Chpt 3- Rememberances
*Lights out, girls, in 5 minutes.*
"Oh, thanks Prof!" Miracle said.
Ever since after lunch, the four girls have been inseperable, helping the sisters unpack. They were now in Rogue and Miracle's room, and have been since dinner, gossipping for hours, breaking only to say good-bye to the sister's aunt, whom they could always stay in touch through e-mail, like Kitty did with her parents. The group was now closer than they have ever imagined, especially the two pairs of roommates.
"So, like, who exactly is the oldest in here? I mean, like, besides the Prof and Mr. Logan and Ororo and Scott and... well, the rest," Kitty inquired, absentmindedly stroking her cat's fur as she purred with content. She was kinda tired of being the baby of the group.
"I am," Miracle said. "I just turned fifteen in May."
Rogue shook her head. "Sorry, I'm the oldest. I turned fifteen a while ago."
"I turned fifteen... AFTER Rogue," Kitty pouted.
"I just turned fourteen," Amarantha said quietly. "I guess that means I'm the youngest out of everyone," Mara sighed. "Again... I'm always the last in line."
Mir laughed. "At least you know where to go, even if you don't know where you're going."
Mara rolled her eyes.
"Our birthday is May 2nd," Miracle added.
"You two share a birthday?" Rogue inquired.
"My mother wasn't informed of when I was born, so when she adopted me, she said I could just share the birthday with my sister. I don't remember my real parents, I was real little when they died. I grew up with Mother, and Miracle, with Aunt PL right across the road and Auntie Selene next door, pratically.. Until..." Mara's face grew bleak, as well as Mir's. Mara looked down while Mir looked out the window. Kitty and Rogue exchanged looks.
"Sorry to hear..." Kitty muttered.
"Even more sorry to live out. I know there's more out there that they aren't telling us." Miracle said. "And I swear, I will find out. Even if I have to kill to get my way," she said threateningly. Mir looked at her sister, who had placed a concerned hand on her arm.
"You... you can't mean that, Mir. You shouldn't. They'll probably tell us when we're ready to handle it..."
"Well, why can't we know now? Why can't we know where my father is- who he is, if I even had one at all!" She stood dramatically. "Why can't we know why Mother left? Why can't we know why, if we ever broach these subjects, Aunt PL always demurrs? Why can Aunt PL do more powerful stuff than us? And what the world does PL stand for anyway?"
"Miracle, calm down! I'm sure ya'll will know in due course."
"Yeah, I mean, like, believe me, we know how it feels to have so many, like, unanswered questions eating away to your mind," Kitty said.
"Anyway, right now, let's wonder why Kurt really gave Kitty Katherine to keep." Rogue grinned slyly at the blushing Kitty. Mir sat down and glanced at Kitty with interest.
"You love him! You wanna have, like, 10,000 of his babies!" (AN: okay, I don't own THAT either. That's copywrite of the people from American Beauty.)
"Do not!"
"Oh, admit it. Come off, will ya?" What was originally a tease turned into a stroke of terror. Miracle's face went blanche, and her eyes went distant and cold. Amarantha watched in terror.
"Mir..." she whispered. The others watched closely.
"Miracle..."
"Yoo hoo... you home, Mir?" Rogue asked, waving her hand in front of her new friend's face. Mara grabbed her hand and shoved it away.
"You can't do that!" she whispered still. "She's remembering. I don't know what, but we'll find out when she wakes up. For now, we can't disturb her."
"Wakes up?" Kitty wondered.
The three girls looked at Mir with wonder and suspense. All of a sudden, Miracle starting breathing hard, and her hand reached out in front of her, searching for something.... her face remained cold and heartless. Mara grasped her sister's hand, and then the color came back to Mir's cheeks, and the sparkle back in her eyes. She slowly looked at Mara, and started to speak.
"She used to say that phrase. 'Come off.' That's why..."
"Mir, we say it all the time."
"I know. Do you remember Mother's familiars? Tobias the hawk and Minuit the tabby cat? Back then we couldn't pronounce their names right so we called them Toby and Min. And the monkey! Toodles was always getting into trouble, especially when we went to 'Auntie Selene's' house. Remember, Mother's best friend? Yeah, she was an angel with wings, one of the few who wanted them. I remember she had long black hair..."
