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Chapter 3: Tests
When Remy finally caught up with Rogue she was halfway to a large practice arena. Shooting her one last searching look, which she expertly ignored, he turned his attention to the field. Professor Xavier sat off to one side, Logan, Storm, and Beast flanking him. He raised his hand in his usual confident wave and smirked slightly.
Rogue shot him a sharp look suddenly, her face drawn into a kind of horrified realization. She sped up, once in hearing range, she called to the Professor, "Professor, can ya give us a second?"
The Professor looked mildly surprised, but consented non-the-less. Rogue grabbed his hand and pulled him into the tree line, Remy registered the semi-curious, semi-suspicious looks around him. Shaking his head in a 'Don't ask me' kind of way he allowed himself to be dragged into the woods.
She turned to face him, he opened his mouth, fully intending to ask her what the hell was going on when she shot him an angry look. Having absolutely no idea what he could have possibly done, he fell silent. She started pacing in front of him. Not a good sign.
"Listen Remy," she said after a full minute of circling "you can't use any of the skills that aren't" she struggled for the right words "normally used."
"Why?" he asked taken aback.
"Because."
He looked at her closely, "Can I assume dat 'ou haf'nt been using all yur… skills" her stony glare confirmed it. "Dammit Rogue!" he yelled loudly. She didn't look surprised at his out burst, but rather like she was resigned to the worst.
"Why are 'ou doin' dis again!" he said harshly
"Because," she began just as harshly "If Ah did Ah'd have to explain where Ah learned 'em"
Remy looked at her, then sighed. He understood.
(POV change) (AN: sorry about this guys see end for explanation)
Kitty strained her ears trying to catch any of what her roommate was saying. The pair had gone off about a minute ago, Kitty had shared one look with Kurt before slipping into the trees after them. An unspoken agreement had placed them about 50 yards from the duo, crouching in a bush. She watched as Rogue finally stopped pacing and turned to Gambit. Growling in frustration, she looked at Kurt to see if he was having anymore luck then she was. The pained look on his face told her it was pointless to ask. She was just preparing to nudge the elf into teleporting them closer when Gambit shouted. She didn't need to strain to hear this time "Dammit Rogue!". A few birds from neighboring tress took flight at the volume. She watched as Gambit spoke to her, Kitty thought he looked like he was being rude. His hands were flying around him angrily and he stance was ridged. She saw Rogue retort and Gambit's posture slump. He nodded once and turned around and started walking back. Rogue stood for a second. Gambit paused and held out his hand, Rogue ran to catch up with him. Kitty shared a confuse look with her friend and moved silently back to the field.
Rogue released Remy's hand as the exited the forest. He looked at her and she shot him a look that clearly said 'Remember what we talked about' his own said in no uncertain terms 'ummm…duh!' Fixing a cocky grin to his face once more, he left Rogue and walked to the Professor.
Rogue moved with the rest of the students into a group on the side. The Professor turned to speak to the collective. "We're here to see the extend of Mr. Le Beau's talents." Turning to speak explicitly to Remy he said, "Now I don't want you to worry, you won't be harmed in any way. Just do your best to complete each task."
Remy smirked confidently at him. Rogue rolled her eyes, she was well aware hat Remy wouldn't have even the slightest bit of trouble with the 'tasks' she just hoped he had the brains to not make it look too easy. Focusing her attention back on the Professor, who had apparently been explaining Remy's task. "Got it?" he asked. "Yup" he replied. Rouge looked around confused, the rest of the students were looking excited. She leaned closer to Kitty, "Hey Kit, what did he say?"
Kitty looked at her amused, "Dodging."
"Oh" she said, standing up straight. 'Gawd this is gunn' be so borin'"
Kitty shot her a curious look, "Aren't you, like, worried?"
Rogue looked at her, "Oh ya, course," she said remembering that the training excise he was about to take part in was called 'Dodge Ball From Hell' by most of the students.
"Oh look, its, like, starting" Kitty said excitedly.
Rolling her eyes Rogue turned to watch. Remy nodded, at once machines popped up from nowhere, immediately they began hurling orange balls at him. Rogue's fears were instantly put to rest, it seemed that her friend did have brains after all. While he dodged every single ball, which turned out to be balls of paint that exploded on contact, he made it seem like each dodge, duck, and scoot was becoming more and more difficult. Finally after about 10 minutes he was hit, orange paint splattered against his chest, Rogue smirked to herself, 'he made that look very real' she thought to herself. Remy walked back towards the crowd. All of whom were staring at him, clearly impressed.
