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In Through the Never, Out through the Pain.

"Wake up." A cajun voice, normally as smooth as fine silk carressing over warm skin

says in a disgusted manour to his captive. "Did you tin'k dis was over? Dat jus because

you ain't seen me in awhile dat I jus up an' forgot?"


"Wah!" The Mississsippian man drawled as he came into a world of pain from his isolated

and strangly bliss slumber. "Where's Marie! What have yuh done ta her?!" He asked struggling against

the binds that held him.


"Nothing. Nothing like Ah'm gonna do to you!" Gambit, the angered cajun standing before Cody, the innocent pawn

growled. Gambit's eyes told the tale of an angered man who felt betrayed. An angered man who felt alone. An angered man

who has no one to blame, save himself.


"Ya crazy swamp rat!" Cody asked. "What did Ah ever do ta ya? Isn't everybody askin ya that?!"


"You took her!" Gambit screamed.


"You let her go." Cody said as a boot caught him square in his jaw. "It's your mistake." Cody said between spitting out

a tooth and a mouthfull of blood.


These two men are different as night and day, to quote the old cliche. Gambit, is just over six feet tall,

Dark auburn hair, glowing red eyes and debonare. His temper and prowless are all male,So male, he could

easly have any woman he ever wanted, save one. He is a theif, a user and a backhanded man; but,

he is honestly so. When you mess with Remy, you know what you're getting, thanks to his charm, you don't care.

Many women have been taken is, and outwardly curse his name, secretly, in the dark chambers of their

collective fantasies, they would have him use them again. He treated women as objects, preyed off them,

like with Rogue. He loved her, left her, loved her and left her again and it all seemed to

coenside with paychecks.


Cody, Cody is different. Blond hair, blueish green eyes and an even temper. His handsomness comes not from his face, but the

very shy air he carries with him. His wife's needs come first and always had, even when they played together as children all that

time ago. He is tall and very thin. Cody loves to eat, loves to see Marie happy, loves every second with her. He is thrilled to

wake up every morning to see his child grow within her. He loves to write her poetry and make her breakfast. You wouldn't

really notice Cody right off, but his quiet nature and big grin is bound to draw you in at some point. He tells jokes and works hard

just to see Marie smile. He needs her because she lights his life and reflects all that he loves, all he prayed for, all he gived thanks for.


"Who are you to constantly remind me of that?" Remy asked an inch from Cody's face. "If you

hadn't come back along, I'da had her back!"


"She didn't love you anymore after you told her goodby!" Cody stated. "You wouldn't have had her back anyway!"


"Why didn't you just go away?" Remy asked as he turned away to choke back tears.


"Why did you think you could sleep with her and she'd take you back?" Cody asked through another gulp of blood.

"I saw that, when I pretended to leave that night. You tried to kiss her, she wouldn't let you." He said as he breathed a heavy

breath. "I had to make sure she was safe. You never loved her. Marie deserved better than your pity."


"Do you ever shut up?" Remy asked as he swung a blow across Cody's midsection. "How di I know Sinister didn't create you as

part of his master plan? Are you here to hurt her?"


"He didn't create me, he just used the cells from my old body to make a place to

house muh mind. An abandoned experiment." Cody grimaced as stomache acid drooled down his chin.

"Ah'm still the Cody Rogue knew when she was little. She gave me muh first kiss."


"THose kisses used to be mine." Remy said as he sat next to Cody.


"Only because she believed you when you said you loved her." Cody said as he hoped Gambit was

repenting and instead was rewarded by a warm tingle on his rope bound wrists. "Wha! What are you doing?!"

he asked the crouching man.


"I'm killing you." Gambit said. "These ropes should blow by the time I get out. Goodby."


"Wha! Wait! Ah thought Ah was getting through to you! Don't you hurt her!" Cody strained as the warm turned into burn.


"Don't tell me what I can't do with her. You're gone, she's mine again. No hard feelings." Gambit said as he left.

"Nooooo!" Cody yelled as something hit his head making him pass out as the ropes blew, the

building blew and for a moment, everything was held in nothing.

"Marie!" Cody screamed as he awoke to Beast's blue face staring at him and Jean cleaning his wounds.

