rogue already knew Remy wouldn't tell her where they were going. Remy pulled up on the outskirts of a green forest and slowed down.
"Almost dere cherie," Remy said over the bikes engine. Rogue nodded against his back and closed her eyes. The bike stopped and the two Cajuns got off.
"Have de X-Men been able to help you Remy?" Rogue asked softly. She needed to know if she stood a chance at getting control.
"Oui. De Professor helped Remy. It took awhile but eventually Remy be to control it." He wouldn't lie to her. Remy knew that despite everything that had happened to him in the last six months, his feelings for Rogue had never changed. Now if he could only bring it up with the girl.
"And de empathy?"
"Remy can shield it. Mind blocks. So dat Remy doesn't feel everyone else's feelings. Its not dat strong yet but it works."
"So yah t'ink he'll be able tah help mah?"
"Oui. He be able tah help. De Prof has a habit of keeping his word. If he wants tah help, he does so."
"Dats good. Ah don't think Ah want to live with never being able to touch someone." Remy didn't looked down at Rogue as his arm found its way around her waist. The move wasn't a new one as Rogue laid her head on his shoulder. But for some reason Rogue couldn't help but notice that it felt differently.
They walked for a while longer when Rogue looked around and realized Remy had lead her deeper into the forest then she had originally thought. His hand moved to the small of her back as he pushed his girl forward. He smiled when he heard her surprised gasp.
"Ohh Rems!" Rogue cooed her eyes misting.
In front of them was a picnic blanket, spread out in front of a glistening lake. Remy smirked and sat down across from her on the picnic blanket.
"Happy birthday Roguie," Remy said as he poured her wine. Rogue smiled as she sipped it and nodded.
"It has been hasn't it? No matter what happened during the year, it's been a good birthday."
"Yes, Remy can see how spending hundreds of dollars is good."
"Ah love tah spend money. Its just better when Ah have an excuse tah spend more."
"Jamie," Remy supplied.
"Yeah, but he's adorable. Almost like you were at that age. What happened?" Rogue said making Remy spit out his wine and give his friend a mock glare.
"Dats not nice cher," he chided.
"What's not nice?" Rogue asked, an innocent look on her pretty pale face.
Remy leaned forward and tickled his girl into submission. When Rogue had called out, "Alright, alright, you're still cute," he had let her go.
They tried talking to each other. But something would always bring up the last six months and they would both fall into an oddly uncomfortable silence.
Remy looked at Rogue thoughtfully, they had finished their meal a few minutes ago and things had been silent since.
"Remy didn't go to dem right away." The Cajun Thief said. Rogue looked at him, surprise in her emerald eyes.
"He went to another boarding house. De same one Wanda lives. The Brotherhood. Remy stayed dere for a couple of months. After that it became clear that he didn't want to be dere."
"Why? Yo' seem to get along with Wanda well enough, and her brother Ah hear."
"De one that runs dem? She's more psychotic den Belladonna."
"Ohh," Rogue said softly.
"Yeah, funny t'ing? She's a hell of a lot better a deception. She's a Mutant like de rest of us. But she can change here skin. A shape-shifter. It didn't take Remy long to figure her out."
"Always the Thief."
"Exactly." Remy looked at Rogue carefully. "Funny t'ing 'bout dis fille, she was blue." Rogue's head flew up and she stared, startled, into Remy's eyes. "All blue skin, red hair and yellow eyes."
"From mah dream."
"Oui." Rogue had told him about her dream of the fire just before she had turned fifteen. "Or dats what Remy thought. Seeing as he never seen de fille he wasn't sure."
"Is that why yah left?"
"Mostly. Dat and Stormy was about tah kick Remy's ass for not going to her." Rogue giggled, thinking of the elegant lady kicking her Cajuns ass. "She's scary Roguie. Born terrorist." Rogue looked at her glass and picked it up, sipping slightly.
"She was de one following us earlier den?" Rogues eyes meat Remy's and the Cajun Thief nodded softly. There was no lying to his girl.
"Oui. Dat was her. Rogue, you should go back to N'Awleans. Its safer there."
"No," Rogue said. There was no room to change her mind. "Ah'm not going back, not with out yah."
"Rogue…you know Remy can't got cher." Part of Remy wanted to send her home. Call Joe and have him drive the Assassin Princess home. Another part, a bigger part. Wanted to wrap her in his arms and never let her go. Remy clinched the urge to drag the girl to him and he sat back.
