A/N: heres my chapter. enjoy.
-cookie
********At the hospital 7:30 pm*************
"WHAT THE F*** WAS LANCE THINKIN?!" Chaos said angrily. "Why in the hell would he take Alex to a strip bar, in BROAD daylight...?!!!!" She paced back and forth and sparking like mad...so bad that lights in the hospital were flcikering every now and then.
Hope closed her eyes and shivered unwillingly. Her hair was still wet from swimming and it was cold in the waiting room. She was also worried about Alex, even though she hardly knew him.
"Here." Remy said, handing her his trench coat. "Put this on." He smiled and sat down.
"Thanks." Hope said, pulling it on. "But don't you need it?"
"Nah." Remy said, "Remy don't get cold 'dat easily."
Regina, Shelby, Pietro, and Pyro walked into the waiting room, all looking angry. "I just can't believe Lance would be that stupid!" Regina burst out, "Didn't he care that he was doing something that obvious?!! He knows that if he got in trouble we couldnt really help him."
"Probably not." Shelby said angrily. "How's Alex?"
"The doctor's said he'll be fine." Chaos said, sitting down beside Rogue, and then getting back up when Rogue shifted in her seat due to the uncomfort of sitting next to a living taser. "He has a pretty bad concussion, but other than that he'll be okay. He'll have to stay in the hospital overnight though..."
"Well, that's a relief." Pyro said.
Warren walked out of the infirmary area and immediatly asked, "Has anybody called the institute?"
Everyone looked at the ground. "Coul'n't we jes forget about callin'?" Rogue said, "If w'tell 'em we'll hafta cut this trip short."
Warren shook his head. "I'll call and see what I can do...the professor likes me--hopefully I'll get some points for that." he walked outside since cellphones aren't allowed in the hospital.
"Thanks." everyone basically said.
"That's one call I really wouldn't want to make." Hope said. "Hello Professor Xavier I just called to tell you that one of your students is in the hospital and another is in jail for going to an illegal strip bar...even if he wasnt one of your students to begin with..." she mimicked.
Everyone laughed, easing the tension in the room, Rogue spoke, "Haha, nah the Prof dont get ragin' mad, its tha fact that we called first thatll set him in a trusting mood."
(silence for a minute)
Hope thought to herself, and laughed out of no where. Everyone looked at
her quizically. "Haha I was jsut thinking about sending a post card to Scott
with a picture of Alex banged up, all these girls in the hospital bed with
him, and then alex's adventures in the strip club written on the back."
Everyone laughed again and shook theyre heads. "you'd get shot" Shelby said.
"Who cares, its a kodak moment."
(silence for another moment)
Warren walked back through the doors, looking grim. "Well, I've got good news, bad news, and more bad news. Which do you want first?"
Everyone groaned. "Good news, I guess." Regina said tentatively.
"Okay. The good news is that we can continue our road trip." Warren said.
"ALRIGHTTT!" Pyro cheered.
"What-about-the-bad-news?" Pietro asked.
"Logan's coming with us."
Chaos turned pale. "Please tell me you're joking." she said nervously/angrily...sparking again.
"Nope." Warren answered. "He'll meet us at the hotel tomorrow afternoon...uh, Kay the nurses are giving us bad looks..."
"What?! Logans comming tomarrow to hang me and your interested in what the nurses think?!" she snapped. No one wanted to say anything. Lights were flickering and in rooms there were sirens from shorted out peices of equipment. Chaos didn't even notice. Everyone looked at Regina...who just sighed and shot Chaos with a stunner needle. Pietro raced to her side and placed her in a chair before she actually hit the ground, and leaned her next to Pyro, who had his arm around her to keep her up. Sometimes she just got too worked up over nothing...
"What's 'de other bad news?" Remy went on.
"The police haven't posted bail on Lance yet. I'd sure the only thing he'll be charged with is underage drinking, but they won't let him go."
"What!" Pyro exclaimed angrily. "We're scheduled to leave tomorrow!"
"Why are they still holding him?" Hope asked, wringing water from her hair and reabsorbing it.
