New Life, New Beginnings by Sania
Disclaimer: I don't own the x-men. Please don't sue me.
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Chapter 6: Double Minded
"So how is she doing?" Scott placed the coffee mug down on the kitchen table pulling a chair out and sat on it.
"She's better. Storm's with her in the med bay right now." Jean sat beside him trying to get her hand into the cookie jar.
"You know what Jean, I've got a bad feeling about this." Scott looked out of the window from his place, sipping on his coffee.
"About what?" Jean didn't pay close attention to what he said.
"Y'know about this new mutant….What's her name…"
Jean frowned at Scott's tensed face. "Rogue? What about her?"
"Jean. I just have this feeling that the girl is a problem."
Putting, the jar back on the table, she sighed. "C'mon Scott, what could she possibly do? And there are so many things to do, I mean professor isn't here, and he will talk to her, plus Hank's gonna tell us about her powers. So what is it that's bothering you?"
"That's the main point. Because the more Hank tells us about her past and what she has been doing, the more I get clues that I've known her, somewhere."
Jean raised her eyebrows at him and shook her head. Scott knew what was coming from his wife, all those lines that she had been lecturing him that he should calm down and shouldn't panic etc.
*****
"But why did you escape? You tangled yourself into so many problems." Storm sat behind Rogue in the infirmary on the medical bed. She brushed the silky heavy strands of auburn hair flowing with moonlit white stripes.
"Y'know aftuh ah kissed Cody, mah dad started hittin' me. 'Cuz y'know he said that he wanted t' get the evil outta me. There might have been a chance o' meh being safe if an' only mah momma was there. Anyway he locked me up the room an' one night ah jumped from the bedroom window. So ah ran until ah reached a lonely town. There one o' the Cody's cousins recognized me and that's when ah got in trouble. Those bastards, Friends of humanity took me and held me there." She paused to take a breath and didn't see Storm arch her eye brow from their place.
"My…child, your hair is beautiful." Storm twisted her hair into a neat and long braid that fell just below her waist.
Rogue gave a pitiful smile. "Thanks. It's amazin' cuz y'know a person wouldn' have a single hair on her head, if she would be drugged four fahve times a day."
"What did they do to you?" Storm looked played with the ends of her braid twirling them around.
"Ah dunno, jus' used t' give me shots and ah always passed out. Well y'know they kept me there cuz they took me when ah was eleven yeahs old…an' now ah'm nineteen. But then y'know this other mutant group saved me..Ah hope you wouldn't mind if ah don't feel comfortable tellin' you the rest of it, ah mean ah could talk to Professor Xavier?" Rogue quickly kept a long n slim finger nail to her pink lips.
"Of course not, it's ok if you talk to Professor about it privately." Ororo gave her a genuine smile which encouraged Rogue.
"But ya see, ah chose so many wrong paths, and the ones that had the most dangerous methods t'cross, but now it's turnin' out right-ah guess. Lakh ah was in so much trouble the night ah came here until ah met that guy. Umm what's his name, Gambit?"
"Y'can always call him Remy if y' want to."
Both of the women looked up to see Remy leaning against the door frame of the infirmary. Storm rolled her eyes at Remy who grinned mischievously pissing the hell out of Rogue.
"Hi. I think my Remy has been pretty busy these days. Why are you standing there? Come inside." Ororo waved her hand at Remy motioning him to come inside.
Smiling charmingly Remy stepped in the room with one hand at his back. He leaned on the sitting Ororo and embraced her briefly in his arms. Rogue noticed one of his hands at the back held a cigarette. He respected her as an elder and a sister, so to avoid long speeches from Ororo, Remy never smoked when Storm was around. "Awe chere, Remy can always take out time for his stormy…"
"Remy please, do not call me Stormy" Storm said smiling and frowning at the same time. Remy gave Ororo a wicked smile as she got up from her place and arranged back the bed covers, Rogue sank inside cozily.
"So How're you doin' chere?" Remy stood by her bed side winking her, knowing fully that she could go crazy anytime like the last time she was out of their control.
