The next morning, Remy got up and ate breakfast unusually early for him. He hadn't really been able to sleep last night because of what had happened with his blanket. Eventually, he'd cried himself to sleep, but no where near as fast as Rogue would have liked.

"Guten Morgen." Kurt yawned as he came into the kitchen. "Vat are you doing up at six?"

"Couldn't sleep." Gambit answered, taking a bite of his toast. He watched as Kurt walked over to the cupboards and reached in.

Coming up empty handed, he groaned.

"Zhere's never any cereal vhen I vant it." The blue elf sighed. "Come to think of it, vith so many people under one roof, zhere's never enough of anything."

"An' it'll only get worse, what with Jean's bein' pregnant an' all." Remy said, forgetting his surroundings.

"Vhat!" Kurt dropped the Poptart he had just picked up. "Jean's pregnant!"

"Aw man..." the Cajun groaned. "You can't tell anyone, okay, mon ami?"

"You got it." The German boy put one hand over his mouth and the other made a 'thumbs up' sign.

"Good." Remy sighed, laying back in his seat.

Kurt snuck into the living room, seeing that Bobby and Jubilee were the only ones there, he went over to them.

"Hey, Kurt." Bobby greeted.

"What's up?" Jubilee wondered, seeing the way he kept looking around.

"I'm going to tell you guys something, but you can't tell anyone, okay?" Kurt said quietly.

"Umm... okay..."

"Jean's pregnant." He stated.

"What!" both younger teens yelled.

"Sshhh!" Kurt shushed. "Don't tell anyone."

"Okay, you have our words." Bobby said after a second.

"What do you know about it? Is it a boy or a girl? What are they going to name it? It's just one baby?" Jubilee wondered.

Kurt shrugged. "For all I know, it could be triplets. You guys really won't tell anyone, right?"

"Right."

"Right."

"Hey, Amara! Ray! Wait up!" Jubilee called as she and Bobby caught up to their friends in the yard.

"What's up?" Amara asked.

"You're never going to believe what we heard." Jubilee said.

"What?" Ray wondered.

"Jean's pregnant with triplets." Bobby stated.

"Oh my..." Amara and Ray stopped dead in their tracks.

"Are you serious?" Ray asked.

"Yeah, that's what Kurt said." Jubilee explained.

"And he's pretty reliable." Bobby added.

"Yeah." Ray agreed.

"That's crazy." Amara said. "She doesn't look pregnant at all. Who's the father?"

"Who knows." Bobby shrugged. "Who's even to say there's only one?"

"You're not thinking..." Jubilee trailed off.

"Who knows." He repeated.

"Hey, guys." Tabby greeted as she walked by the hall and saw Amara and Ray whispering.

"Nothing."

"Nothing."

The blonde looked at them suspiciously.

"Come on... you can tell me..." she said.

"Well..." Amara started.

"Don't." Ray scolded.

"Oh, Ray, we can trust Tabitha." The princess stated.

Sighing, the boy gestured for her to go ahead.

"Jean's pregnant with triplets by three different fathers." Amara said.

"Whoa!" the blonde girl exclaimed. "Go, Jean!"

"Tabitha! You're awful!" the darker girl replied.

"You can't tell anyone." Ray reminded.

"Oh, don't be so stiff, Berserker." Tabby replied, walking off, laughing.

"Hey, Speedy! Come over here a minute!" Tabby called as she walked into a TFSC meeting.

"What?" Pietro asked, irritably as she came over.

"You wanna know a secret?" she wondered quietly so that no one else heard.

Pietro looked around. The others were too caught up in their meeting to notice.

"Okay,-sure."

"You don't sound like you really wanna hear it..." the blonde girl teased.

"Just-tell-me." Quicksilver sighed.

"Say you really wanna hear it..."

"Fine.-I-really-wanna-hear-it." Pietro replied.

"You're gonna be a big brother." Tabby said, a twinkle in her eye.

"What!" he asked, a little too loudly.

The others looked at him for a second before going back to whatever they were talking about.

"Well, Jean's pregnant with triplets and Scott, Logan, and Magneto are the fathers." She explained.

"Who-told-you-that?" he wondered.

"Oh, just about everyone knows it."

"I'll-be-right-back."

"Wanda?" Pietro called, knocking on the door to her room.

"Wanda!" he knocked again.

Hearing some voices on the other side he waited. After a minute, Wanda came out, shutting the door behind her.

"This had better be important." She growled.

"Oh,-it-is." He stated.

"Well...?" she asked.

"Jean's-pregnant-with-triplets-and-you'll-never-guess-who-the-father-is."

"Who? You?" Wanda wondered, now interested.

"No!" he responded. "Dad."

"What?" She asked.

"It's-true." He replied.

Rolling her eyes, she went back inside and slammed the door.

"Who was that?" Todd wondered.

"Pietro." Wanda replied. "You'll never believe what he had to say either."

"What?" he asked.

"He said Jean was pregnant with triplets by my father." She sighed. "Can you believe that? I mean I know my brother can be slow, but she's more likely to be pregnant by the alligator man than my father, if she's even pregnant at all."

"Yeah, that's crazy, yo."

"Hey, Toad." Blob said, seeing Todd come out of Wanda's room.

"Hey." The greenish boy replied. "Ya got a minute?"

"Why?" Fred wondered.

"I've got a monster of a secret, yo."

"Okay." The larger boy said.

"Jean's pregnant." Todd answered.

"No way," Fred asked.

