MEANWHILE!!!
"GASP!" Jean gasped, looking at her watch. "It's time for dinner! We were just having such a splendid time that we forgot all about lunch and it's already time to eat dinner!"
"HURRAY!!" cheered Scott.
"Remy knew he was strangely hungry…" Remy said thoughtfully.
"What are we going to have?" asked Lance.
"I don't know!" said Jean. "It depends on what's there!" Then she insisted that everyone grab her hands and frolic with her to the kitchen. Of course, since Jean is reasonably tall ANYWAY and at the present time, Scott, Lance and Remy (who are all usually taller than her) were all small and children-ified, it proved to be much of a problem for them to skip as if they were going down the Yellow Brick Road on their way to see the Wizard of Oz.
And wouldn't you know it? When they actually DID get around to arriving, everyone else was there too!! Everyone else being Rogue, Wanda, Kitty, Evan, Pietro, St. John and Kurt. Yes…I know we accidentally forgot about Rogue, Wanda and Kitty for a while but oh well.
You want Professor Xavier, Mystique and Magneto to be there? TOUGH!!
"All right!" said Jean, looking around in the cabinets. "What do you all want to eat?"
"How about we make something that we can eat too?" Rogue asked, thinking back to the Spongebob Squarepants Macaroni and Cheese.
"No!" Jean declared because she is becoming obnoxiously righteous kind of like she ALWAYS does whenever we write something. "We must make something that will make the children happy! Yet, it must be healthy as not to poison their appetite!"
Pietro, Evan and Rogue all gave Jean questioning looks. Aw, underworld, the kids gave her one too.
"So…" Jean said, unfazed. "How about…soup? Chicken noodle?"
"In the shape of Spongebob?" asked Scott.
"I wish there were some in the shape of 'David the Gnome." Lance said.
"Well…I don't think chicken noodle soup comes in any shapes at all…" Jean said in a tragic tone as she pulled a can out of the cabinet.
"Do you have any Chef Boyardee?" Kurt asked as he teleported on the counter next to the cabinet. He grabbed one of the cans. "Waldo!"
"Hey, down off the table!" Jean commanded, grabbing Kurt and putting him on the ground.
"I want Chef Boyardee with Waldo!" Kurt yelled.
"Fine!" said Jean. "Is that all right with everyone?"
"YEAH!!!" cheered all the people who were less than ten.
"Jean…" whined Pietro, Evan and Rogue.
"Good thing we have about seven cans of this!" Jean said happily as she used her powers to make all the cans open themselves and pour into a pot. But then she used manual labor to actually turn on the burner. Kurt watched her intently, making sure that they were actually shaped like Waldo before teleporting back to the table.
"Can't we have something else?" Pietro asked as Jean joined them at the table, waiting for the Chef Boyardee to cook.
"Pietro Maximoff, you are a guest in this house!" Jean said, shaking her finger at him. "You're lucky you're getting anything at all!"
"Well." Said Pietro, looking offended.
"So, what should we do while we're waiting for it to cook?" Jean asked.
"Let's play Red Light Green Light!" Lance exclaimed, sounding excited.
"I meant something we could do while we stay seated here at the table." Jean clarified.
"Oh." Said Lance.
"How about we talk about what we're going to do AFTER we eat?" Rogue suggested as she stood up and looked for something to eat other than Chef Boyardee.
"That's a good idea!" said Jean. "Let's go around the table and everyone can say what they want to do! We'll start with you, Scott."
"Cause I'm your favorite." Scott finished.
"No, just because you happen to be sitting next to me!" Jean said.
"Yeah." Said Scott. "But you sat next to me because I'm your favorite."
"I love you all equally!" Jean assured everyone else.
"Don't worry, Jean, it's okay for you to have favorites." Said St. John. "I mean, we're Evan's favorites!" He pointed to himself and Kurt.
"No you're not!!!" Evan yelled, turning into a giant pulsing head with fangs.