"Ah'm doin' fine." Replying curtly to him, her hands fidgeted terribly around her neck to get the inhibitor collar out. "'cept this. When is he goin' t' take this pretty lil' necklace outta mah neck?"
"Who?"
"Umm that scary blue guy."
Remy chuckled at her description of the person. "You're talkin' about Hank 'cuz he's de only scary blue guy runnin' around de house."
"You know who Ah'm talkin' 'bout so stop askin' meh questions." Rogue faced him sternly.
Y' know what chere, it has been quiet a long time since Remy heard a crazy southern accent, one like dis. He was about to say something but he thought that doing so would not be such a good idea. Better not say anyt'in or else she's gonna scoop your eyes out le beau.
"Well chere, It's me who's goin' t' take dat collar out of your pretty lil' neck, so no need worryin' 'bout it."
"Hell no swamp rat!" This time, Rogue smiled with a cute grin on her face.
Ororo laughed and gathered a few things and made sure that Remy wouldn't do anything funny with the new girl as she stepped out of the door. "Rogue, I'm going now because I have to be somewhere in time. Remy listen, do not try something funny with her because you have no idea what I can do... understood?"
"What, you're gonna kick ma ass? I'm not dat lucky chere to get my ass kicked by de all mighty so called-weather goddess."
Storm rolled her eyes at him.
"Ah can take care o' mahself." Rogue said with a sly smile that lit up the bulbs on Remy's face.
"Still he's here so that you're ok. Later, Remy." Ororo stepped out of the door, as soon as she got out, Remy went and closed the door locking it behind him.
"So…" Remy slowly came forward and gave her a grin that he knew would make her angrier. Don' know what Remy does so bad that pisses her off. Let's see if she gets scared... He folded the sleeves of his trench coat a little and as he inched closer to her bed, she stared challengingly widening her eyes.
"Remy t'inks you need a complete check up, chere." Remy took Hanks stethoscope and started playing with it in his hands.
"Why don' you go an' get one yoahself an' then come up t' me." Rogue tugged a white bang beside her ear not even showing the slightest smile on her face.
"C'mon chere, scared so soon? It's not like I'm gonna bite you or somethin', just a 'lil check up." He leaned on the large table type of bed Rogue was laying on and he looked her sideways taking a long drag of cigarette.
"Oh yeah?" She pushed the comforter away from her body and started to get up from her reclining position. "Le' meh show you...you..." As she was about to jump from the bed, a nervous Remy pushed her back on the bed recalling what Storm had said.
"Easy girl! I was jus' kiddin'. No need t' be gettin' aggressive at such little t'ings. You need t' calm down, ya know." He pushed her back in the covers not at all annoyed by her action, but tried to show that he was angry.
"Hello!" Hank cheerfully entered the room with a clip board in his hand. She looked in frustration at Hank and then back to Remy who casually went and leaned on the other side of the room trying to show that nothing happened.
Hank came towards Rogue who held her breath and didn't flinch when he kept his gigantic hand on her forehead to check her fever. Again Remy smiled at her childishness. "Am I interrupting? Or did I miss something?"
Rogue kept her eyes in Remy's direction. "No. Everythin's fine." Remy winked but straightened his face when Hank looked at him in doubt.
"I'm sure Gambit here disturbed you, didn't he?" Hank started working on some files and papers beside her bed.
Quickly pushing his cigarette into the railing of the window, Remy raised his hands trying to seem innocent. "You t'ink Remy would do a thing like dat? O'course not. Chere here don' believe dat Remy be an expert in pickin' locks and he's goin' to take dat t'ink outta her pretty 'lil neck."
Rogue glared at him, but he didn't have any affect on him. Ah swear Cajun, the second ah get this colluh out, you're gonna regret it cuz ah'm gonna twist that pretty 'lil neck o' yours with mah own hands.
