"Are you sure about this?"
"Don worry Cher, all be out here is field mice and swamp rats."
Ororo place her foot
on top of the window sill, still looking behind her before she
entirely entered her whole body into the inner part of the building.
"This be a dusty girl." Remy said as he kicked a loose
dust covered tile, the dust reached his nostrils and made him cough.
He kept walking around kicking some more loose tiles and checking
under them. Ororo looked around nervously, the fingers on her hands
kept fiddling with one another.
"Nope not here either."
said Remy as he checked under another loose tile, he stood up
straight and raise his arms and put his hands behind his head,
looking at the ceiling for answers.
"I have a bad
feeling about this, we should go! When papa Lebuea finds out about
this we will surely be punished!" pleaded Ororo. Remy just
turned his face from the side giving her a smug look.
"Mon
pere won do anyting if he don know about it. Plus you
haven been exactly pulling your weight around here." Ororo gave
her full attention to what Remy was saying, her nervousness died down
with his words. "The only reason pere keep you cause you good at
pick pocketing." Remy turned his head not showing his jealousy
of Ororo. Ororo smiled a bit as she started to remember how she came
into the Lebuea family two months ago.
Ororo was in the middle
of the park watching the people walk by, going on about their day,
she was looking for the next person that would help her with her free
meal…if they wanted to or not.
She saw a man walking rather
happily whistle ling an unfamiliar tune to her ears, then she saw
another man walking hurriedly, looking at his watch every now and
again, he was obviously late for whatever his destination was. Ororo
observed both of the men as they walked, she noticed that they were
both heading towards each other direction, if neither of them notices
the other they would surely…Ororo smiled and ran into the middle of
the crowed nearing the men.
Jean
Luce was walking rather contently until he collided with the other
man and they both hurdled to the floor. The awkward man got up rather
quickly as he helped Jean Luce up.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I'm so sorry!" He said as he helped Jean up. Jean Luce gave
annoyed look at the moment, but changed it with a smile as he finally
stood straight.
"Is a'ight mon ami, if you keep saying sorry
there will be none left for me to say!" They both chuckled and the
man waved Jean off as he continued on his way. He smiled as he saw
the awkward man leave as he himself continued with his own path.
"Now…" he whispered to himself. "…let's see what we goin
got from busy body." He smirked to himself as he checked his
pockets, but soon after that smirk turned to a frown when he realized
that the wallet he stole wasn't there, neither was his! Now with a
no longer chipper attitude Jean Luce ran after the man that he bumped
into. "Misuer!" he said as he finally caught up to the man and
grabbed him by his collar. "Would you please give back what belongs
to me!" Jean Luce said angrily to the flustered and confused man.
The man just looked at him and said "I don't have the slightest
idea what you mean." Jean Luce shook him a bit when he said this.
"My wallet misuer! Give it back to me now! Or do you want me to
Fais dodo for you!" the man shook away from Jean Luce.
"I
swear I don't know the slightest thing you're talking about! All
I have is my own…my own" the man looked puzzled as he checked all
his pockets even his jacket. "My wallet! Oh no my wallet!" the
man yelled worriedly as he started to search the ground hoping that
he dropped it. Now Jean himself was confused, he knew thieves, for of
course he was one of them! The best he fancied himself, and this man
was obviously no thief.
"Looks like we both been jipped
misuer." He said as he scratched his chin thinking. He heard a thud
not too far from him, he turned to see another two men have crossed
paths to close like he and the gentlemen did and crashed, but
this time he notice a young white haired brown skinned girl
go between them right before they collided, and without even looking
back she kept walking while putting something in her hand under
her ragged brown cloth-like coat. Jean Luce smiled to himself as he
left the other man still searching on the ground vainly. Ororo
skipped away like a normal child enjoying the day, and hid behind a
rock crossing her legs to see what she had earned. Before she could
even think of taking out the wallets, she was grabbed by the arm and
pulled away behind a bush, where no one could see or even care to
look behind.
"Well, well. Looks like I caught me a little white
mouse." Jean Luce said to Ororo as he held her high with one hand
her feet dangling in the air. The three wallets hit the floor after
he spoke; Ororo looked down not wanting to see this stranger in the
eye knowing that she had been caught.
