CHAPTER 18
Preparations
"Rogue I'm so not letting you get out of trying out my new creation for dinner without a decent reason." Kitty stated firmly.
"Kitty Ah can't tell ya. Its not like I really wanna go and do this anyways. Ah don't really have a choice." Rogue answered, trying to keep her voice down.
"Like what's going on Rogue? Tell me!" Kitty persisted.
"Fine. But only if ya promise Ah can skip dinner without ya makin a huge seen about it." Rogue stated.
Kitty nodded her head in agreement and waited for the excuse.
Rogue dragged her over closer to the bed and sat down with her.
"Well ya rememba when Remy was in tha med lab a week ago?" Rogue began.
Kitty nodded her head with a yes.
"Well when he was there Ah kinda let mah emotions get thah best a me and Ah promised him a date if he recovered." She explained.
Kitty's jaw dropped five inches.
"How was Ah supposed ta know the damn Cajun was awake when Ah said it?" She asked hastily at the look her roommate was giving her.
"So now Ah gotta go out on this date and get it over with. Ah've been tryin ta avoid it all week but ya know how damn stubborn that boy is." Rogue finished.
Kitty just stared at her in awe.
"Well? Aint ya gonna say anything?" Rogue asked, a little irritated that she was having to wait for her friend's reaction.
"YOUR GOING ON A DATE WITH REMY!?!?!?" Kitty squealed out loudly in shock after a few more seconds of silence.
The rest of the younger girls who were still in the room, but looking through magazines to see which was cuter, Orlando Bloom or Tom Welling, looked up from their activity with their eyes widening and shock painted on their faces at the Valley girl's outburst.
"No way!" Tabby blurted out, rushing over to Rogue who was turning scarlet.
"Rogue is this true? Are you actually hooking up with Remy?" Jubilee asked, running over with Tabby as the two jumped onto the bed.
The rest of the girls giggled and squealed excitedly and joined Rogue as well.
Rogue felt more then a little uncomfortable as the discussion of the room suddenly turned to her date.
"Do we really have ta talk about this?" Rogue asked warily. She wasn't up for a gossip fest with the rest of the X-girls.
"YES!" They all shouted back at her.
"Guys come on, we like shouldn't make Rogue talk about this now." Kitty told them all.
"Thanks Kit." Rogue said, a little surprised that Kitty of all people was the one who was putting a stop to the girly, boy-crazy madness in the room.
"We so like don't have time for her to answer all your questions. We've got to like get her ready for her big date!" Kitty continued. "Plus I'm sure Rogue will have a lot more to tell us when she gets back from the date." Kitty said logically.
Rogue rolled her eyes and slapped her hand to her eyes. 'Ah should have known.' She thought, flopping backwards onto her pillow and laying there limply.
Everyone was chattering and going through Rogue's clothing selection and looking through magazines for a good idea on how she should wear her hair that they didn't notice when as soon as Kitty blurted out the news of the date and everyone ran over to them, Chloe stood alone with a somber, pained look in her eyes and on her face before she solemnly walked out of the room.
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"Hey Gambit why'd ya change your clothes again?" You turning girl on us or something? Bobby teased.
The other boys and men looked up from their activities to see what Drake was talking about.
"Non, Gambit jus' felt like changin is all." Remy answered simply.
"You goin out or somethin Cajun?" Logan asked, seeing the boy fingering his keys.
"Oui. At least Remy tinks so." He replied, sitting down in the recliner.
Scott and Kurt exchanged quizzical looks as the others just stared at the Cajun bluntly.
"What's with the rose Cajun?" Logan growled, sniffing the air.
Remy pulled the long stemmed white rose out from under his coat wich was sitting on the table and twirled it in his hand.
This perked the curiosity of all the boys in the room immensely.
"You taking out a girl of something?" Scott inquired.
"Oui." Remy answered without saying anything else.
"Sooo..vhich vone of ze girls are you taking out?' Kurt asked.
Gambit coughed and avoided Kurt's eyes.
Scott got the picture. He didn't want the picture, but he got it.
"Uh.Kurt why don't we go play some one on one outside." Evan suggested, picking up a basketball and spinning it with one finger.
"Sounds good to me." Kurt said, walking out the door with Evan.
"What was that about?" Logan asked Scott.
"Huh? Nothing. Hey Logan wasn't there supposed to be a training session with the newer recruits." Scott suggested.
The younger boys all glared at Scott.
"No. What are you hiding? Logan asked.
Remy sat uncomfortably in his seat. How long was she going to be? He really didn't want to be hearing a lecture from Logan.
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"What about this scarf with this purple crop top?" Jubilee suggested.
"No I think she'd look better in the gray tank top and the matching scarf." Amara said, holding it up to the Goth who was looking annoyed.
"Forget that. What about a bottom? Jeans? Skirt? Leather?" Tabby asked taking random clothes out of the closet and piling them in Kitty's arms.
"Will ya'll calm down already? It's a date, not a fashion show." Rogue scolded.
"They all became silent for a second but soon went back to mixing and matching clothes.
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"Five games of vone on vone vit you ees enough for tonight Evan." Kurt said walking back into the room.
Remy and Scott both looked at their watches.
"Whats up with you two? You double datin or something?" Logan asked.
"Well Jean and I were going to try and catch the seven o'clock movie at the Cineplex but if she takes too long we're going to miss the show." Scott replied.
"Remy got sometin different planned fo' his date." Remy said, not bothering to specify.
"So Gambit, which one of the girls are you taking out?" Bobby inquired.
"Careful there Remy, Bobby's got his eyes on Jubilee." Sam answered, grinning at Bobby who gave him a half hearted glare.
"I do not!" Bobby protested.
