Leading a New Life

[Telepathy]

/Thoughts/

*Psyches

Chapter 1

[Everyone, please report to the meeting room. We have a new recruit.]

Throughout the mansion all the students talked about the new member. All they heard about the last two days was that someone new would be coming and that's it. They weren't even clear if the person was going to be a student or a teacher. Also nothing else was told about the person, like their name, power, and gender.

"I think it's a girl. We need more of them in the school." Bobby walked down the hall followed by all the new recruits. Since Rahne and Jubilee returned they had a more equal balance between the sexes, but still it wouldn't be bad to have more girls.

"It could be a guy." Tabitha took off her headset, but continued to sway to the music. "A hot older guy."

"I'm not sure about the hot part but the other two things are true." They all turned back to where Jubilee was standing with a huge smile and flashing eyes. "I accidentally heard Logan talking to Mr. McCoy about it. They both didn't say names, but from what I could hear they were talking about why the Professor would bring in an older guy."

"Older guy? Like in old old or just old?" Tabitha slowed down so she could walk with Jubilee.

"No, I think young old." The boys stood in bafflement at the strange language all the females were now talking in it. From what they could tell it was an international language since Rahne was able to understand too and contribute her thoughts about the situation.

"I'll never understand them." Roberto shook his head and all of the boys walked away murmuring about crazy girls with their multiple meanings for one word.

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"Other than your physical changes there is nothing different about you." Mr. McCoy checked his chart one more time and then shut it close. There were some other things that he found, but he didn't want to say anything until he was sure. "You can leave the mad lab today. We have a new recruit coming in, so report to the meeting room when you're done."

"Who is it?" Her voice sounded casual, but he noticed the way her eyes shined after he said that.

"Can't tell you." After thinking it over he decided to say just one more thing. "You just have to go up there and meet him."

He placed her folder back in the drawer and proceeded to the elevator. Before the doors closed fully he could have sworn that he saw something move down the hall. But he just thought it was his imagination and forgot about it.

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Rogue felt odd about getting dressed right then. It felt like someone was watching her, but everybody should be upstairs by now. When the last article of clothing was on she carefully turned around acting like nothing was wrong. A slight sound warned her that someone was behind the curtains and Rogue reached her arms through grabbing someone, pulling him through.

Using the momentum she pushed the body up against the wall, and nearly let the person go in surprise.

"Remy?"

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Part of him knew he should do as the Professor said and head to the room. Then the other part said he it would be more fun to go scare Rogue. So now he was breaking into their security system so he could go down the emergency flight of stairs. He easily crept down the hallway always searching for any sort of alarm.

It didn't take him long to reach the med lab. The automatic doors opened for him and he walked in searching for Rogue. The whole place was sterile and white, reminding him how much he didn't like being in this type of place. Behind a curtain in the back of the room he could see a figure moving.

It was definitely female and when she turned to her side he knew it was Rogue. No way was he ever going to forget those curves. Slowly he got up to the drawn curtains and parted them carefully when her back was turned. What he saw nearly made him fall back in surprise. There in front of him was Rogue dressed only in her underwear.

/Not good, Not good./ He tried to stop looking but it just wasn't happening. His eyes traveled up and down her body as she dressed, noticing that she was about to wear her usual dark clothing. It was the purple top with the ripped jeans and if she turned around he was sure there was going to be some dark make-up on her face.

When she was finished she turned around ready to leave and he knew he should move away but he still stood there. Big mistake. A hand came through the curtains and grabbed his trench coat pulling him through. The shock of actually being caught momentarily startled him into not acting and he found himself shoved up against a wall.

Rogue's angry face changed into one of surprise when she realized whom she had pinned against the wall.

"Remy..." He was let go and she continued to stare at him, and even brought her gloved hand up to his face to make sure it was real. /Keep her distracted./

"Bonjour chere." He stepped forward and hugged her and only retreated after she hugged him back. His actions made her smile.

"What are ya doin here?" The smile was still on her face, and there wasn't any trace of anger so he relaxed.

"Checkin' on mon chere." He made his voice sound flirtatious and was rewarded with a slight blush and a glare.

"The truth." While he thought over what to say Rogue's face took on a distant look. He knew that meant she was talking to someone with her mind. The smile was still on her face when her eyes returned back to normal. "Ya're joinin the X-Men."

