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"GET UP EVERYBODY!" Regina shouted at the top of her lungs and stretched her body out after coming out of the shower. Chaos rolled over and ended up on the floor. She sat up and rubbed her head.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" she screamed and everyone looked at her crumpled form sitting on the floor, hair a mess and make up smeared. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she was about to fall asleep again when Pyro, who had been up even before Regina, pulled her to her feet.
"Don't think so luv, I wanna get outta here," he said and she stood on her feet while glaring at him. Remy rolled out of bed and rubbed his head while going into the bathroom to take a shower.
"Remin' Remy ta neva drink wit Chaos 'gain," he said, his sleep ridden voice causing him to speak weird.
"Why are we moving so fast. Everythin's spinnin'..." Rogue sighed referring to the way everyone was struggling to find book bags and all that. She obviously never really drank before. Lance smiled, he was about to say something when everyone jumped as Remy let out a high pitched scream trying to resemble a girl being walked in on. Everyone previously not fully awake, including Chaos, was startled awake with the thought, "What the hell was that?"
Regina ran into the bathroom, only to find the Cajun (who was currently in the shower) holding her panties in his hands and a grin on his face. "Black lace becomes ya Cherie," he said and Regina snatched her underwear away and flushed the toilet on her way out. Another scream was heard as Remy was drenched in ice cold water.
"We have to hurry up you guys, we're supposed to be out of here by eleven," Shelby said and checked her watch. Chaos grabbed a towel and scratched her leg as she made her way into the bathroom. Everyone waited for her to come out screaming at the site of a naked Remy but after ten minutes their eyes were still glued to the door and only offhanded giggles and comments of 'I can't reach' and 'Remy what are you...don't!' were heard.
'ZAAAAP'
"AHH!!! RIEND'UN DIEUIL CHAOS!!!!!!!" was heard kind of muffled from behind the door. It was followed by a manic laughing from Chaos, some more cursing from Remy and the sound of a curtain rod falling. Apparently Remy had tripped over the small barrier between the floor and the shower when he touched the metal area of her body.
Hope left with Pyro and they started taking luggage to the van. Ten minutes later Chaos and Remy came out, both drenched (Chaos with a dripping wet towel wrapped around her shoulder to cover metal parts and Remy trying to pull it off her) and grinning. Neither one looking at all tense when they had just showered together, though Remy did look shaky after being shocked.
Pietro was next, he had just pulled off his pink boxers (originally red but faded) when the door was banged open and he was naked to face with Shelby who gave him a look of approval.
"The manager said we can use the other bathrooms," she said and barely looked away from his *ahem* lower torso. She exited the bathroom with her shampoo and didn't notice the deep flush that crept into Pietro's light skin since she had been to busy staring elsewhere.
Suddenly the door opened again.
"Oh..yeah...nice underwear" she shouted and laughed as she shut the door again. He narrowed his eyes, opened the door halfway, leaning out shaking his fist and screeched.
"GO-TO-HELL!!!"
***
Everyone was bathed, dressed and in the van where Chaos took a break and allowed Pyro to drive this time. Blink182's 'Miss You' played on the radio since the c.d. player suspiciously wasn't working. She sat in the back next to Remy. "Argh! I don't like this band. Not at all." she complained, looking to Remy who was now and then glancing at Hope who had sat all the way in the front.
"You like her?" Chaos asked with a smirk after the silence lasted for a couple of minutes. Remy shrugged and gave her a small smile.
"Remy loves lots o' girls Kay-belle," he said casually. Chaos shook her head and gave him a grin, her Smokey eyes filled with laugher and mischief.
"I didn't ask if you loved her, I asked if you liked her," she said. Remy gave her a glare not liking where this was going.
"What's da difference?" he asked. She stood up about to make her way to where Pyro sat alone but before she left she gave her explanation.
"When it comes to you, you love and leave a lot of girls but you never liked them," she said and kept walking.
"I liked you!" he called out and Chaos laughed.
***
*Shelby's body was beginning to slump to the side as the heat of the day settled into her bones. She got stopped from careening over the edge of the double seat when a body sat itself comfortably next to her. She opened her eyes and stared into blue ones.
"You-have-the-scariest-eyes-I've-ever-seen!" Pietro commented. Shelby blinked and for a minute there was almost hurt. She had been born with her left eye being a gray/green color and her right eye a pale blue. Pietro smirked and leaned in close to her face. "They're awful sexy," he said normally. Her blonde eyebrow reached her hair line and she was about to talk when Pietro's finger covered her lips. "Don't talk, just kiss," he whispered and started to kiss her, his mouth was warm and sweet, tasting a little of the strawberry she had seen him bite into earlier.*
"SHELBY-GET-THE-HELL-UP, YOU'RE-HOGGING-UP-ALL-THE-ROOM!" Pietro shouted at Shelby's sleeping form. He noticed her lips were puckered up and grinned when he figured what she was dreaming about. He leaned into her ear and opened his lips slightly before...shouting. "SHELBY!"
Shelby sat up, startled and when she saw who it was that had ruined her dream she growled and set his pants on fire. Pietro started screaming until Rogue touched Shelby's cheek and took some of her power, drawing the fire into her system. Shelby started a little at the drain of power.
"Good for ya Speedy, she was sleepin' ya asshole," Rogue said and shook her head at Pietro's meanness. Shelby crossed her arms over her chest and stared out the window.
"Sorry," he said, not meaning it at all. He sat next to her and put an arm around her shoulder. When she didn't look at him he frowned. "You're-not-mad-at-me-are-you?" he asked and when she still didn't speak he took matters into his own hands. "Fine, but-you-asked-for-it!" he called out and started to tickle her.
