"Ah hate him Logan." She mumbled into his shoulder.

He watched as the kids continued to play and laugh, and hoped that one day Oliver and Bekka wouldn't have to go through the pain that Rogue was going through.

"I know kid, I know."

----------10 YEARS LATER-------------

New Orleans, Louisiana…

In the rejuvenated part of the French Quarters of New Orleans, Remy Lebeau enjoyed the view from his apartment/office. He had lived here for the last ten years as a private investigator, along with the rest of his partners/roommates.

It was quiet an afternoon at home, for now.

He leaned back on the balcony as he watched through the clear sliding door for his roommates.

'Count down to Johnny boy waking up right about now. 3, 2, 1...' He looked up and sure enough Johnny Blaze came into sight, wearing a grungy white t-shirt and boxers with his blond hair sticking up in weird directions.

"Well look who it is, Ol'Johnny boy finally got up." Remy joked in a loud booming voice. He looked down at the watch on his wrist, "N' it's only one forty-five in de afternoon!" He knew the reason for his roommate sleep in was because Johnny worked at night and partied in the morning.

"Gambit, Shut up." Johnny walked to the kitchen to get some aspirin for his throbbing head.

"Not my fault dat de famous Johnny Blaze gotta work late." He chuckled as he followed him into the kitchen.

"That's not it, I got a girl in there, so shut up." He chased down two pills with a glass of something that looked like coke.

"Dieu, Y'brought a fille here!? Frank is gonna kick y'sorry little ass out of here!"

Johnny just wiped his mouth "What Frankie doesn't know wont kill him."

"Yeah, he'll just kill you." Said a voice, they looked up to their other room mate. Kevin walked in, already back from his latest kill and covered with 'dust' all over his leather duster.

"Vamps got you good dis time Blade." The dust was all over his hair.

Kevin chose to ignore him, "You know how Frank feels about people in here Rider."

Groaning loudly John collapsed onto the living room chair, "For the love of God, what the hell is she gonna find in there? Aint like she's snooping around the damn room."

"Yeah, well y'better get out of here mon ami. Before Punisher gets y'skin." Remy advised him.

The door to their apartment slammed wide opened, making all three men jump and ready to fight.

"Aren't we jumpy?"

Standing in front of the door way was Frank Castle and Lucas Bishop back from their night and early morning rounds around the city. Looking dark and intimidating, with their guns right at their sides (the two had a love for weapons of any kind) and the air around them indifferent.

"Damn it Lucas! Don't y'all ever open the damn door with your freaking keys?" Johnny practically fell off the sofa when the door slammed.

"Well it looks like everyone's here, we gotta leave. Now. So get ready." Ordered Frank as he walked into his office and started to pack.

"Qui? Where are we goin'?" Remy took a seat backwards on one of the chairs in the living room. Usually Frank gave them a day or so to get ready for a mission, unless it was a die hard type.

Bishop answered him as he packed his bags "New York."

"What's in New York?"

"The mutant registration act fight is over now; I gotta go up north to see some people."

"Why do we have to go if it's your problem?" Blade asked as he played absently with his knives.

Punisher chuckled "You really think I'm leaving you boys to goof off while I'm gone?"

"We're not damn kids Frank; we may not be getting AARP letters like you but we're old enough to watch over the freakin' office!"

Remy nodded his head in agreement with Johnny; the youngest of the guys in the group was Remy at 34 years old.

Frank crossed his arms, taking in what was being said into consideration. "You have a point, maybe you guys could-"

"Johnny?" in walked in a perky looking red head, wearing one of Johnny's t-shirts that hit mid thigh.

Frank eyes snapped to Johnny, "Then again maybe not," he threw a backpack to the blond biker "Pack up, we leave in two hours."

Avengers HQ, Upper Manhattan NY...

"Why couldn't we have just taken the damn plane?" Johnny asked as he shook his hair that had been matted by his helmet after three days of riding non-stop to New York.

"And have Bishop and Gambit pulled by airport security? I don't think so Rider." Replied Punisher as he and Bishop got out of the car parked right outside the gates of the Avengers Mansion.

"Easy for y'to say! Rider, Blade, and I were de one ridin' on our damn bikes! Y'all got t'ride in de car!" Gambit pulled over towards the car and set the brakes on his motor bike.

"Aww, did the little Cajun get tired riding?"

After three days of non stop driving in the scorching heat and chocking to death on car exhaust fumes the last thing Gambit need was Bishop getting in his face.

