It had been about two years since Tina had came to the mansion and many things have changed over that long but brief period of time. After a year of training under Remy, she had reached the statues of a full fledge x-men, and is now officially training Jubilee. Other mutants had came through the doors of the school, and left when they thought it was time for them to go, but what did not change was the main team. While sometimes they could not stand each other, they were always there to watch the others back, despite how some tend to go off on their own, the rest always ended up following. They were one big fucked up family, sure but they were still family.
It was now Tina's 27th birthday, and while she was never too keen about doing anything major for it, she decided to make it a girl's day, so along with herself, Jubilee, Storm, and Jean all went out during the day, to go shopping, and had a lunch, though something was running through her mind during the whole day.
Remy had been acting strange as of late, and he had been going out by himself, not really telling her where. The two have been together for a year and half, and were quite happy of how they overcame certain things during that time, they have became very comfortable at where they were at this point and time. Though with the nature of their relationship being known, the girls always teased her about getting hitch, but Tina always played it off like it was just a simple joke, no matter how many times they busted her chops about it.
"Tina, hey Tina?" Jubilee was waving her hand in front of Tina's face, trying to snap her out it.
"Huh? Did you say something Jubs?" Tina blinked her eyes, trying to clear her mind out, so she wasn't in a fog of thoughts.
"I asked you if you know if Gambit is going to do anything with you tonight?" The always bubbly Jubilee asked.
"Not that I know of, why?" Tina looked at Jubilee, who had a face of disbelief.
"But its your birthday, and he should do something for you..." Jubilee thought she would have to go and have some words with Remy
"Don't go twisting his arm about it, Jubliee.." Jean chimed in, perfect timing as always. "If he have something planned for Tina, he may be keeping it as a surprise."
Jubilee thought about it for a second before standing down, as the other girls laughed. Once they got back to the mansion as it was starting to get late, Tina decided to go into her room, and put her shopping bags in there for now. Then she went down to the garage to see if Remy was tending to his other baby, and surely he was.
"Do I wanna know how long you been out here, waxing that thing?" Tina joked, rolling her eyes in an odd manner, before looking at him. The man always made time to wax the damn bike, and one would think that she would had gotten use to it over time, but she haven't just yet.
Remy grinned, "she always needs a tender touch, besides I needed her looking perfect." He winked at Tina.
"Oh please don't make me gag.." Tina laughed before walking over to the bike. "And why you need it so perfect? Its only going to get dirty once you take it out for a drive."
"'Cause tonight, you're going with me, I've found a great new place for dinner. And its your birthday, I would be a cad if I didn't take my lady out." He smiled at her and wiggled his eyebrows.
"Please, I wouldnt say that. And besides I want this day that I just so happened to be born on to be like any other day, and this is just going in one ear out the other isnt it?" Tina placed her hands on her hips looking at him.
He pretended he didn't hear her, "wha was that chere? Was that I'll be ready in fifteen minutes", he laughed and said "I thought so, I'll be right here waitin'." And then started to put the finishing touches on his baby for the ride tonight.
"Will you also be telling me what to wear too as well?" Tina rolled her eyes as she started walking out of the garage and to her room to get ready. "Oh that man...my man, is such a smartass." She said to herself, before looking for something to wear.
Remy finished up with the bike and waited for Tina. He had reservations set and spent allot of time searching for what he thought would be the perfect gift for her. And he felt he had, he hoped the night would turn out the way he hoped it would.
Tina decided on something somewhat nice to put on. She took a black lace dress with sleeves on it, and put slipped it on along with some black nylons, and a pair of knee high heel boots, that he had gotten for her a while back. After spritzing on some perfume, adding a bit of make up, then grabbing her jacket, Tina walked back down the garage.
"Is it too dress up, or is it alright? Because someone didn't tell me what I should really wear…" She joked with him.
He strolled over to her and answered with a passionate kiss, when they came up for air, "ya look perfect." He gestured to his bike, "hop on."
"Oh this is gonna be fun, riding on a bike in a dress…" Tina said in a sarcastic manner, as she hopped on, waiting for him to hop on the bike as well.
Just before hopping on the bike a light bulb went off in his head, "Would a gentleman do that ta a lovely lady in a pretty dress, I think not." He helped her off of the bike before taking her by the hand and walked her to a vehicle that was covered by a canvas tarp.
Remy pulled her to a stop indicating to wait. He walked over to the tarp, and removed it from the vehicle, it was a fully loaded silver convertible lotus. Remy went to the back of the car, put his neatly folded leather jacket in the trunk. He walked to Tina and gave her a kiss."Give me on sec." He went to the bathroom that was in the garage and within a couple of minutes he changed out of his motorcycle attire, and into a three piece suit. He made his way back to the trunk to gather his wallet and a small box he slid into his jacket pocket without Tina noticing.
He closed the trunk. "Want the top down or up?"
"Down, and I can't believe it took you this long to show me this sexy beast of a car.." Tina was already sitting in the car, before she looked up at him, noticing that he was more dressed up than he normally would be. "Gee, if I would had known you look so sharp tonight, I would had done better.."
