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Subject: XXX-Men #2 (Rogue & Gambit)
The following is a sexually oriented story  featuring  characters
trademarked  and  copyrighted  to Marvel Entertainment Group, and
used without authorization.   This  material  may  be  considered
offensive by some (so be warned) and innapropriate for minors (so
please don't read it if you are one).
This  is  the  second  in  a  series  of  such  stories  feturing
characters from the X-Books.  The following story stars Rogue and
Gambit, and the next in  line  will  feature  Amanda  Sefton  and
Nightcrawler.   (I  know,  when  I  sent  out  the first story, I
announced that Amanda and  Kurt  would  be  next.   They've  been
pushed back by one.)  In designing these stories, my intent is to
do a different type of sex story, and mate it  (pardon  the  pun)
with  creative  fanfic.  I told myself that if I was to write sex
stories, they would  be  a  lot  less  trashy  than  the  average
outragious  fantsies submitted to adult magazines.  They wouldn't
be  just  a  hot  and  sweaty,  meaningless  night  between   two
strangers,  but  the next evolutionary step in a relationship.  I
chose to use X-Books characters so that I may depict  a  part  of
their  lives  that  we  readers  never get to see. Thus, creating
something  different  and  otherwise  unexplored.   I  would   be
delighted  to receive any comment, critisism, or prostrating rave
you may deem fit to send my way.  =)
If you found this posted on  alt.comics.fan-fiction  or  alt.sex.
stories,  it  was  posted  (at  my request) by someone other than
myself.  Please send all response to me, and not to Steph or Dave
(my  gracious  posters).   Also,  I  rarely  read either of these
newsgroups, so I will probably miss any posted response.   I  can
be reached at...
           Internet: phoenix@magellan.cloudnet.com
I chose to do this story strictly from Rogue's point of view  for
a  very  specific  reason.   Just  as I depicted only Archangel's
point of view in the first story, for the reason  of  emphasizing
Psylocke's  mystery.   No  one  knows  what's going on inside her
head, not even me, as her writer!  The reason for this  exclusive
P.O.V. will become obvious at the end of the story.  I won't give
it away, but suffice to say that nothing is as it seems!
I have included guides to typestyle  modification  for  printing,
should  such  a thing be available to you.  Words enclosed in "_"
are to be underlined (ex: _word_), enclosed in  "*"  are  italics
(ex:  *word*),  enclosed  in  "<"  and  ">" are bold italics (ex:
<word>).   I   have   thoughts   in   italics,   and   telepathic
communication in bold italics.
Oh, one last thing before I finish up this  intro;  there  is  an
author's  note  that  follows  the  story, explaining the story's
place  in  X-Books  continuity,  as  well  as  something   of   a
bibliography.
Enjoy...
             "Elle Reve de la Touche de Son Amour"
                  XXX-Men #2 (Rogue & Gambit)
                       By: Benjamin Wick
        There was a knock at the door.  Rogue glanced upward  and
her  stomach turned summersaults, she was so damned nervous.  She
faltered a bit longer, daintily biting her lower  lip.   A  sweat
had  broken  out  on her brow.  She began to get up, but her rear
had only just left the bed when she suddenly sat back down.
        There was another knock at the door, followed by "Chere?"
        "Ah...  ah'm  here Remy," she managed to say, "The door's
open," she forced herself to stand on her rubber legs.   She  was
_going_  to  do  this!   The door swung open and there stood Remy
LeBeau, silhouetted by the  comparitively  bright  light  in  the
hallway  to the dim lamplight in her room.  He was _so_ handsome,
a tall man of about 6'2" with a muscular, athletic build.  He had
long brown hair that hung over his rugged, sharply featured face.
His eyes were  black  and  red,  and  he  had  that  irresistable
unshaven  look.   He  was  wearing a skintight white tank top and
faded blue jeans.
        "You  wanted to see Gambit?" he asked, his voice was deep
and smooth, with a Cajun accent.
        "Yea..."   Rogue  squeaked  and  cursed herself inwardly,
clearing her throat quietly, "Yes.  Please, come on in.  And, uh,
close  the  door,"  she  added,  looking  slightly  downward  and
fidgeting with the hem of her baggy Xavier Institute sweatshirt.
