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Please Join Us For
Belladonna Boudreaux's Initiation Party
July 21
7:00 In the Evening
Miss Simone Lenior Manor
908 Jakson Lane
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Gambit starred at the invitation. Apparently as a former member of the thief's guild he would have to go along with his family and more importantly she would be there and he did not wont to spend his evening hiding from Bella. However, he didn't want Rogue and her to fight over him … almost.
"JeanLuc we're invited ta Bell's initiation party."
"I figured this would happen soner or later."
"Initiation party?" Rogue asked over a bowl of fruit.
"When te head of one of us families, te tief's an assassin's, dies a new leader is to be instantly chosen an recognized by both parties. Usualy te leader is either chosen by birthright as in Bella's case or by prestige."
"Oh so does tat mean I'm comin wit?"
"Yep, but ya gotta dress in one of those old southern dresses from te movies."
"Te one's wit te corsets." She groaned.
"I thank Ballin's got some. How bout we go shoppin taday?"
"No."
"No?"
"I want it ta be a surprise."
"Why do ya gotta surprise me for. I thank ya beautiful anyway."
"Nice try,but ya aint comin wit. Sides don't yall three gotta get suits?:"
"She has a point Remy." Jimmy said pulling on a trench coat making Rogue wonder is a trench coat a thief thing?
"Alright meet us there at 7:00 sharp. Oh an ya might wanna learn some etiquite."
"Etiquette. I am a proper lady I'll have ya know." Rogue glared at him.
"Right …" he replied with pure sarcasm.
"I am a proper lady. I mean what else do I need ta know before we go there?"
"Ya see Rogue in these parties te old traditions rule. One of them being a lady is quiet unless spoken to, however tat rule can be broken if you are a member of either parties. It is yer date tat ya take who's gotta be quiet."
"Fine then wat else."
"There aint ta be no cursing an fightin tonight. Initiation parties are sacred an ya will respect them no matter how obnoxious Bells is."
"I don thank I like these rules."
"And then there's …"
"There's more!" Rogue whined before sinking further into the couch.
"You are not ta dress like the initiatie so knowing Bella I would say whatever ya do DO NOT GET A BLUE DRESS or BLUE anything ya here."
"Ok no blue. What else?"
"Ya have ta remember te usual good posture, fine eating etc, and the heads of both families an there direct heirs meet in a separate room halfway through te party. At tat time you'll be alone. If someone ask ya ta dance wit em then dance wit em. If someone wants ta talk wit ya talk wit em,,but be brief. Yer technically not supposed ta know tis much about te guilds as is."
"Anythang else?"
"Accessorize wit a fan. Ya know te fabric, feather, or regular types. Also don go wonderin around or ya might get pulled aside by Leoniff."
"Leoniff?"
"Assassin bodyguard. He's very good at what he does."
"Oh an if ya need jewelry there's a brown box in te attic tat has some of Camille's old stuff in it. Help yerself." JeanLuc added.
"An Rogue it might help if ya you know laugh an smile more." Jimmy suggested.
"Wat ya tryin ta say?" she asked menacingly rising from the couch.
"I don't mean much by it,"hiding behind Bobby, "It's jus tat ya know guys like a happy girl not a sad clown, not tat ya look like a clown or anything cause ya don't." Jimmy rambled.
"Jim."
"Yes Rogue."
"Shut up."
"Yes'm."
"Don let her boss ya around Jimmy." Bobby scolded his younger brother.
"An take te chance of lookin like you? No." Jimmy replied smartly earning him a punch in the arm.
"Hey Rem leave ya keys so I can get me a dress."
"Cant I come wit Rogue. Remy is great wit fashion."
"Umm let me thank … no."
"You're cruel." Gambit muttered under his breathe before handing her his keys and some money.
"I don need ya money Rems I got it."
"Anna jus take te money."
"I SAID I got it!"
"Why must ya insist on being difficult?"
"Why cant you jus listen ta me?"
