Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men or X-Men Evolution, Marvel does. I wish I owned Rogue and Gambit though, cuz I really hate what Marvel's writers have done to their relationship. If it were up to me, they would be married by now.

A/N: It took me 5 days to actually write this chapter. I actually wrote it 3 times, trying to figure out which edition was the better one. I settled on this one, so I hope you guys like it. Did everyone watch X-Men Evo on Saturday? Remy was in it for like 2 seconds, but that's ok. At least he was in it. Maybe he will be in next weeks episode. Rogue has an entire episode dedicated to herself, supposedly. Maybe it will somehow involve Remy. I have my fingers crossed. Ok I will shut up now.....

Klucky: No, Rogue is not going to kill Gambit, lol. She's not even gonna hurt him.

Brakish: I wish we would get to hear Gambit's voice sooner or later. We might have to wait a while to actually hear it. You're right though, they better pick someone who has a great voice. The writers already killed part of Gambit's looks, they better not kill his voice too.

Raven*NYC: The reason why I posted that section twice is because in Chapter 1 she was having a flashback about their first encounter. And in chapter 2 she dreamt about it. Yes Remy's eyes were brown in DoR, but they are supposed to be red. So I made them red.

Thanks for reviewing!

Warning: I am not very good at writing out Gambit's accent. I will try my best though.

Heart and Soul

'Thoughts'

Telepathy

Chapter 3- Beginnings of Love



"Yah tried to blow meh up, yah jerk!"

He smirked, "Ah chere, you t'ink Remy tried t' hurt you? Non, chere. Remy jus' charged de card a li'l so it wouldn' hurt you."

Rogue crossed her arms over her chest. She looked him up and down. Tan trenchcoat, black shirt and pants made up his clothing ensemble.

'Damn he looks good. He's even hotter than ah remember.'

He wears sunglasses on this day.

'Ah wish ah could see those eyes.'

"Yah could have fooled me. Look, ah don't wanna talk to yah."

With that she turned and walked away. It annoyed her when she heard his footsteps slightly behind her.

"Where you goin' chere?"

"Away from yah." A little smile played at the corners of her mouth. It did not go unnoticed by Remy. "Don't call me 'chere' either."

He smiled and continued to walk next to her. "Den what shall Remy call you?"

"How 'bout nothing?"

"Your name is Rogue, right?"

She stopped and turned toward him. "How do yah know that?"

"Magneto keeps files on all de X-Men. Remy read your file, he know all 'bout you now."

"Just great." She said sarcastically.

"Don' worry Rogue, all your secrets, de safe wit' me." He smirked.

She rolled her eyes at him.

"Remy be from de south too. New Orleans."

"Yah French?"

"Non. Cajun."

"Well, then, Remy was it?" she asked him.

"Oui."

"Now that yah know all 'bout me, why don't yah tell me something 'bout yahself?"

"Remy told you somet'in'. He from New Orleans."

"Do yah always speak in the third person?"

"Most of de time, oui."

"Why? Don't people find it annoying?"

"Dunno, do you?"

"Ah've only known yah a short time. Ah can't say yet."

"Fair enough."

Remy reached into his inside coat pocket and pulled out a cigarette. He put the cigarette in his mouth and lit it. All the time Rogue watched him with a disgusted look on her face. She watched as he took a drag on it, took it out of his mouth, blew out the smoke, and then stuck it back in.

'What a disgusting habit.' she thought to herself.

"What's yah last name Remy?"

"Why?"

"Just curious is all."

"LeBeau."

"Well then, Mr. LeBeau," she reached up and pulled the cigarette from his mouth, "smoking is bad for yoah health. And ah don't like it when people blow their smoke in mah face."

She threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out with her foot.

He threw her an annoyed glare. She gave him a look that said 'I dare you to light up another cigarette.'

He decided not to take that dare.

"Take yoah sunglasses off?" she asked.

"Non. De sunglasses stay on."

"Don't want anyone to see yoah eyes?"

"Den dey know Remy a mutant."