"Den Ah'm not going. How can yah expect meh tah fly home when Ah've finally found yah?" Remy looked down and Rogue growled.
"Yah tore meh apart when yah left Remy. It was even worse because Ah knew Ah couldn't go with yah." Rogue's emerald gaze bore into Remy until he had to raise his eyes to her. "Ah told yah before Rems. It tore mah in half when yo' left. Mah world came crashing down after that. Ah lost mah self the same time Ah lost mah best friend."
Tears streamed down Rogue's face and Remy cursed himself for it. He hadn't wanted to ruin her day. Knowing that it was hard enough as it was without the whole family. Remy slid over to her and wrapped his arms around her. He whispered soothingly in French and was rewarded with a gentle sigh when Rogue had been fully calmed.
The Professor had worked with Remy on his Empathy almost immediately. Helping the boy create mind blocks. Along the way Remy learned how to control others emotions. How he could make what ever the other person was feeling disappear, or turn into something else. Thing was, he took the discarded emotions on himself.
His arms didn't move though. Rogue's head lifted off his shoulder and she gave him a smile. Though she didn't know how he did it, she was just glade that he had been able to pick her mood up.
'If yah weren't mah best friend, Ah'd so kiss yah right now.' Rogue thought to herself.
'Why don't yah?' Etienne's voice asked in her head. 'Yah know he'd love it.' Rogue rolled her eyes and blocked out Etienne's Psyche.
"Tell mah more about de Brotherhood Rems." Rogue asked, trying for a change in subject.
"Dey crazy Roguie. Yah've only been livin with de X-Men for a week so you probably didn't notice." Remy grinned ironically at her. "But de X-Men, dey even crazier. De Brotherhood is led by Avalanche. His real names Lance Alvers, he was recruited around the same time as Kitty Kat was."
"Yeah, Kit Kat's mentioned him. Girl got a crush or what?" Rogue rolled her eyes and Remy smirked.
"Its not just de Kat cher. 'Pears Lance had a thing for Kitty back when they lived in Chicago. Dere's Wanda, and her brother Peitro."
"Ah met dem in de mall," Rogue said. Remy nodded and continued.
"Pietro and Wanda are twins. Though dieu you couldn't tell it. They're good most of the time. But Petey has a habit of doing something stupid. Wanda made it her job to punish him for it."
"Talk about sibling love," Rogue said sarcastically.
"Yeah, its bad between dem. But considering where they come from?" Remy shook his head in pity. Wanda and Pietro's father was far worse then Mystique.
"Yer not gunna tell meh then?"
"Not Remy's place." Rogue nodded, understanding. "Dere two others dat Remy's not to fond of. Todd Tolanski and Fred Dukes. Or Toad and Blob." Rogue raised an eyebrow at Remy, who just smirked. "Toad is, as you could probably guess, a frog. With de whole green tongue and eating flies thing too. Disgusting."
Rogue giggled and helped Remy pack up their food.
"Blob, he be big. Eats his weight in food."
Rogue's nose wrinkled up at the thought if it. "That's sick." Rogue said, Remy nodded and reached down for Rogue's hand.
"Come, well put dis on de bike. Den we go for a walk cherie," Remy said and Rogue nodded.
XxXxX
It was late when they got back on the bike and in their sleepy state Remy drove slower then he probably ever had before. Remy parked his bike in the garage and helped Rogue up.
Rogue yawned and rubbed her blurry eyes. She was likely to sleep all day tomorrow.
"Rogue cherie," Remy said.
"Hmmm?" Came from Rogue.
"Ah'm glade yeh here."
"Ah'm glade Ah'm here to Swamp Rat. Ah missed yah." Remy walked Rogue to her door in silence.
"Remy missed yah to cher." He said and kissed the top of her head.
"Ah'm gunna open mah presents, so why don't yah come in?" Rogue asked and Remy nodded. The two Cajuns opened the girls door and came face to face with Kitty, Tabby, Jubes, Rahne and Mara. The five girls all sat on Kitty's bed, looking expectantly at Rogue.
"Yah know…" Kitty drawled out. "The boys aren't supposed to be in our rooms after lights out Rogue." Rogue and Remy both raised an eyebrow and sat on Rogue's bed.
"If yah've got a problem, yah can all leave." Rogue said and picked up a green wrapped present.
