Disclaimer: Don't own the X-men. I don't own The Hulk.
Last Time:
"Ah love ya Rem," said Rogue.
Remy smiled and kissed her on the forehead. "I love y' too," he said and they both fell asleep.
(-strawberrie-)
"I love you too Piotr," she said when they broke. "And no sex craving, woman-napping psycho is going to change that."
Piotr grinned. "Especially since that sex craving, woman-napping psycho can't do this…" he said.
(-strawberrie-)
"I know," said Wanda. "But nothing will. If for some reason, I can't use my powers I have you. I'll always have you."
"Damn straight," said John and they both fell asleep.
Chapter 32- John's Surprise
Rogue woke up early, at around six in the morning. Someone was ringing the doorbell, and due to Logan's super hearing (which she had turned on because of Travis' kidnapping) she heard it and woke up.
She slipped out of Remy's hold, put on a robe and started to go to downstairs.
"Rogue?" asked a still half-asleep Remy.
"Someone's ringin' tha doorbell," said Rogue. "Ah'm goin' ta get it."
"Hold on, lemme come wit' y'," said Remy. He didn't bother with a robe, knowing if something happened it would slow him down.
They walked together to the door and looked through the peephole to find a tired and annoyed looking deliveryman.
"Again?" asked Remy dubiously. "Didn't y' get enough?"
"It's not mahne," said Rogue. She opened the door.
"May ah help ya?" she asked.
"Yeah, is Mrs. Wanda Allerdyce here?" asked the delivery guy.
"Isn't it a little early ta be deliverin' stuff?" Rogue asked as she took the paper and signed for Wanda.
The deliveryman shrugged. "If I don't go when they send me I lose my job," he said. "What was I to do?"
Rogue handed him the paper. He folded it, pocketed it and then turned to the side to pick up a 2 x 2 x 2 (2 feet wide, 2 feet long, 2 feet deep) sized cardboard box. Remy stepped forward and took the box from him.
"Have a nice day," said the deliveryman.
"Yeah, ya too," said Rogue. She closed the door and walked with Remy to the kitchen where Remy put the box on the table.
Rogue took one look at what was on the return address (P.T. and Co) and smiled.
"Let's put this away, then ah gotta tell Wanda this is heah," she said.
(-strawberrie-)
"Wanda," Rogue half whispered after she and Remy had put the package away. Remy had gone back to sleep, but Rogue decided to tell Wanda that her package was here.
"What the hell, Rogue," said Wanda. "It's 6:45 AM! Go back to sleep, leave me alone."
"Yahre package from P.T. came in today," said Rogue.
Wanda sat straight up in bed. "Are you serious?" she asked.
"Who the hell is P.T.?" asked a sleepy John. "And it better not be a guy."
"Don't worry, P.T. isn't a guy," said Wanda. "I'm going to go check out the package, see if it's the right one. Where'd you put it?"
"Study," said Rogue. Wanda got up, grabbed a robe and walked downstairs to the study.
John made a move as if to follow her when Rogue stopped him.
"Don't follow her," she said. "You'll ruin the surprise." She turned and went back to her room.
John raised a single eyebrow, shrugged and decided to go back to sleep.
(-strawberrie-)
John walked into the house alone, later that day. When he had gotten up, he found out that Remy and Piotr were supposed to keep him busy for a few hours, so the three of them went out and drove for a good three hours. Finally, the girls called, saying they could come back again. When they got back, Kitty and Piotr took the RAV4 and went out, while Remy and Rogue took Remy's motorcycle and did the same.
"Go to the closet thing in the storage room," said Kitty as she passed him. "She's waiting there for you."
John walked over towards the storage room. He went in, and then walked over to the closet, which was big for an actual closet. It was around the size of a queen-sized bed. He opened the door and walked in, but saw nothing but darkness.
All of a sudden someone clapped, the lights came on and Wanda stood in the middle of the rainbow colored room wearing a strapless fire bikini.
"Hey John," said Wanda.
(-strawberrie-)
John stood there, staring at her. He took in the bikini, and then inch by inch of the glorious skin that she was showing. It's not like he had never seen so much skin before, because he had seen more. But somehow, the fire bikini made it look so much better.
"If you keep staring at me you'll miss the best part," said Wanda.
John grinned lewdly. "As far as I'm concerned you are the best part," he said. He walked over to her and took her in his arms.
