I am redoing this story so it's better. Sorry, but trust me, this will soon be full of Romy.

Summary- What is life without love? Is danger really the solution? If love is the answer, can you repeat the question? If love is meant to be Spring, then why am I cold? Can you love with no touch? Can Remy find out? Pure Romy.

NOTE- THIS IS MY OWN VERSION OF ROGUE AND REMY, I DO NOT OWN ROGUE, REMY OR ANY CHARACTERS WHICH I USE WHICH WERE CREATED BY MARVEL.

Also I want to say thank you to the people who reviewed.

Demon eyes VS emeralds

Chapter Four Essence Part one Facilitate

The wind blew softly against Remy's face. It had been a couple of hours now and still no sign of the New X Men. Remy had pretty much given up hope for them to come, but he still wouldn't believe that Rogue would die.

Rogue and Remy were both awake, but did not say a word. Rogue was still laid on the floor with her head in Remy's lap, and Remy sat down holding Rogue close to him. They had not spoken to each other for a while, they were just waiting, waiting for something that was yet to come.

"Remy, ah'm sorry, fo' everything ah've done." said Rogue weakly. Remy looked down to her, no expression on his face.

"Don' you dare do dat Rogue, don' you dare start sayin' yaw goodbyes!" Remy said.

"But.."

"Non buts chere, we gonna make it, we're gonna make it." Remy held Rogue a little tighter and kissed the top of her head. Then he looked up to the dusty sky, which was dark now, but not just moonlight darkness, smoke filled the air.

"D'ya remember when ya came t' the X Men fo' 'elp Remy?" asked Rogue. Remy looked down again.

"What made ya come out wit' dat chere?"

"Ah was jus' thinkin', it was the first time me an' you really worked as a team." said Rogue. Remy smiled. Indeed he did remember, he remembered everything.

It started out as a cold day in Boston. Snow was falling and the New X Men were having snow ball fights, along with some other X Men.

"This is like, so lame." said Kitty Pryde as she stood on the porch watching the two teams fight each other. She was shivering from the coldness. She was fully wrapped up in a purple coat and scarf. Rogue stood next to her with a green coat and black scarf. She also wore black trainers and black pants.

"Tell me 'bout it. It's jus' so childish." said Rogue.

"I mean I know we're 17, but come on, we stopped having snow ball fights when we were like…10."

"There jus' tryin' t' get in the Christmas spirit, ah mean it's only in two weeks."

"So it doesn't make a difference." said Kitty. "Than can play nearer to Christmas."

"But ya know what the New X men are like there full o' g…" suddenly a snowball hit Rogue in the face causing her to fall over. Kitty gasped as she thought it nearly hit her, but also because she knew that who ever threw that snowball at her was dead meat. Rogue got up growling and wiped the snow of her face. She got in the middle of the two teams. "Who threw it." she said calmly.

"Um, it was Bobby." said Jubilee.

"What! No it wasn't! Seriously Rogue it wasn't!" shouted Bobby who was backing away from Rogue as she came closer to him.

"You calamitous, aggravating, iniquity, smug, conceited, ice cube…are so dead!" she shouted as she picked up a snow ball and threw at him. Then everyone started to throw them. Rogue got hit a few times so she threw them back, so basically she was joining in.

Kitty sighed as she saw Rogue being bought into there vortex. Then a snowball flew towards her. She phased through it and looked at who ever did it. She sighed again and sat on a chair outside the porch of the mansion to watch the 'children' play.

Rogue was having fun, she had to admit until she heard a voice.

"Nice t' see you're havin' fun, huh cherie?" Rogue opened her eyes wide. Everyone stopped playing and looked to the man standing behind Rogue. Kitty stood up from her chair, also wide eyed. Rogue slowly turned around and saw the red on black demon eyes she had uncounted twice before. She didn't know what to say.

"Nice t' see you too Rogue." he said smiling as he saw her face.

"Oh mah gawd, Cajun what are you doin' 'ere!" she shouted as she hugged him, minding his face to hers. Nothing else mattered as both of them were fully covered up. Remy embraced their hug and then Rogue jumped down.

