Disclaimer: I don't own X-men

(oh yeah, the picture was taken it late autumn, according to me. And I changed X23's name back to Laura, Thx lilJuneBug for telling me!)

"Do You Dance?"

Jamie and Amy had just finished their tour of the mansion.

"Is it anything like where you used to live?" Jamie asked her after they set up her room.

"Well, kinda."

"Kinda?"

"Well, I lived in a mansion but it didn't have so many guest rooms, just dance rooms."

"Dance rooms?"

"It was family tradition for the children to know every dance out there, from waltz to disco, even figure skating and rollerblading."

"No way!"

"Yeah."

"That's so weird! My parents did the same thing before my mutation manifested. I don't get dance lessons here."

"You want to?"

Jamie glanced out the door. "I don't actually need them anymore, but I still like dancing." He whispered.

"Do you have a favorite type?"

"Yeah, ice skating. That was actually a hobby. My mom was trying to make up for me being a boy."

"She wanted girl?"

"Bad."

Amy shook her head. "She doesn't know what she's missing." and smiled a Jamie.

He smiled back.

- (' . ') -

"Don't lead me over a cliff, Swamp Rat." Rogue said as she closed her eyes.

"What, y' don' trust Remy?"

"Nope."

"Den why y' closin' y'r eyes?"

"'Cause Ah trust that ya know I'll haunt ya if Ah die."

"Not even death can separate us."

"Shut up."

Gambit, or Remy as he was now called, lead Rogue a bunch of bushes and parted them.

"Y' can open y'r eyes, chere."

Rogue opened her eyes and gasped to see an iced over lake on which people were skating. Snowflakes fell lightly all around them and the sun gave the snow a feathery look.

"It froze with de first snow fall."

"But Remy, Ah don't know how to skate."

"Remy 'ill teach y'." he said, handing her some skates.

Rogue slipped them on and the two walk/skated onto the lake.

"See, it's not that hard."

"That's 'cause's Ah'm holdin' yer hand, Swamp Rat."

"Dat can change." He said, letting go of her.

"Whoa…." Rogue swayed.

"Hey, Ah'm doin' it!" she exclaimed as she steadied.

"See? Not so hard."

"I guess you're – Ahh!" Rogue cried as she lost her balance. Remy caught her and held her hand once more.

"Hay, isn't that Jamie?" he asked, pointing through the crowd at Jamie.

"Yeah, who's he skating with?"

Jamie was skating with a girl with short, light brown hair. She was wearing a short, blue dress that looked like it was way too cold. They were putting on quite a show, doing twirls and such.

"It's that the new girl?"

"Yeah, Amy, right?"

"Mmm-hmm." The two watch Jamie and Amy skate.

"Dang, they're good.'

"Ya got that ri'."

"Y' want to learn how ta skate like dat?" Remy asked, leaning Rogue over, grinning widely.

"Ah guess it wouldn't be too bad." She said, smiling.

- (' . ') -

The X-men were having a training session outside, hosted by Hank.

"The main objective of this is to see how far your powers can go. You will go off into the woods with the partner of your choice and find out what you can."

As you can imagine; all the couples when off together and the best friends with the best friends. Jamie wasn't left, for once. He and Amy went into a random location and stood there.

"Now what?"

"Well, let's show each other our powers." Amy offered.

"Sounds good."

Jamie made some doubles of himself and took them back in. Amy blinked.

"That's it?"

"Yeah…?"

"Ever thought of doubling something else?"

"What do you mean?"

"For example; you know I can change my size, but I can also change other's by focusing on it." She picked up a pebble and grew it to the size of a fairly large rock.

"Now you try." She said, tossing him it. Jamie looked at it for a second. He squinted and the rock tripled, the other two falling to the ground, barley missing his toes.

"Whoa…."

"Cool, eh?"

"Yeah!"

BAMF

Rogue appeared between them.

"OMIGOSH." She slurred.

"Rogue! How'd you…?" Jamie looked puzzled at her.

"So you're a teleporter?" Amy inquired.

"No, not exactly…." Rogue groaned and leaned against a near by tree, clutching her head. Remy came in through some bushes and ran over to her.

"Rogue?" he asked, putting his hands on her shoulders. Rogue morphed into every person she had ever absorbed; one at a time, and collapsed on the ground.

"Rogue? Chere?" he shook her lightly, getting a low moan.

Remy sent out a mental message to the Professor, who was there is a matter of minutes.

"I never thought it would happen again…." The Professor shook his head.

"Again?"

"Yes, this has happened before, on a larger scale, though."

Remy picked Rogue up. "Will she be okay?"

"Yes, I feel she will. Did something happen; did you touch her or something?"

"No; I thought maybe if she focused on one… err… person that she could use deir power. So she focused on Kurt and teleported."

"Mm… I notice that you're touching her bare hand."

"I guess dat her powers shut off when she's unconscious."

"Yes. It would seem that way. Let me see what's going on in her mind." The Professor put his hand to her forehead and entered her mind. A bunch of Rogues were running around, chasing all the psyches and trying to get them behind her mental wall. It was mostly the enemies that weren't cooperating.

The Professor came back out her mind.

"Well?"

"It seems all the personalities broke out and she trying to capture them again."

Remy nodded and looked down at Rogue. He sighed. "I really thought we were getting somewhere, chere." They headed back to the mansion.

- (' . ') -

Amy was sitting on her balcony, a thoughtful look in her eyes.

"Hey, Amy; whatchya doin'?"

"Nothing much; just remembering my past."

"What is your past?"

"Well, it was mostly the average life of any girl, despite that fact that I was rich. I was out at a sleepover with my friend, May, when I got a call on the phone. My entire house had burned down to the ground; my parents with it."

Jamie gasped.

"Yeah. I was so scared. I ran away, away from it all. I ran till I couldn't anymore. I started living on the streets, eating from the trashcans, things like that. I stole some cloths when I out grew mine, I didn't bother with shoes, and shrunk down to the size of a mouse in the winters, sleeping with some. I didn't go to an official because I look nothing like either of my parents, so if I were to tell them they would probably just laugh."

Amy sighed.

"Do you ever miss them?"

"Yeah; all the time." A tear rolled down her cheek, landing on the railing.

"Hey, you've got a new family." Jamie said, putting his hand on hers. Amy smiled, holding his hand.

"Like, Omigosh! I just knew you two were going, like, to get together!" squealed Kitty from behind. They both whirled around to see her run out the room.

"Uh-oh." They said in unison.

- (' . ') -

And there you go!