Wasteland - (Gambit X OC Story)

"If it weren't for you, I'd be here all alone"

Remy LeBeau has always lived on the edge-thief, charmer, survivor. He's used to walking away before things get too complicated. Before people start to matter too much.

Aurora was never given that choice.

Stolen, stripped of her power, and reshaped into something unrecognizable, she spent five years trapped in a nightmare that refused to end. Memories fractured. Identity blurred. Survival came at a cost she's not sure she can ever repay.

When Gambit finds her- she recalls nothing of her life before.

She's quiet. Fragile in ways that don't show on the surface. Haunted by things she can't fully remember-and terrified of the ones she can. But beneath the fear, beneath the silence...she's still there. Fighting. Clawing her way back to herself piece by piece.

And Remy?

He stays.

Through the nightmares. Through the anger. Through the moments she pushes him away because she doesn't believe she deserves to be held.

Because loving Aurora isn't easy.
It isn't soft.
It isn't clean.

It's choosing her-every single day-when the past refuses to let go.

But as her memories begin to return, so do the truths buried with them. Truths about the night everything fell apart... and the forces that are far from finished with her.

Some scars don't fade.
Some pasts don't stay buried.

And some loves?

They either save you...
-or destroy you.