disclaimer: Standard Jenny, I own no recognizable trademarked characters. However Jenny is MINE, and I will fight you for her, butI have been known to share if you ask nicely.

pre-note: This story is set at the end of chapter 9 of "Human and the Demon", and was inspired by one of my beta's (both of which are named Sara, and I'm sure you know which you are) and an old soda commercial. You might recognize it but if not I'm not telling.

Doing the Dishes
by Dizi

"Are you sure you don't mind doing all the dishes and stuff?" Jenny asked softly, whispering in Kurt's ear. "I didn't really mean it, you know. You don't have to do chores to prove you're sorry."

Reaching over, he brushed a stray strand of hair from her face. "But I meant it. You vork too hard, and yesterday you vere hurt from doing too much. Today, anyzing you see zat needs to be done you vill tell me and I vill do it."

"Oh, but-"

"Nein." Kurt placed a kiss on her cheek and smiled wickedly into her guileless eyes. "I am very contrite, and you can forgive me over and over. Now, you vill tell me vhen somezing needs to be done, ja?"

Jenny smiled slowly as she understood what he was saying. She wouldn't have to do anything - not that she minded - and they would get to have lots of 'make-up' making-out. Life was good. "I think I can do that."

"Gut." With that he got up and started clearing the table.

Leaning back, Jenny relaxed and thought how nice it was to do absolutely nothing, though it felt weird. Of course, she wasn't supposed to do anything, but that didn't make it feel any less strange. Kurt was so sweet to want to help her relax. She had done too much yesterday and was still feeling it.

Having come straight down, Kurt hadn't gotten dressed. She thought perhaps he should before he really got busy since he was still wearing his boxers and a tight tshirt. Maybe something loose so he could move easily because she could think of lots of things that probably needed to be done.

Watching the muscles in his arms and back ripple under the tshirt as he stretched to reach across the table, Jenny's mouth went dry and she licked her lips. Staring at him, she decided he really didn't need to change clothes. He was just fiiiinnnne the way he was. Just fine.

Kurt walked towards the sink with a stack of dirty dishes. Halfway there a spoon fell and he squatted down slowly and carefully, keeping the dishes balanced in his hands while his tail wrapped around the spoon and placed it on top of the stack.

"Jenny, do you want some more juice?"

His boxers didn't look quite so loose when he was down on the floor that way. She slowly drew in a breath as she clearly saw the flex of his thighs and buttocks as he stood back up.

"Jenny?" Kitty called. "Earth to Jenny!"

"Yeah?" her eyes never left him. What might possibly happen next? Maybe something else would fall!

"I said do you want more juice?" Kitty repeated again, clearly exasperated.

"Sure," Jenny answered vaguely, her hand waving in the general direction of her glass.

Confused by her behavior, Kitty followed her gaze and saw only Kurt. She didn't get it, but maybe it was the whole 'new couple' thing. Now she was facing that way, she continued watching amused that he was being so earnest about doing dishes.

Coming back to the table, Kurt gathered more dishes, again stretching to reach some of them.

Kitty found her eyes also glued to him. She took Kurt's vacant seat beside Jenny so as to have an unobstructed view.

Both women frowned as several of the men passed in front of them while leaving the kitchen.

Lazily sipping her morning tea, Betsy's eyes wandered the room. Curiously, she wondered why the two younger women were staring at Kurt. Jenny she could understand, but Kitty? She had known Kurt forever and never shown an interest.

Looking around the sink area, Kurt didn't see the dish soap. He opened the cabinet under the sink and knelt down, his tail slowly curling around his feet as he rummaged for the bottle of soap, the boxers again stretching tight and showing hismuscular acrobatic bodyclearly.

Betsy's eyes widened at the sight, and she sat up straighter in the chair.

"My," Kitty murmured appreciatively, expressing Betsy's thoughts. "I never realized Kurt was so..."

"Look, but don't touch if you want to live." Jenny whispered back in a slightly menacing tone.

Standing, Kurt held up the bottle, waving and smiling at Jenny.

All three women waved back.

With a gleam in his eye they didn't see, he went back to washing dishes and the women continued watching him - and studying his physique.

"Mmmmm, I love late mornings. We don't get to sleep in often." Jean gushed to Ororo and Rogue as all three strolled in.

"Yah'll missed the muffins Jenny baked." Rogue laughed. "There's none left. Sure were good, huh Jenny?"

Jenny didn't answer.

Stopping in front of her, Ororo frowned at Jenny. "I understood you were hurt and not allowed to do any housework."

"Uh-huh." Jenny craned her neck to look around Ororo, obviously not listening.

Giggling, Rogue said, "That's why Kurt's washin' the dishes."

Not lifting her eyes from Kurt filling the sink with dishes, Betsy said, "Why don't you sit down? There's some toast and tea left."

"Thank you, I believe I would like some tea." Ororo took a seat across from Kitty, who moved over so she could see better.

Jean looked from Betsy to Kitty to Jenny and back again, not quite sure what was going on. "Why-"

Betsy reached out to the other three women telepathically, "Would you mind please sitting down and being still? We're trying to watch."

