As Time Goes By

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5ish months later

Alkali Base had been destroyed yet there was still no sign of her. Stryker still lived since he flew away at the last minute on a chopper. Mutants were freed, but Gambit felt horrible. Where was Rogue? He had taken upon himself to do some aside espionage work as well but it had been five months without her.

"Still couldn't find anything Gumbo?"

"Not a hint. Wherever she is Stryker aint telling. What about you?" he asked Logan. This had become a habit of theirs. Every Friday night Gambit would come in very late, exhausted. Logan would wait for him and then they would compare information. Needless to say they still weren't getting anywhere.

"I 'talked' to Sabertooth. After a bit more 'conversing' I found out he works for Stryker, but he doesn't know where the girl is. He says he'll tell me if I give him you."

"Then why not give me to 'em?"

"I know Sabertooth. He won't tell us anything."

"How do ya know 'em so well?"

"We're brothers. Can't you tell?"

"An how am I not surprised."

"We'll find 'er kid. Just wait a little."

"A little more huh…"

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Rogue, on the other hand, if she had doubts about being pregnant before she definitely didn't now. Her new 'metal cell' had a bathroom built in with a small kitchen ajointment. Jane checked on her near constantly along with Lora's death threats. Deadpool also seemed to actually like her. Not the 'oh you're so great we're BFF like' but the 'we're agreeable' like.

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One day after checking Rogue's blood pressure Jane waited around instead of going to her office upstairs.

"Janie how is she doing?" Deadpool asked.

"She's the same as always."

"That's good. Now 826 be a good girl while I go out and kill some more of Stryker's men."

Rogue glared at him as he teleported off. She hated when he did that since it reminded her so much of Kurt, and home, and family, and friends …

Coughing to get her attention, "He's not the father."

"Wat ya mean he aint te father?" Rogue asked.

"I couldn't … I refused to let Deadpool win entirely."

"So who is te father than?"

"When you were here you surprisingly befriended your roommate when all my statistics showed that you should had killed or at the very least attacked him. So I had a 'friend' of mine collect the necessary components."

"So Remy's te daddy then. Tats a relief!" 'Or is it' she thought to herself.

"Do not tell Deadpool or I'm afraid that he'll kill us both."

"Why would he wanta kill ya fer?"

"He has forced me to help him eliminate Stryker's men. I have a lot of valuable information on him."

"Then why does he want a baby fer?"

"He wants to raise his child to destroy Stryker. In a way it is like Stryker is being destroyed by his own legacy, his life's work."

"Can't he jus do tat his self?"

"Of course he could. None of us are strong enough to stop him. If he wanted Stryker dead now there is little to nothing that any of us can do about it."

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9ish Months Later

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The baby kicked a lot now. She hated that Deadpool felt the need to always be around her now, touching her stomach with gloves on, and constantly reminding her how her friends still had yet to come for her. Lora kept at her threats just waiting for the baby to be born as she always stayed out of range for Rogue to kill her.

With that in mind Rogue didn't want her child to be a casualty of Lora and hers past. Sighing she decided to do the only thing she could.

"Deadpool …"

"Call me Wade." He told her.

"Wade I thank Lora wants ta kill our baby."

"Why would she want to do that!" he near growled.

"She hates mutants. Her family tried ta kill me when I was younger, but I got away an now she wants revenge or sometin."

"I want let her hurt you."

"But you have to leave all the time. When yer gone she could kill us…"

"Then I'll get rid of her. Simple."

She watched him leave to no doubt kill Lora. Rogue rather deal with her own problems but this was a delicate case. If she tried to touch anyone here Deadpool would just teleport her away before the Professor could track her down, but with the baby and all Rogue refused to risk it. And what if she couldn't even touch her own child? That'd be a nightmare even more so than being stuck here all her life.

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After Delivery

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Rogue held her son in her hands for her first time. She gently touched his cheek. The fact that she could touch her son mad her smile brightly. The baby had a small tuft of Gambit's auburn hair with a stripe of white going through the right side and after it finally stopped crying his green eyes opened to her own set of green eyes.

Outside the room:

"So the kids immune to her, but will it still have her powers Jane?"

"I am sure that he will. But you will have to wait till he reaches puberty."

"Of course." Stryker said rolling his eyes.

"But once he does Stryker you will finally be able to add her mutation to the pool through her son's DNA."

"And once we get his DNA we won't need her anymore. Thank heavens."

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After the birth she had become rather tired. She remembered sleeping with her baby next to her, but as she looked around she did not see him then. She started to panic. What if Deadpool didn't kill Lora? What if Stryker took him?

