Thank you for all the wonderful reviews! Unfortunately you'll have to wait a little long for Remy's private game of poker =P

Had to split this chapter into to parts as it was so long lol, hopefully get the next half up soon. Also I have to apologies for suddenly changing from Remy speaking in third person to first person; I hate myself for changing him but I didn't feel I was doing it right and it was annoying me.

Please excuse my poor attempt at writing about poker.

Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men or Doctor Who

Without the real betting part poker seemed pretty easy. You got your cards, kept your face straight and left the rest to lady luck. Actually, keeping your face straight was really hard; especially when you know you have a good hand and might actually be able to win consequently wiping that smirk off a certain cocky Cajun's mouth. Rogue managed to keep herself from smiling but she knew there was an obvious twinkle in her eye at the thought of beating Remy at his own game.

Pyro sat next to her with his chin on the table as he looked at his opponents over the top of his cards. All that was left to do was the 'show down' and Pyro had to go first. He finally let out a sigh and placed his cards on the table face up.

"Well fella's, I've only got a pair sadly. How'd you do love?" he nodded his chin towards Rogue, who was more than happy to reveal her cards.

"Flush." She said with an uncharacteristic cheerfulness and smiled at Pyro.

Colossus, sitting on Rogue's left, also lay his cards down on the table which turned out to be a worse hand than Pyro's. He had a small smile playing on his lips as his looked at Remy. "She has a good hand, would you not say Gambit?"

"Indeed. Flush has won m' a game or deux in de past." Remy didn't look up as he spoke; he kept his eyes trained down at his own cards but did not move to present them to the others. Pyro was the first to grow impatient.

"Come on mate, don't keep us waitin'! Did the little Sheila beat ya or not?"

Remy looked up at Rogue from under his lashes, dazzling her with his stunning red on black eyes. He held her gaze for a few moments before laying his cards down, to which Rogue paid no attention as she was so entranced by his stare. She'd always loved his eyes, not only because they were completely unique but also because they held such depth and sometimes seemed to light up, even blaze, when he was angry. The trance was broken as a stray lock of hair fell in front of his eyes and he had to move to flick it out of the way. She had to admit that he suited this longer hairstyle; it was more devilish and, dare she say it, sexy.

"Don't worry chéri, I'll show y' how t' play properly tomorrow nigh'." He smirked at her mischievously. She looked down at his cards and realised what she had predicted at the start of the game had been bang on; Remy won, with a straight flush no less. Seriously how the hell had the rest of them end up with pretty crap cards when he managed to get the best hand possible? Rogue suspected foul play was at work but she didn't argue, it only meant that she would have to play Remy again tomorrow and that wasn't so bad was it?

"Knew I shouldn't have gotten me hopes up." Pyro threw himself back in his chair with a sigh and began swinging on the two back legs.

"Did you really think she would beat him in her first game?" Colossus asked slightly amused at his energetic friend.

"Yeah well a man can dream can't he? Come on big guy, we got work to do." They both said their goodbyes to Rogue and Remy before leaving the kitchen and heading out to do an unknown job in an unidentified location. It made Rogue curious; what did the Acolytes do when they weren't terrorising humans or making trouble for the X-Men?

"Can I just say, y' look real cute in my pj's chérie." Remy said with a smirk, bringing Rogue out of her day dream.

"Cute? Ah am not cute!" She snapped outraged at the idea of looking cute.

"Sure yo're not. What do y' want t' do today?" He asked, clearly amused by her reaction.

"Ah dunno, what do you guys normally do around here?" She looked up at him, genuinely curious. He was still sitting opposite her, casually leaning on the table.

"Plenty of t'ings. Dere's a games room; a gym wit' a pool and basket ball court; a mini cinema and we even have a active training room if yo're feeling adventurous but may I suggest a trip t' de mall unless y'd like to run 'round in my clothes all day?" She had completely forgotten that she desperately needed to go shopping.

"Oh, yeah Ah guess that might be a good idea but Ah don't have any money." She fidgeted nervously as she considered the dilemma. Not only did she have no clothes but she had nothing at all! She was going to need a whole new wardrobe of clothes, toiletries, books, CD's, a CD player... the list was endless. She'd slowly collected many personal belongings at Xavier's and they would be expensive to replace all at once but it could take years to buy them all slowly. Even longer considering she had no form of income currently.

