Summary: Three days have passed and Tabby's settled back down and is healthy again, her and Remy have bonded well as friends...
Life Through Blue Eyes
Wednesday March 17, 2027
The next three days went by fast for me, I finished my math homework and slowly became healthy again, my skin becoming less pale until it returned to the normal slightly pale site it used to be. Hank was glad that when he had examined me today he was able to report that I had a clean bill of health. While school was going on, Remy and I were in Amara's and my room lying on my bed with cards during the past three days we go to know each other pretty well.
"So, petite, what's y' favor'te card?" Remy asked me as I grabbed the cards from him and went through the deck and grabbed the Ace of Hearts
"I prefer the Ace of Hearts." I said holding it up to him.
"Why's dat?"
"Well if you hold two cards like this." I began and grabbed the two of Spades and three of hearts and covered it up showing the diamond. "You can fool people into thinking it's the Ace of Diamonds."
"Y' int' de tricks an' deceivin' people, aren't y'?" I gave him a funny look and ignored his comment.
"What's your card then?" Remy went through the deck quickly and pulled out the Joker.
"De Joker."
"Why?"
"Cause it's jus' like moi, deceivin' funny, an witty." I nodded my head.
"What about the King of Hearts." I said pulling it out of the deck.
"Dats de card dat most people associate ol' Remy wit' but deep inside, Remy knows dat he is de Joker, he can fool ev'ryone int' t'inkin' dat he is de King o' Hearts. Dough, Roguey sure is de Queen o' moi Heart." I smiled at him as he grabbed his cards and shuffled them together.
"Why do you throw playing cards?" I asked him.
"Long story, ma'be an'ther time." Remy said abruptly, I slid off of my bed and stood up walking to my mirror. "Somet'ing wrong?"
"No…no." I said to him pushing a strand of my blonde hair away from my eyes.
"Here take dis." Remy said handing me the Ace of Hearts.
"What? Why?"
"It's y' card now, also our card o' friendship." Remy said smiling at me.
"Thanks." I said as Remy nodded at me leaving me with the Ace of Hearts as I stared into the mirror thinking of what he had said.
"Y' int' de trick an' deceivin' people, aren't y'?" If he only knew how much I was deceiving them all right now. No one could know the full truth when it came to me, my past, that's off limits in any discussion. It's unfortunate they already got a glimpse of it with my God forsaken father of mine, they don't need to know it all.
I placed the Ace of Hearts on a clip on my mirror, it was always there to remind me of him now, it was right above a picture of me and Amara on the Cruise we took with most of the rest of the X-Men in which she got sick. A picture on the other side of the mirror was of Amara, Jean, Rogue, Kitty, and I in our Bayville Sirens outfits. Below that picture was a picture of all the New Recruits standing together, including Jubilee Rahne and me.
After looking at the pictures of all my friends and people I cared about I walked over to my bed and sat down on it looking over at my desk. I fell back onto my bed so I was now staring at the ceiling of my room. It looked plain, when I had lived with Amara in our old room, it had been covered with posters and other junk. I turned on my side and closed my eyes for a few seconds, I didn't even hear Badger come in. I only knew someone came in when I felt someone sit down on my bed, which is when I opened my eyes.
"Hey Badger." I said putting on my smile and fake enthusiasm. He cringed at his name and looked at me.
"Y' will be back into the Danger Room sessions with the New Recruits and X-Men now that your healthy." He told me as I rolled my eyes.
"I figured as much…" I said to him as I sat up on my bed and looked into my mirror.
"An' y' will have some private sessions wit' me as well, t' get y' back into shape." Badger said with a smile.
"Back in shape? I'm fit as a horse." Badger shook his head at me.
"Hank says y' are-"
"Look, Badger, I'm in perfect shape-"
"Danger Room now then." Badger growled at me.
"Fine." I said standing up and walking to my dresser and opening the drawer that held my Sirens uniform in it. I closed my eyes for a minute and felt a hand on my shoulder, I looked ni the mirror and saw Badger there.
"Listen, bub, I know y' still weak from a lack of nutrition, an' that's why y' will have the private sessions, now y' don't have t' go t' the Danger Room right now." Badger said looking at me through the mirror, I smiled at him, then said,
"Alright." With that he left my room and I walked back to my bed and collapsed in it falling asleep. An hour later school had ended for all the students and they came bounding home.
When Amara came in she woke me up and then I told her that I had a clean bill of health, she was so happy. Right now, Amara and I were inside our room talking about how quiet it was when I left and things that had happened. A few minutes later there was a knock on our door we looked at each other then I shouted,
"Come on in!" A second later the door opened and Sam and Bobby walked in. "Hey babes." I said as Sam blushed and Bobby laughed.
"Hey ladies, what are you up to?"
"Just talking…why?" Amara had said to Bobby, he had a smirk on his face.
"Oh nothing Sam and I just stopped by to tell you that tomorrow night, Rahne is coming back, and Jubilation is coming tonight." I looked at Amara and her heart looked like it sank, her normally sparkling eyes seemed dull, I knew exactly what she was thinking. Bobby and Jubilee. They obviously had a crush on each other before she left.
