FYI:

~Personal Thoughts~

~"Inner Voices"~

ESP

%The Written Word%

[Flashback]

"Normal Conversation (Duh)"

ROGUE

Ah stood in front of mah mirror tryin' ta decide what ta wear. ~Layers, layers, an' more layers.~ Ah held up the new shirt, Betsy had given meh. "Luv, what's with the layers?"

"Ah just have ta be careful. Everyone's comin' back an' they're all gonna be all huggy, so Ah gotta be careful." Ah picked out a pair of gloves from the top drawer of mah dresser.

"Luv, you do have Remy's powers to use don't you?" She walked over an' snatched the gloves from mah hands an' roughly shoved 'em back inta the drawer before slammin' it back shut. "So you won't be needing those."

"Yeah, well, what if he cuts out on meh again? Then what do Ah do?"

"Well, y' don't have t' worry 'bout t'at, Cherie." Ah spun 'round ta see Remy's psyche sittin' on the edge of mah bed. "Remy ain't gonna leave y' 'gain."

"Ya said somethin' like that before an' look what happened ta Bets." Ah thumbed tawards Betsy ta prove mah point. He gave meh a pout as he stood up an' walked inta mah closet. "Hey! What ya think ya doin' in there?!?!"

"Just looking. Y' got some strange clot'es Cherie." Ah ran up behind him an' grabbed his shoulder shovin' him back out of the closet. Betsy broke inta hysterics watchin' meh fight with mah psyche. "Why don't y' wear t'at skirt wit' t'at shirt?" Ah looked at the articles he was pointin' ta an' saw they were probably the sluttiest clothes Ah owned an' had probably bought 'em while Ah wasn't thinkin' clearly.

"Ya perv. Stay outta mah closet!" He shrugged as he faded away. Ah dove in mahself ta come back with a pair of boots, jeans, an' a green three-quarter length sweater.

"I'm glad you changed your mind, luv."

"Yeah, well it's ya fault if that swamp rat quits on meh." She laughed as she grabbed mah arm draggin' meh down the hall ta greet everyone as the came back.

SHADOWCAT

The train of cars slowly pulled up the drive to stop in front of the institute's doors. I jumped out dragging Piotr behind me. "ROGUE! Like I'm so glad to like see you! Those gifts were like so awesome." Kurt, Remy, Rogue, Beast, the professor, Mister Logan, and two new students were all standing outside on the front steps to welcome us all back. I bounded up the steps and gave Rogue the biggest hug I could muster. Almost immediately I noticed her eyes were the same black and red as Remy's.

"Kitty, cut it out. Ah can't breathe!"

"Sorry, like you must be the new students, Betsy and Brian, right?" They nodded yes as Piotr finally caught up lugging most of my luggage with him.

"Hi, luv." The girl had purple hair and the brightest blue eyes I'd like ever seen.

"Hullo." The guy standing next to her seemed painfully shy though as his eyes flicked from person to person as they unloaded the cars.

"Oh, like that is so cool. You're British!"

"Hey Keety."

"Like hey 'Elf Boy'." I gave Kurt a chest crunching hug as well as John came huffing and puffing up the stairs.

"I still don't know why you needed so much fucking stuff, Tabby." John dragged up Tabitha's load of luggage that paled in comparison to mine. Tabitha shot him a dirty look as Remy laughed at him.

"Homme, y' just weak. Let a real homme carry t'em." He nudged Piotr forward who grudgingly took three of the bags off John's shoulders.

"A real man, huh. Guess that wouldn't be ya, Remy." He gave Rogue a sideways grin as he grabbed up the rest of Tabitha and my bags and carried them into the front hall. Brian followed the guys inside while Betsy stayed outside with us.

"So like tell me. Like what did he give you for Christmas?" Rogue turned her usual bright shade of red every time someone brought up romantic stuff. I rolled my eyes at her. "I'll like make you tell me later." Amara came dashing up the steps next with a single duffel bag tossed over her shoulder. Sam, Ray, Roberto, and Bobby seemed to be carrying the rest for her.

"Oh my gosh…is that a John Paul Richard's skirt? It's absolutely beautiful! It's too bad that Rogue and Kitty don't have the same taste in clothes as we do. You must be new, my name's Amara." Amara was gazing at Betsy's suede skirt that seemed to be a patchwork of several different colored patches.

"Uh thanks, luv. My name's Betsy, and that's my brother, Brian." She pointed inside where the guys were dumping Tabitha and my stuff under her supervision.

"Like I have good taste." I looked down noticing that I was wearing a blue sweater and faded blue jeans. ~Well, like normally I do but I like can't ever dress up for traveling.~

"Sure you do, but this is name brand taste. They're in different leagues from your 'cute' look." Amara was practically drooling over Betsy's skirt as the boys pushed her inside.

