All right!

–ties on bandana and looks fierce at monitor-

time to crank out some more romance for our Harry x Gambit love!

So enjoy the chapter, don't kill the author and remember first x-men fic so be nice!

Redemption

Chapter 2

A few weeks passed by since Gambits comment that he'd keep her, they'd arrived at the manor and Gambit had stumbled off for the tower-room that was his.

After a moments indecision she'd followed him, ignoring Xavier's request for a talk.

They passed through several hallways before Gambit noticed her and simply commented "you da guard for this Gambit?"

"No, you don't need a guard, just some-one to love you for who you are. And a nurse." Then she'd giggled and skipped ahead intend on turning his frown up-side down. It had worked, even if she gave him a near brush with suffocation because of it. He ended up laughing so hard some saliva went down into his already flooded lungs. Hearing his frantic coughing she turned around and ran back before pounding him on his back. Mindful of the tender skin of the newly healed gun shot. "Shit. I'm sorry Gambit that wasn't my intention."

Their camaderie developed from that. Harriet sometimes throwing off an odd-ball comment that made him laugh. The first time that happened Rogue had looked pissed as hell.

But then again Rogue looked pissed every time they were together.

The day they had met had left a permanent mark though, and not only in the scars on Harriets wrists from the iron cuffs that had held her prisoner. No Gambit's lungs had been damaged beyond repair thanks to Rogue's little arctic ocean stunt. They hid it well from them though. But they were still weak, he could no longer run as far or fast as he could before. Not that his fellow x-men noticed.

"Harriet, shouldn't you get going?" Gambit asked from the bed. "you have that check-in with your supervisor right?"

"I'm not going." Her soft confession shook him awake fully.

"why? What be wrong with Gambit's Fille?"

"they will come for me soon. All mutants must be killed. Ron betrayed me." She spoke glumly holding up a daily prophet with the head-line that spelled her death.

Ministry declares the hunt for magical mutants opened

Today the ministry stated in a press conference that mutants that have magic are to be killed before the muggles learn of their existence.

"mutants live among the muggles and are seen daily. If we are to remain hidden those with magic must be killed. We all know the uproar surrounding the mutants. If we are to prevent a war so soon after he-who-must-not-be-named was killed by Harriet Potter then we must kill them. Unspeakables have determined that an obliviate will not hold on mutants. So we are out of options. We cannot have the muggles find us so soon after the dark war. Also we do not have the facilities that will keep the mutants secure without fail, the mutations are just too diverse." Minister Scrimgour said.

We at the daily prophet can't wonder if this latest disaster will spell the end of our world as more and more of our children that were at Hogwarts during the final battle mutate. As of today the total tally rests at 94 of our children having a mutation. The most famous of them being no other than our saviour Harriet Lily Potter.

Her best friend throughout their Hogwarts years Ronald bIllius Weasley told us "Harriet has had this mutation since the end of fourth year when she came back from the graveyard during the tri-wizard finals. I can't help but wonder if this is a plot of Voldemorts to make sure his plans to destroy our world do not fail. Ironic really, Harriet said the wizarding world will not fall as long as we have faith. Faith in what I wonder? Even now the muggles are killing mutants left and right because they are different. What would they do to us? Would they kill us? Or try to enslave us? It matters not really, either option spells the end of magic. I hate to have to kill so many after all the losses in the war, but we cannot afford to be found. Not now, when the muggles outnumber us 40 to 1."

Wizengamot member Nott said in a private interview "Mutants are beasts. They do not deserve to live. Our children die the moment they mutate, the mutation kills every single trace of them. They are the same a s a vampire, they look the same, sound the same, yes they even have their memories, but they are NOT our children. Muggle scientists have determined that the so called x-gene that causes the mutations are passed down by the fathers. The wizengamot is debating the use of castration to the men who have fathered a mutant."

For more information on Harriet Potter see pages 2 through 5

For more information on mutants see page 6 and 7

"Sherpa, Love. This gambit will protect you. You are Gambits!" he spoke forcefully before pulling her against him.

a/n okay just a little chap but as I said in the last chapter/an I'm not really at home in the x-men fandom and now that icefilms has been removed from the web by the CIA I don't have the means to get the eps. Seeing as they were never released on dvd in Holland I'm stuck.

I will accept requests for certain scenes for this story though. But I don't think this will ever turn into a proper story. The most we can hope for is a collection of one-shots.