Rogue squeezed Remy's hand in anxiousness and excitement. The taxi turned into the mansion driveway and they could already see people waiting at the entrance for them. Rogue was slightly nervous that they wouldn't like Remy, but was confident enough; if they didn't she'd just get more of him to herself during the trip.

Remy briefly wondered if Rogue would be angry about his previous encounters with her family but just as quickly dismissed the thought. He squeezed Rogue's hand in retaliation and plastered his usual confident smirk on his face. Once more he checked to make sure his sunglasses were properly fixated on his face as the cab pulled to a stop.

Rogue practically flew out of the car and into the arms of the nearest waiting X-Man, which just so happened to be Logan.

Logan held Rogue close as a parent would their child; as a father would hold his daughter. He breathed her scent in deeply, renewing the memory of her familiar warmth. He held on just a little longer than the Wolverine would have liked but damned himself and continued the hug. She was his family and he liked to keep his kin close, which in turn promptly shut his feral instincts up.

As Logan broke off from the hug Kitty took a step forward hoping to be next in line for a hug from her dear friend, but was cut off from her next step by Kurt teleporting in front of Rogue.

Rogue giggled as she was crushed by her brother in a long awaited hug. Rogue had forgotten how much she missed her favourite blue fuzzy man – no offense to Hank, but Kurt was her brother and therefore was one slot in front of him, knowing only two men who were blue and fuzzy. Kurt picked her up and spun her in a full circle before letting her go for less than a second, then pulling her into another more delicate hug.

Remy placed the bags next to him as the taxi sped off and felt the tiniest bit of nervousness nibble at him. Amongst Rogue's welcome home hugs he noticed that the first two were by far the longest and they both happened to be with people he had injured, or betrayed. Either way it didn't exactly sit well with him that the only X-Men he met on the battle field were the closest people to her.

Before Rogue made a move to walk back and introduce him, Wolverine had finally taken the time to notice him. Logan leaped with a growl and unsheathed a set of claws. He stopped right before him and looked him dead in the eye; Gambit put his game face on and fingered a deck of cards in his pocket.

"Stripes, please tell me that Gumbo here aint ya new boyfriend."

Before Rogue could come to her defense – and Remy's, Kurt got a good look at Gambit and crudely pointed a finger in his direction.

"You! How dare you come here! You had better not lay another hand on meine schwester!"

Remy took the deck out of his pocket and started shuffling it, he was about to open his mouth when he caught sight of Rogue's face. She looked beyond pissed off; he took a step backwards and switched to springing the cards from one hand to the other.

Rogue stomped out to stand in front of Remy and took a long, pointed look at both Wolverine and Nightcrawler; she then took a slow scan of the other faces that had moments ago welcomed her home.

"First things first, tha X-Men are about second chances and tha greater good – do not interrupt meh Logan –" she then gave a pointed look at him and growled before continuing "and not only that but we move on from tha past and look towards tha future. Ah'm with Remy and ya'll are gonna have ta live with it for at least tha rest of this week; Ah know him better than anyone else an' much more is Ah trust him with mah life, Ah love him. If ya'll wanna argue about any of that then we'll call a cab and leave you here with a crying Kitty. Since no one likes to see Kitty cry, let meh introduce Gambit, also known as Remy LeBeau, mah boyfriend."

While Kurt and Logan pouted off to the side the rest of team came up to greet him. Kitty had taken an instant liking to him claiming that Jubes (Jubilee) would have a heart attack when she saw him. Storm had treating him as one would and old friend and he responded in like giving her the affectionate nickname of "Stormy", to which she responded to with a firm "Do not call me that".

Emma promptly asked him if he was interesting in joining her upstairs to which he flatly refused leaving her smiling and telling Rogue that he was 'a keeper'. Scott grumbled about how he was called "Cyclops" not "One Eye" and something about him being exactly like Logan in that sense. Jean was a little tiffed about not being able to probe his mind but was polite anyway.

He had a general positive review from the main X-Men team and those closest to Rogue, excluding who he now recognized as her father figure and adoptive brother. As the team moved inside chatting about trivial things and little details about the wedding he noticed Logan slink off to a secluded hallway and entre an elevator. He thought about discretely following him but he felt a swarm of happiness from Rogue through his empathy and ran his thumb over the back of her hand.

Logan stood in front of Charles' comatose body waiting for the sensation of going to the astral plane to meet with him. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other while he waited and looked down at his mentor. He closed his eyes as the feeling fell upon him and opened his eyes to find Charles standing in front of him; he would never get used to travelling to the astral plane, or seeing Charles walk around outside of his wheel chair.

"Logan, what brings you here? Is there something troubling your time that might affect mine?"

"Yeah, guy named Gambit is getting with Rogue and she's even defending him! He used to be an enemy but now he claims to have switched sides. We've been screwed over by him a number of times, I don't know if we can trust him."

"Logan, you should not have come to me for something like this, you should learn to trust Rogue's judgment. Rogue is not the kind to give her heart away hastily."

"I know Chuck, but this guy is different –"

"He is one of the few in my time the X-Men can trust. Learn to trust him and Rogue's judgment as well as the rest of the team. This is not the only time an X-Man will bring home an old enemy. Make sure the team trusts him, especially Kurt, for it will make things in the future much, much easier."

And with that Logan found himself once again looking down and Charles Xavier; he left the room prepared to follow the professor's instructions. As the door closed and locked behind him, he let out a grunt of dismay; he'd follow instructions but he didn't have to like it.

-[X-Men]-

Chapter 2 done, including hinting a Wanda & Kurt pairing. Reviews Welcome.