A/N: Sorry for the misspelling of Remy LeBleau…it's Remy LeBeau. Hehe. Oh yeah, and Kitty will be joining X-Team 2…sorry forgot about her. Thanks for the reviews!! I really appreciate it!!!
Chapter 2 – Leaving Xavier Institute
"I don't know why he's back," said Rogue as Jean was cleaning up the trash in her closet. "He's just making everything so…"
"Complicated?" Jean smiled as Rogue nodded. "Yup, heard that before. You know, I was talking to him after the meeting."
"What did he say this time?" she asked.
"Oh, just that he misses you…"
"That's bullshit!" Rogue yelled.
"Rogue! Let me finish! I saw that coming…" said Jean as she pulled out some shoe boxes. "He said that facing you again would be the only way to find out who he really loves. Give him a break Rogue, he's been through a lot since he left, and he's been feeling really down after seeing you with Bobby."
Rogue sighed as she thought of her past with Remy. "I…just can't accept him you know."
"Don't worry, I know what you mean." Jean smirked.
"Sure, of course you do." Said Rogue staring at Jean.
Meanwhile, John was talking to Remy in John' room. "How long have you been in the institute?"
"About eight months, it was a big decision staying here, worth it actually. Coming back has been great." He said as he began packing early for tomorrow.
"Well, we're on the same team, so who's your counterpart?" he asked.
"This girl, Hailey Watts, she has a long name though." He stuffed in a pair of jeans. Remy opened the folder to look at her picture, and closed it right after.
"Got some pretty girl there eh?" Remy taunted him.
"Hey, this girl's my responsibility. If something happens to her, I'm dead. So if even get an inch involved with this chick, everything's history." Said John as he zips up his baggage. "So have you tried talking to Rogue?"
"Nah." Said Remy as he looked out the window to find Rogue walking with Bobby as they talked. "Looks like she's always occupied."
"Not to worry, you'll have time once we start recruiting. Luckily Bobby's not in our team, or else you wouldn't have a chance to even say anything to her." John raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah…" Remy sighed. "I wanna check out the institute for a while."
"Hey hold on, I don't want to be stuck here doing nothing." John followed him as they walked along the halls and downstairs.
"This place is bigger than I thought." Said Remy looking at the kids walking through the halls, and even some, showing off their powers. "So what got you into coming back here?"
"Oh. I actually got convinced by Professor X to control myself. I know I was a cocky son-of-a-bitch, but coming back here, changed everything." Said John as they continued walking. "Of course, it feels good now that all of that's past me now that I've seen even more extraordinary powers from these kids here." He looked at the little eight-year olds turning into animals.
"Damn kids, where do they get these powers?" Remy looked at the kids in the corner impressively as a boy evaporated the orange juice and put it in another cup.
They walked outside to the courtyard, where they found Rogue and Bobby sitting on a bench talking. "Well what are you two lovebirds doing out here?" asked John smirking.
"Oh come on St. John cut the crap." Said Rogue rudely.
"Jeez, just trying to spark some conversation." Said John as an awkward silence followed. "Well, we'll just be going along, leaving you two alone…" They walked away quietly.
"What's up with him?" Bobby wondered.
"Oh." Rogue thought about Remy. "Nothing. Just being a jerk as usual."
"Man what is wrong with you?!" Frustratingly John said. "There was that whole silence given to you from my damn heart for you to at least say a 'Hey honey, how you been?' or a simple 'Hello Rogue, see you've been busy.'"
"Okay you see the second one wouldn't be all welcoming." Corrected Remy.
"Hey, you could've said something, that's all that matters." Said John as they came across Evan Daniels on his skateboard. "Hey what's up with the scar?"
Evan has a huge scar on his arm from his palm to his elbow, which looked like a huge cat scratch. "Oh that, Quicksilver. Almost had him."
"Yeah…sure." Said John. "Oh yeah, this is…"
"Remy LeBeau…" said Remy as he stuck out his hand. "If you're against me, it's Gambit."
"Oh hey! I'm Evan Daniels, I'm Aunt Ororo's nephew. Spike if you want to call me by that." Evan shook his hand vigorously. "Heard stuff about you!"
"Stuff?" Remy wondered.
"Yeah…" Evan looked around to see if everyone was around. He began to whisper, "You're the guy that Rogue was talking about one time aren't you?"
"Rogue, was talking about me?" Remy's eyes widened.
"Yeah she did once. Saying how you were her ex-boyfriend, had some good times, but she refused to go on talking about you." Evan shrugged.
"So she did…" Remy thought.
"Well, nice meeting ya. See ya around." He got on his skateboard and skated through the hall, where he got caught be Logan.
"HEY KID! NO SKATING IN THE INSTITUTE!!!" Yelled Logan. "I'm gonna rip that board if I see that again!!"
John shook his head. "No matter how many times, he never did rip it off."
"Why not?" Remy asked.
"Cause Ororo's going to have a cow if he does." John grinned evilly. Remy chuckled.
The next morning, everyone woke up early to leave the institute. Everyone loaded their belongings onto the x-jets, and said their brief goodbyes.
"You better be good." Said Ororo to Evan.
"You worry to much Aunt Ororo." Evan smirked.
"I'm warning you, or I'll let Logan slice that board of yours." Ororo lifted her eyebrow. Evan knew she was serious. She kissed his forehead as they said farewell.
"Well, I'll see you back in three weeks." Said Bobby as he held Rogue's glove-covered hands.
"Don't worry about me. You take care of yourself, I love you." Rogue smiled as they shared a kiss in front of Remy.
"Why isn't he suffocating like a donkey?" Remy looked at the two kissing.
"They learned to control their powers, she even breathed out cold air once." Said John as they got into the X-Jet. There they met up with Scott and Jean.
"You two ready for this?" Scott asked.
"Everything's under control." Remy smirked.
"Same old huh?" Jean laughed.
"See you haven't either." Remy raised his eyebrows at her. Scott shook his head.
"Have you talked to…" Jean elbowed Scott as Rogue came in.
"Hey." Jean smiled.
"Hi." Rogue responded as she past right by Remy. She sat down in one of the seats alone. The X-Jet soon closed up and Scott and John took control in the cockpit.
"Aww come on…" Remy complained.
"You've gotta face her and now's the time!" John whispered as he urged Remy to go and talk to her.
He walked slowly towards her, but Jean came in and sat in a chair beside her. Remy walks away as Jean begins to talk to her.
"Hey, you okay?" Jean asked with concern.
"Oh I'm alright." Said Rogue as she leaned her face on her hands.
"Doesn't look like it." Said Jean as she tried to roll out the truth. Jean looked at Remy for him to leave, and getting the signal, Remy left to join the boys. "Come on, what's bothering you? Is it the fact that Bobby's not here?"
Rogue sighed. "Yes…no…not only that?" Rogue looked at her Jean's confused face. "I don't know what I'm feeling."
"Are you sure? You can let it out." Jean tried to cheer her up, although she knew partly what she was thinking.
They had already took off ground, and had been flying for nearly five minutes already. Rogue stood up from the chair and looked around. "It's just…why did Remy have to come back? Everything was fine till he came."
"What about him makes it so hard?" Jean wondered.
"It just feels…like something that was missing in my heart came back, but there's no more space."