*Girls, lights out was several minutes ago. Remember, tomorrow our new schedule begins. Training is from 8:30 to 11:30 and 1:00 to 4:00. Now, good night.*
"Alright, Prof! Good night!" Kitty said. She went around and turned off all the lights, then went back to the group. There was a little moonlight streaming through the window, shining on the four girls, which provided enough light to finish the conversation.
"Anyway, Mir, continue," Kitty said eagerly.
"Well, one day, Aunt PL, Mother, and Selene had a fight. Selene didn't want Mother to give us to Aunt PL and move out of Xan- I mean, to Florida. Mother and Aunt PL obviously did. Selene kept saying that 'Colleen isn't around anymore, you killed her. Wait, you did better than that. You destroyed her. There is absolutely no chance of her coming back and bringing harm to you or your kids. I just don't want you making a mistake that could ruin your life as a mother and their lives as well.' And Mother came back with, 'Come off, Selene, this is for their safety only, I swear, I'm not running away.'"
Mara and Mir looked ghostly in the moonlight. Kitty and Rogue looked at each other momentarily.
"Well obviously she lost the argument." Rogue said.
"Amarantha?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you recollect any 'Colleen' at all?"
Mara shook her head. "No, I don't. I honestly don't."
Kitty stood up. "I think we should resume this conversation in the morning. Should we, like, wake up a little earlier, just in case we're too busy?"
The others nodded in agreement.
"Alright then. See you guys at 6:30. Come on, Mara."
Reluctantly the girls said their goodnights and Mara held onto Kitty, who, while holding Katherine, phazed through the walls and finally reached their room.
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As Mara and Kitty were getting ready for bed, Mara noticed Kitty's stuffed animal, the cute little dragon she always sleeps with.
"Oh, what a cute little dragon!" she cried. (AN: Hey, I'm repetitive, so what?)
"Oh, this old thing? My parents, like, got it for me at a carnival when I was, like, younger." Kitty admired the dragon lovingly. "It still doesn't have a name."
"Can I help with that?"
"Yeah, sure!"
"Hmmm.... How about Kazul?"
Kitty gasped. "You read the Enchanted Forest series too?"
"Are you kidding? It's my favorite!"
"Mine too! I guess the name Kazul kinda fits, since she's my favorite character. I get kinda dissappointed that she doesn't appear often in the later books."
"My favorite character is Morwen, the witch. She kinda reminds me of someone... but then again, it's kinda hard to pick a favorite in that series! I love them all!"
Kitty laughed. "Alright then. Her name is Kazul." Kitty then got into bed and hugged Katherine close. "Ya know what? I think it's totally cool that you came here."
"You don't regret anything?" Mara got underneath the covers.
"No... I really don't."
"Neither do I... Goodnight, Kitty."
"G'night, Amarantha."
"Goodnight Katherine! Goodnight Kazul!"
Giggles erupted.
"Goodnight, Kazul. Goodnight, Katherine! Oh, she's totally asleep already!'
"Well then, I guess we'd better follow suit. See you in the morning."
"See you in the morning."
Soon after, the room was dead still, as Mara lay silent, there in the dark, and not a sound came from Kitty, or Katherine, except the heaving breathing that comes with sleep.
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"Mara?"
Amarantha sat up to the sound of her sister whispering her name. She rubbed her eyes, trying to become accustumed to the dim light.
"Mara, I'm so glad you're awake!"
"Shh... Miracle! Don't wake up Kitty!" She glanced over at her sleeping roommate, Katherine sleeping in between her owner and Kazul.
"Don't worry... I won't."
"Besides, I wasn't asleep anyway. What are you doing here?" They continued their newly started dialogue in hushed whispers.
"What do you mean? I came here with you, on the plane, with Aunt PL..."
"Mir, you know that's not what I meant!"
Mir quietly laughed. "I know. I had to talk to you about something."
"About your memory?"
"No. Why you can't sleep."
"I..." Mara blushed. "You know why, Mir."
