Hey peeps! Hope you like this new chapter I've been working on. A whole
lot of love in the air in this chapter.
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CHAPTER 16
My Knight in Shining Armor
Ahhh! Bobby you are like so dead!" Kitty shouted, running after Bobby down the beach with Chloe, Amara and Jubilee right behind her.
They had been tanning on the beach when he decided to kick some sand in their direction to get them up.
"You little snow making menace." Amara shouted.
"Well atleast ya got tha girls up and runnin." Sam called over the screaming girls.
"Shut up and help!" Bobby called back.
"Oh sorry, no can do." Sam answered back.
Jubilee cought up with Bobby and tackled him to the ground.
Bobby smiled. "And what exactly are you going to do now that you've got me?" He asked, turning her over so that she was on the bottom and he was on the top.
"Get off of me Drake!" She ordered, as sparks began to fly. Literally, Bobby had to dodge the mini fireworks.
"If that's what you want." Bobby said.
"Yes that's what I want. Now get off of me!" She demanded.
He rolled off of her, picked her up and carried her into the cold water.
She screamed and kicked out into the air in protest.
Jean rolled her eyes. "Its nice that they can still have fun with all the anti-mutant activity going on." She commented.
Scott nodded in agreement, looking over at Kurt and Amanda who were splashing each other with saltwater.
"Yeah, and they all have a different way of doing it." He commented, referring to Rogue sitting in the shade of a tree, reading a novel, with Remy hovering over her, trying to get her to put down the book and come have fun with him.
This time Jean was the one who nodded in agreement.
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Rogue was dressed in short jean shorts and a bathing suit cover that the Professor had designed especially for her. It covered to the point of her ankles and was almost invisible. It was pretty much like her normal clothes so she could swim around and not worry about bumping into people as much as she would without the cover.
The only thing was, Rogue had no intentions what so ever of going any where near the water. She was perfectly content, reading her novel in the shade of a blooming tree.
"Oh come on chere. Jus' one lil swim. What could it hurt?" Remy asked, taking the book from her and closing it.
"Hey, give that back Cajun!" She demanded.
He lifted it to wear she couldn't reach. She jumped up in hopes of reaching it but failed.
"Ah really don't like you." She told him with a scowl on her face.
He laughed and dropped the book on the toewel she was sitting on before and picked her up.
"What the hell do ya think ya'll are doin?" She asked, outraged.
"Remy tinks he be taken his chere inta de water." He answered, doing just as he said he would.
He waded into the ocean, which she was furious with him for.
"Put meh down Swamp Rat!" She ordered.
"Oh, but Remy don' wanna." He mock sulked.
"Too bad. Ah aint playin around Remy. Now put me down!"
He sighed like he was caving in. "Okay chere. If dat be what ya wan'." He said, and dropped her into the ocean.
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"Oooh! Remy is so gonna pay for that move man." Evan said as Rogue was dropped into the water.
Sam shook his head in agreement. "Though if anything like the punishment Bobby's getting then I don't think he'll mind much." Sam said, pointing to Bobby, who was being tackled in the water bye Jubilee.
She jumped on him and dunked him under water but he grabbed her around the waist and dragged her down with him.
"Yeah, well somehow I doubt Rogue had that kind of punishment in mind. Evan told the southern boy who shuttered at the fate of the Cajun boy.
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"Here looks like a good place to set up our stuff. Plenty of Sheilas in sight." John said, motioning for Peter to drop their stuff in the sand.
Pyro let out a low whistle. Would you look at that!" Pyro told his comrade, referring to the swarm of girls on the beach.
"Man I wish Gambit were here. Sheila scooping just aint the same without that bloody Cajun." John said, sitting down on a towel and gawking at the girls.
"You miss him don't you?" Peter mused.
John merely flicked his lighter open and shut repeatedly.
"Understandable. We all got close to each other when we started working for Magneto. Its only natural that you feel a loss when he's missing in events that we used to do together." Colossus explained.
John was now gawking at his friend. He hadn't said that much together in.ever.
"Whoa! Where'd that come from mate? Are you now my shrink?' John asked sarcastically.
Colossus didn't answer. He was too busy staring in front of him like a deer in headlights to hear a word Pyro was saying.
"Mate? Yoo-hoo? Peter? Anyone home in there?" John asked, waving his hands in front of the other boy's face and knocking on his scull.
"Its her!" Peter said, not moving his eyes.
"Her? Her who? Whose her?" Pyro asked.
"She is so radiant. Can you not feel the loving, positive energy all around her?" Colossus asked his friend.
The Russian looked like a love sick puppy. If it were a cartoon he'd have hearts in his eyes and his own heart beating out of his chest unnaturally.
John followed his friend's eyes to a pair of teenage girls, walking on the beach.
"Oh ho ho, Pete's found himself a Sheila has he? Its about time." John said, catching on.
"Boy I wish Remy were here. He'd just love to see you like this." John added.
"I think your wish just came true my friend." Peter said, snapping out of his trance.
"What do you mean by that?" John asked, confused.
Peter pointed over into the water where they both saw Remy, getting splashed by the white and auburn haired girl they saw on his bike a while back.
"Well how about that! What are the odds?" John asked.
"We should stay here and stay away from them." Peter suggested.
"Stay away? But why? We haven't seen Rem in a long time. Can't we just stop by and-"
"No! It is too dangerous. We do not want to cause a seen around all these people. We cannot go near any of them." Colossus sighed and turned to look at the girl he'd seen before. "Even her." He said, pointing to his dream girl.
John looked the brunette up and down a few times. "She's one of the X- men?" John asked.
Colossus stared at the girl and nodded.
