hi guys sorry it's been so long i've got a load of tests on now and i'm swamped so sorry for the wait!

thankyou to . ... all reviewers!

especially to

lost-on-the-road-to-life for the advice on extra curricular stuff - didn't think of most of them, i'll try to use some of them, definatly art and sport... how does ice hockey sound?

Jade - i thought salude means bastard - sorry for the mix up and thanks for fixing lorna's name for me, i'll fix it eventually just not yet, i may go mad with the amount of trouble i'm havin' from this storey now.

ajax41 - don't worry Logan is not goining to be overly protective of Rogue, but when i re-read it it did sound that way, he's going to be like that with all the girls because i think he's a push over really

i have drafted 2 VERY important chapters later on this story one involving someone being badly hurt, i'll leave you to guess who. (it won't be the first D.R cause i'm not sure how thats gonna go yet apart from gambit showing up Scott in some way! )

Chapter 29

A full explanation.

John and Remy had agreed to pair up in a room, seeing as they had already shared one in Queens and neither wanted to be in the dire position of sharing with one named, Scott Summers. This agreement took place in the conference room, about half a minute after Ororo said they could 'get out.' Wanda and Rogue reached a similar agreement after Jubilee and Tabby started going around asking if anyone wanted to share with them. There was safety in numbers against the two flirtatious unbelievably hyperactive girls, who eventually saw sense and teamed up together. Lorna and Kitty decided to team up, Jean agreed to pair up with Alison as they both discovered they had a similar taste in fashion and music. Amara and Rahne also teamed up. And Tessa managed to secure her own room…next to Jubilee and Tabby, not the best place in the world. Betsy was already sharing a room with Warren; so sleeping arrangements were not needed.

This left eleven boys and eight rooms. Sam and Alex decided to share a room, as they had been good friends since last summer when Alex came to visit Scott, and ended up spending more time with Sam than Scott, who was fawning over Jean, so no one really cared. Ray and Roberto already shared a room because Roberto had 'accidentally' burnt a hole in the wall after Sam attempted to cheat at battleship… sad but true. Kurt and Morph decided to team up yet again, Piotr agreed to share with Scott, leaving Jean-Paul, Bobby and Jamie with the three remaining rooms. Jamie naturally pleaded for the room next to John and Remy's, and because it was empty anyway he got it without much trouble.

However these arrangements were (for the most part) taking place as the students were filing out the room. Remy lingered behind, repeating de sooner I c'n get dis over with de sooner I c'n leave, de sooner I c'n…. In his head. Sighing deeply and looking over to were the four teachers were gathered he sighed again, dis shoul' be fun. Turning slightly and telling John he would catch up Remy took a deep breath and walked over to the Professor. Hmm, 'm n't sure if dis is wors' dan facin' Tante Mattie…non, ce n'est pas cela mauvais. Tante Matties defiantly wors'.

The professor had mentally asked Hank, Ororo and Logan to stay with him, telling them they needed to see a student, Ororo, of course already knew about Remy wanting to talk to the professor so was not surprised, but was slightly curious as to what Remy wanted to talk about. Hank and Logan were completely lost, or as Hank would put it, perplexed.

Scott saw Remy walk towards the teachers, and not surprisingly decided to follow. Remy saw this out the corner of his eye, dis shoul' be intrstin' Scott caught up to Remy and walked slightly ahead of him up to the professor.

"Professor me and Jean were going to go to the mall later on today, do want me to see if any of the new students want to go and get some stuff? I'll take the van and give them a lift."

"That is a very good idea Scott, Jamie asked me before if he could get some new clothes, so did Rogue, through Betsy." Scott looked extremely pleased with himself and tuned to Remy, who raised an eyebrow, and had a slight smirk on his face. Unfortunately for Scott this little victory was short lived, "Remy… I believe you have a car would you mind helping to chaperone, or you can borrow a car out the garage."

At this Remy turned to the professor with a grin on his face, "sure if y' trus' me with a car, dat thing of Tessa's is a coffin on wheels."

"very well, Remy I wish to talk to for a second about Jamie, and his encounter with the FOH. Scott can you ensure that no ones passes out on the floor from fighting for a room please?"

Scott looked from Remy to Xavier. The kid was attacked by FOH and the prof. Didn't tell me, I should be talking to him, I know what it is like, what's Remy got to do with it anyway? He probably wasn't even there when it happened… he is such a… a…

"Scott?"

"Yeah, sorry prof. I'll go check on them, see you LeBeau." He finished with a half snarl.

