To Err is Human
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "What's the matter? Is the puffy, sweaty, pregnant lady disturbing your precious coffee time?!!"
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Hey all. As some of you may have noticed, i have deleted my script fics (my musicals and parodies), as seen as are getting very stict about them, thanks to Red Witch for the warning (snuggles her in fanfiction limbo). But not to fear,. I am slowly moving all my parodies and musicals onto a yahoo group, the link for which is on my author file. The refuse-to-go-down-without-a-fight side won't let me quit writing parodies and musicals, so I shall write my new ones in a different, non-script format. Hah! Onto the chapter!
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Chapter 24 - Auld Lang Syne
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The New Years party had finally gotten into full swing. After set up, everyone was milling around, the teenagers enjoying being teenagers and the adults...well..they were looking for something to do.
"Well, we could drink beer", sulked Logan, "but SOMEONE poured it all down the drain".
"It smells!", snapped Ororo from where she was standing, having learned that sitting down meant it took over quarter of an hour to get up again, "I don't want to choke on stinky beer stink!"
"We could always see how many things we can pile on Storm's lump before it all falls off", grinned Hank.
"Okay, that's it!", snapped Storm, stomping over to him.
"Please don't do it, Storm!", cringed Hank, "I'm too young to die in such a horrible manner"
Storm growled, pointing a finger at him.
"One more pregnant joke, just ONE and I'll sit on you!", she warned, "don't think I won't!"
"Yes...I'm sorry, Ororo, it won't happen again", said Hank sheepishly.
"It better not!", snapped Storm.
"...How long will it be until morning and Forge can take her away?", whispered Logan.
"I heard that!", snapped Storm "don't talk around me like I am invisible!!!"
"Oh...we certainally can't make the mistake that you're invisible, Ororo", said Xavier with a wince as he wheeled over.1
"YOU!", she growled, stomping over to him.
"Oh dear", said Xavier, trying to wheel backwards, "Now I remember why I kept hiding in my office".
Storm, however, was faster than him, grabbing his jacket front.
"Hello CHUCKIE!. I am very, very, VERY uncomfortable!", she snarled, ""You're a Professor, give me drugs"
Xavier gave a nervous laugh, trying to free himself from her grip.
"Ororo...", he said, picking his words VERY carefully, "I really can't give you any drugs"
"Then you're just...just...MEAN!", snapped Ororo, stomping away, "call yourself a Professor. You bald-headed-wheely-mind-reading.....MAN!!!"
"...Isn't pregnancy such a wonderfull time?", said Hank, wincing as the thunderstorm over the house grew stronger.
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The party-goers that had so far managed to avoid Storm's wrath were enjoying themselves, well...most of them, anyway. Jamie gave a degected sigh, poking his bowl of jelly with a spoon. His girlfriend was a mind-controled assasin, he had no idea where she was, and his entire faith in the Professor had been shaken for him not mentioning this fact.
"Happy New Year.....yeah, right", he said, then blinked as Lockheed padded over, nuzzling him, "what?"
Lockheed cocked his head to the side, before ruffling his little purple wings, padding over to Jamie's bowl of jelly....and promptly begining to eat it.
"Oh gee...you can make me feel so much better", said Jamie dryly.
"Kid, you've got to get yourself out of this funk", said Rogue, blinking at him from where she..err 'wasn't hiding'
Jamie blinked at her sadly.
"Okay...forget a'h said anything", said Rogue, rolling her eyes, there was obviously no consoling the boy.
She gave a defeated sigh, walking away form him, leaving him to his misery.
"Oh, there you are".
Rogue squeaked, jumping as Piotr walked over, still in his metalic form.
"Look...a'h...a'hm sorry a'h just leapt at you like that", she said, brushing a hand nervously through her hair, "a'h just....it's been a long time. A'h didn't even ask if you were intesested"
Piotr sighed, taking her hand in his.
"Do you think I am cruel enough to let you know I can touch you, possibly the only person with such an ability, and then take it all away?", he asked her gently.
"..A'h...no", admitted Rogue.
Piotr smiled, putting his hand under her chin, lifting her face up gently.
"I would not have found out such a thing if I was not intersted", he said softly.
He leaned in, giving her a gentle kiss, Rogue sighed, closing her eyes and wrapping her arms around his broad shoulders. Enjoying her first kiss since her mutation developed that didn't end in a coma.