"Well I'll be! No wonder Remy joined up with them. They've got all the hotties." John said jokingly.
"But your still into her aren't you?" John asked his friend.
Peter nodded a yes.
"And this isn't the first time you've seen her and felt this way with her before is it?" John asked, though he already knew the answer.
Peter again, nodded silently.
John sighed again. "And we're both giong to be miserable now because your missing out on a Shiela your crazy over and I miss our teammate aren't we?"
Peter again nodded and sat down on his own towel.
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"Kitty that guy is totally checking you out!" Chloe said, making sure her friend didn't turn around and let the boy know they knew he was watching them.
"No way! Seriously?" Kitty asked, giggling a bit.
She felt bubbly at the thought of a guy looking at her, which was strange because although she was oblivious to it, guys checked her out on a daily basis.
"Way Seriously! Oh but don't turn around. Just act cool like you didn't see him." Chloe told her.
"Well that should be easy seeing how I haven't like even seen him yet." Kitty told Chloe.
"Don't worry, he's a total hottie. Only I cant really get a good look at his friend and him. Their too shaded under that tree over there. I got a good look at him once though. He looks familiar somehow." Chloe said, trailing off.
"Anyways, come on. There's a cove full of underwater life and sea shells over there with our names on it." Chloe said, tugging her friend and their snorkeling gear along the beach.
"Oh but what if there are like snapping turtles or biting fish or something?" Kitty asked, a little worried that they were going off alone.
"Don't worry. I've seen Remy and the other guys in the guild do this kind of stuff all the time. There's nothing to it. Plus you don't have to worry about snapping turtles or biting fish." She explained.
"I don't? Oh good." Kitty sighed in relief.
"Yeah. If you were going to worry about anything it would be the water snakes, which are really poisonous. Let's hope we don't run into them. Now come on." Chloe said.
"Water snakes?" Kitty echoed. Her eyes widened and Chloe yanked her over toward the cove. "Oh what have I like gotten myself into?" Kitty asked herself.
"I bet Rogue's having a good time being nice and safe and snake-free on the sand right now." She said to herself, seeing how Chloe wasn't really listening.
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"Hey where are you two headed?" Jean asked Remy, who was pulling Rogue down the beach.
"Remy be treatin de fille to an ice cream." Remy explained.
"Jean laughed. Alright. Have fun you two." She called out.
"Hey Jean where are Kitty and Chloe?" Scott inquired.
"Um.I think they went over to that cove over there." Amara said, popping out of the water, splashing Jean and Scott in the process.
"The cove?" Scott asked.
"Yeah, but it was about an hour ago. I figured they'd be back by now." Amara added.
Scott and Jean exchanged worried glances.
"Come on. We'd better go down there just to make sure." Scott said, wading out of the water, followed by Jean and Amara.
"What about Remy and Rogue?" Amara asked, running along the other two.
"We'll get them afterwards. Now come on!" Jean told her.
When they got to the cove they found no one.
"Kitty? Chloe?" Jean and Amara called out.
No one answered.
"Shadowcat?" Scott called out.
Still no answer.
"Scott I don't like this. Where could they be?"
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John I'm going to take a walk. I'll be back later." The Russian informed his friend.
"Leavin? When I've just only gotten the Sheilas right where I want em?" John asked with two girls on his lap.
"I don't see the pleasure in not having just one girl." Colossus said, sighing and walking away.
Hey suit yourself mate. More Sheila's for me." Pyro said with a huge grin on his face as he waved goodbye to his comrade.
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"Kitty look over there, through the trees." Chloe said.
The other girl did so and her eyes widened.
"Oh wow! It's a waterfall. It's so like beautiful." Kitty commented.
The waterfall was inserted in a cliff and landed in a lake.
"Come on. Last one to the top of the lake is a rotten egg." Chloe announced, running past Kitty and starting to climb the giant rock formation.
"Hey no fair! You got a head start!" Kitty complained, running right into the cliff and phasing through it.
"Haha! I am so gonna beat you!" Chloe said. She ran and was almost to the edge of the cliff when Kitty phased up onto the surface of the rock, looking at her friend and smiling.
"I love my powers." Kitty said, grinning at the scowl at her friend's shocked face.
"Okay so you go down the slide first." Chloe said, motioning to the waterfall.
"Slide? What are you nuts? That's a waterfall. As in water that falls. You fall with it. Get it?" Kitty asked, taking a step back from the edge.
"Yeah I get it.but what were you going to do when you got up here if you weren't going to jump?" Chloe asked.
"I don't know. Just like. Phase back down. There is so like no way I'm jumping this far up into that lake." Kitty said firmly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Oh come on. Its not that bad." Chloe said, trying to get her overly cautious friend to jump.
"Unless." She began, grinning evilly.
"Unless?" Kitty asked. "Unless your too scared to do it. I mean I figured after all Logan's sessions and fighting and simulations that you'd be less afraid of things like this, but I guess if you are scared then." Chloe trailed off, waiting for her friend to reply.
Kitty was now the one scowling. Oh you are so like way off. I'm not scared. I'll even prove it." Kitty said, marching toward the edge.
Chloe smirked at how well her plan had worked.
Kitty looked back at Chloe, unsure about what she was about to do.
"Go on! It'll be fun!" Chloe assured her.
The other girl sighed, looked over the cliff at her destination and held her breath.
As she took her final step towards the edge and was about to spring forward she slipped on some algae that was covering an area on the rock and fell, landing on her head.
She then slipped and fell into the water, landing like a sack of potatoes and sinking to the bottom, under the waterfall.
"Kitty!" Chloe shouted. "Kitty are you okay?" She peered over the cliff and scanned the lake for her friend but she couldn't see her.
