Hi everyone. Sorry about the delay. There was a problem with my flash drive. It was cheap and was only made to last about two years apparently. Unfortunately that meant that I had no way to transfer my files to the internet. Anyway I got another cheap flash drive and I am good to go. Thanks for the patience. I do not own these characters.
After Rogue had returned from the salon she had stowed away in her room to get ready. Remy had bigger fish to fry so to speak. His family had arrived extremely early that morning. His brother along with his sister-in-law Mercy had to stay behind in New Orleans to run the guild and his sisters were not allowed to attend for some strange reason and Remy had not been curious enough to ask. Or brave enough. So basically only his Tante Maddie and his father had attended. Simple enough to keep out of trouble right. If only.
Tante Maddie was having a conversation on the fine art of cooking with Storm. Though the Wind Rider was growing steadily more bored with her companion she had promised Remy she would keep her out of trouble as a wedding gift. That left his father. He had lost him for a moment when he turned to sign for a package and when he turned back around Jean Luc was gone. He found his father in the presence of Tabitha who had a look of sheer disgust on her face. As Remy approached he could her Jean Luc's pick up line in progress. "So Cherie what do you do around her for fun?"
"Oh nothing. Usually I recite the rosary and ask for penance. I'm taking my holy vows very soon." She said hoping to turn the man away. As Remy came nearer she looked at him. "Gee Remy you're a real chip off the old Grease ball."
Remy wished he could be anywhere else. "Dad, grossly inappropriate as you normally are could you please at least try to tone it down for my wedding? How old do you think she is anyway? I'll give you a hint. She's jailbait and Logan would kill you if you even looked at her the wrong way."
Jean Luc was not deterred. "I can wait."
"Ewwww!" Tabby said in way of answer. Then she looked at Remy. "You so owe me."
"I know. How about I cover for you the next time Logan suspects you of a crime." He pleaded.
"Tempting, but no. We'll talk later." Tabby said as she walked away.
Remy turned to Jean Luc "Let me make this perfectly clear. Stay away from the underage girls. No good could come of it."
"Don't you have a wedding to get ready for? A wedding that I happened to have paid for." Jean Luc asked.
"Yeah, about that I have something to tell you." Remy answered.
"What?" curiosity struck Jean Luc.
"Well since you so graciously reminded me that you were paying for the wedding I thought it was high time to bring up finances. As in what is it that you want from me that made you send me money. Your to much of a tight wad to have just done it out of the goodness of your…what ever it is that you have instead of a heart." Remy queried.
Jean Luc sighed. "Remy why don't you trust your father?"
Remy deadpanned. "Years of experience."
"Now that you mention it I do have some small teensy weenie little favor to ask of you." Jean Luc cut to the point.
"What is it that you want?"
Jean Luc smiled an evil smile that would make you feel greasy just being in his presence. "I need your help to get a little back a little something from a rival guild. Since I so generously helped you I figure you could help the family just this once."
"I already told you I don't do guild work any more." Remy told his father.
"Yes, but for a favor of the magnitude I did for you I would think you might do some big gesture for me." Jean Luc goaded.
Remy turned away in disgust. "I thought you might say something like that. So I made provisions. We only used half the money to pay for the wedding. With the help of Professor Xavier, Rogue and I invested the rest. Pretty good investments too, we've already more than quadrupled it. So I had the money plus interest transferred to your bank account this morning. Rogue and I'll be just fine without you." With that Remy walked away from his stunned father.
When Remy returned to his room to get ready he found his groomsmen already there. Kurt was first to start a tirade. "Why aren't you ready yet? Your going to run out on my sister aren't you. You don't know how happy that would make me."
"Kurt shut up. I getting ready now, but I need a favor from one of you." Remy told them.
"Depends on what it is mate." John replied to his friend.
"I need one of you to take this bag to Rogue." He said holding up a small white bag.
John face stiffened at that. "Hell no. Remy do you have any idea how scary girls are when something like this is going on. A man could die if he entered the inter sanctum of wedding world."
Remy scoffed. "I'm willing to risk you."
"I'm with John no way am I entering that room." Kurt shook his head fervently.
"I guess that leaves me. I guess I will take your mission." Piotr said.
Remy handed him the bag. "Don't look like I'm sending you off to your death. You'll be fine."
"I'm not so sure about that." Piotr said leaving the room.
Piotr hesitantly knocked on Rogue's door. He had heard muffled screams of pain and wasn't eager to find out why. The door opened to an angry looking Jean. "What do you want?" Her dress was hanging open in the back.
"Umm…I was sent by Remy to give this to Rogue." He said as he entered the room. Kitty came out from behind a screen in her underwear. "Guys that dress is slightly too big for me. Oh hi Piotr."
Jean looked exasperated. "Oh that is probably my dress. This one is far too small on me. Wanda tried to squeeze me into it and I think I pulled something."
Both girls stalked behind the screen just as Rogue appeared from behind it. "What's up Piotr?" She asked.
He handed her the bag. His face was beat red so as soon as his burden was gone he quickly got out of the room.
Kitty came out from behind the screen again. "Where did Piotr go?"
"Kitty you know that boy is crazy about you and you just came out in you underwear. Are you out of your mind?" Rogue asked.
"No I am not out of my mind. He has yet to make any sort of move and I thought I would just see if I could get him to try something. What's in the bag?" Kitty said in way of answer.
Rogue gave her friend a look and opened the bag. Inside the bag was a ring box.
Inside the box was a white gold diamond engagement ring. A note was there as well. It read "Dear Rogue, I hope you like this. It's not yellow gold as per your instructions. I hope you like the inscription. Remy."
"Aww. That is so cute. What's the inscription say?" Kitty asked.
"'You look wonderful tonight' It's our wedding song." Rogue answered.
"Well at least it isn't something unoriginal like 'with all my love'." Wanda said.
Jean looked down guiltily. Wanda caught her. "No way Jean. Scott did not inscribe your enragement with that did he?"
"Well I mean come on he isn't exactly creative. Wait though, Rogue you told Remy to buy you an engagement ring?" Jean wondered.
"No I just mentioned the fact that I don't like yellow gold. The rest was left up to him. Oh yeah and I left one or two pictures of engagement rings lying around and I mention rings a couple of times." Rogue said.
"I really hope that wedding insanity is temporary." Jean whispered to Wanda and Kitty.
Kitty ignored the other girl. "So Rogue did you get Remy a gift?"
"Yes," she said. "but he doesn't get it until after the honey moon. It's a photo album that I'm going to fill with pictures of us through out the entire relationship through the wedding and honeymoon. It'll be our own family album."
"That's sweet Rogue." Wanda said and then got a funny look on her face. "Wait she is being sweet. Rogue are you feeling okay?"
"Ha Ha Ha screw you Wanda. Hurry up you guys we got to go for pictures in the foyer in ten minutes." Rogue yelled.
With that they all went down stairs.
Next chapter is it ya'll.
