Hi everyone :)
26 review e-mails all at once...Wow... :
Freak87: Yes, this chapter is full of answered questions of various kinds. You're right in presuming the voice was the one that's in "charge" and it was head Remy it was telling off :) And I think you're intentionally saying the voice is a she because you're trying to lure me into a trap to get me to admit the gender of the voice. You don't fool me for a second! I'M ONTO YOU!
CalliopeMused: Have to disagree with you there; you can NEVER have too much sugar :D, (bet ya though I was gonna say something serious there lol :D)
ishandahalf: Yes, the ROMYness is always a nice way to spend a chapter :)
enchantedlight: Glad you liked it :)
stinky-chan: Lol. I'll leave that to your imagination I think :)
IvyZoe: Glad you liked it;
1) The person speaking is a secret, (as always :D) the accusation was directed at Head Remy, he was the reason she got suddenly scared.
2) Kitty and Jubilee still believe that Remy is a baddie because they think that he "kidnapped" Rogue remember?
3) That'll be explained in this chapter :)
4) Here's some more :D
LucreziaNoin86: Wonderful you say? Aww, thank you :)
adrenaline addict: A great update you say? Yay:D
Chica De Los Ojos Cafe: Kitty and Jubilee still think that Remy is a bad guy as they think he intentionally kidnapped Rogue, remember?
Elle457: Lol, I'm truely honoured that you're liking everything so much. I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint :)
BananaPanda: Ahh yes, I imagine Remy looks good no matter what state of conscious or semi-conscious state he's in :D
Kou Shun'u: 1 - Yes, that could happen. Will it though? Well, I'm sure by the time you read this, you'll know lol.
4 - I'm not saying who the voice is. It'll spoil the ending :D
9 - I like how you quote your favourite bits :) I like knowing stuff like that.
10 - Glad you're liking everything so far :)
11 - Glad to hear it :)
14 - Lol, someone reading that as fart never even accured to me as a possibility :D
15 - I got Bam Bam from the X-Men Evolution series.
16 - Lol, choking on it :D
17 - In the original cartoons, Remy calls Rogue Marie on several episodes so I went with that and I agree dodging bills is wrong. It's just another form of stealing.
18 - Rogue has brothers?
19 - Gambit refered to himself as Gambit in front of Storm and Nightcrawler when he had "kidnapped" Rogue.
20 - That is an idea, though since I don't know the original cartoon/comics that well, it's not what's gonna happen :)
texasgrrl: Glad everything was good for ya :) Hope this one is as well.
chicita: The reason Rogue will have her collar off will be explained in this chapter.
firestorm13: Yes, there's gonna be some huge ROMY moments coming up more often now :D
GottaLoveIt: I can assure you that no one is dead. Other than that, you'll have to wait and see :D
Tara: Well I'm glad that you're glad lol :) Hope this update didn't keep you waiting for too long.
Meraculas: I'm glad you liked the chapter. Hope the update has come fast enough :)
IISGREAT: Wow, a cookie! Thankies :) Two cookies you say? Then I'd have three cookies :D
Wiccangurl: Yep, me to, for a year and a half now :) Anyways, glad you like the chapter and don't worry about the writer's block. It's getting better...Kinda -.-
janey: 21 - Ahh yes, a plan. They'll have a plan all right, (knowing snigger) :D
22 - I did mention them. Rogue says, and I quote, "And whah did it have to happen when the Professor and most of the other teachers are still awah at that conferance in Washington?" There, you see? He and the others were mentioned.
Erena G.T Rose: Here's some more :)
Coletterby: Your favourite story at the moment? Aww, that's soooooo nice :D
Friend to All: I'm glad you're liking everything so much and, as always, thank you so much for all your encouragement. It means a lot to me :)
Anna: Yeah, I'm glad I didn't go for the full on sex scene. I reckon it would've chased a lot of people off and one really would've been un-needed.
sakura5tar: I'm glad you're liking everything I'm doing so far. Hope this chapter doesn't disappoint at all :)
Karone Evertree: Glad you liked it. As for Rogue keeping her collar on, that's resolved in this very chapter.
