This chappie is dedicated to Mrs. Myxztipik. Thanks for everything!
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The next day started out even worse than the first for the leader of the X-Men.
Scott knew it was going to be bad when Jamie woke him up at 5AM to say that one of the toilets was stopped up and needed a plumber. He had told the boy that any decent plumber would still be sleeping, but Jamie was a persistent fellow.
Eventually, Cyclops had given in and found an early bird plumber.
After that, he had decided to start the day out with a DR session, so he went to wake Jean up, but she had strangely been missing from her room.
The good news, he found her quickly.
The bad news, he found her in the bathroom, throwing up, and he accidentally put his hand in some puke.
After washing his hands and making sure Jean got back to bed without a problem, he went back downstairs for breakfast.
Thus we join the current man of the house while he eats the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms box and drinks his chocolate milk.
"Good morning," Kitty yawned as she came into the kitchen. She pulled out the carton of milk and turned on the TV.
"I'm telling you guys," the two heard Evan's voice start, "Free Willy was totally a copy-cat of Flipper."
As they stepped into the room, Scott and Kitty saw that Evan had been preaching to Rogue and Kurt, who looked like they couldn't care less whether Free Willy was even a whale or not.
"Hey," Rogue greeted, taking a seat across from Kitty.
"Vhere's Jean?" Kurt asked.
"Sick in bed." Scott answered. He was about to go back to his marshmallows when the phone rang. He got up and grabbed it. "Hello?" Pause. "Yes, this is Scott, Mrs. Grey. How are you?" He rolled his eyes (but no one could see it, anyway). "Sorry, Jean can't come to the phone right now. She's sick in bed." Pause. "No, Mrs. Grey. It's really not a good idea to wake up a sick telekinetic." Pause. "Yes, I'm sure." Pause. "I can take a message if it's that important." Pause. "Sorry, I don't think I heard you quite right?" Pause. "Oh, okay... I'll tell her. See you then." He hung up and put his hand on his head.
"What is it, man?" Evan asked.
"Jean's parents are stopping by tonight." Scott explained, in a panicky voice. "They were supposed to come in a few days, but Jean's not up to a visit today. I gotta go tell her."
"Ah though you said it wasn't safe to wake up a sleeping telekinetic?" Rogue wondered as he started out the door.
"No, I just didn't think she was up to talking to them." Scott waved his hand in a dismissive 1manner. "It's perfectly safe."
"And he wonders why her parents don't like him," Rogue said after he had gone. Kurt and Kitty snickered.
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Wanda woke with a start when she felt a hand shaking her.
"Wanda? Wake up, yo!"
Her eyes widened. "Todd!" She stood up and threw her arms around his neck. "If you ever scare me like that again, I'll kill you."
Todd, still shocked, automatically returned the hug. "Are you feelin' all right, Wanda?"
"I'm fine." She said, pulling back and looking at him. "Speaking of feeling all right, what are you doing up? Get back in bed before you hurt yourself worse, you idiot!" Wanda ushered him back into the hospital bed.
There was a knock on the door and a nurse came in. "Awake I see!" she stated. "I told you he would be fine, young lady."
Wanda smiled at the nurse and started toward the door. "I'll be right back. Which way is the restroom?"
The nurse pointed her in the right direction and then set a tray of food in front of Toad.
"That girl has been worried sick about you. She hasn't left your bedside since you got out of ER." The lady started. "You two must be very close."
Todd looked at her funny. What strange dimension was this?
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"Jean?" Scott called softly as he entered her room.
She groaned. "What, Scott?"
He went and sat on the edge of her bed. "I have some bad news, Hun."
"How bad?" she asked, yawning. "Is it worse than the fact that if I sit up, I throw up?"
He shrugged. "It's worse than Barney taking over the world, but not so bad as Logan's singing." He stated, trying to lighten the mood a bit.
She laughed weakly. "Nothing is worse than Logan's singing."
"Guess who I just got off the phone with?" he started.
"My parents." She stated.
"Jean, telepathy is cheating." Scott responded.
"Sorry," she answered. "Your shields are weak this morning and I never have as much control when I'm sick."
"Anyway," he continued, "they're coming today."
"What?!" she yelled. "I can't deal with them today!"
"That's what I said! But you know your mother."
Jean groaned. "I guess I'll have to..."
