Disclaimer: I don't own any of these, just chill, I'm playing, promise. This is in a different reality, where Jean and Scott actually marry and don't get a proper honeymoon.
ANNNND I dunna own the song neither – that is borrowed, well the lyrics… you know what I mean :-)
A/N: I'm working as hard as I can, trying to make each chapter as good as the last one (if indeed the last ones were good), and quick so no-one gets too boreeeed ;-) Anyways, I hope you like, and you're not too bored yet.
Play fights, long talks and romantic thoughts were booming at the mansion. If an outsider looked in they may suspect some kind of mind-controlling agent, or a chemically/mentally induced hormone overdrive. Neither of these were true, but to one looking in, it might.
Luckily for the mansion, it was a Saturday and no-one had to teach or be taught, so tension was at it's usual week-end low. Some of the more riotous members of class were joking with the quiet ones, and the usual 'bullies' were helping their usual 'victims' in whatever endeavour they were attempting, or even asking for help. Still, two students couldn't help themselves.
Sulking at one end of the sofa in the living room, was Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde. She talked to no-one, except to snap if they disturbed her silent and boiling anger. At the other sat Sam Guthrie, also fuming, but interacting with the others more easily, and throwing his rival dirty looks.
Jubilee threw herself down in the middle of her warring friends. She sighed loudly and pointedly, looking first at one then the other, then staring at the wall opposite them. Folding her arms, Jubilee cocked her head and smiled.
"I guess if you two are arguin' then I should stay quiet, right?"
"YES!" Snapped the pair simultaneously , and almost caught each others eye in amusement, then both looked the opposite way again hurriedly.
"Then I guesssss…." Jubilee grinned, "that neither of you would laugh at this joke."
"NO!" They yelled, again at the exact same moment. Kitty hiccupped back a laugh, and Sam choked his back with a fake cough.
Jubilation Lee, firecracker of the mansion, smirked to herself, her plan totally kicked that Icicle's butt.
"So I gueeeeeeeeeessssss, you wouldn't want to know where the fearless leader and Mrs fearless leader are?"
Sam and Kitty looked up and caught each other's eyes quickly, before pinning the yellow clad girl to the sofa and grinning identically.
"You wouldn't hold out would ya Jubes?" Kitty laughed, and Sam nodded.
"Yeah, Kitty's right, we're your friends Jube, so c'mon, spill."
Jubilee positively burst with the laughter that bubbled up inside her. That laugh being as infectious as it was forced the other two to join in, sliding to the floor and to the sofa next to their mad friend. Kitty punched her arm and smiled, stopping laughing long enough to get some words out.
"You planned that you annoying witch!"
Laughing even harder, the dark haired firecracker nodded. "Your faces though when you were sulking! You should've seen you!"
Sam and Kitty laughed with renewed fervour and all three were still in fits when the coolest guy in the mansion joined them, literally. His icy blue eyes lit up seeing his friends so helpless, especially his long-time girlfriend Jubilation Lee.
"Hey you been attackin' her or what?" Robert Drake grinned.
Kitty shook her head, while Sam answered. "No, she forced us to laugh and become friends again, so she deserves it really Bobby."
"Oh really?" Roberts' eyebrows raised and his grin grew even wider. "Then she deserves some reprimand."
Jubilee was now just about stopping and was in smaller fits of giggles. Her two friends looked from her to Bobby and began to smile again. Bobby was one of the only ones that could cool and calm the madness that was Jubilation.
He reached across speedily and picked her up, putting her over one shoulder and running from the room, with her beating his back lightly and screaming playfully for him to put her down. Cannonball and Shadowcat shrugged and ran after the couple, interested in what Iceman would do.
They caught up as Bobby stood face forward to the pool. He grunted neanderthalically, "Me man, protect woh-man, treat right, teach behave."
Jubilee yelled as he dropped her in the deep end and he laughed bending over the edge to check her progress. His following friends shrieked with laughter, and doubled over as they saw a hand grip his hand, pulling him into the water with his girlfriend.
All four cracked up and the two drenched ones didn't have to pull the dry ones in, as they took a running jump.