Then she got a quick glimpse of an arm being pushed down into the dark waters by the weight of the water crashing down onto the girl.
"Why isn't she phasing through the water?" Chloe asked herself aloud. "Oh man! Kitty come on! Please answer me!" She raced down to the water and swam underneath, trying to find the other girl but the waterfall was pushing her back and she couldn't get close enough to do anything.
"Hang on Kity. I'm gonna go get help. Just hang on!" She pleaded to Kitty, who probably couldn't hear her anyway.
Chloe got out of the water and ran as fast as she could toward the public beach screaming for help the entire time.
She was too far away though, and no one could hear her. She was way past the cove and nowhere near any civilization because they'd walked a ways through the woods to get to the clearing.
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"So Roguey, ya gotta admit dis aint such a bad time we be havin." He asked as she tossed her sticky snow cone wrapper in the trash can.
"Yeah Ah guess. Hey where'd Jean an' Scott go?" She asked, looking around and seeing that they weren't in the water , nor were they on the beach.
"They went looking for Kitty and Chloe." Tabby said.
Rogue and Remy turned around and both their eyes widened at what they saw.
Evan sound asleep and buried in sand up to his neck. The girls were all sitting around him, shaping the sand and making shapes and forms and he now resembled a mermaid.
His feet were covered with sand that was shaped to look like a fin or a tail and his chest had two seashells on it that looked suspiciously like the bikini top that the Little Mermaid wore.
"We got bored." Tabby said simply, answering the questions that the other two obviously had.
"I'm not even going to ask." Bobby said, walking over to them with Jubilee.
"Hey, check out the love birds. Finally come back to hang with the rest of us?" Tabby asked Bobby and Jubilee.
Bobby scowled at her for a second but Jubilee just went straight to blushing.
"God its not like we're going out or anything. We were just playing around in the water." Jubilee assured the rest of them, her blush fading from her cheeks.
Remy just laughed. They were so young, yet so obviously wanting each other.
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"Help! Somebody please! My friend. She's hurt and I-" Chloe was cut off when she turned around to see if anyone was behind her and wasn't looking behind her and she wasn't looking where she was going so she rammed into something hard.
She fell back and hit the sand but brushed herself off and looked at what she had bumped into.
There stood one of Magneto's goons, Colossus. He stared at her curiously, not saying anything for about a minute.
After Chloe caught her breath she panted for a second and looked him straight in the eyes.
"Okay look, I know you're the enemy and I know your supposed to be attacking us and against the X-men and everything but my friend is hurt and I cant help her myself and if I go get someone at the beach it might be too late and it was all my fault because Kitty didn't even wanna jump but I told her it would be okay but now its not okay and I really really need your help and-"
Chloe stopped her speedy jabbering from her worried and frantic feelings when Colossus put his hand over her mouth. "Alright. Now calm down and tell me again. Slower." He said, releasing her.
"My friend Kitty. She fell and she's hurt and I can't get to her. Please, you have to help me. If you don't she could.she could." Chloe didn't want to say what she was thinking and luckily she didn't have to.
Collosus had already morphed into his metal form and grabbed her by the arm. "Come on. Show me where she is." He told her, dragging her back into the thicker part of the woods.
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"Gambit have you seen your sister anywhere?" Scott asked, running up to the group of teenagers with Jean and Amara at his heals.
"No.why? Is something wrong?" Gambit asked, a little worried at the tone in Scott's voice and the worried feeling the girls had when his empathy tapped in.
"Nothings wrong. We just haven't seen them in a while and we're getting kind of worried.
"Why not have Jean use her powers ta find out where they are?" Rogue suggested.
"Duh! Why didn't we think of that?" Amara asked.
They were obviously too caught up in being worried about their friends to think about the easiest, yet most efficient way of finding them.
Jean put her hands to her temples and shut her eyes tightly. She searched telepathically for the girls all around the beach. Then she found one of them. It was Chloe, and she was being pulled somewhere by.
"Colossus!" Jean exclaimed, opening her eyes to face the rest of the group.
"What about him?" Scott asked, puzzled at his girlfriend's random name calling.
"He's here.with Chloe." Jean explained.
A loud crunch was heard over near Gambit and Rogue. Rogue looked down at his hands and saw that he'd just crushed a full soda can with his right hand and was now tightening it into a fist.
"He what?" Remy asked, quietly and slowly, yet dangerously sounding like he was ready to kill with no mercy.
"He was dragging her somewhere by the arm. I don't know where. It was off.over there! In the woods." Jean said, getting a mental picture and putting the scenery together.
Remy didn't wait for anything else. He just walked over to his blanket, grabbed a pack of cards and walked in the general direction that Jean had pointed.
Everyone stood there waiting for a command, except Evan who was now brushing sand off himself.
"Alright. New recruits, you go with Evan and search that half of the woods." Scott ordered, pointing to one side of the wooded area.
"Amara, come with Jean, Rogue, and I to that half of the woods and." Scott trailed off, looking all around him.
"Where's Rogue?" He asked, though he already had a feeling he knew where she was.
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"It's this way." Chloe said, pointing to the trail that she'd made by knocking down various plants in her haste to find help.
It didn't take long for them to reach their destination, now all they had to do was find Kitty, save her, and make it back to the beach before Scott goes Mr. Military on them for wandering off.
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"Remy wait!" Rogue called after him, trying to catch up.
He didn't reply. He just kept walking through the wildlife, aimlessly wondering around in his blind rage, hoping to get lucky and somehow come across wherever it was that Colossus had taken his sister.
"Remy stop!" She called again. He still ignored her.
"Fine don't stop. Just tell meh then, what are ya gonna do once ya find him?" She asked.
