What did you say?
By DelCreed
(griffincreed@hotmail.com)
June, 2000
Griffin stood across the pool deck from where Warren Worthington the third, better known as the X-men's Angel, lay sunning his wings beside the pool, Griff held the two cans of Jolt cola he'd gone into the house to get for himself and Jubilee, who was floating happily in the pool on an air mattress (like she needed the extra Caffeine). As he walked by Logan, who was sitting at a picnic table waiting for Scott to finish burning the burgers, the stocky X-man was surprised to hear the kid whispering to himself.
"I'm not going to say it…I'll think it, but I won't say it, …well not out loud anyway… I won't say it … I won't …I...I… Aw heck I have to say it!" No longer whispering Griffin called out to Warren "So Warren how are all the other Smurfs doing?" Warren looked confused for a minute then when Jubilee started laughing so hard that she slipped off her air mattress into the pool, he shot up off his lounger and screamed, in the blink of an eye he was up in the air and flying after Griffin, who wisely ran for his life, as Logan called out calmly.
"Professor, the bird 's chasing the cat…Again!" The mental voice of the X-Men's founder answered him in his head.
+ Let him.+ and Xavier went back to trying to remove the henna tattoo he'd found painted on his head when he'd woken that morning, but no matter how much he scrubbed the words "Bald is Beautiful" only faded slightly. Then suddenly a blood-curdling scream ripped the silence, only to be cut short by a loud splash.
The End