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Human and the Demon

by Dizi

Chapter 1

Jenny opened her eyes as the motorcycle pulled up in front of Xavier's School for Higher Learning and Remy turned off the motor. In the three weeks since the barbeque at her house, the mansion had apparently gotten in really bad shape and she'd decided to do something about it for Charles' birthday. Jenny was going to spend her two days off getting things organized and whipping the place into shape.

That meant she'd get to indulge in her favorite past time - pushing around the X-men. There were even some new ones to have fun with. Though she had decided to go easy on them... unless they were the ones responsible for the mess that she'd heard about.

"Maybe you shouldn't do dis today, chere." Remy said, noting her appearance. "Remy t'ink you look beat."

"There was a problem with one of the new girls and I didn't get home 'til late." Jenny dismissed the problem. She'd been up all night before. "I'll be fine. You're not getting out of cleaning that easy."

"Remy hurt, he only t'inking 'bout you." He tried to give her an innocent look and she snorted. "Liked you better when you shy, chere."

"Then you shouldn't have worked so hard to draw me out of my shell." Jenny smiled. She was still shy, just better at hiding it. Much better, apparently.

Scott met them in the front hall. "Couldn't stay away, huh?"

"The furniture was crying for me." she said dryly.

He led the way to the War Room and opened the door with a flourish. "Your troops await, Madame General."

"At ease, Lieutenant." They smiled at each other. Scott acted like she was boss but she'd always done what he said. Though he'd never really given her orders, just helpful suggestions. He'd been a good boss.

With the ease of practice, Scott called the room to attention. "Alright! That's enough! Jenny has the floor."

Jenny got that sick feeling in the pit of her stomach that always came with public speaking. It didn't matter that these were her friends, there were a lot of them. She took a deep breath. "I am very disappointed in every one of you. It took me more than a month to get this place straight. Now you pay. We're going to do it in two days, preferably one and a half."

Protests started around the room and she raised a hand. "Uh-uh-uh! You did it, you clean it. You've got an advantage though. You've got me." They laughed as she beamed at them. "Okay, couple things first off. Are there any surprises in the rec-room?"

The room abruptly went silent and Jenny closed her eyes. She didn't want to know, she really didn't. "Remy, would you please go get any videos and little presents out of the rec-room?"

"Remy didn't-" he started to protest.

"I didn't say you did it. I asked you to please take care of it so I don't find..." she swallowed, "anything."

Once he'd left on his first assignment, Jenny turned back to the rest of the room and sighed. "Am I going to faint if I walk into the kitchen or bathrooms?"

Several team members immediately reassured her that was not the case but Kitty's voice was heard anyway. "I want to faint when I walk in the bathroom." This was followed by several curses and disappointed sighs.

And so it went as Jenny dispensed her troops and ordered them to return for reassignment when finished, leaving only Kurt, Kitty, and Peter. She didn't want to blame them if they weren't responsible for the current state of the mansion.

Pulling Scott aside, she asked him in an undertone, "How about them? They do any of this?"

Shaking his head, Scott replied, "They've actually made headway into cleaning it up."

"That's scary." Jenny shuddered, and then spoke to the waiting remaining X-men. "Okay, so you're the cleaning friendly trio. You got some choices."

The three exchanged looks and blinked at her, not sure what to expect.

"You don't really have to help, but you're welcome to. I'm going to want help moving the furniture. I'll need someone to help keep an eye on the others - okay, spy on them. They'll skip out if they can. And I may need a gofer. None of you are required to help, but it would be appreciated."

Exchanging looks again, Kitty answered for them. Shrugging she said, "We'll help."

Jenny smiled, "I was hoping you'd say that."

Kurt immediately volunteered to be gofer, thinking that would mean he'd be able to stay by Jenny, which delighted her. As usual, she had found herself looking at him during the meeting and had deliberately sent Remy on the first errand to keep him from making comments.

Kitty was immediately sent to watch for the most likely ditchers, Logan and Bobby with Remy at a close third. They would all be happy to have the mansion clean. It was the prospect of doing it themselves they didn't like. Warren would actually hang in longer, but once he got ready to skip out they all would be more inventive and harder to stop.

Peter was put to work moving all the furniture in the formal dining room to one side so the floor could be waxed. Once done, his job would be to 'protect it with his life' from people trying to walk on it before it was dry. He smiled at her phrasing and looked forward to being able to sit and sketch while still being useful.

