Chapter 12
Standing on the rooftop of the school, Remy blew out smoke from his mouth and took another drag of his cigarette. Most of the residents of the school had left to find he missing piece of the relic leaving the school fairly empty.
He had spent most of his time with Rogue talking about everything that happened. She didn't really explain what went on between her and Warren, and he didn't really mind it that much. As long as she was his now, all that stuff didn't matter anymore.
The burning tip came closer to his fingers, and as soon as he felt the hot ambers touch his skin he let it drop to the ground, stepping on it as he headed off the balcony.
A slow tremor of fear hit him, and he knew that he was going to have that nightmare again. The only way he knew of to keep it away was by getting drunk followed by sex. The first dulled his mind and the latter exhausted his body. Also it put him near living skin, which he couldn't charge.
Sighing, he realized that having a girlfriend stopped him from doing the other one, so he had to settle for becoming full-blown drunk. Stepping off the edge he gracefully landed on a balcony instantly recognizing it as Rogue's. Wanting to check in on his chere he decided to have a look inside.
Recalling all his thief training he carefully made his way into the room not making a single sound as he crept towards the bed. He got on his knees and peered over her face as she slept soundly. /I wish I could just lie next to her. Yeah that's smart. She'll either scream her lungs out from finding you on her bed or you'll end up blowing her up. You always have to ruin the moment do you?/ He mumbled the last part and was surprised by the outside voice that answered him.
"Did ya want me ta stay asleep?" Rogue smiled at his shocked expression as she stretched her arms out on the bed. "Is it mornin?"
"No, just a little past ten. I'm sorry dat I woke yo' up." He stroked her hair, realizing that he missed being around her, even if it was for only a couple hours.
"It's okay." She smiled at first but then it changed into a frown as she realized something. "Why are ya awake? Ah thought Hank said ya should rest?"
"I can't sleep." It was a half true and at first he thought he could get away with it, but she quickly understood what he meant by not being able to sleep.
"It's that dream isn't it?" There wasn't any need to answer. She could tell by the tautness of his face and the worried look in his eyes that she was right. "What were ya goin ta do?"
"I was just gonna...yo' know..." He let the sentence drift and waved his hand around hoping to distract her.
"No. Ah don't know." Crossing her arms she looked him in the eye. "Why don't ya tell mah?"
"Well yo' see.." /I was planning on getting drunk, and it might have led to sex with another woman, but I was looking out for your best interests. You don't want to get blown up right?/ "I was just goin' to sleep."
Her eyes narrowed but she didn't say anything, which he was grateful for. Just maybe he could get out of this without any problems.
"Ya can sleep with mah." Tugging at one end of the covers she pulled it up. "If ya start ta have the nightmare I'll wake ya up."
It was tempting, but he couldn't let anything bad happen to her so he refused her offer and stepped away.
"Ah was able ta help ya before and ah can do it again. So don't worry." Latching onto his arm she pulled him under the covers and rested her head on his shoulder. "Ah can take care of myself."
Thinking it over he agreed and quickly took of his boots and trench coat leaving him in his jeans and a full sleeved shirt. When he was done they positioned themselves so their skin wouldn't touch. Both were tired all ready from the day's excursions, and they instantly fell asleep.
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"It's only a matter of time now..." Remy's eyes traveled to the friendly smile on such a cold face. He wanted to scream, keep on fighting, but it was becoming harder to move.
"The drug will take you under soon. You should be happy that I'm letting you sleep." A surgical knife came into view, coming closer to his head. "Otherwise you would have to watch."
Panic, fear, confusion washed over him. Too many emotions. And not all of them coming from him.
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He awoke the foreign emotions assaulting him before he could pull his shield up. They disoriented him and it took him a while to get his bearings.
"Remy...Oh God..." Hearing the panic in her voice he figured out where the emotions were coming from and was ready to fix the problem, that is until he saw what the problem was.
"Merde..." Rogue clutched the sheets to her chest surrounded by the torn pieces of her shirt. But that wasn't the surprising part, no it was the pure white wings coming from her back that left him speechless.
