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Reviews:
To Cat2Fat900: You get a whole invisible cake and my plot fairies say they're sending Ralph a new flame thrower, because you got it on the nose. Well, all except for the powers thing. Lol. She doesn't get her TK from Jean. It's inherited from a dormant talent in some one close to her. You see, Raven and Lightning are from Reality 777, as in my other story, they'll be in the sequel. So, if you know who Raven's parents are well then you know who her grandparents are, sorry about the bad images though. Oh and Rachel Summers doesn't exist in 777. Rachel is Raven's little sister, full blooded- same parents. Thanks a lot for no squirrel whacking. Lol. Gotta loves those squirrels.
To Rogue Gal: Tuesday has arrived! No Raven is not Mystique. She does get confused with Mystique a lot, though. It makes her very angry. Glad you liked the Romy. More to come. I don't know if he'll figure out about that, but he has an idea about Raven.
To Nightshade-89: Thank you so much. I might do that. I think there is already a fanfic about Aladdin. But i think it's a Jott. Hmm, Remy would make a good Aladdin, though.
To Kyo-Kitty and el diablo: Thank you very much.
To abril4: You get an invisible batch of cookies for being the first person to pick up on that. Lol. Yeah, she is. I'm glad you like them. :) Thanks a lot.
To Crash Slayer: Piotr is one of my fav.s too, but Katherine Pryde is more likely to do a little flirting with the metal man on the side lines, and quite a bit of staring, than in the story. Since the fairies don't have love interests in the movie.
A/N: I know I said Remy would be telling Logan about Rogue, but I forgot a very important scene and I had to split this into two chapters. So this one only has Rogue telling her aunts about Remy. This is going to be a rather long chapter. And now what you've been waited for all week-end . . . lol, j/k.
Sleeping Beauty
Scene 4: Goblins and Birthday Parties
Raven and Lightning are strolling along towards the stage. They believe themselves to be alone and are commenting on Gambit's reaction. "I could just wipe his memory."
"Raven, you know we can't do that."
She sighs. "Why not? I mean, It would sure make life a lot easier."
He puts his arms around her waist and pulls her to him. "It's wrong."
She puts her arms around his neck. "So is time travelling."
He leans in to kiss her and just before their lips meet, she puts a finger in front of his lips and states, "Uh, uh, uh. Business before pleasure." in a sultry tone of voice.
"Get your hands off her." a voice sounds as Gambit comes out of his hiding spot.
They seperate quickly. Lightning glares at her. "I thought you did a mind sweep?"
"You never asked me to do a mind sweep."
"Well, I assumed."
"You should never assume anything."
Gambit is glaring at them. "What is going on here?"
Lightning looks at his girlfriend, "It doesn't matter the dimension, does it? He never changes."
"Nope, he never does."
Lightning then turns to Remy, "I thought you were in love with Rogue."
Gambit's eyes narrow. "Remy t'inks he has a different reason to want you to stay away from her."
She deliberately takes Lightning's hand and leads him over to the director's chair, calling behind her, "Trust me, out of all the guys I could be dating, this is the one you should like."
Rogue comes up to Remy's side with a very confused look on her face. "What was all that about?"
Remy places his arm around her. "Remy have a strange feeling 'bout t'at girl."
She turns to face him, "Yeah, me too." He leans in to kiss her. She smiles and just before they are about to kiss, she whispers, "Remy?"
"Oui, chere?"
"Get you hands off me."
And she walks off to her dressing room. At least that was where she intended on going. She ended up running over to where Raven was yelling, "John! No!"
Pyro in full Goblin armor had lit fire to the stage. "Storm! Water!" Lightning yells. Storm quickly obeys and everyone is a little put out.
"And now without futher delay, Places everyone! Lights! Camera! Action!" Raven yells. She is fuming at this unexpected delay.
