Another day, another chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter 13: Shotgun
Logan laughs from the doorway into Rogue's med bay. "You two may want to stop that before he passes out."
Remy had completely forgotten about Rogue's powers. But she had dragged him into this long kiss. He pulls back from her just far enough to not be touching. Rogue smiles at him, "Ah got control now." She pulls him back down continuing the kiss.
They both forgot about Logan being there until he spoke up again, "All right Stripes, leave the man breathe already."
Remy and Rouge both start to laugh. "Logan, it's hard to breathe anytime Remy sees her."
Rogue blushes, "Ya think we can get some privacy here?"
Logan smiles at the two, but shakes his head, he could smell Jean and Hank on their way. "Afraid not Stripes, the docs are on their way."
Rogue seems upset at the thought of more people interrupting her time with Remy, but she understood. She tries to sit up in bed but finds it a little hard to. Remy raises the back part of the bed for her. Just then Jean and Hank come walking in. Jean's steps quicken when she sees Rogue is awake and quickly wraps her up in a hug, "It's so good to see you awake."
Rogue returns the hug, "It's good to just be home."
Jean pulls back out of the hug and gets to work on a checkup on Rogue, which she passed with flying colors. Hank checks over some computer analysis and smiles, "She appears to be completely back in good health. We can even remove the cast on her arm."
"Thank god. This thing is itchy as hell." Rogue grabs a hold of the cast and proceeds to rip it completely off. The other all stare at her in astonishment. "Ah'll explain later. Ah just want some time alone," she smiles, "with Remy."
Jean blushes slightly as she can sense what Rogue is thinking like an open book. Hank and Logan both smile. As they all walk out Logan mutters, "Teenage hormones."
Rogue blushes at hearing Logan. Yes she does want that, but not right now. The door closes and the two are all alone. Remy goes to speak by Rogue put's a single finger up over his mouth. She had to tell him about Carol and what she had done. She hoped he could still love her.
"Ah wanted to tell you this first. Ah don't really care what the others think about it." She sighs, "I killed someone using my powers. It was not my choice, and I could not control my powers yet. We had become good friends and she is the one that gave me back hope."
She looks away as tears form, blurring her vision. "It was Carol Davers. She told me that you had not stopped looking for me and that she know you would not stop. Sinister forced me to absorb her. My powers completely drained the life from her. I have her power now on top of my own."
Tears stream down her face, "Carol is still alive in my head. She helped me learn to control her powers and my own. Ah don't know if we can save her at all, but Ah can tell she is starting to fade away. I just have to save her somehow. Ah am responsible for taking her life. Ah…"
She is cut short as Remy turns her head to face him. He kisses her and smiles, "Cheri, je t'aime. Nothing will ever change that. It's not your fault, and I'm sure that Carol knows that too."
He hugs her tightly as he continues, "All these months without you made Remy know he never wants to be without ya." He pulls back out of the hung and looks straight into her emerald eyes. He then gets down onto one knee as he pulls a beautiful diamond ring out. The diamond was cut in the shape of a heart with a simple gold band folding it. "Will ya marry me Cheri?"
Rogue cannot believe it. She had thought about this for a long time, and now it is happening. Tears of joy start to run down her face now. After everything that had happened to her and him. He still loves her. She lets him slip the ring onto her finger and then pulls him into a deep kiss.
Once they break the kiss, Remy looks at her, "So is that a yes cheri?"
She playfully smakes him in the chest as she wipes away her tears, "It's a strong maybe."
He smiles at her, "Oh, well I guess Remy will take this back then."
He reaches for the ring on her finger but she pulls it back away from him. She smiles, "It had better not be stolen swamp rat."
He raises his hands, "Remy steal, never." He smiles and continues, "But it is not Cheri."
"So when do ya want to do the whole wedding thing?" Rogue smiles.
"It's all about the bride so you pick." He smiles back at her and kisses her again.
"Ok then." Rogue stopped to think about it. With the way thing are in their lives they would not realy be able to plan a wedding. "Tomorrow sounds good to me."
Remy just smiled at her, "That is what Remy thought you would say."
"Nothin' better then a down home shotgun wedding. With the way things are in out lives it will be the best. No telling if we will ever be able to do it again so why not." Rogue kisses her soon to be husband just as Kitty comes running through, quite literally, the door.
"ROGUE!" Kitty shouts as she tackles her best friend.
Rogue laughs and hugs her. It was so good to be home. "Hey Kitty, want to be my maid of honor?"
Kitty's eyes light up, "Are you serious?"
Rogue holds up her hand showing her the ring there, "Ah sure am. Wedding is going to be tomorrow."
"What! That soon. What about all the planning and the Dress and …" Rouge cuts Kitty off.
"We don't want to waste any time. We love each other and have already lost too much time." She smiles as she looks into Remy's crimson on black eye.
"Well I like totally understand that. I know me and Pete have talked about that before." Kitty says.
"Ya and Pete?" Rogue looks at Kitty.
"You know, Colossus. We have kind of started to date. He is such a sweetie." Kitty smiles and Remy laughs. Both girls look at him.
"What, he was always bad with the girl back when we both where with Magneto." He smiles. "Speaking of which, where is the big guy, Remy wants him and Logan as his best men."
"Logan, really?" Rogue looked confused.
"He backed me the whole time when searching for ya, Cheri. Remy could not think for anyone else but Pete for his best men." He smiled and know Rogue understood.
"What do you need me to do?" Kitty looked to them both.
"If ya could find me a dress that would be fine." Rogue said smiling as she knows she just made Kitty's day.
"And on second thought, let's do it the day after tomorrow. That way Ah can go with ya to get the dress." She smiles. She cannot believe it still, but she was going to marry Remy.
"Remy'll leave ya two alone to plan things, he needs to find the boys to let them know." He stands up and leans in to kiss Rogue, who gladly returns it. "Je t'aime, cheri."
"I love ya too." Rogue smiles. It felt so good to be saying that to him.
Remy then walks out the door for the first time since they had arrived back and Rogue was almost dead. Emma came walking in as Remy left. She smiles at Rogue who smiles back.
"Hey Emma, didn't expect ya to be here." Rogue looks at her confused.
"Well my dear, I have joined up here now. Are you going to leave your hair that long now? It looks rather nice, though it could use a brushing." Emma replies.
Rogue didn't even think about that. She gets up out of the bed and flies, literally, to the mirror on the wall. She didn't notice the look on her friends faces as she looked at her hair. It had grown to be down to her lower back while her white bangs now went down just past her chin, framing her face. It all had a nice looking lose curl to it, which she know it would have from when she was young. She sweeps the loose bangs on the left back behind her ear. She found that she likes the way it looks now.
"You know what Emma, Ah'm keeping the long hair." Rogue smiles as she turns around.
"I told you that you would look good with longer hair. Now then, tell us how you just flew across the room?" Emma crosses her arms as she looks at Rogue.
Rogue was hoping to avoid this conversation until after the wedding, but not now. Rogue tells them in the shortest way possible as tears build back in her eyes, "I was forced to absorb other mutants. When Ms Marvel was captured, he forced me to absorb her." Her tears run down her face, "She died because of my powers and now I have her powers permanently."
Kitty hugs her friend as Emma just stares at her. After a few more minutes Emma smiles, "I'm so sorry my dear. Carol showed me everything." She walks over and hugs Rogue as well. After a little time, Rogue composes herself and they start to plan a shotgun wedding.