When Scott closed the door Remy turned to Ororo, "I got de distinct impression dat 'e don' like moi much."

"As usual Remy your powers of observation are outstanding."

"T'ank y', d'ya wanna know abou' Jamie?"

Xavier became serious. "No… I asked Jamie if I could see what happened and he let me, that and Ororo told me last night. Your quite the hero to Jamie now." At this Remy had the good grace to blush faintly.

"Wha' else coul' I do d'ouh? 'e's only a kid, y' can' jus' ignore dat."

Smiling Xavier continued. "Quite right, now take a seat and tell me what it is you wanted to talk about. I assume it is about you're powers correct?"

Doing as instructed Remy sat down, "yeah, I kinda only skimmed dem before."

"Right, do mind Logan, Hank and Ororo being here?"

"Non, y'd probably tell dem anyway, an I'd rather try t' explain m'self." This remark intrigued Hank, and earned some respect from Logan, the kids mature, how old was he? Sixteen? Seventeen in a couple of days? Hmm, still need to see him in the danger room.

Sighing Remy looked at the four of them, "okay, ermmm… firs' of all, 'ave y' tol' dem about ma famille Stormy?"

"no, the professor knows a little but not much. I haven't told them anything other than you are Jean-Luc's son."

Logan cut in, "what's you're family got to do with this?"

"Everythin'… righ'. 'M the adopted son of Jean-luc LeBeau, 'n like I said I have a huge famille, de mos' importan' t'ing is dat 'm secon' in line t' lead the New Orleans t'eives guild, after mon frere. Now…. De guil' is complicated t' say de leas' basically… s' like a faction of a world wide organization of t'eives guild, an' like all t'ings we 'ave an' arch-enemy. De guil' of assasins.. who surprise, surprise kill people… professionally, unfortunatly dey are good, very, very good. An' dey 'ave a worl' wide organization too. Now de t'eive's in de guil' train pour years in t'ieving, fightin', self-defence, plannin' an' preperation of thievin' y' name it we train on it. Dis is were it starts t' involve me…. Because of mon famille i had some of de bes' trainin' de guil' could offer along wit' mon frere and cosins, i coul' pick pockets by de age of six and pick mon pere's pockets at nine, not an easy t'ing ta do. But dat wasn' de only trainin i 'ad, i 'ad 'and on 'and combat trainin', weapons trainin', includin' swords for some strange reason an' gun trainin ', non i didn' bring l'un wit' me so don' worry. De guil' is a very dangerous t'ing ta get involved wit', l'un wrong step an y' coul' cause an all out war between de guilds. Tensions between the assasins in new orleans and de t'ieves 'ave been growin'. Dis is were it really starts t' involve me…. My powers manifested when i was twelve… jus' after m' birthday actually, anyway when de assassins foun' out dey were non to pleased… partly dey manifestid when 't'ree of dem tried t' cornor me an dey ended up limpin' 'ome. Anyway pour de firs' year i couldn' control ma powers very well, an i blew up almos' everythin' i touched, but it was never dat bad, the wors' t'ing i done accidently was about eight months after i got m' powers, i blew up half ma room when i was sleepin'… litrally, mon pere though' de assassins had planted a bomb. No one was 'urt though, i 'ad some sort of sheild aroun' ma self, even though i was asleep… anyway after dat i was determined to control ma powers, an' i did. Until about six or seven months ago… dey started t' get more powerful, like… i dunno, dey jus' suddenly jumped and got more powerful more quickly."

Hank interrupted, "Sorry, but can i ask you one question, before you're powers suddenly 'jumped' and became more powerful, were they constantly increasing in strengh?"

"Erm.. yeah, it was jus' de kinetic energy though it was ma empathy an' ma agility too, mais i've always been able to control dem pretty well, actually, i t'ink i've had my empathy pour a while, 'm not sure. Anyway... when dey got more powerful, mon pere had de brillian' notion of usin' dem in jobs, dis kinda pissed everyone outside the t'ives inner circles off, as well as de assissins who realised de advantages i 'ad over dem... Ororo?" Remy looked over to were the weather witch was sitting, "did y' know about Jean-Luc's and Marius' plans ta unite de guil'?"

"No... there were plans? When?"

"I don' know when de two genius' came up wit' it... de two of dem decided dat de only way to end de fightin' an' unite de guil's was pour moi an' Bella ta get married... stupidest t'ing i've ever 'eard." Remy scowled, remebering the dozens of fights he'd had with Jean-Luc over marring one of his closest friends, sure they were friends, they even dated once, the only problem was that they almost ended up killing eachother after a week, friends they could be, boyfriend and girlfriend most definatly not.