"Thanks fer tellin' us." I said sarcastically and Bobby rolled his eyes.
"Just sharing the news, well Sam and I are going to tell other people…" Bobby said as they exited our room and Amara sighed heavily.
"Don't worry about it Amara…" I had started and she sniffled.
"Oh Tabitha, Bobby is going to want to go out with Jubilee not me."
"Don't say that." I responded getting up from my spot on my bed and walking over to her bed and sitting behind her placing my arms around her. She turned into my chest and let out a small sob.
"Tabitha, I really think I'm in love with him…" Amara cried out to me pulling away from me a bit and looking into my eyes.
"Then you can't give up on him." I simply stated giving her a determined look. "I'm going to help you with this, you'll see, we'll make you irresistible to him." Amara gave me a meek smile and nodded her head calming down a bit.
"Thank you Tabby, I don't know what I would do without you, you are truly my best friend." I smiled as Amara told me that.
"And you're mine." I said and we hugged. A few seconds later after our hug I handed Amara a tissue and she blew her nose.
"Let's fix your make-up so no one but us knows you were crying." I told her as she nodded. I got up off of her bed walked over to her dresser and pulled out her mascara. "Come here." I added as she stood up and walked to her dresser. After ten minutes I fixed Amara's make up and she looked as beautiful as ever. Her tan skin glowed from how I had applied her make-up and she thanked me for it.
A second later there was another knock on our door. I had just put away Amara's lipstick as Amara opened the door and revealed Jean standing at the door.
"Hey you two, dinner will be ready soon." Jean said, I turned around and smiled widely.
"Thanks fer the info." I stated as I walked over to Amara.
"What have you two been up to?" Jean asked walking farther into the room.
"Umm…" Amara said as I cut in.
"We were just talking about school and how I had finished all my make-up work and how hard tomorrow is going to be." I had told the truth just leaving out the details with Bobby and Sam and fixing up Amara, Amara kept looking at me and I smiled at her.
"Yeah…" Amara added as Jean gave me a skeptical look.
'Tabitha what else happened here?' Jean telepathically asked me.
'Jean stop butting into Amara's privacy she doesn't want anyone else to know about it okay?' I projected so Jean could "hear" me, Jean gave me a dirty look and turned to Amara.
"Are you alright Amara?"
"Yeah I'm fine Jean." Amara replied looking at me.
"Well you two come down for dinner in ten minutes or so." Jean added as she exited the room, I let out a sigh.
"She was telepathically asking me what happened."
"What did you say?" Amara asked me she looked worried.
"I told her to butt out of your business." I replied as Amara smiled.
"Thanks Tab, you're the best."
"No problem Mara." I had said with a grin as I sat down on my bed staring straight at the ceiling, Amara walked over to me and sat besides me.
"So Tab what do you have planned to make me 'irresistible?'"
"Well you just got to totally show off that you have a much better body than Jubilee, and lighten up and have fun, he loves to have fun." I had replied to her with a smile.
"But Tabby I don't have that much of a difference in body type than her." I had laughed.
"Amara believe me, Jubilee she has no boobs, she wears training bras still." Amara's mouth had hung wide open.
"How the hell do you know that?" Amara snapped at me, she seemed very defensive of Jubilee.
"Well, I was going through her drawers looking for clothes to wear and I had saw her bras were all sports and training." Amara's face calmed down a bit.
"So it's not like she's that far behind me I'm only a size A remember?"
"So what? It's still bigger than hers."
"But…"
"Listen Amara, she's a year younger than us. You will develop soon."
"Tabby how do you know?" She asked me quizzically.
"Cause that's how I think it should, you will develop bigger boobs soon enough and then Bobby won't be able to resist you."
"It's not like mine are going to ever get as big as yours."
"How do you know?"
"Yours are huge that's how."
"Mine aren't that big at all."
"Yours are huge, what size are you?"
"That's for my knowledge." I said with a smile.
"Bet you are at least a size D."
"Who cares what size I am." I said quickly, Amara smirked at me.
"And I bet yours will still grow, though I wonder how you stay as skinny as a stick." Amara said to me as I shrugged.
"So will yours."
"Like I'll ever get to a size D, let alone 38."
"Hey how do you know I'm a 38." Amara shrugged at me innocently.
"Let me guess, you looked at my bras."
"Hey its not like it was put away, and anyways you should be proud of having big boobs."
"Oh be quiet." I said to her with a smile and threw my pillow at her; Amara laughed as she ducked away from it.
"Let's just go eat." Amara finally stated. As I got up off of my bed she threw my pillow back at me and I laughed as it hit the top of my head.
"Thanks Mar…" I said as Amara laughed at me; I jumped over my bed and ran to the door with Amara right ahead of me.
After dinner, Amara and I went back up to our room, I was showing her some of my clothes she should try on to impress Bobby. She kept complaining saying the shirts didn't fit her like they did on me. After awhile she gave up on my shirts and clothes, though I told her I will buy her a thong sometimes soon and some sexy bras.
