CHAPTER 19
Love is in the Air Part 2
"Are we almost there Swamp Rat?" Rogue asked.
"Patience chere. We be dere soon." Remy assured her.
"Wanna have a lil fun?" He asked over the loud engine.
"No." She answered firmly. His idea of fun was far from hers.
"Too bad." He said, speeding up and doing a poppy-wheelie on the road.
Rogue held onto him for dear life, wrapping herself around him as much as possible.
"Yer insane ya know that?" She asked when the bike hit the pavement again.
"Hmm.could be." He told her, grinning.
Rogue just rolled her eyes and unconsciously rested her head on his shoulder.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Chloe, Amara, Jubilee and Tabby all came down the steps in their partying attire. Actually it was their partying attire covered up by jackets so Logan wouldn't stop them and make them change into something that didn't make them look older then they were.
The sound of a car's horn could be heard with the front door opened and the girls said their quick goodbyes to Logan and the rest of the boys who were now watching the game.
They made a mad dash for the front gates and were soon on their way to downtown Bayville.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Two men ran at Kitty from opposite directions. She panicked at first but got control of herself as she phased under the road three seconds before they got to her.
Neither one of them had stopped in time because they weren't expecting it and they collided with each other.
"Oh! That's gotta hurt." She said, cringing as they smashed into each other.
The two men and the rest of the people who had stayed looked over at her and ran toward her.
"Uh-oh. Gotta go." She said, phasing down again.
She phased up again in a different place a few feet away but when she came back up she found herself surrounded by the men.
They were getting angrier the more she used her powers and she'd had bad luck with them just now so she decided that for the moment she'd just have to run.
She used her powers one last time to phase through the men to get on the outside of the circle and then ran like hell in a random direction.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"We here petite." Remy announced after the bike came to a stop.
"Where is here?" Rogue asked, looking around at the land.
They were up on a hill somewhere a little ways away from the city and there was nothing but rocks in front of them.
"Theres nothin here." She remarked.
"Dats cause y' aint be looking hard enough chere." He said, leading her around the rocks to see a beautiful view.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"So where are we going again? Jubilee asked from the back seat.
Just one of the night clubs in Bayville. Its called The Twister." Conner answered from the drivers seat.
"The Twister? I've heard of that place, but I thought you had to be like twenty-one or something to get in there." Amara pointed out.
"Nope. Just to drink, but my friend's dad owns the place and the bar tender knows not to give us any drinks so we're cool." He replied.
"Alright. Now this is my kind of Friday night!" Tabby exclaimed, thinking about all the fun they were going to have.
Chloe sat quietly in the front passenger's seat.
"You okay?" He asked, as the other girls talked amongst themselves in the back.
"Huh?" She asked, realizing someone was addressing her.
"I said are you okay. Something's bothering you isnt it? You've been kind of out of it the whole ride over." Conner said, putting a hand on her knee.
The car was pulled into a parking space but the motor was still running while he talked to them.
"Yeah." She assured him, putting on a half-hearted smile. He didn't buy it but he thought that maybe after a night of fun she'd either feel better or be ready to talk about it.
"Fine, but I'm not letting you get out of this so easily. We can talk later on." He told her.
She nodded and unbuckled her seatbelt.
"But for now, there's a dance floor that's calling my name!" She announced, the color and mischief returning to her face and eyes.
"There's my girl." He said with a smile.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Kitty ran as fast as her legs would take her. She saw that the people were coming from both sides of the street she was on and all the stores had just now mysteriously closed after her little trash lid incident.
The only thing she saw was right behind her. It was a tree like the ones in the park with the full branches.
She climbed up into one of them, inching across one of the limbs to hide herself better. She heard the sound of shoes hitting the sidewalk around her and stopping.
"Where'd she go?" The head boy asked the others, looking around for her.
"I don't know. She probably did her little magic trick and split if she knew what was good for her." The other boy answered.
"Yeah, well lets get outta here before she decides to come back with reinforcements." The head boy replied, turning to walk away.
Suddenly Kitty lost her balance as she strained her ears to hear what they were saying and she fell from her seat on the limb.
The boys stopped and looked over by the tree as leaves fell off of the limbs. They didn't see anything other then that.
"Probably just a squirrel." One of them guessed.
Kitty was hanging onto the limb with her hands and she was starting to slip. She held her breath so they wouldn't overhear her heavy breathing and shut her eyes tightly.
'Leave. Just leave.' She thought, wishing that they would go away because her arms were starting to hurt and her hands were slipping. Pretty soon she would have to let go and fall to the ground.
She would have been caught if she hadn't quickly pulled her legs up to the limb and kept them there. Her legs were starting to ache too. Not to mention the fact that even when she hung there in full height her feet were still dangling about six feet above the ground and she really didn't need to be hurt while running for her life.
Suddenly the branch cracked loudly and Kitty noticed that it was breaking off of the tree because of the little added weight.
"Yeah.but I wanna make sure." The head boy said.
Kitty shut her eyes even tighter. She was getting more scared the closer he got. Just a few more steps and he'd be right under her.
Kitty opened her eyes and noticed that he wasn't under her. She didn't know why because she couldn't see what was going on through the leaves.
"What the hell?" The head boy asked.
Kitty panicked. 'What was going on?'
"It's a robot!" The other boy said.
'Robot?' Kitty wondered. Blue demons and big foot sightings she could understand, but robots?
Suddenly a horrifying thought it her hard. Sentinals! There must be a sentinal somewhere and they can see it from far away because its so far away.
'Great. Just what I needed.' Kitty thought, exasperated and annoyed with her current situation.
'Well at least its far away and not like right here.' Kitty thought thankfully.
"Dude are you crazy? Don't touch it. Don't even get near it! Its probably one of those mutant bots from on the news." The older boy shouted.
"Lets get outta here. That things way too close for comfort." The boy yelled.
'So much for it being far away.' Kitty thought grumpily.
She let out a soft whimper when she was sure that the boys were gone. Her hands were starting to hurt and she was sure that one of them had been cut by something sharp growing on the tree limb and on top of that it was going to break any minute.
She couldn't hold on anymore. She'd have to fall to the ground and with her in so much pain she probably wouldn't be able to phase at first so running was going to have to work again.
She shut her eyes once more and prepared for the inevidable, crying out when the branch broke off totally and she fell to the ground.
She opened her eyes when she didn't feel the dirt or the hard ground and to her utter surprise she found herself in the arms of a tall boy who had shifted from his metallic form seconds before he had caught her with ease.
"We really need to stop meeting like this." He told her with a very small smile on this face. It almost wasn't there but Kitty saw it, even if only for a second.
She nodded, dumbfounded at what had just happened.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The music boomed through the building and the lights flashed brightly in different colors and shapes, dancing around the room for cool effects. The lights weren't the only thing dancing though. The club was packed with teenagers and college students dancing, drinking, talking, and just having a good time.
"Woo-hoo!" Tabby shouted, grabbing Amara and dragging her onto the dance floor.
"Hey! Tabbitha wait! I can't dance!" Amara exclaimed, pulling herself back to the table where Jubilee sat.
"Well then what's stopping you from learning right now?" The wild blonde asked over the loud music.
"Uh.my cooridination? Or lack therefore of." Amara answered, trying to get herself out of this situation.
"Oh come on! Its easy. Just let yourself go." Tabby said, demonstrating by moving around free spiritedly in the spot she stood in.
"Umm.Thanks but I'll pass. I can't just let myself go. I don't think I know how." Amara told her friend, inching closer to the table she wanted to sit down at.
"Oh come on Princess. Live a little." Tabby told her, dragging her back onto the dance floor.
"Tabby! I told you not to call me that in public!" Amara exclaimed, looking around in paranoia.
