JUBILEE AND JUBILATION
PART ELEVEN
ACCEPTANCE
The next day was Friday, and after catching Jubilation up on what she missed by passing out, I had class. And boy was I lost. Skip a few weeks and boy do you pay for it.
So it just made my day, no sarcasm there, seriously, when Gambit throw open the class room door so hard that it almost broke off it's hinges, and ran towards me screaming "MI PETTITE!" and grabbed me up out of my desk, swirling me around the room, knocking everything over.
Frosty came in at that moment, screaming that he was wreaking the classroom, and why couldn't he wait till class was over. That was in four and a half hours. Gambit's not that patient when he wants to see someone. Jean and Wolvie just followed behind, her silently laughing and him belly laughing.
Gambit of course, just ignored everybody else and started talking to me. "Petite, it be horrible! Gambit, he just got back from his family business trip, and had to listen to those fools bad mouth you. Gambit, he heard everything you did and can do and he just don't care. He punch out old one-eye when he heard him call you and his wife 'monsters that should be locked up for everybody's safety'" there were gasps at this from the students.
"Ex-wife you mean. I just finished filling out the divorce papers before you got here." More gasps at this proclamation. The students will soon relies a simple fact of life with the X-Men. It was like a real live superpowered soap opera. I mean at this moment we even have our own gasp track. Priceless. I giggled at the thought of the live gasp track for our soap opera lives.
Luckily nobody noticed as Gambit said to Jean "That be bad and good at the same time I be thinking." He then turned his attention back to me saying "Jubilee, I know your not a monster and ol' Gambit be staying here in exile with you three till those falls back at the mansion see it too."
"Thank you gumbo!" I cried, leaping into his arms again.
"The Petite always be there for this ol' thief, just returning the favor, Cherie."
"Well it's good to know at least one person isn't against us."
"Oh to hell with it! That's it! Class dismissed! We've got more important things to discuss! Why are you still hear! EVERYBODY OUT NOW! MOVE IT! MOVE IT! MOVE IT NOW PEOPLE!" Sean shouted, out right screaming at the end when the classroom wasn't instantly emptied. Not wanting to face the wrath of an enraged Irishman, the class was instantly emptied of all students but me. "Now how bad is it back there?" he asked, after making sure that all the students had really left the school wing of the mansion. The man was no fool.
"It be bad. Really bad. The X-Men be split into two factions now, one scared of Petite and Jeanie, and the other yelling at them, telling them that the only way they be a threat is it the X-Men make them one. I give them about a week till they give up and come here too."
"Sorry ta disappoint ya sugar, we didn't even last an hour after ya left. We all thought ya had the right idea in coming here, so we just followed ya. Until the Professor can calm down Scott and Co. the X-Men are split into those at the mansion and those at the school."
And I the door way were Rogue, Bishop, Henry, Kitty and Betsy. I started to cry, saying "I'm tarring the X-Men apart."
"It's not your fault sugar, it's theirs for being too scared to relies that you aren't the type to go power crazy, and to relies that you've gone and done us one of the best favors we've ever got, the taming of the Phoenix."
"Thanks." I said feeling better at her words.
"Emma, we are at your disposal." Henry said.
"What?"
"Charles said that you are to be the team leader till the mansion calms down, seeing how both our illustrious team leaders don't want to be anywhere near our resident firecracker."
"Why me?"
"You, dear lady, have been a leader many times, none of us have been once. Experience is key Miss Frost. You have it and we don't. Think of it this way Miss Frost, you've just been drafted back into regular service mam." Henry joked cracking a sharp toothed smile.
Well Frosty did what anyone with a brain and not a death wish does when they get drafted. First she got pissed. She just stood there and fumed, no other word for it. We could all see the steam coming from her ears. Next came the attempted draft dodging. She contacted the Prof. One very frustrated Prof. She didn't have a snowballs chance in hell. Ah, since step two didn't work, it's on to a sadly necessary step three. acceptance, and make everybody pay. "I know when I'm beat." She said after a disheartening talk with the Prof.
"I guess we're a team. And I'm including Jubilee in this."
"Me?" I asked shocked. A few of the other looked shocked too.
"Well, you always wanted to be an X-Man, and I'm not letting the most powerful one here not be on it. I also think that the other X-Men will be more accepting of you if you show them you want what they want, not to take over the world or something like that."