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CHAPTER 8 Kitties and Coffee
"A bus? You got us a bus?" Rogue asked, gaping at the massive transportation.
"Oui." Remy said, hopping out of it.
"Technically it be a trailer but." He was cut off by Rogue.
"Ah don't care. Ya stole some family's home! That aint right Le beau." She yelled at him.
"Aw chere Remy'd neva do dat." Remy told her, putting an arm around her.
"Really?" She asked, a little surprised, and not pulling away from him,
"Oui." He said, walking her over to the bus.
"So.you didn't steal it?" She asked, letting him pull her over.
"Non, Remy stole it.Jus' not from a family." He said.
She stopped and ducked under his arm.
"What do you mean?" She asked in confusion.
"Remy said he didn' steal from a family. Dat don' mean he didn' steal it." He answered simply.
Rogue raised an eyebrow skeptically, not totally understanding.
"Remy stole it from a car lot, not a family." He explained.
She rolled her eyes.
"That's not exactly that much betta." She told him.
He smiled and picked her up.
Her eyes widened.
"Put meh down Swamp Rat. Ah can walk on mah own." She said, kicking into the air.
She succeeded in decking him in the jaw and he put her down, laughing.
She straitened up, scowled at him and walked up the steps of the bus and into it.
Remy watched her, tilting her head to follow her backside.
"Perv." She shouted from inside.
He smirked and got into the bus, closing it when they were all in.
"John get away from the radio." Rogue told him.
"Make me."
"Fine."
"Never mind Never mind."
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It was pouring down rain when Amara heard a wrapping at her door.
She looked at her clock and grumpily got out of bed, dragging her feet on her way to the door.
"What?" Amara asked, rubbing her eyes. She was greeted by Bobby.
"Come on. Xavier wants to see us with the rest of the higher X-men." He said, grabbing her by the wrist and yanking her down the hall.
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"Alright now that all of you are here." Xavier began as soon as Bobby entered with a very sleepy Amara.
"We are taking only a few people with us." Xavier said.
"We've decided to take one of you two along with us." Xavier told the two younger mutants.
The rest of the group consisted of Jean, Scott, Night Crawler, and Storm.
"I will be staying here with the rest of the recruits while you go after Kitty, Rogue and the Acolytes." He explained.
"Soo.your saying that only one of us is going on the mission and the other is staying here with the rest of the other newer recruits?" Bobby asked.
"Yes. Only the catch is, you two must decide for yourselves. Talk about it and decide who will get to go. I'm assuming you'll both want to think about this." Xavier said.
The older mutants all groaned inwardly.
They knew that Bobby was waiting for a chance to go on a mission and there was no way he was going to let Amara get to go instead of him.
"Amara." Bobby started.
'Here it comes. He's gonna make her stay home one way or another.
"I think you should go." He said firmly.
"WHAT!?" The older mutant asked in astonishment.
They were not expecting that to happen.
"What?" Bobby asked at seeing all their confused faces.
"You're giving up a chance to go on a mission?" Amara asked.
"Yeah well.don't make a big deal out of it or anything." Bobby told them.
"I just feel like staying home and taking care of.the others." Bobby finished.
The majority of the people got his true reasons. He wanted to stay home and take care of Jubilee.
"Aww! That is sooo sweet." Amara whispered to him. "Jubilee would be melting in your arms if she wasn't sleeping."
"No! That's not why I'm not going. I'm just.saving myself for a bigger mission, that's all." He assured her defensively.
"Suuuure." She said, letting him know she didn't believe a word of what he was saying.
"Either way, I'm going on a mission..wait a minute!" Amara's eyes widened when it finally hit her.
"I'm going on a mission?" She asked, turning to Scott and Jean.
They nodded a yes to her and she smiled widely with enthusiasm gleaming in her eyes.
"I'm going on a mission!" She announced once it all sunk in.
"This is soooo cool!" She said, getting excited and squealing, but calming herself down once she got it all out of her system.
"Okay, so if you don't need me anymore I'm just gonna go back to bed." Bobby said, exiting.
"Alright..I've never actually done the whole mission thing sooo.what now?" Amara asked the team leader.