"Howdy, ma'am." Betsy giggled as Sam tipped his cowboy hat at her as Rogue and I rolled our eyes.

"He's cute, what's his name, luvs?"

"That's Sam, the tall one next to him with the weird hair is Ray, the brown-haired guy is Bobby, and the guy with the great tan is Roberto. Like trust me on this one, they're like more trouble than they're like worth." She nodded but continued to watch them pass.

"Hey Roguey!" Jamie came flying up next and threw a hug around Rogue's waist catching her completely off guard as she awkwardly patted his back. "Cool contacts!" She smiled at him as Remy and Piotr came back outside. (A/N: I'm currently banging my head against a wall for skipping over Jamie and Roberto earlier. Sorry, I feel really dumb since I absolutely love Jamie—he's soo cute!)

"They're not contacts, Sugah."

"They're not?"

"Nope, Ah'll tell ya later, ok?" She tousled his hair with a bare hand.

"Okay!" He went running inside to cause havoc for the other boys as Remy gave him a jealous glare.

"You're like not wearing gloves! Like what's up with that?"

"Ah, uh, have it under control. That's why mah eyes look like Remy's." She looked down and studied the snow beneath her feet for a few seconds.

"That's like so awesome. You always thought that you'd like never get your powers like in check." She looked up and smiled. "So are you like ready to go in yet, or should we like freeze first?"

"I do not think it is that bad out." I playfully slapped Piotr's arm as I dragged him inside where it was warm.

"Like you wouldn't."

PSYLOCKE

"They all seem pretty nice, luv." We were sitting up in our room, watching Kitty unpack her seven pieces of luggage.

"Like of course, everyone here is really great. You like just have to learn how to not constantly like push everyone's buttons. It's like having a dozen siblings or something."

"Ah think ya cut a few people short there."

"Probably, but like I haven't counted in a while." Rather than opening her suitcase up, Kitty simply phased her hand through it pulling the clothes back through the lid. ~She seems a lot like her psyche. Guess she hasn't changed much since Rogue absorbed her.~ "So like Bets, what are your powers exactly?" She pulled her head out of the closet for moment, or should I say she phased her head out of the closet since the doors were shut, to look at me. I grinned at her a little as I levitated myself a few inches off the bed.

"Telekinesis and psychic, luv." She gave me a small astonished grin as I read her thoughts.

That is like soo awesome.

"Yes, very awesome."

"You like read my mind! You're like way cooler than Jean though." I smiled as I examined the area around my bed trying to see how this neat freak could find me, one of the messiest girls on earth, cool. "Jean can be so stuck up sometimes. It can get really annoying."

"She's the red-head, right?"

"Yep. She's got the same powers as you basically, but she's really bossy sometimes. You'll like see what I mean when she and Scott take charge over training sessions again. Oh, like I almost forgot! Rogue, like you have to tell me what Remy gave you for Christmas!" Rogue rolled her eyes as Kitty plopped down next to her on her bed and refused to be pushed off letting Rogue's arms go straight through her. "Like I'm not going anywhere until you tell me."

"Fine, Ah'll tell ya. He burnt meh a CD." She handed Kitty the CD so that she could read the songs off for herself. Her eyes widened as she finished reading.

"Lady Marmalade? Isn't that like really…risqué?"

"It's a private joke, Kitty."

"Like how private are we talking?" She seemed to know exactly how to make Rogue spill every detail. ~I'll have to learn some of her tricks.~

"Not like that. Ah swear ya as bad as he is sometimes!" Kitty giggled as she danced away from the bed waving the CD over her head.

"Roguey and Remy, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"Kitty! Ya are so dead when Ah get mah hands on ya!"

"Like you can!" She phased though the wall into the adjoining room after tossing the CD case back onto Rogue's bed. Rogue took off after her phasing through the wall as well. ~This is going to take some getting used to. Even the psi division wasn't this crazy.~

ROGUE

"Kitty! Get back here!"

"What do you two think you're doing in my room?!?!" We had phased through the wall into Jean's room where she was relaxing on her bed doing a little light reading—War and Peace. She was even ta lazy ta turn the page herself as the pages flipped on their own.

"Like first comes love, then comes marriage, like then come Junior in the baby carriage!" Kitty ran straight across the room an' through the wall on the other side. Ah chased after her phasing through Jeans dresser an' wall as well.

"KITTY!" She laughed as she ran behind Tabitha usin' her as a human shield.

"What the hell are you two doing?"

"Ah'm gonna kill her is what." Tabitha and Amara looked at Kitty who was gigglin' uncontrollably as she phased through the floor.

