My soul for Your Kiss- Part 1

By Kenne Morrison

Disclaimer:The following story contains characters that belong solely to Marvel Comics.The events that occur herein, however, are completely made up by the author and do not reflect in any way things that have occurred in the actual comics.This story is for entertainment purposes only, NOT FOR PROFIT.

Gambit clenched his teeth and squeezed his fist open then shut in an effort to calm himself and still be prepared in case Bobby got up. What has gotten into you, Gambit thought as he stood over a now unconscious Iceman.

Ten minutes ago he, Iceman and beast had stood outside the gate to the complex where their teammates, Rogue and Storm were being held. They were trying to decide how to get into the complex without attracting attention or setting off any alarms. Beast had been commenting on the complexities of the mechanics that enabled the complex's security system when Iceman had started the fight.

Just disable the security system, Hank. I can get in there and out of there easier and less noticeably if you and Bobby stayed out here. Gambit had remarked meaning that with his thief skills, he stood the best chance of sneaking into the complex, locating their teammates and getting out of there without starting trouble.

You think you're such a bigshot don't you, Gambit. Snarled Iceman.

'Scuse me?

You expect us to just stand out here and watch you go in all high and mighty and let you play the big hero, but I'm not going to stand here and let you do that. I am sick and tired of yout bullshit, and I think its time you get your ass whipped and knock that goddamn chip off your shoulder. Before Beast or Gambit could react, Iceman had tackled Gambit and was hitting him over and over in the face.

Beast bound in after them, but Iceman completely encased him in ice so thick that not even Beast, with all his strength could break out.

Gambit could feel Iceman's hand reaching for his mouth. He's going to freeze me from the inside out, Gambit realized in a panic. That was when Gambit had reached for his Bo Stick and charged it with kinetic energy. He let the energy build up within him until it seemed like the stick was humming from the amount of energy it held, then Gambit released the energy through the stick and watched as it slammed Iceman into the ground five feet away.

With Iceman unconscious, Gambit turned his attention to his other teamate encased, entombed, in a block of Ice. "Forgive me, Hank. But dis is de only way," Gambit apologized as Gambit charged the very ice itself converting it into energy.

Beast howled in intense agony at the heat that surrounded him, but soon he was free. Gambit barely reached his companion before he collapsed to the ground. Carrying the Blue furred hero in his arms, Gambit raced back to the blackbird merely twenty feet away. While Beast warmed up in the warm environment the blackbird provided, Gambit rushed outside to see if Iceman was conscious preparing himself for another fight if it proved necessary.

As soon as Gambit saw that iceman was still unconscious, he began to breathe and try to sort through what had happened. He could not imagine what could have upset Bobby so much. Unless.....Of course, Bobby harbored feelings for Rogue, an unbridled passion that threatened to consume him. How could everyone be so blind? Well, Remy thought, if he is who Rogue chooses, I will not stand in the way.

Back at the blackbird, Beast had recovered from his icy freeze and was going over some schematics that he had managed to download regarding the building where his friends were being held. When Gambit returned, Hank could see that Bobby would not be any good for the mission and so Bobby was strapped to the Blackbird's bio bed. For his own safety.

"If we take this path right here," Beast explained to Gambit, "we can avoid the majority of the complex's internal scanners. In essence become virtually unnoticeble to the vast majority of scrutinizing eyes that surround this cavernous complex."

Gambit tried to follow what Beast was saying but all he knew was that they could get in and get out without being seen. That was all he needed to know.


Rogue was straining with all her might to break loose from the shackles that held her fast, but it was proving to be an impossible task. It had been several hours since she saw Storm murdered before her eyes. Ah must focus on getting out of here, can't let mah mind think about 'ro. Rogue exorted herself. There would be plenty of times ta mourn, she lamented in memory of the horrible scream that emitted from her teamate. Ah may hate her right now, but that ain't no way ta go.

