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Kurt had never realised quite how expressive silence could be, at the moment it was heavily laced with the guilt emanating from the four boys, and the heat coming from Rogue's glare. She may have been the youngest of the five, if only by a few months, but the way they were squirming and all trying to hide behind each other and get away from her stare.
"Where is he?!"
It was ground out between her teeth this time, as though she was having a hard time not physically harming them, as it was things were starting to shake.
"Nothing much, honest."
"We just made sure he wouldn't cause any more trouble."
"He'll be too scared too."
"No one talks about one of us like that."
"You didn't honestly expect us to just take it. Did you Roguey?"
"Come on sis, don't be mad, you'll love what we did to him."
Pietro giggled the last bit, which just left all the rest of the rooms occupants with a feeling of dread.
Inside, Xavier and Beast watching a news report"As many of you will know. A few years ago the Statue of Liberty was the stage for a mutant uprising, fortunately it was halted before the mysterious white energy could cause any harm. But it appears as though it is not the scene for another mutant unrest, except this seems to be more of a prank than a revolution.
A few minutes ago a boy appeared on the top of the statue, he appears to be dressed only in underwear, with a blindfold, and appears to be tied to the statue. Right now the police and the firemen are working on how to get him down, after which they shall take him into custody and try to find out exactly hat has happened here today."
Hank stared at the TV, coffee halfway to his mouth; the professor sat in his chair, hands folded on his lap, fingers curled around a mug of hot tea.
"Oh dear."
In the cottage"You did what!"
The boys all winced, backing away from the angry teachers, Scott and Ororo had been the only ones to react so far. Rogue was hiding all emotions, Logan was sniggering outright, and Kurt still seemed to be digesting what they'd said.
"How could you be so stupid?"
"And irresponsible."
There was barely a beat between their sentences. They were about to start again when Rogue interrupted.
"They gave him what he wanted. Bobby thinks that he's wonderful, a tower of purity, a statue of liberty. That's what they gave him, only they made him look just as stupid there s he usually does. Not bad boys."
And with a smirk she hurled herself into the eight waiting arms, for a few moments they laughed as the boys told her in detail what they'd done and how Bobby had reacted, completely ignoring the adults. Before she turned to Lance and smacked him lightly on the arm.
"Did you have to destroy the hall, the place will never be the same again."
And with a laugh she reached up and kissed him.
"Rogue! You can't be condoning this!"
Scott was shocked, mouth hung open, in a similar fashion to Storm's, although she managed to look a bit more elegant.
"And why shouldn't she."
"Kurt!"
"He deserved it Ororo, after the things that he has been saying. They were ungodly, and you can't say that this isn't a Godly and...liberating…act of revenge."
Rogue stared; the blue mutant was smirking in a way that was decidedly familiar.
"Logan what on earth have you been doing to Kurt?"
That evening"Hey Ororo, what do you think of this for the kitchen."
"It's nice, what about this for you bedroom?"
"No, Lance would hate it."
Steadily ignoring those implications about a girl she still considered a pupil, the scared child she had rescued from a burning truck. The thought of her not picking a colour for her new bedroom because Lance wouldn't like it was a bit much.
Turning away from the purple section Ororo wandered over to where Rogue was examining a deep green, like an emerald with a faint veil of black drawn underneath the surface.
"That's nice."
"Yeah. It's for Todd's bedroom, his room at the boarding-house was that colour, only a bit, duller."
Adding two tins of the green paint to Ororo's cart she surveyed what they had.
"All right, green for Todd's bedroom, silver and black for Pietro's room, blue and grey for Fred, pale yellow for the kitchen, white tiles for kitchens and bathrooms, cream paint for bathrooms, pale blue for conservatory.
So we just need a colour for mine and Lance's room, and a colour for the living room."
"What about this." Turning Storm showed Rogue the colour she had been thinking of for the living room, a mixture between burgundy and blood red. "And you'll be able to set it off with some of Pietro's black paint, just for some highlights."
"And you said you had no sense of style."
Giggling Rogue took the tins from her friend and dumped them on the pile in the cart. For a few more minutes they both wandered through the paint aisles.
"Hey 'Roro, what do you think of these?"
Catching her friend's attention Rogue showed her a selection of metallic paints, back, red, pink, green, all with a metallic sheen.
"I think this one, and this one. Do you like them?"
The weather witch studied the two tins, a metallic, almost silver black, and a dark rose metallic colour.
"I think they're great. But will Lance like that one."
"He'll live with it. Come on, I think we're done now."
With a sigh the two of them headed over to the checkout, ignoring the looks they were getting as they somehow managed to manoeuvre the three, bulging, shopping carts, filled with paint, curtains, tableware and all the other thing's they'd need. The furniture had been put on order and would arrive in the next couple of weeks.
About forty-five minutes later they'd finally finished loading everything into the van. As Ororo pulled out she said.
"Scott's going to kill us you know."
"Yep, I know."
Hey, I hoped you like this chapter. Thanks to:
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