"You know how Aunt PL told us not to take the diskette with all the songs sung by Mother?"
"Yes... oh, Miracle! You didn't!"
"Shh..." Mir giggled. "Yes, I did. And I want you to have it tonight. Tomorrow I'll make a copy for myself."
"But..."
"No buts. Enjoy it tonight. I'll be fine. Don't worry." In the moonlight Mir smiled. "I've memorized the songs anyway."
"Well, so have I-"
"Mara, please let me go to sleep with the knowledge that you have a little piece of her for now!"
Mara looked down. "But what about you?"
"Oh, I've got something... I'll see you tomorrow. Sweet dreams, little one."
"Sleep, pretty one."
"You're pretty too."
"But since I'm the little one, I can't be the pretty one."
"Fine, but only according to the song."
As Miracle opened the door and left, her sister could hear her singing the first lullaby on the disk...
"Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep."
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"GOOD morning New York! It's 6:00 am, and what a WONder-"
Miracle slowly opened her eyes. "Oh, yes. WONderful morning... blah dee blah blah, like, blah... Wait, that's Kitty's line..." She groaned and looked on the floor to where the radio lie.
"Shoot... I'll never get out of this bad habit..." She got out of bed and fixed the radio, checking it to make sure she hadn't broken it when she knocked it off the nightstand. She then looked over at Rogue to check to see if she was still breathing, she was sleeping so soundly.
"Rogue... Rogue, wake up! Rogue!"
Rogue swatted the air above her and muttered into her pillow. Mir laughed. "Rogue... come off!" Miracle braced herself, hoping that last night's comment would wake her friend. She succeeded.
"Wah.. what? Oh, Mir..." Rogue sat up and looked around. "That's right. I'm in here now." She looked up at Mir and yawned. "Oh, it's too early."
Miracle nodded her agreement. "Mara would most likely want to get dressed first..."
"Kitty does that too."
"...so I suggest we do so as well. Flip ya for the bathroom." Miracle grabbed a quarter off the night table, showed it to Rogue, and flipped it.
"Tails!" Rogue cried out. She and Mir peered over the end result...
... And, as Miracle laughed in the shower, Rogue pouted on her bed.
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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP-
SMACK!
A hand phazed through the alarm clock, trying to turn it off. The alarm clock started to beep out of control on the fritz. Finally the hand solidified and successfully knocked it to the ground.
Kitty opened her eyes as she realized the alarm clock was now on the floor, and that her hand was in midair. She groaned and sat up, rubbed the sleep from her eyes, and glanced around. She noted that Katherine was lying in front of the window, her tail flicking back and forth, silently watching the world outside.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm here," she said sleepily. She looked over the alarm clock and groaned. "Oh, man, I totally busted it. Now I'm, like, gonna have to buy a new one..." Kitty looked over at the sleeping figure in the next bed. "Mara... time to get up." She got up and shook her new roommate. "Mara..."
Mara groaned and pulled the covers over her head. "Oh, Aunt PL, five more minutes, please!"
Kitty laughed. "Sorry, Amarantha, this isn't Florida."
Mara sat up and smiled at Kitty. "Kitty? Oh, I'm sorry." She removed the small modern headphones from her ears and wrapped them around a small diskette player.
"Should we get dressed now, or later?"
"Well, we should now, in case we don't have any time later..."
Kitty nodded in approval and mentioned towards the bathroom. "Do you wanna get ready first?"
"You should... I will tomorrow."
Kitty shrugged and grabbed her bra and panties, then went into the bathroom.
"Oh!" She poked her head out. "Like, make sure Katherine has enough food for me... please!"
'Oh, sure!" Amarantha smiled at her new friend as Kitty nodded and ducked back inside. Soon Mara could make out the sound of the shower running as Katherine purred around her, trying to get to her food dish (which Kitty had conveniently "borrowed" from the kitchen).
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"Rogue?"
"Mir?"
Kitty and Mara (and Katherine!) phazed through the wall sometime later, and even then, after having paused to shake their heads at how Kurt slept, with his arms twisted in some weird arrangement, and his tail hanging off the bed and the pillows all over (Kawaii desu! ^_^) .
