4. It's too late

Louis pulled the hood down, so they could see his face.

"Maybe this will answer your question."

He looked exactly like Gambit, but still there also were some dissimilarity. His hairstyle was a little different to Gambit's and he had a beard, but the overall was the same.

Logan, who doing the whole conversation had been standing in the background, stepped forward and would have released his claws, if it hadn't been for the look that Xavier sent him. Still it couldn't stop him from saying that was on his mind.

"That is NOT funny."

Louis quickly pulled his hood up again and stood up.

"Sorry, I didn't want to scare you, but it's just…"

Xavier managed to keep his voice in it's normally tone.

"It's alright. We just got surprised. You really look at lot like Remy."

It surprised Xavier to see how the young man's eyes lighted up with this information. He almost believed, that this man could be Remy's brother, but still he was on guard. Louis saw it and changed his method.

"Thanks, but I think, that I already have out stayed my welcome…"

He took something from his pocket and reached it towards Xavier. It was a black folder.

"… but I would appreciate it really much, if you could find time to read this. It's all the research that I have done to find my brother."

Xavier took the folder from Louis and opened it. It was full of old newspapers clippings and some papers, but on the top of it all laid an old photo.

"It was taken just after birth."

The photo portrayed two babies, which could have been everyone, if it hadn't been for the eyes. Both of the babies had very unusually eyes - Red irises on black sclera.

o-

She turned at the last corner and parked the car beside the big oak tree as a woman came out of the house. The women, who she immediately recognized from her dream, came over to her car and helped her out.

"You are late! Do you have him with you?"

Rogue nodded and opened the door to the back seat, where she very carefully had laid Gambit's body.

"Take him up to the house."

The woman was just about to go back to the house, when Rogue grabbed her hand.

"Can you save him?"

For a second their eyes met, and they both recognized the pain in the other one.

"I don't know, maybe it's already too late, so hurry up!"

Rogue took Gambit's body into her arms and carried him into the house. The inside of the house was very different to what she had expected. It wasn't a nice typically family home as everyone would have expected for the outside, but instead it had been converted into a laboratory. It was like stepping into a whole new world, since it was such a huge contrast to how ramshackle the house looked from the outside.

On the woman's instructions she laid Gambit's body down on a couch in the middle of the room and stepped back. The woman began to examine Gambit as Rogue kept a close eye on her. After some minuet the woman looked up at Rogue and shook her head.

"Sorry, but it is too late."

"What do you mean?"

The woman walked over to her.

"I had hoped, that I could have helped him, but my powers do have their limits. I can sometimes bring dead people back to life, but never when they have been dead in such a long time. I'm sorry, that I got your hoped up, but… I had to try."

Rogue pulled away from her and ran over to Gambit's boy, where she took his hand. For the very first time she felt how cold it was, and it made her start crying, but still she tried to hold the tears back.

"But you said you could help him!"

The woman came over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"Sorry, but it's too late. When a person dies, then its soul is for a while still connected to the body through what some calls a silver line. Sometimes I can use this line to pull people back to life, but never when the line is so thin."

Rogue shook her hand away and couldn't stop the tears from flowing down her cheeks, as she realized, that he was never going to come back.

o-

"Do you believe him?"

Logan and Xavier stood on the top of the staircase and looked as Louis drove away. Xavier shook his head lightly to Logan's question.

"I don't know. There is the possibility, that he actually is Remy's brother, but still that really isn't the most important thing."

Logan cast a nervous glance over at the professor.

"What do you mean?"

The car turned at a corner and vanished from their sight. Xavier turned around and was just about to drive into the house again, when he stopped and cast a last glance down the road.

"He believes it, and I don't think, that he will stop before he have prove to the world, that Remy really was his brother."

Logan was just about to say something, when Storm appeared in the opened door.

"Professor, I have found Rogue, but…"

She looked down on her hand.

"… she is the one, who have taken Gambit's body."

Both Logan and Storm looked over at Xavier, who didn't at all look surprised over the news.

"Take the Blackbird and get them back home."

They were just about to walk away, when Logan stopped and cast a glance back at the professor.

"You knew, that she was going to run away with his body."

Xavier nodded.

"In a way."