CHAPTER 20
The meeting of the Boyfriend
Kitty yawned. Her eyes were drooping and she wanted more then anything to sleep but Logan had always told her to be aware of her surroundings when she wasn't in a safe place and although Piotr had saved her from the rioters she still didn't feel as safe as she wanted so she needed to stay awake.
They had been talking to each other about their powers to get their minds off of the rain and riots outside.
"So you're saying that you can like just put on this metal shield thingy when ever you want and it protects you from attacks and makes you stronger?" She asked in amazement.
"Technically it doesn't make me strong. I'm strong with and without the metal cover. It's part of my metabolism." He explained simply. He wasn't bragging or anything. Just stating a fact and Kitty understood that.
"And you. Your powers are to.walk through walls?" He asked, a little confused at the simplicity of it.
Kitty giggled at the way he said it.
"Well that's like only one thing I can do. I can phase through pretty much everything and anyone.the hard part is being able to phasing other things and people with me and for a long time. Plus I tend to short circuit anything electronic when I phase through it. I've gone through like six alarm clocks in the past three months." She explained.
"Oh, I see." He answered after her long explanation.
A bolt of lightening and a loud crash of thunder came down on them and Kitty practically jumped out of her own skin. She did succeed in jumping up an inch and would have bumped her head on the metal bars above her if she had not phased through them.
When she landed back on the ground, though she hadn't noticed, she was now only inches from where Piotr sat on the crate beside her. Before they were a few feet away on different corners of the large crate.
"So do you not like getting wet?" He asked, a little amused at the blush that was coming onto her cheeks after she'd realized that she'd yelped fairly loud and was sure that he'd heard her.
"No." She stated.
"I actually love the rain and lightening and thunderstorms. Just not when they want to drown and electrocute me." She remarked with a small smile.
He returned the smile and leaned back on the wall.
She wasn't leaning back but they were still very close to each other. "Hm.and I always thought that Kitties hated the rain." He said, smiling.
She smirked at him in the corner of her mouth and rolled her eyes.
"Oh like how many times have I heard that one?" She said.
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"So are ya gon' go up an' apologize ta de femme?" Remy asked.
Logan sighed in defeat. "I would but I really don't think she'd be too keen on the idea of talking to me." Logan answered.
"I'll just let her cool off a little before I go up." He added as angry stomping could be heard from the ceiling where Rogue's room was above.
"Probably fo' de best." Remy answered, grimacing as he heard the angry girl stomp across her room.
"Hey, where's mon souer?" Remy asked the other boys in the room.
"Oh, the girls all went out to a party or something and had car trouble so they called and said they'd be a little late." Logan answered.
Remy showed a look of worry in his face that the older mutant picked up on.
"Don't worry about it Cajun. They'll be home any minute." Wolverine assured him.
As if on cue the three girls came bounding into the house.
"Hey, We're home!" Tabby announced, walking into the room with Amara and Jubilee behind her.
"Where's Chloe?" Remy asked, seeing that the door was closed behind them.
"What ever you do don't let him know what Chloe's doing." Amara whispered to Jubilee.
Gambit started walking toward the front door but was intercepted when Jubilee and Amara stepped in front of him and smiled nervously.
Tabby casually walked over to Kurt and tugged at his shirt, whispering something into his ear.
He nodded and looked from Tabby to Remy before porting out of the room.
"She's outside." Amara answered.
"Doing what?" Remy asked.
"Uh.outside stuff." Jubilee replied.
"Outside stuff?" He echoed, cocking his eyebrow skeptically.
"Yeah." Amara said.
"She be outside by herself den?" He asked. Something was going on and they weren't telling him what the something was so obviously it had to do with him.
"Erm.no. Not exactly." Jubilee said, looking down at the ground.
'Now we gettin somewhere.' He thought to himself.
"So who she be wit den?" He asked.
"Uhhh." Both the girls looked to each other for an answer but neither had one. Then Jubilee spoke up.
"Well she's definitely not outside with her boyfriend making out on the front porch that's for sure." She said.
All the boys in the room looked toward Gambit to see what his reaction to the information was. Tabby glared at Jubilee and Amara slapped her hand to her forehead.
"Smooth Jubes. Very smooth." She said in a normal tone.
"What?" Jubilee asked innocently.
"Can I help it if I'm a sucky liar?" She asked.
The girls just rolled their eyes at her and watched as Remy walked swiftly past the two girls and toward the front door. Everyone followed him but stayed a few feet back so they could see the scene that was about to happen but not be in it.
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Kurt ported onto the front porch quickly and found Chloe and Conner standing in each other's arms making out. Luckily for the blue elf Tabby had warned him that Conner was there and he'd turned on his image inducer before hand.
"Whoa! Dude, where'd you come from?" Conner asked as Kurt cleared his throat and the two jumped apart.
"He teleported." Chloe answered.
Kurt stared wide-eyed at the girl and looked toward the boy to see his reaction.
"Oh okay." Conner said simply.
Kurt looked at him in confusion.
"Oh, I told him I was a mutant and he already knew you were because you guys were all over the news and all a while ago and everybody knows mutants live at Xavier's." Chloe told Night Crawler after seeing his confused face.
"Oh." Kurt answered.
"So why are you out here anyways? We were kind of in the middle of something." Chloe said to the boy.
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Ja, I know. I walked in on it." Kurt said.
Chloe blushed but only for a second.
"So why are you out here again?" She repeated.
"Ach! I almost forgot!" Kurt exclaimed.
The two teens looked at him in confusion but he didn't bother to clear things up for them.
He pushed them a little further apart and took their hands and brought them together so Chloe and Conner were shaking hands.
Conner and Chloe looked at him with even more confusion but didn't have a chance to ask him what the hell he was doing because after connecting their hands he ported away, leaving a cloud of sulfur in the air.
Before either of the teens had a chance to move the front door swung open and Remy stepped out, looking not at all pleased.
Chloe noticed that Remy's facial expression went quickly from anger to confusion to a softened calmness.
Remy looked at the two teens. They were holding hands. He was shaking her hand and about to say goodnight at the door. He was getting all worked up for nothing.
