Chapter 10. The fire within
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Amara was being naughty. After the evening she spent with John in the club, they had had many more. They had been dating fore three weeks now and, it was becoming increasingly hard for Amara to explain her increasing absence at the mansion. Rogue would often cover for her, which Amara found strange, because she would not ask for Rogue to cover for her, she would do it out of her own free will. Amara owed Rogue a lot, for all the times she was covering for her.
John was also having trouble keeping his relationship a secret from Magneto, and his hairy counterpart Sabertooth. Gambit and Colossus had sworn to John that they would not tell them, and although John would not admit it, it really touched him, that the friendship between the three had grown to the extent it had. It was much easier for John to explain his absences, because both His teammates would happily cover for him, although Remy would use that against John to borrow money at a later date. The three of them seemed to be talking a lot more too each other even Colossus, would have his say the conversation more often. Perhaps that was because of the topic of their conversations.
"Do you really believe in this Mutant superiority ding, that Mags makes us work for?", Remy asked one evening in the lounge room, as he shuffled with his favorite deck of cards.
"Mate, it's all bullshit to me, I mean I sure as hell know I'm not superior to any one else on this god damned planet", John answered heatedly from his current occupation of channel surfing.
"I have to agree with John, the only reason why I am hear is because of the contract", the huge Russian answered, not looking up from his book.
"Ah, oui, de contract", Remy said staring off into space, in heavy contemplation.
"I wish I could just burn the thing, but the bloody good that would do. Knowing bucket head he probably has fifty photocopies of the thing", John grunted from the couch, "....Sweet, Transformers are on!", John declared having finally found a show he liked.
"I would just walk away from him, if my families lives were not at stake, at least you two have that luxury", Colossus's remarked grimly.
"Actually mon ami, Remy can't just walk away, Mags happens to be protecting me, from someone worse than him.", Remy mutter so the other two could only just hear.
"Who the hell is worse than Magneto?", John asked breaking eye contact with the TV screen.
"You'd be surprised, I would tell you, but I hate saying the basted's name, lets just say this twisted freak, tried to alter Remy's DNA, so that he could have some fun watching him die slowly. if I stop working for Magneto, he'd probably come after me like the vulture he is"
the last line caught the other mutants in the room off grad, Gambit had spoken in first person. Who ever this person was, it was clear to them both, that Gambit was terrified of this sick twisted man.
The room was silent after Gambit's confession, as everyone let it sink in until John spoke.
"At least your families still care about you. If you though I was the one that singed that contract you'd be wrong", as John said this all the attention in the room was focused on him, the other two did not know this information.
"How can dat be Mon ami, de contract is only valid if you sign?"
"No it's not, it's also valid if the parents or the gardens of the person sign", the room was in silent as two regarded John with shock, "My parents sold me to Magneto,... they handed me over to him, for the right price of course. I suppose I should be flattered at the amount of money the man spent on me, but it really hurts, you know, it have your parents hate you that much, but the truth of the matter is,... I have no where else to go, and Magneto has all my papers", John finished and turned back to his TV, unaffected by what he had told the other two.
"Have you told Amara about this?", Colossus asked.
"No, I really don't want to tell the Sheila, that my parents hated me so much, they felt like selling their son to a crazed psycho bent on world domination, and besides how do you fit that into a conversation, with out killing the mood", John said not really wanting to have that question answered.
There was a long silence in the room as all the mutants returned to what they were doing before, until Gambit spoke.
"What would happen if Gambit told you that he had a contact with some someone that could fix our problems?"
"I would ask why God wanted to get himself mixed up in this mess", Pyro grunted
Gambit smiled slightly, but continued. "The contact told Remy that there is a man that would be happy to help us with our problems, and Remy actually believes this man could pull it off. We would have food, shelter, he would provide us with money, we would have more freedom, but we would have to follow some minor rules, and live with some other people, what do you dink so far?", gambit paused for them to answer.
"I'd say it sounds to good to be true, and that your not telling us the bad side of this deal", John answered, eyes still plastered to the screen.
"Well, we would have to be part of his team, and work with de other people we live with, and dey do not like who we are dat much"
"See, there is always a downside I don't really want to sign myself over to another team. Who is your contact any way?, they probably aren't trustworthy", John said matter-of-factly.
"Watch were you step mon ami, I happen to be dating dis person, and I don't want to have to hit you for calling her untrustworthy". At this statement, the attention of both the mutants was instantly grabbed.
"You have a girlfriend?, she must be good to hold you down mate"
"What dat suppose to mean?"
"Well they don't call you the king of hearts for nuthin'"
"Well, Remy is serious about dis girl"
"Is that the sky falling?", John asked looking up.
"Hardy, har, har", Gambit said glairing at John now.
"Who is this girl?", the Russian asked now very intrigued, "And who does she know that wants to help us?"
"Brace yourselves hommies, I dink you will be surprised"
"Stop playing with us and just say it", John grunted.
"Rogue"
"Rogue!!?"
"Oui"
"Xavier wants us?,...Wants us to be...X-men?", John stuttered hardly believing this "After all we have done to his team?"
"Oui, and Remy has already had a meeting with de man, and he has requested another one, dis time with all of us"
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AN: ok after the last chapter, which was just sexual tension, with not much story line, I have decided to get this plot running. The next chapters should be jam packed, so stay tuned.
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