Later that night I headed down into the living room with Amara. When we got in the living room there was a knock on the institute's door. I immediately jumped up and ran over to the door right before Badger and I opened it. At the door was Jubilation Lee in her usual yellow jacket over a white tank and blue jeans.
"Hey guess whose back." Jubilation said with a huge grin on her face.
"Jubilee!" I cried out giving the Chinese girl a great big hug.
"I'm so glad mom and dad back in California decided to let me come back." Jubilee said with a grin as I moved back allowing her to grab her bags and step inside the institute. Badger shut the door behind her and grumbled a hello.
"Me too! It's good to have you back," I turned away from Jubilee and yelled, "Hey everyone Jubilee is back!!" After I screamed that, Badger looked at me and shook his head as Jubilee giggled. Soon enough Amara and a few of the other New Recruits showed up.
Jubilee happily greeted everyone, especially Bobby, I looked back at Amara when Jubilee gave him a big hug, Amara looked a bit hurt but that look on her face soon faded away when Jubilee gave her a hug, not so big but still a good one.
"So what have you been up to…" Jubilee said then she looked at me, and then her face looked puzzled. "Tabitha you came back?!" Jubilee had said to me half excited half questioning.
"Yeah actually a few days ago."
"Wow like everyone's coming back."
"Including Rahne." Roberto had piped up from the back. I smiled at him and he seemed to blush as Badger had grabbed Jubilee's bags and headed up to put them in the room she and Rahne will share.
"Wow, this is going to be so much fun, where is everyone else?"
"Don't know." Responded Ray, as all the New Recruits were there but the actual X-Men were not.
"Not like they would care too much they are too busy being the 'X-Men'" I had said with such sarcasm and making it sound as though I hated them all, everyone gave me a look.
"Tabitha…" Jubilee started to say.
"Jubi listen, I don't know why you care so much about them, it's not like they even knew you or cared about you, especially Scott and Jean our field leaders, they care only about themselves and maybe each other." With that I scuffed my foot against the ground and headed towards the parlor. I could hear some of them talking still and I was fine with that.
Inside the parlor were Kurt, Rogue, and Kitty. I rolled my eyes seeing them all in there, Kurt and Kitty were playing pool and Rogue was watching giving tips to the two of them. Kitty looked up and smiled at me as I entered and sat on the couch. Kurt looked up and blushed a bit at me and Rogue glanced at me and gave me a dirty look.
"Hey Tabitha!" Kitty said with a smile putting down her pool cue.
"Hey Kit-Kat." I responded and continued by saying, "Jubilation is back if ya all wanna go say 'Hi' to her she's out in the foyer, with all of the New Recruits." I over-exaggerated New Recruits for I saw Kurt start to head out until I mentioned that, then he stopped and made it look like he was just stretching or something.
"I zink zat I'm goin to zay here fer now." Kurt said and Rogue nodded her head in agreement.
"Well I'm going to see her." Said Kitty with a smile at me, so I walked over to Kit, put my arms around her and steered her out of the parlor.
"I really hate how Rogue hates the New Recruits and so does Kurt."
"Nah, like Kurt doesn't like hate them, Kurt just like thinks that they like get him in like so much trouble, like ya know?" Kitty said.
"Yeah…but Rogue just is err." I said and Kitty laughed.
"Yeah like I know what you mean I like can't stand being her like room-mate sometimes. It's like torture for me at times, which is like when I, like lock her out of my room." I giggled at that remark and showed Kitty over to where Jubilee is.
"Kit I think you are the only X-Men that at times I can stand, sometimes Kurt but not usually." Kitty smiled at me and she said,
"Thanks Tab, you're like one of the cooler New Recruits too, like you and Amara are like the best, like I think, and like Jubilee is pretty cool." I smiled at her.
"Thanks babe, I'm heading upstairs see ya."
"Like bye." Kitty said walking over to Jubilee and hugging her as I headed upstairs to my room. When I opened the door Amara was in our room sitting on the bed, she looked sad and was reading a book, it looked to be for English or something.
"Hey Tab let's turn in early tonight so that we can get up early tomorrow, and we can get to the school early so that we can find your classes again." Amara suggested as she put the book down and threw it in her backpack.
"Sure I guess then." I said as she turned off the light besides her bed. I undressed and put on Speedy's boxers and a tank top. After that I headed out and got a drink of water and went to the bathroom brushing my teeth and going to the bathroom. Afterwards, I went to the shower room and took a shower, by the time I was done it was nine-thirty.
After redressing I headed out of the shower room and down the hall to Amara and my bedroom. When I opened the door I looked at Amara's bed, she looked fast asleep. I put the glass of water down and went back downstairs, just to see who was out of their rooms, no one else was other than Badger, so I headed back up the stairs.
I went back into the shower room using the blow-dryers to blow dry my hair, then I saw Jean getting out of the shower, her towel wrapped around her slim figure.
"Hello Tabitha, you say hello to Jubilation?"
"Yeah did you?"
"Not yet, I will later."
