John collapsed down to the ground, dead tired and Bobby followed right
after him. " I didn't think the little bugger was that fast." John wheezed
out. They had been chasing Toad all over the yard, who knew this place was
so huge and who knew Toad was that fast? Or in that great of shape. John
thought as he recollected himself.
" Me neither." Bobby panted heavily, both watched as Remy skidded to a halt a few feet a head of them he too looked a bit winded. " Cajun I didn't sign up for a marathon." Bobby told him slowly standing up." You had a choice?" John asked remaining on the fresh and moist green grass.
" Not really." Bobby said collapsing back down to the ground. " Man I just ate too, and I'm getting a cramp." Bobby complained, holding his stomach as he lay on the fresh green grass.
" Isn't that only for swimming?" John asked lightly as he retied his boots, he then pulled off the black sweatshirt he was wearing, layers and running didn't work all that well for he pyromaniac.
" I thought it was for all sports." Bobby replied, absently pulling at the collar of his shirt to cool himself down. " I need some water." he commented absently.
" No, I'm sure its just swimming." John restated he then brought out his lighter. " Ice up to cups mate." John told Bobby.
Bobby complied and produced two small cups, " Now what?"
" Make a small stream at me. Sorry if I burn ya." John said as he flicked his lighter open and began to melt the ice stream Bobby shot at him with a steady and constant stream of flames, it melted into the cups. John picked one up and raised his glass to Bobby. " Cheers mate." John said before taking a rather large gulp.
" Cheers." Bobby replied back gulping his down. Both made a small " Ahh." Sound once done.
" You what would make this better?" John asked absently melting a small part of the cup to get more water.
" What?" Bobby asked as he held out his cup for a refill.
" Some lemon in the water," John complied and melted up some more water for the two of them. " And those little-"
" Oh those little umbrellas? The stick ones?" Bobby asked finishing off for John.
" Yeah, those ones mate. That's what we need." John said leaning back onto the grass, " That, and you know."
" Girls in bikini's." Bobby said.
" On a beach." John added.
" On a hot summers day." Bobby said as began to imagine it.
" Right, then well be made in the shade."
" Drinkin' ice cold lemonade." Bobby finished as they clashed glasses.
" You've got to be kiddin' me? Bunch o'sissys." Remy exclaimed as he watched the pair, it was an interesting sight to behold, one of those you had to have been there to get it moments. It was also a just plain scary moment.
Both John and Bobby frowned as there mini paradise was just snatched away from them. John was the first to speak up. " Thirsty?" He asked holding up his glass. Remy glared at him," okay I'll take that as a no." John said absently, Bobby gulped.
" Should we run?" Bobby whispered over to John.
" Nah, I've seen him get much more pissed off then this. " John reassured the young mutant.
" John." Remy said, and then left off there, like saying the mans name explained everything, and to John and Remy, somehow it did.
" Did you catch him?" John asked pointing in the direction that he saw Toad hop off to, into the woods along the trails.
" Shut up." Remy said in a slightly annoyed tone, " It's a minor set back." Remy explained, reverting back to a more normal state.
" I don't even know why I'm here helping you out." John rambled as he got up and dusted off the dirt from his jeans. " I quiet. Thanks for the drink Bob." John said giving Remy a mock salute as he began to stomp off.
" Miss ya buddy." Bobby called to him waving, Remy rolled his eyes, and those two were so alike it was scary.
" John!" Remy called back to him.
" Forget it." John called back to him.
" If I catch him will y'help?" Remy asked.
" Forty-bucks." John declared.
" Twenty." Remy haggled.
" Done." John smiled as he sauntered back over to the group, though he didn't join Drake on the ground he just stood.
" Hey I demand to get paid too." Bobby declared.
" Non." Remy snapped.
" You're paying him." Drake stated.
" It's only fair Cajun." John said switching over to help Bobby.
" Whose side are y'on?" Remy questioned raising an eyebrow at the statement and his friend's betrayal.
" Not yours." John said as he helped Drake up, they all were still slightly tired. None of them guessed that Toad was that fast or in that good of shape, to say that the three of them were surprised would have been an understatement.
" M'paying you." Remy declared watching the two.
" Not much mate." John reminded him while pointing his pointer finger at the Cajun. John ran a hand through his gelled up hair, while letting out a rather large yawn.
" It's twenty bucks." Remy restated, running a had through his messed up hair.
" Again I say, not much." John told him again, he then began to walk towards the trails where he had seen Toad go.
" Whatever." Remy said tossing his hands in the air in defeat.
" What about me?" Bobby asked Remy glared at the boy.
" What about you?" Remy asked raising an eyebrow.
" Don't I get paid?" Bobby demanded.
" You volunteered." Remy told him as he began to follow John onto the trails.
" No I didn't. I would have remembered that." Bobby told him, as he jogged a few paces to catch up to them.
" I'll give you half of my forty." John shouted from the lead, it took Remy a moment to realize what exactly was wrong with that statement.
" Hey, m'only givin' y'twenty." Remy reminded the redhead.
" I know but I changed it. It's called interest. You know that's when a charge goes up over time." John explained calmly as he absently picked up a stick and used it as walking stick.
" You can't do that." Remy told him.
" Just did Cajun." John responded without looking back. " Toad?" John called out. " Come on out mate! It's bath time." John announced.
" Yeah that'll work." Bobby said lightly. John shot him a small glare.
" Hey do you want half or not?" John threatened. Bobby gulped.
" Toad?" Drake began to call out as well. John smiled and resumed to what he was doing before.
" Come on out an' I'll give you half of Drake's share." John tempted.
" Hey!" Bobby cried out, glaring at John.
" What? It's just a little bait, don't get your knickers in a bunch mate." John talked him down, they both resumed to looking and calling out for Toad.
Remy just rolled his eyes and continuously asked, why me?
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" Chuck we have a problem. Actually we have a couple of problems." Logan announced as he barged into Xavier's office. The Professor was sitting calmly at his desk going over some new files he had just printed out from Cerebro on some newly detected mutants. He removed his brown rimed reading glasses and gently set his ink pen down on top of the papers he was currently reviewing.
" Good afternoon Logan." Xavier greeted warmly, a charming smile present on his lips.
" Chuck have you seen what all of them have done to this house? Boots put another hole into a wall, the Popsicle left the kitchen a mess from his sandwich, I can't find little miss Princess, the Wild Child keeps blasting that music, and keeps asking where Half-pint is, and the half-pint looked upset and then Rogue followed her. The Cajun is up to no good, and I heard Frog Boy screamin' like a banshee a few minutes ago, that and I found that the Fire-ant is the one that's been hording the candles that have been missing." Logan explained a mouth full; Charles smiled quite amused by the gruff looking Canadian.
" They have names you know." The Professor reminded Logan.
" Yeah but I can't remember um." Logan said taking a seat in one of the lounge chairs by the window.
" Yet you can remember at those nick names?" Charles questioned lightly.
" Your the mind reader." Logan said with a sigh. " We need more instructors, and I still say we need a couple of tanks." Logan added lazily. Charles smiled warmly as he wheeled around his desk, stopping a few feet away from Logan.
" I already said no tanks Logan." Charles joked with him; he glanced out the window all looked peaceful.
" I would like to reopen that argument." Logan half-heartedly joked.
" Denied." Xavier stated.