Perplexed, all three turned as one to look at Kurt who was scrubbing a muffin tin.

"What?" Jean broadcast to them all. "He's just washing the pans."

"Yeah," Kitty breathed, "he sure is."

"Just watch, dear. You'll see." Betsy returned in the same manner, obviously amused.

Reaching for the sprayer nozzle, Kurt grabbed it wrong and accidentally sprayed himself with water getting his shirt wet. Muttering under his breath, he replaced the sprayer and grasped the hem of his tshirt raising it over his head and taking it off, the muscles along his pectorals, back, and abs flexing and rippling in the process. Shaking his head slightly to make his hair fall back over his pointed ears, he again reached for the sprayer to rinse the pan.

Six women watched in silence while Kurt scrubbed each dish, the act now intimate and sexy. The firm gentle strokes of his hands on the plates and pans. The way his shoulders moved as he twisted the washrag in the glasses and held up each to the light to make sure they were clean. Then as he rinsed each individual piece of silverware carefully.

The best part though - the absolute best - was when he leaned over and put his whole body into scrubbing down the counters and stove, straining and showing off his entire upper body in a line from the top of his boxers riding low on his hips to the tips of his fingers, rubbing and stroking the dirty surfaces. At one point, he dropped the washcloth and had to crouch down on the floor to pick it up, this time flexing and stretching from top to toe, earning a couple of appreciative sighs.

When he was finished, Kurt sauntered to Jenny and placed a chaste kiss on her forehead. "I am going to shower and dress. Zen you can have me do somezing else, ja?"

"S-s-sure." Jenny said weakly.

Hand on the door ready to push it open, Kurt looked back over his shoulder and winked at them all. Having been a performer, he was fully aware of when he had an audience and knew how to play to one. He had expected Jenny to watch and hadn't been able to resist teasing her, but the interest displayed by the other women was a complete and welcome surprise. Walking slowly down the hall, he wondered how long it would take Jenny to follow him.

"Oh. Mah. Gawd." Rogue exclaimed into the silence.

"How am I going to last?" Jenny whimpered. "Do you think he'll do that all day long?"

"I think we can almost guarantee it." Betsy's lips twitched as she finished the last of her tea.

"Wait." Jenny jumped to her feet, her eyes lit up and a grin spread over her face. "He's going to take a shower. Why am I still in here with you?" With that she ran after him.

"Maybe I can find something for Scott to clean." Jean mused. "He has great shoulders, you know."

"Do ya think maybe I could talk Remy inta washin' mah windows?" Rogue asked hopefully. "In a speedo?"

Betsy sighed. "I know no matter what I say, there's no way I'm getting Warren to do that."

"Pete never would have either," Kitty commiserated. "We could promise all the cigarettes and whiskey in the world and he still would never have done it."

From just out in the hall they could all hear Bobby clearly, "Hey, you two! This is a mansion and we've got two wings full of bedrooms. Pick one!"

Backing his way into the kitchen, Remy cupped one hand around his mouth as he called, "Dat's de way, chere!" Chuckling, he came the rest of the way inside grinning from ear to ear, "What happened? Dey not dis bad at breakfast. Was funny de way Jenny grabbed him at de stairway, t'ough. Dey may not make it all de way up."

"Kurt washed the dishes." Jean sighed blissfully.

"So?" Remy's brow creased in confusion.

Simultaneously, they all let out lustful sighs.

"There's just somethin' completely sexy about a man washin' dishes." Rogue sighed again.

Remy stared at her dreamy expression, then the expressions on the other female faces. "Remy t'ink he wash de dishes tonight. He get dem dishes clean, uh-huh. He can do dat."

note: It just seemed like something he would do. And if not, who cares, cause its funny! I can just picture word getting around the mansion and the men showing off by cleaning house. Can't ya just see it? If not, I'm very sorry because I really and truly can.

CaptainTish- Glad you liked it. These little things are my favorite kind of stories to write, only problem is that without the larger ones not everyone would get it.
Elizabeth Robbins- I don't time is going to change her reaction. It's part of her.
S- Going to be a little while for the next one, but I'm glad you like them too.
GothikStrawberry- He would be but it's more that Logan seems to laugh at Jenny alot. It's as though she were put there to entertain him or something. Well, maybe she was a little, but only a litte.
nanaroxu- See! And you wanted an early peek! (I know it won't be anytime soon, but maybe you'll see this someday.)
B Oots- Yes, I finished it late and ended up posting at the wrong time. Sorry. But I got this one done long time ago so its posted in the right order.
zach carpenter- I bet I can make you a Jenny fan!

For those who don't know Jenny first appeared in "The Decision" then she was the focus of "The First Test" and "Test Two". I got good reviews so I kept on with Jenny and she got a much larger role in "Human in a Mutant World". I felt I left alot out of that one so wrote a series of short stories to fill in that time frame in "Jenny and the X-Men". Now I have given Jenny and Kurt the greatest gift I could think of. Each other in "Human and the Demon", and the stories in this one will take place during and after it. Hope that explains it.

Thanks for reading and the support,
Dizi