Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to the X-Men. Blah Blah Blah.

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Brooke called her parents that night. The phone range twice before her mom picked it up.

"Hey honey. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine Mom. I wanted to ask you a question."

"Shoot."

"I was thinking of coming home for a few days before I go back to school. Would you and Dad be able to take some time off?"

She heard her mom laughing over the phone. "What?"

"Your father and I were just talking about coming to New York in about a month to see you. We were also going to spend some time with your Uncle Ken and Aunt Cynthia while we were up there."

"How long are ya'll planning on staying for?"

"We looked into plane tickets already. The best time seems to be the first week of September, I think Labor Day weekend."

"Do you have a hotel yet?"

"No, we haven't made reservations."

"Why don't you stay here?

"We would hate to impose. Besides, I doubt Professor Xavier has room with all the students you keep telling us about."

"No, let me ask him. We just finished building a new wing, so we have tons of extra space now."

"If you have to ask him, we'd only stay a night. That gives us basically two days with you and three with your Aunt and Uncle."

"Let me go ask him and I'll call you back."

"I really wish you wouldn't ask him, it's no problem to get a hotel."

"No, this way you won't have to worry about driving and you can spend all your time with me."

"Okay, fine. Just don't say I didn't warn you when he tells you no."

"I love you Mom."

"I love you too dear."

Brooke hung up the phone and walked to the Professor's office. She figured she could at least ask, after all, the worst he could say would be no. She knocked on the door.

::Come in Brooke.::

She opened the door and walked up to the desk. "Hey Professor, I wanted to ask you a question."

"What is it?"

She looked at him and took a deep breath. "My parents are coming to New York for Labor Day weekend to visit me and my Aunt and Uncle who live upstate. I was wondering if they could stay here one night.

He took a minute to consider her question before replying. "I don't see why not. Would you like for me to call and invite them to stay?

She smiled at him happily. "That would be great! Do you need the number?"

Five minutes later she came out of the Professor's office with all the details settled. Her parents would fly in and spend the first few days with her Aunt and Uncle, arriving at the mansion on Friday night and they would stay two nights to fly back home on Sunday afternoon.

The first person she ran into was Kitty who was with Kurt in the kitchen eating a snack. "Hey guys! Guess what!"

"Vat?" Kurt looked up from the Twinkie he had stolen from McCoy's stash.

"My parents are coming to visit in a month! Isn't that great?"

Kitty squealed. "Like, that is so awesome! We can take your Mom shopping!"

Just then Logan and Remy walked into the kitchen from the garage. "What is so awesome? We could hear you in the garage."

Kitty turned to Logan. "Brooke's parents are coming to visit in a month."

"Professor X knows about this?" Logan grabbed a couple beers from the refrigerator and handed one to Remy.

"Yeah, I asked him first."

"Guess that means you guys will have to clean this place up. I better go find the duty roster and make some changes." He took his beer and wandered out.

Brooke groaned. "Great, now everybody is going to blame me for whatever evil he can cook up."

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Author's Note: I have to admit, I woke my husband up the other morning to take the dog out and then apologized to him IN FRENCH for smacking him in the head on accident. I don't speak French! Do you have any idea how freaky that was once I realized what I just did without any thought on my part? I think reading all the Remy/Rogue fanfics I can find is starting to have an effect on me. AHH! Anybody else have that problem?