Chapter 7

After the phone rang twice before someone picked it up on the other side.

"Xavier's School for the Gifted"

Jubilee immediately recognised Cyclop's voice, and knew she couldn't have came across any worse. His voice had sounded tired and inpatient already.

She took a deep breath and cleared her throat.

"Hello! Who is it!" Cyclops repeated even more inpatient.

"Cyclops?...eh…It's me…" she started carefully.

"Jubilee! Is that you?" he asked.

She thought she could hear a trace of relieve in his voice.

"Are you alright?" he asked worried.

"Yes..I.." she answered. But he interrupted briskly.

His relieve had made way for anger.

"Where the hell are you? And how did it even enter your head to run away like this!" he yelled angry.

Jubilee had already anticipated him being angry, but she never had heard him this angry before, and it got to her more than she liked to admit.

Cyclops just kept on yelling at her. Jubilee too started to get angry and without uttering another word she hang up the phone.

"Cyclops?" Wolverine guessed when seeing her reaction.

"And he haven't even heard you crashed the jet yet!" Wolverine added deadpan.

Jubilee threw him a huffy grin, but had to laugh too when she pictured Cyclops face at hearing that.

Surprised Cyclops looked at the receiver still in his hand.

"She hang up on me!" he said indignantly.

"You think that's strange!" Gambit raged.

But before Gambit could even react Jean had come in between.

"We are all worried, and this will not solve anything!" she said stern.

"Is everything alright with her?" Storm asked Cyclops.

He nodded "Yes, at least that's what she said anyway…"

"Try again kid, or else you hand him over to me…" Wolverine suggested.

Jubilee nodded hesitantly, and with shaking fingers dialed the number again.

This time someone answered immediately after the first ring.

Her tension was relieved immediately when she recognised a heavy French accent.

"Petite?..." was the only thing he said.

A tear slowly made it down her cheek at hearing Gambit's soft yet warm voice.

"Gambit?...I…Is Cyclops very angry?" she asked timid.

"Don't worry petite..He'll turn around. He was just worried…..We are all petite... You gave us quite the scare." he said calm.

"I'm sorry, I really am… Are you very angry?" she asked carefully. Cyclops being angry at her she could deal with, but Gambit was her best friend…

"Non Petite. You must have had a good reason to leave without telling us." he said nonchalant.

Although he too had been torn with worry when she hadn't been in touch for this long, he also was confident she could take care of herself. Besides he had a pretty good idea why she had left without saying anything.

"Did you find him?" he asked therefore.

Jubilee was completely flabbergasted by his question, and for a moment she kept silent.

"I…How did you knew I was trying to find him!" she asked amazed.

Gambit laughed "I know you Petite.." he said deadpan.

"Where are you now? And did you find him yet?" he asked.

"I'm in..ehh.." She glanced at Wolverine. She didn't want to give away Wolverine's 'hiding place', but she also knew that Gambit would feel more at ease if he knew where she was.

Wolverine noticed her dilemma and nodded saying she could tell him.

"I'm in Japan, and yes I've found him!" she said proudly.

"You are where! How the hell did you find him there!" Gambit asked amazed.

"Long story, but everything went fine, so please don't worry about me!" she said a lot more cheerfully already.

"Bien sûre Petite. Is the Wolverine there?" Gambit asked.

She handed the sell phone back to Wolverine "He wants to speak to you…"

Wolverine looked at the sell phone unwillingly. He had meant to break all contact with the X-men, but not even that seemed to work. First she showed up at his door, and now Gambit wanted to talk to him on the phone.

"Logan." he said gruffly.

It didn't surprised him to hear Gambit's voice on the other side of the phone.

"Look, I've got nothing to do with this! I haven't invited her or anything!" Wolverine said immediately getting into defence mode.

But Gambit ignored his words "Is she alright?" was all Gambit asked instead.

For a moment Wolverine was confused about his question. He had expected Gambit to blame him, for that was exactly what he himself felt too.

"Eh…yeah sure, smart-assed as always…" he said deadpan.

Gambit laughed "Oui, she's her good old self then!" he said just as deadpan.