"Ah can't pull them back!" She was becoming hysterical, but he would've been acting similarly if he were in her position. "What am ah gonna do? Ah can't wear any of my shirts!"
/And she thinks about shirts? She's going to have a lot more problems if those things are permanent./
"Don't panic, chere. How 'bout yo' calm down, and concentrate on pullin' dem back?"
She took his advice and started to mediate, while he tried to find something for her to wear if it didn't work. /Wait doesn't that mean she's not wearing a shirt?/ He looked back and smirked at all the skin she was showing. Shaking his head he concentrated on the task at hand. Searching through her closet he found a dark green top that had lacy backing that could go around the wings, and in one of the drawers was a matching colored bra.
He quickly checked the size before going back to the bed. /Future reference of course./ Sitting at the edge he waited for her to finish.
"It's not workin'!" Remy could feel her start to panic and quickly offered her the clothing.
"We can talk to de Professor later, first put dis on." Handing her the bra she grabbed it and tried to put it on while keep the covers around her. "I'm yo'r boyfriend. It's okay if I see yo' breasts."
The casual way he said it made her blush again and he rolled his eyes when she continued to try to put the bra on without him seeing anything, When she got to the part on hooking it up she reached an obstacle. Not only were the wings in the way, but she needed both her arms in order to do it.
"Let me." Sliding up behind her he quickly latched the two sides together and then got the shirt. Slipping it over her head he quickly tied it up, thankful that he remembered to wear his gloves when he left his room.
"Thanks." She let go of the covers and stood up, her wings stretching and knocking over the lamp and sending it crashing on the floor. "Opps. Do ya think anyone heard that?"
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"Rogue what happened?" Kitty, her former roommate, phased into the room. Stopping dead when she saw the white wings in front of her face. "Warren? How did you get here so fast?"
Turning Rogue flinched at the high-pitched screech of surprise. Her wings stretched in response to the sound, hitting Remy in the face and knocking him over.
"Sorry." She turned quickly around again and this time hitting Kitty who phased through the second wing. "Ah'm so sorry Kitty."
"Its no problem just be careful okay." Rogue nodded and tried to help Remy up but ended up toppling down from the unaccustomed weight on her back. She landed painfully next to Remy. Her wings landed on his face and he blew on them trying to keep them from his face.
"Stop that it tickles!" She squirmed, not used to the feeling and tried to get up, only to find that Remy was holding on to his waist. "Remy!!!"
"What? I was just helpin' mon chere up." Jumping gracefully on to his feet he helped her up and she stayed in his arms for a while.
"Hey are you guys like a couple?" Rogue jumped back from Remy, her wings spread to their full length and hit some of her books off her desk. "Don't you know how to work those things?"
Remy came closer to her when the door sprung open and Cyclops stood there in his full X-Men uniform. Behind him were Jean and the rest of the X-Kids that went on the mission.
"What's all the commotion about?" Cyclops stepped in first squaring his jaw at Remy and then turning to talk to Rogue. "What is he doing in..."
The whole place grew silent as everyone just stared at the wings behind Rogue's back.
"Whoa are they real?" Iceman's question fueled everyone into talking and soon even the new recruits were standing in the hallway awakened by all the noise.
"What's going on?" Logan's gruff voice quieted everyone down as he passed through the group to Rogue's room. One glance at the wings he quickly ordered Rogue to come with him.
All the students followed them not wanting to be left out. As they reached the rec. room Wolverine turned and was about to order everyone to bed when the Professor's voice rang in his head. [Let them stay Logan. We will need to inform them about what happened anyways.] Logan grumbled and went to stand next to Storm as they waited for the Professor to show up.
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The shuffling sound started as Remy took out his deck of cards. He wanted to stand next to Rogue, but he wasn't sure how the school would react if he did that. So here he was standing at the sidelines as the Professor came in. He was impressed though, other then the slight pause before talking the professor showed no sign of surprise. Instead he went strait into asking questions.