"Well, good luck catching her now." Amara stared at the spot where Kitty had disappeared as Ah shrugged mah shoulders an' turned ta leave. "Hey Rogue, I almost forgot to ask you. Is it okay if we throw a sleepover in your room Wednesday night—you know for New Years?"

"Ah guess, but Ah doubt that it'll be much fun with Scott an' Jean. For God's sake she's over there reading War an' Peace." Tabitha gave meh a sly grin which let meh know she'd already thought of a way to take care of 'em. "What are ya gonna do ta 'em?"

"Oh not to much. I just thought I'd drop a few firecrackers into Scott's gas tank while they're on a date." Mah eyes bugged out as Ah imagined Scott's reaction ta findin' his car up in smoke.

"Tabitha! Ya can't do that! Scott'll kill ya for messin' with his car."

"Fine, what the hell, I'll just remove a few necessary items from the engine." She pouted as she went back ta her unpacking. "But we're still going to have some real fun." Ah gave her a wary glance as Ah headed back ta mah own room.

Ah stepped out the door ta find Bobby creatin' one of his ice slides down the hall. That was Ah saw it after Ah'd already stepped onta it an' slid half way down the boy's hall. ~Ah'll kill that li'l ice pick when Ah find him.~

~"Like you're in a mood to like kill everyone aren't you?"~

~Watch it. Ya first on mah list.~

John stepped out inta the hall playin' with one of his many lighters an' caught mah arm before Ah slid any farther. "Going somewhere, Sheila?" He helped meh ta mah feet an' inta the safety of their room.

"Thanks, it's a madhouse out there."

"Oui, why do y' t'ink I'm in here?" Remy was sittin' at his desk with his feet propped up playin' a game of solitaire. He flipped over the King of Hearts an' played it on one of his blank spaces. "So y' hosting de New Year's party?"

"Um, yeah, how'd ya know that."

"Kitty was just up here and dragged Petey out. And she's been talking non-stop with Amara and Tabby about having some kind of blow out ever since we left the airport." ~Makes sense, Kitty is the party plannin' queen. Ah guess she just wanted ta make sure it was okay with meh first ta have it in our room.~

"Yeah, Tabitha wanted ta blow Scott's car up ta keep 'em away." Remy chuckled as he flipped over another card an' played it as well.

"I could do t'at t' if I wanted. But I'd make sure t'ey were in it before I went around blowing up a ride like t'at." Ah gave him a smart slap across the back of the head before Ah sat down in his lap. "What was t'at for?"

"Ya know what it was for."

NIGHTCRAWLER (A/N: I'm totally feeling the fuzzy vibe right now.)

We had a tournament going on in ze living room over ze PS2 and it vas funny vatching Jamie kick Bobby's butt round after round. "Like hey guys!" Keety came strolling in zrough ze door vith Piotr behind her. "Like there is a party going on Wednesday night an' like it's going to be the best!" She vas in all her party planning glory.

"Can I come too?" Jamie perked up forgetting about hiz game vith Bobby for a moment az he spun around to get Keety's ansver.

"Well, like this is going to be like a teen party…" He gave her hiz best pout until she finally gave in. "Oh alright, like you can come but you like have to swear not to tell Scott or Jean."

"Okay dokie." He remembered his game and just barely turned around in time to catch Bobby trying to sucker punch him. "Hey! Cut it out." A few seconds later, Jamie had beaten Bobby yet again.

"So Keety, can I ask Amanda?"

"Like sure, why not? Like the more the merrier. This is like going to be the best party ever, especially when there won't be any party poopers."

"And who would be a party pooper?" Scott came valking in and stopped right behind Keety so zat she took a deep breathe before turning around.

"Like hey Scott. What are you doing here?"

"I live here, remember?"

"Like of course! How silly of me. Um…you like doing with Jean Wednesday night?"

"Yeah, but why do you care?"

"Oh, like I just wanted to make sure you didn't forget to take her out or something on New Years and all. It's supposed to be like the best ball dropping ever. Maybe the two of you should go up to the city and like see it in person."

"I'll think about that, thanks Kitty."

"Like no problem." He left ze room again as Kitty let out a huge zigh of relief. "That was like too close for comfort!"

"Are you sure it is such a good idea to keep this secret from them? They will most likely find out eventually." Piotr gave her a vorried expression az he watched Scott leave ze room.

"Yeah, but later it won't like matter."

"But ze grounding izn't vorth it."

"Like it will be, I promise you that, Kurt."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Well, there's the next installment to my story. Next chapter—Drunk mutants whooping it up! Whoop Whoop!

Thanks for the vote of confidence Rogue4787. Oh, by the way ishandahalf, you might want to get your vision checked.

Brian's super powers are super strength, flight, speed, reflexes, invulnerability, and endurance. I think I might have skipped over a few myself before.