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Through the Years
Chapter Eight: "All t'family I need…"
How could this have happened? Well Rogue knew how this happened, her body preyed on the fetus like a parasite until there was nothing left. Her own powers caused the little life that had been growing inside of her to wither away before it even had a chance. Although everyone kept telling her that it was not her fault, she still felt responsible. After all, her powers caused this. The feeling that she felt before passing out was the familiar one of her powers draining the life force out of something, the only difference was she didn't receive any powers or memories because none existed in the little being. But she couldn't pull away from it the way she did when she touched someone because it was a part of her.
When Hank told her and Gambit what had happened they were crushed. Rogue had so many questions. Why had this happened? Didn't her powers only work with skin to skin contact? Would she ever be able to have a child? Beast didn't have any answers for them, at least none they wanted to hear. He couldn't tell them why this had happened. It was just one of those things that you didn't think about until it happened. As for her powers working only with skin to skin contact, he could only hypothesize that her powers weren't limited to contact from outside her body, but included contact inside as well. That answered one question Beast had about Gambit's immunity to Rogue's powers. Gambit was definitely the one who was able to touch Rogue for whatever reason. He was somehow negating her powers because if Rogue had been subconsciously controlling her powers then this probably wouldn't have happened. That's it! When Gambit and Rogue were near death at the hands of Vargas, they shared a connection so strong that no one else could break. Rogue wasn't able to break away from the beam the held Gambit down because she had imprinted him at various points in time. Every time she absorbed him, a bit of "Remy residue" stayed in her. When she came in contact with Vargas' beam, it was as if she was genetically a part of him. The beam recognized both the DNA in Gambit and Rogue as one in the same; as a result, they were somehow linked. Beast knew that's why the beam held Rogue down as well, despite it being programmed for Gambit's DNA, but he never realized that the beam maybe have caused this sort of after effect. When Gambit asked him to clarify the point Beast equated it to the way weak or dead viruses are used to make one immune to certain diseases. The beam somehow was used to make Gambit immune to Rogue. That's probably why they lost their powers in the first place; some sort of overload had resulted in their powers short-circuiting. When their powers returned, the after effect left Gambit immune to his wife's powers. Rogue was probably equally immune from a kinetic blast from Gambit as well. The fact that they had been mentally linked at the moment of death probably played a role in their special connection as well. Of course as always he'd need to run more tests, but now wasn't a good time. There would be time for that in the future. Rogue's final question broke his heart. Would she ever be able to have a baby, he had to assume that this meant no. He couldn't fathom any child being about to survive the nine month duration in her womb. This little one barely made it past two months.
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Rogue was inconsolable. She spent the past few days in bed after calling in sick from work. Why did this have to happen? She and Remy had been having such good luck lately. They could touch each other, they got married, they had the most wonderful honeymoon in Paris, they were going to have a baby together, and then their luck ran out. She was married to a LeBeau and LeBeau luck was never suppose to run out, especially not Gambit's! She could never have a baby! She saw the look on Remy's face when she told him the positive results of the pregnancy test. He wanted to be a father more than anything. He'd be good at it too. Children responded well to him, there was just something about him. She was crying so hard that she didn't even hear Gambit come in the room.
Gambit looked at his wife. It wasn't long ago that they had been in a similar situation. It was almost déjà vu. About half a year ago Rogue had been sitting on her bed crying because she had gotten her powers back and she was afraid that she'd lose Gambit as a result. But she hadn't and they got through that. Gambit just hoped that he knew what to say this time to make her feel better. He put his arms around her and didn't say a word.
She looked up at him, her emerald green eyes red and puffy from crying. "Oh Remy, Ah'm, so sorry," she whispered. "Ah wanted to have this baby foah us so badly. Ah know how much ya loved this child from the minute Ah told ya the news."
"It's not your fault Rogue," Gambit told her. He just wanted her to stop blaming herself. Of course he was thrilled with the news of having a baby. He couldn't think of a better way to express the love that they had for each other. "Sure dis baby meant a lot t'me, I can't deny dat, but you mean more t'me. You are all t'family I need."
Rogue took one look into his red-on-black eyes and knew that somehow everything would be ok. It would be difficult getting over this obstacle, especially for her. But once she stopped blaming herself, she knew that everything was going to be alright. "Ah love ya Remy LeBeau," she murmur as she hugged him. He stroked her back of her head, letting her fluffy hair flow through his fingers. "And I love you Rogue "Anna Raven" LeBeau, banana fana, gee Chere, you got any more names I can throw in dere?"
She looked at him as he said that, noticing his cheeky smirk and laughed for the first time in what felt like forever.
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Author's Note- YIKES! I know this chapter was a bit of a downer! But fear not, the genre is General/Romance, so I will try to keep drama at a minimum; just enough to keep the story interesting. I know the loss of baby LeBeau will disappoint a lot of you, but I hope that you will continue to read and understand why it happened (so tempted to just post the next 4 chapters this minute so this can be resolved) I wanted to thank you all again and tell you how much this means to me that you have taken time out of your busy lives to let me know that you are reading something I wrote, it really means a lot to me :-)
Ishandahalf~ See what I told Star-of-Chaos (see below) for Joseph-haters club info:-P You'd think that after 30+ years of comics that mutants and humans would get along, but no, of course not. Oh well, I guess that is the same as any type of drama in the world today. Speaking of drama, there's quite a bit in this chapter, but like I said, I don't like Gambit and Rogue drama, so it will be kept at the minimum.
Star-of-Chaos~ Good point with the acid:-P Perhaps acid that only affects Joseph lovers? :-P You are right though, nothing can happen with Rogue or Gambit for that matter without some sort of drama.
Tammy~ Well, like Beast said, so far the technology doesn't work on people yet, and the only mutations it detects are not Alpha mutants like Gambit and Rogue (I read that term in a comic once, I wish I could find it so I can cite it or give better info). But who knows what the future will bring…
VinGirl~ Thanks for reading my story :-) Despite its continuous ups and downs I hope you'll continue to think that it is a great story
RealityDreamer~ Hey, I don't doubt for a second that a keyboard and a mouse would hurt! I mean I have a laptop so there's no mouse, but the keyboard would definitely hurt since it is attached to the whole computer! I'm glad that my story makes you smile, despite its ups and downs (mostly ups because I don't like downs) I hope it continues to make you smile. You made me smile too because I see that you added this story and me to your favorites lists and you are the first person ever to do that, so it totally made my day! :-) I feel very honored that you added me :-)
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