Amusement Parks, Babies,
and Brilliant Plans
Chapter Four
"Julian's Plan"
Julian had spent the last few hours thinking about how he was going to pull off his 'Have a baby so Logan no longer hated him' plan. Clearly going about this the normal way was not an option. If he and Laura were pregnant, he doubted that Logan would let him live long enough to reap the benefits of forgiveness that babies provided. He knew; Logan was never reasonable about it. Plus he would have to talk Laura into the plan, which was risky, what if she said no?
No. He needed to find a way for him and Laura to have a baby without the danger of death for having a baby. So, after a while, he decided he needed to once again talk to Jamie. As far as Julian could tell Jamie had always been here, or at least he had been here when Kaitie came along, so maybe he would know how the LeBeaus pulled it off.
So, he began his search, first looking in Rogue's office (Jamie was obsessed with going in there for some reason). The LeBeau's suite (which apparently they kept locked, seriously, it was like they didn't trust their students to stay out of there, never mind that Julian had just spent ten minutes trying to get in, the lack of trust was alarming.)Then finally, Logan's office. (Jamie had a tendency to hide in there when Logan was looking for him.) Next he tried the public rooms.
"Hey Paige have you seen Jamie?" Julian asked Paige as he walked into the Rec room. He was tired of searching.
"No." She answered without looking up. She was attempting to catch up on her homework, something that Julian hadn't considered yet.
"Darn it. Where could he be?" Julian asked himself out loud.
He headed out of the room before Paige could respond further. He then tried the kitchen, but Rogue's donuts were unopen on the counter, so Jamie hadn't been there this morning, then the Formal Living room.
"Wait." Julian said out loud to the empty room. "Why would he be in here, no one uses this room."
Then he walked over to Jamie's favorite hiding spot, but Jamie wasn't in the tree. He checked the garage, but there was no sign of Jamie there either, nor was he with Rahne in the pool. With a sigh Julian went back inside and began searching the upper levels.
Julian walked into Jamie's room. "He's not in his room…Where else could he be!?" He then remembered what Jamie's favorite past time was. "You know I probably should have thought of that first."
Julian soon found Jamie trying to lure Kaitie again. Jamie was standing behind a potted plant in the ballroom, dressed oddly, while balloon animals and stuffed toys were strewn in a line from the hallway.
"So what plan is this?" Julian asked, looking around to ensure Kaitie wasn't actually in here. If she was her parents wouldn't be far behind, and then it was time to hide.
"Plan W: Lure Kaitie with a clown suit disguised as Remy. I starting to run out of plans; if her mother wasn't so overprotective-"
"That's great Jamie but I came to ask, where can I find a baby? For me and Laura." Julian cut him off, not really caring to hear Jamie's rant again this week.
"Well you always could just touch. I don't understand completely yet but apparently girls get pregnant that way." Jamie suggested, he had listened when Julian explained it, and he'd believed it too. Yet he found the process to disturbing to actually ever think about.
"I've already thought of that. It won't work Logan would kill me before the baby was ever born."
"Mmm…I have other resources but I want you to promise me something first." Jamie replied, delighted at the idea of a new baby.
"Alright. What is it?"
"Actually it's more of a list of demands. First off I want to be able to play with the baby anytime. Anywhere."
"Alright."
"I mean the full access, like Baby Fishing, Car Chasing, Horseback riding with a Pogo stick, Pirate Bed adventures, even Tree Fishing."
"What's that?"
"It's when I sit in my tree and fish for a baby from it, and then pull it up."
"That doesn't sound bad" Julian said as he thought. This is never going to happen. Any of it.
"I also want to be able to mess with the baby to make it use it powers and want it to claim the baby did it instead of me. Babies never get in trouble so both of us will get away from it. That's really it."
"Alright we have a deal. Now where can I get a baby?"
"…I don't know."
"I thought you said you have other resources!?"
"I may have been stretching the truth a little. But I'll come up with something, just don't try to buy a baby from the hospital. They're even worse than Rogue, she never called the police on me."
"Alright."
"Where did Remy and Rogue get their baby?"
"Oh! It just appeared one day."
"Well how does that help me!?"
"Hmm…I don't know."
"Wait didn't that vampire have something to do with it?"
"I don't know…"
"Let me think."
"blah blah blah. I'm a stupid vampire freak blah blah."
"Darn it think harder."
"Blah blah blah. I'm a stupid vampire freak blah blah I made the baby for you blah blah."
"That's it!"
"What!"
"I'll just go ask that vampire to make me a baby."
"Hey I wonder if he takes cash. I can go get one of my own." Jamie didn't really trust Julian to keep his promises. Rogue and Kitty had promised the same thing but when they actually had babies they said something about 'delicate' and 'breakable' and 'alive'.
Jamie ran off to grab his money, while Julian tried to remember if he knew where the creepy vampire lived…or if he knew the guy's name…do vampires have name? Wait! He was pretty sure he saw the vampire hanging out with the talking cat that sometimes was some weird blue lady, who was somehow related to Mrs. LeBeau. He's pretty sure it used to be her pet or something, but if he could find that talking cat, then he could find the vampire. That shouldn't be too hard, after all how many talking cats could there be in Bayville?
"Hey Jamie. I think I figured out how to find that vampire!" Julian said as they snuck past the front gate.
"Really? How?"
"We just to find that talking cat that bugs Mrs. LeBeau sometimes. She knows where the vampire lives."
"Talking cat? Oh I know who you mean, Rogue's mom." Jamie said.
"Wait! Mrs. LeBeau is part-cat? That explains everything." Julian said.
"Yes it does. Wait, explains what?"
"Her moodiness, of course, and here I was thinking that it must be a combination of pregnancy hormones, a horrible childhood , and the traumatic nature of the immersion of her powers. All along she was part cat!" Julian said.
"Oh yeah, I guess that must be it. Cat are horribly stingy with their kittens." Jamie nodded as they headed off in search of a talking cat.