Author's Notes:
Wellll, I was so HAPPY with all the reviews I got,so I made another chapter.
I KNOW that my chapters aren't that long ,but..well..it's hARD X_X;; HEh.
Hope you enjoy the story anyway. And again, REVIEW. It makes me want to write, really, it does!
^-^!
Also, Jubile and Gambit are copyrighted by Marvel.(As if you didn't know ^^)
Chapter 2:
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Jubilee shoved her hands in her pockets and buried her face a bit further into her jacket.br
Great. Just GREAT. It was starting to SNOW.BR
*Well DUH Lee,*she thought to herself*You've FINALLY escaped without ANY trouble, of course it's
gonna snow!*
Lee bit her lip, what was she going to do? She could stay outside sleeping on the streets like
always, pick pocketing wallets so she could eat almost everyday...
Her birthday would arrive soon, and she'd be 18. Then, she could stop running away from those
awful people and make an honest living without some damn police officer tracking her down
every time she got a job.
Jubilation Lee sighed sadly. She had always been caught and dumped at her foster home,
some run down orphanage, or juvy hall before winter came. This was the longest she had ever been
escaped and been able to make it on her own.
She stopped in front of a candy store window and looked at her reflection. She looked
younger than her 17 years with all the bright colours she wore. Her jeans were blue and her boots
and T-shirt both hotpink. On her head was a pair of shades, pink again. Over all of this,
she wore a bright, yellow trench coat that kept her warm most fo the time. EXCEPT when it started
snowing and the ice cold air was gonna turn you into a Jubi-sicle. Her recent foster mother had
said that she should wear warmer clothes, but..
Jubilee's face darkened. Unknowingly to her, her usually bright and happy blue eyes had
narrowed slightly and the colour had turned a shade deeper.
*I hate that horrible woman and her husband.Hate their faces, their laughs, their names.
Gary and Helga. AWFUL names. They shouldn't be allowed to have foster children. You'd think
Helga was kind for saying I should wear warmer clothes, but both of us know she only said
that because she'd be blamed if anything happened to me.*
Jubilee removed her right glove. Her skin tingled slightly as the cold air came in contact with
the bare skin.Her pointer finer delicately traced a circle around her left eye,and she remembered
the bruise that had been their only a few weeks ago. A lot of people would say she deserved it,
claiming she did drugs, lied ,stole, and even got into a couple fights from time to time. If the beatings
HAD been for those reasons. It wouldn't have been so bad.
If Jubilee HAD actually done half the things that people claimed she did, it wouldn't have been
so hurtful. Sure,she HAD stolen, and had to tell a fib from time to time, but that was to stay alive. Of course,
this was completely off topic, wasn't it?
*Oh, BSCREW IT/B. These are my thoughts, they can be on or off-topic as I want them to be!*
P
Mutant. Demon girl.
Jubilee clenched her teeth, it wasn't her fault! It WASN'T. How was she able to help it that she
had these powers? It's not like Jubilee ever used them unless she was in serious trouble. The
tauntings she'd received from that awful man and women! The looks they had given her!
They had adored her at first. They seemed to love her with all their hearts, but then they found
out she was a mutant.
Soon the beatings started. It was small at first, a slap on the face here, a smack on her
arm there. Soon, fists were used, belts, whatever was in their hand. She could have fought back,
but didn't. She wouldn't let them make her a murderer. Her powers were her only way of fighting,
she could outrun a cop,sure,but when it came down to it, she couldn't fight worth anything.
She'd endured this for at least 2 months, the last straw was when Gary had held her down and
tried to....
Jubilee hadn't meant to use her powers, but she was glad she did. She still didn't fully
understand what had happened.
She had just gotten scared and the energy things had burst from her hands and threw Gary
into the wall. Helga had come running bellowing out curses and asking what happened. Gary
claimed Jubilee suddenly attacked him, and Jubilee quickly told her side.
Helga beleived Gary. Big surprise.
*It was stupid of you to stay with them that long anyway, Lee. Shoulda told the social workers
everything, or at least ran away that very first time you got slapped.THE FIRST DAMN TIME!*
Jubilee shook her head, no time for regrets now. She should get her mind off of this and think
of something else more important like...um..
BlOod.