Being gofer, Kurt quickly realized, meant mainly getting cleaning supplies, rinsing wash rags, and changing the music on the stereo. Jenny had a wireless headset but didn't want to use it because she would lose track of what everyone was doing if she became immersed in the music. His next duty was to bring the stereo from room to room as she moved through the mansion on a cleaning rampage, though Logan told him later that it wasn't a true rampage because she didn't yell at anyone. From what Kurt could tell she didn't need to as she spoke with complete authority and with the assurance of someone who knew what they said would be done. Jenny knew that wasn't true though, and that's why she had Kitty.

It was then Kurt found out that another duty of being gofer was to be the one to find Scott who would send the errant trooper back to work. It wasn't that any assignment was hard but the sheer bulk of what needed to be done was intimidating. He came to admire the way Jenny just waded in and got everyone organized.

She kept track of who was doing what and gave breaks and extra work based on how good a job they did and how quickly. Though it was his opinion that she factored in how much they complained, but he wasn't sure of that one. Jenny didn't take a break though. She kept working so Kurt kept working, though mainly he was just waiting for her to tell him what she needed.

Jenny didn't take the same tone with him she did with everyone else. When she caught the surprised look on his face at the change in her voice, she laughed and reminded him that he had volunteered while the rest were getting what they deserved. Kurt liked her laugh. He found he simply liked Jenny. She seemed to have an ability to find humor in most of what she saw. Jenny smiled a lot.

Sometimes when Kitty reported in, Jenny didn't want to interrupt Scott and she'd speak to the offending ditcher herself. Kurt could see she would purposely act stern and disapproving but immediately smiled at the perpetrator when they weren't looking. Jenny understood and liked them but didn't let the X-men push her around. He liked that too.

When Logan growled at her, she stood nose to nose with him and he backed down. Kurt couldn't believe his ears when both laughed and Jenny gave the other man a fifteen minute break. It was Logan who explained it was a game. He knew Jenny wouldn't ask him do anything he couldn't or really didn't want to, and everything did need to be done. Jenny knew Logan wouldn't hurt her so she didn't take his threat seriously. Both seemed to find it hilarious that others didn't understand this right away.

Logan was also the one to point out that Jenny was very tired. He said she wasn't moving as quickly as usual and seemed to be walking funny. She was in pain.

Kurt immediately felt guilty, he had spent the whole morning watching her and he hadn't realized. He'd been too blinded by her to see she was tired and hurting. Yet she refused to take a break every time he suggested it, only saying he was welcome to one himself anytime. Kurt didn't want a break, he wanted Jenny to take one.

Finally, when she reached the rec-room he refused to do another errand until she sat down and relaxed, insisting she take a break.

"You don't understand." Jenny said stubbornly. "If I stop I won't start again."

"Zen you let zem do ze vork and you rest." Kurt insisted, pushing her towards the couch.

"They'll all go AWOL and nothing will get done." Jenny held her ground, but wanted to give in. She was so tired. Staying up all night and working all night were two different things and her body had been telling her that for hours.

"Zat is vhat Kitty is for." Kurt reminded her, dragging her another few steps.

"But-" She was weakening.

"Nein." He pushed Jenny and she flopped inelegantly onto the couch. "Nothing vill get done if you fall down."

Allowing her body to relax as best she could, Jenny sighed. "Logan told you, didn't he?"

"Ja, he vas vorried." Kurt grinned at Jenny's groan.

"Logan's always worried! You're his friend, don't you know that?" she demanded.

"Ja, both of zhose are true, but I can also see." he said gently. "And I see, you are tired and in pain. So, you vill rest and zen we vill see if you can do more vork."

"Okay, but that means you have to check the room."

"Check ze room?" he asked, confused.

"For porn and condoms."

"Vas!" Now he was shocked. Jenny wanted porn and condoms?

"They hide them all over. I mean, Jubes is here and what if she found that stuff?" Jenny reasoned. "They want to use the rec-room, fine, but they need to clean up after. Not just stash them in really obvious places. If nothing else, it's just nasty finding used condoms stuck all over." she shuddered.

"I vill look, liebchen." Kurt had never considered Jubilee. She seemed so adult at times that they tended to overlook her actual age. He started looking in the obvious places.

"You shouldn't call me that." Jenny said quietly, but her heart speeded up slightly at his choice of words.

"Hmmm?"

"You shouldn't call me 'sweetheart'. I'm not, so you shouldn't call me that." Jenny explained.

Chuckling as he looked behind the other movies, he said, "Of course, mein kleines."

She rolled her eyes. "I'm not your little one either."

He stopped and looked at her. "Sprechen sie Deutsches?"

Jenny's eyes didn't meet his. "Um, no, I don't speak German. I just understand it. Mostly. Some."

"Zat is more zen most. Is gut." He continued the search. It wasn't often he could color his speech with his native language. "How do you come to speak mein language?"

"My last name was Grenislavich." Jenny said softly. "My grandmother taught me when I was young. I guess I just remember."

