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Sleeping Beauty
Scene 2: Planning, aka Jean, Kitty, and Tabby's big scene.
Raven and Lightning walk into the studio, arguing as usual. "I just don't see why we need the fog machine at all. Kurt's smoke would be sufficent."
Lightning wags his finger at her. "But it's not green! It has to be green!"
"And why, pray tell, does the smoke have to be green?"
"Because we can't have green fire so it has to be green smoke."
Jean walks up to them holding the script, "Fiddle-faddle? Is that even a word? Do I really have to say fiddle-faddle?"
"Yes, you do." Raven answers and turns back to Lightning. "The wonders of your mind. What I wouldn't give just to tweak it every now and again."
"Ravie, your grandfather would kill you and you know it."
She sighs, "Yes, I know, it's highly unethical, but some of your thoughts aren't so great either, Mr. Welsh!"
Jean is still standing there. "Um, are we going to shoot this scene or are you two going to argue all day?"
"Ooh, that was a bad idea, Jean." Lightning says in a scared tone.
Raven's yellow eyes are literally glowing. She is floating several feet above the floor. She looks mad enough to kill Jean. Then, suddenly, for no apparent reason, she calms down and lands in her chair. "No, Lawr, she's right. We should get started. Places everyone!"
The entire cast is scared out of their whits and they immediately obey. "Lights! Camera! Action!" she calls.
"Ooh, silly fiddle-faddle!" Jean cringes. She is standing by a window watching a picture of a bonfire that Jamie is holding up. Pyro wanted the job, but he kept getting drool on the picture, and when he was caught licking it, well, Raven thought it would be best if Jamie held it up. Jean turns away from the fire.
"Oh, come, like, have a nice, like, cup of tea, dear. I'm sure it will, like totally, work out somehow." as Kitty is talking, a teapot and two teacups appear next to her as if by magic, but more likely by Pietro.
"Well, a bonfire won't stop Mystique!" Tabby pouts and a crumpet appears in her hand.
"No, but what will?" Jean asks.
"Well, like, perhaps if we, like, reason with her." Kitty says, while Rogue, Kurt and surprisingly Magneto burst into laughter.
"Reason?" Jean starts.
"With Mystique?" Tabby finishes. "That's a riot."
"Now, now, stick to the script," Raven says, and two yellow glowing orbs are all that can be seen in the shadows near her chair.
"Well she, like, can't be all bad." Kitty tries to have hope.
"Oh, yes, she can!" Jean and an off-screen Rogue say at the same time.
"I'd," Tabby is trying hard to stiffle a giggle fit, "like to," very hard, "turn her into," very, very hard, "a fat, old hoptoad!" She can stand it no longer and giggles burst out.
"Now, dear," Kitty says between giggles of her own. "That's, like, not a very nice thing to, like, say!"
"Besides, you know our magic doesn't work that way, we aren't the brotherhood," she glares meaningfully at the Scarlet Witch.
Wanda wishes to retaliate but Lightning is standing up and walking towards her. "Jean, that was completely uncalled for! Try reading your lines out of the script." Wanda sits down and hexes the floor instead of Jean.
"Our magic can, like, only do good, to bring joy and happiness." Kitty is over her fit of giggles until she remembers the word "hoptoad" and starts laughing again.
"Well, that would make me happy." Tabby states very truthfully.
"But what can we do?" Jean asks, trying to get back to the subject at hand. "There must be some way." She suddenly appears as if a lightbulb is sticking above her head and gets excited. "There is!"
"There is?" ask Tabby and Kitty at the same time. "What is it, Jean?"
"I'm gonna," then she covers her mouth with her hand. "Even the walls have ears. Come with me." She acts like she is shrinking and everyone laughs, except for Raven who is extremely frustrated.
"That's enough," she says, "Forge! Is that holographic projector working yet?"
"Oh, yeah, yeah, here it is!" He drags a heavy machine on stage and points it at the spot where the three girls are standing. The girls leave as the projector is turned on. It shows them shrinking and going into a jeweled box on the table.
The scene then turns to a room with a giant spoon and giant cup. Kitty is sitting on the spoon and Tabby on the cup. Jean is pacing. "I'll turn her into a flower!" Jean says.
"Mystique?" Tabby asks.
"No, no, the Princess. Don't you see?" Kitty and Tabby Jump off their objects and stand next to Jean.
"A flower can't, like, prick it's finger!"
"It hasn't any!" Tabby gasps.
"She'll be perfectly safe!" Jean exclaims.
"Until Mystique sends a frost." Tabby pouts.