"I don't really know." Warren said.
"Probably because he's a mutant." Rogue replied sarcastically.
"You're most likely right." Regina said with a sigh, "I just hope they let him out soon. I'm getting tired of being in Nashville."
"Me too." Pyro said.
Everyone was silent for another moment....and the while, Regina got to thinking.. yes, her diplomatic intelligence was kicking in. "Y'know guys...they call this stuff police brutality." Everyone looked at her. "Well, ALEX wasn't drinking. And he obviously sure as hell didn't put up any resistance....by the way he looks anyway.."
"Lets atleast wait until Alex wakes up, Reg, and then you can pull out the aces." Warren suggested. Everyone agreed and was brought into a better mood now that they might have something to go by.
"You guys, shouldn't we just go back to the hotel until Alex can leave the hospital?" Hope asked, "There's really no reason to stay and it is getting late."
"I think someone should stay with him...I'd be pretty confused if I had woken up here with no one to explain anything." Warren said..everyone looked at him. He sighed and threw his hands up, exposing some feathers under his coat. "Alright, I'll STAY. I GUESS. Even IF I JUST CALLED THE PROFFESSOR FOR ALLLLLL OF US!!" he said indignantly.
"Have-Fun!." Pietro said, "First-one-outside-gets-to-drive!" He zipped out the room.
"Cheater." Shelby mumbled as she walked out of the room following Remy pretending not to be cold and helping Pyro carry the stiff, metal-heavy Chaos and Hope who was trying her best to not let the coat drag. Regina almost walked out, but turned around and walked halfway back towards Warren. Right when she opened her mouth to ask something he cut her off first, "Tomarrow night is still on...if you feel up to going." He asked hopefully.
She just smiled, nodded and left.
********The Next Morning***********
"Hope get up!" Shelby said, exasperated.
"Never." Hope mumbled, pulling the covers over her head. "It's too early to be up."
"Early?!?" Shelby cried. "It's almost noon!"
"Exactly."
"ARGHH I give up!" Shelby said, throwing her hands in the air and stomping out of the room. She looked over at the group. Remy was playing cards (suprise suprise), Pietro, Pyro and Rogue were playing video games, while Regina and a somewhat drowsy Chaos got ready to go shoppingn in disguise (look normal and have all metal covered up) for something for Regina to wear....except it wasn't really shopping...since they weren't really gonna pay.
"One of you can try."
"Ah'd suggest da water glass trick, but somehow I don't tink dat'd work." Remy said, shuffling his cards.
"God, Remy your so brialliant!" Regina said sarcasticly, rolling her eyes. "I coulda told you that....loser."
"shut up, or ya can forget me goin to da mall wit you" Remy said, walking into the other room, "Remy try sometin else." He looked at Hope for a minute then snatched the covers off the bed.
"Hey!" Hope exclaimed, sitting up. "It's cold in here!"
"Sorry." he said, not sounding sorry at all.
"I hate you." Hope said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Mornin' t'you too sunshine." he winked and walked out of the room bowing. Hope jsut looked at him with her eyes narrowed and when he turned around and dissappeared behind the wall she just sighed, smiled, and got up.
After about an hour, whoever was still around then decided to go out for breakfast. "Where to?" Hope asked, looking around at the many different restaurants.
"Burger King!"
"Huddle House!"
"Captain D's!"
"O' Charlie's!"
"O' Charlie's?! Do you think we're made out of money?"
"Oh how 'bout we go to Wendy's!"
"Hold it!" Hope yelled over the noise. "We can't go to 6 different places. Since we're going to breakfast, why don't we go to the Waffle House?"
"Sounds good to me." Shelby said. Everyone else nodded. "Waffle House it is."
They quickly pulled into the parking lot and piled out of the car.
After they had found seats and ordered, they settled in to have a nice, peaceful breakfast.
"Hey guys look they have a TV!" Pyro exclaimed happily.
"What's on?" Shelby asked.
"Just the news." Pyro answered. "Hey look there's a picture of Lance!"
"What's Lance doing on TV?" Hope asked, turning around to see.