" Can't blame a guy for trying." Logan shrugged, " So what do we do?" Logan asked reverting back to the reason he stormed in her in the first place.
" For starters Amara got a call a little less then an hour ago that her Grandmother was sick Ororo took her to the air port, Amara won't be back for a week. She'll be back by Friday." Xavier explained Logan nodded.
" And Boots?" Logan asked.
" Ah Wanda." Xavier said as if he had forgotten. " I think perhaps we need to take an alternative approach to reaching her, or at least opening herself up to people." Xavier explained.
" Run that by me again Chuck?" Logan asked tilting his head.
" We need to have her interact with the others more." Xavier said putting it into lame mans terms.
" She's interacting with Stripes." Logan reminded him. Xavier nodded and thought on the subject.
" But it seems to have closed her off even more." Xavier explained. Logan raised an eyebrow; he didn't see how hanging out with some one could close them off even more.
" How?" Logan asked completely clueless on the matter, it wouldn't be the first time though.
" The two of them seem to close themselves off so much that they seem to stay in there own little world. They both have their defenses. Rogue with her mutation, and Wanda resorts to violence, she does not like change." The Professor explained.
" What does change have to do with anything?" Logan questioned as he looked out the window, making a small mental note that Tabby was walking out onto the trails next to the mansion.
" It wasn't there before." Xavier began to explain, his tone changing, his voice grow quieter as if he were sharing a secret. " I believe it was something Eric had Jason add to her, implant in a way."
Logan frowned, he had heard what happened to the kid, that had to be rough, and to have it be caused by your own father had to be even worse. " Are you sure?" Logan asked. Xavier shook his head.
" No, she was only starting to warm up to me when Mystique broke her out, but I feel that it just wasn't there before." Xavier told him looking down into his hands; Logan got a funny feeling that the Professor wasn't talking to him anymore.
" A feeling?" Logan questioned, Xavier snapped his head back over to Logan looking like he had just realized that the other man was in the room.
" Yes."
" It could be just her." Logan tried to analyze.
" Perhaps." The Professor pondered, bringing his hand up to his chin in thought. " Or maybe I should ask one of the students..." Xavier trailed off.
" She just may be anti-social." Logan said casually, " Look at me."
Xavier raised an eyebrow, " Do you want her to be like you?" The Professor asked.
" No." Logan answered instantly, not even having to really think about the question. " So what was that about a student?" Logan asked trying to find a way to avoid another him.
" If she could just open up to another person then maybe she might open up to others." Xavier began to ponder out loud.
" Think it'll work? You tried that with Rogue and it didn't work." Logan reminded Xavier.
" But with Rogue I chose the wrong person." Xavier reminded Logan. Logan raised an eyebrow.
" Maybe you should just let her be?" Logan tried, not really liking where this was going.
" If she just spent some time with someone completely opposite of herself then it may work." Xavier pondered, forgetting that Logan was in the room again.
" It could also back fire. Remember Rogue and Scott?" Logan asked trying to get the man to come to his senses.
" Yes Logan, but I'm not making the same mistakes twice." Xavier assured him.
" No, you're making all new ones." Logan said standing up. Xavier shook his head.
" Chuck, think about, she'll be pissed if she found out, and withdraw even more. It would have happened to Rogue if it wasn't for Kitty." Logan almost yelled out, Xavier's face grew concerned as he began to realize the mistake he may be making.
Logan walked to the door, not angry but not really happy either. " You can't save them all Chuck. " Logan told him.
" I know Logan, I know." Xavier assured his old friend Logan gave a gruff nod.
" You didn't fail Wanda Chuck." Logan said quietly before he left Xavier's study.
Xavier sat there for a moment, thinking. " I just never got the chance too save her." He told the empty room, letting his head fall and rest in his hands, trying to figure out what to do.
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" Note to self." Tabby spoke absently as she walked through the unmarked trails in the woods. " Never wear high heels boot when hiking." Tabby told herself with a smile, her spirits not at all broke with her little encounter with Wanda earlier.
" You call that hiking?" A voice called out from hidden branch in the tree. Tabby looked up with a charged energy bomb in her hand ready to go.
" Who the hell is up there?" Tabby called out, trying to get a look at the person behind the voice by squinting her eyes.
" I'll give ya three guesses yo." The voice called out. Tabby smiled, and tossed the small orange orb up aiming it right where she heard the voice.
" How about one?" Tabby yelled out as she heard the small explosion, followed by a very girl like scream and Toad crashing down to the ground flat on his ass. Tabby tried but couldn't hold in the laughter.
Toad shot right back up from the ground once he realized he was in plain sight and quickly grabbed Tabby hiding both of them in the bushes. Tabby opened her mouth to speak but Toad shushed her.
" We need to hide." Toad explained. Tabby scrunched up her face a bit.
" From who?" Tabby asked trying to stand back up.
" Remy, John and Drake." Toad told her, looked left and right then left again onto the unmarked trail for any signs of the troublesome trio.
" Have you seen Kitty? Ray said she was out here." Tabby began to ask, completely ignoring Toad's warning; she stood up and walked onto the trail. Toad's eye grew huge when he saw her and yanked her by the arm back into the bushes.
" Are you crazy yo?" Toad all but wailed while trying to keep his voice quiet.
" Ow." Tabby complained. " You could have yanked my arm out of its socket." Tabby said examining her wrist. Toad rolled his eyes; he was too weak to harm her.
" You gotta help hide me." Toad told more like begged her. Tabby shook her head.
" Can you say paranoid?" Tabby asked sarcastically.
" Tabby?" Toad whined.
" I'm looking for Kitty." Tabby told him, preparing to stand back up. " I'm going to leave now, and I promise I won't tell Gambit and the others where you are if you don't yank me back down again." Tabby explained to him, Toad eyed her for a moment.
" Promise?" Toad asked, raising an eyebrow.
" Of course." Tabby said grabbing his hand to shake, she then stood up and continued walking the way she was originally heading.
Toad watched her walk away, " I don't trust her." Toad said to himself as he began to climb back up into his tree to hide.
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" I say we give up. This isn't worth Twenty bucks." Bobby said as he slowly walked down the unmarked trail following Remy and John.
" Fine leave, more money for me." John barked out, he really wanted to leave but he really needed the forty bucks.
" I still find it amusing that you think your getting forty dollars." Remy said lightly amused as he walked, hands loosely resting his trench coat pockets, a small smile on his face.
" You owe me Cajun. I lost more then a pint of blood in that ER." John reminded him.
" Yeah, yeah. At least Remy got you there safely, right?" Remy asked him lightly, wondering how long it would before John would let the whole thing go.
" Why are we even lookin' for the bloke?" John asked slowing his pace a bit to admire the scenery that they passed.
" Cause..." Bobby started but he didn't know, " Remy why are we lookin' for Toad anyway?" Bobby asked slowing his pace to match John's.
" Well..." Remy had to take a minute to think about it. " One is cause me an' de frog boy have dis plan, an' no m'not tellin' you. Two cause lets jus' face it, de boy needs a bath." Remy said lightly as he stepped over a fallen branch.
" So..." John trailed off absently searching for his lighter. " There is no real reason other then we are doing everyone's noses in the mansion a favor." John guessed as he followed.
" That's what I got out of it." Bobby commented lightly, shoving his hands into his pocket.
" Okay making sure." John said lightly.