"What? he was... is forcing you to get married to Belladonna! when!" Ororo was completly shocked, thinking how the Jean-Luc she thought she knew could even consider doing that to one of his sons.

"Well... Bella's birthday's in January, we are surpussed to get married on 'er eighteenth, so not dis year but nex', der is very little chance of dat 'appening though. we'd kill eachother by de time we got within a mile of de church." Smiling slightly at the end Remy looked up at his four teachers, all of whom were either standing or sitting with mouths wide open.

"Y' know i can t'ink of a better way ta catch flies." At this remark all four clamped their moths shut, but were still in awe of what they had just heard, and sixteen year old boy, a master thief in a forced betrothel to a fifteen year old professional assissin.

"Is that why you were in Queen's?" Logan asked starting to piece together the magnitude of the person who was sitting infront of them.

"Unfortunatly, non... not de whole reason. I was gonna leave six months before de weddin'. Me an Bella are close, but in no way do we wanna be dat close, so... I had the idea of me goin' away, i'm better at hidin' dan she is an' me goin' away woul' cause less trouble dan her disappearin'. Mais t'ings obvioulsly didn' work out dat way. Bella has a brother, Julian, 'e was pissed that Bella was betrothed ta me, 'e though' that by marrin' Bella off ta a t'ief the 'bloodline' of de leaders of de assassins would be weakend, it was even worse because i wasn' even a 'real LeBeau' cause 'm adopted. Dat an 'e hates ma guts. ayway... I... we got into a fight, an' we both walked away wit' wounded prides, but dat wasn' de prolem, de problem was dat an armistace 'ad been called, so t'eives an' assissins coul' not attack one another... well our fight got us both into trouble, we were called up to a council of elders, a mix of guild leaders from all over, mon pere and Marius were onboard. luckily pour moi, Julian isn't too smart, he attacked me in a place riddled wit' camras, t'ree of which 'ad soun'. Julian was forced ta apologice ta me, an striped of 'is position in de assassins guil'. 'e was pissed at me. So 'e decided ta have some revenge, me an' Theo, one of ma cousins are in de same year, anyway we were in mos' of de same classes. anyway we got detention l'un day, an' on de way 'ome Julian an' is little gang triend to jump us. A dozen against two is a little unfair, but dat wasn' de problem, ma powers 'ad been actin up, I charged a playin' card and sent mos' of dem flyin', I din' expect it ta be so strong... anyway Julian took this as me trin' ta kill dem... 'e pulled out a gun an' started ta shoot."Remy swallowed, and looked down, not wanting to look at any of their faces for the next part. "Theo was stot twice, 'e was really badly 'urt... i didn' know wha' ta do, I was so angry wit' 'im, I 'ad no idea wha' i was doin'... 'Ro d'ya rember wha' I tol' y' about de air glowin'?"

Ororo nodded, but then realised that Remy wasn't looking at her managed a weak "yes."

"I charged de air aroun' me, mais it wasn' like my normal pinkish charges, it was white, a blindin' white. When I let de charge go Julian and the rest of his croonies flew backwards, dey were knocked out, an' badly 'urt... I phoned Tante Mattie, she came wit' mon Pere and frere... Theo was in 'ospital pour two weeks... an it was my fault. Mon pere blamed me pour everythin, de peace between de guilds was broken... So i left... I didn' tell anyone I was goin'. phoned mon Tante an tol' er I was safe, but dats it." Remy finally lifted his head to look at his audience.

"So that is how you ended up in Queens? Remy why didn'y you try to find me? don't say you looked, I know you didn't." Ororo looked upset, her eyes shining, half pleading.

Remy shrugged, "I don't know, I ran into John in New York and Tessa about a week later so... I just stayed with them."

"Do you're family know were you are?" Hank spoke up concern evident.

"No, it's best they don't, de trouble I could bring down here's huge, proffesor, you have to understand, both guilds are extreamly powerful, and dey are both looking for me, i'll understand if you want me to leave, I am endangering everyone here."

"No, stay, the mansion has defences, i'd rather you stay here, were you are safe."

"No offence prof. mais your'e defences are rubbish, a half decent t'eif could get in an out without y' knowin'."

Logan made a half gruff half growling noice and said. "Maybe you can help me improve it then."

Remy smiled, "pas problem."

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