Disclaimer: Chapter 1 holds the secret… (I no, I'm lazy and don't change
this part). I don't own the song Be Like the Bluebird from Anything Goes or
It's 5:00 Somewhere by Alan Jackson.
A/N: Okay kiddies, in case you haven't figured it out, what I do when starting to type a new chapter is take the previous one, change the chapter number and name, and delete everything but the author's notes and disclaimer. Just telling you so you don't think I'm a complete idiot when you see how much I repeat myself in these two sections. Thank you all again for your replies!! E-mail with ideas and any other comments at jupitergurl02@hotmail.com are STILL appreciated! (I haven't had anyone respond to this yet… sobs)
Ta da! I told you I'd add you, Toni! What do you think? Read and Reply peeps! I MAY have an idea for a plot line, but I think it's been done too much. *Sigh* I'm so dumb. Oh well. I can keep going on ideas from Lisa and I for a little while anyway. As in like one more chapter, that is. lol. What ever happened to my threat of not writing any more if you people didn't help me? lol.
Chapter 21, Visit
"Toni, thank you so much for coming! This Elfish thing is muy[1] hard! Auta miqula orqu!" said Angela, bowing as she helped Toni inside. Toni blinked, looking at her funny. "What?" she asked.
"Well, what do you think you just said?" asked Toni.
"I thought it was 'Come inside and sit by the fire.' Granted, we don't have a fire, but..."
"This is going to take some work," said Toni, sitting down on the couch. Angela sat next to her. "Just don't try out your Elfish on anyone else for a little while, okay?
"Why? What's wrong? What did I say?" she asked.
"You told me to go kiss an Orc," said Toni. Angela blushed deeply. That was quite a bad insult.
"G-gomen ne..." she said sheepishly.
"Hey, I don't take Japanese, remember? It's either Elfish or French.
"Amin hiraetha then?" [2]
"Right. I take it you've needed to use that one a lot, huh?" Angela sweatdropped, nodding. "Okay, now let's see," she said, starting to get out her dictionary. The phone rang and Angela leaped up to answer it. The guys had been called to some meeting along with Fay. She was supposed to go, too, but she didn't like Magneto so she stayed home.
"Moshi Moshi!" she called into the receiver.
"Moshi Moshi Angela-chan." It was Lisa.
"Lisa-kun! O-genki desu ka?"
"Hai, Watashi wa genki desu. Demo..." [3]
"Whatsa matter?" asked Angela, sitting down at the kitchen table.
"It's Remy. He's been down ever since you guys broke up."
"You mean ever since he dumped me!" said Angela, a bit angry. "Why should he be sad? I mean, it was his fault."
"Okay, okay, but still. He's still our friend. We should help him out, don'tcha think?" Lisa tried.
"I suppose," came Angela's reluctant response. "Can Toni come? She already knows we're mutants so you don't have to tell the Professor."
"You told her?" asked Lisa. They had agreed not to tell any of their friends who weren't already mutants.
"Yup! So can she come?" Lisa sweatdropped.
"I guess..."
"Yay! We'll be right over, bai!" Angela hung up the phone, not waiting for Lisa's response. She ran back to the living room and grabbed Toni's hand. Toni dropped the book as she was dragged away.
"Hey! Where we goin'?" she asked.
"We're going to the mansion! It's great, you'll love it there!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"So what do you think's wrong with him?" asked Mikey. They were all standing outside of Remy's bedroom door. He hadn't been out all day, not even to eat. Lisa sighed, leaning against the wall.
"I don't know. He hasn't been right since he dumped Angela." Kurt nodded, taking much the same posture as Lisa and wrapping his tail around her waist.
"Vell, hopefully Angela can help us cheer him up. Itz not so fun vithout ze whole group."
"Yeah," agreed Bobby. He had been hanging around with them more often since he had learned that Lisa was his relative. "He's got a cool accent, too."
"Vhat about mine?" asked Kurt indignantly.
"I've heard yours forever," said Bobby, sticking his tongue out. Kurt glared.
"Oh, stop it," said Mikey. Everyone sighed and sat down. The doorbell rang and they ran downstairs to open the door. Angela stood there, beaming happily, with Toni next to her.
"Mae govannen!" she said happily.
"She says greetings," said Toni, sighing.
"You mean I got it right?" asked Angela. Toni nodded.
"Hey Lisa, hey Mikey."
"Hey Toni. This is Kurt and Bobby, he's my relative of some sort. Cousin or something," said Lisa.
"Nice to meet you guys," said Toni, eyeing Kurt for a moment. Logan walked behind them then.
