Disclaimer: X-men not mine.
Alright, I have to say this….I'm sorry! I was so busy for the last five days or so, I did not get anything written. I had a football game I had to go to and family to be with (it's been so long since I've seen them, I'm so happy!) and today is when things finally slowed down. SO NEVER FEAR! I am alive. And now I am writing yet again.
Renee leBeau: Awww! Your welcome! *is huggled*
Asteria: I love those books!
hnh: Yay! Danny got a birthday song! That's quite something to happen on a birthday. I got snowed in close to my birthday once. Or was it my sisters? I can never remember these things. Our birthdays are even three months apart.
Chrissy: Yeah, I know. I wish my sixteenth was as fun as hers. There still in Ohio for this chappy.
Flamingo1: What …do you mean? I don't think a Ray/Kally pairing would work out, she isn't exactly human. She has an obsession with him, yes, but I don't think she bites every girl he talks too. Just the ones that give him dirty looks, mean comments and such the like. A Jonda? I wasn't planning on it. I think it might lean more towards a Johmara, Tanda thing. But I believe Jonda is in the rankings for two cents.
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"So, baby, what's your name?"
"Deathbed. And that's where you'll be if Ah hear another peep out of you."
"Come on baby—UGHH!!!!!"
That was number three. Rogue was on a roll.
Apparently, though we could not be with our male counterparts, are cell was not segregated. There were a bunch of dirty old guys in there. That is, until Wanda started hexing people and Rogue started kicking butt. She said she wouldn't use her powers because she didn't want to see their thoughts. I can sympathize. Now the guys were all huddled against the wall.
"HEY I DIDN'T DO NOTHIN'!"
I glanced over to the cell door. A couple of armed guards were trying to drag this girl into the cell with us. She was also saying some none-too-nice things, something Mom would be appalled to hear.
"YOU %$#&# **^%*^$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"*
Yeah, Mom would be fainting about now. They managed to shove the girl into the cell and she lost her balance and toppled into me. I guess she thought I was one of the guys, cause she grabbed my shirt and hauled back and punched me in the eye. I found myself yowling in pain. Not to mention the fact that she was sitting on my bad knee. Through my rapidly swelling eye I saw Wanda pull a full tackle on her. That girl could be on a football team. If she couldn't tackle them she could hex them.
I scraped myself off the floor amongst the jeers and hoots of the guys in with us. Rogue ran past me to join Wanda, shoving me into the wall. The opposite wall from the guys, thankfully.
"Let her goh! She ain't gonna hurt anybody! Tabby! TABBY!" Yeah, right. My eye speaks otherwise.
The girl stopped fighting long enough to look over at Rogue. This time I managed to get a good look at her.
She was blond, with rosy cheeks and these little pigtail bun things in the back of her head. They looked pretty messed up now. She looked my age.
"Rogue?" She whispered. Not surprising, because Wanda had her by the neck and twenty seconds ago had been trying to make her head go through the floor.
Wanda looked from the girl, Tabby, to rogue and back again. Rogue nodded to her.
"It's ahlrahght. Ah know her."
Wanda loosened her grip and got off of her. She was probably a little put out. She had been winning after all. Rogue gave Tabby a hand up and led her over to where I was standing. Wanda followed glowering.
The girl, Tabby, looked at me a little embarrassed.
"I'm sorry about hitting you. I thought you were one of them." She jerked her head to the guys.
"No problem," I commented dryly, "With what I've been through, I'm used to it by now." My eye was swollen shut now.
"I'm Tabitha! Tabby to my friends!" Her demeanor changed so fast it surprised me. Wanda too. But she didn't get angry or anything.
"I'm Wanda. I'm sorry I kicked your a—."
"AS IF! I'M GONNA BOOM—BOOM YOU!!!"
She began to charge little balls of energy. Wanda started charging up her hex power. I scrunched against the wall. Rouge took off her gloves and gave them both a quick slap. They both suddenly got very tired. I have no idea why (knock on wood).
Rogue glared at me.
"Ah hope you undastand the moral of this storay."
"Uh…Don't mess with the Rogue?" I offered.
"Damn Skippy."
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"Wow, the professor vill vake up soon? Zat's wunderbar news!"
"It may take several days, Kurt."
"You are sure of this, McCoy?"
"As sure as I can be, Magneto."
"It's about time." Mystique sniffed. She'd had enough of hanging around these institute brats.
Hank, Raven (Mystique), Magneto, Kurt, Scott, and Jean were standing around the comatose Professor's bed, discussing his present condition.
"There will be a lot to fill him in on. Especially about the raid tonight. If we pull off the raid tonight we won't have to worry about Trask's scientists anymore." Jean rationalized.**
"And about our missing members." Scott reminded her.
"But he can find them with cerebro!"
"Even after you couldn't?"