Ororo heard the yells and screams as she walked past the patio windows. She smiled at her young students and friends. Walking around the mansion on a day like today was very honest, and showed her that their work as X-Men and teachers was not in vain. All the children were being children, having fun and messing around, as children beyond the estate were.
She used her control over the elements to clear the clouds in such a way it would not affect the weather elsewhere too greatly, and created a gentle cool breeze, so that the children would have a more pleasant day than they were already.
Then she used a wind to carry her out of the doors and into the grounds where her garden lay. Sighing with happiness, the white-haired beauty sat gracefully down on the grass, her pale blue, 'floaty' dress flared out around her. She shook her hair down from the bun she had secured it in this morning and ran her fingers through her tresses, before allowing it to fall on her shoulders.
"Beautiful day Miss Monroe, isn't it?"
Ororo turned her head and smiled graciously. "It is indeed Tessa, please, call me Ororo."
Tessa smiled back at her new friend and sat down beside her, in a pair of small black denim shorts and an ocean-blue halter neck that brought out her blue eyes. Sighing deeply she looked around the glorious garden.
"You have worked so hard on this sanctuary, it's wonderful, Ororo."
The wind rider threw her head back and laughed, "That it is my dear, that it is."
Smiling again, this time at the African-American's humour, Tessa struck up a conversation about Hank, and all began to spill out, how she felt for the man and why she was afraid. The telepath spoke earnestly and all her words came from the heart. Nodding her head, Ororo agreed something must be done to alert a certain Doctor McCoy, then it was her turn.
"Do you, have you, ever felt such a way about a man Ororo?"
Storm, Ororo, turned her head slightly and smiled to herself. "Twice too many, to the wrong men, but do I now? It is hard for me to say, I believe so Tessa, I do believe so."
" 'Twice too many' Ororo? Come, explain to me." Tessa urged, and her friend, long time X-Man told Tessa Niles of Arkon and Forge, the two loves of her life, until now…
"And you believe so too? May I know who you 'may be' in love with, my tactful friend?"
Ororo laughed again as did Tessa, then when finally stopping in their shared moment, Ororo uttered the name of the man she was falling in love with. Tessa's eyes widened and she leant back in shock. Leaning forward she checked she had heard correctly, causing a blush to come to the face of her friend, and a nod to follow.
Remy saw the pair and tutted to himself, two beautiful women, and both without a beau. He almost felt ashamed, until he heard the sound of music from the private music room, one especially for the staff. Following the strummed chords, he heard a voice rise up and join them harmoniously. He froze and looked at the person sat gently gripping a guitar, singing with her eyes shut lightly and smiling as the words came from her lips.
#You've got a way with me
Somehow you got me to believe
In everything that I could be
I've gotta say – you really got a way
You've got a way it seems
You gave my faith to find my dreams
You'll never know just what that means
Can't you see… you got a way with me
It's in the way you want me
It's in the way you hold me
The way you show me just what love's made of
It's in the way we make love#
The singer's eyes stayed shut, but her eyelids flickered, and tears began to slide from beneath them.
#You've got a way with words
You get me smiling even when it hurts
There's no way to measure what your love is worth
I can't believe the way you get through to me#
As she sang the chorus again, her voice cracked slightly on the last line again, the tears carrying on their course down her porcelain cheeks.
#Oh, how I adore you
Like no one before you
I love you just the way you are
It's in the way you want me
It's in the way you hold me
The way you show me just what love's made of
It's in the way we make love#
Her voice wavered and the last line came out richly, and full of held back emotion.
#It's just the way you are……….#
Strumming the final chords, her eyes remained closed and her head dropped down so her chin touched her chest lightly, and she took deep breaths to calm her raging emotions.
Remy had never seen her like this, never had he heard her sing, let alone with so much raw emotion and sincerity. He silently strode across to her and placed a half-gloved hand beneath her chin.
"Remy… you hear meh?"
"Chere… Remy heard it all, and he loves you wid all his heart, you beat me at de ding I'm best at, and I have to admit it, mon petite."
