Disclaimers- If I owned X-men I wouldn't have to write fanfictions.
Chapter 2
Rogue had being trying to avoid everyone since the pillow incident especially Remy. Remy however had been trying to get as close to Rogue as possible.
"Damn it Cajun," she sad turning around to find Remy standing leaning against a wall opposite from her next. "Can't ya just leave me alone."
"Oui." He replied ,his red on black eyes looking her up and down," Mais what is the fun in that?"
"The fun in that," she shot back at him "would be meh not beatin ya black'n'blue or black'n'red in yer case."
"Oh chere," he replied getting down on his knees and playing up to the now gathering crowd, " ya wound Remy, ya would Remy real bad."
" No Ah don't swamp rat but ah'm sure as hell tryin."
Suddenly Remy changed tact "Swamp Rat? Is that all Remy is t'ya? Dat not be what ya told Remy last night or did dat mean nothin to ya?"
Rogue's face turned from white to magenta to white again. "What the hell are ya talkin about Swamp boy?"
"Aww so d'oes hours we spent in my room last night were meaningless, d'at be nice t' know."
"Look Swampy Ah don't know what yer talking about," Rogue replied getting more frustrated by the minute. While cries of "Yeah sure ya don't!" and "What a slut!" came from the crowd.
Rogue stared at him. His red eyes glaring at her. Challenging her to rise to the bait. But she couldn't. He had touched a nerve.
Her eyes filled with tears as she stared at him biting he lip.She turned on her heel and stormed in the other direction.
"Woooh watch out!" Remy cried out behind her. "Der goes hurricane Rogue."
The bell ring. Most of the crowd left heading in search of there next class some of them had become the official Remy LeBeau fan club and stood around to find out where he was going next.
Remy who couldn't be bothered with school was just about to leave again when he was face to face or rather chest to face with a small valley girl.
"Remy! You, like, total asshole.What did you ,like, say to her?"
"Like, who?" Remy replied mocking her.
"You know who." Kitty replied getting so angry that her ponytail was bobbing like a dog on a dash board. "Rogue!".
Kitty didn't like Remy at the best of times but when he started to piss off her friends well she just wasn't gonna take it.
"Oh oui, Rogue....ma chere," Remy said like he was just recovering from amnesia. "I don't know what you be talking about. We was just havin a petit competition et if la fille cannot take it c'est not ma problem."
"You total Jerk. You like know she can't touch and you wave that in her face. Rogue can never do the things you say she does no matter how much she wants to. Think how much you like totally bum her out when you say things like that. No wait you can't... you need a brain to think."
"But I ...y' see..." Remy was about to speak when Kitty continued.
"SECONDLY, Rogue has spent most of the time since she got here getting her self a reputation. Why? So people don't get hurt.You come her and you like totally ruin it for her in like one second.Way ta go you. Well I hope you like happy."
Remy stood there staring at her. He opened his mouth a few times but just ended up gasping like a goldfish.
"No Kitty...you don' understand..."
"Don't tell me. Tell her. I got to get to Biology."
She walked away her pony tail swaying from side to side leaving Remy with his thoughts and his fan club.
Damn! He had really screwed up.
Meanwhile at the institute Rogue had returned home.
She looked at her reflection in her bedroom mirror. Her white makeup was spread thick like icing on a cake. Black circles were drawn with eyeliner around her eyes and the mascara that she was wearing had mixed with her tears causing grey steaks down her cheeks.She looked a mess. She was crying. She didn't cry. Kitty cried, Amara cried, Jubilee howled and she had defiantly seen little Miss Perfect, Jean Grey, cry when she broke her nail and when she had a spot on picture day.
But she wasn't Kitty, she wasn't Amara or Jubilee and she certainly wasn't Jean Grey.
She was Rogue.
A new wave of tears fell down her cheeks. One thing was for sure. She couldn't face them. None of them. She wondered if maybe the professor would just let her stay in her room forever. So she wouldn't have to see him again.
It wouldn't be so bad. She could have a hole cut in her door and food could be put through. Kitty could share with Jean. She was sure Kitty would like that better. Jean would talk about clothes and hair and make up and they could have conversations that went "like like like" "totally totally totally" "like like like" all day long.
