Sorry this took so long. I must've re-written this chappie 20 times and it's still not good enough. Oh well...
Wow, I got so many positive reviews about the AleX23 parts! Thank you! I liked it, too!
This chappie is dedicated to crazysilverkitty! Thanks for the reviews!
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"Good morning everyone!" Kitty greeted as she walked into the kitchen.
Scott, Rogue, Amara, Ray, X23 and Kurt looked up at her from the table.
"How in the world can you be this happy at this hour?" Rogue asked, sounding very tired.
"It's 8:00! I'm surprised more people don't wake up at this time." Kitty replied, sitting in between Kurt and Rogue. "Where's Jean?"
"Sick again," Scott answered. "I think she over-did it yesterday, but she had to get out of bed to visit with her mom and dad."
"Speak of the devils..." Rogue muttered as John and Elaine came into the room.
"Good morning, Scott." Dr. Grey greeted.
"Is Jean still asleep?" Mrs. Grey asked.
"She's sick again. You can go up and say good morning to her if you want." Scott said.
"No, that's alright." Jean's father answered. "We'll just say good bye to her when we leave."
Scott stood up and pushed his chair back in. "What time do you have to leave?"
"After lunch." Elaine replied.
Alex came into the room.
"Hey, Three." He greeted. She looked at him and he gave a funny hand-signal. She nodded and he turned to Amara and Ray. "Drake said something about you not forgetting an appointment..."
"Oh!" Amara replied, getting up quickly.
"Right!" Ray followed her out of the room.
"What was that about?" Rogue wondered.
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Pietro opened his eyes and looked around the dark room from his bed. He could have sworn he had heard his door open...
He saw something move out of the corner of his eye, but when he turned his head, what ever it was, was gone. There was nothing but still dark shadows. He pulled the blanket closer to him.
Suddenly, something pounced on him and he screamed.
Tabby started laughing. "Oh, Pie-Pie, you should have seen the look on your face! It was priceless!" She giggled, leaning over him.
"Why-did-you-do-that?!" Pietro asked, his heart still racing.
She grinned and leaned really close to his ear. "Because it was fun!" She yelled the last word.
Pietro grabbed her shoulders and held her away from his ears, but still close to his face.
"Don't-do-that!" he yelled.
The bedroom door opened, revealing Wanda.
"What's with all the... yelling...?" she trailed off, seeing the position the two were in. "Oops, sorry!" She closed the door quickly.
Tabby fell down, next to him, laughing.
"See-what-you-did?" Pietro sighed.
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-DING DONG!-
Scott got up and answered the front door.
"Can I help you?" He asked, seeing Pyro and Colossus standing there.
"Someone by the name of Jamie was supposed to talk to me and I brought my best friend!" Pyro answered.
"Okay..." Scott turned and yelled up the stairs. "JAMIE!"
"Shut up, Cyclops!" Wanda replied.
"Shut-up,-Wanda!" Pietro yelled.
"Shut up, Maximoffs!" Lance screamed.
"Shut up, everyone!" Jean yelled from her room, sounding very scary.
The house was suddenly very quiet.
Jamie came down the stairs, two at a time.
"Hi!" he greeted. "Come on." He lead the two villains back up the stairs.
Scott scratched his head, trying to figure out what was going on.
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"We're here," Jubilee announced as they stepped out of the elevator.
"Good." The receptionist answered. "If I could have the young ladies step through the door and on the left and wait and the young men to the right."
The kids smiled and did as they were told.
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Around 11:30, Jean stepped out of the shower and got dressed. She was feeling much better now, so she decided to go downstairs and spend time with her parents before the had to leave. Before she reached the bottom of the stairs, though, there was a knock on the door.
"Got it!" She called.
She went and looked through the glass.
"Warren!" Jean exclaimed, opening the door and letting the winged mutant inside. "Scott! Warren's here!"
Scott came into the room. "Hey. What are you doing here? And who is this?" he asked, motioning to a lavender-haired woman behind Angel.
