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Because you demanded it a Wolverine Gambit scene, and a Gambit Rogue scene kinda. Plus much, much more. I have actually been somewhat surprised by the votes. I figured there would be more Rogue votes than anyone but so far its been two for Wolverine and one for Rogue. So I guess we shall see where everything stands as the story progresses (if people are still interested I will keep writing). I'm trying to make this a longer chapter too so its not quite so short. So without further adieu Conflicting Interest.
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An explosion rocked the sentinel sending it hurling to the ground. Gambit flipped away from the sentinel to miss all the falling debris and landed on his feet like a cat.
"I swear those things get easier and easier." Wolverine said stepping over a rather large piece of debris and stepping towards Gambit so he could hear him better.
"Tell me 'bout it." Gambit responded and watched as the scenario faded and the danger room returned. Gambit looked at Wolverine and could tell something was on his mind. But he figured Logan would ask when he was ready, he had never known Logan to be bashful about speaking his mind.
"I don't know what you did yesterday Gumbo but you really stirred up Bobby, Betsy and Warren. They were all ready obviously pissed at you before with Rogue and all but now every time I walk through the room they're talking shit about you!" Wolverine said less as a statement and more like a question. He eyed the Cajun inquisitively, wondering what had happened. That's what was on his mind.
"Must have been somet'ing I said." Gambit smiled to himself remembering poking back at the hate trio. Wolverine watched Gambit closely it was as much as he had figured. Gambit
had just popped off at them, probably after them being rude. But that didn't mean he didn't want the details.
"So?" Wolverine asked. He should of known he was going to have to drag this out of Gambit. He swore you could ask Gambit what his favorite color was and he'd have to get back to you about such a personal question.
"You really wanna hear d'is?" Gambit asked.
"Yep." Logan said getting impatient. Gambit told him what had happened and when he finished Logan was laughing.
"I bet frosty was about to wet himself." Wolverine said.
"Yeah, he was. His eyes got all big when he knew he was busted." Gambit started chuckling again.
"Well I'll keep an ear to the ground and let you know if I hear anything from them about getting you booted or whatever it is their trying to do." Wolverine said very seriously.
"T'anks mon ami'." Gambit said touched that Logan was a true friend.
Wolverine waved his hand in the air as if it was no big deal, he knew Gambit would do the same for him.
"Speaking of Warren, did you see his new car? With that many horses under the hood I'd love to take it to the autobahn and just rev it and let it go." Gambit said.
Wolverine grunted in agreement before grabbing a beer which he had in a cooler nearby. Logan looked at Gambit to see if he wanted one Gambit shook his head no.
"Suit yourself." Logan popped open the top of the beer.
"Cyclops said we were on high alert." Which meant no drinking. Gambit said it with no real feeling he usually didn't follow all the rules of the house like curfew for instance but he was trying to be really good to make sure he got to go on the mission to save Rogue. Not to mention the fact that he didn't want his judgment or reflexes impaired for the mission.
"So, I don't see one eye around here." Wolverine said and then shrugged. Gambit watched Logan gulp down his beer and then open up another one. Gambit could see the condensation on the side of the can and he was thirsty. It was just one beer he thought. What could he say self-control wasn't one of his best attributes.
"Yeah, I'll take one of d'ose." Gambit said eagerly.
"Are you sure? I didn't realize you had joined AA." Wolverine said sarcastically.
"Yeah, I'm sure." Gambit said.
"I don't wanna mess you up on your conduct report. Just ten more stickers and …"
"Am I gonna get that beer today?" Gambit said slightly annoyed. Wolverine snickered as he tossed the beer to Remy. Remy caught it popped the top and took a swig. He looked over to Wolverine who was still smirking and looked like he was dying to say something else.
"What?" Gambit asked finally his curiosity getting the better of him.
"I was just wondering what shape our conduct reports are in at this point?" Wolverine said.
"Yeah, Cyke hasn't brought them up in awhile. I guess he gave up on us." Gambit started laughing the more he thought about it. Gambit suddenly got quiet and retrospective looking.
