Le Ciné (transferred)

[Shade]

((evening of Rogue´s flatparty))

[glow=red,2,300]started on June 11[/glow]

GAMBIT
(( Move from: New York City :: John and Rogue`s Apartment ))
When they were outside, Remy got a cigarette out. "Well, now dat we got nothin' to do... I dunno, let's go see a movie or somethin'," he said, looking down along the street.

SHADE
Shade had been a little grumpy at John´s impossible behaviour, brooding over plans to go to the apartment the other day and punsh him on the nose which she would most likely not do anyways, but her face lit up considerably at his suggestions. "Oh, we so should." she said.

GAMBIT
Remy offered her his elbow in a gentleman-like manner. "Allow me de pleasure of accompanyin' you, mademoiselle."

SHADE
Shade made a graceful movement, hooking her arms with his. "Madmoiselle doesn´t mind which cinema, as long as they´re playing Pirates." she said.

GAMBIT
Remy chuckled. "Now dat we've played it, we just gotta go see it," he said and added, "yo-ho-ho."

SHADE
Shade grinned. "Well, pirates rule after all." she said. "One can never have an overdose of that."

GAMBIT
"I think I can," Remy remarked, smirking. "And three hours of Keira Knightley is only so much I can take."

SHADE
"What?" Shade exclaimed. "You don´t like Keira Knightley? I thought about every guy was drooling over her."

GAMBIT
"I don't drool over lifeless plastic," Remy glanced at her apologetically. "Sorry to disappoint you, cheri."

SHADE
"Ah, no, it´s no disappointment." Shade said, leaning her head against his shoulder as they walked. "because that makes me a psychological weapon, an ice cube and a ´hotter than Knightley´."

GAMBIT
Remy grinned at that enumeration. "But I'd still shag 'er if I had a chance," he said, teasing Shade.

SHADE
Shade laughed and poked him in the side playfully. "Despite all the plastic?" she asked. "Wouldn´t she feel like a rubber duck....ette?"

GAMBIT
"Well, whaddya know, I might've gotten to her wilder side," Remy wiggled his brows. "Imagine a piece of wild British plastic..."

SHADE
Shade had to laugh "This is so hilarious." she managed to say.

GAMBIT
Remy laughed as well. "So, you could say I would do it absolutely for fun," he concluded.

SHADE
"Yeah." Shade said. "If the rubberduckish squeaking doesn´t annoy you." she teased.

GAMBIT
Gambit burst into laughter. "Shade, mercy!"

SHADE
"Oh, you´re welcome" Shade said generously, flashing him a broad grin. "Hope I didn´t destroy one of your sexual fantasies now."

GAMBIT
"No, I guess ya jus' gave me a new one," Remy replied.

SHADE
"I´ll give you a big rubber duck for your birthday and then I´ll glue her face to it." Shade said with a nod, feigning seriousness. "When is your birthday by the way?" she asked following an impulse.

GAMBIT
"November," Remy said. "When is yours?"

SHADE
"July." Shade replied. "I´m a summer kid."

GAMBIT
"July?" Remy asked. "Dat's awfully close. What date?"

SHADE
"Pretty close yeah." she agreed. "Second. Yours?" Shade tilted her head to the side to look at him.

GAMBIT
"I don't know," Remy said. "I put seventh into most documents I got."

SHADE
From his voice she could tell he wasn´t joking. "Oh." she simply said as she hadn´t expected an answer like that.

GAMBIT
Gambit was surprised she didn't ask anything about it, but decided to drop the subject anyway. They were already close to the movie theater. "So, Pirates?"

SHADE
Shade had been about to ask for the year, she had been thinking and guessing about his age for quite a time but he dropped the topic and so she decided to do the same. There would be other moments when she could still ask him and when there might be a good chance of getting an answer to that. "Yup, Pirates." she said.

GAMBIT
Gambit bought the tickets, and they walked inside. "We still got some fifteen minutes," he said. "Wanna grab somethin' of de popcorn kind?"

