CHAPTER 17
Rogue&Remy Sittin' in a Tree
".And after I slipped I fell on my head and the next thing I knew I was getting mouth-to-mouth by some guy." Kitty said to the others.
"Some guy that happened to be the enemy." Scott put in.
"The very cute, good looking enemy." Tabitha added as the girls all giggled.
"Hey Tabby you'd better not get any ideas." Amara said playfully.
"Exactly." Scott agreed.
"Yeah, all the girls know Kitty's already called dibs on the metal man." Amara continued.
Scott rolled his eyes.
"Mutants that want to take over the world I get. Humans fearing and hating said mutants I get. But teenage girls I will never ever get!" Scott said before standing up and walking into the kitchen.
"Amara! I so do not like him. He's the bad guy remember?" Kitty asked.
"That's not what it looked like fro, where we were standin lass." Rahne added in her Scottish accent.
"Yeah. Don't try to deny it. We all saw the look on your face when you realized he'd been kissing you." Jubilee pointed out.
"This coming from the girl who spent the day flirting with Bobby." Chloe piped in.
They all got quiet and looked at Jubilee who was blushing furiously and then Bobby walked in with the guys and they all started giggling again.
Bobby looked at them with a puzzled look on his face.
"What?" He asked the girls.
"Nothing!" They all said in unison and began giggling again before getting up and walking to one of the girl's rooms.
"What was that about?" Sun Spot asked.
"Who knows. Probably something about clothes or hair or whatever." Bobby said, walking across the room to the pool table.
Before the girls got too giggly they were all sitting in the rec room lounging around and listening to Kitty's story. All except one Goth girl.
Remy had been shuffling cards in a chair while Kitty and the girls were chatting. They didn't seem to care that he was in the room.
Gambit smirked to himself. Piotr would surely die if he knew he was a main topic in a teenage girl's conversation.
He slipped out the sliding doors and closed in quietly behind him.
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Rogue sat up in the tree, staring up into the bright, star scattered sky through the parted leaves. She leaned back on the sturdy branch and crossed her arms over her chest.
She was now just about laying on the thick branch, looking up at the stars. She traced the conciliations with her fingers pointing toward the stars and savored the silence besides the crickets chirping and frogs croaking somewhere around her.
The girl couldn't get rid of the horrible, heart aching feeling that she had felt that afternoon at the beech when she saw Kitty breathing after her knock on the head.
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Remy looked around the grounds in search of Rogue. He had a feeling she didn't want to talk, and if she wanted to be alone, she'd find a way to be alone. All he had to do now was find where she was hiding.
"Who knew Remy'd be playin hide an' seek wit de fcemmes at his age?" He thought aloud.
This was indeed a game of hide and seek to him. Rogue had hidden, and now it was his turn to find her.
"Now where be dat fille." He questioned aloud. He'd already looked everywhere he could think of. Maybe she'd left the institute and was just out somewhere.
Remy was about to go looking inside when he spotted a single leaf fall from a tree that was surrounded by one of Storm's gardens.
"Leaves fall off de trees in de fall but it be spring." He said, the grin on his face spreading.
"Gotcha." He said strolling over to the tree that was shedding it's leaves during the wrong season.
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Rogue sighed, closing her eyes. It was so peaceful here, but she still couldn't get the thoughts out of her mind that had been plaguing her sense the afternoon.
She tuned out the crickets and the other sounds nature was making. She started to drift asleep when she heard a twig snap.
She jerked her head up to see what it was. She looked around underneath her at the bottom of the tree but saw nothing. The Goth figured she was just being paranoid and that a squirl had probably been the cause of the noise.
She closed her eyes again and tried to empty her thoughts from her head.
"Why ya out here all by yo' lonesome chere?" The newcomer asked her.
His breath was so close to her ear she could feel it. She jerked herself up and nearly fell out of the tree in the process.
She gasped at his arrival, not expecting anyone to be there with her.
"Damn it Cajun! Ah sware yer gonna end up killin meh from shock if ya keep sneakin up on meh like that!" She scolded him.
" Unless o'course Ah kill ya first." Rogue added with a playfully evil smirk.
"Oh sorry chere, did Remy scare ya?" He asked.
"Hell yea.Ah mean no! Its just that Ah wasn't expectin anybody." She said coolly.
"Mmhm." Remy looked skeptically at her.
"Ah'm gonna have ta get ya one o' those cow bells or somethin' like people get their cats ta wear so they know where they are." She commented.
"Remy'd love any gift from you chere." He said smoothly.
"Why are ya out here anyway?" She questioned.
"Remy believes he asked ya dat question first petite." He said, changing the subject back to his original question.
