Define Normal

School, Video games, Raking leaves. These are all normal things, that people do everyday. Add in sugar rushes, sworn enemies and budget cuts, however, and it just seems insane.

Starring: Gambit,Rogue,Cyclops, Wolverine, and the rest.

Disclaimer:

I don not own the X-men in any form.

Chapter Two

"A Matter of Great Importance"

Remy sat on the fence of the Xavier Institute, waiting to spot Rogue, before bothering to jump down. He was never able to stay long, once he came beyond the fence. He saw first, Bobby and Amara walking toward the lake, joined quickly by Jamie and Rahne, then ,he spotted Logan over by the woods, raking an impossibly large pile of leaves. Finally he saw Rogue. She was walking across the lawn, her usual scowl on her face, as Kitty and Kurt were explaining something to her.

He waited patiently, until she had escaped the others and was walking along the fence line toward the garage. As she passed under him, Remy jumped silently from the fence, and landed on top of her, knocking her over, and making her yelp.

"Sorry" Remy stated as he helped her up. (He had been working on using this word more often, it seemed to please her.)

"S'kay. What's up?" Rogue said as she brushed off her jeans.

"I need to speak with you on a matter of great importance!" Remy said, grabbing her shoulders and theatrically widening his eyes. "One that could change our lives Forever!"

Before Remy could continue, Logan ran toward them, waving his rake and yelling " Hey, you boy! Get off my lawn!"

Remy quickly stated "We'll talk later." As he jumped back over the fence.

Logan then walked away grumbling." Darn kid, always jumpin fences, knockin down more leaves. Don't anyone know how much work rakin these darn leaves are? Why can't he just use the darn gate?!"

Just then Scott came out of the house, stubble on his chin, and clothing rumpled. He carried with him, as he now always carries, a picture of his lost love…Swiss Rolls. "I heard a commotion. Was he here again? You know how I feel about the cake murder being here!"

"Scott… it's been a month, don't you think it's time to let it go?" Jean asked, as she joined them.

"If you can't support me through this horrific event, I'm not sure how we can be together." Scott replied, clutching the picture to his chest as he walked away.

"God Scott, you're such a drama queen!" Jean said, as she trailed after him. He used to be so cool before we began dating.

Rogue shrugged, and then returned to her original goal, putting expired banana peels under the driver's seat of Jean's car (Jean had drank the last glass of orange juice this morning). "Scott used to be so cool before he started dating Jean. What happened?" Rogue thought as she slipped in the door.

Logan returned to his impossibly large leaf pile, and added the leaves Remy had knocked down. He then went to the garage to get the bags. When he returned, he found the leaves everywhere, Jamie and Rahne sitting in the center of former pile.

Staring first at the children, then at the bags in his hand, Logan screamed, then threw the bags on the ground before walking away. There was no way that he was redoing the leaves today, it was pointless.

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Remy had just returned to the base when Magneto called him into his office.

"I swear, I already did my homework in study hall." Remy began as he sat down.

"No Remy, this isn't about your homework again, though I do want to see it later, this is about the X-men." Magneto replied as the others came in.

"What about em? We ain't their enemies anymore." Remy replied.

"Yes. However, I received a call a few minutes ago. Apparently you were over there causing trouble again? " Magneto said.

"I was not! I just needed to talk to Rogue, so I climbed the fence and ambushed her. Then Logan freaked out for no reason and chased me off the property with a leaf rake. I didn't even get to tell her that-"

"Remy. We are doing are best to get along with our fellow mutants. You ambushing the girl and breaking in does not help this cause. You will not do it again." Magneto stated, cutting Remy off.

"But."He whined. "Then I'd have to use the door! That would ruin my reputation! I always go through windows, expect for HERE, where you put bars on the windows! You know how much of a fire hazard that is? What if we needed to climb out the window?"

"There's a Fire exit." Magneto said, rubbing his head.

"You know that John would burn that too!" Remy argued.

"So now John will be the only case of the fire?" Magneto.

"You know, you can just lift the hitch." Piotr replied.

"That's not the point and-wait there's a hitch?" Remy asked going over to the window to check.

"Thanks." Magneto said with a sigh.

"You're welcome." Piotr.

"Anyway. Why should it matter if I use the gate, or jump over the fence? Either way Claws knows I'm there." Remy asked.

"Because it bothers him that you won't use the gate." Magneto replied, as his headache grew.

"Why should it? I haven't done anything, 'cept visit my friend."

"It wouldn't matter, if you would just knock."

"That's just silly… I t'ief knockin. Moi whole family would be ashamed."

"How would they even know."

"You expect me to lie to my family? What's wrong with you?!" Remy gasped, sounding greatly offended.

"…Never mind" Magneto said. "Just forget it, you are just going to ignore me anyway."

Magneto walked out of the room in search of aspirin, as Remy grinned triumphantly. Now that he had once again won, for the seventeenth time, but who's counting?, he could go back to his favorite pass time. Finding ways to break into the X-mansion. After all, Magneto had just said he could do what he wanted, so he wasn't even breaking any rules, really.

However, before Remy could leave, Magneto reentered the room. He remembered the homework and demanded to see it. Remy hadn't actually finished it, of course, because he'd decided that one, Algebra was stupid, and two he really didn't have to do the work, when he could just say he did, then skip study hall to go hang out at the arcade.

It was the perfect plan, because Mags would never know, and it annoyed the Redhead that was Roguey's enemy. So it was great, that was until Mags wanted to see his work.

"I left it in my locker." Remy stated quickly.

"Well then, John can lend you his books and you can do it again. It would not hurt you to redo some of these lessons." Magneto responded, not believing for a minute that Remy had actually done his homework.

Grumbling, Remy headed to his room to do the Algebra that he had ignored earlier. But for some reason Magneto didn't trust him, and so he was ordered to bring it out and so it at the kitchen table while Victor prepared dinner.

Meanwhile Rogue, who had spent study hall throwing pieces of paper at Jean's head and organizing her playlist, was sitting at Xavier's kitchen table while Logan prepared dinner. She was grumbling furiously at the stupidity of Algebra and Logan's cooking skills. Logan however, ignored the angry girl, and continued to busy himself with dinner.

Rogue had finished thirty-nine of the forty problems, when Logan stated that dinner would be ready in five minutes. Rogue didn't want to waste any of her after dinner, before danger room free time on math, so she jotted down a quick answer and headed up to her room to put her things away.