He said nothing.
"Kill him?" She inquired. Though he hadn't said anything she knew the thought was running through his mind and it wasn't a debatable thought.
"That aint you Remy. That aint the kind a thing ya'll would let yerrself do anymore." She yelled to him, trying to get him to stop and think for a minute before he did something stupid that he would most likely regret.
"Ah have to. Ah'm not lettin anyting happen to her." He answered finally, still walking at the same pace he was going before.
Rogue stopped for a minute. 'Whoa this must be serious. He's using first person.' She thought to herself.
"Remy we have ta stop and think about this. We're just wasting time if we mindlessly walk into this without a plan or a strategy or.or anything." She said.
"Ah'll find her. I don' need a strategy." He answered firmly.
"Ya might find her, but if ya don't slow down and be logical about this yerr gonna be findin her dead." She said harshly.
Rogue was silent. She didn't mean for it to come out that way. She didn't mean to bring up the word 'dead'. She was just so furious at him for not stopping and trying to figure things out and she didn't think before she talked.
Remy paused, stopping dead in his tracks. He turned around and walked over to her, meeting his red on black orbs with her emerald ones.
"Ah gotta find her. She needs me." He said quietly.
"Okay. Ah get that. But she needs ya alive, which is somethin you probably wont be if ya jump inta this without thinkin." She said a little softer.
"But Ah.Remy's gotta find her now b'fo'.b'fo' anyting happens ta her." He said.
"Ah know. So we'll find her together." She said, trying to sooth his nerves.
She realized that if something like his had happened to Kurt that she'd be going head first into the situation like he was, even if she didn't show as much effection in her sibling relationship as Remy did. Family is family, and you don't ever mess with that.
She'd be ticked off if anyone from the institute was threatened or put in danger because in some weird twisted way they were like her family.
Remy nodded and grabbed her by the wrist, which was fortunately covered at the time. He then walked into the woods, slower, and calmer then before. So what's the plan?" He asked, not looking back at her.
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"Okay she's in there somewhere." Kitty said, pointing to the water.
"Colossus didn't respond. He just took a deep breath and dove into the water, not coming out for at least two minutes which was worrying to Chloe who stood there dumbly in a frantic feeling.
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"Hey!" Rogue exclaimed as she bumped into the Cajun who had come to an ubrupt stop in the thick woods.
"Why'd ya stop?" She asked, annoyed.
Remy didn't say anything. She just stared ahead.
Rogue looked to see what he was looking at and her eyes widened. Chloe was standing alone in a clearing, looking down into the depths of the water.
"Chloe!" She yelled as Remy ran up to his sister, picked her up and spun her around a few times before putting her back on the ground.
"Remy! What are you doing here?" Chloe asked curiously.
"Remy be here ta rescue ya." He answered, looking her up and down to see if she was hurt.
"Rescue me? Remy what are you talking about?" She asked, confused at his answer.
"He's talking about you bein dragged away bah Colossus. Jean saw ya." Rogue answered, catching up to them.
"Huh?" Chloe asked.
"Oui, an now Remy gon' find him an' teach him a lesson fo' takin ya. Nobody messes wit Remy Le Beau's family." He said, glaring into space
"ohhh! You thought that.and.no. You don't understand. You see what happened was-" Chloe was cut off by a splash in the water as Peter rose from it's depths with an unconscious Kitty in his arms.
Everyone stared in shock while he waded through the water and onto the sand. He kept walking until he got to the grass where he set her down gently.
He then looked her over and listened for a heart beat. There was none.
He began to give her mouth to mouth recesitation and pressing on her body in hopes of releasing some of the water that had gotten into her system.
After breathing for her and trying to pump out the water three more times he stopped when Kitty started to cough up the water and jerked her head up.
Kitty opened her eyes wide only to be met with another pair of dark brown eyes. They gazed at eachother for a second before someone calling her name interrupted them.
"Kitty!" Rogue and Kitty exclaimed with relief as they rushed over to her.
"Damn Kit! What happened ta ya?" Rogue asked.
"I *cough* I don't know. The last thing I remember was slipping on a rock and then. and then you." Kitty said, pointing to Peter, who was standing silently next to Gambit.
All eyes fell on Peter.
"Ya didn' try an take mon souer did ya?" Gambit asked, though he already knew the answer.
"No my friend. I did not." Peter answered.
"That's what I was trying to tell you Remy. I needed help and Peter was the only one around so when I told him that Kitty was in trouble he nearly yanked my arm out of my socket to get us to Kitty as fast as possible." Chloe explained.
"Thank you. Thank you so much. You saved me. I owe you my life." Kitty said with a grateful smile.
"No, no you do not. I am very relieved and happy that you are okay but you do not owe me anything." Peter said, turning and walking away.
"But." Kitty shouted after him. "But I still feel like I owe you my like life. How can I thank you?" Kitty called.
Peter stopped in his tracks and froze. "Your safety is thanks enough." He said without turning around and continued walking away.
The others just stared at his retreating form, saying nothing.
"Rogue, Remy come in." Scott's static voice said through the intercom, breaking the silence.
"I tink we had enough fun in de sun fo' one day non? Remy asked the girls who all nodded in agreement. Remy walked over to Kitty, who was still pretty wiped, and picked her up. He then walked back to the beach with Chloe at his heals.
Rogue sighed and picked up her intercom. "Yeah Scott we're here. Gatha up thah rest a thah group. We got Chloe and Kitty and we're goin home." She answered warily before turning off the link and catching up with the others.
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Original- I like the over protective Kurt too. Come to think of it.I like just about all Kurts. :P I figured that maybe Kurt might find out next chapter or something.
