Holy Matrimony!

Disclaimer: I do not own X-men Evolution or the song 'Don't trust me' and would like to take the time to explain the only reason it's in here is because my sister was watching C4 while I was typing and the Music Video came on and I simply couldn't get Bobby dancing in such a fashion out of my head. I apologise.

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A cry of

"Freeeeeeddddoooooommm" Echoed across the Bayville Area as Robert 'Bobby' Drake all but flung himself out of the X-van's sliding door and threw the school bag containing all of his books to the ground where it landed with a dull thud before sprinting up the stone steps that led to the Xavier Institute and breaking into something that resembled a victory dance singing at the top of his lungs.

"She wants to touch me wo-oah

She wants to love me wo-oah"

"Okay who let the Iceboy have sugar?" Rogue asked exiting the van her own book filled school bag slung over her shoulder from a broken strap that had been safety pinned somewhat haphazardly to the actual bag.

"It's officially Summer Vacation Rogue come on aren't you even the teeniest bit excited?" Kitty Pryde wanted to know clamouring out of the passenger seat somewhat awkwardly trying to keep a hold on the books that hadn't fit into her school bag.

"Yay I get to boil under half a dozen layers go me!" Rogue sarcasmed

"Come on sis, show a little enthusiasm! It's three months with no school!" Kurt Wagner appeared next to his adopted sister with a 'Bamf.' There were several audible 'Oh god Kurt!'s from the van as the students still waiting for whoever was in front of them to get out were stuck with the foul smelling smoke the accompanied Kurt's Teleportation.

"Yeah Rogue! Think about it sun, sand, surf, shopping!" Kitty said excitedly

"Bayville Mall!"

Kurt cried Teleporting to the railing of the Institutes second floor balcony and striking a dramatic pose.

"A thousand students of the Bayville school system descend upon you!"

"This. Is. Summer!" Kitty yelled in response. Rogue rolled her eyes, you could always tell when Kurt and Kitty had been on a movie binge as they quoted them left right and centre. They were so immature sometimes, but then again she reasoned if you couldn't act like a fool around your family who could you act like a fool around?

"Their sales flyers shall blot out the sun" Rogue said. Kitty and Kurt caught on immediately and with identical grins shouted out,

"Then we shall shop in the shade!" They burst out laughing and even the southern girl couldn't resist a smile.

It was good be out of school, of only for a little while, Rogue supposed she was just bitter because not only did summer mean that while everyone else got to strip down to t-shirts and shorts, she was forced to keep bundled up under half a dozen layers, and gauze wasn't as cooling as everyone thought but this year had meant to be her last year at Bayville High. Rogue didn't like to broadcast it but she had been held back a year in elementary. At age seven she had come down with Glandular fever, the illness had passed relatively quick but she had suffered relapses for the rest of the year along with extreme fatigue and it turned out the amount of time she had spent of school because of it added up to about a semester, the school had no choice but to make her redo the entire year. It must of done some damage to her immune system too as to this day she still couldn't get through a winter without catching everything that was going around.

But being of course that this was summer meant Rogue had nothing to worry about, well except the usual worries that went with living at the Xavier Institute. And while every season at the Institute bought it's own unique blend of chaos, the summer brand was the most potent. There was no school, not even Summer School for those who hadn't done to well that year, because if the faculty didn't want Mutants at Bayville high when they had to be there what made you think they'd want them there when they had a choice in the matter? And while Logan still insisted on putting everyone through training sessions and Martial Arts training that was only three or so hours of daylight lost which still left plenty of time for Teenage mutants to get up to all sorts of mischief in the mansion they lived in. And get up to mischief they did.

Rogue glanced around at the scene playing out on the Xavier Institutes front lawn, just about everyone's school bags had been dumped in an unceremonious pile with Bobby's, which Rahne and Roberto were dancing on, the Scottish girl preforming some kind of highland dance that required a lot of high kicks and her companion sticking to a flamenco routine stamping his heals down onto the pile. Bobby was continuing with his victory dance only now he had a partner in the form of Jubilee. While Rahne had come back to the Institute once all the mutant hype had calmed down it had taken Jubilee at least a year of threatening her grandparents with all sorts of degenerative teenage behaviour before they let her come back to the states. She said they were just as every bit happy to be rid of her as she was of them, apparently everyone in her grandparents village held her up as a warning to what happened when girls were allowed to much freedom. She was just glad to be out, Jubilation Lee was not meant to be cooped up in some tiny Chinese backwater town where there weren't even shops let alone a mall! Bobby was equally glad to have her back. Everyone at the Institute had been happy to see the best friends reunited until they realised that if Bobby on his own was trouble Bobby with Jubilee was a recipe for disaster.

The rest of the students all of whom by now had piled out of the X-van, which Remy was currently driving back to the garage, Rogue smirked at that she doubted being put on the school run was what the Cajun had had in mind when he joined the X-men but as long as it made him suffer she was happy , were all engaged in similar summer welcoming antics. Which really explained why she was the first to spot a cherry red convertible with white stripes running down the side of it parked, with boxes still in the back halfway down the section of the driveway that led to the garage.