Remy pointed his hand towards her neck which was surrounded by an inhibitor collar. Although Remy kept on joking the whole time, he felt sorry for her that people could be so cruel to not only keep her in prison for such a long time, but even hurt such a person. He hadn't seen anything and didn't even know a single thing about her, but he had an idea how it must have felt. Lonely, helpless and afraid. Just like he had once when he was all by himself, on the streets. He knew that the x-men would help her. I over heard Storm talkin' to her 'bout her past, but I missed de details. She was talkin' 'bout how de friends o' humanity caught her. Dey obviously hurt 'er but I hope dose bastards didn' *do anyt'ing* to her. You can expect *anytin'* from dem. First she's a girl, second she's a mutant, and third she's beautiful. But I don' t'ink dey did 'cuz she would've been loosin' 'er mind right now. T'ank goodness.
"Oh yes my dear, Gambit holds expert skill in picking locks and all kinds of complicated security systems. I believe this is the right way to do it because the other option is to unlock it through electric shock, just small ones but I don't think that would be suitable at this situation." Hank said all that without looking at Rogue or Remy.
"Goin' t' get an electric shock anyway...probably more stingin'." He came up, stood beside Hank, and purposely murmured that, audible enough to be heard by Rogue.
Taking the best opportunity when Hank wasn't looking, Rogue pulled down Remy by the arm and whispered in his ear. When he got closer to her, he inhaled the soft musk of her body with a seductive smile creeping up on his attractive face. "Don' worry shugah, Ah'll be gettin' mah powers soon an' then Ah'll show ya how an electric shock feels. Ah could give it t' you raght now, but you don' wanna spoil yoah already bad reputation in front o' Hank, do ya?"
Remy then stared in her eyes with one of his eyebrow arched and his lips into a teasing smile. He could see her face with a slight smile with a hint of anger, and her eyes gazing into him as if she is going to attack him like a wild animal.
"Oooh boy, no t'anks.." Remy quickly turned as Hank suddenly stopped in the middle, and took off his specs when he looked at Remy with a frown on his face.
"Have you been smoking in my lab?"
Ooops. Remy had forgotten that Beast had called Remy a few days ago to disarm the smoke detector so that he and Wolverine could get used to not to smoke anywhere in the mansion. "O'course not."
Beast looked at him suspiciously trying to find some clue but then returned to his work.
"Liar." Rogue barely whispered the words to Remy, who pretended that he didn't hear them, but figured out what she said. Instead he grinned at her mischievously.
Beast rudely interrupted his thoughts that had started to build up in Remy's mind. "Gambit I have to assure you that this task is not an easy one. You must take out the collar extremely carefully." Beast said that without telling him the reasons. Cyclops, Jean, Storm and Beast had a meeting last night and they had amazingly found out about the new mutant's powers.
Remy got up from his place and went to Beast adjusting his black shades that suited his face perfectly. As he went and started touching different instruments kept on the table, Rogue stared at him suspiciously. Why the hell is he wearing shades indoors? Such a show off...
"C'mon, you t'ink Remy can' do dat? Dis one's a lolly pop 'cept dat it needs very minute and small tools to be disarmed."
"That might be a Lolly pop or whatever you want to call it. But her unusual mutation can be a real danger to you." Beast did not regret after saying the last lines, he certainly didn't know how it felt when a person couldn't touch another human being.
How the hell do they know 'bout mah powers? Huh..they must've figured it out, aftuh all they are the all mighty The x-men. She rolled her eyes and mocked them inside of her mind. But a part of her mind was suddenly surrounded by a glimpse of painful memories. How is she going to react with her powers reactivating after a long time? When she was imprisoned by the Friends of humanity for such a long period, she had forgotten to get scared of her powers. The advanced technology of the inhibitor collars had prevented her from making skin contact with anybody.
Remy spoke without looking at Rogue in the corner of the room. "Why? What's wrong wit' 'er powers?"
"It is sort of difficult to understand. Well, she can absorb another person's life through skin to skin contact, even through the slightest touch. And the person cannot only go in a coma, he or she might die as well. She has no control over them." Beast took out some x-rays from a file, raised them up into the light and started looking through them.
Happy t' hear that? Rogue managed a bitter smile to herself. It bothered her that they both talked as if there was no body else in the room except the two of them.
"So y'mean dat she can't touch nobody?" Remy frowned trying to make sense of what came out of his mouth. He hadn't really heard about a mutation like this before.
