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Chapter 3 A few visitors
Remy was so pissed off he stormed upstairs, and slammed the door shut locking it, mumbling curses as he paced his room, throwing his coat on the bed, he then grabbed his cell and dialed his father, after a few rings Jean-Luc picked up "What's da matter boy you alright?" he asked in a worried tone.
"Yeah, I'm fine…ya sure I can't torch dis place?" Remy growled.
Jean-Luc sighed giving a small chuckle, "What did dey do?"
"Wanted ta know if my mother was a mutant…" he mumbled. "Dey wouldn't shut-up about it…" Remy then grinned, "You'll probably get a call about it later…if I have anything ta do about it…"
"Ey…don't go starting up something petite…I'm warnin ya…dat there's da only place da Assassins don't know where ya are…and it gives me peace of mind knowin' that your safe…don' do nothin' foolish." Jean-Luc warned hearing only silence. "Remy…"
Remy sighed, "I'll 'try' and behave…" he looked at his mirror and stuck out his tongue grumbling curses.
Jean-Luc chuckled, "If Tante could hear ya now…How ya doin' in controlin' ya powers?"
"Oh dat well…"
"What-did-ya-do?"
"Nothin…I swear…just made a card blew up in a student's face…he was bein' an asshole…"
"Remy…"
"All he got was soot on his face…" Remy grinned he could sense his father's frustration over the phone.
"What am I gonna do wit' ya boy…" Jean-Luc sighed trying to rub away the sudden migraine he had.
"The Professor said he'd give me a week ta get used to everyone here then start on workin' on my powers."
"Well dat's good…Did ya get a message from Lapin?"
"Yeah met him on da streets…got caught by one of da teachers though…said he could smell da blood on me had ta tell them bout da buildin' wanted ta know how big of a charge I could muster…also had ta let their doctor look at me…dat's when they started pissin me off bout my old scars…asked if my mother did them to me…" Remy scoffed looking out the window. "Assassins don't know I'm at da institute do they?"
Remy could hear his father sigh, "Non…not yet…don' worry da Guild's gonna find Julien soon, even his père's goin' nuts in trying ta hunt him down…said he's gone too far this time…" Remy could hear people walking around the house muttering. "Listen petite I gotta go…anythin' else happens ya call me alright?"
"Yeah…"
"Love ya…"
"Love ya too…" Remy hung up placing his cell on the night stand and turning on some music, lied down on his bed and closed his eyes.
His eyes snapped open when there was a knock at his door, sighing Remy leaned over to the cd player and cranked up the volume, meaning 'I don't want to be bothered, so leave me alone' but that dreadful knock was still heard just a little louder this time, Remy mouthed off the words to the song as he pillowed his head with his arms ignoring whoever was on the other side of the door. The knock was quickly replaced with someone continuously pounding their fist on the door.
"Well dey persistent aren't dey?" Remy smirked as he stood and went to the door leaning against it he placed his hand on it. The door started to glow a faint pink, as it did the pounding ceased, Remy could sense the person back up against the wall. Taking back the charge within his body Remy watched as the door stopped glowing, leaning away from the door he went back to his bed and lied down lifting his hands he stared at them turning them over and wiggled his fingers. He then looked back to the door when he sensed that whoever was banging on it was still there. Frowning when he noticed that the doorknob was sizzling and had detached itself from the door, Remy glared as the door was swiftly kicked open and Scott emerged from the hall, "Let Remy guess…ya still pissed bout wearin' pink?" he asked quirking an eyebrow.
"Dinners ready…and don't ever use your powers in the mansion again…" Scott warned.
"Like what you just did?" Remy smirked.
"Unlike you I can control my powers, and turn that crap off…" he yelled.
Remy smirked as he shut off the cd player. "Anythin' else his highness commands?"
"You know ever since you've been here all I did was be nice the least you can do is act the same…"
"Be nice…aftah we met, I didn't say more then one line and ya thought I'd been in a prison…"
"Will you calm down…the institute is all about second chances doesn't matter if you've been in a jail cell or whatever you'll still be accepted here…"
Remy sat up and looked at Scott curiously, "Second chances hun…what'd you do?"
"I didn't do anything I needed help with my powers…I was one of The Professor's first students…"
"So that mean you're a kiss ass hun?" Remy chuckled as he stood grabbed his trench coat and pocketed his cell, putting on his sunglasses he walked past Scott, "Ya gonna replace that lock I hope…I don' like people hoverin' ovah me when I sleep." He smirked as he walked down the hall.
