JUBILEE AND JUBILATION
PART SIXTEEN
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Well I was woken up bright and early at eight AM by Vanessa. Frosty was pissed cause the would let her in to wake me saying it was their job. Let us say I'm not a graceful riser, and leave it at that. After my normal breakfast, a box of Sugar Bomb-Bombs, and Frosty explaining that my mutation needs lots of sugar in my diet, which was the only reason she let me eat the junk, to a shocked group of people, who were in amazement that I could eat that much sugar and not go into shock. One spoonful of this stuff has five times the daily recommend dose of sugar I was told by Henry. That's why he insisted I eat a box a day. And I love him for it. The best cereal on earth, and my doctor orders me to eat a box a day. No one can stop me from eating it. It's doctors orders.
Well we all got in the limo and off we went. First stop was Claire's Frosty favorite dress shop on Fifth Avenue. I guess I was going to get the royal treatment. Not a single dress in here was under fifteen grand. "Frosty," I said as we were pulling up "I appreciate you getting a dress, and if there's one thing I love more then shopping it's doing it on your unlimited platinum card, but Claire's, I rember helping you pick out a dress here a year ago. There's not one dress under fifteen grand. Most cost more then a fully decked out E-Class Mercedes. Do you really want to set me loose in there?"
"Jubilee, you're my ward, and hell, you know I'm in the middle of a legal battle to adopt you, so let your mom spoil you a little, it's your first date, and I got you my regular table at the Four Seasons. You have to look good, if not for yours and Logan sake then for mine. I got to show I am taking care of you, and that means if your going to the best restaurant in town, you have the best dress in town."
"Frosty, I think your logic's flawed, but if want to get me dress that costs more then a luxury car, who am I to argue?"
"Why do you need to fight to adopt her?" Sara asked puzzled. She was the only one still in the car. Richard was at the door and the rest were 'securing the shop' as the put it.
"She is a known mutant, and the government doesn't want her adopted by anyone. Charles tried and was shot down. I've been fighting it for over a year."
"Hmm. Just a sec." she took out her communications device and asked for a call back from Nick, when he had time. She stressed that it wasn't an emergency just urgent.
"What are you planning Sara?" Frosty asked.
"I know that director Fury is close friends with Jubilee, it's in her file. He said in his personal notes on her, she's a close friend and he rather have her at his side when things our sour then almost any one else other then Logan, Captain America, or Frank Castle. To be put on a list that includes those three must mean your something special. Those are his closes war buddies. I not sure how you made to that list but you must be something special to him."
"Save a mans life, back him up in a couple of Manipor Bar Brawls and he never forgets." I said in awe. How could I be on that list, I mean I'm good, better then most the X-Men knew cause they tend to baby me, And Logan taught me a lot, but to be put on that list? The man must be nuts.
"Manipor bar brawls?"
"Yah , me and Wolvie go there about every six months to a year. He has a bar down there, The Princess, and there's always a bar brawl going on at least once a night. Fun times. Nick stops by a lot when were down there and he's in the area, to talk about the past and life in general. I just sit and listen. Till the enviable bar fight brakes out. Then we all get to have some fun. Oh, spread this around don't interrupt me in a bar fight. They're to enjoyable."
Sara looked shocked. "You enjoy bar fights. Your to young to even go in a bar."
"Not in Manipor, or the dives Wolvie takes me. But don't worry I don't drink in them. I just like the atmosphere, and the fights."
"Now you see what I have to put up with. Logan's addicted her to bar brawls and the like."
"So, uh, how many bar fights have you been in with the director?"
"Way to many to count. I mean I was thirteen for my first one with him. It was my third one to. Ah, I rember the look of shock on his face when saw me bring down Gentle Ben, the biggest and one of the meanest guys that hang out in The Princess. He then decided I could hold my own, and went back to ass kicking."
We were only I the car for a few more moments before Richard said it was safe.
I had been trying on dresses for over an hour when Sara thankfully interrupted. I mean I like to shop, but it was getting boring. It became clear early on that I wasn't going pick the dress Frosty was. And for once I'm letting her have her way. With these prices, she picks.
Sara just came up and handed Frosty her potable video communicator. "Emma, what's this I hear? You're trying to adopt Jubilee, and the government adoption department is stonewalling you?" Nick said through the phone.
"Yes that right. She is a ward of the state, and they don't want her to be adopted."
"Actually as of 2 PM yesterday she became a ward of shield."
"What?" I said surprised.
"Well the president himself moved all your government records and case files to Shield. That includes your custody. Oh and when you turn eighteen you'll be paying your taxes through us."
"Is that Legal?' I asked.
"Probably not, no. But now, I'm the one who has to decide if the adoption goes through."
"And what's your decision."
"Well, I'm between a rock an a hard place there. Jubilee's a good friend, and I'd love to make her happy, and Logan would kill me if he found out I didn't approve this,"
"But," I said.
"Yeah, but this gives us more legal control over Jubilee, Which is something all the bureaucrats like."
"So your going to do it, just to piss them off." I said with certainty.
"You know me so well Jubilee. Yah I'll do it, hell that would last only about fourteen and a half months, see I remember your birthday. I'll just explain it that way. I'll get the paper work to you to sign on Monday. See ya." And he hung up.
"Well that was anti-climatic." Frosty said.
"Yah, that was kind of easy. I mean all I had to do was worry Shield. If I had known that…"
"Jubilee, your incorrigible. Now back to dresses. And were going to have an adoption party Monday night."
At four PM we, or should I say Frosty found the perfect dress for me. The shoes took another hour and the purse, a mere fifteen minutes. I changed there, and we called Wolvie and told him to meet us there, and to tell the good news to everyone, and the bad news to everyone. Well I considered it bad that Shield held all my records.
We got to the Four Seasons at six thirty, and Wolvie got there at forty. Frosty claming near starvation, bribed the Maitredee, into a table on the other side of the room. I accused Frosty of planning this, and she laughed, not denying it all. Mumbling about over protective mothers I went to my date.