Hello everyone! I'd like to thank everyone who has kept up with the story so far and for adding this bit-o-fiction to you're favorites and story subscriptions as well as sending in you're reviews. This next chapter will have a little comedic effort thanks to our lovely Jubilee.
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Chapter Three
A perfect sunny Saturday. The forecast called for rain, however, thanks to the resident weather witch, everyone was enjoying the pleasant May start to the weekend.
The mansion was alive with flourishing activity and even though I knew that I couldn't take part in the game of touch football going on out on the lawn that didn't mean I could enjoy watching, although listening was probably closer to the truth. Stretched out on a blanket I'd found myself a nice shady spot far away from the high contact sport under a large oak tree. Sitting here makes me miss my home. Drinking sweet ice tea on the porch with dad on warm evenings, playing dress up with my dolls when I was little under the big magnolia in the back yard. In retrospect I think that my life was pretty much a perfect fairy tale.
It really sucks though, you know? You're just going along getting ready for a kiss from you're Prince Charming and reality kicks in and sends you into a tail spin.
I think Mr. Summers just scored a touch down, or at least I think that's what they are whooping and hollering about over there. Lucky them. Sighing I close my book holding my place with my thumb and think. I don't mind being a mutant, I really don't. It's the mutation that I hate. Why couldn't I have gotten a different mutation, something, anything besides this. Something that's actually useful. I don't care about absorbing another persons powers if it means I'm going to hurt someone.
I will never be able to go on dates or kiss a boy, get married or have babies and I've always wanted a baby. Ever since I was a little girl I would treat my dolls like real babies and push them up and down the sidewalk in front of our house in a little kiddie toy stroller.
Logan just came out and I've been staring at him for a while now. I feel so rude and embarrassed to for not going over and saying something after staring at him for so long, but I need to keep a low profile here. There are already enough rumors going around about me...and Logan.
Yesterday I accidentally heard part of a conversation that I wasn't suppose to hear. I wasn't spying, I really wasn't but when I heard my name mentioned I couldn't help listening in.
"You know what I heard? They are totally sleeping together."
"Who?"
"Logan and that new girl, Rogue. That night when she stole his powers she went into his bedroom and just threw herself at him."
"What a slut. I mean she isn't even that pretty."
That's when I stopped listening and that's not even the worst of it. Even some of the teachers think it's true.
Thursday after my last class, gym. I forgot my water bottle so I turned back to get it but the danger room wasn't empty like I thought it was. Scott – Mr. Summers and Dr. Grey were in there talking.
"You don't think it's true do you, Scott? Taking advantage of a poor young girl like that."
"I wouldn't put it past him Jean."
"But-. She can't even touch, we've got proof of that."
"When it comes to sex and Logan? Where there is a will there is a way."
"I think someone should tell the Professor."
"Already did, but he doesn't seem to believer anything is going on. Xavier's too damned trusting sometimes. I think I'm going to have a word or two with Logan. Man to man."
Needless to say it ticked me off to no end. I mean, really? Scott is going to have a 'Man to man' talk with Logan to protect my virtue when we live in a house with one of the most gifted telepaths in the world. If Xavier doesn't think anything is going on, I'm going to put my bet on Xavier. Which brings me to this thought, crime is common but logic is rare.
Way to use the whole noggin there Oh Captain, My Captain.
Sighing lowly I was trying not to let my frustrations get the better of me when I noticed a scent. It was faintly familiar but I never would have been able to place it with the person that it belonged to. Honestly, I don't know how Logan does it. I might just ask him, but that would be the end of my laying low deal.
"Hiya, chica."
Glancing up and to my right a slender, asian girl stood before me and in almost every article of clothing there was something yellow. Her jacket, finger nails, shirt, even her converse all stars were yellow with black laces.
"Hi."
"I'm Jubilee. You're Rogue I know."
Jubilee was bright, not just in attire, but in personality as well and quickly made herself comfortable on my blanket next to me.
Crossing her legs at the ankle, Jubilee leaned her back against 'our' tree and smiled with big bright eyes like she was a kid who'd just won an all expenses paid ticket to Disney World.
"So," Jubilee said attempting an air of mystery, "I hear you're takin' a ride on the wild Bologna pony." she positively beamed.
"Huh?"
"Ya know! Loppin Logan." she made a outrageously ridiculous pony riding gesture. "Word around the water cooler is that Logan is currently shaggin' you're love muffin girl, so spill it. I want all the hot sweaty details."
For a solid minute I had no idea what to say, I couldn't get mad at Jubilee, she simply believed all the rumors and I will say if the rumors hadn't been about me, I would have found Jubilee very funny.
"Jubilee there is absolutely nothing going on between me and Logan. We're just friends."
"So...you and Wolvie aren't humping like rabbits in heat?"
Her expression looked a little crest fallen and yet there was still something in her eyes that told me that by telling Jubilee I wasn't sleeping with Logan was the quickest way to stop all of the gum flapping going on around here.
"No. Why does everyone keep saying things like that?"
"Well...when you're in Logan's room in the middle of the night it's usually not to ask if you can borrow his leather jacket. Unless you're me and in that case he will always say no and let me tell you he is a real grouch when you wake him up out of a dead sleep. So what really happened 'cause all rumors start somewhere."
Jubilee didn't need to remind me that trying to wake Logan was a bad idea.
"My room is just across the hall from his. I heard him yelling in his sleep or at least I assumed it was his sleep it was after one in the morning. I figured he was having a nightmare so I went in to try and wake him and well, I got a little to close 'cause he woke up screaming and the claws came out. When he stabbed me through the chest I didn't know what else to do so I touched him. If it wasn't for his healing I'd probably be dead."
Jubilee was in a stunned silence...for about three seconds.
"I knew it! I knew ole' Wolvie would never de-flower a student. I told Kitty he'd never do something like that. Hey! What do you mean you didn't know what else to do so you touched him?" Her eyes were suddenly alive with curiosity.
I couldn't believe that she didn't know about my skin.
"My mutation is in my skin. I can't have skin-to-skin contact, with humans I take their life force and I absorb some of their powers. I absorbed Logan's healing power."
Her eyes were as big as saucers for a minuet or two. "W-O-W." she said emphasizing every syllable.
"So that's what the deal is with the gloves. I thought it was just a fashion statement. You know how I love yellow? So I wear a lot of yellow. I thought you were just an extreme Opera fan or something. So you really can't touch anyone?"
I nodded slowly. "Nope. Not even plants. I don't really get anything from them but they die all the same."
"Bummer."
Blinking I looked at Jubilee for a second before I started to laugh and not just any old laugh, I mean a real gut buster. It was so strange. She didn't flinch away from me or act like I have some kind of contagious disease, just 'Bummer'.
"Well I'm glad you touched Logan and didn't die." Jubilee stated so matter of fact that it made me laugh a little more before calming back down again.
"Thanks, I am too."
"I'm gonna go and shut these weird-o's up about you being Logan's new hot young Lolita and I'll talk to you later chica! Don't be a stranger."
And just like that Jubilee was up onto her feet lopping away from me leaving me feeling much better about everything that was going on and giving me the sense that I had made a new friend.