(AN: First off, I apologize for the delay, but in my defense, TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!! *la la la la la* I know that must make LESS sense as to why I'm posting today, but my uncle came over from Seattle for the week, and my dad took me and him up to NY to go to the Base Ball Hall of Fame and other Birthday goodies like that, so I have been in and out of the state, let alone the computer room.
I feel so weird at this point in my story, its like, I have so many funny ideas, and situations in my head for later on in the plot. But I have to get from point A to point B you know? *Sighs* don't worry, I'm not going to rush through her warming up to him just to get to this one part, ^_^ I smile just thinking of the stuff I have planned for them. lol
so long story short, I'm sorry you had to wait, I'm glad its my birthday, I have good things in store, and I won't sacrifice the good stuff now to get to that stuff. "Girl scout's Honor!" (Though that doesn't mean a whole lot, I was only a brownie for like 2 years… but it's the point of the thing.) Any way, on with the story, fyi, its so hard to try to come up with original situations between these two characters that I haven't seen played out a million bazillion times in other fan fics. That's why I am so proud of the whole fire alarm thing, cause I see that as something he would do, but it hasn't been done to death, in fact I done it to life (some how that sounded dirtier than I meant it to)
speaking of which, I'm not sure if everyone really got what he did there. He didn't start a fire with his powers, he just kind of made a tiny explosion to break the 'pull incase of fire' lever, so the alarm would go off. I was so proud of myself for just coming up with the idea; I don't think I explained it to well, sorry about that. I got a couple e-mails about that.
Any way, NOW on with the story.)
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Chapter 5
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"I mean, can you believe it?" Kitty asked her roommate as the exited the school. "Like the first fire drill happened, and then once we get back to our seats, another one goes off."
"Yeah, pretty weird..." Rogue trailed off, not actually listening to what Kitty was saying.
"I don't think they were planned." Kitty adjusted the weight of her backpack on her shoulder, "My math teacher looked really surprised when the alarms went off, and like, don't the teachers always know about fire drills?" Kitty looked at Rogue, half-heartedly expecting some sort of response, "Are you listening to me at all?"
Rogue shook her head a little, "Yeah of course I am… with the alarms… and the teachers not knowing…" Rogue hoped by taking her time and looking offended, Kitty would feel to guilty about accusing her of not listing in the first place, so she wouldn't have to go into details over something she wasn't actually paying attention to.
It worked. "Right…" Kitty looked down at her feet, obviously feeling self-conscience. "SO do you think someone started a fire?" she lifted her head, and looked at Rogue.
Kitty had hit a nerve, and noticed right away. Rogue's forehead scrunched together, and she appeared very annoyed over the discussion. "I don't know. I think…" she paused. "I don't know."
"What do you know?!" Kitty suddenly realized Her roommate was withholding information, "Tell me!"
Rogue rolled her eyes at Kitty's begging. "Its nothing really, I don't think…" she wanted to leave it at that, not wanting to tell stories when she didn't even have all the facts herself. But Kitty's eyes urged her to continue. "I know Gambit had something to do with it, but I don't know how he did what ever the hell he did."
"How do you know it was him?"
"He told me-" She was cut off
"What?!" Kitty stopped walking towards the parking lot, grabbed Rogue's shoulders, and turned her towards her self. "What did he say?!" Kitty's eyes jumped from one of Rogue's eyes to the other and back again in a way that made Rogue feel very uncomfortable when combined with the girl's hands digging into her shoulders.
"Magic…" Rogue whispered to her self as she remembered their conversation that morning. She blinked her eyes hard, bringing them to Kitty's. Rogue then pushed Kitty's arms off of hers. "I don't know, He used his powers or something." She looked as someone walked by them, reminding her that school was over. "Look we got to go. Scott's waiting."
"We aren't getting a ride home today." Kitty smirked as she realized she to was withholding information.
"And why is that exactly?" Rogue crossed her arms.
"Well I was thinking about what you said, and your totally right."
"Well of course I am right!" she said almost defensively. "But what was I right about this time?"
"My alarm clock. Me phasing through it has like permanently fried it. I don't even think Beast could fix it up."
"So?"
"So," Kitty continued, "You are going to go to the store with me to buy a new one."
"Wait, do I HAVE to go, I mean there is a car right over there that's ready to take me back to the institute…"
"But Rogue, it was your idea in the first place…" Kitty's lower lip extended and her eyes became the perfect example of 'puppy-dog-eyes'.
