Disclaimer: I've done this a million times! It's not mine!!!
Okay, here we are with another update...which took me forever due to moving house and stupid new schools. ANyone else hate being a teen? Right, shorter than usual, but I wanted to get this up as I am going to be gone for a week. So...here you are...
Part X
Rogue positively reeked of the Cajun. As nice a smell as the Cajun was, all spice and tang, it started to worry Logan. Sure, he didn't mind their budding relationship blooming, but was Stripes setting herself up for a downfall? The annoying thing was they were going out today. A Library outing and Logan sure as hell wasn't gonna go with them, keeping an eye on Rogue or not. They had Ororo for that. But the strength of the scent meant they had been together, and in close proximity, all night. Possibly sleeping together in the same bed, more than likely his.
"Ya sure ya don't wanna come with Logan?" Zaire asked, jumping down the stairs. Logan watched as she jumped down three, up two, down three, up two. The girl was bonkers.
"No, I ain't coming." Logan said gruffly. Zaire eventually made it to the bottom of the stairs, smiling wildly, eyes twinkling.
"Well, I'm getting Twinkies for Hank while I'm out, ya wanting anything gruff stuff?" She said, winking seductively. Logan shook his head.
"There's a word for people like you kid." He said, turning to walk away, he knew she was waiting for the word, so decided to humour her. "It's jailbait." She laughed wholeheartedly, wandering off to the kitchen while doing so.
"Everyone's jailbait to ya Logan!" She shouted back, getting the last word as usual. In a way, Logan thought she might almost be right, but that didn't matter right now. The whole lot of them were off to the Library today, with Ro. As much as he was uneasy about it, there was no way that he was gonna go. He'd tell Ro to be careful; it wasn't like much could happen anyway. Logan decided to trail them to the city and that should cancel out any worries he had. Whose idea was it anyway to go to a Library of all things?
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"Remind me again why we decided the Library was best?" Zaire asked, sitting at the table with Remy and Rogue. Everyone else was still slowly getting out of their bed, both Remy and Rogue still in what counted as their PJ's. Rogue was still half-dead and Remy hadn't yet finished with his coffee fix. Zaire had noticed that she and Kitty were really the only two in the mansion who were even remotely alive in the morning. Rahne and Bobby had their moments, but it only happened every now and then. Rogue just sat there, her tank top and sweat pants contrasting with her eyes wonderfully. Remy on the other hand looked far different from what Zaire had previously seen the Cajun wear. He had a long sleeved t-shirt on; his hands covered in his two fingered and thumb covered gloves, along with his baggy pants. Zaire raised an eyebrow, noticing that Rogue indeed also wore her gloves.
"Um, can I just ask what happened after I left you two last night?" Neither of them got to answer as Kitty came flying into the room at top speed.
"Oh, here you are! I was like, totally worried. I was gonna get everyone together for a full scale search. Like, why didn't you come to bed last night?" Zaire's eyes almost popped out her head. THEY SLEPT TOGETHER? In her mind, a small chibi impersonation of herself just fell off the chair; eyes wide and sweat drop falling, loud explosion shaking the room as her chair hit the ground after her. In real life she sat there, stunned. Obviously it had been in the most literal sense since all that they could do was sleep. Rogue seemed to be struggling with an answer to Kitty's question, probably not to keen to give out all the details so soon. So, being the angel of mercy that she was, Zaire stepped in.
"Rogue slept in my room." She said, looking up from her bowl of Lucky Charms. Rogue sent a grateful smile in her direction and Zaire smiled back, when Kitty turned her back to find the Pop Tarts, Rogue mouthed 'thank you' to which Zaire replied 'no problem' with a shrug. The shock and confusion had worn off and Zaire was now silently gleeful that Rogue and Remy had spent the night together, it bound them together just that little bit more. The elementalist could see quite clearly that, despite what people may think, the pair were made for one another. Before she had thought she was jealous of Rogue having Remy, but she didn't feel that way about it, she knew it was more like a bond of friendship, she could never love him like a lover should. Then she realised; it was what they had she envied. So, since she didn't have it, she would make sure they nurtured it, keeping what they had special. If that meant covering up for them when she needed to, so be it. If that meant lying so that they didn't suffer, so be it. If that meant putting up with lovey-dovey crap from them, so be it.
Zaire was determined they would be happy!
"Oh, okay." Kitty seemed to accept that at face value, and she had no reason not to. Slowly, one by one, the rest of the group started to appear, half of them dead on their feet.