Heartbeat increased she was about to hop off the bed when the door swung open. Deadpool was holding her son. The sight was almost adorable. He really wanted a kid. Too bad for him.

'Give em ta me?" Rogue pouted.

"No, I want to hold him for a while. We should name him Wade."

"I don't thank so."

"Wade Jr?"

"No!"

"Then what do you want to name him?"

"Jacques (pronounced like Jauq)."

"That's a terrible name."

"But that is what I want ta name 'em."

"Fine … next time I'm naming the baby."

'Did he just say next time?' Rogue thought in horror. She couldn't stay here and now that she had her son she knew that absorbing powers wouldn't hurt him. All she had to do was wait for Wade to go to sleep. He's a mutant. A mutant who can teleport that is …

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After what seemed like eternity he finally went to sleep. Rogue gently took one foot off, then the next. Wade didn't move so she continued to walk closer and if his eyes opened she would just tell him she wanted her son back that he was holding.

As she got close the baby stirred awake. She gently pulled on him which made Deadpool's eyes instantly open. Panic instantly flashed across her face when his eyes closed again. He must had thought all she wanted was the baby.

Rogue grabbed her son, then walked over to the bag of baby supplies Jane had pu therefor her. Packing it all up she smiled at her son before going over to Deadpool.

Apart of her was afraid this wouldn't work, but after a quick inhale she poked him anyway. Her powers obviously hated going through withdraw so her touch took far more than she planned. She saw his eyes open, but he was powerless against her.

Giving him one quick kick in the ribs she took off her dog tags and teleported all the while thinking of home, her friends, Gambit, hot summers, high school, and the wet grass under her feet?

She opened her eyes. She was home? But that was sooo easy. This just had to be a dream (ok I know that was easy but Deadpool never touched her when awake and she didn't want to try and touch him while pregnant because sometimes absorbing powers hurts her and she didn't want to risk hurting her son)

Then she heard foot steps. She turned around and cried at the sight.

Looking from her to the sky, "God, if there is one, I must be dreaming. Why else would I see Rogue just sitting in the front yard?" Logan asked.

"Logan it's me. Stop talkin ta te clouds."

Logan ran to her with tears in his eyes, "We looked for you everywhere Stripes! I've missed you so much and why are you holding a baby?"

"Log story … I want ta see everyone else please."

"You got it kid."

Logan carried her inside to the foyer and pushed a button which would signal a mission had come up. Fully dressed everyone made it down stairs five minutes flat and stopped.

"Anna?" Gambit asked sure he was sleep walking, or the heat from the lights was causing him to hallucinate.

"Hey …" she said shyly. Gambit ran to her to give her a hug when he heard the baby crying and saw its little arms reaching for her. Instant change in facial expressions, "Who te father?"

"You are." She said. Logan was about to kill Gambit, what bad habits die hard, except for the fact that he fell backward and fainted.

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Gambit awoke in the foryer hours later. He knew he had not even touched Rogue in that way. Sure he thought about it … a lot, but dreams cant make a person pregnant the last time he cheked. Sitting up, he was instantly pulled to his feet by Logan.

"Logan put Remy down."

"No."

"Logan …"

"You saw what he did to you."

"Logan it's not his fault that they performed some kind of surgery on me. Our son was NOT conceived in that way."

Logan dropped him instantly and went to wait in the Jacques holding line.

"Like Rogue he is soooo adorable! And he has your eyes." Kitty said holding him.

"Stop jhogging him Kitty! Uncle Kurt is tired of waiting!"

"Yeah, and I want a turn as well!" Jean insisted.

"You heard them half pint, hand him over."

"No fair Logan, I asked first!" Kurt tried to grab the baby but missed. Logan held the kid. He may had his mother's eyes, but he was sure that this kid was going to be trouble.

"Well umm… I'm your Grandfather Logan, just call me Logan." He told the baby. Instead of giggling the kid instantly began to cry and scream reaching for anything that was not Logan.

"Wat ya do to 'em Logan." Gambit glared at her before snatching his son away. Instantly the kid calmed and smiled. That made Gambit happy, but being a dad? Wait till he tells his own father this.

"Wat's his name?" Gambit asked.

"I named 'em Jacques."

"Tat's it?"

"Yep."

"He aint got a last name?"

"I was kinda hoping that he could use yours."

"Fine wit me."

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Ok I know this was a more boring im between chapter, but hey everything has fillers, even the seasoning you use to put on food … so anyway please review; thank you ;)