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Chapter Eight: The Ace of Escapes
"Remy, did she call?" asked Rogue as she popped a piece of pink cotton candy in her mouth.
The Cajun shook his head. "Nope. But don't worry, Cheri. She'll be alright."
Rogue looked out the window to continue watching the Valentine Parade. She actually liked today. The sun was out but the clouds were covering most of the sky. It was actually quite calming.
"Y' want sumthin' else before we go to the fair?" asked Remy shuffling his cards.
Rogue quickly turned to her date and raised an eyebrow at Remy's sudden smirk.
"Remy, puh-lease don't tell meh yuhr gonna go to the gambling room in the fair."
He gave a snicker. "Think of it this way, Cheri. If we lose, then we get sumthin' anyway. If we win, we get triple."
"We? Triple? Whut in the world are we playin'?! An' whadda yuh mean 'we'?"
Remy stood up and took Rogue's hand to make her stand up then follow him out the door.
"You'll see, Cheri."
********
The fair was even better than the parade! Rogue gazed around in awe as Remy paid for their gambling tickets. He gathered all of their tickets, shoved them in his coat pocket and walked over to Rogue to head over to the tent.
"Let's get goin'. We wanna be the first to play."
Rogue looked at Remy for a moment. "Ah don't see why we havta be on teams though. Can't Ah just be-"
"My belle that waits for me on hand and foot? I don't think so, Cheri. I want y' ta be in the action too."
As they walked together over to the biggest tent, they took a left. Rogue looked behind them and saw a blinking sign on the tent that read: "Gamblers, enter here!" Rogue turned back to Remy and gave him a suspicious look.
"Remy, yuh do realize that we missed the entrance?"
He shook his head. "Non Cheri. That's not our entrance."
"But that's the gambler's entrance."
Remy quickly stopped in front of Rogue and looked at her with his demon eyes.
"Rogue, the only reason why I'm doin' this is to find the whereabouts of Johnny. Supposedly one of the facility professors is a gambler. A pretty challengin' one as a matter of fact."
Rogue smiled. "Aww, thanks Remy. But whut if he's not there?"
A smirk came upon Remy's face. "Don't worry, he'll be there. I bet my favorite card on it."
They went inside a metal door entrance and sat down on a fancy leather couch. There was another one ahead of the large cherry wood playing table ahead of them. But the area was more darkened then theirs. A quick shiver went up Rogue's spine as she looked around. There were no windows, several large lamps in the corners, glass statues that circled around the room and had a glorious rug that had colors of gold, white, and black. Suddenly, the dark area lightened revealing a man who was shuffling the cards at great speed. Not once did he let a card go out of place. Rogue quickly turned to Remy to see his expression. It wasn't any different. Just that familiar smirk of determination.
"I suppose you're willing to take the winner's spot?" asked the man.
The man's silver shades shined against the lamps and glass as his smile turned into a sly grin.
Remy laughed. "Non, but I gotta deal that y' can't turn down."
The man looked up a little, revealing his violet eyes. "Oh really..."
"If I win, then y' tell me anything I ask y'."
"And if I win.?"
Remy looked at Rogue then back to the mysterious gambler.
"Y' can keep us captive for your experiments."
Rogue swiftly turned fast enough, making Remy completely helpless when she shook him violently by the collar of his trench coat. Her grey eyes matched with his demonic red and black eyes that gave her another shiver.
"Okay Remy LeBeau! Yuh betta have a good reason to put us both up for the bet!"
"Y' know he can't win, Cheri." He whispered.
They stared at each other for a moment. Finally, Rogue released him and crossed her arms across her chest, leaning back on the couch. Remy smiled at her and leaned down on her a little.
"Just sit tight, Cheri and enjoy the show."
He kissed her lightly then slid his hand off of the table and gazed at them. He glanced back at Rogue who wasn't as upset as she looked before.
***********
Violetta glanced up from where she had positioned herself. She blinked several times and started digging through her bag to see if she still had everything. She sighed with relief. Violetta stood up then started walking to the accessories store but then she saw someone familiar walking ahead of her. Red flaming hair but had different clothes on from the last time she saw him. Her gut twisted undecidedly until she decided to walk up to the person. Violetta tapped his shoulder and gave him an evil glare. But her glare quickly faded when she realized she was wrong. She didn't recognize the bright ice blue eyes, or the zits, or the parted hair. Violetta gulped then smiled apologetically.
"I-I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else."
