Disclaimer: I don't own the x men, but I do own the story.
"This is getting more and more interesting minute by minute." Betsy pulled her knees to her, folding her arms around them. "I hate to guess what they censored for the show."
"You don't have to, I'll tell you later." Jean grinned.
"What?"
"Eh?"
Both Rogue and Remy were more than embarrassed that a great deal of what had happened had been caught on film, and they were thankful that it was a prime-time network television show.
"I saw it." she clarified.
"Ya saw it!"
"Sure did. So did Scott."
"I don't really want to get into this…" Scott was visibly uncomfortable.
"Ok, forget that Scott saw it. Henry saw it too."
"What!"
"I, uh…" The large man with the voluminous vocabulary was irregularly unable to string two words together.
"Ok, who else saw?"
Everyone looked around the room, and two more hands went up.
"KURT! You're a priest, for cryin' out loud."
"Rogue, it was hard not to notice it."
"Yeah, I mean who does it in the woods anyways?"
"Jubilee, stay outta this."
"Sorry, chica. I'm all in this."
"I still don't understand how I missed the whole thing."
"By the time you and Obi Wan there were finished dueling, I had already blocked it from view on the trail."
"Wait…on de trail?"
"That's what I said."
"Everyone who was on de trail could see it?"
"Everyone."
"So Paul, Betty and Malachi knew too?"
"They only knew what they saw."
"And what did dey see?"
"Something that normally would have cost them rental fees."
"I'm surprised you didn't see it, Betsy… Jean was kind enough to project it to me."
"WHAT!"
"Actually, she showed me as well." Ororo confessed.
Kitty raised her hand. "Ditto."
"Da, me as well."
"You all like what you saw?" Remy grinned.
"God…Ah need a drink."
She lifted herself off of the couch and smoothed out her skirt. She tried to climb through the mess of people scattered around the room. She heard giggling coming from where a number of students from the academy were situated, and shot them a glare. While she wasn't looking, Bobby built an ice wall right in front of her, causing her to stumble a little bit. She kicked it and shattered it, before giving up on weaving her way through the people and flying into the air.
"I see London, I see France I see…"
"Evidently it ain't anything ya haven't already seen, Bobby." She landed at the door and headed to the kitchen.
"Anyone know where Anna is?" The campsite was almost completely packed, with the exception of Anna's belongings. As soon as Daniel asked the question, he noticed that most of the X-Men looked slightly uneasy.
"Well?"
"Um, I have an idea." Kitty started to giggle and Ororo nudged her a little bit, barely containing laughter herself.
"And wheres the other…nevermind." Sarah had put two and two together and walked over to Rogue's space. "I'll pack it all up for her. I bet she's just visiting with the other camp."
"You're probably right. I'll check with Hank. He's a telepath." Storm closed her eyes and sent as strong a message as she could to Jean, who responded with an affirmitive. Yes, she would cover for her.
"She says that they're both over there. Remy wanted to introduce her to Scott. She's a big fan, evidently."
"She says?" Trey spoke up. "I thought you said that the telepath was a he."
"Slip of the tongue."
"Right."
"Speaking of slipping the tongue, we'll be back." Tallon grabbed Katie's hand and they walked away.
Kitty watched them walk away. "Wow."
"What?"
"Is the entire island this horny?"
Daniel laughed. "Lets just say that it gets cold here at night."
"He ain't kidding. I spent a good amount of time in this place. Made myself a few friends."
"Oh, really?" Ororo had never heard this particular story before.
"That's all yer getting outta me, 'Ro."
Kitty walked over to where Sarah was packing.
"Jean told me that you know. Thanks for covering."
"It was nothing. I lie well. I'm a lawyer."
Kitty chuckled. "Did Jean Project to you, too?"
"Come again?"
"She's a telepath. She can project images into your mind."
"I don't know if I like where this is going."
"She passed them on the path."
"And they were…"
"If you think her name loud enough, she'll hear you. I'm sure she'd be happy to project it to you if you so wish."
"I think I'll pass."
"Your choice."
They loaded all of her things into her duffel bag and Kitty hoisted it over her shoulder then noticed something towards the edge of the campsite and phased through the bag, letting it drop to the ground heavily.
"What's this?"
"Oh, I almost forgot that."
Sarah looked around to make sure that the microphones weren't trained on them.
"The rule is that you can bring along whatever you can fit into a bag that size. No electronics. Anna, as you know, is stronger than most. She was able to fit a television in there and make it look like nothing more than a big box of tampons. They do a baggage check and she waves the box around like it weighs nothing. No one was the wiser. At night, they only keep one camera on. It rotates. We sneak away while it's pointed in another direction, we take advantage of the satellite about five miles away, Anna knew where it was when we first got here. Said she once had a cell with a view. I caught her creeping away in the middle of the night. Tried to follow her once, but she took to the air. I confronted her. The rest is history."
"I'm surprised she didn't just put you into a coma so that you'd be forced to leave due to medical reasons."
"She considered it, but we made a pact. It's important to have allies here."
"Don't I know it."
Just then, a slight rustling behind them made them turn around. Anna was standing there, smiling.
"Hey, y'all."
"Well, that was fast" Kitty muttered just loud enough for Sarah to hear. Sarah stifled a laugh and waved at Rogue.