"She's probably asleep by now." I said with no emotion as I brushed my hair and turned the blow dryer back on. When I turned it off I saw Jean looking at me.
"What?"
"Don't forget you have school tomorrow. Get some sleep."
"Yes, Miss Perfect." I said as I finished brushing my hair and I left the shower room and headed into my room. I crawled under my covers and slowly drifted off into sleep.
I was out on the streets, it was cold and windy, it was dark and no one was around. I moved silently down the street to a pay phone. I stuck a bomb in it and it blew up leaving me with the change. I collected it hurriedly before anyone would notice. I then moved farther down the street and turned onto another heading towards yet another telephone.
I walked over and entered this one, it had a phone booth, I stuck a time bomb inside and it blew up as well. I began picking up the change as the light above the top of the phone booth went out. I didn't think too much of it until the door to the phone booth opened.
"Hey there's my princess." Came the cold familiar voice of my father.
"Leave me alone." I said to him coldly as he grabbed my arm.
"That's no way to talk to your father," He began yanking me up off the ground, I now remembered his steal like grip he always had. "Now did you get some money for us?"
"This is not for you." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a gun and put it to the side of my head.
"Now let me ask again. Is this for me?" I gulped feeling the cold pressure of the metal against my head, he pulled the trigger…
I woke up fast screaming, my bed was full of sweat. I kept on screaming, my eyes were full of tears. Amara soon woke up besides me and jumped out of her bed as the door had been kicked open by Badger and Kitty had phased through the wall and was into our room.
"What like happened?" Kitty asked as Badger had his claws out and was by my side, the opposite one Amara was on.
"Are y' alright kid?" Badger asked me as I was breathing rapidly. A second later Sexeyes was in my room as was Shades and Wheels. I continued breathing rapidly as Wheels wheeled over to me and Sexeyes ran over to me.
"Petite, are y' okay?" He asked, he looked concerned, as did everyone in my room.
"I'm-I'm…" I began stuttering. Amara handed me my glass of water and I took a sip of it.
"Tabby, are you alright?" Wheels asked as he put his hand to my head and I immediately recoiled, for the spot he had touched was the spot the gun was in the dream.
"Is she all right, professor?" Shades asked as Badger turned back to him.
"It looks like she had a nightmare, right Chuck?" Badger said.
"I'm not sure I can't get into her mind." Wheels said looking at me.
"Petite, what happened?" Sexeyes said as he went over to the side Amara was at, he sat on my bed besides me and looked me straight in the eyes.
"It was just a nightmare…" I said to them all.
"Care to elaborate?" Wheels asked me then turned to Shades when he saw me shift in the bed, "Scott, Logan, Remy, Kitty you can leave now." Shades took a step to the door, looked back then left the room, Badger glanced at Wheels. Kitty phased back through to her own room as soon as she looked back at me.
"Chuck, what are y' goin' t' do?"
"Just find out about the dream, Amara you may go back to sleep." Amara looked at me then went back to her bed and laid on her side looking at us. Sexeyes stayed seated besides me.
"Remy goin' t' stay wit' de fille, she looks scared t' death." Sexeyes said as Wheels sighed and turned towards Badger.
"Tabitha, I'd like to see you in my office after school to talk about your night-mare." He said as he wheeled out of the room. Badger turned to me, he finally retracted his claws then looked at Sexeyes.
"Y' c'n stay wit' her fer five minutes, bub. I'll be back then." Badger said looking at us as he left I looked at Sexeyes and sighed and let my head drop.
"Sorry.." I began as he lifted my chin up so I could look into his eyes.
"Non, dere's no reason t' be sorry, y' had a nightmare, do y' wanna tell ol' Remy about it?" Sexeyes said to me as he wiped away the tears that were around my eyes. I was debating if I should tell him, he didn't know anything about my past, and I liked it that way.
"Not particularly." I said to him, he looked a bit hurt, "I don't mean ta hurt ya feelings, Rem, it's just…" I let my voice trail off, I called him Rem, now he looked even more concerned.
"Y' didn't call moi Sexeyes, was de dream dat bad?" I nodded my head as I fidgeted in the bed.
"Why can't y' tell moi?"
"It's jus' something personal."
"Why did y' shrink back from de Professor's touch?"
"I jus' don't like when people touch me, unexpectedly." I lied, though it was somewhat true, but it was not the reason in this case why I had shrunk back.
"Y' looked so scared." Sexeyes said to me as he put an arm around my shoulder comforting me. A second later the door was opened and Badger stood there.
"Yer time's up Cajun, git back t' y' own room." Badger said and Sexeyes looked at me then stood up and left my room. Badger stood there for a second watching me then shut the door and left.
"Tabby, what happened in your dream?" Amara asked me, sitting up in her bed.
"Nothing, jus' nothing." I said she sighed.
"Tabby don't you trust me." I didn't respond I really didn't trust anyone.
"Sorry, Mar, it's just too personal." I said to her as I took another sip of the water and she seemed to drift asleep. I stayed awake for as long as I could, afraid the dream would catch back to me, but I finally did fall asleep.