"Y'callin' moi little? Homme, I wouldn't be speakin' if I were you."

Bishop turned slightly red as Blade and Rider laughed at his expense. "You all think that's funny?" he growled at the two.

"Yes." The two replied in unison trying to stifle the laughs.

Frank just shook his head in disbelief, 'What a team.'

"Listen up, I gotta go in, I want you guys to go to and hit the motel for now. I'll come back after a couple of hours." He handed Remy a card with the motel's name and address on it.

"Why can't we just stay here?" Blade pointed to the Avenger's mansion.

"Cause they just got back a few team mates, they don't have enough room to support us now."

"But-?"

"No buts, I'll be back in a couple of hours." He walked through the gates and into the mansion, leaving the rest of the guys standing with a dumbfounded look on their faces.

"No! Oh hell no! There is no way that man dragged us up here to let us stay in some cheap ass motel!" Blade yelled, his vampire teeth showing how pissed he really was.

"I'm with you on this one." Bishop leaned backed against the car "But where else can we go?"

Johnny watched as Remy flipped the card in his hand a couple of times, "Now I know you have some idea in what to do."

"Know a place we can stay." Remy told them.

"Where?"

"Not far from here, I'll lead de way." He and the rest got on their bikes and car.

'Just hope that they can let me in' he thought as drove.

Xavier Mansion…

"Come on Jay, pass the ball!"

Jay craned his neck to the side to see if any of his team mates were close enough to pass the ball.

He hated no powers basket ball games.

"Jay, over here!" David was the closest; he passed the ball to him.

The ball went nicely in the net.

"Wooh! That's twelve to six." Nezhno pointed out, "Laura's team loses."

David's team huddled together to celebrate their small victory.

"Laura what is it?" Julian asked as he watched her ears start moving.

"I hear bikes, and they're coming this way."

"Oh come on X, face it your team lost. Don't try to hide it." Cessily taunted.

"I'm not lying!" her claws shot out.

David was quick to respond as team leader, "Jay, fly up. See if you can find anything."

"On it."

Jay flew up in the air looking beyond the horizon to see if X was telling the truth.

"You see anything?" he heard from below.

"No, there's noth-, wait." He could see something coming up, but it just looked like a blur with the sweltering heat making it hard to see.

He blinked a couple of times and wiped the sweat that was trickling into his eyes. Yep, X was right.

He flew down to report, "There're four bikes coming this way."

"Did you see who they were?" Sooraya asked.

"No, they're still kinda far."

The team turned to David wondering, what to do next, "We better warn Cyclops."

"Xavier Institute for Higher Learning." Johnny read the plaque mounted on the gates out loud "Wait, Xavier? This is the damn X-men head quarters?"

"Yeah." Remy stopped his bike outside the mansions gates.

"Remy, you sure we can go in there? The way you mentioned how you left things makes me think they're gonna shoot you on the spot."

"Dey aint gonna do dat Kev."

'I hope.'

The last time Remy had even talked to one of the X-men was two years ago when he saved Storm in Cairo, Egypt. She had long ago forgiven him for what he did to Spyke but was still weary of him. After he had saved her she changed her mind of him. The two had some what brother and sister relationship after he nursed her back to health, but they barely kept in touch. Sarah and Kendall though were his only tie to the school, they wrote to him constantly and he made the occasional trips to see them. But most times though it was Sarah who would come down to New Orleans (the older x-men were still uncomfortable with him). They had told him about Jean's death after what happened with the Phoenix, which was the last time he had made the trip to the X-mansion. He wanted to pay his last respects to Jean.

Each time he wanted to see Rogue, but every time she managed to escape. The one time he did see her was at Jean's funeral, but it was only for a moment. He was a few rows behind her as the eulogy took place. He couldn't see her once she sat down, but the glimpse he got of her when she walked up to Jeans casket was enough to make his heart stop beating.

When he tried talking to her, he got bombarded by the Professor; by the time he tried to find her again she was gone.

The girl knew how to run away from him, Rogue always seemed one step ahead of him.

'If she doesn't want to see me, then I don't want to see her.' He thought at the funeral. That was three years ago.

"Remy!"

Bishop's yelling snapped him back to the present.

"Qui?"

"Shouldn't we ring the buzzer now?"

"Oh right." Before Remy could go near the buzzer the gates opened for him and his friends.

