CHAPTER 24
Battle of Blackmails and Birthday Cake
"C'mon petite. Get up." Remy said, ripping the blankets off his little sister's bed, revealing her curled up form on the mattress.
"Non, too early. Come back later." She mumbled into the pillow, snatching her covers back from him and pulling them back over her head.
Remy laughed at her and poked the small lump that was her body causing it to squirm a bit.
"It be five in de evenin' chere. Any lata an' ya gonn' be de only one up." He said, taking the blankets yet again.
"I just spent three hours in a danger room session just so I can find out that if I use my powers while I'm touching water I could electrocute myself. I really, REALLY want to sleep right now." She said, sitting up and glaring at him.
His only response was to smile down at her and tuck the messy, stray hair that was hiding her face behind her ear.
"There is absolutely nothing you can say or do to make me move from this bed." She said stubbornly, crossing her arms over her chest firmly.
"Well den Remy be guessin it be poin'less t' tell y' dat yo' boyfrien' be on de phone." He said slyly.
"Nice try Rem. Conner's out of town for the weekend for a family reunion." She said, catching his bluff.
"Aright den." He said, turning around to leave.
She smiled at her victory but before she realized it she was being yanked by the sleeve and out into the hall.
"Non, come on. I just wanna go to bed. Pleeeeeease!!!!!" She whined.
"Non, Dere be sometin downstairs fo' ya." He said to her.
"Well then It'll be there for me when I wake up three hours from now." She said, getting dragged down the hall.
"What could possibly be more important then getting my very much needed slee-" She couldn't finish her question. She turned the knob on the door and when she opened it she was blown away by the X-men all standing in a balloon filled room yelling "SURPRISE!"
She looked around and noticed the banner on the wall that said 'Happy Birthday Chloe!' and streamers were hung in places she was sure could only be reached by Night Crawler who had tape stuck all over his furry body, ignoring the laughing Kitty was releasing as a result of his 'sticky' situation.
"Um. . . guys, not that I'm not thankful or anything, but. . . my birthday isn't for another three weeks." She said.
"Ve know." Kurt said cheerfully, taking a large gulp from his Kool-Aid.
"That's like the surprise." Kitty said in an equally cheerful voice.
"Soooo does this mean I get to drive?" She asked hopefully.
"Non." Remy said firmly in unison with Logan who said it in English.
Wolverine winced at the thought of Kitty's little driving escapade when she'd turned fifteen and nine months.
He wasn't sure why but Remy had made it perfectly clear that she wasn't allowed to drive legally until she was sixteen and not a minute sooner and if Gambit had reason to believe that his little sister's driving skills were anything like Kitty's then Logan was 100 percent behind him.
"So I have to wait three long agonizing weeks until I'm allowed to ride?" She asked, sulking at him.
"De car, oui." Remy said.
"So I can ride your bike sooner?" She asked hopefully.
"Hell no chil'. Where'd ya get dat crazy idea? Y' ain' getting anywhere near Remy's bike afta what happen' las' time." He told her.
"Aw man." She sulked, sinking into the couch.
"Hey I have a question." Jamie said, being the random little twelve year old he was.
"Why does Chloe talk like everybody else when Remy has that accent thing?" He asked curiously.
Everyone was quiet and looked from Jamie to Chloe and Remy. The two hadn't been very open about their pasts with the X-men yet and they all had a feeling it was probably for a good reason, but either way it must have been a touchy subject.
"Jamie why don't you and I go get the ice cream ready? Who wants vanilla?" Storm asked, getting the question canceled out with her own.
"Oh its okay Miss Munroe. We don't mind, do we Remy?" Chloe asked, though it was more of a comment then a question.
"Non." Remy said honestly.
"Oh. Well then I guess if you'd care to enlighten us. . ." Storm said, sitting down again.
"Well Remy was born an' raised in de Bayou so he tinks he be stuck wit dis 'accent ting' o' his fo' life." Remy answered first, mocking Jamie's term for his Cajun accent to show it wasn't a sensitive subject.
The kids smiled at his mockery even though Jamie hadn't gotten it.
"An' mon familie be part o' dis. . . well mo' like de head o' dis guild an' it non be de mos' safe place fo a petite femme like Chloe." He paused, looking at his little sister.
"Mon merre an' perre taught it woul' be bes' if Chloe had a life outside de guild, seein how-"
"Seeing how Remy turned out to be the way he was." Chloe said, smirking devilishly yet playfully at her older brother.
"Oui, dat pretty much de case. Dey wanted de petite t' have as normal life as possible so dey sent her t' live wit mon tante down in Florida." Remy told them all.
"So you never saw each other?" Jubilee asked, a little astounded that they would do that to her like that.
"No, unfortunately for me, I got to see Remy every Friday through Saturday and during all the holidays and days off of school we had." Chloe piped in.
"That's where the missing accent came from then? You didn't have one because you didn't live in Louisiana?" Scott asked.
"Pretty much. It was kind of like having two homes, two places, two groups of people, basically it was like having two lives." She stated, sounding as if she had just now realized it.
"That must have been confusing though." Jean put in.
"Yeah, but not that bad. I mean everybody in the Guild in New Orleans knew me and everything so it was all cool. Mostly because my dad was like head of the guild in that area like Rem mentioned." "You mean there's more then one of these guilds?" Rogue asked.
"Well duh! There's like one in just about every state in the country, but it stops there. At least that's as far as we go. I mean everybody in New Orleans knows about Remy and Henri because they're technically supposed to take over when the leaders are. . . retired or something." Chloe said, finishing with a pause but erasing any sad thoughts that were drifting into her head.
This was her birthday and she was going to be happy and have fun if it killed her. "But if we went to a guild in Europe or something they wouldn't know who Remy or Henri were." Chloe added.
"Wait, who's Henri?" Rogue asked.
"Uh. . . Chloe Remy tinks dat be nuff info'mation bout de guild dat y' need t' give out fo' de night non?" Remy said, ignoring Rogue's second question.
"So you weren't a thief like Remy?" Bobby asked, ignoring the older boy's request.
"Bobby please." Jean said at his somewhat rudeness and for being so blunt about calling Remy a thief.
"S'okay Jeanie, de boy jus' callin em' as he sees em' oui?" Remy asked Bobby.
"Uh. . . I guess." Bobby answered, turning back to Chloe.
"So did you pickpocket and break into houses and rob banks and stuff?" Bobby continued.
Jean just gave up and rolled her eyes.
"Something about the Thieves Guild Bobby." Chloe said, putting her hand on her hip, showing attitude.
"We don' steal, we acquire." She said, falling into her second accent, which she could do fairly well.
"So you have two accents?" Roberto asked.
"Well sorta. I mean you pick up on stuff without realizing it when you spend so much time out in the Bayou like we did." She said, going back to her normal way of speaking.
"Wait, So when Remy said he was the Prince of Thieves, he was like actually being literal?" Kitty asked.
"How do ya figure that Kit?" Rogue questioned.
"Well if his dad is the one in charge then he'd be the one right below him like King to Prince. Get it?" Kitty explained.
"And here Ah thought ya earned that title from all thah steal. . . uh acquirin ya'll did back in thah day." Rogue said, turning to Remy who smiled sheepishly at her.
"A lil bit o' both mon chere." He said, pulling her into his arms again before she stepped away once more.
"So that would make you the Princess of Thieves?" Tabby asked. "Hey that means we now have two princesses in the house. This place is turning out to be a regular Buckingham Palace." Tabby joked, ignoring the glaring Amara who ended up laughing along with her in the end.
"Pft! Mon souer ain' de Princess o' Tieves. Sure dere be de ting wit mon perre bein in charge but dat don' mean y' can' jus' have a title like dat. Y' gotta earn it jus' like Remy did." Remy said, being a little too over dramatic for the conversation.
Chloe rolled her eyes and mocked him by lisping the words he was saying as he said them. Obviously she'd heard this little speech of his quite a few times before.
"So then what are ya?" Sam asked.
"I'm a soon to be sixteen year old girl, about five feet, six inches, brown eyes, auburn hair, and a cocky, overbearing, older brother as a guardian. You?" Chloe answered sarcastically when he asked 'what' she was.
"Ya know what Ah mean." He said, rolling his eyes.
"She de Lady o' Tieves. Dats been her title sense she was firs' born." Remy said, smiling back at long past memories.
"You know what, this is really nice." Chloe said, examining the streamers, banners, presents and people with ridiculous looking hats stuck to their heads.