"Vhy Sunday? Vhy not after school tomorrow? I hate ze mornings." Kurt complained, his image inducer not yet turned on. His blue fur was everywhere, ruffled hair and spiky. He actually looked kinda cute. Kitty giggled at him and petted his head, messing up his hair even more.
"We're going today so that ah can read tomorrow when school is boring. Which it always is!" Rogue argued, happy to have the attention diverted. "What else were we gonna do today anyway?" She asked, looking around to group for someone to answer.
"Well, I had a training session planned." Scott informed them, picking up a mug of coffee that seemed to offend Remy. Zaire frowned, didn't Remy like coffee? He practically poured a whole tub of coffee granules into his mug earlier…
"See, there ya have it elf boy. Rogue and I saved ya from training sessions!" Zaire nearly broke her own face with the grin that was plastered there. "Okay, Remy, Rogue, go get yer butts in gear. Ya can't go out in public like that!" Rogue sighed and left, heading towards her room to get changed; Remy got up, placed his mug in the sink and then went to his room. No argument offered from either.
"Are they upset or something?" Jean asked, looking at Zaire.
"No, I'm just training them to be my mindless zombie slaves. I need to start somewhere for my plans of world domination." Zaire picked through her Lucky Charms, listening to the conversation around her, wondering if any of them would ever pick up on things that were right in front of their faces.
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Luckily the library was nearly empty; no one was keeping much of an eye on anyone. This made it much easier for Zaire, Remy and Rogue to sneak off somewhere out of the way and wait for John to show up. It took a few minutes for the other male to show his face, in that time both Rogue and Zaire had managed to find a few books to make the trip appear to be educational. The girls stood chatting quietly while Remy watched for John, not really bothering with their conversation due to lack of interest in the breakdown on the social class barriers which stood in the modern day society. Thankfully, John showed up just before they dragged him into the conversation.
"Alright mate?" John asked, smiling stupidly when he approached. Remy shook his head, still amazed at the utter carefree nature that the semi - psychotic male possessed.
"Sault mon ami," Remy said, a small smile gracing his face at the sight of his friend. At last, something he knew how to handle. John was easy to handle now, threaten to remove his lighter from his possession and you had him under control. With anything else in his life right now, it was total chaos.
"And how are you my lovely Sheila's?" Remy noticed Rogue's harsh exhale of breath, her eyes had narrowed and Zaire stood beside her, smirking.
"We ain't been properly introduced," Zaire said, holding out her hand, "my name's Zaire." John took it and shook it once.
"John," was the simple reply. "Okay then, what say we get down to business?" The Aussie clapped his hands together, rubbing them and smiling wildly. "I have devised something."
"Mon Dieu, we all done for." Remy mocked, a smirk on his face. John looked black affronted.
"Hey! I put a lot into this," John said, hands on his hips with an outraged look on his face. "Well, not really, I kinda came up with it last night." John broke out with a grin, worrying Remy slightly more. "Come on mate, lets just sit down, I'll tell ye all me thoughts and you three can tell me what ye think." The two males and two females sat down at a table in the back of the library, Remy beside Rouge, with John and Zaire sitting opposite. Remy noticed the lingering look John gave Zaire, even though the spunky girl didn't.
"Right, what is it you've thought up?" Rogue asked, her arms crossed over her chest in a very defensive manner.
"Well, to be perfectly honest, very little. Basically, you're good with computers, right Rem?" Remy nodded; sure he knew where this was all going. "I figured, shut down the main system, wipe it clean, leave a happy little note, Piotr heads home to Russia, I bugger off anywhere far from here and you live happily ever after with your Sheila." John said in a rush.
"You going home?" Remy asked, wondering just where John would be able to get to without Sabertooth tracking him down.
"Nah, can't. The number of things I burnt down," John grinned wildly, "I'd be lucky if they didn't just throw me in jail!" Remy laughed a little at the pride in John's voice. Remy recognised it as pride there had always been in his voice over how many heists he had completed successfully. It always came in ones line of living. Pyro understood that, probably more than he should've.
"When is Piotr out next?" Zaire asked, facing John. "If you don't want him involved, we'll need to wait till he's out, right?"
"Yeah," John replied, looking at Zaire with a smirk, "he's out on Wednesday. His little sister is being released from the hospital." Remy nodded, glad that young Illyana was on the mend. She seemed like a sweet girl the one time Remy got to see her.
"So how are we gonna get in without Sabertooth finding out we're there?" Rogue asked.
"That is where you're help comes in." John said. "I haven't figured that bit out yet." Rogue sighed and Remy shook his head. He just hoped that the others weren't wanting to leave too soon.
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AN: PLEASE RR!
Have a great week, more from me soon I hope. -Peace out!-
