They relocated to the Californian town of Valle Soleada, a place where humans and mutants could and did live in relative peace together. Here they tried to build a normal life together, Rogue working as a mechanic and Remy returning to his thieving ways. Eventually Storm’s team came to stay with them and Remy, who despite the loss of his powers was still an impressive combatant and master thief, helped Storm infiltrate a meeting at the Presidential Ranch in Texas. This is where Storm revealed her idea to build a mutant police force, and the XSE was born.

In their battle against Bogan, Remy and Rogue helped Storm’s team once again, still considering themselves X-Men, relying on their natural skills instead of their powers. Remy displayed his formidable fighting skills, taking down a supercharged Bishop on his own, and even seemed to display a certain immunity to telepathy, conning Bogan into believing he was his slave when he was not.

In the wake of Magneto’s attack on New York Storm’s team, and the inhabitants of Valle Soleada, decided to go to New York and help with the relief work. Rogue, feeling that Remy’s powers should have returned by this point asked Sage to help jumpstart them. Using an image inducer and disguising herself as Rogue, Sage staged a seduction to get Remy’s adrenaline level to rise and then used her powers to successfully jumpstart his.

Feeling that they needed more rehabilitation time Storm removed Remy and a re-empowered Rogue from her team. However Cyclops, believing that they were fit for duty, assigned them to another X-Men squad, led by Havok, despite the fact that none of the members of the squad were happy with the decision.

On their first mission to China, to investigate a large disturbance there, misfortune struck Remy when he charged a card and had the charging process disrupted, causing the card to explode in his face and blind him. This left Remy feeling helpless and useless, as well as having to rely on Rogue to ‘see’ for him.

This put a further strain on their relationship as Remy, already unable to touch Rogue, now could not see her either. While Rogue was almost constantly at his side Remy, feeling scared and angry, often blamed her for his condition which made both of them feel bad. During one of their arguments he became so angry over being dependent that he pushed her away, accidentally hitting her in the process.

The X-Men’s next mission took the team to Rogue’s birth town of Caldecott, Mississippi and needing some time away from Remy, she decided to stay there at the end of it and sort out her past. Remy tracked her down in order to make up with her however and charmed his way from New York to Caldecott. At one point he believed her to be with another man, Campbell St. Ange, who claimed to have known Rogue’s mother and was somehow immune to Rogue’s absorption talent, and a distraught Remy ran away.

This led him to find another Rogue, one that he could ‘see’, although this later turned out to be Rogue’s ‘twin’ that her mother had created from a spirit, so as not to be alone. This part of Rogue’s past was resolved and they returned to the mansion and to their relationship.

Remy saw, in a charged playing card that he held up to his blinded eyes to check if he could see, a vision of the renewed Brotherhood attacking the mansion before it happened. Going to warn the students of what he had seen he came across one of the Stepford cuckoos, Mindee, being attacked by Sabretooth and with the help of her telepathy was able to defeat the feral. Not long after this at Christmas, Joshua Foley, a healer and one of the kids at the mansion, asked Sage to use her powers on Remy once again. In combination with some earlier attempts to cure his blindness by Joshua, Sage’s jumpstart effect worked and restored his sight.

Remy took some time off from the X-Men for a while at this point, choosing to take some thieving contracts in New Orleans. His first contract was for Lily Penrose, who hired him to steal a set of cards for her. Talking to Madame Camille, the best con artist and information gatherer in New Orleans, he found that she wanted the Inficio Aquilus tarot cards stolen from her uncle.

With the help of Dan Down, who could see things in a hand of playing cards, he managed to acquire the cards, having a one-night stand with Lily in the process. However, he had them taken from him by two goons who were working for Orlean Cooper, one of the local crime lords and a demon who had previously hired another thief, Jack Jessup, to get them for him.

Remy was captured by the goons at this point, but he was able to send Dan Down to get help. Looking in the cards for guidance Dan phoned Wolverine from Remy’s apartment, although he was then strangled by Jessup, who was enraged that Remy had caused Cooper to cancel their contract.

Logan turned up in time to rescue Remy from where he was being tortured, and together the two of them set up one of the goons, an X-Men chaser, by pretending that the two of them were the whole team come to Remy’s rescue. Remy switched the cards as this point, sending the goon back to Cooper with a set of Uno cards in their place and setting Jessup up for the fall.

He watched as Cooper was chastised by his demonic brethren for not having the Inficio Aquilus and was willing to watch Jessup get his comeuppance for killing Dan Down. However Madame Camille advised him to take the high road, and Remy went to warn Jessup that a demon was after him, although when Jessup taunted him with Dan’s death Remy walked away and left him to his fate.

It was revealed that Lily Penrose wanted the cards to perform the same black magic ritual that Orlean Cooper was going to and, after killing her uncle, intended to use Remy as her sacrifice. He had seen this coming however and had, with Logan’s help, prepared an ‘ace in the hole’. Since Lily needed to cut his heart out Remy had taped one of the tarot cards, which had the power to blind someone, to his chest so that when she opened his armour she was blinded.

Walking away from the Penrose house Remy found himself under suspicion of murder and first met the dirty cop Noreen Tanaka, who was one of his arresting officers. Eventually freed, since there was no evidence that he had ever done anything wrong, Detective Tanaka offered to give Remy a lift home with the ulterior motive of getting him to help with a mutant incident in a bank.

