Chapter 13 Confessions

"So that's Remy's dad hun?" Rogue asked to no one in particular, it was so damn quiet in the rec room where they had all gathered until the LeBeau's came back to the mansion.

"Like who's the lady we saw outside." Kitty chirped.

"That would be Remy's aunt." The Professor answered as he entered the room.

"Oh thank the heavens, you get your behind over here chile." They all heard the woman yell out. And they all rushed out to the windows and doors to have a little peek at the reunion.

Logan chuckled. "Well c'mon Chuck don't tell me ya ain't curious." Charles only smiled and followed Logan to the door.

Mattie was hugging Remy so tightly he could hardly breathe, "Ah sweet chile I am never letting you go," she whispered then gently grabbed his head with both hands so that their eyes locked. "And if ya do this kind of nonsense 'gain, I swear I will woop that butt of yours, ya understand me?" she choked, tears brimming her eyes. Remy bit his bottom lip looked away and said nothing.
Seeing the pain in his eyes, Mattie pulled him in another hug, brushing her hand in his hair. "Don't ya evah scare me like that 'gain chile" She whispered.

Jean-Luc smiled at the scene as Henri cleared his throat. "All right let's get dis boy inside he definitely needs ta be fed and cleaned up, no offence petit frère, but ya look like shit."

Still holding on to Remy, Mattie warned. "Watch ya mouth Henri, lest ya want it washed out with soap."

"But Tante..."

"No buts chile..." Tante stopped speaking when she felt Remy shaking,

Seeing Tante's worried expression Jean-Luc took a step forward. "Petite?" and smiled as he realized that Remy was laughing at Henri and Tante's little argument.

Mattie smiled and kissed his cheek, "Come chile let's get some food in ya, Oui." Remy nodded and led his Tante within the mansion.

"And then we all need ta have a little talk." Jean-Luc whispered to his eldest son and nephew as they strolled up the steps following the other two.

After lunch the LeBeau's were all gathered in the rec room, the doors where closed and locked so that there would be no interruptions, Henri was by a window looking at the trees, Mattie sat next to Lapin on the couch, Jean-Luc was pacing around trying to figure out the best way, to get Remy talking, and Remy was sitting quietly on the couch opposite Mattie and Lapin.

Finally Jean-Luc stopped pacing and walked up to Remy. "Why?"

Remy looked up at his father's worried expression.

"Why did you run off, why hide, a year Remy...you have any idea what we went through?" Remy looked away, Jean-Luc closed his eyes, took a deep breath and knelt down facing Remy. "One call and we would have gotten you out of any trouble ya got yo'self into, and kept you safe. Please tell me...why?" Still Remy did not look at his father. Jean-Luc gently tilted Remy's head so that their eyes met. "Remy..."

"I...I didn't want him ta use ya 'gainst me." Remy rasped, a tear rolled down his cheek. "E'vry time I...tried ta contact ya he'd find me...He won't kill me off I know dat, 'parently I'm too important, but dat won't stop him from hurting ya ta get what he wants."

"'Him'...ya mean dis Sinister character?" Remy nodded and forced his head out of his father's grasp and held it in his hands running his fingers in his hair and kept his mouth shut. When Remy had lifted his arms Jean-Luc had noticed the cuts on his boy's wrist and mentally screamed in his head. Jean-Luc stood and sat next to Remy putting an arm around his boy's shoulder, and hugging him close.

Jean-Luc whispered "How did you get those...the cuts on your wrists, how Remy?"

Remy tensed noticing that he wasn't wearing his duster and that his long sleeved shirt was rolled up to his elbows and so he started breathing hard, trying desperately to free himself from his father's grasp. "Papa please..."

Holding on tightly to Remy's shoulders Jean-Luc forced Remy to face him and calmly spoke again. "You know that I am always here whenever ya need me, that I would never raise a hand to ya petite, I will not get angry...I want ya ta tell me how ya got these cuts?" He lifted Remy's right wrist and ran his thumb lightly on the cuts.