"Oh relax. Nobody thinks anything of it. People who hear just assume it's a nick name or something." Tabby assured her, yanking her onto the dance floor, the two of them disappearing into the maze of dancing adolescents and college students.
"Jubilee sighed, drumming her fingers on the table cloth and looking around the room at the different people doing their different dances. She was bored and wasn't hiding it.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Remy what thah hell are ya talkin about?" Rogue asked.
"Jus' look fo' yo'self petite. It be right behind dese rocks." He told her, grinning with the fact that he knew something that she didn't and she was hating him for it.
Rogue rolled her eyes and walked around the rock with him at her heals.
"Alright Swamp rat, what is it that ya wanted meh ta." Rogue trailed off when she saw what was in front of her. She gasped at the sight that her eyes were taking in.
Dat be a good gasp or a bad one?" Remy asked in a way that showed that he was in no way worried that it was a bad gasp. He was so sure that she'd just love it that the confidence was dripping in his voice.
Rogue was silent for a minute, taking in the scene.
There, in front of her, the ground was covered in a heavy blanket of beautiful wild flowers, surrounded by fireflies that were lighting up like light switches turning on and off every few seconds.
From where they were standing, the skies were a swirl of purple and midnight blue with stars scattered everywhere and a full moon beaming down on them. The only sounds were the songs of the crickets and the occasional frog's croak. Everything else was mute, even though Rogue knew that the highway couldn't have been very far away.
There wasn't a single cloud in the sky and the air smelled of a natural fragrance that Rogue could remember from her childhood years of playing outside with the other children innocently in Mississippi.
She had a feeling it had to do with the flowers and the scent of mother natures glory at night. Rogue breathed in the fresh air, closing her eyes gently as she did so.
"Chere?" Remy asked when he got no answer. Not even a smart remark or a good comeback.
She turned around and looked straight into his eyes calmly as if she were trying to figure him out. He gazed back into her eyes and let himself get lost in them for the moment.
After a few seconds of silence he asked her again. "Chere?"
She nodded her head at him, moving in from side to side with a small smile on her face.
"What?" He asked. He clearly wasn't expecting this to happen.
She laughed slightly, her mouth still closed when she did so and then she finally decided to speak.
"Ya aint real." She said to him.
"Las' time Remy checked he was pretty damn real." Remy assured her.
"Naw. Ya can't be. Ya got this.this feelin about ya. Like ya want people ta think yer perfect. But yer not." She told him in a very calm way like she was explaining it to him and he had all the time and patience in the world to hear it.
Remy looked at her, a little bit startled.
This definitely wasn't what he was expecting of her. Was she shooting him down? Making him feel bad for being romantic? What the hell was going on here!?
Rogue didn't wait for him to comment. She continued after the pause she'd made.
"Yer cocky, annoyin, a little juvinile and on occasion insane, but yer not perfect. Ya neva will be." She told him with a straight face, not changing her tone in voice. She was smiling but just slightly.
Remy couldn't believe what was going on. What was she getting at? Why was she telling him this? Why was she acting so calm when she talked? The last question was scaring him the most.
"And that, Remy Le beau, is what Ah like about ya." She finished, making a bold move by taking her gloved hand with his.
She waited for a response, not realizing that she was holding her breath. What would he think about what she had just said? What she had just told him. Had she let her guard down too quickly? Would he be freaked out and run away? Why wasn't he answering? All these questions, and many more, were filling up in Rogue's head the longer Remy was silent.
He didn't say anything. Just thought about what she'd said. Really thought about it. What she had meant and most importantly what she had said about her liking him.
She was saying that he didn't care who he was or where he came from. She liked it. She liked who he was. She liked how he acted.to an extent, and she liked how he didn't flinch away when she put on her mask and tried to scare him away.
These thoughts were going through both Remy and Rogue's head for a while.
Remy smiled and came back to reality. He snaked his arms around her waist and locked his hands together, pulling her into him, face to face.
She was shocked by what he'd done and although she was nervous, it wasn't because of her power. It was because it was him who was doing it. She was blushing and feeling nervous just like Kitty and the others did. She was finally starting to act and feel like a normal..or somewhat normal teen did, and it was starting to scare her.
To his delight she didn't pull away from him or tell him to "get lost" or anything like that. She just looked up at him, her emerald eyes sparkling with life and unexplainable emotion. She was still smiling, only a little bit more now.
"Remy's glad chere. Remy's real glad." He told her, referring to what she'd just told him.
He pulled her even closer and she rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. She felt like she could stay like that forever and watch the world go by without a single care. She knew that neither of them would have minded if they did.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Chloe was dancing and having such a good time it was like all her troubles went out the window. That's what happened when she danced. It was her favorite thing to do. It made her feel alive and free more then anything else could.
She had just danced through six fast songs straight with Conner and she was about ready to drop from exhaustion. Finally a slow song came on and she smiled tiredly at him.
He had been smiling and having a good time until he saw the look in her eyes.
"Oh no. Nope, sorry. No way, now how. NO!" He told her, standing there with his arms crossed firmly.
She looked into his eyes and pouted at him playfully.
"No Chloe, I am NOT slow dancing. One, I don't know how. Two, I don't want people to be there when I do learn and three." He trailed off and looked at her.
She still had the same puppy dog pout through his entire speech.
He dropped his head in defeat and put up his hands.
"Your evil." He murmered as she smiled at him when he caved and took his hands, bringing him a little closer to her and showing him where to put his hands when he was slow dancing.
"I know." She answered playfully, and smiling at him.
"See? Now this isnt so bad is it?" She asked him as he looked down at his feet every five seconds to make sure he wouldn't stumble.
"Yes actually. It is. I'm doing something I've never done before, I keep tripping over my own feet so I don't step on yours, all the girls who aren't dancing are looking at me all weird because I'm dancing with you and I-"
Conner's complaining came to an abrupt stop as Chloe rolled her eyes and closed the space between them, locking lips with him for a few seconds. It had been their first kiss.only it was more of her kissing him so he'd stop whining.
She finally pulled away with a dazed look on her face but soon recovered.
"Alright let's try this again." She told him.
"See? Now that wasn't so bad, was it?" She repeated her question before.
"Nope." He said, closing the space between them for the second time, pulling her closer while she wrapped her arms around his neck.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Remy is not going to like this is he?" Amara asked Jubilee, already knowing the answer.
She'd finally managed to slip away from the dance floor while Tabby wore out three guys at the same time dancing.
"Nope." The other girl replied, sipping her soda at the table.
"He's going to blame us because we were with her isn't he?" Amara asked, tilting her head at the couple making out on the dance floor.
"Yep." Jubilee answered. They had both been staring at the two teens while saying this, not being discrete at all.
"But honesty is the best policy and if Remy asks what happened we can't lie to him right?" The Princess asked.
"Right." Jubilee answered.
"So there's only one thing we can do right?" Amara inquired.
"Right." Jubilee answered.
"We avoid Remy for the rest of our lives.unless we can't and we run into him. Then we lie." Amara stated.
"Exactly." Jubilee replied, taking another sip of her drink, sucking air into the straw when there was no more soda left in the glass.
"Hey, what's up with you?" Amara asked her friend, looking away from the two lip locking teens on the dance floor.
"Hm?" Jubilee asked, looking up from her drink. She had been idly poking her straw into the cup which now only had partially melted ice cubes.
"You seem kind of.out of it." Amara answered, putting her hand to Jubilee's forehead.
"Are you feeling okay?" She asked, concerned.
"Yes I'm fine." Jubilee said, shrugging her friend's hand away.
"You don't look fine. And your head feels warm. Maybe your coming down with something." Amara suggested.
"Of course my head feels warm to you. Your Magma. Everything you touch is hot." Jubilee told her.
"Sorry. Jeez!" Amara said, backing off.