"Why did you put that on…you're going to eat dinner downstairs." Scott asked as he closed Remy's door and followed the Cajun.
"Dis Cajun's always prepared one-eye…quit annoying me with all the questions…" Remy drawled.
"Always prepared…" Scott repeated with a laugh. "For what…" he chuckled, "Oh I know if someone attacks you, you can flash them and scare them away right?"
Remy grinned as he walked down the stairs, and entered the dining hall. Apparently Scotty had no idea how dangerous the Cajun actually was, or could be.
During dinner Remy kept quiet listening to the conversation at the table which was mostly about clothes, make-up, hair and cars, not really anything interesting there, Remy mostly played with his food waiting for the moment the Professor would excuse them from the table it was an extremely long moment.
"You seem very quiet Remy…would you like to talk about something?" Hank asked.
Remy winced when all eyes turned to him, "Eh no not really…" he muttered playing with his food again.
"Awww c'mon swamp rat don't tell me you're shy?" Rogue grinned wickedly.
"No I ain't shy, I just don't want to talk about myself…that's all you people evah want me ta talk about…" Remy huffed as he stared at the Goth.
Xavier tilted his head as he sensed someone at the front door, telepathically asking Scott to go answer it Xavier gave his attention back to the arguing going on at the table.
A few moments later Scott led the person into the dining hall, "Remy you have a visitor…"
Remy looked up, "Visitor…who da hell would come ta see me here?" he grumbled as he stood and walked over to Scott, then glared at his cousin who gave him a wide grin, tilting his head back Remy sighed, "Now what?"
"What I can't come visit my cousin?" Lapin asked looking at his watch, Remy lifted his sunglasses and glared at him, taking the hint Lapin looked around, "So…what's the fastest way out of here?"
Remy took a breath, "Dey didn't…"
"We got like a minute and a half, before they burst through dat door…"
Scott looked at the two confused, "Burst…who?"
Lapin eyed him over, then looked back to Remy, "Yeah burst…dey got their own little armory…and dynamite…" he looked back to his watch, "Oh…forty-seven seconds…"
"Who has dynamite?" Logan growled standing from his seat as did the other X-men.
"Um…no time homme…" Lapin huffed as he grabbed Remy, who led him upstairs.
"This can't be good…" Logan seethed as he made his way to the front door. When he opened the doors there was no one there, frowning he looked to the Professor, who didn't sense anyone anywhere near the estate.
Meanwhile Lapin grinned as he followed Remy up to the roof, "You know you didn't have ta get all dramatic in front of them…" Remy ground out as he climbed down a pillar.
"Awww come on…it's called a distraction Rem…besides they do know where ya are high time we get out of here, uncle Jean's gonna get someone ta pick us up at da airport. We got about two hours ta kill." Lapin whispered as he in turn climbed down the pillar landing on his feet gracefully, he then turned to his favorite cousin and frowned when he noticed Remy leaning against the pillar his hands clenched in deep concentration, "You okay?" he asked then gasped when Remy had accidentally charged the pillar.
"Fuck…" Remy whispered as he backed off.
"Oh shit…" Lapin whispered in turn then grabbed Remy by the arm and pulled him until they were out of range. Dropping to the ground and covering their heads. An explosion was heard as well as felt, the cousins slowly turned and looked at the mansion, thankfully it hadn't caught fire, but now there was a huge hole in it. Lapin looked to Remy who sighed and rested his head on the grass.
"I tink I may be in worse trouble than I thought…" he groaned.
"At least no one got hurt right?"
"Non…everyone was eatin'"
"Well dat's good now come on we gotta go…" Lapin helped Remy on his feet, and started running into the woods, then climbed the wall surrounding the property, Lapin grinned as he lifted his arms to show Remy the car.
Remy who was sitting on top of the wall looked at his cousin confused, "Out of all da car's in New-York ya steal a beat up rusted piece of crap Tempo?"
"What it's da only think I could get on short notice…" Lapin defended himself. "Oh shut-up and get in…" he huffed as he sat in the driver's side and hot wired it.