Magneto's voice comes over the picture of a dark castle with a storm above it, "The people knew that as long as Mystique's domain, the Forbidden Mountains, thundered with her wrath and frustration, the evil prophecy had not been fulfilled."
The scene changes to see, Mystique, still wearing her red devil costume, sitting on a throne with Kurt on the arm. A group of goblins, namely Piotr in his metal form, Pyro, Sabretooth, Mastermind, Lance, Toad, Pietro, and Fred, come in dressed in ridiculous metal armor and carrying even more ridiculous weapons made from tin foil and cardboard. Pietro is muttering about the weapons not being real and Pyro is crying because Raven took his flame thrower away. "Well, they didn't have flame throwers in the fourteenth century!" she yells at him.
He sticks his tongue at her and she shakes her head.
"It's incredible!" Mystique yells at them, standing up and pacing. "Sixteen years and not a trace of her! She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?" she leans in close to Fred.
"Uh," Fred says, searching for his line. "Yup, yup. We searched everywhere. We all did!" He waves his hands at the other goblins. They all nod their heads and agree quickly.
Mystique doesn't look convinced. "What about the towns, the forests, the mountians?" she insists.
Toad takes Fred's place and speaks up, "Yeah, we searched . . . mountains, and uh. . . forests and uh. . . houses. . . Let me see, yo"
John speaks up. "in all the cradles." He laughs and Piotr hits him on the head.
"Cradles?" asks Mystique.
"Yup," repeats Mastermind rocking his arms back and forth, "in all the cradles."
Everyone off-stage starts laughing, except Raven who is still angry about the fire.
"Cradles?" she says again. Her voice softens. "Did you hear that my pet?" she turns to Kurt who is trying not to laugh and nodding his head. "All these years, they've been looking for a baby." She starts laughing and the goblins do too, thinking they are out of trouble. "Fools! Idiots! Imbeciles!" She turns on them. They all back up in fright.
"I've felt that way myself during this production." Raven grins.
"Now, who's interrupting?" Lightning wonders out loud.
"Oh go..." she starts, but stops herself, "little ears." she nods in Jamie's direction.
The cast is looking at her impaitently, so she stops arguing and starts filming again.
Mystique points her trident at the goblin and Storm supplies some lightning bolts. The goblins are all shocked and they hobble off stage growling and Pyro is rubbing his butt.
"Oh," Mystique sighs and turns to sit in her throne. "They're hopeless, a disgrace to the forces of evil." Kurt ports to her side. "Oh my pet. You are my last hope. Circle far and wide. Search for a maid of sixteen with striped hair and lips red as the rose. Do not fail me." Kurt ports out.
The scene changes to the fairies, who have been preparing a birthday party for Rogue during all of this. "Oh, won't she be surprised!" Jean squeals.
"A real birthday party!" squeals Tabby.
"With, like, a real birthday cake!" squeals the third little fairy.
"Yes and a dress a princess can be proud of!" Jean says huddling a bolt of pink fabric to herself.
"I'll get the wands!" Tabby says and start to run up the stairs.
"Oh yes. You do. . . the wands!" Jean exclaims in horror.
"Oh, like, no!" shouts Kitty.
"No magic." Jean says, putting her foot down.
"But. . . But the sixteen years are almost up and I've never baked a fancy cake before. . . " Tabby pouts.
"Oh you won't have to dear," Kitty giggles, "I'm, like totally, going to bake the cake."
All the X-Men, including Jean and Lance, groan slightly at the thought of Kitty baking a cake.
"She's always wanted to, dear, and this may be her last chance." Jean says, trying to still the nausea that threatens to ruin her part.
"I'm, like, gonna make it fifteen layers with, like, pink and blue forget-me-nots, hey what's a 'forget-me-not'?" she questions.
"It's a flower. And I'm making the dress." Jean states proudly, ploping bolts of fabric into Tabby's arms.
"But, but you can't sew and She's never cooked!" Tabby is flabbergasted, yes I said flabbergasted.