"Thanks everybody. This is probably WAY better then that COMING INTO party I've heard about in the guild." She said.
"What's that?" Kitty asked.
"Its when somebody from de guild turns de age o' sixteen an' de entire guild comes t' celebrate de occasion. Plus dere be all dese traditions an' special stuff y' gotta go trough." Remy said, frowning.
Rogue looked at him peculiarly.
"Remy REALLY didn't like his Coming Into party. He had to stand next to perre and listen to him talk about their next heist while all the older men in the guild drank and smoked cigars and told him how proud they were and how he would make a fine addition to the team. Remy'd been thieving for years now and they only now noticed." Chloe answered for him.
"Plus dey make de thievin a chore sometimes. An' dat jus' takes all de fun right outta it." Remy said, putting an arm around Rogue subtly, who ducked under it just as smoothly.
This little game of theirs had been going on a while now sense the party started. Logan saw Rogue duck and get out of his grasp every time and smirked after frowning and growling at the Cajun.
"Well we don't have banquet halls and hundreds of people showing up to honor you but we do have about seven tubs of different flavored ice cream, at least fifteen toppings and nine boxes of order out pizza." Storm said to Chloe.
"Sounds like I got the better party to me." Chloe said cheerfully.
In truth, deep down she knew she really, really wanted more then anything in the world to have a COMING INTO party like Remy and all the other people in the guild had, but what she wanted wasn't the gifts and the fancy parties and the huge amounts of cake.
What she wanted was to have her mother fit the family dress to be Chloe's size, even if it was the tackiest thing she'd ever seen. To hear her parents hold their glasses and give a speech about how she was just in diapers yesterday so it seemed, and to start the party with the traditional father daughter dance that was done before any others.
She wanted all that, but she knew she couldn't have it. So when Chloe thought about it, this party was probably better then the one she'd dreamed about in the Bayou.
Remy noticed the sad glint in her eyes and she noticed that he'd seen it as well so she quickly concealed it, suppressing any bad feelings until after the party and as long as she could after that.
Remy wanted to talk to her about the emotions he was picking up from her at the moment but he thought it best not to pull her away from the crowd of people. Her mood was lifting each minute as her
"Hey like don't forget the birthday cake!" Kitty said cheerfully, bringing it out to the people and setting the huge thing down on the coffee table in the middle of the room.
"Uh-oh- I mean, how nice. You made me a cake?" Chloe asked, eyeing it.
"No, I did the next best thing. I bought it." Kitty explained, getting a room full of sighs of relief after saying so.
"Well then child, why don't you blow out the candles and make a wish?" Storm suggested.
Chloe smiled and leaned into the cake, the fire from the candles glowing and lighting up her face. She took a deep breath and prepared to blow out the sixteen candles when a huge gust of wind came through the open window and blew them out before she had a chance.
"Well that was unexpected." Chloe said, looking down at her blown out candles.
"And you didn't even get to make a wish." Jamie said, sounding upset for the girl.
"Dat be okay petite/ Remy'll light em again." Remy said, charging the wick of each tiny candle.
(A/N: Yeah yeah I know technically if Remy charged the tiny candles they'd all explode but its HER birthday and MY story and WE are going to let this rule slide, so tuff noogies people! :P)
She smiled at him, even though the rest of the group took a step back, apparently not trusting Remy's ability to control his powers enough to only spark the candles and not blow the cake up.
Chloe took another deep breath and was about to blow out the candles when. . . .
DING DONG!
The doorbell rang and echoed through the mansion.
"I'll get it." Kitty said, standing from her seat and hurrying to the front door. When she reached it she opened both doors and to her surprise, standing there rather uncomfortable looking was Piotr. John was also with him but he looked right at home.
"Elo Sheila!" Pyro said happily, walking inside.
"Come on in." Kitty muttered sarcastically as he walked past her.
Colossus waited a minute before taking a step into the mansion.
"Looks like we have some more party guests." Kitty said in a sarcastic tone, walking back into the party room.
The X-men all turned their attention to her to see what she was talking about.
Scott and Wolverine were standing and ready for a fight in three seconds flat. The others just looked at the two newcomers curiously and a little skeptically but didn't get up.
"Hey Sheila! 'Appy Birthday!" John said, strolling into the room like he owned the place and sitting down next to the birthday girl.
"Did you get me a present?" She asked.
"Bloody hell Sheila! We bloody nearly risking our lives to come to this little shindig of yours. Isn't that gift enough?" Pyro exclaimed.
"So. . . did you get me a present?" She asked again innocently.
Pyro smiled at her and ruffled her hair before reaching into his coat and pulling out something.
He handed her a wrapped package that was obviously her gift and then his eyes caught the now melting candles.
"Ooh! Fire!" Pyro said perkily.
Before he could say or do another thing all the remaining X-men sitting around the table had flown forward and blown out the candles before Chloe could make a wish or Pyro could burn down their home.
"I wasn't going to do anything. You people are all paranoid." John said, trying to sound a little offended. He failed miserably.
"Just precautions Bub." Logan said.
Scott, Logan, you can sit down. Mr. Alderdyce asked if he could attend this evening's events and I agreed." Xavier explained.
"Ya mean after all that hell we went through down in thah alley thah other day ya'll are tellin' me that ya decided it wasn't important if Mags saw ya with us?" Rogue asked, exasperatedly.
"What hell in the alley?" Logan questioned.
"No Sheila. You got it all wrong. I'm here because I said I'd be. After all I haven't been to one of her birthday parties in how long?" Pyro asked.
"Nine years John. And you better have brought a decent gift or an invitation this time." Chloe remarked.
Everyone looked at her dumbfounded.
"Well at least I didn't bring Sabretooth this time around." He said, grinning ear to ear.
"Yeah okay." Chloe said, shaking the box he brought her.
"Wait! Hold on! Will somebody please explain what's going on here!?" Scott asked.
"You didn't tell them?" John and Chloe said in unison, turning to Remy.
"Why always Remy dat gotta be de one ta tell dem. Y' wanna tell em' tell de people yo'selves." He said, snaking an unnoticed arm around Rogue's small waist.
Well almost unnoticed. Logan growled and shot out three of his claws on his right hand threateningly.
"Watch the hands bub." He growled.
Rogue looked to wear Logan was glaring in confusion and blushed red immediately and undid herself from his arm, dashing forward a very big step and out of the Cajun's reach.
Technically it wasn't out of his reach, but it was within Logan's, which meant she was safe from Remy for the time being.
"So why don't you guys start explaining already?" Roberto asked impatiently.
"Yeah." The others cried.
"Oh come on you guys! It's a really long story and I don't feel like telling it." Chloe whined.
"We don't expect you to. It's your birthday. We want him to do the story telling." Jubilee said, pointing to Remy who was eyeing Rogue and getting a perspective of the little dilemma he was having with Logan being there.
"Sorry mon amis but Remy be too tired an' dis be a way too long story fo' him ta tell y' right now." He said, plopping down onto the couch.
Everyone groaned and complained at his choice but they knew the Professor would just tell them that if Remy didn't want to talk about something personal then they shouldn't press him on the matter.
Rogue smirked devilishly and walked over to Remy who noticed the change in her aura immediately and looked up at her quizzically.
"What be goin on in dat pretty lil head o' yo's chere." He asked, raising an eye row.
"Oh nothin." She said, sitting down next to him.
'Here goes nuthin.' She thought to herself, trying to keep a straight face. 'What Ah do fer mah teammates.'
"Ya know Remy, if ya were ta tell us the story, well then Ah'd be real grateful." She said, leaning into his ear.
"How grateful?" He asked, his eyebrow still raised.
"Very Grateful." She said in a way that broke the words apart but held a seductive and suggestive manner to it.
This time both Remy's eyebrows rose this time, higher then before and a devilish smile planted itself securely on his face. He'd gotten the picture.
"Really now? Well petite, Remy would, but he jus' be so very tired." He said, yawning and leaning back on the couch.
"Fahn then." She said, getting up immediately before he could hold her down.
"Did it work?" Kitty asked.
"Naw, sorry guys. Guess ya'll are gonna have ta be kept in suspense." Rogue told the teens.
The adults were now in the other room, letting the kids listen to music and chat amongst themselves without all the parental figures there as supervisors.
"Try again! Jubilee whispered.
"Yeah, come on Rogue, do it for the team!" Bobby added.
She scowled at him and looked over at Remy with a sigh.