"Do you want her to stay? If not, Gambit can pick her up, or even send a plane to come and get her if that's what you want…" Gambit said seriously once again.

Again Wolverine realised how understanding the Cajun could be when he dropped his usual act of nonchalance.

"No, it's okay. She can stay for a couple of days." Wolverine answered sighing.

"You're sure? Gambit can come pick her up in no-time…" Gambit offered again.

But Wolverine had already submitted to it. "No, it's alright."

"Okay. … Oh, Wolverine?...Keep an eye on her for me okay?" Gambit asked with a slightly worried voice.

Wolverine knew very well how much Jubilee meant to the Cajun, and knew how hard it must be for him to be too far away from her to protect her if necessary.

"Sure Cajun, she'll be safe here…" Wolverine promised him.

"Merci…" Gambit sighed relieved.

"Oh Cajun, I… about my whereabouts…I.." Wolverine started. But he was interrupted by Gambit.

"Gambit don't know a thing…" Gambit said nonchalant once again. And Wolverine was sure he wouldn't say anything to the others.

Jubilee tried to get Wolverine's attention.

"Hang on, Jubes wants to talk to you again…" Wolverine said.

Now she knew that Gambit wasn't angry at her, and that Wolverine didn't mind her being with him, her cheerfulness came back again.

"Gambit? Please don't tell Cyke where I am… he'll probably will come down here and drag me back by my hair!" she begged him.

Gambit laughed "Hmmm You might just be right about that…" Gambit said laughing. "But don't worry Petite, Gambit will be silent as the grave. You just make sure you take good care of yourself, and listen to the Wolverine, Oui?" he said in his usual nonchalance.

Jubilee nodded, although Gambit couldn't see. Then a mischiefus smile graced her lips.

"Speaking of Wolvie…" she started grinning.

Wolverine gave her a wary look at hearing his name, but she continued defiantly.

"He found himself a girlfriend!...And a very cute one at that too!" she said laughing.

"Wolverine having an actual girlfriend!" Gambit reacted laughing as well.

"Yup, and I think he is in love!" she continued enthusiastically.

Wolverine threathingly stalked over to her but she backed away laughing.

"Give me that phone!" Wolverine said quasi angry. But Jubilee quickly dashed by past him.

Gambit pretty much understood what was happening on the other side, and couldn't help but laugh.

Wolverine rushed after Jubilee to snatch away the phone.

"Gambit help!" she called out still laughing.

Wolverine quickly had her tackled to the floor, causing the phone to fall from her hand.

Gambit couldn't follow what was happening any longer, but by the sounds he could hear, it seemed she had a pretty good time, and that was all that mattered to him.

"Give me the phone!" Wolverine said threathingly.

They both wrestled to get it, but in the end it was Wolverine who got it.

"Goodbye!" he said into the receiver before breaking the connection.

Jubilee was laying sprawled on the floor howling with laughter, and Wolverine also had to laugh. Something he hadn't done in a very long time…

"Was that Jubilee?" Jean asked worried when Gambit put the receiver down.

"Oui Chère" Gambit confirmed nonchalant.

"Where is she? Is everything alright with her?" Storm asked.

"I don't know where she is, but she's doing fine." Gambit said avoiding.

They knew that he wouldn't tell them anything else, but since he didn't seem to worry anymore about her they knew that wherever she was, she wasn't in any danger. And they continued with their own things.

Only Rogue stayed behind.

"Gambit?...Is she..did she find him?" she asked shyly.

For a moment Gambit was in doubt whether to tell her the truth or not, but nodded in the end.

"Oui, she found him" he said finally.

He knew how much she cared for Wolverine, and also knew that she had been very worried for him ever since he left, and he felt she deserved to know how he was doing.

"He's doing fine Chère" he said comfortingly.

Rogue looked relieved. She knew that she wouldn't have been able to stop Wolverine, but she had still been worried for him.

"Thank you…." She said relieved.

She hadn't expected Gambit to tell her more than he had told the others, but was grateful he had anyways….

AN : thank you all for reading this chapter and especially for those who left me all these wonderful reviews! It really means the world to me! (i'm sorry but I heard we're no longer alowed to thank reviewers personally, but you all know who I mean.)