"Stop! Stop it!" wheeze. "Stop!" She giggled as Pietro's fingers ran over her belly quickly and then he accidentally slipped up into her shirt. She sucked in her breath and looked into his eyes. It was like in her dream, but this time instead of kissing her. Pietro laughed nervously and pulled her shirt down and patted it in place.
"I don't mess with virgins," he said playfully.
"Who said I was?" she teased, Pietro cocked a brow.
"Funny how so different we are," he said and looked at her through his lashes, trying to behave innocently. Shelby giggled and leaned into his side. He comfortably wrapped his arm around her waist. Rogue sighed and moved over to the other side alone after just witnessing the tickle fest and getting an idea of how Shelby feels since she had touched her.
***
Rogue was now sitting behind Hope listening to her c.d. player when she was shaken out of her reverie and greeted with twinkling brown eyes. Lance sat next to her and pulled the headphones off. She looked at him and he pulled her legs onto his lap.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to be my date tonight," Lance said. Rogue blushed and Lance blushed and he started to stutter. "Um-uh, Re-Remy figured it would be fun for us all to go to a club, even Warren's going," he added, at that Rogue cocked a brow.
"You serious?" she asked. Lance laughed at the look of astonishment on her face.
"That's only cause Reggie's going," he said and Rogue nodded.
"Ah'd love to be your date," she said and he smiled at her and went back to sit with Alex.
"Well dude, what did she say?" Alex asked.
"She said yeah," Lance said with a grin.
"Awesome, that only leaves me," Alex said. Lance looked over at him.
"No, Pyro's alone too," Lance said.
"Oh yeah..."
"..."
"..."
"You could...always go with Pyro?" Lance said suggestively, winking at Alex. That earned him a punch in the arm.
***
Remy walked over to Hope and tapped her on her shoulder, she looked up with an annoyed look on her face.
"Yeah?" she asked, Remy coughed into his hand.
"Wanna play some cards wit Remy?" he asked. Hope followed him to the back where they played spades for a little while. "Remy was wonderin' if ya wanted to accompany him to da club tonight," he said. Hope looked up but he looked so casual that she brushed it off as just a friendly thing.
"Sure, I guess," she said and for the first time beat him at a game. "I WON! YEAY!" she shouted and for the first time in a long while she looked happy. Remy grinned.
"Ya should smile more often cherie, it becomes ya," he said.
***
They had finally made it to New Orleans by dusk; they rented one room yet again, and was about to get ready to party. "Oh wow." Shelby marveled at the place. Remy sure knew how to pick them. It wasn't an extremely nice place--it was actually rather cheap, but it was remarkable.
Some of the walls were made of stones with falling water, some covered in random antique mirrors, the maids in the old fashioned French "upstairs" maid costumes and butlers and all were dressed as mimes. Doors were covered in random things...seashells, masks, broken multicolored glass, sea glass. The place was a work of art. Even the couches were, all being hand sown from random colored velvet and side tables from welded old rusty chairs, and books stacked in piles.
"Only in N'Orleans..." Rogue smiled looking to Remy who looked back grinning. They were proud to be from the stylish south. As everyone settled down, some going upstairs (using the fun house mirror elevators) (namely Alex, Lance, Rogue, Hope and Shelby) and unpacking for the next few days, and the rest (Remy, Warren, Regina, Chaos and Pyro) staying downstairs.
Regina and Warren making last minute arrangements, Pyro admiring the random art hanging on walls and ceiling, Remy and Chaos slipping into the bar, made completely of fish tanks and black light respondent fish, unnoticed. But they didn't go for long.
"Monsieur LeBeau!!!" a younger maid, probably 19, with large breasts and thin legs ran up to Remy. Suddenly several maids...ran up to Remy each trying to get his attention. Chaos turned and crossed her arms, Warren and Regina finally returning with some packets, stopped and shook their heads at the sight of Remy being suffocated.
"KAY-BELLE!! ANGEL! HELP ME!!" he playfully screamed.
Everyone turned their backs on him and proceeded into the elevator. Before the door closed, Regina waved a goodbye sweetly and Chaos just screamed, "GO TO HELL!" and Remy was left on his own.
***
Later on after picking the place to go (and when Remy was actually able to get upstairs without being tackled), the boys got ready first for going to the club that night and waited for the girls downstairs. The girls were dressed to go clubbin', even Chaos to an extent (although she refused to take off some of her chains, and piercings). They made their way to the club that Remy was talking about. Some salsa was playing and Regina's hips began to move to the beat on its own. She turned to Warren.
"Wanna dance?" she asked, but much to her dismay he declined.
"Um, maybe another time," he said lamely. Her smile was a bit strained but she nodded and made her way to a table. Remy grabbed Warren's arm.
"What was dat about?" he asked and Warren sighed.
"I danced with her before Rem, I almost had a heart attack," he said and Remy nodded with a grin.
"Sounds like Remy's kinda gal," he teased as if to get Warren jealous.
"Go ahead she's yours." Warren replied unexpectedly and monotonously. Remy
raised an eye brow, looked at the excitedly jumping Regina and full heartedly laughed.
They all sat at the table but Regina kept fidgeting. She looked to Chaos,
"Wanna dance Kay???"
"Fuck that. Shots first man." Chaos bluntly replied jerking a thumb towards towards the bar. Regina pouted; finally Pyro came to her rescue.
"Come on luv, I'll dance with ya," he said and Regina squealed and she and Pyro made their way to the dance floor.
"So what will ya be havin'," a waiter said.
"Lemme get..." he looked around only to find most of them were actually
minors. "Ahh damn it--."
"SHOTS OF EVERYTHING!!!" Chaos screamed with a huge smile. Warren looked at
her and his eyes narrowed. He was about to say something when she interrupted him, "and some whiskey for this fine young man."
