Sorry for posting so late, but my internet service was out since the last time I posted and although the bill was paid that Monday, it still did not come back on almost two weeks later. I had to get a new modem and that took a while so sorry. This is the last chapter. I might go back and rewrite it but I really want to finish now since I would rather write one shots. I really enjoyed writing this and I loved the positive feedback I had gotten especially since they loved this story more than I thought people would. I would probably write another one shot in the future.

Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel Comics or the X-Men although I wished I did. That would be awesome.

Chapter 5: Masquerades and Conclusions

Rogue walked with Jubilee down the hallway carrying several shopping bags. It was Friday, the day of the masquerade, and Rogue, Jubilee, and Betsy had gone shopping. While Betsy had went to her room to get ready, Jubilee had agreed to help Rogue get ready since she wasn't going herself. It was now close to 7:30 and Jubilee was just finishing putting on Rogue makeup.

"Alright, I'm done," said Jubilee, smiling while leading Rogue to a floor length mirror. Looking at herself, Rogue could not believe what she saw.

The green and black dress she wore was floor length and the top was made like a corset. Her hair was done in curls with her white stripes framing her face. As simple as it all was, with her makeup done perfectly, Rogue felt like a princess.

"Thank you, Jubs," said Rogue, turning around to hug her friend.

"Yeah, Yeah, no problem. You have to go downstairs or Warren and Betsy will leave you. We don't Cinderella to not miss her own ball, now do we?" said Jubilee, smirking while handing Rogue her black mask.

Rogue smiled and the two left her room, making their way to the front door. On their way, Rogue and Jubilee ran into Remy and Dazzler, who seemed to be arguing about something. Rogue couldn't help the feeling of jealousy erupting inside of her.

"Why can't you just have me?" said Dazzler sadly has Rogue and Jubilee approached them.

Before Remy could reply, he spotted Rogue and a look of longing appeared on his face. However, Rogue did not notice since she was too busy staring at Dazzler who was staring at them like they were insects.

"Do you mind?" asked Dazzler rudely.

"Yeah, we do. Can you and your boy toy move out the way, we are kind of in a hurry," said Jubilee, ready to step in Dazzler's face.

Dazzler did not stick around to see. She merely scoffed, turned to Remy and said, "You two deserve each other." She gave Rogue an icy stare before walking down the hallway to her room.

Remy, however, was only looking at Rogue. When she finally noticed, Remy gave her a smile and said, "You look beautiful, chere, like a goddess."

"Thank you, Remy," said Rogue, unsure of what to say. Remy nodded, said bye to Jubilee before tucking a silver watch into his pocket, and walking down the hall to his room.

"Come on we need to go now," said Jubilee.

Rogue turned from her original activity of watching Remy leave and followed Jubilee to the front entrance. When they arrived, they saw that Warren and Betsy was already there but that Kitty, Bobby and several other students were there to see them off. Logan and Ororo Monroe had gone out and Dr. Hank McCoy was in his lab so no one was around to tell the students to leave them being. As Rogue walked down the stairs, the boys that were there started wolf calling and whistling.

"You look beautiful, Rogue," said Joseph while Lorna agreed.

Rogue said her thanks and turned to Bobby and Kitty; both had strange looks on their faces. Kitty awkwardly stepped up first.

"You look really nice Rogue," said Kitty, oozing awkwardness.

"Thank you," said Rogue not really knowing what to say.

Kitty seemed to be struggling with something. Taking a deep breath she seemed to saw everything on her mind in one minute.

"Rogue, I'm so sorry for what Bobby and I did to you! I know it was wrong, but a part of me felt jealous because you had Bobby and every other guy here after you and when he started showing interest I took it. Please forgive me and would really like to be your friend!"

Rogue stared at her before breaking into a smile. She could just slap Kitty and tell her and her apology to go to hell, but decided to go the nice route. "It's okay Kitty, I forgive you and I would like to be friends, too."

Kitty face lit up and she turned to Bobby has if to tell him the good news only to see that Bobby was giving Rogue a lustful look. Kitty's face went from smile to pure hatred in seconds.

"I knew it! I knew you still liked her!" Kitty shouted.