"Anna jus take te money. Cant ya man buy ya a nice dress."
"Yes he can," she said sweetly watching him smile, "But jus not tis one."
Gambit's smile faded quickly. Jimmy roled his eyes and headed out to another car with his father.
"Remy why ya pick a woman wit so much mouth on 'er? Look I don like ya at all, but a little advice from your older brother : LEAVE HER TE HELL ALONE."
"An Remy why ya pick a brother tat aint got no balls hmm?" Rogue asked looking mostly at Bobby.
"See wat I mean. Ditch 'er an move on." Bobby tried to reason with Gambit.
"Come on Bobby,let's leave before ya end up wit another broken jaw."
"hahaha very funny Remy." Bobby nudged his younger brother a little bit before leaving. After they were gone Rogue put on her shoes to leave noticing that Gambit still left some money o the table. Deciding to take it anyway she left. Of course not to Ballins. The last thing she needed was for Gambit to mystically show up. So she ended up going to Charold Clarks instead.
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Being in the store she felt like the spirit of Kitty would start talking to her any second. There was an overwhelming amount of dresses but she decided to go with an emerald green color.
After pilfering through the green pile she chooses the dress she wanted. The floor length gown had an off the shoulder ruffled top that connected to the same colored corset with an a-line shape and billowed in green ruffles and lace at the bottom. She also bought a greenish peacock feather to go into her hair that is after she got it did.
Her next stop was to get a fan. After two hours she came upon a small corner store named Barcelone where she finally found a fan that didn't make you think of Asia upon seeing it. Just like Remy wanted it was made of a dense fabric that matched the green with a few gold floral accents on top and small feathers protruding from the top half.
After that torturous amount of shopping she decided to get some gold or nude colored shoes. The occasion called for high heels and she wasn't exactly partial to them so every time she looked at a shoe she would ask herself 'would Jean buy this' until she found the perfect pair.
In need of a break and went several hours still to go she decided to go to a coffee shop and relax her aching feet.
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The guys had easily found suits, all except for Bobby. He insisted on looking the best but found it rather difficult. Gambit tried to reassure him that hell would freeze over before he looked better than he (Gambit) did. Jimmy told him he was just being fussy and JeanLuc had found a few pretty girls to flirt with while waiting.
Bobby just wanted for once to stand out while Remy was also there so he was fretting a bit. He was also a little nervous since tonight he had to meet with Juli and if anyone caught the pair together their plans would be ruined. So maybe a much to flashy suit would easily alert the crowed to his disappearance not that they noticed him anyway.
"Alright I'll but tis one." Bobby said handing it over to the sales clerk. In the end he decided to go with a simple black one with a charcoal tie. It would easily blend in at the party.
"Finally." JeanLuc said more to himself before saying goodbye to Mary Jane.
"Well aren't ya a sweet man, buyin ya grown kids a suit. How bout I take the price down by half sugah."
"Aww ya aint gotta do tat fer me." JeanLuc smiled at her. Yes, Gambit took after his adoptive father well in that aspect. Gambit watched as JeanLuc was working the lady. They could had easily payed the full price, but he felt that his father just flirted with woman to prove he still had it which he most defiantly did for what reason Gambit was not sure of.
"Do ya thank we should get a haircut pa." Jimmy asked.
"Hmm I don know. Wat do yall thank?"
"How about a slight trim?" Gambit asked noticing his perfect hair was a little on the long side.
"Remy long looks good on you. Let it grow out some more."
"Yeah but it aint even." He complained to his father. He drove them to the nearest barber shop, after stopping at Ballins to see if Rogue was there, and got his hair trimmed. Trimmed meaning three strands of hair cut off.
"Remy are ya serious! Ya drove us here fer tis." JeanLuc glared at him.
"Those small pieces of hair were ruinin my perfect looks." He smiled with a slight sparkle coming off his teeth.
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Rogue stood outside of the hairstylist for at least twenty minutes before going in. She never thought she would find herself in a place like this. Girly things almost scared her but she wanted to try a new look. So for tonight only she would be the perfect little well behaved trophy piece at Remy's side.