SHADE
Shade had a look around the hall. "Nachos would be great." she suggested.

GAMBIT
"Bon," Remy nodded. He got her a bag of nachos... and a coke, just in case.

SHADE
With Gambit carrying their purchases, they walked over, got their tickets checked at the entrance and walked into the cinema. The room was not too crowded, maybe a third of it occupied and - automatically looking for seats in the back rows as these were the best places anyways if one asked Shade - she was lucky to find some in the second to last row.

GAMBIT
Remy got to his seat after her, allocating her choice of seats in his inner list of things to remember about her. "Let me guess," he said, "never made out in a movie theater, either?"

SHADE
Shade stretched her feet ahead of her, lolled her head to the side and looked at him, her eyebrows raised. "No." she said. "I guess those guys behind us would have their fun with that." she added, glancing at the row behind her where, as she only noticed now, there was a group of about half a dozen mostly male teenagers.

GAMBIT
"Yeah, an' Gambit don't suppose a fake story on-screen would draw deir attention more dan an insight into real-life mating games..." Remy agreed. "Okay, mebbe some other time."

SHADE
Shade grinned and tossed an edge of a nacho at him. "Who knows, maybe they´re the type of guys who go for British rubber duckies."

GAMBIT
"If we start gettin' a drool shower durin' de movie, we'll know for sure," Remy said.

SHADE
"Eww." Shade said pulling a face. "Ha. Men and their drooling." she teased, grabbing for a nacho.

GAMBIT
"Ha!" Remy leaned to her, as if to let her in on a secret. "Ya think females in here came to look at pretty boatsies?"

SHADE
Shade looked at him. "Depends on the females." she said trying not to laugh. "Boatsies can be really sexy."

GAMBIT
"Yeah, I know," Remy agreed as the lights went down, "ya know, those with topless mermaids pinned to de front."

SHADE
"Mermaids." Shade said. "Poor little things, they can´t even use a toilet." She grabbed for a handful of nachos and leant back in her seat.

GAMBIT
"Alors, dey got breasts and mouths," Remy said in a low voice as the intro music began. "What more could a guy wish for?"

SHADE
Shade chuckled and playfully slapped his shoulder before picking another nacho and looking at the screen.

GAMBIT
Gambit stole a handful of nachos out of her bag and turned his attention to the screen as well.

SHADE
As it usually happened with movies, Shade found herself oblivious to the world around her in a matter of moments, caught in the story of he movie.
When the lights went on again about two and a half hours later she felt slightly hyper. "That was great." she beamed, stretching her legs and grabbed for the nachos to find the box empty.

GAMBIT
Gambit noticed her gesture and smiled. "If Shade's hungry, we can think of somethin' better," he remarked, getting up.

SHADE
Shade grabbed for her jacket. "Shade is a little hungry, yeah, cause the Fireboy kicked us out because I could kill the potato chips." She feigned a pout. "Get to some pizza place?"

GAMBIT
"I guess dey're all closed already," Remy said. "If you want a pizza, let's go find some Italian restaurant, dey should be open for 't least another two hours."

SHADE
"That should do." Shade nodded with a content smile when she stepped down the stairs to the exit. "The world would be a little more dull without pizza."

GAMBIT
"You an' me know dat like better 'n anybody," Gambit winked, walking alongside her down the stairs.

SHADE
Shade tossed him a glance, chuckled and hooked her arm with his. "Oh, very true." she agreed. "Whoever invented pizza was a genius."

GAMBIT
Gambit grinned at that.
They walked to one Italian restaurant that Gambit knew was nearby. Like many New York City restaurants, it was located on a very high floor, and the window by which they sat gave them a view of the night city.

SHADE
Shade unceremoniously slung her jacket over the back of a chair and sat down, grabbed for a menu and flipped it open. "Good to know I get so much ... physical exercise." she said in a matter of fact tone. "I´d not fit into any of my jeans any longer with all the pizza I eat lately."