"No thank you. A coke is fine--"
"With a rum twist!!" Chaos finished for him grinning.
"WITHOUT twist," he said quickly narrowing his eyes and was surprised when
no one asked for another one for Regina. Remy asked for some other kind of liquor, which they didn't have so he asked for several beers.
After a couple of songs, Regina and Pyro came back. Her face was flushed and she grabbed the ice cold beer and took a long drink. Warren gave her a look of confusion. "You drink?" he asked.
"On occasion," she said and took another long swallow.
Chaos stood up immediately, "ON OCCASION?!?! PSHH!! You should have seen her in
Florrsisigndf."
Regina covered her mouth with her hand and explained, "Chaos was confused and disoriented, as she--OUCH YOU BITCH!!" Regina shook her hand off because Chaos had just bitten it. People sitting near them and walking around stopped and stared at the blushing Regina for her outburst.
"Anybody-wanna-dance?" Pietro asked. Both Shelby and Regina shouted 'me' and Pietro grinned. "I-don't-mind-a-threesome," he said wickedly. Regina and Shelby rolled their eyes and all three went to the dance floor where Pietro thought he was the pimp with two girls grinding on him.
Warren watched all this and he got a little jealous at how easily Regina blended into the party scene. He had not known that side of her before.
"MMYY SHAROONNNAA!!!" he heard her scream along with the bizarrely picked
out music. She was all over the place. For a brief moment he was contemplating throwing something at her for the hell of it, but shook the thought off.
Chaos leaned into Remy, pointing to Warren. He looked at Chaos, Warren and
then Chaos again grinning like mad.
"He needs to loosen up," she said and almost started to laugh when Remy poured some of his whiskey into Warren's cup. Warren took a sip and looked at the cup, his eyes narrowed at Remy.
"LeBeau." he stated. Chaos started cracking up.
Remy cooley, just leaned back and said, "you really need ta loosen up mon ami." then he pointed at Regina. "Y'see her? She knows 'ow to have fun."
"--and who do you expect is going to drive the rest of us home," Warren asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Details, details." Chaos waved it off. "We're on vacation, and you should be actin' more like it." she explained, Remy nodding. "Anyway--" she continued. "Remy looks like he might be getting a little lonely...I suggest you make it look like your taken by Reggie over there..or.." she nudged Remy. He looked at her confusedly and then got the hint.
"OH WARREN!!! YOUR SOO SEXY!! REMY WANTS YOU BADD!!!" Remy screamed and lunged for Warren but ended up on his face when Warren took the last minute to jump up. Chaos had begun laughing unbelievably hard as Warren took a step back since Remy caused a scene, making everyone around them turn towards them in disgust. He was on his hands and knees in a seductive pose and purring loudly, "Come to me, Warren, Remy knows you feel it too!!!" and Warren just walked away real fast, leaving Chaos and Remy howling in laughter.
Not knowing where else to go, he aimed for the exit to breath.
"HEY!!Where ya goin' handsome!!" Regina said, appearing out of NO WHERE, and playfully grabbed him, "I knew you'd eventually wanna dance. No one can resist my charms!" he looked back to Chaos and Remy who held their glasses up as a toast. He just death glared them and turned back to Regina who was momentarily insane.
***
Rogue, Hope, Lance and Alex sat at the opposite end of the table and after witnessing all this, had nothing to say. Lance looked across the table at Rogue and took note on how pretty she looked. Still the same makeup, but the shirt was tight and dark velvet green with a thigh high black skirt, a pair of fishnet stockings she borrowed from Chaos and the same boots she always
wore. She had quite a nice figure.
"Hey Rogue. You look nice." he managed to say. He couldn't believe he had just said that. He hadn't meant to.
She looked at him momentarily and blushed, "uhh thanks."
Alex, who had been sitting next to Lance the entire time, got up and pushed
the kid. "Dude, ask her to dance mann." he whispered quietly and left.
Lance turned around and called out to him, "Where are YOU going?"
Alex turned around and yelled back. "I do not dance. ESPECIALLY when there's
an arcade next door," he added and left.
Lance was left alone with Rogue and Hope. "Wanna dance?" he asked. Rogue shifted nervously. He knew what she was worried about. He assured, "Its okay Rogue. We don't have to join the huge orgy over there (Rogue giggled). We can dance right here if you want to, or over by the edge." She smiled and they got up, walking over to a not so crowded area.
Hope looked over to Remy and Chaos who had definitely been having a good time on their own. She shook her head and sighed deeply. Pyro walked over and took a seat after dancing with some girl he met at the bar a half hour ago.
"'Ey sheila. Why aren't ya out with the rest o' them?" he wiped his forehead off with a napkin. She just looked back at Remy. "Oh," he finished.
There was silence (not including the intense beat of the music, or the chatter of people filling the room). Hope just couldn't deal too much more.
"I don't understand," she began, catching Pyro's attention. "What is it with those two? Its like, sometimes he really likes Rogue. Then he really likes Chaos, and sometimes I get signals when it comes to me...but I just don't get it." she finished her eyes not leaving the two people down the table laughing and drinking. Pyro thought for a moment.
"Did he ever tell ya how they met?" he asked her. Hope looked back at Pyro and shook her head. "Well..." he began, "maybe one of these nights you should ask 'im." he said as he put an arm around her in comfort.
"Iguess..."
"But until then, you and I are gonna dance the night away!!" and he pulled her up and dragged her over to the dance floor where Warren was just leaving.
"Ohh c'mon!!" Regina pleaded, "just one more song..." she begged.
He shook his head. "I can't I'm dizzy and your hyper to hell Reg, I promise I'll dance with you later...okay?" she slowly let go of his arm.