"Do too." Sam shot back.
"Do not!" Bobby repeated.
"Do too, You loooove her!" Sam said, batting his eyes.
Bobby iced up a pillow and threw it at the Southerner.
"Hey!" Sam said, rubbing his jaw.
"And ta think I gave up being a SHEILD agent for this. I don't do babysitting." Logan grunted to no one in particular.
"Dat be what Remy told himself when Chloe moved in." Remy told the older man.
"Don' worry mon ami. Yo fille be a lil too young fo' Gambit." Remy told Bobby.
"A little? Try a lot bub. She's fourteen and your.what? Eighteen?" Logan asked.
"Nineteen." Gambit corrected.
"Don' worry Mon ami, Remy aint gonna be a cradle robber o' nuttin." Remy assured the older man.
"yeah well you better stay that way." Logan said.
"Remy assures ya dat he aint takin any o' de younga femmes out." Gambit told him.
"Remy you moron! What the hell were you thinking taking Rogue out?" Chloe shouted, swinging open the doors to the room.
All the boys looked at her for a minute and then at Remy.
Logan was not happy.
"Uh.Petite, memba dat ting Remy tol' ya bout not shoutin stuff across de room?" Remy asked, inching away from Wolverine.
"Remy, Kitchen NOW!" Chloe said, tugging him by the collar into the next room.
Kurt stood there dumb founded at what he had just heard.
"He's taking out Rogue? But.but." Kurt stuttered.
"But nothing man, the Cajun's taking her out for a movie or something. It's not that big a deal." Evan assured the blue boy.
"Not a big deal!? Not a big deal!?" Kurt asked frantically.
"This is infact a very big deal. It must be illegal. She's too young vor him!" Kurt said.
"Kurt get a hold of yourself. She's sixteen, not six. And he's eighteen, not eighty. There's not that much of a difference." Bobby said. The younger boys all got close to the door to the Kichen and put their ears up against the door so they could hear.
Suddenly the door swung open swiftly and knocked all three of them to the ground.
An angry Chloe just glared at them before shutting the door again behind her.
"He's taking out Stripes?" Logan asked.
Scott nodded.
"On a date?" Logan questioned.
Scott nodded again.
"With eachother?" The older mutant asked.
Scott nodded yet again, only slower this time.
"CAJUN!" Logan yelled, standing up.
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"Okay Remy lets hear it." Chloe said, tapping her foot on the ground.
"Hear what?" Remy asked, confused.
"What? How about what the hell are you thinking?" Chloe answered.
"Come again petite?" he asked innocently.
"Okay let me rephrase that. Why are you taking out the resident Goth?" Chloe asked a little bit louder.
"Petite Remy knows mere taught ya dat it don' matta what be on de outside, its what's on de inside dat counts." He scolded her.
"That's not what I meant. She's not like one of your little flings in New Orleans. She's a part of the X-men, which incase you haven't noticed is the team we're on." She explained bluntly.
"petie dis not be one o' Remy's flings. Dis be jus' a date. Remy really wanna get ta know dis fille betta. He aint gonna do anyting ta screw up de team o' nuttin." He explained honestly.
"Remy really cares fo' her." He told his little sister.
"You think you really care for her Remy?" She asked.
He nodded a yes.
"Two words big brother, Bella-Donna." She said, holding up her two fingers one at a time while she said the words.
"Dat was in de past. An' it wasn't Remy's fault dat dey tried ta marry him off at sixteen."
"Nothings your fault is it? I just don't want to see Rogue get hurt. Your really messing with her mind you know." She told him.
"How so?" He asked.
Chloe rolled her eyes.
"Exactly how dense can you possibly be? Rogue keeps herself away from everyone so she doesn't get tempted to touch. If she's not around people then she doesn't feel the need to touch them. But then you, ya big dufass, come waltzing in here, putting on the charm and making her feel special. Now she wants to be around people, you being the main person and she cant touch them. How do you think she's gonna feel?" Chloe explained.
Remy was about to talk but Chloe cut him off.
"And another thing. These people have taken me in and treated me like family. Rogue and the other girls are like older sisters to me, and I don't want to see her get hurt. And even if your don't mean to, you could still hurt her. You sort of have a reputation for that kind of stuff." Chloe said.
"Ya done petite?" He asked.
".yes." She answered.
Remy put his hands on her shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes so she knew how serious he was.
"Look petite, Remy undastands dat ya taken a likin ta dis place an' de people here, an' ta be honest so has Remy." He told her.
"So Remy aint gonna do nuttin ta ruin dat fo' us but ya gotta undastand dat Remy really do care fo' dis femme an' he'd neva hurt her." He said with a serious face.
"Alright fine.but if you hurt her." Chloe was cut off by a SNKT as three blades cut into the door five inches away from Remy who was stan ding in front of it and almost up against it.
"That." Chloe finished, pointing to the blades in the wood..
"Wolverine walked into the room and stared down at Gambit. "What's this I hear about you takin out Stripes?" Logan asked gruffly.
"Well I'm just gonna give you two some time alone. See ya." Chloe said quickly before bolting out the door and up the stairs, leaving Remy alone with Wolverine.
"Dat fille gonna be de end o' me." Remy murmered, looking over to a see a not so happy Logan.
"Well Remy betta be goin on his way den." Remy said making his way toward the rec room door.
"Not so fast Gumbo." Wolverine said, grabbing him by the collar and sitting him down on the chair.
"Now listen up. There's a few things you should know about Stripes." Logan began.
'Oh great. The over protective fader figure.' Remy thought to himself with a sigh of defeat.
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Chloe quietly opened the door to Rogue and Kitty's room.
"Hey Chloe where'd you run off to?" Jubilee asked.