"It gets better." Toad replied. "She's havin' triplets with the alligator man, you know, the one who's king of the sewers. Apparently, he took her for his queen and she escaped, but not before she got pregnant."

"That's weird." The big guys responded.

"I know."

"Are you sure this really happened?" Fred asked.

"Would I be telling you if I wasn't?" Todd replied.

"I guess not."

"Don't tell anyone. I don't think this was meant to get out."

"Oh, I won't."

"Hey, you kids!" Fred called as Jamie and Rahne came out of TFSC HQ aka Alex's bedroom.

"Um... Us, sir?" Jamie replied.

"Yeah, you gotta listen to a secret 'cause I don't got no one to tell." Blob responded.

Rahne and Jamie wandered over to him.

"Okay, go ahead." Rahne said.

"Okay, lemme think."

After a minute, he remember and started his tale.

"Jean's pregnant."

"What?" Jamie and Rahne exclaimed.

"I know, I know." He replied. "Listen to this. Jean is pregnant by the crocodile man who is king of the sewers. They're gonna have a whole bunch of kids."

"That sounds a little outlandish if ye ask me." Rahne stated.

"Are you calling me a liar!" Fred yelled, getting red in the face in anger.

"Never." Rahne replied quickly.

"Okay, good." The large boy wandered away.

Later, Jamie and Rahne were sitting in the living room with Warren and Betsy when Jean and Scott walked by the room, laughing. Once the two had passed, Jamie turned to the others.

"They seem to be really be taking it well." The younger boy stated.

"Taking what well?" Betsy wondered.

"Haven't you heard?" Jamie asked. "Jean's pregnant. Apparently, the Crocodile Hunter rules the sewers and had some of his rat subjects take her prisoner and now she's having a whole bunch of kids by him."

"What? Really?" Warren responded.

"A entire litter of half-Aussies." Rahne elaborated.

"That's crazy." Angel replied.

"I thought so, too, but a bunch of people know already." The Scottish girl said. "I'm told that Jean told Rogue directly even."

"Strange people." Betsy stated.

"So, got any news?" Evan asked as he sat next to Warren at dinner.

"Not really." The blonde answered. "The newest thing I've heard was that thing about Jean being pregnant."

"What do you mean?" Spyke wondered.

"Oh, you know. The king of the sewers, the Crocodile Hunter, and Jean are having a litter of children." Angel said offhandedly

"Well, I don't know about the Crocodile Hunter being king of the sewers. I lived there and the only person who I ever heard claim to be the king was Shifter and I think he was joking." Evan replied. "Maybe that's who she was really pregnant by and he just turned into the Croc Hunter."

"Could be." Warren shrugged, putting some food into his mouth.

"How many is a litter?" Ororo's nephew wondered.

"I don't know. Five, maybe six?"

"Poor girl."

Evan looked nervously at the only other person in the room with him. He was, to be honest, more than a little afraid of the large Russian man. He looked as if he could snap him in two with a glare.

"Um... so... How about those Mets?" the dark boy said.

"I don't watch sports." Piotr replied.

"The weather's nice." Spyke stated.

Colossus looked at him through the corner of his eye and Evan laughed nervously.

"Jean's pregnant!" he blurted out after being watched for long enough.

"What?" Piotr asked.

"Jean's pregnant by Shifter, one of the Morlocks. They're having like five or six children."

"Why would she do a thing like that?" he wondered.

"Well, apparently, he had changed into the Crocodile Hunter and tricked her into thinking he was king of the sewers." Evan explained.

"Strange."

"John?" Piotr called, coming into the Rec room.

"Over here," he replied from behind the couch.

Walking over, he saw that he was curled up with a pop-up book.

"What did you need, Mate?" he wondered.

"Can you answer a cultural problem for me?" he requested. "I think I may be missing a slang term."

"Okay, go ahead." He nodded.

"Is it normal for a girl in America to get pregnant by a man who lives in the sewer pretending to be a television character?" he wondered.

"Whoa, back up." he said. "Tell me the whole story."

"Well, Spyke said that Jean was pregnant with six children by Shifter, a Morlock who tricked her into bearing his children by saying that he was someone called 'the Crocodile Hunter' and that he was king of the sewers." He elaborated. "Now, understand that the Crocodile Hunter is a person on the television, but what does he have to do with the situation?"

"Whoa! I gotta tell someone!" The red head ran out of the room, leaving his friend dumbfounded.

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

"You're joking!"

"Totally not."

"Oh my god!" Kitty gasped. She could not believe what Pyro was telling her. "Why didn't Jean tell me the whole story?"

John shrugged.

"Maybe she don't trust you, sheila."

"Uh!" She looked offended. "And after all that effort I put into keeping that secret, too! I'm going to talk to her right now."

Kitty got up and left. She went into the living room where she knew Scott and Jean to be sitting.

"Jean!" Kitty asked angrily.

"Hey, Kitty." The older girl replied.

"Don't you act all nice and friendly now!" Shadowcat said. "Why didn't you trust me with the whole story?"

"What whole story?" Scott wondered.

"Don't you know? Apparently Jean is the queen of the Morlocks and she's having six children by Shifter." She stated as if it were obvious.

Jean spit out the milk she was drinking.

"What!" the redhead exclaimed. "I am not!"

"Jean, I think we have some major damage control to do..." Scott stated, understanding what had happened.

Next time on Of Second Shots and Summer Plots:

"What happened to all of my sleeves!"

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