"Did you absorb Warren before you got here?" Rogue nodded her head as the students began talking to themselves.
"Were you thinking about him when you felt the wings begin to form?" /Thinking about him? Why would she do that? From what she said, he did save her life. So?/
"No Professor ah was sleepin at the time." She fumbled with the words and bit her lip, a worried look on her face.
"So what were you dreaming about?" /She wasn't dreaming about some other guy when she was sleeping next to me right? That's a big blow to your pride if she did. Shut up!/ All the occupants quieted down, expecting some interesting facts are coming into light.
"It's sort of private." /Private. Why would it be private? Nooo.No.No.No.No./
"Can you tell me who was in it.?" Gaining her composure Rogue stood with confidence and answered his question earning a gasp of surprise from the others.
"Yes. It was Warren, and Remy." /Warren and Remy. Oh god please don't let her mean what I think she means./
"What were they doing?" The Professor continued the questions unaware of the unease that she answered them in.
"They were...fightin." The word came out slow like she was testing it out on her tongue before she finished the word. "They were fightin and...ah started fightin too, and then ah got between them so they would stop fightin each other. And then they both started fightin mah. Finally we all calmed down and when ah was restin ah felt this tinglin feelin in my back, and ah woke up."
/Did anyone else understand what she said?/ Looking around the room carefully he checked the faces and saw mainly blank looks or glares in his direction, probably from them being angry that I fought her in a dream. /Is everyone here G rated?/ The only people who showed the slightest signs of understanding were Kitty and Jubilee. /Of course Jubes would get it, but why Kitty? Does she know something?/
The door opened and Warren entered the room accompanied by Hank. They both stopped dead and stared at the wings growing out from Rogue's back.
Hank was even too shocked to say his favorite line. Warren was able to snap out of it quicker and went to touch the wings like he couldn't believe they were real.
"You look beautiful." Rogue blushed at this and Remy wanted to kill the prissy boy and was about to when a growl resounded in the room. It seemed that Logan wasn't too happy about that statement either.
/So it isn't me, Logan just doesn't want any guy near Rogue./ That thought saddened. /I guess I should return the gift basket then./
"Logan!" Rogue glared at the father-like attitude he was showing before smiling up at Angel. Everyone in the room went back to whispering. Remy was able to make out the words 'cute couple' in the nearby groups. Even some of the boys were saying it.
"Professor shouldn't we be tryin' to fix Rogue's problem?" Remy kept a straight face even when Warren helped Rogue turn around without opening her wings.
"Mr. LeBeau, it seems that there isn't much that we can do. They will go away eventually, but until then I think it's best if Warren teaches Rogue to use them. /Teaches? That means they spend time together. That isn't right./ "Now if there isn't anything else."
"Can I ask something?" The Professor called Jamie forward so he could ask his question. "Why are the wings showing up now when she absorbed him a couple days ago?"
/It's always the youngest who figure it out./ Remy smiled at waited for what the Professor would do to get out of this one.
"I'm not positive right now. As soon as we find the answer to that we will announce it." /That's the biggest bull I ever heard. They won't just take that./ But they did. Because he's the Professor.
"Now Wolverine will go on to explain the mission. Warren why don't you take Rogue to the study and teach her how to control those wings before she goes to bed." He nodded and led her out of the door.
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"So a second door has been opened, leaving only the third remaining door. Because of the enormity of the situation, Magneto has agreed to join sides in trying to find out where Apocalypse is being held and what the third key could be." When the Professor was through saying this he was met with stony silence. "One of the agreements was that we would have representatives from our side meet up with them every few days to tell what information we found, and they will do the same over here."
That statement wasn't met with silence though. All the students started yelling about a trap, and you can't trust the Brotherhood. It took a while for everyone to settle down so that the Professor could explain the situation.
"It's already been decided on. This is indeed the best solution, and we need his help to figure out what exactly we're dealing with." There was still some grumbling, but they mostly accepted the fact that they might need help in this situation. "Now Jean and Scott have been selected to go for our side..."