Life Through Blue Eyes
Wednesday March 17, 2027
The next three days went by fast for me, I finished my math homework and slowly became healthy again, my skin becoming less pale until it returned to the normal slightly pale site it used to be. Hank was glad that when he had examined me today he was able to report that I had a clean bill of health. While school was going on, Remy and I were in Amara's and my room lying on my bed with cards during the past three days we go to know each other pretty well.
"So, petite, what's y' favor'te card?" Remy asked me as I grabbed the cards from him and went through the deck and grabbed the Ace of Hearts
"I prefer the Ace of Hearts." I said holding it up to him.
"Why's dat?"
"Well if you hold two cards like this." I began and grabbed the two of Spades and three of hearts and covered it up showing the diamond. "You can fool people into thinking it's the Ace of Diamonds."
"Y' int' de tricks an' deceivin' people, aren't y'?" I gave him a funny look and ignored his comment.
"What's your card then?" Remy went through the deck quickly and pulled out the Joker.
"De Joker."
"Why?"
"Cause it's jus' like moi, deceivin' funny, an witty." I nodded my head.
"What about the King of Hearts." I said pulling it out of the deck.
"Dats de card dat most people associate ol' Remy wit' but deep inside, Remy knows dat he is de Joker, he can fool ev'ryone int' t'inkin' dat he is de King o' Hearts. Dough, Roguey sure is de Queen o' moi Heart." I smiled at him as he grabbed his cards and shuffled them together.
"Why do you throw playing cards?" I asked him.
"Long story, ma'be an'ther time." Remy said abruptly, I slid off of my bed and stood up walking to my mirror. "Somet'ing wrong?"
"No…no." I said to him pushing a strand of my blonde hair away from my eyes.
"Here take dis." Remy said handing me the Ace of Hearts.
"What? Why?"
"It's y' card now, also our card o' friendship." Remy said smiling at me.
"Thanks." I said as Remy nodded at me leaving me with the Ace of Hearts as I stared into the mirror thinking of what he had said.
"Y' int' de trick an' deceivin' people, aren't y'?" If he only knew how much I was deceiving them all right now. No one could know the full truth when it came to me, my past, that's off limits in any discussion. It's unfortunate they already got a glimpse of it with my God forsaken father of mine, they don't need to know it all.
I placed the Ace of Hearts on a clip on my mirror, it was always there to remind me of him now, it was right above a picture of me and Amara on the Cruise we took with most of the rest of the X-Men in which she got sick. A picture on the other side of the mirror was of Amara, Jean, Rogue, Kitty, and I in our Bayville Sirens outfits. Below that picture was a picture of all the New Recruits standing together, including Jubilee Rahne and me.
After looking at the pictures of all my friends and people I cared about I walked over to my bed and sat down on it looking over at my desk. I fell back onto my bed so I was now staring at the ceiling of my room. It looked plain, when I had lived with Amara in our old room, it had been covered with posters and other junk. I turned on my side and closed my eyes for a few seconds, I didn't even hear Badger come in. I only knew someone came in when I felt someone sit down on my bed, which is when I opened my eyes.
"Hey Badger." I said putting on my smile and fake enthusiasm. He cringed at his name and looked at me.
"Y' will be back into the Danger Room sessions with the New Recruits and X-Men now that your healthy." He told me as I rolled my eyes.
"I figured as much…" I said to him as I sat up on my bed and looked into my mirror.
"An' y' will have some private sessions wit' me as well, t' get y' back into shape." Badger said with a smile.
"Back in shape? I'm fit as a horse." Badger shook his head at me.
"Hank says y' are-"
"Look, Badger, I'm in perfect shape-"
"Danger Room now then." Badger growled at me.
"Fine." I said standing up and walking to my dresser and opening the drawer that held my Sirens uniform in it. I closed my eyes for a minute and felt a hand on my shoulder, I looked ni the mirror and saw Badger there.
"Listen, bub, I know y' still weak from a lack of nutrition, an' that's why y' will have the private sessions, now y' don't have t' go t' the Danger Room right now." Badger said looking at me through the mirror, I smiled at him, then said,
"Alright." With that he left my room and I walked back to my bed and collapsed in it falling asleep. An hour later school had ended for all the students and they came bounding home.
When Amara came in she woke me up and then I told her that I had a clean bill of health, she was so happy. Right now, Amara and I were inside our room talking about how quiet it was when I left and things that had happened. A few minutes later there was a knock on our door we looked at each other then I shouted,
"Come on in!" A second later the door opened and Sam and Bobby walked in. "Hey babes." I said as Sam blushed and Bobby laughed.
"Hey ladies, what are you up to?"
"Just talking…why?" Amara had said to Bobby, he had a smirk on his face.
"Oh nothing Sam and I just stopped by to tell you that tomorrow night, Rahne is coming back, and Jubilation is coming tonight." I looked at Amara and her heart looked like it sank, her normally sparkling eyes seemed dull, I knew exactly what she was thinking. Bobby and Jubilee. They obviously had a crush on each other before she left.