"So then what's the matter with you?" She asked.
Jubilee was silent for a minute.
"Nothing." She answered, avoiding her friend's eyes.
Amara gave her a look that told her she didn't believe her.
"Nothing?" She asked skeptically.
"Nothing." Jubilee echoed. "Except." She trailed off.
Amara waited for her to finish, not wanting to say something to interrupt the girl or make her stop talking.
"I don't know. I just feel kind of weird. Lately I've been feeling awkward." Jubilee continued.
"About what?" Amara asked.
"Well.When I first came to the institute I sort of adapted to hanging around with the guys and eventually they started treating me like one of the guys.because that's how they saw me after a while you know?" Jubilee explained.
Amara nodded in understanding and let her friend continue.
"Well its just that at first I hung with the guys, but then I started hanging out with the girls like you and Tabby and Kitty and everyone too." She continued.
"Well that's natural. You're a girl and you want to hang out with one of your own kind." Amara told her.
"But that's not the problem." Jubilee said.
"So what is the problem?" Amara asked.
"Well okay, you see, you and Bobby are my best friends. You have been ever sense I came to Xavier's. But now." She trailed off, running her hand through her hair.
"But now I don't know. Its like I feel different when I'm around Bobby then I do with you." Jubilee said, trying to explain how she felt.
"Is that it!?" Amara asked, a little surprised.
"Uh.yeah." Jubilee said, confused at her friend's remark.
Amara started laughing, not giggling or snickering, she was out and out laughing.
"What?" Jubilee asked, a little annoyed at how she was taking it.
"That's it? I thought you were turning manic depressive or suicidal from all the Anti-mutant stuff going around. Something serious. Not." Amara couldn't finish her sentence. She was laughing to hard.
"Well I'm glad to see someone is getting a good laugh out of my predicament." Jubilee said, scowling at her friend.
Amara stopped laughing and looked up at her.
"What's the problem?" Amara asked.
Jubilee rolled her eyes. "I thought we've been through this already. The problem is that I think.I think I might have feelings for Bobby." Jubilee said, getting closer to the other girl so she wouldn't have to scream it over the music.
"Well duh!" Amara remarked bluntly.
"What do you mean Well duh! ?" Jubilee asked her friend, getting annoyed at her.
"I mean that your so called problem isn't as bad as it seems, and your making it out to be like the end of the world. I mean everybody knows about you and Bobby liking each other." Amara said.
"WHAT!? How does everyone know I like Bobby? They can't know!" She exclaimed.
"And yet they do." Amara said, trying to keep the smirk off her face and be a good friend.
"But they can't know. I didn't even know until just now!" Jubilee exclaimed.
"Your kidding me right?" Tabby asked, walking over to the table.
"You and Drake still haven't hooked up yet? What're you waiting for?" Tabby asked, gulping down her soda.
"You know too? Does anyone not know I like Bobby?" Jubilee asked, burying her head in her crossed arms on the table.
"Maybe Evan but that's only because he pays more attention to his skateboarding then life itself." Tabby answered.
"It was a rhetorical question." Jubilee said, grumpily.
Suddenly her head jerked up from her arms, causing her hair to flip back behind her.
"Did you say Bobby liked me too!?" She asked, just now hearing that bit of the conversation.
"Well duh!" Amara and Tabby said in unison.
Jubilee's eyes widened.
"Wow, you really didn't know did you? Man you guys are dense and niave for your age." Tabby said, going back onto the dance floor after replenishing herself with a soda.
"So besides Evan, who doesn't know that Bobby and I like each other?" Jubilee asked Amara, who was trying even harder now not to laugh, seeing the smile that was tugging at Jubilee's face that came when she heard that her crush liked her.
"Well." Amara thought about it for a moment. Even Logan knew that they liked each other.
"Oh I know. There were two people who didn't know about you and Bobby liking each other." Amara stated.
"Who?" Jubilee asked.
"You and Bobby."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"So like I take it seeing how there aren't any Sentinels in sight that the robot those creeps were talking about was you?" She guessed.
The boy nodded. "American teenagers will assume anything now a days. Too much of that HBO." Piotr said.
Kitty giggled, but her laugh turned into a wince when he set her down and she leaned on her own two feet. Her ankle was hurting like hell and she had just now noticed it. It was like there were a million tiny daggers stabbing into her ankle all at once whenever she put pressure on it.
She grabbed onto his arm when she felt the pain for the first time and he looked down at her to see what was going on.
"What is it?" he asked, looking her over. She had scratches, cuts and bruises of all shapes and sizes on her body but she looked like she was holding up pretty well.
"Its nothing. Its just that I think I might have accidentally twisted my ankle when I almost fell out of the tree." She said, trying to find a way she could let go of him without feeling pain beyond belief.
"Is it bad?" he asked, concern filling his voice.
"No, its nothing to worry about really. Its probably not even twisted. I probably just wasn't expecting the pain to come the first time I put my foot down so naturally it hurt a lot. I'm sure its better now." She assured him.
"You're sure?" He questioned.
"Totally." She confirmed..
She was not fine, and she certainly wasn't totally fine. So why did she tell him she was? Probably because he'd saved her life more then once in the past week and she really didn't want him thinking she was some Lois Lane type who got stuck in dangerous situations just waiting for Superman to save her.
Kitty wasn't like that at all. She'd been training and working on her self defense with the X-men and she didn't want him thinking that she was week and defenseless or anything, Wait! sense when did she care what they enemy thought of her?
'Since the enemy became very hot and had a tendency to rescue me daily.'
Kitty kicked herself for thinking that while he was there. He could have been a telapath too as far as she knew.
"Alright." He said, letting go of her so she could lean on her own two feet.
She let out a 'Yipe!' and fell to the ground, but he caught her before she hit the pavement.
"Totally fine huh?" He questioned her skeptically.
"Well.okay so maybe not totally fine." She admitted.
"Come on, I will take you home. Your Proffessor is no doubt worried about where you are." He said, getting ready to lift her up again.
"Wait! Um.can't you just like call somebody down here to get me or something? Like one of my teammates?" She asked.
A look of hurt crossed his face but it disappeared just as quickly. Kitty saw it though.
"N-not that I'm not grateful or anything because I like totally am. Its just.I don't usually have strangers who happen to be my guardian's enemy carrying me home. Plus if you get anywhere near the Institute Logan will probably like come out and spaz or something." She explained, trying to make him understand.
His face softened a bit and she knew he'd gotten the point.
"I understand." He said.
She had called him her guardian's enemy. Not hers.
"There she is! I told you the robot was one of them!"
Kitty and Piotr turned to see who had come. There stood the boy from before with his friends and another group of older looking men.
"On second thought, I don't think it would be too weird having you carry me.like soon." Kitty said, seeing them come closer.
"You're really popular with the people around here aren't you?" Piotr asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, I'm a regular Miss popularity." She told him sarcastically as well before he picked her up and headed down the path.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Hey guys, ready to go?" Chloe asked the two girls sitting at the table.
"We're ready. Tabby on the other hand might put up a fight." Jubilee said, pointing to the blonde who was still dancing the night away with a group of boys.
Chloe rolled her eyes and sighed. "Come on, let's go get her then." She said.
The other two girls stood up and walked over to Tabbitha.
"Time to leave Tabbitha." Amara told the girl.
"Oh are you kidding me? I'm just getting warmed up over here." She shouted over the music.
"You've been getting warmed up for the past three and a half hours. If we don't leave now we're gonna miss curfew." Jubilee told her.
Tabby didn't hear her though. She'd gone back to dancing.
The others looked at each other and nodded.
They each took Tabby by the arm and pulled her off the dance floor.
"Oh alright." She said, annoyed that her fun was over.
"Don't go all Summers on me." She mumbled grumpily.