The guy nodded and continued on. She stood in place for some reason, watching the guy walk off. But her heart started to beat harder when she saw him stop quickly in his tracks and slowly turn around to face her.
"Hey, aren't you the girl on the cover of the newspaper today?" His voice was wheezy. That was another obvious reason HE wasn't Pyro.
Violetta's body grew cold with fear as she swallowed harder this time. ".why?"
The guy ran back over to her and smiled anxiously. He then started looked behind her, trying to poke her back. But Violetta immediately reflexed and slapped his hand away.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
"I wanna see your wings!" he shouted loudly.
Violetta pushed him away, making him stumble backwards. He smirked.
"So you are. I can tell by the way you're acting."
The guy started for her again and Violetta started backwards, hoping to avoid any combat. But her hope was lost when the guy grabbed her shoulders, pulled her towards him so he could reveal her secret in some way. Violetta retaliated and gave the nerdy guy a swift jab in the jaw, forcing him down quickly. He sat up still rubbing his jaw as Violetta shook. A sudden pain came on her back.
"Look everyone! It's the mutant Meteor!"
The wandering people quickly turned and got a good look at her. They immediately panicked and started for the exits. Violetta sighed and let her wings come out.
"No use hiding everything now." She mumbled as she glided across the floor into the empty accessory shop.
*********
The stranger gave a remarking smirk that made Remy shake for a second. For once, he felt equally matched. But it was to his surprise it was a freak like the professor. His silver glasses reflected against the lights as he laid down his last hand. Remy swallowed hard and turned slightly to Rogue. Her eyes started to water up a little, she knew what was going to happen.
"Let me guess. I win?" The stranger gave a snicker.
Rogue pulled on Remy's coat again, jerking him towards her.
"Yuh betta have a plan." She hoped.
Remy nodded and started rearranging his cards. As the stranger moved his attention to Rogue, Remy placed his hand face down, and let his finger slide through his hand, lighting them up one by one. The Cajun stood up and helped Rogue up, heading towards the shadows. The stranger stood up with his hand still in his grasp.
"Don't think you can escape. You know the deal." He smirked. When he stood up something strange happened. Something so sickening yet abnormal. But of course, Rogue wasn't fooled by what was happening. The scientist's skin turned tanner, his brown hair increased in length and turned blonde. His smirk revealed sharp fangs along with a familiar outfit and the smell of pine.
Remy's eyes widened as he put in his fingers up, ready to snap. "Sabes?"
Rogue pulled Remy further into the shadows, hoping to lose the mutant. "No, it's Mystique!"
The couple ran down a tunnel with dimmed lights, swinging from side to side. Sabertooth wasn't far behind with his mutant speed. Rogue was ahead of them all, her hand still holding onto Remy's as he tried to look back, remembering something. He looked at Sabertooth's hand and noticed that the cards he had lighten were in his coat pocket. A simple smile came across his face as Sabertooth wondered furiously.
"What are you smiling about?! You lost!"
"Not just yet."
Remy whipped Rogue into a gap in the wall to their right as Sabertooth went directly past them with such speed that he couldn't stop to turn. With a simple snap of his fingers, an explosion eroded the tunnel letting rocks and some of the lights collapse to the dirt road. Rogue looked up and saw Remy closing the gap with his coat. Her grey eyes shimmered a little knowing that her life was safe in his arms.
***********
Meanwhile back at the mall, in just several minutes, the police and ambulance arrived at the mall searching every wing for Violetta. She was in a darkened corner of the accessory shop as tears came down her eyes when she saw what kind of weapons they had. Several police officers passed through with large guns that had several laser pointers on top, some netters, pistols, and even two grenade launchers. She was surprised even officers had these. But she heard from several officers that the military was just outside, waiting for her escape. The shadows of the marching patrols reminded Violetta of a war movie she saw. And of course to them, she was the enemy. She was wondering if there was going to be a war. Suddenly, several military personnel caught her eyes that stood right in front of the accessory shop. They stood cautiously as Violetta examined them from where she sat frozen with fear. The female was shaking, the two males were also frightened. She could tell by their eyes.
"Reign, I want you to patrol this area. Luna, come inside with me." Said one of the males.
The male whose name tag said Reign saluted and went off towards the benches as the female and the commander went inside the store. Violetta looked around. She didn't want to kill anyone with her mutant abilities so she started looking for a weapon. Most of the weapons were clubs, bats, bars, pistols, until she saw a pair of gloves with diamond knuckles spiking straight out of the leather. Violetta fixed her hat and slipped the gloves on. Luckily, she did them fast enough until the female found her.
