November 20

"You know something, Jean?" Kitty said as they changed in the locker rooms after another Danger Room session. "I think you might be right about Pyro's story being a social commentary."

"Ha! See?" Jean said smugly.

"Yeah," Kitty said, with a sly glance at Rogue. "I think that Pyro is commenting that he thinks Rogue and Gambit should get together."

"Ugh," Jean groaned.

"He is not," Rogue objected, not wanting to consider the possibility that Pyro might have been thinking of her and Gambit when he wrote Mirabelle and Christophe.

"Oh come onnnnn," Kitty said scornfully. "Christophe is the suave super-spy with magenta powers and uses a staff. While Mirabelle has green powers, is an accomplished hand-to-hand combatant, and dangerous as all get out."

"Any resemblance is superficial," Rogue insisted.

"I'm with Kitty on this one," Tabitha said wickedly. "Pyro totally ships you guys."

Rogue groaned.

"He ships you and writes lemons about you," Tabitha went on. "Yeah, that's right, Pyro ships you so bad he thinks about you doing it."

"Tabby," Jean scolded. "I'm sure you're right, Rogue."

"Thank you Jean."

"Seriously?" Kitty said. "You can see the resemblance between them, right?"

"Lots of writers draw from real life, Kitty," Jean said firmly. "And—"

"Yeah, and Pyro drew from Gambit and Rogue and decided to write filthy sex scenes about them," Kitty cut in with a giggle.

"Lots of sex scenes," Tabitha said delightedly. "There's what, three of them now?"

"Sounds about right."

"Ugh, I'm not Mirabelle," Rogue insisted. "And Christophe isn't Remy."

She had absolutely no intention whatsoever of admitting she had particularly enjoyed the scenes precisely because she could easily slip herself and Gambit into Mirabelle and Christophe's places.

"Oooh Remy is it?" Jubilee teased. "Someone's one a first name basis with a member of the Brotherhood, huh?"

"Hey, maybe Pyro has good reason to ship Rogue and Gambit," Kitty suggested. "He's saying; come on you two, you know you're hot for each other."

"Better be careful, Rogue," Tabitha said with a wicked gleam in her eye. "I hear his dick is so huge your hand can't even fit all the way around it."