FYI:
~Personal thoughts~
ESP
"Normal Conversation (Duh)"
{Musical Lyrics}
Love Me When I'm Gone--3 Doors Down
GAMBIT
{There's Another World Inside Of Me That You May Never See
There's Secrets In This Life That I Can't Hide}
We finally reached the shore and I led her to a large rock where we sat down. I continued holding her, but I was having trouble thinking of anyt'ing to say to her, which was hard to believe considering I hardly ever shut up. I was still having trouble deciding how to answer her question. It wasn't often people asked about my past.
{Somewhere In This Darkness, There's A Light That I Can't Find
Well, Maybe It's Too Far Away, Maybe I'm Just Blind…Maybe I'm Just Blind}
"Well, you already know I used to work for Magneto. What else could there be to know."
{So Hold Me When I'm Here, Love Me When I'm Wrong
Hold Me When I'm Scared, And Love Me When I'm Gone}
"What about before that? Ya must have a family, a home, something." She looked at me with hopeful emerald eyes. ~How can I say no to her when all she wants is to know me better? I'll give her the condensed version, the less she knows the better it is for her.~
{Everything I Am And Everything In Me, Wants To Be The One You Wanted Me To Be
I've Never Let You Down, Even If I Could, I'd Give Up Everything If Only For Your Good}
"I don't know my real parents, because I grew up in a band of pickpockets. Eventually I was adopted by Jean-Luc LeBeau who then raised me inside his Guild of Thieves. They called me "le diable blanc" – the white devil because of my eyes. The man taught me everyt'ing I know…about stealing."
{So Hold Me When I'm Here, Love Me When I'm Wrong
You Can Hold Me When I'm Scared, I Won't Always Be There
So Love Me When I'm Gone…Love Me When I'm Gone}
I held her closer, I wanted her to know that I didn't just tell anyone my life story. She seemed to understand and leaned her head on my shoulder as I continued. "My powers developed t'ree years ago, t'at's when I started throwing cards and got the name Gambit. When I left New Orleans, I began working on my own and pulling bigger and bigger jobs. T'at was until Magneto offered me a job."
{When Your Education X-Ray And I see Under My Skin
I Won't Tell You A Damn Thing That I Could Not Tell My Friends}
~Even the condensed version has got to sound bad but she seems to be completely ent'ralled by my story. The attention's nice, but I wish I was getting it under better circumstances.~ "That's about it, Marie." I didn't tell her anymore than I would have trusted Piotr with. She didn't seem to like how brief my story was, but also seemed to understand that I wasn't ready to tell everyt'ing just yet. It was probably best that she didn't know that I was planning on never telling her everyt'ing.
{Roaming Through This Darkness I'm Alive But I'm Alone
Part Of Me Is Fighting This, But Part Of Me Is Gone}
"Will you still love me when I'm gone, Cheri?" She looked up at me puzzled.
"Where ya goin' Cajun?"
"No where right now."
WOLVERINE
"Kid, you in there." ~Where could that kid be, I know she didn't go with the others to that dance.~ "Come on Rogue, open up. Look, you've got 30 seconds to open this door before I come in." I used Charles' keys to open the door and went inside. She wasn't there, I had been afraid of that.
"Chuck, she's gone. Where is she?" I came storming into Charles' office without even knocking. I wanted answers and now. He was sitting behind his desk with his hands clasped beneath his chin--the picture of tranquility, and right now it was driving me nuts. "Come on Chuck, where is she?" He finally looked up at me and for the first time in all the years I'd known Charles, he looked worried.
"I can't locate her. It's as if some type of electric barrier is stopping me from reaching out to her."
"Magneto, I knew we weren't through with him yet." I turned to storm out of the room when Charles stopped me.
It's not Magneto.
Than who is it, Chuck?
Gambit.
ROGUE
We sat there for a long time while Ah watched the waves come up onto the shore. ~Ah still can't believe that Gambit trusted me with all of that. Ah don't think he's ever told anyone that stuff before. Maybe Ah can trust him too.~
"Mah real name is Marie D'Ancanto, but ever since Ah was little, everyone's called me Rogue. Ah lived in Caldecott county, Mississippi with mah father. We didn't get along so good, so Ah ran away when Ah was little. A woman named Raven Darkholme found me an' took me to live with her an' another lady named Irene…They're both mutants, Mystique an' Destiny. Ah lived with Irene up until last year…when 'it' happened. Ah was at a dance, an' we got bumped an' Ah got knocked down. When he tried to help me up, mah powers kicked in…an' Ah knocked him unconscious. Everything about him became a part of me…Ah didn't even know who Ah was anymore." Ah began crying a little as Ah continued talking. "Ah've never told anybody about all this." Ah looked up at him with tears in my eyes and he instinctively reached over and brushed the tears away with his hand.
"Oh, mah god! What did ya just do?!?!" Ah jumped away from him as if Ah had been shot. He had just touched mah face with his bare hand an' nothing had happened. Ah stood there staring at him an' he stared back at me trying to figure out what had just happened for himself. He looked down at his hands finally then back up at me. Ah walked away an' sat down in the sand huggin' mah knees. ~What just happened here. Why didn't Ah absorb him? Ah have before, so what happened this time?~ He walked over to me an' tried to help me to mah feet. Ah tried to ignore him but he was so damn persistent.
"Rogue come on, we'll figure this out. I'll take you back to the institute right now and we can talk to the professor. He'll know what to do." He was looking at me with worry written plainly on his face.
"Don't touch me, Ah could still hurt ya."
WOLVERINE
Sniffing the air I could smell him, a sickening combination of gumbo and aftershave. ~If he's hurt Rogue in any way, I'll kill him.~ I walked away from my motorcycle and down towards the shore. I could see them silhouetted by the water. She was sitting down crying and he was kneeling next to her talking to her. ~He's a dead man.~ I came up behind them and tackled Gambit. Baring my claws I held them to his throat, he was in shock that someone was attacking him.
"Logan, stop! Don't hurt him, please!" She was shouting through her tears as she tried to pull me off. "Let him go! Come on, Logan. He hasn't done anything. Just let him go!"
"Please Messiur. I was only trying to help her."
"You can help by shutting up, Gumbo. Now what's going on, Stripes?"
"Ah don't know! That's what Ah've been tryin' to tell ya."
"Did he try and hurt you?"
"No, please just let him go!"
Against my better judgement I let the creep back onto his feet and marched the two of them back up the road to the institute. If it wouldn't have been for Rogue being there, I'd probably have killed him on the spot.