Chapter 4: The Fight
"Remy was thinking, chere, and it seems that you don't have a pet name for him except for 'Swamp Rat' which isn't the most charming thing in the world," Remy said to Rogue one afternoon when they were reclining on the couch, Rogue's feet on his lap.
"Ah guess you're right, what do you want me to call you?" she asked.
"Remy doesn't know, think of something creative," he said.
"Okay, umm," she thought, "how about sugah?" she asked him.
"Sugah? No, why that? It sounds so.," he questioned.
"Ah like it," Rogue said, "It suits you, so sugah it will be, you can't change my mind," she laughed, removing her feet from his lap and sitting up.
"Aw, chere, can't you think of something more creative than that?" he begged her.
"Nope, and Ah won't change my mind no matter how much you beg or plead," she joked with him.
"Fine, you win," he said, giving up, knowing very well that when Rogue had her mind set on something there was no way of changing it.
"As it should be," she laughed, getting up she started to walk out of the room, she needed to move a little, she had been sitting there talking to Gambit for hours.
"Where you going chere?" he asked her, getting up to follow her.
"Ah need to walk around, Ah'm tired of sitting," she said.
"Can Remy come with you, chere?" he asked, coming up behind her, and putting his arms around her waist.
"Sugah, Ah think Ah need some alone time right now," she said, using her new pet name for him.
"But Remy doesn't want to leave you," he argued.
"Remy please." she started, "Ah just wanna be alone, Ah've been talking to you for hours." She was beginning to get annoyed with him wanting to be with her every waking second, he had been doing that since the day he got back. The moment he saw her at breakfast each morning, then he would go everywhere she went.
"Remy likes spending time with you, chere, we need to catch up, Remy hasn't talked or seen you in three months," he reminded her.
"You are really getting to me Cajun!" she screamed to him, using the name she only called him when she was upset with him, "All ya wanna do it talk to me! Ah have no time for anything else! So just leave me alone!" before he could answer, she stormed out the room, outside, so she could go on a walk, she need to be alone. Why walk, Rouge thought once she stepped out into the blistering cold and snow, Ah should just fly, at least then he can't follow me. After about ten minutes or so of flying, she had calmed down reasonably; she flew herself right into her room on the third floor. She found Kitty sitting on her bed, in her pajamas, reading a magazine.
"Feeling better?" Kitty asked nonchanantly, without looking up from her magazine.
How could she tell, Rogue thought, "Yeah, much, just had a lot of anger and stress going on there," she admitted.
"You I know, Remy, like, told me about it," Kitty said raising one eyebrow, keeping her voice calm and quiet.
"He told you?!" Rogue exclaimed at the sudden thought of Remy actually telling her stuff like that.
"Yeah, like, don't act so surprised, of course he'd, like, come to me, I'm like, you're best friend remember?" Kitty said, sounding very flat.
"Ah know that, but.what did he tell you?" she asked suddenly, she didn't know if she wanted Kitty to know some of the stuff her and Remy talked about.
"Only that you, like, totally blew up at him downstairs, about him spending so much time with you, since he got back," Kitty said, as she turned the page of her magazine.
Rogue couldn't take it anymore, she ripped the magazine out of Kitty's hands, tearing it in her frustration, "He.won't.leave.me.ALONE!" she yelled to Kitty, "Everywhere Ah go, everything Ah do he's there!! Ah can't do anything without him there!!" she screamed, now pacing the room, tearing the magazine more with each step.
"Calm down, sit down, and lets, like, talk this out like civilized people," Kitty said, pulling Rogue down onto her bed, so that she could look at her in the face, "Are you, like, seriously going to let this little thing ruin all you, like, have with him?" she asked demandingly.
"Ah know it's not that big of a deal to you, but Ah can't do anything anymore, Ah'm surprised he's not in here now, not leavin' me alone!" Rogue yelled, "Ah mean he's practically controlling my life though!"
"I understand that, but like, you tow have a lot to catch up on, he was gone three months without contact," Kitty reminded her.
