True Secrets

–Heavenstar3

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I don't own any of the characters, only the ones I created.

Note:

I am so, so sorry I have not been able to update this chapter sooner. I have been really busy with school and life. I had my finals last week, so now school is finally over for me, until August. So I should be able to write more chapters for ALL of my stories soon. Thanks for being patient.

2nd Note:

" normal speech " & ' thoughts '

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Chapter 2

A few or so hours after Jubilee fell asleep, the others started to arrive.

"I told you, Hank, that I'm not interested in hearing about physics right now," Robert 'Bobby' Drake also known as Iceman said to his furry blue friend.

"As you wish Bobby, but it is fascinating how everyday life, especially lives like our own, revolve around physics," Dr. Henry McCoy known to them as Beast offered.

"Enough, Hank. Enough," Bobby sighed.

Behind them, the females of the group, Jean Grey-Summers, Ororo Monroe, Rogue, and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock all giggled at the annoyed Bobby who was trying to escape his friend's lectures.

Behind the females were the other males of the group. Scott Summers, Piotr 'Peter' Rasputin, and Remy LeBeau all had amused faces on.

In front of all of them, heading towards the mansion door, ignoring all of them was the Wolverine, known to all as Logan. As always in a grumpy mood.

Once inside, he stopped right in front of the door, blocking the way for everyone to come in. Due to his hyperactive sense of smell, Logan smelled a familiar, but yet not so familiar scent.

"Hey Logan, ya gonna let us in, sugar, or are ya gonna let us stand here all day?" asked Rogue.

Logan didn't say anything, he only grunted and headed toward the kitchen for a beer.

Once everybody was inside, the Professor came out of his office. "My X-Men can I speak to all of you?"

"Sure, Professor," Scott answered for all of them.

Everybody went to sit down, wanting to know why Professor Xavier wanted to talk to them. Logan came in with a beer in hand and stood next to the fireplace.

Xavier really didn't know how to tell them that their firecracker was back, so he was just a little vague. "We have a visitor."

"What kind of visitor, Professor?" Scott asked.

"A friendly visitor. She is a friend not a foe," Xavier answered.

"She?" Both Bobby and Remy asked.

"Yes, she," said Kitty as she came down the stairs.

"So you have seen her?" Ororo asked.

"Yes, I was the first one who welcomed her back and I was quite surprised."

"Back?" Jean wondered.

"Who is this person, Professor?" Scott asked wondering why Xavier and Kitty couldn't just tell them.

During this whole conversation, the Professor was contacting Jubilee telepathically to wake up and come down because the others were back.

"Yes, Professor. Who is this girl?" Peter asked in his Russian accent.

"She's me," a voice came from up the stairs.

Everybody turned to see the owner of the voice except Logan. He didn't have to see her face to know who she was. 'I knew that scent smelled familiar,' Logan thought. 'It's my Jubilee.'

Jubilee began to climb down the stairs and when she was in full view there were gasps.

When she was in front of them, there was silence. Their mouths were hanging open and their eyes almost popped out of their heads.

Remy was the first to speak, "Petite?"

"I'm not so little anymore, but yeah, it's me."

Like Kitty and the Professor everybody was shocked at the appearance of their youngest X-Man. She was all grown up.

"Jubilee?" Jean wanted to be sure.

"Yeah Jean, it's me. Just grew up a little," Jubilee chuckled.

Then everybody ran towards her to give her a hug and welcome her back. The only person who didn't move was Logan.

'My God, look at her. She's beautiful. She looks like a model,' Logan thought looking at this stranger in front of him.

Jubilee hugged each and everyone of them and thanked them for welcoming her back home. She pulled away from Peter and looked at Logan. The man who brought her to the X-Men and the man that made her decision to leave.

"Hey, Wolvie."

'I haven't heard that in so long,' Logan thought. "Hey, kid," he said a little uncomfortably.

"Oh Logan, look at her, she is not a child anymore. She is a beautiful young woman," Ororo chided.

'Thanks 'Ro didn't know,' Logan sarcastically thought. "Sorry, force of habit."

There was an uncomfortable silence, until Jean asked Jubilee, "So how have you been, sweety."

"I've been okay. Just decided that it has been a long time since I've visited, so here I am," Jubilee nervously chuckled.

"Well we are sure glad your back Jubes. It has been boring here without you," Bobby excitedly said. Glad to have his prank buddy back.

"Thanks Bobby."

"So Jubilee, what have you been up to. I know what you wrote in your letters, but I want to hear it from you," Scott said.

"Well, okay. Why don't we sit down it's a long story," Jubilee told them. "Well first as you all now, I went to college a few months after I left, thanks to the Professor," she told them and then smiled at the Prof.

"I majored in physics to my surprise and got my masters degree. I was suppose to start my doctorate this semester, but I thought I should take a break," Jubilee concluded.