"Seems like they know we're already here."

They all looked at each other, "Lets go." They revved up their bikes and rode in.

---------

"Scott, are you sure about this? I mean if the others found out-"

Scott cut off his wife "Emma it's been a long time, we need to see him." He reasoned with her as they stood by the front door.

Emma shook her head; she knew the real reason why Scott wanted to see Gambit. But she was more worried about how the others would take it. She had heard stories of what happened between Gambit and the team, and frankly she couldn't believe that the man would show up on their front step.

A loud knock came from the door.

"That's him, now be nice Emma." He warned his wife (she had a soft spot for Rogue). "I'm always nice sweetie. Just open the door."

And he did, it was the first time in ten years he had seen Gambit properly (He missed him at the funeral). He noticed that Gambit cut his reddish brown hair, it was now slightly passed his ear, and he no longer had a beard but a five o'clock shadow. He looked much healthier and not to mention cleaner than the last time he had seen him, what ever he was doing for money in New Orleans, he was doing it well.

Behind Gambit, stood three other guys: one was blond and had a biker look to him wearing a couple of dog tags around his neck; the second one was African American with a goatee and had on dark frames over his eyes, and the last one was also African American, he was the tallest of the four and buffest, bald and had a M tattooed over his right eye.

"Gambit, welcome back." He made way for the three to walk in.

The mansion looked a lot bigger and more decorative then the last time. The whole place was completely different. It had a more modern and had an edgier look.

"Looks like de Professor did some redecoratin', eh?" he asked dropping his bag on the tile floor.

Scott closed the door behind him, "Uh… the professor stepped down as head leader after…"

He couldn't bring himself to say it, but the blond woman next to him could.

"After the death of Jean, he couldn't handle the pressure." She stuck out her hand for Remy to take. "I'm Emma Summers." She smiled at him.

"Summers?" he brought her hand to his lips to kiss, "Y'don't look like one, femme as belle as you cant be related t'dis fou."

"No shit." Commented Johnny as he checked Emma out. The woman was the definition was hot. Emma had on a short white skirt, tank top with her whole back exposed, and high heeled shoes.

"Actually," she slipped her hand away from Remy and wrapped her arms around Scott waist "Scott and I are married."

"Damn."

Bishop gave a sharp hit to the back of Johnny's head, "Like you ever had a chance."

Remy frowned "Y're married?"

"Yeah, a little more then a year now." Scott commented, he looked uneasy under Remy's presence.

There was an eerie silence between the two, until Emma snapped them out of it. "Okay, umm… Sweetie why don't I take the guys upstairs and you and Gambit can catch up?"

Scott was about to kiss his wife thanks until he saw the look in Remy's face. He pulled away from Emma in the last minute "Thanks, we'll do that."

As Emma took the guys upstairs she warned her husband telepathically, Please for Rogue's sake, don't tell him until she gets back.

Did she really think he was stupid?

Relax Emma, I'm not. Just taking him to the DR room

But the new-

I don't think Gambit can recognize them, he never saw them before.

"SCOTT!" Remy snapped him from his telepathic conversation "Y'gonna talk t'moi, or we j'st gonna stay here?" his arms were folded. Scott couldn't tell if Remy was glaring at him behind those dark shades he had on.

He cleared his throat, "Yeah sorry, follow me."

As they walked through the corridors Remy could feel Scott's emotions pouring out of him. He could feel Scott's shame and embarrassment, along with something else. Something that making him suspicious, it felt like Scott was hiding something.

"S' how's life treatin' y'?" He asked trying to start a conversation.

"Fine, um… I have to watch a danger room session in a few minutes."

"Oh, I can j'st go and-"

"No, actually I think you might want to come and watch. You might recognize a few people."

He led Remy to the DR observation deck, "Place look de same." Remy brushed his hand against the control boards. At least some things never changed. "The place may not have changed but the students sure have." Said Scott as he looked at Remy, he felt sorry for him. In more ways than one.

"Cyclops, the students are ready." A tall blue haired multiple pierced woman walked in and took a seat behind the controllers.

"Thanks Bliss, Bliss this is Gambit."

The girl turned around eyeing Remy, she smiled flirtatiously at him. "Hi."

Remy was also eyeing her, she was cute. If you liked the whole tattoo and pierced look.

"Bonjour" He kissed the back of her tattooed covered hand.

Clink

Something hit the glass wall.

