~~~~~~~~~~This chapter, again, is dedicated to my anonymous reviewer and Fishy. Enjoy my friends~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remy walked into the office and closed the doors behind him. Once the door was shut completely, the anger building up inside Scott exploded.
"Who does he think he is? How stupid does he think we are?"
"Scott, I beleive he may really want to join us. It won't be the first time one of our enemies joined us. Remember how Rogue joined the team?"
"What about Rogue?"
"You didn't act like this when she left the Brotherhood and joined us. In fact, you fought for her to join us."
"Rogue was being manipulated by Mystique. There's a big difference."
"Scott, It couldn't hurt for him to join us."
Jean and Scott walked back to the window. The teenagers were now declaring open war on each other. The side yard was full of scorch marks, craters, ice residue, and indents on the ground where bodies had temporarily fallen. They watched as Rahne in her dog form was dragging Bobby around the side yard by his pant leg. After what seemed like forever, Remy and Xavier emerged from Xavier's office.
"Scott, Jean, would you please follow us," Xavier asked.
Remy and Xavier passed by Jean and Scott. Remy smiled at Jean and winked. Instinctively, Scott put a protective arm around Jean. Remy laughed and said to Scott, "Don' worry, I have my own chere. I don' poach." He kept smiling as he followed Xavier.
Jean giggled at Scott's gesture, "Hold on Cowboy, he has no romantic intrest in me, not that it would do him any good. I only have eyes for you." Scott blushed s Jean continued. "Plus I think he's more intrested in someone else here......"
"Who?" he asked as they followed behind Remy and Xavier.
"I only have suspicions. He was here while you, Bennet, and Kurt were that last mission. The one that you went on while I was visiting my parents. I've heard rumors but nothing concrete," Jean answered him. She knew more than she let on. Eden had blabbed everything to her some time ago, but she was sworn to secrecy.
~~~~~~~~~~Flashback starts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Promise me Jean, promise you wont' tell anyone what I'm going to tell you," Eden had begged her.
"Ok, now what's going on with Rogue? She seems a bit.... off..." Jean asked her.
Eden giggled,"You know that Brotherhood mutant? The one with the playing cards? Gambit I think you know him as?"
"Yes...." Jean answered her. "What about him?"
"Well you know that mission Scott, Kurt, and Bennet went on while you were visiting your parents?"
"Yes, come one! Don't keep stalling!"
"Ok, well he came to the mansion saying he was a delivery boy. I accidentally let him in, and when Rogue and I found him, he totally started majorly flirting with her! Not just flirting to be funny, but seriously flirting! He even tried to play with her hair! You should have seen her! She was soooo uncomfortable!"
"You're kidding! Right?"
"No way. He asked for a tour, so I led him on one and I took him to our room. You should have seen it! He just plopped right down on her bed and had the balls to ask her to join him! I thought her head was going to explode!"
"He DIDN'T! What did she do?"
"She tried to ignore him, but he just kept at it. I left them alone for a while. She was so mad at me when I did that, she tried to kill me in the living room after he left. It was then I noticed he slipped something in her back pocket."
"What??"
"It was a playing card. The Queen of Hearts! How cute huh? I think it has some kind of meaning to him. He also left her that necklace she wears but wants no one to see. I saw it because she had me weld the clasp shut with my powers."
"How cute! What's the necklace of?"
"A unicorn. It's really pretty too. I'm happy for her, but also kind of sad too."
"Why?"
"Well, it's not like she can have a normal relationship with a guy or anything..."
"That's true.."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback Ends~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jean snapped her mind out of the past as the four of them headed out the front door. They walked out into the bright sunshine of the late sunday afternoon. The turned the corner and arrived just in time to see Rogue running with the ball trying to dodge the many craters in front of her.
"Whoa!" she yelled as her foot his a stray ice patch. She went down sliding towards Jamie, Ray, and Rahne.
"Watch out!" She yelled at them, but to late. She smacked into Jamie, who created four mulitples, and succeeded in taking Ray and Rahne with them. The others burst into hysterics. Bobby was laughing so hard that he had tears running down his face. Kurt was on the ground howling with laughter, clutching his stomach. Kitty and Jublilee were hanging on the tree to keep from falling. Jublilee was pounding her fist on the tree as she laughed. It took a few moments before they clamed down enough to hear Rouge yelling, "Get off me!"
They managed to detangle themselves and proceeded to line up for the kickoff. Roberto ran to the ball and kicked it right at Rogue. She caught it and groaned, "Not again!"
