Chapter Four

It would have been easy if all of the events that had happened had been nothing but a dream. It would have made her life easier and sure she would have had an easier life. But the thing was, as she woke up on the Brotherhoods couch, that it wasn't a dream. She was still pregnant, she was still pissed at Jean and her selfish ways, she still didn't know whom the father of her child was and yet she realized that she knew some things she hadn't known before. For starters she realized that her family was more than just Mystique, Irene, Kurt and Jamie. She realized that almost every X-men cared about her as well. The Brotherhood was a given, excluding the times Wanda tried to kill her, they where all her family. Rogue realized that though things where going to be harder, she had been through a lot worse in her life and had a large and crazy family to help her.

She stretched slightly and looked down to see that Jamie was still a sleep on her lap curled in a ball. She smiled softly. Someone had covered them up last night. She hadn't realized how tired she was until she had relaxed onto the couch. She sighed and looked around the room, the lights where out but the sun was rising and drifting through the curtains. She heard a thump and knew that Mystique was getting up. She closed her eyes for a moment, a small smile gracing her face as she realized that she couldn't let Jean or anything else bother her anymore.

The patter of feet down the stairs proved that someone was indeed up. What surprised Rogue was that it was Lance and not Mystique that was already awake.

"Why are you up already Lance?" She whispered. Lance looked startled for a moment before smiling softly.

"I wanted to make you and Jamie some breakfast before the rest of the Insane Asylum woke up." He said grinning. Rogue chuckled and nodded her head.

"Well get busy then." As Lance left snickering she realized that this was the first morning she had woken up and not been sick in weeks. She sighed in relief. Maybe being a mutant would have a change on how her pregnancy went. Though that thought made her start for a moment, with hundreds of questions about how her DNA would effect how long she would be pregnant, the symptoms and et cetera. 'Good grief!' she thought to herself 'It looks like I will have to chat with Beast as soon as I get home.' It didn't take long before the smell of breakfast woke Jamie and the rest of the house hold. Stomach rumbling Rogue eagerly made her own way to the table grabbing a plate. Jokes where told, stories where shared and ideas floated around the table making it seem like she was living there again, not being left out and included into even the silliest of things.

Meanwhile at Xavier's Institute

A lot of things had been going on at the Institute lately. Rogues unexpected pregnancy, Jeans obvious insanity, Scott's and her break up, Kitty didn't say like for a whole conversation, Kurt smiling non-stop, so when Charles Xavier woke that morning he had hope that today was going to be a slow day. So when he finally got behind his desk to go over some insurance bills he realized something with a start and groaned. Those things that had happened where fairly small compared to what him and his team usually went through. So when he felt Logan rushing towards his office he knew he was right. What he did not expect was what happened next.

Logan aka Wolverine busted through his door, holding a….tiny leather jacket? Well if that wasn't strange enough Wolverine was also smiling, with tears in his eyes.

"Logan are you alright?" Charles asked worried His eyebrows high on his forehead he swallowed nervously. 'Dear Lord, don't tell me he has finally cracked?' Charles thought to himself.

"I'm perfect! Look what I found for my grandchild! Isn't it amazing. I found a whole store dedicated to baby clothes and they had this amazing section where they had tiny leather boots, leather jackets, oh and this really adorable pair of tiny sunglasses." Wolverine said all in one go. Now normally this would make some people laugh, chuckle or even snicker at someone who did that, maybe smile indulgently and nod. Then say something like old age or hormones was getting to the person. However, Wolverine was not the kind of person you did that too. SO like any normal sane man would Charles Xavier simply stared at Logan for a moment wondering what on earth he was going to say.

"Logan I think it's wonderful. What else did you find?" Wolverine smile again largely and told him where the store was and that him and Storm where going there again today. Charles declined and said maybe at a latter date and as Wolverine practically skipped out of his office he wondered if he had any scotch left. Sighing loudly Charles read over the papers in front of him, signing checks, filing papers, wondering why Storm was staring at him so hard. He had just looked up to put a lawsuit into a growing stack when he noticed that Storm was staring at him like he was under a microscope.

