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Chapter Two
A few weeks later they returned home to the sound of insane laughter coming from the apartment. Cautiously, they enter to find Wade on their couch, watching Golden Girls. This wasn't the first time he had randomly come into their apartment. In fact, he'd done it frequently since they had moved in, he lived in the apartment next door. He'd decided that since they were neighbors AND friends then locks were not a boundary. Especially, as Remy was a thief, by trade.
Wade was sitting on their couch, eating a frozen pizza in his uniform, weapons and all. John finally broke the silence with " Hey! That was the last pizza! We were going to have that for dinner." Wade looks over at them as John continues " What are you doing here anyway? Remember our talk about boundaries."
Wade shrugs as he turns up the television. " It was an interesting theory, though I admit I stopped listening about five minutes in. My TV doesn't have anything on, so I came to watch yours." They all stare at the man for a moment longer before Remy shrugs and heads to the kitchen to order dinner. Rogue and Wanda roll their eyes and head off to their room, and John resignedly sits on the couch to watch tv as well.
A few minutes later Remy hears John and Wade laughing in the living room as he heads to the girls room to tell them when dinner will arrive. The girls were busy talking and didn't notice him standing in the doorway long enough to hear " I don't know, ever since Logan's rant while we were shopping, he's completely backed off...Maybe he never really wanted to go out with me to begin with, Maybe it really was just a challenge like Logan said" From Rogue.
Remy was about to interrupt when he heard Wanda reply " Or maybe he's worried that you will think it's only because of the power thing that he's asking. I mean c'mon I know he likes you,Rogue! I've seen the way he stares at you when you're not looking"
Remy back down the hallway, before making an intentional effort to make noise while walking towards their room again. He then knocks on the ajar door and says " Pizza will be here in twenty." before heading to his own room to change.
Wade hears Remy state that the pizza is coming and decides to stay for dinner ( completely ignoring the fact that he had just eaten an entire Pizza by himself). John rolls his eyes at the mercenary and reaches for the remote.
~o~O~o~
Early the next morning Remy was making a pot of coffee (his third, he had trouble sleeping the night before and gave up around three),when Wade walked into the kitchen announcing " Dude! you're out of the good shampoo, all you have left is the girly kind." Before plopping down on a stool at the breakfast bar.
"... You do know you don't live here, right Wade?" Remy replies, as he hands the other man a cup of coffee.
Wade shrugs and after tasting it replies" Yup, why?"
Remy shrugs and returns to his brooding, I mean, the morning paper. Wade stares at him for several minutes and then, shrugging himself asks what Remy's problem is. Remy then explains, while sighing, that he had backed off his constant quest to get Rogue to go out with him, because he didn't want her to think that he thought with her powers under control, the situation changed. But he thinks that by backing off, he may have made things worse. Now she seemed to think exactly what he had wanted to avoid, and he didn't know how to fix it. He's been up all night thinking about it.
Just as he finishes his explanation, Rogue says " Well, to start with, you could've said all of that." she walks into the kitchen and pours herself a coffee before sitting next to him" I never thought it had anything to do with my powers until you backed off." she continues.
Remy stares at her for a moment, unsure of how much she'd heard, and mentally replaying the conversation to remember what he had revealed. Had he confessed his feeling for her? or worse, his regret over the things.. like the whole way he'd handled their ' vacation'... no wait he hadn't gotten to the regrets part of his rant before she interrupted.
And now he'd stared to long. She clears her throat before asking if he's ever going to ask her out again. He blinks briefly, before asking " Will you go to dinner with me tonight?" Rogue pretends to think about it for several minutes, before agreeing.
At which point Wade states " Well now that your whole teen angst thing is over, can I suggest that you both go buy something new to wear, that's not black. Seriously. And buy some more shampoo, the girl may like you, but doesn't mean she wants you to smell like her." Rogue looks at Wade confused while Remy responds " You don't live here Wade! Stay out of our shower!"
Wade stands and Remy backs up a step, suddenly worried, as he had just yelled at a mercenary, who was insane by his own admission. However, Wade simply shrugs and states as he walks out the door " The contract called for cameras in every room,I ask no questions."
He shuts the door as the other two jump up yelling " Contract?!" before running around the apartment looking for the cameras. Twenty minutes later they had found them all, after getting Wanda and John to help. Remy then heads over to Wade's to find out who had asked for the cameras to be placed to begin with.