'God damn it, she is to good at that' Rogue thought. "Fine, I'll go." Kitty immediately smiled. "But I'm not going cause I feel bad or anything, but because if I don't go you'll come home with a SpongeBob SquarePants clock or something. And I know I couldn't handle waking up to THAT every morning…"
"Of course!" Kitty tried to hide her excitement, but did a horrible job of it. "We'll just walk over a few blocks to the Bayville Mall."
Rogue shuddered a bit at the mention of that place. She rarely went there, and if she had, it was to make fun of the preps with Ritsy… she didn't want to think about her right now.
"You ok?"
"Yeah fine." Rogue regained her self. "Lets just go give our backpacks to Scott so we don't have to carry them around with us in the… mall." She had a little trouble saying it. Combined with her detest with the place to begin with, it reminded her of her old 'friend' al well.
"Ok yeah, good idea." The two girls walked off to the car. Scott let them put their bags in the back seat. Kurt had looked a little upset that his 'winning' the front seat was in vein, because Kitty had not even tried. But he tried not to show it. They then walked off towards the mall.
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"I'm getting kind of hungry." Rogue put her hands over her stomach. The two girls had been walking for half an hour and were almost at the mall. They were now stopped at a corner. A small crowd formed around them. Everyone was waiting for the sign to change, saying they could cross the street.
"Sure, there's a Dinner right next to the mall, we can stop there before we go get my clock." Kitty looked over to Rogue, noticing she was a little tense from being near so many people. "You ok?"
Rogue looked intently at the sign, as if she had the will power to make it change. "I'll be fine… I just hope the light changes soon."
After a few moments, the light changed, allowing the crowd to cross the street. Rogue sighed as she let the crowd dissipate around her, before following Kitty across the street. Her shoulders loosened, as she felt less and less worried about bumping into anyone.
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Remy watched for a 'mark'. He surveyed the crowd of people forming at a street corner. He picked out a man who appeared to be by him self. Remy could see the top of his wallet from the man's back pocket. Remy smiled. To him, pick pocketing was an art. The rush was no where near what he gets from a big heist, or even from riding on his motorcycle, but Magneto had told him to stay out of the papers. Though Magneto did assign him large heists, he hadn't heard word of a mission for a few weeks.
He gingerly pulled out the man's wallet, opening it; he pulled out what cash was there, and in its place slid a playing card, his business card. He smirked as he slid the wallet back into the man's pocket. Most thieves would have taken the wallet, and not risked getting caught, but Gambit's not like most thieves, Gambit's the king of thieves.
He folded the money with the rest of his winnings that day. He counted up all of it. 'Deux cent trente sept' [two hundred and thirty seven] he thought as he smiled at the amount. 'Not to bad for not really trying' Gambit wasn't really after the money this time; he was just bored and looking for something to pass the time.
His head popped up from looking at his pocket when he heard a very familiar voice. He smiled. Gambit made his way into the crowd as he came up behind Rogue and Kitty. He listened to their conversation, and then got an idea.
Slowly Gambit reached into Rogue's back pocket, removing her wallet, and extracting the money. 'Trente' [thirty] he placed the wallet back into her pocket, with out a playing card. He smiled as the light changed, signaling to cross. Rogue didn't move at first, which worried him, 'Did she notice? She couldn't have noticed…' but his concerns were diminished as she stepped out off the curb and crossed the street. He slipped her money into a different pocket.
Gambit smiled as he pursued the two girls, keeping quite a distance between them. He fought the urge to open the door for Rogue as they entered the Dinner. He waited a moment, looking in the window to make sure a waitress was leading them to a seat. He entered the Dinner, making sure neither of them would see him, and made his way to a booth in the opposite corner of where they sat.
"Sir, you can't seat your self, you have to-" Gambit raised his chin to look up at the waitress. She had shoulder length light brown hair, which the top half was pulled up in a bun behind her head. She wore slender glasses over her blue eyes, and looked just under twenty. Gambit gave her a heart-stopping smile, which apparently had done just that. She almost fell backwards behind her, but caught her self quickly.
"What were you saying belle?" he said smoothly through his accent as he noticed the change in her expression. He recognized that expression, and it never seemed to get old.
The waitress's mouth opened, but nothing came out.
"Remy is not ready to order right now, he will definitely be sure to flag YOU down when he is ready, ok?" his hand went up to gently rub her forearm as he begged childishly with his eyes.