"Ah know that, but Ah don't wanna spend every minute with him. Why can't we do it in intervals, Ah need to have some time to myself and with other people too," Rogue said, standing up and started pacing the room again.
"Why don't you try talking this out with him," Kitty suggested.
"Ah guess, Ah should, but Ah really need to have some time to think first," Rogue said, sitting back down, hard, on her bed, putting her Lincoln Park CD on and just sat there. It was about midnight when she put her music down, and changed into her pajamas. Kitty had gone to bed about an hour ago, because they had a danger room session the next morning. After Rouge removed all her make-up, she decided to get something to eat.
When she entered the kitchen only to find Remy leaning over a cup of coffer that had long been cold, his hair hung in his face, slightly mussed, his eyes were staring into the 'bottomless' pit of coffee. She knew had had heard her enter the room, but he did not move, nor look up.
Rogue walked over to the fridge pulling out two quarts of ice cream, one chocolate the other vanilla, and removed two spoons from the cabinet. Walking over to Remy, sitting down opposite of him, pulled off the lids of the ice cream containers, placing the vanilla in front of him with a spoon. She took his cup of coffee, got up, walking over to the sink rinsed it out and put it away, then returning to her seat across from Remy. He had accepted the ice cream, and was eating it slowly, still refusing to look up. Rogue stared at him, inquisitively, eating her chocolate ice cream. Finally she realized that he wasn't going to say anything, she had to make the first attempt.
"So." she began, "Ah'm sorry for blowing up at you earlier, but Ah can't spend every second with ya Remy, Ah wanna spend time with you, but not all the time. Ah need to spend time with my friends and for myself too," Rogue said quietly, eating a spoonful of her ice cream.
"Remy knows that, but Remy's missed ya so much, and want to be with you a lot for a while," Remy replied quietly, "Remy doesn't know how to explain this but, I love you, and Remy wants to spend time with you, Remy's sorry that he wants to be with you, I guess," he replied, his voice fading away, then suddenly he got a surge of rage in his body, he glared at her.
"Ah love you too Remy, but this isn't like you at all, the real Remy wouldn't want to spend so much time with me, he would let me have a normal life as well, but still talk to him whenever," Rogue said, her voice soothing.
"How would you know who the real Remy is, you've only known him.9 months!" Remy shouted, bolting out of his chair, now losing his temper fully, even though he knew she was right, that wasn't him at all, and he knew why.
"Because Ah know you better than anyone else here," she said plainly, he voice quaking, "Remy, Ah don't wanna fight with ya, Ah just wanna know why your acting this way," she sounded as if she was going to burst out into tears by the harshness of his voice, but she held the tears back.
Remy sat back down in his chair, and hit his head on the counter top, "Remy's got a lot on his mind right now, Bella Donna just doesn't seem to understand that Remy doesn't love her, and never has," he said breathing into the counter top.
"Well, you're back now, and she can't hurt you she wouldn't come up here just to do something like that," Rogue said, sounding more worried than confident.
"Remy's afraid she will, and will do something to you, chere, that's why Remy wants to spend as much time with you as he does, he doesn't want you to get hurt," Remy said looking at her.
"Ah don't understand, why would she do something like that?" she asked, as he took her gloved hand into his two hands.
"Because she knows Remy loves you, and she doesn't want that, so she thinks by hurting or killing you, chere, that Remy would love her again," Remy said, caressing her hand with his finger, she just gave him a confused look "she thinks that the way to get something is to kill or harm someone, because she's an assassin and that's the way she was brought up," Remy explained when he saw the confused look on Rogue's face.
"Ah.Ah should go to bed, danger room session tomorrow at 4am, remember?" with that she quickly got up and left the kitchen in a daze from the thought that something could happen to her at any second, something that could take her away from Remy.
"Good-night, mon chere amour," he whispered into the air after she left, putting the ice cream back in the freezer and went up to bed. He didn't want to be tired for tomorrow's danger room session; he didn't want to be beaten by one of Logan's surprises.
