Author's Note: When I wrote this fanfic, I envisioned it as a movie, hence the actor prompts, length, style and pacing. And like all good Comic Book Movies, you have to watch all the credits because you never know what you might find! ;-)

Epilogue (Credits)

Abbie Cornish as Rogue
Ian Somerhalder as Remy LeBeau (Gambit)

X-Men: Among Thieves

Matt Bomer as Courier
Jesse Spencer as Saint-John Allderdyce (Pyro)
Yvonne Strahovski as Carol Danvers
Hiroyuki Shimosawa as Shingen Yashida
Emily Rose as Mercy LeBeau
Tom Felton as Pietro Maximoff (QuickSilver)
Richard Chamberlain as John-Luc LeBeau
Edward James Olmos as Marius Bordeaux
Wentworth Miller as Dominikos Ioannis Petrakis (Avalanche)
Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy (Beast)
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Gris Gris
Niall Matter as Claude
Thandie Newton as Ororo Munroe (Storm)
James Nesbitt as Henri LeBeau
with
James McAvoy as Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto)
and
Jennifer Lawrence as Raven (Mystique)
and
Octavia Spencer as Tante Mattie

Written by JayCee's RedGold

A Harley motorbike came to an abrupt stop on the side of the road next to an estate gate. A shadow detached itself from the stone wall where it had been leaning, waiting…

"Yah know, Gambit," a woman smirked in her Southern drawl, "I could have met yah there, I can fly yah know."

"What would be the fun in dat?" he grinned, putting both feet firmly on the ground to keep the bike steady for her.

Rogue crossed her arms, "Yah have a one track mind, anyone ever tell yah that?"

"All da time," Gambit winked, rather pleased with that fact, "so, you sneak out da window?"

"Tha front door actually," she said matter of fact as she swung her leg over the seat to straddle the bike, "and I told tha team ta call me if they needed me."

"Ah, petite," he pouted as they both adjusted, balancing themselves on the bike, "dat's gonna put a wrench in my plans."

"Plans?" Rogue scooted forward, her body dangerously close as her arms wrapped around him, "I thought we were just spending tha day in New York City."

"We are," he grinned over his shoulder, "but da Chicken just happened to recently acquired a piece of jewelry with a rather large emerald attached to it."

"Was that why yah called me?" she narrowed her eyes at him, "So I'd help yah divest Angel of more valuables?"

"Tell me you're not interested," Gambit challenged, his eyes twinkling. "We can mail it back to him afterwards? I know a sweet little spot off the coast of Maine, just da two of us..."

Rogue wanted to slap him, to tell him that she was an X-Man now and they didn't steal for sport, especially since Angel was on Xavier's side. Instead, a grin formed on her face and her cheeks hurt from her contained laughter. After a moment of chewing her bottom lip, she couldn't help herself and asked, "How big an emerald?"

Chuckling, Gambit hit the throttle and gas, shooting off into traffic and Rogue held on tight as they sped down the winding country road. With her hands splayed against the grinning thief's chest, her body flush against his back, and her head resting against him… there was nowhere else she wanted to be…

Featuring the following songs, also available on the Official Soundtrack…

If It Hadn't Been For Love by Adele

Paradise by Coldplay

The French Letter by JWalk

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by Cage the Elephant

I Would Do Anything For You by Foster the People

Sunset Breakup by Dr Rubberfunk

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This FanFic Void in Utah.

All characters are property of Marvel Comics, Marvel Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox respectively.

All characters are fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is coincidental.

A man walked down a hallway which had become far too familiar to him in the past year. Hesitating, he turned the handle and slipped inside. It was dark and he resisted the temptation to ignite his lighter.

"Well," a desk lamp clicked on and Mystique sat in her natural form, "did you talk to her?"

"Yeah," he shrugged, leaning back against the door, "she's really joined the X-Men, said she needed to make peace with herself."

"Peace, hah," the woman shook her head as she tapped deadly sharp nails on the desk. "She's gone soft and Xavier will do nothing to help her bring out her true potential."

That was likely true, the Professor would never force Rogue into using her powers in a way that made her uncomfortable, in the way that Mystique wanted her too. Still, "She's happy there, happier than I've seen her in a long time."

"Of course she is," the woman rolled her yellow eyes, "she's sold herself on Charle's pipe dream, and that's all it is, a fantasy. I was wrong, Rogue isn't as strong as I thought she was. I knew I should have done more… arranged another accidental absorption."

"I think you got it wrong, Mystique," he risked the shapeshifter's err by speaking out. "Rogue's been drifting away from us, from the Brotherhood ideals, for years now. Frankly, me and the guys aren't all surprised she's switched sides. Hell, she's only been taking missions with me out of loyalty to our friendship… some friend I've turned out to be."

"Be pathetic all you want, Saint-John," Mystique said coldly, "but I will not sit idly by while Charles puts nonsense into her head. The world is about to become a much more dangerous place for our kind, Rogue needs to be strong and prepared if she's going to survive it."

"You almost sound like you care," he responded sarcastically.

In a flash, Mystique vaulted over the desk and pinned Pyro to the wall, elbow across his neck, his lighter knocked to the ground. "Of course I care, I'm her mother and you will do best to remember that."

The scales on her arm scraped against his skin as he felt his trachea close up, "Can't… breathe…"

Giving him a disgusted look, she let him go as she began to pace. "We need to get her out of there, away from Charles' destructive influence."

"Good luck with that," he coughed, catching his breath, "when's she not with the X-Men team, she's hanging out with Gambit."

"Gambit," she spoke the name as if it was made of bile. "What could that thief want with a woman he can't even touch?"

"I dunno," he snatched his lighter from the floor, "maybe he actually enjoys her company?"

"Highly unlikely," she waved him off, "the man is nothing but a womanizer who will only use her and then break her heart. The situation's worse than I thought."

This all could have been avoided if Mystique had gone to Rogue in the first place. Pyro resisted the urge to tell her 'I told you so' because he wanted to continue living for at least another day. Resigning himself to the inevitable, "What we gonna do?"

"Simple, we're going to rescue Rogue from herself," of this she seemed quite sure, "and we'll start with the Cajun."

"The plan?" he sighed.

"We'll show Rogue just how worthless of a man he is," she nodded to herself, a smile spreading across her lips as she came to a decision, "failing that… we kill him."

Gambit and Rogue return in 2013 (ish) in X-Men: Thick as Thieves.