JUBILEE AND JUBILATION

PART SEVEN

THE MASKS WE WEAR

"Well Jubilee and Jubilation, it your turn." Frosty began. " To stat with I will need to speak to Jubilation."

"Why?" She just glared at me in the do what I tell you with out being too much of a pain in the ass or I will make your life a living hell look. A look resevered just for me. Aren't I lucky? ""Fine. I'll ask her to come out. But don't blame me if she says no. Or nukes your ass or something like that. It's not like I have any control over her or anything. If anything the exact opposite is true."

'Jubilation, will you please talk to them? I mean you'll have to some time, why not now? And you know they'll just bug us till you do.' I thought at Jubilation.

"Fine. I'm surprised it took so long for someone to want to speak to me. I can tell their curious." She thought back. And then Jubilation was in control.

"Hello Emma, I'm Jubilation." She blinked. In fact everyone in the room did as they came to the realization that it was Jubilation, some one they've never met before, except Jean, but she was blinking to, was sharing the room with them and not me. Frosty collected her self from the fact that her student was now a different person, one she had never met before, so she must be dealt with carefully if she was to remain in control. I laughed at that. She couldn't control me. She had no chance against Jubilation.

"Jubilation I have some tough questions for you, and I want you to answer them honestly. Why did you create the Jubilee side of your personality, and when was she created?"

"I guess I'll start at the beginning. When I first met Logan," Wolvie startled to hear Logan come from my lips and not Wolvie or some other nick name. "I was just Jubilation. I had just put on my customary Jubilee mask that I wore when meeting people. Everyone I had ever met had liked the mask, not the girl behind it, so why wouldn't this guy? I mean, I thought he was going to die, I figured a friendly person should be the last thing he sees. Well as we all know, this was Logan, so he got better and he then introduced me to his friends. I kept up the mask, because I knew they'd hate the real me. Then we got attacked and I ended up going around the orient with Logan, and I knew it was my mask Logan and the others had liked, not the real me. At that point the mask seemed to get a life of it's own, and I was content to settle into the background of our mind, never to return."

"You kept saying 'Logan and the others' with the others almost being an after thought. It was only Logan you didn't want to hate you, wasn't it?" Frosty accused Jubilation.

"You're good. Yes it was mainly for Logan. I fell in love with him and couldn't stand the thought he liked my mask and not me, and then my mask got a life of it's own and fell in love with him too. She was waiting till she was eighteen, maybe even twenty one, before she approaching Logan about her feelings, but she got a little worried when Jean became available, and was going to speed up her plans to approach him about a relationship."

"We'll get back to that later. Now why were you sure that Logan would hate you Jubilation?"

"Because I am not a good person. I watched my parents get murdered, was abused in my foster homes, and then I started to live on the streets. I hurt and killed a lot of people living on the streets, just to be left alone. You see the pimps, they wanted me. I was a young good looking girl. Just what they wanted. Well first I hurt some thugs, them my powers showed up, and I accidentally killed one. The next one was no accident though. After a while, I got fed up with getting attacked and killing underlings, so I went to the head pimp of the area and made an example out of him by using my power to slowly and painfully kill him. It worked. All the other pimps and druggies left me alone after that. I knew Logan Wouldn't want to be with someone like me, so I stayed in the background, letting Jubilee be in control, though I did tell her it was stupid when she bottled up all her power, but she thought that if she had it, she might turn out like me. I told her she wouldn't, but she didn't listen. She wouldn't even listen after I had to come out to save her from Bastion. She didn't listen till after Logan died. So I had to come out to fix that mess too. Unfortunately you now know I exist because of that."

"Jubilation, Jubilee never told anyone about her time with Bastion, but tonight she said a few things that Jean shared with me, will you tell us what happened?"

"Fine, I don't see why not. She only kept quite because she didn't want me brought up. Bastion was a sick fuck. First he tried breaking her with a machine that sent false images into her mind, but she could tell they were fake, because no mater how real they seamed, they couldn't get your guy's personalities just right. Even if everyone else seemed fine, she could spot Logan acting a little off and then she knew it wasn't real. Then came physical torture, and after a few weeks of that not working, he, well he raped her. And after he was done with her he ordered his soldiers to gang-bang her. After the gang-banging, I had to come out. First to comfort Jubilee, and make sure she didn't go crazy or become broken, then I had to get us out of there. Now as I said she suppressed her powers but not mine, she couldn't even if she wanted to, which for some reason she never did. Well after killing all the soldiers in the base, I had a little 'chat' with Bastion. To be blunt about it I tortured him for about a week till he died."