"I understood your name to be Green."

"I changed it." Jenny made it clear by her tone she didn't really want to talk about it but she explained briefly. "I became a different person and wanted my name to reflect that."

He nodded, not really understanding, but realizing it had been important to her. "I see nothing." He gestured, indicating the room.

"Maybe Remy found it all this time. I'll look later to be sure." Jenny slowly bent over and took off one of her running shoes with a groan. Her feet were throbbing.

"It is your feet zat hurt, ja?" Kurt crouched down on the floor. "Let me help."

Jenny held back a whimper when he removed her other shoe.

"How did zis come to happen?" He gently removed her socks. He could tell she'd had the shoes on for some time, much longer than the time she had been at the mansion. The skin was wrinkled. "Vhy are you so tired?"

"I'm head-waitress at Harry's, someone probably told you that." Jenny saw him nod. "Well, I pretty much don't wait tables anymore, unless we're short-handed. I fired one of the girls Harry hired before I came back and that made us short. So I had to fill in, and it's been a long time since I was on my feet that long. Unfortunately, that sort of thing tends to happen a lot at Harry's."

"But you vorked here, zat vas hard vork."

"You tell anyone I said this, and I'll call you a liar." Jenny laughed softly. "It really wasn't that hard after the first two months."

He gave her a skeptical look and she laughed again. "Really. By then I could just walk in the room or give them my patented 'you're not gonna leave that there?' look and they started cleaning up behind themselves. Once I left, they just went crazy, though. At least, Bobby can do laundry now."

Amused he asked, "How do you know zat?"

Jenny giggled. "He's wearing clothes. If he hadn't been washing, he would have run out two weeks ago."

He grinned at her reasoning. "Lay back, and I vill help vith your feet."

Jenny gave him a quizzical look but did as he said. She winced as Kurt started rubbing and massaging her feet. First one, then the other, alternating between them. It both hurt and felt good at the same time.

Slowly, Remy scanned the surrounding area. Kitty was nowhere to be seen. Silently, he slid through the afternoon shadows to the waiting window. He found it very amusing for both Jenny and Kitty to make cleaning a sporting event, or evading cleaning to be exact. How else was he to view Jenny's little tattle-tale but as a direct challenge to be met? A game to be played? One in which he did not play alone, the winner to be the one who evaded authority the longest.

Through one of his many resources - he asked Logan - he had found that the opposition was in the rec-room and if he were to listen at the window he would know when the enemy was aware of his disappearance. He had observed Kitty's modus operandi and she always reported to Jenny, then the decision was made as how to handle him and his fellow challengers.

He couldn't hear anything. Remy's deft thieving fingers eased the window open just enough to hear but hopefully not so much that his opponents would notice.

"Ooohh," came a very feminine moan and he froze. That couldn't be Jenny.

"Oh my god!" was definitely Jenny and followed by a low murmur in a German accent. Jenny and Kurt.

This was followed by a breathless, "That feels so good..." and the familiar sound of the springs in the well-used couch shifting.

Well, Kurt had been with Jenny all day but... They barely knew each other! He had thought it was great because he knew Jenny was interested in Kurt, but was she ready for this?

Jenny must be because she seemed to be enjoying it. Remy grinned. He was going to have lots of fun teasing her. And while she was busy, he would win the challenge.

Remy sauntered off, lighting a cigarette. He would also make sure Kurt had treated her right.

to be continued.

I will list German translations at the bottom of each chapter but will probably not repeat them. If they're incorrect I'm sorry, I used English to German translator from AOL. Also I apologize for any confusion in that I use 'vas' as an accented 'was' and also in German because 'vas' means 'what', but I believe if looked at in context it is easily understood. If anyone has any problems please let me know and I will change it and also for future chapters.

German Key:
gut - good
liebchen - sweetheart
mein kleines little one

note:
My thanks to all the Jenny fans who e-mailed me, and all the reviews for "Human in a Mutant World". I'm actually not finished with this one yet, so there's still time to get suggestions in. But not much. Remember though I don't promise to use them. But thanks to Elizabeth Robbins for... well... something in this chapter. It's been so long that I'm not sure I remember which it was.

I'm on chapter 15. Well, almost. I have the rest of 14 in my notebook and most of 15 too because I had time on my hands at work and got inspired. Which is really sad, I know, but its good for us! The point of this is that until I finish I expect to post once a week and after that we'll see about making it sooner.

I really hope you like it as I've had a lot of fun writing about Jenny. Well, I've been having a lot of fun writing all my stories but Jenny has a special place in my heart. Please tell me what you think of it! As usual I sincerely want to know.

Thanks for reading and the support,
Dizi