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A/N: Ok, people were telling me I should seperate the scenes because they were confused about who was talking and I was like " What the fuck are these people talking about? " So, I look at my story, and didn't put the line's I had placed in to signify a scene switch, so, I'm sorry, but it wasn't my fault. Hopefully, it'll do it this time and if it doesn't, please don't rant at me. It's not my fault and furthermore, that would only piss me off.

Chapter Ten-On Being Clean and Jumping

He was dumbstruck and confused upon the manner of the situation, yet he could justifiably stand as witness to many abnormal and courser subjects through-out his short liee, as being a mutant alone could promise many things. He looked over and was breathless at the fierce and firey determination set within Gambit's tired and haggard face, yet their was a sliver of the pie sliced out for him as well that he curried favor and catered to himself as it was his very sister that was in trouble.

" Explain, vill you? He has the pover to transform...like my mother? " Gambit shook his head fervently, annoyed and deeply disturbed, his frustrations getting the better of him but he wouldn't unleash it upon Kurt. " No...no, no, no. Y'don' understand. He be like my Rogue. Takes da very life outta you, when he touches you. "

Kurt looked to the Cajun with the bloodshot and scared eye's, puzzlement etched about his defined features, " Absorbs povers? "

" He absorbs dere powers, memories, looks, habits, everthing! And he can control it. Control what his touch be doin' "

Kurt accelorated upon the gas pedal, unconscious of the action, But vhy Rogue? Vhy New Orleans? Who IS he? "

" Don' know, but I figured he be interested in her for the similarities in dere powers. Took her to N'Awlins like once did, 'cause of my memories. Sounds like somethin' I'd do. I couldn't even tell you a creative lie about who he is, I'm so out of clues. " Kurt was silent,n thinking, plotting, brooding. It wasn't long before he heard the calm breathing of the thief next to him who was sound asleep.

He pouted a bit, edgy, and wanting to know where THIS Gambit had been all this time, yet he wouldn't disturb him. The man looked as if he needed the rest and he would wait till he woke to ask.

He would find her. He knew where she was. If he was more evolved, then he could possibly transport him and the other man next to him to their destination. Yet, istead the easy quick flash, bang, bam, there, they would have to move within the car a few days, their anger spurred further and further with each passing day.

Scene Switch

Katherine Pride gazed surprisingly at her hand in the shower, amazed at the cleaness of the flesh, wet and illuminated by the sunrays in the bathroom shining through the bathroom window and the shower curtain, the water pouring over her head.

Clean.

She was clean. And happy.

She could here the bathroom door open, but she said nothing to the intruder, still gazing intently at her hand. She thought she heard her name and suddenly shook herself from her thoughts, concentrating incase she heard it again.

" Kitty, " he inquired softly, a contrast that thrilled her spine as the softness mingled with the gruff tone of his voice.

She smiled.

Peeking her head around the shower curtain, she met a shirtless Logan with an impish grin attached to her face, " I need my shampoo's. Can you, like, go get them from my room? " A slight giggle echoed off the walls as he obediently left with a nod, emotion swelling and brimming over within her heart at the silent sweetness of it.

Today was going to be a good one.

Scene Switch

Mattie remembered the way he had looked in those moments and she knew that it wasn't her Remy. Not the man who she knew by smell alone when he had entered a room. Not the boy who cried for her in the night when he was plagued with nightmares. Not the same Remy who came to her counsel when his powers manifested and he couldn't hold a fork within' his hand without fear of charging it.

" Phantom, or no, you be not my boy. Not my Remy, " she accused, never cowering as she threw her shoulders back, ready for anything.

He grinned wickedly, moving foward in a predatorial motion. He jumped, quick, and made to grab her before the light's flicked on and Emil stood away, a look of surprise upon his face, " Remy, what you b'doin'? " Remy merely grunted and turned away, heading up the stairs without a word. Mattie's eye's never left him untill he was out of sight and she turned to Emil.

" He knows. "

Emil nodded an affirmative, his head turned to the staircase, " He'll guard her more closely now. Does he know I'm in it too? "

She shook her head, her hands clasped by her lap, " No, but he not be Remy. He be someone else. We need to find out who. " Emil looked at her quizically but said nothing.

Scene Switch

Her foot met with the edge of the balcony, a sigh of relief escaping her lips at the support. She then twisted her body fully around the railing and looked to the ground below, not really caring if she fell. She would get rid of Emil and that other man, zap them good, she didn't care, but she would escape. She was leaving and she would find a way home. She would-

The creak of the bedroom door sounded.

"Chere? "

Closing her eye's she thought " If Ah jump, I die. Stay here...live... "

She jumped.

Scene Switch

Charles sighed, rubbing the temples of his head as Ororo moved the student's out of his office. His excuse for Rogue's absence was not passifying students. He knew she was in Lousiana with Gambit, consenting as he knew Rogue needed the human contact, her persona needing what other's had to give. Yet how did you explain to other's, " I let her go, because she's lonely and needs time to be with someone that cares for her and vise versa? " It sounded like a line from a sad teenage romance novel and any student would try to argue that they suffured the same delimma even though each and everyone understood Rogue's case. He sighed again, troubled by the heachache comming on. She needed more time and he would give that to her. He just hoped she was keeping up with her studies that he was sending her in New Orleans.

A/N: Are you confused? If you are, good. Stay that way until I reveal stuff in the next chapter. MWA HAHAHA! Thank you all who's been keeping up with the story and reviewing me. I LOVE YOU! Thank you! And...could you review this chapter too? Please?