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Chapter 10: Recovery

Remy wakes up on a hard, uncomfortable bed to the sound of a very annoying beep. As his eyes open, he can see a young woman standing bent over next to him looking at some monitors. He can not quite make out her features, but he only knows one girl with that long red hair. He must be in the med bay back at the institute.

"That is a nice sight to wake up to, petit. " He grins to himself and he tries to sit up. Pain instantly fills him but it does not stop him from sitting up all the way groaning the whole way.

Jean turns around fast and gives him a dirty look, "You should not be sitting up. Lie back down, you need time to heal."

Remy does not listen to her though as he stands up, and almost falls right back down if it were not for Jean's powers catching him. "Remy's fine he swears. Besides, Remy needs to find Rogue." He tries to walk but finds that he is suspended in the air.

Remy looks at Jean, "Please let Remy go." He notices the ring on her finger, "Remy knows you know how he feels. And he knows if things where flipped nothin' would stop you from searchin' for Scott."

Jean sets him down on the bed. She shakes her head slowly. "It's a dead end Remy. You have been on that bed for two months now. Anyone else, other then Logan, would still be on it." She looks away as tears build in her eyes. "Remy she is gone at this point. Even Professor Xavier cannot find a trace of her." Jean's tears fall knowing how her words must feel to him. But she feels it is the best for him. "We were waiting for you to have a service for her." Her body heaves with her tears.

"Well Remy will not be there. Rogue is not dead. She is stronger than that and ya'll are fools if you think she is weak. Remy will never stop looking for her, with or without the x-men's help." Remy stands up and walks slowly over to where he could see his clothing was sitting. He tries to pull on his shirt but cannot get it past the cast on his arm. The cast begins to glow then blows apart. He finishes getting dressed and turns to look at Jean. "Death it's self could not stop me petit. Until Remy finds her, even if it is just her dead body, she is not dead."

"I got you back, Cajun." Logan's gruff voice says from the doorway.

"So do I. I cannot believe these kids defeated Apocalypse. They give up so quickly." Emma states as she walks up behind Logan.

Kitty phases through both Emma and Logan, "I'm with you too, Remy." She turns to look at Emma, "and so you know, it was like totally Rogue who beat Apocalypse."

Emma smiles at her, "Dully noted dear."

Remy shakes his head as he heads slowly to the door, lighting a smoke as he goes. What a montly crew this is, the lover, the father, the mother and the little sister. He laughs to himself. What a family. He smiles at them all. These are the true friends that he and Rogue have. "Merci, mes amis."

Remy starts walking done the hall when he can her Xavier's voice in his head. "Remy, can I have a word with you?"

Remy shakes his head, "Make it fast. Remy has work to do."

"I would like to talk in person."

Remy stops in his tracks, "Remy's sorry professor, but he has no time to waste." Remy begins walking again. "And you know you cannot stop Remy. You may be able to make the others not go, but not Remy. Rogue is coming home and Remy is bringing her."

"I would never try to stop you son. I know how much you care for her and I wish you luck. You can take the x-chopper. I do hope that we are all wrong and that you bring Rogue back home to us."

"Merci, Professor. And don't you worry, Remy will not let anyone else get hurt."

"Just don't get yourself hurt in the process as well." And with that, Remy could feel Professor Xavier withdraw from his mind.

Remy enters the hanger two hours later with a small bag on his back and a smile as he sees his team. The animal, the sophisticate, and the brat with the thief as the leader. They have their work cut out for them though. Two months worth of looking gone already was not going to make this easy.

Once everyone was on the x-chopper and heading to Emma's institute, Remy informed them of what he had found from the files he got.

"From what Remy can tell, Rogue is being held in a place called 'Ground Zero'. Also he had a special note on Rogue's file of 'Key'. " Everyone raised an eyebrow at that. "Remy does not know what that means, but he'll put money on that it has something to do with her powers." Remy looks at the other three, "Any Ideas?"

"Well this 'Ground Zero' has to be his main base of operations. And I'll bet it is well hidden." Emma states.

"And heavily shielded since Blondy here and Chuck could not sense anything from Strips." Logan chimed in.

Emma shakes her head, "Would you please stop calling me that you Neanderthal."

"You didn't seem to mind last night hun." Logan smiles at her as she turns beet red.

"If you do now want to think you are a four year old little girl for the rest of your life you better SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!" Emma ends shouting at him.

Remy and Kitty both start laughing. Remy could never imagine thoughts two together, but apparently it had happened.

"Emma, they would have found out anyways. Better not then later." Logan says to Emma then turns to look at Remy as he continues to laugh, "What's so funny Bub?" Logan raises his hand as his claws extend.

Remy holds up his hands, "Nothing, Remy just didn't think she would be the kind to like it rough."

Kitty losses it in laughter at that, and even Logan chuckled a little at it. Emma just turned redder.

"Fine yes Logan and I are in a relationship with each other. Now can we stop talking about our sex life, which is better they you two's right now, and get on with saving Rogue?" Emma says.

That made Kitty stop laughing fast, and Remy soon after. "Ok, any other ideas on this 'Ground Zero'?"

Kitty walks over to the computer and pulls up her research she has been doing. "Well ground zero normally stands to the starting place for something. Be it like a war or explosion."

"We all know that kid. What are you thinking there?" Logan asks

"Well this is my guess, it someplace that would be a ground zero for him. I'll bet he is a mutant. And look at this." Kitty points at the screen. She had all the research on Essex and 'ground zero' pulled up. An article about an Essex was pulled up stating that he was a survivor of the Chernobyl disaster.

"It cannot be that easy. What's the catch?" Logan asks.

"None. I had looked at the files like a month ago and started researching. Essex has been seen in the surrounding area, and has had numerous flights in and out under different names." She smiles, "I hacked the flight records and security cameras along with the images from the new feeds that have pictures of his face through the computer at the mansion with facial recognition software. It got like a ninety nine percent match with all of the images."

Remy smiles, "Who would have thought that the little valley girl was a hacker. " Remy smiles at her, "Sounds like a good place to start petit. Shale we go?"

"It's a pretty big place, Cajun. Hope you are planning on a long search." Logan states.

"That is why we will check back at the clinic first to hopefully narrow that search. But Remy hopes it is not long, but he will search for however long it takes." Remy looks to Logan and Logan nods at him. They both know they are in this for the long haul even if the girls stop looking, they will not.