"Alright Ah'll try one more time, but if this don't work then Ah'm outta ideas." She said, looking very hesitant about what she was about to commit to.
"And ya'll owe meh BIG fer this one, ya hear?" She hissed, keeping her voice down so Remy didn't hear the conversation. He was already eyeing them curiously with his one open eye.
"Rogue like what are you going to do?" Kitty asked, glancing at Peter, who was sitting a little uncomfortably in the chair by the massive bookcase, studying Xavier's selection of literature.
Rogue didn't answer. She just shook her head in disbelief and took a deep breath.
"Ah can't believe Ah'm about ta do this." She said to herself and the X- members around her before clearing her throat and talking louder so the Cajun could hear.
"Well sorry ya'll. Ah mean if Remy had agreed on tellin' us thah story then Ah was gonna give him somethin' in return ya know, like say lettin' him go a day bein able ta flirt with meh and all without thah risk of meh tryin ta kill him but sense he's not gonna agree then Ah guess ya'll are outta luck." Rogue said, grabbing his attention immediately.
Bobby caught on and winked, getting what she was doing.
"Whoa wait! You mean like you were actually gonna make a deal with him that if he told us everything then you'd like not be able to hit him or threaten him or push him away when he flirted with you and held you and stuff?" Kitty asked, catching onto what she was planning.
"Yeah, but sense he aint gonna tell us then-"
Rogue didn't even have to finish her final sentence.
As soon as Kitty's words registered into his mind he sprung from the couch and nearly flew to the Goth's side in a speed that made quick Silver look sluggish.
Before she could turn around or say anything else she'd been stopped by Remy snaking his arm around her waist and pulling her very close to him, their hips knocking into each other's as he did so.
"Like Remy said, he'd like nuttin more den ta tell ya bout what eva y' wan' ta know." Remy said, getting a scowl from Rogue and a grin from everyone else.
"This so betta be worth it Cajun!" She mumbled sourly.
"Hush petite. Let Remy tell de story like a good lil' fille." He said, grinning down at her. She shot daggers at him with her piercing green eyes. This guy was really going to test the limits of their little deal, and he wasn't wasting any time in doing so.
"Aw don't tell me you blokes want Gambit to tell the story!?" Pyro said, after the word of the story got the attention of Chloe and himself.
"And why wouldn't we?" Amara asked.
"Cause love, I've heard this Wanker's version of the story. The main things he remembers is all the Sheila's he hooked up with during everything." Pyro told her.
"Oh." She said.
"Y' know y' right John, so Remy's got a betta idea. He gon' let Chloe tell de story." Remy said, tightening his grasp on Rogue who immediately tried to rip free from him.
"But she wouldn't remember it. It happened nine bloody years ago mate!" John remarked.
"Oui, but we video taped a good bit o' de action, an' de happenins o' dat party still be talked about till dis day so it be fresh in de fille's mind." Remy answered, not letting go of the pissed off girl in his arms.
"Well then thah deal is off." Rogue said, squirming.
"Non, Remy still made it so de story be tol', he jus' ain' gon' tell it himself." Remy said, smirking down at her.
"Dat still be part o' de deal." He told her, loving the glare he was receiving because of it.
"He's like right Rogue. Looks like you're stuck." Kitty shot in.
Rogue turned her scowl to Kitty who cowered over to where Peter was sitting after meeting Rogue's glare.
"Hey Peter, come on, we're about to hear a story." Kitty said happily, grabbing Peter's hand before he could object or even acknowledge her presence.
Chloe sighed and put down the box she was shaking around in a guess to see what was inside.
"Alright fine." She grumbled, shooting Remy a 'thanks a bunch' look. Remy grinned at her innocently and sat on the couch, dragging Rogue into his lap in the process.
She tensed up and froze but after about five minutes of Chloe talking Rogue seemed to get more comfortable on the Cajun's knee, even if she hadn't noticed it yet.
Remy smiled at his and leaned back, causing her back to fall into his chest without her realizing it.
". . . So it was my seventh birthday right? And Remy was off on one of his little missions that he was assigned to all the time now that he'd become an official thief or whatever." Chloe said, not mentioning much about the guild itself to her friends.
"Well what happened was we were all outside and the party had been going on for about an hour. Remy was supposed to be there but he just HAD to pick the pockets of just one more person." She said, scowling for a second at him.
"Anyways, we were eating and everything and who do you think shows up looking for a guy named Gambit? I'll tell you who. Sabretooth." She said, getting surprised looks from everyone.
"'Ey now! What about me?" Pyro asked.
"I'm getting to it." Chloe said in a 'hold your horses' sort of way.
"So as I was saying, he shows up and claims Remy and some other guy stole something very important from his boss and he wanted it back pronto."
"Hey! Remy didn' steal de ting wit some otta guy. Remy went solo on dis one." Remy said, sounding very offended that he'd need someone else for a one-man task.
"Hush Swamp Rat! Ah wanna hear thah story." Rogue said.
"And Remy, having the impeccable timing he always has, decided to join the party at that very moment with John." Chloe continued.
"Wait! You mean John was part of that guild thing too?" Kitty asked.
"No way! If John was a part of the guild we probably wouldn't have a guild. It would have been burned to ashes years ago." Chloe exclaimed.
"Hey!" John exclaimed.
"What? You don't agree?" Chloe asked.
"Well no, Its true. . . I just had the urge to sound outraged." John said, sitting back down.
"John wasn' part o' de guild. He jus' happen' t' run int' Remy when he stole from de fur ball. Dis be de block head dat Big Foot saw Remy wit." Gambit explained.
"Right. So like I was saying, Remy had just entered the gates and everybody stopped and stared at him and John, who they'd obviously never met before and were wondering why he was there. Well in the end Remy ended up having to give back what he stole because he'd been caught red handed. It has to do with the commandments of the guild or something. I don't know. But Sabretooth and John ended up staying for the party. Well more like John stayed for the party and Sabretooth scowled and hulked around. Apparently there was some Area 51 people or something tracking Sabretooth and since my moron older brother's scent led him straight to the secret area of where the guild was he used it against us and we had to let him stay over night or else he'd tell our secret. We had a telepath wipe his mind of where the guild was after he left but their powers weren't strong enough to wipe out his memory of us." Chloe said, glad that she was done with telling the story.
"But why'd you take John to the guild if it was all secretive?" Bobby asked Gambit.
"Didn' have a choice. De men tracin Creed picked up on our powas an' we both had t' bolt b'fo' dey got up to us. Remy may be a tief, but he wouldn' neva leave a man in a six against one fight. Jus' not right." Remy said.
"And that's how ya'll knew each otha?" Rogue asked.
"Yep. Dat be de story." Remy told her.
"Well in that case." She said, bolting for a passage way through his arms but found none as his limbs didn't even budge. Except of course when they pulled her closer to him after she tried to escape.
"Now, now chere. Dat not fair. Remy held up his end o' de bargain so y' gotta hol' up yo's." He said, waving his index finger at her in mock shame.
Rogue just scowled at him in return.
"I really didn't like Sabretooth." Chloe said.
"Remy sure de feelins mutual." Remy told her.
"What did I ever do to him?" Chloe exclaimed.
Remy raised an eyebrow and she smiled sheepishly.
"Oh yeah." She answered with a small laugh. "That." She said, recalling what Remy was thinking.
"What did I miss?" Kitty asked, confused at what was going on.
"Nothing." Chloe said, wanting to forget about what she remembered.
"Psh Remy wouldn' call what y' did t de fur ball nuttin." He said, receiving a glare from his older sister.
"What'd she do?" Rogue asked.
"Remy they really don't need to know about anything else." Chloe said.
"Non, but Remy gon' tell em' anyway." He said, smirking at her.
"That guy gets upset over the littlest things. Its not even important." Chloe said.
"Lil? Petite, Braidin de homme's hair when he was sleepin isn' lil." Remy said, causing gapes from the teens in the room.
Logan choked on the drink he was sipping at the moment and had to fight not to laugh at this. He was in the next room with the adults but with his good hearing he could listen clearly to their conversation.
"You did what!?" Evan asked.
"Hey it wasn't my fault. He was the one that didn't want to play dress up." Chloe shot back. "I was seven!"
Rogue wanted more then anything at that moment to see Logan's reaction because she knew he'd have one. She wasn't sure but it was probably something like he was fighting smiling at laughing while trying to maintain his rough exterior. This in itself caused Rogue to laugh because she knew all too well that the man could hear what was going on.