"You weren't here so we packed up for you."
"Aw, that's sweet of you. Thanks, gals." She grabbed the bag and headed towards the trail that would take them to Hammer bay. Sarah tried to carry the small television, but it was too heavy.
"Damn… This is so little. Why does it weigh so much?"
Kitty opened the box. "It's Shi-ar."
"That's like Sony?"
"No, that's like Martian. They're aliens. Much more advanced technologically than we are."
"That explains how that little thing expands into a big-screener."
"Yeah, but you'd think that they'd invent a lighter way of implementing it, huh?"
Sarah nodded in agreement, then picked up her bag and handed Kitty a crate. She yelled ahead "Anna! You forgot your tampons!"
Rogue jerked her head around and dropped the bag, running back to them and picking it up effortlessly, throwing it into the air and catching it lightly.
"Thanks again, sugah."
"No problem."
She skipped back to her bag and tucked the box away.
"Alright, who wants to go get Tallon and the porn star?" Daniel had finished his packing and thrown his bag towards the foot of the trail, where Gambit had thanked him and sat down on it, leaning against a tree and putting his feet up on a stump. "Porn star, mon ami?"
"That's right. She used to do porn."
"Wow, Remy's starting t' like dis group."
"Who's Remy?"
"He's Remy, you idiot. He's just talking in third person."
"Trey, if you call me an idiot one more time, I swear, I'll beat you to a bloody pulp."
"Try it, captain science, and I'll slap a lawsuit on you as fast as you can say robot."
"Actually, that'd never hold water. Kick his ass, Danny boy." Sarah laid her bag next to Daniel's. "I vote that Trey goes and gets them."
"Seconded." Daniel looked smug.
"Ah agree. Go on, get." Rogue threw a little rock at his leg.
"Ow." He looked around and noticed that no one else was going to budge. He wanted to get to Hammer bay before the other group, so that he could have first pick of the campsites. "Fine, I'll go. But if I'm emotionally scarred…"
"It'll be much easier on ya than the scarring that Ah'm gonna leave on you if ya aren't outta this clearing in the next ten seconds."
Trey started to object but realized just how serious she was and stormed off into the woods.
The phone rang again and Rogue was more than happy to answer it in the kitchen.
"Hello. This is she. Oh, hey. Yes, we're watching. You're what? And you want me t' see it first? All of them? Hang on a second." She walked back over to the rec room.
Jean, Bobby, Warren, and Sarah were already on their way out.
"Ah swear, Jeanie… You're a pain in th' ass sometimes."
They walked into the kitchen and Rogue put on the speakerphone.
"They're here."
A voice on the other end of the line started to speak.
"It's a pleasure to talk to you all. We're going to be releasing the season on a DVD, and we would like to give you all the opportunity to review it before it goes out. It will be uncensored, so certain…scenes that were caught on camera but not cleared for network viewing will be on it."
"No."
"Excuse me?"
"No, Ah don't want you releasing that. Ah want all of the tapes of that. Any copies made."
"I can't do that…""Ya need mah permission t' put that on the dvd, right? Ya don't have it."
"Actually, Anna… he doesn't need it. You signed a release before you appeared on the show. They can show as much as they want."
"Exactly. If you're still interested in viewing it beforehand, there is a chance that you'll be able to censor certain parts of it."
"Wait. What about Remy? HE didn't sign a form! Ha!"
"Yes, he did."
"Damnit. Fahne. Ah'll do it."
"So will I."
"Yep."
"Of course."
"I'm in."
"Great. You'll be contacted again in a few weeks when we have the first few shows together. Oh, and Anna?"
She sighed. "What now?"
"Nice tattoo."
The line went dead and she hit the end button so hard that the phone cracked.
"What tattoo?"
"Bobby… you're really pushin' it."
"Noted." He walked back to the room, followed by everyone else. Rogue carried a bottle of bourbon.
"What'd we miss?" Sarah acted as if she didn't already know what happened.
"Not much. Trey found Tallon and Katie. Tallon lost his pants. Everyone laughed at him…"
"Alright."
The commercials ended and Jean's face came up on the screen, inside the confessional.
"Well, It looks as if things are heating up. In a minute, we're going to be moving to the centralized camp. When we get there, we're going to have to vote off one person, from either tribe. There's only room for thirty. Then we have a challenge, which the team… um, the X-Men, will help out on. From what I can tell, it's going to open some eyes. The professor has obviously trained people on putting up mental barriers. A job well done, Charles…"
"Thank you, Jean."
"Anytime."
"…But at least Scott and the gang are here. I may not be enjoying it as, well, outwardly as Rogue…"
Rogue threw a pillow at Jean. "Bitch."
"Love you too."
"It'll be interesting to see how they force the powers out of us. I mean, with Bobby, Rogue, and myself, I'm sure that they have files, but as for the others… I guess we'll see." She stood up, and then sat back down again. "Rogue is right, Bamboo doesn't grow here."
A/N: Sorry it took so long again. I've only got limited access to the internet from my home computer. Oh, and the reason for the boldededness of the story is that the way thatone of mycomputers is set up, it's hard to read anything that isn't in bold. Once I uploaded the first chapter, I kind of liked it all bold, so I kept it. The end -)
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