"If we don't leave in the next thirty seconds we are so gonna be late." Jubilee told the others.
"And then we are so gonna be grounded." Chloe added, walking out of the building and getting into Conner's car.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Rogue pulled away from Remy's embrace after about a minute of taking in his loving warmth.
"Aw chere, Why yo' go an' do dat?" He asked in mock pout.
"Ah'll be right back Swamp Rat. Just gotta go do somethin. Don't move." She said, grabbing her backpack and walking around the rock to the other side where he couldn't see her.
Remy looked in the spot that she'd just left from.
'Dat was random.' He thought to himself. Then he realized that she probably had some business to take care of and there wasn't a restroom for miles.
She came back about two minutes later. Remy was sitting down on a blanket that he'd taken from his bike when he brought her and laid out on the grass.
"Okay, now Ah feel betta." She said, letting him know she was there again.
"Dats Bon chere, but ya didn' really need ta tell Remy dat ya." Remy trailed off as he looked up and saw her. His eyebrow raised when he saw that she was now wearing casual looking clothes and her hair was only pulled up into a simple tress, her white bangs framing her face still.
"What happened?" He asked, confused.
"Ah went ta thah otha side of the rocks so Ah could change inta somethin more comfortable." She explained. "That's why Ah said that Ah felt much better. Ah always feel more at ease with clothes Ah like wearin then clothes Ah don't." She explained.
"Oh." Remy answered, putting the pieces together so that they would make sense to him.
It didn't matter what she was wearing. She'd manage to pull off looking hot in sweats so tight fitting jeans were just fine with him.
"Wait a minute!" He exclaimed.
"What?" She asked.
"Y' mean ta tell Remy dat y' were ova dere changin' dis whole time?" He asked.
"Yeah." She answered.
"An' ya didn' even tell Remy? He coulda been watchin!" Remy exclaimed, making himself sound like he was shocked at his bad luck.
Rogue just rolled her eyes and walked over to the thick sheet on the ground, looking back and forth from Remy to the blanket a few times.
"Take a seat petite." He said, patting on the space next to him on the blanket.
"Ya know, the view is much better from up here." She told him, leanining against a tree.
He smiled at how nervous and timid she looked. This wasn't something Rogue let show a lot. In fact it almost never happened.
"It ain' gonna bite petite." He said, laughing.
"Ah know that!" She shot back with a small scowl on her face. "Ah jus' don't feel like sittin down that's all." She said unconvincingly.
"Right. Suit yo'self petite." He said, leaning back and stretching out on the blanket with his hands behind his head.
"But yo' missin an amazin' view." He added, grinning up at her.
"Ah can see just fine from here swamp rat." She assured him.
He was up to something. She knew he was. She just didn't know what it was yet. Had she been to up front? She hadn't even expected to tell him that stuff. It was all true and she meant every word but should she have told him? She didn't want to move fast. Slow was good, but that's not how she'd sounded before.
"Non ya can't. Y' gotta be right ova where Remy be ta see it." He told her, looking ahead.
She sighed and gave in to her curiosity.
"Alright, but there had better be somethin there." She told him, walking over to the blanket.
Remy smiled more at her.
She stood right in front of him and looked ahead to wear he was staring off before.
"Ah still don't see anything. What's this amazin' view ya'll were braggin about?" She asked.
Remy smirked at her mistcheviously.
"What?" She asked, a little annoyed that she didn't know what was going on in that head of his. Though something told her she probably wouldn't have wanted to know anyways.
Without saying a word, Remy swept his left leg under her, causing her to fall forward onto him.
"What the hell was that for?" She asked. She'd landed on him with her body facing front and she caught herself with her hands on his chest. His smile had widened much more then a few seconds ago. She was blushing furiously and she tried to pull herself up but Remy hand encircled his arms around her waist and wasn't about to let her get up.
"Y' know dat makeup y' got on shows y' blush more den de stuff ya usually do. Remy likes it." He said, not answering her question.
"Well then maybe you and Kitty can have a slumber party and trade hair and makeup tips one night." She said sarcastically.
"Remy be dere if you be dere chere." He said, winking at her.
Rogue rolled her eyes. She had walked right into that one.
"So where's this amazin' sight ya told me about?" Rogue asked skeptically.
"Remy be starin right at her chere." He said in a husky voice, staring at her.
Rogue blushed even more this time and sighed.
"Yer really corny, ya know that Swamp Rat?" She asked, trying to make it sound like a come back.
"Oui, but as far as Remy can tell, it be a good ting when it comes ta de femmes." He said, smiling.
Rogue had the scarf that was previously around her waist, tied around her wrist like a bracelet only with a veil.
She relaxed her tense body a little and rolled over on him, laying down on the blanket as well.
"Wow!" She said, looking up at the stars.
"Its so beautiful." She gasped. The stars were all showing tonight because there were no clouds.
"It sure is petite." He said, turning his head to look at her.
After a few minutes she'd gotten into a sitting possition as she and Remy talked for a while about the things they both missed about the South.
She yawned and her eye lids got heavy all of a sudden. She leaned back and rested her head on Remy's chest, the movement of his chest rising up and down as he was breathing was making her head move as well, but not noticibly to her.
She closed her eyes and took in the warmth of his body around her and the spicy cologne smell he'd always carry.
"This is nice." She said quietly and contently. Her eyes were still closed lightly.
"Oui. Remy's toughts exactly." He told her, kissing the top of her head.
"Too bad its gotta end though." She said softly.
"Oui, dat be a shame." He agreed.
"Hey what time is it anyways?" She asked, opening her eyes and cocking her head to look up at him. He was now leaning against the tree in a sitting position but she was still leaning against his chest.
Remy stretched his arms in front of him and focused on the watch on his wrist.
"It be 'bout eleven thirty." He told her, putting his arms back down around her covered waist.
"Oh. Okay." She said tiredly.
About three seconds later they both jerked up and looked at each other with wide eyes.
"ELEVEN THIRTY!?" She shouted in disbelief.
"Oui. We'd betta get goin now, non?" He said, picking up the blanket and shaking it out.
"Yeah. Aw hell, there's no way we're gonna make it in time." She said, frustrated with their current dilemma.
"Sure we can. Dat is if de belle femme don't got a problem wit Remy speedin' an' doin dose tricks o' his on his bike." He said with a grin.
Rogue scowled at him. She really could have done without getting in a motercycle accident tonight but comparing it to Logan's curfew braking punishments it was probably less painful.
"Fine, whateva. Let's just get the hell outta here and get home." She said, jumping onto the back of the bike.
"Hold on den petite. Dis bike's gonna fly." He said, starting up the motor and driving down the beaten road at full speed.
"Ah'm gonna die. There's no doubt in mah mind that Ah'm not gonna live past this." Rogue said to no one in particular.
"Have a lil mo' faith in dis ol' Swamp Rat chere. He's got ya dis far hasn' he?" Remy asked, smiling as she held onto his waist tighter.
"Yeah, yeah. Just shut up and drive. She told him, scowling at the back of his head.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Okees people. That was the end of Part two of this chapter. There are three parts in total and the third chapter is way shorter then the others.at least it was planned on being shorter. I didn't expect the other two parts to be this long though so we'll see.
How'd you like Part two? Enough Romyness for ya? Hopefully you did because this was the big 'first date' chapter and I wanted everybody to like it.
Tell me what you thought of this part okay? I don't want to review until I have at least five reviews but I know what's going to happen basically.
I just want to know how you guys liked it and all. Especially the Chloe/Conner bit. Was it too much? Is it too little? I don't need any ideas for the last part of the chapter but I definitely would like to know how you liked it.
I mean come on people! Nineteen pages of only a part of the chapter. I think I deserve a few reviews.
So.yeah. Review now plz! Later days!
