CHAPTER 19 (Pt. 3)
Love is in the Air
"NO NO NO NO NO!" Chloe said, banging her fist on the car.
"I cannot believe the car broke down." She said in annoyance.
"Mr. Logan is totally gonna freak on us if we're a minute late for curfew." Jubilee said.
"I'm doing the best I can girls." Conner said from under the hood.
"The problem should be fixed in a few minutes." He told them.
"Great. Only we have exactly two minutes to get back to the institute and it takes five minutes to get from here to there with a fixed car let alone a broken down one." Amara stated.
"Uh..guys." Jubilee piped up.
"You don't think he'll get that mad at us do you?" Chloe asked Amara.
"Guys?" Jubilee repeated.
"No. He just wont ever let us go out past curfew again." Amara answered.
"Great. Just great. And there isn't a payphone in sight for us to call from and tell him we're gonna be late." Chloe said.
"Guys!" Jubilee echoed a little louder.
"You know we could always telepathically get Xavier and tell him we're running late.' Amara suggested.
"Guys!" Jubilee said even louder.
"But he left for that conference with his old college friends tonight didn't he?" Chloe asked.
"Guys." Jubilee tried again.
"Yeah so we'll just have to walk home the rest of the mile and a half and take the wrath of Wolverine." Amara answered.
"GUYS!" Jubilee shouted.
"What?" The other two said in unison with an annoyed and stressed out tone.
"I have my cell phone. Why can't I just call Logan at the institute and tell him what's going on?" Jubilee suggested.
The other girls looked at each other.
"Why didn't you say so before?" Amara asked.
Jubilee rolled her eyes in exasperation.
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"Ten minutes and we're not in Bayville yet." Rogue yelled over the roar.
"Don' worry petite. We gon' make it. Jus' hold on ta Gambit." He yelled back.
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"They've got two minutes. They'll never make it." Evan said as he and the other boys watched the door that Logan was sitting near.
"Hey, Rogue knows what curfew means and she's not about to brake it because Gambit took her out for a ride." Scott said.
"Vhat ever you say Scott." Kurt said, thinking that Evan was closer to the truth then Scott.
"One minute." Bobby said, pointing at the watch on his wrist.
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"Where are we? This isn't the rode leading to the gates." Rogue said, looking around at her surroundings.
"Oui, dat because it aint. We be near de woods in de back o' Xavier's property." He answered simply.
"Remy we've only got a minute before Logan sends a search party out for us." She told him.
"Hold dat tought chere." He said, cranking up the speed on the bike.
"AHHHHHHH!" She screamed as they tore through the sky on the bike, just making it over the fence and skidding to a halt in the yard.
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"That's it. Its midnight and they're no here." Bobby announced.
Jean came into the room with a knowing smile on her face.
"What?" Bobby asked at her expression.
"Nothing." She answered with a sly smile.
"What?" Kurt asked.
"Yeah. What do you know that we don't?" Evan asked.
"They're gonna be in trouble when they get home right Mr. Logan?" Jamie asked, yawning.
"Yeah kid. As soon as they get in the door." Logan growled, staring at the doorknob.
"So why are you smiling?" Scott asked Jean.
"Come on Jamie, why don't we leave the over protective little boys and get you to bed?" Jean said, leading the younger mutant up the stairs.
It was now past midnight and he was used to going to bed earlier then that.
"Hey, she didn't answer ze question." Kurt complained.
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"Remy are you insane? The longer we're out past curfew the worse the danger room session is going to be!" She exclaimed when he turned off his bike.
"Remy knows dat mon chere, but he also knows dat we not be brakin any rules. De Wolverine said dat we gotta be back at de institute by midnight an' last time Remy checked, dese woods was part o' de institute." He said with a sly smile.
"Oh Ah get it. Found a loophole." She mused.
"Oui. Now come on. Remy wan's ta walk aroun' b'fo' we get non privacy an' de date be ova." He said, taking her hand and pulling her toward the house.
She smiled and unconsciously put her head on his shoulder as they walked with hands intertwined.
Remy had telepathically told Jean that they were safe and at home and that they would be outside on the grounds for a while so someone in the house knew that they were in fact home.
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"Hello? Sam? Put Mr. Logan on the phone." Jubilee said into the cell phone.
"Mr. Logan? Hi its Jubilee." Jubilee stopped talking and held the phone away from her ear, wincing as the man yelled into the phone.
