DREAMS & DESIRES

by Keri Wilson

CHAPTER 1: THESE DREAMS

Remy slowly unbuttoned her shirt, kissing her on the skin revealed. He touched his lips to her breast- Rogue gasped, shocked awaked. She sat up in her bed alone and put her hands over her eyes; she'd had that dream again!

Rogue was astride his supine body, naked and making love to him like a wild woman! Mon Dieu, was she passionate! She had him gasping and writhing, and then he went over the top- Remy woke up, with a smile on his face, dat dream again, he thought, be fantastic to come true. Remy just knew her passionate nature would express itself fully in the bedroom, and he'd love to be the beneficiary of that! He grinned at his thoughts. What amazed him was that he loved her so much too. When she looked at him with those big green eyes, so innocent, he wanted to give her anything she wanted. He sighed then, but the one thing they both really wanted, he knew that she wanted it as much as he did, he didn't know if he could, and contemplating really doing it, kissing her, touching her skin to skin, scared him. What if he was wrong, and he couldn't touch her, she absorbed his memories, emotions, psyche, and powers, even if just for a few minutes? What would they do then? Dat would be torture for both of us! To love so much and not be able to touch! For Rogue, though, he'd do it, because he loved her. He'd satisfy his sexual urges elsewhere and hope she would understand, and not be too hurt. Non, it wouldn't be that way, he'd be able t' touch her and dey'd be happy! He'd like to see her that way, smiling at him the way a woman who has a lover that makes her happy does. And what about being more than a lover, Remy? He asked himself, what about settling down wit' her and havin' kids, he smirked, lots of kids! Yeah, he admitted he'd like that. Jus' thinkin' 'bout her pregnant wit' his, er, he corrected himself, their baby, made him horny!

While Remy was busy daydreaming, Rogue had dragged herself out of bed and taken a shower.

She always felt better after a shower, she pushed away the dream; have tah deal with reality now. Let's see, she tried to remember, what's first on the agenda for today.Oh no! Now ah remember! Another danger room session with Remy! Oh god, after that dream, oh, ah'm going tah hate this! Why did ah have tah have that dream this mornin'! Now ah'm going tah be in close quarters with him! Ah'm not going tah be able tah shut it out of mah mind before ah have tah be with him! She tried desperately to shut it out of her mind again, but failed. Now she was really in a bad mood! It was not going to be a good day!

When she got to the danger room Remy was already there, leaning against the wall, casually admiring her as she walked up to him. He was grinning with mischief in his eyes. This just made her angrier. He said in his smoothest, most sensuous voice, "Mornin', chere." She just glared at him, and without a word, stalked into the danger room.

Still keeping the easy smile on his face, inwardly he groaned. She be in dat mood again... I do somet'ing t' change it, before we get out here; least try t' make her smile! He thought determinedly.

They had been told last night that this danger room session they had to search for an object, lost at the bottom of a deep cavern, most of the trail being rather dangerous: narrow, huge drop offs, places where they would have to crawl on their hands and knees, places where the trail could give way, and other dangers. They were shown the object, and told they would have to find it within a certain time period. The only aid they would have in the unlit cave would be lights that they would be wearing around their waists, and their powers.

Rogue flew into the cave far ahead of him. Remy shouted at her, "Hey chere, we supposed t' work together on dis!" She stopped and waited for Gambit to catch up, impatiently, then as soon as he reached her she flew on, more slowly but still keeping plenty of space in between them.

Remy sighed, don't know why she so uptight today. Then he saw the trail was starting to narrow and the roof of the cave was not as high as the entrance. Now he had to watch out for the path maybe giving way. Rogue noticed the declining slope of the roof too, and looked back down at Remy, and sighed, and flew down till she was just skimming over the trail in front of Remy.

"Good t' see y' again, chere." Remy said with a touch of sarcasm.

Rogue just glared back at Gambit, and then made sure she was several feet in front of him. After several minutes of this Remy said, "Chere, you so far ahead of me I can't hardly see you, so I know dat even if you turned t' look back y' couldn't hardly see me. What if I get hurt, neh? What if de trail give way, an' I fall all dat way? Might be far enough t' hurt me." Rogue looked down, the illusion was convincing, it looked to be a drop of at least one hundred feet and the danger room could have been programmed, in fact, likely was programmed, that Remy's impact on the floor would be equal to a fall of one hundred feet. She couldn't have that on her conscious. She stopped and let him catch up with her. Then she turned around and looked him directly in the eyes with a serious expression and said, "Remy, if yah feel the ground givin' way, you just grab on, ah'll keep us from fallin'. But you better not play around!"

Remy smirked, "Anyt'ing you say, chere."

Rogue was not surprised that Remy did playfully try a few times, brushing his hands "accidentally" against her bottom or thighs, and bumping into her. Rogue felt a mixture of annoyance and desire when his hands touched her, part of her want to let his hands touch her everywhere, even if it was over her uniform. So she said nothing. She wasn't surprised either when they had to crawl through a narrow passageway that he took advantage of the situation again, and stroked his fingers against her legs.

"Remy it's opening up again, we should be able to-"

They screamed as the ground abruptly gave away, grabbing for each other. They ended up floating in midair with Rogue's legs wrapped around Remy's, her arms under his, and one of his arms gripping her shoulder. The other hand was on her breast. When she realized this she started to pull away to a less intimate position, but Remy said "Don't, please, cherie, don't run away from me..." He said it in such a pleading tone, that she let herself stay in the position. Remy began to run his fingers ever so lightly over her breasts. She gasped and closed her eyes. She could feel his touch through her uniform, the very elastic fabric just seemed to make his touch all the more erotic. She pulled her legs tighter around his, so that she felt how hard he was in between her legs. She moaned with pleasure, and let one of her hands go behind his head, pulling his lips to hers. Just as she felt the first brush of his lips against hers, she jerked her face away. "No, ah'll just do what ah did tah Cody! Ah can't!" She cried. Remy moved his other arm around her waist, and let his legs go straight so that her legs would not be wrapped around his, the moment was over. Rogue brought her other arm back under Remy's, and brought them back to the ground, that thankfully stayed steady. She didn't pull out of his arms right away, so he held her. Then he said in a gentle voice, let's find dat t'ing an' finish dis game, I take you out t' Harry's Hideaway afterwards, we can talk some more, neh?"

Pulling away, she said "Remy, ah told yah before..."

"Dis ain't no game..." He finished for her, and smiled.

With a tremulous smile, she sighed "Remy..." in tone that mixed exasperation and love.

Remy just laughed.

Later at Harry's they talked.

"Remy, ah've been thinkin', an' ah should apologize tah yah, for bein' so mean aftah yah told us what yah did with Sinister. Ah punished yah for tellin' yoah worst secret. Ah should have been like Ororo and Logan. Told yah that ah was glad yah finally told. Besides, what ah did while ah was with Mystique was as bad, if not worse."

"Chere, I'm jus' glad we're not fightin' no more.

"Remy, ah mean it."

"I know, cherie." Remy looked at her tenderly.

"Remy, there's something else too..Ah..love yah, more than anything. "

"I love you too, ma chere." Remy reached over the table to Rogue's gloved hands, she grasped his hands with her own, and they just looked into each other eyes and said nothing else. For now nothing else needed to be said.