"Dank de Gods mon cousin foun' de petite b'fo' she got t' de makeup." Remy said, shuddering at what Sabretooth's reaction to that might have been.
Rogue laughed at the vision she was getting and Remy smiled down at her.
"Remy likes it when y' laugh chere." He whispered into her ear, his breath tickling her skin. She shivered involuntarily and scowled at him.
Remy just laughed in return.
"Ah can't believe that happened. No wonder the hairball doesn't like ya." Rogue said with a small laugh.
"Non, Remy tinks what really got to de homme was afta he woke up an' decided t' take a showa." Remy said, glancing at Chloe.
Chloe's eyes widened in horror. "Remy no. Don't you dare!" She exclaimed.
"What? What happened?" The others asked.
Remy smiled at them and then back at his sister.
"Remy you so better not say a word/ I swear if you do you'll regret it." She threatened.
"Oh? An' what y' gon' do petite?" He asked playfully.
"Oh trust me. I know stuff about you that I'm very sure the people here would just love to hear about. Very VERY embarrassing things you've done." She said with a glint of evil in her eyes.
"Remy doubts dat petite." Remy said, not taking her threat seriously.
"Oh no?" Chloe asked.
"Non." Remy said, clearing his throat.
"As Remy was sayin, Growly took a showa an' Chloe decided dat she wanted t' comb her hair in de same room at de same time." Remy said, pausing to glance at Chloe who was glaring daggers at him.
"An' when she opened de door. . ." Remy trailed off.
"Well lets jus' say none o' de guest towels were big enough fo' de homme." Remy said while looking at his sister who was starting to blush and wince at the memory.
"Next ting we know we hear de fille screamin all trough de house an' she come runnin int' de kitchen screamin sometin bout her eyes." Remy said, laughing at the memory.
Everyone stared at Chloe was had sunk lower into the couch at was covering her eyes. "Thanks a lot Remy. Took me long enough to get that image out of my head as it was." Chloe scowled at him.
"No prob petite." He smiled happily.
Logan winced at the thought of what she had to see and decided that this particular event wasn't funny as much as it being cruel for a seven year old to witness.
"Oh that's it! I warned you!" Chloe said, standing from her seat.
"Calm down petite. Y' bein a wimp ova dis." Remy said, getting under her skin a little.
Chloe was about to insult him and yell at him when she thought of something and her features changed to smiling evilly at him.
"Yeah but at least unlike a certain older brother of mine, I didn't cry at the end of Titanic." She shot back coolly. Remy's head jerked up and his eyes widened.
Pyro started cracking up and Chloe smirked, satisfied with herself.
Rogue was laughing as well, which didn't make Remy any happier.
"Now petite dat wasn' very nice." Remy said, trying to sound like he was just brushing it off like he didn't care that Rogue was laughing and it was embarrassing.
"Oh poor Remy!" She said mockingly. "Afraid the girls are all going to stop having little crushes on you now that they know you're a softy?" Chloe asked, smiling.
"At least Remy didn' have a crush on a Pyromaniac when he was seven." Remy shot back coolly, smiling at her.
Chloe's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. John had stopped laughing and the teens awaited her reaction.
"Hey! That's not fair! I was seven and stupid!" She exclaimed.
"Hey!" Pyro piped in, trying to sound somewhat offended.
"Shut up." Chloe and Remy said in unison, causing the pyromaniac to sit back down.
"And besides, you are so one to talk." Chloe said to Remy.
"An' what's dat suppose' t' mean petite?" Remy asked.
"Oh please." She said, putting her hands on her heart and mocking Remy as she imitated him for everyone.
"Oh Rogue, Remy tinks y' tres beautiful when y' laugh mon chere." Chloe said in an accent that could only have been Remy's.
"She started laughing along with Pyro and some of the others in the room.
Remy didn't say anything and Rogue just blushed madly and wished that she was anywhere but stuck on Gambit's lap.
"And at least I don't say certain girl's names in my sleep. When you came back for a weekend visit after you joined the Acolytes no one could figure out why you were murmuring something about a Rogue in your sleep. They'll all get a kick outta this one." Chloe said.
"I for one think its great that Remy can't get a girl off his mind and not vice versa. Nice change in pace if you me." Chloe said.
"Non, y' right. Y' don' talk in yo' sleep. Y' jus' sing de alphabet." Remy shot back.
It had now become a battle of secrets and they were all being reveled to the X-kids who were all just waiting to see how this played out.
"Remy flirted with a girl at one of the guild parties and she turned out to be our cousin." Chloe retorted.
"Chloe was convinced dat dere was a monster unda her bed till she was eleven." Remy shot.
"My dad and some other older men in the guild took Remy to a strip club when he was twelve and when the striper came over to them Remy apologized for looking." Chloe said with a smirk.
Her older brother's weakness was without a doubt his manliness and masculinity. There was no secret about that.
"Chloe's biggest fear is o'dose Teletubie tings on de TV." Remy announced.
This was all a little out of character for Remy. He knew that, but it was all in good fun and he was feeling a little under-aged at the moment so it was okay. Just that normally he would never be the type to indulge in such an immature conversation. It was all fun and playing around so no harm done. At least that's what he thought.
Chloe gasped. She had gotten so caught up in the playing around with the secret spilling and she was completely thrown off at the last secret of hers Remy had told that she wasn't even thinking straight and before she realized what she had done or what she was saying she burst out . . .
"REMY'S A VIRGIN!"
The laughter that had been going on in the room the whole time had ceased immediately and Chloe's hand flew up to her mouth in shock and her eyes widened when the words left her lips.
"Uh-oh." Chloe said, looking at Remy.
Remy simply removed Rogue from his lap, sat her down on the couch and stood from his seat, walking over to Chloe.
Chloe immediately ran for the exit of the room and found sanctuary behind Logan who was now standing in the doorway.
"Alright now that's enough. There's not gonna be any rough housing inside the mansion." Logan said, crossing his arms as Remy stopped in front of him.
"Phew." Chloe sighed in relief, stepping out from behind Logan.
"If you're gonna do anything to each other you'll have to use your powers and take it outside." Logan continued, causing Remy to grin devilishly and Chloe to go wide-eyed.
"Huh!?" Chloe exclaimed but before she got an answer Remy grabbed her by the legs and tossed her over his shoulder, walking out the back doors and closing them behind him.
"Logan do you really think that was wise?" Storm asked, coming up next to him.
"Hey, I figure, what's wrong with a little training session outside? You gotta take it where you can get it now a days Ro." Logan said, hearing a loud explosion that meant Remy used his powers.
Then the lights in the building flickered and dimmed and brightened on and off very quickly, meaning that Chloe was now using her own [powers/
"Remy wait! Not the flowers!" Chloe shouted.
Ororro winced and glared at Logan.
"Great idea." She said sarcastically.
Logan sighed. "I'll buy you new ones okay?" He offered.
"And plant them." Ororro said, walking off.
Logan grumbled and Chloe and Remy came back into the house.
"Got it all outta your systems?" He asked.
They both nodded and sat down. After a minute of silence the whole room of teens burst out in laughter at the events that had just taken place and Logan just shook his head and left.
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Yeah totally long I know and all and I REALLY hope you all enjoyed it. There was some angst with Chloe but then there was happiness and I told you I was gonna fill everyone in on Chloe's past and all that.
I hope I didn't over due anything or do something bad.
BLAH!!! Don't blame any sucky writing I might post on me. Its all Marvel's fault for stopping X-evo, but I luv em newayz cuz they started it in the first place. Why couldn't they have had John and Remy in the last episode!?!? *Sobs*
Oh and by the way yes, Henri is Remy and Chloe's brother in this but no Remy was not adopted. I know sorry I should keep the adoption but it's too hard to go around Chloe and Remy being so alike at times or looking somewhat alike.
So he's gonna be related. Oh and by the way, I hope ya'll didn't totally hate the battle of blackmail info going on.
I know it was totally OOC for Remy but he should be allowed to act a little more like a teenage boy on his kid sister's birthday and I'm sorry if him going after her for her last comment seemed OOC to any of you but just remember its all in good fun. Their siblings. Its what a lot of them do. We're not all like the freaking Brady bunch. *Shudders*
Thanks for all you wonderful people who reviewed. Now please review again and tell me how much you liked or hated or whatever'd this chapter. Next one is gonna have a little more depressed Chloe in it but then its Remy to the rescue and Romyness. DUH!
So review okay. Cuz the more reviews I get the longer and better and faster the story will be updated.