        She heard the door close and she looked up  again.   Remy
was  right  in  front  of  her!   She  flinched  a little, it was
startling how stealthily he moved!  He touched her shoulder.
        "Chere, what's de matter?" he asked.
        "Nothin'," she answered, *Please, God!  Let  this  work,*
she  thought  to herself.  She reached up with her trembling left
hand to touch Remy's cheek, he looked at  her  quizzically.   She
stopped,  with  her  hand hovering next to his face, separated by
only millimeters.  *No, _if_ I get just this one touch, let it be
a kiss,* she thought and lifted herself onto her tiptoes to reach
his lips.  He tilted his head to meet her.  She closed her eyes.
        Their  lips  touched  ever so slightly, like a rose petal
falling to the earth.  Rogue braced herself for the  overwhelming
rush  of another's memories, but it didn't happen.  Her eyes flew
open and she clapped her  hands  onto  his  face,  pressing  with
crushing  force against his mouth.  Remy twitched, his whole body
spasming with surprise.  He locked his arms about her  waist  for
support.   Rogue loosened her grip, laughing with wild abandon as
she felt tears of joy streaming down her cheeks.  The look on his
face was precious, slack-jawed and wide-eyed with amazement.
        "Chere!  How... how in  de  hell  did  we  do  dat?!"  he
stammered.   She clutched him around the torso, pressing one side
of her soaked face against his hard chest.
        "Ah've been in therapy with the Professor fer months now,
we determined that mah problem  with  contolling  mah  power  was
psychological,"  he was stroking her hair lovingly, "He helped me
past the blocks I'd placed  cause  of  all  mah  guilt  an  self-
loathin'  over what happened to Cody an Carol..."  she explained,
*an then Belle,* she thought to herself.  "The Prof was mah first
test, we risked it an ah was able to touch him on the hand...  Ah
was so afraid it wouldn't work again!"
        She looked up into his eyes, "Oh, Remy!   Ah  can  really
touch  again!  Ah want foh us to touch each other all night long,
fall asleep in each other's arms!  To hold on to  each  other  an
_never_  let  go!"   She was gripping his hands tightly, pressing
them to her breast.
        Remy smiled broadly and kissed her forehead, "Gambit have
no  problems  at all wit' dat!"  He lead Rogue to the bed and she
sat down on it, swinging her legs up with her.  He swiftly pulled
his  shirt  up  over  his head and dropped it to the floor before
sitting on the edge of  the  bed  beside  her.   He  kissed  her,
opening  his mouth and snaking his tongue into her.  She accepted
his soft and wet tongue into her mouth, rolling  it  around  with
hers,  feeling their teeth scrape together.  He began to kiss and
suck her long, arched neck gently as her hands explored his  bare
back, memorizing every muscle.
        He was now entirely on the bed, lying on top of her.  She
rolled  him  over and sat across his hips.  She began to kiss all
over his face, nibbling his lips and ears, rubbing her  mouth  on
his bestubbled face.  She could feel the bulge of his erect penis
pressing eagerly against her crotch, inhibited by two  layers  of
jeans.   She  took  off  her  sweater  and tossed it aside.  Remy
smiled, getting a view of her firm tits and flat stomach.  He  no
doubt  wanted  her to take off her lacy black bra, but she wasn't
ready for that yet.  Rogue touched  his  shoulders,  running  her
hands  slowly  down his muscular arms.  From his smooth biceps to
his forearms, which were sparsely covered by little  hairs.   She
closed  her  hands  around  his  right  wrist and lifted it.  She
kissed the back of his hand and rubbed it against her face,  then
sucked  his  fingertips into her mouth.  She put his hand against
one of her breasts and he squeezed it.  Rogue sighed  and  ground
her crotch against his.  Remy moaned.
       She  dropped  his  arm  and  scooted  down a bit, lowering
herself onto him.  She licked his rough jawline, then his  adam's
apple.   Oh,  the  _smell_  of  him!  Rampagingly masculine!  His
salty flesh, a little persperation,  and  an  expensive  cologne.