"….sure…" she smiled as she slowly walked away. She finally turned around after backing into some customers who were waiting to be seated. She walked them to a table, and periodically glanced over to Gambit, who was now rolling a card through his fingers as he watched Rogue and Kitty.
I feel so weird at this point in my story, its like, I have so many funny ideas, and situations in my head for later on in the plot. But I have to get from point A to point B you know? *Sighs* don't worry, I'm not going to rush through her warming up to him just to get to this one part, ^_^ I smile just thinking of the stuff I have planned for them. lol
so long story short, I'm sorry you had to wait, I'm glad its my birthday, I have good things in store, and I won't sacrifice the good stuff now to get to that stuff. "Girl scout's Honor!" (Though that doesn't mean a whole lot, I was only a brownie for like 2 years… but it's the point of the thing.) Any way, on with the story, fyi, its so hard to try to come up with original situations between these two characters that I haven't seen played out a million bazillion times in other fan fics. That's why I am so proud of the whole fire alarm thing, cause I see that as something he would do, but it hasn't been done to death, in fact I done it to life (some how that sounded dirtier than I meant it to)
speaking of which, I'm not sure if everyone really got what he did there. He didn't start a fire with his powers, he just kind of made a tiny explosion to break the 'pull incase of fire' lever, so the alarm would go off. I was so proud of myself for just coming up with the idea; I don't think I explained it to well, sorry about that. I got a couple e-mails about that.
Any way, NOW on with the story.)
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Chapter 5
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"I mean, can you believe it?" Kitty asked her roommate as the exited the school. "Like the first fire drill happened, and then once we get back to our seats, another one goes off."
"Yeah, pretty weird..." Rogue trailed off, not actually listening to what Kitty was saying.
"I don't think they were planned." Kitty adjusted the weight of her backpack on her shoulder, "My math teacher looked really surprised when the alarms went off, and like, don't the teachers always know about fire drills?" Kitty looked at Rogue, half-heartedly expecting some sort of response, "Are you listening to me at all?"
Rogue shook her head a little, "Yeah of course I am… with the alarms… and the teachers not knowing…" Rogue hoped by taking her time and looking offended, Kitty would feel to guilty about accusing her of not listing in the first place, so she wouldn't have to go into details over something she wasn't actually paying attention to.
It worked. "Right…" Kitty looked down at her feet, obviously feeling self-conscience. "SO do you think someone started a fire?" she lifted her head, and looked at Rogue.
Kitty had hit a nerve, and noticed right away. Rogue's forehead scrunched together, and she appeared very annoyed over the discussion. "I don't know. I think…" she paused. "I don't know."
"What do you know?!" Kitty suddenly realized Her roommate was withholding information, "Tell me!"
Rogue rolled her eyes at Kitty's begging. "Its nothing really, I don't think…" she wanted to leave it at that, not wanting to tell stories when she didn't even have all the facts herself. But Kitty's eyes urged her to continue. "I know Gambit had something to do with it, but I don't know how he did what ever the hell he did."
"How do you know it was him?"
"He told me-" She was cut off
"What?!" Kitty stopped walking towards the parking lot, grabbed Rogue's shoulders, and turned her towards her self. "What did he say?!" Kitty's eyes jumped from one of Rogue's eyes to the other and back again in a way that made Rogue feel very uncomfortable when combined with the girl's hands digging into her shoulders.
"Magic…" Rogue whispered to her self as she remembered their conversation that morning. She blinked her eyes hard, bringing them to Kitty's. Rogue then pushed Kitty's arms off of hers. "I don't know, He used his powers or something." She looked as someone walked by them, reminding her that school was over. "Look we got to go. Scott's waiting."
"We aren't getting a ride home today." Kitty smirked as she realized she to was withholding information.
"And why is that exactly?" Rogue crossed her arms.
"Well I was thinking about what you said, and your totally right."
"Well of course I am right!" she said almost defensively. "But what was I right about this time?"
"My alarm clock. Me phasing through it has like permanently fried it. I don't even think Beast could fix it up."
"So?"
"So," Kitty continued, "You are going to go to the store with me to buy a new one."
"Wait, do I HAVE to go, I mean there is a car right over there that's ready to take me back to the institute…"
"But Rogue, it was your idea in the first place…" Kitty's lower lip extended and her eyes became the perfect example of 'puppy-dog-eyes'.