GAMBIT
"You don't eat dat much pizza," Remy objected, looking at the menu with a bored expression on his face. "Speakin' of exercise, we gotta start on your trainin' at some point."

SHADE
Shade caught his glance and with an inward smile took a mental note to let him decide which place to go to next time. His words triggered a memory. They had spoken about self defence the evening after the kidnapping. "Right." she said, placing the menu down. "We can start as soon as you´d like to."

GAMBIT
"I can throw a fork at you an' start it right now," Remy grinned.

SHADE
"Nice." Shade said, rolling her eyes at him, but she had to grin all the same. "Whoever would throw a fork at me if I really had to defend myself?"

GAMBIT
"Baby steps, cheri," Remy said. "Or would you prefer a knife?"

SHADE
"What about a spoon?" Shade suggested. "Doesn´t get stuck so easily."

GAMBIT
"Well, dat's de whole point," Remy said, "so ya get motivated to block it or dodge it. Not much motivation with a spoon."

SHADE
„I´ll make sure I´ll wear some safety clothing when we start the training then.” Shade said. “Where do we train anyways?”

GAMBIT
Haven't really thought about it yet," Remy shrugged. "If nobody lets us into the Danger Room, den we can do it at my place, or rent a training room somewhere. It don't matter at the beginnin', when we don't need any extra equipment."
A waiter approached them, taking their orders, and left them alone again.

[Shade]

SHADE
Shade thought for a moment. "The Danger Room would be cool." she said. "Never been in there. Other than that I think there´s some sort of a sports hall on the school grounds we could use I guess."

GAMBIT
"Of course would be cool," Remy grinned, "but I ain't sure I'll be allowed to use it. Though I gotta ask de Prof about it."
He remembered he had promised to re-install the security lines around the mansion, but Xavier never called him about it again. It still needed to be done.

SHADE
„Yeah, can´t go wrong much with asking.“ Shade said, hoping the Prof would agree. As she had said she had never been to the Danger Room because she had always seen the connection between the Danger Room and becoming an X Men which she had been keen on avoiding as she didn´t want to become one, not feeling like a fighter herself. There had been a call some weeks ago where Scott had displayed a plan for team training which had listed some new names, hers included. She had denied. But this was a different matter, this was self defence and thus her curiosity was clearly there.

GAMBIT
"Awright," Remy said, leaning back a bit. He glanced out of the window at the night city.

SHADE
After a moment, a waiter brought their drinks and Shade took a sip of her Coke before looking out at the nightly city. "That´s still somewhat of a strange view." she said. "guess I´m still not too used to cities."
Shade had thought about her family these past few days since their conversation in the kitchen of Gambit´s apartment. She had started to search for flights. Somehow she had grown a little restless, deciding not to wait for the end of the semester to leave for home for a few days. "I´ll see if I can get a flight home or if train´s cheaper." she said out of the blue. "I´ll visit them in a week or two I guess."

GAMBIT
"Okay," Remy said, reaching out for his glass of wine. "If you need anythin', jus' tell me."

SHADE
Sha nodded and smiled wrily. "Nothing apart from a little courage I guess." she said. Yes, they had always gotten along really well but nevertheless she knew she would need just that for some reason. Coming home would feel somewhat strange.

GAMBIT
When she mentioned 'a little courage', Remy had a brief Wizard of Oz image pass through his mind, but he remembered that she hadn't seen it, so he decided not to comment on that.
"Can do," he said, smiling, before he took a drink from his glass.

SHADE
Shade smiled back and nodded. Then, when she saw him drink, something appeared in her mind. "Been a while since we drank to something random." she remarked.

GAMBIT
"Any suggestions?" Remy glanced at her with a grin.

SHADE
Shade thought for a moment. "Not really." she said. "Technically it would be your turn anyways. I suggested the abandoned rabbit hunts, so ... your time to pick something."

GAMBIT
Gambit glanced out of the window again. "To life-rings," he said finally.

SHADE
What a curious choice, Shade thought. "To life-rings?" she asked with a chuckle.