Taking a page from Wade,Remy walked right in not bothering to knock. Wade is on the phone when Remy walks in, he simply nods and continues his call, assuring whoever was on the phone that he would never reveal a contract , and of course, he wouldn't do something stupid. Like leave paperwork out with a name on it on his desk. In fact, paperwork didn't even exist. Remy raised an eyebrow at the man, who gestured towards his desk, and then walked out of the room.
Of course, Wade wanted them to find out who hired him, but couldn't tell them. Remy walked over and quickly read Wade's notes. No wonder the contract was for surveillance instead of death. It was hired by Logan. That man seriously needed a hobby.
Remy left before Wade could return, he needed to tell Rogue about this. She was going to be angry. They also needed to go shopping. Because as much as he hated to admit it. Wade was right. He didn't want to use Rogue's shampoo. They needed other stuff like that too, He'd talk Rogue into coming and talk to her after they left the apartment.
~o~O~o~
A few weeks later, Remy and Rogue were sitting in the diner, when Scott and Jean spotted them. Scott walked up to them right away,of course,with a frown on his face. " So it's true... you moved out, so that you could date this,this Acolyte!" Scott thunders.
" Former Alcolyte" Remy responds at the same time as Rogue states " No I moved out so that I didn't have to put up with everyone thinking they could tell me what to do anymore."
Jean then walks up and tries to pull Scott away as he continues" Does Logan know who your with these days?" Rogue huffed and tells him that it is none of Logan,or Scott's, business who she associates with.
Scott walks off in a huff,with Jean following behind. As soon as the pair are out the door Rogue says " Five bucks says he calls Logan from the parking lot."
Remy nods and says" Five more says he tries to follow us home." Both laugh at the idea of Scott's expression if he learned they live together. They then pay for their meal and leave.
As predicted,they spot Scott in his car on the phone, and he quickly hangs up to follow them as they pull out. Remy drops Rogue off and heads to the store, he had come up with the best idea to mess with Scott, lull him into a false sense of security, then pounce. Maybe he should invite Wade over? No wait, once you invite him in,he'll never leave.
Scott knocked on the door just after Rogue walked in, John and Wanda stared at her for a moment when she shooed them out of the room,before letting Scott in. " What, you want to lecture me some more?" she says as she sits down. Scott sits nearby and they are quiet for a moment before Scott begins.
" I'm sorry I upset you earlier. I'm just worried about your obvious lack of judgement in your choice of friends. I mean honestly, I was half afraid that he was living here too(laughs) I should've known better! You're not the type of person who would just in with some guy and-"
Scott is cut off my Rogue's glare and the sound of keys in the door, followed quickly by "I'm back!" from Remy. Before anyone could respond Remy continues
" They didn't have any strawberry ice cream, but I got the chocolate, and I got vanilla and strawberry sauce, so it should be okay and-" Remy stops when he sees Scott and pretends to be surprised.
After a moment he states" Huh, well, if we have guests I don't think we have enough ice cream after all, I'll just put this away for now." Before heading into the kitchen while trying to suppress the chuckles at Scott's expression. Now for the tricky part.
He had also made another purchase... to further upset Scott, but he didn't want to upset Rogue as well, hopefully she'd realize he was just messing with the other guy. That guy clearly had a stick up his butt. Walking back into the Living room , he handed the bag to Rogue while facing away from Scott and mouthing the words 'go with it' so that she'd get the joke. Before stating " I guess we won't need these until later either" Scott, curiously asks Rogue what was in the bag and she glares. " It's none of your business what my boyfriend buys for us." Scott catching on finally, turns red before stating that he needed to go.
As soon as they were sure he was on the elevator, the pair burst out laughing, as does the other couple who had been listening to the whole thing. Remy then states " C'mon lets go eat some ice cream, I really was telling the truth about the Strawberry." They head back inside, and to the kitchen. The bag of condoms on the couch are completely forgotten.
~o~O~o~
Scott, of course, told Logan what had happened as soon as he returned to the mansion. Logan in turn, secretly snuck into his room to check the cameras to see what was going on. However, as soon as he turned on the program he realized the problem... sitting in front of every single camera was what appeared to be index cards. Worse he couldn't hear anything either.
He'd decided to go with no audio, as he felt listening in to their conversations would be an invasion of privacy ( why this was and watching wasn't made no sense therefore, he avoided that logic). Now though he wished he'd gone for audio too. Because they could be up to anything about now. For all he knew they were forcing Rogue to stay, in fact he was starting to think they were. Why else would she stay there?
