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"What is it guys?" Jean laughed as the two younger girls ushered her into their room and basically forced her to sit. Kitty scurried to the door and looked both ways before shutting it quickly. The two looked very comedic to Jean.
Rogue sat down on her left and Kitty on her right.
"Well, Jean..." Kitty started, gulping. "We don't want to scare you, but... Well... We noticed you've been sick every morning lately...." She trailed off.
"And...?" the red head pressed, curious.
Rogue started again for them. "Well, ya see, we think ya might be... I mean, not that you look it, but we were thinking that you might be... ugh..." This was harder than she had thought.
"Can I...?" Jean asked, putting her hand on Kitty's head, implying that she'd use telepathy. The younger mutant nodded and Jean started to concentrate...
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"Was that the original plan?" X23 whispered once they were out of ear shot of the others.
"I don't think so, Three." Alex replied. "But it is a good idea. After all, what would teenagers miss more than their tunes?"
"Done." Pietro said, throwing all of the confiscated CD's into a pile.
"Great!" Jamie exclaimed. "Now we can sell them back to them for twice the price!"
"What happened to your plan about painting the living room?" Rahne asked.
The young mutant's eyes widen. "Oh yeah! Can we do that, too?"
"Okay," Alex replied. "Go ahead, Brother Pietro. The paint is in the closet."
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"Oh my gosh! You guys!" Jean exclaimed, once she had read what they meant. "You're not serious, are you?"
"Well..." Kitty started, slowly.
"Ya have been sick every mornin'." Rogue stated.
"And at the sleepover you said that you and Scott were... How'd you put it, Rogue? 'Close'...?" Kitty added. "And Scott told Kurt who told Bobby who told Jamie who told Pietro who told Lance who told Piotr who told Remy who told Rogue who told me that you were totally having these crazy mood swings when your parents were here."
Jean looked at Rogue who nodded, confirming that telephone system.
The redhead groaned. "I can't believe I didn't see that! How am I ever going to get into med school if I overlook something like that?" She asked more to herself, referring to a field she had been considering.
Kitty's eyes widened. "You mean it like might be true?!"
"Well, contraceptives don't always work, Kitty." Jean explained, now looking quite pale. Her words sounded very automatic. "Even the pill is only 98 effective."
"What are ya gonna do?" Rogue asked, curiously.
"I guess I'm gonna take a test." Jean replied. She turned and glared at Kitty, actually managing to look very scary. "I don't want one word of this getting out until I know one way or another, understand?"
Kitty gulped and nodded. "Aye, aye captain."
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"Oh no!" Kurt yelled as he stepped into the living room.
"What is it?" Scott asked, running into the room.
"Look!" the German boy exclaimed.
"What is it? What am I looking at?" the older boy wondered. The room looked exactly like it always had to him.
"Can't you see it?!" Kurt asked. "Ze walls are bright pink!"
"Of course I can't see it!" Scott said, whacking the younger mutant. He pointed to his glasses. "They always look pink to me."
"Oh yeah...." he replied, sheepishly.
There was suddenly a loud crash from upstairs.
"We'll deal with this later!" Scott said, rushing out of the room and up the stairs to see what the problem was.
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(A/N: Warning: Extreme, unexpected fluff ahead!)
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"Hey, Todd." Wanda greeted as she came into the rec room. She walked over and sat down by him on the couch, leaning against him.
He put his arm around her. "Hey, Wanda. What's goin' on?"
"Nothing," she replied. "I was just thinking that we could go for a walk."
"What? You mean you're giving up?" he wondered. "You're actually gonna let me go outside again?"
Wanda laughed. "It hasn't been that long."
"Sweetums, four days without seeing daylight is a long time, yo." Todd responded, standing and starting toward the door with her.
They opened the front door and just stood there for a moment, admiring the sky.
She took his hand and smiled at him, seeming very much like a different person than the angry Scarlet Witch. "Ready?"
"With you at my side, how could I not be?" He replied, giving her hand a gentle squeeze and starting out the door.
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(That last line was so fluffy, that it was literally painful to write... shudders)
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"What is going on in here?!" Scott yelled as he burst into the professor's room. He gasped when he saw what shape it was in. The bed was split in two, the curtains were shredded, his dresser was broken, and that's not even mentioning the giant hole in the wall or the smoke coming from the carpet.
He looked over at Evan, Roberto, and Fred for an answer.
"We can explain!" Roberto said.
"We can?" Fred asked, quietly. Evan nudged him.
"Well, see... When the carpet caught fire, we had to do something." Roberto finished.
Scott glared at them. "And wrecking Prof. X's room helped put out the fire, how?!" He paused and shook his head. "For that matter, how did the carpet catch on fire?!"
"I dunno..." Evan replied, sinking under Cyclops' glare. "Are we grounded?"
"What do you think?" Scott responded, crossing his arms.
"I'd say definitely." Roberto stated, sadly.
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"When will they notice all of the neat stuff we've been doing?" Jamie wondered.
"Maybe when they hafta get dressed in the morning." Rahne answered, shrugging.
"I hope so." Alex added. "It'd be a shame to waste a great stunt like stealing their sleeves."
"Oh, I gotta go, Mates!" John said, catching a peek at a clock. "Big date, ya know."
"With who...?" Tabby wondered as the redhead left the room.
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"Scott?!" Jean called from the bottom of the stairs.
"What?" He yelled back.
"Kitty, Rogue, and I are going to the store!" she replied.
In an instant, the way overly stressed-out Cyclops was next to his girlfriend, hugging her to him.
"No! Don't go!" he begged. "Remember the last time your three left?!"
"Half of the kids aren't even home." Jean stated, pulling away a little. "You'll be fine."
She kissed him on the cheek and went out the door.
Scott fell to his knees.
"NOOOO!!!" he cried. "Why me?!"
He stopped for a moment when, out of the shadows, Scott thought he heard a chuckle... One that sounded suspiciously like Alex...
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"Here we are!" John announced as he pulled up to the restaurant.
"This is my favorite restaurant." Cecilia stated, happily.
"I know." He replied.
She looked at him funny. "What have you been stalking me or something?"
"You'd be amazed what you can find on the internet these days..."
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Next time on Of Second Shots and Summer Plots:
"I can't look at it. What does it say?" Jean asked.
Kitty gulped and went to check it out. "It's..."
Okay, first off, I want to know if there's anyone out there who would absolutely stop reading if it turned out that Jean was pregnant or not pregnant. Please help and tell me in a review if you feel strongly either way!
