Disclaimer: I'm not even going to bother putting this thing up on every chapter. You know I don't own X-Men, am not Stan Lee, and am not rolling in dough. Why do I have to tell you all this everytime? Also, this is going to be a long chapter cause I added a bunch of stuff to it at the last minute and I didn't feel like going back and splitting it into two chapters. Hope you don't mind. And just one more thing, I based the club/pub thingamachicken Gambit goes to off of the club in China a few of the X-Men went to from Klucky's fanfic 'Rockin the Boat'. Very good fic, very good writer! Thanx Klucky!

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A few days later, Pyro and Gambit were the only ones who had remained in the base. Gambit was playing some card game as he always does and Pyro was reading the paper. Only problem is: John doesn't read the paper.

Suddenly, he started laughing, "Ah, that's good. Ah man dis funny Rem, ya sure ya don't wanna read it?"

"Are you reading the comics?" Gambit sighed, not pulling his attention away from his card game.

Pyro looked at him blankly, "No. That's weird."

Gambit paused for a moment, "Then wut ahr yeh readin?"

"The obituary." John started laughing again.

Gambit sighed and got up. He threw all the cards into a card box and stuck it in his coat pocket.

"Watcha doin'?"

"Leavin'."

Pyro looked away from his sick amusement, "Why?"

Gambit headed out the door, "Because you disgust me."

And with that, gambit was gone. Pyro shrugged and continued to read his paper, laughing every three seconds and saying stuff like, 'sucks to be you' and 'see ya in Hell'

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Meanwhile, Kurt and Tabitha were on their way to Magneto's base to recruit St. John Allerdyce to help the X-Men fight the biggest threat they've ever faced: Apocalypse. (Unless you've read the comics, then he's only the third ) Logan had dropped them off a couple miles away from the base. From there they'd have to walk. Logan didn't want to take a change of them being seen.

Tabitha had been awfully quiet for mostly the whole trip. She seemed to be in another world entirely. Lost in her thoughts. She finally said something after her and Kurt had gotten out of the car.

"Hey, Kurt. Why don't I take care of Pyro then you come in to help me explain why we're recruiting him."

"Huh?"

Tabitha shrugged, "I mean, I kinda do know the guy. I bet I could talk to him so that…"

"Vhut do you mean, 'you know him'?" Kurt interrupted.

"Well, long story short, after I left the Institute, the Brotherhood wasn't the only place I went to."

"Vhut do you mean?"

Tabitha looked to the ground and kicked around a few leaves that passed by. I almost 9:00 and it was getting darker with every second.

"Well, Mystique came back like I told you guys before and she didn't exactly welcome me with open arms."

"Oh?"

Tabitha bit her lip, "Yea, she kinda, kicked me out."

Kurt stopped in his tracks, "Tabitha! Vhy didn't you come bak vith us? You never said anysink about zat before!"

"Well, I kinda didn't want anybody to know. So I went out one night to this bar and that's were I met John. He was nice to me and when I told him about my powers he offered for me to join Magneto's team."

"Vhy vere you even talkink to him in ze first place?"

"Well I didn't know it was John!"

Kurt eyed her suspiciously, "John?"

Tabitha blushed slightly, "Yea, and when he mentioned Magneto, well, I just said yes."

"And you never sought zat it might jus be ze same Magneto we've been fighting all zeze years?"

"Well, I knew it was him, I just, didn't want to say no."

"Vait, vhy did you tell 'John' about yer povers anyvays?" Kurt asked, putting an emphasis on 'John'.

"Well, I dunno. We were simply talking and you could say it just slipped out. He told me he had a flame-thrower and I said that I had one too, just it wasn't really a flame-thrower."

Kurt sighed and started walking again, "So you vere trying to 'mpress him?"

"NO!" Tabitha snapped.

But Kurt just laughed

"I was not!!!"

"Aw, c'mon. I sink you like him. Zat's vhy you vant to take care ov'im yourselve."

"Kurt! I do not!' Tabitha breathed, running up to him.

Kurt smiled at her, "Hey, I' tell you vhut, I'm a nice guy. I'll let you take care ov'im yourselve an' see zat happens."

"Kurt…"

"C'mon, I sink I can teleport us vome here." Kurt said, cutting her off, and looked above the hill towards the base. Kurt grabbed Tabitha's wrist and teleported into the basement.

