Consider Yourself Our Mate
While Althea was yelling at her father, Low Light managed to stagger into his room with the help of Cover Girl. "How are you feeling?" She asked.
"Like somebody's doing the mambo in my head," Low Light groaned as they went inside. "But I'll live."
"Good," Cover girl removed his hat and goggles. "Come on let's get these off."
"What are you doing?" Low Light asked.
"Getting you undressed," Cover Girl said pulling off his uniform.
"Hey! Wait a minute! Don't do that! Stop it!" But before he knew it he was stripped down to a T-shirt and his boxer shorts.
"Calm down will you," Cover Girl said. "It's time to go to bed."
"Oh no!" Low Light backed away. "Nonononono!"
"What?" Cover Girl asked.
"I know what you're planning! You ain't taking advantage of me! I'm not that drunk!"
"What are you talking about?"
"I don't wanna end up being one of your conquests!" Low Light snapped.
"Well this is a sentence I don't hear every day," Cover Girl grumbled. "Not that I was propositioning you in the first place!"
"Huh?" Low Light blinked.
"I'm trying to sober you up you moron!" Cover Girl snapped. "I'm putting you to bed! Not getting you in bed! There is a difference you know!"
"Oh," Low Light blinked. "Sorry. My head's a little fuzzy." He sat down on the bed.
"Boy you sure know how to make a girl feel welcome," Cover Girl groaned.
"Well, there's a reason why I freaked out a little," Low Light sighed. "It's not something I like to talk about but when I was…captured. That maniac scientist tortured me. Well then he thought he came up with a way to break me. A very personal way if you get my drift…"
"He tried to…" Cover Girl's eyes widened.
"Yeah," Low Light sighed. "And that's when the powers kicked in."
"Well I've heard mutant powers can be triggered due to emotional stress," Cover Girl said. "I guess that would do it."
"And how," Low Light sighed. "I was lucky that he never got to…but still. He came too damn close for comfort!"
"I'm sorry," Cover Girl sat down next to him.
"Don't be, it's not your fault," Low Light said. "Sometimes at night…it comes back to me. Everything…Sometimes I can control it but lately…"
"Lately with everything that's happened it's been difficult," She finished the sentence.
"Yeah," He shrugged. "You won't…tell anybody what happened will you? The only other people who know about this are Lifeline, Bree and Psyche."
"I'd never do that."
"Good," He sighed.
"You know you look real different out of uniform," Cover Girl remarked.
"Different?"
"Well without those goggles on your face you look…I don't know. Less harsh. Why do you wear them all the time, even in the day?"
"Part of the uniform," Low Light shrugged. "Easier to hide my emotions. It's like a mask. It just makes me more focused, ready for anything."
"Oh. I gotta ask you something else, has your hair always been this curly?" She motioned towards his head.
"Since I was a baby," Low Light shrugged. "Ticked my dad off. Always complained I looked like a little girl. For some reason I could never get it straight, so it was either wear hats or allow my father to shave it off. I took the hat way out."
"Sounds like you've been through hell ever since you were a kid."
"You don't know the half of it," Low Light yawned.
"You should get some sleep," She said.
"No, no I can't," Low Light shuddered. "Too many nightmares. I just don't feel…safe. Especially with a couple of telepaths sneaking around."
"Well come here then," She let Low Light put his head on her shoulder. "Why don't we just do this. I'll just stay with you. No funny business, just…you know, cuddling."
"Just cuddling?" Low Light sighed. "I can handle that." He closed his eyes. "You're a real good friend you know that?"
"Well it's nice to know that at least one guy I know doesn't see me as a conquest or a good time," Cover Girl snuggled next to him.
"You've been hanging around Shipwreck too long. We're not all like that." He opened his eyes. "Did you hear something?" He whispered.
"What?" Cover Girl whispered back. "Wait a minute…"
Low Light made a motion for her to remain quiet. They both walked up to the door very slowly and quietly. Then with a swift motion Low Light opened the door. Tumbling forward were Shipwreck, Todd, Althea, Xi, Pietro, Wanda, The Triplets, Bobby, Kurt, Tabitha and Sam.
"I told you we were making too much noise!" Sam snapped.