The girls moved forward and not another complaint (if you could call it that) was made about Remy's presence in the room. Rogue read the boring card from her sister and opened the present. Inside was a golden framed picture of…who else? Bella.
"Gawd, dat girl is full of herself." But none the less Rogue placed the picture one her desk.
"That's you like sister then?" Kitty asked. "You don't look a thing alike."
"Ah was adopted is why."
"Ohh," Kitty said and handed her another present. This one was from Mercy. Rogue pulled out a soft black and white scarf with matching gloves. On the card Mercy wrote 'heard it got cold up north.' Her brother sent an arrange of ammo. When Rogue had opened that present she had instantly covered it up. Remy had discreetly taken it from her hands and hid it under Rogue's mattress. When the girls asked, she had just told them it was family stuff.
All five girls had wanted to know more but the look Remy sent them over Rogue's shoulder silenced them. From her father and Jean Luc she got a necklace. It was two silver chains. One a choker and the other a long necklace. The chains were connected near the back. So you couldn't separate them Hanging from the choker was a symbol her and Remy recognized well. The Assassins sign on the choker and the Thieves sign hanging on the necklace.
Written in the card was:
'Never forget where you come from.
Don't be a stranger Rogue.
Jean Luc LeBeau.'
And:
'There will always be a place for you in our home.
Come back when you're ready.
You're father.
Marius Boudreaux.'
Rogue didn't read that card out loud but had handed it to Remy. Remy read the card and readily agreed with the Leaders.
"Dey right you know. Everyone was singing you're praises." Rogue blushed and shook her head in denial. "Do you really t'ink it was just Lapin, Emil, Etienne and Theo fille? De whole family be in love with yah!"
When Rogue had blushed Remy had to fight desperately with the urge to tell her how true it was. He handed Rogue another present instead.
When Rogue pulled out Lapin's gift, she swore a bloody death. Remy had snickered and the girls around her, who were all blushing, stuttered.
"Th-they b—buy you things like that?" Amara stuttered, her princess side taking over.
"Oh. My. God!" Tabby said. "You know what? I think that would actually fit you!"
"Scandalous!" Kitty shrieked and dissolved into laughter.
Remy growled and promised to kill his cousin the next time he saw him. With the naughty gift effectively hidden, Rogue looked back into the box and pulled out another note.
'With Remy there, who knows when you'll use it eh?'
The card fell out of her hands and her jaw dropped. Remy paled and moved off of the bed. Making his way to the door. The five girls looked confused at the murderous look on Rogue's face and the nervous horror on Remy's.
"Get out." It was all Remy heard before he left. Cursing himself and his cousin all the way to his room.
Rogue pulled her necklace off and heard the door slam behind her. Headless of the girls in her room, she let the tears fall. When the first one had fallen Kitty had jumped up to comfort her new friend. She didn't know what was going on but she knew the Rogue was in pain. Kitty wrapped her arms around Rogue and soon the rest of the girls were there. They didn't ask, they just hugged Rogue tightly, trying to sooth what ever was wrong with her.
She wanted to yell and scream. Curse and cry. Why he hadn't told her she didn't know. Rogue's body shook with sobs. When the shaking slowed down to an eventual stop the five girls let go of the untouchable.
Rogue stood up stiffly and walked into her and Kitty's bathroom.
Kitty looked at her friends, all of them wounding why her friend's words had such an effect on her. A silent agreement was meet between them all. This didn't leave the room and it wasn't mentioned again. Kitty said good night to her friends and turned on the small lamp before crawling into bed.
Rogue sat against the cool tile and listened as things in her new room quieted. When she was finally sure that Kitty was asleep she slipped out of the bathroom and out of their room.
Rogue looked down the hall at Remy's door and bit her lip. All she had to do was ask. He'd tell her then and let her be pissed. But she didn't want to be mad. Not at him.
Rogue opened his door and was walked into the moonlit room in silence. She crawled into Remy's bed and stared at his seemingly sleeping form.
As she rested her head on Remy's pillow his strong arm wrapped around her waist. "Ah'm sorry." Rogue whispered and Remy sighed.
"Ah'm sorry to cher. Jus' didn't want to put you in danger Rogue. It was stupid, Remy know. But he cared to much to do anyt'ing dat could hurt ye."
But he had hurt her. They both knew it. By trusting someone else with something she had wanted to know for so long.
