"You look like you're searching for blood." Wade said as I tightened the straps that held the two katanas on my back.

"Yeah well it might come down to that." I pulled my shoulder length hair back into a ponytail and then folded it under a black baseball hat.

"Okay, so please explain your plan again. I don't quite understand it."

"I'm going to...entice him. I'll make him talk to me and I'll get him away from the public, probably into a dark alley, because we all know how those old clichés pan out. Then I will show him the card, tell him I killed Rogue and a fight will probably ensue during which I will teleport him and myself to Xavier's."

"You know where it is?" He questioned.

Okay, so I didn't know where it is, "I have a general idea."

He scoffed. "Yeah, of course you do."

"Oi, have a little faith please. I'm going to be dealing with a master thief here." I straightened my tight black (low cut) shirt and my tight short shorts. I checked myself out in the full length mirror of a hotel room in New Orleans, and I came to the conclusion that I looked absolutely skanky with my outfit and knee-high, black, four-inch heeled boots. I looked perfect. "So how do I look," I turned for Wade.

"Slutty, with a baseball hat and swords."

I smiled. "Thank you."

"What's the time?"

I looked at my watch. "Almost six thirty." My watch actually said, seven thirty, but those fun little things called time zones get in the way every now and then.

"How are you going to take care of the whole...green problem?" I looked down at my bare arms which weren't so bare.

"I've actually been working on that, hold on." I closed my eyes, breathed deeply. Slowly, the vines started to retreat up my arms and legs. It was painful, and I started to whine and sweat. After five minutes, every leaf had retreated into the white lotus flower with a dark purple center on my shoulder blade. "See, good as new." I showed him.

"You don't look so good." Wade got up from his chair and sat me down on the bed. "Come on, you got a mission to do."

"Can't you do it?" He stared at my bright green eyes.

Wade shook his head, "I don't think he swings my way."

"Okay, give me a minute."

"You know, your eyes are green."

"Yeah, I know. They turn from brown to green when I'm healing myself." I rested my head on Wade's hip, for he was the only thing keeping me sitting up.

"You're healing yourself? What?" There were no marks or injuries anywhere.

"I don't really know, but it hurts like I just removed them by hand." I closed my eyes and so wanted to sleep right there, but I had a job to do. "Alright, I'm up, I'm up." Wade stood me up and supported me when I stumbled in the heels.

"You sure you're okay?"

"I'll be fine. Let's go."

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

"'Nother." Remy LeBeau motioned for the bartender for another round. He wouldn't admit it to anyone, but he missed his chére. He hadn't seen her in months, and he was feeling quite lonely without her.

"Hey stranger." A lady in a black baseball hat appeared next to him with a trouble-making smile. "You wanna play a game of cards?" She fiddled with one in her hand while she waited his answer.

"Non." Was his simple reply.

"Please." She purred in his ear.

Remy turned to look at her, he stopped himself from telling her off and stared. She had wonderfully bright green eyes. They practically glowed under the brim of her hat. And that was what set him off to say, "Vous avez les très de toute beauté yeux."

She just blushed and said, "Can I show you something?" He nodded dumbly. "Follow me." She grabbed his hand and pulled him from the bar into the alley next to it. Remy was so stupefied about her eyes, he completely ignored the two swords on her back. She was laughing as she pinned him against the wall of the bar.

"Y' wanted t' show m' somet'ing?" Remy smiled wickedly.

"Yeah." She pulled the object out of the back pocket of her shorts and waved in front of his face.

His smile fell when he saw the Queen of Hearts he gave to Rogue over a year ago.

"Where'd y' get dis?" He snatched the card from her hand.

"I killed your girlfriend for it." She whispered into his ear.

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

I looked at his eyes as they glowed red from extreme anger. "Aw, did I make little Gambit upset?" He shoved me into the other wall. Then he slipped Rogue's card into his right coat pocket, while he took an entire deck of cards from the other pocket. Come on, make the first move.

Gambit swiftly charged a card and threw it at me. In response, I grabbed one of the katanas and sliced the card in half, completely evading both sides.

"Trust me boy, you don't want to do this." I unsheathed the other katana and stood ready for anything.

"Oui, I do." He fanned the cards out, and shot them all at me. I swung the swords like a fan and shredded the cards into confetti.

"That all you got?"

"Non." He reached under his coat and pulled out a twelve inch metal stick that he extended into a six foot bo staff.

"You know, I really don't like people who put up a struggle."

"Den yer not gonna like moi." He came at me and I jumped and flipped over him in response.

"You are going to have to do better than that Gam-Gam." Remy swung his bo and smacked me right in the face, sending me thirty feet into the street. Okay, he hits pretty hard.

"How's dat?"

I got up from the hotdog stand that was utterly destroyed when I crashed into it. "Well at least you hit me this time." I had a few cuts on my face, but they took care of themselves in a matter of seconds.

"You can heal?"

"Aw, you noticed. And I thought our relationship wasn't going anywhere."

That particular sentence set him off, and he tackled me back into the rubble of the hotdog stand. I kicked him off me, and pinned him with the baldes of both katanas against his throat.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you." I whispered into his ear.

He was defeated. His chére was dead, there was no more reason for him to be alive without her. "Non."

I pulled the blades back and put them back on my back. "I'm not gonna kill you."

"Non?"

"No, I'm going to do something much, much worse." From there, I teleported the two of us into Danger Room of Xavier's. Okay, not exactly where I wanted to end up. Especially when there was a session taking place. "SHIT!" I shouted as a laser just barely missed us. "What is going on here?"

"Training." Gambit said simply as he got up from the ground.

"For what?" I never got my answer. Why? Because life hates me. A metal arm wrapped itself around my waist and threw me against the opposite wall. I fell down and crashed into the floor. "Okay, that one hurt." And a huge blast to the back of the head put me out.

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

"Is she going to be okay?" Rogue asked Professor Xavier in the infirmary.

"Yes, she should be fine. Although that hit to the head might cost her some time."

Rogue turned around and hit Scott Summers in the arm. "You see what you did?"

"I didn't mean to!"

"Then why did you aim for her head?"

"Who is she anyway?" Scott cringed under another strike from Rogue.

"I don't know! But I do know that her name is Andi. She helped Logan and I escape when I was captured."

The Professor then got an idea. "Andi? Let's take a peek into her head and see if it's the Andi we're waiting for." He wheeled his chair over to the bed, and placed his hands on either sides of her head.

Just as he entered her mind, he was thrown out quite violently and a loud voice boomed in his head. "HOW DARE YOU ENTER THIS MIND! You have not been given permission! State your name!"

Xavier grabbed his head and had to concentrate to think, "I am Professor Charles Xavier. I run a school for gifted children. And who are you?"

Out of nowhere, a large green man phased through the wall. "My name is J'onn J'onzz, and you had absolutely no right to invade her head."

"Excuse me, but why are you there?"

"I keep everything in order. Why were you there?" J'onn practically snarled at Xavier.

"I just wanted to know her name."

"It is Andrea Hojem if you must know. Now leave her alone, she has enough to deal with."

"I am truly sorry J'onn, but we were expecting her."

J'onn started to phase through the wall when he said, "Just stay out of her mind. It's dangerous enough in there with just her. I don't need two people up there making messes." Then he left.