Everything seemed to go still as the light hearted scene became something like soap opera. Bobby stared at Kitty like she was crazy.

"What? I don't like Rogue anymore. If I did I would still be with her!"

"Oh, so you just want Lorna then!"

Everyone gasped as they turned to Lorna who was red faced but still look determined.

"He only came to me because you have been with Piotr," said Lorna, joining the fight.

"I've talked to Piotr, but I know that you two have done worse! I heard from Jubilee, who heard from Rahne, who heard from Sam that he found you two in bed together so don't even try to deny it!"

At this point, several people had gathered at the front entrance, looking at the fight. Bobby seemed to have literally froze, but then found his voice.

"Nothing happened between me and Lorna, kitty."

"What, you can't say that!" said Lorna. She turned to Kitty and said, "We got drunk last week and had passionate sex with each other and there is nothing you can do about it," finishing with a smug look.

Kitty looked at her long and hard before slapping Lorna in the face and hitting repeatedly. While Jubilee and Sam tried to pry the girls a part, Joseph shouted, "You slept with my seventeen year old sister!" and jumped Bobby who looked like he had frozen again. Rogue could not believe what was happening, and saw that Betsy was signaling her to the door.

"Let's leave before they notice," she whispered and the three slipped out.

Remy was sitting at the top of the stairs, laughing silently at the spectacle that was going on. Lorna was pulling Kitty hair while Jubilee was pulling Kitty away. Joseph had stopped hitting Bobby, but he was still giving death glares to the boy who was helping Sam pry Lorna from Kitty. A part of Remy felt sorry for the teens involved in the scandal, but the smart side said that they deserved. Kitty was stupid to believe that Bobby wouldn't cheat on her when he already did it to his first girlfriend and Lorna was a teenager who didn't know what she wanted. Right now she's sniffing around Bobby but Remy knows firsthand that she doesn't want him since she has flirted with him and has shown interest in Alex Summers, the late Scott Summers younger brother. As for Bobby and Joseph, he didn't like either one of them due to their pasts with Rogue, so they could beat each other into the med bay for all he cared. Shaking his head at the mayhem that was sure to give Storm a heart attack when she arrive, Remy got up and headed back to his room. He had a fille to win over.

Rogue has been at the masquerade ball for about an hour and she was completely bored. When they arrived, Warren introduced her to Noah, who was just as cute as Betsy had shown her in the picture. Although he was dreamy with his blue eyes and brown hair, Noah was a total snob who only talked about himself. After sitting down at the table while listening to Noah talk about his yacht, Rogue was ready to leave. She was scanning the crowd, trying to find Warren and Betsy to leave, when she saw him. A tall, lean man was standing at the food table, staring at her with an unreadable expression. He wasn't dressed like the other men there who were dressed to the nines in black suits. The mystery man under a black mask was wearing a blood red dress shirt and black dress pants with his auburn hair falling to his shoulders. If it wasn't for the fact that the strangers eyes weren't glowing, Rogue would have thought that he was Remy. When he saw that she was looking, he fluidly made his way across the dance floor and stopped in front of Rogue.

"Care to dance, miss?" the man asked with a perfect northern accent.

Rogue felt disappointed with his non Cajun voice, but still took his hand and he led her to the dance floor where everyone was waltzing. Rogue looked back to see that Noah was frowning at them but this disappeared when a leggy blonde came to chat him up. Rogue loved the flow of everyone's bodies and when the stranger grabbed her hand and they began to dance, she felt like she was flying. The sway of their bodies made Rogue feel like they were dancing on a cloud and the guy was a great dancer. They continued like this until the song ended and the stranger led her to a balcony. Rogue felt nervous to be with a complete stranger somewhere secluded, but couldn't help but know that she could trust him. The mystery man turned to her, his brown eyes staring into her green ones.

"Remy still say that you look like a goddess chere." As he said this, a smile spread across his face.

"Remy?"

"In the flesh, moi belle fille."

"What are you doing here?" Rogue asked, feeling confused about the situation.

"Betsy gave moi an invitation and told Remy to come to get you. If I didn't know any better chere, I would think that she set us up."

