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Hang On A Sec
Chapter One – You Can't Do That!
"You can't do that!" Jubilee exclaimed. "He's a professional thief. Number one, he'll catch you. Number two, if you actually manage not to get caught, he'll know you took it!"
"But, Jubes," Bobby explained, "I want him to know I took them. Otherwise, what would be the point?"
"Yeah," Kurt said, "Can you imagine the look on Gambit's face when he realizes his playing cards are gone?"
The three students sat in a corner of the recreation room, pondering.
"Oh my gosh!" Jubilee squealed, "You're totally right!"
"Wait, wait," Bobby said with a grin, "You still haven't heard the best part: Gambit and Rogue are going on a date tomorrow night!"
"Wow," Kurt said, "This is almost too easy: Jubilee will set off come wayward fireworks to distract the adults, Bobby and I can sneak into the teacher's wing without anyone noticing. I'll 'port Bobby in, he can take the cards, leave, and no one will be the wiser!"
"That's great!" Bobby exclaimed, "Everyone in?"
"I'm in."
"In!"
"Wonderful. We're all in, "Bobby said. "Meet outside in the front garden at six, after classes tomorrow."
The next day, three young members of the household made their cautious way outside at six o'clock on the dot. They met behind a bush where they could overlook the mansion without being detected.
"Okay," said Jubilee, keeping her voice down, "I couldn't ask Rogue what time she'n Gambit were leaving, so we're just going to have to wait until they leave. She did they me they were leaving before dinner though. Apparently, they're going to some fancy French restaurant."
"So we're just going to wait over here until they leave," Kurt asked.
"We might not have to wait very long," Bobby said, pointing, "Here they come now."
Indeed, the sound of a motorcycle was soon heard. Rogue and Gambit rode out, the mansion gates closing behind them. As soon as the motor could no longer be heard, Kurt turned to Jubilee.
"Go to the rec room to set off your fireworks," he said to her, "There should be a lot of people in there right now."
As soon as Jubilee left, Kurt turned to Bobby. "I'll 'port you in."
The two young boys headed inside. They were up the staircase when they heard a boom and the sound of running feet. Jean and Scott came running down the stairs.
"That must have been Jubliee's distraction," Bobby said with a wide grin. "Come on, let's go!"
They hurried up the stairs, and, glancing around, made there way into the teacher's wing. They passed door after door until it occurred to them that they didn't know which room was Gambit's.
"Uh, I think it might be this one," Bobby said uncertainly.
Kurt placed his hand on Bobby's shoulder, and, with a bamf and a puff of smelly, black smoke, they disappeared from the hallway and appeared inside the room.
Looking around the room they had teleported into, Bobby noticed an excessive amount of red furnishing and pillows. By the bed was a picture of Jean Grey. Jean Grey? In Gambit's room?
"Uh, I don't think this is Gambit's room," said Kurt. "I think it's Scott's."
"Why would Scott have a red room?" Bobby questioned.
"Jean's hair? His glasses? Maybe he's color blind. Come on, let's go."
The bamfed out, leaving behind the rotten smell of sulfur.
"Let's try this room," Bobby said, pointing to the door across the way.
"No way!" Kurt exclaimed. "That's Logan's room."
"Oh, yeah? And how do you know that?"
"I'd rather not talk about it,"
Bobby laughed, "What happened?"
"Let's just say that Logan doesn't like being woken up at two in the morning. Come on."
They tried the next room. It was, without a doubt, Jean Grey's. The room was clean, neat, almost obsessively so. The closet was full of khaki cargo pants.
"Someone really needs to tell Jean she looks horrible in khakis," Bobby said.
"Would you like to be that person?" Kurt asked, gesturing towards the closet.
"With pleasure." And with that, Bobby froze the entire contents of the closet so they were as stiff as a board. It would take a good day or two to thaw.
They bamfed into the next room.
Bobby glanced around at the large, spacious room, and announced, "It's the Professor's," and so they Kurt bamfed them into the next room.
Bobby noticed a picture of Evan and his family, including Storm, on the bedside table.
"This is Storm's room. Let's go." He looked around for Kurt but the furry dude had disappeared.
"Kurt?" he said to the empty room. "Kurt!"