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The Rogue and Gambit Experiment	By : celticmanou Category: X-Men: (All Movies) > Het - Male/Female Views: 5354 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own the X-men or any character in this fanfic, and I do not make any money off it. If they were mine, my name would be Stan Lee.

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"Anna... Anna..."

She didn't want to open her eyes. She wanted to forget... Forget what?

"Chere..."

She heard another voice, calling to her. This voice... She opened her eyes. She was in a bubble, like a cocoon, all white and soft, just wide enough to stretch. She looked at herself. She was wearing some kind of flowing white dress. She was feeling... Good. Safe.

"Chere..." said the voice again. She saw a face briefly appear on the bubble's soft surface and disappear right away.

"Anna... Anna Marie..." said the other voice as another face appeared and disappeared in the same fashion.

She closed her eyes. She couldn't face them as she was... Dirty? She looked down at herself again and saw blood and strains on her dress. She shut her eyes tightly. No, nothing happened. She willed the dirt to go away. She noticed that she had something in her hand. She looked at it and found the Queen of Hearts. The card's face was hers and she was smiling. The image on the card started to move. She/the Queen turned and opened her arms. A dark figure stepped within the frame and held her tight, kissing her.

She remembered this. Remy and her... They made love and then...

Nothing.

She felt something else in the other hand. A picture. There was a brunette and a man with dark hair. They were smiling at each other. The woman looked at her and reached out toward Rogue. She remembered, Kayla Silverfox and Wolverine were her parents. Both were now smiling at her...

Both images were important to her, if only she could remember why. The surface of her bubble was shifting from face to face. Some she recognized, some she didn't. With each, pieces of past events were coming back. The school, her job as Ororo's assistant, Sage, Bobby, Warren... And Remy.

For some reason she couldn't remember anything beyond her night with Remy. She felt good there, living again and again the happiest moments of her life. Sometimes, she frowned, feeling there was more and that someone needed her... But the feeling vanished and she was content again.

She was content again.

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Wolverine was holding Remy's arm, stopping him from getting away.

"First you leave and she wanders like a lost soul in the school, then she disappears to come back badly hurt with you. I want to know what's going on, Gambit. And you won't fly away from her again. I warned both of you of the consequences if you kept on your romance. None of you listened. Now you take your responsibilities with my daughter. What happened to her and how can we help her?"

"It's all Remy's fault, Logan. This is why I've got to leave. She won't want me around anymore. Remy needs to avenge what they did to her... She needs time to heal. I hope she'll find someone good for her, Remy is obviously not that person."

Wolverine released the Cajun and Remy left, holding his hands to his chest. Still in his tattered clothes, he left the Mansion. He didn't look back.

Wolverine shook his head and sat next to... Carol. She shook her head. "He shouldn't go there. They'll break him... They already broke so much of him..."

"You heard the bub. He wanted to go. The Mansion isn't a prison, we can't keep people against their will."

Carol was about to argue when Sage and Leech arrived. Sage flew herself on the girl's bed and hugged her. Carol remained motionless, unable to break the news of Rogue's leave of absence. Sage cautiously eyed her.

"Who are you?"

"You know who I am," answered Carol. "You tried to imprison me."

Sage opened wide eyes, faced with the woman's open distrust and hostility. It seemed that Carol resented her for what she had done.

"Who freed you? You couldn't do it on your own."

"The personalities she absorbed. They teamed up and freed me when... When it happened. When she lost the will to live."

"What happened? Rogue isn't one to give up. She's strong and already went through a lot."

"This time was too much for her. Don't think I'll tell you what happened. It's Rogue and Gambit's secret, not mine. Both were clear; they don't want it to be shared."

"You know I'll find out."

"I know you will, mind-reader, and I look forward to it. You had a role to play in this: you pushed her in Gambit's arms."

"Why are you so angry at me?"

"I know who you are and what you did. You may tell whatever you want to these people, you can't fool me, Tessa."

Sage's eyes widened as Carol said her first name, which she hadn't told anyone at the Mansion. Tears started to form in her eyes.

"You're like everyone else, Carol. You judge without knowing the facts. Rogue and..." she stopped before saying her mentor's name. "Only two people gave me a genuine chance at showing what I'm worth. Rogue is my best friend and the other one abandoned me. Give me a break, Carol."

Leech shook his head and followed Sage as she stormed out. By the time they reached the elevator, she was crying. He laid his hand on her arm, looking at her in concern.

"Are you okay?"

She nodded. "The name she called me... It brought back unpleasant memories."

"You... You were always on our side, right? What she says, it's just because she doesn't know you, isn't it?"

"It is. But if I told the X-Men, none would believe me. This is why I keep silent about my past. The only person who can clear the truth is dead. I have to keep going without him and his support."

"You're a brave person, Sage."

"How I wish it was true, Leech. I'm afraid you think me better than I really am."

She turned on her heels and left him standing in the foyer. He shook his head and went to play video games.

He looked up questioningly when Storm actually stormed out of her office toward the front door. He sneaked behind her and saw a woman in the doorway helping a man in. Storm caught him and both women walked toward the headmistress's office.

Storm looked rather awestruck and speechless. "I'm sorry," said the man. "My body still fails me sometimes."

Storm murmured something back and they disappeared behind her office's closed door. Leech felt that something important just happened. He shrugged and went back to his game.

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A car pulled at the front of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster. A woman known on the Muir Island as the doctor Moira McTaggert got out and helped a man out of the car.

He looked at the Mansion with emotion. He thought he would never come back there. His legs gave out. The last time he had been there, he couldn't use them. Moira held him up. He touched his forehead.

