Not Soon Enough

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It was fall by the time they were able to move into their new home. Jacques was enrolled at Torquay Elementary and would start in three days. Rogue taught a literature class elective at the Victoria International Academy. Gambit worked as a broker for the Maritime Museum. It was his job to locate and retrieve artifacts by force if necessary.

As Rogue dyed her hair the color of chocolate she felt rather anxious. She knew it would be only a matter of time before Deadpool came looking for them. Her original plan was to convince Gambit to stay South with their son. Naturally he refused. A part of her was happy. She had grown use to their company since most of her life was rather lonely, but she wasn't selfish.

Their lives meant far more to her than her happiness. Why couldn't Remy see that? She was only trying to protect them. Now they have to disguise their selves, use fake identities, raise their son in a chaotic world. He was too young to know life was anything but fair. She knew that first hand.

"Mommy?" her son stood in the window with a stick.

"Yes, sugah?"

"Why you change your hair?"

"To look pretty."

"But yous already pretty."

"I'll be even prettier with the new color."

"Mommy?"

"Yes you still have to go to school."

"Why?"

"We already talked about tis Jacques. You are getting an education."

"But I want to stay here with you."

"You can't be with me all the time."

"Why?"

"Because you can't."

"Is it because you and daddy have sex?"

She dropped the coloring into the sink, "Who told you that!"

"Daddy did. Daddy says that I can't sleep in your room no more because you are doing the sex. He don't want me round no more. What is sex mommy?"

She was going to kill Remy the moment he came home from the store, "It's when yer daddy and I hold hands and talk."

"Talk about what?"

"School! Math! Science!"

"Sex sounds boring." He said scurrying off with his toy. By the time she was done with her hair Gambit came back home.

"Remy!" she yelled from the second floor bathroom. He knew that tone of voice. What had he done wrong this time?

"Yes?" he asked cautiously stepping into the room.

Toothbrush in hand, "How dare you tell our son about sex!"

"I did?" he thought a second until it came back to him, "I didn't tell him what it was … Anna … w .. why are you getting closer? Anna stop! Wait no!"

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Meanwhile Deadpool was being restrained in a stasis field behind half a ton of antimantium doors and locks.

"He was supposed to be controlled Jane!" Stryker hissed as he smacker her across the face.

"I tried," she cried from the ground, "We made him top strong! We should terminate!"

"No!" he interrupted her, "We will not get rid of him. We invested too many resources time in this project."

"Then what do you suppose sir? I only graduated from Harvard at sixteen, Yale at eighteen, studied under Stephen Hawking not to mention other notable Cambridge professors …"

"Don't throw your resume at me!"

"Then what do you suggest oh wise one!" she barked on her feet again.

"He may be indestructible, but the one's he cares for aren't."

"You want me to find 826?"

"And the boy. We find them, bring them here, put collars on them and if he disobeys we'll kill them."

"We can't lose her DNA!"

"Take samples."

"Stryker we both know her DNA only works within her body and we can't know if the child has her powers until he reaches puberty in eight years."

"826 reached her potential at ten."

"Five years at the least then. We cannot forget 777 is the father and from my studies he reached his powers at eighteen years of age. The child may peak at an average between the two."

"Ah Mr. LeBeau, please send someone to kill him the first chance you get."

"Yes sir." She said sending a message to the B-Team to find Rogue and her son.

After a week of searching they had lost sight of them somewhere around Athens, Georgia. Jane had assumed that they went to the LeBeau residence, but their spies, the one's that made it back that is, said they were nowhere to be found and they didn't know anything when questioned.

She also hacked the satellite to survey the mansion and they weren't there either so after doing a lot of research she picked out other places that they were related to.

Over the next month they had searched half of Mississippi, upstate New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Georgia, and other locations. Upset she searched for every living been with LeBeau and Darkholme for a last name and even that didn't help.

"Jane!"

"Stryker we are working as fast as possible!"

"Well your fast isn't fast enough. I tier of the wait! Have the mutants who call that Institute of freaks their home bought to me now!"

"And how do you suggest I do that?"

"Deadpool needs to stretch his legs …"

Sighing, "Right away sir."

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