JUBILEE AND JUBILATION

PART TEN

THE AFTER DINNER SHOW

"Miss Frost? What just happened? Why was Jubilee talking to the Phoenix like that? It was so, creepy. And the Phoenix was so obviously terrified of her. I couldn't hear it's replies, but I know how to read body langue, it was looking at Jubilee the same way a rabbit looks at the wolf when the wolf notices the rabbit. It's a look that says, Please be too full too want to eat me. Why would the Phoenix look at Jubilee like that? And why was Jubilee talking like, whatever she was talking like!"

"Hayseed, I don't think I've ever seen you lose your cool like that. Frosty I think you better tell them the story, before we're mobbed for it. I think I've told it enough for one day."

"And I," Jean said, twisting the knife deeper, "not only just woke up with a headache, but have also told this story multiple times today. It would be so refreshing to hear an outsider's point of view on what happened."

She looked at the two of us with despair. She did not want to be the one to tell this story, or field the questions that came after it. We both looked at her with 'we're too damn tiered, you're on your own' looks in our eyes, she saw the 'talk now or you'll regret it' looks in her students eye's, the 'don't look at me love, I'm curious too' look in Sean's eyes, and finally the 'squirm Emma, squirm' look in Wolvie's eyes. She sighed and bowed her head in defeat. "You two are evil. Pure unadulterated evil." Jean and I laughed and set two chairs up right to sit at the table. Wolvie sat down next to me and put his feet up on the table. He wanted maximum comfort for the after dinner show.

"Well Paige, how to answer all those good questions you have asked? Let us start with why the Phoenix was so scared and work from there, ok. First off Jubilation is quite good at torture, and it seems that that means Jubilee is also. Well Jubilation wanted a Phoenix that listened to Jean, so, she tortured it psychically till it basically broke and would do any thing Jubilation asked, which was obey Jean Grey in every way or I'll be back worse then before. Now as to why she was talking so 'creepy' as you said. Well was showing dominance. When you break a sentient being, you must continually show that you're above it, in every way. You broke it and now it belongs to you. And you can do anything you want to it, because it's yours. And you both know it. So Jubilee, to get it to do what she wanted, was talking to it from her position of dominance. She vocally degraded it. Insulted it with it's pet name. and repeatedly reminded it of why it must obey her, and the consequences of not obeying her. Jean said so earlier, but I don't think she understands the implications of it. I take that back. I know she doesn't understand. She said the Phoenix only obeys her because Jubilation, and now Jubilee, has told it to, right Jean?"

"Yes…" she said puzzled.

Damn this was going to go no where good, I knew what was coming. Not surprising that she understood this, she was not only a dominatrix, but the head torturer of the Hell Fire club when she was a member. Of course she understood braking someone or something. Hell Wolvie also probably figured it out too, when we told him. He has experience from both ends of this.

"Jean I am not surprised you didn't think this one all the way through. I mean it is out of your area of expertise. I just didn't know how to approach you about it, but this is as good a way as any. Jean if the Phoenix only obeys you because of Jubilee, then couldn't the reverse also be true?" Jean surprisingly still looked puzzled. She may be smart but this was so out side her world views that she just couldn't see the obvious answer. Frosty was shocked in to silence too. She was so sure that her subtle hit would be enough that she was dumbfounded.

""Frosty, I'll explain this to her. You are right she does need to know. But you used a ballping hammer. She needs an industrial strength sledgehammer. Jean look at me and stay very calm." She turned to look at me. She was just so confused as to what Frosty and I were trying to tell her that she was getting a little nervous. Well time to bring out the sledgehammer. I just hope she can take it. "Jean, now you realized that the Phoenix is only listening to you because we've told it to right?"

"Yes that I understood immediately, but what are you getting at?"

"Well you didn't follow it to it's natural conclusion. Jean, if we can tell it to obey you, we can tell it not to obey you." She blinked as it slowly started to sink in, but I wasn't taking any chances with her so I hit her with the sledgehammer of truth yet again. "And if we can tell it not to obey you, it will listen. And then it will not listen to you, only to us. What does that mean Jean? It means Jean that it listens first and foremost to us, and you second. What if we told it to do something you didn't want it to, what would happen? It would do it anyway. Jean, I'll let you in on a secret. If you had not agreed to bring Wolvie back Jubilation was just going to order it to do it anyway. And guess what? It would have listened."

"That means, my control over it is just an illusion." She said dazed.

"No Jean," I said shaking my head. She still hadn't quite gotten it. "your control over it is real. Totally and utterly real. Please believe that. It's just that we can have even more control, if we wanted. Understand, it will do anything you want it to do as long as it doesn't conflict with what we have told it to do. And since all we have told it to do is to obey you and see you as it's mistress, it will do any thing you want, as there is nothing for it to see as a confliction. And I promise you there will be no conflicting orders every time the Phoenix and us 'chat' because all it's going to hear from us is 'obey Jean Grey in all things'."

"What do you mean 'every time you chat'?" Jean asked still not getting everything.

"Jean!" Frosty screamed with frustration. The two of us were banging our heads against her white bread upbringing. How could she not see what we would keep needing to do? "Jean," she continued In a almost calm voice. "it's very simple. The two of them utterly broke the Phoenix, and now are dominate to it. But to stay dominate will take a lot of work. It's been said many times 'It's easy to brake some one, but keeping them broken, there's the true challenge.' The two Jubes will not only have to play dominance games with it and always be degrading it when speaking to it, but also repeatedly and without warning or provocation, hurt it,. A lot. And this will go on for the rest of both of your lives. And Jean if you want to stay in control of it then you must let both the Jubes do this. I'm surprised that they learned how to do this so well with out formal teaching. They truly are naturals at it." Just what every one needed to hear. That I'm a natural at torture.

Jean was silent for a long while, while my friends talked about the bombshells they just heard. My friends didn't know what to think other then this was down right creepy stuff. Then Jean finally spoke. "I really didn't understand all you did, did I?' she said with a nervous laugh. "I just thought you gave me control over the Phoenix. I was to naïve to see all the string attached. I should of looked for them, known that they were there, that this was to easy a solution. Now I have to make a hard choice that's really no choice at all. Jubilee, I want the to of you to do whatever it takes to keep the Phoenix in line. I really don't care any more. I've let it control me for the last time. It's earned this and more with all it's done."

We all went to bed shortly after that.