Chapter 8

"I don't know what happened to your mind, but Chuck will know how to fix it." Logan held onto Remy's collar and dragged him out the door.

"Dere's nothin' wrong with my mind." Gambit pulled out a card and charged it. He was getting ready to drop it down the guy's shirt, when the next word's he said stopped him cold.

"So you ain't missing a couple month's of your life, around 5 years ago?" The card completely burned leaving ash to fall to the floor.

"How de hell do yo' know dat?" Logan dropped Remy to the floor and both had a sense of deja vu for a second.

"You were at the mansion that's why. I spent most of that time trying to gut you for going after Rogue." Remy could feel a tug in his mind but it felt like a huge wall was keeping the memories from coming through.

"So yo're jus' goin' to take me to dis mansion and do what?" Logan reached down and hauled the guy back up.

"There's a guy there that can fix whatever went wrong in that mind of yours." Remy pointed out which bike was his and Logan shoved him into it. Going over to his own bike, Logan revved it up and brought it next to Remy. "You're going to follow me."

"Whatever." Thinking that he could always bail if anything seemed wrong he decided to go along with the feral man. Plus a part of him wanted to find out what really happened all those years ago.

As they pulled up to the mansion, Remy couldn't help but feel a chill run up his spine. There was something eerily familiar about the place, but his mind wasn't able to figure it out. Getting off his bike, Remy rolled it up to the garage and parked it next to Logan's bike.

"Earlier you were talking about some girl you did wrong by. Who were you talking about?" Remy was still wary around the guy, but the question seemed harmless enough.

"Her name's Bella. Got married four years ago, left her after two months. It didn't feel right." Logan nodded and they both continued walking in silence. The place seemed empty and they didn't come across anyone until they reached the kitchen.

"Logan! I thought you weren't coming back for another week?" A red haired girl stood by the counter cutting some fruit. She kept her back to them as she picked up the cutting board and slid the vegetables into the pot. "Who's the guest?"

"Why don't you turn around and see?" The woman first took off her apron and then picked up a towel as she turned to greet the visitor. As soon as she saw the man she dropped the towel and just stood there with an open mouth.

"Remy...Logan did you finally find them?" Her smile left her when she saw Logan shake his head and take a seat at the counter. "What's wrong?"

"He doesn't remember anything about the time he stayed here. Not even Rogue." Remy wondered why the woman in front of him seemed so familiar. /Maybe I slept with her.../ He thought it over, but that didn't seem right. /And what's so special about Rogue?/

"So where is she? Is she alone out there?" The girl looked like she was about to start crying. "Poor Rogue. We have to call the whole team together. And send out search parties and..."

"Jean calm down. What's the matter?" A tall muscular man with ruby red glasses came up to the girl and held her. His hand instantly went to the women's outwardly curved belly. "You need to calm down. Don't let these hormonal things get to you."

"Hormonal? I'm not hormonal. You're hormonal." Jean wiped her eyes and the new guy helped her to a seat. "I'm sorry Scott that didn't make any sense."

"It's okay. But what's..." It was then that Scott noticed Gambit standing in the kitchen. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Even though the glasses covered his eyes it was easy to tell by his facial features that the guy was pissed off. Taking in the situation Remy began wonder if maybe he did sleep with this girl and the guy was mad about it.

"Is Rogue here?" /Sheeze why does everyone think I'm with this Rogue person?/ Remy was about to explain when Scott's face froze for a second.

"So he doesn't remember..." Remy watched this with somewhat fascination. /Maybe the guy's psychic./ Turning to Logan he waited for an explanation.

"Jean here is a telepath. And her husband Scott can shoot lasers from his eyes." Remy nodded to Logan's explanation and sat down on the other side of the counter away from the group. "So who's here right now?"

"The same. Except that the new arrivals are going to be leaving soon." Jean took a sip of a drink that Scott gave her and turned to Gambit. "So is anything ringing a bell so far?"

"Everythin's familiar, but I can't remember de details. But I do remember runnin' from dis place."

"What do you mean running?" Scott took a seat next to his wife.

"I woke up, in a lab. And den I ran from it. Couldn't remember anythin', but I felt a strong need to get out of here." Gambit made sure to leave out the part about the note.

"So why'd you come back here, Gambit?" Remy was really starting to get annoyed of this person.

"Maybe I jus' felt like it, Cyclops." There was silence for a moment, and he was wondering if they were going to attack him when Jean spoke.

"What did you call Scott?" An image of a teenage guy wearing a black body suit with an golden X across the chest came to mind. He remembered the guy would always give orders and the red haired girl was always near him. It was like he was trying to impress her. "Remy?"