"Damn kids." Bliss took the microphone "Alright! Session's starting now."

"Y'got new x-men?" Remy asked, he looked down to see them. A group of nine kids: three boys and six girls.

"Yeah."

The two watched as the team fought against the programmed sentinels.

"Dey're pretty good."

Inside…

"Knight, Marrow. Take out the first group." Commanded Torrent from the sky "Marvel Girl and I will get the second row from here."

They were supposed to take out the group of sentinels without hurting the people below.

"Help us!" Blaze looked down to see a sentinel about to destroy a bus full of children. He fired up, "Hey!" The sentinel looked up and was ready to shoot at him.

"Too slow." He dodged the bullets and was able to wrap the robot in a ball of flames burning it to ashes.

"Blaze behind you!"

Two sentinels were coming quick and heading straight for him. But they never hit him; they were frozen on the spot.

Blaze looked around to see his teammate in the sky "Thanks X-man."

X-man looked like he was struggling to hold the giant robots in place, "No prob, but you think you can…?

He nodded, and quickly turned the two machines into ashes.

"Blaze, X-man. Go help Nocturne and Genesis!" Torrent ordered through their head set. "On it Torr. X-man out." He clicked it off. "Let's go."

"Genesis, get down." Genesis quickly hit the dirt as Nocturne threw several hex bolts at the large robots. The damn sentinels seemed to like beating the two of them, they were surrounded.

One of the sentinels that got hit by her hex bolts was starting to fall…right on top of her. It was too late to port out; she was ready to feel the impact, but it never came. "Come on cuz, do I have to save yah behind again?" Nocturne looked up to see her cousin holding the sentinel up.

Nocturne could only smile at her "Thanks Jynx."

"I aim t'please." Jynx flew through six sentinels, destroying them all.

"Show off!" Blaze yelled as he and X-man were able to protect a group of innocent by standers

"I know!"

They were almost done, a few more to beat. And so far no one got hurt.

Marrow was doing well; so far she destroyed the first group of sentinels and was able to protect a building that almost got hit. She looked up to look at the observation deck, "No." her eyes must have been playing tricks on her. She rubbed her eyes, and in a flash he was gone. "Must have been my imagination." She mumbled out loud.

"MARROW! A LITTLE HELP HERE!"

A sentinel was able to grab Knight and was squeezing the life out of her. "Knight!" She threw a bunch of her spikes; they cut through the sentinel's head.

Knight fell to the ground, but was unhurt thanks to her healing powers. "What the hell were you doing?"

"Sorry, thought I saw someone."

Knight looked at her in disgust as she reloaded her gun, "While next time, pay attention. I almost got my bones snapped!" she took a shot at the sentinel behind Marrow causing it to topple back wards and destroy the two others behind it.

"Termination needed"

"Aw, crud." That meant they had less then a few minutes before the remaining sentinels self destructed and destroyed half of the city.

"Everyone pick a sentinel!"

There were ten left, each kid was able to take out theirs. But one still remained.

"Now terminating." The last one blew up; chunks of the robot hit the side of buildings and a few empty cars.

None of it though hit any by standers; X-man, Marvel Girl, and Genesis were able to create a force field to protect them.

"Torrent!" unfortunately though a good chunk got Torrent in the sky. It knocked her out, and she was falling quickly towards the ground.

Blaze flew up and caught her just in the nick of time.

"Session completed" the danger room returned to normal.

Blaze had Torrent in his arms; she had huge cuts on her forehead and cheek. "Kendall, you okay?"

She blinked against the change of lights in the room and smiled at up at him, "My hero. Did we win?"

He couldn't help but blush a bit "Yeah, we won." He didn't want to set her down just yet.

The doors to the DR opened and in walked Cyclops and another guy. "REMY!" Kendall jumped out of his arms and ran to the tall tanned man, along with Sarah.

He looked at his hands, 'It was good while it lasted.'

He continued to watch Kendall gush over the guy.

"Who's that?" he asked.

Nate heard the hostile tone in his friend's voice "That's Gambit, Sarah's dad."

"Yah jealous?" Bekka asked him, smirking like she already knew the answer.

Why did his sister have to be so smug?

"No!" he snapped a little too quickly. Rachael put a friendly hand on his shoulder "Relax Oli, Gambit's pretty cool."

"Y'all met him?" he asked again as he checked the guy out, Gambit didn't look tough at all.