" Will you to shut up?" Remy barked out.
Bobby and John both looked at each other and gave a small nod, evil smiles plaster one their faces, and it was a silent argument to bother the Cajun even more.
" Shesh looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." John said casually to Bobby but loud enough for Remy to hear him. John smiled as he slid his hands into his pocket; as long as he was bugging the Cajun life was good.
" I know. Can you say PMSing?" Bobby asked cracking up. He had heard Tabby say to Amara so many times when Amara was in a bad mood, Amara would always blush and Tabby would just crack up.
John let out a gut full of laughter, he wasn't at all to sure if the kid knew what he was saying but it most definitely pissed Remy off.
Remy stopped abruptly and turned to look at Drake, did the idiot know what he just said? He doubted it. " That's it. It's only twenty bucks, I was thinking forty but know it's most definitely twenty. " Remy said continuing his walk.
Both of them stopped laughing, " You were not." John accused. Remy smiled back at them.
" Sure I was. Only fair pay ya for the work y'doin'." Remy said lying through his teeth.
" Way ta go Drake." John said flopping the blame over to Bobby, Bobby eyes grew huge.
" Me? What did I do?" Bobby asked pointing towards himself, and then he pointed to Remy. " He's the one that lowered the payment. Blame him." Bobby told John.
" I would but you can't get mad at a man that's gonna pay ya. It jus' don' work that way mate." John told him sighing as they started walking again, his head bent down as he watched his feet walk in a steady fashion.
" Says who?" Bobby asked.
" Him." John said gesturing towards Remy. " He's the money." John told him, " Piss him off to much and he just leaves, and no money. Poof. " John explained waving his arms around magically, then imitating a small cloud of smoke when he said 'poof'.
" But you even teased him." Drake pointed out.
John wrinkled his brow in confusion. " Oh that-" John started. " Well ya see mate- that is- don't confuse me with questions like that." John exclaimed. " Do as I say not as I do. Mind your elders." John then added for good measures. He was getting all tongue tied and confused now, he just hated it when he sounded like a hypocrite but then, who didn't these days?
" But you're like two years older then me." Bobby commented completely confused.
" Exactly, I know more I'm older." John told him, a proud arrogant smirk on his face.
" Whatever." Drake said, just let it go and absently kicked a rock on the trail, old people were confusing Drake decided.
Remy just rolled his eyes as he tried to block them out.
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" Okay now I know I passed this tree before." Tabby said lightly to herself as she came to halt, a few blond strands falling over her face. " That's it." Tabby exclaimed, " I'll admit it, I'm lost. Okay you happy now?" Tabby yelled out up to the sky. She stomped her foot to prove her point and through up her arms in defeat. " I give, okay? I'm going back in." She claimed as she turned around to head back, problem was she was lost. " Crap."
" Whom are you talking to?" Toad asked jumping down from his perch up in the tree. Tabby squealed with delight.
" I knew someone up there loved me." She said, " Toad you can help me back to the mansion." Tabby told him, as she quickly gave him a small hug. Toad froze there for a sec, not at all sure what had just happened but quickly shook it off.
" Are you serious?" Toad asked squatting in his usual position.
Tabby looked down at him her hands planted on her hips, " Yeah." Tabby told him like it was obvious.
" It's like a 100 or two feet that way." Toad told her pointing north, Tabby smiled and started to head that way.
" Thanks Todd." Tabby called out as she began to walk away.
" Wait, Tabby who were you talking to?" Toad asked, he had heard her talking to someone for a while now.
" Whoever's listening. Mainly the head cheese up there though." Tabby told him pointing up to the sky, though in this mess it was blocked by a numerous number of trees.
" Really?" Toad asked, both eyebrows raised.
" Got a problem with that pal?" Tabby asked getting rather defensive. Toad put up his hands in surrender.
" No, no. I just found it interesting yo." Toad told her honestly, Tabby eyed him for a moment then nodded as if it was a nod of approval.
" Later Toady." She called back, she figured it would be easier to just wait for Kitty to come back from her walk rather then try and find her. The club didn't get goin' till later anyway, Tabby thought with an evil smile.
" Hey hold up." Toad called to her. Tabby paused mid-step and turned back to look at him, " I'll walk ya." He said casually standing up next to her.
" Oh wow, such the gentleman." Tabby said grabbing his right arm as if he were a male escort. Toad gave her a funny look and just summed it up with two words: It's Tabby.
" Yeah, well I try." he said lightly.
" You just don't want the guys to find ya." Tabby said remembering why he was out there in the first place.
Toad gulped, " Yeah, you aren't goin' to tell them, are ya?" Toad asked somewhat nervous. He'd rather take a bath himself then go through whatever hideous torture they had planed for giving him a bath.
" OH BOYS LOOK WHO I-" Tabby began to shout but stopped and grinned a evil smile and gave a small giggle. " Relax, you know me." Tabby said clinging tightly onto his arm. " I won't tell."
Toad let out a nervous laugh, " Hehe, right, I knew that." Toad said tensing up again, looking around to see if any of them had heard her. But there was no sign of them, Toad sighed as if he had just narrowly escaped certain doom and continued to walk.
" Relax, my lips are sealed Romeo." Tabby said lightly as they walked out off the trails and back onto the mansion yard.
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" No Johnny Depp is way cutter then Brad Pit." Kitty rambled on as her and Rogue wander about the trails. They had pretty much talked about anything any everything, it was a good catch up walk some may call it.
" No Kit, Brad Pit is cutter and Johnny Depp is sexier." Rogue replied as they walked along the trail, unknown to them that no more then a few feet away stood Remy, Bobby, and John.
" That was creepy." John commented as he watched the two girl from twenty feet away, his face blank and void of any emotions.
" Did we just see that?" Bobby asked in somewhat shock pointing in Rogue and Kitty's general direction, though that was no where near how shocked Remy was. Remy's jaw had partially fallen off at the sight, " John, tell me m'just hearin' t'ings." Remy ordered. John cracked a smile and walked around Remy, analyzing the sight.
" Nope, it's true. Your hard core Goth is a girly girl at heart." John told him as he brought his hands to his chest and laughed as he told Remy what he really didn't want to hear.
Bobby smiled lightly before he asked John, " Didn't you just say don't insult the 'money?'" Bobby asked not quiet understanding John's teaching.
John smiled, " Yeah but at this point we've lost all hope of getting paid." John told Bobby as they both looked on at Remy's shocked zombie like state.
" Hey, Rems." Bobby called to the stunned Cajun, Remy lightly turned his head around to look at the boy. " It's could be worse."
" Shut Drake." Remy bit out, though he was right, it could be worse. Rogue could say "like" all the time and dress in cute little pink sweaters. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but it just wasn't what he looked for in a girl.
" You know mates, for a second there I thought they were talking about yours truly."
Both Remy and Bobby looked over at John, and both cried out, " Are you serious?"
" It was a very short second." John said in his defense. Remy laughed and Drake smiled.
" Honestly John." Remy commented lightly.
" Hey boys?" Kitty called back giggling, Rogue stood next to her with a smile on her face. John froze like he had before when he had seen Kitty earlier.
" Ya know we knew ya'll were followin' us right?" Rogue called back to them, Remy seemed to be doing suddenly better as he smiled charmingly towards Rogue.