Then she would truly be alone. Not that she was super sociable at the moment but that was the way it was meant to be. If Gawd in all his wisdom had wanted her to be sociable he wouldn't have given her this "gift". Not that she believed in God. Hell she didn't care where she went after this but she would have made a deal with the devil to get rid of her stupid power.
And that's why he hurt her. That's why she hated him. Not because off the reputation thing. No. She could fix that by knocking a few people unconscious with a single touch. That would scare them. But the stinking Cajun had hit so closed to home it hurt.
She heard a knock on the door. But it wasn't he normal sound of wood hitting skin. No it was wood hitting metal. 'Shit!' She thought 'Wolvie!He gonna kill meh for cuttin school' Rogue was silent in the hope that he would go away.
"Stripes!" He called." I know your in there! Stripes?"
Logan had come in expecting a fight. Expecting her to start shouting at him about how she had a maths test 3rd period and how she hated her physics teacher but instead he found him self face to face with a little girl. Black smudges down her cheeks, tears falling freely. She tried to wipe them away quickly but more just fell. He smiled. So she was human after all.
"Whatcha want?" she said her streaks falling in front of her emerald eyes.
"Just to talk." He replied sitting down on her bed and placing a firm arm on her shoulder forcing her to sit as well.
"'Kay," she sniffled,"what about?"
"Let's start with why your not in school. Then we'll take it from there."
"'kay" she said softly leaning into him and starting to cry again.He just looked at her. He wasn't good with people at the best of times but a crying teenager was way to hard. But yet , it was Rogue. He was curious. Rogue didn't cry. Rogue never cried. So why was Rogue crying. He slowly put his arm around her. She clung on to him. He made her feel safe. Something she hadn't felt in a long time.She like it.
***
Remy LeBeau was not happy.
He wanted to talk to Kitty about Rogue but Kitty was just phasing him out.
Kitty Pryde was not happy.
She wanted to concentrate on History but she had Remy constantly talking in her ear.
"Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me"
"Like Fine already." She cried.
"Merci chere. Now tell ol' Remy what he has to do to win back his belle fille."
"How should I like know?"
"Cummon. You watch all d'oes teen films. De guys in d'oes films est always screwing up what do they do?"
"Well um.... they like make nice speeches."
"Can't do that!"
"Why not?"
"Can't speaks good"
"Like no duh! Well they ummm buy them drum kits."
" Well I don't have any money.....I could steal her one."
"No and come to think about it Rogue with like a drum kit is like so not a good idea."
"Well den what else do dey do?"
"Well sometimes....they...oh they sing,"
Remy gave her a look that could cut glass.
"Kitty, I am not singin."
"Ya wanna win her back don't ya."
"Well yeah but..."
"But what"
"Kitty I can't sing."
"And Rogue can't touch. You make fun of her now she can laugh at you."
"I hate you Kitty-cat."
"Like love you too. Now shut up I wanna like learn now."
"Mon Dieu. Dis is never gonna work."
***
It was weird. Rogue had just talked to Logan without claws being used or Rogue having an extra voice in her head and Logan had actually listened and understood. Infact he had given her the day off.
Rogue shivered. She hoped that didn't happen again too soon.
She was halfway through her book when she heard a funny noise from outside the window. It sounded like a cat being strangled. Going out to the balcony she saw Remy looking and singing up at her. He had neither the flare of Heath Ledger(A.N sings in 10 things I hate about you) nor the looks of John Travolta (A.N Grease duh!) but he was giving it all he'd got. As he belted out his own rendition of "I'm a believer."
"I t'ought love be only true in fairy tales
Meant fer someone else mais non for me.
Love be out ta get me
Dat de way it seem
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Den I saw 'er face
Now I'm a believer
Non une trace
Au doubt dans mon mind
I'm in love ohhh
I'm a believer
I wouldn't leave 'er
If I...."
"Swamp rat."
"Oui mon chere."
"What are ya doin?"
"I be singin...ta you...as an apology."
"Ya could have just said sorry."
"Mais Kitty said...."
"Ya listened to Kitty?"
"Oui"
"Gawd ya must have been desperate."
"Oui mais mon cherie tu est the sun that lights my day. Tu est the moon..."
"Gambit speak simply. No more games. No more tricks. Ah can't take it"
"OK. Rogue...........I love ya."