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"You're not going to hide out here all day are you?" Tabby asked, climbing into Bobby's window. Bobby, Jubilee, Rahne, Jamie, Sam, Amara, Ray, and Roberto were scattered around the room with the door locked.
"Well, out of sight out of mind." Jubilee shrugged.
"I guess." The blonde replied. She turned to Jamie and Rahne. "Hey, squirts."
"Hey, Boom-Boom." Rahne greeted.
"How are they?" Jamie asked.
"Well, Stephie was fine. I gave Carl a little snack since he woke up too late for breakfast. Oh, and Georgie was a little cold, so I gave him the extra blanket. You know how he gets."
Jamie and Rahne nodded, understandingly.
The other teens tried to ignore the three. They were honestly a little afraid.
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"Where-were-you?" Pietro asked, seeing Lance come in the front door.
"I just went out for a walk." He replied.
"That's funny." Fred started. "You're not normally a morning person."
Lance shrugged. "Things change."
That answer seemed to satisfy the Blob's curiosity, because he went onto another thought directly after.
"Do you think we should go visit Toad?"
"What do mean go visit Toad?" Lance asked, stopping his climb of the stairs.
Didn't-we-tell-you?-Toad's-in the-hospital-and-Wanda's-keeping-him-company." Pietro explained.
"What? What happened? And why didn't someone tell me?"
"He got hit by a car." Fred answered.
"What?!" Lance was very confused as to why his team hadn't told him this.
"We didn't tell you because Wanda's taking care of it." Blob continued. "Do you wanna go visit him with me? I would take Pietro, but Wanda said he wasn't allowed back in the room."
Pietro rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
Lance nodded and started back out the door, Fred following.
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"Katzechen?" Kurt called, knocking on her door.
A few seconds later, she answered it. She made room for him to come in and shut the door behind him.
"What's up, Kurt?" Kitty asked.
"Vell, see, I vas just vondering, zat is, if you're not too busy, maybe you'd like to zhe movies tonight?" Kurt stumbled over his words.
Kitty grinned. "Why are you so nervous?"
He blushed. "Well, I've never actually asked a girl out before..."
"Are you serious?" Kitty wonder, surprised. "What about Amanda?"
"She kinda asked me out and before zat I was blue and fury all zhe time." Kurt shrugged. "So... Movies?"
She giggled. "I'd love to go with you."
Kurt grinned brightly. "Great! See you at 6!" He teleported out of the room, leaving Kitty to herself.
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"Who is it?" Bobby asked, responding to the knock on his door.
"Alex and X23," a boy's voice called back. "Are Jamie and Rahne in there?"
"Yeah, hold on," Bobby opened the door and let the two in.
"What's up?" Jamie asked as the blonde boy and his girlfriend approached them.
"Can you step outside for a moment?" Alex asked. "We need to ask you something."
"Sure." Rahne replied, standing up and going toward the door.
Once they were alone in the hall, Alex put forth his proposition.
"Wanna join our club?" he offered.
"What's it about?" Rahne asked.
"It's for people who people don't pay attention to." He replied.
"Awesome!" Jamie responded. "I wanna join!"
"Well... Sure." Rahne answered. "But I think we should let Tabby know."
"But she's not ignored." X23 stated.
"That's a great idea!" Alex said at the same time. "She's loads of fun!" X23 glared at Alex, mostly for cutting her off, but a little bit for talking about another girl.
Rahne peeked her head back into Iceman's room. "C'n we get Tabitha out 'ere?"
Tabby came into the hall. "Hey! What's going on, guys?"
"Alex wants to know if we wanna join his club!" Jamie replied.
"Sure!" Tabby said. "Can Georgie, Stephie, and Carl join, too?"
Alex nodded. "The more, the merrier."
"Cool."
"The first meeting is at 2, in my room." Alex stated. "Don't tell anyone who's not in the club. Catch you dudes later." He waved and him and X23 exited down the hall.
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There was a knock on the hospital door and Fred and Lance came in.
"Hey, guys!" Todd greeted.
"Hey! Toad, you're awake!" Fred replied, happily. He looked around. "Where's Wanda?"
"She was hungry so she went down to the cafeteria. Do you that she didn't leave my bedside for almost two days straight, yo?" he asked.
Fred nodded and shrugged.
"Sorry I didn't come to visit you earlier," Lance apologized. "These dopes didn't feel like telling me that you got hit by a car until today."