"But Professor, vouldn't it be better that me and Kitty go? Ve know them better, and it would cause less problems." Kitty quickly nodded to Kurt's suggestion. Kurt wanted to talk to Wanda again and this would give him the perfect chance to.
"Yeah we could get out of there, like a lot faster, if something's going on." Kitty tried to hold back the please at the end, hoping that the facts were all they needed to sway him into their favor. Everyone knew that she has a thing for the Russian, and she really wanted to find out if it's mutual.
"Actually it's a good idea. They could do a better job than Scott and I could." Jean winked at Kitty. "What do you say Professor?"
"Well if you're certain that you could handle it..." they both nodded their heads and leaned forward waiting for the answer. "Then you can both go. I'll send for you whenever we find something out. As for the rest of you, go back to bed. You still have school tomorrow."
Everyone groaned and headed to bed. As they ascended the steps a lone figure moved away from the group and headed through the hallways stopping in front of the study door.
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"And relax your back muscles." Rogue concentrated and could feel the wings fold behind her back. "Good now become tense."
The wings spread out hitting one of the shelves knocking some trinkets to the floor.
"Damn." Stooping down she remembered at the last minute to keep her wings spread so that she wouldn't topple over.
"Good. I think you know enough to go to sleep. If you still have them in the morning I'll teach you how to fly all right?" Rogue smiled to that. "How about we head to bed?"
He lifted his arm to offer it to her, but a searing pain went thorough it making him drop it back down.
"Is there somethin wrong with yar arm?" Warren tried to say it was fine but when she lifted it slightly he grimaced from the pain. "Hold still."
"What are you..." He felt small hands rub his shoulder loosing the knot that formed there. It felt good, and he shifted positions so that she had better access to his arm. "you're very good at this."
"Really?" She moved on to his other arm, figuring that one was sore too. Actually it wasn't but Warren wasn't about to say anything. "Does anythin else hurt?"
"Well now that you mention it there's this throbbing pain in my..."
"Sorry to interrupt, but de Professor said we should sleep now." Remy's voice sounded harsh and he was glaring at Warren. Which with his eyes is really freighting.
"Sure. I'll see you tomorrow Rogue." Warren turned around and stared at Rogue for a few moments.
"What? Do ah have somethin on my face." Instinctively she brought her hand up to check, only to have him bring it down.
"No, I just wanted to memorize how you look right now." Rogue rolled her eyes with a smile on her face, and said good night to Warren as he left. Just as he was about to leave the room he had a strange feeling that his wings were on fire, but it stopped when the door closed behind him. /I really need to get some sleep./
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"What do yo' think yo' were doin'?" Remy exploded as soon as the other guy left. He really wanted to kill that guy.
"Ah was just givin him a massage." His eyes started to flash, normally scaring the hell out of everyone, but only making her smirk. "Now ya aren't jealous right?"
"Of course I'm...not jealous." /Damn I nearly said I was./ He glared down at her only causing her to smile more. "Why aren't yo' afraid of me?"
"The only way ah'll be afraid is if ya hit mah. And even then ah'll probably just hit ya back." She came up and started rubbing his shoulders, but he shrugged her off and tried really hard not to pout. "Don't be like that."
"Be like what?" Remy crossed his arms and wouldn't look at her. "I'm just worried dat my girl's gonna leave me."
The last part was mumbled, but she still heard it. Moving closer she laid her head against his shoulder her hand running soothing circles on his back.
"Ah'm not leavin ya all right? So don't worry." She wrapped her arms around him and in a few seconds he did the same to her. "He's nice and all, but there's no way ah'm givin ya up."
He smiled and kissed the top of her head.
"Unless yar keepin a big secret from mah." Rogue felt Remy tense up and stepped away from him. "Are ya keepin a secret from mah?"