Solitaire - Saint John also = Fire so most people in their world can wait.and want to for their own safety for that matter.
Rogue Warrior Spirit- Hey I updated as soon as I could. Hope it was worth it.
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CHAPTER 16
My Knight in Shining Armor
Ahhh! Bobby you are like so dead!" Kitty shouted, running after Bobby down the beach with Chloe, Amara and Jubilee right behind her.
They had been tanning on the beach when he decided to kick some sand in their direction to get them up.
"You little snow making menace." Amara shouted.
"Well atleast ya got tha girls up and runnin." Sam called over the screaming girls.
"Shut up and help!" Bobby called back.
"Oh sorry, no can do." Sam answered back.
Jubilee cought up with Bobby and tackled him to the ground.
Bobby smiled. "And what exactly are you going to do now that you've got me?" He asked, turning her over so that she was on the bottom and he was on the top.
"Get off of me Drake!" She ordered, as sparks began to fly. Literally, Bobby had to dodge the mini fireworks.
"If that's what you want." Bobby said.
"Yes that's what I want. Now get off of me!" She demanded.
He rolled off of her, picked her up and carried her into the cold water.
She screamed and kicked out into the air in protest.
Jean rolled her eyes. "Its nice that they can still have fun with all the anti-mutant activity going on." She commented.
Scott nodded in agreement, looking over at Kurt and Amanda who were splashing each other with saltwater.
"Yeah, and they all have a different way of doing it." He commented, referring to Rogue sitting in the shade of a tree, reading a novel, with Remy hovering over her, trying to get her to put down the book and come have fun with him.
This time Jean was the one who nodded in agreement.
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Rogue was dressed in short jean shorts and a bathing suit cover that the Professor had designed especially for her. It covered to the point of her ankles and was almost invisible. It was pretty much like her normal clothes so she could swim around and not worry about bumping into people as much as she would without the cover.
The only thing was, Rogue had no intentions what so ever of going any where near the water. She was perfectly content, reading her novel in the shade of a blooming tree.
"Oh come on chere. Jus' one lil swim. What could it hurt?" Remy asked, taking the book from her and closing it.
"Hey, give that back Cajun!" She demanded.
He lifted it to wear she couldn't reach. She jumped up in hopes of reaching it but failed.
"Ah really don't like you." She told him with a scowl on her face.
He laughed and dropped the book on the toewel she was sitting on before and picked her up.
"What the hell do ya think ya'll are doin?" She asked, outraged.
"Remy tinks he be taken his chere inta de water." He answered, doing just as he said he would.
He waded into the ocean, which she was furious with him for.
"Put meh down Swamp Rat!" She ordered.
"Oh, but Remy don' wanna." He mock sulked.
"Too bad. Ah aint playin around Remy. Now put me down!"
He sighed like he was caving in. "Okay chere. If dat be what ya wan'." He said, and dropped her into the ocean.
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"Oooh! Remy is so gonna pay for that move man." Evan said as Rogue was dropped into the water.
Sam shook his head in agreement. "Though if anything like the punishment Bobby's getting then I don't think he'll mind much." Sam said, pointing to Bobby, who was being tackled in the water bye Jubilee.
She jumped on him and dunked him under water but he grabbed her around the waist and dragged her down with him.
"Yeah, well somehow I doubt Rogue had that kind of punishment in mind. Evan told the southern boy who shuttered at the fate of the Cajun boy.
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"Here looks like a good place to set up our stuff. Plenty of Sheilas in sight." John said, motioning for Peter to drop their stuff in the sand.
Pyro let out a low whistle. Would you look at that!" Pyro told his comrade, referring to the swarm of girls on the beach.
"Man I wish Gambit were here. Sheila scooping just aint the same without that bloody Cajun." John said, sitting down on a towel and gawking at the girls.
"You miss him don't you?" Peter mused.
John merely flicked his lighter open and shut repeatedly.
"Understandable. We all got close to each other when we started working for Magneto. Its only natural that you feel a loss when he's missing in events that we used to do together." Colossus explained.
John was now gawking at his friend. He hadn't said that much together in.ever.
"Whoa! Where'd that come from mate? Are you now my shrink?' John asked sarcastically.
Colossus didn't answer. He was too busy staring in front of him like a deer in headlights to hear a word Pyro was saying.
"Mate? Yoo-hoo? Peter? Anyone home in there?" John asked, waving his hands in front of the other boy's face and knocking on his scull.
"Its her!" Peter said, not moving his eyes.
"Her? Her who? Whose her?" Pyro asked.
"She is so radiant. Can you not feel the loving, positive energy all around her?" Colossus asked his friend.
The Russian looked like a love sick puppy. If it were a cartoon he'd have hearts in his eyes and his own heart beating out of his chest unnaturally.
John followed his friend's eyes to a pair of teenage girls, walking on the beach.
"Oh ho ho, Pete's found himself a Sheila has he? Its about time." John said, catching on.
"Boy I wish Remy were here. He'd just love to see you like this." John added.
"I think your wish just came true my friend." Peter said, snapping out of his trance.
"What do you mean by that?" John asked, confused.
Peter pointed over into the water where they both saw Remy, getting splashed by the white and auburn haired girl they saw on his bike a while back.
"Well how about that! What are the odds?" John asked.
"We should stay here and stay away from them." Peter suggested.
"Stay away? But why? We haven't seen Rem in a long time. Can't we just stop by and-"
"No! It is too dangerous. We do not want to cause a seen around all these people. We cannot go near any of them." Colossus sighed and turned to look at the girl he'd seen before. "Even her." He said, pointing to his dream girl.