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"This is really boring." Pietro said.
"Oui but we gotta keep goin. De feds are gettin closa." Remy said from the driver's seat as they drove through the next county.
"I don't care! Why can't we just dump the girls somewhere and beat it?" Pietro asked, annoyed.
"First of all if ya gonna plan on dumpin us somewhere at least wait until one of us aint in the room when ya plan it, and second, would ya'll please keep it down? Kitty's sleepin in there!" She scolded them.
They didn't reply, just got silent.
"Hey, who's up for Hot Pockets?" John called from the back.
"I'm game." Pietro yelled back in a loud voice, just to tick Rogue off.
Pietro left and Rogue took his place in the passenger's seat next to Remy.
"So petite, how ya feelin?" He asked, trying to strike up a conversation. He had been driving a few hours and was getting sleepy.
"Ah'm feelin fine Swamp Rat. Unlike ya'll." She said, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back in the chair.
"What ya mean by dat chere?" He asked, blinking repeatedly a few times to stay awake.
"Ah mean that ya not foolin anyone when ya try and look like ya wide awake when ya really wanna drop down and fall asleep like Colossus and Kitty are doin right now." She shot back.
"Don' know what ya talking bout petite." Remy said defensively. Sleeping when there was a job to be done was a sign of weakness and he wasn't going to show any weakness in front of Rogue.
"O'course if Remy was gon' fall asleep den he wouldn' mind if he was gon' be wit you." He remarked.
She scowled at him and turned on the radio.
".and the protest resulted in a group of angry mutants attacking the people in the riot."
~Click~
".and now back to our Britney Spears marathon."
~Click~
".so be the tenth caller and you can win tickets to the premiere of.."
~Click~
"..Surfin USA."
~Click~
Rogue gave up and turned off the radio.
"Yo' not a Britney Spears fan chere?" Gambit quipped.
Rogue just glared at him and continued staring out the window.
"Ah swear Swamp Rat, if ya'll fall asleep and crash this thing Ah'm gonna crash ya head inta Piotr's metal chest." She said as he began to swerve a little.
"How bout some coffee chere?" He asked, motioning for her to get him some.
"What? So now ya expect meh ta be at ya beck and call 24/7?" She asked rhetorically. She did not appreciate it when he treated her like a servant or like it was he duty, even if he didn't do it on purpose.
"Oui, pretty much." Remy answered, trying to get a reaction out of her.
"Oh alright." She said simply.
His brows knitted together in confusion but he didn't take his eyes off the road. She'd given in way too easily. In fact, he didn't expect her to give in at all.
'Well that wasn't any fun!' He thought grumpily.
Remy pulled over to the gas station and parked the vehicle.
"John why don't ya go fill de tank mon ami?" He asked the pyromaniac.
John nodded a yes and stepped outside, filling the gas tank in a matter of seconds.
Pietro watched with curiosity as Rogue casually walked over to the steaming coffee pot and poured some coffee into a mug.
He'd overheard the conversation that the Cajun and Rogue were having before and he too found it oddly out of character and a little unnerving that she had agreed to do what the Cajun asked of her.
She smiled at Remy in an almost evil grin and continued her way back to the boy in the drivers seat.
"Here ya go Cajun. Nice and hot. Just the way ya like it." She said, showing him the coffee. He stood and reached to take it from her when she deliberately dumped its contents onto his shirt.
He let out a yelp as the hot liquid burned the skin on his chest as in seeped through the thin shirt.
"Now if ya need anything else." Rogue said in the sweet tone she'd been talking in before.
"Bite ya tongue and don't ask cause Ah aint ya wife or ya girlfriend and ya can get ya own damn coffee." She said, walking passed Pietro who was trying his hardest to stifle the laughter he was close to releasing and into the room Kitty and Colossus were sleeping in.
"Well at least your awake now." Pietro quipped.
"Shut up." Remy said in a grumpy tone.
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Jubilee felt the warm breeze flow through the air and pull her hair back as it kissed her face gently. She took a whiff of the air and inhaled the scent of wild flowers and rain. She looked around and found herself in a deserted field except for the many animals living there that didn't seem to notice or care that she was in their home.