"What?" Now it was Logans turn to let curiosity get the better of him. Gambit looked up sheepishly and said, "There were stickers?"
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Gambit was walking back from the danger room and took a shortcut through the women's dorm out of habit and then he saw it, Rogue's room. Gambit stopped and stared at the door into her room. It was still weird to think she wasn't in there. Any minute he expected her to come waltzing out, and to flash him her award winning smile. He wondered for the thousandth time where she was? Was she ok? All he did know for sure was that he missed her.
Gambit looked up and down each hallway, no one was around. Gambit didn't really see the harm in going in her room. Who knows he could have lent something to her and forgotten all about it and if he saw it he would remember it was in there and then he could just take it back. Yeah, that made sense sorta. Gambit grabbed the doorknob and quickly turned it and stepped inside and quietly shut the door behind him.
Gambit looked around the room and it was so still and quiet. He felt strange being here without Rogue in fact he didn't think he had ever been in here without Rogue. Gambit tried to think back to the last time he was in here. It had been awhile, the last time he remembered being in here was when he had walked in unexpectedly and Rogue and Joseph were sitting on her bed talking and laughing. He had stormed off angry not really so much about thinking something sexual was going on courtesy of the z-nox chamber but more of he couldn't think of the last time he had even been invited into her bedroom for some quality talking. But even more he couldn't think of the last time they had laughed together like that. He was afraid he was losing her especially when he looked at her eyes and she seemed so enamored with Joseph. Joseph, he still didn't get that one. At first he had thought she was just trying to make him jealous, which she did, but then he realized that part of why she liked him so much was he had no past to contend with how perfect was that?
Perfect, he could never be perfect. He was as far from that as east from west. He walked over towards her bed and grinned at the hundred stuffed animals piled on top of her bed. He picked up the one stuffed animal he had won her at the fair. It was a bunny with floppy ears. When they were at the fair he could tell that she really wanted him to win her something. He chuckled to himself to have been raised by a terrorist Rogue sure could be old fashioned about stuff. He had won it for her even with the game being fixed by the carnie. He had charged the baseball not enough to explode but just enough to give it enough of an edge to break the glued together cups. The carnie was scratching his head and commented on the fact that he had one hell of an arm when he had passed over the stuffed animal to Rogue. Rogue had said she loved the bunny because it reminded her of him. He didn't see a resemblance and didn't know if he liked being compared to a bunny but to see that light in her eyes silenced any argument from him. Seeing that she had kept the stuffed bunny made him feel better for some reason he couldn't put a finger on. But the bunny looked sadder then he remembered him looking the bunny must miss her too. Shoot, the bunny got to sleep curled up next to Rogue what he wouldn't give to be that bunny.
Suddenly Rogue's bedroom door opened and in stepped Storm. She looked surprised to see Gambit standing there and then noticed he was holding Rogue's bunny that he had won her. Storm's face softened as she walked up to him. She took the bunny silently from Gambit's hand and said, " The bunny's floppy ears reminded her of your hair. That's why Rogue saw a resemblance."
Gambit rubbed his hand through his hair subconsciously he could never get it to stay down like it was supposed to. Maybe he had given her an inferior bunny too?
"She loves the bunny's ears and she loves your hair. That wasn't the only resemblance she saw you know? You see that mischievous look in the rabbit's eyes? She said they reminded her of your eyes." Gambit swore sometimes Storm was psychic. She was one of the few people on earth who could read his thoughts so well. She was such a good friend but he hoped she wasn't just being nice to him like Bobby and them and had said. Gambit couldn't bring up the nerve to ask her if she really did want him gone. He didn't think he could deal with that right now. Rejection for another day he thought to himself. Storm unaware of his fears fell to a companionable silence as Remy contemplated what she said.
"What are you doing in here, Stormy?" Gambit asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Storm responded. Gambit started to speak and then stopped as Storm waved her hand in a motion that it was ok that she knew why he was in here. But still Gambit felt like he should say something but what he finally settled on was the truth.
"I miss her." Gambit said softly. Storm nodded sympatheticely.