John looked the brunette up and down a few times. "She's one of the X- men?" John asked.
Colossus stared at the girl and nodded.
"Well I'll be! No wonder Remy joined up with them. They've got all the hotties." John said jokingly.
"But your still into her aren't you?" John asked his friend.
Peter nodded a yes.
"And this isn't the first time you've seen her and felt this way with her before is it?" John asked, though he already knew the answer.
Peter again, nodded silently.
John sighed again. "And we're both giong to be miserable now because your missing out on a Shiela your crazy over and I miss our teammate aren't we?"
Peter again nodded and sat down on his own towel.
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"Kitty that guy is totally checking you out!" Chloe said, making sure her friend didn't turn around and let the boy know they knew he was watching them.
"No way! Seriously?" Kitty asked, giggling a bit.
She felt bubbly at the thought of a guy looking at her, which was strange because although she was oblivious to it, guys checked her out on a daily basis.
"Way Seriously! Oh but don't turn around. Just act cool like you didn't see him." Chloe told her.
"Well that should be easy seeing how I haven't like even seen him yet." Kitty told Chloe.
"Don't worry, he's a total hottie. Only I cant really get a good look at his friend and him. Their too shaded under that tree over there. I got a good look at him once though. He looks familiar somehow." Chloe said, trailing off.
"Anyways, come on. There's a cove full of underwater life and sea shells over there with our names on it." Chloe said, tugging her friend and their snorkeling gear along the beach.
"Oh but what if there are like snapping turtles or biting fish or something?" Kitty asked, a little worried that they were going off alone.
"Don't worry. I've seen Remy and the other guys in the guild do this kind of stuff all the time. There's nothing to it. Plus you don't have to worry about snapping turtles or biting fish." She explained.
"I don't? Oh good." Kitty sighed in relief.
"Yeah. If you were going to worry about anything it would be the water snakes, which are really poisonous. Let's hope we don't run into them. Now come on." Chloe said.
"Water snakes?" Kitty echoed. Her eyes widened and Chloe yanked her over toward the cove. "Oh what have I like gotten myself into?" Kitty asked herself.
"I bet Rogue's having a good time being nice and safe and snake-free on the sand right now." She said to herself, seeing how Chloe wasn't really listening.
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"Hey where are you two headed?" Jean asked Remy, who was pulling Rogue down the beach.
"Remy be treatin de fille to an ice cream." Remy explained.
"Jean laughed. Alright. Have fun you two." She called out.
"Hey Jean where are Kitty and Chloe?" Scott inquired.
"Um.I think they went over to that cove over there." Amara said, popping out of the water, splashing Jean and Scott in the process.
"The cove?" Scott asked.
"Yeah, but it was about an hour ago. I figured they'd be back by now." Amara added.
Scott and Jean exchanged worried glances.
"Come on. We'd better go down there just to make sure." Scott said, wading out of the water, followed by Jean and Amara.
"What about Remy and Rogue?" Amara asked, running along the other two.
"We'll get them afterwards. Now come on!" Jean told her.
When they got to the cove they found no one.
"Kitty? Chloe?" Jean and Amara called out.
No one answered.
"Shadowcat?" Scott called out.
Still no answer.
"Scott I don't like this. Where could they be?"
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John I'm going to take a walk. I'll be back later." The Russian informed his friend.
"Leavin? When I've just only gotten the Sheilas right where I want em?" John asked with two girls on his lap.
"I don't see the pleasure in not having just one girl." Colossus said, sighing and walking away.
Hey suit yourself mate. More Sheila's for me." Pyro said with a huge grin on his face as he waved goodbye to his comrade.
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"Kitty look over there, through the trees." Chloe said.
The other girl did so and her eyes widened.
"Oh wow! It's a waterfall. It's so like beautiful." Kitty commented.
The waterfall was inserted in a cliff and landed in a lake.
"Come on. Last one to the top of the lake is a rotten egg." Chloe announced, running past Kitty and starting to climb the giant rock formation.
"Hey no fair! You got a head start!" Kitty complained, running right into the cliff and phasing through it.
"Haha! I am so gonna beat you!" Chloe said. She ran and was almost to the edge of the cliff when Kitty phased up onto the surface of the rock, looking at her friend and smiling.
"I love my powers." Kitty said, grinning at the scowl at her friend's shocked face.
"Okay so you go down the slide first." Chloe said, motioning to the waterfall.
"Slide? What are you nuts? That's a waterfall. As in water that falls. You fall with it. Get it?" Kitty asked, taking a step back from the edge.
"Yeah I get it.but what were you going to do when you got up here if you weren't going to jump?" Chloe asked.
"I don't know. Just like. Phase back down. There is so like no way I'm jumping this far up into that lake." Kitty said firmly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Oh come on. Its not that bad." Chloe said, trying to get her overly cautious friend to jump.
"Unless." She began, grinning evilly.
"Unless?" Kitty asked. "Unless your too scared to do it. I mean I figured after all Logan's sessions and fighting and simulations that you'd be less afraid of things like this, but I guess if you are scared then." Chloe trailed off, waiting for her friend to reply.
Kitty was now the one scowling. Oh you are so like way off. I'm not scared. I'll even prove it." Kitty said, marching toward the edge.
Chloe smirked at how well her plan had worked.
Kitty looked back at Chloe, unsure about what she was about to do.
"Go on! It'll be fun!" Chloe assured her.
The other girl sighed, looked over the cliff at her destination and held her breath.
As she took her final step towards the edge and was about to spring forward she slipped on some algae that was covering an area on the rock and fell, landing on her head.
She then slipped and fell into the water, landing like a sack of potatoes and sinking to the bottom, under the waterfall.