"Ne dis pas de bêtises! (Nonsense!) We take care o' our own here." Rogue, having a very limited french vocabulary, didn't understand a word of the first part but she understood the rest perfectly. Unfortunately she didn't like people doing her favours, it made her feel like she couldn't take care of herself even though the rational part of her mind told her Remy was only being nice. She still didn't feel comfortable with it.

"Ah wouldn't feel right you buying me stuff."

"Rogue, y' need clothes or were y' planning on walking 'round naked? Not dat I would complain but I t'ink clothing would be more appropriate." Her eyes widened in shock and she could feel her cheeks begin to warm. No matter how much she expected him to say rude things he always managed to catch her by surprise. However, he was right, she needed clothes and he was her only way of getting them.

"Ah guess Ah'm not really in the position to say no."

"Exactement (exactly). How long do y' need t' get ready? 20 minutes?" She nodded. "Bien, I'll come get y' from y' room in vingt minutes den." He got up and bowed gracefully to her before turning and leaving her alone in the kitchen.

- Shopping with Remy, this should be interesting – she thought quietly to herself.

X

Rogue hurried back to her room and jumped in the shower, letting the warm water soak her body blissfully. She couldn't believe how long it had taken her to finally have the warm shower she had craved back at the Xavier Institute. It seemed so long ago now; she couldn't believe it had only been yesterday when she'd left with Remy.

She didn't spend long in the shower knowing she only had 20 minutes to get ready. She roughly dried her hair with a towel and tied it up in a wet messy pony-tail which she fastened with the hair band she kept in her jeans pocket then got dressed quickly. She very rarely tied her hair up as it left her neck too exposed but she had no way of drying it properly and she didn't want it soaking her top. She was just pulling her jumper on when she remembered the smallish blood stain on the back; she couldn't wear this it was disgusting. She was contemplating how best to remove the stain when there was a knock at the door.

"Rogue, y' ready?" She heard Remy muffled voice call through the door.

"No, Ah... Ah got a slight problem here." She answered.

"Why? What's wrong?" She opened the door for him and held out the purple jumper showing him the bloody mess on the back.

"Ah can't go out in clothes with blood stains on 'em." She cocked her hip to the side and frowned at the garment in her hand.

"Ah, oui. Here," he took his trench coat off and handed it to her, "y' can wear this fo' now. We'll get y' a new sweater as soon as we get t' de mall." She put the coat on grateful for the warmth. It was quite big on her, falling almost to the floor and the sleeves hung well past her hands leaving only her fingertips peeping out the end.

"Tu est superbe. Can we go now?" She smiled and nodded as she turned the collar of the coat up, protecting her exposed neck and making her feel a little more comfortable. "Bien, put y' shoe's on and we'll get going den."

"Oh for the love of gawd, seriously next time I decide to run away with ya remind me to pack a gawd damn bag." She sighed and rubbed her forehead, she was getting a headache and they hadn't even gotten to the mall yet. Remy looked confused for a second then began to laugh and shake his head at her.

"What size do y' need?" He asked still chuckling slightly.

"Five and shut ya yap, it ain't funny." She put her hands on her hips and glared at him. He stopped chuckling but kept grinning at her like a cheshire cat.

"Well all my shoes are gonna be way too big den, I'll go see if Johns got anyt'ing." He headed back out of her room and disappeared down the corridor.

Rogue sat on her bed and threw her jumper to the corner of her room that would from now on be dubbed 'the laundry corner' until she could buy a basket. She wondered how long it would take Remy to locate some shoes for her; she didn't know why she couldn't just borrow some from him. His feet weren't that much bigger than hers, were they? She'd never thought about it before but she supposed, given his height, that they probably were. What did the x-girls say about guys with big feet? She knew they laughed and giggled about it but having never joined in with the girly chatter Rogue had no idea. It wasn't long before Remy returning with a pair of bright red converse. Rogue frowned at them sceptically.

"It was dese or red biker boots wit' flames on dem." He held them out for her and after another moment of hesitation she took them. She put them on and once again she found that she was weirdly reminded Doctor Who; she had the red con's and the trench coat now all she needed were a British accent, a nice suit and a feisty blonde.

"What y' t'inking 'bout petite?" He watched her with an amused smile.

"Feisty blondes." That wiped the smirk clean off his face and Rogue couldn't but laugh at the shock that replaced it. "Come on Swamp Rat, we've got some shopping to do." She swayed her hips happily as she left him standing in her room.

Ok so I hope that wasn't too boring, its a bit of a filler chapter.

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Aza x