Just then a panel to the left of Rogue's ear opened and a long sharp device began to push intself through the skin in her neck, Rogue experienced excrutiating pain not knowing if the device at her neck was extracting or injecting something. Suddenly her blood felt like it was on fire and her skin began to bulge as horrible things started happening in her body. Rogue tried to keep from screaming. She was loathe to give her kidnapper the pleasure of seeing her in agony, but the pain was too great and so a moment before she collapsed into unconsciousness, she screamed unlike she had ever known she could scream.


Storm was still locked in her shackles and felt as if her very heart was tearing from her chest. Whoever their captor was, he exhibited a terrible cruel streak when he murdered her companion, her friend, her sister right before her eyes. She'll never forget the look of agony as the flesh melted away from Rogue's body. Storm could no longer see ten inches in front of her for the tears that were streaming down her face were welling up in her eyes so thick they became a cloudy shield around them. I hope whoever is up there pays for this. I may not get out alive, but I hope to the bright lady that the butchers pay dearly for the pain they have inflicted this day.

Rogue's death pained her greatly that she felt that her own death would be some relief if it weren't for she was not the only person that was depending on her survival. I must survive, too many lives depend on me.

Before she could realize what was happening a giant rush of air came over her face, drying up the tears in her eyes. Her captors wanted her to see what came next. Giant tubes came out from each side of her and tiny little whip-like cords begin to tighten around every inch of her. The cords were designed to constrict so tightly to cut into skin before releasing her letting her feel the sting of the air burning into the cuts.

Oh, blessed goddess, storm prayed, let me get out of this alive. I swear I'll tell Gambit about everything and I will beg him to take his place beside me. Blessed Goddess, grant your servant one more chance and I will make the life that I should never have denied myself from the moment I realized how I felt for Gambit. And how he felt for me.


Beast was proving to be correct in his assumption that the path they followed provided sufficient cover, they were nearing the center of the complex, the place where the two women were being held. "Wait, Gambit, my computer reads lifesigns, but they are very weak. They are also in two different locations. We should proceed to the closest location, and as soon as it has been investigated, we'll proceed to the second.

Gambit clenched his teeth in frustration. This mission was proving to be very tiring on him and he just wanted to see Rogue and Storm safe so they could go home. "After you, Mon Ami, I'll watch your back."

Beast looked back at his companion and noticed that his red eyes seemed to glow brighter when he was agitated. "Beyond this door, I can't tell which but one of our companions is right there" Beast was about to say 'let's proceed with caution' when Gambit charged one of his tradmarked playing cards and blew the door off its hinges. The sight that confronted them when the smoke cleared, sent chills down both men's spines. Storm lay there limp, hung from schackles with hundreds of tiny cuts running up and down her body.

Without thought Gambit raced over to Storm and by energizing the locks, he was able to lift her body out of the shackles placing a very limp Storm to the floor. "Stormy, Stormy, wake up. Please wake up" pleaded the cajun to his unmoving package.

Then Storm's body started shaking with a cough and Storm lifted her eyes barely. Just enough to see him. "Rem, is that you?"*cough*

"Hush, Stormy, its alright, we'll get you and Rogue out of here just fine."Remy willed his voice to sooth her.

"Rogue?......" Storm's face took on a look of pure horror and agony, "Rogue's dead,........ the butcher murdered her .....right before me........ Oh, Remy"

Storms throat was suddenly dry and she could barely gain enough strength to breathe but she knew that she had to keep her promise. "Remy, please don't leave me...Please...I need you...I...love you. I've loved you from almost the moment I met you...I want to stay with you...I want to raise a family ...with you. I...want our child to live...Please...don't go." Storm poured out her heart, expressing feeling that don't even have words, and every word felt like a dull pain sticking into Gambits heart. "I'm...... pregnant, Remy. We're going to have a baby," Storm confessed as she looked into a nodding Remy's face.

"I know dat, Chere. I been known for some time now dat we created a chile dat night. I wish I could stay here wit' you, but Hank be right here. I got to go see if Rogue really is...dead." That last word choked in his throat for the moment he heard Storm say Rogue was dead, he felt a part of him scream in rage that it couldn't be true while another part of him broke into a million pieces at imagining his life without Rogue. "Hank, can you stay wit' her. I gotta know for sure" Gambit requested.