Jean looks crestfallen and Kitty sighs, "She, like, always ruins your nicest flowers."
"And she'll be expecting us to do something like that." Jean sighs.
"Well, what won't she expect? She knows everything." Tabby jumps back up on the cup.
"Oh, but she, so like, doesn't. She, like totally, doesn't know anything about love or, like, kindness or the joy of, like, helping others," Kitty supplies.
"Ain't that the truth!" mutters Rogue under her breath to Gambit. The two of them are standing awfully close for two people who supposedly hate each other.
"Rogue!" Mystique herself warns.
Jean glares at them and then she turns back towards the other "fairies." "That's it! It's the only thing she can't understand and won't expect!" Jean starts muttering about planning and cottages in the woods. "Of course the King and Queen will object, but when we explain it's the only way!" Kitty follows her into the cup and Tabby leaning over a bit to far, falls off it.
"Explain what?" Tabby says rubbing her sore butt. Pietro laughs very hard and she glares at him.
"About the three peasant women raising a foundling, foundling?" she looks at Raven who rolls her eyes. "child deep in the forest."
"Oh?" asks Kitty, "that's, like, very nice of them."
"Who are they?" ask Tabby standing up.
"Turn around." Jean says and then Raven calls for a break.
"Wardrobe change." calls Lightning. The three girls head to their dressing rooms to change into peasant outfits. He turns to Raven, "It's going better than yesterday."
"Not much," she snaps back.
"What's the matter, PMS?" he teases.
Her eyes narrow and she replies, "Yeah, PreMurder Syndrome."
He laughs. "Can't kill them, ya know, you need them."
"I don't need Jean."
"Rachel does."
"Yeah, yeah, I guess I can't kill Jean and cause my little sister's best friends to never exist. Yada yada yada. How annoying ethics are. Can't I just join Magneto?"
"Absolutely not!"
"I was kidding, Lightning. I'd never abandon the X-Men and you know it."
"You had me scared."
She rolls her eyes at him and the three girls show up in peasant uniforms. Jean and Tabby's have switches that change the clothes' colors from red to blue. They both have them set on red. Kitty's are green. They take their places and Raven yells, "Action!"
Kitty and Tabby gasp as they see the peasant outfits in the mirror.
"You mean us?" Tabby gasps.
"Like, take care of the baby?" Kitty squeals.
"Uh huh." Jean says.
"But we'll have to feed it . . ." Tabby starts.
"And dress it, and, like, rock it to sleep." Kitty sighs happily.
"If humans can do it, then so can we." Jean glances at the mutants off stage at this and everyone is laughing, except for Raven.
"And we'll have our magic to help us!" squeals Tabby.
"Oh no! Give me those wands!" Jean grabs Kitty's wand. "Better take those wings too." She points her wand at Kitty's back and Pietro speeds in to remove the wings.
"You mean live like mortals?" Tabby exclaims. "For sixteen years? But who will wash and sew and cook?" She's dodging Jean's wand and points hers at Jean's wings which disappear thanks to Pietro.
At the same time Jean grabs it and removes Tabby's wings. "Oh, we'll all pitch in." She points the wand at herself.
The camera view changes back to the room they were in before and Forge has the projector up and running. It shows Jean growing, then Jean takes her place and starts to leave. "Jean! Jean!" call Kitty and Tabby. Jean stops and points the wands at the projected images of Kitty and Tabby. They grow and then the actress replace them and Forge turns the machine off. They all leave.
The scene changes to Charles and Storm watching through a window as the fairies wander off during the dead of night. Magneto's voice is heard once again, " And so, with a heavy heart, the King and Queen watch as their most precious possession, their only child disappears into the night. They took the child deep into the woods to the Woodcutter's cottage and called her Rogue."
"And cut!" calls, Lightning. "Good Job, everyone."
"Are you serious," Raven asks him.
"Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad."
"Yeah, if you compare it to a high school play!"
"They are high schoolers, and this is a play."
"You have to have the last word, don't you?"
"Oh, like you're any different."
And we will cut off here until the next scene.
A/N: Okay, before anyone asks, yes, Raven and Lightning always fight like that. Hope you enjoy the play and the arguments. Ha, next chapter will include Rogue making her first onscreen appearance, Gambit too, and Jamie in an owl costume. Chapters will very in length according to the length of the scene I'm writing.
And for those of you who are reading my other fic (mostly CF), I swear I am writing the next chapter too. I'm a little busy this weekend what with my mother-in-law coming to visit and all. So, by Tuesday, expect an update for that one and possibly this one.