"On our top story tonight, we interview Police Chief Chris Morris. Mr. Morris, can you tell us about the mutant you have in your custody." A TV announcer said.
"Why yes ma'am I certainly can. This young man and his friend here were caught in an illegal strip bar, one doing drugs we suspect...and the other, just acting all tough and resisting."
"Can you tell me what happened in the bar?" the announcer asked.
"Yes I can. Our men made a raid, and in the process of this raid we found this rats hiding out in the front. We'll be charging them with underage drinking. and resisting arrest. This just goes to show that mutants are up to no good."
"Thank you sir..." the announcer said. The rest of her statement was drowned out by groans.
"We're doomed." Pyro stated.
**************meanwhile at the mall************
" I'm not wearing that." Regina pushed through some racks at Charlotte Russe, when Chaos picked up the tackiest looking pink polkadot dress with electric blue polkadots.
"C'mon Reginnnaaa!! You'd loook so hot in it, wouldn't she Rem?" she looked for Rem who was busy taking lingerie and flavored sex cream and all that, and shoving it in his coat real slick like, "huh? oh...yeah..." he turned to take off the little alarm things as if it was the easiest thing in the world, Remy was a little distracted today though, something was bothering him. Like, why he was stealing this stuff. Someone's been on his mind lately, for the last 3 days anyway since she was picked up.
Chaos smiled at the frustrated look on Regina's face and then saw across the hall, a beautful deep red dress on a manicun...almost as if someone put it there just for them to see.....and maybe take... she nudged Regina and pointed across the hall. The both of them ran and admired it in the window.
"Ooooh que bonita..." Regina sighed. Chaos grinned and poked her shoulder, "Regina, you are gonna look like your begging for someone to go down on you in that dress!!"
Regina shook her head and couldnt beleive what Chaos just said, "What?!" but Kay just ignored it. "It would looks so good man!! Its like blood red, and your skin is the perfect tone. I wish I was spanish..."
"You think it would look alright?" she asked hopefully. It was a..as mentioned before, dark dark once peice red dress, with off-shoulder straps, a v-cut neckline, a tight waist and a flowy skirt with black silk flowing from underneath it. It came with long upper arm gloves...but Regina would probably disregard those...thats going a little too far.
Remy walked back up to them and even he was taken aback by this dress. Even taken MORE by the price. $750. He tapped the glass against this price, making Kay and Regina suddenly depressed.
Chaos shook her head and pushed Remy saying, "You could get that, right handsomn?" she pushed back Remy's long hair exposing his entire face. He was about to answer when he noticed people running to the television next to the escalator like 30 feet from them. Regina and Chaos saw Lance's face on screen and ran to the set pushing people aside. Remy remained still and whispered to himself, "elle serait si belle.." (translation: she would be so beautiful...) but it wasn't Regina he was tlaking about. He shook his head hard thinking to himself (in french of course) that he needed to knock it off. He wasn't being himself.
"First mutant...ever to be documented as minor arrestment..." they heard. After watching the entire interview with the lying officer, Chaos turned around and began sparking slightly and clenching her teeth..
"ERRR this is such bullshit!!" she shook her head. Remy walked over to them, after being alone for 5 or 10 minutes. Regina's face was upset looking, Chaos noticed and said, "No time for beign sad!! Time for lookin goooood. Remy, get in there, put that dress on and sneak out!!!" she pointed at the store.
Remy grinned and opened a side of his coat. Hanging on a his collar, was the dress in its package complete with matching collar and gloves she wasn't going to wear. Regina's face brightened immediatly and she almost knocked Remy over.
"YOUR THE COOLEST REMY!!! I LOVE YOUUU!!!!" she held onto him tight and kissed his cheek like seven times. He could only stand there and grin widely. Chaos opened the other side to see all the dirty stuff he took previously. His grin went even wider.
"Who the hell...are THOSE for?!" The both backed from him and raised eyebrows. Couldn't be for Rogue...
"Haha..Remy has a new interest Kay-belle. Lets go before we be thrown in de same cell wit Lance."