"Okay," she said quietly. Suddenly Shelby bounced over and took Regina's hand.
"C'mon!! I requested 'Crawling'!!!"
" I LOVE THAT SONG!!!" and suddenly she was happy again. She ran away leaving Warren slightly confused.
"Alright then," he trailed off.
He walked over to the table, meeting eyes with a mischievous looking Remy and Chaos. "What are you two up to..?" he asked at the suspicious looking couple. He took a sip of his soda and had a very hard time swallowing it (because it was straight out Everclear).
"What..?! Where the hell did my soda go, this is horrible!!!" he made a face and narrowed his eyes at the two others who were trying to keep a straight face.
"If you finish that glass..." Chaos started. Remy finished, "We'll leave
y'lone--f'good."
The two of them folded hands on the table trying to look as professional as they could get. Warren thought about it for a moment. What he didn't know was Chaos had slipped some cough medicine in it (she knew she'd be using it--so she took from Regina...who was the nursing major in college) so it made him even MORE loopy.
After Warren had finished his drink everything slowly went downhill from there, Chaos and Remy, who had been sitting and drinking all night, decided to get up and go dancing, only to be stalled by Regina, and everyone else who had to sit down for a second. 3 hours of straight dancing was taking toll and she was sobering up. Everyone else was just tired.
She smiled until she saw Warren turn around, smile and say something along
the lines of, "Heyyy seexxxyyy..." he laughed and grabbed her waist. Smelling the booze on him, she turned to the culprits.
"REMY!" she shouted and Chaos started rolling. Tears ran down her face at
the look on Regina's face.
"What?! Don't tell Remy you mad Cherie, Remy did ya a favor," he said grinning. Regina rolled her eyes and couldn't help but laugh at Warren's drunken grin. He held up his 'coke' and made a toast.
"To the road trip!" he slurred and the other's held up their beer bottles and drank to it, still laughing at Warren's demise. Remy grabbed Hope's hand and they made their way to the dance floor. Pietro grabbed Shelby's and Lance and Alex were dancing up on a blushing Rogue. That left Chaos, Regina and Warren who were sitting at the table, Chaos and Regina just slightly
tipsy and Warren sadly going insane, his wings free and knocked everything
over in sight.
"You know," he said to Regina as his face became serious. "I think I want to fuck now."
Chaos busted out laughing while Regina's eyes went wide at what he just said, almost making her choke on her drink. "WHAT?! Chaos what the hell did you force down this mans throat!?!"
He waved her off, "I said; I think I want that dance now."
"Oh.." she eyed him suspiciously. "Are you sure?" she asked, "I don't want you falling flat on your face out there."
"Yeah, come on damn it!" he said and pulled her onto the floor. Eventually Remy, noticing Chaos was alone pulled her out to the floor and got her to do a little dancing herself, even if this wasn't her style of music. Hope stepped back as Remy and Chaos went at it, dancing like maniacs and laughing so drunkenly.
Regina stepped back in shock as Warren started to dance with her wantonly, completely opposite of their last date, putting on a show for everyone. He was taking her by the waist holding her hard against him as they practically melted together on the floor. He touched and stroked her in places that made even HER blush. Whispering crazy things as they danced closer than anyone else she had with that night. It seemed even MORE close sing his wings were in a way surrounding.
She noticed the girls step back to check him out and it irritated her. She left him on the dance floor alone for a second and went to grab a Jack Daniels to wear the stress off, but while she was tossing it back she saw that a particular girl was dancing all up on her man, and that she was touching places better left untouched. Angrily she walked over to Remy and Chaos who had stopped dancing as they saw her fuming. She pointed over to Warren and the other girl. Chaos followed to where she was pointing and folded her arms in an evil smirk.
"You wanna take her or should I put on the show." she asked even if she knew the answer already. Regina bit her lip and shook her head, "No. I got it." leaving Remy and Chaos in anticipation while she walked over and tapped the girl on her shoulder.
"I think you need to back off," she said when the girl turned around. The girl gave her an up and down look and snorted and continued to dance with Warren provocatively. "You asked for it bitch!" Regina pulled her hair back, making the girl move backwards in pain, as her fist flew and landed on the girls jaw. Everyone who noticed, backed off and crowded around for the
fight.
"You stupid whore!!" the blonde screamed in her high pitched voice, calling out a war and started to fight back.
Eventually they ended up getting kicked out by the manager. Regina's hair was a mess and she had a cut on her cheek but the girl was worse off then she was with a broken nose and lying on the floor. "LA PROXIMA VEZ TE ROMPO LA CARA!" {Next time I'll break your face!}
Chaos ran outside and grinned at the unconscious girl. She tsked tsked her before following Regina. They spent 20 minutes actually trying to get there and then 20 more minutes trying to figure out the elevator before Chaos screamed, "FUCK THIS IM USIN THE STAIRS!!"
On the way up, Regina stopped to take off her heels. "God I loved onight...despite how that bitch made me flip and get kicked out."
"We could have gotten arrested...actually fuck, no YOU could have gotten
arrested. For once I'm an innocent bystander!" Chaos proudly stated with a slur still in her voice. Regina laughed.
"Kay shut up."
Both made it into the hotel room. Regina waited for Warren to come in any second but he didn't show up until early morning on Remy's arm. The others, dead tired were laughing at his blabber.
"Well, then I...and...you know and we...did..yeahhh." Warren ranted. Regina looked at him and started to laugh, her irritation disappearing; she gave him her spot on the sofa and slept on the mattress with Pyro. Everyone was settled in before Chaos spoke what they were all thinking.
"When he wakes up tomorrow...we're all gonna fucking die."
