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Spin the Bottle
Chapter 3
"Hey girls- whoa!" Bobby almost dropped the camera as Rogue and Jean sprang apart each one landing with their backs on different walls.
"Hello Bobby. How's the party going?" Jean gave one of her polite smiles as Rogue put on her usual glare.
"The what? Oh the party! Yeah, the party, it's… it's going alright." It was so hard for the girls to not burst out laughing; his face was so funny when it's shocked.
"Do you know what time it is?" Jean stole a quick glance at Rogue as Bobby fumbled around for his watch. She looked so scared all of a sudden. 'Of what?' Jean wondered.
"Uhm, it's about 8:15." He had finally pulled himself together. "So have you two had any luck?" He grinned evilly.
"We-"Jean was cut off by Rogue. "We're still working on it." She had a cold look in her eyes as she stared down Bobby who was suddenly nervous again.
"Well, uh… that's cool. I mean, I'm still waiting to find Scott and Evan. You guys wouldn't know where they are, would you?"
"Wait, so you've been spending all of this time on Kurt and Kitty?" Jean was clearly surprised.
Bobby laughed, "You should see the way they're going at it. I guess I'll be back in an hour or so. Good luck." And with that he finally left.
Once the door closed Jean turned and saw Rogue close her eyes and sigh with relieve.
"Hey, are you ok?" Concern was written on every inch of her face. "Is something wrong? You looked really worried back there."
"I wasn't worried I just- well… what'll happen if they all find out that I don't have my powers? Won't they want to know why?" Jean started to speak but Rogue softly cut her off. "They won't believe that you turned them off. If you can turn them off then why didn't the Professor already do that? It won't make sense to them." She turned her face away from Jean's so that the other girl wouldn't see the tears forming in her eyes. 'Silly me' she thought sarcastically as Jean gently cupped her face and made them face each other, 'she's a telepath. Of course she knows I'm crying.'
"Hey, don't worry Rogue." She gave her a tender kiss. "I won't tell them if you don't want me to."
"But we still need to kiss for the camera." She looked kind of pissed off. "God, what stupid ideas Scott has."
"Hey, his idea let me kiss you so they can't be all bad." She smiled when she saw Rogue grin.
"Yeah, alright, that's one for Scott." She sighed. "So what do we do now?"
"Well I can think of an obvious answer to that." Jean grinned and pressed Rogue up on the wall as they started making out again. A few minutes later they heard a knock at the door and quickly separated.
"Jean, Rogue, you guys in here?" Scott quietly opened the door and tip toed in. Evan, who was close behind him, turned on the lights.
"Yeah, we're here. What do you guys need?" said Jean without looking up from the floor.
"Has Bobby been here?" Scott grinned. "We've been trying to hide."
"What for?" Rogue grinned. "After all, this is YOUR game. Shouldn't you play along just like the rest of us?"
"Look, I'll admit it. This was a stupid idea." Scott looked kind of disappointed with himself so Rogue decided to hold back several insults that had been on the tip of her tongue.
"So I take it Bobby hasn't been here?" Evan was obviously praying that the answer was yes.
"Well he did stop by earlier but he shouldn't be back for a while." She couldn't keep herself from adding, "But he was looking for you two."
Evan sat down. "Just as long as he won't be back for a while I think we'll be safe here."
"There you guys are!" Bobby swung the door wide open. "I've been looking for you guys EVERYWHERE! Come on, pucker up. It's show time."
"Is it too late for me to change the rules?" Scott was almost pleading.
"Yes it is too late for you to change the rules." Bobby sighed. "Look, I just need one smooch from you guys and then you don't have to do anything more than that. Same goes for Jean and Rogue. Does that seem fair?"
They all shared glances and eventually agreed. Scott an Evan wanted to get it over with so they went first.
"Ok you guys. Action!"
Scott roughly grabbed Evan and pressed their lips together. Apparently Evan gasped because Scott shoved his tongue in his mouth and it was clear Evan did the same to Scott.
"Ok you guys. That's at least two minutes so I won't make you do anymore. You guys? You can stop now." They were still going at it. "Or you can keep going…"
They suddenly opened their eyes and sprang apart, obviously embarrassed.
"Alright, now you and Rogue have to go." He got the camera ready.
"Uhm, can we have a few minutes to think of how we're going to do this." Jean glanced at Rogue who narrowed her eyes in confusion while still looking at the floor.
"Sure." Bobby sat down.
"I meant alone."
"Oh, right. Yeah of course you can talk in private. I'll be outside so you can just call me and I'll come in." He grinned at Scott and Evan. "Come on you two love birds."
Once the door was closed neither of them spoke. Five minutes of uncomfortable silence went by.
"Rogue, I-"
"No Jean. Don't say anything, please. I know that you need to turn my powers back on. I know that it needs to be done but I also know what you're going to do. Once they come in and my powers are on you're going to kiss me and you're going to get hurt. I won't let you make that choice. I don't care if the Professor finds out about the party. I won't let you get hurt."
Jean gently put her hand on Rogue's shoulder as she quietly said, "It's not your choice to make."
Rogue slumped into Jean's strong arms. "I just don't want to hurt you."
Jean brushed Rogue's ear with her lips as she whispered, "You could never hurt me."
That sat together for a while, just enjoying the sensation of skin to skin contact.
"Alright, how about this; I won't take away your powers until during the recorded kiss. Once you start to feel dizzy like you did when I took them away, you'll be able to break the kiss, not even hurting me." She looked at Rogue. "Does that work?"
Rogue sighed. "If I have to but if you feel any pain whatsoever just push me away, please."
"Deal" Jean embraced Rogue again. Feeling Rogue passionately enter her mouth with her tongue while maintaining a firm grip around Jean's waist made Jean feel like everything would be fine.
Once they broke their loving kisses Jean called out to Bobby who immediately entered.
"Are you guys ready?" He positioned the camera as Scott and Evan lined up behind him.
They two of them stood and nodded.
"Alright: go!"
Jean surprised them all by grabbing Rogue by the choler and shoving her up against the wall. As Rogue gasped Jean forced her tongue into the other girl's mouth. The guys just gawked at them.
Rogue suddenly felt very, very dizzy and she knew it wasn't because she had hit her head against the wall. She tried pushing Jean away but Jean was still clutching her shirt. No matter how hard she pushed Jean just kept kissing her. Rogue opened her eyes to see Jean's beautiful jade eyes staring at her in obvious panic.
Author's Note
Sorry for taking so freakishly long to update this. I had this chapter ready to go months ago but for some reason I just didn't post it. So, yeah, sorry about that.