Oh,  what  was  it  called!  She couldn't remember.  She wandered
over to one of his nipples in a frenzy, pinching it  between  her
lips and tugging firmly.  She flattened out her tongue against it
and began to circle it slowly, rubbing the  other  pec  with  the
palm of her hand.  Remy breathed heavily, his chest heaving under
her.  She slid down further, brushing his well-defined  abs  with
the  tip of her nose.  She could feel her own hot breath bouncing
off his tight body and warming her face.  She found his navel and
kissed it, flicking her tongue into it, once, then twice.
       Rogue  felt  something tickle her chin, and raised herself
up on her hands.  A thin little triangle of sparse,  coarse  hair
peeked  from  under  the  waistband  of  Remy's  pants, the point
touching his navel.  She began to unbutton his pants,  they  were
Levi's  501,  with the button fly.  She undid the buttons slowly,
plucking them from the slots with both hands.  She folded the fly
open,  creasing  them  to the sides.  Remy was wearing red cotton
jockey shorts.  She retreated to the foot of the bed, and, taking
his  pant-legs  by the hems, she eased his jeans off.  Then Rogue
stood and dropped her own pants to the floor, hooked one  of  her
feet  into  the tangled mass, and kicked them backward and out of
the way, losing her socks in the process.
       She then plucked off Remy's socks  and  took  him  by  the
ankles.   She  noticed that, much like Remy's arms, his legs were
only hairy on the lower half.  His sculpted,  broad  thighs  were
bare  and  smooth,  as  though  they were carved in marble, while
below the knees there was a little hair.  She darted  her  tongue
out,  brushing  one  of his ankles with the tip.  Then she gently
kissed it, and began to pull him toward her, leaving a  trail  of
sweet  little  kisses along the inside of his leg.  All the while
she gradually lowered herself  to  her  knees.   Now  Rogue  held
Remy's  knees  at  her shoulders and was licking his inner thigh,
halfway down from the knee.  She  looked  down  his  leg  to  his
crotch.  The fabric of his underpants was streached to the limit,
pulled into a tee-pee by his massive organ.   The  waistband  was
pulled  down to expose a couple inches of short, kinky pubic hair
and the legbands were stretched away from his body, forming  what
looked  like a shadowy cave.  Remy's head was tilted to the side,
his eyes shut tightly and his teeth clenched.  His face and  neck
were  flushed  and he was clutching the bedspread, bunching it in
his fists.  His hard-on was quite obviously making him  extremely
uncomfortable.
       Rogue was going to have to proceed to something much  more
intimate earlier than she'd originally planned to, something more
satisfying for Remy.  She'd wanted for them to  just  touch  each
other  tonight  and  maybe  proceed  to actual sex later on.  She
realized now that not only was that a kind of cruel thing  to  do
to  Remy,  but  that it was probably unrealistic...  She now knew
now that it would be unlikely  to  have  been  able  to  restrain
_herself_  in  that way once going this far!  She set Remy's legs
down over her shoulders and hooked her hands into  the  waistband
of  his  undershorts.   Remy  took  the  signal and bent forward,
bracing himself on his elbows and lifting his ass from  the  bed.
She  pulled  his shorts off, dragging them toward her face.  Remy
straightened out this legs, extending them  high  into  the  air.
Once  she'd  pulled them past his knees, he bent them again.  She
ducked her head under the jockey shorts  that  stretched  between
his  legs.   Gravity did the rest as they slipped of his legs and
tumbled down her back to land on her feet.
      She as now staring down the barrel of  Remy's  unbelievably
long  cock.  It jutted out from his body and pointed right at her
nose, bare inches from her face.  Rogue shrugged his legs off  of
her  shoulders and reached for it.  With the tips of her fingers,
*Oh!  It's so _hot!_*, she began to  tilt  it  in  all  different
directions,  looking  at it from different angles.  The shaft was
solid and strong, during her inspection she noticed that it  took
more  of an effort to turn it downward than it did to press it to
the sides and no effort at all to push it  upward;  it's  natural
resting  position  was  at  an  upward angle.
        It was marked by a roadmap of veins, the largest of which
was  on the underside and to the right, originating from the body
and running upward. Breaking off  from  it  were  all  the  other
smaller  veins,  sort  of tributaries that meandered all over the
penis.  All the larger veins were on the  underside,  which  also
had  a  higher  concentration of veins.  Oh, and some tributaries
had tributaries.  There was a definate ridge that ran the  center
of the the underside.
