Shopping

"Elf to Cat. Elf to Cat the lovebirds have entered the building. Elf out."

"Roger that Elf and call me Half –Pint! Half-Pint out!"

"Vwatever Ca … I mean Half Pint. Elf out."

"Half-Pint again. Like where are they going. HP out."

"Looks like the men's department," Kurt bent around the corner looking at Rogue and Gambit walk through a crowd of goggling men, "Elf out."

Rogue hated all the admiring looks she was getting. Her shirt was too tight and her skirt too short. It didn't help that she had to walk side by side with her shirtless boyfriend. She knew she looked like a whore, his whore and hated the fact that they just had to shop for his clothes first.

"Walk any faster and yer skirt'll rip." He teased.

"You'd like that wouldn't ya?"

"Yes mam."

Rogue nearly growled at him walking slower and side by side with him so he wouldn't keep starring at her butt. Upon reaching the store she realized that the clothes were more casual than his usual thief look. Looking around she spotted a sales associate in a spiffy grey suit starring at her like he never seen a woman before. Rogue brought out her most dazzling smile and made her way over to him.

"Hey suga can ya help me?"

"I..I..I'd love to."

"Great well ya see my … friend here needs some clothes. Do ya thank yall got anything in here that can make em look half as good as you?"

His mouth dropped open but he nodded his head and ran to fetch some clothes. Gambit was glaring at her for once instead of grouping her with his eyes. So she smirked mischievously at him before smiling again at the other man as he came back.

"Like oh no Elf."

"What is the matter Half-Pint?"

"Rouge's like falling for the sales clerk! Half-pint out!"

"Vwat are vwe going to do. Kurt I mean Elf out."

"Like wait for a sec. I'm like going to keep watching."

"Be careful HP. Elf out."

Gambit sat twenty agonizingly painful minutes trying on clothes and watching Rogue flirt with Greg, the sales associate. He had planned on dressing nice for her and getting only her opinion, not her throwing herself at Greg. Angrily he asked more threatened (cough) the sales guy to leave them alone.

"Tat wasn't nice Rems. We were jus talkin."

"Yeah jus talkin. Watever. Do ya like tis?"

"Jealous are we?"

"I aint jealous."

"If ya say so."

"I said I'm not jealous!"

"Well I'm gonna go an find Greg then …"

"Yeah go get em an then ima tell Kit about wat we did."

"Fine tell Kit."

"Ok then Kit…"

"She aint here."

"Well then maybe ya should get yer eyes checked. Kurt and 'er followed us here. She jus walked past a few minutes ago, but if ya want her ta know bout us I'd be more than happy ta go an get 'er."

Rogue thought on it for a few seconds. Everyone and their mother knew that Kitty couldn't keep a secret. Kurt maybe, but Kitty defiantly not. She didn't want her friends to know about it in the first place. Her business was her business. Grinding her teeth together in a scowl that she adopted from Logan she told him to continue putting on clothes and that she'd behave herself.

Far more content than he was a few moments ago he went back to the dressing room to try on something else. He knew everything that he picked looked great on him since he had impeccable style, however he still wanted Rogue's opinion wither she liked it or not. Also he didn't plan on using 'that' moment against her. He just kind of wanted alone time with her without all the kids and Logan around, but now that he had leverage over her that meant she'd do about anything he wanted and the power was defiantly going to his head.

Looking for her opinion he came out the small room, "I've been thankin …"

"Hmpf tat's a new one."

Letting her comment slide he continued on, "I been thanking tat we should go out more often. Jus te two of us. Also I miss kickin ass out in te real world so I'm comin wit on ya next missions. Also if we sat next ta each other while we ate sounds reasonable. An …"

"There's more!"Rogue interrupted him.

"An I thank we should work on ya touchin powers. Te way I figure it ya cant control it cause ya aint never really tried ta. So we'll be practicing everyday from now on … on my lips tat is."