'God damn it, she is to good at that' Rogue thought. "Fine, I'll go." Kitty immediately smiled. "But I'm not going cause I feel bad or anything, but because if I don't go you'll come home with a SpongeBob SquarePants clock or something. And I know I couldn't handle waking up to THAT every morning…"
"Of course!" Kitty tried to hide her excitement, but did a horrible job of it. "We'll just walk over a few blocks to the Bayville Mall."
Rogue shuddered a bit at the mention of that place. She rarely went there, and if she had, it was to make fun of the preps with Ritsy… she didn't want to think about her right now.
"You ok?"
"Yeah fine." Rogue regained her self. "Lets just go give our backpacks to Scott so we don't have to carry them around with us in the… mall." She had a little trouble saying it. Combined with her detest with the place to begin with, it reminded her of her old 'friend' al well.
"Ok yeah, good idea." The two girls walked off to the car. Scott let them put their bags in the back seat. Kurt had looked a little upset that his 'winning' the front seat was in vein, because Kitty had not even tried. But he tried not to show it. They then walked off towards the mall.
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"I'm getting kind of hungry." Rogue put her hands over her stomach. The two girls had been walking for half an hour and were almost at the mall. They were now stopped at a corner. A small crowd formed around them. Everyone was waiting for the sign to change, saying they could cross the street.
"Sure, there's a Dinner right next to the mall, we can stop there before we go get my clock." Kitty looked over to Rogue, noticing she was a little tense from being near so many people. "You ok?"
Rogue looked intently at the sign, as if she had the will power to make it change. "I'll be fine… I just hope the light changes soon."
After a few moments, the light changed, allowing the crowd to cross the street. Rogue sighed as she let the crowd dissipate around her, before following Kitty across the street. Her shoulders loosened, as she felt less and less worried about bumping into anyone.
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Remy watched for a 'mark'. He surveyed the crowd of people forming at a street corner. He picked out a man who appeared to be by him self. Remy could see the top of his wallet from the man's back pocket. Remy smiled. To him, pick pocketing was an art. The rush was no where near what he gets from a big heist, or even from riding on his motorcycle, but Magneto had told him to stay out of the papers. Though Magneto did assign him large heists, he hadn't heard word of a mission for a few weeks.
He gingerly pulled out the man's wallet, opening it; he pulled out what cash was there, and in its place slid a playing card, his business card. He smirked as he slid the wallet back into the man's pocket. Most thieves would have taken the wallet, and not risked getting caught, but Gambit's not like most thieves, Gambit's the king of thieves.
He folded the money with the rest of his winnings that day. He counted up all of it. 'Deux cent trente sept' [two hundred and thirty seven] he thought as he smiled at the amount. 'Not to bad for not really trying' Gambit wasn't really after the money this time; he was just bored and looking for something to pass the time.
His head popped up from looking at his pocket when he heard a very familiar voice. He smiled. Gambit made his way into the crowd as he came up behind Rogue and Kitty. He listened to their conversation, and then got an idea.
Slowly Gambit reached into Rogue's back pocket, removing her wallet, and extracting the money. 'Trente' [thirty] he placed the wallet back into her pocket, with out a playing card. He smiled as the light changed, signaling to cross. Rogue didn't move at first, which worried him, 'Did she notice? She couldn't have noticed…' but his concerns were diminished as she stepped out off the curb and crossed the street. He slipped her money into a different pocket.
Gambit smiled as he pursued the two girls, keeping quite a distance between them. He fought the urge to open the door for Rogue as they entered the Dinner. He waited a moment, looking in the window to make sure a waitress was leading them to a seat. He entered the Dinner, making sure neither of them would see him, and made his way to a booth in the opposite corner of where they sat.
"Sir, you can't seat your self, you have to-" Gambit raised his chin to look up at the waitress. She had shoulder length light brown hair, which the top half was pulled up in a bun behind her head. She wore slender glasses over her blue eyes, and looked just under twenty. Gambit gave her a heart-stopping smile, which apparently had done just that. She almost fell backwards behind her, but caught her self quickly.
"What were you saying belle?" he said smoothly through his accent as he noticed the change in her expression. He recognized that expression, and it never seemed to get old.
The waitress's mouth opened, but nothing came out.
"Remy is not ready to order right now, he will definitely be sure to flag YOU down when he is ready, ok?" his hand went up to gently rub her forearm as he begged childishly with his eyes.
"….sure…" she smiled as she slowly walked away. She finally turned around after backing into some customers who were waiting to be seated. She walked them to a table, and periodically glanced over to Gambit, who was now rolling a card through his fingers as he watched Rogue and Kitty.