Just so you know ******* means that the story is switching to another place
and person like from Remy in the apartment to Chloe at the mall.
And XXXXXXX means that the story is done and the rest is Author's notes that I suggest you read as well. That was just incase you didn't know.
Okay I'm finished with Chapter 6! I hope you all enjoy it and everything. Like I always do, I'm now going to answer any questions or comments that you guys wrote me in your last reviews.
Answering Reviews:
Talek- Thanks for the compliments and all. Its good to know that people think I'm doing the accents right and its always good to hear that readers think you have an original writing style. Thank you and I hope to hear from you in reviews in next chapters.
Heartstar- Okay first of all thank you for putting my story on your faves list. I'll be updating probably every Wednesday or when I can and there will be Romy coming up.
Ishandahalf- I'm glad you liked the funny bits in this chapter. I was hoping someone would write in and tell me what they thought about them. I'm doing as much Romy as I can but I have to lay it on like small bits at a time cause Rouge's all closed off and Remy's gotta work on her!
Thanks for all you others who reviewed. Ask me a question and I'll answer it before the next chapter!
Now on with the story!
CHAPTER 6 RAINY DAYS
Remy stepped out of the shower, releasing a vast amount of steam in the process. He wrapped a towel around his waist and walked out of the bathroom. "Petite? You still dere?" Remy called through the small-sized apartment. He walked into his room and closed the door behind him to get dressed. His eyes landed on a note taped to his mirror.
"Dear Rem,
Jean and Kitty are taking me out and showing me around Bayville today. Don't wait up. I should be back around 4:00 or something. If you need to reach me than just call Jean's cell or the institute. They're both in my phone book by the couch. That means emergencies only. Not calling every five minutes to make sure I'm still breathing. This way you can go out today and I won't be stuck sitting around the apartment. Catch ya later Rem!
Chloe!"
"Well at least she be makin' some new friends." He said aloud to himself as he put down the paper and flipped on the radio to full volume. He apparently had it playing too loud because he hadn't heard the phone ringing off the hook.
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"Come on mate pick up. I know you're there. Get up and answer the phone." Pyro said into the phone as he let it ring for the seventh time. He had to contact Remy before Magneto got to Bayville or else his Cajun friend was as good as dead.
"You wouldn't be making a call to a certain X-Acolyte Cajun now would you?" Colossus asked, leaning on the doorframe of the room with his arms folded in front of his chest.
"Not likely mate. I wouldn't be calling Gambit. No way." John babbled as he quickly slammed the phone down on the receiver.
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"Allo?" Remy asked into the phone as he waited for an answer. He heard a click and then nothing but silence. "Damn prank callers." He mumbled to himself as he went back into his room.
He hadn't even gotten a chance to take his towel off when he had first heard the phone ring from the next room. After Remy got dressed, he dried his hair, picked up his bike from the repair shop and went out for a ride.
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"Oh Jean try this one on." Chloe insisted, holding up a tight-fitting yellow shirt that had very little back and cut off at her belly button. "I don't think so. It's just not.me." Jean said, eyeing the tiny piece of cloth with fear of change and showing too much skin. "That's like totally the reason you've got to try it on." Kitty told her friend. "It doesn't have to be you. It just has to look good on you. So move it Miss Grey. I want to see you in a like totally different look." "Alright, alright." Jean gave up and took the nearest dressing room to her right.
"This is so much fun Kitty. Thanks again for inviting me to the mall with you guys. Bayville seems like such a nice place." Chloe told her new friend as they waited for Jean to come out and model her outfits. "Oh like no problem Chloe. Besides, if we hadn't then you would have been cooped up in that apartment of yours for like ever." Kitty giggled.
"Yeah. Remy can be a little too over protective sometimes." She told Kitty. Kitty gave her a doubtful look. "Okay so almost all the time." Chloe confessed. "Yeah but I guess its like sweet in a way sense he's just trying to like take care of you and everything right?" Kitty asked. "Yeah I guess so." Chloe said with a sigh.
"But your right. There are a whole lot of great sites in Bayville that you haven't seen yet." Kitty told her friend. "Yeah, and I'm looking at a group of them right now." Chloe whispered to the valley girl in a giggle.
Kitty looked over to where Chloe was looking and immediately caught site of the group of teenage boys by the sports equipment. "Chloe the one in the baseball cap is so like totally checking you out." Kitty told her without pointing or drawing attention to herself. "You think? No that's doubtful. He's probably just looking at some other girl in the background." Chloe concluded with a lack in self-confidence.
"No way. He's so like checking you out. So go talk to him already, why don't you? What are you like waiting for? An invitation?" Kitty asked sarcastically as she elbowed her friend in the ribs and pushed her gently towards the guy's direction. The boy in the baseball cap was now away from the rest of his group and looking at random items on the shelves near the girls.
