"Kurt teleport me closer!"
"Rogue, be careful!" Remy called out as he begun flinging his exploding cards at Master Mold.
Kurt and I held hands as we teleported to avoid Master Mold's deadly lasers. I finally got close enough for Master Mold to look me in the eyes where I was judged...
"AHH!" I woke up clenching at my chest as if that would help me breathe.
John came into the living room with a tray of cookies that he immediately set down as he came to my aide, "Rogue? Whats wrong?"
"Nothing... I just nodded off for a bit and had a nightmare..." Not a nightmare really more like replaying the same moments over and over in my head.
"I left for the kitchen only ten minutes ago and you fell alseep?" He raised me into a sitting position on the couch. "You need to go upstairs and go to bed. Stop reading these hieroglyphics. You have read enough for today, for a lifetime!"
I rubbed my eyes. "No, I need to finish this book. I'm leaving for Egypt tomorrow and I still have three more that I need-"
"Rogue, you have been studying all month! You know all this stuff. I'm glad you're passionate about something, but now you are just getting obsessed."
"I am not obsessed."
"You are obsessed." He kissed my neck. It felt so soothing.
"Mmm..." I kissed John on the lips with wanting.
"I thought you were tired," He breathed.
"I'm not that tired." I straddled him on the couch and we began a full on makeout session until a certain Cajun inturrupted us.
"Eh hmm," Remy coughed to get our attention.
"What do you want?" I barked. When Remy said he was never going to leave my side again he really meant it. Its becoming nearly stalker like and yet its truely hilarious.
"Just wanted to say goodnight. I will be seeing you tomorrow mornin' for our flight."
"You're going to Egypt with Rogue and Beast?" John clarified.
"Yup. Don't worry Pyro. I will bring her back to you before Christmas."
I'm sick of this. "Remy this is getting ridiculous. You can't just-"
"For your information petite, I was invited. You didn't think I was going because of you, did you?" He playfully questioned.
I was skeptical, "Invited? By who?"
"By Beast."
"For what purpose?"
"Body guard."
"Hah! You gotta be kidding me."
"Hey der is goin' to be alot of booby traps down dere in that pyramid. He probably wants me to lead de way an' be a shield."
"What a great purpose for you," John remarked.
"Yeah so Rogue here will have to stay extra close to me so I can protect her."
"Remy, just leave."
"Yeah yeah... I'm going. Bonne nuit," he said with a smirk.
I was going to keep kissing John, but Remy ruined his mood. "He is going to Egypt with you."
"John... don't-"
"I don't like it."
"Its not like you can't come. Why don't you join us? December is the perfect time to go to Egypt. The weather is nice. Come with me."
"No, I'm going to Australia remember? Which you could come to-"
"John, I'm sorry! I agreed to join Beast a long time before you even thought of me coming with you to Australia."
"Yeah, I know..."
"We can go there for New Years?"
"Yeah, maybe."
"John..."
"I love you, Rogue."
"I love you too, John."
...
"Why aren't we taking the X-jet?"
"Its under repairs," Remy stated.
"I'm sure. How convienent."
"Rogue, It doesn't matter anyway. As the new head of relations for HMCP I get my own private jet. Might as well make use of it," Hank explained. HMCP or the Human Mutant Coexistance Program was enacted world wide after the Sentinal attack, an attempt at trying to work together and make this world big enough for the both of us to exist. By fighting off the Sentinals the X-men were cleared of all accusations or possible wrong doings. It helped legislation go through to create the HCMP. But to me its all just words on paper. It doesn't really do anything. Humans still live in fear of us. The Morlocks are still hiding in the sewers. The HMCP doesn't do shit if you ask me. Leech is down there in isolation and so is Evan... Evan was helping John in the city to subdue the Sentinals when his mutantion magnified into the next level of his evolution. The bones covered his chest like a shield and his head like a helmet. They didn't go away and they probably never will. The world may have accepted that they can't get rid of mutants but they sure can keep their prejudice. Evan can't walk the streets looking like how he does. People fear him or bully him on a daily basis. He tried to make light of his situation by joking that it was because he was black, but he couldn't keep up the facade. He dropped out of school a month ago and began living with the Morlocks.
"Yeah, the HMCP..."
Remy placed a hand on my shoulder taking my away from my daze. "Rogue, are you okay?" Its crazy how Remy can be an arrogant jerk one second and then a sensitive caring man the next.
"I'm fine. Where do I sit?"
"Right next to me cherie."
"Joy," I saide as I rolled my eyes.
"Hey, be nice. This is goin' to be a long flight."
"Once again: joy."
...
