Part. 4: Old Habits Die Hard.

The next day Jubilee didn’t go up until she was sure that everybody else had already had breakfast, she then put her robe on and sneaked down to the kitchen to get something to eat.

She made sure that no one was around and then she made herself a sandwich and sat down at the couch by the window and watched as Bobby, Ray, Roberto, Rahne, Kitty, Jamie, Kurt, Evan and Amara was having a snowball fight, it had apparently snowed a lot last night.

She took another piece from her sandwich and sighed, then suddenly the pocket in her pyjamas pants started to vibrate and she remembered that she had put down her mobile-phone there before she went down; she fished it up to see who it was and when she saw the name on the display she smiled and answered.

“Hi stud” She answered.

“Hey sexy what ya doin?” A charming voice asked and that voice belonged to Derek a guy she had stayed with sometimes when she was on the streets.

“I just woke up, you?” Jubilee asked.

“Ditto, listen I haven’t seen you in awhile” He started. “And The Silver Dragon Club is having its yearly winter party, so I was thinking that you could drag that cute little but of yours over here”

“Derek you know that I´m not aloud to do stuff like that anymore” She told him.

“Hey I´m not telling you to get stoned or anythin like that I just wanna see ya, everybody does we miss you” Jubilee sighed and smiled to herself, she did need something else to think about.

“Okay I´ll come when does it start?”

“Eleven but the real party begins at midnight” Eleven…Jubilee´s curfew was at midnight but at the moment she didn’t really care.

“Fine I´ll see ya there”

“Okay and wear something hot” Derek said before hanging up.

“Who were you talking to?” A voice suddenly said, Jubilee looked up and saw Logan standing in the door opening.

“An old friend” She answered and watched him get his coffee.

“An old friend or boyfriend?” He said trying to make her lose her temper like he did to Kitty but hey she wasn’t Kitty.

“No not really I mean I have screwed him a couple of times but that’s like it” Jubilee answered sounding completely normal even though she wanted to laugh at Logan´s face when he almost chocked at his coffee.

“Well you did ask” She told him with a smile. “And if your not nice I will give you details” She said just as Ororo, Jean; Scott and Professor Xavier came in.

“Details about what?” Scott asked.

“My sex-life” Jubilee answered and everybody looked at her.

“Oh don’t look at me like that” She said. “Not everybody is perfect” She took another bit out of her sandwich and continued to look out the window.

“Okay I didn’t need to hear that” Scott said. “But anyway I got that CD I ordered this morning but it turns out that its only melodies on it” He told Jean as they sat down at the kitchen table.

“Oh how come?” Jean asked.

“Well apparently it’s a Sing It Yourself CD and I swear it said nothing about it in the ad” Scott said and putt the CD on the table. “And I don’t know half of the songs on it”

“Well put it on I wanna hear” Jean told him, Scott sighed and went over to the small CD-player that they had in the kitchen and put it on and a melody started to play.

“See what is this?” Scott asked. Jubilee ignore the others talk and just listen to the melody she liked it, it was relaxing somehow.

After she had eaten up she looked at her clock it was already over 12.

She could get a few more hours sleep before the party and she would need it.

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Jubilee looked at herself in the mirror as she put on her earrings, she was dressed in a black leather tub-top and a pair of blue tight low cut jeans. The tub-top pushed her breast up so that they almost looked fake but it was still nice. She took her long yellow leather coat and put on some more lipstick before grabbing her back and heading out.

She was just about to open the front door when she heard someone behind her.

“Where are you going?” Jamie’s voices asked and Jubilee turned around.

“You going to a party?” He asked when he saw how she was dressed.

“Yeah I am, so if anybody asks tell them that I´m fine and that I´m in New York City” She told him. “But only if they ask” she quickly added.

“Your not going to do anything dangerous are you?” He asked looking a little bit worried, she smiled at him.

“No not all” She said, I´m just gonna hitchhike to the city, go to a club that will be filled with all the low-life’s of New York, spend my time surrounded by drugs and alcohol but other than that nothing. She mentally added. “Don’t worry”

“Okay” Jamie said and smiled back. “Bye and have fun.

“Yeah bye” Jubilee said and hurried out the door so that she wouldn’t run in to anyone else.