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"C'mon petite. Get up." Remy said, ripping the blankets off his little sister's bed, revealing her curled up form on the mattress.
"Non, too early. Come back later." She mumbled into the pillow, snatching her covers back from him and pulling them back over her head.
Remy laughed at her and poked the small lump that was her body causing it to squirm a bit.
"It be five in de evenin' chere. Any lata an' ya gonn' be de only one up." He said, taking the blankets yet again.
"I just spent three hours in a danger room session just so I can find out that if I use my powers while I'm touching water I could electrocute myself. I really, REALLY want to sleep right now." She said, sitting up and glaring at him.
His only response was to smile down at her and tuck the messy, stray hair that was hiding her face behind her ear.
"There is absolutely nothing you can say or do to make me move from this bed." She said stubbornly, crossing her arms over her chest firmly.
"Well den Remy be guessin it be poin'less t' tell y' dat yo' boyfrien' be on de phone." He said slyly.
"Nice try Rem. Conner's out of town for the weekend for a family reunion." She said, catching his bluff.
"Aright den." He said, turning around to leave.
She smiled at her victory but before she realized it she was being yanked by the sleeve and out into the hall.
"Non, come on. I just wanna go to bed. Pleeeeeease!!!!!" She whined.
"Non, Dere be sometin downstairs fo' ya." He said to her.
"Well then It'll be there for me when I wake up three hours from now." She said, getting dragged down the hall.
"What could possibly be more important then getting my very much needed slee-" She couldn't finish her question. She turned the knob on the door and when she opened it she was blown away by the X-men all standing in a balloon filled room yelling "SURPRISE!"
She looked around and noticed the banner on the wall that said 'Happy Birthday Chloe!' and streamers were hung in places she was sure could only be reached by Night Crawler who had tape stuck all over his furry body, ignoring the laughing Kitty was releasing as a result of his 'sticky' situation.
"Um. . . guys, not that I'm not thankful or anything, but. . . my birthday isn't for another three weeks." She said.
"Ve know." Kurt said cheerfully, taking a large gulp from his Kool-Aid.
"That's like the surprise." Kitty said in an equally cheerful voice.
"Soooo does this mean I get to drive?" She asked hopefully.
"Non." Remy said firmly in unison with Logan who said it in English.
Wolverine winced at the thought of Kitty's little driving escapade when she'd turned fifteen and nine months.
He wasn't sure why but Remy had made it perfectly clear that she wasn't allowed to drive legally until she was sixteen and not a minute sooner and if Gambit had reason to believe that his little sister's driving skills were anything like Kitty's then Logan was 100 percent behind him.
"So I have to wait three long agonizing weeks until I'm allowed to ride?" She asked, sulking at him.
"De car, oui." Remy said.
"So I can ride your bike sooner?" She asked hopefully.
"Hell no chil'. Where'd ya get dat crazy idea? Y' ain' getting anywhere near Remy's bike afta what happen' las' time." He told her.
"Aw man." She sulked, sinking into the couch.
"Hey I have a question." Jamie said, being the random little twelve year old he was.
"Why does Chloe talk like everybody else when Remy has that accent thing?" He asked curiously.
Everyone was quiet and looked from Jamie to Chloe and Remy. The two hadn't been very open about their pasts with the X-men yet and they all had a feeling it was probably for a good reason, but either way it must have been a touchy subject.
"Jamie why don't you and I go get the ice cream ready? Who wants vanilla?" Storm asked, getting the question canceled out with her own.
"Oh its okay Miss Munroe. We don't mind, do we Remy?" Chloe asked, though it was more of a comment then a question.
"Non." Remy said honestly.
"Oh. Well then I guess if you'd care to enlighten us. . ." Storm said, sitting down again.
"Well Remy was born an' raised in de Bayou so he tinks he be stuck wit dis 'accent ting' o' his fo' life." Remy answered first, mocking Jamie's term for his Cajun accent to show it wasn't a sensitive subject.
The kids smiled at his mockery even though Jamie hadn't gotten it.
"An' mon familie be part o' dis. . . well mo' like de head o' dis guild an' it non be de mos' safe place fo a petite femme like Chloe." He paused, looking at his little sister.
"Mon merre an' perre taught it woul' be bes' if Chloe had a life outside de guild, seein how-"
"Seeing how Remy turned out to be the way he was." Chloe said, smirking devilishly yet playfully at her older brother.
"Oui, dat pretty much de case. Dey wanted de petite t' have as normal life as possible so dey sent her t' live wit mon tante down in Florida." Remy told them all.
"So you never saw each other?" Jubilee asked, a little astounded that they would do that to her like that.
"No, unfortunately for me, I got to see Remy every Friday through Saturday and during all the holidays and days off of school we had." Chloe piped in.
"That's where the missing accent came from then? You didn't have one because you didn't live in Louisiana?" Scott asked.
"Pretty much. It was kind of like having two homes, two places, two groups of people, basically it was like having two lives." She stated, sounding as if she had just now realized it.
"That must have been confusing though." Jean put in.
"Yeah, but not that bad. I mean everybody in the Guild in New Orleans knew me and everything so it was all cool. Mostly because my dad was like head of the guild in that area like Rem mentioned." "You mean there's more then one of these guilds?" Rogue asked.
"Well duh! There's like one in just about every state in the country, but it stops there. At least that's as far as we go. I mean everybody in New Orleans knows about Remy and Henri because they're technically supposed to take over when the leaders are. . . retired or something." Chloe said, finishing with a pause but erasing any sad thoughts that were drifting into her head.
This was her birthday and she was going to be happy and have fun if it killed her. "But if we went to a guild in Europe or something they wouldn't know who Remy or Henri were." Chloe added.
"Wait, who's Henri?" Rogue asked.
"Uh. . . Chloe Remy tinks dat be nuff info'mation bout de guild dat y' need t' give out fo' de night non?" Remy said, ignoring Rogue's second question.
"So you weren't a thief like Remy?" Bobby asked, ignoring the older boy's request.
"Bobby please." Jean said at his somewhat rudeness and for being so blunt about calling Remy a thief.
"S'okay Jeanie, de boy jus' callin em' as he sees em' oui?" Remy asked Bobby.
"Uh. . . I guess." Bobby answered, turning back to Chloe.
"So did you pickpocket and break into houses and rob banks and stuff?" Bobby continued.
Jean just gave up and rolled her eyes.
"Something about the Thieves Guild Bobby." Chloe said, putting her hand on her hip, showing attitude.
"We don' steal, we acquire." She said, falling into her second accent, which she could do fairly well.
"So you have two accents?" Roberto asked.
"Well sorta. I mean you pick up on stuff without realizing it when you spend so much time out in the Bayou like we did." She said, going back to her normal way of speaking.
"Wait, So when Remy said he was the Prince of Thieves, he was like actually being literal?" Kitty asked.
"How do ya figure that Kit?" Rogue questioned.
"Well if his dad is the one in charge then he'd be the one right below him like King to Prince. Get it?" Kitty explained.
"And here Ah thought ya earned that title from all thah steal. . . uh acquirin ya'll did back in thah day." Rogue said, turning to Remy who smiled sheepishly at her.
"A lil bit o' both mon chere." He said, pulling her into his arms again before she stepped away once more.
"So that would make you the Princess of Thieves?" Tabby asked. "Hey that means we now have two princesses in the house. This place is turning out to be a regular Buckingham Palace." Tabby joked, ignoring the glaring Amara who ended up laughing along with her in the end.
"Pft! Mon souer ain' de Princess o' Tieves. Sure dere be de ting wit mon perre bein in charge but dat don' mean y' can' jus' have a title like dat. Y' gotta earn it jus' like Remy did." Remy said, being a little too over dramatic for the conversation.
Chloe rolled her eyes and mocked him by lisping the words he was saying as he said them. Obviously she'd heard this little speech of his quite a few times before.
"So then what are ya?" Sam asked.
"I'm a soon to be sixteen year old girl, about five feet, six inches, brown eyes, auburn hair, and a cocky, overbearing, older brother as a guardian. You?" Chloe answered sarcastically when he asked 'what' she was.
"Ya know what Ah mean." He said, rolling his eyes.
"She de Lady o' Tieves. Dats been her title sense she was firs' born." Remy said, smiling back at long past memories.
"You know what, this is really nice." Chloe said, examining the streamers, banners, presents and people with ridiculous looking hats stuck to their heads.
