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This fic is untitled for now but it would be great if you could give me a few ideas as what the title should be. Reviews would also be nice!

Oh, All the characters have no accents since I refuse to destroy the southern accent, however, my best friend has started proof reading/editing this story and she has started putting a few in….if they're wrong blame her!

Disclaimer: I do not own the x-men, or anything you recognise here...pity :(

Sorry for the wait. I have had loads of Lab exams in Biology and Chemistry over the past week. I had to do all the planning, then the investigation itself and now I am onto analysing the evidence. It takes up quite a bit of time! I wrote most of this chapter with a little help from Kimber so if any of the characters seem unlike themselves it is because Kimber has never actually watched a single episode of evo! However she is an accomplished romance writer…a female St. John!

Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, I do not have enough time to respond at the minute so I you asked me a question and you want the answer or if you want to know the results of the poll to decide on the name of this story then see my profile and everything will be revealed!

Chapter 5

(Flashback: "You like torturing me!"

"Not true! Let's go for a walk." he turned her around still keeping an iron grip around her waist.

"Where're you takin' me Swamp Rat?" she looked around making sure that none of the x-men saw her whilst secretly hoping that they would help her.

"Don' worry chere; none of your little x-friends are around." Remy grinned at her and carried on leading her in the direction of the park.)

Remy was still guiding Rogue towards his destination.

"This is the way to the park! Why are we goin' to the park?'

"You'll see chere, you'll see. Remy's had this planned out for three days."

"Had what planned? Tell me now Cajun or I won't move another step!"

Rogue was tired of this game; Remy had been leading her around Bayville for half an hour! She felt uncomfortable with his arm around her waist and even more awkward when he bent his head down to whisper in her ear the answers to all her questions.

Still, it was worth all this discomfort to see the looks on cheerleaders faces or the 'Bayville Bimbos' as she called them. Perfect hair, make-up, skin that could be flaunted and touched, Rogue knew she never have these things in great amounts and yet she was the one who had Remy Lebeau's arms around her. She inched herself closer towards Remy so that their sides were touching and laughed to herself as the leader of the 'B.B.' began shouting for an emergency meeting with her friends.

Remy looked down at Rogue, surprised at her sudden change. No longer kicking and screaming she was actually smiling and cooperating!

"Chere has a belle smile, Remy will have to make her smile more often." Although this change was welcome, Remy wanted to know what had caused it.

"See chere, Remy knew you would loosen up eventually!"

"Shut up Cajun, I'm not doin' it for you"

"Who then?"

"None of your business! Just tell me where we're goin'"

"Mais, it wouldn't be a surprise!"

"It's not gonna be a surprise when I kick your ass but that's not gonna stop me doin' it!"

"Ah, there she is, Chere hadn't been possessed after all!" Deciding that it was better to give in then end up half dead, Remy told Rogue exactly where they were going.

"We goin' down to the river in the park"

Rogue was blessedly silent for all of two seconds.

"Why we goin' there? What's so special about that place?"

Rogue looked back over her shoulder, the 'B.B' had gone, probably to develop a cunning plan which would separate her and Remy….hopefully they'd be quick about it. Seeing as there was no one to shock and/or tease Rogue pulled away from Remy.

"This is it chere, here's your surprise" Remy removed his arm from around her waist and placed his hands on her shoulders giving her a gentle push towards a giant oak tree under which a picnic had been laid out on a red and black blanket. The scent of southern food called to Rogue, inviting her to sit and enjoy everything that was on offer.

"Go ahead chere, Remy didn't cook all this for nothing" Rogue turned ready to make a comment about him of all people cooking which would hopefully cover her shock but Remy was already talking to someone else.

"Thanks mon ami, Remy owes you one." Remy patted the shoulder of his friend Colossus who had guarded the picnic from such things as ants, birds…Pyro.

Rogue watched the interchange cursing her inability to read lips as Colossus walked away, Remy turned and saw her looking, walking over to her he said,

"Come on chere! This took hours to make, don' let it go to waste!"

"You cooked this?" Rogue found it hard to believe yet knew that the southern imitation restaurants could never make Gumbo this good.