"This," the blonde answered, "is my girlfriend, Miss Elisabeth Braddock."
She smiled and held out her hand. "You can call me Betsy." She added in a British accent.
Jean took her hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you. I'm Jean Grey and this is Scott Summers."
"Yes, I've heard a lot about everyone here." Betsy smiled.
"So..." Scott started. "What brings you here?"
"Well, yesterday, we got a call from one of the students. Something about zebras." Warren replied. "Anyway, we started thinking and we came to the conclusion that perhaps we should take Professor Xavier up on his offer."
"Oh." Scott said. "Well, Prof. X is on vacation right now, but I'm sure he'd be very happy to hear that."
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"Welcome Brothers Pyro and Colossus." Alex greeted after the two had taken the oath. He gave them the fruit baskets, medals, and rabbits feet.
Jamie, Rahne, and Tabby clapped. Georgie, Stephie, and Carl made some noise. Pietro tapped his foot.
"This is so great!" John said, a tear in his eye. "I've never belonged to a club before!" He went up and hugged X23 and Alex, who were the closest to him.
X23 tried to push him off, but he held tightly. Eventually, he let go on his own.
She leaned over to Alex and whispered, "Can I hurt him?"
Alex hook his head. "You should have done that before he joined if you wanted to hurt him."
X23 sighed. Oh well. There were plenty of people not in the club who she could take it out on.
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Evan looked into the kitchen. The coast was clear. No one was in sight. He snuck over to the pantry and opened the door. Oh yes, this would make the ultimate hiding place. He cleared out the bottom shelf and put all of the food on the counter. He climbed in and shut the door.
As soon as he was in, Blob's voice could be heard, echoing throughout the mansion. "Come out, come out where ever you are!"
Evan suddenly heard a giggle from the shelf above him.
"Hello?" he asked quietly.
"Evan?" Roberto's voice responded.
"Roberto?" Evan replied. "This is my hiding spot!"
"Shh... Here comes Fred..." Roberto said, hearing footsteps.
Remy hummed to himself as he put jelly on his bread. It was so nice of some one to leave everything out like this so that he didn't have to get it himself. He decided he would be nice and put it back.
When he had finished his sandwich, he went over to the pantry and opened the door. He stopped, seeing Evan and Roberto on the shelves.
Evan reached out and took the peanut butter from him.
He closed the door and walked out, grabbing his sandwich. Sometimes he thought Professor Xavier had taken one too many trips into those boys' heads.
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Wanda came out of her room and went down the stairs, passing a very confused looking Fred. She looked at him for a minute, wondering what he was looking for, before going on again. She went outside and looked around.
"Hi, Wanda!" a voice greeted behind her, scaring her.
She turned around quickly and whacked Todd on the head. "Don't sneak up on me!"
He rubbed his head. "Sorry."
"Did you brush your teeth?" She asked.
He nodded. "Once yesterday and twice today!"
"Good." She replied. "Now go back inside."
Todd sighed. "Wanda, you can't keep me inside forever, yo."
"Oh yes I can!" She replied, pushing him back into the house. He put his legs out, trying to stop himself, but Wanda just pushed harder.
"Wanda! Stop!" Todd yelled.
"No! You are going inside!" Wanda answered. She gave one final push at the same time, he gave up pushing back, so they both fell forward and into the house. Wanda landed on top of him.
"Sorry," she muttered, rolling off of him and sitting up.
"No problem-o, babe." Todd answered, sitting up after her.
"Don't call me that." Wanda replied, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, I'll make you a deal." Toad started.
She eyed him suspiciously. "What is it?"
"You want me to stay home, right?" She nodded. "Then you have to stay with me."
"What?" She asked in a tone that clearly stated he was crazy.
"Well, I don't wanna stay inside, either!" he explained.
"Well, you're not going out!" she replied, anger in her voice.
"Than neither are you!" Todd said, matching her tone.
Wanda looked at him for a moment, not sure what was going on. The Todd Tolensky she had always known would never have stood up to her. This was a completely new side to him that she had never seen before.