"Yeah I know I know. I know it's a little past curfew but." She was interrupted by his yelling again.
"Okay so it's a lot past curfew but we have a reason." She told him.
"The reason? Oh its um.its because we were in the car and the car broke down and then Amara and Chloe started arguing about how much you were gonna punish us because we were late and we." Jubilee was stopped when Amara yanked the cell phone out of the other girl's hand.
"Mr. Logan? Hi it's Amara. Yeah what happened was our car broke down a few miles away from the institute or something and we couldn't get in touch with you until now." Amara explained.
".Oh no its okay. You don't have to pick us up. Conner just fixed what was wrong with the car and we're on our way home now." She explained.
"Okay Mr. Logan. We'll be home in about fifteen minutes tops. Bye Mr. Logan. See you soon." Amara said, hanging up the phone and putting it in her purse.
"I could have done that." Jubilee said.
"Sure you could have. Let's just get home before we get into anymore trouble." Chloe said, getting into the car.
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"So chere, how'd ya like de date?" Remy asked, stopping and sitting on a bench in one of Orroro's many gardens and she sat down with him.
"Ah have ta say Swamp rat, It wasn't too horrible." She said, smirking up at him and gazing into his red on black eyes.
Remy smirked at her at how she was playing hard to get.
"Oui, Remy was tinkin de same ting." He said, slipping an arm around her shoulder.
Rogue hadn't noticed in and continued to look up into the star filled sky.
"Look chere." Remy said, tugging at her sleeve and pointing over toward a part of the sky she hadn't been gazing up at.
Rogue turned her head and found herself staring at a shooting star.
"Wow." She breathed, taking in the wonder of the rare sighting.
"Make a wish petite." He whispered into her ear.
"She smiled and couldn't help but feel a little immature as she closed her eyes and made her wish.
'Ah wish Ah could touch. Even if only for a second.' She thought to herself.
"Done. Yer turn." She said.
"Okay lemme tink." Remy said, putting his hand to his chin thoughtfully.
Rogue laughed at his antics.
"Just wish fer something already Swamp Rat." She said.
"Alright Remy made de wish." He said as the star passed by them.
"So what'd ya wish fo' petite?" He asked innocently.
A look of sadness crossed Rogue's face and Remy inwardly slapped himself for bringing up the obvious subject of touch. Of course that was what she'd wish for.
Rogue quickly turned her hurt features into a sly smirk and Remy turned to her in a little confusion.
"If Ah told ya that then it wouldn't come true Cajun." She teased.
Remy laughed and pulled her closer to him. She had just shook off the hurt and changed the bad situation into a humorous one.
"What about you Cajun? You gonna tell meh what ya wished for?" She asked, not pulling away from him, but getting more comfortable in his warm embrace.
"Oui chere. Remy wished dat at de end o' dis night." He paused and looked down at her innocent face.
".Dat b'fo' de end o' dis night Remy gets a kiss from his chere." He said, grinning down at her.
She paled for a second, not expecting for him to say that, and then she did something that neither Gambit or herself were expecting her to do.
She tugged lightly at the thin scarf around her belt loop and leaned into him with the cloth, placing it over his mouth. She pressed her lips onto his through the material and closed her eyes.
She sighed and stood up afterwards, waiting for him to follow in suit. He did so and stared down at her with curiosity and absolute shock at first.
"Not dat Remy be complainin or nuttin but.where'd dat come from?" He asked, referring to her random bold act of kissing him.
She looked up and into his enchanting red on black eyes before speaking. Their faces were inches apart.
"Because." She said in a quiet voice almost like a whisper.
"Ah figured that at least one of our wishes should come true." She said, giving him a small smile before walking back to the house and leaving him standing there dumbly.
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"Rogue zere you are!" Kurt yelled as she walked in through the side door.
"Yer late kid." Logan growled. "Where's the Cajun?" He asked in a low voice.
"First of all, Kurt, Ah'm glad ta see ya to but if ya don't let go of meh ya gonna end up in a coma." She said as he reluctantly released his tight gripping hug on her.
"Secondly, Ah aint late Logan. And third, the Cajun's outside in the yard, probably putting away his bike." She said, on her way to walk out of the room.
Logan stopped her by putting an arm in front of the door.
"Look kid, I'm glad you're starting to have a little fun and act like a teenager should act but rules are rules. You're forty-five minutes past curfew and now you've got consequences." Logan said gruffly as the others stared at the two in shock.