"Well I t'ought I'd pay a visit." he lied. Rogue put her hands on her hips and gave him a 'whatever' look. "Okay okay, I came 'ere t' see de Professor."

"Why are you joinin'?" asked Rogue a hint of excitement coming from her voice.

"Actually…not quite. When you X Men fought Apocalypse…so sorry I didn' go t' dat. Well I found somin'…an' it's not good."

"What was it?" she asked him.

"I'd tell you, but everyone is kinda listening into us." Remy said pointing to all the X Kids.

"Oh right, ah'll take you t' the Professor." said Rogue.

"Not like, without me." said Kitty as she jumped from he porch ad came running to the two. "Like I'm Kitty Pryde, but you probably already now that since we used to be enemies."

"Bonjour pe'tit, I b' Remy LeBeau." he said as he kissed her hand. Kitty blushed and then laughed.

"I thought you were called Gambit." she said.

"Qui, dats mah code name, but Remy do have an actual name." said Remy. Kitty blushed again.

"What does like, Gambit mean?"

"Gambit means strategy or manoeuvre." said Rogue. "An' he certainly had a strategy when he kidnapped me." Remy was a bit taken back.

"I t'ought you forgave moi fo' dat." he said.

"Shut it swamp at an' lets go t' the Professors."

The Professor's office

"So explain to me Remy about this objective." said the Professor. He was sat across form Remy on his desk. Rogue and Remy sat near the back of the room.

"Well Remy an' Jean-Luc went t' dese caves. Jean-Luc said they had treasures o' de world der." said Remy. Rogue snorted.

"Typical o' you Cajun, you'd do anything fo' money." Remy gave her a dead eyes and turned back round to the professor.

"Anyway, we found de cave an' a diamond. It had all dese inscriptions on de cave In a different language, but we took no notice an' took de diamond. All o' a sudden dis t'ing came flying out o' de diamond and took mon pere's spirit or somin'. I dodged it an' it wen' out o' de cave. Den when I told mon brother Henri he turned on de news an' told moi 'bout attacks dey b' havin'. An' eye witness said it was like a spirit or somin'." explained Remy. Professor Xavier looked as though he was thinking.

"Well thank you for that information Remy, it is much appreciated. Kitty round up the X Men, we're going to find this so called 'spirit'." said the Professor. Kitty nodded and went out of the office.

"So what does it do exactly? Take a person's life force?" asked Rogue.

"Yes Rogue, you see when Mesmero was controlling you, myself, the X men, Magneto, Pyro and Collosus went to an Egyptian cave which told us of Apocalypse. We also looked at the protectors of the chamber…and the enemies. The spirit you talk of is named Дух Смерти, also known as the Spirit of death. A spirit who like you Rogue in a way, took energy life force from people and used it to free Apocalypse. Mesmero could not find it so used you instead. But now that Apocalypse has gone, this spirit will just keep doing this to people." explained the professor. Rogue came closer to the Professor's desk.

"So ya tellin' me that this thang is goin' t' keep suckin' the life force outta people until Apocolypse comes, which he isn't, or at least not in this life time?" asked Rogue.

"I'm afraid so, I only know one way we can try to capture this thing." said the Professor.

"How?" asked Remy.

"We must contain it and put it back in the diamond Mr LeBeau has possessed." Rogue and Remy glanced at each other.

"So basically it's a sort o' suicide mission?" asked Rogue.

"Yes."

The X Men had geared up and looked around New Orleans, but nothing was found so they headed back to Bayville along with Remy.

"Well that was worthless." said Scott to Jean.

"But at least we went, it was just in case." she told him.

"Yeah but like, who would want to suck someone's life force it's a bit icky don't you think?" asked Kitty.

"A-hem!" Rogue coughed. Kitty went red.

"Sorry Rogue, but like you're not evil."

"So what, ah'm still a monster." she said sadly as she went into her room. She had shared a room with Kitty previously, but lately she needed to be on her own so se moved to another room, against Kitty's wishes.

"Hey Rogue." said Bobby. Rogue looked at him a bit surprised on the reason of him being in her room.

"Um, hey Bobby." she said as she closed her door. "What are you doin' in 'ere?"

"Well I just thought I'd talk to you, you know since you've been pretty down lately." he replied.

