JUBILEE AND JUBILATION

PART SEVENTEEN

THE DATE

Well as much as I hate to say it, it was my first date. Ever. And it was harder then it should have been. Frosty was across the room watching us, with total approval, but still watching us. She wasn't the only one. Body guards are not uncommon in the Four Seasons, But body guards in shield uniforms, were. They had explained to me, no they couldn't not wear them, they have too much equipment and armor built in, and when Frost suggested the image inducer, they through a hissy fit. So there I was on my first date ever with five shield body guards all around the table. And everyone stealing glances, wondering who the hell one of us is, to warrant this.

"Nice dress, Jubilee."

"Thank you. I had stupidly thought I'd get to pick my own dress, but Frosty took total control. Not that I'm complaining, it's a wonderful dress. I love it."

"But you would of liked to pick your own."

"Yah."

"Well enough about the dress. I have a question for ya, darling, but I don't know if now's the time to bring it up."

"Well now I'm just curious. Ask away."

"Um, Jubilation was in love with me basically at first sight, and you've been in love with me, since your birth, why did ya hide it, and never tell me?"

"Duh, think about that carefully Wolvie. I was thirteen, You would of thought it was a child's crush. I was waiting till eighteen or twenty one, but Jean got available, I know you say your over her, but I can tell you'll always be attracted to her, and I planed to ask you sooner, but Jubilation beat me to it."

"Yes she did."

"Wolvie, why did you except, honestly, I know you haven't, uh, thought of me like this before."

"Truth kid?"

"Truth. And stop calling me kid. Especially on a date."

"I think you hit it on the head yesterday talking to Kitty, but nobody really understood the signifies of what you said. Not even Nick and he at least should have."

"Huh?"

"You said we had a partnership, that you were taking to the next level, right?"

"Right."

"Well what nobody in that room realizes, is that till you came along, I never had a partner. I had a lot of work associates, and friends, but a partner, not a one. When you pulled me off that cross, you saw me at my most vulnerable. Then you wormed your way into my life, and as we traveled around the orient we clicked. We were perfect together. I think I saw you as a true partner for the first time, as you backed me up in the first bar brawl in Manipor. Anyone else would have thought, 'Hey it's Wolverine, he can take care this himself.' But you, you waded in, and not only did we work well together, you were almost as disappointed as I was that there was no one else left standing."

"Yah I remember that, it was a few days after my birth. I was born, basically a few days before we hit Manipor, be for that is was all Jubilation, and that was the most fun I had had in my life. I got addicted to those thing at that point. They're just too much fun."

"Yah, that's me teaching ya the finer things in life. But seriously, you are the only real partner I ever had, and I thought to my self when Jubilation asked that this is just a progression of our partnership. I never had seen you in this way before, true, but, I could see you that way after the question. I was telling the truth the only thing that was going to stop me was the fact that Jubilation felt she needed to hide from me, and she better stick to her promise and come out…"

"She says she'll come out after we order, and probably leave as the meal gets here, she doesn't like all the looks were getting thanks to these guys." I said waving at my troop. "Or she would have stayed to eat the dinner and leave desert to me."

"Well fine. This place probably takes forever with food preparation anyway. gourmet food sure takes a long ass time."

"True. But I did want to go somewhere nice on the first date. Well I got nice, and them some."

"Yah, ya did. Our next date is going to be a dive of dives, where we can get into a real fun bar brawl, if your watchers allow it."

"Don't worry I've already spread the word, don't mess with my bar fights, there to damn fun and relaxing."

"That they are."

"You, two are nuts. Who finds them relaxing?" Mike interjected.

"Your boss for one. God knows how many I've been in with him to relax. And she's lost count of all fights she's been with him." Logan shot back. Mike wisely shut up.

The waiter came at that moment, saving all of us from what might of happened next. After we ordered our meals, a stake lightly done for him and one medium rare for me. Mike had to go all body guard again. "Colliff, Braks, go to the kitchen and make sure nothing is done to the food."

"Sir!" the waiter said with indignity "We can not allow you into our Kitchen. Not only is it improper, it's in violation of heath codes! We could be shut down!"

"If you don't, I'll have you shut down." Mike said coldly.

"Why me?" I moaned, putting my face in my hands, elbows braced against the table.

"Hey, You're the one who blackmailed Nick into this." Wolvie laughed.

"Only because they're more useful guarding me then watching from a distance."

"Keep telling your self that darling, keep telling your self that." He said laughing some more.

After all was said and done. Mike got his way. And Jubilation came out. Mike and the other two Richard and Vanessa, took one look in her eyes and immediately became wary.

"What is it about my eyes, Logan, that makes expericed soldiers Like Nick, Mike, Richard and Vanessa so on edge?' Jubilation asked puzzled.

"Good question. How to answer that?"

"Honestly."

"Honestly, You have the eyes of a monster Jubilation. A kind not many recognize."

"And what kind is that?"

"Someone who tore out their conscience so the could live. Some soldiers get those kind of eyes. In the past they were put out on the front lines in hopes they die. Now their discharged for Psych reasons. No soldier trusts some one who does that."

"You trust me though, and you were a soldier."

"Different kind, different time. I worked with most of them. Any that stay in the game after doing that even now a days, especially now a days becomes black ops. You know that's all I've ever been. I was that before the term was created."

"Yes. That's true."

"I know Plenty of people who did that, but more important I know you."

"You mean you know Jubilee."

"It wasn't Jubilee who saved me by getting me off that cross it was you, Jubilation. It was you who nursed me bake to health and gave me a reason to live. You went away, true, and Jubilee took your place, but you were the one to save a complete stranger and be kind and caring as you nursed him back to health. Your eyes and what you did to your mind may make you a monster, by others standers, but your soul is still pure."

"I don't think anyone's ever managed to call a girl a monster and be romantic at the same time." Jubilation said in awe of Wolvie's feelings laid bare.

Jubilation looked in to Wolvie's a few more minutes, then noticed the food, flanked by guards exit the kitchen. She said "The foods coming. Good bye Logan, I'll see you soon." And she was gone. I was back.

"You swept her off her feet Wolvie."

"What?"

"You really don't realize do you. What you said to her, at the end was very romantic, at least to us." He was dumbfounded at that.

The food arrived and we dug in, not saying a word till the meat and veggies were gone. I was raised right. You see food, you eat food. You don't do anything else at that time.

After that we waited for the desert menu. And we talked.

"I had Rogue drive me down here, so I could ride home with you." Wolvie said out the blue.

"Oh, my god! And you could eat after that? She's a manic. She may be invulnerable with a stomach to match, but the rest of us." I said with concern and love. To put himself through that just so he could ride home with us. True love. It must be.

"Your right, I don't know how she ever got a license, or manages to keep one. She's never even gotten a ticket. Must out run all the cops or something. It took my healing factor a good five minutes to stop me from being noshes."

After that I ate desert, Wolvie didn't want any and we left. After hearing What Logan put himself through to come home with me, she sighed and said 'You two were made for each other I just know." How a dedicated dominatrix can be such a romantic, I have no clue, But Frosty manages. You should see her with Sean. It's sickenally sweet.