"So you guys aren't gonna do anything?" Todd asked them.
"Thank god!" Shipwreck said. "I knew Cover Girl really loved me!"
"WILL YOU LUNATICS GET OUT OF HERE?" Low Light shouted.
"Hey will you guys keep it down!" Scott and Jean stormed up to them. "Some of us are trying to sleep!"
"I'll bet that's not what you two were doing," Todd snickered.
"You're disgusting," Scott huffed.
"And you're cheek's covered with lipstick," Althea said.
"Jean I thought you said I got it all…off?" Scott gulped.
"You did," Jean growled. Todd snickered gleefully.
"What is going on here?" Ororo and Xavier came into the hallway.
"Were you spying on them?" Xavier asked.
"Well not all of us can read minds to find out what's going on," Shipwreck said.
"YOU PERVERT!" Lance shouted.
"We don't need to in some cases," Jean groaned. They saw Lance and Peter shoving each other.
Kitty was trying to separate them. "Will you two knock it off?"
"Don't stop me Kitty!" Lance snapped. "This guy's got it coming!"
"What is going on here?" Ororo snapped.
"I caught this guy sneaking into Kitty's room!" Lance snapped.
"And what were you doing near Kitty's room if I may ask?" Scott snapped.
"Hey! I was invited!" Lance snapped. "Kitty arranged it for Rogue to be out so we could be alone and…oops."
"Kitty…" Xavier looked at her.
"Nice going Lance!" Kitty groaned.
"Sorry," Lance said. "But if he didn't try to sneak into your room this never would have happened!"
"I just wanted to talk to her!" Peter snapped.
"Oh I'll bet you did," Lance said sarcastically. "Everybody wants to have a conversation at two in the morning!"
"Look who's talking!" Peter snapped. "I'll bet you couldn't wait to sneak into Kitty's room so you could seduce her!"
"Seduce her? I bet Casanova could take lessons on seduction from you, you Russian Romeo!" Lance snapped.
"At least I'm not a punk rock-head like you!" Peter snapped.
"Oh that is it!" Lance growled. The mansion started to shake.
"AVALANCHE KNOCK IT OFF!" Spirit stormed up.
"Sorry," Lance apologized. "But he started it!"
"Lance this is just a big misunderstanding!" Kitty said.
"Kitty what were you thinking inviting Lance into your room?" Jean asked. "You shouldn't have done that in the first place!"
"For somebody who has her shirt on inside out, you sure have a lot of opinions on other people's private lives," Lance snapped.
Both Scott and Jean turned red. "It's the style," She blurted out.
"Nice try Red," Daria said. "But we didn't buy that line the first time you two did it and it still ain't working."
"WHAT?" Ororo gasped. "WHEN WAS THIS?"
"On the island," Shipwreck told her. "Geeze Storm don't be so shocked. You knew they were gonna do it eventually…"
"What? Wait a minute!" Xavier looked around. "You and Jean are…"
"An item, yeah sexually active," Althea said. "Well as active as you can get with those two. Personally I'm amazed they've done it at all. They're more frozen than the Arctic Circle."
"She's got a point," Bobby said. "I should know."
"Whose side are you on?" Scott snapped.
"Look why don't we all go to bed, in our own rooms!" Xavier said. "We can deal with this calmly and rationally…" He was cut off by the sound of a loud explosion. "In the morning…"
"Fat chance," Pietro snickered.
Then there was another explosion. "Now what's going on?" Xavier groaned. He put his hands to his head. "Oh…it seems that Blob is now eating us all out of house and home while Rogue and Remy are trying to stop him!"
"Great!" Scott snapped. "I knew these maniacs would cause nothing but trouble the minute they got here!"
"You're just sore because you're not getting any action tonight!" Lance snapped.
"That's it!" Scott tackled Lance.
"Scott no!" Peter shouted. "Let me do that!" He joined in the fight.
"They're ganging up on him yo!" Todd shouted.
"CHARGE!" Althea shouted. Soon all the kids were fighting.
"Shouldn't you do something?" Ororo snapped.
"Oh what the hell," Low Light sighed. "Might as well join the party!" He grabbed Peter and punched him.