"Oh, it's simple."
"All you do is, like, look at the book." Kitty has been busying herself by taking ingredients out.
"Up here dear." Jean tells Tabby and helps her onto a stool. "You can be the dummy."
"Dummy!" Tabby says and wields an energy bomb.
"It's in the script for crying out loud!" Jean says brandishing the booklet from out of her pocket and shoving it into Tabby's face.
"Well, I still say we ought to use magic." Tabitha pouts as Jean happily cuts a hole into a bolt of pink fabric.
Kitty hums as she reads the recipe. "Flour, three cups. Hmm, cups." She hunts down three cups of various sizes and pours the flour into a big bowl.
"What's that for?" asks Tabby to Jean about the hole in the fabric.
"Well it's got to have a hole in the bottom." Jean says precisely.
"That's, like, for the feet to, like totally, go through." Kitty speaks up.
Jean throws the remainder of the fabric over Tabby's head. "It's pink," Tabby complains.
"Lovely shade, isn't it?" Jean says.
Rogue almost hurls when she sees the shade of pink and mutters, "Ah'd rather die than wear that coloh!"
"A little pink might look nice on you, chere. Especially in your cheeks." Gambit grins at her.
"You stay outa this, Cajun." she warns, blushing.
"Can we get back to the play?" Lightning frowns.
"But I wanted blue!" Tabby pouts.
"Now, dear, we decided pink was her color." Jean states matter-of-factly.
"You decided!" Tabby mutters. Further mumbles are not understood as Jean covers her head and ties a ribbon around the "dress."
"Two eggs, fold in gently." Kitty looks confused. "Fold?" She shrugs and put the whole eggs on the top of the batter and folds the batter over them. She presses down and the sound of egg shells cracking can be heard.
"I can't breathe!" Tabby shouts as Jean cuts a hole in the top of the monstrosity she dares to call a dress. "It looks awful." she pouts.
"That's because it's on you, dear."
"Yeast, one tsp. Tsp?" Kitty seriously doesn't know what it means.
"One teaspoon." Tabby informs her.
"One teaspoon, of course." Kitty laughs as she adds the yeast and then salt and pepper to the cake. She continues humming.
"Gracious, how that child has grown." Jean sighs.
"It seems only yesterday we brought her here." Tabby says sadly.
Kitty holds the batter like an infant and says, "Only a tiny baby."
Jean notices Tabby has a tear in her ear. Tabby is pinching herself very hard. "Why Tabitha!"
"Whatever is, like, the matter, dear?" Kitty asks, shooing a stray strand of hair.
"After tomorrow she'll be a princess," Tabby sobs, pinching very hard. "And we won't have any Rogue."
"Oh, Jean!" Kitty cries.
"Now, now, we all knew this day would come."
"But, like why did it, like, have to, like, come so soon."
"After all, we've had her for sixteen years." Jean says
"Sixteen wonderful years."
All three of them sob until Jean annouces. "Oh look at us, standing around like a bunch of ninnies.What in the world is a ninny? She'll be back before we get started!" Everyone is laughing at the three fairies except of course for Raven who hardly ever laughs.
Several minutes later in play time, the fairies are looking at Tabitha in a ridiculous outfit that is pink with multicolored bows all over it. Kitty is lighting the candles on a huge cake that hasn't been baked yet. "There!" She says and the cake starts to fall over. "What do you, like, think of it?" She grabs a broom to hold it up and it starts sliding down the handle.
"It's a very, um, unusual cake isn't it?" Jean replies.
"Of course, it'll, like totally, be much stiffer after it's baked."
"Of course, dear, what do you think of the dress?"
"Well, it's, it's, like, not exactly the way it is in, like, the book." Kitty cringes.
"Oh, I improved it," Jean states, not wanting to admit she's failed. "Perhaps if I added a few more ruffles... What do you think?"
"Perhaps," gulps Kitty. "What do you think, Tabitha?"