"Hello ya lookin fer a new due?" the hairstylist asked.
"Umm yeah, something nice, and girly, not to girly, with this feather, but I'm going to an adult party. No not tat kind, but te kin where ya wear a nice little dress. Umm did ya get all tat?" Rogue asked nervously.
"Don worry. You'll look beautiful when we done wit you. Oh an sweetie do ya want yer make up done?"
"I … guess." Rogue said literally shaking in fear. Maybe she should had brought Gambit along …
Party
Gambit and his family arrived at 7:02. He was a little worried that Rogue might be in trouble since he did not see her anywhere. As he entered he searched all around. Per usual many women turned to lustfully look him over with their fake moe on their faces.
In the back by the bar he saw a woman with red hair and a feather in her head. Maybe that was Rogue. He tapped on the small of her back since touching her skin would knock him unconscious. The woman turned around and he was sure his jaw had hit the floor or at least was hanging wide open.
"Wat's te matter Rem …" Jimmy stopped with his mouth also agape looking at the beauty before him.
Bobby seeing his retarded brothers looking even more retarded came over to see what they were starring at. But what he saw seemed far to unreal to not be a dream. Sure it was Rogue. But she looked like an entirely different (sexier) person. Her eyebrows were finely arched, not that they were bushy in the first place, but this way it made her eyes look more open and her face mature.
She had on a slight plum and green eye shadow with eyeliner and mascara to make her eyes pop. She also had a slight blush on and a nice flesh/pink colored gloss on her lips that surprisingly looked good on her pale skin.
Her hair was pulled up into a slight side feather adorned bun with loose hair curled to perfection off one shoulder. She just seemed to glow. Bobby had to admit she looked great instantly making him hard down below.
"Will yall three pick yall mouths off te floor an great te beautiful lady." JeanLuc said.
Instantly Remy's mind snapped back to reality along with his brothers. Bobby strode off to the bathroom while Jimmy quickly took one of her gloved hands and kissed it.
"Back off." Gambit growled at his brother scaring him and reminding Rogue so much of her father figure. JeanLuc patted him on his shoulder before wondering off into the crowd.
"So wat ya thank. Ya been quiet so far." Rogue asked timidly.
"I thank ya jus made me speechless."
"Is tat a good thang or a bad thang?"
"Oh it's a good thang. Yer beautiful. I mean ya always been beautiful, but tonight yer beautiful in a better more beautiful way I mean," he took a breath, "I never thought I'd see a day tat a woman would make me ramble."
"Thank you an ya look good yerself. Shall we?" she asked extending her forearm.
"Yes we shall." He said leading her to the dance floor. As they were dancing Jimmy glared at Remy jealously. JeanLuc imagined Rogue's dress to be white as if it were a wedding and he started to have that fatherly pride feeling that he rarely got now a days. Tired of this happy feeling he pulled a random bell off the floor and danced with her. The girl he danced with was 22 and she had a sister. He gave the older sister to Jimmy and went back to dancing noticing that Bobby had found himself a fair brunette to dance with.
After fifteen minutes from an hour had passed a muscular black man with dreads in a navy blue suit came down the steps.
"Everyone." He called. The attendants turned towards the winding staircase that he was perched on.
"Who's tat? He's very … muscular." Rogue whispered.
"Tat's Leoniff."
Leoniff waited a few moments until all the noise died down before continuing, "I hope tat you all are enjoying yourselves tanight, but now it is time ta present te new leader of the assassin's family and leader of the second guild, Belladonna Boudreaux!"
Gambit was readied to be wowed. On a normal day to be truthful Bella just had a natural attraction about her that even a blind man could see compared to Rogue who's beauty, though apparent to him on the normal basis, wasn't exactly noticeable to everyone else.
Bella elegantly walked down in a light blue dress to match her eyes with her blonde hair in thick curls held back with two barrettes on either side of her head. Her beautiful, although massive dress had to be held by both of her hands as she walked and her fluffy silk fan was being held in the waistband of her dress.