Her smile widened as she fell back into the tall grass and soaked up the rays of sun that beamed down on her face as she lye there.
She closed her eyes and began to drift off to sleep with the birds singing tunes that resembled a few songs from her favorite CDs when a twig snapped. She sat up but saw nothing different in the field.
Convincing herself that it was merely her imagination or a wild animal, she fell back again and closed her eyes once more.
She could still feel the sunshine beaming down on her even with her eyes closed but the warmth of the sun soon faded and she realized that it had gotten dimmer and she was no longer sun drenched. She slowly opened her eyes to see what was blocking her sunlight and didn't even have to lift her head up to find herself inches away from someone else's face.
"Bobby!?" She asked, a little confused.
"What are you doing he." She didn't get to finish her question because Bobby had lowered himself and closed the space between them with a long kiss. Her eyes widened at first but she closed them and gave into the kiss, pressing her lips into his as he fell into her.
Jubilee jerked her head up and started breathing very hard. She gasped and felt around in the pitch-black room for the lamp on her bed stand. She eventually found it and turned it on.
Jubilee ran her hands through her hair and calmed herself down.
Why did she have that dream? What was going on?
She looked over and saw her roommate's bed was empty but not made. She turned and looked at the digital clock on her friend's bed stand and saw that it was three in the morning.
'Where the hell is Amara at this hour?' She thought.
Then another thought hit her.
'What if Amara really did have a crush on one of the X-boys and they were off together somewhere in the mansion? What if the boy was Bobby? Wait! Why do I care weather or not Amara and Bobby hook up?' She asked herself.
'Because you like him.' The annoying voice in her head nagged.
Jubilee yawned and her vision blurred. What ever was going on she'd find out about it in the morning.the later morning. Right now she was going to go back to sleep.
She nestled herself back into her sheets and easily drifted back to sleep.
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Beep! Beep! Beep!
"The food is ready." Pietro called to Pyro.
"I still don't see why you didn't let me toast em' with my powers." John sulked grumpily, walking over to the microwave.
"Because Pyro, we wanted Hot Pockets, not burnt to a crisp pockets." Pietro answered.
John just murmured something about not being able to kill the boss's son and went to get the food.
Colossus came into the room and greeted them all. He had been resting in an area that was cut off with a removable wall-like curtain to give the people in the bedrooms privacy from the rest of the trailer.
"Bout time you woke up mate." Pyro said, handing the Russian a Hot Pocket.
Piotr thanked the boy and ate the food before commenting.
"I didn't mean to fall asleep for that long. Remy do you wish for me to take your place in driving?" Colossus asked.
"Oui. Dat would be nice." Remy said.
"Besides, Remy's gotta go change shirts." He said, motioning to the coffee stain on his top.
Colossus looked at him with confusion but decided not to ask about it and sat himself down in the driver's seat, starting up the engine and taking off once again.
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Kitty opened her eyes warily to find herself in a dim-lit area where she was sleeping on a small bed in the trailer they had recently acquired.
She also noticed Rogue curled up in one of the more comfortable chairs, sleeping soundly.
Kitty thought she felt something on her lap and she looked down and was surprised to find a small cat sleeping there.
Her eyes widened but her face softened after the shock faded and she scratched it behind the ears and stroked it, resulting in a low purr from the cat.
The animal was curled up in a ball but Kitty could see that it was an auburn color with black and white paws. Its left ear was black and its right ear was white. They twitched every once in a while as she stroked the cat gently.
"Now where did you come from? Are you running away like us?" Kitty asked the cat quietly in a gentle, playful voice.
She wasn't worried about waking Rogue because her roommate was usually a sound sleeper but she kept her voice down just the same.
"Do you have a name?" She asked the cat as it gazed up at her with it's piercing emerald eyes.
The cat let out a sound that resembled a cross between a lazy meow and a purr. Kitty laughed as it tilted its head and rubbed it against her arm as if it were using her as an itching post.
Kitty looked back toward Rogue.
The Goth was beginning to stir, probably from the noise Kitty was making, so the Valley girl got up from the bed slowly so as not to spook the feline and scooped it up in her arms, carrying it into the room where the rest of the boys were.
