Just a Girl – Shadow the idiot
There seems to be something when big brothers find out their little sister is going out on a date that makes them spy on them, and since Devon had no worries about his little sister dating Michael, Shadow had taken it upon himself to go and spy on Marianne, taking Kurt along, after some blackmailing from Shadow. Shadow himself was still limping and bruised and it was a bit of a dent in his ego that Michael only had some cuts, scrapes and bruises.
"You do know zhat Marianne will kill us when she finds out, don't you?" Kurt asked Shadow softly as they watched Marianne and Michael leave in one of the cars.
"It is our job to look after her," Shadow shrugged it of.
"But he has looked after her for two years," Kurt objected, but a glare from Shadow shut him up.
"Hop on blue elf," Shadow told him as he revved his bike.
~*Meanwhile in the car*~
"The guys are gonna give you hell 'bout me leaving with you. Well, not Logan, Hank and the professor, but the rest of them are," Marianne fiddled with the left sleave of her jacket.
"I know, I don't care. It's your choice, Anne, you don't have to do this out of obligation, you don't have to do this out of anything but your own free will," Michael observed her from the corner of his eyes.
"I know, but... but I can't stay here. No matter what, not even if you would stay here too. I KILLED people, that... that wasn't what the professor taught us, that isn't what I believe in. If I would stay, sooner or later, I would go out on missions again, even though nor they, nor I, want me to. It was so easy, Michael, too easy. I never thought of my power as lethal, but what happened in that lab proved me wrong. I can kill people easier then Logan with his claws. If... if I were to be put in such a situation again, if I were to kill again, I... I don't think I could live with myself, I think I would die," the pure, raw desperation in her voice told Michael that this was the truth, and it told him she wanted nothing else then to stay alive.
"Then I'll make sure that won't happen. I'll take you with me when we built the safehouse, you'll become our doctor. I'll make sure you'll never have to fight again, I'll keep you safe," he promised, for a minute, he caught her eyes and they both realised that that promise held more truth then any other in the world.
"It's funny," Marianne was the first to look away, "I never wanted protection, but I got it too much. Now I need someone to protect me from myself."
"Hey," Michael let his left hand settles on her hands and gave them a squeeze, "we can't always be strong. I depend on you, so it would only be fair for you to depend on me."
~*On the bike*~
Shadow growled lowly as he saw Michael touch Marianne. He didn't like him, he didn't know why, but he knew that he didn't like Michael. It failed to make it into his mind that this was simply because Michael had kicked his butt in the Danger Room.
"Zhey have been togezher for two years, I zhink zhey really love eachozher," Kurt tried to be the voice of reason, again, and failed, again.
"She didn't have her memory back then, now she has," Shadow replied stoïcally.
"Ve are going to die, if ve die, I blame you," Kurt groaned, while imagening the amount of punishment he would recieve from Marianne for spying on her on a date. Why on earth had he let Shadow talk him into going with him? He could be with Amanda at the mall or something. No, instead he was riding with an over-protective, self appointed big brother, going to spy on the one girl he had rather not see mad.
They followed the couple into a small restaurant, Kurt barely managed to keep Shadow from going in. If he had to go along, he'd better make sure they both staid out of trouble.
~*In the restaurant*~
"You know that Shadow is following us, right?" Michael grinned at her.
"Shadow, the idiot," Marianne groaned, "do I have your approval of making this evening hell for him?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way, so, what's your plan?" he knew what Marianne had in mind the moment he saw the dangerous sparkles in her eyes. He was very happy, at that moment, he was not Shadow.
"I know about this nice little club down town, it doesn't look like much good goes on in there, but it's a nice place to hang out. Exactly the place Shadow wold rather not see me have fun. They play a lot of rockballads there, you'll love it. And we have to nodge the mushy-stuff up a bit, just to annoy him," Marianne smiled mischeviously at Michael.
"No problems on all accounts. This might be the best date we have had," Michael immediately put the plan into action, scooting his chair to sit next to Marianne and giving her a peck on the cheek.
~*Outside*~
What did he think he was? What made him think he could actually sit so close to Marianne?! Who gave him permission to kiss her for that matter?! When this evening was over, he was going to make sure Michael could never touch her again!
Kurt was slowly changing his mind about it being a bad idea to come along: it was actually very funny to see Shadow eat himself up and not being able to interfere. Something told him the couple inside were well aware that they were being spied upon, which also gave him shivers: Marianne knew! He was so dead when this was over!
~*Inside*~
"So, what do you think of the mansion and all?" Marianne started the conversation while they waited for their order.