Without waiting for her response, Remy LeBeau met her lips with his own and kissed her deeply. Rogue pulled back hurriedly and stared at him, Remy himself was staring back.
"Remy, did ya just…"
"Oui…"
"An' there was no…"
"Oui…"
Rogue's eyes lit up and a smile lit her tear-streaked face. "Remy, ah love you too."
She kissed him this time and placed her hands lightly on his neck, he slid his arms around her waist and smiled as their second kiss deepened, without her powers activating… He'd managed it, to create a field of kinetic energy that cancelled out her powers. So they could be truly together, no hold backs.
The elated pair gazed into the others eyes as they broke their kiss. This was permanent, they both decided without saying a word. They were together, forever.
Hank would have been seriously impressed by the achievements of both mutant colleagues and friends, if he had known, but at that time he was trying to persuade Logan that what he and Ororo had put in place should not be tampered with.
"Listen Hank, I gotta train, or else I get a lil aggressive" There was a 'snikt' sound to emphasise his point, but Beast did not look impressed or phased by Logan at all.
"Wolerine! Logan… They need time off, we all do, and after the events that we suffered soon after their wedding, they deserve it. And not but's!" Hank interjected as the shorter man opened his mouth. "You were there, you saw the disaster and you saw how well they hid their loss of a honeymoon. This is one of the best things we can give and I intend it to remain untouched!"
Logan looked at the blue furred mutant with respect. "Okay bub, but soon as they're out, ya give me a call."
Hank nodded satisfied and went back to his task of appearing to fix his experiment notes into the correct order, whilst actually replaying the previous nights events in his own mind about Sage and himself.
Back upstairs Bobby was bracing himself as he watched his girlfriend's back slowly turn back to him. He smiled and felt his throat go dry as he pulled Jubilee down into a seat with him on the terrace near the pool.
"Bobby spill."
"What?" He looked up startled and saw Jubilee smiling at him reassuringly.
"I can tell you have something to tell me, as you're making the whole area go cold."
Bobby grinned apologetically and allowed the air to heat up again, he took one of her hands in his and looked at her fingertips. "I've got a vacation booked, to Europe."
Jubilee looked at him sharply. "You're leaving me here? For how long?"
"A week, but I don't want to leave you."
She looked at him confused and shook her head. "What d' you mean Popsicle?
He cleared his throat and met her eyes, his own shining with anticipation. "Come with me, I know it's just a week, but I want you with me, I couldn't leave you behind."
Jubilee stared at him before squealing and throwing herself on his, her arms around his neck tightly. "Yes! Yes! Of course I'd say yes! Oh Bobby!"
He grinned as her hyper girlfriend nearly choked him and hugged her back as tightly. Things were going according to plan so far…
The only ones immune to the excitement of the weekend running through the mansion were in their own honeymoon paradise. They were at this moment drying out from their hours of water fighting. Exhausted, all they could do was hold each other close and talk quietly through their link.
You know the Professor wanted us to get away for a while?
Uh huh… Jean answered sleepily.
I don't think he had this in mind
Jean chuckled through the link and physically. No, I don't think so, but it is wonderful. We should thank whoever did this for us, my love.
I agree, no six am starts for two weeks for that or those person or people.
That remark made Jean smile and push him gently away, before pulling Scott's body close to her again.
That's awfully nice Mr fearless leader, what about your wife, hmm? Does she get to stay in bed too?
Scott smirked at Jean's obvious hatred for early mornings and kissed the top of her head. Nope, because I happen to adore her in her tight costume when she doesn't notice the wide awake me helping her with the exercises that show off her body to it's full potential.
That earned him a small shock and Jean biting his lower lip as he kissed her fully on the mouth.
I'm having coffee before any six am training session.
Both lovers laughed and kissed again, somehow finding the energy to make love from nowhere.
A tremble shook the mansion above them, but they didn't notice. Nor did they hear the human Juggernaut bawling for Charles Xavier and his X-Men.
Getting more serious… What will happen to the still fragile couples and the honeymooners?
More chapters are planned of the ensuing events, so if ya'll still like it, please let me know, by reviewing!
Thank you soooooooooo much people!
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