OK here's a new chapter of Shatter Glass. I know the last chapter sucked but hey it's my story.

Bird's Fly Free

Remy and Rogue hid in a shadowy alley way, close to the out skirts of the city. They had made it across the plain to reach the city undetected, and safe… for the moment. Rogue's eyes flinted back and forth down the alley way watching for any signs of danger.

Gambit leaned against the alley wall as examining his leg wound. It wasn't as bad as he thought before but if not taken care of soon it could become serious.

"Do you think it's safe here." Rogue whispered her eyes never still.

"We'll have to move soon." Remy answered as he ripped a strip of cloth from his shirt and began to tie it snugly around the bullet wound.

His head flew up as the sound of police sirens met his ears. He pushed himself off the wall and pulled Rogue into a dark corner between a garbage bin and the alley wall. The two crouched down trying to make themselves as small as possible as the police car passed its sirens blazing and lights cutting through the darkness. The car moved slowly pass, its lights moving over as much of the alleys surface as it could reach before moving on.

Gambit glanced up over his shoulder to check the darkened alley for signs of danger. "Their looking for us." He whispered in Rogue's ear his mouth so close to her face she could feel his breath on her cheek.

Suddenly both mutants heads snapped as the sound of foot falls approached them. The there at the mouth of the alley was the form of a young man. He glanced behind him at the passing police cars and moved into the alley. Rogue and Remy were trapped. Rogue was in front of Gambit keeping him wedged in to his spot between the alley wall and the trash bin. Well if Rogue moved to free Gambit it would draw the boys attention to them and in turn the boy could alert the police.

Gambit squinted his eyes to keep them from showing in the darkness and then turned his attention to watching the approaching threat. He saw the boy eyes scan the shadows for what ever could have put the police on an alert like this and little did he know he was walking toward the very thing that had worried the city so.

The boy began to pass them his eyes squinted against the blackness. Suddenly the boy heard a rustle of cloths and his head snapped up to stare right at Remy and Rogue. The two stayed perfectly still as the boy moved closer to them.

In one moment Remy had pushed Rogue forward onto her stomach and lunged at the younger man. The teen let out a loud echoing yell as Gambit hit him knocking both of them to the ground. Another loud abet slightly muffled yelled sounded around the alley again as the two grappled with one another.

The two rolled one over the other as Gambit tried to quiet the yelling teen. The boy gave a huge buck dislodging Remy and causing the mutant to be thrown off him.

The human scrambled to his feet and began to run out of the alley shouting out warnings to those in the lit up street. Gambit also scrambled to his feet as Rogue began to chase after the boy but was stopped when Gambit grabbed her hand.

He shook his head warningly and pulled her, the other direction the two began to run and were half way down the alley when a blinding light flashed into their eyes.

"Halt mutants!" a male voice yelled out of the light. When their vision had cleared Remy and Rogue saw three police cars creating a barricade across the mouth of the alley way.

"Run!" Gambit yelled at Rogue.

The two turned and began to flee toward the other end of the alley. Both screeched to a stop as four more police cars slid into the place creating a semi circle around the open end of the alley and successfully blocking off the mutants last means of escape.

"Surrender Mutants and you will get away with this foolish attempt with your lives!" The man on the mega phone yelled.

The cocks of guns could be heard from all directions. Gambit head flew in all directions surveying the situation. At both mouths of the alley he could see men and women pointing guns at them.

The lights on the police cars flashed shooting strips or red and blue up and down the alley walls. Gambit's eyes met a fire escape and he followed it upward until it reached the roof.

'It could work' he thought to himself quickly his mind on overdrive. Then another sound met his ears and his eyes scanned the top of the roof. There all along the top on the roofs were more officers their guns pointed squarely at Rogue and himself.

He heard the cock of their guns and let out the breath he hadn't known he had been holding in. There was no way out, the roof was covered as were both alley entrances.

Never had a situation gone this bad for Gambit never in his career as a thief, never since he had freed his first mutant captive. It had all gone as smooth as butter every time, he had never been caught even with half hysterical mutants trailing behind him.

But that had all changed on this one night. He had thought this one would be easy, he had been given a chance to free someone who wasn't half insane and actually had a talent for the silence needed for an escape like the one he had made a thousand time before.

But in one night that was all shattered by the scream of a girl.

Gambit attention was thrown back into the present as the voice sounded over the mega phone again.

"Mutant's surrender peacefully of we will have to take drastic action." The voice yelled over the chaos surrounding them.

There was only one way he could see that would get them out alive. It was risky, without a doubt it would be one of the harder escapes he had pulled off but there was no other way.

Gambit moved slowly placing his hands on his head as the police demanded. Rogue's eyes widened as she watched this. Maybe he was willing to submit himself to the police but she was not. Rogue was a fighter and she had made her decision she would live free or die trying.

"NO!" she shrieked and began to run toward the opposing police and their barricade of cars.

"Rogue don't" Gambit yelled leaping forward and tackling Rogue to the ground.

BANG

Both Rogue and Gambit cringed as a bullet sailed over their heads. Gambit lay on Rogue back keeping her pinned to the ground. He could feel the quick gasps of Rogue breathing under him and the slight tremble the shook through her whole body.

What was she feeling right now? Was it fear or anger maybe something else? Gambit would have loved at that moment to open his empathy and feel truly learn what she felt, but there was no time and at best it would only distract him if he tried to sift through all the emotions surrounding him.

"Trust me." He whispered in her ear.

"what." She growled at him.

"If you want out of this alive you have to trust me." He told her his voice barely above a whisper.

She turned her body to look up into his glowing eyes. 'Could she trust him it had been so long since she had felt trust she didn't know what it felt like anymore

Rogue looked around her at the chaos surrounding them. Everything seemed so far like a dream or a vision of some kind. The sights and sounds almost didn't seem real.