"Bobby 'f ya aint noticed, ah haven' been happy fo' a while." she said sitting on the edge of her bed. Bobby sat near to her.

"I know but a few weeks after…he took you away, you started to act…different."

"Well ah've been more happier ah'll admit that." she said to him. "Bobby what are you talkin' 'bout ah don' understand?"

"Look Rogue, you've been happier but then sometimes you've been more violent. I'm just concerned about you is all. We used to be close once upon a time and I'd like us to be friends again." Bobby explained.

"Is this what it's all about, so you can confirm our friendship?" Rogue asked. Bobby nodded. "Bobby sugah, we've always been friends, it's jus' ah keep mah self more away now. It's jus' how ah like it."

"I know but I don't and I know that's pretty selfish of me but dude, you're a really good friend." Rogue smiled.

"An' you are too. Ah never even knew you cared like you do." Bobby hugged her, making sure her skin didn't come into contact with hers'.

"Okayz, well I better go now, Jubilee and me have a bet." said Bobby as he walked to the door.

"What kind o' bet?" asked Rogue knowing it would be trouble.

"To see if I can piss Logan off by iceing him up." Rogue gulped at the sound of it.

"Well ah guess this will b' the last time ah see you mah friend." Bobby smiled and shut the door behind him. Rogue smiled and collapsed on her bed. She just looked at the ceiling wondering about things…okay to be honest it was about Remy. It was weird to think he was at the mansion.

"Bonjour mon chere." said a voice. Rogue got up from her bed and looked at her balcony. Remy was there outside the balcony door.

"Gambit? What are you doing?" she asked as she opened her balcony window.

"Jus' came t' see how you were." he said honestly. Rogue smiled and came out to the balcony. "So…how are you?"

"Well ah'm actually okay. Mah mind isn't a mess ah'm actually sane fo' once an' the voices in mah head are pretty much shutting up." Remy smiled. "What about you?"

"Well Remy be fine except de fact dat he realised a sort o' demon which takes people's life force and makes them basically dead fo' de rest o' der life's." Rogue sighed and looked up to him.

"Remy it wasn't you're fault you didn' know…"

"So, I still was greedy Rogue. I wanted riches an' now I don' wan' any o' it." Remy shouted as he walked up and down the balcony. "I said t' you dat night wen' we wen' dancin' dat I was a changed man…I guess I'm not…I'm jus' a fake." he put his head down sadly. Rogue put her gloved hand on his shoulder.

"Don' say that Remy." she said sweetly. "You are a great person, you proved that in Louisiana. It's jus' sometimes you do the bad thangs first then the good thangs. An' that good thing is yet t; come." she reassured him. Remy turned to face her and grabbed her two hands in both of his and looked down to her beautiful moonlit face and into those emeralds she called eyes.

"I can always count on you bein' 'ere fo' moi Rogue, no one…no one ever done dat fo' Remy before." Rogue smiled.

"Well ya never met me befo' Remy." Remy's face turned serious and so did hers. He bent down to her, her hands still in his. The heat rose between them until she pushed her head downwards so he would kiss her long aurben hair. He put his head back and Rogue raised her head to look into his demon eyes. He smiled at her and kissed her forehead with hair on it. He then went into her room and out of her door leaving a very eager Rogue.

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Later on the next day, the X Men were having a party for Rahne. She was 14 and proud of it. She danced half of the night.

Rogue watched most of the X Mansion's company dance and have fun. She would join in but she had lack of clothing on. She had her long auburn hair which was now cut down to the middle of her back, but it was shorter since she had it in a bobble. Her two white strands of hair were curled and hung down at each side of her face. She wore a pink top which showed off her cleverage with short sleeves. She wore her satin gloves she only wore for special occasions which went up to her elbow. She wore a denim mini skirt and tights on so know one would touch her. On her feet were pink boots which went up to her knee.

Rogue heard a whistle behind her, she didn't move from her seat though as she knew who it was. Remy stepped forward and took a seat beside her.

"You look belle chere." Rogue looked to the side of her and noticed Remy wearing a blue buttoned shirt with red striped down it, and russet coloured trousers.