"Very impressive" Xavier said, wheeling over, Remy bowed his head in seeming thanks, but Rogue saw the partially concealed laugh.
"Yeah man, that was awesome!" said Evan
He smirked cockily "But 'f course"
He walked towards Rogue who handed him a towel to wipe the paint from his shirt, "Nicely done," she muttered quietly. He winked at her and turned back to the Professor.
"Next," Logan said gruffly " you will be using you're powers to deflect physical attacks."
At Remy's nod once again things were hurled at him. This time, however, the orange paint balls were replaced by razor blades. He charged a card and threw it; it hit its mark and exploded. Rogue sighed exasperatedly, he was showing off again, granted not as much as he could have, but still. She had never understood his love of the limelight, preferring to stay in the shadows herself.
Remy's tests continued for the better part of 3 hours, Rogue watch becoming steadily border with each task. The first few had been remotely interesting, after the razor blades came a obstacle course, then a mini attack in the Danger Room, then a race against Logan, after that it got dead boring. The adults quizzed Remy on everything from battle strategy to the importance of posture. Finally they were done. Rogue stood and stretched her cramped legs, muttering darkly at the impressed conversation around her she turned and started walking towards the mansion. Remy caught up with her in seconds. They walked in silence, a group of excited students following in their wake.
As 6 o'clock rolled around everyone filled into the dinning room and pilled into their seats, Remy taking the usually empty seat on Rogue's right. Rouge and Remy passed their dinner n silence knowing full well that the only conversation they were going to have would require privacy. Instead they listened to the others'. As the last bit of pizza was crammed into Kurt's mouth Remy got to is feet, "If 'ou will excus' de fille and myself por a while." he looked at Rogue expectantly who hadn't moved.
"Ah'm tired Ray." she said a note of finality in her voice.
He ignored it and continued, "We were in da middle of sumting."
"Fahn, no need to get ya panties in a bunch." she said walking out of the dinning room.
Remy followed her out of the house and back into the clearing they had been in before his test.
"So what's so important?" she questioned
"Got ta finish our figh'" he said pulling a Bo stick from his coat and tossing it to her, then pulling another from his sleeve. He extended his and she followed suit, though reluctantly. He looked at her curiously.
"Ah don't like to fight a fight Ah know Ah'm gunna loose." she responded darkly.
He laughed and lunged she moved swiftly to the left and brought her stick up to block his strike. She shifted right and she spun her stick and tucked it under arm, she spun rapidly and brought it smashing down, Remy dodged and aimed a blow for her head, she used a combination of dodging and blocking to escape it.
They continued this way for a while, neither getting the upper hand. Although it was obvious that Remy was testing to see how much she had forgotten. Which, apparently was a lot, she made many mistakes, the last of which brought he staff ripped from her hands. She stood panting slightly, then grinned, "Well Ah guess Ah could use some practice."
"Oui" Remy answered "And ou will get it"
She scowled.
AN: Hey, sorry this took sooo long, I've come to the conclusion that school SUCKS! I'm a senior this year and I'm taking the world's easiest classes and STILL! I still get tons of homework. I mean not hard homework (not hard at all) but it takes forever! its like meaningless nonsense that takes 10 freaking hours!
Ok anyways I hope you guys remotely enjoyed this chapter, its kinda, weird, and not terribly well written, but I figured I'd better update so I wrote this instead of going to class :-)
OK a mistake I made, in the first chapter I made it sound like Rogue isn't in HS anymore, she is. I know it really sounded like it, "Rogue had taken Spanish in High School." "Never in the 4 years he had known her had Rogue ever smiled like that." But I realize my mistake, Rogue is a senior, Remy's nothing (no HS for him)
OK I'm having a lot of trouble with the formatting, when I write like POV changes, I always leave a bunch of spaces, or put a row of and they never show up. When I write in French (and I hesitate to use that word as I'm not sure my French and be counted as French) I always put little () or around it and they never show up! SO I apologize, but I really do now its annoying and I apologize. SORRY!
Please review! I'll update soon! promise, but I figure I'd better update HLWN first, and I've got a Harry Potter fic (no laughing!) that I haven't updated since July. SO gotta do that one first, then HLWN, then this one!
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