"Remy was thinking, chere, and it seems that you don't have a pet name for him except for 'Swamp Rat' which isn't the most charming thing in the world," Remy said to Rogue one afternoon when they were reclining on the couch, Rogue's feet on his lap.
"Ah guess you're right, what do you want me to call you?" she asked.
"Remy doesn't know, think of something creative," he said.
"Okay, umm," she thought, "how about sugah?" she asked him.
"Sugah? No, why that? It sounds so.," he questioned.
"Ah like it," Rogue said, "It suits you, so sugah it will be, you can't change my mind," she laughed, removing her feet from his lap and sitting up.
"Aw, chere, can't you think of something more creative than that?" he begged her.
"Nope, and Ah won't change my mind no matter how much you beg or plead," she joked with him.
"Fine, you win," he said, giving up, knowing very well that when Rogue had her mind set on something there was no way of changing it.
"As it should be," she laughed, getting up she started to walk out of the room, she needed to move a little, she had been sitting there talking to Gambit for hours.
"Where you going chere?" he asked her, getting up to follow her.
"Ah need to walk around, Ah'm tired of sitting," she said.
"Can Remy come with you, chere?" he asked, coming up behind her, and putting his arms around her waist.
"Sugah, Ah think Ah need some alone time right now," she said, using her new pet name for him.
"But Remy doesn't want to leave you," he argued.
"Remy please." she started, "Ah just wanna be alone, Ah've been talking to you for hours." She was beginning to get annoyed with him wanting to be with her every waking second, he had been doing that since the day he got back. The moment he saw her at breakfast each morning, then he would go everywhere she went.
"Remy likes spending time with you, chere, we need to catch up, Remy hasn't talked or seen you in three months," he reminded her.
"You are really getting to me Cajun!" she screamed to him, using the name she only called him when she was upset with him, "All ya wanna do it talk to me! Ah have no time for anything else! So just leave me alone!" before he could answer, she stormed out the room, outside, so she could go on a walk, she need to be alone. Why walk, Rouge thought once she stepped out into the blistering cold and snow, Ah should just fly, at least then he can't follow me. After about ten minutes or so of flying, she had calmed down reasonably; she flew herself right into her room on the third floor. She found Kitty sitting on her bed, in her pajamas, reading a magazine.
"Feeling better?" Kitty asked nonchanantly, without looking up from her magazine.
How could she tell, Rogue thought, "Yeah, much, just had a lot of anger and stress going on there," she admitted.
"You I know, Remy, like, told me about it," Kitty said raising one eyebrow, keeping her voice calm and quiet.
"He told you?!" Rogue exclaimed at the sudden thought of Remy actually telling her stuff like that.
"Yeah, like, don't act so surprised, of course he'd, like, come to me, I'm like, you're best friend remember?" Kitty said, sounding very flat.
"Ah know that, but.what did he tell you?" she asked suddenly, she didn't know if she wanted Kitty to know some of the stuff her and Remy talked about.
"Only that you, like, totally blew up at him downstairs, about him spending so much time with you, since he got back," Kitty said, as she turned the page of her magazine.
Rogue couldn't take it anymore, she ripped the magazine out of Kitty's hands, tearing it in her frustration, "He.won't.leave.me.ALONE!" she yelled to Kitty, "Everywhere Ah go, everything Ah do he's there!! Ah can't do anything without him there!!" she screamed, now pacing the room, tearing the magazine more with each step.
"Calm down, sit down, and lets, like, talk this out like civilized people," Kitty said, pulling Rogue down onto her bed, so that she could look at her in the face, "Are you, like, seriously going to let this little thing ruin all you, like, have with him?" she asked demandingly.
"Ah know it's not that big of a deal to you, but Ah can't do anything anymore, Ah'm surprised he's not in here now, not leavin' me alone!" Rogue yelled, "Ah mean he's practically controlling my life though!"
"I understand that, but like, you tow have a lot to catch up on, he was gone three months without contact," Kitty reminded her.