        The  thickness  was somewhat inconsistant, it was broader
across than it was thick and it was more wide at the center  than
at  the  root,  and  it  tapered at the head so that it was a bit
thinner than the base.  The head was plump  and  looked  sort  of
like  a  mushroom.   It was also a little purplish, especially at
the edge, and it was spongy to the  touch.   She  could  see  his
circumcision  scar, brown and puckered.  *Mah God!  How long _is_
this thing, anway?  It mus' be at least _ten inches_!*  When  she
closed  both  her  hands  around it there were still three inches
that poked from her fist!  It wasn't  remarkably  thick,  though,
her  middle  fingers  could press the balls of her thumbs easily.
She felt his pulse trobbing under her  grip.   A  drop  of  milky
liquid formed at the head and began to lazily trickle dow...  She
was distracted by a sudden noise.  Remy was laughing!
        "Chere, you gon be _doin'_ somethin' wit' dat ting  'fore
Gambit go over de top and you be gettin' a squirt in de eye?"  he
asked  patiently,  smiling  broadly,  and  continued  his  gentle
ribbing.   "You  plan  on  writin'  and essay later on?  Maybe we
could go down to de sub-levels and be  fetchin'  some  diagnostic
'quipment for your studies?"
        Rogue smirked, a little embarrassed.  This was the  first
time  she'd had a good look at a man's cock in person, she didn't
realize that she was scrutinizing so intently.  But even  Belle's
memories  of  Remy's  monsterous manhood couldn't prepare her for
actually holding it in her hands.
        "You asked foh it sugah!" she warned cryptically. Rogue's
fists  were  still wrapped around his prick and the pre-ejaculate
had puddled against her thumb.  She tentatively touched  the  tip
of  her  tongue  to  this  miniature pearl and followed the short
trail upward, where she closed her lips around the soft  head  of
his  stiff  prong.   She  began to nudge and probe at it with her
tongue.  Remy let out a hiss of breath between  his  teeth.   She
uncurled  her  right  fist  and  slowly drew Remy's dick down her
throat as far as it would go.  Her lips touched her left hand and
she  was just this side of gagging, then she tought of the saying
about biting off more than you could swallow and she almost _did_
gag.   She managed to keep from laughing and pulled back, keeping
her lips tight and sliding her tongue from  side  to  side.   She
withdrew  to  the  head,  and repeated the gulping technique very
swiftly three more times.
        Then she lifted his balls  from  the  bed,  cradling  the
hairy, winkled sack of dark, soft skin in her hand.  She felt for
the firm spheres of his testicles and, finding one,  she  pressed
her  lips  against it and slurped it into her mouth, drawing half
his scrotum after it.  She sucked his nut for awhile, rolling  it
around  in  her  mouth,  before  spitting  it back out.  Then she
pressed his cock  back  against  his  abdomen,  laid  her  tongue
against his soggy balls, and licked the length of his shaft a few
times.
        Remy's squirming and the little  noises  he  made  turned
Rogue  on  tremendously.   She enclosed his dick in her left hand
again and began to suck and lick it furiously as her  other  hand
wandered down and began to rub her tender pussy lips and clitoris
through her already wet panites.  After a couple  minutes,  Rogue
came  from  her  masterbating just as Remy's cock began to spasm.
It squirted a wad of thick liquid into her mouth before she could
release  it,  then  it squirted again, splattering her face.  She
gasped and grabbed the bobbing organ, turning it slightly so that
it  squirted  over  her left shoulder.  She cleared a little come
from her eye and looked at Remy.  His mouth hung  wide  open  and
his  eyes  were  rolled  back,  he  was making breathless gasping
sounds.  Rogue just watched him as he made funny noises and  even
funnier  faces,  holding  onto  his  prick  as  it  sprayed  come
everywhere.  She counted about seven  or  eight  wet  spasms  and
about  four "dry heaves" before it was finally still and began to
grow soft.
        Remy lay there for a little while, his breathing  slowing
to normal.  Then he forced himself to sit up and smiled winningly
at Rogue, "Chere..." he began raspily, his eyelids were heavy and
tiny beads of sweat dotted his brow and unshaven upper lip, "That
was jus' incredible," he drew Rogue up into his arms  and  kissed
her  roughly,  squeezing  her  tight  to  his unyeilding body and
kneading her ass with both his hands.  He released her  from  the
kiss  and grinned mischeviously, arching one eyebrow, "Now, let's
see what ol' Gambit can do for _you_."
