A/n : I am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so sorry for the long wait! I have had so much writers block on this story and so much other stories that I have written! I apologize and truly hope you will forgive me! Especially to Kyo-Kitty and Kitty Helsing. The two people who have been waiting so patiently and kitty helsing who keeps bugging me about when I am going to update on this story. Bt I reply I have writers block, which I did. I am sooooooooo sorry. and can only pray that you will still review!

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Ch.20: The Bet Part.1

When they reached the medical wing, they realized that no one was there. "Strange Mr. McCoy is usually down here 24/7." Rogue said she opened the door to one of the room. "go sit down on the bed I'll go find Mr. McCoy." Rogue instructed. Remy slowly but surely made it over to the bed. "Again I am sorry. Logan should never have done that." Rogue sighed and looked down and shook her head. "Every thing is alright I'll be fine. No worries." Rogue looked up, smiled and decided to make the conversation amusing "Hakuna Matata." Remy cocked his eyebrow in confusion. "Hakuna Matata. You know the Lion King." Remy shook his head. "You've never heard of the

Lion king?" Rogue asked shocked. "nope." He replied. "God, what in hell is wrong with you?" ( A/n I will not get mad at anyone who has not seen the Lion King for my friend has not seen it either.) "Chere?" He asked confused. "Everyone has seen the Lion King." He shrugged. "not me." Rogue slapped her forehead. "I will make you see it whether you like it or not…now I have to go find Mr. McCoy. And…don't do anything stupid." (he he…Pirates of the Caribbean Joke…man what is with me and movies today…soon enough ill put something else from a movie… BTW I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean.) Remy gave her a look. "What is that supposed to mean?" Rogue gave him a 'you know what Im talking about look' "Remy I know you. If you are unwatched for too long you get agitated and then do something stupid." Remy huphed and laid on the bed. "Ill be back in a few minutes." Rogue explained then left the room.

She walked down the hall searching for Mr. McCoy. She looked in the library he was not there, she got Kurt to look in the bathrooms, he was not there, she checked in the kitchen, rec-room and the danger room and had no idea where he could be. She placed her hands on her hips and frowned. Then Kitty passed her, and stopped when she saw her. "Rogue, like what's wrong?" Kitty asked. "im trying to find Mr. McCoy but he's not any where." Rogue said in an annoyed voice. "He's like outside with the boys playing baseball." Kitty explained. "Oh." Rogue said sheepishly, she didn't think to check outside. Kitty giggled and continued walking. Rogue walked toward the back door and sure enough there was Mr. McCoy playing with all the boys of the mansion. She opened the door and walked toward the field.

"COME ON! Get home, get home!" beast cried to the runner who was running across the bases. She saw Bobby catch the ball and throw it to Ray at home plate, and then Roberto slid into home just before Ray caught the ball. "SAFE" Beast called out making a motion with his hands. Some of the boys cheered and some drooped their heads dropping their mitts. Rogue laughed and walked over to Mr. McCoy. "Mr. McCoy." Beast turned his attention from putting the equipment away to the girl standing behind him. "Ah Rogue, what can I do for?" He asked. "Uh well…Remy kinda got into an accident; You could say and he needs to be looked at." He suddenly looked serious, "I'll be there as soon as I can." Rogue nodded and went back into the house and up to the medical room.

Rogue walked into the room and was surprised to see Remy sitting on the bed, looking bored, but still behaving. "Mr. McCoy should be up here soon." Rogue said, getting his attention. He nodded and looked forward at the wall in front of him. "You look bored." Remy turned his head and gave her a 'duh' look. "What. You've never been hurt before?"

"I have. But Magneto doesn't have a medical wing like you guys, he just made us make it heal on our own."

"Magneto doesn't care about anyone but himself."

"Yes. I've learned that the hard way."

"So have I!" Rogue and Remy turned their heads to see John peeking his head in. "Wow, Remy what happened to you mate?"

Rogue wrinkled her brow in confusion. "weren't you the one who told me he was getting beat up in the first place?"

"Oh yeah. Wow I really don't want to get in the way of wolvie when he's mad." John said coming into the room.

"Don't worry you don't have to, Logan was just mad at Remy for being my boy-friend."

"Which is kind of silly if you ask me…" Remy said from the bed.

"Logan is very protective over me. He just doesn't trust you yet. I didn't trust you, hell I didn't even like you at first."

"Are you suggesting that Logan will fall in love with Gambit after a while?"

Both Remy and Rogue looked at John.

"what?"