'Wait a minute.' He thought.
"Yo' shakin hands?" He asked. When he was that age he wasn't shaking hands with his date when he walked her to her doorstep. He was making out with her. Of course he was always mature and advanced for his age when it came to girls.
Chloe and Conner understood what Kurt had done and what Remy was thinking and both played along, shaking hands with each other.
"Yeah, what else would we be doing?" Chloe asked, sounding a little too innocent.
Remy raised an eyebrow and she rolled her eyes. "Oh please Remy. Just because all your little girlfriend bimbos back in Louisiana decided to say goodnight to you with their tongue doesn't mean all girls do it." Chloe said to him.
Conner noticed that she hadn't said that she wasn't doing it. Just that all girls didn't. This made him smirk and get a suspicious look from Remy.
"An' who be dis?" Remy asked, taking a step toward Conner and looking him up and down as if he were inspecting a car to make sure it was in working condition.
"This is Conner." Chloe answered.
Conner held out his hand and shook Remy's. Remy shook back with a tight grip as if to show Conner that he was the stronger of the two and to scare him.
Chloe noticed Remy's tight grip and nudged him in the ribs. He released Conner's hand and pulled back.
"So how long ya been seein mon souer?" He asked, putting an over protective arm around Chloe.
Chloe blushed in embarrassment and wanted to smack her brother over the head for acting all superior and macho but restrained herself.
"We've only been on a few dates." Chloe answered before Conner could say anything.
"And they weren't really even dates. The girls at the institute and his friends were always there so it was more like a..a gathering." She added quickly.
Chloe knew that if she wanted to be able to go out with Conner again then she'd better do the answering of the questions for his own heath safety. She noticed that her brother hadn't been talking in third person sense he'd come outside and that alone showed that he was not enjoying this at all.
Remy opened his mouth and was about to interrogate Conner when Chloe interrupted him.
"Well it's really late and I know you're already past your curfew because of the car trouble we had so you'd better get going before your parents freak or something." Chloe said to Conner.
"Huh? You know my curfew isn't until..Ouch!" Conner stopped when Chloe stepped on his foot slightly.
"Oh yeah! Your right. Wouldn't want to worry my folks." He said, catching on to what she was getting at.
"Well nice meeting you Rem.Mr. Le beau." Conner said, stopping himself before completing Remy's name. He thought better of it and decided that sense her older brother was acting the father figure then he'd probably be expecting the respect of one too.
"I'll see you tomorrow Chloe." Conner said, stopping himself from kissing Chloe goodnight.
"Okay, goodnight." She said with a slightly dreamy look in her eyes.
"Wipe dat look off ya face petite." He said, watching her as she watched Conner's car fade into the distance.
"What look?" She asked, blinking back to reality.
"Y' know what look Remy be talkin' bout. Remy made filles get dat look all de time." He told her.
She rolled her eyes at how he was acting.
"An' he didn' do it by shakin de fille's han's." He added, referring to her friendly handshake with Conner before hand.
She blushed when she thought about the kiss and Remy averted her face for a minute.
"So how old be dis boy?" He asked. His little sister was only fifteen and he had a feeling he wasn't the same age as her.
She didn't answer at first, which made him even more sure about his guess.
He was about to ask her something else about him when she walked over to the now closed door and put her hand on the knob. "Its really late and I'm kind of tired so I'm gonna go to bed." She said.
She opened the door and when she did, the rest of the younger recruits all came tumbling out onto the porch.
Chloe rolled her eyes at how little privacy she was getting with Conner at the institute and walked past and over the sprawled teens.
"I told you we should have tried listening at the window." Tabby said to the others.
"Amara will you please get off of me?" Bobby asked in an annoyed tone.
"That hurt." Amara complained, standing to her feet and brushing off her jeans.
"Hey where's Jubilee?" Bobby asked.
"You're sitting on me." She remarked.
Bobby looked down and saw that he was in fact sitting on top of Jubilee.
"Oops. Sorry Jubes." He apologized, taking her hand and pulling her up.
She didn't let go of his hand at first when they were standing and he stared at her in confusion.
"Something wrong?" He asked.
"Huh?" He mumbled, coming out of her trance.
"Oh, um..no. Thanks." She said, yanking her hand away and back at her side.
Remy smirked at the scene in front of him as he walked inside after all the younger mutants were in the house again.
"Hey Wolvie, don' worry bout goin up ta talk t' Roguey. Remy'll tell her yo' sorry fo' ya. He be headin up ta his room anyways." Remy told Wolverine who was sitting on the couch, reading the paper.
"I'll tell her tomorrow too but suit yourself Cajun. Oh and by the way.."
Remy turned to hear what Wolverine had to say.
"I don't recommend calling her 'Roguey' to her face unless you have a death wish." He continued.
"Oui, danks fo' de tip homme." Remy said before leaving the room.
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"I wonder how long until somebody figures out where I am." She mused.
"I am sure they are out looking for you right now." She assured her.
"Psh, yeah right. In this weather? They'd have to go out in scuba gear and life boats." She said.
"Besides, they probably don't even notice that I'm not there." She said quietly.
"I find that hard to believe. You seem too much of a cheerful optimist to be unnoticed for this long of an amount of time." He said.
"Uh.thanks I guess. But that's not really what I meant. Everybody is going to be thinking about Rogue and Remy's first date to be noticing that someone is missing from the group. Especially sense Logan isn't having his training session tonight." She said, a little angry at her pure dumb luck.
"Remy and Rogue's first date?" He echoed.
"Uh.yeah." She answered, realizing that she was talking to him and not just rambling on to herself like she'd thought for a moment.
"That's interesting." Piotr mused.
"What is?" Kitty asked curiously.
"Oh nothing. Its just that my dear friend Gambit, though he may be a gentleman, went on ten dates a week when he was working for Magneto." He explained.
"Oh. Well that doesn't sound so bad." Kitty answered.
"They were with ten different women." He added.
"Oh!" Kitty said, a bit shocked.
"I just did not think that your friend was into that kind of guy." He said. "She seems to be fairly independent and not like most of the.erm.how could I say this? Airheads, that gambit is usually going out with." He answered.
