I apologize to all the Romy fans who have to suffer through my interpretation of that couple. It's one of my favorites, but I'm not sure I write Romy like most people do. If any Romy or Kurtty fans ever have any suggestions or anything I'm doing wrong, I'd be glad to hear them. Actually, I'm pretty open to all suggestions...

This chappie is dedicated to SickMindedSucker. Thanks for all the support!

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"It's not just an elephant!" Tabby replied. "It's an elephant and a zebra!"

"Whoa! Cool!" Jamie yelled, going to where the blonde girl was.

"Where's Rahne?" Boom-Boom asked, pulling on the ropes that were loosely around the two animals' necks.

"With Georgie," Multiple answered.

"Here, you ride Stephie and I'll ride Carl." Tabby said.

"Okay," he replied. And with what could only be described as a childish sixth sense, Jamie climbed onto the Zebra, not even having to be told which animal had been dubbed 'Stephie'.

She climbed onto the elephant.

"Tabitha Smith! Stop right there!" Jean yelled, coming over to them just as they were about to go.

Tabby sighed. "What, Jean?"

"You cannot have three animals at the mansion! One was too many!" the redhead answered.

"Please, Jeannie?" she said, putting on a very sad face. "Georgie was getting lonely. Now he'll have friends."

Jean seemed to think about this. "Well..." Then she stopped. "No. I can't let you have three animals. The Professor put Scott and I in charge and I think he would be very disappointed in us if he knew."

"Come on!" Tabby begged. "You know you wanna let us keep them..."

"I can't, though."

"Well," the blonde girl replied, "what if we pretend you didn't notice them?"

"I didn't notice an elephant and a zebra living outside the house?" Jean asked, dryly.

"That's the spirit!" Tabby commended. "Onward, Jamie!"

"Tabby! I didn't mean-" Jean sighed, seeing that they were gone. "Oh well..."

-

"Will ya stop being so damn chivalrous, Swamp Rat?" Rogue asked after the Cajun pulled out her chair for her.

"Sorry, Cher." Remy said, bowing. "Jus' tryin' to be polite."

"Just sit down." Rogue sighed.

Smirking, Gambit took his seat across from her.

-

"What-are-you-staring-at?" Pietro asked, coming up behind Ray and scaring him out of his thoughts.

"I wasn't staring at anything!" he answered, just a little too quickly.

Pietro looked in the direction that the electric boy had been gazing. A look of recognition graced his features after a few moments.

"Oh-I-see!" he announced. "You-were-watching-that-fire-girl-weren't-you?-You-like-her-or-something?"

"No!" Ray yelled. "I wasn't staring at anyone! Especially not Amara!"

"Well-then-you-wouldn't-mind-if-I-went-over-there-and-put-on-a-little-of-the-old-Pietro-charm?" The speed demon asked.

"No!"

"Why?"

"Because I don't want you to, that's why!" The spiky-haired boy replied.

"Boy-that's-a-great-answer..." Pietro said, sarcastically.

"Leave me alone," Ray sighed.

"Why-should-I?" Quicksilver asked.

"Is that Wanda? Man, she looks mad..."

"Gotta-go!" Pietro said, never checking to see if his sister was actually there.

"Finally..." Ray said, going back to watching Amara talk on the phone.

-

"Come on, smile. Gambit just wants you to have a good time." Remy said, leaning a little over the table to be closer to her.

"You sure ya don't have any alterative motivations?" Rogue asked, dryly.

Remy smiled. "Of course not, Cher." He leaned back in his chair again.

She rolled her eyes.

"And what will you and the lovely lady have tonight?" A waiter asked, approaching their table.

-

"Hey, where'd ya get them?" Rahne asked when Tabby and Jamie came around the corner.

"Let's just say I've got some connections at the zoo." She stated, off-handedly.

"Is that legal?" Jamie wondered, getting off of Stephie.

Tabby shrugged. "Don't know, don't care."

Rahne and Jamie looked at each other and shrugged. It wouldn't be them that got in trouble, anyway.