"Mara? Rogue's in the shower." Mir looked at her sister from her bed and smiled. Both of them had soaking wet hair, Mara a little more than Miracle. Kitty of course had dried hers and put her brown hair up in the usual ponytail.
The sisters were wearing their uniforms for the first time. Mara's was black mixed with a deep lavender, and the belt was gold, with the X-Men symbol on it. Mir's was black and gold, and the belt was an ivory white with the X-Men symbol on it as well.
At that moment Rogue walked out of the bathroom, decked out in wet hair, her bra, panties, and a towel.
"Oh, hey guys," she said. If she was embarrased, she didn't show it. While the others continued the conversation, she changed into her outfit.
"Mir? Do you remember anything else?" Mara asked.
Miracle shook her head. "Although... I did dream."
Mara looked at her sister sympathetically. "Was it about your rememberance?"
"Sort of..." she paused. "It was as if she never left." Mir smiled at the nice thought. "It was so cool... That's what I was talking about, when I said that I had somehting else to remember her by, besides the songs..."
"Oh!" Mara cried. "I remembered the disk..." She brought out the mini diskette and handed it to her sister. "I'm so sorry you couldn't listen to it last night..."
"It was your turn to put in your player anyway," Mir shrugged as she took it and put it in a diskette burner. "I already bought a blank diskette, so this should take a second..." She pressed a button, and everyone could hear a whirring sound.
"What exactly is that?" Rogue asked. Finally dressed, she peeked over Mir's shoulder. Mir turned around and looked her in the eye.
"You'll see tonight." She heard her sister gasp.
"Miracle! You can't-"
"Why not? We can't hog her all to ourselves."
Mara looked down. "I suppose you're right."
Miracle looked at Rogue. "This is the only piece of our mother we have left. Unfortunately, we can't play it now- everyone would fall asleep. But now we can actually play them out loud in the room at night again... that is, if you guys choose to." She looked at Mara and Kitty. Kitty looked at Mara, who nodded sadly.
"Oh, Mara, I'm not forcing you to-"
"But you're right, Mir. We can't keep her beautiful voice locked up forever."
Mir smiled. "Her voice really is magical."
"What exactly is on the disk?" Kitty asked.
"Lullabies. Aunt PL has played them for us ever since Mother left... and Mother has been singing them to me since I went to live there. Before we left, she recorded them on a disk for us."
"And I'm sure she's been singing to me since I was born."
"It was something to remember her by..."
"I wish all parents were like that," Kitty said forlornly. "If, ever they should, like, go away."
All four girls thought about that statement, in their own way.
"Hey, what time is it?" Kitty broke the silence. Everyone looked at the clock.
"7:30?!" Rogue exclaimed. "Oh, if we don't start gettin' to the dinin' hall, there won't be any food left!"
"Like, what are we waiting for, then? Let's go!"
"WAIT!" Everyone looked at Amarantha. "Can we... umm..." she flustered. "..check to make sure Kurt can take some of us? Nothing against you, Kitty," she hurried to reassure, "it's just that..." She looked warily at the wall.
Kitty laughed. "I understand. I guess after something like yesterday, I wouldn't, like, want to go around phazing through walls to any long distances, like, any time soon either. Especially if it was, like, my first time."
"Ya know, we're getting spoiled. Shouldn't we just use stairs like normal people?"
... The silence... was deafening.
"Oh, honestly, Mir," Rogue said, "Since when are we 'normal?'"
"True..."
"Alright then. Let's go!" Kitty grabbed her friends' hands, Katherine content on her shoulder, and phazed through the wall to Kurt's room.
"Oh, Kurt! Somebody's got a crush!"
"ROGUE! I, like, totally do not!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I, like, don't!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I totally DON'T!"
As the two bickered back and forth, Mir and Mara glanced helplessly at Kurt, who was watching with wonder.
"Are they always like this?" Mir asked, jabbing a thumb in the beautifully matched pair's direction.
Kurt nodded nervously.
