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The Little Death	By : coldqueen Category: X-Men - Animated Series (all) > Het - Male/Female Views: 6556 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Okay, so...I'm thinking this is the second to last
chapter...yeah, that sounds good...once again...Much love to my two fav ROMY authors...Thriller and Eileen Blazer. Me and
Thriller are two peas from the same pod, so you like me, you'll like her!

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They walked up the hill silently, neither knowing what to
say. Sideways glances and small brushes
of touch were all they communicated with.
It was awkward, almost unbearably so.
Finally, Rogue broke the silence.

"So...nice night."

Remy smiled. "Dat's
de only t'ing you can say, ch�re?"

"Well, Ah didn't think, nice fuck sounded right."

"Dat all it was?" Remy asked, lightly grasping her
wrist and pulling her to face him. After
the "incident" in the Hellfire Club it was almost gentle of him.

"Ah thought we settled this?" Rogue asked, evading
the question.

"It ain' gonna be settled 'til you tell me how you
feel, Rogue."

She avoided his eyes, not wanting to see what was
there. "And how do you think Ah
feel?"

Remy nuzzled her cheek as he pulled her closer. "I can only know what I feel."

"And that is?"

"Je'taime."

"Ah don' speak French."

"Insufferable woman..."

"Ah love it when you sweet talk..."

"I love you, Rogue."

"Ah know," Rogue smiled and started for the
door. Remy stared at her before
following.

"And you?"

"And me, what?"

"Your feelings?"

Rogue turned, but she was no longer amused. "Ah love you, too. But Ah've loved you for a long time. Doesn' really mean anything."

Remy scowled.
"Means somet'ing to me."

"So? It didn't
mean anything a year ago. Two? Didn' mean anything then."

Remy shrugged.
"So I was stupid. You hold
it agains' me?"

"Yes."

"You wound me," he explained mockingly.

They both stopped outside of the front door. Things were quiet, almost too much so. All the students had been sent over to the
lab for the night. They were having a
huge video-fest in honor of the wedding.
It wouldn't end until tomorrow morning, though Rogue doubted anyone
would stay up all night. She remembered
the sleepovers at the Institute. Despite
everyone saying they wouldn't, everyone was asleep before dawn.

"Ah bet."

"Seriously, chere.
What we gonna do?"

"Ah'm not gonna do anything. Ah'm here, and Ah'm staying. Ah like it here, Remy. And nothin' you say is gonna change my
mind."

"And if I say, maybe, I come here? Become a teacher?"

Rogue laughed.
"What are you gonna teach, Swamp Rat? How to steal?"

Remy grinned.
"Only hearts."

"That's comforting."

"Ch�re..."

The door exploded. Wooden
shards went flying and had not Rogue been closer, they'd have shot straight
through Remy. As she felt the slight
stinging sensations, Rogue swore. Remy
had flown backwards, but thanks to her powers she hadn't. Steady as a rock, she was.

Rogue turned to look into the darkened foyer and saw three
figures there. One, a male, was dressed
in archaic clothing. The other two were
both women, dressed in black outfits that seemed more like lingerie than
clothing.

"Hi! Ah'm
Rogue. You're in my house."

The man laughed and stepped forward into the light. He was attractive, with a ruggedly handsome
face and an obviously strong body.
"And you're early. We
weren't quite ready for you. Oh,
well. We'll improvise."

He gestured to one of the women, and she stepped
forward. The woman was tall, with pale
skin and sable hair. She started to
chant in a foreign language and there, in the middle of a foyer, opened a
portal of some sort. Out of it spilled
demons. Not imitation demons, like her
brother, but real demons. As in from
hell, demons.

Rogue took a step backwards out of instinct and watch as
more and more demons spilled out. At her
feet, Remy stirred.

"Wha's goin' on?"

"We're bein' attacked, Swamp Rat. Get up."

He rose and stood next to Rogue. Suddenly, the demons stopped rising from the
portal and attacked. Rogue tried to
throw up a telepathic shield, but something was interfering with her
powers. She couldn't use her own or
anyone else's. Within seconds the demons were upon them. Without her powers to help, Rogue
panicked. She threw her arms in front of
her face and waited for them to hit her.
Behind her, Remy pulled his bo staff and prepared to fight it out.

They didn't. Rogue slowly
lowered her arms and found her self in a bedroom set for seduction. It had large windows with curtains that were
moving in the breeze, and a large antique bed in the center of the room. There was nothing else, no furniture, no
lamps, but the bed was lit anyways. In
it, a man was kneeling, naked. Rogue
slowly walked forward, trying to see who it was but unable to make out his
features because of the curtains.

Finally, she was within touching distance of the bed and
pulled away the curtains. The man who
had been in the foyer stared at her.
With a jerk, he'd grabbed her hands and pulled her onto the bed with
him.

"I could give you everything, Rogue," he said in a
husky voice, as he slowly caressed her bare back. Rogue looked down at herself and realized she
was covered by only a backless chemise.
It was deep blue, so deep it was almost black. Next to it, her skin glowed.

Rogue came back to herself and glared at the man holding her
against him, with both of them kneeling on the bed. "Who are you?"

"I am Sebastian Shaw, Black King of the Hellfire
Club," he replied with pride.

"Hellfire...you mean the..."

"Yes. The place
where all your friends are congregating right now. You've been set up, dear one. Join with me and I promise that no one will
be harmed."

Rogue started to struggle, but even here her powers weren't
working. "What are you talking about?"

Sebastian laughed.
"I intended to take Jean Grey, for she is powerful, but now...I see
that you are really more powerful...so many different abilities swirling inside
you..." Sebastian dragged his hand down her face and where he touched, she
remembered...remembered the first time she'd absorbed someone, the first time
she'd done it on purpose, the first time she'd lost control... "Be my
Black Queen, Rogue...I could give you the world..."

