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Chapter 7 :)

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Explosions of Every Kind Chapter 7: Gambit .vs. Rogue

Rogue was silent, and still. She resembled a statue; the only difference was her chest could be faintly seen rising up and down as she breathed.

Then she exploded...

"No! Y'don't! Y'don't love me! Y-y'can't."

"Why?" Gambit was trying to stay composed.

Rogue whipped her around and screamed, "Y'can't love what y'can't touch!" Then she took off. Ran. As far as she could. Rogue sprinted through the jungle to where she knew the Danger room doors were being camouflaged. "Let me out!" she yelled, "let me out! We did it, we survived. Now open these doors!"

Rogue received no response from the outside world.

"Ah know y'can hear me!" she tried again, "Get me the hell outta here!"

Still no response.

Meanwhile, Gambit was running through the jungle to find her but was having troubles following her trail, or lack there of.

Her adrenaline was pumping along with all her other hormones that began to get jumbled up inside of her as her vision started to blur. She had just enough control to shout, "Let me out!" one more time before she collapsed to the ground.

Gambit had finally caught up with her and saw her unconscious form in a heap on the soil. "Rogue! Rogue!" He darted over to her and slumped down to his knees. Gambit ran his hand over her heart to make sure she was still alive. He lifted her into his arms and brushed the hair out of her face. She was out cold, but her heart was still beating a mile per minute.

He held her in his arms, gently stroking her cheek with his gloved thumb. "Don't do dis t'me Rogue. Wake up. Wake up."

Turns out Beast and the Professor were actually not outside the danger room to hear Rogue's cries. Both were off for the moment monitoring Cerebro trying to find any trace amounts of Magneto or his two remaining acolytes, since an unconscious Sabertooth lay locked up in the basement of the mansion.

Gambit kept Rogue in his arms, still pleading, "Wake up mon Cherie, wake up."

He got his wish.

Rogue ever so slowly fluttered her eyes open, when she turned her head to see Gambit looming above her, she went berserk. Rogue shoved Gambit away from her and jumped to her feet. She looked angry and was gnashing her teeth. She started to circle around him with a livid glare that was locked to his eyes.

"Rogue," he ventured, raising his arm out in her direction.

"What Swamp Rat!" she snarled.

It was Rogue, but it was as if all her negative emotions had surfaced and overcome the rest of her body. She was fuming and looked as if she was ready to kill him. Her eyes almost appeared sunken in with dark circles about them.

"Rogue, calm down," he breathed, "Something's wrong."

Her head tilted into an evil grin and her eyes narrowed, "You're right," she whispered. "You are!" she screamed as she tackled him to the ground. Rogue straddled him right above the waist, a movement he would usually take immense pleasure in but seeing as she was ready to slaughter him he found himself more worried instead of elated. "Y'are all wrong, and now Ah'm gonna fix the problem."

"Rogue, please. You're not yourself."

Her hands slid up from his chest to his neck almost in a sensual way and she started to close off his airways. "Why would Ah want t'be myself? Untouchable. Forever untouchable!" Then she tightened her grip.

Gambit couldn't breathe, his eyes started to roll back into his head. He was swiftly dying. Gambit had refused to fight back for the reason that he had unwanted to lay a hand on Rogue in that sort of way ever again, but now he had no choice. Before he blacked out, Gambit grabbed Rogue's wrists, pried her off of him, and then flipped her on to her back. He pinned her wrists down together on one side of her but he did not get on top of her...this was his primary mistake.

"Calm down!" he couldn't help himself from shouting, "Somet'ing's goin' on in y'r mind. Dis ain't you."

She laughed at him. Then lifted her lower body up and wrapped her legs around his waist, another action he had always wanted to happen though not like this, and forced him to the ground again. "Don't y'see? All this anger has been there the whole time. Ah've simply been repressin' it. No more." She raised one leg up and hammered Gambit's side with it, causing him to gasp and cough as she stood up, leaving him.

When he had regained his breath Gambit argued with her, "I know you have rage. I do too. But you also have love and happiness. Where's dat?"

Rogue charged towards him and roared "It's gone!" as she sucker punched him.

Flying backwards into a nearby tree, Gambit saw he had no choice; he would have to fight back. Gambit reached into his pocket and took out a single playing card, charged it and whispered, "Forgive me Cherie," as he threw it at her.

To both of their surprises, Rogue lifted up her hand and shot ice out at the card, freezing it into a chunk of frost as it fell to the ground. He tried again, leaping and lunging in different directions to distract her, he was inches away from tackling her down to the ground when she ran with lightening fast speed to the other side of the clearing they were fighting in. Suddenly, she floated up into the air and with a tilt of her head Gambit once again felt the strain of a chokehold as Rogue telekinetically strangled him.

"No," she said, "Ah must kill y'wit' mah own hands." She dropped her hold on him and he fell to his knees. Rogue came down to his side and threw a right hook and he blocked it then undercut her legs. She fell to the ground but quickly got back up.

In-between all the punches Gambit asked her, "Why? Why do you want t'kill me?"

"You-y-y'make me want!" She yelled as she roundhouse kicked him.

"What?" he asked while he grabbed her foot and twisted her around.

"Befo' you Ah could handle mah mutation. Shut mahself off from the world and be okay. But not wit' you. Ah want t'touch y'and Ah can't. Y'r a temptation and Ah know sooner or later Ah'll hurt you by tryin' t'be wit' you. Ah refuse t'let that happen."

Their battle momentarily paused, he dropped her foot and she turned to face him, the circles slightly dimming. However, Gambit knew this was his only chance and he took it. He threw a left hook at her, and she automatically blocked with her right forearm as he knew she would. Her eyes began to progressively get darker and darker. Then abruptly he seized her arm turned his back to her, raised it above himself and brought it down hard, cracking it on his shoulder: breaking his Cherie's arm.

Everything seemed to slow down as she shrieked in pain. Rogue's head had begun to reel and throb once again; she stumbled away from him, her arm dangling, only a few feet before she started to collapse. Gambit ran to catch her and enclosed in his arms as her eyes were closing she whispered two simple words, "Ah'm sorry."

He had just said he loved her, you knew there had to be a fight coming!

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