A few seconds later, Ororo appeared and helped them in. They went straight to the office and sat him down. "Thanks, Moira, Ororo."

"I told you it was too early to leave Muir. But you never listened to me."

"Dear Moira, I do listen to you."

She shrugged and took a seat. Ororo knelt near the man. "Is it you? It's you but... How?"

"This body had no brain function and, indeed, no mind of its own. It was a rather long process to make it mine. My control still slips from time to time, as you could see."

"I won't get into tedious scientific explanations," Moira went on. "Just know that this is him, and that he's really back."

"Professor... Charles..." she said, starting to cry. "We missed you, I missed you so much!"

Sage, in her bedroom, sensed him as he approached. She hid herself behind her psi-shields. Too much was happening. Now a mind-reader? Was she cursed? Was he going to send her away? She liked the Mansion and wanted to stay with her friend, even though Carol was controlling her. Was it too much to ask? But her friendship with Rogue was what mattered the most and help her was Sage's first priority.

Rogue was in her bubble of light. It had shifted into a wide room where things appeared when she summoned them. Sometimes faces and shapes showed up and disappeared. She was reveling in the highlights of her life. Her easy relationship with her father, her friendship with Sage, the moments she shared with Gambit, Ororo's kindness to her, her teens with Destiny and Mystique...

She started to hear a soft piano tune. She recognized it. It was a song by a alternative rock band from... Holland if she remembered well. Forgotten was the title. Sage's figure appeared in her white room. As the song was going forward, Rogue asked Sage, "Why are you here? I never absorbed you..."

"I came through our psi-link. I'm here to help you out."

Rogue showed her the pieces of happy memories around her. "I don't want to leave, I'm content here."

"You could be more than content outside. You could be happy. Are you going to let Carol live your life?"

"Carol?"

"She's using your body and she's happy about it."

Using. The word stirred an unhappy memory and Rogue pushed it away. She shook her head. "I'll come back... Later."

"The more you wait, the stronger her hold over your body will be. She's making herself home. You need to react now. We will put her in a stronger cage this time. She won't escape."

Rogue looked at the reminiscences around her. "What if I don't want to come back? What if something happened and I can't live on in the real world?"

Sage looked at her sadly. "What happened to you?"

Shadows appeared in the corner of the room and Rogue got away from them. "I don't... I don't want to know."

"But I will," declared Sage.

The shadows formed a door and Sage crossed the threshold. She stepped in BellaDonna's jail. Sage shivered. She took in the scene playing in front of her eyes. Gambit, chained to the wall, Struggling to break free, screaming like a scorched animal. And Rogue, pinned down... Raped by two men.

Sage hid her face in her hands. She had never imagined such a tragedy. She got back in Rogue's white room. No wonder the Cajun left the mansion again. She couldn't figure out a way for them to be together again. How do you cope with this kind of grief?

She went to Rogue and hugged tightly. Both girls held onto each other in earnest. "You'll live on, Rogue. I'm sure you can cope. It'll be hard, it'll be long but we'll make you get better. Please come with me. Come back to the world. Your father is waiting for you, your friends are too. I'm waiting for you. Please help me to push Carol away and live!"

"And Remy," added Rogue. "You forgot Remy."

"He's... temporarily gone to solve some issues. I'm sure he'll be happy to have you back too."

"There is something you don't tell me."

"I cant' unless you're willing to go and see what happened behind that door."

Rogue shot a glance at the door and turned her back to it. "No I'm not."

"Then it'll have to wait until we're back in the real world."

A third woman materialized in the room. She was a tall blonde with blue eyes. Carol. "Look who sneaked in! Sage!" she said.

Rogue put herself between the women. "I'm ready to come back, Carol. Step down."

"Oh but I like you life very much, Anna. Who knew my former lover was your father."

Rogue winced. "I like my life too. It's my body. Step down."

"Your life? You don't live it unless little mind-reader pushes you to."

"Carol, if I have to fight you I will. For the last time, please step down."

Carol shrugged. "Make me."

Rogue being Wolverine's daughter, she knew how to fight. Carol had been trained in many kinds of fighting and could hold her own, powers or not. Sage stayed out of the fight, ready to close the cage upon Carol, should the opportunity present itself.

Both women circled, looking for an opening. Rogue lunged forward and tried to punch Carol who avoided it. The fight was epic. Punches, slaps, kicks, both were trying to hurt the other. None had mutants abilities in there but both had control upon the white room. One could summon a chair that would trip the other, while other summoned a baseball bat to hit the first. Neither seemed to have the upper hand: Carol had spent a lot of time trapped down there but Rogue was 'home'.

"Step down, Carol."

"Why would I give you this body back if you don't even want to live? The other personalities freed me when you gave up. Everyone down here wants me to lead."

Faces and shapes started to appear again on the walls' surface. Whispers and murmurs echoed through the room. A voice spoke louder. "Persevere, chere. You can come back, mon amour. You're stronger."

Rogue turned toward the voice, stunned. "I never absorbed you..."

"I did,” said Carol with glee. “When I escaped with him. He touched my skin and I drained him."

Rogue pounced on Carol. "This. Is. Mah. Skin." she shouted. She knocked Carol unconscious.

Sage cheered. "You did it! Now let me seal her away."

She focused her attention on the limp, graying form. As she lost consciousness, she lost solidity and shape. Soon Carol was trapped again within a box the size of a small bedroom. Sage then opened the ground and buried her deep, deeper into the 'basement'. Carol was now further down than before, in a stronger prison. Sage held her hand out for Rogue.

"Ready to come back?"

"It's now or never, isn't it?"

Sage nodded, grabbed Rogue's hand and pulled her out.
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