joiedecombat | Advent Drabble: [X-Men] Rogue/Gambit

Yesterday's drabble, posted late! This one is for

ahumblepen.

Fandom: X-Men
Title: And Goodwill Toward Men
Rating: R for language
Words: 247

Anyone in the mansion could tell when Rogue and Gambit had a fight. You could hear Rogue coming almost from halfway across the building - and it was no small building. For a woman who could fly without effort, she seemed to take great relish in stomping angrily down the hallways, grumbling only occasionally under her breath.

"...goddamn swamp rat," she groused her way through the wing that housed the Xavier Institute's faculty. "Merry fuckin' Christmas t'you, too. 'Least this means Ah ain't gotta try an' figure out what t'give a man who can steal any damn thing he wants anyhow..."

She flung open her door with enough frustrated energy to bang it solidly against the wall.

And stopped quite cold.

Rogue's first thought was that it must have taken crackerjack timing to pull this off, considering that she'd gone storming angrily away from Remy only a few minutes before.

Her second thought was that she was pretty sure she recognized the white roses lying hopefully on her dresser from an arrangement that Ororo had put in the mansion's foyer.

She tried hard to hold onto her mad-on, but in the end, she couldn't help but smile.

It was a pretty good bet where he'd gone, too.

"Come on, Cajun," she said, crossing the room to lean out the open window that was letting snow and December cold into her nice warm room. "May as well come in, 'less you enjoy hangin' out windows freezin' your ass off."

It was, after all, a pretty nice ass.

This is actually yesterday's drabble, and it was suggested by ahumblepen. I am now out of prompts with twenty days to go, so please suggest more fandoms/characters/pairings/etc by commenting on this post!