When Chloe was nudged forward she accidentally fell into him, knocking the CD's in his hands to the ground. "Oh man, I am so totally sorry. I'm such a spaz." She said to him apologetically as she blushed furiously from embarrassment and turned on the Le beau Charm for him. This was something that came genetically obviously. She didn't even know she was doing it half the time.
"Oh no, it was my fault. I wasn't looking where I was going. I'm Conner by the way." He told her, helping her to her feet from when she bent down to pick up the CD's. "Chloe Le beau." She said, exchanging her name for his. She took his hand and was lifted up to her feet by his surprisingly strong arms. It didn't look like he had too much muscle on him but it was clear that he could definitely fend for himself.
She handed him back his CD's and he put them in his bag. She saw a stray CD that she had missed and picked it up. "Barney the Dinosaur's sing along songs?" She raised a curious eyebrow at him. "Its not what you think. My kid sister is having her fourth birthday party today and she's obsessed with the giant, purple fossil so I got her this for her party." He explained. "So your not a Barney fan yourself?" She asked sarcastically. "Not particularly." His friends were all trying not to burst out laughing after seeing the events that had taken place.
She handed him the last CD and their hands met for a split second before they each pulled away. "Thanks. Hey are you in High School, because I don't think I've seen you at Bayville High." Conner asked her.
"Um.well I'm supposed to. I just moved here about a week or two ago and I haven't exactly had the chance to get up and go to school. Nor did I remotely want to. You'll probably be seeing me soon though." She assured him.
A smile formed on his face. "Good. That's good." He said, a bit shyly. "Yeah, good." She agreed in a quiet tone.
"Tada!" Jean announced sarcastically as she walked out of the curtained dressing room. "Hey what gives? I finally try on this outfit after your guys practically force it on me and now that I've tried it on your not even going to pay attention?" Jean asked, a little irritated. Her eyes trailed over to where Kitty was looking. Chloe was flirting with a boy on the other side of the store.
"Wow, that's what I call fast." Jean let out. "Tell me about it. All I did was like push her over there and she totally did the rest. Actually he and she did the rest. They've totally got a thing for each other." Kitty told her as they looked at the two with amusement.
"Well at least she's getting attention from the guys." Jean said as she thought about Scott being in Hawaii with Alex for the rest of the weekend. "Aw cheer up Jean. Scott'll be back in a few days." Kitty assured her.
"Hey, looks like Chloe's not the only one being checked out. Look who's getting stared at." Jean said. Kitty turned around to see the group of guys the first boy came from and saw that one of them was looking directly at her." Kitty's face blushed furiously.
The boy came over to her and asked her if she needed help finding anything. He had a nametag on so he obviously worked there and was just on his brake with his friends. "Oh um like no thanks. I was just waiting for my friend." She told him, pointing over to where Chloe and his friend were.
"Yeah, Conner's got it bad for this one." He said, looking at his friend. Kitty giggled slightly which for some reason was a turn on to the boy. "I'm David by the way." He told her. "What did you say your name was?" He asked. "I didn't, and it's Kitty." She said, batting her eyelashes a bit.
"Hey, I don't usually do this but. I was wondering if you'd maybe.you know.want to possibly. go out one night.with me?" He finally got out after pausing at every other word from being nervous. "Really? Um like wow, I wasn't really expecting." She thought about it for a minute.
'Go ahead Kitty. Go for it.' Jean told her telepathically. 'Jean like get out of my head. I can make up my own mind.' Kitty answered her in Jean's head. 'Sure you can.' Jean said as she left Kitty's mind and went back to watching the two talk.
"Well." Kitty said as she looked into the boy's crystal blue eyes. "Why not? Like I'd totally love to go out with you some time." Kitty answered after a long pause, which made the boy nervous enough.
The boy let out a sigh of relief. "Really? Great! Here's my phone number." He told her, writing it down on a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to her." "Cool! Like here's mine." She said, writing hers on another piece of torn paper.
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Rouge sat down on the grass by an over-sized oak tree in the park with her latest novel. This was one of her favorite places to go when she wanted some alone time, which was something she seldom got, living in a mansion with more than six other kids. She got so wrapped up in her book that she didn't even notice when someone stood in front of her, mere inches away.
"Allo Chere. Didn' tink Remy'd be seein you ere." Gambit said, with an emensley large grin plastered to his face. "Ya mind if Remy sit down?" He asked, sitting down at the same time.
"Would it really matter if ah said yes?" She asked. "Non, probably not." He said, scooting closer to the Goth. "Why you be out ere all by ya self chere?" He asked as he put an arm around her shoulder.