Rogue looked at Remy and sighed, leaning over to kiss his cheek. Her lips stopped a centimeter from his cheek and she cursed in French. She hated her curse. Despised it. But then Remy did something shocking. He leaned up and kissed her. Headless of her powers. Which by the way? She was still waiting for.
When the shock wore off Rogue was still stunned. Where was the all too familiar pull of her powers? Where were Remy's memories dancing through her head. A second later she was kissing him back. Forgetting about her powers. Forgetting where they were. Who they were. The only thing she was sure of was that she loved him.
The kiss ended all to fast and they both ended up panting. Their eyes met and Rogue blushed crimson. They didn't say anything, but Rogue crawled under his blankets, as confused as he was about why her powers hadn't worked.
She cuddled into his strong arms and fell asleep happy.
OoOTBCOoO
FRENCH – cherie – dear, darling oui – yes fille – girl dieu – god
REVIEWS – Kiwi's Angel - dude, in the theater? Man that kicks. It's so cool to cause problems like that. Me and my friends almost got kicked out when we went to see HP: PoA it was fun.
EmeraldKatsEye - ooooooooooppppppppps I SOOOOOOO didnt realise I put the Big Apple, damn. OOOOOO like you're present idea. After reading all of the iodeas I finally figured it out. Belle dead you asked? sigh unfortinatly we are all stuck with her bitchy self until later on... BAMP? Are you sure? Ok thank you. I didnt know for sure. Have to fix that. As for the Guilds, I'm not gunna tell you that stick tounge out
SickmindedSucker - no no,i didnt say BOY with amber eyes did i? Opps, I ment to leave that a mystery. Ok ok, all you wonderful people have convinced me about the Bella Situation evil grin I HATE HER!
Abril4- Here's an update for you!
GreenFairyGirl88 - Yeah I like the sweetness.
Totally Obsessed47 - I cant belive you did eaitehr, you've reviewed everyone of my chapters from the biggining! Nah, its not a MUCHO cruch on Rems, more like, she can apprieciate a god when she see's one.
Willaj - Yeah, Jamie is SOOO cute and I can totallysee Rogue and Remy taking him in.
Melphis - Buffy is one of my most FAVORITE TV shows EVER!
Roguechere - Cornballish is totally cute though. I love you're idea.
Chica De Los Ojos Cafe - SQUEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLL!!!!!! The guy that likes Rogue? Already coming! Though not anytime TO soon.
Karakin - I LOVE the idea of brining the guys up! And seing as you gave me it you wont mind it used correct? Belle will find out, but not yet.
Enchantedlight - updated for all of you!
Sleepy26 - Is it a date though? hehehehe!
Sweety8587 - OH no! He's terrified of our Cajun Hunk to pull anything on Ro. Rest assured they will just be friends. Your Christmas ideas rock! Though I wont tell you which one I plan to use though wicked smirk
AUTHORS RAMBLES – Well, there you have it. The 'answer' to Rogue's problems. All she has to do if she wants touch is make out with her Swamp Rat. But no, before all you brilliant people ask, that is not her 'control' her powers are still to out of it. I'm not sure how she's going to get control though. One of the hardest parts about writing Rogue even though she is my favorite X-Men(WOMEN). Any ideas on Rogue's control would be MUCHLY appreciated. Ok in the last Chapter I called New Orleans the Big Apple sweet drop opps. Its actually the Big Easy as EmeraldKatsEye pointed out form me. Thanks a LOT! I would never have noticed.
Something i thought to give you all, so I know just how fucking corny it is. This is a sneek peak at a coming chapter though to torcher you, its not comeing soon:
"Whats yer problem wit' meh takin' tah some guy Rems?" Rogue asked rolling her eyes. "Don't get all jealous on meh sugah." Remy continued pacing, obviously not hearing her.
"He take you from Remy. He want to take you. He want to steal de Queen of Hearts from her King, not allowd." Rogue rolled her eyes at the the card anoligy. Remy kept mumbleing but one thing stood out:
"Remy dont let no good fer nutin steal de girl he loves. It wont happen."
"Huh? What? care to repeat dat Rems?" Remy looked up at her startled and a stuttered.
"He no good for yo?"
"no no, de part about love?"
"I love you Rogue."
Well, something close to that anyway.
Luv ya'll
Lady Starlight :D