Beast glanced at Rogue for less than five seconds and turned to his work, it was obvious that he felt uncomfortable talking about her mutation with her sitting there quietly. "Unfortunately you're right. That is the reason I preferred not to take out her suppression collar because her injuries needed to be treated severely, and luckily we found out about her mutation and we didn't take any risks to take out the collar."
While Beast talked, Remy's eyes shifted towards Rogue who leaned back on the pillows with tears….in her eyes? She just sat there with crystal water shadowing the green eyes like reflection of lush green trees in a lake. She looked tired. Absently, Rogue traced the lines of her hand as the tears controlled themselves from coming out. "Yeah-that's how Ah got mah super strength and flight. You don' know how much fun it's t' have a powuh like this."
"Yeah I can guess dat." Remy tried to give her a wicked smile and just wandered his eyes over what Beast was working on and he started picking up things.
"Hank, this is Cyclops. I want you in conference room right now, please."
The voice came from Beast's com badge echoing through the room. Rogue was on the bed playing with a thread in her fingers, her eyes focused it but her mind was some where else.
"I believe there is nothing more important than what I am doing because I am in the middle of__"
"Hank Please, What I'm saying is important. Everything can be dealt with later on. In the conference Room." Hank took his hand away from his badge and shook his head as he rapped up his pile of files and adjusted them into a drawer.
"Since you're here chere, let me tell you dat, here's notin' more important except what Cyke says, so make sure dat you do everyt'in' he says, no?" Remy directed his thumb towards the door winking at her. Hank went out of the door.
"Ah don' give a fu---uh…Lakh ah'm stayin' heah." Rogue didn't look at him but her eyes were sharp enough with much hatred so that Remy looked at her confusingly.
She pushed his limit and Remy's temper reached its peak. What's her problem? "Hey y' better watch it, 'cuz everybody here is tryin' t' help you, dey don' have you in chains or somet'ing so quit your whinin'."
As soon as Remy spoke, he realized that it was harsh. He held his breath that any minute she'd scream at the top of her lungs but unfortunately she didn't do so, he would have felt better if she did. Remy cursed at himself and dared to look at her in the eyes.
Her lips were tight and clear green eyes stared into his. She knew she could just snap at him but the hurt she felt just now stopped her from shouting at him. "Y' know what, jus' go. Jus' leave meh alone."
Regretting that he shouldn't have said that, and not knowing what to do, Remy turned off the lights and went out of the room shutting the door silently behind him.
*****
Jean chewed on her lip as she focused her eyes at everyone's tensed face in the room. Cyclops stood behind where his wife sat. Before he proceeded Jean spoke. "How about you talk to the professor again?"
Sighing he frowned. "Why aren't you understanding this? Professor is so sure about it. I mean he is the one who's taking decision for this one. I mean there's no point arguing about it when it's finalized."
"I took out as much as I could from her profile. Here are the files." Beast rose and slid the folder to Cyclops.
"I know. But the problem is that Professor is letting her stay here. I can't believe him sometimes. But you see he has obviously thought over it and decided it because he probably knows the reason behind letting an x-villain stay with the x-men." Cyclops paused to look at her profile page.
"That's her real name?" Everybody looked at each other while he arched his eyebrows reading though the files.
"As far as I could get to her history, I believe that's what they used to call her, it's probably a code name."
"They?" Knowing that already, Ororo picked on a clue everybody had been waiting for to be detailed by Beast or Cyclops.
"He's referring to Mystique." Cyclops frustration was noticed by everyone. Nobody seemed so sure to have a person in their house who had hurt one of their own.
"I think we should compromise, I mean what happened in the past is already gone, besides who knows the history behind her powers and her time with the brother hood of evil?" Everybody's heads jerked towards Storm.
Remy didn't feel right, probably because he knew how it felt when somebody was judged for a crime that they had no choice for. "I don' t'ink you should judge her for her crimes we don' really know 'bout. I've made mistakes before and y' guys let me in. Maybe she did too, who knows?"
