driftfleet | 5th Shuffle

Who: Remy LeBeau and open.
Broadcast: Video.
Action: On the Vanquish, Rogue’s room.
When: Now.

Ahh, [There is some adjusting of the camera before Remy gets it right, balancing it in just a way so he could place it down away from him and still leave it filming. It wasn’t a happy face that appeared on the feed this time around as he took a seat on a bed that wasn’t his own and in a setting that wasn’t his room.] Guess since no one has yet, up to me to break the bad news. Seems Rogue has left.

She, ah, [Oh, this was tough. He had gone around to annoy his best friend, having not had a chance to catch up of late, and had brought his three little annoyances in the form of the kittens along with him to meet her, only to find her room mostly empty of its items and no signs of her.] Well, seems she’s left a few things for people here. Kitty, Kurt, Clay, Winter, Loki. [He moves to pick the camera up again, turning it around onto the selection on the bed, including several books, a makeup set, her mpc player, a necklace. Some items have a note on them, others don’t.] I’ve kinda gathered them up ‘nd left them on her bed for ya’ll to pick up when ya able to.

[The camera turns back to him again as he throws on a smile, but it is rather forced, the angle of the camera showing Rogue's guitar she had gotten from the gifting tree resting over his legs.] Hopefully she’s gone back home ‘nd... well, not got caught up in ‘ny of this again. And, hey, she’s got a good home to go back to, I know, ‘ve seen her future. She does a lot of good work, really does her team proud, 'nd helps a lot of people out. Hell, saves the whole world. Kinda hard to beat that for a welcome home party.

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Sure thing. [Oh good, by that clear sentence it seems Kurt got to him before he had started drinking later on in the day, that was a good sign.]

I'll survive. [And Kurt was also possibly one of the best people on the Fleet to know that surviving and being ok were two very different things.]

What about you?

I'm sorry.

[Because glad as he is not to lose Rogue and Remy both, Kurt also knows well and good that sometimes surviving is the worst outcome.]

I've mourned my sister once already, I can do it again.

She's not dead, mon ami, she's out there somewhere. And you know whoever she's around is in for a hell of a lot more trouble than she will be.

But I'll never see her again, will I? Even if another Rogue shows up, she won't be the one we know and we'll be freakshow mirrors of the people she knows.

I have done this before. The world I traveled to before this had a Rogue, too.

[Oh...] Yeah, I see your point. [That wasn't something Remy had taken the moment to think about. What if 'Rogue' showed up again but... it wasn't her? That, yeah, even thinking of that stung.]

Is it bad to say I don't want that to happen? [He and Rogue had such a chunk of history together now, between the Fleet and Luceti, a lot of ups and downs. A LOT of ups and downs... To think she would appear, a similar face but with no knowledge of what they had been through. Remy didn't like that idea for a moment. Hell, what if she showed up before this all, when he was with the Acolytes, just after they had ambushed the X-Men? He wouldn't be some annoyance who had kidnapped her to help save his father, he would be her enemy again, and that thought of falling back into that part of the past left a very bitter taste in his mouth.] Kind of rather she stays gone.

Nein. [He can't agree, being as he'd do almost anything to see his Rogue again, but he can understand.

With that in mind:] Remy, you realize you will see her again, ja? You're of the same world, she'll be there when you find your way home. [Unless she dies in the meantime. Kurt would like to think only his world would be so cruel, but in the one he'd traveled to, their Nightcrawler had died and left his sister behind to mourn him.]

Rogue will, but she won't. [Admitting that brought about a whole new lot of pain, at the fact it was true and that he was saying it. It was so much easier just to ignore it, shove it into a dark little box to rot away, rather than let it see light.] And neither will I be.

We weren't friends back home. At best I'm some asshole who she helped out after I kidnapped her and made her believe she was in control of it the whole time while I was pulling the strings. At worse, I'm her enemy, one of Magneto's goons. When I get back there it will be like none of the three years I've been around her would had happened. We'll be strangers again.

So we do all lose memory of this time when we're sent back. I'd wondered if it was universal. [And, knowing this, if such memories could be unearthed by a strong enough telepath. It's a moot point for him, he's a dead man walking. But if Remy's world has a Jean..]

Would it ease your mind if I told you that, in every world I've seen with a version of my sister, a version of you was dear to her? [He doesn't bat an eye at the rest of it; the reason he's taken so quickly to this Remy is his resemblance to the one he fought along-side.]

I don't know about this place, but the last place was like that. It was a mix, some remembered their previous time there, others didn't. [And the idea to go searching for them after the fact hadn't even entered Remy's mind. Hell, he didn't remember his past runs through Luceti, despite the fact he knew 'he' had been there before, and if you didn't know you went through it once you got home then you didn't know to go looking for them in the first place.

His response to the next part was a little more delayed, unsure how to take that at the moment. Partly because he had trouble believing that with how he and Rogue had left off their last meeting back in their world, but also because of what Kitty had told him about he and Rogue from their world.] Maybe at a later time.

That's strange. Did anyone ever figure out why that was? [Because of course there has to be a reason. There's always a reason, even if he hasn't figured out what it is. There was a reason his world originally went to horrors, a reason why two of the most steadfast X-Men turned against them. There is always a reason.

And if he'd known Kitty had told Remy what he and Rogue were to one another in their world, Kurt would've emphasized the friends aspect. He knows from experience how disconcerting it is to hear about another version's love life.] That's understandable. Want to get drunk later, or do you have plans already?

Nah, I assume it was them trying for a reset to have a clean subject to play with and kept others with memories to compare. Was more a 'prod us with a stick until we broke down' kind of place, not nearly as relaxed as this one. Lots of experiment. [Fun times...]

I got plans tonight, but won't turn down sharing a bottle or two before that if you want.

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