Remy managed to talk Emery Arcenaux, the young mutant, out of causing any more damage or hurting anybody however when he dropped the impenetrable force field around him Detective Tanaka shot him, claiming that she had thought him dangerous.

Enraged, the young boy’s aunt, a powerful voodoo witch, summoned forth the dead to take her revenge. Remy found himself first working with Brother Voodoo to defeat the zombies, who included Dan Down, and then the target of a zombie Emery, who’s aunt was blaming Remy and wanted him dead. Due to the fact that he had saved the aunt’s life twice, and with Brother Voodoo’s help, Remy managed to get the dead laid back to rest.

This was not the end of his troubles as Ginny, Madame Camille’s daughter, who had a crush on Remy and was angry at what she had seen as him being a womaniser, sent a tape of Remy with Lily Penrose to Rogue back in New York.

With the help of three young mutants, whom he was supposed to be teaching about the wrongs of thieving, Remy was able to retrieve the tape before Rogue returned and discovered it.

Remy then returned to New Orleans briefly, intent on stealing the firing pin from an old rifle. During the pinch he had a run in with Bandit, another mutant thief, Belladonna’s new boyfriend and her second in command of the Unified Guilds. Through various connections Remy was able to find out that Bandit was playing Belladonna in an attempt to gain power over the Guild and, despite her initial belief that it was jealousy speaking, was able to show Belladonna the truth.

This didn’t help him much though, as Detective Tanaka had approached Bandit and the Guild with a cache of stolen high-tech weaponry for the quest to take Remy out that Bandit had just announced. Arriving hot on Tanaka’s tail Remy was able to stop her detonating a mini nuclear device and destroying the city with a well thrown card, and Belladonna confronted Bandit with the truth.

Tired of their leaders fighting the Guild rebelled, intent on killing Bandit, Belladonna and Remy, however the three of them were able to take down the Guild and deliver them to the police. There was no mention during this time of the other thieves that Remy had history with, except for Belladonna mentioning that they too had distrusted Bandit, and the ultimate fate of the Guilds was not revealed.

Back with the X-Men now, Remy was with them when Havok’s team was send out to Alaska to investigate the threat of Golgotha, an alien creature that could make its victims worst fears a perceived reality. During this mission, Rogue and Remy believed that their love was over and were better of without each other, Remy suspecting that Rogue and Wolverine had feelings for each other. Golgotha played on this, causing the controlled Rogue and Logan to kiss, although Rogue managed to come back to her senses before completely draining him.

Remy also began to see Sinister in every shadow and spent much of his time under Golgotha’s control fighting with the Sinister that only he could see. Finally they destroyed the Golgotha in the mansion, only to have to go out into space to destroy an invasion force of Golgothas. When the mission was finally over Remy and Rogue apologized to one another once again and continued with their relationship.

However, due to the many ups and downs of their relationship, Rogue and Remy decided to get professional help, which came in the form of Emma Frost, the X-Men’s own sex-therapist. She advised them to sleep in the same room, to gain some intimacy, but also she promised to help the couple with telepathic therapy.

The telepath took both of them to the astral plane where they could share some intimacy without making any actual physical contact. This should have helped them however, due to all their psychic baggage, they couldn’t safely touch even there. When they tried Remy’s astral form was drained the same way his physical body would have had they actually touched, and this led to further problems between them.

Another problem arose in Foxx, an attractive new student at the mansion, who was attempting to seduce Remy. Foxx was revealed to actually be Mystique, who had created this identity to make her adoptive daughter understand that she couldn’t be happy with a man like Remy. Although he had resisted all of Foxx’s attempts to seduce him the damage was already done since the attraction that he had felt for her showed in the telepathic counselling sessions with Emma Frost.

After Remy successfully resisted her, Mystique reverted to her true form and offered him something more difficult to refuse, transforming into Rogue and offered him a physical relationship. Whether or not anything happened is uncertain, but Rogue eventually discovered her mother's presence in the school and what she had offered Remy. This led to the rift that Mystique was hoping for and allowed her to introduce Pulse, a mutant thief whose powers could negate Rogue’s.

Upon the return of Apocalypse Remy was voluntarily transformed into the one of the villain’s Horseman, Death, intending to insinuate himself into Apocalypse's ranks in order to protect the X-Men from his eventual betrayal. Remy miscalculated however, as the transformation process warped his mind more than he could handle.

The process also warped his body, turning his hair white and his skin pitch black. Despite becoming twisted almost beyond recognition Remy retained a large portion of his former self, stating to Apocalypse "I'm both Death and Gambit". He also remembered his love for Rogue, finding himself unable to kill her during their battle and finding that the Gambit portion of himself came closer to the surface when he remembered her.

In the last battle between the X-Men and Apocalypse Remy was knocked unconscious and was taken by the former X-Man Sunfire, now also a Horseman, to a Buddhist temple in Japan. Here Sunfire told him that, like the Buddha, they had to destroy all bonds to their former lives to be able to move on, and they felt they had to take Polaris, also a Horseman, with them.

They then returned to the mansion to claim Polaris, who refused to go with them and left the mansion suddenly. Remy in an attempt to destroy all of the bonds to his old self tried to kill Rogue and he would have been successful had it not been for Pulse who neutralized his powers. Without Polaris, Sunfire and Remy returned to Japan where they ran into Sinister, who offered them a place with him.

For what happens after this, see Current History

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