Aliesha: Super awsome? Why, thank you :)
So very many apologies for the lateness of this chapter. Writer's block holds me back and although I try to struggle on, sometimes I get distracted. Plus, I've had exams recently so I've been busying revising and all that stuff. But still, once again, very many sorries.
Wow...That has got to be the shortest beginning message of the story so far. I can't believe I have nothing to say...Oh well...You might as well go ahead and read the story then O.o
In the end, not much breakfast was actually eaten, as the majority of the time everybody was speaking every five seconds. Rogue had started the explanations off by telling Kitty and Jubilee everything about Remy. Well, everything except for the existence of Head Remy and the fact Remy wasn't a teleporter, she was. Yes, everything would've made a Hell of a lot more sense if she had told them everything and, when she had started, she'd had every intention to. However, when she went to speak the words, different words came out. Instead of telling the truth, she told more lies. Why was this? She didn't know. The words came out without her controlling them and the shock of saying something she hadn't meant to lasted only a few seconds before it faded to a memory. She didn't know why.
Once Rogue's explanation was finished, she offered to answer any questions either of her friends might've had. Neither Kitty or Jubilee asked anything straight away but after a short pause to think, Jubilee came up with something. Rogue had actually expected a sensible, relavent to the situation question from her friend. Instead, she was asked through giggles what she and Remy had been getting up to while she and Kitty had been unconscious. At that point, Rogue had blushed brightly and quickly excused herself from the table, claiming to have only just remembered that she hadn't showered for a couple of days and therefore, needed to have one right away.
Rogue had spent a ridiculous amount of time in the bathroom, not really over-joyed with having to face Jubilee's knowingly embarrassing questions but eventually, once she had dressed in a pain-stakingly long amount of time, she rejoined the others who were now gathered in the sitting room. Joe was leaned in close to Kitty on the sofa while he fiddled with the collar around her neck, Jubilee was sitting on the floor by Kitty's feet, slouched back against the base of the sofa and flicking through the channels on the TV andRemy sat in an arm chair on his own, reading a newspaper.
"Feelin' better for dhe shower chere?" Remy inquired, not looking up from his paper, as Rogue moved further into the sitting room.
"Yeah, Ah am thanks." Rogue assured after a second of hesitation to see if Jubilee was going to rise to the bait and point out how long she had taken.
As she went to go past the chair that Remy was sitting in, his hand shot out from behind the newspaper and grabbed hold of her wrist. Rogue giggled out a squeal as Remy pulled her towards him. When the backs of her knees hit the arm of the chair, she fell back onto Remy's lap. Remy then proceeded to nuzzle her neck while his arms wrapped around her in a tight bear hug. Rogue lovingly nuzzled him back and then she caught sight of the newspaper.
"Sugah, ya do realise that this is yesterdays paper raht?" She murmured to him in an amused tone.
"Oui, Remy knows. He was jus' usin' it to lure his cherie into a false sense of security." He grinned back teasingly.
"Uh huh, sure ya were." Rogue replied in a disbelieving tone. Remy gave her cheek a quick kiss before he leaned down as far as he could and pulled something out from under the arm chair.
"Here yo' go." He said as he handed her a familiar pastic bag.
"Mah pencils!" Rogue said happily, remembering the bag as being the all elusive shopping bag from the day she had first heard Head Remy. "Better late then never Swamp Raht." She told him as she leaned in and rubbed her nose against Remy's before sealing his lips in a sweet kiss.
"Uck, get a room." Kitty grunted, her gaze seemingly fixed to stare at the corner of the near by coffee table.
"Remy and his chere go' a room, yo' jus' happen to be in it." Remy pointed out as he began to nuzzle Rogue's neck again.
"Stop being such a grump Kitty." Jubilee chided, still staring intently at the TV screen.
"I'm not being a grump." Kitty muttered, tilting her head further to the side at Joe's gently insistence.
"You are so being a grump." Jubilee replied with a grin.
"Am not!" Kitty insisted irritably.
"Are to!"
"Am not!"
"Okay, not that this ain't a riveting conversation, but there are better things we could be talkin' abaht." Rogue quickly interrupted.
"Like what?" Jubilee asked skeptically, continuing to flip the channels.
"Lahke what's happened to us and hah it happened." Rogue told her seriously.
"Do we have to? I'm in a good mood." Jubilee sighed.