The boys began to charge and Xavier asked Jean, "Jean, would you please get thier attention?"
"Sure thing Professor," Jean said. She then used her powers to stop everyone from moving.
"Hey! I can't move!"
"Neither can I!"
Xavier smiled at his students and announced, "Students! May I please have your attention?" Everyone quited down and faced Xavier. "Very good. I'd like you to meet a potential new addition to our team. He won't be a full member yet. We've agreed we are going to try this on a trial basis." Xavier beaconed to Remy, who was standing behind Scott and Jean. Continuing, Xavier said to the students, "I'd like you all to meet Remy LeBeau, or Gambit as he is also called."
Rogue snapped her head in Xavier's direction when he said Remy's name. Her heart dropped into her stomach and didn't see Sam come at her from the side.
"OOOF!" she grunted as Sam took her down.
"Oh man! I'm so sorry Rogue!" he apologized as he helped her back up. She knew her face was probably bright red, Eden would be sure to point that out later. She quickly stood up and brushed the twigs off her pants, quickly glancing at Remy. He was looking at her with an amused look on his face. She looked away and avoided his gaze.
The other teenagers looked stunned, except Eden. She kept throwing Rogue knowing looks. The silence was deafening and it looked like no one was going to say anything. Xavier watched his students, mildly suprised no one said anything. The teenagers all looked like they were in shock. He was hoping one of them would be welcoming. After a few minutes of tense silence, they started to warm up. Rahne, Tabitha and Jublilee were openly eyeing Remy and the boys were itching to get the game going again.
Finally Bobby spoke up. Throwing the football to Remy he asked, "Hey man, wanna play?"
"Hey! No! We'll be outnumbered!" Jubilee yelled at Bobby.
"Relax, Jubilee, I'll play," Jean spoke up.
"So will I," Scott said.
"NO! We'll still be outnumbered!" protested Rahne.
"Don't worry girls, we can still beat them," Eden said.
The students continued to trash talk eachother and the arguements were especially heated between Bobby and Eden. Xavier was soon joined on the sidelines by Logan and Orono. Xavier filled them both in about Remy's trial membership.
"Are you sure about this Charles?" Logan asked growling slightly.
"Keep an open mind old friend. He may suprise you."
Orono kept her concernes to herself. Xavier knew what he was doing and everyone deserved a chance. She dissapeared fro a moment and re-appeared a few minutes later with two collapsable chairs.
"I thought we may stay out and see how much our students learned from us," Orono said to them, half joking. The three of them looked around at the destruction that surrounded them.
"At least this time there are no broken windows," mumbled Logan. Orono handed Logan a chair and he grunted which Orono took as a thank you.
The teams were just about to huddle when Logan yelled out to them, "Why don't you play this game the old fashioned way? NO POWERS!"
Grumbling came from both teams. "Huddle!" yelled Eden, marching her team past Remy and Scott. Jean drew her thumb across her neck and said to Scott as they passed, "You guys are dead meat!"
"Riiiight," Scott teased back. Rogue passed by them not giving either of them a second look. Kurt led Scott and Remy over to the boys huddle and they immediatley began to strategize.
"No powers! This is going to suck!" complained Bobby.
"Yeah and watch out for Rogue. I heard Eden mention a secret weapon, I have a feeling that it's her." Jamie added.
"Wonderful," muttered Sam.
"That's just what we need is the girls transferring thier powers to Rogue. She'll be unstoppable," complained Ray.
Kurt raised an eyebrow. The other boys hadn't noticed the tension between Rogue and Remy. "She may not be unstoppable.." he said giving Remy a sideglance. They didn't see how distracted Rogue got when she saw Remy earlier. Kurt motioned for Remy to step away from the others with him. He asked Remy in a low voice so the others couldn't hear, "Why did you really decide to join us?"
"Time for a change mon ami," Remy said honestly. "Plus it seems dere's never a dull moment around here..."
"That's for sure," Kurt agreed. He then added quickly, "And what about Rogue? I couldn't help but notice you looked for her right away..." They both turned and faced the girls huddle. Eden was watching them and waved and elbowed Rogue. Rogue pushed her away and said something that probably wasn't to nice.
Caught of guard, Remy gave a quick laugh. "You and de' petite," jerking his head in Eden's direction, "Sure are sharp."
Kurt couldn't help but smile. He liked the cajun. "Enough male bonding. We have a game to win."