Her statement made him smile and he was about to ask her to come walk with him when her eyes changed from a happy expression to one of fury.

/Say something. Say something./ Taking her right hand with his left he kissed it and softly said. "Yo're de most belle fem dis Swamp Rat has ever seen."

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Scott did a head count when all of the students came in. The only person missing was Rogue. Mr. McCoy was keeping her in the mad lab for a full check-up. He thought it best if she was given an examination first to make sure whatever happened to her wasn't harmful in any way and that there wouldn't be any repercussion. Scott smiled at himself surprised that he actually remembered what the blue doctor said, and understood it.

"So, like, where is he?" The professor was the only one not in the room. When he came in his eyes roamed over the group and then he bent his head indicating he was communicating with someone.

"If all of us are here, where is the person?" Bobby purposely said person still hoping it was a girl.

"It seems that he is in the med lab." The professor announced this to the group and his face was set in a slight frown. First thought everyone had: he. Second thought: that's where Rogue is.

"What is he doing down there?" Wolverine growled and steeped away from the wall he was leaning against. Suddenly his body stiffened and he tilted his head like he was hearing something.

"What..." Scott was interrupted by a loud bang that came from downstairs. The room shook slightly from the impact and there was some yelling in the background. Then there was just the pounding of feet and doors slamming, but then a familiar southern voice could be heard.

"Get back here ya damn Swamp Rat!" Something crashed and there was a male voice yelling in a language they didn't know.

"Ah'm gonna kill ya!" Another crash and the sound off a door being slammed and then opened and then slammed.

"I didn't see anythin'!" This time it was an unknown male voice that spoke.

"Ya damn Perv!" The pounding of feet came closer and finally the door to the room was opened and a male ran into the room. He dove for the floor just before a book came flying past his head. Turning quickly a metal pike extended in his hand as Rogue jumped on top of him an ungloved hand trying to touch his face.

Using the pike he was able to stop her from coming too close, but her weight was pressing the stick down and bringing her hand closer and closer to his face.

Reacting quickly the guy kicked upwards sending her body flying past his head. Mid air she flipped landing on her feet as he, in one swift move, landed on his. They stood at opposite sides as everyone watched them too confused to act. Finally Rogue charged him but her feet lifted off the ground and so did his. Both of them were suspended off the ground and were staring at the red head that was keeping them up.

"He's one of the Acolytest!" Kurt pointed at the man but none of the teachers seemed surprised by the situation. "Did you know about this professor?"

"Yes Kurt, actually I was the one who invited him to join. He is no longer part of Magneto's group." This calmed everyone down and Jean set the two on their feet. Turning his wheel chair to the two he gave them a hard look. "Rogue, Remy is there something wrong?"

"Non professor, me and de Rogue just had an argument dat's all." He looked over to Rogue who glared at him but did nod her head in agreement.

"If that is it then you two wouldn't mind if we went on to the introductions?" The guy now known as Remy smirked and walked up front while Rogue went to go sit by her brother. With a mind encouragement from the professor Remy started to speak.

"De name is Remy Lebeau, codename Gambit. My power is to kinetically charge objects." He stopped there not going into detail about his power but when everyone stared at him he added one more thing. "De eyes are natural."

"Thank you Mr. Lebeau, now everyone why don't you introduce yourself and your powers." At this point everyone stood up and gave their names and the basic points of their powers. The guys sulked a bit feeling depressed that it was a boy instead of a girl and the girls smiled and tried to impress him with their powers.

Even Jean did that, much to Scott's annoyance, and when it was his turn he put in the fact that he was team leader. The teacher's also said a little about himself or herself. Rogue was the only one that didn't talk. She just glared at him and they passed over her. When the last person went Storm dismissed them and everybody left except for the Prof. Wolvie, and Gambit.

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"We need to test your abilities in combat. For the next couple of hours you will participate in a danger room session and will stop when the computer, as well as Logan has a fair understanding of your fighting skills." A grin spread across Logan's face as the Cajun tried to talk himself out of doing it. After hearing what the two said when they were running he wasn't about to hold anything back. /This is going to be fun./

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Running behind another building he threw some more cards behind him slowing his pursuer down. Remy jumped up easily grabbing onto the fire escape and started to climb. Below him a loud growl could be heard and he starts to run faster across the buildings, using his pike to jump over large gaps.

