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Rogue (whatintarnation) wrote in dunwichgame,
@ 2024-11-16 18:39:00

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!log/thread/narrative, marvel (tv/film): remy lebeau, marvel (tv/film): rogue, ∙ plot: november 2024

Rogue & REmy

Today | tbd

the past is never far behind you

It had been a little bit like stepping back in time, to a point when she'd still been learning about herself and what she could do - and her place in the world. And to come from that moment, when she'd seen nothing but hope and potential laid out before her to being trapped in this place with people who knew her but she felt like she'd never met? Without those she'd trusted? It had thrown Rogue for the kind of loop she hadn't experienced in more years than she wanted to think about.

And now she was back again, her own self fully aware of who and where she was, and what she'd said to her friends. Embarrassment was a word.

It would have bene easy to pretend like it never happened, she even suspected Remy at least might let her get away with it if she was stubborn enough, but she owed him better than that. If they were going to make the kinds of steps forward here they had been he deserved honesty from her.

It the end of the night, things winding down and she thought maybe it was the right time to broach the subject.

"Don't suppose you got a lil time to talk, Shug'?" She didn't like things feeling odd between them, they'd been getting so close, and then her past had come up out of no where knocking things off balance and she needed to fix them. Or try at the very least.

CODING

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stealing
2024-11-25 03:14 am UTC (link)

"But you were t'gether," Remy said, and look, he really did try to be a good person, particularly when it came to relationship things. To be giving, thoughtful and understanding were all traits that he strived for because he wanted those things, too.

They were adults, after all, and they'd both been through things that they shouldn't have had to. Remy wasn't a stranger to bad relationships. S0 he tried.

But that didn't mean he couldn't be jealous.

"It's in the past," he said after a beat of thought, like he was trying to apologize for his own words, more than anything she'd said. "Just -- surprising. Is all."

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whatintarnation
2024-11-25 03:44 am UTC (link)

"For a little while." Rogue agreed, she wasn't ashamed of it - no matter what role Erik had taken in their lives since she'd joined the X-Men. He'd been a part of the path of her life that had lead her to where she was now and that wasn't something she wanted to erase.

Even knowing that a part of her felt like she needed to explain. "We could touch, his powers - they protected him from mine." That had been a difficult thing to resist after so long of not being able to touch anyone without worrying about what she'd do to them. It hadn't been the only reason that a relationship had formed between them, but it had certainly played a large part.

She sighed, arms crossing over her chest uncertain of where she stood with Remy now - despite his words. It was clear that she'd damaged something between them with the sudden emergence of her past.

"I -" She started and stopped. "It is in the past, you're right." She agreed, "It's not how I'd've liked you ta find out about that part of my past, but ... not much to be done about that now."

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stealing
2024-11-26 02:48 am UTC (link)

That made it worse, knowing Rogue and Magneto of all people had been able to touch. That he'd had his hands and mouth and all the rest of him in places that Remy could only day dream about most of the time.

He couldn't blame Rogue for that though. He couldn't deny her a chance or memory of something she'd been able to finally enjoy.

That didn't stop Remy not being able to find anything to say about that just yet. Instead he rubbed at his nose awkwardly with the back of his hand before he fidgeted his way to opening up his pack of cigarettes, only slightly wrinkled from having been stuffed in the back pocket of his jeans.

"S'okay," he said after a beat. "Y'didn't have much a choice, considering. It's -- I'm not upset. It's nothing I've got a right to be upset about anyway. We, none of us, joined the X-Men so we could dwell on th'past."

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whatintarnation
2024-11-26 04:47 am UTC (link)

Rogue wasn't sure she'd have ever brought this up if she'd had a say in the matter to be totally honest. Erik had been a part of her life for a time, but she'd been a different person then, and she'd thought he had been too. The person she was now - she didn't think she'd want that again, no matter how much she yearned for the touch of another.

This was a real mess of a situation, and talking about it only really felt like it was making it worse.

"Don't suppose we did," She agreed, "That don't mean it doesn't come up from time'ta'time." Her past had come up several times already, her evil mother and finding Kurt was just one small part of it all. But this was something else entirely. "I should have told ya' though." What she and Remy were doing wasn't just being friendly anymore, there had always been something there between them from the very beginning, though it had taken her some time to warm up to it - she'd thought it was for the best if she'd kept her distance.

But distance was the last thing she wanted with Remy now. "I am sorry, Shugah." Not that she had done it, but that he'd been forced to confront it the way he had done.

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stealing
2024-11-26 05:48 am UTC (link)

"Y'ain't wrong," Remy said, leaning against the bar. Closer into her space, even if she was all the way across it.

It wasn't so large a difference.

"Wouldn't be fair or right of me, bein' upset for longer than my ego was bruised," he decided with a crooked sort of smile. Maybe she should have told him, and it shouldn't have been like this, but what was done was done, and they'd been through plenty worse. Erik wasn't even here. He was a man of the past, ridiculous head bucket and all. "Considering you had t'meet my wife, early on, non?

"De rien," he said, smoothing the air. "What're you doin' tomorrow?"

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whatintarnation
2024-11-26 06:38 am UTC (link)

Fair or right hardly mattered when it came to feelings, Rogue knew that better than most - but she thought Remy did too. But she was grateful that he could extend her the kind of grace she wasn't fully certain she deserved in this particular moment.

"Guess that's just how things work for us." She agreed, they both had a past, but more importantly they had a future they were working on building together. That had to count for more than what they'd left behind.

As for tomorrow, she lifted her shoulders. "I don't have any plans, got something in mind?" She asked, curious as she leaned toward him as well, she didn't care for the distance between them.

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stealing
2024-11-26 06:47 am UTC (link)

It counted for plenty. Remy was an optimist at heart even if he didn't always act like it. HIs preference was to hope for the best in all things -- particularly this thing. His romance with Rogue wasn't just some passing fancy. Maybe it never had been.

"Found a house I thought we might check out," he said, and there was only just enough space between them for him to say he was being careful when she inevitably scolded him for being reckless. "Real cute-like. Checks some boxes. Might be the one."

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whatintarnation
2024-11-26 11:16 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah?" She asked, unable to hold back the smile on her face when he mentioned he might have found a house that'd fit with some of the things they'd talked about wanting when the idea had first been brought up.

"Sounds like we should check that out then," She wanted to close the distance between them to show him just how much she cared about him, but they'd find other ways to do that sort of thing, she'd make sure he knew she was making a choice with him. "It'll be nice to have a space of our own."

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	stealing 2024-11-27 03:55 am UTC (link)
	"Just us," Remy agreed with a pleased sort of look. "Livin' the life." A real American dream, really. Getting a bit of land just for yourself, finding someone you loved to share it with. It wouldn't be the first property Remy owned. But he was pretty postive it'd be his favorite. "It's a date then. I take you to breakfast first -- we make a day of it..." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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