"Kitty!" Chloe shouted. "Kitty are you okay?" She peered over the cliff and scanned the lake for her friend but she couldn't see her.
Then she got a quick glimpse of an arm being pushed down into the dark waters by the weight of the water crashing down onto the girl.
"Why isn't she phasing through the water?" Chloe asked herself aloud. "Oh man! Kitty come on! Please answer me!" She raced down to the water and swam underneath, trying to find the other girl but the waterfall was pushing her back and she couldn't get close enough to do anything.
"Hang on Kity. I'm gonna go get help. Just hang on!" She pleaded to Kitty, who probably couldn't hear her anyway.
Chloe got out of the water and ran as fast as she could toward the public beach screaming for help the entire time.
She was too far away though, and no one could hear her. She was way past the cove and nowhere near any civilization because they'd walked a ways through the woods to get to the clearing.
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"So Roguey, ya gotta admit dis aint such a bad time we be havin." He asked as she tossed her sticky snow cone wrapper in the trash can.
"Yeah Ah guess. Hey where'd Jean an' Scott go?" She asked, looking around and seeing that they weren't in the water , nor were they on the beach.
"They went looking for Kitty and Chloe." Tabby said.
Rogue and Remy turned around and both their eyes widened at what they saw.
Evan sound asleep and buried in sand up to his neck. The girls were all sitting around him, shaping the sand and making shapes and forms and he now resembled a mermaid.
His feet were covered with sand that was shaped to look like a fin or a tail and his chest had two seashells on it that looked suspiciously like the bikini top that the Little Mermaid wore.
"We got bored." Tabby said simply, answering the questions that the other two obviously had.
"I'm not even going to ask." Bobby said, walking over to them with Jubilee.
"Hey, check out the love birds. Finally come back to hang with the rest of us?" Tabby asked Bobby and Jubilee.
Bobby scowled at her for a second but Jubilee just went straight to blushing.
"God its not like we're going out or anything. We were just playing around in the water." Jubilee assured the rest of them, her blush fading from her cheeks.
Remy just laughed. They were so young, yet so obviously wanting each other.
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"Help! Somebody please! My friend. She's hurt and I-" Chloe was cut off when she turned around to see if anyone was behind her and wasn't looking behind her and she wasn't looking where she was going so she rammed into something hard.
She fell back and hit the sand but brushed herself off and looked at what she had bumped into.
There stood one of Magneto's goons, Colossus. He stared at her curiously, not saying anything for about a minute.
After Chloe caught her breath she panted for a second and looked him straight in the eyes.
"Okay look, I know you're the enemy and I know your supposed to be attacking us and against the X-men and everything but my friend is hurt and I cant help her myself and if I go get someone at the beach it might be too late and it was all my fault because Kitty didn't even wanna jump but I told her it would be okay but now its not okay and I really really need your help and-"
Chloe stopped her speedy jabbering from her worried and frantic feelings when Colossus put his hand over her mouth. "Alright. Now calm down and tell me again. Slower." He said, releasing her.
"My friend Kitty. She fell and she's hurt and I can't get to her. Please, you have to help me. If you don't she could.she could." Chloe didn't want to say what she was thinking and luckily she didn't have to.
Collosus had already morphed into his metal form and grabbed her by the arm. "Come on. Show me where she is." He told her, dragging her back into the thicker part of the woods.
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"Gambit have you seen your sister anywhere?" Scott asked, running up to the group of teenagers with Jean and Amara at his heals.
"No.why? Is something wrong?" Gambit asked, a little worried at the tone in Scott's voice and the worried feeling the girls had when his empathy tapped in.
"Nothings wrong. We just haven't seen them in a while and we're getting kind of worried.
"Why not have Jean use her powers ta find out where they are?" Rogue suggested.
"Duh! Why didn't we think of that?" Amara asked.
They were obviously too caught up in being worried about their friends to think about the easiest, yet most efficient way of finding them.
Jean put her hands to her temples and shut her eyes tightly. She searched telepathically for the girls all around the beach. Then she found one of them. It was Chloe, and she was being pulled somewhere by.
"Colossus!" Jean exclaimed, opening her eyes to face the rest of the group.
"What about him?" Scott asked, puzzled at his girlfriend's random name calling.
"He's here.with Chloe." Jean explained.
A loud crunch was heard over near Gambit and Rogue. Rogue looked down at his hands and saw that he'd just crushed a full soda can with his right hand and was now tightening it into a fist.
"He what?" Remy asked, quietly and slowly, yet dangerously sounding like he was ready to kill with no mercy.
"He was dragging her somewhere by the arm. I don't know where. It was off.over there! In the woods." Jean said, getting a mental picture and putting the scenery together.
Remy didn't wait for anything else. He just walked over to his blanket, grabbed a pack of cards and walked in the general direction that Jean had pointed.
Everyone stood there waiting for a command, except Evan who was now brushing sand off himself.
"Alright. New recruits, you go with Evan and search that half of the woods." Scott ordered, pointing to one side of the wooded area.
"Amara, come with Jean, Rogue, and I to that half of the woods and." Scott trailed off, looking all around him.
"Where's Rogue?" He asked, though he already had a feeling he knew where she was.
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"It's this way." Chloe said, pointing to the trail that she'd made by knocking down various plants in her haste to find help.
It didn't take long for them to reach their destination, now all they had to do was find Kitty, save her, and make it back to the beach before Scott goes Mr. Military on them for wandering off.
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"Remy wait!" Rogue called after him, trying to catch up.
He didn't reply. He just kept walking through the wildlife, aimlessly wondering around in his blind rage, hoping to get lucky and somehow come across wherever it was that Colossus had taken his sister.
