The girl who fell in love with a thief.
Author's note: this is my first X-men Fanfic! Yea! Please review! I love all criticism! I'll try and update regularly! Hope you like it!
Chapter 1: Replica
In a mansion not so far away in Westchester, New York, there was an African-American woman with short white hair going though some papers, when there was several knocks on the door. Startled, the woman, called up from where she was sitting, for the persons to come in.
A teenage girl walked though the door and into the room, with a book-bag slung over her shoulders. Behind her the door opened and four other teenagers walked in, book-bags and backpacks in hand. They came in and sat down on chairs and sofas that surrounded the desk where the woman was. The woman was temporarily confused but then remembered that she had to teach a class.
My, how time flies. I still need to get these files ready for the new student and I still haven't replied to the president about the press conference on Wednesday.
"Storm?" the Girl that had walked though the wall asked cautiously. "Are you alright?"
"What? Oh yeah…yeah I'm fine," the woman called storm answered, "I've just been busy with new students and political stuff." She said with a smile.
"Ooooh, we get a new student!" the girl exclaimed
A Chinese-American girl spoke up, "Oh, pipe down, Kitty, it's not as if we haven't had new students since..."
"Well, I like new students Jubilee; they're fun!" Kitty said trying to move the subject of 2 months ago.
"Kitty. Jubilee. Quiet down now. I think I'm going to have to cancel today's lesson- but that doesn't mean that you guys are of the hook, just yet." The class groaned for they knew what Storm was going to say next. "The five of you are going to have a two hour danger room session today with Logan, so you better go suit up."
"Why do we have to spend two hours? This class is one!" a boy with blonde hair asked. "Besides, Kitty and I don't need anymore training; we are on the team!"
"Yeah? And what about meh, Bobby? Aren't Ah on the team too?" a girl with white bangs accused the blonde boy.
"Well, I don't know, Rogue, I mean you don't really have powers anymore, so, technically, you could be off the team" Bobby said with a slight frown.
"O.K.! Everyone just calm down, now! No one is off the team right now, so yes, Rogue would train with the rest of you, and you are spending two hours training, because I am now the person in charge here and I believe that you need more training. Now, if there are anymore whines or complains from anybody, I'll add a four page history essay that would be due tomorrow. Do I make myself clear?"
Kitty looked like she was about jump though the walls and try and escape but, sat firmly on the wood chair; Bobby was too busy thinking about how Rogue was still on the team; Rogue looked like she was ready to kill Bobby in training, (or if she had a chance she would probably kill sooner); and Jubilee just looked horrified at the idea of doing a four page essay in history. In the furthest sofa, sat a quiet looking boy, who, by the looks of it, hadn't paid any attention to what was being said. He was writing on a piece of paper, and kept erasing it. No one noticed him until Storm finally had enough and told every one to leave her office. The boy didn't move. He just sat there until Storm saw that he hadn't left.
"Jimmy? Aren't you going to go train?" Storm cautiously asked. She hadn't known him long, and didn't exactly know anything about him.
"I was…kinda hoping I could…um… talk… with you?" he was very shy and spoke so low that Storm had a hard time hearing him.
"Sure, what is it?
"Well, I thought you might want to know if there was a class five mutant, around here…"
"You mean in the school?" Storm was shocked; she didn't know of any other mutant other than Jean that was a class five mutant.
"No. when I was in the facilities, I overheard them talking about a mutant that could have any power she wanted. They said that they couldn't find her because she moved around a lot. But they said that it was possible that she was heading towards New Orleans."
New Orleans
"Hey! You come back here now! Thief!" a heavyset man was calling out to a guy that looked to be in his early twenties, who was running into an ally. He had what looked to be like a very large piece of ham under his arm, and a very long pole in his other arm. He had on a long tan coat that flew behind him as he ran. He then took out two playing cards-both sevens- and he threw them behind him. When they landed on the ground they exploded, leaving the man unconscious.
"Sorry 'mon!" The thief called. He ran in between streets and alleys until he felt certain that no one followed him. He went into a dark, dead-end alley and sat down. He took out the ham and started eating. He was surprised when a voice broke the silence.
"Ya' know, it's not very nice ta steal. And it's not nice ta leave the owner unconscious either." You should at least pay up." A girl around twenty was walking slowly toward the thief. She was kinda pretty with long hair that went to about her waist. She was dressed in a most peculiar way. She had ripped pants, and a tank top that showed her mid-drift. But it wasn't the pants or the shirt that caught the thief's attention, it was the fact that she elbow-length navy blue gloves.
"And who might the Cheri be, that would come visit Gambit?"
"Gambit, is it? Well, Gambit, wanna tell my why you're stealing?"
"Gambit don't steal, Cheri, just borrow. Who is the Cheri that Gambit is talking to?"
"You call stealing 'borrowing'? We'll see about that. Now why don't you go back and return the ham to nice man?"
Gambit stood up. He looked slightly amused. "Why not answer Gambit's question, Cheri? Then Gambit'll do what the Cheri wants."
"How about no? Return the ham and you won't get hurt."
"Gambit doesn't have any more time to play wit the Cheri" he took out a card-a queen- and threw the card up in the air. The girl just looked at it and caught it in between two fingers. She looked at Gambit and threw it back at him.
"You shouldn't play with explosives either."
Gambit looked dumbstruck. Never before had anybody caught his cards without exploding.
"Gambit sees that the Cheri has talents."
"Oh, you have no idea"