Best Two Out of Three
Chapter 5: The Lethargy of Elevator Doors
A/N: haha…did I say Friday? Srry, it took so long to update and thanx for your reviews!
Oh, and by the by, I heard that Xmen: Evo is coming back w/ new episodes in 2004. Does anyone know if it's true?
"You going to take all day, chere?" Rogue slowed her step and crossed her arms over her chest. "Where are ya takin' me, Swamp Rat?" she asked. Gambit smiled and swung open a door that had magically appeared. "Gambit wanted to show you this." Rogue took an apprehensive step into the room. "I don't see anything Cajun," Rogue grumbled. Gambit pointed inside the room once again. "It's in there. Keep looking." Rogue sighed and turned around only to face something large and pink. "What is it?" she asked curiously. "Here," Gambit said, pulling her back in order to see the full effect. She looked up at the pink thing and screamed.
"Rogue!" Rogue groaned and rolled over. But Kitty was far too persistent to let that fly. "Wake up! You've got tests, remember?" the Valley Girl demanded, carefully taking hold of Rogue's covered shoulders and shaking her victim mercilessly.
"Ugh," Rogue muttered before slowly dragging her body into a sit up position. Damn Cajun. She rubbed her head absent-mindedly before realizing she didn't have much of a headache anymore.
"What's the matter with you?" Rogue opened a tired eye and found that Kitty was still at her bedside, her arms crossed against her chest in an agitated matter. The girl was probably still upset about having to go to school.
"Nuthin'…just had a bad dream last night…"
"About what?" Kitty asked as she plopped down on the bed beside Rouge.
Rogue shrugged. "Ah don't really remember."
"Oh." Kitty bounced back off the bed and walked over to her vanity. "Well maybe you should get the Professor to read your mind…you know, like figure out what it means…"
"Maybe," Rogue said, her mind wandering away from the conversation. Kitty busied herself at her vanity for a few more minutes and then turned to look at Rogue. "I'm going to breakfast. See ya," Kitty said before she phased through the floor.
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Rouge opened her closet door. She officially had nothing to wear. She felt like she had worn everything she owned over and over again every week. She needed something new, but she was definitely not going to find it in her closet.
Rogue sighed and turned to Kitty's side of the room. She walked over to the Valley Girl's closet. There had to be one shirt or skirt that wasn't pink or pastel that Kitty owned.
Then again, her choice of wardrobe was limited. As the Untouchable, Rogue couldn't wear a skirt without hose or a short-sleeved shirt without long sleeves underneath. And of course she couldn't go without her gloves.
After a few minutes of sorting through Kitty's perfectly ordered clothes, Rouge found just what she was looking for: a dark green shirt with long sleeves that flared out past the elbow.
And Kitty owns this? Thought Rogue incredulously. She grabbed a pair of black pants and slipped on Kitty's top and standard black gloves. Rogue pulled out her combat boots from under her bed and applied her usual amount of make up. Without another look in the mirror she made her way downstairs for breakfast, hoping that a certain Swamp Rat wouldn't be there.
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"Hey! Isn't that my top?" Kitty asked as Rogue entered the kitchen.
"It was yours but now it's mine," Rogue answered. "Kurt did you eat all the donuts?"
Kurt teleported from his seat to the counter next to Rogue. "Vhich ones?"
"Do ya have ta ask? Chocolate."
"Ja, sorry meine Schwester," Kurt answered, teleporting back to his seat before Rogue could give him a dose of her right hook.
Rogue grabbed a glazed doughnut (the horror) and sat down across from Kurt. She looked up to see who else was in the kitchen. Amara was sitting in the middle of Bobby Drake and St. John who were both trying to get her undivided attention. Pyro had been following Amara around ever since he had seen her in her Magma form at last night's training session, which both Rogue and Kitty had been excused from.
It was well known that Bobby, gossiper extraordinaire, had liked Amara for a while, and Rogue doubted Bobby would let St. John take over his "territory" without a fight. Amara looked like she was about to set them both on fire, which in the end might have pleased John.
Rogue looked down the other side of the table. Rahne, Roberto, and Jubilee were sitting together looking warily at Piotr who was sitting with Kitty at the end of the table. It looked like Kitty was doing the talking and Piotr was doing the listening. The beginnings of a perfect relationship, thought Rogue, smirking to herself. She looked at the kitchen's occupants a second time and let out a quiet sigh of relief when she found that the Cajun wasn't around.
"Vhat's vrong?" asked Kurt, not really bothering to look up from his second helping of breakfast.
"What's everybody's problem? There's nothing wrong with me!" Rouge huffed angrily. She ripped apart her glazed doughnut as she always did and put a fourth of it in her mouth. She wasn't in the mood for talking. The dream that she had last night was enough to get her worried that the Professor would tap into her brain and see it.
Just the thought of the nightmare made her cringe. Why would she have a dream about the one person that repulsed her most? - "Morning chere." Kurt looked up from his breakfast and uttered a low growl. Rogue didn't feel the need to turn around, but she silently cursed herself for taking so long to eat breakfast.
"Good morning Swamp Rat," she said as sweetly as possible. "And goodbye." Rogue walked over to the sink, threw her plate in the sink, and hurried on her way downstairs to meet with the Professor.
Once she reached the elevator she pressed the down button and tapped her foot impatiently. The door finally opened and she went inside the elevator and pressed the door close button. Urg! Why is this elevator so slow? Rogue asked herself as she waited for the elevator doors to shut.
"Now why is the chere in such a hurry?" Gambit put his hand on the elevator door to stop it from closing. Rogue crossed her arms against her chest. "Ah thought Ah left you in the kitchen," she said. Gambit stepped into the elevator and walked over to where Rogue was standing, only stopping about an inch away from her face. "Gambit not dat easy to get rid of," he said. The doors shut and the elevator began to move down to the first floor.
Gambit was still too close for comfort and she couldn't meet his gaze. Rouge stared at her boots until the elevator reached its destination. The doors automatically opened and Gambit slowly backed out of the elevator. "By the way chere, Gambit loves that outfit on you." Rogue couldn't get herself to reply quickly enough because he had already disappeared around the corner.
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A/N: Yay! I updated! Hopefully I will update a whole lot quicker than that next time!
Bis spatter!