GAMBIT
"Yeah," Remy said. "Ya know, dese things dat help you survive if ya can't swim."
God, it was gonna be a long story. But he had promised himself that he'd let her in on it.

SHADE
"I know." Shade said slightly amused by his explanation. "Is there any specific reason we´re drinking to life rings instead of... a portion of nachos?"

GAMBIT
"Dere is," Remy said. "An' though I'd love t' avoid a lengthy explanation, I feel I owe you one."

SHADE
Shade looked at him and her heart missed a beat. She didn´t have any clear image of what this explanation might be heading at but got the feeling that he was about to say something he had been thinking about for a time. Something concerning them. She didn´t really know what to say. "Okay..." she therefore just said, looking at him with a mix of surprise and curiosity.

GAMBIT
"Like you prob'ly remember me mentionin' back in Peekskill," Remy said, "I haven't had a steady relationship for quite a while."

SHADE
Shade nodded slowly, continuing to look at him. "Yes, I remember." she said. He had mentioned this in that posh restaurant after they had been to Six Flags. This remark and his previous rational no-strings-attached behaviour had been the reason why she had asked him that question in Tunisia, whether he had ever let anyone close enough to fall in love.

GAMBIT
"Bon," Remy nodded. "You keep dat in mind, while I explain de other part." He made a pause. "When my powers kicked in, I was in a big emotional shock for weeks. It connected my powers to my emotions. Not a fixed connection, but present nevertheless."

SHADE
Shade nodded about his first comment and listened, watching him. He had never talked about the manifestation of his powers before and she knew he was letting her in on something very personal here. ´I closed myself´ he had told her days ago to which she had so unceremoniously reacted with stupid remarks. Now he was opening up and the mere thought made her heart leap a little.

GAMBIT
"If I keep my emotions closed, my powers can start eatin' me up from de inside," Gambit continued. "Before dey do that, dey implode in on demselves an' shut off." He didn't say that it was only a theory; it would make him go into detailed explanations of the kind of relationship he had with Tante Mattie and why he trusted her theories so much, and he didn't want to change the subject that much.

SHADE
Shade could feel herself pale a little at his words. She would never have guessed a connection like that, and if he was talking about closing away emotions and then about him not having had a steady relationship for quite a time - a time which she guessed had probably been rather long whatever that meant - this could only mean that he had to feel the negative effects of his powers already. "So like... they get weaker?" she asked.

GAMBIT
"At first, yes," Remy said. "So, unless I want to cripple myself, I gotta give up an' give in. But I can't do it alone 'cause I don't know how to swim. So I need a life-ring."

SHADE
For a long moment Shade just stared at him, the meaning of his words only sinking in slowly. She could see sniplets from the last weeks flicker across her mind, moments since the beginning of their relationship ... a relationship which had started in a rush, turned into one where she had fallen for him head over feet while he had remained distant.
But these words bore nothing of distance just as his words, his glances at her had changed over the last time which she had tried to not read too much from but had found herself unable to. She opened her mouth and took a breath, feeling suddenly that her breath was shaky. Following her impulse she got up from her chair, walked over to him and wordlessly hugged him, pulling him close, not heeding the weird glances they got. “Let me be the life ring.” She whispered more than said, hearing her voice break. “Let me show you how to swim.”

GAMBIT
Feeling at first kinda awkward at her outburst, rather stronger than Gambit would have expected after what he had said, he managed himself quickly and pulled her onto his lap. "You're not supposed to teach me," he said, smiling a little. "Just be dere, an' I'll prob'ly manage de rest."

SHADE
"Okay." Shade said looking at him, then glanced around the room. Suddenly she felt stupid, but still could help a chuckle. "I guess I just made quite a fool of myself, didn´t I?" she stated more than asked.

GAMBIT
"If you did, dat makes two of us," Gambit replied. "Sit here for a while." He reached over and got her glass, handing it to her.

SHADE
Shade took the glass from him and smiled. "If there´s an ´if´ I´ll decided differently and say none of us are fools." she said clinking her glass against his. "to life-rings."