"This one I keep somewhere else, I had it brought ta me for tonight." Remy slid into the drivers seat, "Ya look gorgeous," he leaned over and kissed her.
He started the engine and made his way down toward the Mansion gates, on to the street and cruised to New York City. He loved driving this car as much as his bike, and took Tina's hand in his as he drove. They made it to the restaurant, he tossed the keys to the valet. Walked to the passengers side and opened the door for Tina to step out.
Tina stepped out, and left her jacket inside the car, but placed it under the seat. "And your opening doors for me, are you trying to treat me like some sort of royalty tonight?" She looked up at him, as she closed the door behind her.
"Awww, chere, why'd you do that, I would have closed that for you, its what a gentlemen does," He tried to look hurt but knew he wasn't really. Women of today were not used to men opening doors and other things that he liked to do. He warned her in good humor, "I have the doors for the rest of the night." Then he winked as he took her hand in his to walk to the front of the restaurant.
They arrived at the door of the restaurant, he opened the door for her and put a hand on the small of her back to escort her through the door. Once inside he gave the maitre d' his name, he looked at his list, crossing off Lebeau. "Follow me sir," and he led them to a table that was more private than most of the others in the restaurant. Remy pulled the chair out for Tina so that she could sit and then helped her get the chair to where she liked. He then walked to the other side and sat down. "The server will be right with you, enjoy your evening," the maitre d' walked back to his station.
Tina looked around, realizing how nice the place really was. "I can see why you would pick a place like this, its so...unlike you.." She didn't mind the total change in places they normally went to during their date nights, but once you make that leap from loud busy type restaurant to a more softer tone romantic spot, you can obviously tell the different from how dressed the tables where down to the type of people that were there.
"Tonight is special, its your birthday," He smiled. Their server stopped by and asked what they would have to drink and Remy ordered a bottle of red wine in french.
"Very good sir." The server bowed and went to get the bottle of wine.
"Anything you like ma chere, its your birthday," Remy smiled at her and reached across the table to hold her hand.
"Is this going to become a yearly thing, you taking me out to a nice place like this?" Her thumb lightly rubbed against the side of his hand. "Because I don't think you could try and outdo yourself every year, well I mean I know you can try but you know…..you know?" Tina let out a soft giggle.
"I think wherever ya like to go out on your birthday each year is where we'll go but I thought tonight I would start the tradition of going out on your birthday." Remy smiled at her warmly.
The wine arrived and the server opened the bottle, poured a small amount in the glass, swished it around and held the glass to Remy. He accepted the glass, sniffed it and then gave it taste, he let it sit on his tongue and nodded his head signaling that the wine was suitable for dinner. Once the wine was poured, the server mentioned the house specialties for the evening and if they were ready to order. "We'll need a few more minutes." The server walked away.
They picked up the leather bound menus and looked over the items, while Tina had her eyes on the menu, Remy slipped his hand in his pocket and without her noticing he placed a small black velvet box just under her menu on the table. Then all he had to do is sit back and wait.
After deciding on what she was going to have, Tina closed the menu and kept it in front of her to make sure that she didn't screw up on the order, before taking a sip of her drink. She titled her head at bit at him, seeing that the expression that he had on his face, she knew something was going through his mind, but did not ask what it was about.
"Gotta hand it to you Remy, I don't think I could ever top this for your birthday.." She took another sip of her wine, before muttering "I don't have the bank account full of money unlike you.."
"Ya never need to worry about that," he gently pulled the menu from her hands and placed on top of his near the edge of the table. The server arrived, "just a few more minutes mon ami." The server noticed what was going on and smiled before disappearing.
"Well, sure I do, its called…" Her eyes noticed the small box in front of her. "Being nice…" Tina slowly went to grab it, and noticed how small it was. Her eyes started to fill up with tears "No way…..no way…." Were the only words they was able to spit out before looking up at him.
Remy held her trembling hand, he noticed she had yet to open the box. He lifted the top for her see and beautiful diamond ring was in it, it was heart shaped and had rubies surrounding the diamond with a line of rubies around the gold band.
"Christina Johnson, will you marry me?" Remy smiled at her and squeezed her hand.
As tears streamed down her face, she nodded yes. Her hand was pretty much still shaking by the act of love he had just made to her. "I-I will be honor to be your wife, R-remy…" She kept trying to blink back her tears, but it wasn't working.
He took the ring out of the box for her and pulled her left hand toward and slipped the diamond on her ring finger. He then brought it up to his mouth and kissed her. "Thank you ma love, you've made me a very happy man." He gave her a breath taking grin, called the server over and ordered dinner for both of them.
For the rest of the night, Tina thought that she was in a dream, that there was no way that he just propose to her. But it wasn't a dream, she was not only marrying someone who was there for her during her darkest days, but someone who always treated her with respect, and kindness. Now things were only going to get even more crazier, for better or for worse.
I hope you all have enjoy this story! But I know that you're going to be needing your fix of these two, so do not despair, I have stories in the works, with almost two being completed so you wont need to be waiting for long, thank you for everything my loves!