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"GET UP EVERYBODY!" Regina shouted at the top of her lungs and stretched her body out after coming out of the shower. Chaos rolled over and ended up on the floor. She sat up and rubbed her head.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" she screamed and everyone looked at her crumpled form sitting on the floor, hair a mess and make up smeared. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she was about to fall asleep again when Pyro, who had been up even before Regina, pulled her to her feet.
"Don't think so luv, I wanna get outta here," he said and she stood on her feet while glaring at him. Remy rolled out of bed and rubbed his head while going into the bathroom to take a shower.
"Remin' Remy ta neva drink wit Chaos 'gain," he said, his sleep ridden voice causing him to speak weird.
"Why are we moving so fast. Everythin's spinnin'..." Rogue sighed referring to the way everyone was struggling to find book bags and all that. She obviously never really drank before. Lance smiled, he was about to say something when everyone jumped as Remy let out a high pitched scream trying to resemble a girl being walked in on. Everyone previously not fully awake, including Chaos, was startled awake with the thought, "What the hell was that?"
Regina ran into the bathroom, only to find the Cajun (who was currently in the shower) holding her panties in his hands and a grin on his face. "Black lace becomes ya Cherie," he said and Regina snatched her underwear away and flushed the toilet on her way out. Another scream was heard as Remy was drenched in ice cold water.
"We have to hurry up you guys, we're supposed to be out of here by eleven," Shelby said and checked her watch. Chaos grabbed a towel and scratched her leg as she made her way into the bathroom. Everyone waited for her to come out screaming at the site of a naked Remy but after ten minutes their eyes were still glued to the door and only offhanded giggles and comments of 'I can't reach' and 'Remy what are you...don't!' were heard.
'ZAAAAP'
"AHH!!! RIEND'UN DIEUIL CHAOS!!!!!!!" was heard kind of muffled from behind the door. It was followed by a manic laughing from Chaos, some more cursing from Remy and the sound of a curtain rod falling. Apparently Remy had tripped over the small barrier between the floor and the shower when he touched the metal area of her body.
Hope left with Pyro and they started taking luggage to the van. Ten minutes later Chaos and Remy came out, both drenched (Chaos with a dripping wet towel wrapped around her shoulder to cover metal parts and Remy trying to pull it off her) and grinning. Neither one looking at all tense when they had just showered together, though Remy did look shaky after being shocked.
Pietro was next, he had just pulled off his pink boxers (originally red but faded) when the door was banged open and he was naked to face with Shelby who gave him a look of approval.
"The manager said we can use the other bathrooms," she said and barely looked away from his *ahem* lower torso. She exited the bathroom with her shampoo and didn't notice the deep flush that crept into Pietro's light skin since she had been to busy staring elsewhere.
Suddenly the door opened again.
"Oh..yeah...nice underwear" she shouted and laughed as she shut the door again. He narrowed his eyes, opened the door halfway, leaning out shaking his fist and screeched.
"GO-TO-HELL!!!"
***
Everyone was bathed, dressed and in the van where Chaos took a break and allowed Pyro to drive this time. Blink182's 'Miss You' played on the radio since the c.d. player suspiciously wasn't working. She sat in the back next to Remy. "Argh! I don't like this band. Not at all." she complained, looking to Remy who was now and then glancing at Hope who had sat all the way in the front.
"You like her?" Chaos asked with a smirk after the silence lasted for a couple of minutes. Remy shrugged and gave her a small smile.
"Remy loves lots o' girls Kay-belle," he said casually. Chaos shook her head and gave him a grin, her Smokey eyes filled with laugher and mischief.
"I didn't ask if you loved her, I asked if you liked her," she said. Remy gave her a glare not liking where this was going.
"What's da difference?" he asked. She stood up about to make her way to where Pyro sat alone but before she left she gave her explanation.
"When it comes to you, you love and leave a lot of girls but you never liked them," she said and kept walking.
"I liked you!" he called out and Chaos laughed.
***
*Shelby's body was beginning to slump to the side as the heat of the day settled into her bones. She got stopped from careening over the edge of the double seat when a body sat itself comfortably next to her. She opened her eyes and stared into blue ones.
"You-have-the-scariest-eyes-I've-ever-seen!" Pietro commented. Shelby blinked and for a minute there was almost hurt. She had been born with her left eye being a gray/green color and her right eye a pale blue. Pietro smirked and leaned in close to her face. "They're awful sexy," he said normally. Her blonde eyebrow reached her hair line and she was about to talk when Pietro's finger covered her lips. "Don't talk, just kiss," he whispered and started to kiss her, his mouth was warm and sweet, tasting a little of the strawberry she had seen him bite into earlier.*
"SHELBY-GET-THE-HELL-UP, YOU'RE-HOGGING-UP-ALL-THE-ROOM!" Pietro shouted at Shelby's sleeping form. He noticed her lips were puckered up and grinned when he figured what she was dreaming about. He leaned into her ear and opened his lips slightly before...shouting. "SHELBY!"
Shelby sat up, startled and when she saw who it was that had ruined her dream she growled and set his pants on fire. Pietro started screaming until Rogue touched Shelby's cheek and took some of her power, drawing the fire into her system. Shelby started a little at the drain of power.
"Good for ya Speedy, she was sleepin' ya asshole," Rogue said and shook her head at Pietro's meanness. Shelby crossed her arms over her chest and stared out the window.
"Sorry," he said, not meaning it at all. He sat next to her and put an arm around her shoulder. When she didn't look at him he frowned. "You're-not-mad-at-me-are-you?" he asked and when she still didn't speak he took matters into his own hands. "Fine, but-you-asked-for-it!" he called out and started to tickle her.
