SO, this idea came to me after re-reading all of my old Gambit comics, I got to thinking, what did the hospital staff think of Gambit when he was born and what were he first few hours of his life like? I came up with this. Please enjoy and comment! :)

It was night and the hospital nursing staff was fresh, having just come on shift. Sharon Moreau checked her schedule. She chewed on the end of her pen, looking over the newly posted schedule of next week' shifts, when she felt one of the other nurses tap her on the shoulder. "Sharon," The woman said. "We need help in the maternity ward. A lady just came in. she's in labor."

Sharon followed the other nurse. Dr. Morel was in charge. She waited for him to tell her what to do. The other nurses in the room were busy with the woman. "You can take the baby and clean him up." Morel said, not really looking at her. She nodded and stood ready with a towel. The husband was in the room too, looking concernedly at his wife as she panted and pushed.

Sharon waited and when the baby was finally born and began to cry she rushed forward with the towel and wrapped him in it. He cried a little more and then stopped, moving his small head around. It made a noise as the mother and father took it. They held the baby tenderly and it's noises were not those of a distressed infant but of a newly happy one. Shrill and wanting attention. The mother gently touched it's head and the baby looked up at her, his eyes unfocused.

There was a pause and then the father motioned the doctor over. "What's wrong with him?" He asked.

Sharon leaned in, trying to see. She had held the baby and not noticed anything was wrong with it. The newborn gurgled quietly and moved a small hand. The mother handed the baby to the doctor who held him up to his face. The baby opened his mouth and made a happy, screeching noise. The doctor paled and turned to the nurse next to him who's eyes grew wide.

The mother looked scared. "Doctor, what's wrong with my baby?" She asked, tears filling her eyes. The doctor just shook his head. Sharon looked at he nurse next to her to find out what was wrong but the nurse just shrugged.

"Uh, Nurse Moreau, will you please go and wash the baby?" She took the child from Dr. Morel, holding him gently in her arms. She still could see nothing wrong with him, other than he had started crying again. As she left the doctor spoke again. "Oh, and Moreau, don't say a word about this to anyone." She nodded, confused and took the baby down the hall.

He had sopped crying and that was when she finally saw what everyone was talking about. The baby smiled up at her and opened his big, black and red eyes. She almost dropped him. The child laughed at her expression. His toothless mouth forming a big smile. He had eyes the likes of which she had never seen. No wonder the nurse had been scared and the parents upset. He had huge red eyes. Where the white part should have been there was black and where all new babies had blue was a burning red. She held the baby away from her, staring into his eyes. He stuck his tongue out and laughed again. A shrieking, giggling laughter.

Seeing someone else coming down the hall towards her she quickly held the baby to her chest and resumed being on her way to the infant wash center. She was scare of the child in her arms. Scared of his eyes but she knew he was a baby and there was not much a baby could do to her and if sh id not hlp him he could get sick.

In the room, she flipped the lights on a lay the baby on a towel on his back she put on gloves and filled a small tub next to him where she dipped a washcloth and then set to work wiping him off. He giggled at her touch and made a happy cooing sound. The longer she was with him, the less his eyes bothered her. He was very cute. When she washed his leg he let out a delighted shriek and waved his tiny arms in the air.

She found herself smiling down at him. "Well," She whispered. "You are very cute." He put his tiny hand in his mouth as if to say "Yes I am, and look how much cuter I can be!" She laughed at him. He rolled in his lips and the opened his mouth again, trying to put his little hand in it.

She dried him and wrapped him in a blanket before taking him back to the parent's room. She was stopped outside the door by the doctor. "They don't want him brought in yet. He's going to have to stay in the newborn ward all night. Can you take him?"

Sharon nodded and headed further down the hall. "Uh, doctor. Do you have any idea what's wrong with his eyes?" She asked.

He shook his head. "No idea. I'll run some tests as soon as I can. The parents are in a state. Mother goes on about how he looks evil and the father is scared shitless, pardon my language." He held out a finger to the baby who made a noise of awe and tried to grasp it. "Maybe it'll clear up and he can go home."

Sharon carried the child to the newborn ward. He cried when she put him down. "No, no, honey." She said softly to him, scared he would wake the other babies. "It's time for sleep." He held on to her thumb as best he could and she let him stroke it until he fell asleep. Then she returned to the nurses station.

Nurse Collins who had been in the room when he was born was telling two other nurses about the boy with the strange eyes. "Eyes look evil." She said. "I never seen 'em on anyone before. All black and red. It's not normal. Not natural." She shook her head. "Something in that boy, not quite right."

Sharon frowned, annoyed with Collins, who turned to her. "Sharon, you saw him longer than I did, tell these ladies about his eyes. Don't they look frightful?"