"You don' look too bad yourself swamp rat." she complimented as she looked back to the 'dance floor'. Remy noticed her needs for dancing as she tapped her foot to the music just like she did when she wanted to dance. Remy smiled, it was just another habit he found out what Rogue did.

"Want t' dance Rogue?" he asked her as he stood in front of her and held out his gloved hand for her to take. She smiled and sighed.

"Ah don' want t' hurt anyone." she said sadly.

"Well we keep a bit more away from de people, non?" Rogue smiled again and put her satin gloved hand in his.

"Okay then." he led her off to the 'dance floor' (which was really the living room), but moved a bit more away from the crowd. The two southerners started to dance together freely, having fun. The music was fast and took no time for the dancers to breath. Suddenly Scott started to scream from the other room. The music stopped and Jean ran into the kitchen. She screamed as she saw Scott's body laid out on the kitchen floor. His ruby glasses were broken and spread out a bit away from Scott. Jean took no time to run to his side. Rogue and Remy were the next to come, then pretty much everyone. Rogue gasped as she looked upon his non-movement body. The Professor came forward and looked at his body. He took his pulse and nodded to the rest of the X company and they all sighed in relief. Beast then came through and looked at him.

"It's like his whole life force…his soul has been stolen." said Beast. The X men gasped, though the New X men didn't know why.

"It's here isn't it?" asked Kitty. Beast didn't know what to say, he looked to the Professor with concerning eyes.

"What shall we do Professor?" asked Beast.

"Take the students, all the student including my X men to the danger room Storm." Storm nodded and started to gather everyone. Rogue slipped out of their reach and went up to the Professor. "Beast you take Scott to the medic room, it doesn't need him now."

"No, I'm going with him!" cried Jean.

"No Jean we can't risk it." said the Professor. "The spirit will take anything with a powerful life force. Beast take Scott now please and be careful not to get it's attention." Beast nodded and carried Scott. The Professor turned to Jean and Rogue. Jean was crying and Rogue crouched down and put her tow gloved hands on Jean's shoulders. "Girls, please go now!"

"But Professor we can help." pleaded Rogue.

"And I want to go to Scott!" cried Jean.

"Rogue, I know you want to help, but you're more of a target then the rest of the X Men. You're life force is powerful since you have so much energy from absorbing. Jean, I know you want to see Scott, but there is nothing you can do for him at this moment." explained the Professor. "Now please go to the Danger room!" Rogue and Jean nodded. Both exited but Rogue came back in.

"What 'bout you Professor?"

"I'll be along, I must check on Scott."

"But why don' we jus' fight it?" she asked.

"Because you can't fight something that is not there…in a sense. We will find a way but right now, go!" he shouted. Rogue nodded and ran off.

Along the way as she ran she saw Jamie on the floor. She ran past him looking down at his lifeless body, but put her hand over her mouth, trying not to scream. She ran down the stairs, not risking going down the lift and opened the danger room where she found the X Men, Remy and the new X Men…well some of them.

"What the hell happened t' Jamie!" Rogue shouted.

"He was like running next to me when he started to have this blue sort of…spirit come out of him. We didn't know what it was until Remy just explained to us in here." explained Bobby.

"But…he was so young…" Rogue began.

"He's not like, dead Rogue, he's just…life less. We'll bring him back I promise." reassured Kitty.

"What makes ya'll think he's not gonna come in 'ere?" asked Sam.

"Sam it's not a he it's an it!" shouted Jubilee. "Something as heartless as that hasn't got a gender."

"It's just a spirit, it's not even a person children." said Storm.

"Auntie O, I think that's the last thing you want to tell them." said Evan. Storm blushed as she saw the New X Men get scared.

"Dudes, we could be next." said Bobby.

"Well all mutants in this room who haven't got enough…powerful life force are okay." said Jubilee. "But I do have fireworks, so I have powerful lifeforce."

"Ya'll ah don' think it cares 'f you have or not. We jus' need t' make sure it don' com in 'ere." said Rogue.

"This is my birthday and look how it's turned out!" cried Rahne.

"Oh well, still happy birthday." said Ray trying to make her feel better.

"Yeah happy birthday to me, thanks for the gift, I really appreciate you guys getting me a life force sucking demon spirit for me, but I already have loads in my closet!" shouted Rahne. "We're all going to die." More of the New X Men got scared.