BLOOD!? Jubilee's eyes widened and she stared at her hand, it had blood gushing out of it, and
she could see small fibres of glass sprinkled along it, glittering like the snow under her feet.
But how..?
"Hey you!" a very ticked off voice growled,"What's the big idea!? Do you have any idea how much it
costs to get a window repaired!?"
Jubilee's gaze shifted to her hand, the window, then the angry store clerk who had just ran outside.
*Guess I smashed my hand through the window. Note to self about smashing your hand through
windows: Don't.*
"What's going on over here?" a woman's voice rang through the street, a Jubilee saw it
was a cop. figures.
Jubilation smirked slightly, turned around,and ran as the man yelled at her to come back. The cop
lady blinked, then ran after Jubilee, confident that she could get some 16 year old looking punk.
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Drip.Drop.Drip.
The drops of blood fell from her bleeding hand, one by one, into the pure white snow. Tainting
it, making it darker and darker with each drop.
Drip.Drop.Drip
She had lost the police woman easily, the cop was obviously a rookie. Jubilee had
just turned a corner, ducked into an ally, and stayed quiet while the lady ran by her. The cop
was kinda stupid though, the blood trail from Jube's hand had been a pretty good clue of her
where-abouts.
This place looked familiar. Hmm...dude, no way!
Jubilee glanced around, this is where she had found that man last week! The mutant.
If there were mutants that looked like him, she didn't understand what everyone's problem was.
He had awsome eyes, red on black. He would have been a complete babe if he hadn't been so
beat up looking and weak. Poor guy, Jubes hoped he was okay.
*I wonder...if I could lose so much blood that I'd die?"
Drip.Drop.Drip.
Could she? Nah. You didn't die from getting you're hand a bit cut up.
"Y'know, p'tite,"a silvery voice said from the shadows,"Remy here ain't no doctor, but still knows
that a cut up hand with glass in it AIN'T good for a person's health."
P
That man!! That guy with the red on black eyes, how did he recover so quickly?
"You..you're." Jubilee stuttered.
The man nodded, a smile working it's way on his facial feautures. It didn't reach his eyes.
His eyes. They looked how Jubilee felt. Sad. Afraid. Lonley. So....so lonely.
"Remy be t'inkin that you should make your way to the hospital and get that hand o yours
fixed up." he flashed a charming smile.
"N..no thanks man." Jubilee replied, and headed for the street, but stopped when she felt the
man's hand firmly grasp her arm. She turned her head to face him and give him a snippy remark
about grabbing strange girls' arms, but the serious look he gave her had her, for once,
speechless.
"Your hand injury ain't that serious, I've seen AND recovered from worse, but it will turn into
something mighty bad if you just leave it alone. Look at all the blood you be loosing."
His eyes wandered to the pile of snow that had blood stained in it.
"You'll faint soon if you don't get you're tush in that hospital. Remy gonna have to drag you there
himself at this rate."
Jubilee stared awe struck at this stranger, then narrowed ehr eyes,"You have NO right to be
ordering me around! I am just fine, thnak you very..oooh!"
Remy leapt foreward and caught the girl in his arms as she fainted, he then noticed that her hand
hadn't been the only part of her cut up, her wrist had been..Mon dieu!
he had thoguht she was starting to look pale, and all that blood she had lost was a bit much
for a hand injury, he had only been teasing her about her fainting though. He had just said that
because she seemed like the stubborn type, a miniture version of Logan maybe, but still.....
Without a second thought, the former X-men picked the girl up and, returning the favor,
brought her to the hospital before she seriously did die.
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Remy Lebeau gazed at the young girl laying in the bed. Her wrists had been fixed up and bandaged,
and she had gotten a blood tranfusion.
So, this was the girl who had saved the master thief,eh? A young girl of what, 16? 17?
What a week, his secrets revealed, abandoned by his X-men "family", saved by mysterious
person who left him to die across the street from a hospital, then dragged there by a girl who
couldn't be more than 5 years younger then himself.
When Remy had first woken up after the young chinese girl had brought him to the emerggancy ward,
he had been surprised to be alive, to say the least. He was a bit weak still, but healthy.
A couple of meals and some rest fixed him up. The people at the hospital were surprisingly nice,
most of them, save a few nurses, not caring that he was a mutant. All they seemed to see was a
patient, which was good, Remy had enough to angst over.