-

"Give it up, Cajun." Rogue said, off-handedly. "Telling me about the stupid things Pyro did when you were on Magneto's side is hardly entertaining."

Shocked a little by her bluntness, Remy stopped mid-sentence. "Sorry. Would you rather lead the conversation?"

She just looked at him like he was crazy and took a bite of her food.

-

"Hello?" Scott said, answering the phone. Jean watched him, wondering who it was. "Oh, Hi Professor!" he said. "Yeah, everything's fine here. How was your plane ride?" Pause. "Great. Okay, let me ask her." He covered the mouth piece. "Do you wanna talk to Prof. X, Jean?"

"Sure." She took the phone from her boyfriend. "Hi, Professor. How's your son?" She smiled. "That's good. Yeah, everything's fine here so far. Okay, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye." She hung up the phone.

-

"Did they buy it?" Logan asked.

Professor Xavier nodded.

"Great!"

"I don't know. I feel a little bad for lying to the children like this." Ororo stated. "What if something bad happened and we weren't there?"

"Don't worry so much, 'Ro." Logan replied, putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Yeah, you're starting to sound like Cyclops." Raven agreed.

Erik laughed. "Florida's beautiful in the summer. This was a good idea."

The other adults nodded in concurrence.

-

"Want anything for desert?" Gambit asked.

She shrugged. "Are you gettin' anything?"

"No."

"Then no." she responded. "Are we done here?"

Remy sighed. "Yes. Let's walk back."

"What about yer bike?" she asked. "Won't somethin' happen to it?"

"Gambit can always call in a favor and have someone else take it home." He replied.

"Ah guess, then."

-

"Um... Alvers?" Evan asked, looking up from his game of checkers with Roberto. "What's with the mustache?"

"None of your business." Lance replied, going out the front door.

"Alrighty then..."

-

"Cher, are you tryin' to have a bad time?" Remy asked after a few quiet moments.

Rogue didn't look at him right away, but kept her eyes on the road ahead of her. "No..."

"Then what is it?"

They continued to walk along in an uncomfortable silence for a few minutes before Rogue sighed.

"Ah just don't want you to get attached, Ah guess." She replied, sadly. "Ah can't touch anyone and Ah probably never will be able to."

"You don' know dat for sure, Cher," he said, putting his arm around her shoulder.

She wanted to shrug it off, she really did, but, for some reason, she didn't. Instead, she laid her head against him as the continued on.

-

"Hey, Wanda?" Todd asked, hopping a few steps behind her.

"What?" she snapped.

"Where are we going?"

"To the book store."

"Oh." he replied. "Why?"

She rolled her eyes. "To buy a book."

"By who?" he asked.

She stopped walking and turned to face him. "Why?"

"Because I might have a suggestion," he shrugged.

Wanda's eyebrows were suddenly far higher than they belonged on her face. "You read?"

"Just a bit, yo. Mostly Stephen King and stuff like that." Todd replied.

She nodded in approval. "Not bad." She turned around and stepped off the curb and into the road. At the same time, a car came around the corner, much faster than it should have been going.

"Wanda!" Todd yelled, pushing her out of harm's way.

"Todd, no!" she screamed, getting off the ground.

-

"So," Gambit started, as they came up to the mansion's front door. "Remy was thinkin' that maybe if ya had a good enough time, ya might go out with him another time?"

"See, this is what Ah was afraid of..." Rogue said, looking away from him.

"What?"

"Ah can't." she replied.

"What do you mean ya can't?" he asked. He wouldn't show it, of course, but he was starting to feel a strong pain towards the left side of his chest.

"Remy," she began, unshed tears starting to fill her eyes. "Ah can't. Ah can't go out with ya again. Ah can't touch anyone. Ah can't hope fer anything bettah. And Ah certainly can't have you hopin' fer anything either!" she said, her frustration obvious by her voice. "Ah didn't wanna have to hurt you, Swamp Rat, but yer not leaving me much of a choice."

"Rogue..." he said, taking a step towards her.

"Please don't." she replied, backing up to the door. She opened it and went inside. "Good night, Remy."