"Oh well.I uh." Chloe stuttered, trying to think of an excuse besides the fact that she just yelled at her brother for going out with Rogue. She felt stupid and guilty about it now that she'd had a talk with him.
"She came to get me. Said something about Rogue's date and asked if she could borrow some jewelry to see how it looked on Rogue." Jean answered, stepping into the room behind Chloe.
They all nodded and turned back to Rogue's clothes crisis.
"Next time you want to have a private conversation with Remy or somebody I suggest doing it where there aren't air vents all around you. I could hear it from my room." Jean whispered pointing up at the ceiling where the vents were located in each of the rooms.
Chloe nodded in understanding.
"I was wondering how you knew I was with Remy." Chloe added in a whisper of her own and walked over to the bed with Jean behind her.
"So what do you think Jean?" Jubilee asked.
"Yeah, did we like do a good job or what?" Kitty questioned the red-head.
"Alright that's it Ah'm gonna go see what ya'll are makin me look like." Rogue said, walking over to her mirror. She wasn't allowed to see what they were doing to her until they were done but the more they did the more anxious she got.
"No!" They all shouted, but it was too late. Rogue had already seen herself.
Rogue didn't say anything. She just stared back at the girl in the mirror.
"Uh.Rogue?" Kitty asked.
Everyone was waiting to hear the Goth's opinion.
"Ah." Rogue started.
"Ah." She repeated.
"Yeah Rogue?" Amara asked.
"Ah look like a girl. And Ah'm wearin pink. Ah'm not walkin out of this room wearin pink." She said, looking down at the clothes she was in.
"Maybe we should put a little more 'Rogue' back in her style for this date." Jean suggested.
"Yeah, I mean she's not going to feel comfortable on the date if she doesn't feel comfortable in her own clothes." Chloe added.
"Finally, somebody speakin mah language." Rogue remarked, pulling off the pink top and white slacks.
'How about.." Chloe said, flipping through the clothes in the closet.
"This!" Tabby said, stopping Chloe's hands at a hanger and pulling it out.
She held the hanger up for Rogue and the rest of the girls to see.
"Hmm.." Rogue mused.
The hanger held a short, sleeveless black and green dress. It was a solid black with green designs on it. The hem stopped about three inches above her knees and it was made out of a silky material that would accent her curves.
"Its perfect." Chloe said.
"Go on Rogue, try it on." Tabby said, handing the girl the dress.
Rogue took the hanger and looked it over a few times.
Then she walked into her walk in closet and came out a minute later in the dress.
"Wow!" Kitty exclaimed.
"Oh Rogue its beautiful." Amara said.
The other girls nodded their heads in agreement.
"Thanks." Rogue said, blowing a strand of hair out of her face.
"Now Ah just gotta fix mah hair." Rogue said sarcastically, trying to sound like a fashion obsessed teenager.
"Your right." Kitty said.
"Ah was kiddin." Rogue said.
"Oh.well that's okay because I still have an idea." Kitty said, going over to her dresser.
She flipped through a magazine and showed Jean a photograph of a model's hair style.
"What do you think?" She asked.
"Hmm.I think its doable." Jean commented, looking over at Rogue.
"Mind if I try something?" Jean asked the Goth, floating a brush to her hand.
Rogue looked at the girl suspiciously. "Do I have a choice?"
"Nope, your overpowered by the teenage girls." Kitty told her, giggling.
"Great, just great." Rogue said, sitting down in the chair in front of the vanity mirror.
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"Dat be all mon ami?" Remy asked, standing up with a sigh looking at his watch. It had been ten minutes sense Chloe had left and Logan started his little talk with him.
"No." Logan said gruffly, grabbing Gambit by the collar and sitting him down on the chair again.
"Now where was I? Oh yeah." Logan said, continuing on his lecture about the safety he wanted Rogue to be in.
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"There! Walla!" Jean said, sticking a pick into Rogue's hair that was now put up in a fancy, delicately designed bun.
"Ah look like a girl outta Japan." She said, looking at her reflection.
"Well you are wearing a Japanese dress and your hair is put up in a bun like that so." Kitty drawled off.
"Never mind." She said quickly after getting a glare from her roommate.
"Wait, don't forget these." Jean said, walking over to her.
She pulled out a green scarf and handed it to Rogue. She looked at it and wondered what she could do with it.
"Oh! Oh! I know I know!" Kitty exclaimed.
Rogue handed her the silky scarf and wrapped it around the girl's waist, tying it on the side.
"Nice touch." Chloe commented.
"Oh and don't forget these." Jean said, handing Rogue her green choker and matching earings that dangled a little on Rogue's ears.
"Okay Ah'm way too dressed up." Rogue said.
"No your not." Amara assured her.
"Now hurry up already. Prince Charming is waiting downstairs." Amara said to her.
"Yeah.just don't let him charm his way into letting him have his way." Chloe muttered to her before leaving the room with the rest of the girls.
Rogue knew there was something Chloe wasn't telling her and the younger girl wanted to very badly but because she wasn't saying anymore, Rogue decided not to press it for now.
Now that she was alone, she walked over to the mirror and checked herself over. She had barely any makeup at all. Her fingers itched to put on the pale foundation in her drawer and put on her mask to protect herself but somehow she had a feeling she wasn't going to need the mask tonight.
She smiled at herself and tugged slightly at her white bangs, letting them fall to frame her face.
Rogue walked over to the door and put her hand on the knob. She looked down at her hands and rolled her eyes.
"Well duh!" She said to herself, walking over to her dresser and pulling out a pair of gloves. They were silk and green so they matched with what she was wearing.