"Oh.well Rogue isn't actually into any kind of guy. You know, because of her powers and all." Kitty explained.
"Yes of course. I can see how they would be a serious burden to her at times." He replied.
There was a moment of uncomfortable silence that was broken by Kitty when she looked at her watch and went "Aw man!"
Piotr looked over at her curiously. "What is it?" He asked.
"Oh.um..nothing." She said, blushing. Obviously she had forgotten that she wasn't alone in the room.
"You went "Aw man" for nothing?" He asked, raising his eyebrow skeptically.
"No, it's just that.it's stupid really." She said, staring down at her hands that were in her lap.
"You'll totally think I'm like being stupid or something." She added.
"Try me." He said.
"Okay.well its just that I was waiting for like two weeks for this one show to come on and I really wanted to watch this one episode because its like new and they don't repeat the new episodes." She said quickly before continuing to find a fascination with her hands.
"Oh. And what show would that be?" He asked. He was trying to come up with something to talk about. Normally he didn't like talking to people or vise versa but with her it was like the more she talked the more she was there with him. It was really hard to explain and really annoying as well.
"Oh you probably haven't heard of it. Its called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I know it's totally dumb that I'm upset about missing it." She said.
"Isn't tonight's episode the one where they are supposed to tell us what's wrong with Spike and Giles comes back from England?" He asked.
Her head lifted and her eyes widened a little in shock before she started laughing.
"You watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" She asked in shock.
"Yes. Why is that funny?" He asked.
"Its not.it's just that, well you don't really seem like the type of person to be sitting down and watching BtVS." She said.
"That was how I learned a good part of my English Vocabulary." He answered.
Both Kitty's eyebrows rose this time in confusion.
Piotr laughed at her reaction and explained.
"When I first was recruited to work for Magneto I'd lived all my life in Russia and spoke very little English." He said.
She nodded in understanding and he continued.
"So between what I already knew and what Magneto had someone teach me, it wasn't much." She continued.
She nodded again.
"So one day John was watching a marathon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I was feeling sick so I ended up lying on the couch while he watched fifteen hours worth of Vampire slaying. After watching the show I picked up on some of the words and phrases and used them in my own conversations." He explained.
"That's like so funny." She answered with a small laugh.
"Yes, I suppose it is when you think about it." He answered.
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Remy reached Rogue and Kitty's room and knocked lightly incase either of them were in there and trying to sleep.
There was no answer so he decided to peek in and make sure they were both okay. Of course that was what he was going to tell anyone if he got caught.
He creaked the door open and stuck his head inside the room. The light from the hall poured into the room and onto the two beds against the wall.
Remy smiled and saw that Kitty's bed was empty so she was still downstairs with the others and Rogue's bed had a small lump covered in blankets.
'So she's asleep.' He thought, gliding over to her bed.
He wanted a quick glance at her while she was asleep and curiosity had gotten the best of him so he gently lifted the edge of the blankets over her head.
To his surprise it wasn't her head that he was pulling the covers off of. He flung off the blankets completely and smirked when he saw another blanket that was balled up to make it look like someone was sleeping in her bed.
He wondered where it was that she had gone off to. He knew she wouldn't leave the grounds. Wolverine would pick up on it in a heartbeat. So she had to be somewhere on the property that wasn't too far from the house or her room. The question was, where?
Remy looked around the room and noticed that the door to her Balcony was opened a crack. The air conditioning was on and other areas in Bayville were having huge thunderstorms so he walked over to the balcony to close it.
He was about to close the doors and leave the room to find Rogue when he heard a creaking sound coming from the roof. At first he thought it might have been a burglar or the enemy but once again Logan's keen senses ruled out both.
He then smiled and realized who it could be. He quietly opened the doors all the way and stepped out onto the balcony without making a sound. He stood still for a minute and he thought he heard the sound of music only it was muffled like it was far away and he couldn't make out the words.
His smile turned into a huge grin when he heard a girl's soft humming along with the music every once in a while.
Now he knew his guess was right. He closed the doors behind him and hoisted himself onto the roof with ease. He looked around on the roof until his eyes found what he was looking for.
Rogue sat on the edge of the roof a few feet away from him, listening to music that was blasting at full power on her walkman. She dangled her feet over the edge of the roof and her eyes were closed so she was unaware of his presence.
The Goth was now wearing a pair of plaid pajama pants and a semi-long shirt. She was wearing her socks but no shoes and her hair was pulled up into a simple ponytail with her white bangs still framing her face like they always did.
Gambit glided over to the girl and when he was just inches away from her he put a hand on her shoulder. Rogue was startled by his move and jumped in surprise. She would have fallen if Gambit hadn't locked his arms around her small waist and held her like a life preserver.
Remy knew she would be surprised when he touched her and that she would most likely jump and loose balance but that was the fun part because then he had an excuse to wrap his arms around her and hold onto her like he was doing now.
She tensed up at his touch again but then relaxed her body and sighed when she saw who it was. She pulled the headphones off of her ears and rested them on her neck, turning her head back so she could face him slightly.
"Why do Ah have the feelin ya did that on purpose?" She asked. It had been at least one minute sense she'd been safely on the solid roof and not falling off the edge and he still hadn't let go of her.
"Don' know petite." He answered with a grin.
"What're ya doin out here Swamp Rat?" She asked, a little annoyed at him for disturbing her in her time of venting.
"Remy was gon' ask ya de same question chere. It be getting cold out here an' ya gon' catch sometin if ya don' be careful." He told her.
"Ah'm not gonna get sick Cajun. A little cold didn't hurt anyone." She said.
"Non, but Remy'd feel betta if ya weren' cold at all." He said, pulling her into him even more and letting her soak up his warmth.
She got lost in the scent of Cajun spices and cigarettes for a minute before coming back to reality.
"Ya gonna end up in a coma if ya not careful Cajun." She said, but she didn't pull away.
"Fo' you mon chere, dat be a chance Remy be willin ta take." He said, covering her more and kissing her on the top of her head.
"What am Ah gonna do with you Cajun?" She asked, laughing.