"I have watered her flowers on the windowsill since her…departure. That's why I'm in here, besides feeling as though I am near her." Storm said. Gambit nodded and looked over to the windowsill with said flowers on them. They were so vibrant and healthy looking now that Stormy was caring for them it was a far cry from when Rogue was here. They were dying to say the least. He remembered teasing Rogue that for someone whose favorite color was green her thumb sure hadn't gotten the message and then she threw something at him. But she did that a lot.
"They sure look a lot healt'ier." Gambit stated.
"Yes, they do. I wouldn't have thought it possible. I thought they were dead for awhile but then there seemed to be something of a rebirth and now look at them and how healthy and beautiful they are." Storm said with a quiet smile. She picked up a picture off Rogue's nightstand. Gambit looked at the picture it was of him and Rogue. He had his arm around Rogue's waist and his head was over Rogue's left shoulder. They were both hamming it up for the camera with big smiles but you could tell that they were both genuinely happy. It was a moment in time captured forever.
"This is one of my favorite pictures of you. You two seem so happy. Your ever present, million dollar smile is there Remy but there's more. Your eyes are smiling too they look at peace. You look happy. You and Rogue have had your problems but you two have had good times too. If there is any way to make it work I hope you two do it. But I know if there is any way to make it work you will try." Storm said. Gambit nodded he didn't know what to say. Storm understood this and moved silently to the flowers, watered them and turned back to Gambit.
"Thanks Stormy." Gambit said.
"No problem. Please remember to close Rogue's door on the way out." Gambit nodded in response as Storm turned and shut the door behind her. Gambit surveyed the room again. Being a thief he was trained to watch for anything out of the ordinary. Something caught his eye that was sticking out from under her nightstand. He pulled it out and it was an envelope with what appeared to be a letter inside. The letter was addressed to Rogue from him. Gambit looked at the dating on the outside of the envelope and noticed it was dated shortly after he had been abandoned in Antartica. Gambit's face went pale, he hadn't sent her a letter during that time. So who had?
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Well what did you think? Are you enjoying this story? Again any characters you like and really want to see or just want to see more of? Please review I really appreciate it!
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Because you demanded it a Wolverine Gambit scene, and a Gambit Rogue scene kinda. Plus much, much more. I have actually been somewhat surprised by the votes. I figured there would be more Rogue votes than anyone but so far its been two for Wolverine and one for Rogue. So I guess we shall see where everything stands as the story progresses (if people are still interested I will keep writing). I'm trying to make this a longer chapter too so its not quite so short. So without further adieu Conflicting Interest.
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An explosion rocked the sentinel sending it hurling to the ground. Gambit flipped away from the sentinel to miss all the falling debris and landed on his feet like a cat.
"I swear those things get easier and easier." Wolverine said stepping over a rather large piece of debris and stepping towards Gambit so he could hear him better.
"Tell me 'bout it." Gambit responded and watched as the scenario faded and the danger room returned. Gambit looked at Wolverine and could tell something was on his mind. But he figured Logan would ask when he was ready, he had never known Logan to be bashful about speaking his mind.
"I don't know what you did yesterday Gumbo but you really stirred up Bobby, Betsy and Warren. They were all ready obviously pissed at you before with Rogue and all but now every time I walk through the room they're talking shit about you!" Wolverine said less as a statement and more like a question. He eyed the Cajun inquisitively, wondering what had happened. That's what was on his mind.
"Must have been somet'ing I said." Gambit smiled to himself remembering poking back at the hate trio. Wolverine watched Gambit closely it was as much as he had figured. Gambit
had just popped off at them, probably after them being rude. But that didn't mean he didn't want the details.
"So?" Wolverine asked. He should of known he was going to have to drag this out of Gambit. He swore you could ask Gambit what his favorite color was and he'd have to get back to you about such a personal question.
"You really wanna hear d'is?" Gambit asked.
"Yep." Logan said getting impatient. Gambit told him what had happened and when he finished Logan was laughing.
"I bet frosty was about to wet himself." Wolverine said.
"Yeah, he was. His eyes got all big when he knew he was busted." Gambit started chuckling again.