Remy shook his head as he looked back at the mansion at the small group that had gathered among the remains of what was the side of the mansion, Remy didn't mean to charge the pillar he tried as hard as he could but he couldn't stand the pain in his hands anymore and since he was already touching the pillar he couldn't take back the charge, "Remy come on…" he heard Lapin call out Remy grit his teeth when he noticed Logan quickly making his way to him.
"Merde…" he whispered as he lowered himself from the wall and quickly entered the car, Logan rushed up to the wall and climbed it watching as the car sped off. "We gotta get rid of this car…Logan just saw us drive off…" he groaned looking back to see if the man was following them.
"So?" Lapin asked as he made a sharp turn.
"Dat guy can track down anything…" Remy muttered as he sat back in the seat and looked forward.
"Alright so we ditch the car when we reach the city…no problem…" he answered as he looked at Remy who was starting to bite his thumbnail, "Don't do that…every time ya bite your nails it means you got a bad feelin' bout something so quit it…" Lapin growled.
Remy grinned "You're imagining tings'" he chuckled then looked at the mirror beside him he definitely had a bad feeling.
Half an hour later Remy and his cousin ditched the car at a fast food joint, and were now walking down the crowded streets, Lapin kept looking around, "Okay we got ovah an hour where do we go ta hide out?"
Remy frowned and looked at his cousin, "Okay why are ya freakin' out…how many men did Julien send?"
"Ummm not sure really?" Lapin lied as he looked around again.
"I don' know how many times I've told ya you suck at lying…" Remy turned to his cousin. "Lapin…" He growled.
"Forty-seven…" he answered.
Remy's face paled, "Are ya shittin' me?"
"Which is why I'm rushin ya ta get off da streets…pick a place homme…"
Remy growled out in frustration as he led his cousin to the group of people waiting outside of a dance club, flashing their ID's they quickly entered the club.
XxXxX
"Who was that red haired guy?" Kitty asked.
"That was Remy's cousin…Bunny something…" Logan growled, "Why did he lie about the attack?"
"The hell with that why the hell did Remy blow up a part of the mansion?" Bobby asked.
"I don't think he did that intentionally." The Professor spoke up, deep in thought.
Logan frowned, "The ones that Bugs was talking about…maybe they found out where Remy was and he came ta get him out before they got here…"
"That's a possibility…I want you, Rogue, Scott and Jean to find them and return them to the safety of the mansion…" Charles ordered.
"Right…" Logan muttered as he and the others went to get suited up. He had a feeling this was going to be a long night.
XxXxX
Lapin led Remy to one of the booths on the second floor where they had a pretty good view of the dance floor below, "Ya see anyone that doesn't belong?" Lapin asked eyeing the crowd.
Remy smirked, "Well there's that guy…but I highly doubt he's an Assassin…" he chuckled.
"Come on be serious…" Lapin smirked as he watched the man dance like a chicken. "Anyways tink we're safe for now…" he mumbled as he glanced around them, sat in the booth and flagged down a waitress.
XxXxX
About half an hour had passed and the Professor using Cerebro had amazingly pinpointed Remy's whereabouts informing Jean, she gave the directions to Scott who drove the team to the club. "Oh perfect, a dance club full of horny teenagers…" Logan huffed, Jean and Rogue smiled at the 'old man's' reaction. As they pushed their way through the crowds.
"Okay we're in so how do we spot him…Logan?" Rogue asked as she quirked an eyebrow.
"Don't look at me all I smell is perfume, sweat and booze…" Logan muttered as he eyed the crowd.
XxXxX
Meanwhile Remy was sitting in his seat his feet propped on the railing, sipping at his beer, "Oh ya have got ta be fucken kiddin' me..." he growled, as he slowly stood.
"What?" Lapin asked standing as well.
"Told ya he could track anything…" Remy hissed, "Come on…" Remy then turned to find himself nose to nose with his worst enemy.
"Hiya Gambit...how ya doin'?" Julien chuckled as he eyed the Cajun over.
"Oh I'm fine how the hell are you?" Remy glared as he looked at the seven men behind Julien.
"Oh I'm just perfect, you have any idea how hard it is ta track you down…tell me does ah...This still hurt?" he asked poking Remy in the side where he had gotten shot, Remy grimaced as he quickly backed off.
"Ya know what I'm capable of Julien don' push me…" Remy hissed.