Rogue tried to shake off the effect he was having. "But...Remy..."

Sebastian flung his hand outward and the curtains drifted
away. Rogue looked to where he gestured
and saw Remy there, tied to the wall with chains. Demons were scratching at him, ripping pieces
of his flesh off. He was still alive
though. "See? Even now he's angry with you...he doesn't
deserve you...you deserve more...you deserve me..."

Rogue struggled to go to Remy, but Sebastian pulled her
back. "If you will not come
willingly, I will take you. Choose the
more pleasant route, Rogue."

"Ch�re! Listen to him! Save yourself! You mean nothing to me! You think I would sleep with your teammates
and your friends if you did!?" Remy asked, anger blazing in his red and
black eyes as he stared at Rogue where she was held by Sebastian. Even as he yelled at her, Rogue knew it
wasn't him. It wasn't his voice coming
out of his mouth. Rogue understood
now. Nothing seemed real. There were small inconsistencies
everywhere. This wasn't real. It was an illusion.

Rogue started to fight back, this time with her mind. She hacked at the illusion until with a
fizzle it broke. She came to herself and
found that she was being held by one of the women. Apparently, when the door had blown open, the
telepath of the group had jumped into their heads and perpetuated the
illusion. With a mental slap, Rogue
forced her out.

Across the room, Sebastian looked up when Lady Mastermind
screamed. Rogue had used her super strength
to throw the woman out the window and into the sea. Then she turned her anger to the Black King.

Rogue rose and barely spared a glance to Remy. He was still unconscious, but at the moment
that was the safest place for him.
"Why are you doin' this?"

"I'm doing it because I can," Sebastian replied,
as they circled one another, each gauging the other.

"You're a mutant?"

"Yes."

"What can you do?"

"My dear Rogue, wouldn't you like to know?"

They attacked, with Rogue dodging his punches and landing a
few of her own. They had no effect other
than to energize him. Calling on
Juggernaut's powers, she slammed her fist into his chest, expecting it to send
him flying. However, it felt like she
was slamming a pillow for all the force she put into it.

Rogue jumped back and tried to catch her breathe. He just laughed. Rogue finally got it though. He was absorbing the force of her punches. It was time for a new attack. Rogue calmed herself and all her emotions
before facing her opponent again. Just
as he lunged at her, she released that emotion, calling Storm's power to her
and sending Sebastian sailing through a window with all the wind of the arctic. Even as he soared into the air, a lightning
bolt was ringing down, singing him and while not killing him, she hoped at
least winding him enough to let the others get here. There was no doubt that he would be
back. The worst ones always were.

Rogue finally turned to Remy, only to see the last remaining
invader standing there. The woman had a
knife poised above Remy's heart. "There's
no point to doin' that. Ah'm not gonna
hurt you. You're already beat."

"No, Rogue, he's beat.
I am still strong," the woman said with vehemence as she pressed
down harder with the knife, drawing blood.

"No, you are gonna be beat in a minute if you don't
back up off my man."

"What, you're going to hurt me? The Black Queen?"

Rogue laughed.
"Aww...really? Cause old boy
out there just asked me to be his Black Queen."

The Black Queen's evil smile faltered. "Lies."

"Oh, no...why would Ah lie about that?"

"You seek to divide my loyalties."

"No," Rogue explained, "Ah seek to distract
you...and look it worked!" Rogue
had telepathically picked up a chair and with one mental command sent it flying
into the woman's back.

Under the impact, though, the woman flew forward and over
Remy, but leaving the knife impaled in him.
Rogue stared in shock, before flying to his side. "Oh, baby! Ah'm sorry, Ah didn't mean to, Ah was trying
to get her away!"

Rogue touched his chest and his face, but he didn't
wake. At the front door, the X Men and
the X Squad walked in laughing, only to freeze at the carnage. Scott, ever the leader, took charge
instantly. "What happened here, Rogue?"

"We were set up!
Please! Remy's hurt!" Rogue
pleaded. Jean, the only one with medical
expertise, knelt next to Rogue. With gentle fingers she studied the wound and
the blade still in.

"I need to get him in the OR immediately. Kurt, teleport us to the lab," Jean
commanded. As the trio bamf-ed away,
Rogue rose with her lover's blood on her hands.
There was only one person who could have betrayed them like this.

"Emma!"

The blonde smiled impishly.
"Yes?"

Rogue shook with fury.
"You did this."

Emma nodded.
"Yes. I did."

"Did you think..."

"Do not worry, Rogue," the professor interrupted as
he wheeled himself to the front of the group. "I have prepared for this eventuality. I was never sure that I could trust Emma, you
see? It's one of the reasons I asked you
to transfer here." Xavier gestured and Warren grasped one of Emma's arms,
Betsy the other. "She's going to be
put into stasis, right next to my son, who I put in there earlier without her
knowledge."

"Proteus? You
knew he was here?"

"Yes. If I had
not taken action earlier today, I doubt you'd have been able to hold off long
enough for us to arrive."

Rogue became extremely calm with his words, and all who knew
her knew that that didn't mean the anger was gone. Now, she was thinking, and that could be more
dangerous. "You knew? You knew she was going to do this?"

Xavier nodded, not realizing the danger. "I took precautions."

Rogue smiled grimly.
"And Remy? What about
him?"

"He was unexpected.
I never anticipated his coming along. He changed the plan."

Rogue nodded.
"Okay, Ah'll give you that...but if he dies...Ah'm taking it out of
your hide, Professor." Rogue walked away and left everyone gaping after
her.

The professor smiled.
"She's gotten so lively since moving here. It's quite refreshing."

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chapter...is next! Soon! Be warned!
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