Deleted Scene: if DVDs can have them, then so can I. If you remember in "Confrontation," Gambit's mood changed when Rogue asked him about his speaking in third person habit, I wanted to explain, but "Confrontation" became much longer then I intended it to be, so I couldn't include everything I wanted (I also wanted a scene involving a dialogue between Gambit and Storm, but couldn't fit it in the story, maybe some future story). Just thought I'd include this for clarification, and thanx for reading my story (I assume you've read it if you got this far).
"I thought you were out of this talking in third person habit," said a smiling Rogue.
"Old habits die hard," said Gambit.
"Why do you do that anyway?" asked Rogue, and Gambit's face changed. Rogue had never seen Gambit so solemn.
"It's a long story," said Gambit. Rogue sensed Gambit's shift in emotion, but she wanted to learn more about the Cajun, so she persisted.
"I wouldn't mind hearing it. You can tell me on the way back to Destiny's, while I show off my new earrings."
"Well, it's not a long story as much as it is a complicated explanation, but it started when I was a kid. My father, when he was teaching me how to . . . well . . . when he was training me for the Thieves Guild, he always . . . when I got something wrong . . . he yelled at me in the third person. Then when I actually started . . . working for the Guild it was kind of a way to distance myself from what I was doing. If I talked like it was someone else doing . . . what I was doing, then maybe it would be. That's kind of the reason I took the name Gambit, too, but I guess that's pretty stupid." Rogue looked at Gambit's face. She couldn't tell if he was feeling shame, regret, sadness, or loss, but she knew whatever he was feeling, he was sincere. She also got a peek under Gambit's 'smooth operator' persona, to the man underneath. That peek was something Rogue really appreciated.
"I don't think it's stupid," said Rogue.