-AngieX
Love is in the Air Part 2
"Are we almost there Swamp Rat?" Rogue asked.
"Patience chere. We be dere soon." Remy assured her.
"Wanna have a lil fun?" He asked over the loud engine.
"No." She answered firmly. His idea of fun was far from hers.
"Too bad." He said, speeding up and doing a poppy-wheelie on the road.
Rogue held onto him for dear life, wrapping herself around him as much as possible.
"Yer insane ya know that?" She asked when the bike hit the pavement again.
"Hmm.could be." He told her, grinning.
Rogue just rolled her eyes and unconsciously rested her head on his shoulder.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Chloe, Amara, Jubilee and Tabby all came down the steps in their partying attire. Actually it was their partying attire covered up by jackets so Logan wouldn't stop them and make them change into something that didn't make them look older then they were.
The sound of a car's horn could be heard with the front door opened and the girls said their quick goodbyes to Logan and the rest of the boys who were now watching the game.
They made a mad dash for the front gates and were soon on their way to downtown Bayville.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Two men ran at Kitty from opposite directions. She panicked at first but got control of herself as she phased under the road three seconds before they got to her.
Neither one of them had stopped in time because they weren't expecting it and they collided with each other.
"Oh! That's gotta hurt." She said, cringing as they smashed into each other.
The two men and the rest of the people who had stayed looked over at her and ran toward her.
"Uh-oh. Gotta go." She said, phasing down again.
She phased up again in a different place a few feet away but when she came back up she found herself surrounded by the men.
They were getting angrier the more she used her powers and she'd had bad luck with them just now so she decided that for the moment she'd just have to run.
She used her powers one last time to phase through the men to get on the outside of the circle and then ran like hell in a random direction.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"We here petite." Remy announced after the bike came to a stop.
"Where is here?" Rogue asked, looking around at the land.
They were up on a hill somewhere a little ways away from the city and there was nothing but rocks in front of them.
"Theres nothin here." She remarked.
"Dats cause y' aint be looking hard enough chere." He said, leading her around the rocks to see a beautiful view.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"So where are we going again? Jubilee asked from the back seat.
Just one of the night clubs in Bayville. Its called The Twister." Conner answered from the drivers seat.
"The Twister? I've heard of that place, but I thought you had to be like twenty-one or something to get in there." Amara pointed out.
"Nope. Just to drink, but my friend's dad owns the place and the bar tender knows not to give us any drinks so we're cool." He replied.
"Alright. Now this is my kind of Friday night!" Tabby exclaimed, thinking about all the fun they were going to have.
Chloe sat quietly in the front passenger's seat.
"You okay?" He asked, as the other girls talked amongst themselves in the back.
"Huh?" She asked, realizing someone was addressing her.
"I said are you okay. Something's bothering you isnt it? You've been kind of out of it the whole ride over." Conner said, putting a hand on her knee.
The car was pulled into a parking space but the motor was still running while he talked to them.
"Yeah." She assured him, putting on a half-hearted smile. He didn't buy it but he thought that maybe after a night of fun she'd either feel better or be ready to talk about it.
"Fine, but I'm not letting you get out of this so easily. We can talk later on." He told her.
She nodded and unbuckled her seatbelt.
"But for now, there's a dance floor that's calling my name!" She announced, the color and mischief returning to her face and eyes.
"There's my girl." He said with a smile.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Kitty ran as fast as her legs would take her. She saw that the people were coming from both sides of the street she was on and all the stores had just now mysteriously closed after her little trash lid incident.
The only thing she saw was right behind her. It was a tree like the ones in the park with the full branches.
She climbed up into one of them, inching across one of the limbs to hide herself better. She heard the sound of shoes hitting the sidewalk around her and stopping.
"Where'd she go?" The head boy asked the others, looking around for her.
"I don't know. She probably did her little magic trick and split if she knew what was good for her." The other boy answered.
"Yeah, well lets get outta here before she decides to come back with reinforcements." The head boy replied, turning to walk away.
Suddenly Kitty lost her balance as she strained her ears to hear what they were saying and she fell from her seat on the limb.
The boys stopped and looked over by the tree as leaves fell off of the limbs. They didn't see anything other then that.
"Probably just a squirrel." One of them guessed.
Kitty was hanging onto the limb with her hands and she was starting to slip. She held her breath so they wouldn't overhear her heavy breathing and shut her eyes tightly.
'Leave. Just leave.' She thought, wishing that they would go away because her arms were starting to hurt and her hands were slipping. Pretty soon she would have to let go and fall to the ground.
She would have been caught if she hadn't quickly pulled her legs up to the limb and kept them there. Her legs were starting to ache too. Not to mention the fact that even when she hung there in full height her feet were still dangling about six feet above the ground and she really didn't need to be hurt while running for her life.
Suddenly the branch cracked loudly and Kitty noticed that it was breaking off of the tree because of the little added weight.
"Yeah.but I wanna make sure." The head boy said.
Kitty shut her eyes even tighter. She was getting more scared the closer he got. Just a few more steps and he'd be right under her.
Kitty opened her eyes and noticed that he wasn't under her. She didn't know why because she couldn't see what was going on through the leaves.
"What the hell?" The head boy asked.
Kitty panicked. 'What was going on?'
"It's a robot!" The other boy said.
'Robot?' Kitty wondered. Blue demons and big foot sightings she could understand, but robots?
Suddenly a horrifying thought it her hard. Sentinals! There must be a sentinal somewhere and they can see it from far away because its so far away.
'Great. Just what I needed.' Kitty thought, exasperated and annoyed with her current situation.
'Well at least its far away and not like right here.' Kitty thought thankfully.
"Dude are you crazy? Don't touch it. Don't even get near it! Its probably one of those mutant bots from on the news." The older boy shouted.
"Lets get outta here. That things way too close for comfort." The boy yelled.
'So much for it being far away.' Kitty thought grumpily.
She let out a soft whimper when she was sure that the boys were gone. Her hands were starting to hurt and she was sure that one of them had been cut by something sharp growing on the tree limb and on top of that it was going to break any minute.
She couldn't hold on anymore. She'd have to fall to the ground and with her in so much pain she probably wouldn't be able to phase at first so running was going to have to work again.
She shut her eyes once more and prepared for the inevidable, crying out when the branch broke off totally and she fell to the ground.
She opened her eyes when she didn't feel the dirt or the hard ground and to her utter surprise she found herself in the arms of a tall boy who had shifted from his metallic form seconds before he had caught her with ease.
"We really need to stop meeting like this." He told her with a very small smile on this face. It almost wasn't there but Kitty saw it, even if only for a second.
She nodded, dumbfounded at what had just happened.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The music boomed through the building and the lights flashed brightly in different colors and shapes, dancing around the room for cool effects. The lights weren't the only thing dancing though. The club was packed with teenagers and college students dancing, drinking, talking, and just having a good time.
"Woo-hoo!" Tabby shouted, grabbing Amara and dragging her onto the dance floor.
"Hey! Tabbitha wait! I can't dance!" Amara exclaimed, pulling herself back to the table where Jubilee sat.
"Well then what's stopping you from learning right now?" The wild blonde asked over the loud music.
"Uh.my cooridination? Or lack therefore of." Amara answered, trying to get herself out of this situation.
"Oh come on! Its easy. Just let yourself go." Tabby said, demonstrating by moving around free spiritedly in the spot she stood in.
"Umm.Thanks but I'll pass. I can't just let myself go. I don't think I know how." Amara told her friend, inching closer to the table she wanted to sit down at.
"Oh come on Princess. Live a little." Tabby told her, dragging her back onto the dance floor.
"Tabby! I told you not to call me that in public!" Amara exclaimed, looking around in paranoia.