"Then go back to TV land and the rest of us will face reality." Kitty muttered somewhat bitterly. Jubilee didn't reply and simply continued her task of flicking. Kitty shook her head a little before speaking again. "When you ran up to your room, we all decided to just leave you alone, figuring you'd wanna have some time to think, what with all that had happened to you. Gradually, everyone started to go to bed and after a while, it was just myself, Jubilee, Bobby, that kid...Tony I think, and what's her name? Erm...Amara, that's it. Bobby was in the kitchen getting ice-cream when we heard the sound of shattering glass and Bobby's cry of surprise. We all ran to the kitchen and they were all there. Loads of them, all dressed in black, all carrying guns. We all just ran on instinct, I grabbed Jubes' arm and phased us through the nearest wall to us. We were grabbed the moment we re-entered on the other side. The collars were on before we really knew what was happening and then we were told we were being arrested. Before they could handcuff us though, Kurt came and began to fight them off us. Once we'd broken free again, we bolted. I fully intended running as far away from the school as possible but then Jubilee pointed out that you were on your own so we detoured upstairs to fetch you and the rest you know obviously, because, well, you were there."
"So they just suddenly appeared from nowhere?" Rogue asked.
"Pretty much, yeah." Kitty confirmed. "Didn't hear or see a thing until they smashed in the conservatory and then they were suddenly everywhere."
"There." Joe said suddenly as he pulled the collar apart and removed it from Kitty's neck. Kitty raised her hand to rub soothingly at the red band the collar had left behind. After she had done that, she phased the same hand through the seat of the sofa beside her as if just to make sure she still could. "Well, that's my job done. Guess I better be off now." He said as he rose to his feet.
"T'anks so much for dhe help mon ami." Remy said as he got to his feet once Rogue had slid off his lap and then proceeded to get herself tangled up in the newspaper he had been reading.
"Just glad I could." Joe smiled cheerfully as he took Remy's hand in a warm handshake. "Let me know if you need anything more. I'm in the same place as always."
"Hey look! The school's on the TV." Jubilee suddenly gasped in surprise. All eyes were immediately on the TV screen and all voices were silenced as they began to listen to the report on the 24 hour news channel:
"...Live, who are suspected to haveransacked the largest diamond and jewellery store in New York last night. Although the culprits escaped before the authorities could arrive, they have been identified from the security camera footage which was taken. The two suspects have been named as Remy LeBeau and a girl only known as Rogue, both mutants from the Westchester area." With that, the security camera footage came up on the screen as the news reader continued talking. Sure enough, there was the fuzzy, though still painfully clear, image ofRogue and Remy phasing through the wall of the jewellery store and then proceeding to fill bags with jewels which Rogue retrieved by phasing her hand through the glass display cases they were housed in.
"That ain't me!" Rogue cried in disbelief.
"Duh Rogue." Jubilee droned.
"Sure looks like you though." Kitty mused.
"Hah...Hah is this even possible?" Rogue asked no one in particular, leaning forward to bury her face in her hands. The room went quiet again except for the voice of the newsreader.
"Last night, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a well known institute for young mutants, was stormed in order to arrest all those involved in the robbery. However, despite most of the mutants being arrested, the two main suspects and another two fugitives remained elusive. Experts in the area of mutants say..."
"That's whah they came? They came to arrest me because they think Ah broke into some jewellery store!" Rogue cried in disbelief.
"If they only wanted you, then why did they feel the need to arrest all of us?" Jubilee cried indignantly.
"Maybe they think we were all involved in the robbery." Kitty suggested through a sigh. "Well, at least we know what's going on now. It's something."
"I think I prefered not knowing." Jubilee grumbled as she got to her feet and began to wander around the room, suddenly restless.
"Well, what d'ya think we should do nah?" Rogue asked quietly.
"We can't leave the apartment. We should lay low for a while." Kitty replied, her tone over-controlled.
"But what good will that do?" Rogue questioned innocently.
"I don't know!" Kitty snapped irritably. "But it's a better idea than going out there!"
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Jubilee said from over by the window on the other side of the room. "Those army guys from last night are outside."
