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I was told that I could put in more details about Rogues birthday in the first chapter. You are right, I could have, but seeing as Rogue treated her birthday as a normal day there was not much to write about.

For those who are interested, this takes place after Cajun Spice…let's just pretend that the Acolytes met up again and Magneto…well, I have no idea where he is gone.

I think one person asked me what A-levels I've been doing…or that could be a review for another story, either way my A-levels are: Biology, Chemistry, French and English Literature and Language.

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Chapter 3

Rogue stormed upstairs immediately after the introductions, not because she was angry at the new recruits but because she felt an angry strop was expected of her.

"Not like ah need their introductions anyway."

At some point in her recent history, a mutant known as Mesmero had possessed Rogue. Whilst under this possession, she had been forced to absorb everyone on her team and all the Acolytes. They were still in her head, she needed no introductions.

Deep down, Rogue knew that they were good people…at least Colossus was. Pyro was plain insane, it would take her awhile to understand that one. Gambit was another object completely. She could categorise the others but Gambit was an enigma. He was an unfeeling heart breaker and yet he had helped numerous people who he clearly disliked and hated. He made it look like he cared for no one but from their time spent together in New Orleans it was obvious that he did care for people. It was confusing!

"Best stay away from that one."

Some things were best left a mystery.

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Remy was confused. He had thought that Rogue would have been…well not exactly happy at his arrival but he didn't expect her to storm off! He thought they had past the mortal enemy thing, especially after their parting in New Orleans. He'd been dieing to go with her then but he still had to sort things out, his joke of a family for an instance. Now that was all done and dusted he decided to make a go of this good guy business. He had met Pyro and Colossus on the way here, purely a coincidence no matter how it looked; Magneto was off somewhere doing his own thing leaving them free to join up with whomever they liked.

"An' Remy like de X-men…one in particular."

"'Cuse me Prof, may Remy go an' look around?"

"Of course! Would you like a guide?"

"Non thank you sir. Remy be good at finding' his way around buildins"

"I bet you are."

"Scott! I will not tolerate any antagonism towards your new team mates!"

"Yes sir. Sorry sir."

"It's fine Prof. Remy be used to it."

"Very well, if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask."

"Merci."

Half an hour later Remy was still walking around the mansion. It had taken him half an hour to get rid of Pyro, finally managing by telling him to go hide and he'd come and find him later. Of course, he wouldn't but Pyro would have fun all the same.

At long last Remy found the girls dorm.

"Now Remy, you jus' gotta find her room."

Shouldn't be too difficult, all the rooms had collages pinned to the door of favourite boy bands and fluffy animals…all except one.

"Ah, dat mus' be de one!"

He knocked on the door…no reply. There was no other place she could be though, he had searched the entire mansion and never saw her once.

"Open up chere, Remy knows you in dere!"

Still no answer.

"If you don' open up de door, Remy will tell your Prof dat you were bein' antagonistic towards your new team mate!"

The door swung open revealing a very disgruntled Rogue.

"Dere you are!"

"Where else would I be?"

"…"

"UH! What do you want Swamp Rat!"

"Jus' wanted to know a few dings."

"Such as?"

"Do you still have Remy's card?"

"No."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Chere! Dat was my lucky card!"

"So, there's one in every pack of cards, they're not that hard to come by you know?"

"Dat's not de point!"

"Well, can't do anything about it now. I've got important stuff to be doing, Good Bye!"

Remy was just about to reply with another sarcastic remark when she slammed the door in his face.

"Wait, she just slammed the door on me? Dat's never happened before! Dis is certainly a new challenge."

Evening the score, Remy simply decided to state what he already knew.

"REMY KNOWS YOU STILL HAVE IT CHERE!"

Inside her room, Rogue was furious. Not with Remy mind you but with herself. She crossed the room and opened her top drawer, laying on the top of various heaps of clothes lay a playing card. The queen of hearts, the very card Remy had given her in New Orleans.

"Why did I keep it? You just made yourself look like the worlds biggest idiot! Seriously why did you keep it?"

Rogue threw herself down onto her bed still clutching the card; she knew why she had kept it. Remy had said some things to her about family, which made her, realise how lucky she was, Remy had given her this card as a symbol of good luck and it had reminded her of her fortune every time she looked at it…that's the reason why she kept it.

"Yeah, like, sure it is!"

"Shut up Kitty!"

Psyches could be hard work sometimes.

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Hello! Quick update for me huh! Thought I'd turn my anger onto writing. I was supposed to get my hair cut today and my hairdresser is really good, there's a waiting list for her, got home for college and my sister decided it would be funny to see how I reacted if she took my place! Now I cant get my hair cut until June!

Not impresses!

Anyway! Lol! What do you think of this chapter? Reviews please!

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