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Soon, the hours wore on, getitng closer to New Years. Roberto, naturarly, had been trying to go to sleep, but Danielle had decided to poke him at regular intervals to keep him awake. Everyone had given Storm a wide birth, who was getting more and more irritable. The adults had noticed this, and so posed a 'suprise' visit.
"Oh, I wonder who that can be?", said Hank, grinning as the doorbell rang.
"Unless it's Ben Affleck in a very tight fitting bodysuit, I'm not interested", said Storm, crossing her arms. 2
"Ororo, you're a married woman!", said Xavier, wide-eyed.
Storm blinked at him.
"So, I can dream, can't I?", she snapped, "or am I too pregnant for that too?!!!!".
"For the love of God, open the door Hank!", shouted Xavier.
Hank nodded, opening the door, letting Evan and Warlock in.
"Hello, Auntie O!", grinned Evan, "we came to spend the holiday with you"
"Happy complete cycle of your planet!", said Warlock with a grin.
Storm looked blankly at Xavier.
"You think this will cheer me up?", she said, "MORE teenagers?"
Evan smiled, looking at Storm's belly.
"Hello little cousin!", he said with a smile.
"DON'T CROWD THE LUMP!", screamed Storm, making Evan back away quickly.
"Calm down, Auntie O", he said, "I didn't touch you. You should really have a rest or something, chill out"
Everyone on the room paused, looking at Evan in horror.
"Pardon?", said Storm.
"Well, it's just....", Evan coughed, "you've been a little...short with everyone lately"
Storm blinked, before narrowing her eyes darkly.
"My God, Evan, don't anger it!", said Hank. 3
Storm smiled sweetly at her Nephew..dangerously so.
"Evan, Honey", she said, "my feet hurt, my back hurts, my neck hurts, my legs hurt and I can bearly walk, so just BACK OFF!!"
"Sorry Auntie O", squeaked Evan, flinching away.
"I have to go pee now", said Storm, "somehow, the baby got the idea that my bladder is a football. I wonder where she got THAT idea from"
She sent a GLARE at Roberto as she walked past.
"What did I do?", said Roberto, blinking out of his sleepy state.
"Nothing", said Dani, patitng his arm, "Storm is just...a little crazy right now"
"A little?", snorted Logan, "that's like sayin' Trask was 'a little' bit evil".
Stom wobbled back into the common room.
"Oh no, she heard me!", squeaked Logan, "hide me!"
"Guys", said Storm, giving a nervous chuckle, "not wanting to alarm anyone here but...well...my water just kinda broke".
Everyone blinked dumbly at her.
"Pardon?", said Hank eventually.
"My water just broke!", said Storm, "what, you need it in a different language?"
Shortpack blinked.
"Forge isn't here, you can't have the baby now"
"Try telling that to the baby!", snapped Storm, then looked at her stomach, "well, i'm sorry, Missy, but you're not moving until your poor excuse for a father gets his lousy carcas here!, and I..."
Her eyes widened.
"Holly crap, this HURTS!!!", she said, looking at the gawping adults, "don't just stand there!!!!"
THAT spurred them into action, and so, instead of 'standing there', they began to run around like headless chickens. Storm blinked at them all, before glaring at Xavier.
"I'll get the baby bag, Hank, you get the pillow", said Xavier, clearing his throat, "somebody, get in touch with Forge. Ororo, concentrate on your breathing".
Storm glared at him.
"I know, why don't YOU have the baby and THEN I can concentrate on my breathing?!!"
(This is going to be a logn night, isn't it, Charles?), sent Shortpack.
(Yes, I am afraid it is), winced Xavier, then cleared his throat, "Logan, keep an eye on the kids, please?"
"I want to see the baby!", whined Kitty.
"No", said Xavier, "we don't want to fill the hospital with mutants again. Remember what happened last time?"
Kitty hung her head.
"Yes, Professor"
"I'm going!", protested Evan, "I'm FAMILY!"
"So am I", said Warlock, waving a hand in the air.
Xavier gave a defeated sigh.
"Okay, Evan and Warlock can go, and that's IT!"
"I hate to break up all the whining", said Storm, "but I'd really like to get to the hospital now...please?"
"Come on, Ororo", said Hank, leading her outside, "let's go to the X-Van"
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1 - I was watching the Friends episode 'TOW Rachel is Late' while writing this, can't you tell?
2 - Ahh Daredevil, what lovely eye-candy you gave us.
3 - There's that Rachel anger again.
Well, you knew it would happen sooner or later. Dum dum duuuum. Ahem. Storm in labor will probably scare you, hell, it scared ME....and we're not even gonna talk about what it did to Forge.