Authoress' Note: In case anyone is curious, cards are selected randomly from an actual deck of cards by yours truly. That way, not even I know what's coming up! Oh, and the Dani in here is not me! It's Danielle Moonstar!
To My Reviewers
RahneMan: Thanks for adding me to your favorites list! As for femslash...well, I'll have slash, femslash and het in equal amounts. I like it all, so I write it all!
KiKi and The Rogue Witch: The adults are in the mansion...doing whatever they do when they aren't saving the world/training the students. *shrugs* The kids are sneaky.
PomegranateQueen: Are the cards that different? *examines cards* Well, I probably won't do that much detail stuff (I have to remember it after all!), but Rahne is having fun making up new rules.
SickmindedSucker: I like wine coolers too, but I was just naming various drinks off the top of my head. This isn't really a 'split-everyone-into-couples' type of fic, but their is lots of flirting going on!
Flame31, Fanfic Reader, Ellavira, Crow Black Dream: Thanks for your reviews, here is the new chapter!
I hope I didn't miss anyone!
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After various refills and several small arguments over sharing, the mutant teenagers settled down for more of the game.
"Is Remy's turn? Excellent!" The Cajun reached forward and took his card. Immediately after he laid it down he smacked himself in the head. Pietro (as usual, he was the one with the fastest reflexes), John, Kurt, Jean and Tabby were the first to smack theirs, followed quickly by the others. Kitty was last and took her drink.
Rogue took her card from the pile and looked at it for a few minutes. "Two to Scott and two to Jean," she said, laying down a four.
Wanda, looking bored, selected her card. She looked at it and grinned. "I've never kissed a person of the same gender."
Everyone was very, very quiet.
"Do we drink if we have or if we haven't?" Scott asked.
"Have," Tabby told him.
Shrugging, the blonde bombshell took a drink. Amara followed quickly with her own. There was another long silence before Roberto took his own drink. Scott nearly fell off his chair when his brother toasted Ray and they both downed the last dregs in their glasses. No one else moved.
"Ahem," Wanda looked pointedly toward Pietro and John.
They exchanged looks, shrugged and reached for their glasses. A split second behind them, Remy picked his up. The three took their drinks more or less at the same time. As soon as they finished, Wanda took her own drink.
Pietro, with a wicked grin on his face, spoke up. "If we kiss people of the same gender on a regular basis do we get prizes?"
Scott looked like someone had hit him in the back of the head with a board. "Todd's turn," he said quickly, before anyone could answer Pietro.
Todd just rolled his eyes and selected his own card. "An eight, yo!" He thought for a moment. "I've never gotten blitzed," he finally said, thinking that was a safe enough topic. He took his own drink.
Immediately Lance, Fred, Tabby, Pietro, John, Remy, Rogue, Ray and Kurt took their drinks. They were followed a moment later by Alex, Rahne, Sam and Roberto.
Clumsily, Fred grabbed his card from the deck. His face fell. "Three to Jean and Scott."
"Is everyone trying to get us drunk," Scott demanded.
"Yes."
"Ja."
"Oui."
"Yup."
"Of course."
"You bet."
"How'd ya guess?"
Scott and Jean just glared over the tops of their glasses.
"My turn!" Jamie grinned hugely (he was thrilled to be part of the older kids' party) and took his card. His face fell immediately. "Awww, shucks! One drink apiece to Scott and Jean."
Sam looked at his own card and grinned. "Waterfall!" He began to gulp his beer. He put it down quickly enough, allowing the rest of the circle to follow suit. Roberto, however, didn't feel so inclined, he just kept drinking. Scott and Jean, who were directly after him, glowered over their glasses. Finally, after a few extra seconds, Roberto put his down. The rest of the circle finished as well.
Jubilee leaned forward, snatched at a card, missed and tried again. When she finally got a card in her hand, she looked down at it with a confused look. "Umm, two drinks to Bobby." She put the card down on the table.