Rogue was standing up to Logan. Rogue was talking back to Logan. Rogue was telling Logan he was wrong. Rogue was gonna die and they weren't gonna be there when it happened incase they got caught in the crossfire.
The boys were going to leave but Logan and Rogue were blocking their only way out of the room so they all just staid put and watched the scene before them unfold.
"But Logan." Rogue tried to explain.
"No Buts Stripes. Now I don't want to hear another word from you. Is that clear?" Logan asked a little bit louder then he'd meant to.
"Crystal." She said, glaring with a clearly pissed off look on her face as she turned on her heal and strode past the other boys with her head up. She walked out the door and slammed the door loudly.
The boys all winced at the loud slamming of the door and turned to Logan. Wolverine was about to say something when Remy walked into the room casually.
They all stared at him with quizzical looks on their faces that soon turned to glares and scowls.
"You got Rogue in trouble." Kurt yelled.
"Remy stopped in mid-strode and his eyes widened.
"What!? Whoa dere Crawla. All Remy did wit de fille was kiss her. We didn' do nutitn more. Specially not.How could we even?.we'd neva. We couldn't even if we wanted to." Remy stammered as Logan's growl got lower and fiercer.
"You kissed her!?" Evan asked in shock.
Remy stopped stammering and realized he'd let out a little too much information then needed.
"Did Remy say dat? What he meant was.hold on dere home. Remy didn' get Rogue in trouble. Deres no way Remy'd get her knocked up." He exclaimed.
"Gambit shut up. That's not what he meant when he" Scott hissed, nearing the red on black-eyed mutant.
"Oh." Remy said, a sigh of pure relief escaping from him.
"So what did ya mean den?" He asked.
"He means that Rogue and you both got in trouble for being out past curfew." Logan explained.
"What? But why? Remy an' de chere didn' break any rules o' stay out too late." Remy told him.
"You were out late past curfew." Logan said.
"Non mon ami. Remy tinks not." The Cajun argued.
"Ooh bad choice man." Evan said.
"Two students challenging Wolverine on the same night? They must have some kind of death wish or something." Bobby remarked.
"Logan? There you are. Why is Rogue so upset with you?" Storm asked, walking into the room after Logan removed his arm.
"Because she's mad that I punished her and the Cajun for breaking curfew." He growled.
"They didn't break curfew. Remy told Jean telepathically that they were safely at home before twelve and to tell you or I so one of the adults knew. They were just staying outside away from the other kids." Orroro explained.
Logan's face got a little paler for a minute.
"I wonder why Rogue didn't tell you." Storm mused before walking back up the stairs.
"Yeah. I wonder why." Bobby said sarcastically under his breath.
"Probably because somebody wouldn't let her get a word in edge wise." Evan answered in the same quiet voice.
"Do the words 'Super Hearing' ring a bell?" Logan asked in a growl.
Bobby was actually about to say something when he was interrupted by Logan.
"Not a word." Logan growled, not wanting to be lectured. "Not one freaking word."
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"Uhh.it's starting to rain harder." Kitty commented.
"Yes. We should probably get to shelter before it starts to get too hard." Colossus said.
"But where can we go?" The Valley girl asked in a worried tone.
"That abandoned warehouse over there. We can hold up there until the rain subsides." Piotr said.
He opened the door to the building, it was practically falling off the latch.
The whole building was filled with empty crates, boxes, and broken down manufacturing machinery.
"Its very..quaint." Kitty commented as he set her down on one of the crates.
"Yes. I'm sure." Piotr commented as the rain began to pour even louder. It was now to the point where they could barely hear themselves talking over the pounding rain.
"But it will have to do for now." He said as lightening struck somewhere near the building and thunder rumbled louder then ever before during the storm.
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"Finally, we're home. I thought we'd never get here." Jubilee exclaimed, taking off her seatbelt and rushing up the steps of the mansion with Amara and Tabby at her heals.
"I'll be up in a few minutes okay." Chloe called to them.
"Okay." They called back, swinging open the front doors and going inside.
"So." Chloe said, as they sat alone in the car, trying to break the awkward silence.
"So." Conner echoed.
"I had fun tonight." She told him.
"I'm glad. You certainly looked like you were having a good time." He replied.
She laughed. "Yeah, I think I may have danced too much. I'm gonna be really soar tomorrow." She told him.