"You know you're resting your head on my shoulder," Remy pointed out half way through our African flight.
"Oh shut up." I was an hour into studying more hieroglyphics when I fell asleep. Its not that they are boring. Its quite the opposite, but I didn't get any sleep last night. I raised my head away from Remy.
"I don't mind it there. I was just lettin' you know chere," He grinned.
"Hmph."
...
"So this is going to be our home base for the next week. I'm giving you both a map. Now the shaded areas are undiscovered territory are not to be taken lightly. Many of the reasons they are undiscovered is because the booby traps that await every corner, every turn. of One of our objectives is to map out the entire pyramid skematic, but for now we are going to start deciphering these hieroglyphics.
"Alright, see you later," Remy blatantly stated.
"What do you mean see you later!" I asked.
"I'm going to start mapping out this dangerous, undiscovered territory."
"Alone? Didn't you just hear Beast? He SAID that we are going to-"
"I heard him. An' I know what I am doing here. Don't be so worried about me cherie. You're job is deciphering those ancient writings and my job is to do what I am best at: avoiding traps."
"Remy-"
"I'm flattered dat you feel so worried for me."
"Oh shut up! Go fall in a pit of spikes for all I care."
...
I spent hours translating the messages on the inside of the pyramid walls. These hieroglyphics are amazing. Surreal. Its so crazy to think that these are hundreds of years old. Someone was here with a story to tell an-
"Hey chere."
"AhH! Jeez what the heck! Remy! You scared me!"
"Sorry."
"You're not sorry."
"Nope."
"Figures."
"So what does dis wall say?"
"... It tells of a story."
"What story?"
"About a couple who I assume are buried here." I grabbed my camera and continued to capture the writings of the wall.
"Well, tell me about it."
"You wouldn't want to hear it."
"Why not?"
"Its too romantic."
"Remy does romance. With the right girl."
"Remy-"
"Just tell me the story Ro."
"Fine," I huffed. "Well there was this man who loved a woman. But then an evil spirit created a war and had the man become a soldier in the war. The evil spirit kept the throne from the man, a prince I guess if that is the right word, who was the rightful heir. The man, unaware, obeyed the evil spirt. The war lasted long and the woman thought her man was dead. So she fell in love with someone else. Then the man came back and tried to have the woman fall in love with him again but the evil spirit, who was also like the king of the land, fought the man. The man won and took over his throne, but his woman died. So he built this pyramid for her and when he died they were buried somewhere in here... together."
"You got all that from a bunch of pictures?"
"Yes. Look at the pictures. I mean really look at them. The blood and the hands in this one," I pointed to the wall, "is the war and look the woman is sleeping in this one which means death."
"Kinda seems like us."
"Huh?"
"The people in the story... dey sound like us."
"What are you talking about?"
"De man is me. The evil spirit dat kept me away from you is Sinister."
"Well... you are hardly a king."
"No but I am a prince."
"Yeah a Prince of Thieves! Thats not very honorable."
"Now, now-"
"And what? I'm going to die?"
"No, I'm just saying its weirdly coincidental no?"
"No."
"Well, would you want to see where they are buried?"
"This place is a labyrinth. I doubt we could find-"
"I found it."
"How?"
"Explorin' the tunnels, I found it."
"How do you know its them?"
"Just come on... and DON'T touch anything."
I tried to look at my map for guidance but once we were in the shaded, uncharted area, I was blind. I was helplessly following Remy as he advised not to walk on the left side at some points and then later, around a corner, to duck. We reached a large high ceiling room with two large gold caskets centered in the middle. The room shimmered with gold. Gold pots, gold lace sheets strewn about the room...
"Of course the Prince of Thieves finds a gold stash. Remy you better not have stolen anything."
"I didn't! How can you even accuse me-"
"Oh shush."
He smiled. I smiled. Urghhh... "But I did manage to grab this off of her." He hung a stunning gold chain necklace with emerald jewels. "Its pretty no? You should have it."
"No! Put it back!"
"What its not like she is going to use it..."
"Remy give the poor woman back her necklace! You have defiled her grave site!"
"Yeah, yeah. Jeez you are no fun."
"And you are a thief."
"I show you dis AMAZING room an' you don't even care?"
"I care. Its beautiful and amazing and breath takingly historical. Now put the necklace back."
"Fine, fine."
"And take me back to my wall," I ordered.
"Okay, okay."
As we were walking back I glanced at a curious carving of a beetle like creature on the wall. As I brushed my fingers against the wall, the floor fell underneath me plumetting me into a dark pit. Just my luck.
"Rogue! Are you okay?" Remy called out.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I may have sprained my ankle, but I'm fine."
"What a delicate lil fleur..."