Lucky for him, Remy's days as a theif had left him with a lot of contacts and favors owed to him.
When he was realeased, and declared mostly healthy, Remy had made a couple calls, and managed to
talk an old friend into lending him a nearby apartment. Not that he needed it, when Remy awoke his
clothes were beside him on a chair, cleaned and folded, with his wallet that was in his
trench coat's pocket still there. He smirked, thinking of the reaction the people had to his
armour which was thankfully still intact by his clothes.
He had been in the hospital for 2 days, left, then went to the apartment.He'd gone. Angsted. Slept
some more, angsted some more, slept again, then realized that angst could make a person really hungry.
At 2 p.m in the afternoon, he went out to go get grocceries, and who was he to see but a black
haired girl, cinese girl with blue eyes.
The girl who had helped him to the hospital. Remy would have walked up to her and thanked her,
but he was sensing bad feelings emitting from her. His eyes widened in surprise as he saw a
side view of her eyes. They looked so...him. They were empty, lonely.... Even when she'd glanced
at him the first time, concern in those eyes, there had been a brightness to them. It wasn't
there this time...
Remy sighed, he was an idiot. Who was he to judge what a person was like by seeing them once.
Suddenly, the girl clenched her teeth, pulled her arm back, and smashed her hand through the
window she was staring in.
Anguish and lonliness covered her face again, then the store clerk emergred from the shop.
Remy watched on curiously, as a cop ran up the street, and the girl bolted.
"I should just leave this situation alone," Remy had thoguht to himself, but didn't. He shook
his head at the cop who ran past the alley a trail of blood was leading to, slipped into
it through the shadows, and saw the girl staring off into space, blood dripping into the snow.
Now here he was, sitting by her bed as she slept.
"Excuse me sir," a nurse interuptted his thoughs and strolled into the room,"I'm sorry to
intterupt you, but we've found this girl's family, and they're just outside."
Remy nodded,put on soem sunglasses, and flashed her a charming smile,"guess I'll be leaving
then."
The nurse blushed a bit, smiled and walked out of the room.
A low groan emerged from the girl's lips, and Remy glanced down at her. She opened her eyes, and
blinked a couple times.
"Do I even wana KNOW what happened?" she sighed in an annoyed voice, and REmy had to hide a grin
as she rolled her eyes. What kind of girl had he stumbled upon?
"WHERE THE HELL IS THAT GIRL!?" A vocie cried outside the door,"I'M SO GODAM TIRED OF HER and hER
STUNTS!!"
The door burst open, and standing there was a man and woman, both looking at least 35.
The woman had mousy brown hair, and her eyes were a flat greyish colour. Saying she wasn't
the prettiest lady in the world wouldn't be an understatement either. The man was nearly bald,
and his clothes were sloppily put on.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" the woman cried, stomped over to Jubilee, grabbed her
wrist, and jerked her out fo bed.
Jubilee clenched her teeth to keep from crying out in pain. The wrist Helga had grabbed had been
the one that had been cut.
"Pardon moi chere,"Remy growled, anger envident in his voice," but what kind fo parent.."
"Who the hell are you!?" the man growled
The same nurse who told Remy that the girl's parents were there peeked into the room,"The doctor
wants to see you too about Miss Lee."
The woman smiled sweetly at the nurse,"Okay, we'll be right their honey."
When the nurse left the woman threw a glare at jubilee, and walked out of the room.
Gary leaned into Jubilee's ear, andsaid in a low voice,"You're going to get it later, You filthy
mutant."
He then stomped out fo the room.
Remy almost shook with anger. what on EARTH just happened!? That bitch of a woman had just walked
in, grabbed the petite by her bad hand, yanked her to her, and screamed at her too. And before that guy
left..the man's voice wasn't as low as he thought, and Remy had heard every word.
Remy wondered how on earth those two were able to keep custody as "Parents" over this girl.
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Jubilee's wrist ached and a deep fear consumed her again.
~You're going to get it later, You filthy mutant.~
What did he mean by that? Did he mean another beating? Or....or....
and..would her powers go haywire again? Would she freak out and...kill?
"Those two aren't you're real parents, are they petite?"
