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Chapter 7: Chéri?

It has been a month since he had seen Rogue. Yesterday was her appointment with that doctor that made the cure. Remy wakes up to the sound of his cell phone ringing. He knows it is one of three people, and only one of them would be awake at seven am. He rolls over and answers it. "Salut Chéri."

"He Sugar. Ah'm coming home." Rogue says cheerfully.

Remy sits up fast, "Remy is glad to hear that. Did you gain control of your powers?"

Rogue sounds a little disappointed with her next words, "Ah got the cure Remy. Ah'm sorry but I just want to be able to touch people."

"Don't be Chéri. Remy understands. And so will everyone else. When will ya be home?" Remy could not keep the happiness out of his voice.

"I'll be home in a week. Ah an't leavin' my bike out here. But I better get goin so I can get home sooner. I love ya." Rogue sounds a little different but very happy. Remy is not entirely convinced. He knows Rogue's speech patterns and something just seems off. He pushes it aside for right now.

"Je t'aime, chéri." Remy hangs up the phone and gets up out of bed. Everyone else will want to know Rogue is coming home.

He gets dressed and heads down to the kitchen, knowing Logan would be down there. When Remy walks in Logan looks you from his morning coffee and raises an eyebrow. "You're awake early Cajin."

Remy smiles at him. They had become friends in the time he has been at the mansion. "Just the animal Remy wanted to see. Rogue is comin' home in a week."

"About time stripes came home." Logan smiles. Remy knows Logan is like a father to Rogue, and that he sees himself like her father.

"Remy wants ya here when she gets here." He walks over as other x-men start to enter the kitchen. He talks just load enough that only Logan could hear, "Her speech pattern didn't seem right to Remy. And she says she got the cure."

"WHAT!" Logan did not like that thought at all, "How could she get that! She would not do that?"

Remy tried to get Logan to calm down but it was too late. The other x-men on hand, Scott, Jean, Kitty, Hank, and Orora clearly heard his outrage and where all staring at them now. "Baiser!" Remy swears as he looks to the others.

"Rogue is comin' home in a week. But she got the cure." Remy looks across then all at their reactions. Scott and Jean both where shocked, Kitty and Orora looked happy for Rogue, and Hank smiled but nodded towards Logan. Hank must have heard them talking before Logan's outburst.

Kitty is the first to speak, "I'm so happy for her. Now she can like get all touchy with people."

Scott looks to Jean and then back, "I'm glad for her, just surprised that one of us got the cure."

Jean cuts in before anyone else and talk, "Same here though not surprised that she got it, just that she got it so soon. You told us she was doing well at controlling her powers for at least a little while."

Orora smiles, "If that is what she wanted to do, I'm glad she did it."

Remy smiles as he motions to Hank and Logan to join him outside away from everyone. "Dis is what Remy thinks. With her speech patterns broken like they are, and Remy could tell by her voice that her getting the cure is a lie, and Rogue never lies to Remy. It's not her. Remy is going to call Emma and see what she thinks. Logan, I know you have connections to the Avengers, think you can see if they can help if it really is not Rogue?"

Logan look at Remy, "Damn Cajin, how did you know about that?"

Remy gives his usual smart ass grin, "Remy knows."

"I'll see what I can do. They got their hands full though with escaped prisoners from S.H.I.E.L.D." Logan shakes his head. "It's a fucking mess. Also the riots about Magneto building Genosha are starting to get bad."

"It is quite the conundrum. " Hanks stats, "But that is human nature for you."

"Yeah, what he said." Logan looks at Hank and shakes his head. "I'll see what I can due though. After Stripes gets back."

Remy nods and walks back into the rest of the mansion. The rest of the week when by fast as the new of Rogue coming home spread, and that she got the cure. Remy talked to Rogue every night still and it just makes Remy wonder even more what was going on with Rogue.

Remy wakes up early on the day Rogue arrives home. Remy waits down at the garage as she pulls up the driveway. She parks it and comes running up to Remy. He could not help but feel excited to see her again. She looks as beautiful as ever. Her hair was slightly wavy and she was wearing her makeup like the night of their date. Before he know it, her arms where wrapped around his neck pulling him into a deep kiss. Remy pulls himself out of the kiss, it was different then the way Rogue kisses. He then looks at her neck and frowns, the pendent he gave her was not there. This was not his Rogue, which became clear when Logan spoke up as he unsheathed his claws, "I don't know who you are bub, but you are not Strips."

"What did you do to her?" Remy's voice is harsh and full of venom.

Rogue looks hurt and tears build up in her eyes, "You believe him Remy? I though you love me."

Remy shakes his head. This was tearing him up inside, but this was not Rogue. Before anyone could react, Remy grabbed the fake Rogue by the throat slamming her against the wall. "You are not Remy's Rogue." Remy's fears and emotions start to take control of him. "WHERE IS SHE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?" His hand begins to glow as the imposters skin starts glowing as well.

The commotion that Remy was making got the attention of the rest to the x-men. They all burst into the garage to see Remy pinning Rogue to the wall.

Scott shouts, "What the hell is going on here?"

Logan just gives Scott a look and Scott knows something is wrong. Logan then turns back to Remy, "Calm down kid, we need em alive to find Stripes."

The glowing begins to lessen as the fake Rogue begins to change shape and laughs with a wicked voice, "You filth will never find her. And you will never get anything from me." The small man laughs again. He has pale skin and red glowing eyes. Logan turns his head slightly like he is listening to something.

"Fuck he's a bomb!" Logan shouts.

And before anyone knows what happened, the imposter was blasted through the wall right before he explodes, leavening a crater in the garden and blasting in the side of the garage. Remy and Logan pulled themselves out of the destroyed half of the garage. Only to see a blond haired woman looking at them.

"Is this part of what you wanted help with Logan?" she says as she looks over the destruction.

Logan lets out a single laugh, "You could say that Carol."

The rest of the x-men come over helping Remy up, "Guys this is Carol Danvers, AKA Ms. Marvel. She is here to help."

"So what exactly am I helping with?" Carol looks around at the mess. "I don't do cleanup."

"It's going to be a search and rescue. And it has something to do with the cure."

Carol shakes her head, "Well we better get started before the trail is gone."