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*Kawaii desu* Cute! (Japanese... desu really doesn't mean anything. I just know kawaii means cute! ^_^)
*Lights out, girls, in 5 minutes.*
"Oh, thanks Prof!" Miracle said.
Ever since after lunch, the four girls have been inseperable, helping the sisters unpack. They were now in Rogue and Miracle's room, and have been since dinner, gossipping for hours, breaking only to say good-bye to the sister's aunt, whom they could always stay in touch through e-mail, like Kitty did with her parents. The group was now closer than they have ever imagined, especially the two pairs of roommates.
"So, like, who exactly is the oldest in here? I mean, like, besides the Prof and Mr. Logan and Ororo and Scott and... well, the rest," Kitty inquired, absentmindedly stroking her cat's fur as she purred with content. She was kinda tired of being the baby of the group.
"I am," Miracle said. "I just turned fifteen in May."
Rogue shook her head. "Sorry, I'm the oldest. I turned fifteen a while ago."
"I turned fifteen... AFTER Rogue," Kitty pouted.
"I just turned fourteen," Amarantha said quietly. "I guess that means I'm the youngest out of everyone," Mara sighed. "Again... I'm always the last in line."
Mir laughed. "At least you know where to go, even if you don't know where you're going."
Mara rolled her eyes.
"Our birthday is May 2nd," Miracle added.
"You two share a birthday?" Rogue inquired.
"My mother wasn't informed of when I was born, so when she adopted me, she said I could just share the birthday with my sister. I don't remember my real parents, I was real little when they died. I grew up with Mother, and Miracle, with Aunt PL right across the road and Auntie Selene next door, pratically.. Until..." Mara's face grew bleak, as well as Mir's. Mara looked down while Mir looked out the window. Kitty and Rogue exchanged looks.
"Sorry to hear..." Kitty muttered.
"Even more sorry to live out. I know there's more out there that they aren't telling us." Miracle said. "And I swear, I will find out. Even if I have to kill to get my way," she said threateningly. Mir looked at her sister, who had placed a concerned hand on her arm.
"You... you can't mean that, Mir. You shouldn't. They'll probably tell us when we're ready to handle it..."
"Well, why can't we know now? Why can't we know where my father is- who he is, if I even had one at all!" She stood dramatically. "Why can't we know why Mother left? Why can't we know why, if we ever broach these subjects, Aunt PL always demurrs? Why can Aunt PL do more powerful stuff than us? And what the world does PL stand for anyway?"
"Miracle, calm down! I'm sure ya'll will know in due course."
"Yeah, I mean, like, believe me, we know how it feels to have so many, like, unanswered questions eating away to your mind," Kitty said.
"Anyway, right now, let's wonder why Kurt really gave Kitty Katherine to keep." Rogue grinned slyly at the blushing Kitty. Mir sat down and glanced at Kitty with interest.
"You love him! You wanna have, like, 10,000 of his babies!" (AN: okay, I don't own THAT either. That's copywrite of the people from American Beauty.)
"Do not!"
"Oh, admit it. Come off, will ya?" What was originally a tease turned into a stroke of terror. Miracle's face went blanche, and her eyes went distant and cold. Amarantha watched in terror.
"Mir..." she whispered. The others watched closely.
"Miracle..."
"Yoo hoo... you home, Mir?" Rogue asked, waving her hand in front of her new friend's face. Mara grabbed her hand and shoved it away.
"You can't do that!" she whispered still. "She's remembering. I don't know what, but we'll find out when she wakes up. For now, we can't disturb her."
"Wakes up?" Kitty wondered.
The three girls looked at Mir with wonder and suspense. All of a sudden, Miracle starting breathing hard, and her hand reached out in front of her, searching for something.... her face remained cold and heartless. Mara grasped her sister's hand, and then the color came back to Mir's cheeks, and the sparkle back in her eyes. She slowly looked at Mara, and started to speak.
"She used to say that phrase. 'Come off.' That's why..."
"Mir, we say it all the time."
"I know. Do you remember Mother's familiars? Tobias the hawk and Minuit the tabby cat? Back then we couldn't pronounce their names right so we called them Toby and Min. And the monkey! Toodles was always getting into trouble, especially when we went to 'Auntie Selene's' house. Remember, Mother's best friend? Yeah, she was an angel with wings, one of the few who wanted them. I remember she had long black hair..."