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Outside the base, Gambit had headed over to a large bush of some sort of pulled out a large, red motorcycle. He hid it in there so John wouldn't find it. Who knows what would happen if John decided to take a 'joyride'. Scary thought.

Gambit pulled a key out his pocket and was just about to start up the motorcycle when he heard a faint whirring sound from right behind him. Gambit spun around but saw no one. Gambit shrugged and started up the bike. He hoped on and backed up out of the clearing and into town.

But he couldn't help but feel like he was being followed. He steered his bike to a stop at a red light and looked around. There was practically no one on the road. It was well over 10:00 at night. Gambit scanned the area one last time just as the light turned green and continued on his way.

He had pulled over by a long, one-story building. You could see the lights through the windows and almost hear the music blaring through the walls. Gambit locked the bike up and head into the building. It was some sort of club or a pub or something. All Gambit knew is it was something to take his mind of everything that was going on.

Inside the music was pulsing through the room. It would have been shaking the dust from the walls but there wasn't any left. Gambit stepped and looked around the area for a spot to sit. He found a place at the bar and tried to listen to the music but like usual, the words in the songs were impossible to understand due to the noise.

But someone sitting across the room caught his attention. She was wearing something over her face so Gambit couldn't make out who she was. The girl seemed to realize he was starring at her and got up. Gambit lost sight of her and just shrugged it off. But before Gambit knew it she was standing behind him.

Gambit turned around only to see Rogue starring at him, "Thought maybe ya were neveh gunna' get here." She smiled.

Gambit almost jumped out of his seat, "Rogue, wut ahr you doin here?"

"Lookin feh you." She said as she sat down next to him.

Gambit eyed her suspiciously, "An wut be da charges?"

"Come'ere, I need the ask ya sum'in." Rogue smiled.

She got up and Gambit followed quietly, wondering whet she needed to ask him.

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Back in the base, Pyro was enjoying his paper when suddenly, he heard a crash coming from the basement. Pyro looked around cautiously and set his paper down. But another crash had him approaching the steps. The mounted his flame-throwers and strapped them to his arms. A small ball of fire shot out and John held it in front of him as he began to walk down the stairs into the basement. But with every step he took he seemed to be plunging deeper and deeper into the darkness.

Pyro got to the bottom of the staircase, looking around blindly. The small ball of flames weren't providing much light for him. Pyro was just about to add some more when loud 'bamf' sound came from across the room.

"Who's there'?" Pyro called out sternly, "Damnit, didn't Mags eveh hear of 'electricity'."

All of a sudden, the flame in front of Pyro went out. Pyro jumped back in surprise, "What the…?"

Suddenly, a dark figure jumped in front of Pyro. Flames shot out of the flame-throwers on his arms. The fire crackled and exploded all around them. The flames danced wildly around and illuminated the figure's face.

It was one of the X-Men. A girl. She had short blonde hair and greenish/blue eyes. Pyro looked at her hard. It was Tabitha!

Pyro snarled and shot another ball of flames at her but she leaped over the fire and landed in front of Pyro.

"Hiya Pyro!" She smiled.

Pyro stepped back, a little confused, "Wha? Tabitha?"

"Wazzup fire boy?"

Pyro held the flame-thrower up to Tabitha's face, "Don' move gurl."

Tabitha rolled her eyes and walked up to him. She reached out and lowered the flame-thrower to the ground and got up in his face. "Don't gimme' that."

Pyro pulled his arm away from her and proceeded to shoot a blazing trail of fire out. But Tabitha pinned his arm to the wall and the fire shot out to the side. He looked at her, not knowing what to think.

Before Pyro knew what was happening, Tabitha's had pressed her lips up against his. In that moment it seemed as if time itself had stopped. But Pyro didn't pull away. Instead he returned her kiss. Tabitha leaned into him as he stopped the flame-thrower and broke the kiss.

Pyro shook himself mentally, "Tabitha, wut are you…?"

"Be quiet John," She said softly, as if in a trance, "Ya don't fool me."

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Am I the only one who thinks that Pyro and Tabitha have a LOT in common? They're both pretty much insane daredevils…they both enjoy blowing things up and burning them …they're both pyrokinetics (if ya don't believe me, go to and look up Tabitha under profiles! Awesome site by the way! It's got EVERYTHING about X-Men Evolution there! J Seriosly.) Anyhoo, there's not a lot of this stuff in this story. Only a little between Rogue/Remy and Pyro/Tabitha. Please review.