"You forget Scott," She said frostily," that I'm still in training. Is there anything else, Hank?"
"No, but—"
"Thank-you, Mr. McCoy." She turned on her heel and stomped out. Magneto watched Scott go after her, trying to appease her.
"Ahh." Magneto turned to Beast, who was talking to Raven. Kurt had already bamphed out.
"The wonders and joys of youth. He really put himself in the doghouse this time."
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John was busy scaring prisoners with a lighter he stole from the guard that tossed them in here. Sam and Lance were leaning against the wall, just sitting there.
Ray and Arcane were sitting on the bench on one of the walls, away from the crowd of frightened spectators at John's amazing light show.
"How long do you think they'll watch before someone calls the guards back in here?" Arcane commented watching John as he pulled a wisp of flame out of the lighter and turned it into a dragon, making it fly all over the room.
"I don't know. So much for keeping a low profile, hunh?"
"Yeah."
"Hey….Arcane…"
"What?"
"Do you…like Danny?"
"She's nice, why?"
"No, I mean, do you like her?"
"…I cannot believe we're having a conversation like this."
Ray looked at him, surprised. "Why?"
"Because she's fifteen-"
"Sixteen."
"What?"
"It's her birthday today."
"….Oh…well that ….really stinks."
"You were saying?"
"And I am twenty. There's a bit of a gap there, Sparky."
"Good."
"Eh?"
"Well, you see….If you were planning to go stalking her, I was planning on killing you, so I guess neither of us have anything to worry about."
"Is this a jealousy thing?"
"What? NO! But she is one of my friends. And she does a lot for everyone else. And like hell am I going to let anyone take advantage of her."
"Well, I guess you DON'T have anything to worry about."
"…..You like her though."
"Please realize that there is more than one way for a person to die in jail. And it's not murder if everyone thinks it's an accident."
"……."
"I'm glad you see it my way, Sparky."
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Guards were running past our cell. Judging by the way a couple of them were running around with fire extinguishers, I assume it had something to do with Johnny.
Tabitha and Wanda were sitting on either side of me, with Rogue leaning against the wall. They had managed not to kill each other.
They're improving.
CLANK.
We looked over to see a woman in a three piece suit standing next to our guard. A lawyer.
"Rogue, Nesmond, Maximoff, Tabitha, your lawyer's here to see you."
We all got up and walked out of the cell. I limped quite a bit. Having a girl land on your leg and punch you isn't on my happy list.
We walked down the hall and was put into a little room. And we waited. Soon after, the boys walked in. Ray looked charred, Arcane had a bit of soot on him, Lance and Sam looked as if they had seen the most horrifying thing in their lives, and John waltzed in with a happy grin.
This does not take a genius to understand what happened.
Our lawyer looked us over and pursed her lips and wrote something down in her notebook, looked at us again, and wrote some more.
"Parameters of safety are no good, no good at all…That should help your defense… now, am I correct in thinking you are all mutants? That's not very good…we won't mention that."
"How did you know?" Lance asked.
"It's my business to look at information and decide. Now, we'll use the lost citizens defense, that way they'll feel pity."
"Ummm…who?" Ray stared.
"Don't interrupt. They will be looking for any reason to crucify you. We can't make you martyrs."
"Don't martyrs die?" She ignored him and went on.
"As for the destruction of public property, we'll just link that to the lost citizen's shtick. And as for the animal charge, there are no dogs with you, therefore that statement won't hold water."
I am probably very, very, very lucky they didn't strip search me. Herman and Kally were hanging out, forgive the pun, in my shirt and it would be a decidedly bad idea for them to be known.
"Well that's it. The hearing is tomorrow, or rather, today, and your car and you all shall be on the road again in no time. As for you," she checked her file, "Tabitha, the charges that you were assaulting someone has been dropped. It was determined to be self-defense."
"About time," Tabby muttered. Somehow I get the feeling that this has happened before.
"You are all going back to your cells now to wait the last few hours. Good day."
We all got ushered out and split our groups again. Tabitha walked beside me.
"Are you guys going to the institute?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I come too?"
"Ummm….sure. I mean, Rogue knows you, so I guess it's okay. I'm Danny."
"Cool. I'm going road trippin'!"
She started dancing around in the cell after the guards shut the door. Because of many complaints of injury, the dirty old guys all got moved into another cell while we were away.
Good for them.
We are going to be so cramped in our bus. And we had to find Doggy and Hezibah again.
I hope they're alright.
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* these words were blanked out to protect my PG rating
**I hate it when people rationalize.
Alright! Danny and co. are getting out of jail! LEGALLY.
Where will Doggy and Hezibah be? Will they be at the busted down sign? Or will they pull a homeward bound thing and run back to the institute?
Sunny is taking reviews yet again! Dexroth is helping her, as all of my other animals are either in jail or outside route 207.