*Girls, lights out was several minutes ago. Remember, tomorrow our new schedule begins. Training is from 8:30 to 11:30 and 1:00 to 4:00. Now, good night.*
"Alright, Prof! Good night!" Kitty said. She went around and turned off all the lights, then went back to the group. There was a little moonlight streaming through the window, shining on the four girls, which provided enough light to finish the conversation.
"Anyway, Mir, continue," Kitty said eagerly.
"Well, one day, Aunt PL, Mother, and Selene had a fight. Selene didn't want Mother to give us to Aunt PL and move out of Xan- I mean, to Florida. Mother and Aunt PL obviously did. Selene kept saying that 'Colleen isn't around anymore, you killed her. Wait, you did better than that. You destroyed her. There is absolutely no chance of her coming back and bringing harm to you or your kids. I just don't want you making a mistake that could ruin your life as a mother and their lives as well.' And Mother came back with, 'Come off, Selene, this is for their safety only, I swear, I'm not running away.'"
Mara and Mir looked ghostly in the moonlight. Kitty and Rogue looked at each other momentarily.
"Well obviously she lost the argument." Rogue said.
"Amarantha?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you recollect any 'Colleen' at all?"
Mara shook her head. "No, I don't. I honestly don't."
Kitty stood up. "I think we should resume this conversation in the morning. Should we, like, wake up a little earlier, just in case we're too busy?"
The others nodded in agreement.
"Alright then. See you guys at 6:30. Come on, Mara."
Reluctantly the girls said their goodnights and Mara held onto Kitty, who, while holding Katherine, phazed through the walls and finally reached their room.
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As Mara and Kitty were getting ready for bed, Mara noticed Kitty's stuffed animal, the cute little dragon she always sleeps with.
"Oh, what a cute little dragon!" she cried. (AN: Hey, I'm repetitive, so what?)
"Oh, this old thing? My parents, like, got it for me at a carnival when I was, like, younger." Kitty admired the dragon lovingly. "It still doesn't have a name."
"Can I help with that?"
"Yeah, sure!"
"Hmmm.... How about Kazul?"
Kitty gasped. "You read the Enchanted Forest series too?"
"Are you kidding? It's my favorite!"
"Mine too! I guess the name Kazul kinda fits, since she's my favorite character. I get kinda dissappointed that she doesn't appear often in the later books."
"My favorite character is Morwen, the witch. She kinda reminds me of someone... but then again, it's kinda hard to pick a favorite in that series! I love them all!"
Kitty laughed. "Alright then. Her name is Kazul." Kitty then got into bed and hugged Katherine close. "Ya know what? I think it's totally cool that you came here."
"You don't regret anything?" Mara got underneath the covers.
"No... I really don't."
"Neither do I... Goodnight, Kitty."
"G'night, Amarantha."
"Goodnight Katherine! Goodnight Kazul!"
Giggles erupted.
"Goodnight, Kazul. Goodnight, Katherine! Oh, she's totally asleep already!'
"Well then, I guess we'd better follow suit. See you in the morning."
"See you in the morning."
Soon after, the room was dead still, as Mara lay silent, there in the dark, and not a sound came from Kitty, or Katherine, except the heaving breathing that comes with sleep.
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"Mara?"
Amarantha sat up to the sound of her sister whispering her name. She rubbed her eyes, trying to become accustumed to the dim light.
"Mara, I'm so glad you're awake!"
"Shh... Miracle! Don't wake up Kitty!" She glanced over at her sleeping roommate, Katherine sleeping in between her owner and Kazul.
"Don't worry... I won't."
"Besides, I wasn't asleep anyway. What are you doing here?" They continued their newly started dialogue in hushed whispers.
"What do you mean? I came here with you, on the plane, with Aunt PL..."
"Mir, you know that's not what I meant!"
Mir quietly laughed. "I know. I had to talk to you about something."
"About your memory?"
"No. Why you can't sleep."
"I..." Mara blushed. "You know why, Mir."