She hadn't had to deal with boys the way she was having to deal with him ever sense her powers manifested. He wasn't like any boys she'd ever met before though. And that was what made things interestingly difficult for her.
"Remy could tink of a few tings." He said into her ear suggestively.
She would have smacked him playfully if the feeling of his breath in her ear hadn't left her with shivers going down her spine.
"So why ya be up here chere?" He asked again.
"This is mah sanctuary. Ah come here ta get away from things and people. Nobody else knows about it except the adults and Kitty but the adults just let meh be and Kitty's afraid ta come up here ta bother meh. And now you." Rogue explained.
"So why are ya up here?" She asked him.
Remy then remembered why he had come to her room in the first place.
"Remy wanted ta make sure his chere was okay. He didn' like dat 'sheet unda de blankets' trick ya pulled." He told her.
"What exactly were ya doin in mah room anyways?" She asked.
"Oh Remy was jus' comin ta tell ya dat Wolvie says he be sorry an' dat we don' have de extra trainin in de mornin'." He explained.
"Oh, what made him change his mind?" She asked.
"Stormy came an' cleared everyting up. He was feelin real bad fo' yellin at ya chere." Remy told her, sitting down on the roof and pulling her down with him into his lap.
She didn't seem to notice. She was just listening to his voice and hearing the quiet thunder from across town getting closer.
Rogue yawned her eyelids drooped a little. She leaned back into the comfort of Remy's chest and closed her eyes.
"Ya make a real good pillow ya know that?" She asked quietly, her eyes still closed.
"Jus' fo' you petite." He whispered back, resting his chin on her head.
"Hey Remy?" She asked after a while.
"Oui chere?" he replied, looking down at her.
"What time did ya come inta mah room?" She asked.
Remy thought the question was strange but he answered it anyways.
"Bout one thirty, why?" He replied.
"Oh just wondering if you woke Kitty up or not cause if ya did she'll probably be grumpy all mornin'." Rogue replied, closing her eyes again.
"Non, she wasn' in de room when Remy came in." he told her.
"Oh." Rogue whispered.
Suddenly Rogue's eyes shot open and she turned in his arms to face him.
"Wait, are you sure you were in mah room at one thirty?" She asked.
"Oui, why?" He noticed the worry in her eyes, plus his empathy did help.
"Cause Logan sends everybody to their rooms at one thirty or earlier and Ah know Kitty. She's neva stayed up past one the entire time Ah've been livin with her." Rogue answered.
"What y' gettin' at petite?" He asked, confused as to where this was going.
"Remy, did you see Kitty at all when ya were downstairs?" She asked.
"Non." He answered after thinking about it for a minute.
"Me neither." Rogue answered in a serious tone.
"Remy, Ah don't think Kitty came home last night." Rogue said with worry, standing to her feet and walking over to where her balcony was.
"y' don' know dat fo' sure petite." Remy said.
It was now two fifteen and Kitty still wasn't asleep.
Rogue went toward her door and opened it.
"Where ya goin chere?" Remy asked.
"Ta go get Logan. Somethin aint right here and Kitty's missin." She said before walking out the door. Remy caught up to her and snaked his arm around her waist.
"Ah don't have time fer ya flirtin games Cajun." She told him.
"Remy knows petite. Dis aint be a game." He told her.
"Then what is it?" She asked, still walking down the hall to her superior's room.
'Why did the Prof have to be outta town for the weekend?' She asked herself.
"Dis be comfort." He answered, walking along the halls with her.
When they finally reached Logan's room Rogue was not in the mood for subtleties. She was too worried about her friend for that. She pounded on his door a few times before it swung open. Logan glared down at her and Remy. His hair was tousled from sleeping and he obviously did not appreciate being woken up.
"He noticed Remy's arm around Rogue a little too close to her backside and growled at the Cajun who released his hold immediately and took a small step from Rogue.
Rogue didn't care at this point. She needed to know where Kitty was.
"What is it Stripes? And this better be good." He asked grumpily.
"Logan, did Kitty come home last night?" She asked with worry and even a little fear in her voice.
Logan's eyes widened after a moment of thought and he sniffed the air a few times. He sighed and straightened up.
"No. Come on Stripes, let's go assemble the troops." He said in defeat. He was not going to be getting back to bed any time soon.
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Kitty began to rub her hands back and forth on her arms, crossing them and trying to keep herself warm as she shivered from the cold that was now getting to her.
"Are you cold?" Piotr asked, pulling himself away from his thoughts when he saw what she was doing.
"Yeah, like my goose bumps have goose bumps." She told him.
She continued trying to keep warm and he went silent again. She was freezing for some reason and it was really getting to her.
'So this is how the people on The Titanic felt.' She thought sourly. Suddenly she felt something heavy being draped over her shoulders.
She looked at them and saw that she was now wearing an oversized jacket with wool on the inside so she was feeling warmer already.
She looked over to Piotr who was not even looking at her. He was just staring into space, trying to collect his thoughts once more.
She noticed that he was now only where a short-sleeve shirt that only magnified his muscles. He wasn't wearing a jacket any longer.
She smiled in gratitude for the offer but declined.
"Thanks but I can't take this. You'll freeze." She said, trying to hand him back the coat.
"No, you keep it. You need it more then I do." He said, putting his hands up and not accepting his coat back.
She sighed and stared at him for a minute.
"But I can't. You shouldn't suffer because I chose not to bring a jacket with me into town." She argued.
"Ah but you forget Katja. I have lived in Russia all my life. This weather is like Spring time climate for me." He explained with a small smile on his face from memories of home that vanished instantly and were replaced by a pang of sadness.
Kitty noticed his melancholy features and decided not to say anything at first.
There was another long silence and Kitty decided to break it yet again.
"So Piotr why are you working for Magneto?" She asked.
There was no answer.
"Piotr?" She repeated.
Still no answer.
She turned her head and saw that the older mutant had nodded off and fallen asleep. She laughed and found herself staring at his sleeping form, so content and peaceful. You would never guess this same boy was known for crashing through brick walls with his head.
Soon though, Kitty was lost in the sound of rain hitting the rooftop and without the conversation to keep her thoughts elsewhere she was lulled to sleep by the rain.
