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skyangle2004 – Yeah I know what you mean but Don't worry it will be explained in this chapter. Thank you for the review,

SickmindedSucker- Jean's gone for now but she's gonna come back later (sorry I hate her to) but that's just so Scott won't be pathetically alone. No Xavier wasn't the mutant who she put in a coma. yeah the X is an X-men tattoo it will be explained later so don't worry, it's just something to define them by. Thank you for the review it really helps please keep reading.

AN X FACTOR

Gambit groaned as he opened his eyes. A burning pain spread all over body making him feel like it was covered in one giant bruise. His glowing red eyes scoured the cell, well normally it would have been impossible to see anything, an inch in front of your face Gambit's demonic eyes saw everything as clear as if sunlight as filled the room.

The room was empty except a girl huddled in a corner. Gambit grinned the Telepaths had worked their magic again using it on the guards to 'help' them decide when the Cajun should be put.

It was always helpful to have strong telepaths on hand. Gambit knew the guards had built up some kind of barrier toward telepathy but nothing to stand up the one of the leaders of the resistance a one Charles Xavier. Xavier was one of the founders of the resistance known as the X-men.

Gambit shook himself out of his musing and got to work opening the secret pockets hidden all over his coat, they contained lock picks for both the collar and the prison cell.

Gambit keeping one eye on the cell door ,and one on his work, began the slow difficult process of removing the collar around his neck.

When he was finished Gambit placed the collar in to one of the many pockets that decorated his coat, then he turned his demonic gaze on the female that shared this dark cell with him.

It was of course the mutant he had picked our ahead of time. A mutant known only as Rogue.

Gambit looked down at her for a moment, something about this girl called out to something in side of him. Like someone was tugging on a rope he was pulled toward her.

Remy shook his head, this couldn't happen now he had to focus and get both of them out of here alive . Later when they were both safe inside the walls, of the resistance stronghold then he could search for what drew him to this girl.

Gambit lay a hand on the girls shoulder to wake her when he stopped. In her sleep Rogue looked so peaceful, without worry or fear. So unlike most of the mutants he saw in places like this filled with fear, hate, and detachment toward others.

Gambit gave Rogue a slight shake, it was then that she cried out and I fist came flying at his head.

Rogue threw out a punch at her unseen attacker. Only to feel it slam not into hard jaw muscle but a fleshy palm. Rogues eyes flew open to be met with not the sight a dark room or prison guards, but two glowing red eyes.

She gasped as backed up as far as she could toward the wall behind her. Then a voice came from the face that the eyes were connected to.

"Hey chere it's ok." A man's voice said. It was laced with a Cajun accent and reminded her of her home down south, before this place.

Rogue breathed a sigh of relief as she recognized the bloody mutant who had come in two days ago. 'Demon Eyes' as she had begun to call him.

Rogue stood up rubbing her arms to bring heat back in to them. She saw out of the corner of her eyes that the demon eyed man followed her every move. The burning red glow of his eyes following her sliding up and down her form. But how he could see anything was a mystery to her.

"Your awake." She said to cover up her first unneeded fear. "I was worried you weren't going to." She continued watching this stranger out of the corner of her eye. He never moved and his gaze never wavered only leaving her when he blinked.

Over the next few days Rogue and Gambit watched each other never really trusting the other. They spoke of their lives and powers never really revealing anything.

But from what they were willing to share the two got to know each other as well as can be expected in a place like that.

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A week later the two sat staring at the other from across the cell. Nothing was said as they stared across the room not really looking at anything since they were consumed in their own thoughts.

Rogue sighed and finally posed the question that had been floating through her head since she had first laid eyes on the other mutant.

"How did you escape?" she asked suddenly disturbing the silence in the room. Gambit's head shot up as he stared at her from his side of the dark cell his eyes glowing in the darkness again.

"I've never escaped what are you talking about chere?" he lied fingering his gloves that covered the x's on his hand.

Rogue was up in a flash standing above gambit and staring down at him a strange look dominating her eyes "I've seen the marks!" she cried out "Never in my entire life have I known or heard of anyone to escape and only to be caught again over and over again. How did you do it ,it's impossible." She said desperately

Gambit sighed, she was desperate it was clear to him and even someone who had not seen this kind of behaviour all the time. A battle played out in his mind some mutants couldn't be trusted. The last man from the resistance to enter the mutant rings willingly had been betrayed by the very mutant who he had tried to save. Gambit was the last one to have stayed with the job he had volunteered for.

On the other hand for some reason he trusted this girl Rogue more then he even trusted some of the people he had known and worked with all his life.

Gambit glanced up in to her emerald eyes and saw something new there. It was life. The need, the want for life. It was rare to see a mutant who had been in the rings as long as Rogue to have a thirst for life.

He knew others would not approve of his choice but it was his choice his call. Even Gambit himself was surprised with his trust in this female. But when he looked up he saw her need for life, for freedom. And it was here he was consumed with another feeling something he had never felt before, something he knew the name of but fearing to utter the word in mind or voice. Though he would not name it he knew what it was it was the beginning of love.

Shaking his head to rid himself of thoughts like that he looked up in to her face but avoiding her eyes. Fearing he would loose any sense he retained if he met her gaze.

"If I gave you the chance to be free would you take it?"

And it was with these words that the beginning of something started. It was here that the spinning of the wheel of change began and it was here that everything Rogue had lived through and known was shattered like glass.

I know this is short and I'm really sorry but I for some reason had such a hard time writing this. Please forgive me. Don't worry it will be longer in the next chapter and I will up date faster I swear.

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