"Remember, training later in the Danger Room," he said, then walked away. Toni stared at him for even longer.
"Who's that?" she asked as they stepped inside and went to the couches.
"That's Logan," said Mikey.
"Yeah, he's one of the Professors here," said Bobby.
"He's a jerk," said Angela. Everyone sweatdropped.
"You just think that because he disagreed with you," said Lisa.
"So what's the problem?" Angela asked, changing the subject. Kurt sighed.
"He vont come out off his room," said Kurt, looking up at Remy's closed door.
"Well, bamf in there and get him out, then!" said Angela, rolling her eyes. "Really, do I have to think of everythink?"
"Oh, stop," said Lisa.
"Yeah, we can't force him to come out. We're his friends and that wouldn't be right," said Mikey.
"Come on," said Angela, standing and going upstairs. Everyone shrugged and followed her. She banged on Remy's door.
"I know, I know, trainin' soon. Logan alread' tol' me," he said irritabley.
"It's us," said Bobby.
"Oh," came the reply from behind the door. There was shuffling heard and then the door opened.
"Can we come in?" asked Lisa. Remy nodded, stepping aside. They all walked into his room and he sat on the bed.
"vhat's wrong, Remy? You've been down all veek!" said Kurt, sitting next to him.
"Yeah, Rem. You hardly ever come out of your room or anything," said Mikey.
"Yeah, what's the deal?" asked Bobby.
"It's nothin'," he said, looking away from them.
"Oh, come on. If it were nothing then nothing would be different," said Angela. Remy blinked, looking up at her in confusion. He looked away again.
"I don' wanna talk 'bout it," he said.
"Remy? Hey, I'm Toni," said Toni. He looked up at her. "You know, you really should let them help you. They're your friends, right? That's all they want to do is help. So what's wrong?"
"Ah don' tink de oder mutant's like meh here," he said, not giving any more protestations. "I don' know what t' do. I'm tinkin' 'bout goin' back home."
"What? Back with your Mom and Dad?" said Lisa.
"You can't go back there, they don't appreciate your powers," said Mikey.
"Yeah, I mean, not that I know them or anything," said Bobby.
"You know your problem, Remy? You ain't got no philosophy. It's like Dillinger once told me: 'Remember, it's always the darkest just before they turn on the lights,'" said Angela.
"Oh no," said Toni.
"Vhat's wrong?" asked Kurt.
"She's reciting Anything Goes again," said Mikey with a sigh.
Angela began to sing, "There's an old Australian bush song that Melba used to sing, A song that always cheered me when I was blue. Even Melba said this bush song was a helluva song to sing, so be quiet whilst I render it for you. When your instinct tells you that disaster is approaching you faster and faster, then be like the bluebird and sing, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
Then Lisa sang, "When you know you're headed for the jailer don't allow the old face to look paler but be like the bluebird and sing, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
They sang together, "Be like the bluebird who never is blue, for he knows from his upbringing what singing can do, and though by other birdies in the boughs, he may be told that his efforts are perfectly lousy!" their efforts were, indeed, quite lousy on that note, but they continued anyway while the others held their ears. "He sings on and on till his troubles are through, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
Remy sat for a moment, just staring at the two. The rest of the group had much the same expressions on their faces. Then Remy smiled. "Y' know, y' two are right. I shoudn' worry 'bout what de oders tink, right?"
"Right!" said Lisa and Angela together happily.
"What on Earth was that racket?" came a voice from the doorway. They all turned to see Ray standing there. "Oh, hey cuz," he said, inviting himself in.
"Heya Ray!" said Angela, glomping him. [4] He fell backwards a little, but managed to grab hold of Remy's dresser before he went down. Angela hugged him tighter, making sure he was steady, then let go. "What's up?"
"Well, Logan sent me to get you guys. It's time for practice in the Danger Room," Ray explained.
"Darn. Well, you wanna come watch Toni?" asked Mikey.
"Sure," she said. They all stood, but Angela stopped them at the door.
"Oh don't be silly!" she said. They all blinked at her.
"You may not be a member of ze X-Men anymore, but ve are. Logan can still punish us," said Kurt.
"Come on, guys! Where's your sense of adventure?" she asked happily.
"I think it's been overtaken by my fear of becoming a shish kebob," said Bobby. There was a muttering of agreement.
"Yeah, we've got trainin' wit' Logan from 12:30 ta 5:00 ever' day. Y' know dat," said Remy. Angela crossed her arms, then a smile crept across her face.
