"Apprenez le français, Kitty." Gambit returned just as smoothly to Wolverine, as he dusted himself off and collected up his dignity, before sauntering his way over to Ianto with a smile, as if none of that had just happened. "Ain' gonna brake a nail, homme, jus' ain' lookin' forwar' to doin' anyt'in' but sleepin'. I'm injure'. Lotta pain." Which was a crock of shit, and the Doctor knew it. Gambit had done a lot more in the course of the twenty-four hours after the earthquake than he should have, if he was in that much pain. But he gave up on his arguments. With Logan (his warden), the Doctor (his conscience), Jack (his peanut gallery) and Ianto (his.. well.. no. Ianto was the sane one in the group, huh, go figure) around, he knew he wasn't going to get any slack.. and it wasn't like he needed it, but he had to try. And once near to Ianto, he was snatching the nail from him with an easy smile.
"I like 'de way you t'ink, mon ami." As the Cajun was kneeling to start picking up some of those nails, he was glancing aside to the Doctor, where he was working with Jack. "Peut-être nous devrions utiliser quelques arbres de la forêt, tirer quelques-uns d'entre eux dehors. Ils feraient une cabine robuste, pour quelques personnes pour vivre dans. Utilisez des petits morceaux de la grange pour faire un toit pour cela. Les griffes de Kitty couperont directement par eux. Nous devrions juste les tirer dehors." It was a good suggestion, at any rate. There were plenty enough trees. And it was interesting, how Remy could go from refusing to help, to coming up with helpful ideas in the span of just a minute. He really did want to help, it was obvious enough. He just didn't want to seem like he wanted to help. Maybe he needed to see a shrink. Then again.. so did the rest of them.
He had, of course, spoken in French for two reasons: one, was that he didn't want the others knowing that he was being helpful of his own free will, and he knew the Doctor spoke French, and that Jack could apparently understand bits and pieces.. but to his knowledge, Ianto didn't speak the language, and he knew Logan didn't. The second reason, of course, was to piss Logan off.
[*Translation: Learn French, Kitty. & Maybe we should use some trees from the forest, haul a few of them out. They'd make a sturdy cabin, for a few people to live in. Use scraps from the barn to make a roof for it. Kitty's claws will cut right through them. We'd just have to haul them out.]