GAMBIT
"To life-rings, chere," Remy winked and drank some wine from his glass.

SHADE
Shade grinned at him and drank from her Coke. Placing her glass back on the table, she put an arm around his neck. "You know..." she said. "this is a so much more comfy place than that chair."

GAMBIT
"I bet," Remy smirked, putting his glass to the table to hold her with both arms around the waist.

SHADE
"Uh-huh." Shade returning the smirk. "I´d say try for yourself but I guess you´re a little too heavy for that. And we would get even weirder glances... which again would be a reason to do it." she said.

GAMBIT
"I like dis idea," Remy said, grinning, "but you're right, I'm a little too heavy."

SHADE
In this moment, a waitress arrived with their orders, placing Shade´s pizza on the table in front of her vacant chair and Gambit´s plate in front of them before she walked off again, giving Shade a gaze that showed slight annoyance under her businesslike friendly mannerism.
Shade returned the waitress´ glance with a cheerful smile, then kissed Gambit on the nose and returned to her seat.

GAMBIT
Gambit took his fork. "So what do you want for your birthday?" he asked casually.

SHADE
Shade leant over the table to get back her Coke and take a sip. "Hm..." she said, starting on her pizza. "I was never good at that. I´d say ´a pony´ but then you´d really get me one and I wouldn´t know where to put it. Well... difficult... birthday surprises are so much better anyways." she said.

GAMBIT
"Isn't 'surprise me' a cliché?" Gambit winked at her.

SHADE
"It is." Shade agreed with a grin. "But it´s a good clichée."

GAMBIT
"Yeah, it is," Remy agreed. "But... aren't you worried 'bout de kind of surprise I can come up wit'?" mischief flickered in his eyes. He was reminded of their conversation when they had been discussing the Six Flags trip and he had threatened to surprise her with a tank or a submarine.

SHADE
"Nope." Shade replied and cut off a piece of her pizza. "I´d trust you not to totally embarrass me in front of the whole school or something."

GAMBIT
"Embarrass a girl on her birthday, who do you take me for?" Remy asked with a hint of indignancy.

SHADE
"Wasn´t meant that way, I was kidding." Shade assured him with a smile. "Know you wouldn´t so..." she shrugged. "no reason to feel worried right?"

GAMBIT
"Who knows, who knows..." Remy said, pondering. "Do you have any phobias?"

SHADE
"Not that I know of." Shade said, then added after a little thinking. "but I can do without a pet tarantula."

GAMBIT
"Oh, okay," Remy opened his palm as if it was a piece of paper, and made a gesture across it, as if holding a pen, "no tarantula, den."

SHADE
Shade grinned. "Yup." she said. "I´ve got half a zoo already after all."

GAMBIT
Remy chuckled at that, eating his pasta. "How are dey doin', by de way?" he wondered. "Got settled nicely? No quarrels?"

SHADE
"Yeah, they´re fine." Shade said, smiling. "One of the puppies got adopted by Rogue and was named after the Fireboy and the rest of them haven´t had any fights so far."

GAMBIT
"Fireboy..." Remy smirked. "I like de 'so far' remark."

SHADE
"Oh well, they´ve got a nice home and all but one day they´ll start clawing each other with they cuddly paws to get the best seats near the window, who knows?" Shade rambled with a grin.

GAMBIT
Gambit gave an exaggerated shudder. "Anythin' happen to ya - not my fault," he pointed his finger at her, as if warning her.

SHADE
Shade laughed at that. "I´ll tell them just to attack those who deserve it." she said, feigning seriousness before taking a bite from her pizza. "Wow, that birthday´s pretty soon already, really..." she remarked grabbing for her Coke.

GAMBIT
"Nearly forgot about it?" Remy winked, eating a piece of pasta.

SHADE
"Not really," Shade said. "I usually remember a few days beforehand and get a little childishly hyper about it."

GAMBIT
"I take it hyper is your second nature, no less," Remy remarked.

