One of the team however held quite a different opinion of Remy. Bishop, a policeman from the future, realised that the Witness from his time, who also went by LeBeau, seemed to be an aged Remy. Due to the fact that the Witness was the one person alive in his time who knew what had happened to kill the X-Men, and often suspecting that the Witness had been the traitor who betrayed the X-Men from within, he developed a deep distrust of Remy.
Bishop also revealed Remy’s last name to the X-Men, shouting it out in surprise when he came to his realisation, something that Remy was rather offended by since he had up until this time kept his real name as much of a secret as he could.
It was shortly after this that a very Belladonna sought Remy out, demanding his help to re-establish the seemingly shattered nonaggression pact between the Guilds in New Orleans. The reasons for Remy leaving New Orleans were revealed to the X-Men at this point and they were surprised to learn some of Remy’s past, especially the fact that he was a married man.
The X-Men, including Rogue, accompanied Remy to help Belladonna, although they found things to be a little more complicated than just a Guild war between the Assassins and the Thieves. What seemed to have started this way was actually an attack by the alien Brood on both factions. With the help of the Ghost Rider, they managed to beat the Brood and save both of the Guilds’ children, though this fight seemed to have cost Belladonna’s life, shortly after she and Remy had made up. This came about as he finally revealed that the reason he had not asked her to leave New Orleans with him was so that he could let her live her own life and make some choices that weren’t influenced by what he ‘had’ to do.
One night a while after this Henri LeBeau arrived at the mansion, breaking in with ease, although Remy seemed to sense him, with a pressing request. After his last visit to New Orleans Julien, Belladonna’s brother was revealed to be alive, and had broken the nonaggression pact once again working with many of the younger Assassins. Remy was needed for the Tithing time to ensure that things went the way they were supposed to and to do something about Julien.
Just after he had made this request Henri was attacked by Assassins working for Julien, falling to a crossbow bolt to the chest. With his dying breath he begged Remy to take him back to their father, hinting that not all was as it had seemed with Belladonna as well. Pursuing his brother’s killers he found that Julien was indeed alive and accompanied by Rogue, he travelled to New Orleans to get to the bottom of the matter.
Upon arriving there he found that Belladonna was indeed alive but only barely so and in a coma. Her father, Marius, asked Remy to get her some of the Elixir of Life, the reward that the Thieves got during the Tithing time for their service to the Benefactress which gave them their immortality, to bring her back. Ignoring the old rites and laws Remy violated the pact of both guilds with the Benefactress, who was revealed to be the External Candra, by trying to steal all components of the elixir. Along the way he learnt that Elixir could have some unwanted side effects, such as it not working properly and suspending the receiver in a state of half life, constantly craving a taste of it to ease their pain. Julien was a case of this, since he had somehow been revived with the Elixir and was now not only addicted to it but also quite crazy.
Candra wasn’t going to let Remy’s blatant disregard for the rules of her game go unpunished and she had the Tithe Collector, her emissary to both the Guilds, spread the word that Remy was a traitor and that to regain her favour and restore the pact they would have to bring his body to her. This resulted in Remy having to fight his way through the combined ranks of the Guilds to get to his house in the New Orleans French Quarter where Tante Mattie, the spiritual healer of the Guilds, was watching over Belladonna with Rogue’s help.
After several complications, including Remy having to fight with Julien once again and having the vial of Elixir shattered in his hand, Belle eventually got a small taste of it, enough to revive her. However all of her memories were gone, thanks to what may or may not have been an accidental touch by Rogue during the time she was helping to watch over her.
Knowing that the pact was broken and that she would never again honour it despite her assurances otherwise, both of the Guilds ceased dealing with Candra at all, finally understanding that they had become dependant on her false promises, and a fragile peace was set in motion. They were not happy about having to do so and, despite thanking Remy for being the catalyst and telling his son that he loved him, Jean-Luc once again cast him out of the city and the family.