"I think we've had enough of this nonsense! It think we should think of Rogue and what she'll think of this, this, mess." She climbs down and takes the "dress" off.
"Right on!" Rogue laughs.
"I still think what I thought before! I'm gonna go get those wands!" She marches up the stairs.
Kitty looks at Jean. Jean looks at Kitty. "You know, I think she's, like, right."
"Here they are!" Tabby shouts happily come down the stairs. "Good as new!"
Jean runs up to her and grabs them. "Be careful, Tabitha! Quick, lock the doors. Katherine close the windows! Plug up every cranny! We can't take any chances. Now you take care of the cake," she hands Kitty a wand.
"While I?" Tabby says reaching for her wand.
"Clean the room, dear. And I'll make the dress." Jean says lightly.
Raven and Lightning share a knowing glance. "You ready?" he asks her.
"When am I not ready for a challenge?" she smiles.
"You think this will be challenging?" he smirks.
"Not in the least."
Tabby glares at them and then pouts and turns toward the equipment. "Come on Bucket, Mop, Broom, Jeannie says clean up the room." To Tabitha's surprise as she calls each item it stands up and starts hopping towards her. She glances at Raven who is wearing a bit of a smirk. "Are you doing that?"
"Yes, of course. Do you think Jean has the concentration level needed to move three things at once?"
"No."
"Good," Lightning says, "then get back into character."
"And now to make a lovely dress, fit to grace a fair princess." Jean says, sighing because she doesn't get to be the fair princess. Pietro runs in a pink dress and Raven keeps it floating as the bucket, mop, and broom clean.
"Eggs, flour, mi-lk." Kitty sings and then thinks better of it, "Just, like, do what it says in, like, the book. I'll, like, put on the candles." The eggs, flour milk and utensils start baking a cake thanks to Raven.
Tabby dances around the room and spies that the dress is still pink. "Oh no, not pink! Make it blue." Pietro replaces the dress with an identical blue one.
Jean gasps in frustration and says, "Tabitha! Make it pink." Pietro does the dress dance again.
Tabby, still dancing, "Make it blue." She accidently hits Jean instead. Jubilee has been suppling the sparks again. Jean activates the switch in her outfit that turns it blue. She acts angry. She throws Jubilee's sparks at Tabby, turning her dress red. This goes on for a while.
The scene changes to a scene where Kurt is porting from treetop to treetop, glancing around and through the trees. Something catches his eye, sparks. He decides to go investigate. He teleports to the top of a cottage and is hit by Jubilee's sparks. Jubilee calls out, "Sorry!"
"It's alright." he mutters, rubbing his sore stomuch. He spies a young girl heading towards the cottage.
Inside the cottage, the spark war continues. Tabby is having the time of her life and Jean is mildly tolerating it because it's in the script. The war ends when both sparks hit the dress at the same time and Pietro replaces it with one that is splattered with both colors. "Ooo," says a flustered Jean. "Now look what you've done!"
"Me!" Tabby sasses.
Suddenly Kitty shushes them, "Listen!" The sound of Rogue singing can be heard.
"It's Rogue!" Tabby announces in a red outfit.
"She's back!" Jean exclaims in a blue outfit. "Enough of this foolishness!" She sets her outfit back on red and Tabby sets hers back on blue.
The dishes are put quickly away. Jean places the dress on a chair and says, "Make it pink." Pietro puts the pink dress on the chair. "Now hide quick!" She grabs Kitty's arm and pulls. Kitty has been lighting candles and she points her wand at the remainder which immediately light up. Amara is seen off-stage looking very happy with herself.
Tabby is about to hide when she notices the pink dress. She stops and whispers, "Make it blue." Then she hides as Rogue walks in the door. A muffled BAMF is heard, but neither the fairies or Rogue seem to notice as Kurt's head appears in the open doorway.
"Good gracious!" Jean starts. "Who left the mop running!" She watches as the mop is still dancing around the room.