Wolvie was crying, actual tears. I can't remember the last time I saw him cry like that. "Darling," he began. "Jubilation Lee Look At Me." He said with authority in his voice. She turned to look at him in surprise. "Now I heard all this nonsense you've spouted about how we would hate you and how I would hate you. It's just not true. Nothing you've said isn't something I wouldn't have done in you position, hell I have done everything you've done. And you know that. And you say you love me, so that means you don't care what I've done. Well I say I don't care what you've done. If Jubilee asks me out I'd probably say yes. The only thing that could hold me back is the fact, Jubilation, that I don't know the Jubilation part of her because she so full of self loathing that she's hidden from the world for the past four years. I can't date her unless I date both of you! You are as real and as important as Jubilee is, and I for one would like to get to know you better!" he ended shouting.

'He'd say yes if I asked him! Happy Happy Joy Joy! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!' I mentally was shouting as I danced around in my head. I yelled at Jubilation 'Set up the date! And you better come too! Hell I know Wolvie will just love ya! Oh Happy Day!"

"Logan, Jubilee is fully aware when I take over, just like I am fully aware when she is in charge. And at the moment she won't stop dancing around and wants me to set up a date for the three of us, for she's insisting that I show up for some of it. She convinced you'll just love me for some reason. So Logan, how about it? Will you take the two of us out this Saturday?"

"If your coming too, then yes. Where and when?" he shot back.

"I was hoping Emma could help with that?" She said looking slyly at Frosty, who had been stunned into silence during the last few minutes, just as every one had since Wolvie's outburst at Jubilation.

She shook her self and said, "Oh, of course , how could I not help true love on it's way? Seriously though, I will do it. You two are just made for each other. I've been waiting for you, or should I say Jubilee, to ask him out forever. Everyone at this school has and I won the bet. I said you do it before your eighteenth birthday. Oh those little buggers are in for it now." She said laughing evilly.

"May we ask what the bet was? We're both curious. We know it wouldn't be money."

"Sure." She said Puling out her cell phone. "There was one group that had eighteen to twenty one. The wanted a vacation in the Bahamas. A few said after twenty one. They wanted a party on the Riviera. Now Sean and I had before eighteen, and since we win, well both the losing groups have to," she then started to giggle, giggle mind you, uncontrollably. "they have to spend their remaining vacations here, at the school with me and Sean as our house keeping staff!"

I laughed at this and told Jubilation 'Jubilation please tell her she is an Evil EVIL Bitch, and that I absolutely love the idea. It serves those nosey jerks right.'

"Emma."

"Huh, yes?" she said getting her wind back from her giggle fest.

"Jubilee said to tell you, that you're an Evil EVIL Bitch. And that she absolutely loves the idea. It serves those nosey jerks right. And that she can't wait for summer, since we usually have to stay here any way, to watch you utterly humiliate those losers."

"Tell you what, they'll be at your disposal as well as Sean and mine. I mean they were already betting among them selves before I came along. I was going to tell you, but then they suggested this bet with me when I told then it didn't matter since they were all wrong, and you'd ask him before you turned eighteen. I mean, do you really think I'd turn down free help? PLEASE! Oh Please let me break the news to them. I want to see the despair on their faces when they learn their vacations our MINE now. Especially since once you're out of high school next year you've all singed on for the collage courses." She was chortling at that.

"You are a Evil EVIL woman Miss Frost. And we absolutely love you for it. You, Sean and the two of us will have to get together and plan how to make life most difficult for them."

"Yes we will won't we? Ah good time are a'coming." And with that she started dialing.

Jubilation then said. "Maybe coming out isn't so bad. I've never had this much fun."

"Good to hear you say that Jubilation, because I have an exercise for you that I was worried you might not want to do." Doc said.

"Yesss?" she said suspiciously.

"I want you, Jubilation, to spend at least two hours if not more in control of your body daily when around family and friends. Plus I want you to introduce your self to all your family members and good friends."

"But what if they take it badly? What if…"

"Dear you have to get over your fear of rejection, and doing this will help. And I'm pretty sure all the people who you know care about you enough to be supportive about this once they get over the shock. Even the other X-Men will get over their shock sooner or later and want to meet you. They really do care, you were just a little scary in you opening debute."

"Now I want to talk with you and Jubilee with Emma this Sunday at two PM. Jean I'll talk to you at four, and Logan at six. They will be an hour and a half sessions, each and I'll be there in person sound good Emma?"

"Yes that will be fine. I'll se you Sunday. Will you becoming every Sunday and Thursday?"

"So this is going to be the weekly group session day? Yes I'll be there and is my emergency number incase any of you including Emma have something that can not wait. Oh, and call me immediately if one of the X-Men show up. I want to talk to any of them that do. I have to leave now. An appointment that can't schedule day appearances is arriving, bye. Oh! I almost forgot! Jubilation, start your daily two hours tonight with your school mates. Let them get to know you and answer their questions. My appointment is here. Bye."

"Your date will be this Saturday at seven PM. at the Four Seasons. Tomorrow, you and I will go shopping for an appropriate dress."

I perked up in my mental area. Shopping. One of my favorite things. Shopping on Frosty's charge card. Even better.