"Commander Velez, I found her!"
The commander shoved Luna against the wall and aimed a pistol at Violetta.
"You friggin' idiot! Don't let her get away!"
Violetta swiftly stood up and glided to the left, letting her wings retract back into her body. She flashed the commander her diamond knuckles and swiftly turned again, avoiding the commander's shots. He swiftly turned to Luna and smacked her with his gun barrel. Her face turned bright red as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Get up! Get up! It's getting away!"
Luna nodded and stumbled a little. She looked at Violetta and watched her give the commander a swift right hook on his cheek with the diamond knuckles. Velez fell backwards holding his cheek bone. He revealed to Luna and Violetta that his cheek was deeply cut with blood dripping down his cheek. He gave a shriek of terror for a moment and lifted a radio to his ear.
"All units! All units! The weapon is in the accessory shop! I repeat! All units! The weapon is in the accessory shop!"
Violetta gasped. That went completely out of plan she thought to herself. She looked up at Luna who was just staring in shock at her. Suddenly, Violetta's attention moved to something that was pulling on her ankle below her. She looked down and saw Lance gesturing her to come through the large vent he was in.
"Lance?! What.. how did you get here!?"
He gave her an impatient look. "I don't know what you did now Violetta, but I gotta talk to you about something! Follow me!"
Violetta followed her brother through the vent leaving Luna by herself in shock as Velez laid still on the ground in pain with gazed diamonds stuck in his cheek.
*********
"Okay Lance, explain yourself." Said Violetta as she leapt out of the vent.
She landed next to her brother who was slipping his gloves back on.
"What do you mean; 'Explain yourself'?! How did this all happen?!"
Violetta sighed. "The accident turned out to be in the newspaper. This kid found out and well, it just happened."
"You weren't exposing yourself were you?"
She gave her brother a dumb look. "Look Lance, I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't go around making objects float in the air when other people are already looking for me!"
Her brother sighed afterwards and slipped onto the ground. He looked up at Violetta with a guilty look.
"Did they call?"
Violetta did the same. "No. Not once."
"I'm sorry."
"Just shut up."
There was complete silence besides the footsteps of the soldiers and some guns firing. Violetta looked to Lance.
"I'm sorry." She whispered.
He looked to her. "What are you sorry about?"
"I heard about what happened between you and Kitty."
"She's with Pietro huh?"
".yeah."
"I knew it."
Suddenly, a small earthquake began. Violetta's eyes darted from the ground and over to her brother who was angrily shaking his fists. Violetta leaped over and grabbed her fists.
"Lance, stop it!! You're going to let them know where I am!"
Suddenly, voices from up above where heard.
"Alpha Unit, Charlie Unit, cut through the ground!"
Violetta slipped off one of her diamond knuckle gloves and gave her brother a slap that echoed around the tunnel. The earthquake slowly came to a stop as Lance turned to his sister. He then looked to the ground with such sorrow.
"Violetta, Kitty was the world to me. Now she's off with some crazy albino bastard who has enough girls as it is."
Violetta gave her brother a fierce look but then broke out into tears.
"I lost someone too, Lance! I didn't know this until now, but I love him! He's one of the people I need now. Remy, Rogue, you, and everyone else! You know I---"
"Violetta, watch out!!" called Lance.
*****************
Rogue and Remy's heads popped out of the gap to see where Sabertooth had gone. But he was no where in sight. The southern girl sighed and turned to Remy with such delight.
"And ta think yuh said yuh would win."
Remy smirked. "I wasn't ready to give us up yet. Y' know, if we lost, I would've given myself up for y'."
Rogue's eyes sparkled. "Really?"
He laughed. "No."
"Remy!" she gave him a crude look, making him laugh more.
"I'm just kidding, Rogue!"
Rogue went out of the gap and looked around for any signs of an exit. Remy followed her out and went farther down the trail. She quickly stopped in her tracks when something came towards her boot.
"Whut's this?"
She bent down and picked it up. "Is this whut Ah think it is?"
Remy took his gently from Rogue's gloved hand and examined it.
"Okay, now things are gettin' weird. Johnny would neva leave his lighter just lying 'round."
That's the end of this chapter! What will happen to Violetta and Lance? Is Pyro in the area where Rogue and Remy is? What's Mystique planning? Wait for the next chapter if you wanna find out! Reviews or comments please and thanks!