"S-Storm, I must have been really preoccupied to not even notice you there. How may I help you?" Charles was slightly unnerved by the glint in her eye.

"We need a playground." She said in a demanding way.

"But we already…'' She cut him off.

"Noooo…What we have is a playground for teens to play baseball and other sports, we even have basketball courts and stables but we don't have a place for Jamie or other young children like my future Grandchild to play! Now I want a playground." Storm demanded. Her eyebrows where furrowed, her eyes narrowed and her eyes where churning, suddenly lightning clashed and thunder rumbled with a loud CRACK a tree outside his office spit in half. Charles swallowed hard, 'Oh, yea. They have all snapped!' he thought smiling tightly at Storm. Quickly he handed her a Gold credit card.

"You take care of that Storm, I know you will make sure that it has everything for everyone." He said shaking he handed her the card. Suddenly the clouds where gone and Storm was smiling like nothing had happened as she grabbed the card and left his office.

He straightened his spine, squared his shoulders and did what any man in his position would do. Locked the door and grabbed the biggest bottle of hard liquor and cowered so no more of his insane team could find him.

With Gambit

Now Remy had always been the ladies man. He was the kind of guy that liked to go from one girl to the next and never worried about breaking any hearts. Now though, now he didn't want to date anyone, no one could compare to Rogue, his best friend. Remy was a smart guy but even he could be blind sometimes. So that was why he was currently parked on the side of the road shocked out of his mind. Why? What a silly question. It started with one thought:

'I wonder what Rogue is doing right now?' Not that bad or random but it did cross his mind and you know how it is one thought or question always leads to another. Going around a sharp curve sun shining brightly bright green trees passing him by he suddenly had another though.

'Remy wonders how she has been?' again another innocent thought, Then another and another innocent thought.

'Remy wonders if his chere is dating anyone.' For a moment the thought was simply bypassed before he realized what he had thought.

"Bon seigneur ce qui est ce Cajun pensant?!?!" (Good Lord, what is this Cajun thinking?!?)He muttered in French.

'But she is a beautiful woman, single. She always looks so bella with her hair long, her lips shining. Her hair smells like strawberries. The way her hips sway. The look on her faced when she is angry. The way she hums softly when she thinks no one is listening.' He thought this with a dreamy sigh. With a start he realized where his thought where heading which is why he was parked on the side of the road. Thinking over and over again the same thing:

'She is just a friend! She is just a friend…but merde I wish she was more, NON she is just a FRIEND' calling himself a fool he started his bike and drove off again.

With Rogue

Rogue rubbed her ears slightly they seemed to be burning for a moment. Shrugging her shoulders she waved good bye to the Brotherhood as she drove away.

"I really enjoyed my time there Momma" Jamie said excitedly not realizing what he said.

"I did too honey." Rogue said her eyes tearing some. "Lets go home I am sure they are a worried about us not being home by now." She said smiling at Jamie.

"Ok!" he said cheerfully. Smiling at how hyper he was after chocolate chip pancakes smothered in syrup she made their way back to Xavier's. She still needed to talk with Beast about her pregnancy.

Sighing for a moment her thoughts went to Remy. 'I hope he's ok." She thought as she pulled into the Institutes Garage. They were soon out of the car and skipping up the porch. She smiled as she opened the door telling Jamie to go play as she made her way down to Beast's Lab for answers.

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Ok so I know its been a while but between working and College I have also had writers block but I am BACK!!!! So the POLLS ARE CLOSED! I know whom is going to be the daddy and whom is going to be the love interest bwhahahahahahaha…..I figured out a way around my writers block so expect more updates soon….I LOVE REVIEWS…..OH! I OWN NOTHING! Bwhahahahaha