Enchantedlight: yep, a beautiful shade of beetroot! Glad you liked that
Star-of-Chaos: I know, gross! You get the feeling Remy hasn't thought this plan through all that well...
Ishandahalf: yay, more smiling! I'm sitting here writing this and watching 'Gone With the Wind' at the same time, quite fitting non? Aww, she will have to leave him sooner or later, shes only meant to be helping until his life's straightened out, but hopefully that wont be for a very long time (he doesn't exactly walk the straight and narrow now does he?) but I know what you mean, I always route for the happy ending too. Thanks for the lovely long review!
Roguewannabe29: I don't like Scott either; he's annoying isn't he? I can't tell you what will happen though or how this will work out, you'll just have to keep reading!
Southern Gal 8: hey you. Merci for the compliment and the thanks, though I'm not entirely sure why your thanking me, I should be the one thanking you for the review! As for the kissing thing, all I'm gonna say is wait, just wait... ;-)
Lady Xiu Mei Phoenix: sorry but I have an irrational problem with Scott, I always have done. I'm not so keen on Jean Grey either, but she's slightly more tolerable.
Miya Reino: calm down! I promise you I wont write a Sabrina parody, but you gotta admit, Remy and Scott would suit those parts very perfectly. Should such a Sabrina parody arise though, and its not my work, I'll help you flame ;-)
MorriganFearn: hello! Don't worry about the lateness, its nice to hear from you whenever it is! The long reviews are good; I always appreciate the time and effort that goes into writing them (I'm a lazy reviewer myself, which makes me appreciate them all the more). Faye has been consoled by the fact her character is turning up again later, as is Cupid. I have a question though, tutorial 101? Explain please! Yeah I really don't like Scott, I have some issues with him from the old cartoon that won't go away so I felt like giving him a hard time, I have less of a problem with Jean. Storm would make a good counsellor; she doesn't get angry at all (it's a power thing) so I think she'd make the perfect candidate. The necro thing was the reason I wasn't gonna post this fic up, I thought it might just be a little too strange, but I haven't come up with anything better so in the end I thought I'd just do it and see how it panned out. Rogue is the "one more star" or at least that's what the title implies (its actually a song from Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat...) but you'll just have to wait and see what happens, I'm giving nothing away! I have seen How to Steal a Million, it's a very good film (I love Audrey Hepburn, she can never be replaced) but Charade remains my favourite.
One More Star in the Sky
Chapter Twelve (In which it all comes together)
It turned out Scott wasn't the only person with reservations about Remy's idea. Logan, although more than happy to go in alone, seemed to think that some of the less experienced recruits (which was pretty much everyone compared to him), needed more training before they went. Hence all the gruelling extra danger room sessions they were being made to have.
Logan and Scott were really packing them in. Now danger room sessions were starting at four am, and sometimes didn't finish till past eleven, which all in all, left everyone completely exhausted.
"Logan is like, totally killing us!" Kitty complained as she and Kurt tried to catch their breath.
"Ja, but try and remember who ve're doing it for," he breathed, still recovering.
"Yeah, but does he have to be like, this harsh!"
There conversation was broken by the arrival of Scott and Jean who had only just finished their session in the danger room and were looking pretty flushed themselves.
"Remember guys! Team meeting at five!" Jean informed them cheerfully, before walking off towards the changing rooms, Scott in tow. Kitty and Kurt groaned and decided to leave, quickly, before they came back.
-o-o-o-o-
By five o'clock, everyone was assembled in the planning room, waiting for news. Logan was the only person who had not turned up yet, and he was the person everyone was waiting for. Although officially this was Remy's idea and so his mission, it had been hijacked by Scott, and in turn, hijacked by Logan.
Logan had been in an incredibly bad mood ever since Remy had shown up. He didn't like the smart-mouth Cajun much, even though they did actually have a fair bit in common. He was also convinced that Remy was in some way responsible for what happened to Rogue, even though everybody had told him he was just being paranoid.
Suddenly, there was a crash as a pissed off Wolverine made his presence known.
"Right!" he growled. "Listen up 'cos I'm only gonna say this once!"
He didn't really need to say that, everyone had already been shocked into giving him their full attention.
"We will split up into teams of two. Half-pint, you're with Red," he looked over at Kitty, who was scowling. She hated that nickname. "Elf, with Gumbo over there. Iceman, you're in too, you go with Cyclops. Storm, you're coming with me." Storm nodded back at him silently.
"Then its settled, we leave tomorrow night. I want everyone suited up and outside the jet at twenty two hundred hours!" Logan finished. He still sounded angry, but there was now a note of sincerity on his voice that hadn't been there before. Everyone was quiet. Everything they had been training for so incredibly hard was now being put into plan.
-o-o-o-o-
It had been Remy's decision that the mission should take place at night. In his experience, heists like this ideally needed the cover of darkness and so this was the one thing he had insisted on. Ten o'clock wasn't as late as he had hoped, but under the circumstances, he supposed it was better than nothing.
He had been provided with an x-men uniform for the mission. Scott had said very pointedly that if he was going to be a part of the team, he should at least look like it. Remy hated the uniform, spandex really wasn't his thing, but at least he had his trench coat, it was barely ever off his back anyway.
Now ten was approaching and x-men were beginning to come through the steel double doors of the aircraft hanger, making their way towards the jet. Everyone knew that they shouldn't be nervous, they had already been to this base once before, and it hadn't been hard to get in or out. However last time their mission had failed. They had not found Rogue and deep down they all blamed themselves for what had happened to her. This was their one chance to make amends.
"What's eatin' ya sugah?"
Remy spun around to find his very own angel standing to his right, her arms wrapped around herself. He quietly snuck an arm around her waist and pulled her much closer to him, trying not to attract attention to them. Everyone would think it was very strange if they saw him holding thin air.
"Jus' t'inkin' chére, don't y' worry bout Remy"
"We've been over this sugah, its mah job ta worry bout ya."
Remy sighed slightly. "If Remy screws dis up, y' know y' friends are never gonna forgive him."
She turned around to face him, looking him straight in the eye. "Ya not gonna screw this up. Don't worry, Ah know it'll all work out fine," she told him firmly. "Besahdes, Ah'll be there ta keep ya safe, remembah." She added with a slight smile.
"Well how could Remy forget dat..." he trailed off, pulling her to him in an embrace, though not before checking that no one was watching. He didn't need the questions tonight.
They parted as Wolverine barked for everyone to get on the plane, belt up and shut up. Remy started towards the jet, but didn't let go of Rogues hand. In the end though, she took it back off him, she didn't belong on the jet, she had a much faster way of getting there.
"Ah'll see ya there sugah, trah not ta worry, k?" Remy turned to look at her just one more time, but she had already gone, leaving him with nothing more than his own thoughts for company.
"Easy said dan done chére," he muttered under his breath.
"Gumbo!" The sharp sound of a Wolverine sliced through his thoughts, snapping his attention back to the jet and the task at hand. Walking slowing up the steps of the plane, he took a seat beside the ice-boy and considered the best way to ride out the time.
This was it.
I know, I'm sorry, I've dragged the planning of the mission out for way to long, but its all over now, we're off to the base! I'm no good at writing action-type scenes, so they're abit dodgy, but I have tried, honest.
But all that aside, would you mind being lovely and reviewing the chapter for me, reviews fuel the imagination...