"Stop, mop." Tabby says and it falls to the floor. Rogue doesn't notice.
"Aunt Jean, Katherine, Tabitha! Where is everybody?" she calls and comes to a halt with a gasp as she sees the beautiful blue dress on the chair.
"Surprise!" all three fairies call out, coming out of their hiding places. "Happy Birthday!"
"Oh you darlings! This is the happiest day av my life! Everything is so wonderful! Wait till y'all meet him!" Rogue exclaims sighing at the memory of dancing with Gambit. Jean has a sneaking suspicion that Rogue isn't acting. She shakes it off.
"Him?" asks a clueless Kitty.
"Rogue!" exclaims Tabby.
"You've met some stranger?" asks Jean.
"Oh, he's not a strangeh. We've met before."
"You have!" an outraged Jean says.
"Where?" asks Tabby.
Rogue leans her head into her hands and says, "Once upon a dream." She starts humming the song again as she twirls Kitty around the room.
"She's, like, in love!" Kitty calls to the others.
"Oh no!" Tabby says, covering her mouth and looking at Jean.
"This is terrible!" Jean exclaims.
"Why? After all, Ah am sixteen." Rogue stops dancing.
"It isn't that, dear." sighs Jean.
"You're, like, already betrothed. Isn't that, like, the silliest word, like, ever?" Kitty says.
Raven glares at her from her director's chair. "The script. Did you even bother reading it?"
"Sheesh, sorry." Kitty says imitating Evan's sarcasm perfectly.
"Betrothed?" ask Rogue.
"Since the day you were born." Tabby says.
"To Prince Remy, dear." Kitty supplies. She catches the eye of a certain metal goblin and giggles.
"But that's impossible! How could Ah marry a prince. Ah'd have ta be . . ."
"A princess." states Tabby.
"And you are, Princess Anna Marie." Jean says taking over. Kurt's ear perk up and he listens closer. "Tonight we're taking you back to your father, King Charles."
"But Ah can't!" Rogue pleads as Kurt ports away. "He's coming here tonight! Ah promised ta meet him!"
"I'm sorry, dear." Jean says, taking Rogue in her arms to comfort her. "But you must never see that young man again."
"Oh no!" says Rogue baking away from Jean in horror as she thinks of the possibility of actually never seeing her Remy again. She looks at her other aunts, but finds no help "No! Ah can't believe it!" She turns around and runs up the stairs crying very real tears. The scene changes to follow her as she lays on her bed crying.
"And we thought she'd be so happy." Tabby sighs. A tear runs down Jean's face as she imagines the fairy tale in a different light. Her being seperated from Scott.
"And cut!" Raven calls. "Next time! No fires! And that means you, John!"
"It was only a little fire, sheila." pouts John.
"Raven, don't be so hard on them." Lightning taunts. Taunting her being his favorite pastime.
"Why shouldn't I be? They are all horrible at acting!"
"Even Rogue?" he questions.
"Well, she was okay, I guess."
"Okay? She was perfect." Remy gets into the fight.
Raven sighs. "Okay, Gambit, if you say so, she was perfect."
Lightning giggles at her. She glares at him and pouts. Gambit thinks he likes it when they fight. He goes off to find Rogue, who is in a hurry to relieve herself of her costume. She looks at the princess dress, she'll have to wear for the rest of the play and glares at it. "I hate that dress."
"Mais, ton Remy t'inks it'll look tres belle sur tu, chere." (1)
"Oh, just shut up!"
And we will leave them fighting there, because this is already pretty long.
(1) "But, your Remy thinks it'll look very beautiful on you, dear."
A/N: Well sorry, but it was just to long to do both parts. Next time, Remy seriously tells Logan about Rogue. I mean it. I promise. That and a very short war between Charles and Logan. Xavier is going to feel very stupid and so is Logan. Oh, and more of Scott and Bobby in a horse costume! Yay!