"Hey Wanda," he said, drawing her name out a bit. "What's up?"
"Take a look," said Wanda, motioning to the rainbow colored room.
"Why is the room rainbow…" said John. He looked closely at the walls. "Are those lighters? …On the walls?" He turned to look at Wanda quizzically.
Wanda smiled. "Yeah," she said. "Rogue, Kitty and I used that glue that they use on papers to put them on the wall so that they stick, but harm neither the wall nor the lighters." (1)
John went up to one of the lighters, a light blue one, picked it off the wall and looked at the front where it said, "John," in silver cursive letters. Curiously he turned to the back and nearly dropped it.
On the back was a picture of a nude Wanda in a very interesting sexual pose.
Stunned, he stared at the picture, then looked up at Wanda who was grinning.
"Surprise," she said. "Like it?"
"Love it," said John. "You were right. This is better than Remy's or Piotr's surprises." (2)
Wanda laughed.
"Do they all have this picture?" asked John.
Wanda shrugged innocently. John looked at her, eyebrow raised.
"Why don't you find out?" asked Wanda. She went over to the corner of the room where the box that held the lighters was.
John raised his eyebrow again and picked another lighter off the wall. This one also had "John" written on the front in silver. John turned it and a different picture of Wanda was on it.
John handed Wanda the two lighters he had and she put them back in the box, in a little indent that it came in.
For the next forty-five mintues John took down all the lighters on the walls. He viewed the lighters with "John" on them and the others with "Pryo" on them, making sure to always check the pictures of Wanda. None of the pictures were the same.
Wanda watched his pants with interest as they began to get tighter and tighter as his erection grew.
John looked at Wanda after he finished viewing the last picture. Instead of giving Wanda the lighter he pocketed it.
"How'd you do this?" asked John. "Where'd you get these from?"
"I found this place online where you can order personalized items. It's called Personalized Treasures. P.T. They have everything from toasters, to luggage, to toothbrushes. I took the pictures, sent them to the store and they personalized the lighters for me and they got shipped this morning. That's why it took so long for me to do your surprise," said Wanda.
"Wanna try some of those poses now?" asked John.
Wanda grinned. "What do you think?" she asked. John grinned too, picked her up bridal style, and took her over to the couch in the mini living room.
(-strawberrie-)
They woke up just after the sun had set. The both of them put on their clothes and went out to the beach where Remy, Rogue, Piotr and Kitty had set up a huge bonfire, at Wanda's request earlier. They had also put a blanket and extra logs near the fire.
John and Wanda went over to the blanket and sat down. John pulled Wanda into his lap and he wrapped his arms around her as they gazed at the crescent moon that was surrounded by the stars.
"You know, when I was younger, about the time I had just hit puberty, I'd look outside at night and gaze into the stars," said John without looking away from the stars. "And I'd always wish that I would get a girl that was as beautiful as the stars."
"I was always the weird one when I was younger," he continued. "Most of my teenage years all the girls thought I was insane, and would go after the guys that were like Remy or Pietro. So I'd always wish I could get someone more beautiful than any of the girls they got."
"Now, I have someone more beautiful than not only the girls in my school, but the stars themselves," John said. He looked down at Wanda. "And she's sitting in my arms."
"Aw," said Wanda. She kissed him deeply.
"I never thought I'd be so happy with a guy," said Wanda. Now it was her turn to look at the stars. "I mean, my past is like a blank space, but from the time I remember I've never let a guy get close. I just knew that guys would break my heart, that they would lie and manipulate me," She looked at John. "And then you came along."
"All this time of imagining who I thought the perfect guy for me would be gone out the window," said Wanda. "I never thought I'd fall this hard for an insane pyromaniac. I love you so much." Wanda started to cry.
"Hey, hey, hey," said John. "What's with the tears?" He started to wipe them away with two fingers. "What's wrong?"
Wanda shook her head and looked down the shoreline. "It's just that… I was thinking, what if David actually did do something? What if he kidnapped me and kept me for life and I never saw you again?"
John half smiled. "Didn't you talk to me about this?" he asked. "It didn't happen. It won't ever happen. Nothing, no one, is keeping me from you." He lifted her chin with his fingers so that she looked in his eyes. "Understand?" Wanda nodded.