At this time his relationship with Rogue solidified, although the incident in New Orleans had had quite an effect on her. This was because not only did she have to face the possibility of Remy still caring for Belladonna but, thanks to the memories that she had absorbed, she also knew what it was to be like to be intimate with him despite knowing she could never have it for herself.
During this time the Professor had bought Sabretooth into the mansion as a both patient and prisoner, hoping to help him deal with his past and his feral rages. Sabretooth taunted Rogue with titbits of what he knew of Remy’s past and told her that Remy would break her heart. Despite Remy asking Rogue not to listen to Sabretooth and not to dig too deeply, she eventually went to him and Sabretooth told her about his meeting with Remy back in Paris, and what had happened with Genevieve Darceneaux, and this left Rogue wondering what kind of man Remy was, and if this ‘love’ for her was all just a game to him.
Soon after this Belladonna resurfaced again and, as both the new leader of the Assassins Guild and with Candra’s help, sought revenge on Rogue for stealing her memories by abducting Cody, Rogue’s first boyfriend and the boy she put into a coma when her powers first manifested.
Rogue travelled to New Orleans, after Tante Mattie had let her know that Cody was being held there, and the women fought, Rogue telling Belladonna that it wasn’t her powers that had left Belle unable to feel good but her own hatred which was eating at her.
This time Remy followed her to help, just like she had before him, despite the warnings from his cousin Emil Lapin as he crossed Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans, that not only was he already considered dead to the Thieves Guild but the Assassins knew he was coming and were gunning for him as well.
It was revealed, as he and Belladonna found themselves set against each other, that the whole thing had been arranged by Candra to get her own revenge on the Assassins Guild and Remy. Working together though, Remy and Rogue managed to defeat Candra once again.
When he was back in Westchester Remy helped Storm and her old friend Yukio against a group of the alien Phalanx who wanted to destroy all mutants. Yukio knew Remy from a couple of contracts, one in Milan and one in London, in both their pasts and was deeply distrustful of him. So distrustful that she went to the extent of attacking Remy and then warning Storm, who leapt to his defence, that ‘leopards like Gambit’ never changed their spots.
Throughout all of this Remy and Rogue’s relationship continued to strengthen, however it wasn't until they thought they were dying, the world coming to an end because of Legion, that Rogue finally took the opportunity to kiss him, thinking it would be their first and last kiss.
The world however did not end and, when time returned to normal from the Age of Apocalypse timeline, as a result of the kiss they had shared Remy was left in a coma and Rogue was left with some his darker memories, although it seems that she never fully knew or confided in anyone what it was that she had learnt.
Deeply disturbed by the memories she fled from the X-Men, although Iceman followed her. They ended up going on a road trip, Rogue possessing elements of Remy’s personality and being drawn to various places as a result of those elements and the memories.
A short time later Remy awoke from his coma, and was intent on finding Rogue, knowing that she had been inside of his head and that she was quite probably in danger. When he was asleep, before he left, a curious Psylocke entered his mind where his shields were still weak from being in the coma, intent on finding out more about the still mysterious man. Remy however was able to detect her and eject her from his mind before she was able to pick up more than a faint inkling.
Remy left a few days later after a phone call from Rogue and headed to Seattle, joining up with Iceman in a Seattle bar moments after she had angrily stormed out. They followed her to an abandoned theatre, the place where he had made his deal with Sinister, Remy knowing that was where she would be. Rogue demanded to know what it was that terrified him so, and although he initially tried not to answer he eventually offered to let her absorb him again so that she could see everything that he was and had done.
Rogue refused, and left both him and the X-Men for a while, feeling that she needed some time alone and that, although he had lived up to all of her expectations, whatever had been between them wasn’t enough. Choosing to also spend a little time alone Remy was joined by Sinister, who reminded him of the memories that Rogue had taken and that he could no more pretend to be a follower of Xavier than Sinister could. It was at this point that Remy realized that he still wasn’t free of his past, and remembered how much he hated who he had been, who he was and who he would be.
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