She went toward the door again after tugging on her gloves and put her hand on the knob once more. She paused and let go of the knob, walking over to her closet and pulling out a mini-backpack. Lucky for her green was one of her favorite colors, or else she'd never he able to pull off this outfit with a matching bag and all.
She opened the bag and moved over to her bed, grabbing a pair of jeans her boots and a tank top with her white netting cover and stuffed them into her bag.
'At least this way if Ah'm too ova dressed Ah can still change when we leave without Kitty and thah othas makin a fuss about it.' She thought to herself, zipping up the bag and putting her arms through the straps before walking out of the room.
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Remy looked at his watch for the third time in the past five minutes. He was slouched down in a slump, trying to get through Wolverine's lecture. At the moment though he was dosing off.
"CAJUN!" Logan's growl pulled him out of his trance as he jerked up in his seat.
"Oui?" Remy responded.
"I said ya better get into the rec room. She'll be waitin for ya if ya take any longer." Logan told him.
"Oui homme. Nice chattin wit ya. Maybe we do it again sometime." Remy said before grabbing the rose from the counter and going into the other room only to be met by Kurt.
"Oh come on!" Remy groaned as he felt another older brother speech coming on. He gave up and sat in the chair, ready to listen to what Kurt had to say as well.
Kurt was about to say something but was cut off by low whistles and hoots coming from the other room. Remy nearly dropped the rose and Kurt looked taken back by how his sister looked.
"Mon Dui!" Remy breathed, looking her up and down.
"Ach! Nien! Stop looking at her like zat!" Kurt ordered to the Cajun, blocking his view of his sister.
"Yeah yeah Ah know, thah girl squad over there wouldn't let meh leave mah room until they got ta play dress up with meh." Rogue explained, looking at the clock.
"You tink dat be bad? Remy jus' spent twenty minutes wit de Wolverine havin 'de talk'." Remy grimaced.
"Thah talk?" She echoed.
"Oui. Ya know dat 'Stay away from Stripes if y' know what be good fo' ya, bub.' Talk." He answered, trying to sound like the older X-man with his Cajun accent.
Rogue couldn't help but laugh at this.
Remy gasped and stared at her in disbelief.
"What?" She asked, confused.
"Do mon ears deseve Remy o' did de femme belle jus' not only smile, but laugh?" Remy said in a surprised voice. He smirked afterwards when he was done mocking her.
"Do ya wanna go or not?" She said, realizing they had an audience.
"Oui, but mon chere do Remy one fava first." Remy requested.
"And that would be?" She asked.
"Take dis rose an' pinch dis Cajun ta make sure he not be dreamin." He answered with a smirk.
"Gladly." Rogue answered with an evil smirk, taking the rose and pinching him hard in the arm.
"Ow! Remy was jus' playin petite. He didn' mean it." He said, rubbing his arm.
"Well then maybe next time you'll think twice b'fore givin me a corny line like that." She said, putting on her jacket.
"Be back by twelve you two. Not a minute later." Storm told them before letting them pass to get to the door.
"We will Storm, don't worry. If Ah have anything ta say about it, this night'll end long b'fore twelve." Rogue told the older woman who smiled with amusement.
"I want you two back at the institute by twelve. Not 12:01, twelve." Logan said before reluctantly letting them pass.
"And no speeding on that bike of yours with her on the back Gumbo." He called as they walked to the motorcycle.
Remy gave him a mock salute with turning around and kept on walking toward the bike.
He put his arm around Rogue while walking but she shoved it away almost immediately.
'Why not immediately?' Logan thought to himself, walking back into the mansion and closing the door behind him as he heard the roar of a bike's engine come on and fade away into the distance.
He turned around and saw all the students staring at him.
"What?" He asked in a low, fierce growl that showed how pissed he was at the moment.
Kurt Bamfed away with Evan, The younger students ran in random directions into different rooms out the doors, Jamie ran into a wall and all eight of him scattered, Kitty phased through the floor with Amara and Jean and Scott grabbed their coats and shouted something about the movies to the adult before racing out the front door.
Logan was all alone now, just the way he liked it usually.
'Now to watch some football and.' He stopped midway in his thoughts and his tracks over to the couch where the TV was and scowled.
Chloe was sprawled out on the couch with a TV guide in one hand and the remote in the other.
She didn't bother looking up or even moving from her spot when everyone else ran.
"She looked up at Logan and then looked to the TV and back at her superior.
"I'm gonna watch some TV, you wanna join?" She asked.
Logan rolled his eyes. How pathetic was he?
He sighed in defeat and sat down on the chair next to him.
"What are we watchin kid?" He asked, sounding bored already.
"Oh umm.Sex in the City." She answered, looking over to see what his reaction was.
It was a scowl, a growl, and a whole bunch of other stuff that was saying, 'like hell we are. Try again.'
So she did. "I mean.MtV." She tried again.
He shot her the same look.
"Uh.Gilmore Girls." She said.
He still wore the same look. Then she realized what he wanted. She rolled her eyes and complained on the inside but knew it'd probably be a whole lot easier if he got his way with Rogue being out on a date and all.
"Football?" She ventured.
He nodded a yes and changed the station to the sports channel as the people in the stadium all started sitting down after the Star Spangled Banner.
Chloe plopped back down on the couch, a little peeved that she'd just been scared out of her right to the television and put her headphones on, pressing the play button and taking out a magazine, starting to read through it while pretending Logan and the game did not exist for the time being.
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K how was it?
Hope ya'll liked it.
I know you all wanted the date chapter to be now but I need more time for it.
Too much school work and I don't want to rush this chapter. Its very important for Romy luvers becuz DUH! It's the date!
Okay review and tell me what you thought.
I'll try and post the next Chapter ASAP!