"No reason. Just like it here ah guess." She told him. The Professor had told them all to be nice and set a good example for Chloe and Gambit of the X-men, which meant that Rouge couldn't insult, injure, or ignore the Cajun. The three I's she wanted to do most of all when it came to the perverted Swamp Rat.
Remy was using the slightest bit of empathy so she was unaware that his arm was so close. It also fogged her mind a little. "Ah just love the view from here that's all. Ah mean isn't it beautiful?" She asked the boy. It was apparent that he had no thoughts of leaving so she'd might as well make the best of it.
"Oui Chere. It be de most beautiful ting Remy eva seen." He told her. Only he was looking straight at her when he said it and was obviously referring to Rouge, not Mother Nature.
This caused Rouge to blush, which only showed vaguely through her pale makeup. She could feel the heat that his body was giving off and for some strange reason she felt drawn toward it.
The empathy wore off and Rouge realized how close they were. She stood up and walked over to the pond. "You runnin' away from Gambit chere?" He asked her with puppy dog eyes that couldn't be seen very well through his sunglasses.
"Not runnin Cajun. Unlike ya'll Ah have places ta be. Like trainin sessions with Logan." She told him, still walking away. It was of course a lie. Logan wouldn't be assigning danger room sessions on a Saturday like this. Hell, he'd be out having a beer somewhere as far away from the kids as possible.
Remy went after her and snaked his arm around her waist as he walked beside her. She flinched a little but she was safely covered so she wasn't too worried about getting the Cajun's thoughts stuck in her head.
Never the less she didn't want the boy that close to her. She wasn't his girlfriend or anything. And she didn't want people to talk or get the wrong idea. She pulled herself away from the boy and took a step to the right of him. He smirked and took the same step. 'Fine by me. I love it when they play hard to get. Besides, I'm up for the challenge.' He thought to himself, only in French of course.
He pulled her auburn hair back gently to the left side of her head and he blew on her bare neck and whispered into her ear in French. This always made the girls melt in his arms. It sent chills going up and down her spine like crazy.
'What am Ah doin? Ah gotta stay strong. Ah can't let him get ta me. He's only tryin ta mess with meh.' She told herself over and over again. Though she was slipping farther and farther away from her strong principles and her urge to hold back every time he did some thing.
Remy turned her around so that he was looking at her face and she was, his. "Petite, why you pull away from Remy?" He asked her, putting a gloved hand on her chin and lifting her head so she had to look at him.
He was too close and she wanted more than anything to pull away from him but his arms had made their way around her waist and she couldn't move. They gazed into each other's eyes for a few seconds before she broke the connection.
"Ah really gotta.Ah gotta go." She said, pulling away from him and turning around. "Oh but mon chere, Remy don' wan' de beautiful fille to leave." He said, putting an arm over her shoulder. He figured she'd make some insult or push him away but his arm stayed where he'd left it.
Gambit was surprised and pleased at this. 'She didn't pull away or try ta knock me out this time.' He thought to himself with a huge smirk plastered on his face.
They were silent for a minute, but a loud roar of thunder and a flash of lightening broke the silence. The lightening was followed by buckets of pouring rain to the point where Rouge couldn't even see her hands in front of her face.
"Damn it." She cursed over the rainfall. "Ah knew ah shoulda brought mah umbrella." She said aloud to no one in particular. It was cold and wet, and Rouge's make up had completely washed off her face. The rain was coming down so fast and hard that it didn't even smear. It just ran off completely.
She felt her body shiver as the wind passed through her soaked clothes and onto her skin.
She was trembling all over. Then she felt the warmth return to her body as a long trench coat covered her. She wouldn't have minded so much that the Cajun was helping her; only he too was wrapped up in the trench coat with her.
She would have pulled away but it was freezing and she didn't want to get any wetter then she already was. Besides, she had to admit that it was pretty comfortable being so close to him like that. Her whole body was covered so she had nothing to worry about in the sense of touching him.
"Ah gotta get back ta tha institute." She told him. He looked down at her through his sunglasses and laughed a little. "Sorry Chere. Non can do. Remy's bike only got enough gas left in it ta get him home, if even dat far." He explained. "Than ah guess I'll just have ta walk home." She said, stepping out of the warmth, comfort, and dryness of the trench coat.
Remy walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. He pulled her back inside the coat and was now closer to her than he was before. "Sorry chere, but Remy can't let ya do dat." He told her.
"An' why not?" She asked, though she hadn't pulled away from his embrace. "Cause he neva gonna be able to fo'give himself if de fille gets sick from walkin home in de storm." He told her.
"You wait at Remy's place till de storm dies down, or one o' de X-men comes an' gets ya oui?" He asked, only it was more of a command. "Fahn." She said as she rolled her eyes. "Great!" He said.