-cookie
********At the hospital 7:30 pm*************
"WHAT THE F*** WAS LANCE THINKIN?!" Chaos said angrily. "Why in the hell would he take Alex to a strip bar, in BROAD daylight...?!!!!" She paced back and forth and sparking like mad...so bad that lights in the hospital were flcikering every now and then.
Hope closed her eyes and shivered unwillingly. Her hair was still wet from swimming and it was cold in the waiting room. She was also worried about Alex, even though she hardly knew him.
"Here." Remy said, handing her his trench coat. "Put this on." He smiled and sat down.
"Thanks." Hope said, pulling it on. "But don't you need it?"
"Nah." Remy said, "Remy don't get cold 'dat easily."
Regina, Shelby, Pietro, and Pyro walked into the waiting room, all looking angry. "I just can't believe Lance would be that stupid!" Regina burst out, "Didn't he care that he was doing something that obvious?!! He knows that if he got in trouble we couldnt really help him."
"Probably not." Shelby said angrily. "How's Alex?"
"The doctor's said he'll be fine." Chaos said, sitting down beside Rogue, and then getting back up when Rogue shifted in her seat due to the uncomfort of sitting next to a living taser. "He has a pretty bad concussion, but other than that he'll be okay. He'll have to stay in the hospital overnight though..."
"Well, that's a relief." Pyro said.
Warren walked out of the infirmary area and immediatly asked, "Has anybody called the institute?"
Everyone looked at the ground. "Coul'n't we jes forget about callin'?" Rogue said, "If w'tell 'em we'll hafta cut this trip short."
Warren shook his head. "I'll call and see what I can do...the professor likes me--hopefully I'll get some points for that." he walked outside since cellphones aren't allowed in the hospital.
"Thanks." everyone basically said.
"That's one call I really wouldn't want to make." Hope said. "Hello Professor Xavier I just called to tell you that one of your students is in the hospital and another is in jail for going to an illegal strip bar...even if he wasnt one of your students to begin with..." she mimicked.
Everyone laughed, easing the tension in the room, Rogue spoke, "Haha, nah the Prof dont get ragin' mad, its tha fact that we called first thatll set him in a trusting mood."
(silence for a minute)
Hope thought to herself, and laughed out of no where. Everyone looked at
her quizically. "Haha I was jsut thinking about sending a post card to Scott
with a picture of Alex banged up, all these girls in the hospital bed with
him, and then alex's adventures in the strip club written on the back."
Everyone laughed again and shook theyre heads. "you'd get shot" Shelby said.
"Who cares, its a kodak moment."
(silence for another moment)
Warren walked back through the doors, looking grim. "Well, I've got good news, bad news, and more bad news. Which do you want first?"
Everyone groaned. "Good news, I guess." Regina said tentatively.
"Okay. The good news is that we can continue our road trip." Warren said.
"ALRIGHTTT!" Pyro cheered.
"What-about-the-bad-news?" Pietro asked.
"Logan's coming with us."
Chaos turned pale. "Please tell me you're joking." she said nervously/angrily...sparking again.
"Nope." Warren answered. "He'll meet us at the hotel tomorrow afternoon...uh, Kay the nurses are giving us bad looks..."
"What?! Logans comming tomarrow to hang me and your interested in what the nurses think?!" she snapped. No one wanted to say anything. Lights were flickering and in rooms there were sirens from shorted out peices of equipment. Chaos didn't even notice. Everyone looked at Regina...who just sighed and shot Chaos with a stunner needle. Pietro raced to her side and placed her in a chair before she actually hit the ground, and leaned her next to Pyro, who had his arm around her to keep her up. Sometimes she just got too worked up over nothing...
"What's 'de other bad news?" Remy went on.
"The police haven't posted bail on Lance yet. I'd sure the only thing he'll be charged with is underage drinking, but they won't let him go."
"What!" Pyro exclaimed angrily. "We're scheduled to leave tomorrow!"
"Why are they still holding him?" Hope asked, wringing water from her hair and reabsorbing it.