"Stop! Stop it!" wheeze. "Stop!" She giggled as Pietro's fingers ran over her belly quickly and then he accidentally slipped up into her shirt. She sucked in her breath and looked into his eyes. It was like in her dream, but this time instead of kissing her. Pietro laughed nervously and pulled her shirt down and patted it in place.
"I don't mess with virgins," he said playfully.
"Who said I was?" she teased, Pietro cocked a brow.
"Funny how so different we are," he said and looked at her through his lashes, trying to behave innocently. Shelby giggled and leaned into his side. He comfortably wrapped his arm around her waist. Rogue sighed and moved over to the other side alone after just witnessing the tickle fest and getting an idea of how Shelby feels since she had touched her.
***
Rogue was now sitting behind Hope listening to her c.d. player when she was shaken out of her reverie and greeted with twinkling brown eyes. Lance sat next to her and pulled the headphones off. She looked at him and he pulled her legs onto his lap.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to be my date tonight," Lance said. Rogue blushed and Lance blushed and he started to stutter. "Um-uh, Re-Remy figured it would be fun for us all to go to a club, even Warren's going," he added, at that Rogue cocked a brow.
"You serious?" she asked. Lance laughed at the look of astonishment on her face.
"That's only cause Reggie's going," he said and Rogue nodded.
"Ah'd love to be your date," she said and he smiled at her and went back to sit with Alex.
"Well dude, what did she say?" Alex asked.
"She said yeah," Lance said with a grin.
"Awesome, that only leaves me," Alex said. Lance looked over at him.
"No, Pyro's alone too," Lance said.
"Oh yeah..."
"..."
"..."
"You could...always go with Pyro?" Lance said suggestively, winking at Alex. That earned him a punch in the arm.
***
Remy walked over to Hope and tapped her on her shoulder, she looked up with an annoyed look on her face.
"Yeah?" she asked, Remy coughed into his hand.
"Wanna play some cards wit Remy?" he asked. Hope followed him to the back where they played spades for a little while. "Remy was wonderin' if ya wanted to accompany him to da club tonight," he said. Hope looked up but he looked so casual that she brushed it off as just a friendly thing.
"Sure, I guess," she said and for the first time beat him at a game. "I WON! YEAY!" she shouted and for the first time in a long while she looked happy. Remy grinned.
"Ya should smile more often cherie, it becomes ya," he said.
***
They had finally made it to New Orleans by dusk; they rented one room yet again, and was about to get ready to party. "Oh wow." Shelby marveled at the place. Remy sure knew how to pick them. It wasn't an extremely nice place--it was actually rather cheap, but it was remarkable.
Some of the walls were made of stones with falling water, some covered in random antique mirrors, the maids in the old fashioned French "upstairs" maid costumes and butlers and all were dressed as mimes. Doors were covered in random things...seashells, masks, broken multicolored glass, sea glass. The place was a work of art. Even the couches were, all being hand sown from random colored velvet and side tables from welded old rusty chairs, and books stacked in piles.
"Only in N'Orleans..." Rogue smiled looking to Remy who looked back grinning. They were proud to be from the stylish south. As everyone settled down, some going upstairs (using the fun house mirror elevators) (namely Alex, Lance, Rogue, Hope and Shelby) and unpacking for the next few days, and the rest (Remy, Warren, Regina, Chaos and Pyro) staying downstairs.
Regina and Warren making last minute arrangements, Pyro admiring the random art hanging on walls and ceiling, Remy and Chaos slipping into the bar, made completely of fish tanks and black light respondent fish, unnoticed. But they didn't go for long.
"Monsieur LeBeau!!!" a younger maid, probably 19, with large breasts and thin legs ran up to Remy. Suddenly several maids...ran up to Remy each trying to get his attention. Chaos turned and crossed her arms, Warren and Regina finally returning with some packets, stopped and shook their heads at the sight of Remy being suffocated.
"KAY-BELLE!! ANGEL! HELP ME!!" he playfully screamed.
Everyone turned their backs on him and proceeded into the elevator. Before the door closed, Regina waved a goodbye sweetly and Chaos just screamed, "GO TO HELL!" and Remy was left on his own.
***
Later on after picking the place to go (and when Remy was actually able to get upstairs without being tackled), the boys got ready first for going to the club that night and waited for the girls downstairs. The girls were dressed to go clubbin', even Chaos to an extent (although she refused to take off some of her chains, and piercings). They made their way to the club that Remy was talking about. Some salsa was playing and Regina's hips began to move to the beat on its own. She turned to Warren.
"Wanna dance?" she asked, but much to her dismay he declined.
"Um, maybe another time," he said lamely. Her smile was a bit strained but she nodded and made her way to a table. Remy grabbed Warren's arm.
"What was dat about?" he asked and Warren sighed.
"I danced with her before Rem, I almost had a heart attack," he said and Remy nodded with a grin.
"Sounds like Remy's kinda gal," he teased as if to get Warren jealous.
"Go ahead she's yours." Warren replied unexpectedly and monotonously. Remy
raised an eye brow, looked at the excitedly jumping Regina and full heartedly laughed.
They all sat at the table but Regina kept fidgeting. She looked to Chaos,
"Wanna dance Kay???"
"Fuck that. Shots first man." Chaos bluntly replied jerking a thumb towards towards the bar. Regina pouted; finally Pyro came to her rescue.
"Come on luv, I'll dance with ya," he said and Regina squealed and she and Pyro made their way to the dance floor.
"So what will ya be havin'," a waiter said.
"Lemme get..." he looked around only to find most of them were actually
minors. "Ahh damn it--."
"SHOTS OF EVERYTHING!!!" Chaos screamed with a huge smile. Warren looked at
her and his eyes narrowed. He was about to say something when she interrupted him, "and some whiskey for this fine young man."