He scooped her up in his arms and carried her over to his bike as if carrying her over the thresh hold. "What tha hell do ya'll think yer doin?" She asked, clearly shocked and pissed at the Cajun's actions.
"Remy can't walk wit ya standin in his coat so you gonna have ta deal wit it till we get ta de bike." He told her, trying not to flaunt the huge smile on his face to Rouge.
Rouge let out a tired, and annoyed sigh in surrender. He put her down on his bike and she felt herself being wrapped up in the coat once again. She looked over at Remy who was now coatless because he had given his to Rouge.
Rouge tried to give it back to him but he wouldn't take it and if he wasn't going to use it then she wasn't going to make him. She sat on the bike as he climbed on in front of her.
"Jus' be tankful Remy was able to get his bike fixed so soon after what Chloe done to it on her way ta de institute last night." He told her, looking back to see if she was secured on the bike. Rouge laughed a little at this, remembering the details of what the girl had done to Remy's motorcycle on her way over and how broken up Remy had gotten over it all.
Remy stepped on the pedal and off they went. Rouge wasn't ready for this and had to wrap her arms around the Cajun's waist in order to keep from falling off. He felt it and smirked.
He then pushed on the pedals even harder, making her grab on even tighter and get even closer to the biker boy. "Yer doin that on purpose." She shouted over the roar of the engine and the pouring rain. "Non." He told her. "Dat was de normal speed.Dis be on purpose." He said, shifting a gear on his bike and pressing down on the pedals the hardest they went.
The bike sped way faster then it was supposed to and Rouge had to cling onto the Cajun for dear life. Remy was enjoying this.
They came to a stop and Remy got off the bike and picked Rouge up again, carrying her into the apartment building.
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"Aw man you've got to be kidding me." Chloe said as she stepped out of the mall and under a ledge to keep dry from the pouring rain in front of her. "We're gonna like walk home in this? No way!" Kitty complained. "Jean try and call the institute on your cell will ya?" Kitty suggested.
"I did already. The batteries are dead and Scott can't pick us up because he's still in Hawaii remember?" She told the younger girl. "So I guess we're stuck here until the rain like stops huh?" Kitty asked the two girls.
"Well we could just go back inside right?" Chloe suggested. "Wrong." Jean argued. "The mall is closing early today remember? Some kind of inspection or something. Either way it closes at two and its 1:45 now. Jean told the other two.
"So what, do we like wait out the storm here or do we get soaked and drenched at an attempt to make it back to the institute without drowning from all the rain?" Kitty asked Jean. Chloe spoke up before Jean had a chance to answer. "Neither." She told them. "Huh?" "Come again?" The other two girls asked in confusion.
"This is the Bayville mall right?" Chloe asked, though she was almost 100% sure it was. "Right. But what does that have to do with anything?" Jean asked in confusion. "Well.Remy told me that if I got lost than I should just remember that we live two blocks down from the Bayville mall on Maple Avenue." She told the two girls. "I know where that is." Kitty acknowledged. That's like about a ten minute walk from here." She spoke again. "Exactly! You two can crash at my house until the storm lightens up and you can call Xavier and tell him where you are when we get there." Chloe concluded.
"Sounds good to me." Kitty said, starting to get the chills from not moving in the cold. "Well.I don't know. This doesn't seem like something the professor would want us doing unless we asked first." Jean told Kitty. "Oh Come on Jean. I'm like freezing over here." Kitty complained. "And I'm sure the last thing Xavier would want would be for two of his X-men to get the flu just because they couldn't stay at a friend's house for a while." Chloe added. "But what about Gambit?" Jean asked Chloe.
"Okay first of all his name's Remy not Gambit. Secondly, my brothers gonna be out all day running errands and getting his bike fixed from the little.accident it was in the other night." Chloe confirmed.
"Well." Jean paused for a moment before looking at her shivering valley girl friend. "Alright fine, but we call the professor as soon as we get there." Jean told them. "Great. Now lets make a brake for the next ledge around the corner." Chloe said. They all agreed and took off at a fast pace towards the dryer areas of the sidewalk.
They were having so much fun running around in the rain and dodging raindrops that they hadn't noticed the two figures above them on a nearby garage roof. "Should we nab her here?" Colossus asked Sabretooth who was not a happy camper when wet. "No. There's too many places for a little girl to hide out in public like this. We get her when she's in that little apartment they've been holding up in." Sabretooth told him. "What about the other two?"
Colossus asked, looking down at the young girls that were having fun splashing around in the rain. "We'll take em along. Magneto might have something in mind for em." Sabretooth told him. Those were the last words that were spoken in that conversation. The two Acolytes followed the girls, jumping from rooftop to rooftop without the teens noticing their presence.