Chapter Eight: The Ace of Escapes
"Remy, did she call?" asked Rogue as she popped a piece of pink cotton candy in her mouth.
The Cajun shook his head. "Nope. But don't worry, Cheri. She'll be alright."
Rogue looked out the window to continue watching the Valentine Parade. She actually liked today. The sun was out but the clouds were covering most of the sky. It was actually quite calming.
"Y' want sumthin' else before we go to the fair?" asked Remy shuffling his cards.
Rogue quickly turned to her date and raised an eyebrow at Remy's sudden smirk.
"Remy, puh-lease don't tell meh yuhr gonna go to the gambling room in the fair."
He gave a snicker. "Think of it this way, Cheri. If we lose, then we get sumthin' anyway. If we win, we get triple."
"We? Triple? Whut in the world are we playin'?! An' whadda yuh mean 'we'?"
Remy stood up and took Rogue's hand to make her stand up then follow him out the door.
"You'll see, Cheri."
********
The fair was even better than the parade! Rogue gazed around in awe as Remy paid for their gambling tickets. He gathered all of their tickets, shoved them in his coat pocket and walked over to Rogue to head over to the tent.
"Let's get goin'. We wanna be the first to play."
Rogue looked at Remy for a moment. "Ah don't see why we havta be on teams though. Can't Ah just be-"
"My belle that waits for me on hand and foot? I don't think so, Cheri. I want y' ta be in the action too."
As they walked together over to the biggest tent, they took a left. Rogue looked behind them and saw a blinking sign on the tent that read: "Gamblers, enter here!" Rogue turned back to Remy and gave him a suspicious look.
"Remy, yuh do realize that we missed the entrance?"
He shook his head. "Non Cheri. That's not our entrance."
"But that's the gambler's entrance."
Remy quickly stopped in front of Rogue and looked at her with his demon eyes.
"Rogue, the only reason why I'm doin' this is to find the whereabouts of Johnny. Supposedly one of the facility professors is a gambler. A pretty challengin' one as a matter of fact."
Rogue smiled. "Aww, thanks Remy. But whut if he's not there?"
A smirk came upon Remy's face. "Don't worry, he'll be there. I bet my favorite card on it."
They went inside a metal door entrance and sat down on a fancy leather couch. There was another one ahead of the large cherry wood playing table ahead of them. But the area was more darkened then theirs. A quick shiver went up Rogue's spine as she looked around. There were no windows, several large lamps in the corners, glass statues that circled around the room and had a glorious rug that had colors of gold, white, and black. Suddenly, the dark area lightened revealing a man who was shuffling the cards at great speed. Not once did he let a card go out of place. Rogue quickly turned to Remy to see his expression. It wasn't any different. Just that familiar smirk of determination.
"I suppose you're willing to take the winner's spot?" asked the man.
The man's silver shades shined against the lamps and glass as his smile turned into a sly grin.
Remy laughed. "Non, but I gotta deal that y' can't turn down."
The man looked up a little, revealing his violet eyes. "Oh really..."
"If I win, then y' tell me anything I ask y'."
"And if I win.?"
Remy looked at Rogue then back to the mysterious gambler.
"Y' can keep us captive for your experiments."
Rogue swiftly turned fast enough, making Remy completely helpless when she shook him violently by the collar of his trench coat. Her grey eyes matched with his demonic red and black eyes that gave her another shiver.
"Okay Remy LeBeau! Yuh betta have a good reason to put us both up for the bet!"
"Y' know he can't win, Cheri." He whispered.
They stared at each other for a moment. Finally, Rogue released him and crossed her arms across her chest, leaning back on the couch. Remy smiled at her and leaned down on her a little.
"Just sit tight, Cheri and enjoy the show."
He kissed her lightly then slid his hand off of the table and gazed at them. He glanced back at Rogue who wasn't as upset as she looked before.
***********
Violetta glanced up from where she had positioned herself. She blinked several times and started digging through her bag to see if she still had everything. She sighed with relief. Violetta stood up then started walking to the accessories store but then she saw someone familiar walking ahead of her. Red flaming hair but had different clothes on from the last time she saw him. Her gut twisted undecidedly until she decided to walk up to the person. Violetta tapped his shoulder and gave him an evil glare. But her glare quickly faded when she realized she was wrong. She didn't recognize the bright ice blue eyes, or the zits, or the parted hair. Violetta gulped then smiled apologetically.
"I-I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else."