She knew all too well that Rogue, for some unknown reason, deeply disliked cats. She had said so herself once before that she had hated them. Kitty didn't know why. She herself loved the feline family.
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"Okay Amara. Now that we've explained everything and filled you in on the plan, are you ready for the mission?" Jean asked.
"Uh.yeah." Amara answered. She sounded nervous but it was understandable.
After they all left the room except for Amara and Jean, the older mutant walked over to Magma and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Amara. Everyone's first mission is always a little scary for them, but you've trained with us plenty of times and the Professor wouldn't even think about choosing you to come on the mission if he didn't think you were ready for it." The telepathic girl assured her.
"Yeah I know. Its just.Jean, I have a question." She told her.
"Is it about the mission?" Jean asked.
"Well.not exactly." Amara said, blushing.
"It's more like a question about.boys." Magma confessed.
Jean's face softened and she smiled at the younger girl.
"Ooh. That kind of question. Go ahead Amara, I'm listening." Jean told her.
"Well.okay how do you know if you really like a guy or if it's just your emotions toying with you?" She asked.
Jean sighed before answering. "You can't really tell unless you spend some time with the boy. Why? Who's the lucky guy you have your eye on?" Jean asked.
Amara blushed again.
"Yeah right, lucky guy, he probably doesn't even remember me." Amara mumbled.
Jean looked at her curiously.
"Oh, I only met him once. Today actually, and..and I don't know. Its like I can't get him out of my head. When we first met this afternoon, its like the scene keeps playing through my head over and over again." Amara explained.
Jean laughed at the younger girl. She did indeed have herself a high school crush.
"Well do you know anything about him?" Jean asked.
"Well.I think. I mean I have this weird feeling that I've met him before you know. I just can't figure out where." Amara explained.
Jean nodded in understanding. "Probably from school or something." The older girl mused.
"Yeah, probably." Amara said quietly before walking toward the door to get to the X-jet.
"Oh.and Jean?" She said, stopping in the doorframe.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks." Amara said.
"No problem." Jean told her as the younger girl continued walking out of the room.
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CHAPTER 8 Kitties and Coffee
"A bus? You got us a bus?" Rogue asked, gaping at the massive transportation.
"Oui." Remy said, hopping out of it.
"Technically it be a trailer but." He was cut off by Rogue.
"Ah don't care. Ya stole some family's home! That aint right Le beau." She yelled at him.
"Aw chere Remy'd neva do dat." Remy told her, putting an arm around her.
"Really?" She asked, a little surprised, and not pulling away from him,
"Oui." He said, walking her over to the bus.
"So.you didn't steal it?" She asked, letting him pull her over.
"Non, Remy stole it.Jus' not from a family." He said.
She stopped and ducked under his arm.
"What do you mean?" She asked in confusion.
"Remy said he didn' steal from a family. Dat don' mean he didn' steal it." He answered simply.
Rogue raised an eyebrow skeptically, not totally understanding.
"Remy stole it from a car lot, not a family." He explained.
She rolled her eyes.
"That's not exactly that much betta." She told him.
He smiled and picked her up.
Her eyes widened.
"Put meh down Swamp Rat. Ah can walk on mah own." She said, kicking into the air.
She succeeded in decking him in the jaw and he put her down, laughing.
She straitened up, scowled at him and walked up the steps of the bus and into it.
Remy watched her, tilting her head to follow her backside.
"Perv." She shouted from inside.
He smirked and got into the bus, closing it when they were all in.
"John get away from the radio." Rogue told him.
"Make me."
"Fine."
"Never mind Never mind."
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It was pouring down rain when Amara heard a wrapping at her door.
She looked at her clock and grumpily got out of bed, dragging her feet on her way to the door.
"What?" Amara asked, rubbing her eyes. She was greeted by Bobby.
"Come on. Xavier wants to see us with the rest of the higher X-men." He said, grabbing her by the wrist and yanking her down the hall.
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"Alright now that all of you are here." Xavier began as soon as Bobby entered with a very sleepy Amara.
"We are taking only a few people with us." Xavier said.
"We've decided to take one of you two along with us." Xavier told the two younger mutants.