"If I have to search the whole world by foot then I would do it, believe me," said John. "I love you and I'm not ever letting you go. So stop thinking like that."
They sat there, lost in their own thoughts, but clinging to each other, until a voice interrupted them, and caused them to fall back to earth.
"What the fuck are you doing?" asked a voice.
The two of them looked up and saw David standing in front of them.
"That fire is keeping me awake! It's so freaking huge, it's lighting up the place for miles!" continued David. "And I'm pretty sure it's illegal! I mean, you don't have any safety or anything! What if that fire starts to spread? Then what would you do? Do your mutant powers stop that from happening?"
Wanda clung onto John tightly, not because she was scared of David, but because she knew John was mad enough at him to maim physically and she didn't want John to fight him.
"Get out of here," said John. He wanted to get up and punch David's brains out, but Wanda was holding onto him too tightly and it would take time for her to let go.
David glared at him. "Don't you even talk," he said. "I should have you arrested! You ruined our house! You, the redneck and the Hulk." (3)
"I didn't do anything to your house," said John.
"LIES!" screamed David. "You are fucking lying you crazy-" SLAP. Wanda had slapped him in the middle of his sentence.
"Go away from here," she said. "Go away now, before I call the cops."
"You can't do that!" screamed David. "It's a free beach!"
"Exactly, so you can't come here and demand we take our fire out," said Wanda. "Light too bright? Put a pillow over your head. When are you and your pansy friends going to just leave us alone?"
"Imma get you bitch," said David. "Imma get you." As he turned to go back to his house John ran over to him and punched him square in the jaw.
"Don't you ever talk to her like that," said John. "Have some respect."
(-strawberrie-)
As David walked away John inconspicuously lit a small flame on the bottom hem of David's shirt. As David walked back to his house the flame grew along the seam until he finally noticed it when he was by his house. He screamed and ran into the freezing ocean to Wanda and John's amusement.
After David had gone back into his house dripping wet, Wanda and John laid down on the blankets side by side staring at the stars and trying to make connect the dot pictures. All of a sudden Wanda sat up.
"Let's go skinny dipping," she said.
John looked at her amusedly. "The water's freezing," he said.
"If we go skinny dipping you get a free strip show by yours truly," said Wanda.
John grinned. "How about the strip show and no skinny dipping?" he asked.
Wanda pouted. "Come on, it'll be fun," she said. "And if we get too cold we can always come back here and sit by the fire and warm up again." John looked skeptical so she gave him her best puppy dog look.
"Please?" she asked in a small voice.
"Fine," said John.
Wanda grinned, stood up and proceeded to lift her shirt to a sensual rhythm that was in her head, revealing the fire bikini.
"I thought we were going skinny dipping, not swimming," said John.
"We are," said Wanda. She proceeded to taking off her pants and the rest of her garments very slowly, moving away when John tried to reach over and speed up the process.
Finally she was completely nude. She ran into the freezing water and dived headfirst. When she submerged she looked to John at the shore.
"Come in, water's fine," she screamed.
John shook his head. "The things I do for love," he said, took off his clothes, and joined her.
(-strawberrie-)
They finally came back when Wanda's teeth started to chatter.
John shook his head at her. "Come on," he said. They went back to the blanket and put their clothes on. Then he led her over to the fire and then got a bit of it and made it bigger. He then turned it into a column, which he placed around the two of them, and they quickly became warm.
"Thanks," said Wanda.
"No problem," John replied.
They laid back on the blanket, wrapped up in each other's arms until they finally fell asleep under the stars.
(-no more strawberries-)
Awww. Yeah, that chapter was…deep. There were a lot of very serious moments in there. I wanted a change, I didn't want to do what I would normally do…if that makes sense. That whole part where they're talking under the stars makes me happy because I kind of realize there are times when people are all like "Confession time" that isn't when they're making up. Anyway, it's late, and I have a church thing early tomorrow morning. Later.
Clarifications/Comments:
(1) I don't know what this is called, but it's kind of like a rubbery glue that people use like when they're mailing things, and they want the papers to stick together, but don't want the papers messed up.
(2) This is a reference to chapter 8, when John asks, "what surprise" and Wanda goes, "not as good as the one you'll get if you help"
(3) Talking about Remy and Piotr, (yeah you know that) even though Piotr's not green, I choose him because he's big, you know? And Piotr's pretty big.