I apologize for the last chapter. I didn't have a line separating the two different situations going on in that chapter.It was separated when I typed it, but I guess it didn't come that why when I transferred it here,and I didn't profread it. So basically it is my fault. I'm sorry. But anyway this is the new chapter. And sorry if it's too short, but it had to flow from Gambit and Brian's situation to Alex's and then they had to meet up. Let's just say, I got in a sticky situation, and I got stuck and didn't know where to go from there. So, don't get mad at me, there will be better. And if you're a writer, I know you've been in this situation before and know what I mean.

Chapter six

Brian and Gambit had taken off towards the direction the skid mark had pointed to. They had started off in a trot and were making their way to Alex. Twenty minutes passed and Gambit was having troubles breathing. Normally the situation wouldn't had bothered him, but the gunshot wound he earned was taking a toll on him.

"Brian, I need a rest." coughed out Gambit as he came to a still. Brian stopped just a few feet ahead of him and shoke his head.

"You shouldn't have pushed me out of the way." commented Brian. Gambit stood up from his kneeled position and looked at Brian puzzled.

"Why would you say that? You want me to get in trouble with Alex?" asked Gambit.

"No, it's just that you're stronger than me." said Brian. Gambit smirked, wondering where this was going.

"Okay.So?" commented Gambit.

"So," mimicked Brian," if I was shot you would be carrying me right now, and we'd probably be there by now." Gambit was biting the inside of his cheek right now to keep from laughing. There was a 1 in 5 billion chance that would happen.

"Yeah, I don't think so." smirked Gambit as he got up to stretch and start walking this time.

"You'd carry Alex." retorted Brian. Gambit stopped in mid stretch and sighed.

"That's a completely different situation." said Gambit. Brian huffed and placed his hands on his hips, tapping his foot at the same time.

"So, are you saying I'm not good enough for you?!" chastised Brian. Gambit stood wide-eyed at what Brian just proclaimed. They were hanging out way too much.

"Where did that come from?" asked Gambit, as he swallowed hard hoping Brian was joking.

"You know what, I don't know. That was so not me. It was diffiently gay, though." said Brian disgusted. He turned to face Gambit, but found that he had already taken to walking again. He sighed and jogged to catch up with him.

Little conversation was spoken between the two while they walked. Ten minutes passed before they reached a large hill.

"Great, Mt.Everest." Brian said as he let out a breath of air. Gambit laughed at Brian's comment, while he started up the hill. Unfortuately a large explosion just over the hill erupted. The heat and intensity of the blast sent the pair flying back a few feet, on their backs.

Gambit gasped out in pain as his shoulder hit the asphalt. Gripping his shoulder, he slowly rose from the ground so he was sitting. "Ow, that hurt." remarked Gambit to himself as he let out the breath of air he didn't even know he was holding.

Brian got up from his sprawled position and limped over to Gambit. "What was that?" questioned Brian. Gambit looked up from his injured shoulder towards the hill.

The top of the hill stood ablaze. Trees lining the side of the road stood like firey soldiers standing guard while watching the scene below. Smoke bellowed out from one spot, Gambit took to be the original area the fire started. " Holy shit" coughed out Gambit. The smoke was already reaching them.

Brian helped Gambit onto his feet. It seemed now that both were injured. One with a gunshot wound and the other with a broken ankle. Brian winced in pain as Gambit was using him to stand up. "Are you okay?" asked Gambit. He hadn't seen Brian fly back when the blast erupted. He had landed with his ankle bent behind his legs.

"Yeah, but I think I broke my ankle."winced Brian. Gambit nodded, but told him that they had to walk up their to see if Alex was actually up there or not. Gambit offered to help, but Brian just asked if he could lean on him for support.

Normally taking just a few minutes to walk up the hill, it took the two limping souls ten minutes total to finally reach their destination. They weren't ready for the site they saw.

They spotted Alex ablaze walking towards a man that lay on the ground trying to get up. With the situation going on ahead of them, it didn't take long for them to figure out partly what happened. "Alex, did this." whispered Gambit.

"This is exactly why I don't piss her off."said Brian, while he pointed towards Alex.