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Preparations
"Rogue I'm so not letting you get out of trying out my new creation for dinner without a decent reason." Kitty stated firmly.
"Kitty Ah can't tell ya. Its not like I really wanna go and do this anyways. Ah don't really have a choice." Rogue answered, trying to keep her voice down.
"Like what's going on Rogue? Tell me!" Kitty persisted.
"Fine. But only if ya promise Ah can skip dinner without ya makin a huge seen about it." Rogue stated.
Kitty nodded her head in agreement and waited for the excuse.
Rogue dragged her over closer to the bed and sat down with her.
"Well ya rememba when Remy was in tha med lab a week ago?" Rogue began.
Kitty nodded her head with a yes.
"Well when he was there Ah kinda let mah emotions get thah best a me and Ah promised him a date if he recovered." She explained.
Kitty's jaw dropped five inches.
"How was Ah supposed ta know the damn Cajun was awake when Ah said it?" She asked hastily at the look her roommate was giving her.
"So now Ah gotta go out on this date and get it over with. Ah've been tryin ta avoid it all week but ya know how damn stubborn that boy is." Rogue finished.
Kitty just stared at her in awe.
"Well? Aint ya gonna say anything?" Rogue asked, a little irritated that she was having to wait for her friend's reaction.
"YOUR GOING ON A DATE WITH REMY!?!?!?" Kitty squealed out loudly in shock after a few more seconds of silence.
The rest of the younger girls who were still in the room, but looking through magazines to see which was cuter, Orlando Bloom or Tom Welling, looked up from their activity with their eyes widening and shock painted on their faces at the Valley girl's outburst.
"No way!" Tabby blurted out, rushing over to Rogue who was turning scarlet.
"Rogue is this true? Are you actually hooking up with Remy?" Jubilee asked, running over with Tabby as the two jumped onto the bed.
The rest of the girls giggled and squealed excitedly and joined Rogue as well.
Rogue felt more then a little uncomfortable as the discussion of the room suddenly turned to her date.
"Do we really have ta talk about this?" Rogue asked warily. She wasn't up for a gossip fest with the rest of the X-girls.
"YES!" They all shouted back at her.
"Guys come on, we like shouldn't make Rogue talk about this now." Kitty told them all.
"Thanks Kit." Rogue said, a little surprised that Kitty of all people was the one who was putting a stop to the girly, boy-crazy madness in the room.
"We so like don't have time for her to answer all your questions. We've got to like get her ready for her big date!" Kitty continued. "Plus I'm sure Rogue will have a lot more to tell us when she gets back from the date." Kitty said logically.
Rogue rolled her eyes and slapped her hand to her eyes. 'Ah should have known.' She thought, flopping backwards onto her pillow and laying there limply.
Everyone was chattering and going through Rogue's clothing selection and looking through magazines for a good idea on how she should wear her hair that they didn't notice when as soon as Kitty blurted out the news of the date and everyone ran over to them, Chloe stood alone with a somber, pained look in her eyes and on her face before she solemnly walked out of the room.
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"Hey Gambit why'd ya change your clothes again?" You turning girl on us or something? Bobby teased.
The other boys and men looked up from their activities to see what Drake was talking about.
"Non, Gambit jus' felt like changin is all." Remy answered simply.
"You goin out or somethin Cajun?" Logan asked, seeing the boy fingering his keys.
"Oui. At least Remy tinks so." He replied, sitting down in the recliner.
Scott and Kurt exchanged quizzical looks as the others just stared at the Cajun bluntly.
"What's with the rose Cajun?" Logan growled, sniffing the air.
Remy pulled the long stemmed white rose out from under his coat wich was sitting on the table and twirled it in his hand.
This perked the curiosity of all the boys in the room immensely.
"You taking out a girl of something?" Scott inquired.
"Oui." Remy answered without saying anything else.
"Sooo..vhich vone of ze girls are you taking out?' Kurt asked.
Gambit coughed and avoided Kurt's eyes.
Scott got the picture. He didn't want the picture, but he got it.
"Uh.Kurt why don't we go play some one on one outside." Evan suggested, picking up a basketball and spinning it with one finger.
"Sounds good to me." Kurt said, walking out the door with Evan.
"What was that about?" Logan asked Scott.
"Huh? Nothing. Hey Logan wasn't there supposed to be a training session with the newer recruits." Scott suggested.
The younger boys all glared at Scott.
"No. What are you hiding? Logan asked.
Remy sat uncomfortably in his seat. How long was she going to be? He really didn't want to be hearing a lecture from Logan.
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"What about this scarf with this purple crop top?" Jubilee suggested.
"No I think she'd look better in the gray tank top and the matching scarf." Amara said, holding it up to the Goth who was looking annoyed.
"Forget that. What about a bottom? Jeans? Skirt? Leather?" Tabby asked taking random clothes out of the closet and piling them in Kitty's arms.
"Will ya'll calm down already? It's a date, not a fashion show." Rogue scolded.
"They all became silent for a second but soon went back to mixing and matching clothes.
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"Five games of vone on vone vit you ees enough for tonight Evan." Kurt said walking back into the room.
Remy and Scott both looked at their watches.
"Whats up with you two? You double datin or something?" Logan asked.
"Well Jean and I were going to try and catch the seven o'clock movie at the Cineplex but if she takes too long we're going to miss the show." Scott replied.
"Remy got sometin different planned fo' his date." Remy said, not bothering to specify.
"So Gambit, which one of the girls are you taking out?" Bobby inquired.
"Careful there Remy, Bobby's got his eyes on Jubilee." Sam answered, grinning at Bobby who gave him a half hearted glare.
"I do not!" Bobby protested.
"Do too." Sam shot back.