"But it was worth it right?" He asked, putting an arm around her and pulling her into his arms.
"Right." She confirmed, nestling her head into his chest.
After about a minute they were making out in the front seat of his car.
"Conner." Chloe said, pulling away from the kiss.
"Yeah?" He asked, looking down at her.
"There's something you should know." She told him.
"Oh?"
"Yeah.well you see.my older brother.he's a little.how could I put this lightly? .over protective." She explained.
"Well that's understanding. I mean you're his little sister. I'd be a little paranoid if I saw my kid sister making out with some guy in a car too." He said.
"Your little sister is five." Chloe said with a little irritation in her voice. "Its hardly the same."
"Yeah okay, but if she was your age I don't think I'd be letting her out of the house knowing she was going out with a guy two years older then her." He said, rubbing her arm soothingly.
"Yeah I guess. I just wanted to warn you, ya know. Prepare you for the worst." She told him.
He laughed and kissed her on the top of her head.
"Chloe I've only known you for a few weeks and its like my life revolves around you, weather you or I like it or not." He told her.
"That's so sweet." She said, resting her head on his chest again.
"So are you." He remarked, pulling her into a long kiss once more.
After another minute."Conner wait." She said, pulling away for the second time.
"There's something else I need to tell you." She said, a little anticipation and anxiety in her voice, which he picked up and stopped kissing her.
"I'm listening." He said.
"Well.okay this is really hard for me to say and I don't know how I'm going to because I really like you and I think you really like me too but I don't think you know what your getting yourself into and you don't know who I am. I mean you know who I am but not what.or.erm.."
"Chloe!" He exclaimed, putting a finger to her lips.
"Try again.only this time less babbling and try not to forget to take breaths when you talk." He said with a grin.
She took a deep breath and calmed herself, preparing for what she was about to say.
"I don't really know how to say this.so I'm going to ask you a question." She explained.
Conner nodded and waited for the question.
"Conner." She paused with a deep sigh. "How do you feel about mutants?"
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DUN DUN DUN!!!!
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This is it for chapter nineteen.
Wow! I didn't expect for it to have three parts to it.
Tell me how you liked it.
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Love is in the Air
"NO NO NO NO NO!" Chloe said, banging her fist on the car.
"I cannot believe the car broke down." She said in annoyance.
"Mr. Logan is totally gonna freak on us if we're a minute late for curfew." Jubilee said.
"I'm doing the best I can girls." Conner said from under the hood.
"The problem should be fixed in a few minutes." He told them.
"Great. Only we have exactly two minutes to get back to the institute and it takes five minutes to get from here to there with a fixed car let alone a broken down one." Amara stated.
"Uh..guys." Jubilee piped up.
"You don't think he'll get that mad at us do you?" Chloe asked Amara.
"Guys?" Jubilee repeated.
"No. He just wont ever let us go out past curfew again." Amara answered.
"Great. Just great. And there isn't a payphone in sight for us to call from and tell him we're gonna be late." Chloe said.
"Guys!" Jubilee echoed a little louder.
"You know we could always telepathically get Xavier and tell him we're running late.' Amara suggested.
"Guys!" Jubilee said even louder.
"But he left for that conference with his old college friends tonight didn't he?" Chloe asked.
"Guys." Jubilee tried again.
"Yeah so we'll just have to walk home the rest of the mile and a half and take the wrath of Wolverine." Amara answered.
"GUYS!" Jubilee shouted.
"What?" The other two said in unison with an annoyed and stressed out tone.
"I have my cell phone. Why can't I just call Logan at the institute and tell him what's going on?" Jubilee suggested.
The other girls looked at each other.
"Why didn't you say so before?" Amara asked.
Jubilee rolled her eyes in exasperation.
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"Ten minutes and we're not in Bayville yet." Rogue yelled over the roar.
"Don' worry petite. We gon' make it. Jus' hold on ta Gambit." He yelled back.
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"They've got two minutes. They'll never make it." Evan said as he and the other boys watched the door that Logan was sitting near.
"Hey, Rogue knows what curfew means and she's not about to brake it because Gambit took her out for a ride." Scott said.
"Vhat ever you say Scott." Kurt said, thinking that Evan was closer to the truth then Scott.
"One minute." Bobby said, pointing at the watch on his wrist.
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"Where are we? This isn't the rode leading to the gates." Rogue said, looking around at her surroundings.