"Non o' yer business Swamp Rat." She shot back, readjusting her position on the tree limb so she wouldn't fall off.
"Now chere, Remy jus' wanna talk wit ya. He can' help it. He's curious." Remy said, pouting at her.
"Yeah well, didn' anyone ever tell ya? Curiosity killed the Cajun." She shot back, avoiding the question.
Remy sighed and draped his arm around her as she dangled her legs off the branch. To his surprise she didn't move away.
"Now tell Remy what dis be all about. What's upsettin mon chere?" He asked. Rogue didn't look at him, but she noticed that he sounded like he was actually sincere in his feelings. Like he really wanted to know and to help.
She took a deep breath and exhaled it before continuing. "Well." She started, not sure how to say what she was about to say.
"Oui?" He asked patiently.
"Its just that.when Ah saw Kitty there, she looked so lifeless an' all." Rogue said.
Remy nodded his head in understanding, knowing that seeing her friend face near death was not the thing that was upsetting her because they'd had to deal with that every time they went on a mission.
"And.and Ah was just thinkin'." She began.
"Tinkin bout what chere?" He asked curiously.
"Thinkin that.that what if it was different? What if Ah was the one that was there and Ah was the only one that was able ta save her. If Collosus hadn't gotten to her when he did she'd have been.ya know." She explained, not wanting to finish.
Remy nodded in agreement again.
"And what if Chloe found meh instead? What if Ah was the only one that could save her and we wouldn't have had time to get the others? What if Chloe wasn't there and Ah was thah only one that could save her?" Rogue asked, looking Remy in the face, as if she were waiting for an answer to her questions.
"What if dat happened den? You'd be fine savin her if ya had ta." He said, pulling her closer comfortingly.
"No. No ya don't get it!" She said a little louder then her tone was before.
"Den tell Remy chere. Tell him what he don't get." He said.
"If Ah was there and was thah only one there then she'd be dead. She'd be dead cause Ah.Cause Ah couldn't help her. Ah couldn't touch her or give her resesitation like Colossus did back there. If Ah tried Ah'd end up killin her, not savin her." She said to him in frustration.
Remy looked at the girl next to him. He'd realized what she was afraid of. She couldn't touch her friends if they needed her to. She was feeling useless.
He stroked her hair gently as she rested her head on his clothed chest. "Ah feel so stupid fer feelin' this way but ah.Ah just can't help it." She told him.
"S'okay chere. Remy's here fo' ya." He said, letting her rest on his body.
"But y' need ta know petite, dat de X-men.dey yo' family an' dey love ya no matta what ya can and can't do." He assured her.
"Ah know. And Ah keep telling mahself that but.but what if something like that really does happen and the only way ta save em' would be ta touch em?" She asked, looking up into his red on black eyes. Her green orbs shimmered like jewels in the moonlight.
"Chere if Remy know anyting bout you it be dat ya don' not do sometin jus' cause ya powas get in de way. His chere always finds a way aroun' her ability. Dats one o' de tings he likes bout her. She neva gives up." He said into her ear.
Her heart fluttered a little and she looked away from him, hiding her blush.
"Chere ya blushin." He said to her, smirking.
"No I aint. Ah'm just..getting warm out here." She said quickly.
"Sure mon petite. What eva ya say." He said, grinning at her.
"Ah think maybe ya should use up that free date Ah said Ah'd give ya tonight" She said after a minute.
"Why is dat?" He asked, curious because the girl was trying to get him to forget about the date she'd been conned into the previous week.
"Cause Ah just remembered somethin" She said, grabbing her stomach.
"An' dat would be?" He asked, confused.
"Tonight's Kitty's night ta make dinner." She said.
They both shuddered a little at the memory of Kitty's last creation. They still weren't quite sure what it was that they'd been forced to eat but they knew it was going to get them back later on in the night.
"Well den how bout you go get yo'self ready an' Remy be waitin fo' ya downstairs." He said, lifting her up and setting her down on the ground near the blooming flowers.
"Fine.but nowhere fancy. Ah just wanna have some fun tonight alright?" She told him.
"Alright chere. Remy promises ta keep it casual sense ya gonna dress ta way he supposes." He said, looking her up and down.
"Yeah fine, you can stop lookin' now." She said, trying to make eye contact.
"Yeah but what fun would dat be?" He asked, still looking at her figure.
She rolled her eyes and threw an acorn at his head.
They both laughed and she walked back to the mansion to go get dressed and he watched her backside the entire time until she closed the door and was out of sight.
Remy grinned and walked into the mansion the same direction she'd gone in.
"Now fo' de hard part. Ta get trough dis witout de entire male half o' de team goin big brotha on him." He said to himself, reaching the door and entering the house.