"Oh please now, lets control this situation. We will not die, we are all fine." said Storm.

"I wish Logan was here." said Kurt. "For some reason when the guy takes off I feel more…uneasy." Kitty laughed.

"Ah have t' agree." said Rogue. "Mind you he'd probably go up t' the demon an' get sucked himself. But then knowin' 'im he'd come back an' kick it's ass." everyone started to laugh a bit.

"See, we can handle this." said Storm. Suddenly Jean started to scream.

"Jena what is it?" most people asked her.

"It's the spirit, it's outside. It can sense the power!" Jean said clenching her head. "We need to separate."

"What?" most of the X Crew said.

"She's right, 'f we're all stuck t'gether, we'r never goin' t' survive. But 'f we are all somewhere different den it wil b' harder fo' it t' find us." said Remy.

"But what if it finds us?" asked Roberto.

"Then jus' run fo' you're life." most of the X Crew gulped.

"I think it would be best if we all went in twos, otherwise it'll be more scarier." said Storm.

"Storm, always thinking of the children." said Evan.

"It's hardly a time to joke Evan." said Ray.

"So who's going to go with who?" asked Jubilee.

"Well since I'm the oldest I'll choose." said Storm. Everyone groaned. "New X men. Jubilee with Ray, Roberto with Rahne, Bobby with Amara, Sam with Jean, Kitty with Kurt, Rogue and I suppose Remy and me with Evan." Remy smiled at Rogue who gave a death glare back.

"Okay then, there's a way out of the danger room which isn't going to make us bump into the spirit. We have to press the red button in the control room." said Jean. "Anyone willing to fly?"

"Rogue at ya service." Rogue flew up to the control room's window and smashed it. She then saw a realise button and pressed it. A small door opened and the X Men, Remy and New X men ran through it. Remy waited for Rogue to fly back down. When she did they ran off in separate ways across the mansion.

Jubilee and Ray

Jubilee and Ray ran off to the cooking kitchen. There were pans and cupboards everywhere.

"I say we hide in separate cupboards." whispered Jubilee.

"Yeah so it doesn't find us as fast." whispered back Ray. The two both got into their separate cupboards. Ray had a peeping whole and could see which cupboard Jubilee was in. "Tight squeeze huh?" he joked as he whispered loud enough for her to hear. She laughed and he smiled. Suddenly there was a noise of a pan dropping, which made both Ray and jubilee gasp.

There was a noise of a sort of breathing. Like a witch, but creepier. Jubilee gulped as she saw the blue spirit enter the cooking area. It was going slow as if it new there was something there. Jubilee noticed it was getting closer to her. She started to breathe louder and louder.

Ray put his finger through the peeping hole and used his power and pots and pans fell on the floor. The spirit immediately looked at the noise and swiftly moved towards the other end of the room and looked at the fallen pans and pots. It breathed more loudly as though it was thirsty for energy.

Ray started to move his body against the end of the cupboard as though he was trying to get further away from the door to the cupboard. The spirit got closer to the cupboard and the peep hole was now blue. Ray took one deep breathe and the cupboard opened and the spirit went into Ray. Ray's face looked as if all his organs were being pulled out.

Jubilee put her hand over her mouth, trying not to scream. She finally slid down slowly, not wanting to see Ray's face, to the ground of her cupboard. She heard the noise of Ray's body fall to the ground. She didn't know if the spirit left or not, but she stayed as she were.

Sam and Jean

Jean ran as fast as she could into the med bay. Know one was there so the professor and Beast must be hidden safe somewhere. Sam soon followed her in.

"Come on jean, we have to hide!" whispered Sam.

"No I can't leave Scott." she fought.

"Look 'f it'll make ya feel any better we can hide in 'ere."

"…Okay." she agreed. Sam nodded and looked for a place to hide. "I'm going under Scott's bed."

"What, no it'll find you easily in there!" said Sam.

"I don't care Sam, I just want to know Scott's okay." Sam grunted.

"Fine it's you're choice 'f ya wanna b' killed. But 'f you survive, don' say ah didn' warn ya." Sam looked for a place to hide in the room while Jean proceeded to hide under the med bay bed.