Rogue was also facing an interrogation of sorts in the girls huddle.
"Ooooh.... he's so dreamy!" giggled Rahne with Jubilee agreeing.
"He's taken girls," Tabitha said, looking at her nails.
"How do you know?" pouted Jublilee.
"It's a vibe I'm getting. He's already got someone on his mind," Tabitha told them still looking at her nails.
Jean looked over to Eden and they both supressed thier laughter. Rogue was looking more and more uncomfortable as the conversation progressed. "As facinating as this is, we have a team of boys to slaughter," Rogue snapped.
"Yeah! Let's go!" yelled Rahne slapping a high five with Eden.
As the two teams met in the center Eden whispered to Rouge, "Isn't he cuuuuute?"
Not missing a beat, Rogue relplied, "Fuzzy blue elves aren't my type."
Eden started to say something, but the teams had already met in the middle of the field. "We need to decide who kicks off," Tabitha said.
"Hmmmm...." Scott rumaged around in his pockets and pulled out a quarter. "I need the captians," he called out.
"That's us Society Barbie," quipped Bobby.
"Call me that agian and I'll singe your eyebrows off again," she retorted.
Ignoring them, Scott called out, "CALL IT!" as he flipped the coin in the air.
"Heads!"
"Tails!"
"Aaaaand....... Heads it is!"
The boys started to cheer while the girls protested the call.
Xavier, Orono, and Logan sat on the sidelines and watche.
This should be interesting... Orono thought to herself.
The two teams huddled to come up with their plans. Since Eden had no brain for tactics, Tabitha took care of the battle plans. Once both teams were ready, they all lined up on the field so Scott could kick the ball and start the game. Rahne caught the ball and started to run. Dodging Sam, she tossed the ball to Eden.
"Edie!" Kitty yelled as she and Rogue both knelt on the ground and laced their hands together, forming a sort of catapult out of their hands. Eden ran towards them and when she got close enough, she put her right foot onto their hands and Kitty and Rogue used all the strength they had to toss Eden over the advancing boys. When Eden landed she nearly wiped out in a stray crater, but regained her balance and scored. Tabitha ran down to Eden while the other girls were cheering. Eden and Tabitha even tried to butt heads.
"OW!"
"That was stupid.."
Remy walked into the office and closed the doors behind him. Once the door was shut completely, the anger building up inside Scott exploded.
"Who does he think he is? How stupid does he think we are?"
"Scott, I beleive he may really want to join us. It won't be the first time one of our enemies joined us. Remember how Rogue joined the team?"
"What about Rogue?"
"You didn't act like this when she left the Brotherhood and joined us. In fact, you fought for her to join us."
"Rogue was being manipulated by Mystique. There's a big difference."
"Scott, It couldn't hurt for him to join us."
Jean and Scott walked back to the window. The teenagers were now declaring open war on each other. The side yard was full of scorch marks, craters, ice residue, and indents on the ground where bodies had temporarily fallen. They watched as Rahne in her dog form was dragging Bobby around the side yard by his pant leg. After what seemed like forever, Remy and Xavier emerged from Xavier's office.
"Scott, Jean, would you please follow us," Xavier asked.
Remy and Xavier passed by Jean and Scott. Remy smiled at Jean and winked. Instinctively, Scott put a protective arm around Jean. Remy laughed and said to Scott, "Don' worry, I have my own chere. I don' poach." He kept smiling as he followed Xavier.
Jean giggled at Scott's gesture, "Hold on Cowboy, he has no romantic intrest in me, not that it would do him any good. I only have eyes for you." Scott blushed s Jean continued. "Plus I think he's more intrested in someone else here......"
"Who?" he asked as they followed behind Remy and Xavier.
"I only have suspicions. He was here while you, Bennet, and Kurt were that last mission. The one that you went on while I was visiting my parents. I've heard rumors but nothing concrete," Jean answered him. She knew more than she let on. Eden had blabbed everything to her some time ago, but she was sworn to secrecy.
~~~~~~~~~~Flashback starts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Promise me Jean, promise you wont' tell anyone what I'm going to tell you," Eden had begged her.
"Ok, now what's going on with Rogue? She seems a bit.... off..." Jean asked her.
Eden giggled,"You know that Brotherhood mutant? The one with the playing cards? Gambit I think you know him as?"
"Yes...." Jean answered her. "What about him?"