" You did?" Drake asked, seeming to be the only one willing to speak amongst the group. John finally found his voice.
" Well of course I knew." John reassured them. Bobby just rolled his eyes at the pyromaniac.
Kitty giggled. " Of course John." She said sacristy.
" We actually heard John first, and decided to play ta scare ya'll a little bit." Rogue explained, a broad smile on her face as she watched them try to act like they were not just fooled.
" Oh well, you didn't fool me." Bobby said defending himself.
" Right." Kitty said rolling her eyes.
" Remy?" Rogue asked looking over in his direction, an eyebrow raised.
Remy blinked once or twice before he answered. " Oui p'tite?"
" Were ya fooled?" Rogue asked smiling. It was the smile that caught Remy off guard, he paused a moment to think of how to answer that without really answering it.
" Your beauty is only surpassed only by y'actin' skills chere." Remy told her with a wink.
John, and Bobby resisted the urge to laugh at that, and brought their hand up to their mouth. Kitty let out a faint angelic like giggle and John became mesmerized by her actions.
Rogue however let out a light chuckle and just shook her head. " Always the one to compliant Cajun?" She asked quizzically a smirk on her lips.
" It's hard to say anything bad 'bout such an angelic creature Chere." Remy said gracefully gesturing towards herself.
John and Bobby couldn't hold it anymore they both let out the laugh they had been holding back. Remy glared at them but stopped when he heard Rogue laughing as well, but her eyes were soft and her tone light, she was happy, Remy realized smiling as well, he had missed this, just being able to hear her laugh.
Rogue's light laughter slowly died as the others still continued, she looked over the three of them and her gaze stopped as she noticed the way that John was looking at Kitty, all those time Kitty had tried to play match maker for her and pushing her out into the world claiming she need to get out more and now Rogue saw her payback opportunity. And today it came in the form of a redheaded Australian.
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Authors Note: Yeah done. This was fun to write. The story is now getting good. Now Rogue is trying to set John and Kitty up, but will it work? Stay tuned. Dun dun dun....
By the way my reasons for the Professors behavior in this and the next couple of chapter is because he feels that he failed Wanda in a way. He wasn't able to help her when she need help and all that good stuff, I'll explain it later. So he'll be doing something stupid here in a couple of chapters, trust me.
Little bit of Tabby and Toad, very light. Nothing relationships yet, ( is that even a word?) But it will slowly evolve. Some light Romy and a little more of the whole John/Kitty thing going on. There are going to be a massive number of triangles in this plot. You all have been warned. It will try to recap what is going on but sometimes that may even confuse you.
Okay onto your reviews!
Bleedingmoon89 - Yeah I like Toad too, though I feel like I'm not writing him right. Let me know if I'm killing the character okay? Cause that is the last thing I want to do so if I do then let me know so I can fix it. Hope ya liked the chapter.
Sparkie-thewateringcan - Yeah! another one for John and Wanda. I love those two together, but I'm letting the readers decide. Though I am glad that John/Wanda is still in the running. Hope ya liked the chapter, and I think this was a pretty quick update, what like three four days? Not bad if I do say so myself.
Roguelebeaux003 - Not many did think of them as being alike, I don't know what I was doing and it just hit me that Toad and Remy had a some key things in common. Freaky ain't it? Oh and as for why they are all at the institute it's because originally this was going to be a one shot, so I just had everyone team up and live at the mansion. Then I got reviews saying to continue, so this story is like right after "Under Lock And Key" cause I started in July when Kids WB was still not showing the last episodes, so this is pre-Apocalypse but I will not be showing how they kill him. Cause you know and have read a couple and its basically been done to death. I may just have that he never was brought back of just have a time jump like 4 years into the future type thing way later in the fic. Who knows? So basically if ya didn't catch it they all have teamed up.
SenshiofSilence - I have never liked Kurtty pairing, I have yet to read one that I liked. I can have them have some warm fuzzy friendship moments though for ya. Would that be close enough? I don't know, this story I'm all about the readers, this is my relaxing story. I just sit down and type away the story could go anywhere. That's what I love about it.
S. Mark Gunther - More reasons why Wanda doesn't want to get with Toad. Got it. Thank you for the input and corrective criticism.
Wolfgirl12 - Yeah another one for John and Wanda! Okay thank you for the review.
The RP - Thanks for the votes and the review. Short but sweet! Hope ya liked this chapter.
Rogue Pyrde - Okay, I GOT the message. I'll make sure that I get them together. Give it two or three more chapters, Kay? Thanks for the review.
Jen - I can't see Wanda dating Toad either. As much as I love Toad, I just can't really see it. But I'm going to have to be writing it a bit. But I'll live. I want John and Wanda together in the end though. Thanks for the review! Hope ya liked the chapter!
Kyma - I'm seriously a devoted John/Wanda fan but I have to admit that John and Kitty would look cute together. I already have a few cute little scenes planed up in my head. Hope ya liked the chapter!
Jaina - Okay, I think I got it. You wanted Bobby/Amara and Kitty/John cause Amara is Magma and has nothing to do with fire. I think I got it. Thanks for the review! And I think I'll take the Bobby/Amara thing into consideration, I realize now I've kind of made him one of the main characters, doesn't matter I like Bobby. Hope ya liked the chapter.
Bulma 4 Veggie - Yeah, I am kind of making the guys pathetic but, it's all in good fun mate. I'm glad that I've made ya happy with my story that made my day right there knowing I made one person happy. Hope ya liked this chapter. A little bit of Remy/Rogue action, next chapter or the one after will have way more trust me.
Cuddness - I agree, Pyro and Pietro don't even compare. Hands down Pyro is way better. There is just something about John that is so captivating that makes you just fall in love with the character. Hope ya liked the chapter!
Ishandahalf - Hey now ya know what phase two is. Not much of a big secret but it still. Kind of been hinting towards it since chapter one without really realizing it. Toad will take a bath! A good one and he will actually look clean afterwards. You notice in the show that one episode that he took one he looked the same?
Peachy Keen - Okay I'll make Toad and Wanda talk. Okay? And they will find out about the plan soon enough, and then let the games begin. lol. Thanks for the review and I hope you liked this chapter.
Starfire - Okay yeah some else for a Kietro, there aren't many. Well not many well written ones at least. I hope I make it turn out okay and not have it sound too corny. I really hate that stuff if ya can't already tell. Thanks for the review and I hope you liked the chapter.
Lady Sir Henry Morgan - Glad you love the story, makes me so happy! Thanks for the review hope ya liked this chapter as well.
Hey I'm done. Wow that was a lot of reviews yet again. But going over them a second time helps me to pick out the suggestions of your that I like. Now drum roll please as I reveal the pole...
Kitty and John - 11
Kitty and Piotr - 3
Kitty and Pietro - 5
John and Wanda - 4
John and Amara - 8
Toad and Wanda - 11
Toad and Tabby - 1 I don't know what to say about the poles other then; I'm wondering where all the John/Wanda fans are. I seriously love that pairing. But I will not go against the poles. That just means I'll have to convert you guys. Hehehe... Well this round there seems to be no real problems. Seems a lot of you guys want to see Toad and Wanda get together and see John and Kitty get together as well. No one voted for Toad and Tabby this time. I liked them together, I can't remember but I read some one shot with them together and liked it. I can't remember the title though, dang it.