Sam looked at Hank's desk and realised there was a small space he could hide. It wasn't a cupboard, it was just a place. So he hid behind the desk.

"Ahh!" whispered Jean in pain. "It's coming Sam." Sam gulped.

"Jus' don' breathe." he joked, kind of. The breathing began and Sam was about to tell Jean to shut up when he realised it wasn't any kind of breathing. It must be the spirit. Sam held his breathe, not wanting a noise coming from him.

The spirit entered the room and looked at Scott. It came towards him and sensed that he had no life force hardly. But it sensed something else. It didn't know what, it was something though. Sam looked over the desk, risking it, and saw jean under the bed, shaking. Sam saw the spirit over the bed as though it sensed something. Sam cursed to himself.

He got up and cannonballed himself out of the room, knowing the Spirit would follow him, but he didn't know how fast the spirit was.

Indeed the Spirit followed him, and fast, but not as fast as Cannonball. Sam put his feet on the ground and ran into the kitchen. He saw Ray on the floor. He couldn't remember who he was paired up with…

"…Jubilee?" he said unsure if that was the right one.

"…S…S…Sam?" she whispered.

"Where are you?" he asked.

"I'm in the cupboard." Jubilee came out of the cupboard, pale as a ghost. "I saw it all Sam, I saw it all." Jubilee collapsed into Sam's arms.

"I knew Jubes I know, but right now we need to find somewhere to hide." there was a noise in the background. Jubilee gasped and squealed. Sam turned back roundto Jubilee. "Jubes ,go back into the cupboard and don't make a noise. Whatever you hear is nothing bad okay?" Jubilee nodded and slowly backed away into the cupboard. Sam proceeded to run off.

Bobby and Amara

As Bobby and Amara ran through the exit of the danger room, he grabbed her hand to pull her tighter. They ran to the living room and looked for a place to hide.

"We should split up in the room." said Amara. Bobby nodded in agreement.

"I'll go in this wardrobe sort of thing…hey why would Professor X have this down stairs?" asked Bobby.

"Bobby this is not the place nor time." said Amara.

"Right." he said as he quickly got in the…wardrobe? Amara looked around a place to hide, she wasn't sure. Then she heard breathing, she new know one breathed like that! She panicked for a place to hide and then just hid behind the sofa. Bobby couldn't see a thing and wondered where the hell Amara had hid. 'Somewhere good I hope.' he thought as he heard the strange breathing.

Amara pulled her legs to her body, scared. She had tears running down her eyes, not knowing what was coming next. The fear of knowing this thing could kill her, could suck all her friends life force…she didn't like the thought. Maybe she should make a run for the front door…but then she would be a coward, that's probably why the rest of the X Men ran, because they wanted to fight this thing. But she couldn't take the chance. Sje was hid in a pretty lame place, and if she died…or had her life force taken away, she wouldn't have a life anymore. She just couldn't handle the pressure so stood up and saw the blue spirit. She quickly turned into her magma form and shot magma at the spirit. But it just absorbed it. Bobby mentally smacked himself in the head. He should of made sure she was in a good hiding place too.

Amara backed away and found herself against a wall. She lowered herself and looked upon the spirit which now looked down at her. It then went into her. Bobby covered up his ears not wanting to here the sounds. He would help her, but he knew it was too late now…she was drained.

Bobby thought the Spirit would go, but it didn't, It was like it still smelt something. Bobby sighed and new he would be next. This was probably for not helping Amara. Even though Bobby couldn't see what was happening, he could feel it getting closer. Then there was a loud noise. The breathing her heard went away and Bobby could feel his heart again.

Bobby slowly opened the door and noticed the living room was a complete mess than before him and Amara entered it. Amara… He looked all over the living room then found her near the sofa.

"Amara Aquillia you idiot!" he said to himself as he checked her pulse. She was alive. He knew he could do nothing for her, and had to make sure everyone else was okay. So he ran off in the other direction than the sound that distracted the spirit was.

Kitty and Kurt

Kitty phased through a wall while Kurt teleported to the other side. Kitty slapped his head and he put a questionable face on. Kitty put her finger on her lips and shushed him.

They entered the rec room, where there as no place to hide really.

