It's horrible how lazy I've become... An my mind and memory is just like a black hole; I FORGOT to write on this story! I know I should finish it before that happens again, but don't put too much faith in me, k?
In the door stood Piotr, Bobby, Jubilee and Kitty; all of them talking while walking in. Apparently Jubilee was telling Bobby and Piotr all about how Kitty fell thought the floor and the face of the Professor when the second girl came into the room. Piotr was laughing and Bobby was smiling, but all of them got interrupted when Kitty let out a scream and ran to the bed. She hugged John while babbling like mad;
"And I couldn't believe it, because it all seems so crazy, but I see it, and it's true, I still can't believe it, it's amazing, I…!"
The others arrived and Kitty had to step aside when Bobby wanted to give his share of amazed happiness.
The whole greeting went on for a good ten minutes when Kitty suddenly got everyone's attention with a simple but very loud;
"HEY!"
When she had five pair of surprised eyes on her she figured she could speak in a normal tone;
"What time is it?"
The other looked around, but there was (of course) no watch to check it on. Kitty continued;
"But it is morning, right?"
Now she got nods from all that had been upstairs.
"But… then it's Christmas!"
Now they all stared for about two seconds before another scream echoed through the room;
"WHAT?!"
John looked quite chocked when he stared at Kitty;
"How… How can it be Christmas? I thought…"
Warren smiled;
"We've been asleep longer than you thought, apparently."
John stared at him;
"Longer?!"
"Yes."
"How longer?!"
"Don't know exactly, but it's too late to by Christmas-presents."
With a groan John fell backwards against his pillows and covered his face with both hands, and then he stared to repeat every ugly word that he'd learned through his whole life (half of them he got from Logan, but then the Professor forbid the man to talk in that way since the students heard him). The others could do nothing but laugh at him, and even more when he began to roll back and forward only to fall out of the small medical bed. He almost dragged Warren down as well, since both of them were so tangled up in the covers. The only way the Angel could save himself was to grab a hold to the first thing his waving arms caught; which was Bobby's arm. That, unfortunately, was nothing Bobby had prepared himself for, so he ended up tripping over the bed as well, and almost fall down on the other side to.
Sitting up John began to swear even louder and glare at all his friends, who were just laughing at him.
After catching his breath Piotr stood up;
"You might not have bought any Christmas-presents, but I did, so I'll go and get them."
Jubilee got the hang of the idea immediately;
"Great idea, we celebrate Christmas down here!"
She took a handful of Kitty's pyjamas and dragged her friend out with her. Booby took it all in a slower phase together with Piotr. However, when the two boys reached the main floor they were stopped by a bald man rolling around in a wheelchair.
"Ah, finally you're here. Mr. Drake, you know I have a great patience when it comes to young mutants and their evolving powers, but when they try to kill one of my teachers, and almost succeed, I have to say you've crossed the line!"
He then rolled up to Bobby, placed his hand on the boy's forehead and looked concentrated for a moment. Piotr stared at them, and he could actually see how the colour came back to Iceman's pale face. It all together took about 30 seconds, and then the Professor simply nodded, gave them a;
"Merry Christmas."
And wheeled away. When he was about 20 meters away Booby finally got his voice back;
"What the hell did you do?!"
The Professor smirked over his shoulder;
"I've blocked out a part of your power, a part of your brain. Don't worry, it's not dangerous, but now it won't control you the same way anymore. In time, when you can handle it, it will come back."
He continued down the corridor, and Piotr could swear he heard him mutter;
"I really wish there could be some other way out of this…"
Not understanding what the man meant the Russian just shock his head, and he and Bobby continued up to their rooms to get the presents they'd kept hidden in Piotr's wardrobe. Although he didn't mention it Colossus could tell that his friend seemed much happier and all through more emotional than before.
On their way back down they nicked one of the smaller Christmas-trees in the corridor as well, and at the elevator Kitty and Jubilee needed help with the huge bags of presents…
_ _ _ _ _
Down in their room John had problem sitting still; the fact that he'd been almost dead less than 24 hours ago hadn't changed his happy Christmas-spirit the least. Warren had problems as well, mostly with talking. It isn't an easy task when you try to suppress laughter and at the same time have the source of it next to you, blaming one thing after another for him being asleep for weeks and missing all the things he'd looked forward to, and mix that with admiration of the decorations hanging all over the place (the Angel might have been the only child most of his life, but he could swear on that John was worse that any child, no matter what age). Warrens attempts to calm him down with;
"It's once every year, you'll have tons of Christmases after this one."
"You woke up on Christmas Eve so technically you didn't really miss it."
"They've at least tried to make it as good as it can be down here!"
"I'm sure we can go outside soon enough, so you won't miss the snow."
"Bobby knows you good enough to bring ginger cookies, I'm sure of it."
"You always complained about having all the kids around during the holiday, now you're free of them!"
"If you continue like that I'll tell Piotr not to give you my present!"
To tell the truth it was only the last one that got through to John, and in the middle of his ranting about not having a Christmas tree he dropped dead on the floor.
For a moment they just looked at each other, then both stared again;
"You actually got me a present?!"
"Now get back to bed before you get sick!"
Another moment of silence, which Warren (by some unknown power) was the first one to break;
"Yes, I did… but Piotr has it…I sort of forgot it until now…"
John just continued to stare.
"What?"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Why are you looking at…?"
"How the hell could you get me a Christmas present? We've been together all the time since we met!"
"Well…I…"
"If you didn't got when you though I would die, which would be outright stupid…"
Warren just shook his head and smiled; Piotr and he had agreed that he (Piotr) would help the Angel, since Warren couldn't figure out what to get. So when the big Russian had been out to get "the last stuff" as he called it he kept an eye out for something that Warren could get. And he found it! Through the simple way of getting it by mail and paying for it over internet Warren could then get something that they then hid in Piotr's room (since John spent more time in Warren's room than in his own and might find it). He knew Piotr would bring it along when they came down, and now he just hoped John would like it…
Said mutant had of course started nagging Warren about telling him what he had got for him, and Warren made a point of shutting up and closing his eyes.
But when John fell silent for more than ten seconds Warren couldn't help but to open one eye to look at him, only to discover that Pyro, who somehow seem to find it both funny and annoying that Warren was so good at resisting his puppy-eyes, now was close to push him of the bed to get the Angel to talk to him (the Angel himself wondered slightly how the Pyro could get on a sugar rush in a hospital). To make him shut up Warren put on a snobbish face and said;
"Thanks to my father I have contacts, and I know how to use them to get what I want!"
John fell into silence for about 2 seconds;
"What, is your father a lawyer or something?"
Now it was Warren's turn to stare;
"You don't know?"
John shook his head.
"But…I thought…my name and all…"
Now John remembered, there was something familiar with Warren's name, at least his last name. And Warren had thought John would recognise it right away…but what could it be?
Not much left at least...