"Thanks fer tellin' us." I said sarcastically and Bobby rolled his eyes.
"Just sharing the news, well Sam and I are going to tell other people…" Bobby said as they exited our room and Amara sighed heavily.
"Don't worry about it Amara…" I had started and she sniffled.
"Oh Tabitha, Bobby is going to want to go out with Jubilee not me."
"Don't say that." I responded getting up from my spot on my bed and walking over to her bed and sitting behind her placing my arms around her. She turned into my chest and let out a small sob.
"Tabitha, I really think I'm in love with him…" Amara cried out to me pulling away from me a bit and looking into my eyes.
"Then you can't give up on him." I simply stated giving her a determined look. "I'm going to help you with this, you'll see, we'll make you irresistible to him." Amara gave me a meek smile and nodded her head calming down a bit.
"Thank you Tabby, I don't know what I would do without you, you are truly my best friend." I smiled as Amara told me that.
"And you're mine." I said and we hugged. A few seconds later after our hug I handed Amara a tissue and she blew her nose.
"Let's fix your make-up so no one but us knows you were crying." I told her as she nodded. I got up off of her bed walked over to her dresser and pulled out her mascara. "Come here." I added as she stood up and walked to her dresser. After ten minutes I fixed Amara's make up and she looked as beautiful as ever. Her tan skin glowed from how I had applied her make-up and she thanked me for it.
A second later there was another knock on our door. I had just put away Amara's lipstick as Amara opened the door and revealed Jean standing at the door.
"Hey you two, dinner will be ready soon." Jean said, I turned around and smiled widely.
"Thanks fer the info." I stated as I walked over to Amara.
"What have you two been up to?" Jean asked walking farther into the room.
"Umm…" Amara said as I cut in.
"We were just talking about school and how I had finished all my make-up work and how hard tomorrow is going to be." I had told the truth just leaving out the details with Bobby and Sam and fixing up Amara, Amara kept looking at me and I smiled at her.
"Yeah…" Amara added as Jean gave me a skeptical look.
'Tabitha what else happened here?' Jean telepathically asked me.
'Jean stop butting into Amara's privacy she doesn't want anyone else to know about it okay?' I projected so Jean could "hear" me, Jean gave me a dirty look and turned to Amara.
"Are you alright Amara?"
"Yeah I'm fine Jean." Amara replied looking at me.
"Well you two come down for dinner in ten minutes or so." Jean added as she exited the room, I let out a sigh.
"She was telepathically asking me what happened."
"What did you say?" Amara asked me she looked worried.
"I told her to butt out of your business." I replied as Amara smiled.
"Thanks Tab, you're the best."
"No problem Mara." I had said with a grin as I sat down on my bed staring straight at the ceiling, Amara walked over to me and sat besides me.
"So Tab what do you have planned to make me 'irresistible?'"
"Well you just got to totally show off that you have a much better body than Jubilee, and lighten up and have fun, he loves to have fun." I had replied to her with a smile.
"But Tabby I don't have that much of a difference in body type than her." I had laughed.
"Amara believe me, Jubilee she has no boobs, she wears training bras still." Amara's mouth had hung wide open.
"How the hell do you know that?" Amara snapped at me, she seemed very defensive of Jubilee.
"Well, I was going through her drawers looking for clothes to wear and I had saw her bras were all sports and training." Amara's face calmed down a bit.
"So it's not like she's that far behind me I'm only a size A remember?"
"So what? It's still bigger than hers."
"But…"
"Listen Amara, she's a year younger than us. You will develop soon."
"Tabby how do you know?" She asked me quizzically.
"Cause that's how I think it should, you will develop bigger boobs soon enough and then Bobby won't be able to resist you."
"It's not like mine are going to ever get as big as yours."
"How do you know?"
"Yours are huge that's how."
"Mine aren't that big at all."
"Yours are huge, what size are you?"
"That's for my knowledge." I said with a smile.
"Bet you are at least a size D."
"Who cares what size I am." I said quickly, Amara smirked at me.
"And I bet yours will still grow, though I wonder how you stay as skinny as a stick." Amara said to me as I shrugged.
"So will yours."
"Like I'll ever get to a size D, let alone 38."
"Hey how do you know I'm a 38." Amara shrugged at me innocently.
"Let me guess, you looked at my bras."
"Hey its not like it was put away, and anyways you should be proud of having big boobs."
"Oh be quiet." I said to her with a smile and threw my pillow at her; Amara laughed as she ducked away from it.
"Let's just go eat." Amara finally stated. As I got up off of my bed she threw my pillow back at me and I laughed as it hit the top of my head.
"Thanks Mar…" I said as Amara laughed at me; I jumped over my bed and ran to the door with Amara right ahead of me.
After dinner, Amara and I went back up to our room, I was showing her some of my clothes she should try on to impress Bobby. She kept complaining saying the shirts didn't fit her like they did on me. After awhile she gave up on my shirts and clothes, though I told her I will buy her a thong sometimes soon and some sexy bras.