Finally, she nodded. "Okay."
He blinked. "What?"
"Okay." She answered, sounding a little more confident. "I'll stay home with you."
He stared at her. He hadn't actually thought she would agree to that! He just wanted her to see how unreasonable her request had been. He shrugged. Oh, well. Better to be stuck at home with Wanda than not, he supposed.
"You aren't gonna last one week, yo." Todd said, smugly.
Wanda smirked. "Oh, you think so, huh?"
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"This feels amazing..." Jubilee said as a tall Italian man massaged her back.
"Yeah..." Amara agreed from the table next to her. "I never wanna leave."
"I wonder if the boys are having this good of a time?"
"Ouch!" Bobby exclaimed as the large Swedish woman 'massaged' his back. "Don't do that!"
"It's good for you!" She explained, doing it again.
"Oww..." he moaned. He turned his head to face Ray, who was snickering. "You just wait. She's coming after you next!"
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"It's such a shame you have to leave so soon." Jean said, hugging her parents good-bye.
"Yes, well, we promised Grandma that we would be at her house by sundown." John explained, picking up his bags. He faced Scott. "Now, you take good care of my little girl."
Scott smiled. "I will."
"And you try not to give him too much trouble, you hear?" John said, looking back at his daughter. "It'd be a real shame to lose him."
-Oh, yes... A real shame...-
Jean accidentally heard the sarcastic thought of her mother. It was actually such a loud thought, that if Jean hadn't known better, she might have believed that she was meant to hear it...
Jean shook her head. Of course her mother didn't know how to do that.
The Greys said one last good-bye, before going out the front door.
"Thank God that's over!" Jean exclaimed when their car had pulled out of the drive-way. Scott put his arm over her shoulder.
"Come on," he said, "Let's go see how Warren and Betsy are getting settled in."
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"So...?" Kitty asked as she came into hers and Rogue's room, shutting the door behind her.
"What?" Rogue asked, closing her book. She sat up on her bed.
Kitty sat down next to her. "Like how did your date go?"
Rogue rolled her eyes. "It was okay."
"Just okay?" her friend asked. "You stay out until past midnight and it's just 'okay'?"
Rogue shrugged and picked up her book again, preparing to ignore Kitty.
"Just tell me like what you did and stuff." Kitty said.
"We went to dinner and then we took a walk." Rogue answered.
"And...?"
"And what?" Rogue wondered. "That's all."
Kitty looked at her sternly. Rogue started reading her book again. The younger girl waited, knowing that her friend would give in eventually.
"We danced." Rogue stated after a few minutes, closing her book again.
Kitty squealed. "Where did you go dancing?"
"In the park." Rogue answered, laughing a little. "There wasn't even any music, but he insisted."
"How romantic!" Kitty sighed dreamily.
"Ah guess." Rogue shrugged. "How was your date?"
"A lot of fun." Kitty replied. "We went to the movies and then he like took me out to this beautiful place and we just watched the stars for a while."
"Sound like ya had a good time." Rogue said, nodding.
"So, are you and Remy going out again?" Kitty asked.
Rogue smiled. "Yeah, Ah guess."
"Oh! That is so great!" Kitty said, hugging her roommate.
Rogue pushed her off and tossed a pillow at her. "Pull yerself together, Kit. It's not the most exciting thing in the world."
"Hey!" Kitty grabbed another pillow and threw it at Rogue. Rogue hit her back and soon they were engulfed in an all out pillow war.
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"How's everything going?" Scott asked as he and Jean came into the living room.
"Good." Warren answered.
"Well, I have a question." Betsy added. "What is that?"
Jean and Scott looked in the direction she was pointing. Jean gasped. Outside the window was a huge bonfire and it looked like Alex, X23, John, Piotr, Tabby, Pietro, Jamie, Rahne, and the animals were dancing around it.
"Oh! They are dead when I get to them!" Scott announced, storming out of the room. Jean hurried after him.
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r/r please