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Kitty yawned. Her eyes were drooping and she wanted more then anything to sleep but Logan had always told her to be aware of her surroundings when she wasn't in a safe place and although Piotr had saved her from the rioters she still didn't feel as safe as she wanted so she needed to stay awake.
They had been talking to each other about their powers to get their minds off of the rain and riots outside.
"So you're saying that you can like just put on this metal shield thingy when ever you want and it protects you from attacks and makes you stronger?" She asked in amazement.
"Technically it doesn't make me strong. I'm strong with and without the metal cover. It's part of my metabolism." He explained simply. He wasn't bragging or anything. Just stating a fact and Kitty understood that.
"And you. Your powers are to.walk through walls?" He asked, a little confused at the simplicity of it.
Kitty giggled at the way he said it.
"Well that's like only one thing I can do. I can phase through pretty much everything and anyone.the hard part is being able to phasing other things and people with me and for a long time. Plus I tend to short circuit anything electronic when I phase through it. I've gone through like six alarm clocks in the past three months." She explained.
"Oh, I see." He answered after her long explanation.
A bolt of lightening and a loud crash of thunder came down on them and Kitty practically jumped out of her own skin. She did succeed in jumping up an inch and would have bumped her head on the metal bars above her if she had not phased through them.
When she landed back on the ground, though she hadn't noticed, she was now only inches from where Piotr sat on the crate beside her. Before they were a few feet away on different corners of the large crate.
"So do you not like getting wet?" He asked, a little amused at the blush that was coming onto her cheeks after she'd realized that she'd yelped fairly loud and was sure that he'd heard her.
"No." She stated.
"I actually love the rain and lightening and thunderstorms. Just not when they want to drown and electrocute me." She remarked with a small smile.
He returned the smile and leaned back on the wall.
She wasn't leaning back but they were still very close to each other. "Hm.and I always thought that Kitties hated the rain." He said, smiling.
She smirked at him in the corner of her mouth and rolled her eyes.
"Oh like how many times have I heard that one?" She said.
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"So are ya gon' go up an' apologize ta de femme?" Remy asked.
Logan sighed in defeat. "I would but I really don't think she'd be too keen on the idea of talking to me." Logan answered.
"I'll just let her cool off a little before I go up." He added as angry stomping could be heard from the ceiling where Rogue's room was above.
"Probably fo' de best." Remy answered, grimacing as he heard the angry girl stomp across her room.
"Hey, where's mon souer?" Remy asked the other boys in the room.
"Oh, the girls all went out to a party or something and had car trouble so they called and said they'd be a little late." Logan answered.
Remy showed a look of worry in his face that the older mutant picked up on.
"Don't worry about it Cajun. They'll be home any minute." Wolverine assured him.
As if on cue the three girls came bounding into the house.
"Hey, We're home!" Tabby announced, walking into the room with Amara and Jubilee behind her.
"Where's Chloe?" Remy asked, seeing that the door was closed behind them.
"What ever you do don't let him know what Chloe's doing." Amara whispered to Jubilee.
Gambit started walking toward the front door but was intercepted when Jubilee and Amara stepped in front of him and smiled nervously.
Tabby casually walked over to Kurt and tugged at his shirt, whispering something into his ear.
He nodded and looked from Tabby to Remy before porting out of the room.
"She's outside." Amara answered.
"Doing what?" Remy asked.
"Uh.outside stuff." Jubilee replied.
"Outside stuff?" He echoed, cocking his eyebrow skeptically.
"Yeah." Amara said.
"She be outside by herself den?" He asked. Something was going on and they weren't telling him what the something was so obviously it had to do with him.
"Erm.no. Not exactly." Jubilee said, looking down at the ground.
'Now we gettin somewhere.' He thought to himself.
"So who she be wit den?" He asked.
"Uhhh." Both the girls looked to each other for an answer but neither had one. Then Jubilee spoke up.
"Well she's definitely not outside with her boyfriend making out on the front porch that's for sure." She said.
All the boys in the room looked toward Gambit to see what his reaction to the information was. Tabby glared at Jubilee and Amara slapped her hand to her forehead.
"Smooth Jubes. Very smooth." She said in a normal tone.
"What?" Jubilee asked innocently.
"Can I help it if I'm a sucky liar?" She asked.
The girls just rolled their eyes at her and watched as Remy walked swiftly past the two girls and toward the front door. Everyone followed him but stayed a few feet back so they could see the scene that was about to happen but not be in it.
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Kurt ported onto the front porch quickly and found Chloe and Conner standing in each other's arms making out. Luckily for the blue elf Tabby had warned him that Conner was there and he'd turned on his image inducer before hand.
"Whoa! Dude, where'd you come from?" Conner asked as Kurt cleared his throat and the two jumped apart.
"He teleported." Chloe answered.
Kurt stared wide-eyed at the girl and looked toward the boy to see his reaction.
"Oh okay." Conner said simply.
Kurt looked at him in confusion.
"Oh, I told him I was a mutant and he already knew you were because you guys were all over the news and all a while ago and everybody knows mutants live at Xavier's." Chloe told Night Crawler after seeing his confused face.
"Oh." Kurt answered.
"So why are you out here anyways? We were kind of in the middle of something." Chloe said to the boy.
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Ja, I know. I walked in on it." Kurt said.
Chloe blushed but only for a second.
"So why are you out here again?" She repeated.
"Ach! I almost forgot!" Kurt exclaimed.
The two teens looked at him in confusion but he didn't bother to clear things up for them.
He pushed them a little further apart and took their hands and brought them together so Chloe and Conner were shaking hands.
Conner and Chloe looked at him with even more confusion but didn't have a chance to ask him what the hell he was doing because after connecting their hands he ported away, leaving a cloud of sulfur in the air.
Before either of the teens had a chance to move the front door swung open and Remy stepped out, looking not at all pleased.
Chloe noticed that Remy's facial expression went quickly from anger to confusion to a softened calmness.
Remy looked at the two teens. They were holding hands. He was shaking her hand and about to say goodnight at the door. He was getting all worked up for nothing.
'Wait a minute.' He thought.