"Remy's right…"
"Hell no 'Ro, No way the kid is goin' t'stay here after she sucked up a whole full flesh woman with only two hands, and now she's got some other goddam powers." Wolverine barked remembering how it felt when they had heard about Miss Marvel's life taken by a Mutant who was probably six to eight years younger than her.
"Logan! I believe this is not our right to judge a person for her actions. The professor knows better than all of us, so we better not indulge in and decide her future." Ororo's voice ringed in the huge conference room of the mansion.
"Listen 'Ro, She killed Carol, when Carol was on a mission with some other mutant group, it ain't gonna matter now just 'cuz she will make damn excuses for killing a person." Wolverine would have snapped at the person if he or she was somebody else, but since she was Ororo he just let it go by murmuring that.
Remy relaxed his back on the comfy leather chair and rested his arms over his head. He started looking around smiling at people's comments that they always thought they were the most innocent people even after being mutants. "Let's don't forget dat everyone, maybe not everyone but most o' us have done some serious crimes in de past, includin' you Mon'ami." He turned looked around so that his words were not directly forward towards Logan.
"YOU were not here when Carol got hurt so Cut the crap Cajun…"
Cyclops hit the file from his hands to the table loud enough to quiet everybody down. "Enough! I did not call the x-men here to point at everyone's past mistakes. All I want to discuss and assure you guys is that the new mutant, according to Jean and Beast…Rogue has been with the Brotherhood of mutants for quite a period. She spent her early years with Mystique. How the Friends of Humanity got hold of her for such a long time? I don't know. But Professor has told me that she will become a member of the x-men."
"But what if she don' wan' to? Gambit shuffled the cards in his hands. His mind drifted back for a second, he remembered he had snapped at her for being bitter at everything they told her, even though it was not his right to say anything.
"First I don't think she would want to go. Second, professor is trying to get us to convince her to stay here. Well that's about it." Cyclops ran a hand through his hair and let out a sigh causing Jean to stand up beside him.
"Everybody is dismissed. Beast, you've taken care of the inhibitor, haven't you?
Everybody started to get up from his and her place while Beast talked to Cyclops. "Yes Cyclops. I've assisted Gambit for this Job and I'm heading there with him right now."
"Ok make sure everything's alright."
"No problem, I'll take care of it."
Bobby headed out with Jubilee who was quiet during the meeting. "I don't think she's gonna cause any problems like somebody else would do, she looks pretty cute to me. So I'm oooo-k with it."
"With you of course Popsicle Boy! 'Cuz she's a girl… But seriously, I don't care." Jubilee rolled her eyes as they walked out of the automatic metallic doors of the large room. "Have you talked to her though?" She added.
Bobby popped a chewing gum into his mouth. "Nope not yet, Hank, and Jean are not letting us in, may be they will, in a little while. Hey you're in for a basketball game just for chillin' out?"
Later, they both went out for a basket ball game.
Remy ran and went beside Ororo, who was walking towards the women's wing. He came in front of the stopping her suddenly.
"Hey 'Ro, can I talk t' you for a minute or two?"
Ororo dropped her arms on her sides and got herself ready to here his nonsense. "Yes Remy, just make it quick. I have to go somewhere."
"A'right" Remy paused to take a breath and scratched his hair trying to put the words in his mind into his mouth. "Y'see, I did somet'ing I shouldn' have." He raised his eyebrows giving her time to get curious about what he was going to say.
She studied the frown on his face. Her own features took the look of worry. "What is it? Did you have a fight with Logan? Or Cyclops? Tell me what happened?"
"Y'know dat new girl, Rogue I--I kinda got mad at her." He gave her a disappointed smile.
"What do you mean you got 'mad' at her? I don't believe you hit her, and you possibly wouldn't yell at a gir- I mean I don't think you'd do that. So?" She felt stupid for mentioning that he would never treat a person harsh because she was a girl.
"No no. Well y'see she was mad at me over everyt'ing, when you told me take care o' her. She snapped at you too sayin' dat she could take care o'herself. An' just when Beast left, She got angry at me jus' cuz I said dat she'd had to stay here." Remy looked down at the ground thinking something, he didn't really take it too seriously as she was the going to be the newest member of the team and yet there were lots of arguments left to be discussed with her, but that was non of his business.