Well I've decided to put my other stories on hold for a bit cause I'm going to be working on this one, I need a light hearted piece to write, I'll try update as fast as I can but no promises.
Take Care, Rogue Star
" Me neither." Bobby panted heavily, both watched as Remy skidded to a halt a few feet a head of them he too looked a bit winded. " Cajun I didn't sign up for a marathon." Bobby told him slowly standing up." You had a choice?" John asked remaining on the fresh and moist green grass.
" Not really." Bobby said collapsing back down to the ground. " Man I just ate too, and I'm getting a cramp." Bobby complained, holding his stomach as he lay on the fresh green grass.
" Isn't that only for swimming?" John asked lightly as he retied his boots, he then pulled off the black sweatshirt he was wearing, layers and running didn't work all that well for he pyromaniac.
" I thought it was for all sports." Bobby replied, absently pulling at the collar of his shirt to cool himself down. " I need some water." he commented absently.
" No, I'm sure its just swimming." John restated he then brought out his lighter. " Ice up to cups mate." John told Bobby.
Bobby complied and produced two small cups, " Now what?"
" Make a small stream at me. Sorry if I burn ya." John said as he flicked his lighter open and began to melt the ice stream Bobby shot at him with a steady and constant stream of flames, it melted into the cups. John picked one up and raised his glass to Bobby. " Cheers mate." John said before taking a rather large gulp.
" Cheers." Bobby replied back gulping his down. Both made a small " Ahh." Sound once done.
" You what would make this better?" John asked absently melting a small part of the cup to get more water.
" What?" Bobby asked as he held out his cup for a refill.
" Some lemon in the water," John complied and melted up some more water for the two of them. " And those little-"
" Oh those little umbrellas? The stick ones?" Bobby asked finishing off for John.
" Yeah, those ones mate. That's what we need." John said leaning back onto the grass, " That, and you know."
" Girls in bikini's." Bobby said.
" On a beach." John added.
" On a hot summers day." Bobby said as began to imagine it.
" Right, then well be made in the shade."
" Drinkin' ice cold lemonade." Bobby finished as they clashed glasses.
" You've got to be kiddin' me? Bunch o'sissys." Remy exclaimed as he watched the pair, it was an interesting sight to behold, one of those you had to have been there to get it moments. It was also a just plain scary moment.
Both John and Bobby frowned as there mini paradise was just snatched away from them. John was the first to speak up. " Thirsty?" He asked holding up his glass. Remy glared at him," okay I'll take that as a no." John said absently, Bobby gulped.
" Should we run?" Bobby whispered over to John.
" Nah, I've seen him get much more pissed off then this. " John reassured the young mutant.
" John." Remy said, and then left off there, like saying the mans name explained everything, and to John and Remy, somehow it did.
" Did you catch him?" John asked pointing in the direction that he saw Toad hop off to, into the woods along the trails.
" Shut up." Remy said in a slightly annoyed tone, " It's a minor set back." Remy explained, reverting back to a more normal state.
" I don't even know why I'm here helping you out." John rambled as he got up and dusted off the dirt from his jeans. " I quiet. Thanks for the drink Bob." John said giving Remy a mock salute as he began to stomp off.
" Miss ya buddy." Bobby called to him waving, Remy rolled his eyes, and those two were so alike it was scary.
" John!" Remy called back to him.
" Forget it." John called back to him.
" If I catch him will y'help?" Remy asked.
" Forty-bucks." John declared.
" Twenty." Remy haggled.
" Done." John smiled as he sauntered back over to the group, though he didn't join Drake on the ground he just stood.
" Hey I demand to get paid too." Bobby declared.
" Non." Remy snapped.
" You're paying him." Drake stated.
" It's only fair Cajun." John said switching over to help Bobby.
" Whose side are y'on?" Remy questioned raising an eyebrow at the statement and his friend's betrayal.
" Not yours." John said as he helped Drake up, they all were still slightly tired. None of them guessed that Toad was that fast or in that good of shape, to say that the three of them were surprised would have been an understatement.
" M'paying you." Remy declared watching the two.
" Not much mate." John reminded him while pointing his pointer finger at the Cajun. John ran a hand through his gelled up hair, while letting out a rather large yawn.
" It's twenty bucks." Remy restated, running a had through his messed up hair.
" Again I say, not much." John told him again, he then began to walk towards the trails where he had seen Toad go.
" Whatever." Remy said tossing his hands in the air in defeat.
" What about me?" Bobby asked Remy glared at the boy.
" What about you?" Remy asked raising an eyebrow.
" Don't I get paid?" Bobby demanded.
" You volunteered." Remy told him as he began to follow John onto the trails.
" No I didn't. I would have remembered that." Bobby told him, as he jogged a few paces to catch up to them.
" I'll give you half of my forty." John shouted from the lead, it took Remy a moment to realize what exactly was wrong with that statement.
" Hey, m'only givin' y'twenty." Remy reminded the redhead.
" I know but I changed it. It's called interest. You know that's when a charge goes up over time." John explained calmly as he absently picked up a stick and used it as walking stick.
" You can't do that." Remy told him.
" Just did Cajun." John responded without looking back. " Toad?" John called out. " Come on out mate! It's bath time." John announced.
" Yeah that'll work." Bobby said lightly. John shot him a small glare.
" Hey do you want half or not?" John threatened. Bobby gulped.
" Toad?" Drake began to call out as well. John smiled and resumed to what he was doing before.
" Come on out an' I'll give you half of Drake's share." John tempted.
" Hey!" Bobby cried out, glaring at John.
" What? It's just a little bait, don't get your knickers in a bunch mate." John talked him down, they both resumed to looking and calling out for Toad.
Remy just rolled his eyes and continuously asked, why me?
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" Chuck we have a problem. Actually we have a couple of problems." Logan announced as he barged into Xavier's office. The Professor was sitting calmly at his desk going over some new files he had just printed out from Cerebro on some newly detected mutants. He removed his brown rimed reading glasses and gently set his ink pen down on top of the papers he was currently reviewing.
" Good afternoon Logan." Xavier greeted warmly, a charming smile present on his lips.
" Chuck have you seen what all of them have done to this house? Boots put another hole into a wall, the Popsicle left the kitchen a mess from his sandwich, I can't find little miss Princess, the Wild Child keeps blasting that music, and keeps asking where Half-pint is, and the half-pint looked upset and then Rogue followed her. The Cajun is up to no good, and I heard Frog Boy screamin' like a banshee a few minutes ago, that and I found that the Fire-ant is the one that's been hording the candles that have been missing." Logan explained a mouth full; Charles smiled quite amused by the gruff looking Canadian.
" They have names you know." The Professor reminded Logan.
" Yeah but I can't remember um." Logan said taking a seat in one of the lounge chairs by the window.
" Yet you can remember at those nick names?" Charles questioned lightly.
" Your the mind reader." Logan said with a sigh. " We need more instructors, and I still say we need a couple of tanks." Logan added lazily. Charles smiled warmly as he wheeled around his desk, stopping a few feet away from Logan.
" I already said no tanks Logan." Charles joked with him; he glanced out the window all looked peaceful.
" I would like to reopen that argument." Logan half-heartedly joked.
" Denied." Xavier stated.
" Can't blame a guy for trying." Logan shrugged, " So what do we do?" Logan asked reverting back to the reason he stormed in her in the first place.