"Do not!" Bobby repeated.
"Do too, You loooove her!" Sam said, batting his eyes.
Bobby iced up a pillow and threw it at the Southerner.
"Hey!" Sam said, rubbing his jaw.
"And ta think I gave up being a SHEILD agent for this. I don't do babysitting." Logan grunted to no one in particular.
"Dat be what Remy told himself when Chloe moved in." Remy told the older man.
"Don' worry mon ami. Yo fille be a lil too young fo' Gambit." Remy told Bobby.
"A little? Try a lot bub. She's fourteen and your.what? Eighteen?" Logan asked.
"Nineteen." Gambit corrected.
"Don' worry Mon ami, Remy aint gonna be a cradle robber o' nuttin." Remy assured the older man.
"yeah well you better stay that way." Logan said.
"Remy assures ya dat he aint takin any o' de younga femmes out." Gambit told him.
"Remy you moron! What the hell were you thinking taking Rogue out?" Chloe shouted, swinging open the doors to the room.
All the boys looked at her for a minute and then at Remy.
Logan was not happy.
"Uh.Petite, memba dat ting Remy tol' ya bout not shoutin stuff across de room?" Remy asked, inching away from Wolverine.
"Remy, Kitchen NOW!" Chloe said, tugging him by the collar into the next room.
Kurt stood there dumb founded at what he had just heard.
"He's taking out Rogue? But.but." Kurt stuttered.
"But nothing man, the Cajun's taking her out for a movie or something. It's not that big a deal." Evan assured the blue boy.
"Not a big deal!? Not a big deal!?" Kurt asked frantically.
"This is infact a very big deal. It must be illegal. She's too young vor him!" Kurt said.
"Kurt get a hold of yourself. She's sixteen, not six. And he's eighteen, not eighty. There's not that much of a difference." Bobby said. The younger boys all got close to the door to the Kichen and put their ears up against the door so they could hear.
Suddenly the door swung open swiftly and knocked all three of them to the ground.
An angry Chloe just glared at them before shutting the door again behind her.
"He's taking out Stripes?" Logan asked.
Scott nodded.
"On a date?" Logan questioned.
Scott nodded again.
"With eachother?" The older mutant asked.
Scott nodded yet again, only slower this time.
"CAJUN!" Logan yelled, standing up.
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"Okay Remy lets hear it." Chloe said, tapping her foot on the ground.
"Hear what?" Remy asked, confused.
"What? How about what the hell are you thinking?" Chloe answered.
"Come again petite?" he asked innocently.
"Okay let me rephrase that. Why are you taking out the resident Goth?" Chloe asked a little bit louder.
"Petite Remy knows mere taught ya dat it don' matta what be on de outside, its what's on de inside dat counts." He scolded her.
"That's not what I meant. She's not like one of your little flings in New Orleans. She's a part of the X-men, which incase you haven't noticed is the team we're on." She explained bluntly.
"petie dis not be one o' Remy's flings. Dis be jus' a date. Remy really wanna get ta know dis fille betta. He aint gonna do anyting ta screw up de team o' nuttin." He explained honestly.
"Remy really cares fo' her." He told his little sister.
"You think you really care for her Remy?" She asked.
He nodded a yes.
"Two words big brother, Bella-Donna." She said, holding up her two fingers one at a time while she said the words.
"Dat was in de past. An' it wasn't Remy's fault dat dey tried ta marry him off at sixteen."
"Nothings your fault is it? I just don't want to see Rogue get hurt. Your really messing with her mind you know." She told him.
"How so?" He asked.
Chloe rolled her eyes.
"Exactly how dense can you possibly be? Rogue keeps herself away from everyone so she doesn't get tempted to touch. If she's not around people then she doesn't feel the need to touch them. But then you, ya big dufass, come waltzing in here, putting on the charm and making her feel special. Now she wants to be around people, you being the main person and she cant touch them. How do you think she's gonna feel?" Chloe explained.
Remy was about to talk but Chloe cut him off.
"And another thing. These people have taken me in and treated me like family. Rogue and the other girls are like older sisters to me, and I don't want to see her get hurt. And even if your don't mean to, you could still hurt her. You sort of have a reputation for that kind of stuff." Chloe said.
"Ya done petite?" He asked.
".yes." She answered.
Remy put his hands on her shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes so she knew how serious he was.
"Look petite, Remy undastands dat ya taken a likin ta dis place an' de people here, an' ta be honest so has Remy." He told her.
"So Remy aint gonna do nuttin ta ruin dat fo' us but ya gotta undastand dat Remy really do care fo' dis femme an' he'd neva hurt her." He said with a serious face.
"Alright fine.but if you hurt her." Chloe was cut off by a SNKT as three blades cut into the door five inches away from Remy who was stan ding in front of it and almost up against it.
"That." Chloe finished, pointing to the blades in the wood..
"Wolverine walked into the room and stared down at Gambit. "What's this I hear about you takin out Stripes?" Logan asked gruffly.
"Well I'm just gonna give you two some time alone. See ya." Chloe said quickly before bolting out the door and up the stairs, leaving Remy alone with Wolverine.
"Dat fille gonna be de end o' me." Remy murmered, looking over to a see a not so happy Logan.
"Well Remy betta be goin on his way den." Remy said making his way toward the rec room door.
"Not so fast Gumbo." Wolverine said, grabbing him by the collar and sitting him down on the chair.
"Now listen up. There's a few things you should know about Stripes." Logan began.
'Oh great. The over protective fader figure.' Remy thought to himself with a sigh of defeat.
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Chloe quietly opened the door to Rogue and Kitty's room.
"Hey Chloe where'd you run off to?" Jubilee asked.