Bobby took his two before selecting his own card. "Two to Jean, Scott, and Sam."
Roberto's grin nearly tripled in size when he got his card. "New rule, you can choose who waterfalls with you."
Scott gave him an evil look (but Roberto couldn't see it because of the shades). He put his card on the table with a look of nervousness. "Is that a King?"
The circle grinned and nodded eagerly. Amanda gave him a look that said, 'pick me and you die.'
Scott looked helpless.
"Just pick whoever has the most clothing on," Jean suggested.
"Ah...umm...Rogue I guess. You can lose your gloves!" Scott looked proud of himself.
Rogue tipped her head at him, nearly tipping over before Remy and Wanda righted her. "Ah canna do tha'." Her accent was a lot thicker after the drinks. Scott's face froze and she took off her tank top, leaving just a mesh shirt and bra. She nodded as if this was the cleverest thing in the world for her to do.
Jean pursed her lips and glared at Remy. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?"
Remy waggled his fingers at the red head. "Can look, bu' no touchy."
With a final glare, Jean brought her card up with telekinesis, it wobbled but didn't fall. "Six drinks to Lance, because he hasn't had hardly any and that isn't fair."
Lance looked surprised that someone had remembered he was in the room. "M'kay."
Amara practically fell forward to get her card. She looked at it and though hard as she lowered it to the table. "Hello."
"Mellow," Tabby said.
"Fellow," Ray put in.
Rahne blinked. "Cello!" She blurted quickly.
"Bellow!"
Evan just glanced around. "Shit."
"Tha' doesn't rhyme!" Pietro called out.
Evan took his drink.
Tabby, who was less wobbly than Amara, took a card. "Four drinks to Kitty!"
"Like, what?"
"Four drinks," Tabby repeated, "to Kitty."
Ray grabbed a card as Kitty grumbled through her drink. "Five drinks to Rahne."
Rahne took her own card and smiled evilly. "I do so love this card." She placed a nine down. "Jacks are now dares."
Alex gave her a high five, which they missed, and grabbed a card, which he dropped. He picked it up again and squinted at it. He deliberately lay it down slowly then smacked his head. "Ow."
The rest of the circle followed his example; Tabby was last because she missed her head twice. "Well, fuck."
"Seven drinks to Dani! She isn't wobbling yet!" Evan practically shouted while waving his card about.
Kurt grinned and took his own card. "Three drinks to Amanda!"
"Kurt!"
"Ja, liebling?"
"Never mind." Amanda took her own card. "Six drinks to Kurt!"
"Ack!"
Dani had an evil look on her face. "Waterfall. Everyone over sixteen." She picked up her beer and began to drain it.
Everyone—minus Amara, Rahne, Evan, Amanda, Kitty, Todd, Jamie, Jubilee and Roberto—did the same. Dani kept drinking. Soon, most everyone had to snatch for more drinks to continue. And still the Native American drank. Finally, she put her bottle down and smiled innocently.
"Ow, head," Tabby mumbled.
"Umm, we're out of drinks," John mumbled.
"Get more."
"Nah. I mean, we're outta drinks. Period. 'Cept wha's in our glasseseses." John face's skewed up on that last word. He shook the empty vodka bottle to demonstrate. "We need more."
Everyone looked at Remy.
"Remy is too blit—blitzzz—drunk to drive."
Everyone wilted.
"Ah 'ave an ida! We kin ask Pe—oh—trah—to git us some!"
"Wha'?" Pietro looked up fuzzily from trying to get to the last drops of vodka.
"No' you!"
"Na ja?"
"No!" Rogue threw a pillow at Kurt—and hit Alex. "Bi' guy. Me'al!"
"Oooo-oooooh," everyone said, nodding wisely.
There was a lengthy silence.
"So who's gonna ask?" Tabby said.
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*cue dramatic music* Will the big metal guy get them drinks? Will they get busted? Hell if I know!