"Is the stove a electric stove or gas stove?" St. John asked, completely changing the subject and ignoring Evan who was puffing smoke out of his nose and ears.
"Why do you ask?" Jean said quizzically.
"Jean…" Rogue said, shaking her head.
"Well?" St. John asked.
"It's electric." Rogue answered. "No one has gas stoves anymore." St. John snapped his fingers.
"SO ANYWAY…" Jean said. "We all have to go around the table and say what we want to do! And, since Evan is on the OTHER side of me, he'll go first!"
"Evan wants to clean himself." Said Kurt. "Cause he smells."
"Evan LIKES smelling." St. John added.
"STOP THAT!!!" Evan yelled.
"Evan, calm down, they're just children." Jean said.
"Yeah, you're making it to easy for them to push your buttons." Pietro added.
"I don't have to deal with this anymore!!" Evan yelled as he stood up from the table and marched angrily out of the room.
"Well, HE won't get any dinner!" said Jean to the rest of the table. Wanda and Kitty decided to engage themselves in a hand-slapping game since they were bored with the table conversation.
"Remy wanna do somet'in else." Remy said randomly.
"Maybe the Chef Boyardee is done by now!" Jean said since she didn't want them to be bored anymore. She leapt up and checked on the soup to find that it actually was!! WOW!! So she pulled out ten bowls and poured equal amounts of Waldo Chef Boyardee in each one. Then, so she didn't have to make many trips, even though they would have all been very loving trips, she used her mutant powers to make the bowls and spoons fly to the table.
"Eat up everyone!" Jean declared.
"Jean, I already told you, I'm not eating this." Said Rogue, pushing the bowl away since it obviously offended her.
"Well then you get nothing at all!" Jean said.
"Whatever." Said Rogue since she didn't really care anyway. So, after they polished off the Chef Boyardee, they had to decide on what fun activity to do next. Mind you, it was probably about 8:30 (yes, it took them that long to eat) so they couldn't do anything outside since it was dark so they had to stay inside!! Well, obviously if they can't go outside then they have to stay inside.
"How about we watch a movie?" Jean suggested as she pulled a bag of movies that she rented from Icbool's Temple, the local movie renting place of Bayville. She had gone to pick these movies up when no one was looking.
"What movies did you get?" Scott asked as he grabbed the bag and looked inside of it.
"I just want to watch the Mystery Files of Shelby Woo." Said Lance as he turned the television on WITHOUT the remote and started pressing the buttons to change the channels. But, alas, he was pressing the TV/Video button so he wasn't really proving anything.
"We have 'Unico', 'The Last Unicorn', 'Firefly's Adventure', 'Moon Dreamers', 'The Land Without Feelings', 'The Land Before Time', 'Strawberry Shortcake' and 'Rainbow Brite'." Jean said, reading off the movie titles.
There was silence for a minute.
"Jean, I guess you haven't noticed the unbalance of testosterone among this group yet." Pietro said.
"What do you mean?" Jean asked, genuinely confused.
"THOSE ARE GIRL MOVIES!!!" yelled all the little boys at the same time while the girls named off a few movies that they would like to watch.
"That's not true!" said Jean. "We can all watch a movie together regardless of gender!"
"I want to watch Firefly's Adventure because that's the only one that I haven't seen!" Kitty said.
"What about the rest of you?" Jean asked.
"NONE OF THEM!!" yelled the boys.
"Well, since the only suggestion I got was Firefly's Adventure then we're watching it!" Jean concluded as she put the movie into the VCR and pressed play. She used her powers to force everyone to sit down on the couch even though it was quite obvious they didn't want to watch the movie.
"I want to watch 'The Point'!" Lance exclaimed with a groan.
"Lance, that movie was on crack or something." Said Pietro.
"And it was made in the 60's." Rogue added.
"Oblio." Lance said, crossing his arms and frowning.