Chapter 2
Rogue had being trying to avoid everyone since the pillow incident especially Remy. Remy however had been trying to get as close to Rogue as possible.
"Damn it Cajun," she sad turning around to find Remy standing leaning against a wall opposite from her next. "Can't ya just leave me alone."
"Oui." He replied ,his red on black eyes looking her up and down," Mais what is the fun in that?"
"The fun in that," she shot back at him "would be meh not beatin ya black'n'blue or black'n'red in yer case."
"Oh chere," he replied getting down on his knees and playing up to the now gathering crowd, " ya wound Remy, ya would Remy real bad."
" No Ah don't swamp rat but ah'm sure as hell tryin."
Suddenly Remy changed tact "Swamp Rat? Is that all Remy is t'ya? Dat not be what ya told Remy last night or did dat mean nothin to ya?"
Rogue's face turned from white to magenta to white again. "What the hell are ya talkin about Swamp boy?"
"Aww so d'oes hours we spent in my room last night were meaningless, d'at be nice t' know."
"Look Swampy Ah don't know what yer talking about," Rogue replied getting more frustrated by the minute. While cries of "Yeah sure ya don't!" and "What a slut!" came from the crowd.
Rogue stared at him. His red eyes glaring at her. Challenging her to rise to the bait. But she couldn't. He had touched a nerve.
Her eyes filled with tears as she stared at him biting he lip.She turned on her heel and stormed in the other direction.
"Woooh watch out!" Remy cried out behind her. "Der goes hurricane Rogue."
The bell ring. Most of the crowd left heading in search of there next class some of them had become the official Remy LeBeau fan club and stood around to find out where he was going next.
Remy who couldn't be bothered with school was just about to leave again when he was face to face or rather chest to face with a small valley girl.
"Remy! You, like, total asshole.What did you ,like, say to her?"
"Like, who?" Remy replied mocking her.
"You know who." Kitty replied getting so angry that her ponytail was bobbing like a dog on a dash board. "Rogue!".
Kitty didn't like Remy at the best of times but when he started to piss off her friends well she just wasn't gonna take it.
"Oh oui, Rogue....ma chere," Remy said like he was just recovering from amnesia. "I don't know what you be talking about. We was just havin a petit competition et if la fille cannot take it c'est not ma problem."
"You total Jerk. You like know she can't touch and you wave that in her face. Rogue can never do the things you say she does no matter how much she wants to. Think how much you like totally bum her out when you say things like that. No wait you can't... you need a brain to think."
"But I ...y' see..." Remy was about to speak when Kitty continued.
"SECONDLY, Rogue has spent most of the time since she got here getting her self a reputation. Why? So people don't get hurt.You come her and you like totally ruin it for her in like one second.Way ta go you. Well I hope you like happy."
Remy stood there staring at her. He opened his mouth a few times but just ended up gasping like a goldfish.
"No Kitty...you don' understand..."
"Don't tell me. Tell her. I got to get to Biology."
She walked away her pony tail swaying from side to side leaving Remy with his thoughts and his fan club.
Damn! He had really screwed up.
Meanwhile at the institute Rogue had returned home.
She looked at her reflection in her bedroom mirror. Her white makeup was spread thick like icing on a cake. Black circles were drawn with eyeliner around her eyes and the mascara that she was wearing had mixed with her tears causing grey steaks down her cheeks.She looked a mess. She was crying. She didn't cry. Kitty cried, Amara cried, Jubilee howled and she had defiantly seen little Miss Perfect, Jean Grey, cry when she broke her nail and when she had a spot on picture day.
But she wasn't Kitty, she wasn't Amara or Jubilee and she certainly wasn't Jean Grey.
She was Rogue.
A new wave of tears fell down her cheeks. One thing was for sure. She couldn't face them. None of them. She wondered if maybe the professor would just let her stay in her room forever. So she wouldn't have to see him again.
It wouldn't be so bad. She could have a hole cut in her door and food could be put through. Kitty could share with Jean. She was sure Kitty would like that better. Jean would talk about clothes and hair and make up and they could have conversations that went "like like like" "totally totally totally" "like like like" all day long.