"I can like phase through things so I can hide in the wall." said Kitty. "What about you?" Kurt looked around the room.

"I don't know. Maybe I should hide under ve table." Kitty crossed her arms together nad tapped her foot.

"Good idea if you wan to die!" she shouted. Breathing started to be heard. Kitty and Kurt looked to the entrance of the rec room and the spirit was standing there. They looked to each other and screamed. Kitty fell on her butt and Kurt ran to the other end of the room. The spirit went for Kitty first but she phased through the ground. Kurt though was too scared to do anything. It was like he was in some kind of shock. The spirit got closer and closer to him…then Kitty grabbed him and phased him through the ground. Unfortunately the spirit grabbed her hand and brought her out. It sucked her life force leaving a half phased Kitty half dead. Kurt who was also half phased, tried to get free from the ground. He saw the spirit getting closer to him and he finally regained his head and teleported.

The spirit looked around and proceeded to look around for more mutants or humans.

Kurt teleported into the med bay and fell on the ground, not moving. Jean, who was still under the bed, slid out and shook Kurt. He woke up and looked at Jean. He screamed and Jean put her hand over his mouth.

"Shut up unless you want to get caught!" she whispered. "You're going to have to hide in here with me." Kurt though didn't here a word she said.

"Kitty…she tried to save me…but she…she…"

"I know Kurt I know. Everything will be alright I promise you." she reassured him. But she needed reassurance herself. She had been crying as her eyes were pooled with tears. Kurt too. Jena couldn't hold it in. "There all gone aren't they? There probably all gone." Jean broke into tears and held onto Kurt. Kurt held onto her too. They were all gone…they must be…all of them…Kurt closed his eyes and looked into Jean's green eyes.

"I vwill be back Jean, just wait here." he teleported into the dining room, but the plates which were laid out on the table (which were on a cloth) slipped as Kurt slipped on the cloth. He rubbed his head and saw the spirit near a wardrobe sort of thing. He saw Amra behind the sofa. Kurt gasped and teleported as the spirit tried to get him.

Rogue and Remy

Rogue ran into the upstairs bedroom, thinking the Spirit wouldn't go into her room. Remy proceeded but by accident slammed the door. Rogue turned to him and gave him a death glare.

"Sorry." he said.

"Ah can' believe this is happening." Rogue said as she folded her arms together and looked down to the floor sadly.

"Believe it chere, it gonna b' a long night." (1)

"Ah wonder 'f the rest are alright."

"Dey wil b' chere, dey know 'ow t' look after dem selves." said Remy as he rubbed his gloved hans up and down both of her arms.

"Ah hope so Remy ah hope so."

"We could escape t'rough de balcony chere, you could fly us out."

"Remy, you may o' not had a proper family, but 'f ah run out on them, 'f ah go out o' this house, it's like ah'm betrayin' them." explained Rogue.

"Non, Remy understands. Remy understands perfectly." he said as he brought his body closer to Rogue's. Rogue gave him another death glare.

"Number one, in ya dream swamp rat, an' number two, oh mah gawd, the X Men are nearly all gone an' you wanna think about making gu gu eyes at a Southern gal. Cajun ah think you need that swamp brain o' yours t' b' checked out. (2)

"Sorry chere." Rogue started to feel weird. "What's wrong?"

"Call me crazy but ah think the train fo' souls is here." said Rogue.

"Hide quick!" Remy whispered.

"It's all you're fault, it probably heard you slam the door!" whispered Rogue as she was trying to find a place to hide. Remy wanted to make sure she was safe.

"Here mon belle, you hide out on de balcony, Remy go under de bed." said Remy.

"But Remy, that's the most…"

"I know mon chere I know." Rogue out her hand on Remy's chest.

"What 'f ah never see you again?" she asked.

"I don' know Rogue." he said true fully.

"Well, this might b' our last…" Remy put his gloved hand on her face.

"I know."

"But then…"

"I know…" he said as he came into her face.

"Then ah guess ah gotta say goodbye and good luck." Rogue put her hand over his lips and kissed it. Then she pushed Remy into her room while she hid at the side of her balcony, knowing she could easily be caught as Remy could. The Spirit burst through the door and entered the room.