Deciding that clearly Rogue was being held against her will,Logan set out to go rescue her. First he pausing long enough to get the address off of Scott he headed out. Scott offered to go with him,but Logan had grumbled something about 'handling it' as he left. He arrived at he apartment building at the same time as a pizza delivery. They shared the elevator the entire way up, and then walked down the same direction. Just as the Delivery man was growing nervous over the creepy man following him,Logan walked around him to knock on the correct door. The delivery man freezes and stares. His pizza goes to the same apartment.
"All right! Pizza's here!" Comes a familiar voice from the other side of the door. Logan groans as Deadpool yanks open the door. " JIMMY! What are you doing here?" Deadpool exclaims,before spotting the person behind Logan " Yay! You found the pizza guy."
Before Either could respond Remy calls from somewhere in the apartment " WADE?! What have we told you about answering other people's doors! " Logan raises an eyebrow at the nagging tone of Remy's voice. He sounds almost like a parent.
Remy then appeared behind Wade, in a pair of jeans and hair wet. This didn't disturb Logan until he noticed Rogue's hair was also wet. He managed to forget, or never noticed, that Rogue's hair dried extremely slowly unless she used a drier. Instead he jumped on his first presumption. That they had been in their together. This in no way helped calm his rage.
Wade, either not noticing or not caring about the tension in the air, invited Logan in and paid for the pizza. Logan came in as Rogue yells "WADE! You do NOT live here! You can't just invite people in. Oh hi Logan. Why are still here anyway? Didn't we tell you to go home like an hour ago, when you walked into the bathroom without knocking!"
"What were you doing in the bathroom?" Logan growled out not sure he wanted the answer.
"... not that it's any of your business, but I was cleaning the tub, and Remy was shaving" Rogue replies while still glaring at Wade who shrugged and grabbed a slice of pizza.
Logan stared at Remy, trying to decide if he looked like he had recently shaved. After a moment Logan decided he couldn't tell, as he hadn't seen the boy in awhile, but he did smell like aftershave.
Remy rolled his eyes and invited both men to sit down despite Rogue's protest " Remy no! They're like vampires, once you invite them in you can't get rid of them." After the three men moved to the living room anyway, she shrugged and closed the door. If Remy was going to ignore her warning, then he could deal with getting rid of them.
After a few moments of awkward silence, everyone began to relax and begin eating the take out dinner ( John and Wanda had suddenly remembered that they had dinner reservations about an hour ago when Wade had come in).
Just when Rogue was beginning to wonder why she'd been so concerned about Logan being there he leaned back... and felt something dig into his side. Curiously, he pulled the box out of the couch cushion, and Remy paled. The joke intended to freak out Scott was about to bite him in the butt, maybe literally judging by Logan's expression.
" ...What's this?" Logan asks, a dangerous look on his face.
" Jimmy,really, I would think at your age you would know what condoms are." Wade responded before anyone else could. Which was good,because neither wanted to answer him anyway.
Logan turned to the other two, who did their best to look shocked at the site of the box ( an easy thing to do,as they forgot it was there.) After a few minutes of Logan waiting and the other two trying to think of something to say, because clearly telling him that the box was there to freak out Scott wouldn't work, even if it was the truth, Remy finally said " They must be John's"
Rogue eagerly jumped on the blame John train by nodding and stating " Yes, he and Wanda are a couple now, that would make perfect sense." They may have gotten away with it at this point, if it wasn't for the receipt. That included Remy's scrawl. Why he had decided to use his bank card to buy those, he no longer remembers,but clearly it was a mistake.
There was now no point in telling the truth, he wouldn't believe them at this point anyway. So Remy did the only thing he could think of, he suddenly remembered that he had an appointment. Rogue watched him leave before she pulled out her back up plan... anger.
" Why do you think it's your right to invade my privacy anyway?! First you hire this guy to put cameras all over our house, and yes we figured out it was you so don't bother denying it, then you come over unannounced and uninvited, and stay for dinner. But instead of being a gracious guest you just go snooping around in other people's personal belongings. Finally you have the nerve to question and judge me and my choices, because like it or not I am an adult, I can make my own choices, even if they are mistakes, they are still mine to make." Rogue states.
" Did you know he was buying these? Have you been using them?" Logan questions.
" Yes I knew he bought them, and no we haven't not that it's any of your business" Rogue storms out of the room. Logan visibly relaxes until Wade muses " Do you suppose that means they haven't done anything, or that they didn't bother with these?" Of course at that point Logan had to leave, because he didn't want to think about it anymore right now.