"Oh well.I uh." Chloe stuttered, trying to think of an excuse besides the fact that she just yelled at her brother for going out with Rogue. She felt stupid and guilty about it now that she'd had a talk with him.
"She came to get me. Said something about Rogue's date and asked if she could borrow some jewelry to see how it looked on Rogue." Jean answered, stepping into the room behind Chloe.
They all nodded and turned back to Rogue's clothes crisis.
"Next time you want to have a private conversation with Remy or somebody I suggest doing it where there aren't air vents all around you. I could hear it from my room." Jean whispered pointing up at the ceiling where the vents were located in each of the rooms.
Chloe nodded in understanding.
"I was wondering how you knew I was with Remy." Chloe added in a whisper of her own and walked over to the bed with Jean behind her.
"So what do you think Jean?" Jubilee asked.
"Yeah, did we like do a good job or what?" Kitty questioned the red-head.
"Alright that's it Ah'm gonna go see what ya'll are makin me look like." Rogue said, walking over to her mirror. She wasn't allowed to see what they were doing to her until they were done but the more they did the more anxious she got.
"No!" They all shouted, but it was too late. Rogue had already seen herself.
Rogue didn't say anything. She just stared back at the girl in the mirror.
"Uh.Rogue?" Kitty asked.
Everyone was waiting to hear the Goth's opinion.
"Ah." Rogue started.
"Ah." She repeated.
"Yeah Rogue?" Amara asked.
"Ah look like a girl. And Ah'm wearin pink. Ah'm not walkin out of this room wearin pink." She said, looking down at the clothes she was in.
"Maybe we should put a little more 'Rogue' back in her style for this date." Jean suggested.
"Yeah, I mean she's not going to feel comfortable on the date if she doesn't feel comfortable in her own clothes." Chloe added.
"Finally, somebody speakin mah language." Rogue remarked, pulling off the pink top and white slacks.
'How about.." Chloe said, flipping through the clothes in the closet.
"This!" Tabby said, stopping Chloe's hands at a hanger and pulling it out.
She held the hanger up for Rogue and the rest of the girls to see.
"Hmm.." Rogue mused.
The hanger held a short, sleeveless black and green dress. It was a solid black with green designs on it. The hem stopped about three inches above her knees and it was made out of a silky material that would accent her curves.
"Its perfect." Chloe said.
"Go on Rogue, try it on." Tabby said, handing the girl the dress.
Rogue took the hanger and looked it over a few times.
Then she walked into her walk in closet and came out a minute later in the dress.
"Wow!" Kitty exclaimed.
"Oh Rogue its beautiful." Amara said.
The other girls nodded their heads in agreement.
"Thanks." Rogue said, blowing a strand of hair out of her face.
"Now Ah just gotta fix mah hair." Rogue said sarcastically, trying to sound like a fashion obsessed teenager.
"Your right." Kitty said.
"Ah was kiddin." Rogue said.
"Oh.well that's okay because I still have an idea." Kitty said, going over to her dresser.
She flipped through a magazine and showed Jean a photograph of a model's hair style.
"What do you think?" She asked.
"Hmm.I think its doable." Jean commented, looking over at Rogue.
"Mind if I try something?" Jean asked the Goth, floating a brush to her hand.
Rogue looked at the girl suspiciously. "Do I have a choice?"
"Nope, your overpowered by the teenage girls." Kitty told her, giggling.
"Great, just great." Rogue said, sitting down in the chair in front of the vanity mirror.
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"Dat be all mon ami?" Remy asked, standing up with a sigh looking at his watch. It had been ten minutes sense Chloe had left and Logan started his little talk with him.
"No." Logan said gruffly, grabbing Gambit by the collar and sitting him down on the chair again.
"Now where was I? Oh yeah." Logan said, continuing on his lecture about the safety he wanted Rogue to be in.
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"There! Walla!" Jean said, sticking a pick into Rogue's hair that was now put up in a fancy, delicately designed bun.
"Ah look like a girl outta Japan." She said, looking at her reflection.
"Well you are wearing a Japanese dress and your hair is put up in a bun like that so." Kitty drawled off.
"Never mind." She said quickly after getting a glare from her roommate.
"Wait, don't forget these." Jean said, walking over to her.
She pulled out a green scarf and handed it to Rogue. She looked at it and wondered what she could do with it.
"Oh! Oh! I know I know!" Kitty exclaimed.
Rogue handed her the silky scarf and wrapped it around the girl's waist, tying it on the side.
"Nice touch." Chloe commented.
"Oh and don't forget these." Jean said, handing Rogue her green choker and matching earings that dangled a little on Rogue's ears.
"Okay Ah'm way too dressed up." Rogue said.
"No your not." Amara assured her.
"Now hurry up already. Prince Charming is waiting downstairs." Amara said to her.
"Yeah.just don't let him charm his way into letting him have his way." Chloe muttered to her before leaving the room with the rest of the girls.
Rogue knew there was something Chloe wasn't telling her and the younger girl wanted to very badly but because she wasn't saying anymore, Rogue decided not to press it for now.
Now that she was alone, she walked over to the mirror and checked herself over. She had barely any makeup at all. Her fingers itched to put on the pale foundation in her drawer and put on her mask to protect herself but somehow she had a feeling she wasn't going to need the mask tonight.
She smiled at herself and tugged slightly at her white bangs, letting them fall to frame her face.
Rogue walked over to the door and put her hand on the knob. She looked down at her hands and rolled her eyes.
"Well duh!" She said to herself, walking over to her dresser and pulling out a pair of gloves. They were silk and green so they matched with what she was wearing.