"Oui, dat because it aint. We be near de woods in de back o' Xavier's property." He answered simply.
"Remy we've only got a minute before Logan sends a search party out for us." She told him.
"Hold dat tought chere." He said, cranking up the speed on the bike.
"AHHHHHHH!" She screamed as they tore through the sky on the bike, just making it over the fence and skidding to a halt in the yard.
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"That's it. Its midnight and they're no here." Bobby announced.
Jean came into the room with a knowing smile on her face.
"What?" Bobby asked at her expression.
"Nothing." She answered with a sly smile.
"What?" Kurt asked.
"Yeah. What do you know that we don't?" Evan asked.
"They're gonna be in trouble when they get home right Mr. Logan?" Jamie asked, yawning.
"Yeah kid. As soon as they get in the door." Logan growled, staring at the doorknob.
"So why are you smiling?" Scott asked Jean.
"Come on Jamie, why don't we leave the over protective little boys and get you to bed?" Jean said, leading the younger mutant up the stairs.
It was now past midnight and he was used to going to bed earlier then that.
"Hey, she didn't answer ze question." Kurt complained.
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"Remy are you insane? The longer we're out past curfew the worse the danger room session is going to be!" She exclaimed when he turned off his bike.
"Remy knows dat mon chere, but he also knows dat we not be brakin any rules. De Wolverine said dat we gotta be back at de institute by midnight an' last time Remy checked, dese woods was part o' de institute." He said with a sly smile.
"Oh Ah get it. Found a loophole." She mused.
"Oui. Now come on. Remy wan's ta walk aroun' b'fo' we get non privacy an' de date be ova." He said, taking her hand and pulling her toward the house.
She smiled and unconsciously put her head on his shoulder as they walked with hands intertwined.
Remy had telepathically told Jean that they were safe and at home and that they would be outside on the grounds for a while so someone in the house knew that they were in fact home.
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"Hello? Sam? Put Mr. Logan on the phone." Jubilee said into the cell phone.
"Mr. Logan? Hi its Jubilee." Jubilee stopped talking and held the phone away from her ear, wincing as the man yelled into the phone.
"Yeah I know I know. I know it's a little past curfew but." She was interrupted by his yelling again.
"Okay so it's a lot past curfew but we have a reason." She told him.
"The reason? Oh its um.its because we were in the car and the car broke down and then Amara and Chloe started arguing about how much you were gonna punish us because we were late and we." Jubilee was stopped when Amara yanked the cell phone out of the other girl's hand.
"Mr. Logan? Hi it's Amara. Yeah what happened was our car broke down a few miles away from the institute or something and we couldn't get in touch with you until now." Amara explained.
".Oh no its okay. You don't have to pick us up. Conner just fixed what was wrong with the car and we're on our way home now." She explained.
"Okay Mr. Logan. We'll be home in about fifteen minutes tops. Bye Mr. Logan. See you soon." Amara said, hanging up the phone and putting it in her purse.
"I could have done that." Jubilee said.
"Sure you could have. Let's just get home before we get into anymore trouble." Chloe said, getting into the car.
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"So chere, how'd ya like de date?" Remy asked, stopping and sitting on a bench in one of Orroro's many gardens and she sat down with him.
"Ah have ta say Swamp rat, It wasn't too horrible." She said, smirking up at him and gazing into his red on black eyes.
Remy smirked at her at how she was playing hard to get.
"Oui, Remy was tinkin de same ting." He said, slipping an arm around her shoulder.
Rogue hadn't noticed in and continued to look up into the star filled sky.
"Look chere." Remy said, tugging at her sleeve and pointing over toward a part of the sky she hadn't been gazing up at.
Rogue turned her head and found herself staring at a shooting star.
"Wow." She breathed, taking in the wonder of the rare sighting.
"Make a wish petite." He whispered into her ear.
"She smiled and couldn't help but feel a little immature as she closed her eyes and made her wish.
'Ah wish Ah could touch. Even if only for a second.' She thought to herself.
"Done. Yer turn." She said.
"Okay lemme tink." Remy said, putting his hand to his chin thoughtfully.
Rogue laughed at his antics.
"Just wish fer something already Swamp Rat." She said.
"Alright Remy made de wish." He said as the star passed by them.
"So what'd ya wish fo' petite?" He asked innocently.
A look of sadness crossed Rogue's face and Remy inwardly slapped himself for bringing up the obvious subject of touch. Of course that was what she'd wish for.
