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Rogue struggled out of the hazy blackness. At first, she couldn't remember what was going on. She sat up and opened her eyes. Someone (probably Logan) had moved her from the Danger Room to her bedroom. When she saw that the whole team, including the Professor, was gathered around her bed, she was embarrassed.

Then, she saw Nikki and a torrent of other emotions hit her.

"Thank God you're awake," Jean said, "We were worried. Hank told us you needed to wake up naturally and we didn't know how long it would take."

"When someone has passed out from shock," Hank said, "Their bodies need time to adjust, unless it would endanger their health. Since you were breathing and your heart was beating, I thought you could use the rest. Drink this," he held out a cup of orange juice, "It will help."

Rogue waved it away, "Where is he, Nikki?"

The whole room went silent.

Jean spoke, "Rogue, she can't be Remy's daughter. She's only 17. Remy's been dead for 20 years. The timing isn't right."

"Don't you understand?" Rogue asked, "This means he's alive! That Swamp Rat has been alive all this time and he never came back to me!"

"Rogue," Jean began gently.

Logan cut here off, "Dammit Rogue, don't do this to yourself! Don't give yourself a nervous breakdown. Don't do this to us!"

"Where is he, Nikki?" Rogue repeated.

Nicoletta opened her mouth, but everyone started talking over her.

"She can't tell you where he is, honey. He's dead."

"Beast, can't you give her something?"

"To do what? You can't give someone something to make them reasonable. She's suffered from a shock. Give her time, man!"

"Dammit, Rogue! I though we were making progress. I'm tired of fighting away a ghost just to be with you!"

"Don't shout at her! She's suffered a shock! She's just a little confused right now!"

"Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He went back to his home when he came back from Antarctica."

Everyone's head turned to Nikki.

"That's why I couldn't talk about my parents," Nikki continued, "He couldn't come back and he didn't want to hurt you, so he just... played dead."

Rogue burst into tears, "I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!"

Jean and Jubilee tried to calm her down. Scott was completely at a loss. Beast kept opening his mouth, but no words came out. Logan just turned away.

Rogue turned to the Professor, "You knew! Why didn't you tell us? Tell me?"

"It wouldn't have done any good," The Professor said, "Gambit wished to remain unfound. You all had gotten on with your lives. Look at how it's upset you."

"I would've been happy if I would've known earlier," Rouge cried, "But now, I just hurt!"

Nikki started to get up. Wolverine pushed back down into the chair hard enough to slam her head into the wall, "Seems to me that you have another story to tell us."

"I guess I have to," she said. Everyone looked at her, "Where should I start?"

"Why didn't he come back?" Rogue asked.

"He couldn't," Nikki said, "When he realized that he wasn't going to die out there, he realized he had taken the cowardly way out and had forced you all to do the same. His honor wouldn't allow him to go back. It's not the way of the thieves."

"His damn Guild of Thieves honor and pride!" Rouge said.

Nikki glared at her, "What would you know about them?"

"I can recite them!" Rogue yelled, "You never take the cowardly way out. Always pay your dues. And the most important one, never abandon your allies, just incase they pick your pocket in return. He broke one of the more petty rules and to try to make up for it, he broke the most important one! He abandoned us, me!"

"All right," Wolverine said, "We all know the Cajun is a jackass. So he went back to his hometown. Then what happened?"

"One of his friends showed up on his doorstep. She heard that he was alive and came looking for him. They got married 2 months later. Then, I was born," Nikki said.

"And?" Logan said.

"And what?" Nikki yelled, "My parents got divorced and it's all your fault!" She yelled and pointed at Rogue.

"How is it my fault?" Rogue asked, "I didn't even know he was alive! What could I have done?"

"The picture of you in my house, the one that I used to recognize you," Nikki said, "Has been on my father's bedside table since before my mother found him. He never took it off after the wedding. It stayed there. Mother got sick and tired of always having to compete with your memory for his love. She told him that he had to put the picture away. He told her no and she left. I haven't seen her since!" Nikki burst into tears, "It rained for 3 months. Do you know how upset she was?"

While Jean comforted Nikki, Rogue was focusing on the last few words out of Nikki's mouth, "You said it rained for 3 months after your mother left?"

Logan turned at met Rogue's eyes in shock. He knew what she was thinking.

"That would explain her hair," Rogue thought out loud, "White and red make pink and strawberry blonde is about as close as that will get."

Now everyone was staring at Rogue.

"How do you know what color my mother's hair was?" Nikki asked her.

Everyone looked at Nikki.

"Nikki," Jean said, "What was your mother's name? What were her powers?"

Nikki looked at them and said, "Most kids inherit one of their parents powers. I didn't. Daddy had plasmolisis and Mother could control the Weather. Daddy used to call her his weather witch. Her name was--"

"Ororo Munroe," Rogue whispered, "Storm!" She burst into tears all over again.

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Hey, guys! There it was! The truth is out! Storm somehow knew Remy was alive and instead of telling everyone and easing the pain, she ran off and married him and inadvertently gave Rogue another nervous breakdown! Keep reading!