The guy nodded and continued on. She stood in place for some reason, watching the guy walk off. But her heart started to beat harder when she saw him stop quickly in his tracks and slowly turn around to face her.
"Hey, aren't you the girl on the cover of the newspaper today?" His voice was wheezy. That was another obvious reason HE wasn't Pyro.
Violetta's body grew cold with fear as she swallowed harder this time. ".why?"
The guy ran back over to her and smiled anxiously. He then started looked behind her, trying to poke her back. But Violetta immediately reflexed and slapped his hand away.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
"I wanna see your wings!" he shouted loudly.
Violetta pushed him away, making him stumble backwards. He smirked.
"So you are. I can tell by the way you're acting."
The guy started for her again and Violetta started backwards, hoping to avoid any combat. But her hope was lost when the guy grabbed her shoulders, pulled her towards him so he could reveal her secret in some way. Violetta retaliated and gave the nerdy guy a swift jab in the jaw, forcing him down quickly. He sat up still rubbing his jaw as Violetta shook. A sudden pain came on her back.
"Look everyone! It's the mutant Meteor!"
The wandering people quickly turned and got a good look at her. They immediately panicked and started for the exits. Violetta sighed and let her wings come out.
"No use hiding everything now." She mumbled as she glided across the floor into the empty accessory shop.
*********
The stranger gave a remarking smirk that made Remy shake for a second. For once, he felt equally matched. But it was to his surprise it was a freak like the professor. His silver glasses reflected against the lights as he laid down his last hand. Remy swallowed hard and turned slightly to Rogue. Her eyes started to water up a little, she knew what was going to happen.
"Let me guess. I win?" The stranger gave a snicker.
Rogue pulled on Remy's coat again, jerking him towards her.
"Yuh betta have a plan." She hoped.
Remy nodded and started rearranging his cards. As the stranger moved his attention to Rogue, Remy placed his hand face down, and let his finger slide through his hand, lighting them up one by one. The Cajun stood up and helped Rogue up, heading towards the shadows. The stranger stood up with his hand still in his grasp.
"Don't think you can escape. You know the deal." He smirked. When he stood up something strange happened. Something so sickening yet abnormal. But of course, Rogue wasn't fooled by what was happening. The scientist's skin turned tanner, his brown hair increased in length and turned blonde. His smirk revealed sharp fangs along with a familiar outfit and the smell of pine.
Remy's eyes widened as he put in his fingers up, ready to snap. "Sabes?"
Rogue pulled Remy further into the shadows, hoping to lose the mutant. "No, it's Mystique!"
The couple ran down a tunnel with dimmed lights, swinging from side to side. Sabertooth wasn't far behind with his mutant speed. Rogue was ahead of them all, her hand still holding onto Remy's as he tried to look back, remembering something. He looked at Sabertooth's hand and noticed that the cards he had lighten were in his coat pocket. A simple smile came across his face as Sabertooth wondered furiously.
"What are you smiling about?! You lost!"
"Not just yet."
Remy whipped Rogue into a gap in the wall to their right as Sabertooth went directly past them with such speed that he couldn't stop to turn. With a simple snap of his fingers, an explosion eroded the tunnel letting rocks and some of the lights collapse to the dirt road. Rogue looked up and saw Remy closing the gap with his coat. Her grey eyes shimmered a little knowing that her life was safe in his arms.
***********
Meanwhile back at the mall, in just several minutes, the police and ambulance arrived at the mall searching every wing for Violetta. She was in a darkened corner of the accessory shop as tears came down her eyes when she saw what kind of weapons they had. Several police officers passed through with large guns that had several laser pointers on top, some netters, pistols, and even two grenade launchers. She was surprised even officers had these. But she heard from several officers that the military was just outside, waiting for her escape. The shadows of the marching patrols reminded Violetta of a war movie she saw. And of course to them, she was the enemy. She was wondering if there was going to be a war. Suddenly, several military personnel caught her eyes that stood right in front of the accessory shop. They stood cautiously as Violetta examined them from where she sat frozen with fear. The female was shaking, the two males were also frightened. She could tell by their eyes.
"Reign, I want you to patrol this area. Luna, come inside with me." Said one of the males.
The male whose name tag said Reign saluted and went off towards the benches as the female and the commander went inside the store. Violetta looked around. She didn't want to kill anyone with her mutant abilities so she started looking for a weapon. Most of the weapons were clubs, bats, bars, pistols, until she saw a pair of gloves with diamond knuckles spiking straight out of the leather. Violetta fixed her hat and slipped the gloves on. Luckily, she did them fast enough until the female found her.