The rest of the group consisted of Jean, Scott, Night Crawler, and Storm.
"I will be staying here with the rest of the recruits while you go after Kitty, Rogue and the Acolytes." He explained.
"Soo.your saying that only one of us is going on the mission and the other is staying here with the rest of the other newer recruits?" Bobby asked.
"Yes. Only the catch is, you two must decide for yourselves. Talk about it and decide who will get to go. I'm assuming you'll both want to think about this." Xavier said.
The older mutants all groaned inwardly.
They knew that Bobby was waiting for a chance to go on a mission and there was no way he was going to let Amara get to go instead of him.
"Amara." Bobby started.
'Here it comes. He's gonna make her stay home one way or another.
"I think you should go." He said firmly.
"WHAT!?" The older mutant asked in astonishment.
They were not expecting that to happen.
"What?" Bobby asked at seeing all their confused faces.
"You're giving up a chance to go on a mission?" Amara asked.
"Yeah well.don't make a big deal out of it or anything." Bobby told them.
"I just feel like staying home and taking care of.the others." Bobby finished.
The majority of the people got his true reasons. He wanted to stay home and take care of Jubilee.
"Aww! That is sooo sweet." Amara whispered to him. "Jubilee would be melting in your arms if she wasn't sleeping."
"No! That's not why I'm not going. I'm just.saving myself for a bigger mission, that's all." He assured her defensively.
"Suuuure." She said, letting him know she didn't believe a word of what he was saying.
"Either way, I'm going on a mission..wait a minute!" Amara's eyes widened when it finally hit her.
"I'm going on a mission?" She asked, turning to Scott and Jean.
They nodded a yes to her and she smiled widely with enthusiasm gleaming in her eyes.
"I'm going on a mission!" She announced once it all sunk in.
"This is soooo cool!" She said, getting excited and squealing, but calming herself down once she got it all out of her system.
"Okay, so if you don't need me anymore I'm just gonna go back to bed." Bobby said, exiting.
"Alright..I've never actually done the whole mission thing sooo.what now?" Amara asked the team leader.
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"This is really boring." Pietro said.
"Oui but we gotta keep goin. De feds are gettin closa." Remy said from the driver's seat as they drove through the next county.
"I don't care! Why can't we just dump the girls somewhere and beat it?" Pietro asked, annoyed.
"First of all if ya gonna plan on dumpin us somewhere at least wait until one of us aint in the room when ya plan it, and second, would ya'll please keep it down? Kitty's sleepin in there!" She scolded them.
They didn't reply, just got silent.
"Hey, who's up for Hot Pockets?" John called from the back.
"I'm game." Pietro yelled back in a loud voice, just to tick Rogue off.
Pietro left and Rogue took his place in the passenger's seat next to Remy.
"So petite, how ya feelin?" He asked, trying to strike up a conversation. He had been driving a few hours and was getting sleepy.
"Ah'm feelin fine Swamp Rat. Unlike ya'll." She said, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back in the chair.
"What ya mean by dat chere?" He asked, blinking repeatedly a few times to stay awake.
"Ah mean that ya not foolin anyone when ya try and look like ya wide awake when ya really wanna drop down and fall asleep like Colossus and Kitty are doin right now." She shot back.
"Don' know what ya talking bout petite." Remy said defensively. Sleeping when there was a job to be done was a sign of weakness and he wasn't going to show any weakness in front of Rogue.
"O'course if Remy was gon' fall asleep den he wouldn' mind if he was gon' be wit you." He remarked.
She scowled at him and turned on the radio.
".and the protest resulted in a group of angry mutants attacking the people in the riot."
~Click~
".and now back to our Britney Spears marathon."
~Click~
".so be the tenth caller and you can win tickets to the premiere of.."
~Click~
"..Surfin USA."
~Click~
Rogue gave up and turned off the radio.
"Yo' not a Britney Spears fan chere?" Gambit quipped.
Rogue just glared at him and continued staring out the window.
"Ah swear Swamp Rat, if ya'll fall asleep and crash this thing Ah'm gonna crash ya head inta Piotr's metal chest." She said as he began to swerve a little.
