Scott, Piotr, or Bobby?... Oh, My!

By JobbyShipper

Author's Note: This was a fun chapter to write. Bobby just couldn't get some time to think to himself cause people just kept bothering him. Well, you'll see what I mean when you read the chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 3: Many Encounters

After sleeping for what seemed like forever, but was really only about an hour's time, Bobby finally woke up. He felt of his face, still feeling the sting of Rogue's slap. He looked outside the window, seeing that it was still raining outside pretty hard and moved over off the bed, to get a better look, stepping right on the soaking wet carpet. Bobby looked down at the carpet and remembered the accident earlier.

"Crap... Now I'm gonna have to put on another pair of socks." He sighed as he took the soaking wet socks off and threw them in the nearby clothes hamper. He rubbed he right hand through his hair and leaned on the window, looking outside. 'How would I react if I saw John at the gate?' Bobby thought to himself. And then he realized that he'd actually thought that in the first place. Why did he miss John so much for recently? It was really strange, but he just couldn't seem to get him off his mind anymore.

He shook the thoughts away and moved over to his dresser. He got out a new pair of socks and moved over to his boots. He sat down on his bed, putting the socks on and then he boots, making sure that his new, dry socks didn't get soaked, even though they were already a little wet anyway since his feet were wet from walking on the carpet.

Bobby stood and moved over to the door, opening it, only to find Gambit standing right outside the door, leaning against the wall with his arms in his trench coat pockets. He smiled to him with his dark red eyes gazing on.

"Hello, mon ami," Gambit said, giving him a brief nod.

"Scram, Cajun," Bobby replied as he closed his door and started moving down the hallway.

"Oh, is that any way to treat your new best friend?" Gambit asked as he caught up to him, his hands still in his pockets.

"You're not my best friend," I replied back with distain. "Only one person has that title, and last time I checked, swamp rat, you're not him."

"Such names, mon ami... Didn't your mother tell you that you shouldn't..."

Bobby stopped him right there as he stopped walking and pushed Gambit into the wall. "Remy, you know nothing about my mother, so why don't you keep your mouth shut for once."

"Oh, Iceman's temperature's rising. You're gonna melt, mon ami. Why won't you give ol' Gambit a chance here? You're the one that basically handed Marie over to me on a silver platter."

"What are you talking about?"

"When she left your room, she came running to me... Well, Gambit lies. Maybe it wasn't me. She went to Logan. Kitty and I just happened to be listening in. Perhaps we'll both get what we want now. You'll have Kitty, and I'll have Marie. We both win."

Bobby let go of Gambit at that point and looked down. "Damn... Logan knows about the fight..."

"Yeah... I had to hold him at bay so he didn't go rip you apart, mon ami. You should be grateful to Gambit for saving your life."

Bobby glared at Gambit and started walking again, and to his displeasure, Gambit started following after him again. "Why don't you just leave me alone?" Bobby asked him, not making eye contact.

"Cause I want to know why you broke petite's heart in the first place," Gambit replied.

Bobby rolled his eyes. "That's none of your business. You need to get it through your head that everyone else's problems aren't your problems as well. Now why don't you go play a card game or something and leave me in peace?" Bobby kept moving away from Gambit, starting to go faster, just to get away from the creep before he could keep on. And that's when it happened. He felt an arm slip around his right arm. He stopped suddenly, actually thinking that it was Gambit that had done this, but sighed with relief when he looked over to see Kitty was standing there with him.

"You alright, Bobby?" She asked. "You look pale as a ghost."

"Fine, Kitty," Bobby simply replied as he kept moving.

"So, I heard that you and Marie were breaking things off. That's too bad."

"Yeah, I'm sure you think so," Bobby said, rolling his eyes. He had become increasingly annoyed with her after Alcatraz Island. Just like Rogue, she wouldn't leave him alone. What was with all of these girls? All Bobby had wanted to do was help Kitty deal with Professor Xavier's death when he took her skating. He didn't mean anything else by it. He never had, but Rogue had taken it the wrong way negatively, and Kitty had taken it in a positive way that her falling all over herself whenever she was around him, and it drove him bonkers.

"What is all that supposed to mean? Are you mad at me or something?"

"I'm just really irritated right now, Kitty. Why don't you go find Kurt and bother him for awhile?"

"Because I've done my quota of bugging the fuzzy blue elf for the day," Kitty said giggling. "I'm glad he came back from Germany. I missed making fun of him."

"I doubt he missed it."

"Sure he did. He said so himself."

