The first bud.
Remy entered the thumping night club and looked around. Usually he would see this sort of place as almost a sort of watering hole for him and his sexual desires. He made a quick scan of the room (as is his theiving instincts locating all possible exsits etc) and noticed Jean Grey sat at a table on her own. He turned to John and Wanda and gave them a sly wink... Jean must be here with scout boy and this would be the perfect opotunity to wind him up.
"Bonjour, petite, may dis ol' cajun join y''?" He drawled looking down at Jean in a sexy manner.
"I'm sorry Gambit but I'm not in the mood." She replyed cooly, knowing Gambits manner with the ladies.
"Aww, petite, ye' break Remys 'eart! is it y' boyfriend?"
"No Gambit, Cyclops isn't here tonight. You'll have to find somewhere else to play." She said in a way that wasn't rude but more exasperated.. almost as if she..
"Well, Remy never! he never t'ought he'd see de day dat Jean Grey o' de X-men, crack a joke bout dis Cajun."
Jean just raised her eyebrows at him and rolled her eyes in a defeated way. At that moment Rogue and Kitty returned with a pitcher of some colourful and likely alcoholic beverage with 3 tumbalers.
"Wha' ya doin' 'ere swampy." Rogue eyed Remy in a suspiscious way.
"All pleasure dis evenin' Chere." He waggled his eyebrows at her as Wanda and John made their way over to the group.
"G'day guys!" John exclaimed, obviously having no reserves about sitting with some of the X-men.
"Hey." Was most peoples reply, John took this as an open invitation to sit down and Wanda and Remy both followed suit.
"Like, Wanda, is like, Lance gonna be here tonight?" Kitty asked.
"He said he might pop down a bit later..." Wanda raised an inquisitive eyebrow at the young girl in front of her but made no comment as she could already see the girl was embarrassed, though Wanda would not admitt it she had become soft as of late, whether it was from dating the aussie idiot or becoming close friends with Rogue the human loving x-geek she couldn't be sure but she could be sure that somewhere down the line she had grown a conscience.
/I wish I could hate you just half as much as I hate myself\
After about 2 hours drinking and the acompliment of Lance and Pietro everyone had completely forgotten who's was who's and had started to talk and mix together brilliantly, all except Remy who mainly just observed, all the girls seemed to be drunk, all except Rogue, who's hand gestures managed not to knock over any glasses,
who's eyes were still bright with sanity and who's speech was still coherent and lively. Jean had started a long and boring convosation with Pietro about the hardcomings of being a leader of a group of mutants, getting more and more slurred. Kitty and Lance had gone off to the dance floor with Wanda and John.
But Remy wasn't interested in any of these people, the one he was interested in was sat lazily on her chair looking out onto the dance floor watching all the couples move to the music as she sipped her drink.
He moved slightly seeing if he could grasp her attention, but she still stared out onto the dancefloor.
"Hey Chere, y' gotta ligh' fo' dis Cajun?" Rogue tossed him a box of matches without even looking at him.
Mistake.
Remy saw this as Rogue purposefully trying not to look at him, this just made things more fun for Remy, he liked a bit of a challenge. So he moved seats and sat right in her view line, there was no way she could ignore him now.
"Wha?" She asked him with one eyebrow raised. Mistake. 'tut tut chere y' shouldn' o' got all difensive wit dis Cajun, y' know he's jus' gon' 'ave some fun wit y' now' Remy thought to himself.
"Remy jus' wonderin' why y' sitting by y' lonesome?" he asked. It was at this point that Rogue realised her 2 mistakes and decided to play with him back.
"Well Rems, Ah was jus' wahting all nahght foh y' t' come over here o'course." She said with a look almost challenging him to challenge her on the sincerity of her statement.
"Well, it looks like y gettin' wha' y' wished fo'." So why don' y' give ol' Gambit summit he wants eh?" a cocky grin plastered over his features.
"And wha' would tha' be sugah?" She replyed.
"A kiss." It was at this point Jean decided to have a little nap on Pietro who seemed to be very chuffed with having the redheads face in his lap. Rogue however thought better of it and asked Pietro to get Kitty, and this would be her que to leave, which couldn't have come at a better time in all honesty. Rogue had gotten herself into a game that she couldn't see herself getting out of any other way.
After saying their goodbyes in the club Kitty and Rogue propped a semi-consious Jean up and lead her towards the taxi rank. Waiting for the said taxi Rogue saw the one of the most beautiful sights she had ever seen (She of course would not admit to herself that the most beautiful sight she had ever seen has been and always will be the Cajun.
There stood a young man, no older than 23, with dark hair that fell in his eyes dark eyes. He stood very tall wearing dark jeans and a deep brown pinstriped shirt with the arms folded up slightly to reveal a touch of beautifully crafted arms, he had a guitar case swung over one shoulder and was sat on an amp waiting for a taxi.
"Hi, ah need a taxi ta this address please?" Rogue handed a slip of paper to the taxi conducter and was told to take a seat as it would be a few minutes before the taxi would arrive. So Rogue gave Jean and Kitty the only 2 seats in the small waiting room and leaned against the wall smoking a ciggarette. Before long Kitty and Jean had fallen asleep on each other and were breathing heavily, leaving just Rogue and her mystery man in the room.
"Did you know that smoking can kill?" The man asked Rogue.
"Why thank y' very much mistah, no one has evah said tha t' meh befoh." She said back in a witty manner whislt thinking to herself 'ooooh he's English'.. "So, wha brings ye to this side o' tha world?"
"I'm trying to break America with words of true life and music of passion... like every other musician here." He explained smiling at his own jibe at musicians. "What are you doing so far north?"
"Ah came up here foh school." She lied, this guy was to cute and she would be damned before she lost him just because of something as silly as her being a mutant. "Y' got a name?"
"Nick. I didn't catch yours though." Just then his taxi pulled up with hers just behind it, he loaded all his gear in whilst she loaded her friends into hers.
"I'm going to be playing at the live bar next wednesday, I'd really like to see you there..."
"Anna"
"...Anna." He smiled and hopped into his taxi. Both taxi's left at the same time and went in oposit directions.
On the way back to the mansion Rogue thought about her evening and Nick. He was very handsome, and she was extremely tempted to go to the bar next week though she had no intention of doing so, the way she saw it was that he seemed to like her enough to want to see her again and thats as far as it would ever be able to go. A small smile spred across her lips all the same though.
/Her silence speaks volumes.\
Remy woke the next day quite late, he had left the club the previous night with no girl hanging off his arm, as the only girl he had wanted to leave with had left early. He got out of bed and moved towards his bathroom, after a quick shower and dressing in a pair of loose jeans and a tight black t-shirt he made his way down to the kitchen to find fiery haired young lady with violently blue eyes and pale complexion, she was small and frail and when she spoke she spoke with an austrailian accent...
A/N
Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn!
ooo can you guess who she is eh?
can you guess whats going to happen?
GambitFan85, don't ruin anything for anyone or else they'll know were i'm going with this haha!
Sorry i've neglecting this. It feels like ages since i last wrote a chapter and i feel slightly mean!
But anyway, i could just blame you lot for not reviewing haha! so you know what you gotta do guys!
next chapter: you'll ind out who the girl is, why she's here and what happens about this nick dude.
I don't think this is going to be a long fic maybe a couple more chapters, and my microsoft word broke so i'm having to do this on notebook so i have no clue how long this chapter is! its probably stupidly short and for that i apologise! more soon though!
Emily x