"How bout some coffee chere?" He asked, motioning for her to get him some.
"What? So now ya expect meh ta be at ya beck and call 24/7?" She asked rhetorically. She did not appreciate it when he treated her like a servant or like it was he duty, even if he didn't do it on purpose.
"Oui, pretty much." Remy answered, trying to get a reaction out of her.
"Oh alright." She said simply.
His brows knitted together in confusion but he didn't take his eyes off the road. She'd given in way too easily. In fact, he didn't expect her to give in at all.
'Well that wasn't any fun!' He thought grumpily.
Remy pulled over to the gas station and parked the vehicle.
"John why don't ya go fill de tank mon ami?" He asked the pyromaniac.
John nodded a yes and stepped outside, filling the gas tank in a matter of seconds.
Pietro watched with curiosity as Rogue casually walked over to the steaming coffee pot and poured some coffee into a mug.
He'd overheard the conversation that the Cajun and Rogue were having before and he too found it oddly out of character and a little unnerving that she had agreed to do what the Cajun asked of her.
She smiled at Remy in an almost evil grin and continued her way back to the boy in the drivers seat.
"Here ya go Cajun. Nice and hot. Just the way ya like it." She said, showing him the coffee. He stood and reached to take it from her when she deliberately dumped its contents onto his shirt.
He let out a yelp as the hot liquid burned the skin on his chest as in seeped through the thin shirt.
"Now if ya need anything else." Rogue said in the sweet tone she'd been talking in before.
"Bite ya tongue and don't ask cause Ah aint ya wife or ya girlfriend and ya can get ya own damn coffee." She said, walking passed Pietro who was trying his hardest to stifle the laughter he was close to releasing and into the room Kitty and Colossus were sleeping in.
"Well at least your awake now." Pietro quipped.
"Shut up." Remy said in a grumpy tone.
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Jubilee felt the warm breeze flow through the air and pull her hair back as it kissed her face gently. She took a whiff of the air and inhaled the scent of wild flowers and rain. She looked around and found herself in a deserted field except for the many animals living there that didn't seem to notice or care that she was in their home.
Her smile widened as she fell back into the tall grass and soaked up the rays of sun that beamed down on her face as she lye there.
She closed her eyes and began to drift off to sleep with the birds singing tunes that resembled a few songs from her favorite CDs when a twig snapped. She sat up but saw nothing different in the field.
Convincing herself that it was merely her imagination or a wild animal, she fell back again and closed her eyes once more.
She could still feel the sunshine beaming down on her even with her eyes closed but the warmth of the sun soon faded and she realized that it had gotten dimmer and she was no longer sun drenched. She slowly opened her eyes to see what was blocking her sunlight and didn't even have to lift her head up to find herself inches away from someone else's face.
"Bobby!?" She asked, a little confused.
"What are you doing he." She didn't get to finish her question because Bobby had lowered himself and closed the space between them with a long kiss. Her eyes widened at first but she closed them and gave into the kiss, pressing her lips into his as he fell into her.
Jubilee jerked her head up and started breathing very hard. She gasped and felt around in the pitch-black room for the lamp on her bed stand. She eventually found it and turned it on.
Jubilee ran her hands through her hair and calmed herself down.
Why did she have that dream? What was going on?
She looked over and saw her roommate's bed was empty but not made. She turned and looked at the digital clock on her friend's bed stand and saw that it was three in the morning.
'Where the hell is Amara at this hour?' She thought.
Then another thought hit her.
'What if Amara really did have a crush on one of the X-boys and they were off together somewhere in the mansion? What if the boy was Bobby? Wait! Why do I care weather or not Amara and Bobby hook up?' She asked herself.
'Because you like him.' The annoying voice in her head nagged.
Jubilee yawned and her vision blurred. What ever was going on she'd find out about it in the morning.the later morning. Right now she was going to go back to sleep.
She nestled herself back into her sheets and easily drifted back to sleep.
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Beep! Beep! Beep!
"The food is ready." Pietro called to Pyro.
"I still don't see why you didn't let me toast em' with my powers." John sulked grumpily, walking over to the microwave.
"Because Pyro, we wanted Hot Pockets, not burnt to a crisp pockets." Pietro answered.