Soon there was a huge brawl in the hallways. Rogue and Remy chased Fred though. Soon nearly every X-Man was fighting with the Misfits. That's when Xavier finally had enough. "STOP THIS FIGHTING RIGHT NOW!" He shouted.
Everyone did. "You people should be ashamed of yourselves!" Xavier snapped at the Misfits.
"You guys started it," Shipwreck said.
"We did not! This is all your fault! You people have not even been in my home for a day and already you've destroyed the Danger Room, ruined the lawn and garden, trashed the kitchen as well as eat all our food!" Xavier snapped. "Not to mention getting two of my instructors in a bar brawl! Beast and Wolverine are out cold and I've just had a call from the police! You're lucky that no one's put out an arrest warrant for all of you!"
"I told you bribing that bartender would come in handy," Shipwreck said.
"This is supposed to be a place where mutants are to learn how to integrate with society," Xavier snapped. "But you people have turned it into an insane asylum!"
"Well give us a break Professor," Roadblock said. "I mean we're not exactly normal to begin with. So things get a little out of hand, but you of all people should understand!"
"Understand what?" Xavier snapped. "That you people are total lunatics?"
"Geeze somebody's crabby," Shipwreck said.
"Well let's see, I mean I've only had the shock of my life today as well as my home being wrecked!" Xavier snapped. "Not to mention nearly getting some of my instructors arrested. And I haven't had a wink of sleep in nearly 24 hours, and by the looks of things I won't have a peaceful night's sleep for quite a while thanks to Low Light! So forgive me if I'm not my usual tolerant self! Which for some reason all of you equate it with being a doormat you can walk all over me and disrupt my life!"
"Hey!" Low Light snapped. "It was your bright idea to go into my head! It was supposed to help me, remember?"
"There is no way I can help you!" Xavier shouted. "You're beyond help! You're just as crazy as the rest of them!"
"What?" Low Light blinked.
"I have encountered some deranged, twisted minds before," Xavier said. "But your mind is a living nightmare! No wonder you have trouble sleeping! I have enough trouble just getting a glimpse of it!"
"Well excuuuuuuuuuuusssssseee me!" Low Light snapped. "I'm sorry my problems are too big for you to handle!"
"There is no way someone like you can be one of us," Xavier groaned.
"What was that?" Pietro cocked his head. "Did he just say what I think he said?"
"I knew it!" Todd snapped. "I knew those sneaky X-Geeks would try to take another of our group! What is it with you guys? It was bad enough you were always stealing members when we were with the Brotherhood! Now you wanna take our adults too?"
"Yeah get your own guys!" Fred snapped.
"It was only a possibility," Ororo said. "We were discussing ways Low Light could help at the Institute as well as get treatment."
"Oh I'll bet," Lance drawled.
"Yeah it's a damn good thing we did all come here with Low Light!" Shipwreck snapped. "Otherwise Charley here'd try to brainwash him! As well as any of the rest of us!"
"Well in your case Shipwreck I wouldn't worry," Xavier snapped. "Since you don't have a brain to wash!"
"Oh really?" Shipwreck said unbuckling his pants. "Well how about you erase this from your memory!" He swiftly turned around and mooned the Professor.
"Oh my god…" Kitty turned her head away.
"THAT'S IT!" Xavier shouted. "OUT OF MY HOUSE! NOW! ALL OF YOU!"
"Way to go pop," Althea said. "You got us kicked out."
"You say that like it's a bad thing," Todd said. "And it wasn't just him. For once…"
"For once I am in agreement with him," Low Light said. "I am so glad to go! And you know something Xavier? These people may be lunatics, they may be the most uncivilized, insane group of weirdoes and crazies that ever walked the planet, but at least they don't make me feel like I have to do anything to change myself to fit in! Hell they make me feel sane! They're crazy and they know it! I'm proud to be one of them!"
"That's telling them!" Wanda cheered.
"Testify!" Pietro shouted.
"AWWK!" Polly flew in. "Bombs away Baldy!"
Splat!
"Oh now that is just disgusting," Fred winced as he saw the mess on Xavier's pajamas.
"GET OUT OF HERE!" Xavier snapped. "AND TAKE THAT STUPID PARROT WITH YOU!"