"A couple of times when he used to come and visit. We haven't seen him in a few years though." Nate watched as Kendal began to blush at whatever Gambit had said to her.

"Um…Oli?" Bekka nudged her chin towards his balled up fists. He had fired up without knowing.

"DAMN IT!" He shook out his hands to demolish the flames. "Very funny." His sister was failing miserably at containing her laughter.

"I'm not laughing at you, I laughing with you. Y'just aint laughing though."

From behind him he could hear Aliyah and his cousin TJ laugh along with her. "Y'gonna get that smirk ripped from y'face one day." He warned her.

He looked down at his watch and then back at Kendall and Sarah still talking to Gambit. "Yo, Nate, Rachael. Tell Cyke we gotta go and get ready."

Nate just shrugged, "Might as well come with you. Daddy dearest there won't mind if we ditch early."

"But I want t'meet Gambit." Whined Bekka, "Later." The four snuck out of the room, it wasn't until the metallic doors shut with a clang that Scott looked up to see the four missing.

"I didn't think it was possible to hate someone that quickly." Bekka teased him as they walked down the hall. It was so easy to get under her brother's skin.

Oliver buried his balled up fist deep in his pockets, he could almost taste the blood as he bit his lower lip. The guy just walked in and he was forgotten in less then five seconds flat. "I don't hate, don't know him. Just don't know what the girl sees in him. He looks like a pretty boy."

She punched his arm playfully, "Said the pretty boy himself."

The twins missed Nate and Rachel giving each other looks of guilt. "We, um… we better go." Said Rachel, her and Nate stopped walking.

"Thought y'wanted to help?"

Nate swallowed, careful not to pull down his mental shield, "We got stuff to do." They knew too much, and the guilt was pressing hard on them.

Bekka shrugged, "Alright, we'll see yah later then." They walked away.

When they got to their rooms Oliver couldn't help but asked "Yah think their hiding something?"

Scott couldn't decide if he should have been happy that Oliver and Bekka left or angry that they left before he could properly dismiss them.

But with Remy right there next to him, he chose to be happy. Until he noticed his kids left with them. "Guess Nate and Rach didn't want to stay."

"Dey y'kids right? I remember Nate, how's he doin?" he had seen him a few times when he would come to the mansion.

"Alright."

"N' how's Rachel? Heard de petite looks like Jean."

"She does." He replied solemnly. Remy could feel the guilt pour out of Scott after saying that. He didn't mean to get the guy depressed about his dead wife. "Y'want t'introduce moi t'de rest?" He asked Kendall and Sarah.

"Sure." Each girl tugged on an arm and pulled him to the small group.

"Gambit this is Genesis." Sarah introduced him to a young blond boy, at least fourteen years old. Who looked slightly familiar.

"You can call me Frank." He gave out his hand for Gambit to shake. "Frank is a precog and can create energy blast." Informed Sarah. "And is telepathic."

But Gambit ignored all of that, "Do I know you?"

Frank sheepishly looked at the ground, "No, but you probably know my parents."

That's when Scott finally spoke up "His parents are Reed Richards and Sue Storm."

"The Fantastic Four? Y'parents are Mr. Fantastic and Invisible woman?"

Frank meekly said yes.

"Dat's impressive, y'parents must be proud. Y'being an x-men n' all"

"Yeah, their proud alright."

Noticing how sarcastic Frank was becoming Kendall pulled Remy along, "Moving on. This is Aliyah Neramani or Knight, what ever you want to call her." Aliyah looked older than the rest of the team, sixteen at the least. She had long dread locks, dark cocoa skin, and she had a marking over her left eye. 'She, Punisher and Bishop would get along in a heart beat.' He thought as he looked at the rather large guns attached to her belt.

"Nice t'meet you petit."

"Like wise."

"And this is Talia Josepine." Said Sarah biting her tongue from giggling. TJ slapped her arm playfully "Never ever call me that." She looked up at Gambit "Please God, just call me TJ."

Gambit never responded, he was looking at her. TJ had thick combat boots and blood red fingerless gloves, but that wasn't bugging him. It was the fact she was blue, furry and, had white bangs.

'There's something I'm missing here.'

He heard someone knocking on the glass. He turned to see Bliss with a disgusted look on her face, making a 'cut it out' gesture

It's not what you think. She told him telepathically.

TJ caught the look, "Eww, no. Why does everyone think that?"

"Desole, J'st dat de fur n'-"

She held up her hands to make him stop talking. "I get it."