"You know how Aunt PL told us not to take the diskette with all the songs sung by Mother?"
"Yes... oh, Miracle! You didn't!"
"Shh..." Mir giggled. "Yes, I did. And I want you to have it tonight. Tomorrow I'll make a copy for myself."
"But..."
"No buts. Enjoy it tonight. I'll be fine. Don't worry." In the moonlight Mir smiled. "I've memorized the songs anyway."
"Well, so have I-"
"Mara, please let me go to sleep with the knowledge that you have a little piece of her for now!"
Mara looked down. "But what about you?"
"Oh, I've got something... I'll see you tomorrow. Sweet dreams, little one."
"Sleep, pretty one."
"You're pretty too."
"But since I'm the little one, I can't be the pretty one."
"Fine, but only according to the song."
As Miracle opened the door and left, her sister could hear her singing the first lullaby on the disk...
"Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep."
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"GOOD morning New York! It's 6:00 am, and what a WONder-"
Miracle slowly opened her eyes. "Oh, yes. WONderful morning... blah dee blah blah, like, blah... Wait, that's Kitty's line..." She groaned and looked on the floor to where the radio lie.
"Shoot... I'll never get out of this bad habit..." She got out of bed and fixed the radio, checking it to make sure she hadn't broken it when she knocked it off the nightstand. She then looked over at Rogue to check to see if she was still breathing, she was sleeping so soundly.
"Rogue... Rogue, wake up! Rogue!"
Rogue swatted the air above her and muttered into her pillow. Mir laughed. "Rogue... come off!" Miracle braced herself, hoping that last night's comment would wake her friend. She succeeded.
"Wah.. what? Oh, Mir..." Rogue sat up and looked around. "That's right. I'm in here now." She looked up at Mir and yawned. "Oh, it's too early."
Miracle nodded her agreement. "Mara would most likely want to get dressed first..."
"Kitty does that too."
"...so I suggest we do so as well. Flip ya for the bathroom." Miracle grabbed a quarter off the night table, showed it to Rogue, and flipped it.
"Tails!" Rogue cried out. She and Mir peered over the end result...
... And, as Miracle laughed in the shower, Rogue pouted on her bed.
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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP-
SMACK!
A hand phazed through the alarm clock, trying to turn it off. The alarm clock started to beep out of control on the fritz. Finally the hand solidified and successfully knocked it to the ground.
Kitty opened her eyes as she realized the alarm clock was now on the floor, and that her hand was in midair. She groaned and sat up, rubbed the sleep from her eyes, and glanced around. She noted that Katherine was lying in front of the window, her tail flicking back and forth, silently watching the world outside.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm here," she said sleepily. She looked over the alarm clock and groaned. "Oh, man, I totally busted it. Now I'm, like, gonna have to buy a new one..." Kitty looked over at the sleeping figure in the next bed. "Mara... time to get up." She got up and shook her new roommate. "Mara..."
Mara groaned and pulled the covers over her head. "Oh, Aunt PL, five more minutes, please!"
Kitty laughed. "Sorry, Amarantha, this isn't Florida."
Mara sat up and smiled at Kitty. "Kitty? Oh, I'm sorry." She removed the small modern headphones from her ears and wrapped them around a small diskette player.
"Should we get dressed now, or later?"
"Well, we should now, in case we don't have any time later..."
Kitty nodded in approval and mentioned towards the bathroom. "Do you wanna get ready first?"
"You should... I will tomorrow."
Kitty shrugged and grabbed her bra and panties, then went into the bathroom.
"Oh!" She poked her head out. "Like, make sure Katherine has enough food for me... please!"
'Oh, sure!" Amarantha smiled at her new friend as Kitty nodded and ducked back inside. Soon Mara could make out the sound of the shower running as Katherine purred around her, trying to get to her food dish (which Kitty had conveniently "borrowed" from the kitchen).
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"Rogue?"
"Mir?"
Kitty and Mara (and Katherine!) phazed through the wall sometime later, and even then, after having paused to shake their heads at how Kurt slept, with his arms twisted in some weird arrangement, and his tail hanging off the bed and the pillows all over (Kawaii desu! ^_^) .
