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Gambit stared at the package as if his eyes were gonna bore a hole through it and reveal the contents inside. Gambit finally decided to quit eyeing the package and to look at something else and began staring out the window of the blackbird again.

Everyone was pretty silent on the trip home, which was just fine by Gambit he didn't feel like talking. His mind wandered to the places he had traveled to and through after he had returned from Antarctica but before he had returned to the x-men. He for the life of him never remembered going to Colorado much less that club.

Storm had radioed ahead and spoken to Cyclops about their discovery and what had happened at the club. Gambit had pretended not to listen as Cyclops questioned Storm about the incident. Gambit knew Storm knew he could hear them but he pretended mainly because Iceman was observing his every reaction and Gambit didn't want to give him any fuel. Gambit noticed that Cyclop's voice took on a neutral tone when Storm had explained that he didn't remember ever being at the club or that he didn't know the bartender but yet the bartender recognized him and knew his name. Gambit winced inwardly he wouldn't believe it either.

He watched silently as Storm pulled into the hangar and parked the blackbird. Gambit exited the blackbird dejectedly alongside his fellow teammates, well currently they were his teammates but the way things were looking it may be ex-teammates before he knew it. They all headed towards the war room.

Everyone took his or her seat around the table and waited as Cyclops ran some shiar security devices over it to make sure it wasn't a bomb or anything. Gambit looked around the room seeing Psylocke on duty at Cerebro still scanning for Rogue and the rest of the x-men were gathered around the table waiting for Cyclops to bring over the package. Cyclops walked over with the package and laid it on the table he looked around the room to see if everyone was there and everyone who was a current member was. Jean nodded at Cyclops as if to give the go ahead to open the box. Cyclops nodded back and without another word opened the package. Cyclops face went white and he then seemed to try and compose himself.

"What is it?" Iceman said a little louder then he meant to.

Cyclops reached into the box and pulled out one of Rogue's gloves and it was covered in blood. Instantly chaos broke out all over the room. Iceman jumped up from his chair and started yelling at Gambit, "What did you do to her?! Where is she?!" Most of the assembled x-men stared at the glove and then to Gambit.

Gambit when he had seen the glove felt completely numb he just sat back in his chair with utter horror. He couldn't have hurt Rogue! Where was Rogue? Was she dead? He was brought back to reality when Iceman grabbed his collar and continued screaming in his face. Another time if Bobby had done that Gambit would have dropped kicked him to the floor but after receiving this news Gambit was just in shock and sat there.

"Bobby stop! Sit down!" Cyclops commanded.

"He killed Rogue!" Iceman shouted.

"We don't know that. Rogue may still be alive and besides I personally want to hear from Gambit. Everyone sit down and I want Gambit to explain this whatever the connection." Cyclops said firmly. Gambit looked up at Cyclops as if he had just remembered his name.

"Spill Gumbo." Wolverine growled out. Gambit looked at Wolverine and then to Storm. Storm looked shocked and somewhat afraid as she said gently, "Go on Remy what do you know?" Gambit glanced up at her gaze and then looked down quickly. If she didn't hate him before she did now. Gambit took a steadying breathe before speaking and then he said, "I don't know anything." Immediately shouting broke out again.

"Silence! We are never going to get to the bottom of this with everyone fighting." Cyclops shouted all this bickering was only wasting time. Gambit just wanted to put his head in his hands but he fought that reaction.

"Remy, you are telling us you have never been to that club?" Storm pressed.

"No, I haven't." Gambit said feeling defeated judging by the looks all directed at him from around the room.

"Yeah and he's never been in the morlock tunnels either." Angel said incredulously.

"Silence I only want to hear from Gambit right now. Gambit, have you ever heard of that club before the mission you guys just went on?" Cyclops asked.

"No." Gambit stated shaking his head no for emphasis.

"Unbelievable! Your caught Gambit just admit it." Iceman said in a seething manner.

"Enough Iceman! You're not helping. We all want to get to the bottom of this. Now let me question Gambit. Gambit, I want complete honesty here alright? Gambit, how do you know the bartender?" Cyclops questioned.

"I never saw him before today." Gambit said firmly. Wolverine eyed Gambit closely before speaking, "Let me smell the glove." Cyclops passed the glove over to Wolverine and he sniffed it. He concentrated as if he was picking between scents and then said, "I smell Rogue, I do smell the Cajun, but I smell someone else I don't recognize. That's all I can pick up." Wolverine passed the glove back towards Cyclops. Wolverine looked back over at Gambit and seemed a little more reserved then he had earlier. Cyclops took the glove back from Wolverine and said, "Gambit maybe you should look at this and see if theres anything it reminds you of?"