"No thank you. A coke is fine--"
"With a rum twist!!" Chaos finished for him grinning.
"WITHOUT twist," he said quickly narrowing his eyes and was surprised when
no one asked for another one for Regina. Remy asked for some other kind of liquor, which they didn't have so he asked for several beers.
After a couple of songs, Regina and Pyro came back. Her face was flushed and she grabbed the ice cold beer and took a long drink. Warren gave her a look of confusion. "You drink?" he asked.
"On occasion," she said and took another long swallow.
Chaos stood up immediately, "ON OCCASION?!?! PSHH!! You should have seen her in
Florrsisigndf."
Regina covered her mouth with her hand and explained, "Chaos was confused and disoriented, as she--OUCH YOU BITCH!!" Regina shook her hand off because Chaos had just bitten it. People sitting near them and walking around stopped and stared at the blushing Regina for her outburst.
"Anybody-wanna-dance?" Pietro asked. Both Shelby and Regina shouted 'me' and Pietro grinned. "I-don't-mind-a-threesome," he said wickedly. Regina and Shelby rolled their eyes and all three went to the dance floor where Pietro thought he was the pimp with two girls grinding on him.
Warren watched all this and he got a little jealous at how easily Regina blended into the party scene. He had not known that side of her before.
"MMYY SHAROONNNAA!!!" he heard her scream along with the bizarrely picked
out music. She was all over the place. For a brief moment he was contemplating throwing something at her for the hell of it, but shook the thought off.
Chaos leaned into Remy, pointing to Warren. He looked at Chaos, Warren and
then Chaos again grinning like mad.
"He needs to loosen up," she said and almost started to laugh when Remy poured some of his whiskey into Warren's cup. Warren took a sip and looked at the cup, his eyes narrowed at Remy.
"LeBeau." he stated. Chaos started cracking up.
Remy cooley, just leaned back and said, "you really need ta loosen up mon ami." then he pointed at Regina. "Y'see her? She knows 'ow to have fun."
"--and who do you expect is going to drive the rest of us home," Warren asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Details, details." Chaos waved it off. "We're on vacation, and you should be actin' more like it." she explained, Remy nodding. "Anyway--" she continued. "Remy looks like he might be getting a little lonely...I suggest you make it look like your taken by Reggie over there..or.." she nudged Remy. He looked at her confusedly and then got the hint.
"OH WARREN!!! YOUR SOO SEXY!! REMY WANTS YOU BADD!!!" Remy screamed and lunged for Warren but ended up on his face when Warren took the last minute to jump up. Chaos had begun laughing unbelievably hard as Warren took a step back since Remy caused a scene, making everyone around them turn towards them in disgust. He was on his hands and knees in a seductive pose and purring loudly, "Come to me, Warren, Remy knows you feel it too!!!" and Warren just walked away real fast, leaving Chaos and Remy howling in laughter.
Not knowing where else to go, he aimed for the exit to breath.
"HEY!!Where ya goin' handsome!!" Regina said, appearing out of NO WHERE, and playfully grabbed him, "I knew you'd eventually wanna dance. No one can resist my charms!" he looked back to Chaos and Remy who held their glasses up as a toast. He just death glared them and turned back to Regina who was momentarily insane.
***
Rogue, Hope, Lance and Alex sat at the opposite end of the table and after witnessing all this, had nothing to say. Lance looked across the table at Rogue and took note on how pretty she looked. Still the same makeup, but the shirt was tight and dark velvet green with a thigh high black skirt, a pair of fishnet stockings she borrowed from Chaos and the same boots she always
wore. She had quite a nice figure.
"Hey Rogue. You look nice." he managed to say. He couldn't believe he had just said that. He hadn't meant to.
She looked at him momentarily and blushed, "uhh thanks."
Alex, who had been sitting next to Lance the entire time, got up and pushed
the kid. "Dude, ask her to dance mann." he whispered quietly and left.
Lance turned around and called out to him, "Where are YOU going?"
Alex turned around and yelled back. "I do not dance. ESPECIALLY when there's
an arcade next door," he added and left.
Lance was left alone with Rogue and Hope. "Wanna dance?" he asked. Rogue shifted nervously. He knew what she was worried about. He assured, "Its okay Rogue. We don't have to join the huge orgy over there (Rogue giggled). We can dance right here if you want to, or over by the edge." She smiled and they got up, walking over to a not so crowded area.
Hope looked over to Remy and Chaos who had definitely been having a good time on their own. She shook her head and sighed deeply. Pyro walked over and took a seat after dancing with some girl he met at the bar a half hour ago.
"'Ey sheila. Why aren't ya out with the rest o' them?" he wiped his forehead off with a napkin. She just looked back at Remy. "Oh," he finished.
There was silence (not including the intense beat of the music, or the chatter of people filling the room). Hope just couldn't deal too much more.
"I don't understand," she began, catching Pyro's attention. "What is it with those two? Its like, sometimes he really likes Rogue. Then he really likes Chaos, and sometimes I get signals when it comes to me...but I just don't get it." she finished her eyes not leaving the two people down the table laughing and drinking. Pyro thought for a moment.
"Did he ever tell ya how they met?" he asked her. Hope looked back at Pyro and shook her head. "Well..." he began, "maybe one of these nights you should ask 'im." he said as he put an arm around her in comfort.
"Iguess..."
"But until then, you and I are gonna dance the night away!!" and he pulled her up and dragged her over to the dance floor where Warren was just leaving.
"Ohh c'mon!!" Regina pleaded, "just one more song..." she begged.
He shook his head. "I can't I'm dizzy and your hyper to hell Reg, I promise I'll dance with you later...okay?" she slowly let go of his arm.
"Okay," she said quietly. Suddenly Shelby bounced over and took Regina's hand.