[Shade]

SHADE
"Ah come on, I´m not hyper all the time." Shade defended herself with a smile, then looked at him. "Out of interest speaking of birthdays... can I ask you something?" she asked.

GAMBIT
"Go ahead," Remy nodded.

SHADE
Shade had wondered about this all those weeks already just because of sheer curiosity. "How old are you?" she asked.

GAMBIT
Remy laughed at that question. "Female curiosity?" he asked.

SHADE
Shade nodded with a smirk. "Typical case of it." she said raising her eyebrows.

GAMBIT
"Take a guess," Remy suggested.

SHADE
"Okay..." Shade said, looking at him, pondering. He was definitely older than her but not too much as she had guessed in the park a few days earlier already. "I always find that difficult, but I´d say..." she tilted her eyes to the side and narrowed her eyes a little. "29."

GAMBIT
"Close enough," Remy said. "Thirty. And you must be somethin' about twenty-five?" he wasn't that interested in her age, but didn't like to be left behind in the amount of information shared.

SHADE
Good guess, Shade thought. "Almost" she gave back. "Still twenty-four."

GAMBIT
"Well, not for long," Remy winked, eating again.

SHADE
Shade cut another slice off her pizza and took it into her hand. "No." she said.
She would not have admitted it, but was rather content that she had gotten that information. Not because it had roughly been her guess anyways but because he had not tried to wind himself out of personal information. Another piece for the puzzle she thought and smiled more to herself.

GAMBIT
"How come you're smilin' when you're gettin' more an' more finger-cuttin' material?" Remy wondered, noticing the expression on her face and catching some bits of her mood.

SHADE
Shade paused and scowled, thinking, but then she got what he was playing at. "That won´t keep me from feeling good." she said taking a bite from her pizza slice.

GAMBIT
"Dieu, you're..." Remy exclaimed. "I jus' can't convince you t' be realistic about it, can I?"

SHADE
Shade looked up at him, her voice serious and honest now. "Gambit I know what happened in Tunisia was not a game, but still ... yes I´m more likely to smile about getting to know a little more about who you are instead of getting scared who might use that knowledge against me."

GAMBIT
Gambit was about to say that he didn't like that, but shut himself up mentally, leaning back in his chair with the glass of wine in his hand, studying Shade. "Curiosity is a terrible thing, ain't it?" he mused.

SHADE
Shade let out a little laugh. "Yes, it can be at times." she agreed. Curiosity was one of her most significant character traits. Not that she would always ask any question that came to her mind but curiosity of some kind would nag at her most of the time.

GAMBIT
"You two wit' Rogue are hopeless," Remy informed her, drinking more wine.

SHADE
Shade looked at him with slight amusement. "Why Rogue?" she asked.

GAMBIT
"Dieu, I dunno why Rogue," Remy shrugged. "But she's just as curious as you are. I can imagine why you two favor truth or dare dat much."

SHADE
Shade made an exagerated shrug, opening her hands to him. "Well, what can I say, maybe curiosity is a female thing. And it´s not such a bad thing after all."

GAMBIT
"No, it's not a female thing," Remy objected, briefly rewinding in his head the general picture of all females he'd seen in his life. " 'Female thing' is just an excuse certain females use not to look too ridiculous and not to try too hard. 'mong other things. Aw, I can't drive, big deal, I'm a woman. Pff, I ain't good at business, well, what can I say, I'm a woman. I'm overly curious, well, can't help it, I'm a girl."

SHADE
The image he created here fit only too well with some of the girls Shade had known and seen at Highschool and later College, mostly these had been those with an annoyingly girlish attitude, the kind of persons that used to annoy Shade on end at times. Therefore she nodded. "Okay, you´re right. Point taken." she said with a wry grin. "still it´s the only excuse I guess I use then. Cause I can drive. And other things some females find excuses for not to do because they´re girls."