"Oh relax. Nobody thinks anything of it. People who hear just assume it's a nick name or something." Tabby assured her, yanking her onto the dance floor, the two of them disappearing into the maze of dancing adolescents and college students.
"Jubilee sighed, drumming her fingers on the table cloth and looking around the room at the different people doing their different dances. She was bored and wasn't hiding it.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Remy what thah hell are ya talkin about?" Rogue asked.
"Jus' look fo' yo'self petite. It be right behind dese rocks." He told her, grinning with the fact that he knew something that she didn't and she was hating him for it.
Rogue rolled her eyes and walked around the rock with him at her heals.
"Alright Swamp rat, what is it that ya wanted meh ta." Rogue trailed off when she saw what was in front of her. She gasped at the sight that her eyes were taking in.
Dat be a good gasp or a bad one?" Remy asked in a way that showed that he was in no way worried that it was a bad gasp. He was so sure that she'd just love it that the confidence was dripping in his voice.
Rogue was silent for a minute, taking in the scene.
There, in front of her, the ground was covered in a heavy blanket of beautiful wild flowers, surrounded by fireflies that were lighting up like light switches turning on and off every few seconds.
From where they were standing, the skies were a swirl of purple and midnight blue with stars scattered everywhere and a full moon beaming down on them. The only sounds were the songs of the crickets and the occasional frog's croak. Everything else was mute, even though Rogue knew that the highway couldn't have been very far away.
There wasn't a single cloud in the sky and the air smelled of a natural fragrance that Rogue could remember from her childhood years of playing outside with the other children innocently in Mississippi.
She had a feeling it had to do with the flowers and the scent of mother natures glory at night. Rogue breathed in the fresh air, closing her eyes gently as she did so.
"Chere?" Remy asked when he got no answer. Not even a smart remark or a good comeback.
She turned around and looked straight into his eyes calmly as if she were trying to figure him out. He gazed back into her eyes and let himself get lost in them for the moment.
After a few seconds of silence he asked her again. "Chere?"
She nodded her head at him, moving in from side to side with a small smile on her face.
"What?" He asked. He clearly wasn't expecting this to happen.
She laughed slightly, her mouth still closed when she did so and then she finally decided to speak.
"Ya aint real." She said to him.
"Las' time Remy checked he was pretty damn real." Remy assured her.
"Naw. Ya can't be. Ya got this.this feelin about ya. Like ya want people ta think yer perfect. But yer not." She told him in a very calm way like she was explaining it to him and he had all the time and patience in the world to hear it.
Remy looked at her, a little bit startled.
This definitely wasn't what he was expecting of her. Was she shooting him down? Making him feel bad for being romantic? What the hell was going on here!?
Rogue didn't wait for him to comment. She continued after the pause she'd made.
"Yer cocky, annoyin, a little juvinile and on occasion insane, but yer not perfect. Ya neva will be." She told him with a straight face, not changing her tone in voice. She was smiling but just slightly.
Remy couldn't believe what was going on. What was she getting at? Why was she telling him this? Why was she acting so calm when she talked? The last question was scaring him the most.
"And that, Remy Le beau, is what Ah like about ya." She finished, making a bold move by taking her gloved hand with his.
She waited for a response, not realizing that she was holding her breath. What would he think about what she had just said? What she had just told him. Had she let her guard down too quickly? Would he be freaked out and run away? Why wasn't he answering? All these questions, and many more, were filling up in Rogue's head the longer Remy was silent.
He didn't say anything. Just thought about what she'd said. Really thought about it. What she had meant and most importantly what she had said about her liking him.
She was saying that he didn't care who he was or where he came from. She liked it. She liked who he was. She liked how he acted.to an extent, and she liked how he didn't flinch away when she put on her mask and tried to scare him away.
These thoughts were going through both Remy and Rogue's head for a while.
Remy smiled and came back to reality. He snaked his arms around her waist and locked his hands together, pulling her into him, face to face.
She was shocked by what he'd done and although she was nervous, it wasn't because of her power. It was because it was him who was doing it. She was blushing and feeling nervous just like Kitty and the others did. She was finally starting to act and feel like a normal..or somewhat normal teen did, and it was starting to scare her.
To his delight she didn't pull away from him or tell him to "get lost" or anything like that. She just looked up at him, her emerald eyes sparkling with life and unexplainable emotion. She was still smiling, only a little bit more now.
"Remy's glad chere. Remy's real glad." He told her, referring to what she'd just told him.
He pulled her even closer and she rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. She felt like she could stay like that forever and watch the world go by without a single care. She knew that neither of them would have minded if they did.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Chloe was dancing and having such a good time it was like all her troubles went out the window. That's what happened when she danced. It was her favorite thing to do. It made her feel alive and free more then anything else could.
She had just danced through six fast songs straight with Conner and she was about ready to drop from exhaustion. Finally a slow song came on and she smiled tiredly at him.
He had been smiling and having a good time until he saw the look in her eyes.
"Oh no. Nope, sorry. No way, now how. NO!" He told her, standing there with his arms crossed firmly.
She looked into his eyes and pouted at him playfully.
"No Chloe, I am NOT slow dancing. One, I don't know how. Two, I don't want people to be there when I do learn and three." He trailed off and looked at her.
She still had the same puppy dog pout through his entire speech.
He dropped his head in defeat and put up his hands.
"Your evil." He murmered as she smiled at him when he caved and took his hands, bringing him a little closer to her and showing him where to put his hands when he was slow dancing.
"I know." She answered playfully, and smiling at him.
"See? Now this isnt so bad is it?" She asked him as he looked down at his feet every five seconds to make sure he wouldn't stumble.
"Yes actually. It is. I'm doing something I've never done before, I keep tripping over my own feet so I don't step on yours, all the girls who aren't dancing are looking at me all weird because I'm dancing with you and I-"
Conner's complaining came to an abrupt stop as Chloe rolled her eyes and closed the space between them, locking lips with him for a few seconds. It had been their first kiss.only it was more of her kissing him so he'd stop whining.
She finally pulled away with a dazed look on her face but soon recovered.
"Alright let's try this again." She told him.
"See? Now that wasn't so bad, was it?" She repeated her question before.
"Nope." He said, closing the space between them for the second time, pulling her closer while she wrapped her arms around his neck.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Remy is not going to like this is he?" Amara asked Jubilee, already knowing the answer.
She'd finally managed to slip away from the dance floor while Tabby wore out three guys at the same time dancing.
"Nope." The other girl replied, sipping her soda at the table.
"He's going to blame us because we were with her isn't he?" Amara asked, tilting her head at the couple making out on the dance floor.
"Yep." Jubilee answered. They had both been staring at the two teens while saying this, not being discrete at all.
"But honesty is the best policy and if Remy asks what happened we can't lie to him right?" The Princess asked.
"Right." Jubilee answered.
"So there's only one thing we can do right?" Amara inquired.
"Right." Jubilee answered.
"We avoid Remy for the rest of our lives.unless we can't and we run into him. Then we lie." Amara stated.
"Exactly." Jubilee replied, taking another sip of her drink, sucking air into the straw when there was no more soda left in the glass.
"Hey, what's up with you?" Amara asked her friend, looking away from the two lip locking teens on the dance floor.
"Hm?" Jubilee asked, looking up from her drink. She had been idly poking her straw into the cup which now only had partially melted ice cubes.
"You seem kind of.out of it." Amara answered, putting her hand to Jubilee's forehead.
"Are you feeling okay?" She asked, concerned.
"Yes I'm fine." Jubilee said, shrugging her friend's hand away.
"You don't look fine. And your head feels warm. Maybe your coming down with something." Amara suggested.
"Of course my head feels warm to you. Your Magma. Everything you touch is hot." Jubilee told her.
"Sorry. Jeez!" Amara said, backing off.
