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Ch.6 Show time
The bright lights of the circus could be seen for miles, the music and the roar of the crowd filled the night air and everyone could tell that the circus was in full swing.
Piotr sat at his booth drawing a picture of a girl. He had just finished putting the final touches on the girls portrait when Kitty came up behind him and put her hands over his eyes.
"Like guess who."
"Is that you Katya?"
She kissed his cheek and removed her hands. The girl gave him her money and left with her drawing.
"How has your night been?"
Piotr asked while cleaning his paint brushes.
"I like just finished my act, when's your break?"
He caped his paint tubes and put them away in a small box before answering her.
"When ever I want."
Kitty let out a small yelp when Piotr pulled her down onto his lap. She giggled as he nuzzled her neck, mumbling Russian as he did so.
"Wana grab a slushy?"
She asked as she entwined her small slender finger with his.
"That sounds like a good idea."
He hung a "Back in 15 min." sign on his canvas and with her arms wrapped around one of his the couple headed towards Bobby's Ice Shack.
Rogue was behind the big tent with all the other performers. So far the night had been a hectic one, with performers showing up late and props being misplaced.
"Rogue, my strap broke!"
Betsy called out and held up her shoe, Rogue could see that the shoelace had snapped at the side where it attached to the shoe.
"When do you go on?"
Betsy stood on one foot and peaked inside the tent.
"Next."
Rogue dug around in her bag and pulled out another strap, she pulled off the broken shoelace and attached the new one, Betsy had just gotten the shoe on when Scott announced that the acrobats were on.
The night carried on and as Rogue was painting one of the Jamie's face (remember he's the clowns) Remy stood next to the tent opening, waiting for her to finish.
"There ya go, now hurry up and get out there."
He ran past Remy on his way in almost tripping but was caught by one of his multiples.
"You do a mighty nice job chere."
"Why thank ya swamp rat."
She replied as she pulled off the pair of paint covered latex gloves and replaced them with her black cloth ones. She put away the clown makeup and checked her clip board.
"Can you hand me that pencil?"
She asked as the looked over the schedule.
"Your wish is my command."
He gave her the pencil and she marked off clown act along with the acrobats.
"That leaves the Lion Tamer and the human Cannonball."
She said to herself before calling out to Sam.
"Sam, you're on in five."
Sam nodded his head in acknowledgement and said goodbye to the mutant girl he had been flirting with. He picked up his helmet from a nearby table and adjusted the strap before entering the tent.
"You hungry chere?"
Remy asked as Rogue checked off Sam on her list.
"Yea, but Ah can't leave yet."
"Want me to get ya somethin?"
Remy offered kindly.
"Would ya?"
"Ah would do anythin for you."
He bowed and gave her a heart melting smile.
"You're sweet, now get ta gettin."
He stood and kissed her quickly so not to be affected by her mutation then left with a smirk on his face.
John twirled the baton around faster and faster, the fire engulfed ends stood out in the darkness giving off an eerie light. A small crowd had gathered nearby and some spectators were dropping money in the box that sat on the stool next to him. He tossed the baton high in the air and caught it behind his back, the crowd clapped and more money was dropped into his box.
"Thank you, thank you. You all have been a great audience. For my next trick I'm going
to need a volunteer. How bout you miss?"
A young woman stepped forward.
"All I need you to do is toss these balls at me wile I juggle, now remember this mates,
don't try this at home."
He started to juggle three balls, one was lit and suddenly the others lit on fire as well.
"Ok shelia, toss one at me."
The woman tossed one of the balls gently at John and he started to juggle it with the others as well, soon it too caught on fire.
"Another."
John called out as she did as he said. Several balls later John was juggling seven balls, all on fire. He threw them high into the air and as he caught them they extinguished. He took a bow and the crowd clapped again before dropping more money into his box and slowly disbursing. He started swallowing a strange liquid then spitting out fire and a new crowd of fairgoers formed around him.
Wanda sat at her table in her trailer the only light came from candles, casting shadows around the room. Her tarot cards were laying out in front of her and an anxious looking man sat across from her waiting for her to speak.
"The cards tell me your fortunes will increase, but you must be careful not to waist what you're given."
The man, please with her answer, paid her then left with a satisfied look on his face. As Wanda shuffled her cards a woman with a young boy entered her trailer. The woman took a seat across from Wanda with the boy standing next to her.
"How can I help you?"
Wanda asked politely.
"It's my nephew, he's been acting strange and I was wondering if you could help."
She motioned at the boy by her side.
"Let me see him."
The boy came away from his aunt and stood in front of Wanda. The child had brown hair, he looked to be about six, maybe younger and his eyes were covered with sunglasses despite the darkness.
"Why dose he have sunglasses on?"
"He refused to take them off, I've tried to get them off his face but when I do he shuts his eyes tight and won't open again till there back on."
Wanda looked at the boy, she noted how he stood still, as if he was deciding if the trailer was safe or not.
"Could you leave us alone for a moment?"
Wanda asked, not taking her eyes off the boy.
"Yes, I'll be right outside Toby."
The woman left the trailer shutting the door on her way out.
"So Toby is it?"
The boy nodded.
"Why don't you take your sunglasses?"
"My eyes scare people."
His childlike voice answered.
"Really? Why do you say that?"
The boy adjusted his sunglasses before answering.
"Before my momma died and I went to live with my Aunt, my momma told me never toshow my eyes to people."
Wanda thought about what the kid said and a thought came to her. She went to the door to speak with the Aunt.
"Miss…?"
"It's Barkens."
"Miss. Barkens, could you bring Toby back here tomorrow?"
"Why?"
"I might have a friend who can help, if you bring him back here tomorrow at the same time I think I can help your nephew."
"Alright, I'll do that. thank you."
The aunt took the boys hand and he followed her down the road.
The night continued and the performers did their acts for the fairgoers. Around midnight the crowds left. And just a little after one Piotr walked Kitty back to her trailer.
"Thanks for walking me back."
"It was my pleaser."
He answered as he bent down to kiss her.
"I'll like see you tomorrow."
"Goodnight Katya."
She smiled at him and phased through her door. Once inside she changed into her PJ's and fell into her bed, too tired to do anything else but sleep.
Rogue packed up her things and slung her bag over her shoulder. She yawned and stretched her arms then her back. She looked around again to make sure she didn't miss anything before walking around the tent towards the trailers.
"You tired Chere?"
Remy appeared behind her.
"A little."
Without warning Remy picked her up bridal stile and he carried her back to her trailer. When he reached her trailer he set her down on the steps and pulled a rose out of thin air.
"For you chere."
"Why Thank ya, Ah love it."
She took the flower and smiled.
"Goodnight Cajun."
"Goodnight my chere,"
He kissed her gloved hand then left.
Wanda blew out the last candle and turned off her light. She had just laid down when she heard something hit her window, when she went to see what it was she found John standing nearby with a handful of pebbles. She opened her window and leaned out.
"What are you doing here John?"
"This."
He climbed up on a box and kissed her, Logan with X-23 asleep on his back walked by at that moment and Logan yelled at John to get to his own trailer. He did so reluctantly, giving Wanda one more kiss before stepping off the box.
In their trailers John, Piotr and Remy couldn't sleep. Remy was throwing cards into a hat on the other side of his trailer mumbling something in French about how Rogue was going to drive him crazy, John lying down on his bed was making Wanda's face out of fire while humming "Ring of Fire" and Piotr was at his easel, drawing a picture of Kitty with a Russian CD playing softly in the background. The three finally let sleep take them after a while and all three boys had very sweet dreams.
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