"C'mon!! I requested 'Crawling'!!!"
" I LOVE THAT SONG!!!" and suddenly she was happy again. She ran away leaving Warren slightly confused.
"Alright then," he trailed off.
He walked over to the table, meeting eyes with a mischievous looking Remy and Chaos. "What are you two up to..?" he asked at the suspicious looking couple. He took a sip of his soda and had a very hard time swallowing it (because it was straight out Everclear).
"What..?! Where the hell did my soda go, this is horrible!!!" he made a face and narrowed his eyes at the two others who were trying to keep a straight face.
"If you finish that glass..." Chaos started. Remy finished, "We'll leave
y'lone--f'good."
The two of them folded hands on the table trying to look as professional as they could get. Warren thought about it for a moment. What he didn't know was Chaos had slipped some cough medicine in it (she knew she'd be using it--so she took from Regina...who was the nursing major in college) so it made him even MORE loopy.
After Warren had finished his drink everything slowly went downhill from there, Chaos and Remy, who had been sitting and drinking all night, decided to get up and go dancing, only to be stalled by Regina, and everyone else who had to sit down for a second. 3 hours of straight dancing was taking toll and she was sobering up. Everyone else was just tired.
She smiled until she saw Warren turn around, smile and say something along
the lines of, "Heyyy seexxxyyy..." he laughed and grabbed her waist. Smelling the booze on him, she turned to the culprits.
"REMY!" she shouted and Chaos started rolling. Tears ran down her face at
the look on Regina's face.
"What?! Don't tell Remy you mad Cherie, Remy did ya a favor," he said grinning. Regina rolled her eyes and couldn't help but laugh at Warren's drunken grin. He held up his 'coke' and made a toast.
"To the road trip!" he slurred and the other's held up their beer bottles and drank to it, still laughing at Warren's demise. Remy grabbed Hope's hand and they made their way to the dance floor. Pietro grabbed Shelby's and Lance and Alex were dancing up on a blushing Rogue. That left Chaos, Regina and Warren who were sitting at the table, Chaos and Regina just slightly
tipsy and Warren sadly going insane, his wings free and knocked everything
over in sight.
"You know," he said to Regina as his face became serious. "I think I want to fuck now."
Chaos busted out laughing while Regina's eyes went wide at what he just said, almost making her choke on her drink. "WHAT?! Chaos what the hell did you force down this mans throat!?!"
He waved her off, "I said; I think I want that dance now."
"Oh.." she eyed him suspiciously. "Are you sure?" she asked, "I don't want you falling flat on your face out there."
"Yeah, come on damn it!" he said and pulled her onto the floor. Eventually Remy, noticing Chaos was alone pulled her out to the floor and got her to do a little dancing herself, even if this wasn't her style of music. Hope stepped back as Remy and Chaos went at it, dancing like maniacs and laughing so drunkenly.
Regina stepped back in shock as Warren started to dance with her wantonly, completely opposite of their last date, putting on a show for everyone. He was taking her by the waist holding her hard against him as they practically melted together on the floor. He touched and stroked her in places that made even HER blush. Whispering crazy things as they danced closer than anyone else she had with that night. It seemed even MORE close sing his wings were in a way surrounding.
She noticed the girls step back to check him out and it irritated her. She left him on the dance floor alone for a second and went to grab a Jack Daniels to wear the stress off, but while she was tossing it back she saw that a particular girl was dancing all up on her man, and that she was touching places better left untouched. Angrily she walked over to Remy and Chaos who had stopped dancing as they saw her fuming. She pointed over to Warren and the other girl. Chaos followed to where she was pointing and folded her arms in an evil smirk.
"You wanna take her or should I put on the show." she asked even if she knew the answer already. Regina bit her lip and shook her head, "No. I got it." leaving Remy and Chaos in anticipation while she walked over and tapped the girl on her shoulder.
"I think you need to back off," she said when the girl turned around. The girl gave her an up and down look and snorted and continued to dance with Warren provocatively. "You asked for it bitch!" Regina pulled her hair back, making the girl move backwards in pain, as her fist flew and landed on the girls jaw. Everyone who noticed, backed off and crowded around for the
fight.
"You stupid whore!!" the blonde screamed in her high pitched voice, calling out a war and started to fight back.
Eventually they ended up getting kicked out by the manager. Regina's hair was a mess and she had a cut on her cheek but the girl was worse off then she was with a broken nose and lying on the floor. "LA PROXIMA VEZ TE ROMPO LA CARA!" {Next time I'll break your face!}
Chaos ran outside and grinned at the unconscious girl. She tsked tsked her before following Regina. They spent 20 minutes actually trying to get there and then 20 more minutes trying to figure out the elevator before Chaos screamed, "FUCK THIS IM USIN THE STAIRS!!"
On the way up, Regina stopped to take off her heels. "God I loved onight...despite how that bitch made me flip and get kicked out."
"We could have gotten arrested...actually fuck, no YOU could have gotten
arrested. For once I'm an innocent bystander!" Chaos proudly stated with a slur still in her voice. Regina laughed.
"Kay shut up."
Both made it into the hotel room. Regina waited for Warren to come in any second but he didn't show up until early morning on Remy's arm. The others, dead tired were laughing at his blabber.
"Well, then I...and...you know and we...did..yeahhh." Warren ranted. Regina looked at him and started to laugh, her irritation disappearing; she gave him her spot on the sofa and slept on the mattress with Pyro. Everyone was settled in before Chaos spoke what they were all thinking.
"When he wakes up tomorrow...we're all gonna fucking die."
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Pyro: *ahem* I'm just a boy...a boy is what I am! I have really red hair! I'm just a bo-o-oy, a boy...
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