"Uh oh," said Toni.
"Here we go again," said Lisa.
"Is this the part where she randomly bursts into song again?" asked Bobby. Mikey nodded to him. Ray sighed.
"Well, let's take a seat then and hope it's a short song," he said. Everyone agreed and they sat on Remy's bed.
"The sun is hot and that old clock is movin' slow, and so am I. The workday passes like molasses in winter time, but it's July. I'm gettin' paid by the hour, an' older by the minute. My boss just pushed me over the limit, I'd like to call him somethin', think I'll just call it a day. So pour me something tall and strong, make it a hurricane before I go insane. It's only half-past twelve, but I don't care; It's 5:00 somewhere." Everyone blinked at her, but Ray smiled along with Lisa.
"Odd reasoning," said Ray. Lisa nodded.
"Yup, but it works!" she said.
"Vhat are you guys talking about? Ve'll get skewered!"
"Oh, quit y' worryin', fuzzy," said Remy.
"I don't know, Logan and the Professor will be really mad," said Mikey.
"Come on, guys! You haven't missed a practice yet, right? So what's the big deal? Even jobs give sick days!" said Angela happily. They all agreed, some more reluctantly than others.
"Hey wait," said Ray. They all looked at him. "If we stay here, we'll be found out, right? Then we'll get in trouble."
"Ve'll get in trouble anyway!" insisted Kurt.
"You're right," said Bobby, ignoring Kurt. They all mumbled agreement.
"So? That's easy! We'll just go somewhere else, right?" said Mikey. They all thought a moment.
"Well, yeah!" said Lisa happily. "I mean, they're all at practice so there won't be anyone to stop us, right?"
"Yup," agreed Remy. "But where d'we go?" Everyone went silent for a moment, deep in thought. They looked at Angela.
"Well, Mrs. Ideas?" asked Bobby. Angela thought a moment, then grinned.
"Oh! I know just the place! Come on guys! Time to party!" With that, she led the way downstairs and out the front door.
[1] muy is Spanish for very. [2] I'm sorry (in Elvish!) [3] Basically, we both said hi and I asked how Lisa was. She said good but... [4] A glomp is when you run at the person and hug them. Quite painful, so I'm told.
A/N: Okay, yeah, I had to do a musical chapter. I always do. I just love songs, and musicals! The next one will probably be one as well. What the hell, I'll turn the whole FIC into a musical! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
A/N: Okay kiddies, in case you haven't figured it out, what I do when starting to type a new chapter is take the previous one, change the chapter number and name, and delete everything but the author's notes and disclaimer. Just telling you so you don't think I'm a complete idiot when you see how much I repeat myself in these two sections. Thank you all again for your replies!! E-mail with ideas and any other comments at jupitergurl02@hotmail.com are STILL appreciated! (I haven't had anyone respond to this yet… sobs)
Ta da! I told you I'd add you, Toni! What do you think? Read and Reply peeps! I MAY have an idea for a plot line, but I think it's been done too much. *Sigh* I'm so dumb. Oh well. I can keep going on ideas from Lisa and I for a little while anyway. As in like one more chapter, that is. lol. What ever happened to my threat of not writing any more if you people didn't help me? lol.
Chapter 21, Visit
"Toni, thank you so much for coming! This Elfish thing is muy[1] hard! Auta miqula orqu!" said Angela, bowing as she helped Toni inside. Toni blinked, looking at her funny. "What?" she asked.
"Well, what do you think you just said?" asked Toni.
"I thought it was 'Come inside and sit by the fire.' Granted, we don't have a fire, but..."
"This is going to take some work," said Toni, sitting down on the couch. Angela sat next to her. "Just don't try out your Elfish on anyone else for a little while, okay?
"Why? What's wrong? What did I say?" she asked.
"You told me to go kiss an Orc," said Toni. Angela blushed deeply. That was quite a bad insult.
"G-gomen ne..." she said sheepishly.
"Hey, I don't take Japanese, remember? It's either Elfish or French.
"Amin hiraetha then?" [2]
"Right. I take it you've needed to use that one a lot, huh?" Angela sweatdropped, nodding. "Okay, now let's see," she said, starting to get out her dictionary. The phone rang and Angela leaped up to answer it. The guys had been called to some meeting along with Fay. She was supposed to go, too, but she didn't like Magneto so she stayed home.
"Moshi Moshi!" she called into the receiver.
"Moshi Moshi Angela-chan." It was Lisa.
"Lisa-kun! O-genki desu ka?"