Ororo thought over it for minutes, knowing that there were going to be a few complications with the new person, so this was not at all serious but just a personal thing. "Oh I understand all this, but what did 'you' say?"
"I was kinda harsh 'cuz I told her dat nobody has her in chains or somet'ing and den… I asked her t' quit her whinin'. Dat's what I said."
"Oh my. You did? Well I would suggest that you should let the topic drop because the professor is already dealing with it. And just don't mess with her, I understand that you just play around but now, her wounds are fresh and she's a kid, so her crankiness will remain there until some time has passed."
"So I jus' go an' don' even apologize 'bout it?" Remy wasn't one of those people who would make a mistake, and blame it on the other's mistake. Acceptance of his fault was a quality that everyone loved about him.
"It is up to you. But don't make an issue out of that silly little mistake." She smiled warmly and scrunched his auburn strands in her hands for a second, just like someone would do to a little brother.
"T'anks a lot, Stormy, gotta go." Remy kissed her cheek and ran opposite her direction all the way down the hall.
*****
The small clock ticked its needle to 11:30. Rogue turned to the other side, shinny long tresses of auburn and white sliding across the pillow as she deepened her head on the soft pillow. Another sigh filled with boredom escaped her lips. Tonight she lay and thought of her life's timeline. The childhood, Cody's kiss, The bar, Friends of humanity, Mystique, again Foh's headquarters and finally the x-men. How is life goin' t' be easy with meh, when everybody knows about mah past? How am Ah goin' to mix in with the people when they know what Ah did t' their friend? Mystique, why did ya have t' fool meh like that? It's all 'cuz o' you. How am Ah supposed to ask for help from the x-men when ah killed their own? Ah don' know where am Ah gonna go now? Ah reckon it's bettuh if ah talk to professor and stay here…if they let me.
Click. The door opened silently and somebody walked in the equally dark and pin-drop-silent room. Rogue stayed under blankets trying to take mind guesses of who could that be.
"Ah'm awake, whoever it is can turn on the lights."
The lights brightened and Rogue jumped from her laying position. The guy she had seen and talked to, Gambit also known as Remy stood with his hands in coat, everything fine but the eyes…red on black. Shocked in her sitting form, she stared at his eyes. She got scared at first but during her time with Mystique, she had seen Blue skin, purple eyes, and orange teeth. And now what she could say was wow.
"What? You be lookin' at my eyes as if they're red or blue or somet'ing! Haven't you seen a pair of red eyes before?" Remy sarcastically smiled hoping that she would have some reaction.
In fact, she gave the most beautiful smile ever with her green eyes sparkling at night. May be it's lookin' like dat 'cuz I haven't seen her smile from the first time I saw her, besides de first time I talked properly to her was dis evenin' an' dat's when I scolded her. Damn I sound like a big brother!
"So y' finally revealed the truth behind those shades hunh? Yoah eyes don' look too bad t' meh then why do y' wear shades in the light?"
Remy noticed that her mood had lightened a little bit, at least she had a smile on her face that he saw for the first time. "O' dat, my eyes are sensitive to light so I gotta wear 'em to avoid any sort of irritation." He came closer and sat beside her slightly off from the bed. He watched as Rogue slid her hand through front whites and tugged the hair behind her ears.
She looked at him in disgust as he lit up a cigarette and put it in between his lips. "Ew, why do you do that?"
"What?" Remy didn't know why he played around with Rogue like that, not that he never flirted with any woman he met, But he just liked her sudden stubbornness, short angry replies, and childishness.
"Smoke, obviously." She tilted her head.
"Takes my mind off o' things that depress me." Remy took another drag and exhaled the smoke on the other side trying to not to blow it on her face.
"That's bullshit."
Remy gave her a charming smile arching one of his eyebrows. "I won't do it if you don't want me to."