"S' who are y'parents?"

Remy instantly wished he had never asked, he watched as her eyes filled with sadness. "I should go."

"TJ, Wait." But it was too late; she ported out of the room.

"I better go and look for her." Aliyah told them, "I'll help." Frank followed her out of the room.

Cyclop's office….

"It's good to see you again Gambit."

Remy was surprised by that; he took the seat across from Scott's desk. "Really? Last time I was here y'wanted t'blast moi through de wall." He looked around the office that once belonged to Xavier, Scott had changed it completely. The once gold painted walls were now blue, and covered with pictures of the x-team, past and present. Gone was the heavy wooden desk, replaced by a sleek glass desk. It took every power in his body for Remy not to take anything. The whole office screamed: I'm rich.

Scott took his seat in his head master chair, "I saw you at Jean's funeral. It meant a lot that you were there."

"Look, homme I was j'st say-"

Scott cut him off "You don't have to explain." He sighed "I think if she had a choice, she would have chosen you over me." He told him.

"Scott, it wasn't y'fault."

"Yes, it was." Scott stood up and started to pace his office. "I cheated on Jean. She loved me, and I still cheated on her."

This was the first time Remy had heard this, he let out a low whistle. "Porqui?"

"I don't know!" Scott shouted. "I-I don't know." He sunk down by his office window. "I loved Jean, I still love her." He looked up at Remy and let out a sad laugh "I was so pissed off at you after what happened, everyone kept saying no man can hurt a woman like you did."
Remy lifted his eyebrows, surprised that people were still talking about what happened to him and Rogue.

"I hurt her so much; I pushed her over the edge. It was my fault that she died."

Remy walked over to him and gave out his hand "Oui, y'did hurt her, mais y'didn't kill her." He lifted him up from the floor. "Y'never killed her homme."

Scott though shook his head "Do you know the last thing she told me before she died?"

"No.".

Breathing steadily, in and out, trying to control the raw emotions in him after three years, Scott told him. "She said: I am sorry. She apologized. After everything I did to her, she was the one to apologize." He ran his fingers through his brown locks, remembering the pain that night.

"Dat's Jean for yah, she always blamed herself."

Scott sniffed, "Yeah, I know." He took his seat again.

Before Remy could speak again, a soft knock on the office door interrupted him.

"Come in."

Rachel poked her head through, "Cyclops, Nate and I are going to the video shop. We'll be back later."

"Alright. Be safe."

Remy waited until the door closed to ask "Y'let your own daughter call y'Cyclops?"

"Yeah well, kids will do that when you marry the woman you cheated with." He said rather stiffly.

Remy unconsciously started playing with his watch; this was the last conversation he ever wanted to have.

"They really don't like me." Scott admitted.

"Dey'll get over it, sooner or later."

Scott tapped his fingers against his desk, "Right."

All of a sudden Kitty ran through the door looking scared. "Cyc- REMY?!"

"Bonjour Chaton." He smiled at her.

"Kitty, what's wrong?"

Through her gasps Kitty was able to answer, "Quick. Logan and this guy are fighting it out downstairs!"

The two men ran after her.

When they got to the guest room, Kitty let out a shrill scream.

There in the middle of the guest room was Logan, with his claws going through Blade's head. "Kevin!" shouted Remy.

The sick park was Kevin didn't look like he minded the claws; he was smiling like a maniac with his vamp teeth showing. "You haven't changed, Howlett" he said to him hauntingly.

Logan retracted his claws, "You nasty low down piece of-"

A gunshot whizzed by his head, "Back away from Blade."

Remy craned his neck to see Bishop with his gun raised and Johnny with his switch blade out behind him.

Logan finally noticed that Remy was standing not too far from him, "What the hell are you doing here Cajun?"

"Came t'visit." Remy, Johnny, and Lucas checked on their friend, who had blood spilling down his face.

Logan dead eyed Scott, "Cyclops, can I have a word with you? Now."

Cyclops Office…

"What the hell were you thinking?" Wolverine practically shouted at him. Scott looked across the room, standing in front of him looking rather surprised and/or angry were Logan, Kitty, Piotr, and Emma.

"Look he just came, he and his friends don't have anywhere else to go." He explained to them as he leaned back in his chair. "He's staying, so you'll just have to get over whatever vendetta you have against his buddies." He pointed at Wolverine.