Sharon made a face. "They're. . . a little odd but I don't think they're evil." She paused. "He seemed like any normal, happy baby to me." Collins gave her a doubting look. "Really, he was very sweet."

"Well, whatever, sugar. He still creeped me out. Them blazing red eyes and all that black. I never seen a child with eyes like that."

Sharon shook her head and went to check on another patient. She didn't think much more on the red eyed baby until her shift was almost done and she stopped my the newborn ward for one last look. He was sleeping peacefully, his hand tucked up under him. With his eyes closed he looked just like any other baby n the world. She wished Nurse Collins could see him there. She'd change her opinion. Clicking her tongue quietly she left the hospital.

All through the next day she cold not stop herself from thinking of the baby with the odd eyes. She wondered what sort of tests Dr. Morel would run. What sort of tests did you use to see why a perfectly healthy newborn baby had red eyes? She hoped Nurse Collins hadn't talked too much. Word didn't need to get around.

When she came in for work the next night she stopped by the newborn ward but the child was not there. She hurried along to the nurse's station and changed before asking one of the nurses on staff where the baby was.

"He got moved to a private room." The head nurse said. "He was scaring some of the parents. They worried something might be wrong with him and he might infect the others. Dr. Morel couldn't find anything wrong with him but we still moved him to make the parents feel better."

Sharon went to find the boy and when she did she was delighted to see that he was perfectly fine and awake. Having a few minutes before her shift started she picked him up and carried him to the window and showed him the stars outside. He was more interested in her hair. She had thick, curly blond hair. Permed and done up in a big, boofy pin. He batted at it and smiled happily. "What will we do with you?" She asked aloud. She felt bad for him. The parents did not want him and she doubted anyone else really did. He was too strange and his eyes scared people.

She held him back o she could look into his eyes. Mercy, they were still a bit scary to her but she had grown used to them and really, they were not that bad. Collins had over reacted. She held him gently before looking at her watch. She had to go get ready for work. She made to kiss his cheek but he turned his head and she kissed the corner of his mouth instead. She smiled slightly while he giggled. "Well," She said, pretending to be shocked. "Guess we know what kind of boy you'll grow up to be." He giggled and she put him back in the crib.

Dr. Morel found her. "Moreau," He said. "I couldn't find anything wrong with the baby and I so I can't explain his eyes. Will you come with me to tell the parents? The mother was supposed to go home this morning but we let them stay because of the baby."

Sharon nodded. "Of coarse." She followed him to the parents room, the same one from the night before. The parents sat looking expectant.

"Well, I couldn't find anything wrong with him." Dr. Morel said. " Apart from his eyes he's a very healthy and strong baby and the coloration doesn't seem to be affecting him. I don't think there is anything wrong with him." He waved a hand. "The coloration could disappear and his eyes might become normal one day, you never know or he could always remain like this." He waited a moment. "Nurse Moreau here has been taking care of him. If you have any questions about his behavior, I suggest asking her."

The parents looked at Sharon who sighed. "He'd really sweet." She said. "He acts perfectly normal to me."

The father shook his head. "I don't know what that chi- what that thing is but he has the devil's eyes, that's for sure." He glanced at his wife who nodded. "We'd like to surrender him."

Sharon felt her heart break for the poor babe. He was so sweet. "Are you sure?" She asked, without thinking.

Dr. Morel put up a hand to stop her. "Alright. Then you can leave the hospital and your names will not appear on the birth certificate."

The mother got out of bed, she was wearing her street clothes. "Thank you." She sounded stiff. "Thank you for everything."

"Are you sure you don't want to take one more look at the baby before you go? This is a very large decision." Morel said.

They shook their heads. "No, I don't think that will be necessary." The father said. "I think seeing him once was enough." Again the mother nodded.

Sharon watched them go and shook her head. "I feel so bad for that baby." She said. "It's bad to think it but I don't know of anyone who would adopt a child like him. If his own parents don't want him I doubt anyone else will."

Dr. Morel sighed. "I know but we can't make them take him." He shuffled his papers. "Well, you better get back to work. Check in on the boy for me, will you?"

"I will." Sharon walked back to the boy's room and looked in on him. He looked back up at her, his big dark eyes shining and the red almost glowing. He didn't make any noise.

"Well, I'm sorry little one." She said quietly. "I'm so sorry."

She reached down and let him touch her finger for a moment before pulling away and heading back to work.

Sharon's last stop before going home was to take one last quick check in on the baby but when she opened the door and came up to the crib he was not there. The window was open and the baby was gone.

Well, i hope everyone liked it, i was a little nervous putting it up. I always am before I upload anything. So, if you give me some feed back and if people like it I might do a sort of squeal where Sharon meets Gambit when he's all grown up and recognizes him. Tell me what you think!