"Why don't you just be quiet Pyro it will be better for everyone." Rogue suggested.

"Rogue, I don't think 'John' and 'be quiet' can be in the same sentence unless 'can not' is in the middle." Remy said.

"Yea." John then realized what he said, "Hey! I can be quiet! Watch." He shut his mouth and sat down in the chair just staring at the wall. Rogue shook her head and turned back to Remy. "So how are you feeling?"

"A little bit better than when you asked two minutes ago."

Rogue lightly slapped his shoulder. "Don't be a smart ass."

"Chere. That's my middle name." He smirked.

Just then Mr.McCoy came in, cleaned up from the baseball came he was just umpiring. He had glasses on top of his head and he grabbed a white doctors coat from a hanger and put it on. He grabbed a clip board. He walked over to Remy's bed and looked at him, then saw John in the corner.

"Is he ok?" He asked.

John was sitting on the chair, shaking and his face was turning blue and then he fell off the chair rolling up in a little ball on the floor.

"John! For God's sake we said not to talk! Not to not breathe!"

John opened his mouth and started panting heavily.

"Idiot." Remy whispered.

Mr. McCoy smirked and whispered to Rogue and Remy, "now I see why magneto kicked him out."

They both laughed. But then Remy started to cough.

"oh right. So, Remy What happened, Rogue told me you got into an accident of some kind?" Mr. McCoy asked getting back to the matter at hand. His glasses were sliding down his nose and his pen was to the clip board.

"Well it really wasn't an accident. Logan came up to me and told me to come with him. He brought me to this place called the danger room?" He looked to Rogue to see if it was correct, she nodded. Mr. McCoy looked up, "The danger room?" Remy nodded and continued, "Well, He went up into this little control room and told me this was to see if I was qualified to be an X-man and all these machines started firing off lazers and things. I don't remember much after that, all I remember is seeing bright colors and fighting for my life."

Mr. McCoy shook his head as he wrote on the Clip Board. "I am going to have to have a talk with that man."

"Logan's been acting really strange lately." Rogue said coming into the conversation. "He seems more protective of me lately. When he saw me with Pietro the other day he was yelling at me that he was the son of our enemy."

"Well he is." Mr. McCoy explained.

"yes, but Remy worked for him. And tried to kill me."

"Hey! That was the first time we met, and magneto had me under his control."

"Uh huh sure. Well anyway, Later Pietro explained to me that Mystique was more like a mother to him that magneto was a father. and Mystiques not even his real mother."

"Yeah well I can understand that. Magneto is so not a fatherly person. All he cares about is taking over the world and destroying the x-men and crazy insane stuff like that."

"Sounds like Pyro, only instead of taking over the world it's fire." Rogue said pointing to John behind her.

"Hey! That's not true! I do care about other things…people." John said standing up.

"Remy! When you were in a slump for some reason or another, I was there to cheer you up!"

"Ok John. Why don't we make a bet." Rogue suggested.

"A bet? What kind of bet?" John asked.

"I bet that you couldn't go a week with out mentioning, or playing with fire, but instead hanging around with people."

John looked down at his lighter, His darling lighter that was the only thing that kept his powers alive. He looked back up at Rogue and threw his lighter over his shoulder, smiling. He stuck out his hand for her to shake. "You're on."

Rogue smiled and shook his hand, "good. Now the matter of what happens if I win."

"Or I win."

"Yes. Ok So if I win you have to…" Rogue tried to think of what to do. Remy called her over and whispered something in her ear. She smiled evilly. "If I win. You have to dress like up a girl and go shopping with Kitty and some of the younger recruits."

For a minute John had a scared look in his eyes but he quickly lost it, "uh…ok. And if I win, you have to…uh…wear a dress – a long one- …" He saw Remy saying something over Rogue's shoulder, it took him a few seconds to read his lips but then he got it and nodded. "…and none of that heavy black make up, if your going to wear it you have to wear the pinks and purples and light blues things like that."

Rogue hesitated to speak for a moment and looked at Remy who shrugged. She sighed and shook Johns hand again, sealing the deal. "ok, Johnny boy its Thursday, you get fire for today, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday and then the bet begins."

He grinned, "im looking forward to seeing you in a dress Rogue, I think your going to look very pretty." Rogue's eyes narrowed and slapped him on the arm, john just laughed.

"Well we'll see about that Pyro, we will see."

A/N: Sorry this one is a little short, Im just blocking again, Review please!

Next Chapter: The Bet begins, can pyro survive without fire for a week? Or will he break it and have to shopping with Kitty and the younger recruits?