        He stood, pressing his hands to her waist.  Rogue clamped
her thighs on his hips for support and reached behind her back to
unclasp her bra.  The brassiere fell forward and she shrugged  it
off  of  her  arms.  Remy gazed appreciatively at her pert, round
breasts and pivoted so that he faced the bed.  He placed one knee
as  deep  toward  the  center  of  the  bed as he could reach and
levered himself onto it.  Rogue closed her hands behind his  neck
and he leaned into it, gently falling on top of her.
        Rogue folded her legs across his  back  and  slipped  her
arms  under his.  They kissed deeply, probing each other's mouths
eagerly.  Then Remy reached between them to  stroke  one  of  her
breasts  and  Rogue moaned, feeling her lips vibrate against his.
Remy stopped kissing her and she uncrossed her legs to  give  him
free  movement.   He  moved  down her body and took her breast in
both hands, splaying  his  fingers  so  that  her  nipple  showed
through  the  triangle-shaped  window  formed  by  his thumbs and
forefingers.  He teased her achingly erect nipple with the tip of
his  tongue, wagging it back and forth swiftly.  Then he squeezed
her tit and clamped his mouth on her  nipple,  sucking  hard  and
grinding  it  with  his tongue.  Rogue pursed her lips and cooed,
rubbing her pelvis against his belly franticly.  Remy suckled her
breast  for  what  seemed  like forever, she stroked his hair and
lightly raked his back with her fingernails.
        Remy suddenly disengaged and moved to her  side,  sitting
with  his legs folded under him.  "Roll over, Chere," he ordered.
"An lose de panties," he added with a grin.   Rogue  squinted  at
him  quizzically  for a moment, then proceeded to do as he asked.
She hooked her thumbs into the waistband of her panties and began
to wiggle them down, baring her dark pubic hair and smooth hips a
little bit at a time.  Remy was watching intently, his eyes glued
on  her  midsection  as  he licked his lips absent-mindedly.  She
pushed the panties down her hips and thighs and  completely  off,
tossing  them over the bed.  Then she rolled onto her stomach and
folded her arms, leaning her cheek onto them and gazing  at  Remy
expectantly.
        Remy scooted a little closer to her and laid  his  large,
calloused  hands  on  her shoulders and began to gently rub them.
Rogue sighed heavily, it felt so good to have his strong  fingers
kneading  her  flesh,  relaxing  the  muscles.   He  continued to
massage her back expertly, working his fingers into her shoulder-
blades,  unknotting  her  upper  back.   She was drifting away on
fluffy white clouds and her breathing  was  becoming  comfortably
shallow.  He ran a succession of jarring karate chops up and down
her spine, loosening the vertibre.  Then he laid his hands on her
buttocks  and  began  to  stroke and knead them.  Rogue knew that
there were probably no muscles in the ass that  are  very  active
and didn't need massaging, but she wasn't about to complain.  Her
loins were tingling pleasantly and she could see that Remy's cock
was stirring, growing erect very slowly.
        She was about to  touch  it  when  Remy  began  to  move,
wedging  one  of his knees between her legs.  She spread her legs
for him and he sat between them and began to massage her ribs. He
slowly  moved  his hands down her body until he was massaging her
hips, then he began to stroke both sides of one  of  her  thighs.
Rogue  was  getting  so  hot,  she could feel a puddle of wetness
spreading under her as her pussy was getting wetter  and  wetter.
Remy  suddenly  touched  the  tender petals of her labia with the
tips of his fingers.
        Rogue gasped and hiked her ass up a little.  He began  to
stroke  her mound with his open hand, his middle finger lingering
on her sensitive  clitoris,  moving  in  little  circles.   Rogue
rocked  with  the  rhythm of his expert hands and came forcefully
before too long.  Now she was on her elbows and  knees  and  Remy
was  kissing  and  licking  her  buttocks, she could feel his hot
breath in the crack of her ass and on her  throbbing  pussy.   He
inserted  one of his fingers into her channel and began to tounge
the area  around  the  opening  while  continuing  to  tease  her
clitoris  with  another  finger.   She  came  again,  yelling and
gritting her teeth.  She loved the feel of his  firm  digits  and
soft,  wet  tounge  probing  her pussy, and the feel of his rough
stubble, scraping against her thigh where it joined her body.