"Yeah, I think she did," said Rogue, silently remembering herself to thank Betsy later.

Rogue looked at him thoroughly and noticed his eyes once more.

"How are your eyes brown?"

Remy smirked and showed Rogue the silver watch that she saw him with earlier. Turning a dial, his eyes went from muddy brown to his normal glowing red on black. "I took it when Hank wasn't looking. I don't think he'll notice."

"And the accent."

"Chere, you can't stay up north and not be pull off a perfect Yankee accent."

"What about Dazzler, then?" Asked Rogue, trying to have everything figured out, "I saw you two kiss."

Remy looked confused before remembering the time she was talking about. "Remy only did it so that she would leave moi alone. Remy found her in his room and she would leave unless he did it. Besides, I was still angry over you taking Magneto junior to a restaurant and Remy wasn't thinking straight. This entire time and the time before it, I have only thought of you. I love you, Marie."

Hearing him say that to her, speaking in first person and saying her real name, was what made her the most emotional. Both seemed to move towards each other like a magnet and Rogue soon found Remy's lips on hers. This kiss was different than any other that Rogue has had. While Bobby had been gentle, Remy's kiss was hot and passionate but still had certain gentleness to it. Remy nipped at her bottom lip and Rogue shyly opened her to let his tongue in. After what felt like forever, they parted, breathing hard from their previous activity.

Rogue smiled and looked Remy in the eye, "I feel we're like I'm rushing into this."

"Chere, if anything we should have been together when Remy first showed up. Remy wanted you since he first saw you."

Rogue laughed as Remy twirled her around and they began to dance to the muffled music.

Three months later

Rogue woke up to early and saw that Remy was still asleep. Remembering what they did the night before, she can understand why he was so tired. Blushing at the thought, Rogue brushed some of his hair out of his face. Since the masquerade ball, things have changed around the mansion. Logan and Ororo were dating both were surprised to come home from their date that day to find two girls fighting over Bobby. After having frosty attitudes directed towards him from both girls for about three weeks, Lorna and Kitty forgave Bobby, but neither seemed to be interested in him anymore. Kitty felt that Bobby was only into the excitement of their relationship and was only using her because Rogue wasn't around. Lorna thought the same but felt worse since she said that Bobby took advantage of her due to her age. Joseph was very protective of Lorna during that time and when Bobby tried to approach her, Joe would tell him to beat it before he gives him another black eye.

Kitty and Lorna had since moved on with Piotr Rasputin and Alex Summers respectively. When Jubilee brought up the arrangement at their slumber party (a now weekly Saturday night thing for the girls) Lorna admitted that she was using Bobby to make Alex jealous, while Kitty said that she still had feelings for Piotr from their previous relationship. Betsy and Warren were now planning a wedding for next spring and Rogue was named maid of honor while Remy was named best man since he told Warren that if anyone walked down the aisle with Rogue other than him, he would learn how to blow up organic material.

Rogue was also happy that she no longer had to deal with Remy's groupies being around since most have either moved on to other guys or gotten over their crush. Even Dazzler had a new guy named Longshot. Rogue thought that they were good together, but Remy didn't like him which was mostly due to Longshot trying to flirt with Rogue on his first day there.

Looking at his peaceful expression, Rogue felt her heart melt. "I guess I finally found my prince."

Hearing her talk, Remy slowly opened his eyes. Looking at her, he smiled.

"Slept good, chere?" he asked while sitting up and yawning.

"Yeah I slept alright. Why you ask?"

"Because Remy feel that we should have a little fun before we get up for the day," he said with a mischievous look.

Understanding what he meant, Rogue let out a giggle has Remy attacked her neck. Looking at her, Remy whispered "I Love You, Marie."

Rogue smiled, "I Love You, too, Remy."

Author Note: Tell me if there are any errors and I will go back to fix them later. Did anyone like the fight between Kitty and Lorna? I wasn't going to do it at first but did it anyway since it is so out of their personalities (at least I think with Kitty). Also, I might post a list of possible future stories in the future but they would probably be something other than X-Men like Naruto, Bleach, Harry Potter or a crossover between two of them. I would probably do more X-Men later. Please Review!