Gambit took the glove from Cyclops and held it delicately in his hands there was so much blood. He had to bite his lip to control the wave of emotions that were pumping through him right now, even so his eyes teared up and his voice broke as he said pulling the tag inside out, "These are the gloves I bought Rogue at a specialty shop."

"What's so special about them they look like all her other gloves?" Iceman said angrily.

"The outside is made of leather but the inside is silky its soft on her skin. She loved them so much she had told me she would only wear them for special occasions." Gambit stopped speaking and began looking down again this seemed so unreal.

"Well apparently she thought this was a special occasion." Jean said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, she was going to meet him and she was always blind to his faults!" Iceman said angrily pointing to Gambit.

"Iceman stop throwing out accusations. Please pass the glove back Gambit." Cyclops said. Gambit complied and handed it slowly to Cyclops. Cyclops took the glove and was putting the glove back into the box when he noticed something in the bottom of the box in the corner. Cyclops picked it up it was a tiny black bag. Everyone around the table stared up at it in surprise. Cyclops opened the bag and pulled out a key and a note. Cyclops opened the note and read it silently and then said it aloud, "It's an address for a public storage garage." Cyclops looked over at Storm and she nodded.

"Everyone out and get the blackbird gassed up. Storm and I will pick the team." Cyclops stated.

"Well aren't you going to lock him up?" Archangel said broken from his reverie.

"Were going to investigate this before we do anything rash." Cyclops stated.

"What more proof do you need? He killed the morlocks and he killed Rogue!" Angel shouted standing up from his chair.

"Angel, we are going to investigate this if he did it he will be dealt with. But if you ask me its just a little too convenient that Gambit delivered us to Rogue's bloody glove when he caused it." Cyclops said.

"What are you talking about it? He denies being at the club, he denies knowing the bartender and the bartender knew him, he's obviously lying." Iceman jumped in.

"Yes, that is strange I'm not denying that. But we are in the business of strange so I will give him the benefit of the doubt until we have something more. Besides aren't you forgetting that it was Gambit who brought us the letter that led us to the club in the first place? If it wasn't for Gambit we wouldn't even know Rogue was in trouble." Cyclops explained.

"Well, maybe he just did that to look like the hero. So he would look innocent to us when we found Rogue's glove. You know how conniving he is." Angel stated angrily glaring at Gambit. Gambit had watched the exchange silently not sure what was gonna happen.

"Look, we are burning daylight. Gambit will be with another x-men at all times just in case he thinks about running off. In the meantime we will see what this public storage produces. Also since Beast is away we will send the glove with the blood on it to be tested and compared to Rogue's DNA profile. Just to make sure it is hers. Go now there will be no more discussing this." Cyclops finished.

"Word of advice Gambit, watch your back!" Angel declared.

"Word of advice Angel, nothing is to happen to Gambit." Cyclops stated. Angel responded by glaring as he stomped out of the room with the rest of the x-men. Gambit walked to the rec. room and sat down silently on the couch. The rest of the x-men wandered in and sat in various places around the room. Gambit pretended to be watching the TV but in all honesty he could feel everybody's stares on him. He was relieved when Storm and Cyclops returned and announced the team going. The team was Cyclops, Gambit, Wolverine, and Angel. He really wasn't that surprised when he found out he was going he figured Cyclops personally wanted to keep an eye on him just in case he thought of running. He watched as Cyclops took Wolverine aside and spoke to him. Gambit figured Cyke was asking Wolvie to keep watch on him. He probably figured he would feel the least threatened by him as far as being on friendly terms with people on the team. That and Wolverine would be a formidable opponent to contend with if he attempted to leave. Sure enough Wolverine seemed to follow Gambit wherever he went.

Once they got into the blackbird they arrived at the public storage address pretty quickly. They walked silently towards the garage.

"So what did you put in here?" Angel popped off looking directly at Gambit. Gambit simply ignored him as the storage unit was opened. At first darkness was all they could see, then they saw a trunk at the back of the garage. The lid was popped off and inside was a small diary. Cyclops opened the diary and on the first page there was writing.

"What does it say?" Wolverine asked.

"Her kiss causes pain now she suffers just the same." Cyclops turned the page, then he turned another page then another one he shut it and said. "It looks like it says the same thing on each page." Suddenly Wolverine sniffed the air and looked behind them, "I smell the other scent I picked up on Rogue's glove the person is watching us." Instantly behind them they heard running the x-men turned and ran after the fleeing person. Gambit was intent on finding out who it was and more importantly where Rogue was. ****************************************************************************

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