"Then if he likes it so much, go be with him. I just need some alone time now. Why does everyone keep bothering me?" Bobby pushed Kitty's arm away from his and took off down the hallway again, turning to go down the stairs as he heard Kitty call him a jerk and take off in the opposite direction herself.

As soon as Bobby got to the bottom of the stairs, he ran right into Logan, standing there with his arms crossed, growling at Bobby. He gulped as he looked up to him and smiled a little. "Hi, Logan."

"Wipe that little grin off your face, bub. You have a lot of nerve acting the way you have to Marie."

"Why do you care so much for anyway, Logan? She's not your girlfriend."

"And she's apparently not yours anymore either from what she tells me, so now I can pound your face in without having to worry about her caring."

"Logan!" came a voice from behind the two of them. They both turned to see Ororo Munroe, hands at her hips, staring at Logan in anger. "I am in charge of this place now, and I don't take kindly to you threatening the students, especially a fellow X-Man."

Logan growled again and turned back to Bobby. "You got lucky, punk." And with that, he went upstairs.

Bobby looked over to Ororo, not showing any emotion on his face. She moved over to him and gave him a brief hug. "Hey, it's ok, Bobby. Just tell me what happened."

"It doesn't matter," Bobby replied looking down.

Ororo sighed. "Things would be so much easier if I was a telepath. Charles could handle these problems so much easier then I can."

"I think you're doing a fine job as headmistress."

"Well, thank you," Ororo said smiling. "Don't you think though that you need to at least talk things out with Marie?"

"There's nothing else to talk about," Bobby replied. "It's over. I simply just want to move on."

"With Kitty?"

Bobby sighed. "Why does everyone keep thinking that for? I don't like Kitty like that."

"Alright, sorry. That was just my first feeling of why wanted this, but you need to think long and hard about this decision. You and Marie have been together since she first showed up here. I just don't want to see a good relationship vanish over something that might not be that big. So she got her powers back... Now she's the person that you fell in love with again. Doesn't that help?"

"I wasn't breaking up with her because of her powers coming back. I was breaking up for other reasons... reasons that I'd rather not talk about. I just don't think there's anything else for us to do... It's over, Miss Munroe."

Ororo nodded sadly. "Alright... If that's what you feel is right, then I won't push anymore. I just ask that you be careful. The future holds many things for all of us. We have no way to know what we'll be dealt next. I just hope you know what you're doing."

Bobby nodded. "I'm sure."

"Alright then," Ororo said. "Run along."

Bobby nodded and moved away from her, going toward the kitchen to get himself something to eat, praying that no one would be in the kitchen to bother him. However, as soon as he got there, he was sadly denied the chance to be alone. Piotr Rasputen, otherwise known as Colossus was in there eating a sandwich.

"Hello, comrade," Piotr said. "Come on in. Have something to eat."

"What? You're not gonna ridicule me over Marie?" Bobby asked as he moved over to the fridge and took out some sandwich meat and cheese.

Piotr laughed. "No, Bobby. I knew that the day would come that you two would break things off. I just didn't realize that it would happen this soon."

"You saying I've got commitment issues?" Bobby took out a couple pieces of bread and made the sandwich.

"No," Piotr replied. "I simply believed that you two had no real chemistry. Surely you know what I mean..."

Bobby sighed and moved over to the table, sitting down in front of Piotr. He nodded his head. "Yeah, I know what you're talking about, and you're probably right. I guess I was really lying to myself about it the whole time."

"Don't let it get you down," Piotr said. "There's plenty fish in the sea."

'Yeah, but what fish am I actually searching for?' Bobby thought to himself. He wasn't really sure anymore. He and Rogue were basically finished for obvious reasons, but there seemed to be some subconscious reasons as well that he wasn't quite ready to accept yet... At least not until he could get a better grasp of his feelings.

"Are you alright, comrade?" Piotr asked. "You look like you've got something weighing heavily on your mind?"

"I do... But I don't want to talk about it, Piotr." Bobby finished eating his sandwich and stood up. "I'm going outside for awhile. I just need some time to myself." And with that, Bobby walked out of the kitchen and moved back toward the main lobby where the staircase to the second floor was. He walked out the front door fully intending to go directly to the gravestones Xavier, Jean, and Scott, when he stopped in complete shock as a motorcycle pulled up at the front gates. The driver pulled his helmet off to reveal the spiky dyed blonde hair and the face that had been on Bobby's mind since Alcatraz. He was still alive! The thought that had been on Bobby's mind when he woke back up after the accident with Rogue had actually come to pass with John being there at the front gate. Bobby rushed toward the gate, but stopped in complete shock when he saw who was on the back of the motorcycle with him. It was Scott Summers!