Then she would truly be alone. Not that she was super sociable at the moment but that was the way it was meant to be. If Gawd in all his wisdom had wanted her to be sociable he wouldn't have given her this "gift". Not that she believed in God. Hell she didn't care where she went after this but she would have made a deal with the devil to get rid of her stupid power.
And that's why he hurt her. That's why she hated him. Not because off the reputation thing. No. She could fix that by knocking a few people unconscious with a single touch. That would scare them. But the stinking Cajun had hit so closed to home it hurt.
She heard a knock on the door. But it wasn't he normal sound of wood hitting skin. No it was wood hitting metal. 'Shit!' She thought 'Wolvie!He gonna kill meh for cuttin school' Rogue was silent in the hope that he would go away.
"Stripes!" He called." I know your in there! Stripes?"
Logan had come in expecting a fight. Expecting her to start shouting at him about how she had a maths test 3rd period and how she hated her physics teacher but instead he found him self face to face with a little girl. Black smudges down her cheeks, tears falling freely. She tried to wipe them away quickly but more just fell. He smiled. So she was human after all.
"Whatcha want?" she said her streaks falling in front of her emerald eyes.
"Just to talk." He replied sitting down on her bed and placing a firm arm on her shoulder forcing her to sit as well.
"'Kay," she sniffled,"what about?"
"Let's start with why your not in school. Then we'll take it from there."
"'kay" she said softly leaning into him and starting to cry again.He just looked at her. He wasn't good with people at the best of times but a crying teenager was way to hard. But yet , it was Rogue. He was curious. Rogue didn't cry. Rogue never cried. So why was Rogue crying. He slowly put his arm around her. She clung on to him. He made her feel safe. Something she hadn't felt in a long time.She like it.
***
Remy LeBeau was not happy.
He wanted to talk to Kitty about Rogue but Kitty was just phasing him out.
Kitty Pryde was not happy.
She wanted to concentrate on History but she had Remy constantly talking in her ear.
"Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me,Kitty please help me"
"Like Fine already." She cried.
"Merci chere. Now tell ol' Remy what he has to do to win back his belle fille."
"How should I like know?"
"Cummon. You watch all d'oes teen films. De guys in d'oes films est always screwing up what do they do?"
"Well um.... they like make nice speeches."
"Can't do that!"
"Why not?"
"Can't speaks good"
"Like no duh! Well they ummm buy them drum kits."
" Well I don't have any money.....I could steal her one."
"No and come to think about it Rogue with like a drum kit is like so not a good idea."
"Well den what else do dey do?"
"Well sometimes....they...oh they sing,"
Remy gave her a look that could cut glass.
"Kitty, I am not singin."
"Ya wanna win her back don't ya."
"Well yeah but..."
"But what"
"Kitty I can't sing."
"And Rogue can't touch. You make fun of her now she can laugh at you."
"I hate you Kitty-cat."
"Like love you too. Now shut up I wanna like learn now."
"Mon Dieu. Dis is never gonna work."
***
It was weird. Rogue had just talked to Logan without claws being used or Rogue having an extra voice in her head and Logan had actually listened and understood. Infact he had given her the day off.
Rogue shivered. She hoped that didn't happen again too soon.
She was halfway through her book when she heard a funny noise from outside the window. It sounded like a cat being strangled. Going out to the balcony she saw Remy looking and singing up at her. He had neither the flare of Heath Ledger(A.N sings in 10 things I hate about you) nor the looks of John Travolta (A.N Grease duh!) but he was giving it all he'd got. As he belted out his own rendition of "I'm a believer."
"I t'ought love be only true in fairy tales
Meant fer someone else mais non for me.
Love be out ta get me
Dat de way it seem
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Den I saw 'er face
Now I'm a believer
Non une trace
Au doubt dans mon mind
I'm in love ohhh
I'm a believer
I wouldn't leave 'er
If I...."
"Swamp rat."
"Oui mon chere."
"What are ya doin?"
"I be singin...ta you...as an apology."
"Ya could have just said sorry."
"Mais Kitty said...."
"Ya listened to Kitty?"
"Oui"
"Gawd ya must have been desperate."
"Oui mais mon cherie tu est the sun that lights my day. Tu est the moon..."
"Gambit speak simply. No more games. No more tricks. Ah can't take it"
"OK. Rogue...........I love ya."