One by One the Souls Will Take You Over

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. The title is a line from a song called 'And Don't Forget To Breathe' by A Static Lullaby.

Summary: This is an AU focusing on Rogue and Gambit, set after the end of the second season. Rogue never joined the x-men, in fact she has never has meet them instead she joined the Acolytes. Romyness eventually. Note: Rogue has a different past in this story. It will be explained as the story continues.

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Author's Note: Sorry about the late update, I had a monster load of work toward the end of the year, and then I graduated and partied for a while…

Thought (in italics)

Telepathic conversations

(Translations)

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Chapter Sixteen: An Old Friend

Getting in wasn't the problem. In fact in was a piece of cake. Hop the ten foot security fence, dodge the cameras, into the ventilation shaft, and crawl through. Two lefts, a right, three more lefts and finally a last right, and proof, they were directly above the holding room for two of the most powerful mutants in the world.

Yes, one would wonder how these mutants were ever captured, but two words basically sum it up. Charles Xavier. He had betrayed them both, and placed them here when he believed they were out of control and beyond help. Hell, if he had his way, Rogue would be right along side of them: floating in a tank of green water, with an oxygen mask over her mouth, and an IV in her arm.

Shaking such thoughts from her mind, Rogue concentrated instead on a certain Cajun barely a foot in front of her carefully unscrewing the air vent, slowly and precisely as to not set off any alarms. Personally, she would have rather done this herself, but seeing how the two of them had silently argued over this for the past five minutes, and almost managed to get them caught, she decided to keep her mouth shut and let the swamp rat win this round. Hey there was always time for pay back… especial when she was in charge of the training session tomorrow morning.

The swamp rat finally delicately lifted up the vent and placed it beside him, motioning silently for Rogue to go down first. Rogue slowly shifted her body around, careful to not make a sound, and slid her legs down into the opening. Without a word, Gambit grabbed her arms and slowly lowered her down into the room below.

As her feet reached the ground she felt Gambit let go of her and lower himself down. She didn't even turn her head when Gambit started muttering about stupid people that don't even bother to put a laser grid in, her eyes were fixed on the sight before her.

The infamous Juggernaut was to her left, while a boy no older than sixteen was floating before her. His blond hair was longer now, by a good foot or so. His face had lost most of its baby fat and he had grown. Had it really been that long? Sighing slightly, she nodded to Gambit who started to fiddle around with the controls, and ever so slowly the tank started to drain.

She watched slowly as he fell to his knees, the water no longer supporting his weight. As the last of the water drained out, the glass separating the two of them slid away. She walk to him, kneeling down, she slowly lifted up his face. "Hi ya Legion," his eyes began to flicker at the sound of her voice, "long time no see." Rogue whispered. His eyes tore open, a cold blue abyss stared back at her; pain flooded her mind.

Hearing a strangled noise, Remy turned and saw Rogue collapse for the second time. By the time he reached her she was out cold, gathering her up, he cradled her in his arms and briefly wonder if her psyches were acting up again. Momentarily glancing at the boy chained to the floor beside damn he scowled, "telepaths!" Taking her head in his gloved hand, he slowly brushed away a lock of white hair. "Come on chere, wake up, vous devez chere."
"Ya fuckin' asshole that hurt! Wha tha hell are ya doin'? Are ya tryin' ta kill meh?" Rogue screamed, somewhere in the recesses of her mind. A tattered boy stood in front of her.

"Rogue?" he asked tentatively.

"Nah, its tha Easter bunny."

He smiled at this before his face clouded over, "How long?"

"As best as Ah can figure four years."

"What?" He said, spoken in a voice so soft she could barley hear it.

"Ah would have had ya outta heah sooner but ah thought ya were dead, but then ah absorbed some o' Xavier's pets an' …" she trailed of at the look on his face.

"All get him for this Rogue."

"Ah know sugar, but lets get ya out o' heah first. So would ya mind wakin' meh up now?"

Opening her eyes, she once again found herself staring into ruby orbs that seem unearthly. She allowed herself to be enveloped up by them until a moan startled her out of her revere. Jolting out of his arms she pulled herself up, "Lets get him outta heah swamp rat."

Translations:

vous devez chere you have to dear

Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, and a cookie for anyone who can actually tell be who Legion is, seeing how he is a relatively unknown character and only got one episode devoted to him and technically I am only using his character, I came up with a whole new one for him. And don't worry, he is like a brother to Rogue, nothing will happen between them. This is most definitely a Romy story.

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