"And it seems this lil
white mouse knows even how to get through the holes of the cheese!"
said Jean Luce as he picked up the wallets from the floor still
holding onto Ororo. He checked all the wallets, and took the one that
belong to him, but also took the money that belonged to the others as
well.
"Come along now." He said to the little caramel
girl as he still held her arm tightly. "We returning these to the
rightful owner." Ororo looked at him shockingly as a sudden
fighting spirit began to grow in her. She started to flail widely,
trying to get him to release her.
"O no you don Cher." He
said to her as he pulled her up to his chest, carrying her tightly.
Jean Luce was surprised to see the awkward man was still desperately
looking for his wallet on the ground.
"Escusemwa misuer but
I've seen to catch the perpetrator." He said as he gave the much
relieved man his wallet.
"Sorry to say, whatever money in it is
gone, she must've gave it to her ring leader." Ororo looked at
him while he was telling his lie.
"Oh thank you! Right now I'm
just happy to have all my credentials back!" the man looked at
Ororo disgustingly.
"You little…" Jean Luce cut him off.
"Now now, she just a petite, she won bother anyone else
where I'm taking her." He motioned to the police station; Ororo
started to tear up and hid her face on Jean's shoulder. Jean Luce
winced a bit at her action but made it unnoticeable to the other man.
"If you don mind, I have to get something first before I take
her, do you mind giving tham this other wallet I found on her." The
man agreed and hurriedly went as he met him. Jean Luce grabbed the
little girl from under her arms and said.
"Damn Cher! You
shocked me pretty good just then! You rub you feet a lot against the
rug or something!" A teary eyed Ororo just kept staring down as she
sniffled, all hope lost in her body. He put her down and started
walking away from the park with her. Ororo started to wonder what was
going on because she noticed they were getting further and further
away from the police station. She gave a puzzled look at the tall
man, and when Jean Luce noticed that the little mischievous girl was
looking at her he just smiled at her, Ororo looked back down. After a
long walk they both seemed to reach a destination in a swampy
woodland area.
"Now.." Jean Luce said as he knelt
beside her still holding her hand.
"..do you have any p'ants
lil one?" The little white haired girl just gave him a blank
stare.
"A mommuh and a pappuh? A o'pa perhaps?" He
continued. Ororo just stared at the strange accented man as he said
"Another orphan increab!" Jean Luce scratched his head
at this statement.
"Do you have a name lil one?" Ororo
once again gave him a blank stare.
"C'mon now a name!
My son is name is Remy and my name is..." before he finished he
noticed the little girl was pulling out a necklace and at the end
of it a locket that she tried to open but couldn't. Finally
giving up on opening it she handed it to the man standing before
her. Jean Luce opened the locket; he saw a picture of a
couple holding a toddler in their arms who seemed to be distracted by
a wandering butterfly. Jean Luce smiled at the picture, but then
frowned when he noticed the picture had hints of old dry blood
stains on it. Behind the locket the word Ororo Munroe was
engraved on it.
"Ororo." He smile at her and
rubbed her cheek. Ororo smiled back recognizing her name.
"Don
look like you speak much engless do ja." said Jean Luce as he
got up again and started walking, tagging Ororo along. "Well.."
he started with a less nervous Ororo walking along side of him, she
too was holding hand. "Looks like Remy just goin to have to
teach ja non?" He looked down at her and smiled as he walked
toward his home, Ororo still confused but not scared walking beside
him heading towards a strange house, a house that will become her new
home.
Remy started to pull on the wallpaper and the noise
snapped Ororo back to the present.
"We should have left this
for the grownups to handle like they wanted to." She pouted as
she crossed her arms across her chest, no longer scared of her
surroundings. Remy ignored her of course, as he usually did so he can
get things his way. He kept ripping the wallpaper till he noticed
someting less dull about the wall.
"Now we getting
somewhere!" he said as eagerly ripped the rest of the wall
paper, ripping it so hard he fell to the ground. Ororo ran to him to
help him up but he just shoved her off.
"Are you okay?"
She questioned as he dusted himself off and got up from the ground.
"I'm fine O-ro-ro!" He said mockingly as he sticked his
tongue out at her. She just frowned at his expression.