Rogue quickly turned her hurt features into a sly smirk and Remy turned to her in a little confusion.
"If Ah told ya that then it wouldn't come true Cajun." She teased.
Remy laughed and pulled her closer to him. She had just shook off the hurt and changed the bad situation into a humorous one.
"What about you Cajun? You gonna tell meh what ya wished for?" She asked, not pulling away from him, but getting more comfortable in his warm embrace.
"Oui chere. Remy wished dat at de end o' dis night." He paused and looked down at her innocent face.
".Dat b'fo' de end o' dis night Remy gets a kiss from his chere." He said, grinning down at her.
She paled for a second, not expecting for him to say that, and then she did something that neither Gambit or herself were expecting her to do.
She tugged lightly at the thin scarf around her belt loop and leaned into him with the cloth, placing it over his mouth. She pressed her lips onto his through the material and closed her eyes.
She sighed and stood up afterwards, waiting for him to follow in suit. He did so and stared down at her with curiosity and absolute shock at first.
"Not dat Remy be complainin or nuttin but.where'd dat come from?" He asked, referring to her random bold act of kissing him.
She looked up and into his enchanting red on black eyes before speaking. Their faces were inches apart.
"Because." She said in a quiet voice almost like a whisper.
"Ah figured that at least one of our wishes should come true." She said, giving him a small smile before walking back to the house and leaving him standing there dumbly.
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"Rogue zere you are!" Kurt yelled as she walked in through the side door.
"Yer late kid." Logan growled. "Where's the Cajun?" He asked in a low voice.
"First of all, Kurt, Ah'm glad ta see ya to but if ya don't let go of meh ya gonna end up in a coma." She said as he reluctantly released his tight gripping hug on her.
"Secondly, Ah aint late Logan. And third, the Cajun's outside in the yard, probably putting away his bike." She said, on her way to walk out of the room.
Logan stopped her by putting an arm in front of the door.
"Look kid, I'm glad you're starting to have a little fun and act like a teenager should act but rules are rules. You're forty-five minutes past curfew and now you've got consequences." Logan said gruffly as the others stared at the two in shock.
Rogue was standing up to Logan. Rogue was talking back to Logan. Rogue was telling Logan he was wrong. Rogue was gonna die and they weren't gonna be there when it happened incase they got caught in the crossfire.
The boys were going to leave but Logan and Rogue were blocking their only way out of the room so they all just staid put and watched the scene before them unfold.
"But Logan." Rogue tried to explain.
"No Buts Stripes. Now I don't want to hear another word from you. Is that clear?" Logan asked a little bit louder then he'd meant to.
"Crystal." She said, glaring with a clearly pissed off look on her face as she turned on her heal and strode past the other boys with her head up. She walked out the door and slammed the door loudly.
The boys all winced at the loud slamming of the door and turned to Logan. Wolverine was about to say something when Remy walked into the room casually.
They all stared at him with quizzical looks on their faces that soon turned to glares and scowls.
"You got Rogue in trouble." Kurt yelled.
"Remy stopped in mid-strode and his eyes widened.
"What!? Whoa dere Crawla. All Remy did wit de fille was kiss her. We didn' do nutitn more. Specially not.How could we even?.we'd neva. We couldn't even if we wanted to." Remy stammered as Logan's growl got lower and fiercer.
"You kissed her!?" Evan asked in shock.
Remy stopped stammering and realized he'd let out a little too much information then needed.
"Did Remy say dat? What he meant was.hold on dere home. Remy didn' get Rogue in trouble. Deres no way Remy'd get her knocked up." He exclaimed.
"Gambit shut up. That's not what he meant when he" Scott hissed, nearing the red on black-eyed mutant.
"Oh." Remy said, a sigh of pure relief escaping from him.
"So what did ya mean den?" He asked.
"He means that Rogue and you both got in trouble for being out past curfew." Logan explained.
"What? But why? Remy an' de chere didn' break any rules o' stay out too late." Remy told him.
"You were out late past curfew." Logan said.
"Non mon ami. Remy tinks not." The Cajun argued.
"Ooh bad choice man." Evan said.
"Two students challenging Wolverine on the same night? They must have some kind of death wish or something." Bobby remarked.
"Logan? There you are. Why is Rogue so upset with you?" Storm asked, walking into the room after Logan removed his arm.