It slowly looked around, searching for someone. Remy saw the blue, but was not afraid. Rogue peeped a look as she looked back into her room. It was heading towards the balcony.

'Damn mah life force fo' bein' so strong that it could sense it a mile away!' Rogue though. The spirit came onto the balcony, but did not notice Rogue on the side. She looked back to Remy under the bed and saw him waving his hand telling her to come back into the bedroom. She slowly moved on her butt across the wall of the house and stood up while the spirit looked if anyone was in the grounds of the mansion. Rogue backed up and then heard a squeak. The spirit turned around and Rogue looked to the teddy on the floor. Rogue cursed ot herself.

"Damn mah love fo' teddy bears." she said aloud. She found that the spirit was quickly coming towards her. Rogue ran for it and out of the door. She realised that flying was faster than running.

She flew down the stairs and into the lobby where she found an unconscious Storm, Evan, Rahne and Roberto. She put her hand over her mouth and backed away from them, bumping into something. She was about to scream but as she turned around, Sam whispered it was him. Jubilee was behind him, in state of shock.

"Where are the others?" Rogue whispered to him.

"Ah don' know, but ah think Jean is still in the med bay." said Sam.

"Well go check while ah look fo' Bobby, Amara, Ray, Kurt an' Kitty." said Rogue.

"Ray's gone." said Jubilee with no expression in her face. "It took him." there was no emotion in her voice which creeped Rogue out.

"Yey Sam you take Jubilee." Sam nodded and got Jubilee.

Rogue entered the living room to find Amara on the floor. Rogue gasped and looked at a wardrobe/cupboard, it was open.

"Bobby?" she whispered.

"I'm here." Bobby whispered. Bobby came out form the curtains. "I was seachinf for you guys everywhere. I found Roberto, but he was out, and then Storm tried to fight it, but got her too. The same with Evan. Me and Rahne ran for it and ended up back in the lobby. Next thing I know the spirit sucks Rahne's life force. While it was doing so I hid. I knew I couldn't saw Rahne." explained Bobby.

"It's okay Bobby." said Rogue.

"Hey ya'll we found some." said Sam. Jean and Kurt came in with Sam and Jubilee. "Ah don' know where the Professor is."

"We have t' go in the danger room, that's the one place ah know it can' go. There's a protective shield which only id deactivated when someone enters a room, an' ah'm guessing this Spirit aint a member o' the X Men, so it's access will be denied." explained Rogue.

"Then what, we wait?" asked Bobby.

"We have no choice." said Kurt.

"I want to go back for Scott." said Jean.

"We can' go back fo' Scott, it's too dangerous." said Rogue.

"Yeah Scott will be…"

"RUUUUN!" shouted Remy as he slid down the banister of the stairs. They all looked to the top of the stairs and the spirit was there. They all screamed but didn't move. Remy, who was still running towards them saw they weren't moving so Remy ran in and picked up Rogue, who screamed in shock and the rest followed.

When they entered the danger room, Rogue was still in Remy's arms.

"Let go o' me you lousy swamp rat!" Rogue shouted.

"Sorry chere." said Remy as he let Rogue back on the ground. Bobby started to laugh.

"You have to admit that was so funny. He just ran in and picked Rogue up while he was still running. And then he ran all the way to the danger room with her, while she was kicking and screaming, and still trying to get over the shock of him picking her up." laughed Bobby. He looked up and saw no one else was laughing, except Remy who smiled.

"So folks, why didn't we stay here in the first place?" asked Sam.

"Ah guess know one remembered, ah know ah didn' until we had no where else t; run." said Rogue.

"Where do you think the Professor will be?" asked Jubilee.

"I think he will be in Cerebro with Beast." said Jean. "But we should stay put for a while.

They all sat down on the ground.

"So what now?" asked Jubilee, who was still In a slight state of shock.

"We wait…" said Remy.

"Wait for what?" asked Bobby.

"We wait fo' it ah guess." said Rogue.

"And when it comes, we'll be ready."

One- Quote form the animated series.

Two- Quote from the comics.

So intrigue me, what do you think? I tried real hard on this and it took me ages to think about this so reviews will be much appreciated peopleXxX

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