"Look,
if this is wat I tink it is then pere will surely praise us! And if
it ain't, we just don tell him wat we been doin, trie bien?"
Ororo sighed and gave in to the Cajun boy with unruly reddish brown
hair, who was intently looking at the metallic part of the wall.
"It
has a lock on it, but that can be fixed." Remy smiled to himself
as he said this. He took out from his pocket a long slender two edge
pin, he stucked the pin into the lock n started working at it. Ororo
watched interestingly as Remy worked at it, suddenly a look of worry
crossed above her face.
"I don't think it should be that e-"
before she can finish Remy picked the lock open.
"Got it!"
and with the end of that phrase the alarms went off.
"Merede!"
Time to fly Cher!" Remy grabbed whatever the box contained and
started to run with Ororo right behind. They both jumped out the
window they entered but were greeted by two guard dogs.
"Merede."
this time said Ororo picking up on the Cajun's lingo. Remy pulled
Ororo back into the window.
"Let's bust through the other
end!" he yelled at her still holding on to her hand while they
ran to the other side of the building.
"Cover your face!"
Remy and Ororo both jumped similtanuesly through the glass window,
glass shattering every where they both rolled to the ground rolling
down a hill.
"REMY!"
Ororo yelled as she kept rolling.
"WHAT!"
he yelled back at her, they were no longer rolling but sliding down
the hill.
"LOOK!" Remy realized what Ororo was yelling
about there were about to slide off a cliff! Both of the children
tried to stop them self from continuing but the hill was to steep and
the momentum too much, all Remy could do was grab onto Ororo's hand
as he told her
"Don let go!" but Ororo had already slid
off the edge the only thing keeping her from falling was Remy grasp,
and the only thing keeping him from falling was the grasp of dirt and
grass he held on the edge of the cliff.
"Look what we got
here." a voice said above the two dangle ling children. The man
grabbed the small boy's hand and held him up.
"Don worry.."
he began as he looked at the two scared and dirty children still
hanging on to one another.
"..I won tell anybody...and
neither will you." He dropped them to the abyss as he smiled at
the sounds of young yells fading away into the darkness; he stared
for a bit off the edge of the cliff and then walked away. Remy still
felt the tears escape through his tightly pressed eye lids as he felt
himself hurdling closer to his death, the wind passing by against his
body...but suddenly, the felt of the wind change, more like a lifting
sensation. Noticing that he still hadn't hit the ground he opened his
eye slowly not knowing what to expect. And expect he did not, for to
his amazement he was floating in the air! Floating up the cliff!
Floating pass the cliff! Remy was enjoying himself even though he was
still quite confused but then realized where was Ororo?! And with
that thought a few strands of white hair slapped him across the face,
and there she was right beside of him her face in a daze her blue
clear eyes now fogged white, her arms raised beside her as if she was
a witch conjuring up a spell. Remy watched her as they landed on the
ground. Ororo looked like a spell had been casted on her she just
stood there staring into the darkness with her still fogged covered
eyes. Remy step closer to her. Not sure what to do. He waved his hand
in front of her face, no reaction. Hesitating to touch her he slowly
put his hand on her shoulder and said
"Ororo?" Ororo
snapped her gaze towards Remy's direction her fogged white eyes came
back to her natural yet rare crystal blue ones, and with a couple of
seconds staring at a taken aback Remy, she fainted and fell to the
ground. "Ororo!" Remy yelled as he shook her on the ground.
Remy looked behind him cause he heard footsteps. He shook her even
wildly
"Ororo please!"
"REMY! What happened!"
yelled Jean Luce angrily but then noticed Ororo was on the floor
unconscious and his anger quickly turned to worry. He picked her up
gently and looked at his son.
"Porqua
Remy, porqua?" Mr. Jean Luce sadly said to his son. Remy looked
down from his father gaze feeling his disappointment.
"Papa
Remy didn't tink.." he trailed off not knowing what to say.
Jean just turned around and started walking towards their home.
"Papa Lebuea got a lot of words to say to son Remy when we
bout home you got that." Remy still looking down followed
his father slowly and replied
"Yes papa, Remy understand."
He only looked at Ororo once wondering about what just happened on
the cliff.