"I don't know. It jus' came to me when we were talking." Remy watched as the other's sat there and stared at him for a second.

"I think we should talk about what's going on right now with everyone and then see if he remembers anything." Jean thought for a second and came up with a way to help him remember.. "Scott could you run upstairs and get the photo album?"

Scott nodded and briskly left the room when he returned he handed the book over to Jean and she found the page she was looking for. Pushing the album over to Remy she pointed at a picture of a petite female with brown hair sitting underneath a tree typing on a computer.

"Her name's Kitty. She left here about 4 year's ago. She joined another team for a while. Its called Excalibur. Kurt, Rogue's brother and the guy in the other photo, is the leader. It recently disbanded when he married Wanda."

"Poor John." Remy mumbled the words, but didn't think too deeply into it. Instead he looked at the girl, and an image of a metal man appeared in his head. "What about Piotr?"

"They were both together for a while, until the death of his sister. He...changed after that."

"Illayna..." An image of a worn out picture of a smiling little girl came to mind. Piotr loved her so much. Turning the page in the book he saw a picture of girl wearing a bright yellow jacket.

"That's Jubilee. We haven't heard from here in a while. She set out on her own a year ago to become an actress."

"What about her and Bobby?" Remy saw a picture of her kissing a block of ice shaped like a man. For some reason it didn't seem odd to him that she would do that.

"He respected her decision, and they both try to meet each other whenever they can." Remy turned the page and saw that most of it was devoted to a girl that was dropping shiny balls onto the floor. And a tall guy trying to run away from it. At one point it almost seemed like he was shooting across the room.

"That's Tabitha and Sam. They both went out for a while, but decided to stay friends. They joined up with a group called X Force." They seemed familiar but nothing really clicked with those two. The next page showed a girl and guy that seemed to be made of fire and a wolf sitting between them. There were some other images too. And he was able to tell who was who.

"The girl too the left is Amara. After she learned to control her powers she went back to her homeland. We don't hear from her much. That girl over there is Rahne and the guy is Roberto. They had a newborn baby, and are planning to get married next week."

"What?" Remy recalled telling a similar story to a bunch of kids, but for some reason his included AIDS.

"They had a little...accident. Then some problems arose and by the time they found each other she was about to have the baby. We're expecting them to call and tell us the name and everything in a couple of days. They're currently on Muir Island with Moira, and the place has been having some problem."

The next page showed a guy shooting lightening from his hands and an angry guy with bones coming from his body.

"That's Ray and Evan. They both are with the Morlocks now and the only reason we got those shot's is because they helped us out with a problem a while back."

Remy nodded and flipped through some more pages. He finally found someone new. The man looked like an angel, except his skin was blue in some pictures, and beside him was sometimes an Asian woman, or an English one. Both of them had a strange purplish hair.

"You never met the girl before. Her name's Elizabeth Braddock-Worrington. She married Warren, the angel guy, about a year after you left. They look different in some pictures because they went through a transformation. The one at the end is how they look now." Remy could see an intense look in Jean's eyes, and smirked realizing what she wanted.

"So what's going on with you two?" Jean and Scott gave each other a loving look. Anyone would have thought it was cute, but to Remy it brought a dull ache to his heart. He was used to it by now and never questioned why it would always appear when he saw that look in someone's eyes. It was the main reason that he broke up with Bella. He never told anyone that it hurt him so much to see her looking at him with love while all he felt was an all-consuming guilt.

"Well, we both went to college. I'm currently studying to be doctor, and as soon as Scott finished he came back and started leading the X-Men full time. We're both also teacher's. And about what's going on between us..." Jean looked over to Scott, who was rubbing her stomach.

"We got married about three year's ago, and in half a year, we're going to have baby." /Like I didn't notice the rounded stomach./ Scott kissed his wife on the lips. /This scene is sickening./

Returning his attention to the book he flipped through some more pages and noticed that someone was missing from them. "Where's Jamie?"

The three of them gave each other a look before coming to a conclusion. Scott shifted in his seat showing that he was the one that was going to answer the question.

"We're not very sure. On all accounts he died, we know people who saw it happen. But there have been some recent developments that might prove that it was just a multiple. There is no way to be sure."

Remy felt really sad about that mainly because he knew the guy and it would really upset someone he cared about, but he couldn't remember whom. "This is giving me a headache."

"Why don't you go get some rest and later I can help you sort out your mind." Remy nodded to Jean before being led out of the room. As they were passing through the rec. room, he noticed a woman with snow-white hair laying against a man covered in blue fur. Both of them seemed to have fallen asleep during a movie. Something about the image was wrong and he looked to Logan for another explanation.