" For starters Amara got a call a little less then an hour ago that her Grandmother was sick Ororo took her to the air port, Amara won't be back for a week. She'll be back by Friday." Xavier explained Logan nodded.
" And Boots?" Logan asked.
" Ah Wanda." Xavier said as if he had forgotten. " I think perhaps we need to take an alternative approach to reaching her, or at least opening herself up to people." Xavier explained.
" Run that by me again Chuck?" Logan asked tilting his head.
" We need to have her interact with the others more." Xavier said putting it into lame mans terms.
" She's interacting with Stripes." Logan reminded him. Xavier nodded and thought on the subject.
" But it seems to have closed her off even more." Xavier explained. Logan raised an eyebrow; he didn't see how hanging out with some one could close them off even more.
" How?" Logan asked completely clueless on the matter, it wouldn't be the first time though.
" The two of them seem to close themselves off so much that they seem to stay in there own little world. They both have their defenses. Rogue with her mutation, and Wanda resorts to violence, she does not like change." The Professor explained.
" What does change have to do with anything?" Logan questioned as he looked out the window, making a small mental note that Tabby was walking out onto the trails next to the mansion.
" It wasn't there before." Xavier began to explain, his tone changing, his voice grow quieter as if he were sharing a secret. " I believe it was something Eric had Jason add to her, implant in a way."
Logan frowned, he had heard what happened to the kid, that had to be rough, and to have it be caused by your own father had to be even worse. " Are you sure?" Logan asked. Xavier shook his head.
" No, she was only starting to warm up to me when Mystique broke her out, but I feel that it just wasn't there before." Xavier told him looking down into his hands; Logan got a funny feeling that the Professor wasn't talking to him anymore.
" A feeling?" Logan questioned, Xavier snapped his head back over to Logan looking like he had just realized that the other man was in the room.
" Yes."
" It could be just her." Logan tried to analyze.
" Perhaps." The Professor pondered, bringing his hand up to his chin in thought. " Or maybe I should ask one of the students..." Xavier trailed off.
" She just may be anti-social." Logan said casually, " Look at me."
Xavier raised an eyebrow, " Do you want her to be like you?" The Professor asked.
" No." Logan answered instantly, not even having to really think about the question. " So what was that about a student?" Logan asked trying to find a way to avoid another him.
" If she could just open up to another person then maybe she might open up to others." Xavier began to ponder out loud.
" Think it'll work? You tried that with Rogue and it didn't work." Logan reminded Xavier.
" But with Rogue I chose the wrong person." Xavier reminded Logan. Logan raised an eyebrow.
" Maybe you should just let her be?" Logan tried, not really liking where this was going.
" If she just spent some time with someone completely opposite of herself then it may work." Xavier pondered, forgetting that Logan was in the room again.
" It could also back fire. Remember Rogue and Scott?" Logan asked trying to get the man to come to his senses.
" Yes Logan, but I'm not making the same mistakes twice." Xavier assured him.
" No, you're making all new ones." Logan said standing up. Xavier shook his head.
" Chuck, think about, she'll be pissed if she found out, and withdraw even more. It would have happened to Rogue if it wasn't for Kitty." Logan almost yelled out, Xavier's face grew concerned as he began to realize the mistake he may be making.
Logan walked to the door, not angry but not really happy either. " You can't save them all Chuck. " Logan told him.
" I know Logan, I know." Xavier assured his old friend Logan gave a gruff nod.
" You didn't fail Wanda Chuck." Logan said quietly before he left Xavier's study.
Xavier sat there for a moment, thinking. " I just never got the chance too save her." He told the empty room, letting his head fall and rest in his hands, trying to figure out what to do.
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" Note to self." Tabby spoke absently as she walked through the unmarked trails in the woods. " Never wear high heels boot when hiking." Tabby told herself with a smile, her spirits not at all broke with her little encounter with Wanda earlier.
" You call that hiking?" A voice called out from hidden branch in the tree. Tabby looked up with a charged energy bomb in her hand ready to go.
" Who the hell is up there?" Tabby called out, trying to get a look at the person behind the voice by squinting her eyes.
" I'll give ya three guesses yo." The voice called out. Tabby smiled, and tossed the small orange orb up aiming it right where she heard the voice.
" How about one?" Tabby yelled out as she heard the small explosion, followed by a very girl like scream and Toad crashing down to the ground flat on his ass. Tabby tried but couldn't hold in the laughter.
Toad shot right back up from the ground once he realized he was in plain sight and quickly grabbed Tabby hiding both of them in the bushes. Tabby opened her mouth to speak but Toad shushed her.
" We need to hide." Toad explained. Tabby scrunched up her face a bit.
" From who?" Tabby asked trying to stand back up.
" Remy, John and Drake." Toad told her, looked left and right then left again onto the unmarked trail for any signs of the troublesome trio.
" Have you seen Kitty? Ray said she was out here." Tabby began to ask, completely ignoring Toad's warning; she stood up and walked onto the trail. Toad's eye grew huge when he saw her and yanked her by the arm back into the bushes.
" Are you crazy yo?" Toad all but wailed while trying to keep his voice quiet.
" Ow." Tabby complained. " You could have yanked my arm out of its socket." Tabby said examining her wrist. Toad rolled his eyes; he was too weak to harm her.
" You gotta help hide me." Toad told more like begged her. Tabby shook her head.
" Can you say paranoid?" Tabby asked sarcastically.
" Tabby?" Toad whined.
" I'm looking for Kitty." Tabby told him, preparing to stand back up. " I'm going to leave now, and I promise I won't tell Gambit and the others where you are if you don't yank me back down again." Tabby explained to him, Toad eyed her for a moment.
" Promise?" Toad asked, raising an eyebrow.
" Of course." Tabby said grabbing his hand to shake, she then stood up and continued walking the way she was originally heading.
Toad watched her walk away, " I don't trust her." Toad said to himself as he began to climb back up into his tree to hide.
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" I say we give up. This isn't worth Twenty bucks." Bobby said as he slowly walked down the unmarked trail following Remy and John.
" Fine leave, more money for me." John barked out, he really wanted to leave but he really needed the forty bucks.
" I still find it amusing that you think your getting forty dollars." Remy said lightly amused as he walked, hands loosely resting his trench coat pockets, a small smile on his face.
" You owe me Cajun. I lost more then a pint of blood in that ER." John reminded him.
" Yeah, yeah. At least Remy got you there safely, right?" Remy asked him lightly, wondering how long it would before John would let the whole thing go.
" Why are we even lookin' for the bloke?" John asked slowing his pace a bit to admire the scenery that they passed.
" Cause..." Bobby started but he didn't know, " Remy why are we lookin' for Toad anyway?" Bobby asked slowing his pace to match John's.
" Well..." Remy had to take a minute to think about it. " One is cause me an' de frog boy have dis plan, an' no m'not tellin' you. Two cause lets jus' face it, de boy needs a bath." Remy said lightly as he stepped over a fallen branch.
" So..." John trailed off absently searching for his lighter. " There is no real reason other then we are doing everyone's noses in the mansion a favor." John guessed as he followed.
" That's what I got out of it." Bobby commented lightly, shoving his hands into his pocket.
" Okay making sure." John said lightly.
" Will you to shut up?" Remy barked out.
Bobby and John both looked at each other and gave a small nod, evil smiles plaster one their faces, and it was a silent argument to bother the Cajun even more.
