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A.p.R. - Hola, hommies! I'm here to say that if you missed the last chapter of this story, I highly recomend you read it. You might need to know some of the things revealed in that. Anywho, this chapter and the next few have been Co-Authored with psychobunny410. Enjoy!

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Today was Marc and Kitty's three month anniversary and Marc wanted to make it special. He had been working a series of odd jobs so that he could get her something nice. He but the only problem is that he didn't have a clue what to get her. That's why he called in an expert.

Marc walked over to Sam. "You know the plan, right? If Kitty asks about where I am, tell her that I am in a training session. Then call me on my cell so that I can hurry up and get back."

Sam nodded and walked away; soon after Amanda walked through the doors to the institute. "What's up Marc, you sounded urgent on the phone?"

Marc walked up to her and put his hands in his pockets. "Well it kind of is and I know it's last minute but I really need to ask you something. I have this problem and I need you."

She raised a brow and looked confused. "Well, Marc…I'm sorry, I really don't like you like that. It's better if we just stay friends. Don't worry I won't tell Kurt about you coming on to me like this but-"

"No!" Marc said, loudly. "I need your help with picking out a nice gift for Kitty."

"Oh…okay sure. Can we just ignore what I just said then?"

"Oh yeah." He said as they both went out to her car.

"Bobby, you in here?" asked Scott, knocking on Bobby's door.

Bobby grunted as he sat up in bed. "Yeah...why?"

Scott entered the room and shook his head. "Why?! Because it's almost noon and you're still sleeping."

Bobby chuckled. "Oh…so I am. Sorry, I must have needed the sleep."

"Bobby, you missed another training session today. We've been through this before and this is your last warning: if you miss today's six o'clock pm session your off the team."

"Don't worry, I'll be there."

"Make sure you're there; not late and no excuses. You're a big asset to the X-Men but you need to learn some responsibility."

Bobby nodded as Scott left. There was no way he was going to miss this one.

"So what are you looking to get her?" Amanda asked, glancing at him as she made a turn.

Marc shrugged just before scratching the back of his neck. "That's why I brought you." He said with a small grin. "Well, I mean, something…nice. She deserves it for putting up with me."

Amanda giggled through a smile. "Well how about some jewelry, a nice bracelet, a necklace, a ring?" She offered, enthusiastically. Marc showed her how much money he had. "Or maybe…we should go get a box of crackerjacks and hope there's a good prize inside?" she corrected, now somewhat deflated.

"Oh, come on, it's not that bad." He said, gesturing his hands as he spoke. "I may not be able to get her something from Tiffany's but I still think I can get her something nice."

"You're right, you should have enough for…" She paused and, out of the corner of her eye, looked at his money again. "…something…"

Once Amanda thought of a place that sells jewelry they headed straight over. She led Marc into the store, Caritas, and they began to browse.

"Hello sir, what will this get me?" asked Marc to an employee, holding out his cash.

The man smugly smirked. "A large cup of water and a meal off of the dollar menu at McDonald's." He said in a British accent.

"Oh," Marc threw his hands up in the air. "Everyone's a comedian today…whatever happened to that whole 'treat your customers kindly' policy I thought you guys are supposed to have?"

"The same thing that happened to the 'customers always right' policy…we just ignored it until it went away."

"Is there anything I can buy here or not?"

"No sorry, we don't have a clearance rack at Caritas."

Marc was about to snap back at the man but heard his name being called from off in the back. She gestured to him to come over and he did so.

"Marc," called Amanda, pressing her index finger down on the glass case. "What about that? It's really nice and it's in your price range."

He came over and looked through the case at the beautiful amethyst stone on the locket of the silver necklace. "Wow…it's awesome. She'll love it."

A female employee came over to them and brought the necklace out from the display case and checked them out. Once she handed Marc back his change he began to count it as they walked back out to Amanda's car. Marc turned to the British employee and smirked. "Aha! I still have enough for a large cup of coke and two meals off the dollar menu. In your face."

The man stuck his tongue out at him as they left the store and Marc laughed in victory.

"She'll really like this," Amanda said, entering the driver's side.

"Yeah, and I can't thank you enough." he replied with a smile. "Without you, I would have been very lost and confused…and I probably would have punched that British dude." he said, almost as an after thought.

She laughed and he entered the car. She was just about ready to start the car when he grabbed her by her wrist to stop her. "What is it?"

He blocked her out, as he gazed into the distance. His face looked very serious and focusing. "Sorry…must have been nothing." He replied, letting her go. Marc could have sworn that he had heard something familiar. Something that he had been hearing every once and a while over the last week.

She started the engine and they headed back to the institute. "Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost."

Marc gave her a reassuring smile. "Yeah…I'm fine."

Amanda dropped him off at the mansion and Marc got inside quickly and looked around for Sam but instead found Bobby. "Hey man, could you do me a favor?"

Bobby shrugged. "Sure…so long as it doesn't require me to do anything."

"Okay then," he said, slowly. "Could you go find Kitty and bring her to the rec-room please?"

"Yeah, sure man, I'll go get her." he said, then headed off to find her.

Marc was a little nervous as he walked to the rec-room to wait for her. "C'mon Marc, get a grip…it's not like you're asking her to marry you." He thought to himself.