John just murmured something about not being able to kill the boss's son and went to get the food.
Colossus came into the room and greeted them all. He had been resting in an area that was cut off with a removable wall-like curtain to give the people in the bedrooms privacy from the rest of the trailer.
"Bout time you woke up mate." Pyro said, handing the Russian a Hot Pocket.
Piotr thanked the boy and ate the food before commenting.
"I didn't mean to fall asleep for that long. Remy do you wish for me to take your place in driving?" Colossus asked.
"Oui. Dat would be nice." Remy said.
"Besides, Remy's gotta go change shirts." He said, motioning to the coffee stain on his top.
Colossus looked at him with confusion but decided not to ask about it and sat himself down in the driver's seat, starting up the engine and taking off once again.
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Kitty opened her eyes warily to find herself in a dim-lit area where she was sleeping on a small bed in the trailer they had recently acquired.
She also noticed Rogue curled up in one of the more comfortable chairs, sleeping soundly.
Kitty thought she felt something on her lap and she looked down and was surprised to find a small cat sleeping there.
Her eyes widened but her face softened after the shock faded and she scratched it behind the ears and stroked it, resulting in a low purr from the cat.
The animal was curled up in a ball but Kitty could see that it was an auburn color with black and white paws. Its left ear was black and its right ear was white. They twitched every once in a while as she stroked the cat gently.
"Now where did you come from? Are you running away like us?" Kitty asked the cat quietly in a gentle, playful voice.
She wasn't worried about waking Rogue because her roommate was usually a sound sleeper but she kept her voice down just the same.
"Do you have a name?" She asked the cat as it gazed up at her with it's piercing emerald eyes.
The cat let out a sound that resembled a cross between a lazy meow and a purr. Kitty laughed as it tilted its head and rubbed it against her arm as if it were using her as an itching post.
Kitty looked back toward Rogue.
The Goth was beginning to stir, probably from the noise Kitty was making, so the Valley girl got up from the bed slowly so as not to spook the feline and scooped it up in her arms, carrying it into the room where the rest of the boys were.
She knew all too well that Rogue, for some unknown reason, deeply disliked cats. She had said so herself once before that she had hated them. Kitty didn't know why. She herself loved the feline family.
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"Okay Amara. Now that we've explained everything and filled you in on the plan, are you ready for the mission?" Jean asked.
"Uh.yeah." Amara answered. She sounded nervous but it was understandable.
After they all left the room except for Amara and Jean, the older mutant walked over to Magma and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Amara. Everyone's first mission is always a little scary for them, but you've trained with us plenty of times and the Professor wouldn't even think about choosing you to come on the mission if he didn't think you were ready for it." The telepathic girl assured her.
"Yeah I know. Its just.Jean, I have a question." She told her.
"Is it about the mission?" Jean asked.
"Well.not exactly." Amara said, blushing.
"It's more like a question about.boys." Magma confessed.
Jean's face softened and she smiled at the younger girl.
"Ooh. That kind of question. Go ahead Amara, I'm listening." Jean told her.
"Well.okay how do you know if you really like a guy or if it's just your emotions toying with you?" She asked.
Jean sighed before answering. "You can't really tell unless you spend some time with the boy. Why? Who's the lucky guy you have your eye on?" Jean asked.
Amara blushed again.
"Yeah right, lucky guy, he probably doesn't even remember me." Amara mumbled.
Jean looked at her curiously.
"Oh, I only met him once. Today actually, and..and I don't know. Its like I can't get him out of my head. When we first met this afternoon, its like the scene keeps playing through my head over and over again." Amara explained.
Jean laughed at the younger girl. She did indeed have herself a high school crush.
"Well do you know anything about him?" Jean asked.
"Well.I think. I mean I have this weird feeling that I've met him before you know. I just can't figure out where." Amara explained.
Jean nodded in understanding. "Probably from school or something." The older girl mused.
"Yeah, probably." Amara said quietly before walking toward the door to get to the X-jet.
"Oh.and Jean?" She said, stopping in the doorframe.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks." Amara said.
"No problem." Jean told her as the younger girl continued walking out of the room.
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