"Ah kinda like them. Never seen anything like them."

He smiled wickedly. "Dere's a lot you like about Remy den."

"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked angrily.

"You like Remy's eyes, de way he dresses, de way he looks, and you 'specially like de way he made you feel when we first met." The smile is still plastered on his face.

To herself, she said, 'Just when things were going good, he has to say somethin' stupid like that. Man is he full of himself.'

Out loud, she laughed.

"The way yah made me feel?" She laughed again. "Yah made meh feel like an idiot after ah threw that card away."

"Why, 'cause you kept lookin' at it after Remy left? Took you a few seconds 'fore you realized it was gonna explode."

"Oh shut up."

"You felt it too chere. Don' deny dat."

"Ah didn't feel anything. And ah told yah not to call meh that!"

"You did too feel somet'in' Rogue. We both felt it. Dere was chemistry 'tween us. Remy know you felt it."

"Ah don't know what yoah talkin' 'bout. An ah really don't care."

She turned and walked quickly away. Once again, he followed.

'She t'ink she gettin' away from me, she crazy.' He thought to himself.

"Why you runnin' chere?"

"Ah'm not running."

'Liar.' She thought.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him.

"You're runnin' 'cause you don' want Remy to know dat you did feel somet'in'. You jus' scared to admit it."

She yanked her arm away. "Yah don't know nothing." She said menacingly.

She turned her back on him.

"Don' run from Remy, chere. He won' hurt you." He said softly.

He came up slowly behind her, just short of touching her, but still feeling the body heat she was giving off. He gently placed his hands on her shoulders and brought his mouth as close to her ear as he dared.

"We both know dat when we looked into each other's eyes dat day, we were both lost." He whispered.

One hand reached up and removed his sunglasses and stuffed them into his coat pocket. Then he reached out with a gloved hand, gently took her chin and turned it so their eyes met.

Their faces were so close, their breath mingled. If he moved in a couple of inches his mouth would be on hers. But he knew he couldn't kiss her. He knew of her absorption powers, and he loathed them, for he longed to feel her skin on his.

Their eyes latched onto each others.

"Willingly lost, cherie, jus' like we are now." He murmured.

Emotions coursed through them as they stared into each others eyes. Each could see the passion in the others eyes.

Rogue felt Remy's left hand move to her stomach and his right hand softly caressed her cheek.

Each felt like they were drowning in the others soul.

"Remy wants to kiss you so bad chere. But he knows he can't and its killing him."

Her eyes drifted slowly closed. "Ah want to kiss yah too."

Suddenly she pulled out of his embrace

'Oh man, now ah'm really in trouble.' She thought to herself.

She turned to look at him again, he already had his sunglasses on.

'Thank God he put them back on.'

"Yah and ah can't be together Remy."

His face fell. "Why not Rogue?"

"'Cause ah can't touch yah. Why do yah want a girl who yah can never touch? Yah will never be able to kiss me, or hold mah hand, nevah." Her eyes closed and she sighed in frustration.

"Touch isn't everyt'in' chere. Dere are other ways to touch besides de physical. We find a way, together. Remy want to be wit' you."

She looked down at the ground. "We can't." She turned and ran away.

This time, Remy did not follow.

"Remy know you can't touch chere. But nobody love a challenge more den Gambit. An' Gambit have no intention of losing dis challenge, Rogue."



Rogue ran most of the way back to the institute. She sat down on the front steps.

'What is the matter with meh? Ah don't believe ah let that happen. Why do ah feel like ah'm drownin' whenever ah look into his eyes? He was right though. There is no use in denying what's happenin' 'tween us. Ah know now that its not just gonna go away.'

She placed her head in her hands.

"Oh God, please don't let meh fall in love with him" She said quietly. A single tear ran slowly down her cheek.



Well, that's it for now. What did you guys think? I hope you liked it. I had three other editions to this chapter. But I didn't really like them that much. Read and Review and let me know what you think. I will try to get the next chapter up soon. I have no idea what's going to happen in the next chapter. Any ideas? Leave them in a review!