Wow, look at this I finally -finally- managed to get this started. YAY!!!! So, it takes place at the end of that episode, um, The Stuff of Villains (I think) but instead of Pietro, Gambit leads. The first part of the story will be in Lance's POV but will switch to Remy's POV for the last part (don't worry I'll tell you when) First chapter kinda turned out more, um, happy? than I meant it to. But I'm in a really good mood and that's what happens. The next chapter will be more serious (probably). I'm not sure, though, if this chapter is any good, but I guess you all can tell me that. If it really sucks then I'll take it down and re-write it. Sooo, please review, tell me what ya think, 'kay?
Only Know I Do
By Nari
Gambit had just walked through the door and declared that he was going to be leading the Brotherhood from now on. Under Magneto's orders, of course. To say I was a little bit pissed would be an understatement.
"No way am I going to take orders from you!" I pretty much sneered this out, had a curl to my lip and everything.
"Don' t'ink dat you really have a say in de matter, homme." He crossed his arms over his chest and stared at me with that damn arrogant expression of his. No doubt just waiting for me to say something. Blob never gave me the chance.
"Come on, Lance. Maybe it won't be so bad. We might even get on Magneto's new team."
"Yeah, come on, yo. We gotta get on the team."
"You guys can't actually be agreeing to this!" I couldn't believe that they would desert me like this. Great friends. I also didn't see what the big deal was about working for Magneto. It would just be yet another person to push us around and use us for our mutant powers.
"Y' don' like it y' welcome t' leave." That smug bastard actually smiled at me. He knew that I had nowhere else to go. Much as I may have wanted to leave, I couldn't. There was no way I was going back to some foster home, not that anyone would have wanted me anyway. Getting a job when you're a known mutant is pretty much impossible and I'm not about to go live on the streets. I really didn't have a choice.
"Fine!" I barked out angrily and stomped out of the room. Childish, I know, but what gave him or even Magneto, the right to come here. I was so sick of being used by these people. We would be nothing but more foot soldiers to add to their mutant army. Just once, it would be nice if someone actually cared.
Once I got up to my room, I had some time to think. Would it really be so bad? As much as I hated Gambit this team really did need some leadership and those two idiots downstairs simply wouldn't listen to me. Also, with Magneto supporting us, we'd actually have some food for a change. Actually be able to pay our bills. I had to grudgingly admit to myself that having Gambit around might be a good thing. I still wasn't gonna like him, though, and I sure as hell wasn't gonna make this easy on him. There was a soft knocking on the door. Knew it had to be him, those other two just would have knocked the door down to get in.
"What do ya want?" He opened the door and stepped slightly into the room. His lip curled slightly in disgust.
"Ugh, how c'n y' guys live in dis house. It's like a pig sty."
"Yeah, well we don't really get much time for cleaning." Whoa, what a lie, it makes it sound like we actually do something with our time.
"Well you've got it now. Get up and move, we're going to make dis place livable." Sighing, I got up. There wasn't much point in arguing. The house was starting to get kind of sickening and I'd been trying to get this place clean for weeks now.
Walking down the stairs and into the living room my eyes nearly bugged out of my sockets. Toad and Blob were actually cleaning and doing a good job of it by the looks of it. I looked over at Gambit in shock. He grinned and cracked his knuckles.
"All it takes is a little motivation."
"Huh." Never worked for me before. Already, he was getting more respect from the team than I had ever got.
"Well?" I looked at him blankly. He rolled his eyes. "What y' draggin' y' feet for? Get cleanin'." I grunted at him but did as he said. I was once again surprised when he went and got a vacuum and began cleaning himself. He must have noticed my startled look. "Wouldn' be fair f' me t' order you around an' den sit on my ass an' do not'ing, non?" I couldn't think of a clever response to that one. Think I was way too dumbfounded to speak at that moment.
There were a few moments of silence, other than the sounds of our cleaning, when we heard the front door open and then slam shut. Oh joy, it appeared that Wanda was back. I couldn't wait to see how Gambit handled her, that girl didn't listen to anyone. She stalked into the living room and didn't even bother glancing at us, simply walked through and up to her room. Her door slammed hard enough to shake the walls. Glancing over at Gambit, I saw him staring after her in disbelief and anger. Without a word, he stalked off after her. I heard the door open and close as he entered her room. I wondered if maybe he had a death wish or was just a complete idiot.