" Shesh looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." John said casually to Bobby but loud enough for Remy to hear him. John smiled as he slid his hands into his pocket; as long as he was bugging the Cajun life was good.
" I know. Can you say PMSing?" Bobby asked cracking up. He had heard Tabby say to Amara so many times when Amara was in a bad mood, Amara would always blush and Tabby would just crack up.
John let out a gut full of laughter, he wasn't at all to sure if the kid knew what he was saying but it most definitely pissed Remy off.
Remy stopped abruptly and turned to look at Drake, did the idiot know what he just said? He doubted it. " That's it. It's only twenty bucks, I was thinking forty but know it's most definitely twenty. " Remy said continuing his walk.
Both of them stopped laughing, " You were not." John accused. Remy smiled back at them.
" Sure I was. Only fair pay ya for the work y'doin'." Remy said lying through his teeth.
" Way ta go Drake." John said flopping the blame over to Bobby, Bobby eyes grew huge.
" Me? What did I do?" Bobby asked pointing towards himself, and then he pointed to Remy. " He's the one that lowered the payment. Blame him." Bobby told John.
" I would but you can't get mad at a man that's gonna pay ya. It jus' don' work that way mate." John told him sighing as they started walking again, his head bent down as he watched his feet walk in a steady fashion.
" Says who?" Bobby asked.
" Him." John said gesturing towards Remy. " He's the money." John told him, " Piss him off to much and he just leaves, and no money. Poof. " John explained waving his arms around magically, then imitating a small cloud of smoke when he said 'poof'.
" But you even teased him." Drake pointed out.
John wrinkled his brow in confusion. " Oh that-" John started. " Well ya see mate- that is- don't confuse me with questions like that." John exclaimed. " Do as I say not as I do. Mind your elders." John then added for good measures. He was getting all tongue tied and confused now, he just hated it when he sounded like a hypocrite but then, who didn't these days?
" But you're like two years older then me." Bobby commented completely confused.
" Exactly, I know more I'm older." John told him, a proud arrogant smirk on his face.
" Whatever." Drake said, just let it go and absently kicked a rock on the trail, old people were confusing Drake decided.
Remy just rolled his eyes as he tried to block them out.
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" Okay now I know I passed this tree before." Tabby said lightly to herself as she came to halt, a few blond strands falling over her face. " That's it." Tabby exclaimed, " I'll admit it, I'm lost. Okay you happy now?" Tabby yelled out up to the sky. She stomped her foot to prove her point and through up her arms in defeat. " I give, okay? I'm going back in." She claimed as she turned around to head back, problem was she was lost. " Crap."
" Whom are you talking to?" Toad asked jumping down from his perch up in the tree. Tabby squealed with delight.
" I knew someone up there loved me." She said, " Toad you can help me back to the mansion." Tabby told him, as she quickly gave him a small hug. Toad froze there for a sec, not at all sure what had just happened but quickly shook it off.
" Are you serious?" Toad asked squatting in his usual position.
Tabby looked down at him her hands planted on her hips, " Yeah." Tabby told him like it was obvious.
" It's like a 100 or two feet that way." Toad told her pointing north, Tabby smiled and started to head that way.
" Thanks Todd." Tabby called out as she began to walk away.
" Wait, Tabby who were you talking to?" Toad asked, he had heard her talking to someone for a while now.
" Whoever's listening. Mainly the head cheese up there though." Tabby told him pointing up to the sky, though in this mess it was blocked by a numerous number of trees.
" Really?" Toad asked, both eyebrows raised.
" Got a problem with that pal?" Tabby asked getting rather defensive. Toad put up his hands in surrender.
" No, no. I just found it interesting yo." Toad told her honestly, Tabby eyed him for a moment then nodded as if it was a nod of approval.
" Later Toady." She called back, she figured it would be easier to just wait for Kitty to come back from her walk rather then try and find her. The club didn't get goin' till later anyway, Tabby thought with an evil smile.
" Hey hold up." Toad called to her. Tabby paused mid-step and turned back to look at him, " I'll walk ya." He said casually standing up next to her.
" Oh wow, such the gentleman." Tabby said grabbing his right arm as if he were a male escort. Toad gave her a funny look and just summed it up with two words: It's Tabby.
" Yeah, well I try." he said lightly.
" You just don't want the guys to find ya." Tabby said remembering why he was out there in the first place.
Toad gulped, " Yeah, you aren't goin' to tell them, are ya?" Toad asked somewhat nervous. He'd rather take a bath himself then go through whatever hideous torture they had planed for giving him a bath.
" OH BOYS LOOK WHO I-" Tabby began to shout but stopped and grinned a evil smile and gave a small giggle. " Relax, you know me." Tabby said clinging tightly onto his arm. " I won't tell."
Toad let out a nervous laugh, " Hehe, right, I knew that." Toad said tensing up again, looking around to see if any of them had heard her. But there was no sign of them, Toad sighed as if he had just narrowly escaped certain doom and continued to walk.
" Relax, my lips are sealed Romeo." Tabby said lightly as they walked out off the trails and back onto the mansion yard.
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" No Johnny Depp is way cutter then Brad Pit." Kitty rambled on as her and Rogue wander about the trails. They had pretty much talked about anything any everything, it was a good catch up walk some may call it.
" No Kit, Brad Pit is cutter and Johnny Depp is sexier." Rogue replied as they walked along the trail, unknown to them that no more then a few feet away stood Remy, Bobby, and John.
" That was creepy." John commented as he watched the two girl from twenty feet away, his face blank and void of any emotions.
" Did we just see that?" Bobby asked in somewhat shock pointing in Rogue and Kitty's general direction, though that was no where near how shocked Remy was. Remy's jaw had partially fallen off at the sight, " John, tell me m'just hearin' t'ings." Remy ordered. John cracked a smile and walked around Remy, analyzing the sight.
" Nope, it's true. Your hard core Goth is a girly girl at heart." John told him as he brought his hands to his chest and laughed as he told Remy what he really didn't want to hear.
Bobby smiled lightly before he asked John, " Didn't you just say don't insult the 'money?'" Bobby asked not quiet understanding John's teaching.
John smiled, " Yeah but at this point we've lost all hope of getting paid." John told Bobby as they both looked on at Remy's shocked zombie like state.
" Hey, Rems." Bobby called to the stunned Cajun, Remy lightly turned his head around to look at the boy. " It's could be worse."
" Shut Drake." Remy bit out, though he was right, it could be worse. Rogue could say "like" all the time and dress in cute little pink sweaters. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but it just wasn't what he looked for in a girl.
" You know mates, for a second there I thought they were talking about yours truly."
Both Remy and Bobby looked over at John, and both cried out, " Are you serious?"
" It was a very short second." John said in his defense. Remy laughed and Drake smiled.
" Honestly John." Remy commented lightly.
" Hey boys?" Kitty called back giggling, Rogue stood next to her with a smile on her face. John froze like he had before when he had seen Kitty earlier.
" Ya know we knew ya'll were followin' us right?" Rogue called back to them, Remy seemed to be doing suddenly better as he smiled charmingly towards Rogue.
" You did?" Drake asked, seeming to be the only one willing to speak amongst the group. John finally found his voice.
" Well of course I knew." John reassured them. Bobby just rolled his eyes at the pyromaniac.