When he was sure that he was far enough away he started to slow down and get his bearings. The night didn't disturb his vision and he could clearly see what was around him. To the right he could see the office he just infiltrated and parallel to him was where he was suppose to drop the stuff off. Looking down he calculated a thirty-story drop from the empty office building he was on.

/How am I going to do this?/ In the middle of deciding a heavy thud came from behind him and without even looking back he threw some cards and jumped. There was a slight indent at the side of the building and he latched onto it. Using his powers he made a hole in one of the glass windows and landed inside.

Keeping himself low he jogged down the hallway of the deserted building until he found an elevator. The light said it was at ground level. Placing a charged card between the doors he ran back and waited for the loud bang. When it happened he ran out checked that the elevator wasn't coming up and latched onto one of the wires. Carefully he slid down the building until he neared the second floor. Using another card he blew up the door to the second floor and jumped through the cloud of dust that papered.

Keeping to the ground he stayed away from motion detectors until he reached another window. Easily he got rid of the glass and climbed down staying away from the line of sight of people walking by. Easily he lands on his feet behind some bushes and then crept out, keeping low until he reached the sidewalk. From there he walked in a leisurely stroll up to a Laundromat. Instead of going in he went to the backside of the building and was about to open the door there when he felt someone behind him.

/Damn it!/ He rolled to the side as a trashcan was thrown right where he was standing. A couple cards appeared in his hand and he threw it at his attacker. The person jumped at the right time and the impact instead of throwing him back sent him forward right into Remy. Above his head six metal claws pierced the wall and were pulled down towards his head.

Relaying on instincts now Remy extended his staff into the persons chest making him fall back slightly from the hit. Then using the time he was given he jumped over the body and turned in the air to throw a card into the brick wall. The explosion caused the thing to fall on the person giving Remy enough time to open the door and race inside to find his contact.

Slamming doors open as he ran down the halls he found the person sitting in one room. Taking the package out of his trench coat he handed it to the hooded figure that stretched his arm out to get it. As soon as the package left his hand someone grabbed him from behind and pinned him to the wall with an adamantium claw just an inch away from his face.

End Simulation

The whole room shifted and returned to the metal dome that it started out with. Wolverine let go of the Cajun dropping him to the floor a growl escaped his lips.

"You did okay Gumbo. I have to admit no one ever got up to this point in the simulation." Reluctantly he helped the young man up.

"Dis is it?" The smirk was back on Remy's mouth only to leave again when Logan smiled at him.

"Nope. Now we have to test your physical skills." The metal slid out and Remy paled.

"Merde."

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For the last thirty minutes Remy Lebeau had been trying to reach his room only to be stopped by his greatest obstacle...stairs. /Why this place has to be so big?/ His body felt like it was going to collapse and he nearly whimpered from what the climb would to him in this state. The training session lasted another 3 hours and even though he held his own pretty well for the first hour he began to tire while Wolverine stayed new and fresh.

/Maybe I'll just rest here. Carpet looks comfy./ Seriously considering the option he was distracted by someone coming into the room. Not wanting to show any weakness he straightened up only to slump his shoulders back down when he noticed it was Rogue.

Expecting to be pummeled he was surprised, and a little hurt, when she just walked by not even acknowledging him.

Following her he noticed that she entered the rec. room and in the center was a large TV. From the angle he was standing he could see Rogue laying on the couch a bowl of popcorn on the floor and the TV turned on. Without thinking he headed towards her and along the way picked up the case for the movie she was going to watch. The picture in front was of two dogs and the movie name was 'Lady and the Tramp."

Looking up at the TV screen he saw the Disney logo and knew for sure that she was watching the movie.

"Nothin' better on?" He slowly moved up to the couch and sat down on the floor next to her head. When she didn't answer he thought he might have angered her again but after a couple seconds she spoke.

"No, ah wanted to watch this." Receiving a strange look from Remy she went on to explain. "Ah liked it when ah was younger and ah wanted ta see it again."

Something in the way she said it made him think it was important to her that she saw it so he kept his mouth shut and just watched the movie with her. And it wasn't that bad. He actually related to the tramp dog a bit but when he thought it over maybe that wasn't a good thing.

