"Hello Rogue." He smiled welcomingly.
"Hi." She replied simply.
"Well, as you know, you haven't recently been on a mission, in a long time actually, and I know how you have been waiting." He continued.
Rogue brightened at this. She had been cooped up in Bayville, in the mansion for so long.
"So I have decided to allow you to go down to New Orleans with a team mate to simply retrieve a artifact for me, not a mission of such, but merely collection."
"Oh, that's okay." She eagerly nodded.
"You can leave tonight?" He questioned.
"Tonahte?" She retorted in shock.
He frowned but then she nodded, she did not want to miss out on yet another mission.
"Great! Gambit will be going with you."
Rogues face dropped. Sure she had been getting along better then ever with him but alone with him?
"Yes, you will be leaving tonight, when Wolverine leaves actually." The professor smirked knowingly.
Rogue understood the sudden need to leave, there was no way Logan would be letting her go anywhere with the Cajun with his knowlage.
"Okay." She stuttered before heading out.
Clasping onto the doorway she turned back around to face the professor.
"Does… Remy know about this?"
"Of course. He seemed to have a bit of trouble sleeping so I told him earlier."
"Rahte. Are yah sure he's up to it?" She questioned.
"Oh yes, Remy has been healing well, he got his stitches out this morning and his freedom to move has been restored. Apparently he had been scratching the stitches which stunted his healing."
Rogue held back a laugh before heading out the door into the kitchen once again.
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Rogue was nervous. Thinking back to the present, to the events where she had touched him. The thoughts sent shivers throughout her.
She had been pushing the thought of the feel of the touch to the back of her mind.
Buttering her bagel she wandered over to the dining room sitting on the far end by herself, turns out no one else was up this early, no doubt Wolvie was but as for the rest of the teen population, they were surely asleep.
Sitting there she picked at her food.
"Ello Cherie!"
The sudden shock of the voice made her almost fall of her chair.
"Gawd Cajun! Don' jump up on meh lahke that!" She growled.
He was smirking. "Remy juss b' getting' y' back Cherie!"
She glared and he chose to sit in the seat right beside her, edging it closer and closer.
Hearing footsteps both the southerners turned around.
"Hi Wolvie!"
"Ello Stormy!"
Both Rogue and Remy looked at each other before laughing.
"Cute nickname." They said in union.
Storm laughed at this, Wolverine on the other hand chose to glare, metal threatening Remy.
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The cold night air wallowed around them as the professor wheeled over to a black Mercedes.
"Why de style Prof?" Asked Gambit.
"You will be playing a part in New Orleans, you will be attending a certain party of such to acquire the item." He smiled reassuringly. "Its just something from a friend."
Rogue and Remy both nodded before fighting over who drove. Eventually Remy won when he stole the keys out of her back pocket.
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"Do not!"
"Do t'!"
"No yah don'!"
"Yes Remy does!"
"Yah do not know where yah are going!"
"Does t'!"
They were currently arguing, a nice little pleasant past time for them.
Remy, although he would never admit it had no idea where they were.
The worry left his features where he saw a sign::New Orleans, 67KM: He smiled before nodding knowingly. Rogue glared and looked out the window at the darkness whilst Remy chuckled.
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Remy smiled, he had been driving for an hour now, Rogue was fast asleep leaning against his shoulder, the essence of vanilla once again filling Remys senses.
Slowly he drove with one hand on the wheel, placing the other arm snuggly around Rogues shoulder, taking a glance in the mirror on the dashboard at her. God she was belle.
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Yet another hour later Remy chose to pull into the motel the Professor had organized, Remy had argued he would be fine doing the trip in one go however, he wasn't one to waste quality. Besides, Rogue was over tired and lying like that, no matter how comfortable he tried to position her with his arm, would possibly hurt her neck.
He chuckled, as she didn't wake. Picking her up in his arms bridal style he smiled down at her, gently pushing her unique white stands off her face with his gloved hands. Her lips so tempting, slowly he traced them with his finger before heading into the reception to collect the key.
Gently he then placed her down in one of the two beds. He then dared to kiss her on her hair. Before walking over to the other one, making sure he did not wake her up, she was still in her clothes, but he didn't have the heart to wake her when she was so peacefully asleep.
He watched her for as long as possible before sleep took him over.
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Okay so I posted this tonight because I was thoroughly PISSED that no ROMY stories were recently posted in the just in today! GAH! So if you have Romy written up, post it! Pass it around! Come on Chers, 20 reviews - I mean, this chapter sends things very forward!