        She was teetering on the edge of another orgasm when Remy
stopped.  Rogue  took  the  few seconds to catch her breath.  She
could hear Remy  shuffling  around  back  there,  then  his  legs
brushed  the  insides  of  hers  and  his hands fell on her hips.
Something blunt and firm nudged her between the legs.  It took  a
little  while  for  her to realize that he was waiting for her to
signal that it was alright to proceed.
        "Yesss..." she exhaled huskily.  One of  his  hands  left
her  hip  and she could feel the head of his cock open the soaked
lips of her pussy, he pressed it firmly against her entrance  and
she  felt  it  stretch  and close around the plump head.  Rogue's
entire body trembled and she reflexivly contracted the muscles in
her  cunt,  pinching  the  tip  of Remy's cock like a vise.  Remy
groaned and forced his dick into her tightened  channel  ever  so
slowly,  edging  it  in  one  inch  at  a  time.  She savored the
delicious feeling of his stiff rod as it drove deeper and  deeper
inside of her, she flexed and released, urging it forward.  There
was a little pain, but she bore it  as  it  was  almost  entirely
drowned in wave after wave of pleasure.  She climaxed, shuddering
violently as her muscle control melted away and  she  slumped  to
the bed, her breathing reduced to hiccupping gasps.  Remy's hands
slipped off her hips and his penis popped out of her.
        Rogue blinked.  She thought that she  must  have  blacked
out for a couple seconds.  She was lying on her back now and Remy
was lightly slapping her cheek and saying, "Rogue!  Chere!"
        Her  mind unclouded and she looked up at Remy and smiled.
With one hand she drew his head down to her and kissed him  while
grabbing his wet prick roughly with the other, guiding it back to
her pussy.  She felt his lips pull up into a smile and he  kissed
her  back,  re-entering  her  slippery, expanded canal easily and
sliding in to the hilt.  She twined her legs around his and  held
onto  his  ass as he began to pump in and out of her, alternating
between piston-like pounding and slow, methodical stroking.
        Rogue surrendered to the maddening sensation with all  of
her being.  Tilting her head back and closing her eyes, languidly
licking her teeth and lips.  She writhed  slightly  under  Remy's
thrusting,   undulating   body,  lightly  tracing  cross-hatching
patterns all over his back, sides, ass, and hips with the tips of
her  fingernails.   Remy's  head  was bent downward and his bangs
brushed her face,  tickling  her  cheeks  and  eyelids.   He  was
breathing  in  short, rapid jets, blowing into her cleavage.  His
loosely hanging balls, drenched in Rogue's flowing  juices,  made
audible  slaps  as they smacked inbetween her ass cheeks, against
her anus, with each deep  thrust  of  his  cock  into  her  tight
channel.
        Remy kissed her, sucking her lower lip into his mouth and
nibbling on it.  Then he planted little  kiss  on  her  chin  and
another  on  her neck.  Rogue reached up to place her hand on the
base of his skull and pressed his  head  to  her  shoulder.   She
licked  him  behind  the ear, and drawing the lobe into her mouth
with her tongue, she began to suck on it.  Then  she  traced  the
edge  of  his ear with her tounge, and gently bit into it.  Rogue
moved her hips in synch  with  Remy's  thrusts,  feeling  another
climax  approaching.  She gripped him tighter and squealed as she
came, thrashing her head from side to side.  Remy's  pace  slowed
and his muscles tensed.  He buried his cock deep and he came too,
drawing in a strangled moan and releasing it in a choking  burst.
"Nnnnnnnnnnnnn-ghuh!   Huh...  huh..." he panted, washing Rogue's
insides with his cream.  His elbows gave out and he  lay  heavily
on top of her for a few minutes.