GAMBIT
"Well, good for you," Remy said, "'cause when I take things seriously, I ain't cuttin' anybody any slack because of deir sex. Prob'ly de only times I'd allow ya to use your bein' a woman as an excuse is when ya can't lift a heavy weight or when you have your period, lose too much blood an' can't stand straight."

SHADE
Shade almost had to snicker at his last remark. Instead she nodded. "Fair enough." she said, lifting her glass to drink. It was an attitude she could live with, it was far better than being treated the other way round which to her would have meant to be treated like inferior because of being a woman.

GAMBIT
"Cheers, cheri," Remy winked, lifting his glass at her briefly and drinking from it.

SHADE
"Cheers" Shade said, drinking from hers as well. "So..." she started when she sat her glass down. "does the ´no excuse´ also go for the training then? Should I get used to the thought of my bones hurting afterwards?"

GAMBIT
"It does," Remy said, "but if anythin' hurts, just for de first few sessions, when you get milk acid outta your muscles."

SHADE
Shade nodded. As she had told him before, she didn´t want to learn from him for the sake of fighting but for defense, but now she felt she could hardly wait to begin with it, especially after there had been another attack on the mansion now.

GAMBIT
"No worries," Remy said. "I ain't gonna make you pump your muscles or anythin', you'll just learn to move a little."

SHADE
"And that can never be wrong." Shade agreed finishing her pizza. "Honestly, I´m looking forward to that."

GAMBIT
"C'est bon," Remy smiled. If he couldn't protect her by keeping things from her, he could at least try to protect her by training her.

SHADE
Shade returned his smile and placed her fork and knife aside leaning back in her chair. "Whoa, I guess if I eat one more bite I´ll get sick." she chuckled.

GAMBIT
"Not dat it would stop Gambit from sexually harrassin' ya..." Remy grinned.

SHADE
Shade lifted her eyebrows at him. "Is there anything that would actually stop Gambit from sexually harrassing Shade?" she asked with a smirk.

GAMBIT
"Of course, dere is, malheureusement," Remy said, shrugging.

SHADE
"Malheureusement?" Shade repeated slowly because the word sounded strange on her own tongue and was a little hard to pronounce, unable to make sense of that word.

GAMBIT
"Unfortunately," Remy repeated in English.

SHADE
"Oh." Shade said nodding. "There is? Apart from nasty monthly female stuff? Now I´m shocked."

GAMBIT
"I'd hate to disappoint ya, but," he raised his fingers to quote her, "nasty monthly female stuff is hardly a reason not to have sex."

SHADE
Shade quirked an eyebrow at him, slightly surprised. "From my point of view I thought there was." she said. "So...what reasons then?"

GAMBIT
Gambit shrugged again. "Death," he suggested. "Coma. Full paralysis. Stuff like dat."

SHADE
Shade had to fight the strong urge to roll her eyes at him. "Okay." she stated matter of factly. "I shall feel honoured then if there´s no less drastical reason."

GAMBIT
"Please do," Remy laughed, "by all means." He glanced around the restaurant. "Let's get outta here."

SHADE
Shade got up and grabbed for her jacket putting it on. It was rather late by now and she knew she´d freeze outside in her shirt. "All right, let´s go." she said.

GAMBIT
Gambit paid, and they left the restaurant, taking the elevator downstairs. He took Shade around the waist and pulled her to him, leaning against the elevator wall. "Tired, cheri?"

SHADE
Shade shook her head, smiling at him. "Not too much." she said.

GAMBIT
"Good," Remy nodded, " 'cause you prob'ly know I got plans for ya tonight."

SHADE
Shade´s smile widened. "Can´t wait to see those plans." she said.

GAMBIT
"Not much to see," Remy smirked. "But LOTS to do," he winked.

SHADE
Shade laughed at that. "Okay, that came out a little different from what I had meant it, but whatever."

GAMBIT
"Whatever," Gambit agreed. The elevator doors opened, and they went outside.

SHADE
When they left the building, Shade was glad she had thought about her jacket. It had become rather cool outside and she pulled her jacket a little tighter when they walked towards the taxi stands.