A Strong Man and his Firecracker
Beany
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
A/N: OK, so I had this idea for a while but I really didn't know where I should go with it. I posted it on a message board and I seem to get a lot of hits for it. My friend thought it was good, so I decided to post this here. I know how this is going to go until a certain point but after that I haven't got a clue. Any suggestions you may have are welcomed and encouraged!
Chapter One
She was bored. So very, very bored. She hated Ororo sometimes. She had been dragged along to this stupid museum trip against her own will to help supervise. OK, so she was twenty one and she was a teacher's aid but still there were enough teachers on this god damn field trip to supervise the students!
She had only recently returned from university. She had managed to graduate early after pulling non-stop cramming sessions. She now had a beautiful degree in social care framed and hanging above the desk in her room.
As soon as she returned, she had been put straight back to work again. Lucky for her she had kept training while she was away at university otherwise Scott would have had her running extra danger room sessions at the crack of dawn!
She was glad she was back home. She had missed everyone while she had been away from the mansion...especially Piotr.
Before she had gone to university, she and Piotr had been the best of friends. They had kept in contact while she had been away. Since she had come back they had hardly had five minutes to themselves. Not that she knew what she could say to him if they did have some time together.
For some reason she kept getting nervous every time she was alone with him. She just didn't know what to say and she was Jubilation Lee, she could take for the entire US if she wanted to.
She was hoping that she would be able to talk to Piotr on this field trip as he was helping to supervise too.
She had been looking around for at least fifteen minutes hoping to catch a glimpse of her steel giant but couldn't spot him anywhere. She decided to pay attention to what storm was rambling on about and hoped to catch up with Piotr later on.
"And while human evolution is still occurring to this day, it's believed that modern medicine and technological advances may have actually slowed down its progress..." Ororo continued to lecture the students. Surprisingly they were paying attention. Not Jubilee though; she had tried, she really had but Ororo was just way too boring so Jubilee quietly slipped away from the group without anybody noticing.
'Man o man, is this place packed or what?' Jubilee thought to herself as she wandered around the museum aimlessly.
She suddenly found herself lost in an exhibition about Homo sapiens. As she skimmed trough the information she started to feel very hot. The heat in her body began to rise and build in the palms of her hands. Jubilee looked down at her hands and noticed that they were beginning to glow.
"Shit!" Jubilee swore under her breath as she looked up and saw that passers by were beginning to notice the glow emitting from her hands.
Jubilee was desperately trying to control the glow but it wasn't working. She clenched her eyes shut in concentration and prayed that to all the gods she could think of to help her control her powers.
She heard a few sparks go off. Nothing big...real tiny ones. She concentrated even harder on absorbing the growing glow in her hands back into her body.
She felt it working as the heat from her hands was slowly subsiding. She finally opened her eyes and looked down at her hands. The glow was gone and they were back to normal.
Jubilee looked up and saw that two girls were staring at her. She decided that this would be the right time to make her exit and hastily turned to leave. As she did so, a pair of hands placed themselves firmly on her shoulders.