"Mara? Rogue's in the shower." Mir looked at her sister from her bed and smiled. Both of them had soaking wet hair, Mara a little more than Miracle. Kitty of course had dried hers and put her brown hair up in the usual ponytail.
The sisters were wearing their uniforms for the first time. Mara's was black mixed with a deep lavender, and the belt was gold, with the X-Men symbol on it. Mir's was black and gold, and the belt was an ivory white with the X-Men symbol on it as well.
At that moment Rogue walked out of the bathroom, decked out in wet hair, her bra, panties, and a towel.
"Oh, hey guys," she said. If she was embarrased, she didn't show it. While the others continued the conversation, she changed into her outfit.
"Mir? Do you remember anything else?" Mara asked.
Miracle shook her head. "Although... I did dream."
Mara looked at her sister sympathetically. "Was it about your rememberance?"
"Sort of..." she paused. "It was as if she never left." Mir smiled at the nice thought. "It was so cool... That's what I was talking about, when I said that I had somehting else to remember her by, besides the songs..."
"Oh!" Mara cried. "I remembered the disk..." She brought out the mini diskette and handed it to her sister. "I'm so sorry you couldn't listen to it last night..."
"It was your turn to put in your player anyway," Mir shrugged as she took it and put it in a diskette burner. "I already bought a blank diskette, so this should take a second..." She pressed a button, and everyone could hear a whirring sound.
"What exactly is that?" Rogue asked. Finally dressed, she peeked over Mir's shoulder. Mir turned around and looked her in the eye.
"You'll see tonight." She heard her sister gasp.
"Miracle! You can't-"
"Why not? We can't hog her all to ourselves."
Mara looked down. "I suppose you're right."
Miracle looked at Rogue. "This is the only piece of our mother we have left. Unfortunately, we can't play it now- everyone would fall asleep. But now we can actually play them out loud in the room at night again... that is, if you guys choose to." She looked at Mara and Kitty. Kitty looked at Mara, who nodded sadly.
"Oh, Mara, I'm not forcing you to-"
"But you're right, Mir. We can't keep her beautiful voice locked up forever."
Mir smiled. "Her voice really is magical."
"What exactly is on the disk?" Kitty asked.
"Lullabies. Aunt PL has played them for us ever since Mother left... and Mother has been singing them to me since I went to live there. Before we left, she recorded them on a disk for us."
"And I'm sure she's been singing to me since I was born."
"It was something to remember her by..."
"I wish all parents were like that," Kitty said forlornly. "If, ever they should, like, go away."
All four girls thought about that statement, in their own way.
"Hey, what time is it?" Kitty broke the silence. Everyone looked at the clock.
"7:30?!" Rogue exclaimed. "Oh, if we don't start gettin' to the dinin' hall, there won't be any food left!"
"Like, what are we waiting for, then? Let's go!"
"WAIT!" Everyone looked at Amarantha. "Can we... umm..." she flustered. "..check to make sure Kurt can take some of us? Nothing against you, Kitty," she hurried to reassure, "it's just that..." She looked warily at the wall.
Kitty laughed. "I understand. I guess after something like yesterday, I wouldn't, like, want to go around phazing through walls to any long distances, like, any time soon either. Especially if it was, like, my first time."
"Ya know, we're getting spoiled. Shouldn't we just use stairs like normal people?"
... The silence... was deafening.
"Oh, honestly, Mir," Rogue said, "Since when are we 'normal?'"
"True..."
"Alright then. Let's go!" Kitty grabbed her friends' hands, Katherine content on her shoulder, and phazed through the wall to Kurt's room.
"Oh, Kurt! Somebody's got a crush!"
"ROGUE! I, like, totally do not!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I, like, don't!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I totally DON'T!"
As the two bickered back and forth, Mir and Mara glanced helplessly at Kurt, who was watching with wonder.
"Are they always like this?" Mir asked, jabbing a thumb in the beautifully matched pair's direction.
Kurt nodded nervously.
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*Kawaii desu* Cute! (Japanese... desu really doesn't mean anything. I just know kawaii means cute! ^_^)