Jubilee snapped her attention to the man beside her . In all the commotion she had forgotten
he was there. She swallowed, put on her usual confident face,and was about to ask him
why he wanted to know when he interuptted her before she could start talking.
"Do you want to come with me?"
Jubilee's jaw dropped slightly, and she stared in surprise at the man. She didn't even KNOW him.
For all she knew, he was one of those...
"Well petite?"
He took off his sunglasses, and gazed at her with his red on black eyes.
What was going on here!? Here she was, being offered to go off with some guy shed never met
before. (Well, yes she did, but she hadn't really talked to him that much.) She knew nothing
about him and there were so many reasons why she shouldn't accept...
"Okay," Jubilee said.
And at that, Remy scooped Jubilee up into his arms, and after a bit of her complaining and
refusing and him reasoning, he jumped out of the window.
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Remy had dropped her on the couch when they'd gotten to the apartment,"So,"
he said,"do you want a hot drink or something?"
ee blinked,"Um..some coffee would be nice."
A grin spread across Remy's face,"I dunno petite, I hear that that stuff may stunt growth, and
you're short as it is.
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!!!" she growled, and Remy had to laugh.
"Fine, fine,"Remy chuckled,"Remy be right back."
"Remember the sugar and miiilk,"the girl sang behind him.
Remy put the kettle on, and wondered why he was doing this. It would have made more sense to just
call the authoritites. Really, Just taking her and sneaking her to his apartment? A lot of people
could get the wrong idea, and they'd be WRONG. Remy Lebeau didn't go for jailbait.
Was it because her eyes were so similiar to his those few moments before her hand shattered the
glass? Before then, when she was concerned and helping him, and even after she woke up and he
brought her home with him,she still had that look. It was barely visisble anymore when she'd
gotten an unknown confidence added to her attitude, but the sadness was still there. She had
placed a mask over her face to hide her emotions, how familiar.
Why?
Why, for some reason, did he feel like she would understand his loneliness? Not just loneliness,
but, Blonliness./B
Being completely alone.
Knowing that you could die and know that no on would care.
Knowing for sure that you don't just feel alone, that you Bare/B
Having the feeling of anguish so strong that you just want to die.
No, she couldn't not a girl her age.
Right?
The water was boiled and ready to be made into tea, coffee, whatever..
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Jubilee looked around the apartment.
*Not too shabby.*
The couch was green, and in front of it was a glass coffee table with various glasses,
astrays, and magazines on it. A T.V was in the centre of the room, and different painting and
furniture were layed about, giving the apartment a classy look. Not to shabby at all.
*Well,I'm officially crazy I guess*
JUbilee smiled slightly. She was, wasn't she. She allowed a strange guy to bring her to this
place, and didn't regret it, she felt safe. Remy. That's what he had called himself. Cool
name, at least.
He walked into the room, a tray with two mugs of coffee in it, and handed one to her. They drank
in silence, both still recovering from what was happening.
"JUbilation Lee." Jubilee said.
Remy glanced at the girl, and raised an eyebrow.
"It's my name,"JUbilee continued,"Call me Jubilee or Lee, anything else, and I'll
be forced to hurt you."
Remy blinked, then grinned at Jubilee as she took another sip of her drink.
The...the ache of his friends abandoning him was still strong, but somehow he knew,he just
KNEW she'd be the one to help him through this. The one to become his family. She would
take care of him, and he would take care of her.
Jubilee realized this too, and for the first time in a long time, she felt safe and truly happy.
She'd just met this guy, and didn't know a thing about him but his name, but for some reason,
felt a link between them. A bond that was formed the moment their eyes met, that was formed
when they saw each other's eyes and knew the other understood the lonliness they both felt,
knew that they were both alone in this world and needed someone.
Lonliness.
No,They were together
Lonliness.
It was just a word now, cause they Bweren't/B alone anymore.
They had eachother.
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JEEEZ,. that took forever to write X_X! BUT, it was fun^^
and I know it's kinda...um...unrealistic, but, well, SHUT UP X_X!
I happen to like my fic, so there :P ~grins~
Also, YES, I DID say that I wouldn't have them automatically fall in love, but I didn't
say anything about unbreaking bonds of trust and crap now did I?^^