She smiled upon seeing him in the front row. Gambit was smiling too, but not at Bella. He was smiling at his own ignorance. Bella looked great, but Rogue just emitted a contagious glow that spread throughout his body, uplifting his spirit.
Bella stopped halfway down, "Thank you all for attending," she was staring at Gambit when she said that, "I hope everything is to yall liking and family meeting is in thirty minutes."
As she reached the bottom she was greeted by Julienne's grinning face. She gently looked at him before moving to Gambit and the woman with him.
"Who's tis Remy?" Bella asked.
"Ya don remember me?" Rogue asked with a raised eyebrow. Bella's eyes widened. How did she get so pretty so fast?
"Bells ya look nice right Rogue?" he commented. It was rude not to tell a lady that they were beautiful at their own party.
"Yes she looks nice Remy, did ya thank I'd say sometin different?" Rogue asked in an exaggerated nice voice.
"You look better." Bella told her.
"Great well I thank Julienne wants ya Bella so I'm gonna dance some more."
"Why cant ya dance wit me?" Bella asked with her infamous eye lash flutter.
"I already have a date Bells. Maybe next time."
"Hello Remy." Julienne came over.
"Damn." Bella said to low for anyone to hear.
"Hello Julienne, still tryin ta get wit ya sister."
"Fer yer information she adores me." Julienne said placing an arm around her shoulder. Bella tried her hardest not to cringe, but her face gave it away."
"Hello Julienne, my name is Rogue." Rogue announced herself.
"So are you Remy's girlfriend?"
"No." Bella
"Yes, I am." Rogue clarified.
"An whereare you from?"
"Mississippi."
"What do you do for a living?"
"Depends are ya talkin bout my job or Remy here." Rogue teased. Gambit really wished the later was true as he gave her a seductive look. Bella's bottom lick stuck out as she felt Julienne's hands reaching for her waist.
"Julienne how about ya get us some drinks." Bella ordered.
"As you wish." He said taking off to do her biding.
"Remy I can't believe ya actually 'did' tat." She pointed at Rogue.
"If I were not tryin ta behave myself I would tell ya tat I feel te same way bout you."
"Hmpf, Remy can we have jus one dance?' Bella asked again.
"I don know …" he said. He'd rather wrestle an alligator than have any private time with her again. The last time she wasn't exactly nice.
"Dance wit 'er Remy. Didn ya tell me tat it's rude ta not be kind ta te guest of honor?" Rogue smiled at him with that revenge look in her eyes.
Glaring, "I might had told ya tat."
"Well then don delay. Dance wit te girl." Rogue gave him an encouraging push. When Bella was in his arms she stood behind Bella an stuck her tongue out at him."
"Merci pour l'aide, Rogue." (Thanks for the help) Gambit told Rogue glaring at her.
"Votre accueil." (your welcome). Rogue waved to him and left. She wanted a little time away from the guest when another man came and asked her to dance and so on …
Meeting of the Families
The LeBeau's minus Bobby and Bella accompanied by her bodyguard entered the spare room to have their meeting. Rogue finally got to sit down although that didn't stop the influx of people who wanted to speak with her. She did as told answering the questions curtly. Although she never revealed her names to anyone she had told plenty of people that she was from Mississippi and that Gambit and her got to know each other during a train ride. As the next few guests in closed on her she saw Bobby sneaking off towards the empty corridor. Shouldn't he be at the meeting as well?
Outside
"Glad you could make it Bobby." Julienne said pulling out a cigarette and offering Bobby one.
Lighting both of their cigarettes, "So wat ya want ta know now?"
"Bells wants information on tat girl Remy's wit. Can ya tell me anythang now?"
Blowing out a puff of smoke, "I can tell ya tat te girl is annoyin, but strong. She can fight alright too, but she aint one of us so I don' know where she got her skills from. I also thank tat she might be a mutant."