Both of them had been eating popcorn and already just halfway through the movie it was all gone. Pushing pause on the remote, Rogue got up and lifted the bowl and just told Remy she was going to get more.

Remy leaned back into the couch and shifted slightly. His back had gone numb from sitting in one position for too long.

"Vhat are you vatching?" Kurt ported into the room and sat on the couch next to him. Following the blue boy was Scott and Bobby.

"Aren't you too old for this?" After saying that in a haughty tone Scott pointed at the TV where there was a picture of a cartoon dog frozen on the screen.

"Yo're never too old for a good movie." Remy replied and smirked at the angry look he was getting from all three boys. It seems they all came there to mock him, well he wasn't going to make it easy on them.

"You call this a good movie?" Bobby piped up wanting to get a couple jabs at the new guy.

"Oui." The simple answer and the way he ignored them afterwards annoyed them and they decided to take it up a notch.

"So you won't mind if we joined you?" Scott sat down in the chair to the right and the others sat on two-seater couch to the left. Then the three started to talk about the movie and about how much it sucked compared to the newer ones that were coming out.

"Rogue is de one dat wanted to watch dis." When he said Rogue all of them stared at him with a shocked expression. It seemed they hadn't known whom he was watching it with.

"She vouldn't mind if ve stayed. Ve know her the best. She'll vant to have us around." Kurt stressed the last part trying to get the point out that they were staying so he could leave. Remy smirked and was about to point out that they didn't even know what movies she likes when someone from the doorway started talking.

"Is that right?"

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Rogue stood in front of the microwave watching the bag slowly inflate. She went over in her mind why she let the Swamp Rat watch the movie with her. The whole thing in the med lab still made her mad, but what he said before she started chasing him was nice. Probably the main reason why was because she wanted someone around.

Ever since her past memories resurfaced she had been wanting to share it with someone. And he was the only person around she just shared it with him.

/It was peaceful, just sitting there with Remy./ She smiled a bit as she pulled the popcorn bag out with her nails. The anger she had before was quickly diminishing as she poured the new batch of popcorn in the bowl. Actually she thought she was going to really enjoy watching the rest of the movie with him.

So when she walked into the room she was more then a little disappointed to see some other people in the room. She was about to walk in when she heard what exactly they were saying.

/There're picking on him!/ Her anger flared up and it got even more intense when Kurt practically told Remy to leave. /That's it./

"Is that right?" Her words came out slowly and heavily laced with her accent. Everyone turned towards the door as she sauntered into the room.

"Yeah...well" Bobby started to back away sensing something was wrong and quietly excused himself wanting to leave before the gloves came off.

"Wimp." Scott mumbled beneath his breath as he saw Bobby practically run out of the room. He was surprised when Rogue made her way to him and even leaned against the back of the chair.

"Do ya agree with my brother?" Something in the way she said it made him think it over, but he came to a conclusion quickly when he saw her glaring down at him.

"Nope not at all." Now he was the one going out the door, leaving only Kurt and Remy in the room.

"It's true." Rogue turned to where Kurt was sitting and patiently waited for him to continue. "Ve do know you better. And vith vhat he did this morning I'm surprised that you vould let him sit anywhere near you."

"And what happened this mornin?" This stumped Kurt and he couldn't think of what to say. All they really knew was what the two yelled and that wasn't very much.

"Something not good?" Rogue glared at him and thinking it not wise to push the matter he got up and left the room. When he was gone Rogue went back to her spot on the couch.

"Yo're not goin' to kick me out?" Remy tilted his head back and was met with Rogue's head that was leaning forward. They just stared into each others eyes until he moved away so they could finish the movie.

They sat in silence, rarely looking at one another except for the few times that their hands would come into contact in the bowl and they would smile at the other. When it finally finished they stayed there for a while longer just talking until it was time to go to bed.

Author's Note: My new story is out, tell me what you thought of it. Oh and here are some things you might want to know.

Main Points:

Rogue has evolved and now has the ability to access the powers that she absorbed but has no control over it. She is still untouchable.

By the end of the last story Gambit was seen working with Magneto, Mystique and the Professor (the person at the end of the final chapter.)

So far the relationship between the two of them is just friends.

That's about it. Plz Review!