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[The video turns on to show a very young, girl with brown hair parted down the center and white bangs. There's dark eye shadow and lipstick on her wearing a black tank top with a faded sweater over it with the sleeves off her shoulders and going down to her wrists. Her shoulders are exposed whereas her hands are gloved.

There's no mistaking the serious expression on her face. She's not pleased in the least.]

This is gettin' old very fast. Someone better start talkin'.

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I always have to try just that one more time. You should have figured that out long time ago.

We messed up in a great jumble of timelines, cherie. Universes colliding. The girl I know, I never met when she was your age. So I guess that means you expecting a younger Cajun, no?

Didn't work back in the swamp, won't work now. [Okay it kindda did, but he doesn't have to know that. Not that she likes him or anything. Pfft...maybe a little. But how the hell does he know that?

The words hit her hard. Different universes? Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie Scott and Kurt would watch.]

Yeah, but I should stop expectin' things to make sense. [How can she trust him? Last time he used her and for all she knows this could be the work of Magneto.] Especially when it comes to ya.

I guess some things about this boy don't change between one world and another. This a crazy place, cherie, but I do right by that other me you know. Anything at all you need, you just say the word and the Cajun get it for you. I be a perfect gentleman.

[There's a flicker of surprise in her eyes. He's being helpful, but why? They're not on good or bad terms, but it's still suspicious.]

Haven't known ya ta be a gentlemen, this'll be interestin'.

How 'bout we talk in person?

Nothing make me happier. Where an when?

[Funny, he normally pops up or finds her.]

The Four Saisons, in an half an hour.

[Oh, he could. But best not to when they're skittish.]

For you, cherie, I even get there on time.

Edited 2013-07-14 00:35 (UTC)

[Why is he flirting with her? Does she even want to know? What ever the case she rolls her eyes.]

Whatever.

[The feed ends there with her talking to others before getting back to the hotel. She'll be waiting in the lobby.]

[He is, in fact, early, and just a little out of breath, scanning the crowd for her while keeping his best poker face.

When he sees her, he tips her a wry, casual salute, and saunters over towards her.]

Didn't leave you too long, I hope.

[She's expecting him to be on time, maybe a little late, but nope he's there. And he's taller and older. Rogue stays cool, giving him a once over.]

No, wasn't waitin' long. [A beat, this might get awkward quickly.]

So you're part of the X-Men? When did ya join them?

The first of the twenty questions, is it? I joined years ago. Ran into Storm when she was in a bind, and the rest followed.

The Remy you know -- he's not on the team?

[Twenty questions and a whole lot of explaining. She's still trying to grasp the concept that Gambit is helping her. Hard to tell if it's free or comes with a price.]

No, he's on Magneto's side. Don't know if that's changed.

Edited 2013-07-15 01:35 (UTC)

Huh.

[Seriously taken aback.]

That's new. Especially with that, you got no reason to trust me, but...

It's not like that for me. I'm not like that. Not to say this boy has clean hands, or never made a bad choice, but on that one I'm innocent, for once.

[He's not the only one confused on that issue. Magneto's not a guy anyone should be around, but she was misguided once. Maybe Gambit would come to his senses and join them. Or if anything, not be an enemy.]

Tch, that's for sure. [Though some small part of her, against her better judgement, does trust him.]

So you're sayin' you wouldn't use me to get somethin' done? You'd actually be up front about it. [She doesn't know why she's asking that, but it doesn't hurt to maybe know the truth.]

[Hesitation.

No. Better to be honest, right?]

I level with you. Used a lot of people in my day, cherie. Don't even regret all of 'em. Straightforward never been a winning card in my deck.

But I never used you.

[That comes out very emphatically.]

[If he lies to her, she'll be able to feel it. He has one chance with her, that's it. After the bullshit Mystique put her through it's hard for her truth anyone.

He's used people, she's not surprised that. He has that charm about him to make any woman do what he says. But his last words...they reach her, persuading her to lower her guard. Her head is bowed for a moment before looking back up and brushing her bangs out of her face.]

Either I'm crazy or stupid, but I believe ya.

I think the way it works is, you're the crazy one, I'm the stupid one.

[Almost entirely joking, but there's a thread of honesty to it.]

[The honesty in his voice is what she catches. He's always joking, or trying to charm her. Maybe he's doing a bit of both, but what's....the deal between them? Him and the Rogue he knows?]

Thanks for comfirmin' that. Craziness runs in the family. [There's a twinge of sarcasm in her voice. Her mother is Mystique and Kurt's her brother in a way...so yes, craziness is in her family, including her X-Men family.]

Are you an' me...a team or somethin'? [Or...were they romantically involved?]

That's a long, complicated tale, cherie. Years long. We both been on the X-Men a long time where I come from. We fight, and maybe you don't trust me that well all the time, and maybe sometimes you're right.

I know your family pretty well. Mystique, she never like me, but we work together a time or two. She don't approve of me, but I still have skills she can use.

The two of us, though...

[He looks away a moment.]

Hard to know what to say. Things that meant a lot to me sound pretty strange to you, I think. Your Remy and me, we must be different people, if he never...

If you don't know how I feel about you. The older you, I mean.

Only sometimes I'm right? [No, she's right. Granted there have been times when she's been wrong, but she's admitted to those few times. Well, if it's a HUGE error, she'll own up to her mistakes. But anything less than that...maybe.

The whole part with Mystique makes her go stiff and look awake. One hand starts to curl into a fist, trying to hold back her anger at the woman.]

When is she not using anyone..[The words are more muttered to herself than him, still listening, but its hard to ignore.]

You two are different as in, you weren't on Magneto's team for one. Personality's pretty much the same.

As it is, everythin' is strange ta me. Can't confuse me anymore than ya can right now. I wanna trust you, but we have ta be upfront with one another.

Why you think I tell you all this? Bein trustworthy, that's not what I'm best at. But if you're stuck here with me, then we can't afford to spend years dancing around each other. You should know who I am.

Been a thief, and I been a traitor, and I've had to work with people who make me ashamed. More than once, all three. But I always been loyal to you.

[To some extent, that's a matter of interpretation, but he believes it, entirely. Even when he's sold out the X-Men, he did it to help or protect her. Even when he lied to her, he did it out of love. That's as honest as he can be right now, and he doesn't even consider it less than honest, in context. He's never cheated on her, never sold her out, never given up hope no matter how bitter things got, no matter whether they were together or not.]

So tell me, cherie. I be up front with you. What is there you should tell me?

[The Gambit she knew and the one in front of her they were the same. They were both thieves. The Gambit she knew, the teen with the captivating red eyes, knew what to say to get her to go along, played her like a puppet, but she understood. He wanted to save his father and given their past history, asking her would've been foolish.]

You two are nearly the same. He's a thief, seemingly loyal to Magneto enough to be part of his Acolytes, but suppose not. We fought one another, came out as a draw and didn't see each other for a while. Not until his dad got kidnapped and needed me to get 'im out.

[A pause as she forces herself to talk about her mother.] I hate Mystique. For lyin' to me, for tryin' ta use me and everything. I never want to have a relationship with that woman. [Even in all that anger there's traces of hurt in her voice.]

That's about it.

...Which father that be, cherie?

[There's an urgency of tightness and urgency in his voice.]

He..never said. [Whoa, what the hell?]

He only said his father, that was it. He got out safely, all of us did.

... There are three men might have some right to call themselves my father. One, that's the usual, I never meet. The second the head of the Thieves' Guild. The third...

... if it was the third, cherie, your Remy got worse problems than Magneto. Problems he know better than to drag anybody into.

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