"Interestin, do ya hav proof?"
"Not yet, but if I make 'er mad enough or endanger her life tat could change."
"You do tat."
"Anythang else?"
"Has Remy changed at all? Is his skills te same an is he returnin ta te family?"
"Nah, he be te same Remy an he aint rejoinin te family. Fer some reason him an his girldone moved in an took over."
"Tell me Bobby does Remy love this girl?" Julienne asked with the faraway look in his eyes.
"Yeah, I thank so. Even more than Bells."
"What would he do if sometin were ta happen to 'er?"
"Ya want ta kill tat girl."
"Ya growin soft on me boy?"
Blowing smoke in the air, "No, I rather her dead sooner rather than later, but what I can't understand is why ya want ta kill 'er?"
"Remy took Bells from me. I was waiting for her to get a little older before I let her know my intentions, but all it took was one brief second. Our families were meeting an Remy gave her tat ... tat smile an she's been in love wit 'em since. Bells promised me after I kill te girl tat she'd be mine ,but I know as long as Remy's out there she will still come to love him again.
But if I kill Remy's femme he'd be obligated ta come an kill me. An eye fer an eye an it is code. Takin an or killin te belongings of another guild is taboo. He will face me an I will win."
"Do ya honestly thank you can kill my brother … easily."
"No, but I will win in te end."
"How about I make sure of it."
"What ya suggestin?" Julienne asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I could poison his drink, his food, hibiscus pollen 'll do it too."
"He's allergic ta tat flower?"
"Severly, those were my mother's favorite flowers an even after she died father kept te house full of 'em. Tat was till he bought Remy home an he kept coughing an sneezing. One day he passed out an te doctors found tat he had an allergic reaction ta te pollen."
"That could be useful. I normally would not like ta cheat, but Remy is a mutant. Askin fer yer help is like evenin te odds."
"My thoughts exactly."
"So wat do ya get after ya brother's dead hmm?" Julienne was curious.
"Father lied ta te guild an said I was inheritin, but he wants ta give it ta Remy."
"Even wit Remy dead ya still wont get te clan."
Bobby looked up at the moon before he spoke, "There was a time tat I'd do anything ta be like my father an earn his praise, but te father I knew started ta disappear after Camille died an once he adopted Remy, JeanLuc became dead ta me. Killin him wont be hard."
"Ya clan want respect ya if they thank you killed yall leader. Let me kidnap 'em again an I'll kill 'em or have someone else do it."
Putting out his cigarette, "It's funny how one person can bring out te worse in people. A secret alliance between te guilds, I'm betrayin my family. But once Remy is dead everything will start ta fall back in place."
"My thoughts exactly," he looked at his watch, "It's bout time we get back in."
"I know an one thang Julienne. I don want ya hurtin Jimmy."
"Ya want ta kill te rest of ya family, why not jus add 'em to te hit list?"
"Jimmy's jus a kid. Really his heart is too soft fer our line of work, but he's te closest thang I have ta Camille an I aint bout ta lose 'em."
"Fair enough." Julienne agreed as they both walked back into the party. Bobby from the corridor he disappeared into and the other climbed up to the second floor and came down the grand stairwell reappearing far later than his partner in crime.
"Hey Bobby." Rogue called over to him after a few minutes. Fighting through the crowed of her admirers he approached her.
"Wat do you want?"
"Where were ya ? You were gone fer a while."
"If you must know I had to relieve myself of the chili I ate earlier today."
"Ok too much information, but when is the meeting over?" As she asked the door open. Gambit emerged first practically running back to his date before Bella could stick her claws back into him. Next was Bella who did not look happy that Gambit was avoiding her followed by Leoniff and the other LeBeau's.
"Rogue how about another dance?" he asked after he moved all the others out of the way. Since they were the only one's dancing it was like they had the floor to theirselves then out of nowhere she stopped and handed Jimmy her camera.
"Take some pictures of us dancing please an if ya screw up Bobby here might get hurt."
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