"And what about the vendetta Rogue has with Gambit? Or have you forgotten?" Piotr asked, his arms crossed over his chest. He didn't like this one bit.

"Rogue is on a mission, she's not going to be back until tomorrow." He looked up to see his team looking confusingly at him.

"What?"

"Rogue's team is coming back today." Kitty explained.

"No, they're coming back on Tuesday."

Kitty walked over to his desk and picked up his calendar, "Damn it Scott, don't you ever change your calendar?" she ripped of the first two pages. "Today is Tuesday."

Scott could feel the color drain from his face. "Oh, Dear God." He had completely forgotten to rip of the days from his calendar.

"So… who wants to tell her?"

Logan held out the door for his teammates to leave "Sorry bub, but this is your problem."

"Emma?" he pleadingly asked his wife.

"I'm sorry sweetie, you know I would want to help, but I rather be dead than be on Rogue's shit list."

Logan shut the door behind him after she left, "Good luck, Slim."

'What a team.'

The sound of an air craft landing could be heard right outside his window.

"Crap."

Hallway….

After Remy had made sure that Blade was alright he decided he should look for Rogue, he wanted to…hell he didn't know what to do when he saw her.

"Exuse moi, do y'know where Rogue is?" he asked an Asian girl with spiky hair. The girl scrunched her face up "Rogue?...Oh, you mean Miss Raven?"

"Um…Oui" he said uncertainly. The girl pointed down the hall. "Her classroom is down there, room 207."

He was already down the hall when he shouted his thanks.

'Room 207.' He looked at the plaque posted next to her door,

Miss Anna Raven. Political Science, Government, and History.

'Anna Raven?' the name didn't sound right to him. She was forever going to be Rogue in his mind. He leaned his head against the door, was he ready to see her? He brushed his fingers against the doorknob; an inner battle was brewing in his mind.

"Y'gonna go in there, or are yah j'st gonna admire the damn door?" asked a voice behind him.

Remy turned around; at first he thought it was Nate. The boy did have white on brown hair, but this boy looked taller and had on dark shades. He recognized him as one of the three boys from the new x-men. He had left before Sarah and Kendall could introduce him. Remy looked at the boy, he looked eerily familiar.

"I-I. Sorry." Remy moved out of the way to let the boy pass him. The boy walked in the class room and stated to look through Rogue's desk.

"Should y'be really snoopin' through y'teacher's desk?"

Oliver snapped his head up from what he was doing to look at Gambit. "Y'haven't been here very long have you?" he asked Gambit.

"I know Rogue doesn't like it when people look t'rough her t'ings." He smirked at him. Oliver glared at the man, he hated people who smirked, except his sister. They were so full of themselves. "I don't think Rogue would mind me lookin' through her things."

Remy kept looking at the Oliver as he continued to look through Rogue's desk. The boy's face looked familiar, along with his hair, and the way he talked. "Found it!" Oliver shut the drawer and stuffed what ever he found in his pocket. "Oli didn't you hear me calling?" Bekka came in the class room. "I heard yah, j'st chose to ignore yah. Y'know I can't stand it when you yell like that in my head."

Gambit continued to watch the twins, "I wouldn't be yellin' if you would answer me." She said smugly, a smirk plastered on her face.

The smirk did it, now he was sure. It was his smirk on the young girl's face. He stood there like a statue, watching the twins talk.

"Are you okay?" Bekka asked him. Gambit shook his head, "Yeah, I'm okay."

The twins looked at each other, clearly not believing a word he said. "As long as you're okay." They left.

It was a minute before Remy realized that they left and went after them. "Oli!" he shouted after the boy, he didn't know the girl's name.

"Oliver."

"What?"

"My name is Oliver."

Remy ran his fingers through his hair, "Oh, j'st heard your sister call y'-"

Oliver cut him off "She's my sister, she can call me that." He snapped.

"Oli, be nice. I'm Rebecca, but y'can call me Bekka. You're Sarah's dad?"
'And quite possibly yours.' Remy looked at her, she looked like Rogue. Bekka had her green eyes, but his smile and long curly red-brown hair. It struck him as odd that Rogue's daughter would were a skirt and a pink t-shirt. Oliver was also out of the gold and black uniform and in a black t-shirt with bleeding skull and black baggy shorts, no doubt a trend he picked up from Rogue's love of Goth. Next to each other, the twins looked as different as night and day.

"Yeah," he said after a while, "Have you guys seen Rogue?"