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And XXXXXXX means that the story is done and the rest is Author's notes that I suggest you read as well. That was just incase you didn't know.
Okay I'm finished with Chapter 6! I hope you all enjoy it and everything. Like I always do, I'm now going to answer any questions or comments that you guys wrote me in your last reviews.
Answering Reviews:
Talek- Thanks for the compliments and all. Its good to know that people think I'm doing the accents right and its always good to hear that readers think you have an original writing style. Thank you and I hope to hear from you in reviews in next chapters.
Heartstar- Okay first of all thank you for putting my story on your faves list. I'll be updating probably every Wednesday or when I can and there will be Romy coming up.
Ishandahalf- I'm glad you liked the funny bits in this chapter. I was hoping someone would write in and tell me what they thought about them. I'm doing as much Romy as I can but I have to lay it on like small bits at a time cause Rouge's all closed off and Remy's gotta work on her!
Thanks for all you others who reviewed. Ask me a question and I'll answer it before the next chapter!
Now on with the story!
CHAPTER 6 RAINY DAYS
Remy stepped out of the shower, releasing a vast amount of steam in the process. He wrapped a towel around his waist and walked out of the bathroom. "Petite? You still dere?" Remy called through the small-sized apartment. He walked into his room and closed the door behind him to get dressed. His eyes landed on a note taped to his mirror.
"Dear Rem,
Jean and Kitty are taking me out and showing me around Bayville today. Don't wait up. I should be back around 4:00 or something. If you need to reach me than just call Jean's cell or the institute. They're both in my phone book by the couch. That means emergencies only. Not calling every five minutes to make sure I'm still breathing. This way you can go out today and I won't be stuck sitting around the apartment. Catch ya later Rem!
Chloe!"
"Well at least she be makin' some new friends." He said aloud to himself as he put down the paper and flipped on the radio to full volume. He apparently had it playing too loud because he hadn't heard the phone ringing off the hook.
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"Come on mate pick up. I know you're there. Get up and answer the phone." Pyro said into the phone as he let it ring for the seventh time. He had to contact Remy before Magneto got to Bayville or else his Cajun friend was as good as dead.
"You wouldn't be making a call to a certain X-Acolyte Cajun now would you?" Colossus asked, leaning on the doorframe of the room with his arms folded in front of his chest.
"Not likely mate. I wouldn't be calling Gambit. No way." John babbled as he quickly slammed the phone down on the receiver.
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"Allo?" Remy asked into the phone as he waited for an answer. He heard a click and then nothing but silence. "Damn prank callers." He mumbled to himself as he went back into his room.
He hadn't even gotten a chance to take his towel off when he had first heard the phone ring from the next room. After Remy got dressed, he dried his hair, picked up his bike from the repair shop and went out for a ride.
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"Oh Jean try this one on." Chloe insisted, holding up a tight-fitting yellow shirt that had very little back and cut off at her belly button. "I don't think so. It's just not.me." Jean said, eyeing the tiny piece of cloth with fear of change and showing too much skin. "That's like totally the reason you've got to try it on." Kitty told her friend. "It doesn't have to be you. It just has to look good on you. So move it Miss Grey. I want to see you in a like totally different look." "Alright, alright." Jean gave up and took the nearest dressing room to her right.
"This is so much fun Kitty. Thanks again for inviting me to the mall with you guys. Bayville seems like such a nice place." Chloe told her new friend as they waited for Jean to come out and model her outfits. "Oh like no problem Chloe. Besides, if we hadn't then you would have been cooped up in that apartment of yours for like ever." Kitty giggled.
"Yeah. Remy can be a little too over protective sometimes." She told Kitty. Kitty gave her a doubtful look. "Okay so almost all the time." Chloe confessed. "Yeah but I guess its like sweet in a way sense he's just trying to like take care of you and everything right?" Kitty asked. "Yeah I guess so." Chloe said with a sigh.
"But your right. There are a whole lot of great sites in Bayville that you haven't seen yet." Kitty told her friend. "Yeah, and I'm looking at a group of them right now." Chloe whispered to the valley girl in a giggle.
Kitty looked over to where Chloe was looking and immediately caught site of the group of teenage boys by the sports equipment. "Chloe the one in the baseball cap is so like totally checking you out." Kitty told her without pointing or drawing attention to herself. "You think? No that's doubtful. He's probably just looking at some other girl in the background." Chloe concluded with a lack in self-confidence.
"No way. He's so like checking you out. So go talk to him already, why don't you? What are you like waiting for? An invitation?" Kitty asked sarcastically as she elbowed her friend in the ribs and pushed her gently towards the guy's direction. The boy in the baseball cap was now away from the rest of his group and looking at random items on the shelves near the girls.