-

"Alex?" X23 called, coming into the living room. Looking around, she saw that only Roberto, Evan, Fred, and Pietro were in there.

"Nope." Pietro replied, bored.

She nodded and looked down at their game.

"In three more moves, you're done, Daniels." She stated, seeing the set up Roberto had started.

"Yeah right. I'm winning." Evan replied. Sure enough, three moves later, Roberto had won. "How'd you know that?"

"Do you wanna play Evan, X23?" Roberto asked. "I'm kinda done stomping on him."

She shook her head and turned to leave.

"Oh, I see. You're scared." Evan said.

She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around, glaring. "What did you say?"

"It's alright. I understand." Spyke replied.

"You're dead." She stated, sitting down across from Evan and putting the pieces back where the go.

"How about upping the ante a bit?" Evan asked, putting his in place.

"What did you have in mind?"

-

"That was a great movie." Jubilee said as her and Bobby came out of the theatre.

Bobby nodded in agreement. "Wanna go get something to eat?"

"Sure."

He checked his pockets and pulled out ten dollars. "McDonald's okay?"

She laughed. "Sounds great."

-

"Aren't those your friends Bobby and Jubilee?" Amanda asked, gesturing to the couple coming in the door.

Sam looked up from his ice cream. He nodded. "Sure are." Then louder, "Hey, guys! Over here!"

Jubilee smiled and waved. She said something to Bobby, then walked over to their table. "What's up?"

"Nothing." Sam answered.

"So, are you two on a date?" the Asian girl asked, smiling playfully.

"Are you two?" Amanda asked.

"Yes, actually, we are." Jubilee replied.

"Ah guess you could call this date," Sam stated. "It was more of a spur of the moment thing, than an official date, though."

"Bobby! Guess what?" Jubilee said as he approached the table with their food.

"What?"

"Amanda and Sam are going out," she finished.

"Cool." He answered.

"So..." Amanda started, being the out-going person she was, "What are your summer plans?"

Bobby got an excited glint in his eyes. "Well, I was thinking of something along the lines of starting some kind of business since the adults aren't around..."

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"Jean!" Scott called.

Jean peeked into the room.

"What?" she asked.

"Your mom's on the phone." He said, holding it out for her.

She took it. "Hello?" Pause. "Yes, that was Scott." Pause. "Yes, we're still going out." Pause. "Mom, drop it."

Scott laughed and sat down. Jean's mother had never really approved of them dating. Something about him being rude to her when he was 12.

"Yeah, I remember." Jean replied to the phone. "Oh, that's horrible." Pause. "What?! Are you serious?" Jean went very pale.

"What is it?" Scott asked, worried. He got up and led her to the couch, fearing that she might fall down.

"Okay, Mom. Bye." Jean hung up and handed the phone back to Scott, never looking him in the face.

"What is it, Jean?"

"Well, Scott, remember how we were talking about going to visit my parents?" she asked, nervously.

"Yeah..."

"Well, now we don't have to!" she replied. "Because they're coming here..."

"What?! Are you serious?" Scott asked, unaware that he was copying how his girlfriend had responded.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Jean said in a dead pan voice. "They're stopping by here on their way to visiting my grandma. They're going to be staying the night."

"When?"

"In about three days."

"Great..."

-

"Hey, Three," Alex greeted, spotting his girlfriend coming out of the living room, counting a stack of ten dollar bills. "What's with the money?"

"Oh, nothing." She replied. "Wanna go get some ice cream? My treat."

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Next time on Of Second Shots and Summer Plots:

Kurt looked at the girl in front of him for a minute before bringing his face closer to her and brushing his lips against hers. After a moment, she relaxed and kissed him back.

"Whoa, what did I miss?"

Any Jott fans that truely trust me, go read Mi-chan17's fanfiction 'Michael'. It's really great. The first couple of chappies are a bit brutal for those of you with weak constitutions, but if you pick up from chappie four, you won't even realize you missed anything.It's in my favs if you don't wanna go looking for it.