Later that night I headed down into the living room with Amara. When we got in the living room there was a knock on the institute's door. I immediately jumped up and ran over to the door right before Badger and I opened it. At the door was Jubilation Lee in her usual yellow jacket over a white tank and blue jeans.
"Hey guess whose back." Jubilation said with a huge grin on her face.
"Jubilee!" I cried out giving the Chinese girl a great big hug.
"I'm so glad mom and dad back in California decided to let me come back." Jubilee said with a grin as I moved back allowing her to grab her bags and step inside the institute. Badger shut the door behind her and grumbled a hello.
"Me too! It's good to have you back," I turned away from Jubilee and yelled, "Hey everyone Jubilee is back!!" After I screamed that, Badger looked at me and shook his head as Jubilee giggled. Soon enough Amara and a few of the other New Recruits showed up.
Jubilee happily greeted everyone, especially Bobby, I looked back at Amara when Jubilee gave him a big hug, Amara looked a bit hurt but that look on her face soon faded away when Jubilee gave her a hug, not so big but still a good one.
"So what have you been up to…" Jubilee said then she looked at me, and then her face looked puzzled. "Tabitha you came back?!" Jubilee had said to me half excited half questioning.
"Yeah actually a few days ago."
"Wow like everyone's coming back."
"Including Rahne." Roberto had piped up from the back. I smiled at him and he seemed to blush as Badger had grabbed Jubilee's bags and headed up to put them in the room she and Rahne will share.
"Wow, this is going to be so much fun, where is everyone else?"
"Don't know." Responded Ray, as all the New Recruits were there but the actual X-Men were not.
"Not like they would care too much they are too busy being the 'X-Men'" I had said with such sarcasm and making it sound as though I hated them all, everyone gave me a look.
"Tabitha…" Jubilee started to say.
"Jubi listen, I don't know why you care so much about them, it's not like they even knew you or cared about you, especially Scott and Jean our field leaders, they care only about themselves and maybe each other." With that I scuffed my foot against the ground and headed towards the parlor. I could hear some of them talking still and I was fine with that.
Inside the parlor were Kurt, Rogue, and Kitty. I rolled my eyes seeing them all in there, Kurt and Kitty were playing pool and Rogue was watching giving tips to the two of them. Kitty looked up and smiled at me as I entered and sat on the couch. Kurt looked up and blushed a bit at me and Rogue glanced at me and gave me a dirty look.
"Hey Tabitha!" Kitty said with a smile putting down her pool cue.
"Hey Kit-Kat." I responded and continued by saying, "Jubilation is back if ya all wanna go say 'Hi' to her she's out in the foyer, with all of the New Recruits." I over-exaggerated New Recruits for I saw Kurt start to head out until I mentioned that, then he stopped and made it look like he was just stretching or something.
"I zink zat I'm goin to zay here fer now." Kurt said and Rogue nodded her head in agreement.
"Well I'm going to see her." Said Kitty with a smile at me, so I walked over to Kit, put my arms around her and steered her out of the parlor.
"I really hate how Rogue hates the New Recruits and so does Kurt."
"Nah, like Kurt doesn't like hate them, Kurt just like thinks that they like get him in like so much trouble, like ya know?" Kitty said.
"Yeah…but Rogue just is err." I said and Kitty laughed.
"Yeah like I know what you mean I like can't stand being her like room-mate sometimes. It's like torture for me at times, which is like when I, like lock her out of my room." I giggled at that remark and showed Kitty over to where Jubilee is.
"Kit I think you are the only X-Men that at times I can stand, sometimes Kurt but not usually." Kitty smiled at me and she said,
"Thanks Tab, you're like one of the cooler New Recruits too, like you and Amara are like the best, like I think, and like Jubilee is pretty cool." I smiled at her.
"Thanks babe, I'm heading upstairs see ya."
"Like bye." Kitty said walking over to Jubilee and hugging her as I headed upstairs to my room. When I opened the door Amara was in our room sitting on the bed, she looked sad and was reading a book, it looked to be for English or something.
"Hey Tab let's turn in early tonight so that we can get up early tomorrow, and we can get to the school early so that we can find your classes again." Amara suggested as she put the book down and threw it in her backpack.
"Sure I guess then." I said as she turned off the light besides her bed. I undressed and put on Speedy's boxers and a tank top. After that I headed out and got a drink of water and went to the bathroom brushing my teeth and going to the bathroom. Afterwards, I went to the shower room and took a shower, by the time I was done it was nine-thirty.
After redressing I headed out of the shower room and down the hall to Amara and my bedroom. When I opened the door I looked at Amara's bed, she looked fast asleep. I put the glass of water down and went back downstairs, just to see who was out of their rooms, no one else was other than Badger, so I headed back up the stairs.
I went back into the shower room using the blow-dryers to blow dry my hair, then I saw Jean getting out of the shower, her towel wrapped around her slim figure.
"Hello Tabitha, you say hello to Jubilation?"
"Yeah did you?"
"Not yet, I will later."