"Just get me out of here!"
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH ANYT'ING! An' what do you do? You touch somet'in."
"Remy! Stop playing these games with me and get me out of here!"
"Hah... Yeah, yeah... okay." Remy whipped out some rock climbing equipment and slid down a rope to reach me. He threw a flare in the obscure cavern illuminating a large metal diamond shaped object.
"What the hell is that?" I walked toward the object, as if in a trance.
"Rogue! I just told you not to touch anything!"
His warnings came to late. I touched the object and a glowing light appeared. It opened revealing a mummified corpse. "Woah." I looked at the mummy whose chest seemed to rise in an inhale.
"What?"
"I thought it breathed for a second."
"You're going crazy fille..." We walked around the room, exploring the markings and luxury items surrounding him. "So who do you think this guy is?"
"I don't know... it have to take a lot of research-"
"Woah..."
"What?"
"Dis symbol... I have seen it somewhere?"
"This one here?" It was a beetle like drawing carved into what appeared to be a door into the room or an entry way into another room. I pushed on it, but it didn't budge.
"It kind of reminds me of de markings on Mesmero's face."
"Thats... creepy."
"Yeah. It is."
"Remy, lets get outta here. I'm getting the creeps."
"I agree, chere."
xxx
It was Christmas Day and I was heading down to the Morlock's lair like every year to deliver food and clothes. I went over board with buying Leech some extra gifts. I came into some money after a few modeling jobs so I had enought to buy him some books to keep up with his studies and some junk food (including his fave Pop tarts)... and tons of new clothes... and hmm what else do I have in here...? Well, anyway I was also so excited to see Evan I didn't even mind that Remy tagged along but I was not happy when Rahne decided to join just to create drama. Evan and Rahne's relationship had been going downhill ever since he moved down here, which is understandable but just get it over with yah know?
Remy and I just finished handing out gifts when the yelling started down the hall between Rahne and Evan.
"I don't understand you! I mean I get it, I do. I'm a DOG Evan! You don't think thats hard for me-"
"The Morlocks need me down here, Rahne. They are struggling for life and its not fair. I am not going to live upstairs pretending like this isn't going on. They need me down here."
"I need you."
"You will be fine without me."
"Evan-"
"Rahne just stop. Its over okay."
"AH!"
Rahne stormed off as I stood in my awkward position at the entry, "That was um..."
"A relief."
"I guess..."
"She just doesn't understand. She is too immature."
"Evan, you kinda grew up really fast within a few months. Of course she wouldn't be used to it. She is completely blind sided."
"I am blind sided too. Look at the world-"
"Exactly. The world. A few months ago all you care about was the next skating competition and now-"
"What you think that its wrong?"
"No! Its just a huge change. One day you just totally changed and that can't be easy for Rahne."
"I don't want to talk about this anymore. Why don't we talk about your love life?"
"I am happy with John."
"Yeah, but you are spending all your time with Remy."
"That isn't by choice!"
"You let him." Urgh! I hate how Evan feels so comfortable around me to be so incredibly blunt with his thoughts.
"I... I know I do, but he is so annoying! Most of the time he just pops up and-"
"Mhm...
"OH SHUT UP! You think you're such hot shit huh? You know everything..." I rolled my eyes.
"Hah, nah not everything. But I do know that you and Remy have a lot of unfinished business-"
"Rogue! I want to go home!" Rahne said as she stomped back in the room.
"Then go home?"
"Its late! I don't want to walk by myself."
She can phase into a rabid animal and "Ask Gambit to go with you."
"He left!"
"What do you mean he left?"
"He said he had something to do with the Professor and just left!"
"Thats weird..."
"You're going to go find out whats wrong with Remy," Evan stated.
"Well..." Damn it... "Yeah."
...
I was about to knock on the door of the Professor's office when Remy exploded out of the room... was he crying? What the hell happened?
"Remy... whats wrong?"
"Not'in. Rogue you were right. I should just leave you alone. I am goin' back to New Orleans."
"Why..." Remy has been flirting with me for weeks and now he does a total 180? Do I want him flirting with me? Maybe he should go back to New Orleans...
"I just can't do dis anymore!"
"Do what? Remy... what happened in there?"
"I'm not good for you Rogue. I mean... I always knew dat, but I just... I'm the thievin' swamp rat right? I... I shouldn't be wit you."
"Remy, what happened?"
"Tell me dere is a reason to stay?"
"Remy..."
"You don't even love me anymore Rogue. I mean, do you? Here I will make it easier for you to answer... The Morlock Massacre? Dat was me."
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So pretty longish chap eh? A lot happened... tell me what you think!