"Because she's mad that I punished her and the Cajun for breaking curfew." He growled.
"They didn't break curfew. Remy told Jean telepathically that they were safely at home before twelve and to tell you or I so one of the adults knew. They were just staying outside away from the other kids." Orroro explained.
Logan's face got a little paler for a minute.
"I wonder why Rogue didn't tell you." Storm mused before walking back up the stairs.
"Yeah. I wonder why." Bobby said sarcastically under his breath.
"Probably because somebody wouldn't let her get a word in edge wise." Evan answered in the same quiet voice.
"Do the words 'Super Hearing' ring a bell?" Logan asked in a growl.
Bobby was actually about to say something when he was interrupted by Logan.
"Not a word." Logan growled, not wanting to be lectured. "Not one freaking word."
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"Uhh.it's starting to rain harder." Kitty commented.
"Yes. We should probably get to shelter before it starts to get too hard." Colossus said.
"But where can we go?" The Valley girl asked in a worried tone.
"That abandoned warehouse over there. We can hold up there until the rain subsides." Piotr said.
He opened the door to the building, it was practically falling off the latch.
The whole building was filled with empty crates, boxes, and broken down manufacturing machinery.
"Its very..quaint." Kitty commented as he set her down on one of the crates.
"Yes. I'm sure." Piotr commented as the rain began to pour even louder. It was now to the point where they could barely hear themselves talking over the pounding rain.
"But it will have to do for now." He said as lightening struck somewhere near the building and thunder rumbled louder then ever before during the storm.
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"Finally, we're home. I thought we'd never get here." Jubilee exclaimed, taking off her seatbelt and rushing up the steps of the mansion with Amara and Tabby at her heals.
"I'll be up in a few minutes okay." Chloe called to them.
"Okay." They called back, swinging open the front doors and going inside.
"So." Chloe said, as they sat alone in the car, trying to break the awkward silence.
"So." Conner echoed.
"I had fun tonight." She told him.
"I'm glad. You certainly looked like you were having a good time." He replied.
She laughed. "Yeah, I think I may have danced too much. I'm gonna be really soar tomorrow." She told him.
"But it was worth it right?" He asked, putting an arm around her and pulling her into his arms.
"Right." She confirmed, nestling her head into his chest.
After about a minute they were making out in the front seat of his car.
"Conner." Chloe said, pulling away from the kiss.
"Yeah?" He asked, looking down at her.
"There's something you should know." She told him.
"Oh?"
"Yeah.well you see.my older brother.he's a little.how could I put this lightly? .over protective." She explained.
"Well that's understanding. I mean you're his little sister. I'd be a little paranoid if I saw my kid sister making out with some guy in a car too." He said.
"Your little sister is five." Chloe said with a little irritation in her voice. "Its hardly the same."
"Yeah okay, but if she was your age I don't think I'd be letting her out of the house knowing she was going out with a guy two years older then her." He said, rubbing her arm soothingly.
"Yeah I guess. I just wanted to warn you, ya know. Prepare you for the worst." She told him.
He laughed and kissed her on the top of her head.
"Chloe I've only known you for a few weeks and its like my life revolves around you, weather you or I like it or not." He told her.
"That's so sweet." She said, resting her head on his chest again.
"So are you." He remarked, pulling her into a long kiss once more.
After another minute."Conner wait." She said, pulling away for the second time.
"There's something else I need to tell you." She said, a little anticipation and anxiety in her voice, which he picked up and stopped kissing her.
"I'm listening." He said.
"Well.okay this is really hard for me to say and I don't know how I'm going to because I really like you and I think you really like me too but I don't think you know what your getting yourself into and you don't know who I am. I mean you know who I am but not what.or.erm.."
"Chloe!" He exclaimed, putting a finger to her lips.
"Try again.only this time less babbling and try not to forget to take breaths when you talk." He said with a grin.
She took a deep breath and calmed herself, preparing for what she was about to say.
"I don't really know how to say this.so I'm going to ask you a question." She explained.
Conner nodded and waited for the question.
"Conner." She paused with a deep sigh. "How do you feel about mutants?"
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DUN DUN DUN!!!!
Hehehe! I'm so evil. Cliffhangers are fun!
This is it for chapter nineteen.
Wow! I didn't expect for it to have three parts to it.
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Jus so you guys know, Conner is seventeen and Chloe is fifteen. I'm not sure if it already says it.
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