"Ah know that, but Ah don't wanna spend every minute with him. Why can't we do it in intervals, Ah need to have some time to myself and with other people too," Rogue said, standing up and started pacing the room again.
"Why don't you try talking this out with him," Kitty suggested.
"Ah guess, Ah should, but Ah really need to have some time to think first," Rogue said, sitting back down, hard, on her bed, putting her Lincoln Park CD on and just sat there. It was about midnight when she put her music down, and changed into her pajamas. Kitty had gone to bed about an hour ago, because they had a danger room session the next morning. After Rouge removed all her make-up, she decided to get something to eat.
When she entered the kitchen only to find Remy leaning over a cup of coffer that had long been cold, his hair hung in his face, slightly mussed, his eyes were staring into the 'bottomless' pit of coffee. She knew had had heard her enter the room, but he did not move, nor look up.
Rogue walked over to the fridge pulling out two quarts of ice cream, one chocolate the other vanilla, and removed two spoons from the cabinet. Walking over to Remy, sitting down opposite of him, pulled off the lids of the ice cream containers, placing the vanilla in front of him with a spoon. She took his cup of coffee, got up, walking over to the sink rinsed it out and put it away, then returning to her seat across from Remy. He had accepted the ice cream, and was eating it slowly, still refusing to look up. Rogue stared at him, inquisitively, eating her chocolate ice cream. Finally she realized that he wasn't going to say anything, she had to make the first attempt.
"So." she began, "Ah'm sorry for blowing up at you earlier, but Ah can't spend every second with ya Remy, Ah wanna spend time with you, but not all the time. Ah need to spend time with my friends and for myself too," Rogue said quietly, eating a spoonful of her ice cream.
"Remy knows that, but Remy's missed ya so much, and want to be with you a lot for a while," Remy replied quietly, "Remy doesn't know how to explain this but, I love you, and Remy wants to spend time with you, Remy's sorry that he wants to be with you, I guess," he replied, his voice fading away, then suddenly he got a surge of rage in his body, he glared at her.
"Ah love you too Remy, but this isn't like you at all, the real Remy wouldn't want to spend so much time with me, he would let me have a normal life as well, but still talk to him whenever," Rogue said, her voice soothing.
"How would you know who the real Remy is, you've only known him.9 months!" Remy shouted, bolting out of his chair, now losing his temper fully, even though he knew she was right, that wasn't him at all, and he knew why.
"Because Ah know you better than anyone else here," she said plainly, he voice quaking, "Remy, Ah don't wanna fight with ya, Ah just wanna know why your acting this way," she sounded as if she was going to burst out into tears by the harshness of his voice, but she held the tears back.
Remy sat back down in his chair, and hit his head on the counter top, "Remy's got a lot on his mind right now, Bella Donna just doesn't seem to understand that Remy doesn't love her, and never has," he said breathing into the counter top.
"Well, you're back now, and she can't hurt you she wouldn't come up here just to do something like that," Rogue said, sounding more worried than confident.
"Remy's afraid she will, and will do something to you, chere, that's why Remy wants to spend as much time with you as he does, he doesn't want you to get hurt," Remy said looking at her.
"Ah don't understand, why would she do something like that?" she asked, as he took her gloved hand into his two hands.
"Because she knows Remy loves you, and she doesn't want that, so she thinks by hurting or killing you, chere, that Remy would love her again," Remy said, caressing her hand with his finger, she just gave him a confused look "she thinks that the way to get something is to kill or harm someone, because she's an assassin and that's the way she was brought up," Remy explained when he saw the confused look on Rogue's face.
"Ah.Ah should go to bed, danger room session tomorrow at 4am, remember?" with that she quickly got up and left the kitchen in a daze from the thought that something could happen to her at any second, something that could take her away from Remy.
"Good-night, mon chere amour," he whispered into the air after she left, putting the ice cream back in the freezer and went up to bed. He didn't want to be tired for tomorrow's danger room session; he didn't want to be beaten by one of Logan's surprises.