"Thanks everybody. This is probably WAY better then that COMING INTO party I've heard about in the guild." She said.
"What's that?" Kitty asked.
"Its when somebody from de guild turns de age o' sixteen an' de entire guild comes t' celebrate de occasion. Plus dere be all dese traditions an' special stuff y' gotta go trough." Remy said, frowning.
Rogue looked at him peculiarly.
"Remy REALLY didn't like his Coming Into party. He had to stand next to perre and listen to him talk about their next heist while all the older men in the guild drank and smoked cigars and told him how proud they were and how he would make a fine addition to the team. Remy'd been thieving for years now and they only now noticed." Chloe answered for him.
"Plus dey make de thievin a chore sometimes. An' dat jus' takes all de fun right outta it." Remy said, putting an arm around Rogue subtly, who ducked under it just as smoothly.
This little game of theirs had been going on a while now sense the party started. Logan saw Rogue duck and get out of his grasp every time and smirked after frowning and growling at the Cajun.
"Well we don't have banquet halls and hundreds of people showing up to honor you but we do have about seven tubs of different flavored ice cream, at least fifteen toppings and nine boxes of order out pizza." Storm said to Chloe.
"Sounds like I got the better party to me." Chloe said cheerfully.
In truth, deep down she knew she really, really wanted more then anything in the world to have a COMING INTO party like Remy and all the other people in the guild had, but what she wanted wasn't the gifts and the fancy parties and the huge amounts of cake.
What she wanted was to have her mother fit the family dress to be Chloe's size, even if it was the tackiest thing she'd ever seen. To hear her parents hold their glasses and give a speech about how she was just in diapers yesterday so it seemed, and to start the party with the traditional father daughter dance that was done before any others.
She wanted all that, but she knew she couldn't have it. So when Chloe thought about it, this party was probably better then the one she'd dreamed about in the Bayou.
Remy noticed the sad glint in her eyes and she noticed that he'd seen it as well so she quickly concealed it, suppressing any bad feelings until after the party and as long as she could after that.
Remy wanted to talk to her about the emotions he was picking up from her at the moment but he thought it best not to pull her away from the crowd of people. Her mood was lifting each minute as her
"Hey like don't forget the birthday cake!" Kitty said cheerfully, bringing it out to the people and setting the huge thing down on the coffee table in the middle of the room.
"Uh-oh- I mean, how nice. You made me a cake?" Chloe asked, eyeing it.
"No, I did the next best thing. I bought it." Kitty explained, getting a room full of sighs of relief after saying so.
"Well then child, why don't you blow out the candles and make a wish?" Storm suggested.
Chloe smiled and leaned into the cake, the fire from the candles glowing and lighting up her face. She took a deep breath and prepared to blow out the sixteen candles when a huge gust of wind came through the open window and blew them out before she had a chance.
"Well that was unexpected." Chloe said, looking down at her blown out candles.
"And you didn't even get to make a wish." Jamie said, sounding upset for the girl.
"Dat be okay petite/ Remy'll light em again." Remy said, charging the wick of each tiny candle.
(A/N: Yeah yeah I know technically if Remy charged the tiny candles they'd all explode but its HER birthday and MY story and WE are going to let this rule slide, so tuff noogies people! :P)
She smiled at him, even though the rest of the group took a step back, apparently not trusting Remy's ability to control his powers enough to only spark the candles and not blow the cake up.
Chloe took another deep breath and was about to blow out the candles when. . . .
DING DONG!
The doorbell rang and echoed through the mansion.
"I'll get it." Kitty said, standing from her seat and hurrying to the front door. When she reached it she opened both doors and to her surprise, standing there rather uncomfortable looking was Piotr. John was also with him but he looked right at home.
"Elo Sheila!" Pyro said happily, walking inside.
"Come on in." Kitty muttered sarcastically as he walked past her.
Colossus waited a minute before taking a step into the mansion.
"Looks like we have some more party guests." Kitty said in a sarcastic tone, walking back into the party room.
The X-men all turned their attention to her to see what she was talking about.
Scott and Wolverine were standing and ready for a fight in three seconds flat. The others just looked at the two newcomers curiously and a little skeptically but didn't get up.
"Hey Sheila! 'Appy Birthday!" John said, strolling into the room like he owned the place and sitting down next to the birthday girl.
"Did you get me a present?" She asked.
"Bloody hell Sheila! We bloody nearly risking our lives to come to this little shindig of yours. Isn't that gift enough?" Pyro exclaimed.
"So. . . did you get me a present?" She asked again innocently.
Pyro smiled at her and ruffled her hair before reaching into his coat and pulling out something.
He handed her a wrapped package that was obviously her gift and then his eyes caught the now melting candles.
"Ooh! Fire!" Pyro said perkily.
Before he could say or do another thing all the remaining X-men sitting around the table had flown forward and blown out the candles before Chloe could make a wish or Pyro could burn down their home.
"I wasn't going to do anything. You people are all paranoid." John said, trying to sound a little offended. He failed miserably.
"Just precautions Bub." Logan said.
Scott, Logan, you can sit down. Mr. Alderdyce asked if he could attend this evening's events and I agreed." Xavier explained.
"Ya mean after all that hell we went through down in thah alley thah other day ya'll are tellin' me that ya decided it wasn't important if Mags saw ya with us?" Rogue asked, exasperatedly.
"What hell in the alley?" Logan questioned.
"No Sheila. You got it all wrong. I'm here because I said I'd be. After all I haven't been to one of her birthday parties in how long?" Pyro asked.
"Nine years John. And you better have brought a decent gift or an invitation this time." Chloe remarked.
Everyone looked at her dumbfounded.
"Well at least I didn't bring Sabretooth this time around." He said, grinning ear to ear.
"Yeah okay." Chloe said, shaking the box he brought her.
"Wait! Hold on! Will somebody please explain what's going on here!?" Scott asked.
"You didn't tell them?" John and Chloe said in unison, turning to Remy.
"Why always Remy dat gotta be de one ta tell dem. Y' wanna tell em' tell de people yo'selves." He said, snaking an unnoticed arm around Rogue's small waist.
Well almost unnoticed. Logan growled and shot out three of his claws on his right hand threateningly.
"Watch the hands bub." He growled.
Rogue looked to wear Logan was glaring in confusion and blushed red immediately and undid herself from his arm, dashing forward a very big step and out of the Cajun's reach.
Technically it wasn't out of his reach, but it was within Logan's, which meant she was safe from Remy for the time being.
"So why don't you guys start explaining already?" Roberto asked impatiently.
"Yeah." The others cried.
"Oh come on you guys! It's a really long story and I don't feel like telling it." Chloe whined.
"We don't expect you to. It's your birthday. We want him to do the story telling." Jubilee said, pointing to Remy who was eyeing Rogue and getting a perspective of the little dilemma he was having with Logan being there.
"Sorry mon amis but Remy be too tired an' dis be a way too long story fo' him ta tell y' right now." He said, plopping down onto the couch.
Everyone groaned and complained at his choice but they knew the Professor would just tell them that if Remy didn't want to talk about something personal then they shouldn't press him on the matter.
Rogue smirked devilishly and walked over to Remy who noticed the change in her aura immediately and looked up at her quizzically.
"What be goin on in dat pretty lil head o' yo's chere." He asked, raising an eye row.
"Oh nothin." She said, sitting down next to him.
'Here goes nuthin.' She thought to herself, trying to keep a straight face. 'What Ah do fer mah teammates.'
"Ya know Remy, if ya were ta tell us the story, well then Ah'd be real grateful." She said, leaning into his ear.
"How grateful?" He asked, his eyebrow still raised.
"Very Grateful." She said in a way that broke the words apart but held a seductive and suggestive manner to it.
This time both Remy's eyebrows rose this time, higher then before and a devilish smile planted itself securely on his face. He'd gotten the picture.
"Really now? Well petite, Remy would, but he jus' be so very tired." He said, yawning and leaning back on the couch.
"Fahn then." She said, getting up immediately before he could hold her down.
"Did it work?" Kitty asked.
"Naw, sorry guys. Guess ya'll are gonna have ta be kept in suspense." Rogue told the teens.
The adults were now in the other room, letting the kids listen to music and chat amongst themselves without all the parental figures there as supervisors.
"Try again! Jubilee whispered.
"Yeah, come on Rogue, do it for the team!" Bobby added.
She scowled at him and looked over at Remy with a sigh.
