First Sight (X-Men - Romy)

Chapter Four

Chapter Four

Rogue awoke to find herself nestled in Gambit's arms on the sofa, her head resting on his shoulder, and fear froze her for a second. He wasn't moving and she wondered if somehow she had touched him. Part of her wanted to stay where she was, because then he was just asleep and everything was okay but she knew she couldn't. She had to know sooner or later; better to get it over with.

She pulled away slightly. "Gambit," she spoke so softly she barely heard her own voice. She tried again. "Gambit?"

He stirred. "Go back to sleep, cher." He mumbled and Rogue felt almost faint with relief.

When she was sure he was asleep again she gently slid out from under his arm and headed for the roof. She sat of one of the mismatched chairs and stared out over the city. It looked beautiful all spread out before her, a mass of twinkling lights, like something from a fairytale.

Only fairytales weren't real, and there was no happy ending for Rogue. She shuddered when she realised how close she could have come to accidentally hurting Gambit.

"Cher?"

She looked up to see Gambit climbing off the ladder and gave him a weak smile.

"It's cold out here, you should come back inside."

Rogue shrugged. "It's not so bad. What time is it?"

"Far too early. If you're not tired we could watch another movie."

"You go back to bed. I'm fine here, thank you."

"Cher, why are you being like this? Nothing happened."

"But it could have."

"But it didn't. Look at me, I'm fine."

"No thanks to me."

Remy shook his head. "Fine, if you want to have a pity party, be my guest, Rogue, but self pity never helped anyone." He left her.

She wanted to yell a pithy retort after him, but deep down she knew he was right. She was being self indulgent. A few minutes later she followed him back into the apartment to find that he was sitting on the sofa again.

"I'm sorry," she said softly.

"There's something of a masochist in you, cher."

Rogue frowned; was he right?

When Remy saw that she wasn't coming any closer, he stood up. "I'll make the sofa bed up, you can take the bedroom."

"No, this is your home, you have the bedroom."

Remy was just about done trying to be nice. He shrugged, "Whatever. Good night, Rogue." He left her there, staring after him.

The next night, Remy tried his best to put Rogue out of his mind while he concentrated on the task in hand. Unfortunately that proved easier said than done. That was his first mistake.

His second mistake was not paying more attention to the guards when he cased the bank the previous evening, because if he had, he would have realised that some of them were mutants.

He got into the bank from the roof with no problems, then he managed to blow the vault door and get the bracelet, but that was the last thing to go right all evening.

The first guard was human and easily subdued with a charged playing card. The second guard he encountered wasn't human and had the ability to shield himself from Remy's blasts. The fight took much longer than necessary and required Remy to demolish most of the stairwell onto his opponent, thus blocking his own planned escape route.