When Chloe was nudged forward she accidentally fell into him, knocking the CD's in his hands to the ground. "Oh man, I am so totally sorry. I'm such a spaz." She said to him apologetically as she blushed furiously from embarrassment and turned on the Le beau Charm for him. This was something that came genetically obviously. She didn't even know she was doing it half the time.
"Oh no, it was my fault. I wasn't looking where I was going. I'm Conner by the way." He told her, helping her to her feet from when she bent down to pick up the CD's. "Chloe Le beau." She said, exchanging her name for his. She took his hand and was lifted up to her feet by his surprisingly strong arms. It didn't look like he had too much muscle on him but it was clear that he could definitely fend for himself.
She handed him back his CD's and he put them in his bag. She saw a stray CD that she had missed and picked it up. "Barney the Dinosaur's sing along songs?" She raised a curious eyebrow at him. "Its not what you think. My kid sister is having her fourth birthday party today and she's obsessed with the giant, purple fossil so I got her this for her party." He explained. "So your not a Barney fan yourself?" She asked sarcastically. "Not particularly." His friends were all trying not to burst out laughing after seeing the events that had taken place.
She handed him the last CD and their hands met for a split second before they each pulled away. "Thanks. Hey are you in High School, because I don't think I've seen you at Bayville High." Conner asked her.
"Um.well I'm supposed to. I just moved here about a week or two ago and I haven't exactly had the chance to get up and go to school. Nor did I remotely want to. You'll probably be seeing me soon though." She assured him.
A smile formed on his face. "Good. That's good." He said, a bit shyly. "Yeah, good." She agreed in a quiet tone.
"Tada!" Jean announced sarcastically as she walked out of the curtained dressing room. "Hey what gives? I finally try on this outfit after your guys practically force it on me and now that I've tried it on your not even going to pay attention?" Jean asked, a little irritated. Her eyes trailed over to where Kitty was looking. Chloe was flirting with a boy on the other side of the store.
"Wow, that's what I call fast." Jean let out. "Tell me about it. All I did was like push her over there and she totally did the rest. Actually he and she did the rest. They've totally got a thing for each other." Kitty told her as they looked at the two with amusement.
"Well at least she's getting attention from the guys." Jean said as she thought about Scott being in Hawaii with Alex for the rest of the weekend. "Aw cheer up Jean. Scott'll be back in a few days." Kitty assured her.
"Hey, looks like Chloe's not the only one being checked out. Look who's getting stared at." Jean said. Kitty turned around to see the group of guys the first boy came from and saw that one of them was looking directly at her." Kitty's face blushed furiously.
The boy came over to her and asked her if she needed help finding anything. He had a nametag on so he obviously worked there and was just on his brake with his friends. "Oh um like no thanks. I was just waiting for my friend." She told him, pointing over to where Chloe and his friend were.
"Yeah, Conner's got it bad for this one." He said, looking at his friend. Kitty giggled slightly which for some reason was a turn on to the boy. "I'm David by the way." He told her. "What did you say your name was?" He asked. "I didn't, and it's Kitty." She said, batting her eyelashes a bit.
"Hey, I don't usually do this but. I was wondering if you'd maybe.you know.want to possibly. go out one night.with me?" He finally got out after pausing at every other word from being nervous. "Really? Um like wow, I wasn't really expecting." She thought about it for a minute.
'Go ahead Kitty. Go for it.' Jean told her telepathically. 'Jean like get out of my head. I can make up my own mind.' Kitty answered her in Jean's head. 'Sure you can.' Jean said as she left Kitty's mind and went back to watching the two talk.
"Well." Kitty said as she looked into the boy's crystal blue eyes. "Why not? Like I'd totally love to go out with you some time." Kitty answered after a long pause, which made the boy nervous enough.
The boy let out a sigh of relief. "Really? Great! Here's my phone number." He told her, writing it down on a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to her." "Cool! Like here's mine." She said, writing hers on another piece of torn paper.
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Rouge sat down on the grass by an over-sized oak tree in the park with her latest novel. This was one of her favorite places to go when she wanted some alone time, which was something she seldom got, living in a mansion with more than six other kids. She got so wrapped up in her book that she didn't even notice when someone stood in front of her, mere inches away.
"Allo Chere. Didn' tink Remy'd be seein you ere." Gambit said, with an emensley large grin plastered to his face. "Ya mind if Remy sit down?" He asked, sitting down at the same time.
"Would it really matter if ah said yes?" She asked. "Non, probably not." He said, scooting closer to the Goth. "Why you be out ere all by ya self chere?" He asked as he put an arm around her shoulder.