She went toward the door again after tugging on her gloves and put her hand on the knob once more. She paused and let go of the knob, walking over to her closet and pulling out a mini-backpack. Lucky for her green was one of her favorite colors, or else she'd never he able to pull off this outfit with a matching bag and all.
She opened the bag and moved over to her bed, grabbing a pair of jeans her boots and a tank top with her white netting cover and stuffed them into her bag.
'At least this way if Ah'm too ova dressed Ah can still change when we leave without Kitty and thah othas makin a fuss about it.' She thought to herself, zipping up the bag and putting her arms through the straps before walking out of the room.
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Remy looked at his watch for the third time in the past five minutes. He was slouched down in a slump, trying to get through Wolverine's lecture. At the moment though he was dosing off.
"CAJUN!" Logan's growl pulled him out of his trance as he jerked up in his seat.
"Oui?" Remy responded.
"I said ya better get into the rec room. She'll be waitin for ya if ya take any longer." Logan told him.
"Oui homme. Nice chattin wit ya. Maybe we do it again sometime." Remy said before grabbing the rose from the counter and going into the other room only to be met by Kurt.
"Oh come on!" Remy groaned as he felt another older brother speech coming on. He gave up and sat in the chair, ready to listen to what Kurt had to say as well.
Kurt was about to say something but was cut off by low whistles and hoots coming from the other room. Remy nearly dropped the rose and Kurt looked taken back by how his sister looked.
"Mon Dui!" Remy breathed, looking her up and down.
"Ach! Nien! Stop looking at her like zat!" Kurt ordered to the Cajun, blocking his view of his sister.
"Yeah yeah Ah know, thah girl squad over there wouldn't let meh leave mah room until they got ta play dress up with meh." Rogue explained, looking at the clock.
"You tink dat be bad? Remy jus' spent twenty minutes wit de Wolverine havin 'de talk'." Remy grimaced.
"Thah talk?" She echoed.
"Oui. Ya know dat 'Stay away from Stripes if y' know what be good fo' ya, bub.' Talk." He answered, trying to sound like the older X-man with his Cajun accent.
Rogue couldn't help but laugh at this.
Remy gasped and stared at her in disbelief.
"What?" She asked, confused.
"Do mon ears deseve Remy o' did de femme belle jus' not only smile, but laugh?" Remy said in a surprised voice. He smirked afterwards when he was done mocking her.
"Do ya wanna go or not?" She said, realizing they had an audience.
"Oui, but mon chere do Remy one fava first." Remy requested.
"And that would be?" She asked.
"Take dis rose an' pinch dis Cajun ta make sure he not be dreamin." He answered with a smirk.
"Gladly." Rogue answered with an evil smirk, taking the rose and pinching him hard in the arm.
"Ow! Remy was jus' playin petite. He didn' mean it." He said, rubbing his arm.
"Well then maybe next time you'll think twice b'fore givin me a corny line like that." She said, putting on her jacket.
"Be back by twelve you two. Not a minute later." Storm told them before letting them pass to get to the door.
"We will Storm, don't worry. If Ah have anything ta say about it, this night'll end long b'fore twelve." Rogue told the older woman who smiled with amusement.
"I want you two back at the institute by twelve. Not 12:01, twelve." Logan said before reluctantly letting them pass.
"And no speeding on that bike of yours with her on the back Gumbo." He called as they walked to the motorcycle.
Remy gave him a mock salute with turning around and kept on walking toward the bike.
He put his arm around Rogue while walking but she shoved it away almost immediately.
'Why not immediately?' Logan thought to himself, walking back into the mansion and closing the door behind him as he heard the roar of a bike's engine come on and fade away into the distance.
He turned around and saw all the students staring at him.
"What?" He asked in a low, fierce growl that showed how pissed he was at the moment.
Kurt Bamfed away with Evan, The younger students ran in random directions into different rooms out the doors, Jamie ran into a wall and all eight of him scattered, Kitty phased through the floor with Amara and Jean and Scott grabbed their coats and shouted something about the movies to the adult before racing out the front door.
Logan was all alone now, just the way he liked it usually.
'Now to watch some football and.' He stopped midway in his thoughts and his tracks over to the couch where the TV was and scowled.
Chloe was sprawled out on the couch with a TV guide in one hand and the remote in the other.
She didn't bother looking up or even moving from her spot when everyone else ran.
"She looked up at Logan and then looked to the TV and back at her superior.
"I'm gonna watch some TV, you wanna join?" She asked.
Logan rolled his eyes. How pathetic was he?
He sighed in defeat and sat down on the chair next to him.
"What are we watchin kid?" He asked, sounding bored already.
"Oh umm.Sex in the City." She answered, looking over to see what his reaction was.
It was a scowl, a growl, and a whole bunch of other stuff that was saying, 'like hell we are. Try again.'
So she did. "I mean.MtV." She tried again.
He shot her the same look.
"Uh.Gilmore Girls." She said.
He still wore the same look. Then she realized what he wanted. She rolled her eyes and complained on the inside but knew it'd probably be a whole lot easier if he got his way with Rogue being out on a date and all.
"Football?" She ventured.
He nodded a yes and changed the station to the sports channel as the people in the stadium all started sitting down after the Star Spangled Banner.
Chloe plopped back down on the couch, a little peeved that she'd just been scared out of her right to the television and put her headphones on, pressing the play button and taking out a magazine, starting to read through it while pretending Logan and the game did not exist for the time being.
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K how was it?
Hope ya'll liked it.
I know you all wanted the date chapter to be now but I need more time for it.
Too much school work and I don't want to rush this chapter. Its very important for Romy luvers becuz DUH! It's the date!
Okay review and tell me what you thought.
I'll try and post the next Chapter ASAP!
Peace out Peeps!