"I'll push as hard as I want, besides I highly doubt you'll charge anything here not with all these people around…" Julien kept his eyes locked with Remy's so he wouldn't notice that he had palmed a dagger in his right hand. "Ya know I nevah in my wildest dreams would have thought my père would do something as absurd as joined forces wit yours…both Guilds are hunting me down did ya know dat?" Julien growled as he suddenly lunged forward with the dagger. Remy stepped back and grabbed Julien's arm, Julien twisted his wrist and pulled on his arm slashing Remy across the chest with the knife, Remy turned and kicked Justin on the side of the head, Julien fell back, the men behind him helped him up. Lapin grabbed Remy by the arm and led him through the crowd. The Assassins in hot pursuit.
XxXxX
"Hey there he is…" Scott called out to the others that he was headed for the back of the club. "He's being followed…" he pointed out and tried to move as fast as he could, through the crowd.
XxXxX
Grasping his chest Remy followed Lapin as he pushed the people out of his way ignoring the curses and yelling one brute of a man even grabbed the red-haired sixteen-year-old, Lapin reared back and punched the bastard in the face knocking him on his ass, the brute shook his head as he tried to figure out what the hell had just happened as he watched the red-head and some other kid in a trench-coat rush off looking to the floor he frowned as he saw a trail of blood.
XxXxX
As the X-men made their way through the dance floor, Logan suddenly froze, "Why the hell did you stop?" Rogue asked a bit annoyed as she was being pushed.
"I smell blood…" Logan growled as he picked up the pace.
XxXxX
"Whoa, whoa, whoa turn back quick, quick, dey got the back door covered we need another way out of here…" Lapin hissed as he looked around then looked to Remy.
"Roof…" he whispered, as they went behind the bar and climbed the stairs hearing footsteps and curses behind them Lapin kicked the door open and slammed it shut after Remy had passed through, both teens put their weight on the door while Lapin attempted to seal it shut. The moment he did they both jumped back as the Assassins were trying to break it down.
"Dey don' know where ya are…bullshit…" Remy seethed as he imitated Lapin's voice "How da hell dey track us so fast?" he asked, as he looked at his wound and winced.
"Come on we gotta get out of here, dat door ain't gonna hold for long…how bad ya cut?"
"Well I'm bleeding…is dat bad enough?" Remy growled as he put pressure on the wound and started to walk to the end of the roof where the fire escape was. And started laughing, "Well dis day just keeps getting' better and better" Lapin a bit confused looked down, the fire escape's ladder was gone, and below the stairs where the ladder should be there now was a thirty foot drop.
Hearing the pounding on the door Lapin frowned as the latches were about to give, "We have ta chance it…" he whispered. Remy sighed as he climbed down, looking for any kind of foothold Remy slowly lowered himself to a nearby window, wincing as he had to stretch opening the wound a little more to reach it. Lapin did the same and watched as Remy again lowered himself from the window then dropped the last twelve feet to the alley below, doing the same he winced as he landed hard on the ground. "Ow…"
"No shit…" Remy agreed with his cousin and slowly stood. "Remind me not ta do dat again…"
"Okay…remind me not ta follow ya…" Lapin chuckled, then looked up.
"They're down there Julien…" one of the men yelled out and watched as the Thieves ran down the alley.
Ducking into an office building Remy leaned against the wall to try and catch his breath. "Let me see…" Lapin ordered.
Remy swatted at his cousin's hands. "Last time ya looked at one of my wounds I got an infection remember…Besides didn't Alex forbid you to treat anything that bleeds?" Remy quirked an eyebrow. "Where the hell are we anyway?" Remy looked around spotting an information board in front of him and reading the doctors names Remy smirked. "Nevah mind…"
XxXxX
It didn't take long for Logan to track down the teenagers. Logan, Scott, Rogue and Jean, found themselves in front of a building, following the boys scent Logan was about to slash the lock of an office but found that the door was already open. The smell of blood was in the air, creeping in the office the X-men in tow Logan's eyes went wide when he saw Remy sitting in a chair while his cousin broke into a medicine cabinet, Remy quickly turned to the door, took out three cards and charged them, "Whoa…wait put those away pup…" Logan warned as he entered the office and turned on the light, Remy winced and closed his eyes tilting his head down. "What the hell are you two doing?" he asked as he approached Remy and pushed him back pulling up his shirt to look at the wound, "Damn pup that's deep…"
"No shit…Lapin, pain-killers-now…please." Remy huffed.
"No bunny not now we're taking ya back to Hank…" he grabbed Remy by the arm.
