I am so sorry this chapter took so long to update and it is short, I promise the next chapter will be better and have some romance in it.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in here, I've tried to buy them with the few pennies I have, but they laughed at me. So until then I own nothing.
The six mutants walked down the streets of Paris admiring the view of the city. They got some stares from people that looked at their uniforms. "Maybe we should stop and get some different clothes?" Bobby suggested as a man and a woman stared at them as they passed them on the street.
"Ah'm glad Ah brought mah jacket." Rogue said as she held her wrist close to her. It had been throbbing for a hour now, but at least the pain wasn't as bad as before. She wore a green jacket over her uniform. The only other person who had brought a jacket from the jet was Logan, who wore a yellow one.
"We can do that after we find a hotel to stay at." Scott told the two younger mutants that walked behind him.
"I swear if we get one more funny look, someone is gonna pay." Logan growled quietly as he glared at a man, who was starring at Ororo's white hair. He turned back and ran into a man. "Watch it, bub." Logan growled at the stranger.
The stranger smirked at Logan and raised his hands in front of him. "Sorry, mon ami. Entirely my fault." The stranger said as he stepped to the side and continued walking on his way.
Logan glared at the stranger, who was wearing a long brown duster and wore sunglasses. 'Weirdo, who the hell wears sunglasses at night?' Logan thought to himself. He was not in a good mood. He had wanted to just go on the mission, go home and smoke a nice cigar, maybe even later go to a bar for a few drinks. That was canceled now.
"Could we go ta a doctor before we go ta a hotel?" Rogue asked Scott. She wanted to get her wrist looked at and maybe they could give her something for it.
"We will, but I think we should find a place to stay. After that then we can do what needs to be done." Scott told Rogue as he looked over a Jean. He had been able to wipe away from of the blood from the cut on her forehead, but the blood came back and now was crusted up. 'I should of gotten out of that area or landed the plane.' He started to kick himself mentally.
"There's a hotel." Ororo pointed out to a large brown building across the street from them. "There is one problem though." Ororo pointed out.
"What's that, darlin?" Logan asked her as he looked over at her.
"Did anyone bring their credit card or cash?" Jean answered for Ororo. She hadn't thought about it before when they were leaving, but now it hit her.
"I don't have mine with." Scott grumbled. "I'll find a pay phone and call the Professor. Maybe he can send some money." Scott suggested as he began looking around for a pay phone booth.
"Relax Cyke, I remembered to bring mine." Logan said as he reached into his coat pocket and felt nothing. "What the hell?" Logan growled as went to his other pocket. "My wallet's gone."
"Maybe you left it on the jet?" Bobby suggested and got a dirty look from Logan.
"No, I had it with me. I even made sure I had it before I left." Logan growled. 'I know I didn't drop it. . .unless.' He began to think to himself. "That punk stole from em." Logan realized.
"Are ya sure ya didn't just drop it?" Rogue asked him.
"No, he did. I knew he smelled like trouble. I swear when I find that punk, I'm gonna-" He began to say when Scott cut him off.
"I found a payphone, I'll go contact the Professor." Scott told the rest of the group as he walked across the street once the street was clear of cars.
"So what do we do until then?" Bobby asked as he asked the others, who huddled themselves close to a side wall of a store.
"Just wait until Scott talks to the Professor." Jean answered the young man as she looked over across the street.
"I did bring my cellphone with me, but the battery died on the way here." Bobby told the group as he pulled out the silver and blue flip phone. He pressed the on button and the phone lit up for one second before it made a beeping noise and shut off.
"Maybeh at the hotel they got a charger ya could use." Rogue suggested to him. Bobby smiled at her and nodded. 'Let meh guess, ya are waitin for Kitty ta call ya aren't ya?' Rogue thought to herself.
She had seen the two getting a little too close. She first thought they had been friends, but that was until she found lipstick on his neck and when she asked him, he stated he didn't know how it got there. Since then she had been watching the two of them carefully.
Scott didn't have any change with him, so he dialed a number that could charge the Professor for the phone call. He dialed the X-mansion's number and listened to the rings. Finally someone picked up the phone.
"Guten Tag, zis is Kurt Vagner speaking. Thank you for calling Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, how may I help you?" Kurt's voice came from the other line.
"Kurt, this is Scott, I need to talk to the Professor immediately." Scott told the other man. Someone had to stay home and help the Professor keep watch over the kids and the mansion while the others had gone out.
"I vill get him now." Kurt said to Scott as he went to go get the Professor and alert him that Scott was on the phone.