"Most certainly, my compatriot." was the beast's reply.

As soon as he knew Storm was cared for, Remy raced out of the room with a heart pounding speed.


The shadow of their captor glided from view of the window that overlooked the cavernous complex, with his vantage point, the kidnapper had been able to see even with the naked eye each person took once they reached the complex. For the walls only reached 10 feet high and the booth from where he stood was at least forty feet high. Let them have their companions back, the captor decided to himself. I've come to do what I wanted to do. Plus, I have ensured that at least one, if not the both of them would not live through the next few hours. He would see pain etch itself across Gambits face. He would take pleasure in knowing that he has caused Gambit great heartache this day. And when the time came, he would see that Gambit and everything he cared for was completely destroyed. Checking to make sure that the device that kept this viewing booth invisible. The captor sat down at a console and coaxed his cameras to track the current whereabouts of his hated enemy.


Gambit searched through several rooms looking for either the mysterious kidnapper or Rogue. Screaming out her name he grew more and more frantic every second. What would his life be without Rogue. He could not nor did he want to imagine his life without her beautiful smile, her playful nature, and her stubborn determination.

At that moment, Rogue was experiencing her life energy leaving her body. The injuries she has sustained were severe. If she weren't manacled, she would never have been harmed for her mutant power had given her the invincibility of a woman who's life she had accidently changed forever. If this was the end, would she be mourned, would she regret having spent the last moments of her life alone, not having anyone who truly knew who she was. The one person who understood her most and didn't care was the very man she betrayed sending him into a coma. If only remy were hear, she'd bury her pride, admit to Gambit that she blamed herself for his coma, she would beg forgiveness for taking away a portion of who he was. If only she could hear him cry out....

"Rogue!!!" Gambit's heart jumped at having found her then plunged deeply when he saw the condition she was in. Her skin looked all mottled, like it had been infused with some kind of acid eating at her body from inside out. Gambit reached her in a second, but he felt like he was in slow motion. As he released her manacles, time seemed to stop as he tried to determine if Rogue was even alive.

"Remy??" Her voice sounded weak and strained.

Gambit lightly brushed her face, he could tell something was not right. Mere touch of skin to skin would cause her mutant powers to activate transferring his abilities to her, but now she seemed to be without that power. He'd let Hank worry about that one. Right now he wanted to get her safely away, then he would say all the things he had wanted to say.Rogue moaned and his heart was gripped in a sheathe of ice. She wasn't going to make it, but he couldn't let her know that. "Shh, Petite. You're alive. Thats all thats important. I thought I had lost you"

Rogue looked up at him with clear blue eyes, but the light was already starting to fade. Rogue strained to speak despite Gambit trying to get her to lie still. "Remy." She swallowed hard as her breath came shallowly. "Ah'm so very sorry." She confessed, "Ah'm sorry ah been avoidin you lately. Ah've caused you so much pain. Ah'm sorry that ah hurt you. And ah'm sorry ah turned out to be such a monster. Ah wanted to tell you ah was sorry for weeks, but ah was afraid you'd reject me. Please, forgive me." Leaning forward even though she was weak she whispered, "Ah love you." The words came with effort, but to Rogue it felt like a dam had broken allowing her to tell him how she felt. Every second of her life with and without Remy flashed through her mind and she realized that she would give up eternity for the moments she shared with the man that she loved.

Remy's eyes filled up with tears at the confession coming from his beautiful, lovely soulmate. "Shh, save your strength..... you won't.... die." Remy felt the passion he had denied building up coupled with the anguish he felt for having kept himself from fully loving the woman that meant the most in the world to him. "Rogue, you know I'm not big on speeches, but I would give up my soul for your kiss anyday"

With that Remy reached down and placed his lips on hers. At that instant the universe came together. Everything was complete within the confines of their union. Remy kissed her passionately while holding onto her hand, even after her hand and her whole body went limp in his arms.

End of Part Four


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