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Rogue&Remy Sittin' in a Tree
".And after I slipped I fell on my head and the next thing I knew I was getting mouth-to-mouth by some guy." Kitty said to the others.
"Some guy that happened to be the enemy." Scott put in.
"The very cute, good looking enemy." Tabitha added as the girls all giggled.
"Hey Tabby you'd better not get any ideas." Amara said playfully.
"Exactly." Scott agreed.
"Yeah, all the girls know Kitty's already called dibs on the metal man." Amara continued.
Scott rolled his eyes.
"Mutants that want to take over the world I get. Humans fearing and hating said mutants I get. But teenage girls I will never ever get!" Scott said before standing up and walking into the kitchen.
"Amara! I so do not like him. He's the bad guy remember?" Kitty asked.
"That's not what it looked like fro, where we were standin lass." Rahne added in her Scottish accent.
"Yeah. Don't try to deny it. We all saw the look on your face when you realized he'd been kissing you." Jubilee pointed out.
"This coming from the girl who spent the day flirting with Bobby." Chloe piped in.
They all got quiet and looked at Jubilee who was blushing furiously and then Bobby walked in with the guys and they all started giggling again.
Bobby looked at them with a puzzled look on his face.
"What?" He asked the girls.
"Nothing!" They all said in unison and began giggling again before getting up and walking to one of the girl's rooms.
"What was that about?" Sun Spot asked.
"Who knows. Probably something about clothes or hair or whatever." Bobby said, walking across the room to the pool table.
Before the girls got too giggly they were all sitting in the rec room lounging around and listening to Kitty's story. All except one Goth girl.
Remy had been shuffling cards in a chair while Kitty and the girls were chatting. They didn't seem to care that he was in the room.
Gambit smirked to himself. Piotr would surely die if he knew he was a main topic in a teenage girl's conversation.
He slipped out the sliding doors and closed in quietly behind him.
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Rogue sat up in the tree, staring up into the bright, star scattered sky through the parted leaves. She leaned back on the sturdy branch and crossed her arms over her chest.
She was now just about laying on the thick branch, looking up at the stars. She traced the conciliations with her fingers pointing toward the stars and savored the silence besides the crickets chirping and frogs croaking somewhere around her.
The girl couldn't get rid of the horrible, heart aching feeling that she had felt that afternoon at the beech when she saw Kitty breathing after her knock on the head.
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Remy looked around the grounds in search of Rogue. He had a feeling she didn't want to talk, and if she wanted to be alone, she'd find a way to be alone. All he had to do now was find where she was hiding.
"Who knew Remy'd be playin hide an' seek wit de fcemmes at his age?" He thought aloud.
This was indeed a game of hide and seek to him. Rogue had hidden, and now it was his turn to find her.
"Now where be dat fille." He questioned aloud. He'd already looked everywhere he could think of. Maybe she'd left the institute and was just out somewhere.
Remy was about to go looking inside when he spotted a single leaf fall from a tree that was surrounded by one of Storm's gardens.
"Leaves fall off de trees in de fall but it be spring." He said, the grin on his face spreading.
"Gotcha." He said strolling over to the tree that was shedding it's leaves during the wrong season.
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Rogue sighed, closing her eyes. It was so peaceful here, but she still couldn't get the thoughts out of her mind that had been plaguing her sense the afternoon.
She tuned out the crickets and the other sounds nature was making. She started to drift asleep when she heard a twig snap.
She jerked her head up to see what it was. She looked around underneath her at the bottom of the tree but saw nothing. The Goth figured she was just being paranoid and that a squirl had probably been the cause of the noise.
She closed her eyes again and tried to empty her thoughts from her head.
"Why ya out here all by yo' lonesome chere?" The newcomer asked her.
His breath was so close to her ear she could feel it. She jerked herself up and nearly fell out of the tree in the process.
She gasped at his arrival, not expecting anyone to be there with her.
"Damn it Cajun! Ah sware yer gonna end up killin meh from shock if ya keep sneakin up on meh like that!" She scolded him.
" Unless o'course Ah kill ya first." Rogue added with a playfully evil smirk.
"Oh sorry chere, did Remy scare ya?" He asked.
"Hell yea.Ah mean no! Its just that Ah wasn't expectin anybody." She said coolly.
"Mmhm." Remy looked skeptically at her.
"Ah'm gonna have ta get ya one o' those cow bells or somethin' like people get their cats ta wear so they know where they are." She commented.
"Remy'd love any gift from you chere." He said smoothly.
"Why are ya out here anyway?" She questioned.
"Remy believes he asked ya dat question first petite." He said, changing the subject back to his original question.
