disclaimer: All characters are the property of Marvel, except Jenny who is MINE.

Bad Morning
by Dizi

(knock, knock, knock) "Jenny?"

(knock, knock, knock) "Jenny?"

(KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) "JENNY!"

(KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) "JENNY!"

The door slowly opened, Jenny's body swaying and brain not functioning.

"Sugar, are yah okay? Ah got kinda worried when yah didn't show up for breakfast." Especially since Jenny was supposed to cook breakfast. Rogue was getting a little worried at the way Jenny was staring at her. She wasn't acting like herself at all. And who's t-shirt was she wearing?

She followed Jenny as she shuffled to the kitchen. This was not the Jenny they had all come to know. Jenny was always up by five a.m., fully dressed, hair pulled back, coffee made, and breakfast ready. It was now seven a.m., she was dressed in what looked to be only a man's t-shirt (though as it went to mid-thigh it was possible there was something under there), her hair was wild around her, and nothing was done. They didn't know what to think.

Jenny stopped in the middle of the room swaying and trying to get her bearings. All eyes were on her as she stumbled to the dry-erase board on the refridgerator, squinting at the letters, got closer and squinted again. Jenny slowly blinked at the board and reached up to touch a single letter on it. Her face scrunched up as she tried to think.

"Dat new fashion for you, chere?" Remy's voice was full of amusement. He wasn't sure what was going on but couldn't wait to find out. Too bad Logan wasn't up yet, he'd love to see this.

"Remy?" Jenny croaked blinking her eyes trying to focus on him. She swallowed and tried again. "Remy, what day does the board say?" her hoarse voice sounded desperate.

"T'ursday, chere."

Jenny nodded, still swaying, eyes trying to drift shut. "What day was yesterday?"

"Dat would be Monday."

She whimpered. "Are you sure?"

"Oui." Remy didn't laugh, he would wait for Logan to laugh at her then he could join in.

Jenny opened the fridge and pulled out one of her precious Cokes - she didn't let herself drink many - and drank the whole can all at once, barely pausing between swallows to breathe. Then she looked closely at the board again. Her eyes narrowed and she rubbed at a single letter on the board.

"Are you all right, Jenny?" Jean asked in a hesitant voice.

Jenny nodded, carefully looked around the room at each face, and nodded again obviously coming to some decision. She pulled out the blender, threw in eggs, tomatoes, flour, oil, saurkraut, and some of Warren's oysters and limberger cheese, and turned it on. She let go of the button with a huge yawn overtaking her momentarily. She sniffed it, then removed the container from the base. Jenny stumbled over to Jean and mumbled something to her.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't understand." was the reply and everyone leaned forward trying to hear.

Jenny mumbled again and Jean's eyes started to dance. Her expression went distant, indicating she was communicating telepathically.

Rubbing her eyes, Jenny took the mixture and leaned against the fridge near the doorway. A moment later Bobby ran into the room. Jenny sprang forward and poured the whole container over his head.

Speaking slowly and carefully, she was completely understandable for the first time that morning. "Bobby is cleaning the kitchen and cooking breakfast today."

Jenny went back to the dry-erase board, picked up a marker and placed a single small mark on the board. Then she stumbled to the table, sat at an empty place, put her head down on her arms, and closed her eyes.

Jean waited a moment and went to the board herself - holding her nose as she passed Bobby - and seeing the change was an important one, she started to giggle. It was one indeed a single mark changing one letter, making it say TU instead of TH.

Almost immediately Logan stumbled in, though not as bad as Jenny. Ignoring Bobby - you never knew what was going on with him anyway - he pointed at Jenny and asked, "What's she doin' up? We didn't get back from Harry's 'til after four-thirty. There was some problem with the books."

"Four-thirty! Why didn't she wait until her day off?" Rogue exclaimed.

Jenny slitted her eyes open, lifted one arm from under her head and waved it, gesturing towards the board on the fridgerator then pointed at Bobby. She buried her face in the crook of her arms again, her hair falling over to cover her face.

Bobby blanched. "I thought she'd catch it."

"I think she did, finally." Jean couldn't hold back her giggles any longer. "Bobby changed the board from Tuesday to Thursday."

Logan shook his head with a grin and carefully stepped around Bobby and the mess on the floor to get to the coffee pot.

Laughter went around the room as a low snore came from under Jenny's hair.

note:
Thanks to Betty for the saurkraut, oysters, and limberger cheese. Wouldn't have been the same without it.

Figured with two jobs, there were bound to be problems and Bobby wouldn't have been able to resist. Jenny's Justice is obviously swift. Don't mess with a working girl.

But what do you think? Review and tell me, as always I really want to know.

Thanks for reading,
Dizi