"You … you low down, good fer notin, asshole. Shoppin wit ya an gracing ya wit my presence just aint enough is it! If I'm ever reborn I want a boyfriend who can keep his mouth shut every once in a while."

"Well ya aint dead yet so there are a few more thangs I want. Now about tis Goth thang…."

"Grrr."

"Now now jus hear me out first. I'm defiantly inta you I jus feel tat ya using tis Goth thang as a way ta keep others out namely me so I don care wat ya wear. Notin's always good, but maybe ya could let up on the makeup. 'Member how ya fell in te water down south?"

"How could I faget ya were charmin back then."

"I'm charmin now. Point is when I saw ya bare skin rise outta te water I could'n help but stare at ya or Logan would had never touched me. See I thank ya beautiful witout all tis crap ya trying ta hide behind an cover yerself up wit."

"Aww if ya weren't using 'that' moment against me I'd be real flattered bout now."

He grinned at her gently messing up her hair. He got some nice dress clothes and regular wear so it was time to shop for Rogue. Looking at her body … butt he could almost kiss the man who had invented leather. If it were up to him she'd be dressing like Trinity or in nothing every day. But seeing how unpractical that would be he let her walk around and lead them to where she wanted to shop. First on her list was the Hot Topic.

He watched as she picked up an oversized red eagle shirt, probably to sleep in while thinking to himself he had never seen her in red before. Next were the corseted tops. She choose a black one and moved on. Gambit grabbed an extra two for her. He had a feeling that she'd look great in them. Next she picked up yet another purple cropped top shirt.

"OMG Kurt like call Stacey Logan it's a fashion emergency!"

"Vho?"

"She's going into that Hot Topic again! I like wish I could like punch the person who came up with it."

"Don't poke fun at my sister Kitty!"

"Like whatever. And like what about our codenames Elf?"

"Vwho cares now shush." Kurt called. He was hiding at the not too far away cafeteria and Kitty was pretending to be interested with trying on wigs at the small Soho station in front of the Hot Topic.

"Ya thank I should try high heeled shoes?" Rogue asked.

Hell yes! He thought but decided to say, "Watever ya like Rogue." He knew if he liked it too much she'd put them back. With her grabbing a simple black open toed bootie he knew this was going to be a great day.

Then he saw the intimate apparel section. He shrunk her clothes, all of her clothes, she'd need to buy new underwear sometime. Looking at a pair he didn't notice Rogue casually glancing out the window store front.

"Kitty should know that blonde doesn't look good on 'er."

"Actually I think it does look good."

"No it doesn't," she turned around to see what he was actually talking about. Rolling her eyes she headed for the cash register, "Let's go Cajun!"

Gambit sighed but complied as she bought her clothes and they decided to take a break in the cafeteria.

"So wat ya want ta eat Roguey my treat."

"I jus want a smoothie."

"Ya know there aint notin wrong wit eatin."

"A slice of pizza then."

Rogue scanned the crowd. She saw Kurt hiding behind artificial bushes with a hat on that also had artificial plant life on it. Kitty was sitting two tables from him in her hideous blonde wig, pink glasses, and regular clothing. Pathetic.

"Here ya go." He placed her food in front of her. They ate mostly in silence. She was scanning for her nosy friends and he was staring intently at her. Finally Kitty went into the bathroom. Perfect.

"Umm I gotta use te lady room. Be right back."

He waved her off. She entered and started to wipe the makeup off her face in front of the mirror wall and sinks. Kitty, when she was done, opened the stall to see Rogue. Then closed it. Rogue knew that Kitty'd stay here as long as possible if she were there too. So she walked and flicked the switch pretending it was a power outage.

Then Rogue left the water running quietly sneaking out of the door. As she thought Kurt became distracted with food and Gambit was searching through her shopping bags. Smiling to herself she took a longer way around going into New York and company to buy a maroon leather jacket dress. Then into VSecrets to buy a scarf off one of the manikins. Tossing her cell in the trash she walked to the Soho desk buying a brown wig with long bangs in the front to disguise her eyebrows and overall appearance. After that she went into a hair care store and brought fingernail polish applying red as she bought it. Next she stopped at Flakers to buy a pair of matching shoe's and a purse.