"She's probably asleep by now." I said with no emotion as I brushed my hair and turned the blow dryer back on. When I turned it off I saw Jean looking at me.
"What?"
"Don't forget you have school tomorrow. Get some sleep."
"Yes, Miss Perfect." I said as I finished brushing my hair and I left the shower room and headed into my room. I crawled under my covers and slowly drifted off into sleep.
I was out on the streets, it was cold and windy, it was dark and no one was around. I moved silently down the street to a pay phone. I stuck a bomb in it and it blew up leaving me with the change. I collected it hurriedly before anyone would notice. I then moved farther down the street and turned onto another heading towards yet another telephone.
I walked over and entered this one, it had a phone booth, I stuck a time bomb inside and it blew up as well. I began picking up the change as the light above the top of the phone booth went out. I didn't think too much of it until the door to the phone booth opened.
"Hey there's my princess." Came the cold familiar voice of my father.
"Leave me alone." I said to him coldly as he grabbed my arm.
"That's no way to talk to your father," He began yanking me up off the ground, I now remembered his steal like grip he always had. "Now did you get some money for us?"
"This is not for you." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a gun and put it to the side of my head.
"Now let me ask again. Is this for me?" I gulped feeling the cold pressure of the metal against my head, he pulled the trigger…
I woke up fast screaming, my bed was full of sweat. I kept on screaming, my eyes were full of tears. Amara soon woke up besides me and jumped out of her bed as the door had been kicked open by Badger and Kitty had phased through the wall and was into our room.
"What like happened?" Kitty asked as Badger had his claws out and was by my side, the opposite one Amara was on.
"Are y' alright kid?" Badger asked me as I was breathing rapidly. A second later Sexeyes was in my room as was Shades and Wheels. I continued breathing rapidly as Wheels wheeled over to me and Sexeyes ran over to me.
"Petite, are y' okay?" He asked, he looked concerned, as did everyone in my room.
"I'm-I'm…" I began stuttering. Amara handed me my glass of water and I took a sip of it.
"Tabby, are you alright?" Wheels asked as he put his hand to my head and I immediately recoiled, for the spot he had touched was the spot the gun was in the dream.
"Is she all right, professor?" Shades asked as Badger turned back to him.
"It looks like she had a nightmare, right Chuck?" Badger said.
"I'm not sure I can't get into her mind." Wheels said looking at me.
"Petite, what happened?" Sexeyes said as he went over to the side Amara was at, he sat on my bed besides me and looked me straight in the eyes.
"It was just a nightmare…" I said to them all.
"Care to elaborate?" Wheels asked me then turned to Shades when he saw me shift in the bed, "Scott, Logan, Remy, Kitty you can leave now." Shades took a step to the door, looked back then left the room, Badger glanced at Wheels. Kitty phased back through to her own room as soon as she looked back at me.
"Chuck, what are y' goin' t' do?"
"Just find out about the dream, Amara you may go back to sleep." Amara looked at me then went back to her bed and laid on her side looking at us. Sexeyes stayed seated besides me.
"Remy goin' t' stay wit' de fille, she looks scared t' death." Sexeyes said as Wheels sighed and turned towards Badger.
"Tabitha, I'd like to see you in my office after school to talk about your night-mare." He said as he wheeled out of the room. Badger turned to me, he finally retracted his claws then looked at Sexeyes.
"Y' c'n stay wit' her fer five minutes, bub. I'll be back then." Badger said looking at us as he left I looked at Sexeyes and sighed and let my head drop.
"Sorry.." I began as he lifted my chin up so I could look into his eyes.
"Non, dere's no reason t' be sorry, y' had a nightmare, do y' wanna tell ol' Remy about it?" Sexeyes said to me as he wiped away the tears that were around my eyes. I was debating if I should tell him, he didn't know anything about my past, and I liked it that way.
"Not particularly." I said to him, he looked a bit hurt, "I don't mean ta hurt ya feelings, Rem, it's just…" I let my voice trail off, I called him Rem, now he looked even more concerned.
"Y' didn't call moi Sexeyes, was de dream dat bad?" I nodded my head as I fidgeted in the bed.
"Why can't y' tell moi?"
"It's jus' something personal."
"Why did y' shrink back from de Professor's touch?"
"I jus' don't like when people touch me, unexpectedly." I lied, though it was somewhat true, but it was not the reason in this case why I had shrunk back.
"Y' looked so scared." Sexeyes said to me as he put an arm around my shoulder comforting me. A second later the door was opened and Badger stood there.
"Yer time's up Cajun, git back t' y' own room." Badger said and Sexeyes looked at me then stood up and left my room. Badger stood there for a second watching me then shut the door and left.
"Tabby, what happened in your dream?" Amara asked me, sitting up in her bed.
"Nothing, jus' nothing." I said she sighed.
"Tabby don't you trust me." I didn't respond I really didn't trust anyone.
"Sorry, Mar, it's just too personal." I said to her as I took another sip of the water and she seemed to drift asleep. I stayed awake for as long as I could, afraid the dream would catch back to me, but I finally did fall asleep.