"So then what's the matter with you?" She asked.
Jubilee was silent for a minute.
"Nothing." She answered, avoiding her friend's eyes.
Amara gave her a look that told her she didn't believe her.
"Nothing?" She asked skeptically.
"Nothing." Jubilee echoed. "Except." She trailed off.
Amara waited for her to finish, not wanting to say something to interrupt the girl or make her stop talking.
"I don't know. I just feel kind of weird. Lately I've been feeling awkward." Jubilee continued.
"About what?" Amara asked.
"Well.When I first came to the institute I sort of adapted to hanging around with the guys and eventually they started treating me like one of the guys.because that's how they saw me after a while you know?" Jubilee explained.
Amara nodded in understanding and let her friend continue.
"Well its just that at first I hung with the guys, but then I started hanging out with the girls like you and Tabby and Kitty and everyone too." She continued.
"Well that's natural. You're a girl and you want to hang out with one of your own kind." Amara told her.
"But that's not the problem." Jubilee said.
"So what is the problem?" Amara asked.
"Well okay, you see, you and Bobby are my best friends. You have been ever sense I came to Xavier's. But now." She trailed off, running her hand through her hair.
"But now I don't know. Its like I feel different when I'm around Bobby then I do with you." Jubilee said, trying to explain how she felt.
"Is that it!?" Amara asked, a little surprised.
"Uh.yeah." Jubilee said, confused at her friend's remark.
Amara started laughing, not giggling or snickering, she was out and out laughing.
"What?" Jubilee asked, a little annoyed at how she was taking it.
"That's it? I thought you were turning manic depressive or suicidal from all the Anti-mutant stuff going around. Something serious. Not." Amara couldn't finish her sentence. She was laughing to hard.
"Well I'm glad to see someone is getting a good laugh out of my predicament." Jubilee said, scowling at her friend.
Amara stopped laughing and looked up at her.
"What's the problem?" Amara asked.
Jubilee rolled her eyes. "I thought we've been through this already. The problem is that I think.I think I might have feelings for Bobby." Jubilee said, getting closer to the other girl so she wouldn't have to scream it over the music.
"Well duh!" Amara remarked bluntly.
"What do you mean Well duh! ?" Jubilee asked her friend, getting annoyed at her.
"I mean that your so called problem isn't as bad as it seems, and your making it out to be like the end of the world. I mean everybody knows about you and Bobby liking each other." Amara said.
"WHAT!? How does everyone know I like Bobby? They can't know!" She exclaimed.
"And yet they do." Amara said, trying to keep the smirk off her face and be a good friend.
"But they can't know. I didn't even know until just now!" Jubilee exclaimed.
"Your kidding me right?" Tabby asked, walking over to the table.
"You and Drake still haven't hooked up yet? What're you waiting for?" Tabby asked, gulping down her soda.
"You know too? Does anyone not know I like Bobby?" Jubilee asked, burying her head in her crossed arms on the table.
"Maybe Evan but that's only because he pays more attention to his skateboarding then life itself." Tabby answered.
"It was a rhetorical question." Jubilee said, grumpily.
Suddenly her head jerked up from her arms, causing her hair to flip back behind her.
"Did you say Bobby liked me too!?" She asked, just now hearing that bit of the conversation.
"Well duh!" Amara and Tabby said in unison.
Jubilee's eyes widened.
"Wow, you really didn't know did you? Man you guys are dense and niave for your age." Tabby said, going back onto the dance floor after replenishing herself with a soda.
"So besides Evan, who doesn't know that Bobby and I like each other?" Jubilee asked Amara, who was trying even harder now not to laugh, seeing the smile that was tugging at Jubilee's face that came when she heard that her crush liked her.
"Well." Amara thought about it for a moment. Even Logan knew that they liked each other.
"Oh I know. There were two people who didn't know about you and Bobby liking each other." Amara stated.
"Who?" Jubilee asked.
"You and Bobby."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"So like I take it seeing how there aren't any Sentinels in sight that the robot those creeps were talking about was you?" She guessed.
The boy nodded. "American teenagers will assume anything now a days. Too much of that HBO." Piotr said.
Kitty giggled, but her laugh turned into a wince when he set her down and she leaned on her own two feet. Her ankle was hurting like hell and she had just now noticed it. It was like there were a million tiny daggers stabbing into her ankle all at once whenever she put pressure on it.
She grabbed onto his arm when she felt the pain for the first time and he looked down at her to see what was going on.
"What is it?" he asked, looking her over. She had scratches, cuts and bruises of all shapes and sizes on her body but she looked like she was holding up pretty well.
"Its nothing. Its just that I think I might have accidentally twisted my ankle when I almost fell out of the tree." She said, trying to find a way she could let go of him without feeling pain beyond belief.
"Is it bad?" he asked, concern filling his voice.
"No, its nothing to worry about really. Its probably not even twisted. I probably just wasn't expecting the pain to come the first time I put my foot down so naturally it hurt a lot. I'm sure its better now." She assured him.
"You're sure?" He questioned.
"Totally." She confirmed..
She was not fine, and she certainly wasn't totally fine. So why did she tell him she was? Probably because he'd saved her life more then once in the past week and she really didn't want him thinking she was some Lois Lane type who got stuck in dangerous situations just waiting for Superman to save her.
Kitty wasn't like that at all. She'd been training and working on her self defense with the X-men and she didn't want him thinking that she was week and defenseless or anything, Wait! sense when did she care what they enemy thought of her?
'Since the enemy became very hot and had a tendency to rescue me daily.'
Kitty kicked herself for thinking that while he was there. He could have been a telapath too as far as she knew.
"Alright." He said, letting go of her so she could lean on her own two feet.
She let out a 'Yipe!' and fell to the ground, but he caught her before she hit the pavement.
"Totally fine huh?" He questioned her skeptically.
"Well.okay so maybe not totally fine." She admitted.
"Come on, I will take you home. Your Proffessor is no doubt worried about where you are." He said, getting ready to lift her up again.
"Wait! Um.can't you just like call somebody down here to get me or something? Like one of my teammates?" She asked.
A look of hurt crossed his face but it disappeared just as quickly. Kitty saw it though.
"N-not that I'm not grateful or anything because I like totally am. Its just.I don't usually have strangers who happen to be my guardian's enemy carrying me home. Plus if you get anywhere near the Institute Logan will probably like come out and spaz or something." She explained, trying to make him understand.
His face softened a bit and she knew he'd gotten the point.
"I understand." He said.
She had called him her guardian's enemy. Not hers.
"There she is! I told you the robot was one of them!"
Kitty and Piotr turned to see who had come. There stood the boy from before with his friends and another group of older looking men.
"On second thought, I don't think it would be too weird having you carry me.like soon." Kitty said, seeing them come closer.
"You're really popular with the people around here aren't you?" Piotr asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, I'm a regular Miss popularity." She told him sarcastically as well before he picked her up and headed down the path.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Hey guys, ready to go?" Chloe asked the two girls sitting at the table.
"We're ready. Tabby on the other hand might put up a fight." Jubilee said, pointing to the blonde who was still dancing the night away with a group of boys.
Chloe rolled her eyes and sighed. "Come on, let's go get her then." She said.
The other two girls stood up and walked over to Tabbitha.
"Time to leave Tabbitha." Amara told the girl.
"Oh are you kidding me? I'm just getting warmed up over here." She shouted over the music.
"You've been getting warmed up for the past three and a half hours. If we don't leave now we're gonna miss curfew." Jubilee told her.
Tabby didn't hear her though. She'd gone back to dancing.
The others looked at each other and nodded.
They each took Tabby by the arm and pulled her off the dance floor.
"Oh alright." She said, annoyed that her fun was over.
"Don't go all Summers on me." She mumbled grumpily.