"I don't really know." Warren said.
"Probably because he's a mutant." Rogue replied sarcastically.
"You're most likely right." Regina said with a sigh, "I just hope they let him out soon. I'm getting tired of being in Nashville."
"Me too." Pyro said.
Everyone was silent for another moment....and the while, Regina got to thinking.. yes, her diplomatic intelligence was kicking in. "Y'know guys...they call this stuff police brutality." Everyone looked at her. "Well, ALEX wasn't drinking. And he obviously sure as hell didn't put up any resistance....by the way he looks anyway.."
"Lets atleast wait until Alex wakes up, Reg, and then you can pull out the aces." Warren suggested. Everyone agreed and was brought into a better mood now that they might have something to go by.
"You guys, shouldn't we just go back to the hotel until Alex can leave the hospital?" Hope asked, "There's really no reason to stay and it is getting late."
"I think someone should stay with him...I'd be pretty confused if I had woken up here with no one to explain anything." Warren said..everyone looked at him. He sighed and threw his hands up, exposing some feathers under his coat. "Alright, I'll STAY. I GUESS. Even IF I JUST CALLED THE PROFFESSOR FOR ALLLLLL OF US!!" he said indignantly.
"Have-Fun!." Pietro said, "First-one-outside-gets-to-drive!" He zipped out the room.
"Cheater." Shelby mumbled as she walked out of the room following Remy pretending not to be cold and helping Pyro carry the stiff, metal-heavy Chaos and Hope who was trying her best to not let the coat drag. Regina almost walked out, but turned around and walked halfway back towards Warren. Right when she opened her mouth to ask something he cut her off first, "Tomarrow night is still on...if you feel up to going." He asked hopefully.
She just smiled, nodded and left.
********The Next Morning***********
"Hope get up!" Shelby said, exasperated.
"Never." Hope mumbled, pulling the covers over her head. "It's too early to be up."
"Early?!?" Shelby cried. "It's almost noon!"
"Exactly."
"ARGHH I give up!" Shelby said, throwing her hands in the air and stomping out of the room. She looked over at the group. Remy was playing cards (suprise suprise), Pietro, Pyro and Rogue were playing video games, while Regina and a somewhat drowsy Chaos got ready to go shoppingn in disguise (look normal and have all metal covered up) for something for Regina to wear....except it wasn't really shopping...since they weren't really gonna pay.
"One of you can try."
"Ah'd suggest da water glass trick, but somehow I don't tink dat'd work." Remy said, shuffling his cards.
"God, Remy your so brialliant!" Regina said sarcasticly, rolling her eyes. "I coulda told you that....loser."
"shut up, or ya can forget me goin to da mall wit you" Remy said, walking into the other room, "Remy try sometin else." He looked at Hope for a minute then snatched the covers off the bed.
"Hey!" Hope exclaimed, sitting up. "It's cold in here!"
"Sorry." he said, not sounding sorry at all.
"I hate you." Hope said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Mornin' t'you too sunshine." he winked and walked out of the room bowing. Hope jsut looked at him with her eyes narrowed and when he turned around and dissappeared behind the wall she just sighed, smiled, and got up.
After about an hour, whoever was still around then decided to go out for breakfast. "Where to?" Hope asked, looking around at the many different restaurants.
"Burger King!"
"Huddle House!"
"Captain D's!"
"O' Charlie's!"
"O' Charlie's?! Do you think we're made out of money?"
"Oh how 'bout we go to Wendy's!"
"Hold it!" Hope yelled over the noise. "We can't go to 6 different places. Since we're going to breakfast, why don't we go to the Waffle House?"
"Sounds good to me." Shelby said. Everyone else nodded. "Waffle House it is."
They quickly pulled into the parking lot and piled out of the car.
After they had found seats and ordered, they settled in to have a nice, peaceful breakfast.
"Hey guys look they have a TV!" Pyro exclaimed happily.
"What's on?" Shelby asked.
"Just the news." Pyro answered. "Hey look there's a picture of Lance!"
"What's Lance doing on TV?" Hope asked, turning around to see.