        Remy rolled off of her, his now  flaccid  penis  slipping
out  of her contracting vagina.  They lay blissfully next to each
other, silently staring at the ceiling.  Then Rogue got  off  the
bed  and  pulled  up the covers, sliding under them and motioning
for Remy to do the same.  He sat up and pulled the comforter  out
from  under  him and slid under it next to Rogue.  She nuzzled up
aganst him, laying her head on his collar and cuddling up to  him
with  one  leg over him and one hand on his chest.  He hugged her
with one arm and lolled  his  cheek  on  the  top  of  her  head,
brushing  his fingers on her shoulder and fiddling with her curly
locks.  It was Rogue who broke the silence.
        "Remy, ah love you,"  she  whispered,  the  tips  of  her
fingers  moving  in  circular  motions  all over his chest.  Remy
hugged her a little tighter and kissed her  on  the  top  of  her
head.
        "I love you too, chere."
        Rouge smiled faintly.  "Remy..." she  paused,  "Mah  real
name..."
        "Chere," Remy interrupted.
        "Shush, Remy," Rouge asserted firmly, "Ah'm ready to tell
someone.  This is ridiculous, keeping my name from  y'all.   Like
ah'm  still an outsider...  Ah'm ready to let people get close to
me again," she continued, "Mah real name is..."
        Suddenly everything swam out  of  focus,  the  world  was
melting  into  the  blackness.   Rogue  opened  her  eyes and was
startled to see that Remy was not lying next to her.  She  jerked
into  a  sitting position and frantically glanced about the room.
The morning sunshine  poured  in  through  her  windows,  shining
through  her  lacy  curtains.  Horrible realization began to sink
into her and her face wrinkled in despair.  She  looked  over  at
her alarm clock, which was buzzing and showed 7:00 on the digital
face.
        "NO!!!" she shouted and flashed out her arm, grabbing the
clock  and crushing it between her fingers.  The clock popped and
splintered, throwing off a  few  sparks  and  smoking  a  little.
Tears  streamed  down  her  face  and  she dropped the smoldering
remains to the floor.  Rogue turned face  down  and  muffled  her
gut-wrenching sobs with her pillow.
                           -The End-
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wanted to make this story as "real" (that is, it
could have happened if X-Men were an adult book) as I  could,  by
grounding it solidly in the comics' continuity and by paying very
close, careful attention to faithful and  accurate  characteriza-
tion.   To  establish  continuity,  I  place  it  chronologically
between the Gambit Limited Series and the Rogue LS.  To  my  best
knowledge,  the  Gambit  LS takes place between X-Men #23 and #24
and during Uncanny X-Men #301 & #302,  and  the  Rogue  LS  takes
place  after  Uncanny  #318  and X-Men #38, during X-Men #39, and
ends before Uncanny #319.  That's about as close as I need to pin
it  down,  Rogue could have dreamed the preceeding story anywhere
between Uncanny #302 and #318, and X-Men #24 and #39.
For those of you who may not have gotten some of  the  references
to  the  past  I  made, I will list the issues in which they take
place.  First of all, Rogue and Gambit's relationship:  He  began
to  flirt with her in X-Men #1, and she became receptive in X-Men
#8.  They've been seeing each  other  since  then.   Rogue  first
mentioned  absorbing  Cody's  psyche (Rogue #1 retcons it so that
she _permenently_ absorbed it) and talked  about  it  in  Uncanny
#185,  and  the  scene  is shown in a backup in Classic X-Men #37
(Cody is mistakenly called "Freddie").  She permenently  absorbed
Ms.  Marvel's  powers  and  psyche just before the first panel of
Avengers Annual #10, and lost Ms. Marvel's psyche upon  returning
from  the  Siege  Perilous (which she entered in Uncanny #247) in
Uncanny #269.  Finally, she permenently absorbed the memories  of
Gambit's ex-wife, Belladonnna Boudreaux, in Gambit #3.
This story is titled in French so as to not give away the ending.
The English translation of "Elle Reve de la Touche de Son  Amour"
is "She Dreams of the Touch of His/Her Love"...  "His Love" being
Gambit's,  or "Her Love" being  Gambit himself.  Mucho  thanks to
Graeme MacDonald for providing the French translation.
Special thanks to David R. Henry for helping me out a little with
some of Rogue's history.  Thanks, DRH!!!  (Like he's really gonna
read this...).  =)
Ben Wick, keeper of the X-Babies's flame and Gambit's guardian.
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