The twins looked at each other, "She's on a mission. We gotta go."

"Thanks." So he had to wait awhile until he could talk to her.

"Hey Gambit." He turned around to see only Bekka in the hall. "Yeah?"

"What type of power do yah have? Sarah never mentioned." Bekka asked him, she studied him for a while, Oli was right; he did look like a pretty boy. His red-brown hair was curly and slightly long. His bangs hung over his sunglass cover eyes boyishly. He looked familiar to her, somehow. Like she already knew him, she tried to read his mind. But his mental shields were hard to break through.

"Y'wanna see?"

She nodded her head yes. Gambit pulled a quarter from behind her ear and handed it to her.

"Wow, a quarter." She dead panned.

Gambit scowled, the trick usually worked on kids. "Keep it, cherie."

He turned around and started to walk away, until she spoke up again. "Cheap. Y'got like two hundred dollars in here, and all yah pulled out was a quarter?" Remy looked to see her flipping through a wallet. He quickly patted down his pants to find a certain piece of property missing.

"Give dat back!" he snatched away his wallet from her. "How did y'do dat?" he asked her, there was no way she could of have taken it from him. Bekka shrugged indifferently. "I gotta go; my mama is comin' home today."

"Rogue's coming home today?"

"Yeah," she said rather slowly, trying to figure out how he knew that Rogue was her mom. "Oli and I are settin up something in the teacher's office."

Gambit smirked "Mind if I joined you?"

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Rogue had been through hell and back, and the last thing she needed was Bobby in her face as she carried Mystique over her shoulder.

"You didn't have to shoot her Rogue." Iceman shouted at her as she and the rest of her team walked into the mansion.

"So yah wanted her tah shoot meh?" She passed Mystique over to Sabertooth "Put her in the infirmary." She ordered him.

"On it."

"Rogue, what you did was stupid, dumb-"

She snapped "And what yah did wasn't?"

"She's got you there." Lady Mastermind teased him.

"Shut up Regan!"

"Hey, don't blame me just because you fell for miss blue."

"That's none of-"

Rogue had had enough, "SHUT UP!" she rubbed her temples, "Just shut up." All she wanted to do was get her kids and go home. All the voices in her head were killing her and her heart ached for her babies.

"Rogue, can we talk?" Scott asked her as she made her way upstairs. "Where are mah kids?" "In the teacher's room." She began to walk towards there. "Rogue, we really need to talk, now."
"Scott if this is about the hetacomb, Ah'm fahne. All I need is a Genosha bracelet, and Ah'll be good as new."

He pulled her arm to make her stop walking, "It's not about that, well that's important too."

"Scott, spill it." She crossed her arm; she didn't have time for this.

"It's…umm." He was hesitating.

Sighing she continued to walk down the hall, "Rogue!" "Talk n'walk, sugah." She reached the teachers room.

"Rogue we need to talk first."

Rogue opened the door to see the room decorated in streamers and balloons.

"Welcome back Mom!" her kids had threw a surprise party. She wrapped them in a huge hug and kissed them all over their faces, "Gawd, Ah missed yah two lahke crazah."

"Did y'miss moi Rogue?" the voice made Rogue's blood boil and skin crawl. She snapped her head at the direction of the voice. Out from the shadows of the room walked Remy LeBeau, anger written all over his face. And she was sure behind those sunglasses that his eyes were burning with hate.

Rogue looked at him and then to a guilty looking Scott.

"I t'ink y'and I have some talkin' t'do. Chere."

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In case you're confused its: Kendall/Torrent, Frank/Genesis, Nate/X-man, Rachel/Marvel Girl, TJ/Nocturne, Oliver/Blaze, Aliyah/Knight, Sarah/Marrow, Rebecca/Jynx. Every character mentioned, belongs to Marvel Inc. Iceman and Mystique were a 'couple' in 199#-201#.

A sneak peak at Crossover ch9:

"Ow." She felt something prick her side. What the hell was that? Rogue looked at her side to see something oozing from her shirt.

The room started to spin around her, when she looked up at Cyclops she knew she was done for: there was three of him. "What-What did yah do tah meh?"

Sneak peak at X-men ch4:

"And what if I don't want to?"

Before Gambit could blink, Scalphunter was behind him, holding a knife to his neck. Gambit could feel the blade rest softly against his skin.

"Then you know what happens." Scalphunter whispered in his ear.