Southern Comfort
Chapter 8: We're a Set
By: Rogue-Slayer13
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of X-Men: Evolution, they belong to their respective creators.
Summary: Takes place from Cajun Spice and forward. Rogue returns with the X-Men, and Gambit decides to go abroad for awhile. What will happen when they run into each other again?
Note: Whole sentences in italics are thoughts, and single words are emphasis.
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"It appears that the emotional stress the situation put you through, although opposite in the result, was similar to the stress that caused your powers to manifest in the first place," explained the professor after hearing the story once the X-men returned to the mansion.
"Ah guess that makes since," Said Rogue from her spot next to Kitty and Kurt on the couch in the rec room.
"May I ask how Mr. LeBeau is doing?" inquired the professor politely.
"Ah'm not sure really," replied Rogue, not giving out too many details.
Only Kitty, and now Kurt knew about her and Gambit's relationship, and Rogue wanted to keep it that way for the time being.
"Well, when you see him again, ask him to come to my office. I'd like to have a word with him." The professor left the rec room, leaving more then a few people with questions wanting to be answered.
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"So, vhen vere you planning on telling me about you and Gambit?" asked Kurt as he, Rogue, and Kitty hung out in the girls' room.
"Ah don't know. Sooner or later," replied Rogue.
"I'm just glad that you did, like, break up with him," said Kitty with a relieved smile. "And that he didn't, like, plummet to his death either." Kitty added this as an after thought.
Rogue looked as if a thought suddenly occurred to her.
"Kitty, you didn't actually listen to me, when Ah asked ya to throw that stuff away, did ya?"
Kitty rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I totally threw away your entire relationship with Gambit, just because you told me to while in, like, a fit of depression."
"Were you just bein' sarcastic?" asked Rogue in shock.
Kitty gave a little 'oops' smile.
"I guess I've been hanging out with you and Gambit too much."
"So, where is it?" asked Rogue, returning ehr attention back to the box.
Kitty leaned over and rummaged around under her bed until she found the desired object.
"Here ya go," said Kitty as she handed the box to Rogue. "One box 'o relationship just how ya left it."
"Thanks."
"No problem."
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Rogue was trying to figure out how to get Gambit in to see the professor without him being spotted and questioned by the other residents of the mansion. She was still pondering the when Kitty and Kurt appeared in the room.
"You need to come see this," said Kitty as she grabbed a hold of Rogue's arm and Kurt teleported them down to the hallway outside of Xavier's office.
Lots of crying and screaming could be heard from within the office, and the noise only got louder as Professor Xavier opened the door and came out into the hallway which was rapidly filling with students. The professor was soon joined by a very calm looking Colossus, followed by an annoyed looking Gambit who had a hysterical Pyro clinging to his leg like a toddler.
"You can't take him away from us! We need him!" Pyro was in tears as Gambit proceed to try and shake him off of his leg.
"G'off," growled Gambit.
"You can't leave us with Sabbie! He's so cranky, and he'll turn us into scratching posts without you there!" Pyro began to scream and kick his feet.
"I'm not leaving the two of you with him. Colossus is coming with me," said Gambit as he gave a forceful kick, which dislodged the crazy Australian from his leg.
Pyro gave Professor Xavier the look you would give someone who just ran over your dog, and then threw the car in reverse and hit it again.
"You're stealing both of them from me? As if one isn't enough, you have to take them both?" Pyro pulled Gambit and Colossus into his arms as if he was a mother fixing to have her children ripped from her arms and sent to their deaths. "Well I won't let you! You can't have them! They're mine!"
"There really isn't need for all of this," said the professor calmly, as Gambit and Colossus removed themselves from Pyro's grasp. "I extended the invitation to all three of you."
Pyro's mood did a completely one-eighty and he perked up quite a bit.
"You mean, I can come with them?" Hope shown in Pyro's eyes.
"Yes, of course," said the professor with a nod.
Pyro jumped in the air an let out a whoop of joy.
"Hear that mates? We're the new X-men!" Pyro hugged Gambit and Colossus once more.
"What?" exclaimed Scott. "Professor, they're the enemy!"
"Was the enemy," corrected Pyro. "You may now call us roomies!"
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Gambit had just finished unpacking his things when there was a knock on the door, followed by Rogue stepping into the room.
"I never thought I'd get the chance to see Pyro cling to you and Colossus as if you were his babies," commented Rogue with a smile.
"He has abandonment issues," replied Gambit casually.
"Ah'd say." Rogue took a seat on Gambit bed. "So, how'd you find out the professor wanted to talk to you?"
"I ran into Kitty in the park, and she told me," replied Gambit as he sat down next to Rogue.
"Well Ah'm glad, because other wise Ah'd have to do it, and then there'd be questions, and Scott would be even more of an ass."
Gambit nodded as if in understanding, and a peaceful silence fell over the room for a few moments.
"Wanna go out tomorrow night?" asked Gambit suddenly.
"Sure, it'd be nice to get away from here for a few hours," replied Rogue.
"Great, we can leave at seven."
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Gambit and Rogue came home after their date to find the mansion utterly deserted with all of the lights turned off.
"We're not that late getting home," said Rogue as she looked around the darkened entry way.
"Even if we were, de Wolverine would be up waiting for us," added Gambit.
"Ah suppose we should view this as a blessin', since this place isn't quiet very often."
"Probably." Gambit nodded.
Rogue yawned.
"If you're tired, chere, y' should go to bed."
"Yeah, Ah think Ah'll head up that way." Rogue motioned toward the stairs with a nod.
"Let Gambit walk y' to your room den," said Gambit with a grin as he offered Rogue his arm.
"You're such a gentleman." Rogue smiled and took Gambit's arm as the two headed upstairs.
"But of course I am, mon chere."
"Ah had a really nice time tonight," said Rogue as the couple came to stop outside her room.
"So did I." gambit nodded his head in agreement. "We should do it again, non?"
"Ah'd like that," said Rogue quietly as she looked up at Gambit and the two slowly began to close the space between them.
"Je t'adore," whispered Gambit.
"Love you too, Swamp Rat," replied Rogue as their lips met.
Before they could break apart a bright flash of light filled the hallway before quickly disappearing again. Rogue and Gambit turned to see Kitty, Kurt, and Pyro standing in the doorway of Rogue and Kitty's room with huge grins on their faces. Behind them, the majority of the teenage residents of the mansion were also crammed inside the bedroom.
"Didn't I tell you they were a cute couple?" Kitty looked over at Pyro who was holding a camera in his hands.
"That you did, and I'm sorry I ever doubted you," replied the Aussie.
"Why the hell are ya'll hiding in my room?" demanded Rogue, recovering from the initial shock of being blinded by a camera during a romantic moment.
"Time to go," said Kurt as he grabbed onto Kitty and Pyro and teleported them away from the angry Rogue.
The rest of the students, except for Jean and Scott, looked at Rogue with petrified expressions on their faces.
"Go on, get!" Rogue pointed out into the hallway, and the students quickly raced out of the room, leaving only Scott and Jean.
"He's the enemy, Rogue! How could you do this?" demanded Scott.
"Leave them alone, Scott," said Jean as she ushered her boyfriend out of the room.
"Dat by far, was de strangest way I've ever ended a date," commented Gambit once everyone left.
"Get used to it," replied Rogue. "Everyone's crazy around here, and sooner or later it'll rub off on you."
"Well then," Gambit wrapped his arms around Rogue. "We can be crazy together."
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La Fin
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