In a matter of seconds after Jubilee had said that, everyone had gathered around the window to look. There, down on the street, was one of the army trucks from the previous night. They watched as the front passenger door opened and a man dressed in the familiar black combat gear walked around the front of the truck and begat to talk to whoever was in the driver's seat.
"You don't think they know we're here do you?" Jubilee asked in a hushed voice as if the soldier on the street below could hear her.
"No way. How could they?" Kitty answered with a frown. Suddenly, the man on the street turned and looked straight at them. "No way! It's just a coincidence. He's not actually looking at us. It just looks like he is." Kitty insisted, her tone betraying her confident words.
"Hey, what's that in his hand?" Rogue pondered when she noticed the man was holding something in his hand. The man abrubtly turned from looking in their direction to say something to the other person in the truck. He then banged on the side of the vehicle and several other men began to pour out of the back of it. When all ten men were gathered on the pavement, four of them began to walk towards the apartment block entrance.
"Ohmigod! They know we're here! They know we're here!" Jubilee squeeled fearfully, backing away from the window.
"Calm down." Kitty insisted. "I'm sure they don't...But just in case they do,you better let me take your collar off." She finished, reaching for Jubilee.
Rogue threw Remy a fearful look and he glared at his front door for a brief second before hurrying into his bedroom, no doubt to get dressed. After Rogue had watched him go, she turned to see that Kitty had pulled Jubilee's collar off and Joe was now sitting on the sofa, hurridly examining the collar which had been around Kitty's neck. She watched as the middle-aged man began to pull the metal apart so that he could look at the mechanics inside.
"Rogue?" Kitty's voice interrupted her stare. Rogue turned to her friend and saw that she looked oddly sad and regretful. "Should I take your collar off now?" She suggested, already reaching forward.
"No!" Rogue gasped quickly, her hands coming up to hold the collar protectively. Kitty's hand stopped but didn't drop from it's position near Rogue's neck. "Ah...Ah don't wanna take it off until Ah really have to." Rogue explained, almost shyly. Kitty let her arm drop and gave a small nod of understanding.
The three consecutive bangs which suddenly came at the front door gave them all a start and caused Jubilee to give a small yelp of shock. None of them moved until Remy came back into the sitting room just as a second sequence of three bangs came.
"Open up." A male voice came from the other side of the door. Everyone looked around at each other desperately. "I said open up. Now!" The voice came again. Jubilee glanced at Kitty quickly before moving over to the door and clearing her throat silently.
"Who's dhere?" Jubilee called out in a terrible Jamaican accent which brought small groans from Kitty and Rogue. "Can' an ol' woman have a little peace and quiet in her own home?"
"This is the police. Open the door." The voice said again.
"Geez, what is this guy a robot or something?" Kitty muttured darkly.
"Why? I'm jus' an old woman. I don' go nowhere, I don' see not'in'. What do yo' wan' from me?" Jubilee tried again.
"We know you're hiding mutant fugitives in there, now open up!" The voice ordered harshly.
Jubilee threw a desperate look over her shoulder and Kitty and Rogue held up their hands in a sign of lacking ideas. Joe, holding a part from the collar he had taken apart, silently went over to Remy and murmured something in his ear. Remy's face fell as Joe spoke and remained solemn after as well. He whispered his reply to Joe who nodded once he was finished. He turned away from Remy and headed out of the room, grabbing Rogue's shopping bag as he passed it, and headed into the kitchen. Remy gave a quiet sigh before he moved up behind Rogue.
"This is your last chance." The voice behind the door warned. "Open the door now or we'll be forced to break it down.
Upon hearing that, Jubilee quickly lurched forward and locked the door and put the chain across as if that would somehow help stop the police from breaking in. She then took a couple of steps backwards and they all waited. The few seconds they actually waited seemed to drag on for an eternity but it still ended too soon. The first thud came and they all visibly jumped despite knowing it was coming. The second thump came seconds after, this one making the door noticeably move inward, and Jubilee quickly ran to Kitty's side as Rogue grabbed Remy's hand. With the third thump, both locks on the door were broken and the door flew open...
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! I can hear the groans of frustration from here :D I know I'm evil but I really wanted to get this chapter up as it's been so long and it's always nice to keep readers on their toes...I'm going to Hell, I know I am O.o
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