"Commander Velez, I found her!"
The commander shoved Luna against the wall and aimed a pistol at Violetta.
"You friggin' idiot! Don't let her get away!"
Violetta swiftly stood up and glided to the left, letting her wings retract back into her body. She flashed the commander her diamond knuckles and swiftly turned again, avoiding the commander's shots. He swiftly turned to Luna and smacked her with his gun barrel. Her face turned bright red as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Get up! Get up! It's getting away!"
Luna nodded and stumbled a little. She looked at Violetta and watched her give the commander a swift right hook on his cheek with the diamond knuckles. Velez fell backwards holding his cheek bone. He revealed to Luna and Violetta that his cheek was deeply cut with blood dripping down his cheek. He gave a shriek of terror for a moment and lifted a radio to his ear.
"All units! All units! The weapon is in the accessory shop! I repeat! All units! The weapon is in the accessory shop!"
Violetta gasped. That went completely out of plan she thought to herself. She looked up at Luna who was just staring in shock at her. Suddenly, Violetta's attention moved to something that was pulling on her ankle below her. She looked down and saw Lance gesturing her to come through the large vent he was in.
"Lance?! What.. how did you get here!?"
He gave her an impatient look. "I don't know what you did now Violetta, but I gotta talk to you about something! Follow me!"
Violetta followed her brother through the vent leaving Luna by herself in shock as Velez laid still on the ground in pain with gazed diamonds stuck in his cheek.
*********
"Okay Lance, explain yourself." Said Violetta as she leapt out of the vent.
She landed next to her brother who was slipping his gloves back on.
"What do you mean; 'Explain yourself'?! How did this all happen?!"
Violetta sighed. "The accident turned out to be in the newspaper. This kid found out and well, it just happened."
"You weren't exposing yourself were you?"
She gave her brother a dumb look. "Look Lance, I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't go around making objects float in the air when other people are already looking for me!"
Her brother sighed afterwards and slipped onto the ground. He looked up at Violetta with a guilty look.
"Did they call?"
Violetta did the same. "No. Not once."
"I'm sorry."
"Just shut up."
There was complete silence besides the footsteps of the soldiers and some guns firing. Violetta looked to Lance.
"I'm sorry." She whispered.
He looked to her. "What are you sorry about?"
"I heard about what happened between you and Kitty."
"She's with Pietro huh?"
".yeah."
"I knew it."
Suddenly, a small earthquake began. Violetta's eyes darted from the ground and over to her brother who was angrily shaking his fists. Violetta leaped over and grabbed her fists.
"Lance, stop it!! You're going to let them know where I am!"
Suddenly, voices from up above where heard.
"Alpha Unit, Charlie Unit, cut through the ground!"
Violetta slipped off one of her diamond knuckle gloves and gave her brother a slap that echoed around the tunnel. The earthquake slowly came to a stop as Lance turned to his sister. He then looked to the ground with such sorrow.
"Violetta, Kitty was the world to me. Now she's off with some crazy albino bastard who has enough girls as it is."
Violetta gave her brother a fierce look but then broke out into tears.
"I lost someone too, Lance! I didn't know this until now, but I love him! He's one of the people I need now. Remy, Rogue, you, and everyone else! You know I---"
"Violetta, watch out!!" called Lance.
*****************
Rogue and Remy's heads popped out of the gap to see where Sabertooth had gone. But he was no where in sight. The southern girl sighed and turned to Remy with such delight.
"And ta think yuh said yuh would win."
Remy smirked. "I wasn't ready to give us up yet. Y' know, if we lost, I would've given myself up for y'."
Rogue's eyes sparkled. "Really?"
He laughed. "No."
"Remy!" she gave him a crude look, making him laugh more.
"I'm just kidding, Rogue!"
Rogue went out of the gap and looked around for any signs of an exit. Remy followed her out and went farther down the trail. She quickly stopped in her tracks when something came towards her boot.
"Whut's this?"
She bent down and picked it up. "Is this whut Ah think it is?"
Remy took his gently from Rogue's gloved hand and examined it.
"Okay, now things are gettin' weird. Johnny would neva leave his lighter just lying 'round."
That's the end of this chapter! What will happen to Violetta and Lance? Is Pyro in the area where Rogue and Remy is? What's Mystique planning? Wait for the next chapter if you wanna find out! Reviews or comments please and thanks!