Todd laughed. "It's okay. The only thing that's really bad was that I broke my ankle and one of my fingers, but they put them in casts, see, so I can walk on it."
Lance nodded and sat down in the chair.
"That's my chair," Wanda stated, coming in the door.
"Sorry," Avalanche mutter, changing chairs.
She sat down in her chair by Toad's bed. "I see my brother didn't come."
Fred shrugged. "You said he couldn't."
"Well, he's not very caring toward other people." Wanda stated.
Immediately, the phase 'look who's talking' came to all three boys' minds, but the wisely held their tongues.
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"Hey, Jean." Scott greeted as she came into the living room. "I thought you said you weren't getting out of bed until they got here?"
"Well, it's the funniest thing," she started. "I felt like I was dying this morning, but now I feel fine."
"How weird." He stated. "I'm glad you're feeling better, though. Are you ready to face your parents?"
"Ugh." She sighed. "No matter how much better I feel, I will never be ready to face my mother."
Scott laughed. "She's a little over-bearing, I'll give you that one, but she's not that bad."
"Whatever." Jean rolled her eyes. "What time is it?"
"About 2:15. They'll be here at about 5:30 or so." Scott stated.
"Are the kids cleaning yet?" Jean asked.
Scott stood up. "I forgot about that. I'll go get on them."
He went up the stairs and traveled down the hall. 'Best to start with their leader...' Scott reasoned, going to Bobby's door. He knocked.
"Who is it?" Bobby called.
"It's Little Red Riding Hood. Open up, Drake."
Bobby opened the door and laughed nervously. "Hi ya, Scott. What can I do for you?"
"Drake, round up the others and start on cleaning the house." Scott commanded.
"Sure thing, boss." He replied. Bobby shut the door and sighed. "Come on, guys."
"Aw man..."
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About an hour after the boys left, the doctor came back in to talk to Todd.
"Well, Mr. Tolensky," the doctor started. "It would appear that you've suffered minimal damage and everything major has been taken care of. I could probably release you tonight."
"Great." Todd replied.
The doctor turned to Wanda. "Make sure he doesn't over do it. If he doesn't rest that foot enough, he could end up in physical therapy."
Wanda nodded. "Okay."
"All right, then." He took a paper off his clip board and handed it to her. "Just take this paper to the counter and they'll schedule you another appointment. I want follow up x-rays in about six weeks."
He left the room, leaving the two teens alone once again.
"Hey, Wanda?" Toad started.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks." He replied. "For staying with me, I mean."
She shrugged. "You saved me. I couldn't just leave you alone."
An awkward silence started to form.
"Let's go."
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"Hey!-What-are-you-guys-doing-in-here?-Aren't-you-three-supposed-to-be-cleaning?" Pietro asked, coming into Alex's room and seeing Tabby, Jamie, Rahne, Alex, and X23.
"He has seen our meeting!" Alex yelled. "Get him!"
Before Pietro could realize what was going on, X23 knocked his out.
Tabby laughed. "That was pretty good."
X23 just crossed her arms and sat back on Alex's bed.
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"Okay," Bobby started as him, Jubilee, Ray, Amara, Sam, and Roberto entered the hall that held the adults' rooms. "Jubilee and I will clean Prof. X's room. Amara and Ray can take Ororo's. Sam and Roberto can have Logan's. Rahne, Jamie, and Tabby, you've got Hank's." He looked around. "Where's Rahne, Jamie, and Tabby?"
Everyone shrugged and looked around.
"Just forget it, Bobby." Jubilee replied. "If we don't start cleaning, Scott will yell at us more."
"I guess."
The six split up and cleaned the rooms they had been assigned.
About half-way through cleaning Professor Xavier's room, Bobby gasped.
"What?" the Asian girl asked.
"Look what I found!" Bobby stated, rummaging through the closet.
"What is that?" Jubilee wondered.
"It looks like blueprints to me..." He replied, turning it. "There's a level lower than the DR?"
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Next time on 'Of Second Shots and Summer Plots':
"I, Pietro Maximoff, swear to uphold and protect the good name of TFSC. I promise to never go against the wishes of the club. I promise to always put the club first."
"Welcome, Brother Quicksilver."
Anyone who can guess the full name of the club gets a sneak peak to my next story! Love you all! Review, please!