He looked up as he came upon the room with a bit of surprise. Jubes was standing gazing out of the large window off in the corner. He started walking up to her casually. "Umm...hey Jubes do you mind leaving, I have som-"

Before he could muster out word, Jubes looked at him with a glint in her eye. "My fire." She whispered, softly and pulled him by the collar into a deep and passionate kiss. A second after she did this Kitty and Bobby walked into the room.

This was not something Kitty nor Bobby wanted to see happen. Almost instantly, jealousy and anger filled them both.

Kitty narrowed her beautiful big brown eyes. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.

Bobby was in shock, complete and total shock at what Jubes had just done.
Marc pushed her off of him and onto the couch he just looked at her, confused. Jubes licked her lips and smirked. "You taste just as good as I remember." She said slyly and almost in a whisper. "Wh-what's going on?" Suddenly the mood and tone changed into confusion.

"You bastard!" Bobby roared and lunged at Marc, tackled him and began pounding away. Marc was trying to cover up, not really want to retaliate and hurt his friend.

"Jubilee, why?" She said, sadly, and walked over to her. "I thought you were my friend." Kitty hissed, walking over to Jubes and slapped her.

"What's going on why, are you hitting me?" Jubes cried as she was being attacked.

Marc was being pounded by Bobby, his lip was now bloody but he still didn't want to fight back. Marc pushed Bobby off and they both got to their feet. Bobby tried to take other swing but it was caught by Marc then he held Bobby's arms behind his back so he couldn't attack again. "Chill man…chill."

Kitty had been yelling at Jubes and stopped in mid-sentence. Obviously confused about what was going on. She backed away from Jubes. "Marc…what is happening her, it's our anniversary? No, wait never mind, maybe I don't even want to know." Kitty said, almost in tears as she headed out of the rec-room.

"No Kit...wai-" Marc dropped his guard and Bobby elbowed him in the jaw. And tackled him to the ground once again.

Sam, Roberto, and Kurt ran into the room. "What's goin' on in here, I thought I heard-" Sam started to say but assessed the situation and pulled Bobby off of Marc and Roberto and Kurt held Marc who was now willing go after Bobby.

Sam noticed who he had. "Bobby?"

"Marc?" asked Roberto, shocked to see these two.

"Did you two know zat you vere fighting each other?" Kurt asked with a raised brow.

Bobby got free from Sam and went to punch Marc again.

"No Bobby!" Jubes cried.

Bobby stopped in mid-punch. "Why Jubes, do you love him or something?"

"Love him? He's just a friend?"

"Well I've never see friends kiss like THAT."

"Kiss?! I didn't kiss him."

"Don't lie to me, I saw you two with my own eyes!"

"I'm not, I swear Bobby, you're the only one for me." Jubes pleaded.

Marc stepped away from Roberto and Kurt and cautiously made his way over to Jubes. "Jubes 'My fire' when you came up to me you said that, why?"

"I don't even know how I got here. Last thing I remember I was talking to Rahne in the kitchen, I felt a chill, and then Kitty was yelling at me and slapped me up in here." She explained, holding her head.

"You know what? It seems very unlikely that that happened." Bobby said, still making no sense of this situation.

"It was kinda fun though." Jubes said with a smirk just as she did before. "I think I'm gonna do that again." she said, walking back towards Marc.

Then it hit Marc. He paled at least seven shades lighter at this realization; his heart started to beat faster and his eyes flickered orange from his rage. He grabbed her by the shoulders and slammed her against the wall. "Let her go! Get out of her!" Marc yelled at her as he continued to slam Jubes body against the wall.

"Ow, what are you doing?" Jubes said, in a scared and frightened tone.

Marc let her go and she ran over to Bobby seeking protection from Marc in his arms.

"Dude what's going on?" Bobby asked, holding Jubes protectively.

Marc stumbled back a bit and stared at his friends with remorse in his eyes. "Jubes...I-I'm so sorry." He looked at Jubes who was trembling in fear. "I gotta go." he said and quickly ran out of the room.

Marc was on his way to the kitchen to see if Kitty was there when Amanda passed him. "It didn't go well did it?" she asked.

"You have no idea." Marc replied, making his way into the kitchen. He saw Logan there reading the afternoon paper; Marc looked at the front page cover story. It read, '7 victims in hospital for blood loss in two weeks'...this was getting too weird.

When Logan took his eyes from the paper and saw him, Marc could tell he snapped. Kitty must have told him.

Logan let out a grumbled sighed. "Marc, I didn't think ya'd be one to stoop as low as to cheat on her on your anniversary thing. I guess I thought wrong about you." he said in an eerily calm voice as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Stay away from the half-pint for a while. And remember, if you hurt her from now on you'll have to deal with me." he growled.

Marc bit his lip. "Logan listen to me, Jubes did really kiss me and I didn't cheat on Kitty...with Jubes…it's hard to explain but I-" Marc stopped in shock as he looked through the window over Logan's shoulder. Kitty was out side...kissing some guy. "Kitty?" He said in awe.

Logan turned around and saw the same thing. They both rushed out there only to see that the guy had gone and Kitty was still there. "Half-pint? Who was that?" asked Logan, growling.

Kitty shrugged. "I never saw him before but I just couldn't help myself." She replied, scowling at Marc the entire time.

Logan hung his head in shame. "I have never been more ashamed of you two than I am at this moment." he said.

"Kitty, you said that you couldn't help yourself right?" asked Marc, she nodded still scowling at her boyfriend. A look of shock came across his face; he had just put it all together. "How'd they find me?"

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