"I think this was indeed a very good plan, to send the kids here. Xavier is a strong telepath, he'll be able to help Connor construct stronger mental shields against an overload of emotions. Samantha adores Jean, I think she adopted her as a big sister. I have no doubt that they will also be able to help Ezra over her not speaking and they'll be able to help Jonathan with his temper," Michael nodded, "and they care a lot about you. They gave you something I could never give you, they gave you your past back."
"And a great deal of new nightmares," she shuddered.
"I'm sorry about that," Michael looked down at the table.
"Don't be. Now, let's talk about something else," she tipped his head up and turned it so that he faced her, "future. What are we gonna do when I get my diploma?"
"We're gonna move, they already have a safehouse near Boston, another one would be overdoing it. How do you feel about Arizona? I got an offer there. There are far too little there, and too many mutant haters," he looked at her, "but we're only going if you want to."
"If we are needed there, we go. Good! Our food is here!" with that, the topic was closed and they concentrated on just being a normal couple like any other.
~*Outside*~
"I don't like this, I don't like this," Shadow grumbled, it was later and Marianne and Michael were just leaving the restaurant. They were too close for comfort. Far too close for comfort. She was what? Twenty? Yes, much too young for a serious relationship like this one. At least, that was what Shadow made himself believe.
"Zhis is nicht gut," Kurt murmured to himself as he saw where the two were headed and heard Shadow growl. Not good at all. It was a small club, it looked kinda shabby, like it could fall apart any minute.
"I'm gonna kill 'm," Shadow growled, dinner? Okay, but now he was taking her to a place like this? No freakin' way in hell! This time, Kurt couldn't stop him from going in, all he could do was follow him, directing a silent prayer to whomever was listening to let him survive.
~*With Marianne*~
"I can see why you like this place," Michael commented as they found some seats at the bar, 'Love is on the way' from Saigon Kick just started. The inside was completely different from what he had suspected. It seemed to be for the strict knowing and appreciating few. He saw a young couple dancing in the middle of a near empty dance floor. Young and innocent, he couldn't help but smile and wonder how things would be if he and Marianne were like them.
"The real crowd doesn't come in untill midnight, and I am betting you wonder how I know this," Marianne said with a smirk on her face, "Rogue and Kitty took me here for my eightteenth birthday, a girl's night out. Ofcourse Ororo came along to supervise. Not one of the boys knew we were here, well, except the professor. It was so much fun."
"I can understand, they have great taste here," he nodded while listening to the songs.
"The owner is a fan of this kind of music. He's also positively loaded and a mutant," she grinned while ordering a coke. One thing that she had found out pretty early: she should not get drunk, she lost complete control of any and all powers she had. As she downed her drink, Skid Row began to play with 'Wasted Time'.
"Wanna dance?" he offered her, inclining his head to the dance-floor.
"Sure, I'd love to," Marianne nodded and allowed Michael to guide her to the dancefloor.
~*Several hours later*~
"You can come out, Shadow, we're going home," Marianne sttod in front of a booth.
"I do not zhink Shadow will be goin' anywhere. He is drunk," Kurt came up behind them.
"He's what?!" she exclaimed, dragging a positively wasted Shadow out of the booth.
"Hey... M'ranne," he slurred before completely blacking out.
"I believe your last comment on him would suit best now," Michael grinned broadly, relishing in the sight of the annoying boy completely passed out, "Shadow the idiot."
"I agree vizh zhat," Kurt nodded, "But I do not have a ride now."
"You two can ride with us, Kurt. Thanks for keeping an eye on Shadow so he wouldn't interrupt my date with Michael," Marianne motioned at the unconcious Shadow before they began to drag him out to the car.
The drive back was silent, a smirk played on Michael's face, Kurt was nearly asleep in the backseat, Shadow remained out cold and Marianne was daydreaming, or should that be nightdreaming, Michael wondered.
"I think we're gonna have some explaining to do," Michael said after he parked the car and saw Logan and Ororo standing in the garage, both of them glaring disapprovingly.
"You realise it is past curfew, child," Ororo was the first to speak, looking directly at Marianne.
"I would like to state first that I am not responsible for Kurt and Shadow being out this late. Shadow decided he had the right to spy on my date with Michael and he dragged Kurt with him, he also ended up getting positively wasted. His bike is still at Ben's and I think Kurt is ready to turn in. Me and Michael are adults and not part of the X-men so there is no curfew for us," Marianne quickly intervened, trying to get them out of trouble. Yeah, so Shadow would take the blame, but he deserved that: he had been spying on them! Okay, so they had caught on almost immediately, it was still the same: he. Didn't. Trust. Her. And for that, he would pay.