"Did you have a job? When you wrote, you didn't tell us if you had a job or not," Scott asked.

"Well, yes I did. I needed to eat and have clothes and stuff. I got a job as a model."

"A model?" Remy questioned.

"Yes and don't look so surprised LeBeau."

"I not surprised about you being a model, petite. Ya do have the body for it, just not the grace."

"Well hanging out with many models can change you."

"Don' I know," Remy smirked and then Rogue gave him a smack upside the head. "Wha'?"

"Shut up, Remy," Rogue hissed.

Jubilee laughed, "What I mean is, my roommates in college were all models, after awhile their skills in the modeling business sort of rubbed off on me. So at seventeen and a half, I went to a modeling agency and got a job on my first day. I modeled for a designer in Beverly Hills."

"What did you model?" Jean asked.

"Oh, you know the usual," Jubilee didn't want to say anymore.

"No, we don't," Logan finally spoke.

Jubilee looked at him with a somewhat angered look. She knew he just wanted her to say it, like to confirm if his fears were real or not. Logan was afraid what 'the usual' modeling stuff was, but had some idea. If she confirmed what he assumed then somebody was going to get hurt.

"Well at the beginning I did evening wear and day wear clothing. Then when I became older, I modeled swim suits and lingerie."

"Lingerie? Jubes you were an underwear model?" Bobby was shocked. His prank buddy was like those Victoria Secret models.

Nobody else heard Logan when he have a low growl except for Jubilee, who was looking at him. "Underwear wasn't my main thing, I did everything."

"You got pictures?" Bobby asked.

Everybody just stared at him and then there was silence until everybody hear a snikt and then the attention left Bobby to Logan. Who was staring at Bobby like he wanted to kill him.

Bobby saw this and actually scooted away from Logan with fear. "Hey, I was just kidding," he laughed nervously.

"Yes, I do have pictures and no you may not see them," Jubilee answered.

Another uncomfortable silence began again.

"Well, our little Jubilee isn't so little anymore," Jean broke the silence.

"That's right," Jubilee smiled.

"Well, my X-Men, it is late, we can all catch up with Jubilation later," Xavier said.

"I would have to agree, it is quite late," Beast said, "even though I would like to listen to Jubilation's physics stories. I am quite tired."

"Yeah, we can catch up later. I'm going to be here for awhile," said Jubilee.

"How long are you staying for, Jubes?" Bobby asked.

"Why Bobby? Trying to get rid of me already," Jubilee teased.

"No. I was just wondering."

"I'm going to be staying for awhile, don't know when I'll be leaving, but it isn't any time soon."

"Good. We just got you back, it's not fair if you leave right away."

"Life's not fair, Bobby," she said very softly that nobody would have caught what she had said except for one.

"What?"

"Oh, I said, of course I'm not going to leave right away. I plan to stay for a long time."

Everybody was ecstatic to have their firecracker home and that she was staying for quite a long period of time. They all had big smiles on their faces except one, Logan.

He was happy his Jubes was back. He wanted to do cartwheels, he was so excited, but he was also hurt. He had feelings for her that he couldn't explain and would never admit. There was something different about her, not just how she had grown and matured, but something else. He just couldn't figure out what.

"Well good," Scott said, "Why don't we all go to bed and tomorrow morning we all will catch up."

"Sounds good to me," Jubilee said smiling.

"Okay. Good night, Jubilee," Scott and Jean both gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Good night."

Then everybody started to say good night, hug, kiss her, and left to go to their rooms.

Jubilee was left in the living room alone with only one person. Her Wolvie. She stared right into his eyes and kept it there for only a minute. She turned her head when she couldn't stand his stare anymore. She actually looked shy. "So..."

"Humph. So..."

"Well, I should go to bed too," Jubilee said nervously, biting her lower lip.

She headed towards the stairs, when Logan grabbed her arm and pulled her into a big bear hug. "I missed you, Jubes."

She gave a sigh of happiness, "I missed you too, Wolvie." Returning the hug.

"Why did you leave?"

She stiffened at his question and he could feel it. She pulled out of the hug and just looked at him with a blank face. 'Didn't he know? He was one of the main reasons I left.'

Logan just stared at the beautiful figure in front of him. Her eyes directly looking at him. 'I could just get lost in them. My God she is beautiful!!'

Jubilee saw his hand go up and gently cup her left cheek. She leaned towards it, closing her eyes to get the full affect. 'Oh how I missed you,' but then she remembered what she was suppose to do, so she opened her eyes and pulled away.

"Listen Wolvie, I'm kind of tired, so why don't we catch up later?"

Logan was hurt that she pulled away and that she didn't want to stay with him. "Okay Jubes. Good night."

"Night Wolvie." She leaned towards him and kissed him on the cheek. Then she left him standing alone in the common room.

(End of Chapter 2)