"Yo' shakin hands?" He asked. When he was that age he wasn't shaking hands with his date when he walked her to her doorstep. He was making out with her. Of course he was always mature and advanced for his age when it came to girls.
Chloe and Conner understood what Kurt had done and what Remy was thinking and both played along, shaking hands with each other.
"Yeah, what else would we be doing?" Chloe asked, sounding a little too innocent.
Remy raised an eyebrow and she rolled her eyes. "Oh please Remy. Just because all your little girlfriend bimbos back in Louisiana decided to say goodnight to you with their tongue doesn't mean all girls do it." Chloe said to him.
Conner noticed that she hadn't said that she wasn't doing it. Just that all girls didn't. This made him smirk and get a suspicious look from Remy.
"An' who be dis?" Remy asked, taking a step toward Conner and looking him up and down as if he were inspecting a car to make sure it was in working condition.
"This is Conner." Chloe answered.
Conner held out his hand and shook Remy's. Remy shook back with a tight grip as if to show Conner that he was the stronger of the two and to scare him.
Chloe noticed Remy's tight grip and nudged him in the ribs. He released Conner's hand and pulled back.
"So how long ya been seein mon souer?" He asked, putting an over protective arm around Chloe.
Chloe blushed in embarrassment and wanted to smack her brother over the head for acting all superior and macho but restrained herself.
"We've only been on a few dates." Chloe answered before Conner could say anything.
"And they weren't really even dates. The girls at the institute and his friends were always there so it was more like a..a gathering." She added quickly.
Chloe knew that if she wanted to be able to go out with Conner again then she'd better do the answering of the questions for his own heath safety. She noticed that her brother hadn't been talking in third person sense he'd come outside and that alone showed that he was not enjoying this at all.
Remy opened his mouth and was about to interrogate Conner when Chloe interrupted him.
"Well it's really late and I know you're already past your curfew because of the car trouble we had so you'd better get going before your parents freak or something." Chloe said to Conner.
"Huh? You know my curfew isn't until..Ouch!" Conner stopped when Chloe stepped on his foot slightly.
"Oh yeah! Your right. Wouldn't want to worry my folks." He said, catching on to what she was getting at.
"Well nice meeting you Rem.Mr. Le beau." Conner said, stopping himself before completing Remy's name. He thought better of it and decided that sense her older brother was acting the father figure then he'd probably be expecting the respect of one too.
"I'll see you tomorrow Chloe." Conner said, stopping himself from kissing Chloe goodnight.
"Okay, goodnight." She said with a slightly dreamy look in her eyes.
"Wipe dat look off ya face petite." He said, watching her as she watched Conner's car fade into the distance.
"What look?" She asked, blinking back to reality.
"Y' know what look Remy be talkin' bout. Remy made filles get dat look all de time." He told her.
She rolled her eyes at how he was acting.
"An' he didn' do it by shakin de fille's han's." He added, referring to her friendly handshake with Conner before hand.
She blushed when she thought about the kiss and Remy averted her face for a minute.
"So how old be dis boy?" He asked. His little sister was only fifteen and he had a feeling he wasn't the same age as her.
She didn't answer at first, which made him even more sure about his guess.
He was about to ask her something else about him when she walked over to the now closed door and put her hand on the knob. "Its really late and I'm kind of tired so I'm gonna go to bed." She said.
She opened the door and when she did, the rest of the younger recruits all came tumbling out onto the porch.
Chloe rolled her eyes at how little privacy she was getting with Conner at the institute and walked past and over the sprawled teens.
"I told you we should have tried listening at the window." Tabby said to the others.
"Amara will you please get off of me?" Bobby asked in an annoyed tone.
"That hurt." Amara complained, standing to her feet and brushing off her jeans.
"Hey where's Jubilee?" Bobby asked.
"You're sitting on me." She remarked.
Bobby looked down and saw that he was in fact sitting on top of Jubilee.
"Oops. Sorry Jubes." He apologized, taking her hand and pulling her up.
She didn't let go of his hand at first when they were standing and he stared at her in confusion.
"Something wrong?" He asked.
"Huh?" He mumbled, coming out of her trance.
"Oh, um..no. Thanks." She said, yanking her hand away and back at her side.
Remy smirked at the scene in front of him as he walked inside after all the younger mutants were in the house again.
"Hey Wolvie, don' worry bout goin up ta talk t' Roguey. Remy'll tell her yo' sorry fo' ya. He be headin up ta his room anyways." Remy told Wolverine who was sitting on the couch, reading the paper.
"I'll tell her tomorrow too but suit yourself Cajun. Oh and by the way.."
Remy turned to hear what Wolverine had to say.
"I don't recommend calling her 'Roguey' to her face unless you have a death wish." He continued.
"Oui, danks fo' de tip homme." Remy said before leaving the room.
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"I wonder how long until somebody figures out where I am." She mused.
"I am sure they are out looking for you right now." She assured her.
"Psh, yeah right. In this weather? They'd have to go out in scuba gear and life boats." She said.
"Besides, they probably don't even notice that I'm not there." She said quietly.
"I find that hard to believe. You seem too much of a cheerful optimist to be unnoticed for this long of an amount of time." He said.
"Uh.thanks I guess. But that's not really what I meant. Everybody is going to be thinking about Rogue and Remy's first date to be noticing that someone is missing from the group. Especially sense Logan isn't having his training session tonight." She said, a little angry at her pure dumb luck.
"Remy and Rogue's first date?" He echoed.
"Uh.yeah." She answered, realizing that she was talking to him and not just rambling on to herself like she'd thought for a moment.
"That's interesting." Piotr mused.
"What is?" Kitty asked curiously.
"Oh nothing. Its just that my dear friend Gambit, though he may be a gentleman, went on ten dates a week when he was working for Magneto." He explained.
"Oh. Well that doesn't sound so bad." Kitty answered.
"They were with ten different women." He added.
"Oh!" Kitty said, a bit shocked.
"I just did not think that your friend was into that kind of guy." He said. "She seems to be fairly independent and not like most of the.erm.how could I say this? Airheads, that gambit is usually going out with." He answered.
