While having some downtime, Rogue was accosted by a young, Skrull shapeshifter who forced her to absorb her moments before she died. Possibly because of the nature of the Skrull’s powers, possibly because of the incompatability between Rogue’s Mutant\Kree DNA and the Skrull’s own, this had a devestating effect on Rogue. In her own words, with a slight paraphrase:

ROGUE: My DNA has mutated. That’s a fact. Before, Ah touch someone, Ah absorb their powers and their memories for a time, then they go away, leavin’ just a little residue of their powers behind. Now, Ah’m able t’manifest th’ powers of (everyone whom Ah’ve ever absorbed) -- only Ah got no control over the process.

As a result of this, she was terrified that she would hurt Gambit if she remained close to him. When Storm was assembling her team to look for Destiny’s diaries, therefore, and asked Gambit if he would be prepared to join them, Rogue answered for him:

ROGUE: NO! Leave Remy OUTTA this!

GAMBIT: You got no right t’speak for me, girl.

ROGUE: Then I’ll ask. If Ah have to, Ah’ll beg. Don’t do this, Remy.

GAMBIT: We b’long t’gether.

ROGUE: Ah know. But not now. Not for this.

(...)

GAMBIT: You’ll place friends at risk, but not me? Chere, dat’s crazy.

ROGUE: Right now. So am I. Fact is, they get hurt, it’ll break mah heart. But if it’s you, Ah’ll die. Ah can’t work through this, Remy, if I’m worried all the time about you.

GAMBIT: An’ how’m I s’posed t’live wit’ you gone from my life?

Despite Rogue’s self-defeating and nonsensical vow to live without Gambit because she couldn’t live without him, Remy seemed prepared to commit to a long distance relationship. So, as a pledge of his undying and eternal love for her, he gave her a "beautiful", if unspecified, gift:

ROGUE: Remy, after what Ah said, to give me something so beautiful -!

GAMBIT: That’s so, no matter how far we wander . . . I’ll always be wit’ you.

However, whether absence made the heart grow fonder or go yonder would only be seen when Gambit returned to the cast in X-Treme X-Men #5.