"Well I'll keep an ear to the ground and let you know if I hear anything from them about getting you booted or whatever it is their trying to do." Wolverine said very seriously.
"T'anks mon ami'." Gambit said touched that Logan was a true friend.
Wolverine waved his hand in the air as if it was no big deal, he knew Gambit would do the same for him.
"Speaking of Warren, did you see his new car? With that many horses under the hood I'd love to take it to the autobahn and just rev it and let it go." Gambit said.
Wolverine grunted in agreement before grabbing a beer which he had in a cooler nearby. Logan looked at Gambit to see if he wanted one Gambit shook his head no.
"Suit yourself." Logan popped open the top of the beer.
"Cyclops said we were on high alert." Which meant no drinking. Gambit said it with no real feeling he usually didn't follow all the rules of the house like curfew for instance but he was trying to be really good to make sure he got to go on the mission to save Rogue. Not to mention the fact that he didn't want his judgment or reflexes impaired for the mission.
"So, I don't see one eye around here." Wolverine said and then shrugged. Gambit watched Logan gulp down his beer and then open up another one. Gambit could see the condensation on the side of the can and he was thirsty. It was just one beer he thought. What could he say self-control wasn't one of his best attributes.
"Yeah, I'll take one of d'ose." Gambit said eagerly.
"Are you sure? I didn't realize you had joined AA." Wolverine said sarcastically.
"Yeah, I'm sure." Gambit said.
"I don't wanna mess you up on your conduct report. Just ten more stickers and …"
"Am I gonna get that beer today?" Gambit said slightly annoyed. Wolverine snickered as he tossed the beer to Remy. Remy caught it popped the top and took a swig. He looked over to Wolverine who was still smirking and looked like he was dying to say something else.
"What?" Gambit asked finally his curiosity getting the better of him.
"I was just wondering what shape our conduct reports are in at this point?" Wolverine said.
"Yeah, Cyke hasn't brought them up in awhile. I guess he gave up on us." Gambit started laughing the more he thought about it. Gambit suddenly got quiet and retrospective looking.
"What?" Now it was Logans turn to let curiosity get the better of him. Gambit looked up sheepishly and said, "There were stickers?"
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Gambit was walking back from the danger room and took a shortcut through the women's dorm out of habit and then he saw it, Rogue's room. Gambit stopped and stared at the door into her room. It was still weird to think she wasn't in there. Any minute he expected her to come waltzing out, and to flash him her award winning smile. He wondered for the thousandth time where she was? Was she ok? All he did know for sure was that he missed her.
Gambit looked up and down each hallway, no one was around. Gambit didn't really see the harm in going in her room. Who knows he could have lent something to her and forgotten all about it and if he saw it he would remember it was in there and then he could just take it back. Yeah, that made sense sorta. Gambit grabbed the doorknob and quickly turned it and stepped inside and quietly shut the door behind him.
Gambit looked around the room and it was so still and quiet. He felt strange being here without Rogue in fact he didn't think he had ever been in here without Rogue. Gambit tried to think back to the last time he was in here. It had been awhile, the last time he remembered being in here was when he had walked in unexpectedly and Rogue and Joseph were sitting on her bed talking and laughing. He had stormed off angry not really so much about thinking something sexual was going on courtesy of the z-nox chamber but more of he couldn't think of the last time he had even been invited into her bedroom for some quality talking. But even more he couldn't think of the last time they had laughed together like that. He was afraid he was losing her especially when he looked at her eyes and she seemed so enamored with Joseph. Joseph, he still didn't get that one. At first he had thought she was just trying to make him jealous, which she did, but then he realized that part of why she liked him so much was he had no past to contend with how perfect was that?