"Remy stop!" She called again. He still ignored her.
"Fine don't stop. Just tell meh then, what are ya gonna do once ya find him?" She asked.
He said nothing.
"Kill him?" She inquired. Though he hadn't said anything she knew the thought was running through his mind and it wasn't a debatable thought.
"That aint you Remy. That aint the kind a thing ya'll would let yerrself do anymore." She yelled to him, trying to get him to stop and think for a minute before he did something stupid that he would most likely regret.
"Ah have to. Ah'm not lettin anyting happen to her." He answered finally, still walking at the same pace he was going before.
Rogue stopped for a minute. 'Whoa this must be serious. He's using first person.' She thought to herself.
"Remy we have ta stop and think about this. We're just wasting time if we mindlessly walk into this without a plan or a strategy or.or anything." She said.
"Ah'll find her. I don' need a strategy." He answered firmly.
"Ya might find her, but if ya don't slow down and be logical about this yerr gonna be findin her dead." She said harshly.
Rogue was silent. She didn't mean for it to come out that way. She didn't mean to bring up the word 'dead'. She was just so furious at him for not stopping and trying to figure things out and she didn't think before she talked.
Remy paused, stopping dead in his tracks. He turned around and walked over to her, meeting his red on black orbs with her emerald ones.
"Ah gotta find her. She needs me." He said quietly.
"Okay. Ah get that. But she needs ya alive, which is somethin you probably wont be if ya jump inta this without thinkin." She said a little softer.
"But Ah.Remy's gotta find her now b'fo'.b'fo' anyting happens ta her." He said.
"Ah know. So we'll find her together." She said, trying to sooth his nerves.
She realized that if something like his had happened to Kurt that she'd be going head first into the situation like he was, even if she didn't show as much effection in her sibling relationship as Remy did. Family is family, and you don't ever mess with that.
She'd be ticked off if anyone from the institute was threatened or put in danger because in some weird twisted way they were like her family.
Remy nodded and grabbed her by the wrist, which was fortunately covered at the time. He then walked into the woods, slower, and calmer then before. So what's the plan?" He asked, not looking back at her.
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"Okay she's in there somewhere." Kitty said, pointing to the water.
"Colossus didn't respond. He just took a deep breath and dove into the water, not coming out for at least two minutes which was worrying to Chloe who stood there dumbly in a frantic feeling.
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"Hey!" Rogue exclaimed as she bumped into the Cajun who had come to an ubrupt stop in the thick woods.
"Why'd ya stop?" She asked, annoyed.
Remy didn't say anything. She just stared ahead.
Rogue looked to see what he was looking at and her eyes widened. Chloe was standing alone in a clearing, looking down into the depths of the water.
"Chloe!" She yelled as Remy ran up to his sister, picked her up and spun her around a few times before putting her back on the ground.
"Remy! What are you doing here?" Chloe asked curiously.
"Remy be here ta rescue ya." He answered, looking her up and down to see if she was hurt.
"Rescue me? Remy what are you talking about?" She asked, confused at his answer.
"He's talking about you bein dragged away bah Colossus. Jean saw ya." Rogue answered, catching up to them.
"Huh?" Chloe asked.
"Oui, an now Remy gon' find him an' teach him a lesson fo' takin ya. Nobody messes wit Remy Le Beau's family." He said, glaring into space
"ohhh! You thought that.and.no. You don't understand. You see what happened was-" Chloe was cut off by a splash in the water as Peter rose from it's depths with an unconscious Kitty in his arms.
Everyone stared in shock while he waded through the water and onto the sand. He kept walking until he got to the grass where he set her down gently.
He then looked her over and listened for a heart beat. There was none.
He began to give her mouth to mouth recesitation and pressing on her body in hopes of releasing some of the water that had gotten into her system.
After breathing for her and trying to pump out the water three more times he stopped when Kitty started to cough up the water and jerked her head up.
Kitty opened her eyes wide only to be met with another pair of dark brown eyes. They gazed at eachother for a second before someone calling her name interrupted them.
"Kitty!" Rogue and Kitty exclaimed with relief as they rushed over to her.
"Damn Kit! What happened ta ya?" Rogue asked.
"I *cough* I don't know. The last thing I remember was slipping on a rock and then. and then you." Kitty said, pointing to Peter, who was standing silently next to Gambit.
All eyes fell on Peter.
"Ya didn' try an take mon souer did ya?" Gambit asked, though he already knew the answer.
"No my friend. I did not." Peter answered.
"That's what I was trying to tell you Remy. I needed help and Peter was the only one around so when I told him that Kitty was in trouble he nearly yanked my arm out of my socket to get us to Kitty as fast as possible." Chloe explained.
"Thank you. Thank you so much. You saved me. I owe you my life." Kitty said with a grateful smile.
"No, no you do not. I am very relieved and happy that you are okay but you do not owe me anything." Peter said, turning and walking away.
"But." Kitty shouted after him. "But I still feel like I owe you my like life. How can I thank you?" Kitty called.
Peter stopped in his tracks and froze. "Your safety is thanks enough." He said without turning around and continued walking away.
The others just stared at his retreating form, saying nothing.
"Rogue, Remy come in." Scott's static voice said through the intercom, breaking the silence.
"I tink we had enough fun in de sun fo' one day non? Remy asked the girls who all nodded in agreement. Remy walked over to Kitty, who was still pretty wiped, and picked her up. He then walked back to the beach with Chloe at his heals.
Rogue sighed and picked up her intercom. "Yeah Scott we're here. Gatha up thah rest a thah group. We got Chloe and Kitty and we're goin home." She answered warily before turning off the link and catching up with the others.
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