The boys continued to watch the scene erupt ahead of them. They watched as she picked something off the ground, and shut off her flaring outfit of blue flames. Again they saw her strode over to the officer, offisively mad. Unfortuately the scene had to draw to an end when the object Alex had behind her the whole time was revealed. "Alex!!!!!" shouted Gambit over the roar of the fire.

"What are you doing?" asked Brian, as he gripped the sleeve of Gambit's cloak.

"That's a gun she's holding!"shouted Gambit as he yanked his arm free of Brian and raced towards Alex yelling her name.

Alex hadn't expected Gambit and Brian to come running up to her or rather limping up to her at that exact moment. She was mad and didn't want to deal with these two. Her only thought in her head was her plans for the horrible excuse of an officer, in front of her.

As the pair drew near, she still had the gun pointed at the officer. She had no intent of showing mercy to him, but she didn't know if she could shot someone. She might expose of him later to higher authority.

"Alex, stop!" shouted Gambit as he finally reached her side. Alex turned her head to face him, but still keeping her full attention on the man in front of her. She wouldn't let him pull anything.

"Hello, Gambit." she said to him before refretting her attention back to the officer. Even with just a short glimpse Gambit saw her eyes. They were still black and shadowed. They mirrored her every emotion, and right now it looked like she could murder someone. Probably the officer.

Gambit didn't want Alex to pull anything that she'd regret later on, so he attempted to take the gun away from Alex. "What are you doing, Gambit?!" yelled Alex, as she yanked her arm from his grasp. By now, Brian had limped over to the gathering.

"Alex, give me the gun. You don't want to do something you'll regret later." replied Gambit calmly as he tried to pry the gun from her grasp, yet again. Which if your a woman, you all know it's not good to do that, especially when they're mad.

"No!" screamed Alex, before turning the gun towards Gambit. Now Gambit had totally lost his cool. He was trying to help her, and she was refusing. Her eyes were still dark and forbidding and she wasn't herself.

Finally having enough of Alex's attitude, Gambit reached forward and grabbed her arm and twisted her wrist so she would drop it. With Alex now pressed to his back and Gambit in front still holding her arm, Gambit kicked the gun over to Brian, who grabbed it quickly even with his injured ankle. "Watch him." commanded Gambit. Brian nodded, while he pointed the gun towards the officer on the ground.

"What's your problem?! That's what I was doing! He's going to pay for what he did for my parents!" shouted Alex. Gambit turned around and gripped her shoulders tightly.

"What are you talking about?"

Flashback

"So, little girl, you going to shot me?"asked the officer, while he crouched on the ground coughing from his smoke inhaliation.

"Maybe." said Alex ratherly coldly.

"I don't think so."smirked the man, while he picked himself from the ground.

"And why's that?" asked Alex, out of curiousity.

"Your parents couldn't."

Alex looked shocked. What did her parents have to do with this. "What?"

"Your parents pleaded and pleaded with me to let your brother go. 'He's just a little boy', they repeated over and over again. And I told them no, but they didn't want that. Unfortuately a gun was lying down near by, by a careless soldier. Your father picked it up and demanded his son or he'd shot me," he laughed, before continuing,"But of course I was too fast. I pulled out my gun, shot your father and watched him fall to the ground along with his weeping wife. I took sympathy on her and shot her too, so she could be with her love."

Alex was immediately surged through with a new anger. Forget using him to find the camp, she was going to shot him now. He wasn't good enough to live. He had killed her parents with no mercy and let her brother watch.

"Oh, and did I tell you your brother was devastated." smirked the officer, yet again.

Tears fell from her eyes with increasing speed. She didn't care if he saw her crying. Raising the gun so it came level with his head, she prepared to fire.

"Your not worth it anymore. I'll find my own way to the camp, without you. You're going to pay." said Alex, but before she could pull the trigger she heard her name being called.

"Alex!"

End of Flashback

"Alex, what do mean?!"

The shouting of Gambit talking to her, brought her out of her trance.

"He killed my parents!" shouted Alex, while again tears flowed freely from her eyes. Pushing Gambit away from her, she walked over to Brian demanding the gun. Unfortuately Gambit recovered quickly and grabbed Alex from around her waist and dragged her away from Brian and the officer.

