Disclaimer: (forgot this is the last two chapters.. oops). I do not own Remy Lebeau or Marie/Rogue, they are property of Warner Brothers or Marvel Comics or, they share?

Chapter 3: The Proposal

Julien Boudreaux decided upon first meeting Remy Lebeau, a common dirty thief in this opinion, that he was unfit to marry Bella Donna (sorry I spelled her name wrong in the first chapter). It was this initial dissaproval and his natural dislike for thieves, that soon spawned the hatred that threatened Remy's life.

With news of Bella Donna's death Julien took matters into his own hands attempting to make a deal with Le Diable Blanc. With the devil himself tied to a chair and beaten half to death, the negotiation hardly seemed fair.

"Lebeau. Wake up!" Julien slapped him across the face as he had done many times before.

Remy remained unresponsive keeping his head down and focused on the deep gash Julien's knife had inflicted at the fight in the bar where that had kidnapped him.

"You must've known that I was going to come for you, that I wouldn't leave you alone after what you did. As if fucking her wasn't enough, you had to kill her in cold blood too." Julien accussed him, anger apparent in his face but also with a disturbing trace of coy manipulation.

"I didn't kill her." Remy replied almost too calmly, "You did."

Julien was slightly taken aback, but quickly regained his composure, "It's no use freak, no one will believe you if you denied murder."

For Remy the situation seemed hopeless. For the first time in his life, he depended solely on the truth to save his life. Julien noticed the look of desperation in the man's face.

"I have a proposition and if you know the truth about Bella Donna's death than you know this is the only way to free yourself of the crime. If you can get me the delivery and perform the transaction within a week than I'm willing to rid you as a suspect."

Remy cleared his thoughts, trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle that Julien had given him. It was evident that Julien did kill his own sister. Remy was confirmed as much by his reaction. He was too guilty to deny his crime. But the delivery...? Transaction? Julien he thought, brother of Bella Donna, killer of his own sister, and drug dealer. The beast was using him to get to drugs he somehow lost possession of.

"Your dope, Julien. You killed your own sister to save your ass from those druggies?" Remy was furious, he had loved Belle with all his heart. Even at his age, he understood the kind of love he had for her was not like the others, he would give his life to see her again. He shed a tear, the image of her smile flashing before his eyes. His fond rememberance of her was broken by Julien's scarred face as he grabbed Remy's chin almost crushing his cheekbones with his grasp.

"Belle was with the wrong guy, she would rather be dead than be married to filth like you! EVERYBODY COULD SEE THAT!"

For a moment Remy doubted himself, wondering if Belle's affections had been false. He wiped the thought away as Julien voice trembled with what seemed to him as unimaginable hate.

"You make the delivery I need Remy or you can forget about walking out of here alive."