"No reason. Just like it here ah guess." She told him. The Professor had told them all to be nice and set a good example for Chloe and Gambit of the X-men, which meant that Rouge couldn't insult, injure, or ignore the Cajun. The three I's she wanted to do most of all when it came to the perverted Swamp Rat.
Remy was using the slightest bit of empathy so she was unaware that his arm was so close. It also fogged her mind a little. "Ah just love the view from here that's all. Ah mean isn't it beautiful?" She asked the boy. It was apparent that he had no thoughts of leaving so she'd might as well make the best of it.
"Oui Chere. It be de most beautiful ting Remy eva seen." He told her. Only he was looking straight at her when he said it and was obviously referring to Rouge, not Mother Nature.
This caused Rouge to blush, which only showed vaguely through her pale makeup. She could feel the heat that his body was giving off and for some strange reason she felt drawn toward it.
The empathy wore off and Rouge realized how close they were. She stood up and walked over to the pond. "You runnin' away from Gambit chere?" He asked her with puppy dog eyes that couldn't be seen very well through his sunglasses.
"Not runnin Cajun. Unlike ya'll Ah have places ta be. Like trainin sessions with Logan." She told him, still walking away. It was of course a lie. Logan wouldn't be assigning danger room sessions on a Saturday like this. Hell, he'd be out having a beer somewhere as far away from the kids as possible.
Remy went after her and snaked his arm around her waist as he walked beside her. She flinched a little but she was safely covered so she wasn't too worried about getting the Cajun's thoughts stuck in her head.
Never the less she didn't want the boy that close to her. She wasn't his girlfriend or anything. And she didn't want people to talk or get the wrong idea. She pulled herself away from the boy and took a step to the right of him. He smirked and took the same step. 'Fine by me. I love it when they play hard to get. Besides, I'm up for the challenge.' He thought to himself, only in French of course.
He pulled her auburn hair back gently to the left side of her head and he blew on her bare neck and whispered into her ear in French. This always made the girls melt in his arms. It sent chills going up and down her spine like crazy.
'What am Ah doin? Ah gotta stay strong. Ah can't let him get ta me. He's only tryin ta mess with meh.' She told herself over and over again. Though she was slipping farther and farther away from her strong principles and her urge to hold back every time he did some thing.
Remy turned her around so that he was looking at her face and she was, his. "Petite, why you pull away from Remy?" He asked her, putting a gloved hand on her chin and lifting her head so she had to look at him.
He was too close and she wanted more than anything to pull away from him but his arms had made their way around her waist and she couldn't move. They gazed into each other's eyes for a few seconds before she broke the connection.
"Ah really gotta.Ah gotta go." She said, pulling away from him and turning around. "Oh but mon chere, Remy don' wan' de beautiful fille to leave." He said, putting an arm over her shoulder. He figured she'd make some insult or push him away but his arm stayed where he'd left it.
Gambit was surprised and pleased at this. 'She didn't pull away or try ta knock me out this time.' He thought to himself with a huge smirk plastered on his face.
They were silent for a minute, but a loud roar of thunder and a flash of lightening broke the silence. The lightening was followed by buckets of pouring rain to the point where Rouge couldn't even see her hands in front of her face.
"Damn it." She cursed over the rainfall. "Ah knew ah shoulda brought mah umbrella." She said aloud to no one in particular. It was cold and wet, and Rouge's make up had completely washed off her face. The rain was coming down so fast and hard that it didn't even smear. It just ran off completely.
She felt her body shiver as the wind passed through her soaked clothes and onto her skin.
She was trembling all over. Then she felt the warmth return to her body as a long trench coat covered her. She wouldn't have minded so much that the Cajun was helping her; only he too was wrapped up in the trench coat with her.
She would have pulled away but it was freezing and she didn't want to get any wetter then she already was. Besides, she had to admit that it was pretty comfortable being so close to him like that. Her whole body was covered so she had nothing to worry about in the sense of touching him.
"Ah gotta get back ta tha institute." She told him. He looked down at her through his sunglasses and laughed a little. "Sorry Chere. Non can do. Remy's bike only got enough gas left in it ta get him home, if even dat far." He explained. "Than ah guess I'll just have ta walk home." She said, stepping out of the warmth, comfort, and dryness of the trench coat.
Remy walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. He pulled her back inside the coat and was now closer to her than he was before. "Sorry chere, but Remy can't let ya do dat." He told her.
"An' why not?" She asked, though she hadn't pulled away from his embrace. "Cause he neva gonna be able to fo'give himself if de fille gets sick from walkin home in de storm." He told her.
"You wait at Remy's place till de storm dies down, or one o' de X-men comes an' gets ya oui?" He asked, only it was more of a command. "Fahn." She said as she rolled her eyes. "Great!" He said.
