Jubilee carefully dislodged herself from under Logan's arm and started to get out of bed. She let out a squawk when said arm grabbed her and dragged her back into bed.
"Logan!" she chastised.
"Not ready to get up yet," he grumbled pulling her closer.
"Never saw you as the type to snuggle," she told him, "Besides I'm hungry. I want breakfast."
"Not ready to get up yet. Beside I need a shower before I go downstairs."
"Well you'll just have to be a big boy and do it on your own mister, because I am getting up."
"No you're not."
She sighed as he opened an eye to peak at her.
"And why is that?"
"Told you last night, not letting you out of my sight. Now go back to sleep."
Her next retort died on her lips and she had to smile. It was good to be home, to be around Logan again. She'd missed him so much. Not being around him was like not having a piece of herself, a vital piece of herself. She'd missed him so much.Then the wheels in her head started to turn.
"I am so not taking a shower with you. You don't need to watch me that closely," she told him with a slight pout that turned to a smile when her words brought a smile to his lips.
"That I'll agree to. Now go back to sleep."
"Logan," she whined slightly, "I want breakfast. I'm hungry."
He sighed in an annoyed fashion and pulled her closer.
"Wolvie, please? I'll just go downstairs and get breakfast and I promise to stay right there. If you don't show up by the time I'm done I'll come right back up here. Okay?"
Logan tensed. She'd called him Wolvie, he hadn't been called that name in far too long a time. He felt choked, which was not normal for him. He'd missed Jubilee terribly. She was his light, his best friend. She was always so full of energy. Nothing could make him happier then watching her dance circles around him. He loved her energy, loved how full of life she was. She was one of the few people he could get so caught up in that he could forget the darker aspects of his life. Her having some of those dark aspect touch her, her leaving had shattered something inside him. A part of him needed the innocence that seemed interwoven in the energy she gave off in bounds. Worrying that her light had been snuffed out by some psycho mass murder was enough to make him want to go into one of his rages. Every part of him was glad she was home. Every part of him wanted to help her heal. Every part of him wanted his Jubilee back. Part of that, he suddenly realized, included letting her go a bit.
"All right," he agreed gruffly.
Typical of her style she let out a squeal of joy before kissing him on the cheek and bounding out of bed. Having showered the night before she quickly grabbed some clothes, headed to her private bathroom and changed.
"I'll be right back," she promised as she gave him another kiss on the cheek and practically skipped from the room. She was so excited to be home. In all the pain and sadness she'd allowed herself to get caught up in over the last two years she'd nearly forgotten how just being at the mansion could make her feel at home. She was already feeling like her old self, it was so easy to slip into old habits.
Smiling she made her way into the kitchen. Her grin got even wider as she spotted Sean. He was at the stove cooking breakfast.
"Hi Sean!" she greeted as she scooted up to stand by him at the stove.
He turned to greet her as a smile broke out on his face. "Jubilee," he greeted, "it's good to have ye home."
She gave him a full on grin and asked, "Whatca doing?"
"Makin' breakfast. Ye want..."
She cut him off excitedly, "Only if you're cooking."
He couldn't help but smile at her enthusiasm. A short while later they were seated across from each other eating. After a few bites of her eggs Jubilee grinned at him, "Wow, Sean, this is really good!"
Again he smiled at her enthusiasm not quite sure what to say. There was a silent tension between them. He'd changed a lot since they'd last seen each other, so much had happened. He knew she already had it rough, there was a lot of pain she had to come to terms with. For that mater there was a lot of pain and guilt he needed to come to terms with, but he didn't want that to affected her, part of him didn't want her to know. It made getting reacquainted with her feel like a chore, he just didn't know what to say.
Jubilee watched him a moment before setting down her fork and regarded him fully. The last two years had obviously been rough on him. His accent was weaker then when she'd last seen him, his hair was now flecked with gray and he simply looked sad, as if there was something constantly upsetting him. She knew she had her own problems to deal with, but concentrating on Sean would help her to push her own demons aside. After mulling over the situation a moment she asked slowly, "So, Sean, about the other kids. I know what happened to Angelo. I was there when his friends welcomed him back. They were so overjoyed over him not being dead that hardly anyone cared about the mutant thing, and those that did were shunned. He got his old life back."
She paused for a moment sighing before continuing, " He knew how to get a hold of me. He told me about Monet."
Sean's fork clattered against his plate. He starred at his food silently a pained look on his face. After a moment he looked up at her and choked out, "She shouldnta gone off like that! It, she..."
"Was always headstrong and overconfident in her abilities," Jubilee finished for him softly, "It's part of the reason I came back Sean. You , when you called me, you said that I was better then her when fighting without powers. Part of me wanted to know why you used her as an example, after what happened to her."
"Ye had a rivalry, de two of you. I used her because I thought it would get a rise out of ya. I just wanted ya to come home. I did not think you knew."
"Ang told me," she told him softly, "He called me up crying when he found out. Who'd have guessed he have tears over Monet. It was strange, I cried with him. We never really totally got along, but she didn't deserve to die, not like that."
Sean nodded in agreement, he was too choked for words. After a moment Jubilee continued, "I, I'm almost sorry I brought it up. I just thought you should know that I know so it wasn't tiptoed around."
Again Sean nodded his agreement, then he went back to staring at his food silently. After a moment Jubilee told him, "I think a subject change is appropriate. What happened to Frost?"