It wasn’t very hard to get a lift into the city, she managed to stop the first truck that she saw although the guy that was driving it was a forty year old pervert but she was use to them. After she had gotten into the city she took a cab to the club and headed inside, she had been to the club almost every night before so no one asked her for any ID.

“Hey Sexy!” A yelled over the high music, Jubilee turned around and saw Derek by the bar, she hurried over to him.

“Hi” She said and hugged him.

“I didn’t think that you were gonna make it” He said and pulled out the chair next to him so she could sit down.

“And miss this never”

“Well hello Jubilee” An old kind voice asked and Jubilee looked over at the old man at the other side of the bar.

“Hey Al” Jubilee said with a smile and leaned over the bar and gave the man a hug. “How are you?” To be honest she thought that Al would have quit the job by now but there he was running the bar as good as ever.

“Just fine I still have a few years left before I move to Florida” He said with a smile. “Now what would you like to drink?” He asked, Jubilee looked over at Derek.

“Oh come on Jubs your not gonna get drunk for drinking one drink” He said to her. “We both know that it takes more than that” He added and smiled.

“Very funny, but your right” She said and looked back to Al. “One Manhattan no salt” She said.

“Coming right up” Al told her and a few moment alter he put the drink infront of her.

“So how is thing in what was it now….Bayville?” Derek asked her.

“Yeah, I guess its alright it’s a little boring… but you live”

“You seem stressed” Derek told her and pulled her over into his knee.

“I know, old problems that wont go away” She explained and took a big sip out of her drink and then finishing it. “One more Al!” She called out

“I thought you were taking it easy?” Derek said.

“Yeah well two drinks isnt gonna make a different and besides I need to forget” She said and finished of the second drink right away and called for another one.

“Well if you really wanna forget and have something for you” Derek said and took up a small white pill.

“X-stasy” Jubilee said and looked down at the pill that had a smiling face on it. “I don’t know…”

“Oh come on it will help ya get into the party mood…and forget” He told her with a smile and put the white pill in his own mouth and then he reached into his pocket and pulled out another. Jubilee looked at the pill and sighed.

“Maybe later” She said and gave it back to him turning back to her third drink.

3 Hours and Several Drinks Later.

Jubilee and Derek was up on the dance floor and had been there for the last two hours, the music was load and Jubilee could feel the rhythm pulsing in her blood as she moved with the music.

“Another one?” Derek asked, Jubilee smiled and opened her mouth allowing Derek to give her another jello-shot.

She didn’t really know how many drinks she had, had and for the moment she didn’t really care.

And after all those drugs that she had been given at the Project X program the alcohol didn’t really do that much.

They continued to dance for a few more minutes but then Jubilee felt that she needed some air, Derek took her hand and led her behind the bar and up a stair that lead to his room.

On their way they almost tripped over some of the couples that had absolutely no shame at all.

Derek opened his door and slammed it shut again as soon as they were inside.

He pulled up a joint and lit it inhaling the marijuana (s?) deeply before giving it to Jubilee who just looked at it and went over to open up the small window, she took a deep breath and looked down seeing yet another couple in the ally that had no shame what so ever.

“You sure you don’t want any?” Derek asked her as she went to sit beside him on his bed.

“Yeah, no drugs I promised” Jubilee answered.

“Didn’t you promise not to drink to?” He asked her.

“Its better than drugs and besides I can handled it”

“I know” Derek said. “I know” Jubilee smiled at him and giggled as he almost fell of the bed trying to get up.

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Logan parked his jeep outside the club. He went to this club sometimes when he wanted a change from the nights down at Harry´s; he went inside and sat down in the bar.

“Ah Logan” The old man said. “A beer?” He asked.

“You know it Al” Logan said and Al put down a cold beer infront of him.

“Enjoy” He said and went to serve a couple of collage kids.

Logan drank his beer and started to look around at the dancing teenagers wondering to himself if you should call that dance or foreplay, he was about to turn back to his beer his eyes caught the sight of a familiar shape.

The long black hair with blue highlights was falling down the young girls face but the guy she was dancing with quickly removed it from her face and asked her something, the girl nodded and opened her moth letting the guy give her a red jello-shot.