"Well you know that mission Scott, Kurt, and Bennet went on while you were visiting your parents?"
"Yes, come one! Don't keep stalling!"
"Ok, well he came to the mansion saying he was a delivery boy. I accidentally let him in, and when Rogue and I found him, he totally started majorly flirting with her! Not just flirting to be funny, but seriously flirting! He even tried to play with her hair! You should have seen her! She was soooo uncomfortable!"
"You're kidding! Right?"
"No way. He asked for a tour, so I led him on one and I took him to our room. You should have seen it! He just plopped right down on her bed and had the balls to ask her to join him! I thought her head was going to explode!"
"He DIDN'T! What did she do?"
"She tried to ignore him, but he just kept at it. I left them alone for a while. She was so mad at me when I did that, she tried to kill me in the living room after he left. It was then I noticed he slipped something in her back pocket."
"What??"
"It was a playing card. The Queen of Hearts! How cute huh? I think it has some kind of meaning to him. He also left her that necklace she wears but wants no one to see. I saw it because she had me weld the clasp shut with my powers."
"How cute! What's the necklace of?"
"A unicorn. It's really pretty too. I'm happy for her, but also kind of sad too."
"Why?"
"Well, it's not like she can have a normal relationship with a guy or anything..."
"That's true.."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback Ends~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jean snapped her mind out of the past as the four of them headed out the front door. They walked out into the bright sunshine of the late sunday afternoon. The turned the corner and arrived just in time to see Rogue running with the ball trying to dodge the many craters in front of her.
"Whoa!" she yelled as her foot his a stray ice patch. She went down sliding towards Jamie, Ray, and Rahne.
"Watch out!" She yelled at them, but to late. She smacked into Jamie, who created four mulitples, and succeeded in taking Ray and Rahne with them. The others burst into hysterics. Bobby was laughing so hard that he had tears running down his face. Kurt was on the ground howling with laughter, clutching his stomach. Kitty and Jublilee were hanging on the tree to keep from falling. Jublilee was pounding her fist on the tree as she laughed. It took a few moments before they clamed down enough to hear Rouge yelling, "Get off me!"
They managed to detangle themselves and proceeded to line up for the kickoff. Roberto ran to the ball and kicked it right at Rogue. She caught it and groaned, "Not again!"
The boys began to charge and Xavier asked Jean, "Jean, would you please get thier attention?"
"Sure thing Professor," Jean said. She then used her powers to stop everyone from moving.
"Hey! I can't move!"
"Neither can I!"
Xavier smiled at his students and announced, "Students! May I please have your attention?" Everyone quited down and faced Xavier. "Very good. I'd like you to meet a potential new addition to our team. He won't be a full member yet. We've agreed we are going to try this on a trial basis." Xavier beaconed to Remy, who was standing behind Scott and Jean. Continuing, Xavier said to the students, "I'd like you all to meet Remy LeBeau, or Gambit as he is also called."
Rogue snapped her head in Xavier's direction when he said Remy's name. Her heart dropped into her stomach and didn't see Sam come at her from the side.
"OOOF!" she grunted as Sam took her down.
"Oh man! I'm so sorry Rogue!" he apologized as he helped her back up. She knew her face was probably bright red, Eden would be sure to point that out later. She quickly stood up and brushed the twigs off her pants, quickly glancing at Remy. He was looking at her with an amused look on his face. She looked away and avoided his gaze.
The other teenagers looked stunned, except Eden. She kept throwing Rogue knowing looks. The silence was deafening and it looked like no one was going to say anything. Xavier watched his students, mildly suprised no one said anything. The teenagers all looked like they were in shock. He was hoping one of them would be welcoming. After a few minutes of tense silence, they started to warm up. Rahne, Tabitha and Jublilee were openly eyeing Remy and the boys were itching to get the game going again.
Finally Bobby spoke up. Throwing the football to Remy he asked, "Hey man, wanna play?"
"Hey! No! We'll be outnumbered!" Jubilee yelled at Bobby.
"Relax, Jubilee, I'll play," Jean spoke up.
"So will I," Scott said.
"NO! We'll still be outnumbered!" protested Rahne.
"Don't worry girls, we can still beat them," Eden said.
The students continued to trash talk eachother and the arguements were especially heated between Bobby and Eden. Xavier was soon joined on the sidelines by Logan and Orono. Xavier filled them both in about Remy's trial membership.
"Are you sure about this Charles?" Logan asked growling slightly.