"Storm and me were together while you were here. About a couple months later we broke it off. It was mutual and everything, we weren't really that compatible." Remy couldn't sense and anger or regret from his words, so he just nodded his head. "She and Hank, the blue guy, became close over the last year and now they're together. No hard feelings."

Remy watched as Hank pulled Storm closer to him. They looked good together. Not disturbing the two they left the room and headed up the stairs.

Remy followed the person ahead of him. There were some noises behind the rooms but he didn't think to deeply about it. All the information was starting to piece itself back together. Not only did he have images in his head from the pictures, but from his lost memories too. It felt strange and a little too easily acquired.

Logan led him to a room near the back of the hall. He said it was the same room he stayed in before, and left the still younger man to become comfortable in it.

Sitting at the side of the bed he kicked off his boots and laid flat on his back staring at the ceiling. The memories were lucid now, except for the parts that concerned Rogue. That part of his mind was far more closed off and harder to reach. Thinking over what happened, he let the words register and tried to match the names with images from the past. He was able to come up with quite a few of them but it still felt like he was watching a TV show instead of living his life. Whatever it is that tied all this together is still missing.

/It's this Rogue person, but who is she?/ His mind tried to find a clue what the person looked like, but nothing was coming up. He should at least remember her body. /I'm not going to think about that./

Shaking his head he pulled out a piece of paper from his pant pocket and carefully opened it. Over the year's it became rumpled and even a little singed when Bella found it and tried to burn it, but the writing was undamaged. Carefully he read the contents wondering if it was written by the person these people keep talking about.

Remy-

I don't have time so I'll keep this brief. You'll realize that your powers are under control now. He's the one that did that. I agreed to something and because of that I won't be able to see you for a while. I don't know how long, so live your life and when he's finished with me I'll find you. Ask Kit about the details. I love you.

After all this time he was still surprised that he kept the note. It wasn't very informative, and still he doesn't have a clue what it means, but the last phrase, and the handwriting. He couldn't really explain it, he just had to keep it.

Rolling to the side of the bed he decided to find Jean first. There was no way he was going to fall asleep before he finds out what really happened. Heading out of the room he didn't notice the pair's of eyes watching him as he descended the stairs.

"I swear! That's him!" A tall, muscular man pointed at the stairway. His hair hung loose over his shoulder's clad in his blue clothing. There was nothing really strange about this guy except for the black M marking over his right eye. "He's the traitor!"

"You have no clue who the traitor is. You've pointed out 356 people in the past year, and none of them proved to be correct" The woman's calm voice had no effect on the man. Her computer-like mind tried to figure out a way to convince him to give up on his quest and help her instead. "How about we keep an eye on him. If he turns out to be the guy you can shoot him."

"Fine." He followed her to the elevator and she gave no thought to the person that he pointed out. /There was only a 1/1,678,930 chances that it's the same guy anyways./

Author's Note: The girl might be hard to identify but every comic reader or knower should know who the guy is. Okay so I changed the people's stories a bit. This is the future after all. And I think what happened to everyone is pretty straightforward. If you don't understand one just ask.

Okay someone was asking for ages so I'm going to list them. The first number is how old they were before and the second number is how old they are now.

Name Then Now

Remy 21, 26

John, Piotr 19, 24

Rogue, Kurt, Kitty, Pietro, Wanda 17, 22

Scott, Jean, Lance, Blob 18, 23

Bobby, Sam, Roberto, Ray, Todd 16, 21

Tabitha, Rahne 15, 20

Jubilee 14, 19

Jamie 13, 18

Beast 30, 35

Storm 28, 33

Warren 24, 29

Professor, Logan, Mystique, Mags, Sabertooth old, older

Others Not important

Reviews!

bluedragon91: School sucks with the homework giving, but luckily I was able to update a week later like usual so I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Star-of-Chaos: I would try not thinking, it's easier on the head.

rage-girl-05: Okay update, but no real explanation about what's going on with Remy and Rogue thing. That's next chapter.

enchantedlight: Normal update! Still better than a late one.

ishandahalf: I made two WHAT THE HELL in a row! Cool. Your probably still a bit confused right? Well your right where you're suppose to be. so just hang tight until the explainan part comes up. And that would be...ohhhhh....the last chapter.

Episodic: It has been proven that he doesn't remember what happened, but is now starting too. And there are a lot more mentions of Rogue in this chapter...so that could only mean....

Aya Yuy P.SII: And for the love of god I did!

xpoisenedxangelx: Yeah I used to be the same way, until I started writing, and going to school. Now I barely have time to read one-shots.

just me: Sorry! 5 years! But don't worry, you get the consolation prize! A new Sony DVD player! (This was a false game and there will be no real prize.) Thank you for playing!