"Oh.well Rogue isn't actually into any kind of guy. You know, because of her powers and all." Kitty explained.
"Yes of course. I can see how they would be a serious burden to her at times." He replied.
There was a moment of uncomfortable silence that was broken by Kitty when she looked at her watch and went "Aw man!"
Piotr looked over at her curiously. "What is it?" He asked.
"Oh.um..nothing." She said, blushing. Obviously she had forgotten that she wasn't alone in the room.
"You went "Aw man" for nothing?" He asked, raising his eyebrow skeptically.
"No, it's just that.it's stupid really." She said, staring down at her hands that were in her lap.
"You'll totally think I'm like being stupid or something." She added.
"Try me." He said.
"Okay.well its just that I was waiting for like two weeks for this one show to come on and I really wanted to watch this one episode because its like new and they don't repeat the new episodes." She said quickly before continuing to find a fascination with her hands.
"Oh. And what show would that be?" He asked. He was trying to come up with something to talk about. Normally he didn't like talking to people or vise versa but with her it was like the more she talked the more she was there with him. It was really hard to explain and really annoying as well.
"Oh you probably haven't heard of it. Its called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I know it's totally dumb that I'm upset about missing it." She said.
"Isn't tonight's episode the one where they are supposed to tell us what's wrong with Spike and Giles comes back from England?" He asked.
Her head lifted and her eyes widened a little in shock before she started laughing.
"You watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" She asked in shock.
"Yes. Why is that funny?" He asked.
"Its not.it's just that, well you don't really seem like the type of person to be sitting down and watching BtVS." She said.
"That was how I learned a good part of my English Vocabulary." He answered.
Both Kitty's eyebrows rose this time in confusion.
Piotr laughed at her reaction and explained.
"When I first was recruited to work for Magneto I'd lived all my life in Russia and spoke very little English." He said.
She nodded in understanding and he continued.
"So between what I already knew and what Magneto had someone teach me, it wasn't much." She continued.
She nodded again.
"So one day John was watching a marathon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I was feeling sick so I ended up lying on the couch while he watched fifteen hours worth of Vampire slaying. After watching the show I picked up on some of the words and phrases and used them in my own conversations." He explained.
"That's like so funny." She answered with a small laugh.
"Yes, I suppose it is when you think about it." He answered.
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Remy reached Rogue and Kitty's room and knocked lightly incase either of them were in there and trying to sleep.
There was no answer so he decided to peek in and make sure they were both okay. Of course that was what he was going to tell anyone if he got caught.
He creaked the door open and stuck his head inside the room. The light from the hall poured into the room and onto the two beds against the wall.
Remy smiled and saw that Kitty's bed was empty so she was still downstairs with the others and Rogue's bed had a small lump covered in blankets.
'So she's asleep.' He thought, gliding over to her bed.
He wanted a quick glance at her while she was asleep and curiosity had gotten the best of him so he gently lifted the edge of the blankets over her head.
To his surprise it wasn't her head that he was pulling the covers off of. He flung off the blankets completely and smirked when he saw another blanket that was balled up to make it look like someone was sleeping in her bed.
He wondered where it was that she had gone off to. He knew she wouldn't leave the grounds. Wolverine would pick up on it in a heartbeat. So she had to be somewhere on the property that wasn't too far from the house or her room. The question was, where?
Remy looked around the room and noticed that the door to her Balcony was opened a crack. The air conditioning was on and other areas in Bayville were having huge thunderstorms so he walked over to the balcony to close it.
He was about to close the doors and leave the room to find Rogue when he heard a creaking sound coming from the roof. At first he thought it might have been a burglar or the enemy but once again Logan's keen senses ruled out both.
He then smiled and realized who it could be. He quietly opened the doors all the way and stepped out onto the balcony without making a sound. He stood still for a minute and he thought he heard the sound of music only it was muffled like it was far away and he couldn't make out the words.
His smile turned into a huge grin when he heard a girl's soft humming along with the music every once in a while.
Now he knew his guess was right. He closed the doors behind him and hoisted himself onto the roof with ease. He looked around on the roof until his eyes found what he was looking for.
Rogue sat on the edge of the roof a few feet away from him, listening to music that was blasting at full power on her walkman. She dangled her feet over the edge of the roof and her eyes were closed so she was unaware of his presence.
The Goth was now wearing a pair of plaid pajama pants and a semi-long shirt. She was wearing her socks but no shoes and her hair was pulled up into a simple ponytail with her white bangs still framing her face like they always did.
Gambit glided over to the girl and when he was just inches away from her he put a hand on her shoulder. Rogue was startled by his move and jumped in surprise. She would have fallen if Gambit hadn't locked his arms around her small waist and held her like a life preserver.
Remy knew she would be surprised when he touched her and that she would most likely jump and loose balance but that was the fun part because then he had an excuse to wrap his arms around her and hold onto her like he was doing now.
She tensed up at his touch again but then relaxed her body and sighed when she saw who it was. She pulled the headphones off of her ears and rested them on her neck, turning her head back so she could face him slightly.
"Why do Ah have the feelin ya did that on purpose?" She asked. It had been at least one minute sense she'd been safely on the solid roof and not falling off the edge and he still hadn't let go of her.
"Don' know petite." He answered with a grin.
"What're ya doin out here Swamp Rat?" She asked, a little annoyed at him for disturbing her in her time of venting.
"Remy was gon' ask ya de same question chere. It be getting cold out here an' ya gon' catch sometin if ya don' be careful." He told her.
"Ah'm not gonna get sick Cajun. A little cold didn't hurt anyone." She said.
"Non, but Remy'd feel betta if ya weren' cold at all." He said, pulling her into him even more and letting her soak up his warmth.
She got lost in the scent of Cajun spices and cigarettes for a minute before coming back to reality.
"Ya gonna end up in a coma if ya not careful Cajun." She said, but she didn't pull away.
"Fo' you mon chere, dat be a chance Remy be willin ta take." He said, covering her more and kissing her on the top of her head.
"What am Ah gonna do with you Cajun?" She asked, laughing.