"I can't tell yo'." /Oh no. She's going to figure it out. Just tell her. Maybe your right./
"It's okay. If ya don't want ta tell mah it's fine." It sounded genuine but he knew she will become suspicious and then if she stumbled across anything.. /I just need to say it. Come on!/
"I...I..." He looked into her bright green eyes and couldn't say it. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay. Ah have my own secrets too. But if it's about a bad thin ya did, ya can still tell mah. Ah won't judge ya." /She probably thinks I robbed a bank./
"Thank yo'." Her smile beamed up at him and before they could continuing talking a voice above them caught their attention.
"That's like so sweet! So are you guys a couple now?" Kitty fell from he roof where she was spying on them.
"Yeah we're a couple, but ya can't tell anyone." Rogue shook her finger at Kitty who made the gesture of sealing her lips and throwing away the key. "We don't want poor Remy ta get jumped by the boys when they find out we're dating."
Gambit flinched remembering just this morning when he was brutally attacked by a pillow, he didn't want a repeat of that.
"Sure! I'll totally help out too. So how are we getting out of here?" Both Rogue and Remy shared a look before pointing at the door. "Nope that's too easy. They might suspect something. I'll phase Remy up to his room and then Rogue will casually make her way to hers then I can like pass messages if to the other..."
As she was talking they walked out the door half listening to her as she mentioned walkie-talkies and double dating. After she gets the metal man's attention of course. Remy was able plant a swift kiss to Rogue's hand when Kitty was talking about avoiding hidden motion sensors. As they passed by the boy's hallway he disappeared leaving the two girls alone.
"Where did Remy go? It doesn't matter. We'll meet up tomorrow at school and come up with some codenames and no we can't use the one's we have because they already know them. Plus you don't even have a code name." Rogue nodded her head as she slipped into her room hearing Kitty mumbling to herself about synchronizing watches as she closed the door.
Leaning her head against the door Rouge shivered from the cold wind coming from the balcony. Tuning she crawled into her bed leaning her head against his shoulder.
"Do yo' think we can trust Kitty?" Remy ran his ungloved hand across her wing enjoying the softness of the feathers.
"She won't say anythin." She shivered slightly, but this time it wasn't from the cold. Slowly his hand movements stopped and his head fell to one side. Rogue stared at his peaceful face before she too fell asleep.
He didn't have anymore nightmares that night.
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Author's Note: I wonder if anyone will get the whole fighting thing...Well their still happy! So rejoice to that. And that my finals are over. So I will start with my one-week update thing again. Also this story will be ending in 3 more chapters. Then I'm going to finish the story with the last installment. Then this story is completely over!!! I think that's all I have to say so onto the reviews.
Reviews:
DemonRogue13: I'm happy too, it's no fun writing without Remy in it.
Star-of-Chaos: Unless she finds out a more secret secret that makes the whole Devlin thing seem like a minor transgression. But what are the chances of that happening?
ishandahalf: Yeah killing off the main character that everybody likes and still keep the story going isn't a walk in the park. (I still don't see how a walk in the park could be easy with all those pigeons attacking you but anyways.) Thanks for reviewing.
PomegranateQueen: Thanks, I try my best.
Roze-Z: He definitely deserves the award, but I don't think he wants to have it. You can expect more fatherly attitude coming from Logan in the future chapters.
enchantedlight: That would be the easy thing to do. But like always Remy doesn't want to listen to the voice in his head. When will he learn?
Episodic: I hope my review helped. You have a unique story going and I hope you continue it to the end.
iLoVeLoGaN: Not if the Ragin' Cajun has anything to say about it!
Scoobyd0530: Could of, Should of, Would of, but didn't. I like my Cajun with problems. [I'm talking about Remy. I don't got a Cajun either. :( ] And thanks about the finals, I passed them! At least that's what I'm going to say to make me feel better. Unless that jinxes me....[Author runs out the door and knocks on tree. And then comes back and notices wooden dresser two inches away...Damn]
rage-girl-05: And that just makes the author feel happy inside.
LadyFarevay: The superglue can be placed in storage the if won't be that bad in this story. So enjoy the romyness to come. Before all hell breaks loose. And I'm not sure if my brainyness was enough but I know I'll at least pass...I think...