"I don't...I didn't...I can't...Non." Remy panicked, wrenched free from his father's grasp and bolted out of the room.

"REMY" Jean-Luc called out.

"Jean-Luc...wait" Mattie who now had tears in her eyes stopped him before he ran off. "Let him be for a while."

"Père..." Henri looked at his father worriedly; Jean-Luc buried his face in his hands then rubbed the back of his neck.

"That bastard, what did he do to Remy to make him do dis to hi'self." Jean-Luc now had tears in his eyes. "Oh god."

Mattie quickly made her way to Jean-Luc sat down leaned her head on his shoulder and gently rubbed his back. "He's safe now Jean, he just needs a little time that's all."

Remy sure as hell did not want to talk to his father about that. Bolting out of the room Remy ran upstairs as fast as he could, considering that his wounds were still healing. Slamming the door to his room behind him Remy leaned against it and slid to the floor breathing deeply trying very hard not to cry.

Lapin silently left the rec room looking around the place he saw a girl with red hair and a white stripe. "Hey..." he called out she just looked at him and scowled.

"What?"

"Ya know where Remy's room is?"

"Yeah why?" Lapin just looked at her with a very pissed off expression, Rogue sighed. "Up those stairs, turn left sixth door to your left."

Running up the stairs Lapin creeped up to Remy's room leaning his ear to the door he listened but couldn't hear anything so he knocked, "Remy, it's Lapin can I come in?" Remy didn't say a word he just stayed glued to his spot. Lapin tried the door surprisingly it was unlocked, quickly opening it before his cousin could slam it shut, he hit a very solid object. "Owww, son of a bit..."

"Oops sorry Rem...ya should've said some'ting." Lapin chuckled as Remy stood rubbing the back of his head and laid down on his stomach in his bed, "Rem can I ask ya somet'ing...ya don't have ta answer if ya don't wanta." After closing the door Lapin stood next to the bed.

Hearing a muffled 'What?' he continued.

"...Why d'ya cut...why would ya even tink...I mean...Are ya trying ta kill yourself?" He blurted out furiously.

Remy slowly turned his head to look at his cousin, "Lapin ya have no idea what Sinister does ta mutants, every time he'd experiment on me I wake up dazed like three days later not remembering what de hell happened ta me," Lapin looked at him confused so Remy continued. "I was tortured, beaten till the brink of death, half my body broken and bleeding in a cell fo days...so that I would be weak enough not ta fight back so dat I'd cooperate." Remy sighed and sat on the edge of the bed and held his head in his hands. "Just couldn't take it anymore, I was too weak ta charge my cards so I sharpened one and cut my wrists, after that I blacked out. When I woke up he said that he was very disappointed in me that he had to revive me, the son of a bitch."

Lapin was shocked at how furious Remy looked when Sinister had revived him...grimacing Lapin growled out, "Yeah well...your safe now, so you don't have ta cut yo'self anymore...right?"

Remy looked at his boots. "He still looking fo me, those assholes that the others fought dis morning work fo Sinister, dey came here ta take me to him."

Lapin started yelling, "Ya know damn well that uncle Jean-Luc ain't gonna let that happen, he'd rather die than give ya up."

Remy looked up, "He might die...if Sinister finds out 'bout him, an Henri, an you, as well as Mattie, the Guild..." Remy sighed lying down on his bed, legs dangling over the side. "Right now he don't, but if he does he'll use ya all against me forcing me ta do whatever he wants." Remy slowly stood up and made his way to Lapin grasping him by the shoulders Remy hugged him. Lapin was a bit confused at this but hugged his cousin in return. "I'm sorry Lapin." Remy whispered, as he kneed Lapin in the stomach, gasping for breath, Remy leaned back and punched him in the face, knocking him out. Holding on to his cousin Remy dragged him to his bed and lay him down. Searching his room for everything he'd need, clothes, cash, trench coat, cards, Bo staff, sunglasses. Throwing everything in a backpack Remy looked back to his cousin, then climbed down his window.