Mah oh Mah, what a flirt. Ah guess ah haven't seen many guys who're at same time handsome, charming and shameful flirts. Anyways…Rogue reached and with her fingers, she very calmly took out the cigarette from his lips.
Woah! That was a quick move. Rogue would take a drag herself, was Remy's thought. Instead, she extinguished it on the side of the table and tossed it into the trash can beside her bed. "There, sugah."
"You know why I'm here, no?" Remy's sudden serious expression startled her.
She looked down brushing away her bangs trying to get busy in things. "Yeah, t' take this damn thing off."
Remy looked at her in awe surprise. "If I were you I wouldn't be sittin' here sayin' damn to dis collar."
"Gambit, You just met me ah don' know like, two days ago or somethin' and you're tellin' me what ta do. Ah don' know if ah'm gonna stay here but you brought meh here, and you're gonna let meh go. You don' even have a single idea that ah've been in so much pain 'cuz of this. So jus' take this thing off an' ah'll break this into pieces." Her words were filled with anger but her face didn't support her showing her anger, minutes were passing and Remy knew she would burst into tears.
Remy took her chin by his hand and made her eyes stare into his own. "Look chere, ignoring everyt'ing is not goin' to solve your problem. Forcin' you to stay here is none o' my business, so I'm just askin' if you're sure to take it out 'cuz I know you got a power dat is not a gift. And about you gettin' hurt 'cuz of this piece of shit… I'll explode it into pieces." He took out a playing card from his coat and held it away from her into the air. The card turned into a golden glow and *poof* it exploded into shreds of paper and slowly started to fall on the floor.
Remy was impressed by the animated delight on Rogue's face as if she was a little girl and had seen magic. "Cool, That's yoah power…neh?"
Now it was Remy's turn to return the smile at her light flirtation. "Yeah yoah raght sugah!"
The shy smile that she gave, her head tilted a little to the side with the white and auburn silk falling into her green eyes was driving him crazy now.
"So you're up to it, chere?" The question suddenly popped out of Remy's mouth.
Oops. Remy knew this would come. He had seen the tears in her eyes, but now they were actually falling, very fast. Keeping both of hands on her face, she wept heavily like a little girl with hick- ups, not caring that he was watching her.
Damn damn damn! How to stop her?? Think of something, quick Remy. If you reach out, she's gonna freak out. So..so..ok dat's it! He grabbed a tissue box from the night stand and taking out four five tissues, he gave them to her.
"Take dese. Cry as much as you wan'. Let me know when you when you're done, 'k?" He just thought that those words might encourage her a little because the only option he had was to hold her but applying to it would be big mistake, she could get a panic attack anytime.
Rogue took them and wiped her eyes with her fists. "Thanks." To his surprise she even gave a nod.
What happened to de rough-tough girl now? I knew dat de fragile girlie girl would come out of her anytime soon. She sniffled and looked at him with wet, deep reddish brown eyelashes. "Ah'm ready now."
All she got was a casual thumbs up and then…Remy leaned and gave her a soft peck on the cheek where a bruise happened to marked, certainly it embarrassed him that unfortunately his fist was the one to leave such sign. A pleasant smile was what he got in return.
As soon as Remy stood up from his place, the door cracked open and Beast walked in happily. Woah, great timing Beast!
Beast cleared his throat and stated, "So Remy, I believe our friend here is healthy enough to get her inhibitor collar out. Rogue, what do you think?"
"Remy t'inks she's ready."
"Then do it." Rogue gave a firm nod. She didn't know whether she was happy or sad to be free once again. Of course, she couldn't touch anyone, but at least not being able to touch anyone was better than to be touched the way the Friends of humanity had hurt her. All she got from that was years of her life locked up into a cell being a lab rat, stinging sensation of the poisonous injections and verbal humiliations by those brutal friends of humanity. But somewhere in the corner of her mind, she had a feeling that she could lead to a new start, which wouldn't be so bad.
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Note: Next? Rogue talks to the professor, shows off her powers, and a lot more…Don't forget to review to tell me how's it going! And yeah, I wrote this new Christmas fic "Forgiven on Christmas" on Rogue/Remy, I thought you guys might want to read it. :)
