Remieverse. The Red Rose Cafe and environs. Another hop back into time.

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Joy stretched luxuriously, then adjusted her pale grey shorts, smoothing the front panel that made them look like a mini skirt.

"Are ye comin', me love?" she called, stepping through the bedroom door. Then she froze as she wound up on the night-time street of a human city instead of in the hallway of the castle on the way to breakfast. "Aii! Kurti?"

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"Here, mien liebe," he said, following dazily and then almost bumping into her before he started.

"Ach!" he looked around, then groaned. "What now?"

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She shivered slightly as a passer bye glanced at her, then blinked and looked up at her husband as the man only nodded courteously. "Ve should see tae findin' oot vhere ve are."

Soft music came from the nearby cafe, and she could hear a deep voice humming along contentedly over the drone of conversation.

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"Ja," he said, taking her hand. "Let's see vat ze cafe is."

As they entered the foyer of the cafe a bright, cheerful voice called out to them.

"G'night, hommes. Care t' take a rest from de bar 'oppin' n' have somethin' t' eat?" a tall woman with red on black eyes grinned at them. Kurt stared in utter shock, met with much the same look from the woman, only directd towards Joy.

"Amour, dat someone a' yoh fam'ly?" she said softly, going to her husband.

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Schalk looked up from where he'd been polishing the bar till he could see himself in it and blinked, then twitched an ear in a slight smile. "No. But velcome, friend. Vhat brings you to New Orleans?"

Joy blinked and stared a little. "Ach... ye're Volk."

"Feen," he corrected gently.

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"New Orleans.... Gambit," Kurt stared. Remie smiled.

"Remie," she offered her hand and a smile.

"Must be a different vorld, in my reality you are a man," he said weakly. Remie laughed.

"Ach. Oui. I seen 'em. But dis is my husband, Schalk."

"Er, Kurt Vagner," he said, then nodded. "Und my vife, Joy."

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"Woestijn Feen?" asked Joy, nodding absently in greeting as she watched the tall dark stranger.

"No, Schattenfeen. The Professor made us a long time after the first vones," said Schalk, then went to serve a customer at the end of the bar before returning. "Vhat are Volk?"

"Seevölker." Joy walked forward and absently stood on her toes to get onto a stool, her eyes never leaving the stranger. "They came from the desert folk, but they've been living on another vorld fer a long time. Me moeder vas 'o that clan."

"Und your father?" asked Schalk, his ears perked with interest.

"James 'o Howlett. A human mon."

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"Amazing," he said faintly. "Remie und Rogue.... everyvhere."

Remie arched an eyebrow.

"Huh," she said, looking at her husband and trying to picture him as a girl. Then she winced and went over, slapping his butt gently and playfully to help clear the girl version of him out of her mind.

Kurt blinked, then went and sat by his wife.

"So ze human do not hate us here?" he said, blinking. Remie smiled.

"No more den day hate who's different in dier own kind," she said. "We jus' nudder spectrum o' people."

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Schalk started slightly at the pat, then curled her in his wing and gave her a kiss before turning back to Joy. "You mean the Volverine? Logan?"

"Volverine, aye. But me da never used Logan." Joy reached out absently and took Kurt's hand.

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Remie blinked, then frowned at where thier conversation was turning before she leaned into her husband.

"So, you're from another world?" she said.

"Uh, ja. Ve don' really know vhere ve are, but," Kurt shrugged helplessly. Remie smiled.

"Well, you need a place t' stay a few nights we got a room upstairs," she said.

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Joy paused and looked at their hostess, ears going back slightly in a small frown of concern. "Have ye sommat agin me da?"

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"No' 'gains't yoh pa. Jus' had some trouble wit de Wolverine o' dis verse a lil' while go," Remie said. "It's all resolved, though. 'Cept a few o' de cracks in de pavement."

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"Ah," said the winged woman softly as Kurt's tail slipped around her waist. "I'm sorry."

"Vould you like a drink?" asked Schalk, then looked around with a frown as someone grumbled about not being waited on as fast as they should be.

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"I get it," Remie smiled and kissed his cheek, hurrying over and poking the guy good naturdly and playing up the pregnant woman bit as she got him his food and drink.

"Ve haff no money vith us," Kurt said softly, frowning deeply.

"Nonsense. It all on de house," Remie called.

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"Vhat she said." Schalk waggled his eyebrows merrily. "Anything you'd like."

Joy's own brows shot up at his gesture, her surprise leaving her speechless for a moment. -Cheeky begger....-

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Kurt blushed, but on her way back two beers slid from Remie's hands over to the two.

"You are our friends, dis our bar, we treat who we wanna," Remie said.

"What about treatin' me, sweet cheeks?" a less-than-sober man grinned. Remie arched an eyebrow and looked at Schalk.

"Gutter delivery," she said calmly, walking over to them.

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"Ja." He vanished into the shadows, then rose up behind the drunk and calmly and gently hauled him out of the building, ignoring his protests and attempts to fight him off. "Ve don't serve people who start somevhere else, my friend."

"Vhat in the .... did he jes' do?" demanded Joy, her jaw dropped.

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"He go' rid of trouble for de trouble start," she said, nodding to a sign that told all customers that they could refuse service or peaceably evict anybody they need to.

"Sounds safer," Kurt nodded, Remie nodded with a smile.

"Dis a fam'ly resturaunt. Dere plenny odder places t' get drunk n' stupid. Dis place safe," she said.

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"I meant that appearin' 'n disappearin' thing." Joy turned to watch as carried the offender out, ears still perked in amazement.

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"Ah. Dunno. But he keep me safe a few times 'cause he can do it," she smiled warmly.

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"It's vhy ve're called Shadow Fairies," noted Schalk, suddenly behind the counter again and leaning on it with both elbows. "The Professor gave us a few other things as vell, like enhanced healing."

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"Ah," Kurt said thoughtfully, then looked at her. "Und you... you are X Men?"

"Dose negotiatin' goofs upcountry?" Remie blinked, then snorted. "Nah. Dere ain' much o' de fightin' X Men like in de odder verses. Here dey deal wit de muties who unleash hell on earth, otherwise dey don' got much t' fight."

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"Och." Joy shook her head with wonder, her black eyes studying the other wingling. "But vhy?"

"He says he vas bored." Schalk shrugged.

"Says... ye ken the Professor!" Joy sat up with astonishment.

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"Don' you?" Remie asked, slightly surprised.

"Liebe?" Kurt looked at her, slightly worried she'd be upset.

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"Ach, nae. He vas a legend me moeder told me 'o. She said he made our volk thousands of years ago."

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"Whoa," she said, eyebrows raising as she looked at Schalk and then kissed his cheek.

"Does... he perhaps live aroudn here?" Kurt wondered.