"Non o' yer business Swamp Rat." She shot back, readjusting her position on the tree limb so she wouldn't fall off.
"Now chere, Remy jus' wanna talk wit ya. He can' help it. He's curious." Remy said, pouting at her.
"Yeah well, didn' anyone ever tell ya? Curiosity killed the Cajun." She shot back, avoiding the question.
Remy sighed and draped his arm around her as she dangled her legs off the branch. To his surprise she didn't move away.
"Now tell Remy what dis be all about. What's upsettin mon chere?" He asked. Rogue didn't look at him, but she noticed that he sounded like he was actually sincere in his feelings. Like he really wanted to know and to help.
She took a deep breath and exhaled it before continuing. "Well." She started, not sure how to say what she was about to say.
"Oui?" He asked patiently.
"Its just that.when Ah saw Kitty there, she looked so lifeless an' all." Rogue said.
Remy nodded his head in understanding, knowing that seeing her friend face near death was not the thing that was upsetting her because they'd had to deal with that every time they went on a mission.
"And.and Ah was just thinkin'." She began.
"Tinkin bout what chere?" He asked curiously.
"Thinkin that.that what if it was different? What if Ah was the one that was there and Ah was the only one that was able ta save her. If Collosus hadn't gotten to her when he did she'd have been.ya know." She explained, not wanting to finish.
Remy nodded in agreement again.
"And what if Chloe found meh instead? What if Ah was the only one that could save her and we wouldn't have had time to get the others? What if Chloe wasn't there and Ah was thah only one that could save her?" Rogue asked, looking Remy in the face, as if she were waiting for an answer to her questions.
"What if dat happened den? You'd be fine savin her if ya had ta." He said, pulling her closer comfortingly.
"No. No ya don't get it!" She said a little louder then her tone was before.
"Den tell Remy chere. Tell him what he don't get." He said.
"If Ah was there and was thah only one there then she'd be dead. She'd be dead cause Ah.Cause Ah couldn't help her. Ah couldn't touch her or give her resesitation like Colossus did back there. If Ah tried Ah'd end up killin her, not savin her." She said to him in frustration.
Remy looked at the girl next to him. He'd realized what she was afraid of. She couldn't touch her friends if they needed her to. She was feeling useless.
He stroked her hair gently as she rested her head on his clothed chest. "Ah feel so stupid fer feelin' this way but ah.Ah just can't help it." She told him.
"S'okay chere. Remy's here fo' ya." He said, letting her rest on his body.
"But y' need ta know petite, dat de X-men.dey yo' family an' dey love ya no matta what ya can and can't do." He assured her.
"Ah know. And Ah keep telling mahself that but.but what if something like that really does happen and the only way ta save em' would be ta touch em?" She asked, looking up into his red on black eyes. Her green orbs shimmered like jewels in the moonlight.
"Chere if Remy know anyting bout you it be dat ya don' not do sometin jus' cause ya powas get in de way. His chere always finds a way aroun' her ability. Dats one o' de tings he likes bout her. She neva gives up." He said into her ear.
Her heart fluttered a little and she looked away from him, hiding her blush.
"Chere ya blushin." He said to her, smirking.
"No I aint. Ah'm just..getting warm out here." She said quickly.
"Sure mon petite. What eva ya say." He said, grinning at her.
"Ah think maybe ya should use up that free date Ah said Ah'd give ya tonight" She said after a minute.
"Why is dat?" He asked, curious because the girl was trying to get him to forget about the date she'd been conned into the previous week.
"Cause Ah just remembered somethin" She said, grabbing her stomach.
"An' dat would be?" He asked, confused.
"Tonight's Kitty's night ta make dinner." She said.
They both shuddered a little at the memory of Kitty's last creation. They still weren't quite sure what it was that they'd been forced to eat but they knew it was going to get them back later on in the night.
"Well den how bout you go get yo'self ready an' Remy be waitin fo' ya downstairs." He said, lifting her up and setting her down on the ground near the blooming flowers.
"Fine.but nowhere fancy. Ah just wanna have some fun tonight alright?" She told him.
"Alright chere. Remy promises ta keep it casual sense ya gonna dress ta way he supposes." He said, looking her up and down.
"Yeah fine, you can stop lookin' now." She said, trying to make eye contact.
"Yeah but what fun would dat be?" He asked, still looking at her figure.
She rolled her eyes and threw an acorn at his head.
They both laughed and she walked back to the mansion to go get dressed and he watched her backside the entire time until she closed the door and was out of sight.
Remy grinned and walked into the mansion the same direction she'd gone in.
"Now fo' de hard part. Ta get trough dis witout de entire male half o' de team goin big brotha on him." He said to himself, reaching the door and entering the house.
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