There seems to be something when big brothers find out their little sister is going out on a date that makes them spy on them, and since Devon had no worries about his little sister dating Michael, Shadow had taken it upon himself to go and spy on Marianne, taking Kurt along, after some blackmailing from Shadow. Shadow himself was still limping and bruised and it was a bit of a dent in his ego that Michael only had some cuts, scrapes and bruises.
"You do know zhat Marianne will kill us when she finds out, don't you?" Kurt asked Shadow softly as they watched Marianne and Michael leave in one of the cars.
"It is our job to look after her," Shadow shrugged it of.
"But he has looked after her for two years," Kurt objected, but a glare from Shadow shut him up.
"Hop on blue elf," Shadow told him as he revved his bike.
~*Meanwhile in the car*~
"The guys are gonna give you hell 'bout me leaving with you. Well, not Logan, Hank and the professor, but the rest of them are," Marianne fiddled with the left sleave of her jacket.
"I know, I don't care. It's your choice, Anne, you don't have to do this out of obligation, you don't have to do this out of anything but your own free will," Michael observed her from the corner of his eyes.
"I know, but... but I can't stay here. No matter what, not even if you would stay here too. I KILLED people, that... that wasn't what the professor taught us, that isn't what I believe in. If I would stay, sooner or later, I would go out on missions again, even though nor they, nor I, want me to. It was so easy, Michael, too easy. I never thought of my power as lethal, but what happened in that lab proved me wrong. I can kill people easier then Logan with his claws. If... if I were to be put in such a situation again, if I were to kill again, I... I don't think I could live with myself, I think I would die," the pure, raw desperation in her voice told Michael that this was the truth, and it told him she wanted nothing else then to stay alive.
"Then I'll make sure that won't happen. I'll take you with me when we built the safehouse, you'll become our doctor. I'll make sure you'll never have to fight again, I'll keep you safe," he promised, for a minute, he caught her eyes and they both realised that that promise held more truth then any other in the world.
"It's funny," Marianne was the first to look away, "I never wanted protection, but I got it too much. Now I need someone to protect me from myself."
"Hey," Michael let his left hand settles on her hands and gave them a squeeze, "we can't always be strong. I depend on you, so it would only be fair for you to depend on me."
~*On the bike*~
Shadow growled lowly as he saw Michael touch Marianne. He didn't like him, he didn't know why, but he knew that he didn't like Michael. It failed to make it into his mind that this was simply because Michael had kicked his butt in the Danger Room.
"Zhey have been togezher for two years, I zhink zhey really love eachozher," Kurt tried to be the voice of reason, again, and failed, again.
"She didn't have her memory back then, now she has," Shadow replied stoïcally.
"Ve are going to die, if ve die, I blame you," Kurt groaned, while imagening the amount of punishment he would recieve from Marianne for spying on her on a date. Why on earth had he let Shadow talk him into going with him? He could be with Amanda at the mall or something. No, instead he was riding with an over-protective, self appointed big brother, going to spy on the one girl he had rather not see mad.
They followed the couple into a small restaurant, Kurt barely managed to keep Shadow from going in. If he had to go along, he'd better make sure they both staid out of trouble.
~*In the restaurant*~
"You know that Shadow is following us, right?" Michael grinned at her.
"Shadow, the idiot," Marianne groaned, "do I have your approval of making this evening hell for him?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way, so, what's your plan?" he knew what Marianne had in mind the moment he saw the dangerous sparkles in her eyes. He was very happy, at that moment, he was not Shadow.
"I know about this nice little club down town, it doesn't look like much good goes on in there, but it's a nice place to hang out. Exactly the place Shadow wold rather not see me have fun. They play a lot of rockballads there, you'll love it. And we have to nodge the mushy-stuff up a bit, just to annoy him," Marianne smiled mischeviously at Michael.
"No problems on all accounts. This might be the best date we have had," Michael immediately put the plan into action, scooting his chair to sit next to Marianne and giving her a peck on the cheek.
~*Outside*~
What did he think he was? What made him think he could actually sit so close to Marianne?! Who gave him permission to kiss her for that matter?! When this evening was over, he was going to make sure Michael could never touch her again!
Kurt was slowly changing his mind about it being a bad idea to come along: it was actually very funny to see Shadow eat himself up and not being able to interfere. Something told him the couple inside were well aware that they were being spied upon, which also gave him shivers: Marianne knew! He was so dead when this was over!
~*Inside*~
"So, what do you think of the mansion and all?" Marianne started the conversation while they waited for their order.