Perfect, he could never be perfect. He was as far from that as east from west. He walked over towards her bed and grinned at the hundred stuffed animals piled on top of her bed. He picked up the one stuffed animal he had won her at the fair. It was a bunny with floppy ears. When they were at the fair he could tell that she really wanted him to win her something. He chuckled to himself to have been raised by a terrorist Rogue sure could be old fashioned about stuff. He had won it for her even with the game being fixed by the carnie. He had charged the baseball not enough to explode but just enough to give it enough of an edge to break the glued together cups. The carnie was scratching his head and commented on the fact that he had one hell of an arm when he had passed over the stuffed animal to Rogue. Rogue had said she loved the bunny because it reminded her of him. He didn't see a resemblance and didn't know if he liked being compared to a bunny but to see that light in her eyes silenced any argument from him. Seeing that she had kept the stuffed bunny made him feel better for some reason he couldn't put a finger on. But the bunny looked sadder then he remembered him looking the bunny must miss her too. Shoot, the bunny got to sleep curled up next to Rogue what he wouldn't give to be that bunny.
Suddenly Rogue's bedroom door opened and in stepped Storm. She looked surprised to see Gambit standing there and then noticed he was holding Rogue's bunny that he had won her. Storm's face softened as she walked up to him. She took the bunny silently from Gambit's hand and said, " The bunny's floppy ears reminded her of your hair. That's why Rogue saw a resemblance."
Gambit rubbed his hand through his hair subconsciously he could never get it to stay down like it was supposed to. Maybe he had given her an inferior bunny too?
"She loves the bunny's ears and she loves your hair. That wasn't the only resemblance she saw you know? You see that mischievous look in the rabbit's eyes? She said they reminded her of your eyes." Gambit swore sometimes Storm was psychic. She was one of the few people on earth who could read his thoughts so well. She was such a good friend but he hoped she wasn't just being nice to him like Bobby and them and had said. Gambit couldn't bring up the nerve to ask her if she really did want him gone. He didn't think he could deal with that right now. Rejection for another day he thought to himself. Storm unaware of his fears fell to a companionable silence as Remy contemplated what she said.
"What are you doing in here, Stormy?" Gambit asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Storm responded. Gambit started to speak and then stopped as Storm waved her hand in a motion that it was ok that she knew why he was in here. But still Gambit felt like he should say something but what he finally settled on was the truth.
"I miss her." Gambit said softly. Storm nodded sympatheticely.
"I have watered her flowers on the windowsill since her…departure. That's why I'm in here, besides feeling as though I am near her." Storm said. Gambit nodded and looked over to the windowsill with said flowers on them. They were so vibrant and healthy looking now that Stormy was caring for them it was a far cry from when Rogue was here. They were dying to say the least. He remembered teasing Rogue that for someone whose favorite color was green her thumb sure hadn't gotten the message and then she threw something at him. But she did that a lot.
"They sure look a lot healt'ier." Gambit stated.
"Yes, they do. I wouldn't have thought it possible. I thought they were dead for awhile but then there seemed to be something of a rebirth and now look at them and how healthy and beautiful they are." Storm said with a quiet smile. She picked up a picture off Rogue's nightstand. Gambit looked at the picture it was of him and Rogue. He had his arm around Rogue's waist and his head was over Rogue's left shoulder. They were both hamming it up for the camera with big smiles but you could tell that they were both genuinely happy. It was a moment in time captured forever.
"This is one of my favorite pictures of you. You two seem so happy. Your ever present, million dollar smile is there Remy but there's more. Your eyes are smiling too they look at peace. You look happy. You and Rogue have had your problems but you two have had good times too. If there is any way to make it work I hope you two do it. But I know if there is any way to make it work you will try." Storm said. Gambit nodded he didn't know what to say. Storm understood this and moved silently to the flowers, watered them and turned back to Gambit.
"Thanks Stormy." Gambit said.
"No problem. Please remember to close Rogue's door on the way out." Gambit nodded in response as Storm turned and shut the door behind her. Gambit surveyed the room again. Being a thief he was trained to watch for anything out of the ordinary. Something caught his eye that was sticking out from under her nightstand. He pulled it out and it was an envelope with what appeared to be a letter inside. The letter was addressed to Rogue from him. Gambit looked at the dating on the outside of the envelope and noticed it was dated shortly after he had been abandoned in Antartica. Gambit's face went pale, he hadn't sent her a letter during that time. So who had?
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Well what did you think? Are you enjoying this story? Again any characters you like and really want to see or just want to see more of? Please review I really appreciate it!