Epilogue: Demon Eyes

He's all I'll ever need

She's all I ever wanted

Rogue couldn't lie. It had been hard those first few weeks. The adjustment of having love in her life and learning how to accept it. True and real love. It seemed unfathomable to her at times. Especially when she thought of the man who was giving it to her.

She was blessed with him; with his love that encompassed her so fully she could never really know exactly the depths he felt for her. She could only return what she had been feeling since the first moment in that bar, when she met his eyes. The first time he saved her.

He was her guardian angel. He hated when she called him that. It made her smile to. But when she did he knew she loved him. They had had their trials. They were ready for something safe, easy. But their love was anything but.

They fought over her insecurities and his frustrations, over her shortsightedness and his annoying ability to get under her skin, but mostly they fought about the things that had come to pass. It took time before Rogue could fully trust him, even after all that had happened.

But she knew when she would lie in bed with him and the early morning sun would be cresting along the grey sky and the shore was just in the distance. She knew that she could never forget the feeling of his warmth wrapped around her, filling her with this buoyancy that she had never felt before.

She would run her fingertips along his arms, over his shoulders, to his collarbone. Tracing every line and bone and mark on his skin. And he would never leave. He would just hold her. Even when she threw things across the room in rage, and would sob to the point that her body rocked with convulsions, even when she would push him away. He would always hold her close. Even when her fingertips fell across his lips.

After a few months of starts and stop, they were off to a better start. She was genuinely happy for the first time in her life and she knew there was no other way to describe it than because of the heat that emanated from within her chest. The heat the surged forward; whose flames were fanned, by the simple devilish grin and wink of a man with demon eyes.

Those nights, when his hips would move against hers in that blissful way and she would cry out his name in rapture and she swore she could feel nothing more than the inferno of their love; those nights were the ones she was scared would end. Those nights were her worst fear, that one day those fires set deep within their cores would somehow burn out.

But every night he would take her in his arms and she would ignite, she would spontaneously combust into a million flaming pieces as his flesh moved against hers. She couldn't deny that her angelic demon was the only person to ever let her love; and for the first time she loved fully.

She pulled his lips to hers in the dim light of the coming dawn, wrapping her leg over his hip under the sheets and pressing herself as close to him as possible. She stared into the depths of those red on black eyes and saw nothing that anyone else could see. She saw the pain, the joy, the agony that they had both experienced. And as those waves of fire coursed forth in his irises she saw the one thing no one else ever had shown her: unadulterated, passionate, never-ending love.

"I love you," she whispered to him feeling his body become one with hers and that warmth seep through her entire body.

He gazed down at her wrapped up in his arms, and the crystalline tears formed at the edges of her emerald green eyes. He brushed the white streak from her hair, trailing his finger along her cheek. "Je t'aime aussi."

"Always?" she asked daring not to look into his eyes.

He shifted her chin to force her to look into his eyes.

"Forever," he murmured against her lips.

They were engulfed by the flames raging in his demon eyes and reflected back in her emerald waters.

A/N: Okay so I know this probably is not the ending most would have wanted but I would have truly gone on forever with this story if I could and I felt like after everything they've been through Rogue and Remy just need time to focus on their relationship without the drama.

So that's what this epilogue was for. If you have any specific questions as to what happened to them in more specific terms feel free to put it into a review or PM me.

Once again thank you to all who read my story and thought it was good; I worked hard and the premise was something that had been stewing in my mind for a while before I decided to write it. So muchas gracias for all the support and I hope you keep reading my stories in the future! :D