"On our top story tonight, we interview Police Chief Chris Morris. Mr. Morris, can you tell us about the mutant you have in your custody." A TV announcer said.
"Why yes ma'am I certainly can. This young man and his friend here were caught in an illegal strip bar, one doing drugs we suspect...and the other, just acting all tough and resisting."
"Can you tell me what happened in the bar?" the announcer asked.
"Yes I can. Our men made a raid, and in the process of this raid we found this rats hiding out in the front. We'll be charging them with underage drinking. and resisting arrest. This just goes to show that mutants are up to no good."
"Thank you sir..." the announcer said. The rest of her statement was drowned out by groans.
"We're doomed." Pyro stated.
**************meanwhile at the mall************
" I'm not wearing that." Regina pushed through some racks at Charlotte Russe, when Chaos picked up the tackiest looking pink polkadot dress with electric blue polkadots.
"C'mon Reginnnaaa!! You'd loook so hot in it, wouldn't she Rem?" she looked for Rem who was busy taking lingerie and flavored sex cream and all that, and shoving it in his coat real slick like, "huh? oh...yeah..." he turned to take off the little alarm things as if it was the easiest thing in the world, Remy was a little distracted today though, something was bothering him. Like, why he was stealing this stuff. Someone's been on his mind lately, for the last 3 days anyway since she was picked up.
Chaos smiled at the frustrated look on Regina's face and then saw across the hall, a beautful deep red dress on a manicun...almost as if someone put it there just for them to see.....and maybe take... she nudged Regina and pointed across the hall. The both of them ran and admired it in the window.
"Ooooh que bonita..." Regina sighed. Chaos grinned and poked her shoulder, "Regina, you are gonna look like your begging for someone to go down on you in that dress!!"
Regina shook her head and couldnt beleive what Chaos just said, "What?!" but Kay just ignored it. "It would looks so good man!! Its like blood red, and your skin is the perfect tone. I wish I was spanish..."
"You think it would look alright?" she asked hopefully. It was a..as mentioned before, dark dark once peice red dress, with off-shoulder straps, a v-cut neckline, a tight waist and a flowy skirt with black silk flowing from underneath it. It came with long upper arm gloves...but Regina would probably disregard those...thats going a little too far.
Remy walked back up to them and even he was taken aback by this dress. Even taken MORE by the price. $750. He tapped the glass against this price, making Kay and Regina suddenly depressed.
Chaos shook her head and pushed Remy saying, "You could get that, right handsomn?" she pushed back Remy's long hair exposing his entire face. He was about to answer when he noticed people running to the television next to the escalator like 30 feet from them. Regina and Chaos saw Lance's face on screen and ran to the set pushing people aside. Remy remained still and whispered to himself, "elle serait si belle.." (translation: she would be so beautiful...) but it wasn't Regina he was tlaking about. He shook his head hard thinking to himself (in french of course) that he needed to knock it off. He wasn't being himself.
"First mutant...ever to be documented as minor arrestment..." they heard. After watching the entire interview with the lying officer, Chaos turned around and began sparking slightly and clenching her teeth..
"ERRR this is such bullshit!!" she shook her head. Remy walked over to them, after being alone for 5 or 10 minutes. Regina's face was upset looking, Chaos noticed and said, "No time for beign sad!! Time for lookin goooood. Remy, get in there, put that dress on and sneak out!!!" she pointed at the store.
Remy grinned and opened a side of his coat. Hanging on a his collar, was the dress in its package complete with matching collar and gloves she wasn't going to wear. Regina's face brightened immediatly and she almost knocked Remy over.
"YOUR THE COOLEST REMY!!! I LOVE YOUUU!!!!" she held onto him tight and kissed his cheek like seven times. He could only stand there and grin widely. Chaos opened the other side to see all the dirty stuff he took previously. His grin went even wider.
"Who the hell...are THOSE for?!" The both backed from him and raised eyebrows. Couldn't be for Rogue...
"Haha..Remy has a new interest Kay-belle. Lets go before we be thrown in de same cell wit Lance."