Rogue looked into Gambit's glowing eyes and nodded once. She clenched her eyes tightly feeling as though she had just assigned herself to certain death.

Someone had once told her 'Trust given freely was a sure death sentence' but had she given it freely had she given it without thought.

Gambit stared down at her then slowly as before moved to his feet and placed his hands on top of his head. Rogue followed his lead though much slower.

They walked slowly down the alley way toward the police at one end of the alley. Guns and vigil eyes followed their every move. They moved out into the open lit up street where police took control.

Four officers moved forward two keeping their guns trained on Gambit well the other two kept there trained eyes on Rogue.

The two mutants were quickly separated Rogue being taken to one squad car and Gambit to the other.

"Put your hands on the hood of the car." One officer growled at Remy. Gambit eyes slowly slid sideways watching as Rogue got the same treatment. Their eyes met for a moment and they stopped staring at the other for a moment.

Suddenly Gambit was knocked out of his unthinking state as he felt the barrel of a gun poke him in the back.

"I told you to put you hands on the hood of the car." The officer growled again.

Gambit slowly placed his hands on the hood of the squad car his eyes feinting back and forth. Then his ears pricked up as he heard the officers partner begin to whisper.

"Be careful we still don't know what their powers are." He whispered

"O come on." The other whispered back. "If they came from the rings then they got the collars on and there's no way any mutant could get those off."

"Yeah but did you see this one's eyes." The other whispered hotly " they were glowing, demon eyes." He whispered.

Unknown to his captors Gambit quirked a smirk, they had underestimated him. And he loved it when his eyes scared people, it was an easy way to unnerve people and when someone was unnerved they didn't think right.

Suddenly the radio on one of the officer's behind let out a crackle of static and then a voice filtered through.

"Hey guys we just got the call from the prison rings." The operator said.

"O yeah what did they say." One of the officers radioed back.

"You better be careful, the prison said to terminate the mutants on sight. They both have their powers active and both are extremely dangerous according to the prison they are extremely well trained in fighting technique."

Behind him both officers eyes had risen to stare white faced at Gambits back.

Remy heard a gun cock behind him and whirled around landing a punch on one office and kicking the others legs out from under him. Gambit began to run and was thrown off his feet as the squad car he had charged exploded. A force field from the blast knocked everyone else from their feet and shattered glass in all of the car and store windows.

Gambit began to push himself to his feet when he felt the muzzle of a gun point directly at his temple. "Your dead mutie freak." The voice of the risen officer told him.

Suddenly the gun dropped to the ground and the officer dropped down unconscious beside him. Where the office had stood a moment ago was Rogue.

"Not today Pal." she told the fallen man and then stumbled backward as a wave of memories assaulted her.

Gambit quickly moved forward and caught Rogue helping her to stand then dragging her along as they escaped from the wreckage.

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"Wow when you make an exit you really make an exit." Rogue called up to him as they ran down an abandoned road.

"Believe it chere." Her called back sending her a smirk.

They crept into the middle of the street glancing up and down the road as they went along. Gambit knelt down in the middle of the road and tugged the lid off a sewer covering.

Rogue gingerly moved forward and climbed down the ladder into the sewers below. Gambit climbed in after her pulling the lid back over the hole as he went.

They crept along the sewer ways Gambit leading Rogue through the catacombs as though he had walked these ways many time before. Never seeming to be heading in a specific direction he turned left and right all the while upholding the silence that had over taken the both of them.

When it seemed to Rogue as though Remy had been leading her in circles for the last hour he spoke.

"Thank you." He told her glancing around a corner before continuing on.

"Thank you? For what?" Rogue asked truly confused at his simple words.

"For trusting me and for that back there." He told her quietly taking another right.

Rogue stopped for a moment as Gambit disappeared around another corner and let out a simple sigh. She then jogged through the sewage before her to catch up with her guide.

When she had rounded the corner Rogue found Gambit removing the covering in the side of a sewer wall. She moved forward cautiously as Gambit peaked his head out of the opening apparently to check for any one that might be looking for them.

He pulled his head back in and nodded to her. "It's all safe, for now." He told her and climbed through the tight opening.

Rogue quickly followed and found herself amidst a forest of trees and shrubs. She looked up above the tree tops and caught sight of the tops of the city's higher buildings. Her eyes were then drawn to something else in the sky and she gasped as her eyes met the beauty of the starry sky.

The inky blackness was infested with a million stars and amid the stars shone the moon casing an eerie glow over all it touched. Rogue was captivated by the sight above her. It had been years since she had seen the sky let along the moon or stars.

She let out a breath at the sky's beauty and just wished she could freeze this moment and save it forever.

"Rogue." A quiet voice said beside her "we have to go they will come soon."

Rogue was pulled back to earth and her surroundings nodding her head once to clear her mind of distractions such as the beauty of the moon.

Rogue looked up at Gambit and gave him a small grin. "It's so beautiful,… I had forgotten." She whispered tilting her head sideways and causing a strand of white hair to fall across her face.

Gambit gave her a small smile and removed the hair from in front of Rogue's eyes tucking it behind her ear causing her grin to widen.

"I know chere it's just a beautiful as you." He whispered to her causing her to blush and look away. Gambit moved forward and took hold of one of Rogue's gloved hands.

Suddenly both were brought out of their captivated states as the bark of a hound dog was heard ringing across the silent forest.

Gambit cursed in French before glancing back at Rogue one last time and moving forward in to the night pulling Rogue behind him.

OK there you all go I am so so so so so so so so sorry about not updating sooner I had a serious writers block. So I am really sorry.

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