Kitty giggled. " Of course John." She said sacristy.
" We actually heard John first, and decided to play ta scare ya'll a little bit." Rogue explained, a broad smile on her face as she watched them try to act like they were not just fooled.
" Oh well, you didn't fool me." Bobby said defending himself.
" Right." Kitty said rolling her eyes.
" Remy?" Rogue asked looking over in his direction, an eyebrow raised.
Remy blinked once or twice before he answered. " Oui p'tite?"
" Were ya fooled?" Rogue asked smiling. It was the smile that caught Remy off guard, he paused a moment to think of how to answer that without really answering it.
" Your beauty is only surpassed only by y'actin' skills chere." Remy told her with a wink.
John, and Bobby resisted the urge to laugh at that, and brought their hand up to their mouth. Kitty let out a faint angelic like giggle and John became mesmerized by her actions.
Rogue however let out a light chuckle and just shook her head. " Always the one to compliant Cajun?" She asked quizzically a smirk on her lips.
" It's hard to say anything bad 'bout such an angelic creature Chere." Remy said gracefully gesturing towards herself.
John and Bobby couldn't hold it anymore they both let out the laugh they had been holding back. Remy glared at them but stopped when he heard Rogue laughing as well, but her eyes were soft and her tone light, she was happy, Remy realized smiling as well, he had missed this, just being able to hear her laugh.
Rogue's light laughter slowly died as the others still continued, she looked over the three of them and her gaze stopped as she noticed the way that John was looking at Kitty, all those time Kitty had tried to play match maker for her and pushing her out into the world claiming she need to get out more and now Rogue saw her payback opportunity. And today it came in the form of a redheaded Australian.
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Authors Note: Yeah done. This was fun to write. The story is now getting good. Now Rogue is trying to set John and Kitty up, but will it work? Stay tuned. Dun dun dun....
By the way my reasons for the Professors behavior in this and the next couple of chapter is because he feels that he failed Wanda in a way. He wasn't able to help her when she need help and all that good stuff, I'll explain it later. So he'll be doing something stupid here in a couple of chapters, trust me.
Little bit of Tabby and Toad, very light. Nothing relationships yet, ( is that even a word?) But it will slowly evolve. Some light Romy and a little more of the whole John/Kitty thing going on. There are going to be a massive number of triangles in this plot. You all have been warned. It will try to recap what is going on but sometimes that may even confuse you.
Okay onto your reviews!
Bleedingmoon89 - Yeah I like Toad too, though I feel like I'm not writing him right. Let me know if I'm killing the character okay? Cause that is the last thing I want to do so if I do then let me know so I can fix it. Hope ya liked the chapter.
Sparkie-thewateringcan - Yeah! another one for John and Wanda. I love those two together, but I'm letting the readers decide. Though I am glad that John/Wanda is still in the running. Hope ya liked the chapter, and I think this was a pretty quick update, what like three four days? Not bad if I do say so myself.
Roguelebeaux003 - Not many did think of them as being alike, I don't know what I was doing and it just hit me that Toad and Remy had a some key things in common. Freaky ain't it? Oh and as for why they are all at the institute it's because originally this was going to be a one shot, so I just had everyone team up and live at the mansion. Then I got reviews saying to continue, so this story is like right after "Under Lock And Key" cause I started in July when Kids WB was still not showing the last episodes, so this is pre-Apocalypse but I will not be showing how they kill him. Cause you know and have read a couple and its basically been done to death. I may just have that he never was brought back of just have a time jump like 4 years into the future type thing way later in the fic. Who knows? So basically if ya didn't catch it they all have teamed up.
SenshiofSilence - I have never liked Kurtty pairing, I have yet to read one that I liked. I can have them have some warm fuzzy friendship moments though for ya. Would that be close enough? I don't know, this story I'm all about the readers, this is my relaxing story. I just sit down and type away the story could go anywhere. That's what I love about it.
S. Mark Gunther - More reasons why Wanda doesn't want to get with Toad. Got it. Thank you for the input and corrective criticism.
Wolfgirl12 - Yeah another one for John and Wanda! Okay thank you for the review.
The RP - Thanks for the votes and the review. Short but sweet! Hope ya liked this chapter.
Rogue Pyrde - Okay, I GOT the message. I'll make sure that I get them together. Give it two or three more chapters, Kay? Thanks for the review.
Jen - I can't see Wanda dating Toad either. As much as I love Toad, I just can't really see it. But I'm going to have to be writing it a bit. But I'll live. I want John and Wanda together in the end though. Thanks for the review! Hope ya liked the chapter!
Kyma - I'm seriously a devoted John/Wanda fan but I have to admit that John and Kitty would look cute together. I already have a few cute little scenes planed up in my head. Hope ya liked the chapter!
Jaina - Okay, I think I got it. You wanted Bobby/Amara and Kitty/John cause Amara is Magma and has nothing to do with fire. I think I got it. Thanks for the review! And I think I'll take the Bobby/Amara thing into consideration, I realize now I've kind of made him one of the main characters, doesn't matter I like Bobby. Hope ya liked the chapter.
Bulma 4 Veggie - Yeah, I am kind of making the guys pathetic but, it's all in good fun mate. I'm glad that I've made ya happy with my story that made my day right there knowing I made one person happy. Hope ya liked this chapter. A little bit of Remy/Rogue action, next chapter or the one after will have way more trust me.
Cuddness - I agree, Pyro and Pietro don't even compare. Hands down Pyro is way better. There is just something about John that is so captivating that makes you just fall in love with the character. Hope ya liked the chapter!
Ishandahalf - Hey now ya know what phase two is. Not much of a big secret but it still. Kind of been hinting towards it since chapter one without really realizing it. Toad will take a bath! A good one and he will actually look clean afterwards. You notice in the show that one episode that he took one he looked the same?
Peachy Keen - Okay I'll make Toad and Wanda talk. Okay? And they will find out about the plan soon enough, and then let the games begin. lol. Thanks for the review and I hope you liked this chapter.
Starfire - Okay yeah some else for a Kietro, there aren't many. Well not many well written ones at least. I hope I make it turn out okay and not have it sound too corny. I really hate that stuff if ya can't already tell. Thanks for the review and I hope you liked the chapter.
Lady Sir Henry Morgan - Glad you love the story, makes me so happy! Thanks for the review hope ya liked this chapter as well.
Hey I'm done. Wow that was a lot of reviews yet again. But going over them a second time helps me to pick out the suggestions of your that I like. Now drum roll please as I reveal the pole...
Kitty and John - 11
Kitty and Piotr - 3
Kitty and Pietro - 5
John and Wanda - 4
John and Amara - 8
Toad and Wanda - 11
Toad and Tabby - 1 I don't know what to say about the poles other then; I'm wondering where all the John/Wanda fans are. I seriously love that pairing. But I will not go against the poles. That just means I'll have to convert you guys. Hehehe... Well this round there seems to be no real problems. Seems a lot of you guys want to see Toad and Wanda get together and see John and Kitty get together as well. No one voted for Toad and Tabby this time. I liked them together, I can't remember but I read some one shot with them together and liked it. I can't remember the title though, dang it.
Well I've decided to put my other stories on hold for a bit cause I'm going to be working on this one, I need a light hearted piece to write, I'll try update as fast as I can but no promises.
Take Care, Rogue Star