"Alright Ah'll try one more time, but if this don't work then Ah'm outta ideas." She said, looking very hesitant about what she was about to commit to.
"And ya'll owe meh BIG fer this one, ya hear?" She hissed, keeping her voice down so Remy didn't hear the conversation. He was already eyeing them curiously with his one open eye.
"Rogue like what are you going to do?" Kitty asked, glancing at Peter, who was sitting a little uncomfortably in the chair by the massive bookcase, studying Xavier's selection of literature.
Rogue didn't answer. She just shook her head in disbelief and took a deep breath.
"Ah can't believe Ah'm about ta do this." She said to herself and the X- members around her before clearing her throat and talking louder so the Cajun could hear.
"Well sorry ya'll. Ah mean if Remy had agreed on tellin' us thah story then Ah was gonna give him somethin' in return ya know, like say lettin' him go a day bein able ta flirt with meh and all without thah risk of meh tryin ta kill him but sense he's not gonna agree then Ah guess ya'll are outta luck." Rogue said, grabbing his attention immediately.
Bobby caught on and winked, getting what she was doing.
"Whoa wait! You mean like you were actually gonna make a deal with him that if he told us everything then you'd like not be able to hit him or threaten him or push him away when he flirted with you and held you and stuff?" Kitty asked, catching onto what she was planning.
"Yeah, but sense he aint gonna tell us then-"
Rogue didn't even have to finish her final sentence.
As soon as Kitty's words registered into his mind he sprung from the couch and nearly flew to the Goth's side in a speed that made quick Silver look sluggish.
Before she could turn around or say anything else she'd been stopped by Remy snaking his arm around her waist and pulling her very close to him, their hips knocking into each other's as he did so.
"Like Remy said, he'd like nuttin more den ta tell ya bout what eva y' wan' ta know." Remy said, getting a scowl from Rogue and a grin from everyone else.
"This so betta be worth it Cajun!" She mumbled sourly.
"Hush petite. Let Remy tell de story like a good lil' fille." He said, grinning down at her. She shot daggers at him with her piercing green eyes. This guy was really going to test the limits of their little deal, and he wasn't wasting any time in doing so.
"Aw don't tell me you blokes want Gambit to tell the story!?" Pyro said, after the word of the story got the attention of Chloe and himself.
"And why wouldn't we?" Amara asked.
"Cause love, I've heard this Wanker's version of the story. The main things he remembers is all the Sheila's he hooked up with during everything." Pyro told her.
"Oh." She said.
"Y' know y' right John, so Remy's got a betta idea. He gon' let Chloe tell de story." Remy said, tightening his grasp on Rogue who immediately tried to rip free from him.
"But she wouldn't remember it. It happened nine bloody years ago mate!" John remarked.
"Oui, but we video taped a good bit o' de action, an' de happenins o' dat party still be talked about till dis day so it be fresh in de fille's mind." Remy answered, not letting go of the pissed off girl in his arms.
"Well then thah deal is off." Rogue said, squirming.
"Non, Remy still made it so de story be tol', he jus' ain' gon' tell it himself." Remy said, smirking down at her.
"Dat still be part o' de deal." He told her, loving the glare he was receiving because of it.
"He's like right Rogue. Looks like you're stuck." Kitty shot in.
Rogue turned her scowl to Kitty who cowered over to where Peter was sitting after meeting Rogue's glare.
"Hey Peter, come on, we're about to hear a story." Kitty said happily, grabbing Peter's hand before he could object or even acknowledge her presence.
Chloe sighed and put down the box she was shaking around in a guess to see what was inside.
"Alright fine." She grumbled, shooting Remy a 'thanks a bunch' look. Remy grinned at her innocently and sat on the couch, dragging Rogue into his lap in the process.
She tensed up and froze but after about five minutes of Chloe talking Rogue seemed to get more comfortable on the Cajun's knee, even if she hadn't noticed it yet.
Remy smiled at his and leaned back, causing her back to fall into his chest without her realizing it.
". . . So it was my seventh birthday right? And Remy was off on one of his little missions that he was assigned to all the time now that he'd become an official thief or whatever." Chloe said, not mentioning much about the guild itself to her friends.
"Well what happened was we were all outside and the party had been going on for about an hour. Remy was supposed to be there but he just HAD to pick the pockets of just one more person." She said, scowling for a second at him.
"Anyways, we were eating and everything and who do you think shows up looking for a guy named Gambit? I'll tell you who. Sabretooth." She said, getting surprised looks from everyone.
"'Ey now! What about me?" Pyro asked.
"I'm getting to it." Chloe said in a 'hold your horses' sort of way.
"So as I was saying, he shows up and claims Remy and some other guy stole something very important from his boss and he wanted it back pronto."
"Hey! Remy didn' steal de ting wit some otta guy. Remy went solo on dis one." Remy said, sounding very offended that he'd need someone else for a one-man task.
"Hush Swamp Rat! Ah wanna hear thah story." Rogue said.
"And Remy, having the impeccable timing he always has, decided to join the party at that very moment with John." Chloe continued.
"Wait! You mean John was part of that guild thing too?" Kitty asked.
"No way! If John was a part of the guild we probably wouldn't have a guild. It would have been burned to ashes years ago." Chloe exclaimed.
"Hey!" John exclaimed.
"What? You don't agree?" Chloe asked.
"Well no, Its true. . . I just had the urge to sound outraged." John said, sitting back down.
"John wasn' part o' de guild. He jus' happen' t' run int' Remy when he stole from de fur ball. Dis be de block head dat Big Foot saw Remy wit." Gambit explained.
"Right. So like I was saying, Remy had just entered the gates and everybody stopped and stared at him and John, who they'd obviously never met before and were wondering why he was there. Well in the end Remy ended up having to give back what he stole because he'd been caught red handed. It has to do with the commandments of the guild or something. I don't know. But Sabretooth and John ended up staying for the party. Well more like John stayed for the party and Sabretooth scowled and hulked around. Apparently there was some Area 51 people or something tracking Sabretooth and since my moron older brother's scent led him straight to the secret area of where the guild was he used it against us and we had to let him stay over night or else he'd tell our secret. We had a telepath wipe his mind of where the guild was after he left but their powers weren't strong enough to wipe out his memory of us." Chloe said, glad that she was done with telling the story.
"But why'd you take John to the guild if it was all secretive?" Bobby asked Gambit.
"Didn' have a choice. De men tracin Creed picked up on our powas an' we both had t' bolt b'fo' dey got up to us. Remy may be a tief, but he wouldn' neva leave a man in a six against one fight. Jus' not right." Remy said.
"And that's how ya'll knew each otha?" Rogue asked.
"Yep. Dat be de story." Remy told her.
"Well in that case." She said, bolting for a passage way through his arms but found none as his limbs didn't even budge. Except of course when they pulled her closer to him after she tried to escape.
"Now, now chere. Dat not fair. Remy held up his end o' de bargain so y' gotta hol' up yo's." He said, waving his index finger at her in mock shame.
Rogue just scowled at him in return.
"I really didn't like Sabretooth." Chloe said.
"Remy sure de feelins mutual." Remy told her.
"What did I ever do to him?" Chloe exclaimed.
Remy raised an eyebrow and she smiled sheepishly.
"Oh yeah." She answered with a small laugh. "That." She said, recalling what Remy was thinking.
"What did I miss?" Kitty asked, confused at what was going on.
"Nothing." Chloe said, wanting to forget about what she remembered.
"Psh Remy wouldn' call what y' did t de fur ball nuttin." He said, receiving a glare from his older sister.
"What'd she do?" Rogue asked.
"Remy they really don't need to know about anything else." Chloe said.
"Non, but Remy gon' tell em' anyway." He said, smirking at her.
"That guy gets upset over the littlest things. Its not even important." Chloe said.
"Lil? Petite, Braidin de homme's hair when he was sleepin isn' lil." Remy said, causing gapes from the teens in the room.
Logan choked on the drink he was sipping at the moment and had to fight not to laugh at this. He was in the next room with the adults but with his good hearing he could listen clearly to their conversation.
"You did what!?" Evan asked.
"Hey it wasn't my fault. He was the one that didn't want to play dress up." Chloe shot back. "I was seven!"
Rogue wanted more then anything at that moment to see Logan's reaction because she knew he'd have one. She wasn't sure but it was probably something like he was fighting smiling at laughing while trying to maintain his rough exterior. This in itself caused Rogue to laugh because she knew all too well that the man could hear what was going on.