Putting her receipts and polish in her purse she saw Kurt walk right pass her. She went across the way to Sephora to buy and apply new eye shadow and lipstick. After that she waited at a coffee shop in range of the garbage can she threw her phone in and waited with a book she bought in the café.

After fifteen minutes her boyfriend carrying everything with him followed her ringtone. He went through the trash and picked up her phone. He headed back in her direction as she looked at her book. He walked right pass her. Perfect!

So while they were looking for her she brought the rest of her clothes, got some money out, and took a cab home before the rest of them returned. She walked in, put her clothes up, hid her disguise, and then got a knock on her door.

"Who is it?"

"Logan, can I come in."

"Sure." She said looking in the mirror to make sure all her makeup was off as she started to reapply the old colors.

"Have you seen a brunette in a red coat?"

"No why?"

"Bobby said he saw a new pretty face. I wanted to know if he were just imagining things or if you seen her to."

"Nope I aint see anything." She replied as he left her alone. She had even managed to trick Bobby. Maybe her disguise would become handy again in the near future.

30 min later

"Bout time ya showed up." She said opening her door to let Gambit in. He shut the door behind her clearly upset.

"Where te hell hav ya been?"

"I could ask ya te same thang!"

"Don't play wit me Roguey!"

"I went ta te bathroom an when I came out you were gone. I looked all ova fer ya an when I couldn't find ya I thought ya left me so I did some more shopping an headed home. I thank I left my phone there by accident too."

"Ya mean tis phone."

"Ya found it! Where was it at?"

"I thank ya left me on purpose, but I'll let it slide. An since I left Kitty an Kurt at te mall an Logan left fer a bit I thank it's safe ta say were all alone."

"Yeah so?"

At the Mall

"Cat I think vwe lost them."

"Like how could that happen? Over."

"Maybe it vwas vyour stupid vwig. They probably knew vwe vwere here hours ago Half pint"

"Like please Kurt this wig like defiantly hides my true identity."

"Hey Kitty what's up and um why are you wearing that wig and those glasses?" Lance asked her.

"Hahahahaha I told vyou it vwas not convincing."

"Shut up the x is here." Kitty murmured over the phone then turned to Lance, "So umm what do you want?"

Kurt decided to just search for all the red heads to see if any were them. Surprisingly there were no red head on either floor they must have left. Sighing he waited patiently for Kitty to once again tell Lance that they'll never get back together again.

Trial 1

"So I was thankin we work on ya touchin powers again."

"Do I hav ta kiss ya?"

"No, I'll kiss you instead."

"But, I don," before she could finish her statement he kissed her and fell to the floor. The brief contact scared her but made her flush at the same time. She knew he'd be right as rain in an hour or two so she decided to just leave him on the floor and watch a movie.

As she suspected he eventually woke up.

"Tat wasn't so bad." He pulled his self to the bed.

"Speak fer yaself."

"Wat time's it?"

"Quarter ta five."

"Good well I gotta go fer my lessons Roguey. So how about after school and trainin tomorrow ya accompany me on a date."

"Do I have a choice."

"Maybe I should call Kitty now. I thank ya must had changed ya mind."

"No I aint!"

"Well then ya can be nicer ta me startin now." He looked at her anxiously tapping his foot against the floor.

"May I please walk ya ta te danger room Gambit."

"Remy."

"Sorry, I meant," she audibly hissed at him, "may I please walk ya ta te danger room Remy."

"Yes ya may. See being nice ain't so hard."

"It's nearly as hard as ya were tat one day."

"Awww Roguey flattery will get ya nowhere." He teased as the couple walked to the danger room holding hands (only because he told her they had to).

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Please review thank you.

Looks like Gambit's up to no good as usual and what do y'all think about Kitty, Kurt, and Rogue's disguise?