He knew that girl… if she could turn just a little bit more…just a little……Oh holy shit it was Jubilee!!

No it couldn’t be all the students were back at the mansion sleeping, it was past two in the morning.

But then suddenly the young couple left the dance floor and went past him behind the bar, he had a perfect view of her face know and he almost reached out after them when they disappeared up the stairs.

It was Jubilee!

Logan left his seat and took of after them when he came up the stairs he saw teenagers everywhere that clearly had never heard the expression “Get a room” before.

He looked around but couldn’t see Jubilee anywhere, he started “sniffing” the air he smelled Jubilee almost right away along with some pot, he stood outside the door where he knew that Jubilee was behind and it was confirmed by a giggle.

He felt the knob but the door was locked so he did the only thing he could think of he started to bang and yell.

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“Open up!” An angry voice yelled from the other side of the door.

“Oh my God it’s Logan” Jubilee said and sat up strait in the bed.

“A jealous boyfriend?” Derek asked.

“Worse” Jubilee said never taking her eyes of the door. “A teacher” Jubilee told him, she was just about to get up when the door almost flew across the room and Logan came in looking like an angry wolf hunting for food.

Jubilee quickly sat back down just in time to see Logan grab Derek by his t-shirt.

“You listen good bub, if I didn’t already have a warning you would be seriously hurt by know” He growled right in Derek´s face. “But if you don’t stay fare, fare away from here I will get a second warning understood”

Logan didn’t wait for an answer he just let go of the terrified teenage boy walked over to Jubilee grabbed her by the wrist and started to drag her out of the room.

Jubilee just managed to grab her coat and bag.

He dragged her down the stairs thru the sea of dancing people and out into the ally where he had parked his jeep.

Logan shoved in the car slamming the door and walked over to the other side jumping in slamming the other door and starting the jeep. He pulled out from the ally and out onto the road not saying a word.

Everything was just starting to sink in for Jubilee, she had been kind of lost there a for a second but the fresh air that kept hitting her face made it easier to wake up a little.

She really hadn’t meant to drink that much; she had promised Professor Xavier not to do that anymore when she joined the Institute, he had even offered to pay for treatment but she wasn’t really hooked to any of the stuff so she had turned him down.

She would probably half to go now…if he sent her away Sinister would find her and be able to take her right away and she would be back at the base being turned into a weapon that would probably kill them some day.

She had just been pulled back again every second she wasn’t drinking she thought about her family and Sinister so she just kept doing it and slowly the images of her family and the base started too disappeared.

She was cold now and she could feel a tear running down her face but it quickly dried from the air that kept hitting her face.

She carefully looked over at Wolverine who still had murdered in his eyes, she really didn’t understand why though, sure she had done something really bad but still wasn’t it the Professors job to get mad and yell?

“What?!” He growled when he saw that she was looking

“I just don’t get why you’re so mad” She said quietly but he could still hear her.

“You don’t get why I´m mad?!” He yelled taking his eyes of the road looking at her. “You were drinking! And if I hadn’t broken in that door…”

“Well no one asked you to okay?!” Jubilee yelled back, sure she had done wrong but that wasn’t a reason not to yell back.

“So what was I suppose to do, just let ya do what you were doin?!”

“Well why the hell not, and watch the road!!” Jubilee screamed taking Logan´s head in her hands turning it back to the road just in time for Logan to see the big truck and avoid it.

“What do you mean why the hell not?!!”

“I mean why the hell won’t this damn world let me die?!!!” That statement made Logan stop the jeep or maybe it was because they were going to have a serious accident if he didn’t stop soon. Jubilee sighed.

“Why don’t you just drive home and let the others yell a little to…well a lot” Jubilee told him and leaned back in her seat.

Logan looked at her, he knew that face mostly because he saw it almost everytime he looked in the mirror.

He started the car again and they drove home in silence.

Logan parked the car in the garage and they went in the kitchen way.

“Go to bed” Logan told or rather ordered her, she gave him a confused look wasn’t he going to wake the Professor? “You need sleep and there is no need to disturbed other people at this hour” Jubilee just nodded and started to walk out of the kitchen but then she turned around and looked at Logan.

“I hadn’t planed it” She told him. “I really hadn’t” and with that she continued her way out of the kitchen and up to her room.