"Hai, Watashi wa genki desu. Demo..." [3]
"Whatsa matter?" asked Angela, sitting down at the kitchen table.
"It's Remy. He's been down ever since you guys broke up."
"You mean ever since he dumped me!" said Angela, a bit angry. "Why should he be sad? I mean, it was his fault."
"Okay, okay, but still. He's still our friend. We should help him out, don'tcha think?" Lisa tried.
"I suppose," came Angela's reluctant response. "Can Toni come? She already knows we're mutants so you don't have to tell the Professor."
"You told her?" asked Lisa. They had agreed not to tell any of their friends who weren't already mutants.
"Yup! So can she come?" Lisa sweatdropped.
"I guess..."
"Yay! We'll be right over, bai!" Angela hung up the phone, not waiting for Lisa's response. She ran back to the living room and grabbed Toni's hand. Toni dropped the book as she was dragged away.
"Hey! Where we goin'?" she asked.
"We're going to the mansion! It's great, you'll love it there!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"So what do you think's wrong with him?" asked Mikey. They were all standing outside of Remy's bedroom door. He hadn't been out all day, not even to eat. Lisa sighed, leaning against the wall.
"I don't know. He hasn't been right since he dumped Angela." Kurt nodded, taking much the same posture as Lisa and wrapping his tail around her waist.
"Vell, hopefully Angela can help us cheer him up. Itz not so fun vithout ze whole group."
"Yeah," agreed Bobby. He had been hanging around with them more often since he had learned that Lisa was his relative. "He's got a cool accent, too."
"Vhat about mine?" asked Kurt indignantly.
"I've heard yours forever," said Bobby, sticking his tongue out. Kurt glared.
"Oh, stop it," said Mikey. Everyone sighed and sat down. The doorbell rang and they ran downstairs to open the door. Angela stood there, beaming happily, with Toni next to her.
"Mae govannen!" she said happily.
"She says greetings," said Toni, sighing.
"You mean I got it right?" asked Angela. Toni nodded.
"Hey Lisa, hey Mikey."
"Hey Toni. This is Kurt and Bobby, he's my relative of some sort. Cousin or something," said Lisa.
"Nice to meet you guys," said Toni, eyeing Kurt for a moment. Logan walked behind them then.
"Remember, training later in the Danger Room," he said, then walked away. Toni stared at him for even longer.
"Who's that?" she asked as they stepped inside and went to the couches.
"That's Logan," said Mikey.
"Yeah, he's one of the Professors here," said Bobby.
"He's a jerk," said Angela. Everyone sweatdropped.
"You just think that because he disagreed with you," said Lisa.
"So what's the problem?" Angela asked, changing the subject. Kurt sighed.
"He vont come out off his room," said Kurt, looking up at Remy's closed door.
"Well, bamf in there and get him out, then!" said Angela, rolling her eyes. "Really, do I have to think of everythink?"
"Oh, stop," said Lisa.
"Yeah, we can't force him to come out. We're his friends and that wouldn't be right," said Mikey.
"Come on," said Angela, standing and going upstairs. Everyone shrugged and followed her. She banged on Remy's door.
"I know, I know, trainin' soon. Logan alread' tol' me," he said irritabley.
"It's us," said Bobby.
"Oh," came the reply from behind the door. There was shuffling heard and then the door opened.
"Can we come in?" asked Lisa. Remy nodded, stepping aside. They all walked into his room and he sat on the bed.
"vhat's wrong, Remy? You've been down all veek!" said Kurt, sitting next to him.
"Yeah, Rem. You hardly ever come out of your room or anything," said Mikey.
"Yeah, what's the deal?" asked Bobby.
"It's nothin'," he said, looking away from them.
"Oh, come on. If it were nothing then nothing would be different," said Angela. Remy blinked, looking up at her in confusion. He looked away again.
"I don' wanna talk 'bout it," he said.
"Remy? Hey, I'm Toni," said Toni. He looked up at her. "You know, you really should let them help you. They're your friends, right? That's all they want to do is help. So what's wrong?"
"Ah don' tink de oder mutant's like meh here," he said, not giving any more protestations. "I don' know what t' do. I'm tinkin' 'bout goin' back home."
"What? Back with your Mom and Dad?" said Lisa.
"You can't go back there, they don't appreciate your powers," said Mikey.
"Yeah, I mean, not that I know them or anything," said Bobby.
"You know your problem, Remy? You ain't got no philosophy. It's like Dillinger once told me: 'Remember, it's always the darkest just before they turn on the lights,'" said Angela.
"Oh no," said Toni.