"Oui chere, Remy made it…he does do other things besides runnin' round after Magneto."

"And stalking me"

"It's not stalking! Besides, if I had not, we wouldn't be here now eating our favourite foods."

"I guess." Rogue didn't mention the fact that he had just contradicted himself. She got herself another bowl of gumbo as Remy started his first. Fifteen minutes passed by, Remy and Rogue sat against the tree finishing the last of their meal.

"This is nice though isn't it chere?"

"The food?" The food was all Rogue could think about, she hadn't tasted genuine southern food in what seemed like a lifetime. It was worth the weeks of stalking just for one bowl of Remy's gumbo.

"Non, not the food chere, though Remy is glad you enjoyed it…Remy talking about how we're not arguing, we just be sitting here talking, no mention of enemies or fightin' …it's nice"

"Yeah I suppose, I guess I just don't feel like fightin' with you right now."

"Can you feel like that from now on chere? Remy likes it when we just talk."

"Remy, we're enemies! We have to fight otherwise…we wouldn't be enemies!"

"Then we'll stop bein' enemies, we're not enemies now are we? Besides, you just called Remy, Remy, not Swamp rat or Cajun, so you must like me a little more!"

"I like your food…I'm still not sure about you yet."

"So you have been thinking about me then chere?"

"No! I just…." Rogue realised her mistake and there was no way to dig herself out of the little hole she had just fallen in.

"Its o.k. chere, Remy been thinking about you too." Rogue lowered her head so that he could not see her blushes. She had realised that she likes Remy after he'd kissed her, he wasn't bad to look at, he'd cooked for her and there was that matter of him saving her life, but he was the enemy, it wouldn't work. Look at what happened to Lance and Kitty, that didn't work out, Lance had been sweet but he still ended up hurting Kitty, not so much physically but emotionally. Rogue didn't know if she could take that, she had so much going on in her head already.

"Chere." Rogue didn't answer. "Chere, look at me," Rogue had to obey; he had said 'me' and not 'Remy' which meant that he was serious. She needed to hear this, needed to see that there was another side to the playful, cocky Cajun.

"It could work, Rogue we don't have to be enemies, this isn't about the Acolytes and X-men, it's about Remy and Rogue." Remy took hold of her hand, raising it to his lips and kissing her palm, "Jus' Rogue and Remy."

Rogue was at a loss, she understood what he was saying but her head and her heart were pulling her in two opposite directions.

"Remy, you know that I like you, you probably knew the first time we met when Magneto trapped the x-men. But no matter what we say, we're still enemies, what if the X-men find out? What if Magneto finds out? It's a lot of trouble."

"So you don' want this because it's too much work?" Remy dropped her hand, disappointed that she wasn't seeing things from his point of view.

"That's not it! I have a lot of stuff goin' on in my head, I'm confused! Most of the time I'm not sure if I'm me! My powers…"

"Don' affect me chere! This could be your only chance and you want to throw this away? We'll be careful chere, no one knows about our other meetings do they? They'd never know!"

"Scott saw us, he probably told Jean and she'll have told the professor for sure!"

"Nothings happened though has it?"

"Something will happen when I get back home, when they find out I skipped school and the B.B will spread more rumours around, in fact the whole town probably know we're together right now!"

"So? Everybody already knows no problem!"

"Remy…."

"Please chere, jus' think about it? It could work!" Rogue said nothing; she stood simply staring at Remy and the pained expression on his face. Realising defeat Remy's shoulders slumped.

"Come on chere, Remy'll take you back to school, you should be able to pretend that you've been there all day non?" Remy stood up, collecting all the empty bowls, wrapping them in the blanket and concealing them in the tree before stalking off towards the school.

Rogue watched as he did all this, silently contemplating his plea, summing up all the reasons why she should be with Remy and the numerous reasons why she shouldn't. Deciding on her answer Rogue got up off the ground and ran over to Remy's side, she linked her arm through his and looked up at him.

"It could work."

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Belle beautiful

Mais but

Mon ami my friend

I think that was my longest chapter! Woohoo!

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