She hadn't had to deal with boys the way she was having to deal with him ever sense her powers manifested. He wasn't like any boys she'd ever met before though. And that was what made things interestingly difficult for her.
"Remy could tink of a few tings." He said into her ear suggestively.
She would have smacked him playfully if the feeling of his breath in her ear hadn't left her with shivers going down her spine.
"So why ya be up here chere?" He asked again.
"This is mah sanctuary. Ah come here ta get away from things and people. Nobody else knows about it except the adults and Kitty but the adults just let meh be and Kitty's afraid ta come up here ta bother meh. And now you." Rogue explained.
"So why are ya up here?" She asked him.
Remy then remembered why he had come to her room in the first place.
"Remy wanted ta make sure his chere was okay. He didn' like dat 'sheet unda de blankets' trick ya pulled." He told her.
"What exactly were ya doin in mah room anyways?" She asked.
"Oh Remy was jus' comin ta tell ya dat Wolvie says he be sorry an' dat we don' have de extra trainin in de mornin'." He explained.
"Oh, what made him change his mind?" She asked.
"Stormy came an' cleared everyting up. He was feelin real bad fo' yellin at ya chere." Remy told her, sitting down on the roof and pulling her down with him into his lap.
She didn't seem to notice. She was just listening to his voice and hearing the quiet thunder from across town getting closer.
Rogue yawned her eyelids drooped a little. She leaned back into the comfort of Remy's chest and closed her eyes.
"Ya make a real good pillow ya know that?" She asked quietly, her eyes still closed.
"Jus' fo' you petite." He whispered back, resting his chin on her head.
"Hey Remy?" She asked after a while.
"Oui chere?" he replied, looking down at her.
"What time did ya come inta mah room?" She asked.
Remy thought the question was strange but he answered it anyways.
"Bout one thirty, why?" He replied.
"Oh just wondering if you woke Kitty up or not cause if ya did she'll probably be grumpy all mornin'." Rogue replied, closing her eyes again.
"Non, she wasn' in de room when Remy came in." he told her.
"Oh." Rogue whispered.
Suddenly Rogue's eyes shot open and she turned in his arms to face him.
"Wait, are you sure you were in mah room at one thirty?" She asked.
"Oui, why?" He noticed the worry in her eyes, plus his empathy did help.
"Cause Logan sends everybody to their rooms at one thirty or earlier and Ah know Kitty. She's neva stayed up past one the entire time Ah've been livin with her." Rogue answered.
"What y' gettin' at petite?" He asked, confused as to where this was going.
"Remy, did you see Kitty at all when ya were downstairs?" She asked.
"Non." He answered after thinking about it for a minute.
"Me neither." Rogue answered in a serious tone.
"Remy, Ah don't think Kitty came home last night." Rogue said with worry, standing to her feet and walking over to where her balcony was.
"y' don' know dat fo' sure petite." Remy said.
It was now two fifteen and Kitty still wasn't asleep.
Rogue went toward her door and opened it.
"Where ya goin chere?" Remy asked.
"Ta go get Logan. Somethin aint right here and Kitty's missin." She said before walking out the door. Remy caught up to her and snaked his arm around her waist.
"Ah don't have time fer ya flirtin games Cajun." She told him.
"Remy knows petite. Dis aint be a game." He told her.
"Then what is it?" She asked, still walking down the hall to her superior's room.
'Why did the Prof have to be outta town for the weekend?' She asked herself.
"Dis be comfort." He answered, walking along the halls with her.
When they finally reached Logan's room Rogue was not in the mood for subtleties. She was too worried about her friend for that. She pounded on his door a few times before it swung open. Logan glared down at her and Remy. His hair was tousled from sleeping and he obviously did not appreciate being woken up.
"He noticed Remy's arm around Rogue a little too close to her backside and growled at the Cajun who released his hold immediately and took a small step from Rogue.
Rogue didn't care at this point. She needed to know where Kitty was.
"What is it Stripes? And this better be good." He asked grumpily.
"Logan, did Kitty come home last night?" She asked with worry and even a little fear in her voice.
Logan's eyes widened after a moment of thought and he sniffed the air a few times. He sighed and straightened up.
"No. Come on Stripes, let's go assemble the troops." He said in defeat. He was not going to be getting back to bed any time soon.
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Kitty began to rub her hands back and forth on her arms, crossing them and trying to keep herself warm as she shivered from the cold that was now getting to her.
"Are you cold?" Piotr asked, pulling himself away from his thoughts when he saw what she was doing.
"Yeah, like my goose bumps have goose bumps." She told him.
She continued trying to keep warm and he went silent again. She was freezing for some reason and it was really getting to her.
'So this is how the people on The Titanic felt.' She thought sourly. Suddenly she felt something heavy being draped over her shoulders.
She looked at them and saw that she was now wearing an oversized jacket with wool on the inside so she was feeling warmer already.
She looked over to Piotr who was not even looking at her. He was just staring into space, trying to collect his thoughts once more.
She noticed that he was now only where a short-sleeve shirt that only magnified his muscles. He wasn't wearing a jacket any longer.
She smiled in gratitude for the offer but declined.
"Thanks but I can't take this. You'll freeze." She said, trying to hand him back the coat.
"No, you keep it. You need it more then I do." He said, putting his hands up and not accepting his coat back.
She sighed and stared at him for a minute.
"But I can't. You shouldn't suffer because I chose not to bring a jacket with me into town." She argued.
"Ah but you forget Katja. I have lived in Russia all my life. This weather is like Spring time climate for me." He explained with a small smile on his face from memories of home that vanished instantly and were replaced by a pang of sadness.
Kitty noticed his melancholy features and decided not to say anything at first.
There was another long silence and Kitty decided to break it yet again.
"So Piotr why are you working for Magneto?" She asked.
There was no answer.
"Piotr?" She repeated.
Still no answer.
She turned her head and saw that the older mutant had nodded off and fallen asleep. She laughed and found herself staring at his sleeping form, so content and peaceful. You would never guess this same boy was known for crashing through brick walls with his head.
Soon though, Kitty was lost in the sound of rain hitting the rooftop and without the conversation to keep her thoughts elsewhere she was lulled to sleep by the rain.
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