This caused Sean to bite back a soft grin, "She is concentratin' on her career and havin' as little to do with us as possible."
"And Paige? Is she still hugging trees?"
The intent look Jubilee was giving him caused Sean to smile a bit more, despite the fact that he was still feeling some sadness over their earlier conversation, "Dat she is. She won't have a thing to do with us either. Jonothon said she tried to reconcile with him last year, but he had a boyfriend at the time so..."
Sean was cut of as Jubilee exclaimed, "Wait! What? Jono is gay? Since when was Jono gay?"
"He is bisexual, " Sean corrected her, " and not everyone knows so keep yer voice down."
"Sorry. So who knows?"
"Me, Emma, Hank and Paige."
"And now me. Way to go Jono," Jubilee grinned, "What's he up to anyway?"
"He's at college, NYU. He decided he wasn't ready to be an X-man and wanted to be a student fer a bit longer. Emma helped him out a bit financially his first year, but he did so well he got scholarships and such."
"Wow. Jono's doing better then any of us." Jubilee said softly causing Sean to give her a stern look.
Sean opened his mouth to tell her something but stopped when a little boy's voice cried, "No! No go! Stay and play!"
They both turned their heads in time to see Bobby, wearing nice slacks , a white dress shirt and a tie walk in with a pouting two year old attached to his leg.
"What with the outfit?" Jubilee asked.
Bobby gave Sean a pleading look, "I thought he'd sleep through me leaving. Jean and Scott haven't woken up yet and I need to get to work. Help me!"
Sean quickly rushed over and pried Lee off Bobby. "Now Lee," he started to scolded gently.
Lee's response was to stomp his foot in protest, "Bobby no go!" He looked near tears.
"Lee-Lee," Bobby told the boy gently, "Uncle Bobby has to go to work. I know you want to play, and we will as soon as I get home."
"Promise?" the little boy pouted.
"Promise," Bobby told him solemnly.
"Oh! Wait a moment!" Jubilee protested, "What alien life form took over Bobby? Since when does he have a job?"
This caused Bobby to give her a withering look and Sean to chuckle.
"For your information I have been working. I'm not the child you all think I am. I am more then capable of holding down a job and besides I needed something to make me feel more productive now that Scott has made me play baby-sitter when there are missions."
Jubilee was still looking at him skeptically, "And what exactly do you do?"
"Stop looking at me like that!" Bobby protested, "I do have a degree you know."
"I know, but you and work. Sorry Bobby it's just not an easy concept for me to put together."
"For your information I hold down two jobs, thank you very much!"
"Bobby, my brains already on overload from the word job being in the same sentence with you and now you're going to dump this on me?"
Bobby sighed, "I'm a manager at a toy store and I put in about ten to fifteen hours a week at a video game store. All very Bobbyish things I assure you."
"Still working on the concept of you and a job."
"Well continue to work on that, I have to go or I'm going to be late."
Bobby," Lee pouted then asked, "Bring home toy?"
"If I do will we stop waking up like this?"
The little boy nodded smiling before saying, "Otay I no scream, want toy."
Bobby smiled down at him, "All right Lee-Lee I'll see what I can do. Can I have a hug goodbye?"
As he knelt down to get his hug Lee threw himself into Bobby's outstretched arms. After giving him a fierce hug and a kiss on the cheek the little boy told him, "Love you."
Bobby grinned, "I love you too Lee-Lee."
Then the little boy pulled back solemnly, "Wemember what I say, otay?"
"What you say?" Bobby asked confused.
"What I say last night, wemember?"
Bobby suddenly looked slightly panicked, "I-I remember Lee-Lee. I won't forget."
"Otay. Sean what got?"
Sean looked on confused as the little boy crawled into the seat he had vacated and examined the plate of food he had left there. Then Lee turned and looked at him asking, "Sean eggs?"
Sean nodded as Bobby mutter a thanks to him and left for work. Lee's face broke into an all out grin, "Yeah! Sean eggs!"
Then he started eating the eggs Sean had made for himself. Sean started laughing.
"Care to let me in?" Jubilee asked.
Sean smirked down at the little boy who looked at Jubilee as if seeing her for the first time. "Pretty Girl!" the little boy exclaimed excitedly.
Jubilee gave Sean a confused look and was answered when Sean told her, " His nickname fer you."
Jubilee still looked confused and as she turned back to the little boy he informed her, "Sean eggs good!"
She could see it was going to be a long morning.
Note:
Hopefully that wasn't too bad. Hopefully I didn't totally kill Sean's accent, like I said it's weaker then it was and kinda fades in an out. Hopefully Bobby's job didn't come as too much as a shock to anyone and hopefully I explained it well enough. Hopefully no one's too upset about me killing Monet, I warned char death and well there it was char death. Hopefully no ones too upset about how I changed Jono as well, I didn't like what they did with him after Gen X got shut down. So anyway the next part will be Lee, so I need to go get some candy and bribe myself a little two year old into helping me write.
As to the reviews:
Brightstar - thanx for the sympathy and liking my story. Hopefully you liked this part too.
Buckster -glad you liked it thanx.
vas17uk - hi, thanx, totally agree Bobby needs some loving.
Fizzleup - Hopefully this is a good enough taste of what's to come. Am planning plenty of Jubilee/Lee interaction.
Sue Penkivech - Wow, that's um really high praise. I only hope I can live up to it. Thanx for liking my story thus far.