"Where am Ah!?" Cody asked confused. "Ah thought foa sure Ah was dead!"

"You almost did." Jean said. "We had Wolverine follow Gambit's trail to find you."

"Could you let me look at the concussion?" Beast asked with prodding hands.

"Sorry about that." Logan, who had been standing nearby said. "Couldn'ta gotten ya outta there with you kicking

like that."

"Where is Marie?!" Cody asked franticly. "Is she alright?"

"She's fine."Beast said. "Chin up. You need stiches for that."

"Cody, what happened there?" Jean asked.

"Too much. He still misses her." Cody shook his head.

"Ahaha!" Beast exclaimed. "The stiches!"

"Marie was attacked in a very similar mannour to you, can you tell us what he means

to do?" Jean asked concerned.

"Was she hurt at all?" Cody begged for information.


"All she said was Gambit kept saying the child should be his." Wolvering butted in.


"He said that she should be his." Cody replied confused. "Then he tried to kill me, that's when you showed up."


" He knew ya wasn't gonna die kid." Wolverine said as he leaned against the wall, with his charictuistic

cigar propped between his teeth. "He knew I was there."


"Why didn't you stop him?"Cody thew as he struggled a but more.


"I knew ya could handle yerself kid, but I had to hear fer m'self how bad Remy has got." Logan said as he begain to turn to his

wife whom apparantly had been talking to him. "What'd ya say, Darlin?"


"How can you be so deaf with hearing like yours?" She aked annoyed as she put the final roll of gauze on Cody's wrist.

"I said don't smoke that in here."


"First, Lil' lady, it ain't lit and second off, as you wish." Logan said.


"Jean," Cody asked. "Ah had heard that you had been married before, how would you handle him

coming back?" He said pleading. "Ah need some help on how to do this!"


"My husband died a long time ago, Cody." Jean said trying to smile.


"But he came back for a small time, Ah saw that when Ah was in Sinister's holding tank. Tell me?" He begged.


"That is a conversaton for later, right now, you have somebody very worried for you." Beast pitched in as he interupted.


"Cody! Oh thank God you're alive!" Rogue said as she ran to him.


"You get more beautiful each day." Cody said as he kissed his wife. "What do ya say Doc, can I go home?"


"Get outta here, you crazy kids." Beast said as he washed his hands. "Jean, you

look a little off, please stay behind for a few minutes.


"Gee, thanks Mr. McCoy!" Cody said goofily as he and Rogue left to talk about what to do, the baby and

a thousand things lovers only understand.


"He seems to remember more than he thinks about Sinister, Jean." Beast said with concern welling in his deep blue eyes.


"This is the first time he's ever asked about Scott, What do I say?" Jean asked.


"The truth." Beast put bluntly.


"I.. I can't. Beast, you saw what happened." Jean said.


"Yes. and it's exactly what's going on with Remy." Beast said.


"Hank, you're rght, you are, But we can still reason with Remy. We couldn't

with Scott." Jean looked away. "You remember how he changed, he always accused me

after he came back of sleeping around on him."


"And we know you didn't." Beast said.


"You remember what he did when his mind wandered to far away?" Jean said.


"How could I not, I had the call to get you. He didn't beleive the child you carried was his." Beast started.


"And I still bear the scar." Jean said as her well muscled belly betrayed one long, ragged pink line.

"No one, save You, me, Logan and the Professor know what happened. Is Remy capable of doing the same?"


"No, I don't think so, not just yet, Jean, can you find him, reason with him?" Beast asked. "You always could calm him down."


"Yes, if no one follows. Remy is a one on one person, anyone else and he'll run." Jean asked.


"Of course." Beast replied as the two watched Cody and Marie went ove each other lovingly with a kiss on each bruise

and in the shadows, where Logan sits quietly, where his sensitive ears picked up the conversation held by his wife,

and her eldest friend, sits and remembers that horrible time just shy of three years ago. How close these two love birds

before him are so close to what he suffered and he can't really do a thing to help them. Should they know,

and be frightend of what might be? Or should they live in bliss not knowing all that looms outside the door?

He looks back over to the room that holds his wife and remembers all that might have been, and all that so nearly wasn't.

End.