"I think this was indeed a very good plan, to send the kids here. Xavier is a strong telepath, he'll be able to help Connor construct stronger mental shields against an overload of emotions. Samantha adores Jean, I think she adopted her as a big sister. I have no doubt that they will also be able to help Ezra over her not speaking and they'll be able to help Jonathan with his temper," Michael nodded, "and they care a lot about you. They gave you something I could never give you, they gave you your past back."
"And a great deal of new nightmares," she shuddered.
"I'm sorry about that," Michael looked down at the table.
"Don't be. Now, let's talk about something else," she tipped his head up and turned it so that he faced her, "future. What are we gonna do when I get my diploma?"
"We're gonna move, they already have a safehouse near Boston, another one would be overdoing it. How do you feel about Arizona? I got an offer there. There are far too little there, and too many mutant haters," he looked at her, "but we're only going if you want to."
"If we are needed there, we go. Good! Our food is here!" with that, the topic was closed and they concentrated on just being a normal couple like any other.
~*Outside*~
"I don't like this, I don't like this," Shadow grumbled, it was later and Marianne and Michael were just leaving the restaurant. They were too close for comfort. Far too close for comfort. She was what? Twenty? Yes, much too young for a serious relationship like this one. At least, that was what Shadow made himself believe.
"Zhis is nicht gut," Kurt murmured to himself as he saw where the two were headed and heard Shadow growl. Not good at all. It was a small club, it looked kinda shabby, like it could fall apart any minute.
"I'm gonna kill 'm," Shadow growled, dinner? Okay, but now he was taking her to a place like this? No freakin' way in hell! This time, Kurt couldn't stop him from going in, all he could do was follow him, directing a silent prayer to whomever was listening to let him survive.
~*With Marianne*~
"I can see why you like this place," Michael commented as they found some seats at the bar, 'Love is on the way' from Saigon Kick just started. The inside was completely different from what he had suspected. It seemed to be for the strict knowing and appreciating few. He saw a young couple dancing in the middle of a near empty dance floor. Young and innocent, he couldn't help but smile and wonder how things would be if he and Marianne were like them.
"The real crowd doesn't come in untill midnight, and I am betting you wonder how I know this," Marianne said with a smirk on her face, "Rogue and Kitty took me here for my eightteenth birthday, a girl's night out. Ofcourse Ororo came along to supervise. Not one of the boys knew we were here, well, except the professor. It was so much fun."
"I can understand, they have great taste here," he nodded while listening to the songs.
"The owner is a fan of this kind of music. He's also positively loaded and a mutant," she grinned while ordering a coke. One thing that she had found out pretty early: she should not get drunk, she lost complete control of any and all powers she had. As she downed her drink, Skid Row began to play with 'Wasted Time'.
"Wanna dance?" he offered her, inclining his head to the dance-floor.
"Sure, I'd love to," Marianne nodded and allowed Michael to guide her to the dancefloor.
~*Several hours later*~
"You can come out, Shadow, we're going home," Marianne sttod in front of a booth.
"I do not zhink Shadow will be goin' anywhere. He is drunk," Kurt came up behind them.
"He's what?!" she exclaimed, dragging a positively wasted Shadow out of the booth.
"Hey... M'ranne," he slurred before completely blacking out.
"I believe your last comment on him would suit best now," Michael grinned broadly, relishing in the sight of the annoying boy completely passed out, "Shadow the idiot."
"I agree vizh zhat," Kurt nodded, "But I do not have a ride now."
"You two can ride with us, Kurt. Thanks for keeping an eye on Shadow so he wouldn't interrupt my date with Michael," Marianne motioned at the unconcious Shadow before they began to drag him out to the car.
The drive back was silent, a smirk played on Michael's face, Kurt was nearly asleep in the backseat, Shadow remained out cold and Marianne was daydreaming, or should that be nightdreaming, Michael wondered.
"I think we're gonna have some explaining to do," Michael said after he parked the car and saw Logan and Ororo standing in the garage, both of them glaring disapprovingly.
"You realise it is past curfew, child," Ororo was the first to speak, looking directly at Marianne.
"I would like to state first that I am not responsible for Kurt and Shadow being out this late. Shadow decided he had the right to spy on my date with Michael and he dragged Kurt with him, he also ended up getting positively wasted. His bike is still at Ben's and I think Kurt is ready to turn in. Me and Michael are adults and not part of the X-men so there is no curfew for us," Marianne quickly intervened, trying to get them out of trouble. Yeah, so Shadow would take the blame, but he deserved that: he had been spying on them! Okay, so they had caught on almost immediately, it was still the same: he. Didn't. Trust. Her. And for that, he would pay.