"If we don't leave in the next thirty seconds we are so gonna be late." Jubilee told the others.
"And then we are so gonna be grounded." Chloe added, walking out of the building and getting into Conner's car.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Rogue pulled away from Remy's embrace after about a minute of taking in his loving warmth.
"Aw chere, Why yo' go an' do dat?" He asked in mock pout.
"Ah'll be right back Swamp Rat. Just gotta go do somethin. Don't move." She said, grabbing her backpack and walking around the rock to the other side where he couldn't see her.
Remy looked in the spot that she'd just left from.
'Dat was random.' He thought to himself. Then he realized that she probably had some business to take care of and there wasn't a restroom for miles.
She came back about two minutes later. Remy was sitting down on a blanket that he'd taken from his bike when he brought her and laid out on the grass.
"Okay, now Ah feel betta." She said, letting him know she was there again.
"Dats Bon chere, but ya didn' really need ta tell Remy dat ya." Remy trailed off as he looked up and saw her. His eyebrow raised when he saw that she was now wearing casual looking clothes and her hair was only pulled up into a simple tress, her white bangs framing her face still.
"What happened?" He asked, confused.
"Ah went ta thah otha side of the rocks so Ah could change inta somethin more comfortable." She explained. "That's why Ah said that Ah felt much better. Ah always feel more at ease with clothes Ah like wearin then clothes Ah don't." She explained.
"Oh." Remy answered, putting the pieces together so that they would make sense to him.
It didn't matter what she was wearing. She'd manage to pull off looking hot in sweats so tight fitting jeans were just fine with him.
"Wait a minute!" He exclaimed.
"What?" She asked.
"Y' mean ta tell Remy dat y' were ova dere changin' dis whole time?" He asked.
"Yeah." She answered.
"An' ya didn' even tell Remy? He coulda been watchin!" Remy exclaimed, making himself sound like he was shocked at his bad luck.
Rogue just rolled her eyes and walked over to the thick sheet on the ground, looking back and forth from Remy to the blanket a few times.
"Take a seat petite." He said, patting on the space next to him on the blanket.
"Ya know, the view is much better from up here." She told him, leanining against a tree.
He smiled at how nervous and timid she looked. This wasn't something Rogue let show a lot. In fact it almost never happened.
"It ain' gonna bite petite." He said, laughing.
"Ah know that!" She shot back with a small scowl on her face. "Ah jus' don't feel like sittin down that's all." She said unconvincingly.
"Right. Suit yo'self petite." He said, leaning back and stretching out on the blanket with his hands behind his head.
"But yo' missin an amazin' view." He added, grinning up at her.
"Ah can see just fine from here swamp rat." She assured him.
He was up to something. She knew he was. She just didn't know what it was yet. Had she been to up front? She hadn't even expected to tell him that stuff. It was all true and she meant every word but should she have told him? She didn't want to move fast. Slow was good, but that's not how she'd sounded before.
"Non ya can't. Y' gotta be right ova where Remy be ta see it." He told her, looking ahead.
She sighed and gave in to her curiosity.
"Alright, but there had better be somethin there." She told him, walking over to the blanket.
Remy smiled more at her.
She stood right in front of him and looked ahead to wear he was staring off before.
"Ah still don't see anything. What's this amazin' view ya'll were braggin about?" She asked.
Remy smirked at her mistcheviously.
"What?" She asked, a little annoyed that she didn't know what was going on in that head of his. Though something told her she probably wouldn't have wanted to know anyways.
Without saying a word, Remy swept his left leg under her, causing her to fall forward onto him.
"What the hell was that for?" She asked. She'd landed on him with her body facing front and she caught herself with her hands on his chest. His smile had widened much more then a few seconds ago. She was blushing furiously and she tried to pull herself up but Remy hand encircled his arms around her waist and wasn't about to let her get up.
"Y' know dat makeup y' got on shows y' blush more den de stuff ya usually do. Remy likes it." He said, not answering her question.
"Well then maybe you and Kitty can have a slumber party and trade hair and makeup tips one night." She said sarcastically.
"Remy be dere if you be dere chere." He said, winking at her.
Rogue rolled her eyes. She had walked right into that one.
"So where's this amazin' sight ya told me about?" Rogue asked skeptically.
"Remy be starin right at her chere." He said in a husky voice, staring at her.
Rogue blushed even more this time and sighed.
"Yer really corny, ya know that Swamp Rat?" She asked, trying to make it sound like a come back.
"Oui, but as far as Remy can tell, it be a good ting when it comes ta de femmes." He said, smiling.
Rogue had the scarf that was previously around her waist, tied around her wrist like a bracelet only with a veil.
She relaxed her tense body a little and rolled over on him, laying down on the blanket as well.
"Wow!" She said, looking up at the stars.
"Its so beautiful." She gasped. The stars were all showing tonight because there were no clouds.
"It sure is petite." He said, turning his head to look at her.
After a few minutes she'd gotten into a sitting possition as she and Remy talked for a while about the things they both missed about the South.
She yawned and her eye lids got heavy all of a sudden. She leaned back and rested her head on Remy's chest, the movement of his chest rising up and down as he was breathing was making her head move as well, but not noticibly to her.
She closed her eyes and took in the warmth of his body around her and the spicy cologne smell he'd always carry.
"This is nice." She said quietly and contently. Her eyes were still closed lightly.
"Oui. Remy's toughts exactly." He told her, kissing the top of her head.
"Too bad its gotta end though." She said softly.
"Oui, dat be a shame." He agreed.
"Hey what time is it anyways?" She asked, opening her eyes and cocking her head to look up at him. He was now leaning against the tree in a sitting position but she was still leaning against his chest.
Remy stretched his arms in front of him and focused on the watch on his wrist.
"It be 'bout eleven thirty." He told her, putting his arms back down around her covered waist.
"Oh. Okay." She said tiredly.
About three seconds later they both jerked up and looked at each other with wide eyes.
"ELEVEN THIRTY!?" She shouted in disbelief.
"Oui. We'd betta get goin now, non?" He said, picking up the blanket and shaking it out.
"Yeah. Aw hell, there's no way we're gonna make it in time." She said, frustrated with their current dilemma.
"Sure we can. Dat is if de belle femme don't got a problem wit Remy speedin' an' doin dose tricks o' his on his bike." He said with a grin.
Rogue scowled at him. She really could have done without getting in a motercycle accident tonight but comparing it to Logan's curfew braking punishments it was probably less painful.
"Fine, whateva. Let's just get the hell outta here and get home." She said, jumping onto the back of the bike.
"Hold on den petite. Dis bike's gonna fly." He said, starting up the motor and driving down the beaten road at full speed.
"Ah'm gonna die. There's no doubt in mah mind that Ah'm not gonna live past this." Rogue said to no one in particular.
"Have a lil mo' faith in dis ol' Swamp Rat chere. He's got ya dis far hasn' he?" Remy asked, smiling as she held onto his waist tighter.
"Yeah, yeah. Just shut up and drive. She told him, scowling at the back of his head.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Okees people. That was the end of Part two of this chapter. There are three parts in total and the third chapter is way shorter then the others.at least it was planned on being shorter. I didn't expect the other two parts to be this long though so we'll see.
How'd you like Part two? Enough Romyness for ya? Hopefully you did because this was the big 'first date' chapter and I wanted everybody to like it.
Tell me what you thought of this part okay? I don't want to review until I have at least five reviews but I know what's going to happen basically.
I just want to know how you guys liked it and all. Especially the Chloe/Conner bit. Was it too much? Is it too little? I don't need any ideas for the last part of the chapter but I definitely would like to know how you liked it.
I mean come on people! Nineteen pages of only a part of the chapter. I think I deserve a few reviews.
So.yeah. Review now plz! Later days!
-AngieX