A few feet away from the edge of the woods, Alex began to struggle. "Gambit let go of me!" she screamed at him, while she tried to pull his arms off of her.

Gambit was now tired of the shouting Alex was doing, and wanted her to snap out of it and become herself. With his arm still around her waist, he lifted her into the air and slammed her to the ground hard evough to catch her attention, but not enough to hurt.

Now, they lay on the ground. Alex on her back on the ground and Gambit straddling her hips. (don't be gross......perverts! LOL) He was close enough for Alex to feel his warm breath on her lips. "Alex, you need to snap out of it." he said quietly.

Alex turned her face, no longer staring at him but at the horizon of pinks and purples that had developed. Using his forefinger, Gambit hooked it under her chin and turned her face to look at him. Yet again, she refretted her attention to the sky. "Alex, look at me." whispered Gambit.

Alex lowered her eyes so they now were set on his fiery head of hair. "Lower." Lowering her eyes, they meet his forehead. "Lower." Finally her eyes met his. She didn't want to do this, for she knew she'd see dissappointment. Throughout the whole time she had the gun, she felt trapped. It was her anger that had control over her. She felt like she was trapped within herself, watching the whole scene wanting herself to come to her senses, but then she didn't want to. This man wasn't going to walk away free of charges.

"Alex, come back." Alex continued to look at Gambit's eyes. How beautiful she thought Gambit's eyes were. They weren't normal, and naturally you'd think you would be afraid of someone with black and red eyes, but his were different. You could see anger, if the situation called for it, but you could see warmth too and Alex found this comforting. Killer eyes, showing uncertainity, sadness, happiness, and even love.

Slowly her eyes changed from the demonic black to the brilliant dark brown."Hi Alex." smiled Gambit. Alex felt herself come back when her eyes changed. She didn't want to tell him, but all she wanted to do was crawl into a corner and cry. She had just found out that, that man killed her parents and enjoyed it, but she needed to be strong. Her brother needed her, and he was still locked up in a camp somewhere.

"Thanks, Gambit" she whispered. Gambit nodded. No matter how much she loved being this close to Gambit, she had to admit that the position they were in was rather embarrassing. Looking down at her waist, she saw that Gambit was still straddling her. Gambit being the observant type he was, followed her gaze and found what she was looking at. Apologizing, Gambit stood up and helped her to her feet, but not before he saw Alex turn a slight tinge of pink.

"Hey, if you two are done playing the baby game, could you help me?" suggested Brian, who for the last five minutes had been watching Gambit and Alex, while trying to keep a good eye on the officer, who fortunately was interested in the display between the two, too.

Alex's cheeks slowly turned a shade of rouge, before she turned to Gambit. Who she found had turned a different color too. She found this quite cute and amuzing. Unfortuately she had to turn her attention back towards Brian and the captive.

"Brian, you're lucky you have the gun right now." said Alex.

"Why or you'd kill me." mocked Brian. His whole life he had known her, she had been nothing but harmless as a kitten.

"No, just shoot in an area that will make it impossible for you to make children.Ever." smirked Alex. That explanation had made both men gasp in air painfully. Brian in return, gave the gun to Gambit and limped his way around him to stand behind him, far away from Alex as possible, right now.

Alex stood with her arms crossed in front of herself, glaring at the two men cowering right now. This whole scene had made the officer, cry out in laughter, but Alex soon ceased that too. "What are you laughing at, officer? You'll be the first in line." That immediately shut him up.

Clearing his throat, so no more confrontations would happen, Gambit began to put his plan into full account. "Listen, you. You're going to take us to the camp they're holding the mutants. Don't pull anything, and we'll let you go, no strings attached."

"Wait, you're just going to let him go!" shouted Alex. Gambit put his finger to his lips to silence her. He knew she wasn't going to like that, but by what Alex said about him killing her parents, he was going to spend his free time anyway in a jail somewhere.

"Do we got a deal?" Gambit said. The officer looked at him skeptically. He had no right to believe any of these hoodlums, but if he was going to get away this was his only chance. Sighing inwardly the officer stood on his feet, causing Gambit to raise the gun, just in case he tried to pull something. Putting his hands up as in a truce, he gave his answer.

"I'll do it."

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