"Oh please…it's not like I've nevah patched up anybody before…" Lapin drawled as he swatted at Logan's hand, took out a compress and laid it on Remy's chest.
"Will ya'll just stop arguing…Remy's havin a shitty day…" he hissed leaning his head back. Then frowned when he sensed a familiar presence and looked to the door, "Shut-up…" he whispered, Logan turned to the door and unsheathed his claws sensing it as well. Meanwhile Scott was now arguing with Lapin, quickly grabbing Scott's hand Remy twisted it forcing Summers on his knees.
"Owwwww…" he yelled.
"I said shut-up…" Remy hissed, as he glared at Scott and pushed him to the floor.
"What why?" Scott hissed cradling his hand to his chest.
"Listen…" Remy whispered recognizing the voices, "Fuck they're here…" Remy growled as he stood and headed for the door that led to another office.
"How do you expect to get in, the door's locked…" Rogue quirked an eyebrow and crossed her arms.
"Oh please eh…" Remy hissed as he quickly unlocked it and entered.
"How did you do that?" Scott asked standing up.
"You're an idiot…" Lapin laughed as he followed his cousin.
Rushing out the back door the group walked out into the streets, a bit frustrated Logan had finally had enough and grabbed Remy by the shirt pulling him into an alley then slammed him against the wall, "Why are they after you, and don't bullshit me?"
"Ow…" Remy growled as he tried to get out of Logan's grip, which he couldn't then sighed. "Well Remy travels a lot, Brazil, Rome, Paris, Africa, Japan, China, Scotland, Iceland, Switzerland, England, Australia...he tends ta piss off a lot of people…" he answered grinning sheepishly.
Logan wasn't convinced and so tightened his grip, "I ain't playin' pup…"
"Alright, alright…" Remy growled swatting at Logan's hands, "Julien's pissed at me cause he saw me talkin' to his sister alright..."
"You have got to be kidding?" Rogue snorted sitting on a cement staircase.
"That and I blew up his car…what he hates mutants alright…"
"Talking to his sister that's a stupid reason to try and kill you…" Scott spoke up.
"Yeah well you never met Julien…" Remy groaned.
"Totally Psychotic…" Lapin smirked glancing up the alley.
"Look our families have been feudin' for years on end…"
"What like the Hatfields and McCoys…" Scott chuckled.
"Shut-up ya idjit…our fathers had negotiated a truce, and trying ta kill me kinda broke that truce…his père not too impressed with his son's actions got a contract on him he wants him brought in for punishment…"
"What the hell are you two into, some kind of gang or something?" Logan had long since released the teen and crossed his arms.
Lapin only shrugged, as he looked up the alley again, "Not exactly…can't tell ya more than that…" Remy sighed as he rested his hand on his wound.
"Why not?" Scott stepped forward.
"Do ya have ta know everything…it's none of ya fucken business dat's why…"
"Alright shut-up everyone calm down…come on we have ta take him back to Hank…and you're coming with us…" he gestured to Lapin, "I'm sure Chuck wants some answers…and why the hell did you say we were going to be attacked?"
"Needed a diversion ta get away…couldn't do it da usual way Remy be injured." He shrugged with a grin.
"The usual way?" Scott questioned.
"They nevah stop wit da questions do dey?" Lapin chuckled.
"Dey don't like wearin' pink either…" Remy smirked at the look on Scott's face, then suddenly felt dizzy as he almost fell forward, "Um…Remy don't feel too good…" he breathed. Jean seeing her chance tried to get in Remy's head, Remy's eyes snapped open at the sudden intrusion, "What the fuck ya thing your doing?" he hissed turning to Jean three charged cards in hand.
Everyone stepped back, Logan glared at Jean, "They want something and you won't tell us…" she answered simply.
Remy narrowed his eyes and strengthened his shields pushing her away, Jean gasped as she took a step back a hand to her forehead, "Dey want me dead ya idjit…ya try an get in my head again an I'll break ya fucken legs ya understand me?" he hissed throwing his charged cards away and gently grabbed his head to try and get the feeling of her invading his mind to go away. The X-men looked down the alley as the bin the cards landed in blew into pieces imbedding themselves in the brick walls.
"Alright we'll talk about this later…come on let's get ya back to Hank…" Logan drawled as he grabbed Remy's arm and helped him stand up straight. Then looked to Jean with a frown.