"So, how do you think she'll kill him?" Todd voiced into the still silence. Neither I nor Fred bothered answering. The house remained quiet. Wasn't sure if that was a good or bad sign, she could have just killed him the moment he entered the room. We waited in silence for several moments.
"I am not staying on a team run by one of Magneto's lackeys!!" Ah, there was the shouting.
"Eit'er y' listen t' me or y' can get de hell out!" The door opened and a moment later Wanda stomped down the stairs followed by an equally pissed off Gambit. "Y' can come back when y' grow up a little!" She didn't bother replying, just walked back out the door and didn't look back. Todd, Fred and I were all staring in shocked silence. I wondered idly why she hadn't used her powers on him. Gambit turned to glare at us and the phrase 'if looks could kill' passed through my mind. We all got back to cleaning pretty quickly.
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It was amazing; we got the house cleaned in just a couple of weeks. The state the house was in you'd have figured it would have taken months. We even painted the walls, got rid of all the graffiti. Now, I'm not saying it was done without any arguing though. I've got a terrible temper and within a day I found out that Gambit had one of his own. And neither of us have anything against using our powers to prove a point. We had to replace the furniture in the living room once. Thank God, with Gambit here, we were getting money from Magneto, though I'm sure Gambit would have to explain that one later. Thinking back on it, it was actually kind of fun. Toad and Blob managed to stop us before we did any real damage to each other. I'm afraid we were both a little bit banged up after that little episode. Wish I could remember what started it. Oh well.
We did have one real good argument in that time that I actually do remember. It happened when we were painting the walls.
"So, what color do you think we should paint the wall?" Blob had asked after the rest of the cleaning was finished.
"Let's keep it simple, paint 'em white."
"Oh, well that's pretty boring. We should paint them navy blue." Yeah, that's right we were actually arguing over the paint color. I'm embarrassed just thinking about it.
"Navy blue? What de hell? Y' can't paint de walls dat color!"
"Hey, it's still our house! You have no say in what color the walls will be!"
"I'm de leader! I get t' decide!"
We probably would have argued about this for hours if Blob hadn't broken in. He suggested a race. First one to buy the paint and get back here got to use their color. Huh, it would appear that Blob is the only real sensible one in this group as Toad was goading us on to fight. Anyway, we agreed to his idea and took off to different stores. By some miracle I managed to get back before him but he was right on my heels and none too happy about losing. Running through the door, all I could hear was him cursing from behind me, and, then, I heard a noise like one of his cards charging. I had just made it to the stairs when I heard him grunt as he threw something at me. I turned, expecting to see a card, but what I saw was a paint can. I did the only thing I could think of. I threw mine at the one flying through the air and ducked. The two cans collided and there was quite the explosion. Paint just flew everywhere, plastering the wall and Gambit. I had managed to get behind the couch and was spared from a paint soaking. We had luckily covered all the furniture and stuff and Toad and Blob had been smart enough to leave before the explosion.
As I climbed to my feet and looked over at Gambit I almost fell to the floor laughing. He was covered head to toe in blue and white paint, the expression on his face a mixture of shock and disgust. If only I had had a camera. Gambit stalked out of the room, grumbling something about taking a shower. Some good did come of this, though. When mixed, the paint was a rather nice shade of light blue. We bought more paint and decided that that would have to be a good enough color as we certainly didn't want to go through all that again.
A/N: Just need ta ask a couple of quick questions about some other ideas I had. 1) On Evolution have they ever mention anything about Genosha? (I sleep in and miss the cartoons all the time. The only reason I've seen season three is 'cause I downloaded it. I missed season two almost completely) 2) Also came up with another idea (that has nothing to do with Genosha) but I'm can't decide on a pairing. So I figured I'd ask you what you would like. It's another Remy one 'cause I apparently can't do a story without him in it. So Remy/?. It can be anyone from Kitty-St. John just put in your request. It'll be like a vote, yes? Only not Rogue. I'm so sick of seeing them paired and I don't much like her.