Disclaimer: I don't own the characters still.

Beany thanks for the compliments, I have bad news though. Most of the previous chapters had already been written and this one of the last of the pre-written chapters so pretty much from here on out it'll take me a week or two to update so I can write the chapter, sorry

BlueSqueak: thanks, I enjoy the Cannonball/Jubilee dynamic quite a bit as well.

little miss tiny shoes: thanks, and to anyone reading this check out her story You Can't Run On Ice, its a great story.

DeepFreeze27: thanks for the compliments. Yup Sam actually did go out with Tabitha/Boom Boom in the comic books

TwentyTon Questions

Jubilee was still lost in thought when Sam came in the rec room. She looked up at the sound of shoes on the carpet and flashed a small smile. "Hey Sam, long time no see," she greeted.

He smiled back and said, "Yeah 'spose it has been a while. Seems like you grew a few inches too."

Jubilee stuck her tongue out at the remark. "Alright Country you ready to play?"

"Ready as I can be," he said. Something in his voice struck Jubilee as odd, but she decided to ignore it and simply play the game. "OK so I'll start," Jubilee said with a vicious smile on her face. "Sam what's your favorite ice cream?"

"Homemade vanilla. Jubilee what's your favorite restaurant?"

Jubilee was surprised by the quickness with which the question had been delivered. "Hmmm L'Angelos Sam, when was it you last kissed a girl?"

Sam smirked at the question. "Its been a couple years. Jubilee when's the last time you kissed a boy?

"Two years ago, unfortunately, and it wasn't that great of a kiss. Alright so you seem nervous, what's that all about?"

"Its about something Bobby said Ah should ask you and Ah really want to ask you, but Ah'm gonna wait a few questions. How do you feel about Bobby?"

"What?! Sam you can't just say you have an extra special question for me and then say you're gonna wait on it. How do I feel about Bobby? Um he's like my brother ya know? I love playing pranks with him. Um why do you ask?"

"Because Ah'm trying to throw you off track from the question Ah'm actually going to ask you in about five minutes. So what're you doing this week?"

"Nothing, why do you keep teasing me with this big question," she had begun to figure out that the faster she answered the questions the sooner she'd get to the so-called big question.

"It was supposed to be a secret, you just happened to break it a little early. So you sure you have nothing planned?"

"Yes, why do you keep asking me that?"

"We've still got two minutes."

Jubilee growled, causing Sam to smile even more.

"So what time is it?"

"its 8:59 Sam, would you come on already?"

"Nope mah word is mah bond. So Jubilee were you bein' honest when you said what you wanted in a guy?"

"Yes and if you're setting me up on a blind date I'm gonna be pissed. You're not setting me up on a blind date are you," Jubilee was confused by where this was heading. First he said he had a big question for her and then he kept it from her, and then he asks if she had been honest about an old question.

"No, not a blind date. How about going on a date with me though?"

Jubilee was shocked by the question. It had never occurred to her that Sam might possibly reciprocate the attraction she held for him. A blush colored her cheeks, while her thoughts began to fire off at random. 'Wait a week,' Beast had said, but was that really necessary? He'd never given her bad advice before so... "Sam," she winced knowing her answer and hating it, "can you wait one week for the answer?"

'Its not a no, but its not a yes either,' Sam thought to himself, 'It was better than a no and besides how long could it take for a week to pass?' "Uhhh sure, mind if Ah ask why?"

"Can't tell ya at this point Country, but I promise you'll have my answer in a week." 'If he knew the reason,' she thought, 'then he'd just be on his best behavior and I want to see him at his worst.'

"Anything Ah can do to persuade ya," he said with a grin.

"Just be yourself Country, I like you that way," Jubilee said as a blush came over her.

"Well alright then. I'd say our game of twenty one questions is over now. How about that movie?"

"Yeah, sounds good, man why is it we never seem to finish a game of twenty one questions."

"Well, finishing is never really the point. The point is to see what you can find out about the person and how much detail you can get them to go into."

"True," an uncomfortable silence fell on them, "um I'll get the movie."

"I'll get the popcorn and the rootbeer floats."

"Cool, meet you downstairs?"

"Yeah."

Fifteen minutes later they were sitting on opposite sides of the sofa, each barely paying attention to the movie Jubilee had chosen. Sam glanced over at Jubilee, curled up around a pillow, eating her rootbeer float and then glanced away when he realized he'd been looking at her too long. Jubilee did the same from time to time, admiring his eyes, wondering what it would be like to kiss him. The end result of this was neither of the two of them were satisfied by the movie or the distance. After the movie had ended they sat in silence, Sam biting his lip, Jubilee staring blankly at the screen, hoping something to say would come to mind, but Sam beat her to it. "Jubilee."

"Yeah."

"Ah just want you to know that Ah really like you a lot and Ah'm willin' to wait for your answer, so Ah hope Ah ain't rushin' ya inta anything."

Jubilee smiled, wishing she hadn't told Hank she would wait a week, but knew he was probably right. Still this didn't keep her from feeling anxious. "You're not Country, don't worry about it, really. Just give me this week and I promise you'll have an answer."

"Alright then, well Ah'm goin' to bed, see ya in the mornin," Sam said as he stood up, gathering the dishes from the coffee table.

"Well, afternoon anyways Country," she said before getting up herself and giving Sam an unexpected hug, which he returned as best he could with his hands full. "Night Sam."

"Night Jubilee," he said with a smile before heading towards the kitchen, a dopey grin growing on his face when he was out of her sight. The grin didn't leave his face until the next morning. Jubilee didn't rest quite as easy as Sam because she could never seem to quite get him out of her head. 'He makes me nervous,' she thought to herself, 'well ok, but I need to get some rest danger room session tomorrow and all that jazz. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sle.." snore.