"Dank de Gods mon cousin foun' de petite b'fo' she got t' de makeup." Remy said, shuddering at what Sabretooth's reaction to that might have been.
Rogue laughed at the vision she was getting and Remy smiled down at her.
"Remy likes it when y' laugh chere." He whispered into her ear, his breath tickling her skin. She shivered involuntarily and scowled at him.
Remy just laughed in return.
"Ah can't believe that happened. No wonder the hairball doesn't like ya." Rogue said with a small laugh.
"Non, Remy tinks what really got to de homme was afta he woke up an' decided t' take a showa." Remy said, glancing at Chloe.
Chloe's eyes widened in horror. "Remy no. Don't you dare!" She exclaimed.
"What? What happened?" The others asked.
Remy smiled at them and then back at his sister.
"Remy you so better not say a word/ I swear if you do you'll regret it." She threatened.
"Oh? An' what y' gon' do petite?" He asked playfully.
"Oh trust me. I know stuff about you that I'm very sure the people here would just love to hear about. Very VERY embarrassing things you've done." She said with a glint of evil in her eyes.
"Remy doubts dat petite." Remy said, not taking her threat seriously.
"Oh no?" Chloe asked.
"Non." Remy said, clearing his throat.
"As Remy was sayin, Growly took a showa an' Chloe decided dat she wanted t' comb her hair in de same room at de same time." Remy said, pausing to glance at Chloe who was glaring daggers at him.
"An' when she opened de door. . ." Remy trailed off.
"Well lets jus' say none o' de guest towels were big enough fo' de homme." Remy said while looking at his sister who was starting to blush and wince at the memory.
"Next ting we know we hear de fille screamin all trough de house an' she come runnin int' de kitchen screamin sometin bout her eyes." Remy said, laughing at the memory.
Everyone stared at Chloe was had sunk lower into the couch at was covering her eyes. "Thanks a lot Remy. Took me long enough to get that image out of my head as it was." Chloe scowled at him.
"No prob petite." He smiled happily.
Logan winced at the thought of what she had to see and decided that this particular event wasn't funny as much as it being cruel for a seven year old to witness.
"Oh that's it! I warned you!" Chloe said, standing from her seat.
"Calm down petite. Y' bein a wimp ova dis." Remy said, getting under her skin a little.
Chloe was about to insult him and yell at him when she thought of something and her features changed to smiling evilly at him.
"Yeah but at least unlike a certain older brother of mine, I didn't cry at the end of Titanic." She shot back coolly. Remy's head jerked up and his eyes widened.
Pyro started cracking up and Chloe smirked, satisfied with herself.
Rogue was laughing as well, which didn't make Remy any happier.
"Now petite dat wasn' very nice." Remy said, trying to sound like he was just brushing it off like he didn't care that Rogue was laughing and it was embarrassing.
"Oh poor Remy!" She said mockingly. "Afraid the girls are all going to stop having little crushes on you now that they know you're a softy?" Chloe asked, smiling.
"At least Remy didn' have a crush on a Pyromaniac when he was seven." Remy shot back coolly, smiling at her.
Chloe's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. John had stopped laughing and the teens awaited her reaction.
"Hey! That's not fair! I was seven and stupid!" She exclaimed.
"Hey!" Pyro piped in, trying to sound somewhat offended.
"Shut up." Chloe and Remy said in unison, causing the pyromaniac to sit back down.
"And besides, you are so one to talk." Chloe said to Remy.
"An' what's dat suppose' t' mean petite?" Remy asked.
"Oh please." She said, putting her hands on her heart and mocking Remy as she imitated him for everyone.
"Oh Rogue, Remy tinks y' tres beautiful when y' laugh mon chere." Chloe said in an accent that could only have been Remy's.
"She started laughing along with Pyro and some of the others in the room.
Remy didn't say anything and Rogue just blushed madly and wished that she was anywhere but stuck on Gambit's lap.
"And at least I don't say certain girl's names in my sleep. When you came back for a weekend visit after you joined the Acolytes no one could figure out why you were murmuring something about a Rogue in your sleep. They'll all get a kick outta this one." Chloe said.
"I for one think its great that Remy can't get a girl off his mind and not vice versa. Nice change in pace if you me." Chloe said.
"Non, y' right. Y' don' talk in yo' sleep. Y' jus' sing de alphabet." Remy shot back.
It had now become a battle of secrets and they were all being reveled to the X-kids who were all just waiting to see how this played out.
"Remy flirted with a girl at one of the guild parties and she turned out to be our cousin." Chloe retorted.
"Chloe was convinced dat dere was a monster unda her bed till she was eleven." Remy shot.
"My dad and some other older men in the guild took Remy to a strip club when he was twelve and when the striper came over to them Remy apologized for looking." Chloe said with a smirk.
Her older brother's weakness was without a doubt his manliness and masculinity. There was no secret about that.
"Chloe's biggest fear is o'dose Teletubie tings on de TV." Remy announced.
This was all a little out of character for Remy. He knew that, but it was all in good fun and he was feeling a little under-aged at the moment so it was okay. Just that normally he would never be the type to indulge in such an immature conversation. It was all fun and playing around so no harm done. At least that's what he thought.
Chloe gasped. She had gotten so caught up in the playing around with the secret spilling and she was completely thrown off at the last secret of hers Remy had told that she wasn't even thinking straight and before she realized what she had done or what she was saying she burst out . . .
"REMY'S A VIRGIN!"
The laughter that had been going on in the room the whole time had ceased immediately and Chloe's hand flew up to her mouth in shock and her eyes widened when the words left her lips.
"Uh-oh." Chloe said, looking at Remy.
Remy simply removed Rogue from his lap, sat her down on the couch and stood from his seat, walking over to Chloe.
Chloe immediately ran for the exit of the room and found sanctuary behind Logan who was now standing in the doorway.
"Alright now that's enough. There's not gonna be any rough housing inside the mansion." Logan said, crossing his arms as Remy stopped in front of him.
"Phew." Chloe sighed in relief, stepping out from behind Logan.
"If you're gonna do anything to each other you'll have to use your powers and take it outside." Logan continued, causing Remy to grin devilishly and Chloe to go wide-eyed.
"Huh!?" Chloe exclaimed but before she got an answer Remy grabbed her by the legs and tossed her over his shoulder, walking out the back doors and closing them behind him.
"Logan do you really think that was wise?" Storm asked, coming up next to him.
"Hey, I figure, what's wrong with a little training session outside? You gotta take it where you can get it now a days Ro." Logan said, hearing a loud explosion that meant Remy used his powers.
Then the lights in the building flickered and dimmed and brightened on and off very quickly, meaning that Chloe was now using her own [powers/
"Remy wait! Not the flowers!" Chloe shouted.
Ororro winced and glared at Logan.
"Great idea." She said sarcastically.
Logan sighed. "I'll buy you new ones okay?" He offered.
"And plant them." Ororro said, walking off.
Logan grumbled and Chloe and Remy came back into the house.
"Got it all outta your systems?" He asked.
They both nodded and sat down. After a minute of silence the whole room of teens burst out in laughter at the events that had just taken place and Logan just shook his head and left.
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Yeah totally long I know and all and I REALLY hope you all enjoyed it. There was some angst with Chloe but then there was happiness and I told you I was gonna fill everyone in on Chloe's past and all that.
I hope I didn't over due anything or do something bad.
BLAH!!! Don't blame any sucky writing I might post on me. Its all Marvel's fault for stopping X-evo, but I luv em newayz cuz they started it in the first place. Why couldn't they have had John and Remy in the last episode!?!? *Sobs*
Oh and by the way yes, Henri is Remy and Chloe's brother in this but no Remy was not adopted. I know sorry I should keep the adoption but it's too hard to go around Chloe and Remy being so alike at times or looking somewhat alike.
So he's gonna be related. Oh and by the way, I hope ya'll didn't totally hate the battle of blackmail info going on.
I know it was totally OOC for Remy but he should be allowed to act a little more like a teenage boy on his kid sister's birthday and I'm sorry if him going after her for her last comment seemed OOC to any of you but just remember its all in good fun. Their siblings. Its what a lot of them do. We're not all like the freaking Brady bunch. *Shudders*
Thanks for all you wonderful people who reviewed. Now please review again and tell me how much you liked or hated or whatever'd this chapter. Next one is gonna have a little more depressed Chloe in it but then its Remy to the rescue and Romyness. DUH!
So review okay. Cuz the more reviews I get the longer and better and faster the story will be updated.
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