Gambit joined up with Iceman in a Seattle bar, moments after Rogue had angrily stormed out and they followed Rogue to an abandoned theatre – the place where Gambit had made his deal with Sinister. Rogue demanded to know what the secret was that terrified him so. Gambit stepped around, answering her, reminding her of what they’d been through and that she shouldn’t throw their relationship away.

Finally, he offered that she could absorb him again so she should share his memory. Rogue refused, leaving both him and the X-Men, feeling that, in the final analysis, whatever they had wasn’t enough. Left alone, Remy was joined by Sinister, who reminded him of who he was and that he could no more pretend to be a follower of Xavier than Sinister could. Gambit realized that he still wasn’t free of his past. [X-Men (2nd series) #45]

With Rogue gone and the shadows of his past looming, Remy became extremely moody. He turned his anger on Sabretooth, who, at that point thanks to a battle with Wolverine, seemed to be amnesiac and was deemed harmless. Using the Danger Room holograms, Gambit cruelly reminded Creed of all his victims before Storm put a stop to the show. [Uncanny X-Men #326]

A short while later, Creed returned to his true nature and almost eviscerated Psyocke. While she was hovering between life and death, Gambit wondered how much she had seen in his mind while he was comatose. He realized that his secret would be safer if she died but, when Betsy’s condition worsened, he did the right thing and kept her alive until help came. [Uncanny X-Men #330]

At that time, Bishop and Gambit started to make something resembling peace, also finding out that they made a pretty good team on several occasions. Bishop still had his doubts about Remy’s intentions, not to mention about his style, but he wasn’t so sure anymore that Gambit would be responsible for the end of the X-Men. He still feared, though, that Remy would betray the X-Men at some point, whether he believed it himself or not. He was proved wrong a short time later, as the “X-traitor” he had been looking for was revealed to be no one else but Charles Xavier, who had turned into Onslaught. [X-Men (2nd series) #46, 51-52, Onslaught: X-Men, Uncanny X-Men #335]

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