So they all watched the movie. It was very fun. And, in case you didn't know, Firefly's Adventure is a My Little Pony movie so it was VERY feminine so Pietro had to leave halfway through because he was feeling insecure with his masculinity. Not that Pietro is particularly masculine, but it was a VERY feminine movie that even one such as he would feel uncomfortable.
The movie was about a half an hour long…but… it came with all kinds of special features so it ended up being an hour and a half long so it was about ten o'clock when it ended. This meant, of course, that a few of the kids fell asleep afterwards. Lance and Remy stayed awake because they had slept all day, Kurt and St. John didn't sleep because they were having a staying awake contest, Wanda and Kitty didn't either because they had just had ice cream and watched an enthralling movie. So that left Scott.
"He's so precious when he's sleeping!" Jean whispered as she scooped Scott into her arms like a little baby.
"Jean, stop it." Rogue said, shaking her head.
"Where's Pietro and Evan anyway?" Jean said, changing the subject. "Both of them should be helping us put them all to bed!"
"They just cause more hurt than help." Rogue said with a sigh. "We'll be just fine putting them to bed by ourselves."
"All right!" said Jean. "I'll meet you upstairs!!" Then she raced upstairs at lighting fast Pietro-like speed, leaving Rogue to deal with everyone except Scott who was being precious and asleep.
"Everyone, go upstairs right now!" Rogue commanded.
Everyone looked at her and then ignored her.
"It's really late." Rogue said.
Everyone ignored her some more. They didn't even bother looking at her this time though.
"Remy and Lance know the consequences for bad behavior." Said Rogue, crossing her arms.
"She's right, guys, we should go to bed now!" Lance said, springing up immediately.
"Why?" asked St. John. "What's she gonna do?"
"You don't want to know." Said Remy.
"She'll have to catch us first, right Kurt?" St. John said to Kurt.
"YEAH!" said Kurt as the two grabbed hands and teleported away.
Rogue moaned and complained for a minute or two before finally deciding that she would just put everyone else to bed and then go and find the other two and SEVERELY punish them! So she led the remaining four up the stairs to Scott's bedroom since everyone had kind of mutually come to the agreement that they would be sleeping there.
Jean was already there tucking Scott into bed who was sleeping ever so preciously.
"Where are the other two?" Jean said in a disappointed tone as she put her hands on her hips.
"If you remember correctly, you're the one who raced up the stairs as fast as you could as to avoid helping me put the others to bed." Rogue reminded her. "Considering that six is kind of a difficult number, two of them managed to get away while I was occupied with the rest."
"You should have just ASKED for help!" laughed Jean. "You put these kids to bed and I'll go off to find the other two."
"Thanks." Said Rogue sarcastically as Jean frolicked off. "Everyone get in bed."
"We still haven't changed into our pajamas!" said Wanda as if Rogue had done something to offend her.
"You're taking too long!" Rogue said.
"You haven't given us a chance!" Wanda said angrily.
Rogue rolled her eyes and wondered why she even BOTHERED so she just approached each one and tapped them gently on the forehead and they were all out like a light bulb before they even could realize what was happening because by now, Rogue had mastered her forehead tapping technique. She had also mastered her, 'Get everyone into bed so it looks like they preciously fell asleep' technique as well.
It was then that Jean returned with a small child under each arm.
"If you know the right place to look then they're not hard to find at all!" she said happily. "Wow! You did a really good job getting them all to bed!"
"It's one of my natural talents." Rogue admitted. And it wasn't a lie either.
"Well, in that case, you wouldn't mind putting them to sleep too!" Jean said as she literally dropped St. John and Kurt in Rogue's arms and dashed out of the room at a speed that rivaled Professor Xavier's warp speed drive.
Rogue sighed and put them both on the floor.
"You two aren't going to go to bed willingly, are you?" she said.
"Nope!" they said in unison. So you know what happened next. Rogue had more time to practice her two techniques.
And then she turned out the lights and closed the door behind her.