"Vhat's wrong?" asked Kurt.
"She's reciting Anything Goes again," said Mikey with a sigh.
Angela began to sing, "There's an old Australian bush song that Melba used to sing, A song that always cheered me when I was blue. Even Melba said this bush song was a helluva song to sing, so be quiet whilst I render it for you. When your instinct tells you that disaster is approaching you faster and faster, then be like the bluebird and sing, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
Then Lisa sang, "When you know you're headed for the jailer don't allow the old face to look paler but be like the bluebird and sing, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
They sang together, "Be like the bluebird who never is blue, for he knows from his upbringing what singing can do, and though by other birdies in the boughs, he may be told that his efforts are perfectly lousy!" their efforts were, indeed, quite lousy on that note, but they continued anyway while the others held their ears. "He sings on and on till his troubles are through, Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la."
Remy sat for a moment, just staring at the two. The rest of the group had much the same expressions on their faces. Then Remy smiled. "Y' know, y' two are right. I shoudn' worry 'bout what de oders tink, right?"
"Right!" said Lisa and Angela together happily.
"What on Earth was that racket?" came a voice from the doorway. They all turned to see Ray standing there. "Oh, hey cuz," he said, inviting himself in.
"Heya Ray!" said Angela, glomping him. [4] He fell backwards a little, but managed to grab hold of Remy's dresser before he went down. Angela hugged him tighter, making sure he was steady, then let go. "What's up?"
"Well, Logan sent me to get you guys. It's time for practice in the Danger Room," Ray explained.
"Darn. Well, you wanna come watch Toni?" asked Mikey.
"Sure," she said. They all stood, but Angela stopped them at the door.
"Oh don't be silly!" she said. They all blinked at her.
"You may not be a member of ze X-Men anymore, but ve are. Logan can still punish us," said Kurt.
"Come on, guys! Where's your sense of adventure?" she asked happily.
"I think it's been overtaken by my fear of becoming a shish kebob," said Bobby. There was a muttering of agreement.
"Yeah, we've got trainin' wit' Logan from 12:30 ta 5:00 ever' day. Y' know dat," said Remy. Angela crossed her arms, then a smile crept across her face.
"Uh oh," said Toni.
"Here we go again," said Lisa.
"Is this the part where she randomly bursts into song again?" asked Bobby. Mikey nodded to him. Ray sighed.
"Well, let's take a seat then and hope it's a short song," he said. Everyone agreed and they sat on Remy's bed.
"The sun is hot and that old clock is movin' slow, and so am I. The workday passes like molasses in winter time, but it's July. I'm gettin' paid by the hour, an' older by the minute. My boss just pushed me over the limit, I'd like to call him somethin', think I'll just call it a day. So pour me something tall and strong, make it a hurricane before I go insane. It's only half-past twelve, but I don't care; It's 5:00 somewhere." Everyone blinked at her, but Ray smiled along with Lisa.
"Odd reasoning," said Ray. Lisa nodded.
"Yup, but it works!" she said.
"Vhat are you guys talking about? Ve'll get skewered!"
"Oh, quit y' worryin', fuzzy," said Remy.
"I don't know, Logan and the Professor will be really mad," said Mikey.
"Come on, guys! You haven't missed a practice yet, right? So what's the big deal? Even jobs give sick days!" said Angela happily. They all agreed, some more reluctantly than others.
"Hey wait," said Ray. They all looked at him. "If we stay here, we'll be found out, right? Then we'll get in trouble."
"Ve'll get in trouble anyway!" insisted Kurt.
"You're right," said Bobby, ignoring Kurt. They all mumbled agreement.
"So? That's easy! We'll just go somewhere else, right?" said Mikey. They all thought a moment.
"Well, yeah!" said Lisa happily. "I mean, they're all at practice so there won't be anyone to stop us, right?"
"Yup," agreed Remy. "But where d'we go?" Everyone went silent for a moment, deep in thought. They looked at Angela.
"Well, Mrs. Ideas?" asked Bobby. Angela thought a moment, then grinned.
"Oh! I know just the place! Come on guys! Time to party!" With that, she led the way downstairs and out the front door.
[1] muy is Spanish for very. [2] I'm sorry (in Elvish!) [3] Basically, we both said hi and I asked how Lisa was. She said good but... [4] A glomp is when you run at the person and hug them. Quite painful, so I'm told.
A/N: Okay, yeah, I had to do a musical chapter. I always do. I just love songs, and musicals! The next one will probably be one as well. What the hell, I'll turn the whole FIC into a musical! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!