Scott waited by the payphone and looked along the street to his left. He saw the hotel only a short distance away. 'It doesn't look like it is that rundown.' He thought to himself. The last thing he wanted to do was have his team stay in a dump after the jet had crashed. They would be better off staying in the jet if that was the case.
"Hello, Scott?" The Professor's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Hello, Professor, we kind of had a accident and the jet crashed in Paris, France. Everyone is alive. The jet is in a middle of a field covered by trees, so no one can see it. But we don't have any money for a place to stay or items we will be needing to get back." Scott told the Professor.
The Professor sighed before speaking into the phone. "Well I am glad you are all safe. I can send you a number that will give you money from a pay machine. I trust you will be responsible with it?" Charles Xavier asked him; although, he didn't really need to. He knew Scott was responsible enough. He began to read Scott the number to his credit card and told him not to let it get in the hands of a stranger.
"Of course Professor, thank you. But what about getting home?" Scott asked him.
"I will book you the first flight out of there. Were you able to come in contact with Magneto and the mutant?" Charles asked him.
"Well we found Magneto's lackeys. They were the ones that shot us down and as for the mutant we were never able to look." Scott told the Professor. Then it just accrued to him. 'Why would Mystique be all the way out here? Something isn't right.' He thought to himself.
"Very well, I shall try my best to find out what he is up to. Call back here at around the same time. I will tell you what I know and give you the date and time when your flight will be leaving. Take care Scott." Charles told him as he hung up the phone.
Scott hung up the phone and walked back to where the others were standing. "So did ya contact Chuck?" Logan asked him as he leaned against the wall.
"Yeah, he gave me a number so we can get a hotel." Scott answered to him. "Why don't you guys wait inside, I'll go find a place to get the cash." He told them as he began walking down the street.
"So what are we waiting around here for, let's go." Bobby said as they started walking towards the hotel.
A Hour Later
Bobby and Rogue headed out to find a hospital that would look over Rogue's wrist. They had left about ten minutes ago leaving the adult's by themselves in the hotel. They had rented two rooms, one for the men and one for the women.
"Maybe you should of gone with Rogue and Bobby." Scott commented to Jean as he brushed back a strand of red hair and examined the cut on her forehead.
"It's alright. It just needs to be cleaned up." Jean told him with a smile and headed for the bathroom.
Scott watched her walk into the bathroom and close the door behind her. He sighed and sat down on the bed. He didn't know why he was having such a hard time connecting with Jean. When he found out she was alive, he felt like a part of him returned, but it seemed like they had lost something while she was gone. They both had a hard time connecting with one another.
'Hopefully things will change for the better.' Scott thought to himself as he looked at the bathroom door.
In the room beside them where the men would be sleeping, Logan stood by the window looking outside. "I should of gone with them. It's late at night and someone could attack them." Logan said to himself as he looked outside.
"I asked them if they would like me to come with, but they both said they were responsible and wouldn't have a problem." Ororo told him as she sat on the bed. "You still think of Rogue as your daughter, don't you?" She smiled at Logan.
"So what if I do?" Logan asked getting defensive.
"I think it is nice for the both of you to have that connection." Ororo told him. "I think there is nothing wrong with it at all." She said to him as she got up off the bed.
"Well it's nice to know I have someone I can at least protect." Logan muttered under his breath.
"What do you mean?" Ororo asked him as she placed a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and faced her. Blue eyes met blue eyes.
"Like you don't know I had feeling for Jean." Logan started to say. "When she came back she ended up with one eye next door. She was happy to see me, but more happier to see him." Logan explained as he leaned against the window.
"I am sorry Logan. I have known the two of them for a long time and I kind of had a feeling she would come back to him." Ororo told him as he turned away. "There is nothing wrong with how you felt about her. You cared about her and wanted to protect her-"
"Or in other words, Cyke won, I lost. They always come home to the good guy, yeah I know." Logan muttered.
"You think you're a bad guy?" Storm asked as she raised a eyebrow at him.
"Why else would she choose him." Logan said as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"You are not a bad man Logan." Ororo told him as she moved closer. He was about to open his mouth when she placed a finger over it. "You care about Rogue's well being, you tried your best to protect the mansion when it was under attack, and there are many more things to the list, my friend. You are a very honorable and honest man." Storm told him as she removed her finger from his lips.
Logan started to move closer to her, starring straight into her eyes. She stared back at him and moved her head closer to his. He wrapped his strong arms around her back and brought her even closer and captured her lips in a passionate kiss.
End of Chapter 2
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