He scooped her up in his arms and carried her over to his bike as if carrying her over the thresh hold. "What tha hell do ya'll think yer doin?" She asked, clearly shocked and pissed at the Cajun's actions.
"Remy can't walk wit ya standin in his coat so you gonna have ta deal wit it till we get ta de bike." He told her, trying not to flaunt the huge smile on his face to Rouge.
Rouge let out a tired, and annoyed sigh in surrender. He put her down on his bike and she felt herself being wrapped up in the coat once again. She looked over at Remy who was now coatless because he had given his to Rouge.
Rouge tried to give it back to him but he wouldn't take it and if he wasn't going to use it then she wasn't going to make him. She sat on the bike as he climbed on in front of her.
"Jus' be tankful Remy was able to get his bike fixed so soon after what Chloe done to it on her way ta de institute last night." He told her, looking back to see if she was secured on the bike. Rouge laughed a little at this, remembering the details of what the girl had done to Remy's motorcycle on her way over and how broken up Remy had gotten over it all.
Remy stepped on the pedal and off they went. Rouge wasn't ready for this and had to wrap her arms around the Cajun's waist in order to keep from falling off. He felt it and smirked.
He then pushed on the pedals even harder, making her grab on even tighter and get even closer to the biker boy. "Yer doin that on purpose." She shouted over the roar of the engine and the pouring rain. "Non." He told her. "Dat was de normal speed.Dis be on purpose." He said, shifting a gear on his bike and pressing down on the pedals the hardest they went.
The bike sped way faster then it was supposed to and Rouge had to cling onto the Cajun for dear life. Remy was enjoying this.
They came to a stop and Remy got off the bike and picked Rouge up again, carrying her into the apartment building.
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"Aw man you've got to be kidding me." Chloe said as she stepped out of the mall and under a ledge to keep dry from the pouring rain in front of her. "We're gonna like walk home in this? No way!" Kitty complained. "Jean try and call the institute on your cell will ya?" Kitty suggested.
"I did already. The batteries are dead and Scott can't pick us up because he's still in Hawaii remember?" She told the younger girl. "So I guess we're stuck here until the rain like stops huh?" Kitty asked the two girls.
"Well we could just go back inside right?" Chloe suggested. "Wrong." Jean argued. "The mall is closing early today remember? Some kind of inspection or something. Either way it closes at two and its 1:45 now. Jean told the other two.
"So what, do we like wait out the storm here or do we get soaked and drenched at an attempt to make it back to the institute without drowning from all the rain?" Kitty asked Jean. Chloe spoke up before Jean had a chance to answer. "Neither." She told them. "Huh?" "Come again?" The other two girls asked in confusion.
"This is the Bayville mall right?" Chloe asked, though she was almost 100% sure it was. "Right. But what does that have to do with anything?" Jean asked in confusion. "Well.Remy told me that if I got lost than I should just remember that we live two blocks down from the Bayville mall on Maple Avenue." She told the two girls. "I know where that is." Kitty acknowledged. That's like about a ten minute walk from here." She spoke again. "Exactly! You two can crash at my house until the storm lightens up and you can call Xavier and tell him where you are when we get there." Chloe concluded.
"Sounds good to me." Kitty said, starting to get the chills from not moving in the cold. "Well.I don't know. This doesn't seem like something the professor would want us doing unless we asked first." Jean told Kitty. "Oh Come on Jean. I'm like freezing over here." Kitty complained. "And I'm sure the last thing Xavier would want would be for two of his X-men to get the flu just because they couldn't stay at a friend's house for a while." Chloe added. "But what about Gambit?" Jean asked Chloe.
"Okay first of all his name's Remy not Gambit. Secondly, my brothers gonna be out all day running errands and getting his bike fixed from the little.accident it was in the other night." Chloe confirmed.
"Well." Jean paused for a moment before looking at her shivering valley girl friend. "Alright fine, but we call the professor as soon as we get there." Jean told them. "Great. Now lets make a brake for the next ledge around the corner." Chloe said. They all agreed and took off at a fast pace towards the dryer areas of the sidewalk.
They were having so much fun running around in the rain and dodging raindrops that they hadn't noticed the two figures above them on a nearby garage roof. "Should we nab her here?" Colossus asked Sabretooth who was not a happy camper when wet. "No. There's too many places for a little girl to hide out in public like this. We get her when she's in that little apartment they've been holding up in." Sabretooth told him. "What about the other two?"
Colossus asked, looking down at the young girls that were having fun splashing around in the rain. "We'll take em along. Magneto might have something in mind for em." Sabretooth told him. Those were the last words that were spoken in that conversation. The two Acolytes followed the girls, jumping from rooftop to rooftop without the teens noticing their presence.
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