Chapter 10

[Living Room Cam Noon]

Henri is sitting between Mads and Belle on the sensual couch. He appears to be incredibly sleep deprived.

"Mornin'!" greeted Mads cheerfully.

"Damn, fille, too loud!" growled Henri.

"Oh désolé, Henri, I forgot," said Mads sympathetically.

"You see Henri didn't get a 'ole latta sleep las' night," said Belle as she evilly patted his head.

"Tell me about it!" groaned Henri.

"Although we fin'lly know where de towel came from!" said Belle triumphantly.

"An' we got it on de tape," said Mads lifting the remote with a huge grin.

"Wake me when de flick's over, non?" said Henri as he leaned over to rest his head on Belle's shoulder.

POW! Belle gave Henri as dead arm, "De hell's de matta wid you?!"

"De bot' o' you just shut up and watch de clip. I swear-toddlers- I'm workin' wid toddlers!" said as exasperated Mads as she pushed the button on the remote.

[Cut to last night in the kitchen 11:33 pm]

Belle is sitting quietly in the kitchen gingerly sipping a cup of tea as she stares into space. Two seconds later Rogue storms into the room wearing nothing but a bath robe. She pulls out the chair next to Belle and sits down.

"Belle, nous avons besoin de parler! (Belle, we need to talk!)" said Rogue holding the top of the robe closed.

"Je consens, mais les affaires premièrement (I agree, but business first)" said Belle setting down the tea cup into a china saucer with both effortless elegance and grace.

Rogue's eyes narrowed, "Amende (fine), son mots exact était (his exact words were) 'Somehow Remy found his way to de cheerleaders' locker room and grabbed a towel from de rack jus' in time for de squad to come out o' de shower an' don' worry Remy jus' shut his eyes and felt his way out deir.'"

Belle's eyes widened, "Etes-vous sérieux (Are you serious?)"

"Ceci est Remy que nous parlons de (This is Remy we're talking about)" said Rogue pointedly.

"Bon point (Good point)" Belle rolled her eyes, "Maintenant quel était le problème (Now what was the problem?)"

"Il n'a jamais été que bruyant avant! (He has never been that loud before!)" said Rogue half blushing, "Nous quelqu'un sommes réveillé? (Did we wake anyone?)"

"Non, Tante Mattie est un sleeper lourd (No, Tante Mattie is heavy sleeper)."

"Bon (Good)!" said Rogue, "Je n'ai jamais su que beaucoup de saints il y avait (I never knew how many saints there were)!"

Belle laughed, "Qu'avez-vous fait, a frotté son croch? (What did you do, rub his croch?)"

"Um." Rogue blushed even harder and looked away as Belle nearly fell out of her chair from laughter.

"Il doit vous avoir sauté la seconde vous êtes entré la salle (He must have jumped you the second you got in the room." Belle was in tears by now.

"Et il toujours fait cette chose à la fin (And does her always do that thing at the end)?" asked Rogue rather awkwardly.

Belle snorted before she could completely calm down and regain her composure, "Oui, Immédiatement avant il fané hors (Yes, just before he passes out)." she said as she suppressed another laughing out break, "Arrive-t-il souvent? (Does it happen often?)"

"Chaque temps (Every time)," said Rogue sheepishly.

Belle's jaw dropped.

"Quio?" asked Rogue.

"Qu'avez-vous fait à lui? Je l'ai reçu seulement pour faire cela une fois! (What did you do to him? I only got him to do that once!)"

"Que je toujours fais-il, pourquoi? (What I always do, why?)" asked a very naïve Rogue.

"La fille, je sais qu'il ne vous a pas laissé de sa vue!" Belle smirked, "Mais je ne suis pas fâché à vous! (But I ain't made atcha)."

[Cut back to Living room]

Henri has fallen asleep on Mads and Belle has the remote.

Smack! Belle high-fived Henri across the back of the head.

"47!" yelled Henri as he jumped to attention, ".What de hell?" he looked around in confusion.

"Precisely," said Belle.

"De mystery 'as been solved at lon' last!" announced Mads.

"Did I miss sometin'?" asked a groggy Henri.

"Non," assured Belle, "Go back t' sleep."

Just as Henri was about to nod off Remy and Rogue walked into the room-all snuggly (excuse me while I gag). Anyway Rogue had her head on Remy's should and Remy had his hand on Rogue's-(people must we go here time and time again?)

"We're goin' out!" announced Remy as he grabbed his trench coat out of the closet.

As the happy couple walked down the stairs to the ground level Rogue could be heard asking, "Remy, is that a Monet?"

"Oui, Daddy "collects" them."

[cut to Movie Theater 3:30]

The shot opens on Mads and Belle standing outside.

"Incase you were wonderin' Henri fell asleep so I had my sister take over," explained Mads.

"Which reminds me, you're doin' my nails for a month."

"I know, I know, don' remind me," groaned Mads.

"Anyway, de movie ended an hour ago. Let's go in, non?" said Belle.

[Cut to interior]

Mads and Belle have been joined by joined by a very attractive red head who is most likely a size zero. Oh, and you know that rack is real, real expensive that is! (hehe!)

The trio had positioned themselves in the front row while Rogue and Remy were visibly macking in the farthest row back.

"Dis is Simone," whispered Mads motioning to the red head, "We crashed into her in the lobby.

[Zoom in on Remy and Rogue]

Who after another minute or two topple onto the floor. After a lot of struggling Rogue can be heard saying, "Remy, if Ah stop movin' it's not because Ah lost interest. It's because Ah'm stuck to the floor."

"For de love o' God! I ain't sittin' trough dis c'mon sis," Belle said in disgust just to look over and see Mads and Simone making out like the apocalypse has just peaked, "Goddamn it!" curse Belle as she stormed out of the theater.

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"Yeah, now that's what I'm talkin' about, Sheila on Sheila action!" yelled Pyro as everyone turned to stare at him, "What?"

"Quite frankly I think Rogue is more interesting in French," ventured Pietro.

Smack! Wanda clocked her twin up side the head.

Mystique had a death grip on the couches arm, but her eyes still seemed glazed over.

"Got any more of that tranquilizer? I think it's starting to wear off." observed Creed.

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Everyone over the X-men was silent. The tension in the room was insurmountable.

SKNIT!!! This time wolverine had extended both sets of claws.

Jamie, the youngest was the first to break the silence, "Well at least we know where the towel came from." with a naïve smile.

Pow! Fwap! Bam!

A borage of throw pillows hit him from every angle.