"Keep an open mind old friend. He may suprise you."
Orono kept her concernes to herself. Xavier knew what he was doing and everyone deserved a chance. She dissapeared fro a moment and re-appeared a few minutes later with two collapsable chairs.
"I thought we may stay out and see how much our students learned from us," Orono said to them, half joking. The three of them looked around at the destruction that surrounded them.
"At least this time there are no broken windows," mumbled Logan. Orono handed Logan a chair and he grunted which Orono took as a thank you.
The teams were just about to huddle when Logan yelled out to them, "Why don't you play this game the old fashioned way? NO POWERS!"
Grumbling came from both teams. "Huddle!" yelled Eden, marching her team past Remy and Scott. Jean drew her thumb across her neck and said to Scott as they passed, "You guys are dead meat!"
"Riiiight," Scott teased back. Rogue passed by them not giving either of them a second look. Kurt led Scott and Remy over to the boys huddle and they immediatley began to strategize.
"No powers! This is going to suck!" complained Bobby.
"Yeah and watch out for Rogue. I heard Eden mention a secret weapon, I have a feeling that it's her." Jamie added.
"Wonderful," muttered Sam.
"That's just what we need is the girls transferring thier powers to Rogue. She'll be unstoppable," complained Ray.
Kurt raised an eyebrow. The other boys hadn't noticed the tension between Rogue and Remy. "She may not be unstoppable.." he said giving Remy a sideglance. They didn't see how distracted Rogue got when she saw Remy earlier. Kurt motioned for Remy to step away from the others with him. He asked Remy in a low voice so the others couldn't hear, "Why did you really decide to join us?"
"Time for a change mon ami," Remy said honestly. "Plus it seems dere's never a dull moment around here..."
"That's for sure," Kurt agreed. He then added quickly, "And what about Rogue? I couldn't help but notice you looked for her right away..." They both turned and faced the girls huddle. Eden was watching them and waved and elbowed Rogue. Rogue pushed her away and said something that probably wasn't to nice.
Caught of guard, Remy gave a quick laugh. "You and de' petite," jerking his head in Eden's direction, "Sure are sharp."
Kurt couldn't help but smile. He liked the cajun. "Enough male bonding. We have a game to win."
Rogue was also facing an interrogation of sorts in the girls huddle.
"Ooooh.... he's so dreamy!" giggled Rahne with Jubilee agreeing.
"He's taken girls," Tabitha said, looking at her nails.
"How do you know?" pouted Jublilee.
"It's a vibe I'm getting. He's already got someone on his mind," Tabitha told them still looking at her nails.
Jean looked over to Eden and they both supressed thier laughter. Rogue was looking more and more uncomfortable as the conversation progressed. "As facinating as this is, we have a team of boys to slaughter," Rogue snapped.
"Yeah! Let's go!" yelled Rahne slapping a high five with Eden.
As the two teams met in the center Eden whispered to Rouge, "Isn't he cuuuuute?"
Not missing a beat, Rogue relplied, "Fuzzy blue elves aren't my type."
Eden started to say something, but the teams had already met in the middle of the field. "We need to decide who kicks off," Tabitha said.
"Hmmmm...." Scott rumaged around in his pockets and pulled out a quarter. "I need the captians," he called out.
"That's us Society Barbie," quipped Bobby.
"Call me that agian and I'll singe your eyebrows off again," she retorted.
Ignoring them, Scott called out, "CALL IT!" as he flipped the coin in the air.
"Heads!"
"Tails!"
"Aaaaand....... Heads it is!"
The boys started to cheer while the girls protested the call.
Xavier, Orono, and Logan sat on the sidelines and watche.
This should be interesting... Orono thought to herself.
The two teams huddled to come up with their plans. Since Eden had no brain for tactics, Tabitha took care of the battle plans. Once both teams were ready, they all lined up on the field so Scott could kick the ball and start the game. Rahne caught the ball and started to run. Dodging Sam, she tossed the ball to Eden.
"Edie!" Kitty yelled as she and Rogue both knelt on the ground and laced their hands together, forming a sort of catapult out of their hands. Eden ran towards them and when she got close enough, she put her right foot onto their hands and Kitty and Rogue used all the strength they had to toss Eden over the advancing boys. When Eden landed she nearly wiped out in a stray crater, but regained her balance and scored. Tabitha ran down to Eden while the other girls were cheering. Eden and Tabitha even tried to butt heads.
"OW!"
"That was stupid.."