"Hey" Rogue called turning away from the car and back towards her house mates of course they were all still busy celebrating. She rolled her eyes

"Hey!" She practically barked. Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and turned to the southern girl, well everyone except Bobby and Jubilee who were still singing at the top of their lungs.

"She wants to touch me wo-oah

She wants to love me wo...Oh?" The two stopped mid verse upon realising that everyone was staring them.

"What?" Bobby asked. Rogue just shook her head slightly sad, sad boy.

"Scott and Jean are home" She announced gesturing towards the convertible.

Upon being accepted into universities outside of Bayville Scott and Jean had intended to continue living and teaching at the Institute making a daily two hour commute to their Campus. They lasted all of about two weeks before biting the bullet and moving onto the university campus full time. Sure they still came home for a weekend every now and again but the Institute and the X-men just weren't the same without their Fearless Leader and Miss Perfect. Even Rogue had found herself missing the pair.

"Jubilee add 'Scott and Jean Baiting' to our Summer schedule" Bobby ordered. The Asian girl reached into one of the many pockets adorning her yellow coat and pulled out the shiny pink P.D.A decorated with a diamanté Hello Kitty she had picked up in China and began tapping away on the Mandarin keys.

"Done and done, it was a tight fit but I managed to slip them in between freezing the pool and adding pink food colouring to the sprinkler system" She said

"I dunno that's cutting it a little thin don't you think?" Bobby asked peering over Jubilee's shoulder at the tiny screen and frowning at the Chinese characters.

"I think Miss Munroe is going to kill you if you dye her plants pink" Amara said , she was the only student who was still carrying her back pack but being that it was Prada, or some other ridiculously expensive designer brand that only a girl who came from an island where a bag of 24 carat gold pieces was considered pocket change could afford, she wasn't likely to throw it on the pile with the others, especially now that it had twelve Jamie's jumping on it.

"Oh no we're adding the dye to the fire sprinklers, we've scheduled Miss Munroe's garden in for next week" Jubilee explained. Amara frowned and laid a hand on her shoulder in a gesture of mock comfort.

"I'm sure it will be a lovely service, I'll send flowers" She said before turning away from the pair and heading up the stairs to enter the Institute.

"You two do realise that in the event of you being caught, that all the evidence needed to put you on probation is on that right?" Kitty asked pointing to the P.D.A.

"That and you've got..." she paused to do a quick headcount.

"...like 19 witnesses"

"Ah but you see you're not witnesses, have you at any point witnessed either myself or Jubilee pulling any pranks? And yeah Miss Munroe speaks like three languages but Chinese isn't one of them. Besides we've got enough contingency plans to keep us clean for a month" Bobby explained

"And if that doesn't work we've got an emergency bunker in Mexico" Jubilee added snapping the flip lid of the P.D.A shut and slipping it back into her pocket and pulling out a folded road map with a route marked out on it in green highlighter leading from Bayville to somewhere south of the border. Kurt 'bamfed' down from the balcony to the wall just behind Jubilee peering over her shoulder at the map.

"That's pretty impressive" He said. Rogue sighed and rolling her eyes retrieved her now completely totalled school bag from the pile before she to ascended the stairs and made her way into the Institute.

All and all it was shaping to be just another summer at Mutant Manor.

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STORY NOTES.

Summer: New Zealand has very differernt Summer Vacations to America as not only do ours coinside with Christmas and New Year, making Summer the last season of the year but they also only last six weeks. I did however read on Wikipedia that in America Summer Vaction lasts three months is this correct?

The Mall and 300: I am no longer in the schooling system which means If I have the money and feel so inclined I can go shopping in the middle of the week without being exposed to hoardes of tweens and teeny boppers, which means it absolutely loathe the 2 week holidays between each term as they decend upon every shopping center in my home town like a swarm of sales hungry vultures, so 'A thousand students of....decend upon you' is a running joke between me and my brother who is also no longer in school. In the comics both Kurt and Kitty are both avid movie veiwers.

Ages: This fic is set two years after the end of X-men Evolution and while I am not excatly certain of Rogues age I venture that she is about 17 in the series making her 19 now.

Glandular Fever: Known also as the Kissing Fever as it is contracted through saliva Glandular fever presents itself with normal symptoms of a fever but it can take years to recover fully from as bouts of fatigue and a weakened immune system continue long after the fever has subsided.

Jubilee in China: Jubilee is an orphan. Her parents were Chinese immigrants who while being sucessful in America were ultimately killed in a hit gone wrong. So I propose that the people who came to remove her from the Institute in Mainsteam were not her parents but rather her Chinese Grandparents who took her back to their home in China. The transition wasn't a good or easy one.

Cajun Spice: Yes Remy is living at the Institute now, a lot can happen in two years.

Carats: 24 is apparently the higest purity gold can reach while still being a usuable metal, I could be wrong.

Bilingual: While it was never shown in Canon Storm must speak at least three languages, the first two being English and Swahili can anyone tell me the third?

Anyway that's all for now I apologise for any spelling and gramatical errors. Feel free to tell me what you think I accept critism just please be constructive and polite.

Ari out!