AN:So I wrote most of this at like five in the morning while waiting for my friend's plane to leave so I could say goodbye to her at the last possible moment, and I think it's kinds noticeable just by some of the dialogues in here. Especially the threesome and mashed potatoes thing.
Disclaimer: I do not own X men Evolutions, or any of the characters. I do in fact own Roxy.
Warning: Contains cursing, violence, vomiting, mild to moderate sexual situations, and the occasional reference to yaoi/ slash/ BL.
Belle Fleur
Chapter nine- Duraflame logs are not eatable
"Humor is reason gone mad." -Groucho Marx
It had started to snow. We made our way back home in a strange silence. None of us really knew how to react to the fact that it was Christmas, or the face that none of us had even remembered that it should have been coming up soon.
When we finally got home we realized that that our heat had also been turned off and that the house was just as cold as it was outside. And with nothing else to do, we started a medium sized fire in the middle of the living room floor. Fred went outside to grab some big rocks that weren't completely covered in snow yet to make an out line circle of where the fire would go while Pietro ran around collecting books that we were willing to burn and Tabby threw some of her bombs at the books so that they would catch fire. We all sat around the fire just staring at it as it grew and took shape as the air blew threw it. I darkened the corner I sat in slightly and kept a small ring of shadows around the fire to make sure it didn't get too out of hand.
"So what do you guys usually do on Christmas?" I asked after another ten minutes of silence.
"The orphanage would have this whole little secret Santa thing and we would all have to spend the day together." Lance said first, never taking his eves off of the fire.
"My dad would have me steal him some booze from the store up the street then get drunk off his ass." Tabby chuckled bitterly while rolling her eyes.
"I would be given the day off and the other guys would chip to buy me a turkey dinner." Fred said with a small smile at the thought of free food.
"My dad would send me a card and then my aunt would tell me to go up to my room while she held a party for all of her rich friends. I would always sneak out and hook up with the richest guy's daughter just to spite them." Pietro said in a monotone as he rested his head on his hands, his elbows resting against his knees.
"I would go to the diners and try to get a free meal out of the waitresses by telling them that my dad had gotten drunk and kicked me out." Toad chuckled darkly, "They never believed me."
"I would sneak into a family's house while they were on vacation and eat all their food." I finished off the circle and looked up at everybody else, "What are we going to do this year?"
"Well it's too late to buy presents and shit, yo." Toad said with a sigh.
"Plus we're dead poor." Lance pointed out as he ripped some pages out of a book and threw them into the fire.
"We could always set the house on fire and collect the insurance money to buy a new, less shitty house." I pointed out with a smirk while nodding towards the fire.
"We don't have any insurance."
"I fucking hate this house." I said with a scoff as I stood up and walked into the kitchen, searching for food. "And to top it all fucking off, all we have to eat is some mother fucking canned vegetables and an old box of white rice."
"Well doesn't that just sound appetizing." Tabby mumbled as her and the others followed me into the kitchen.
"Why do you insist on surviving?" I yelled angrily while pointing at Fred's stomach, "This is all your fucking fault!"
"Are you alright, Sweets?" Pietro asked as he walked closer and lowered my extended arm back to my side.
"I haven't had more to eat than a pop tart in like a week and I'm starving." I mumbled as I rested my head against Pietro's shoulder and he wrapped his arm around my waist, "I was better fed when I lived on the streets."
"Then that's what we're going to do then." Lance said as he stood in the center of our group, "We're going to eat."
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"It's like Roxy said, nobody is home on Christmas. They all go on vacation, so all we have to do is sneak into a few houses and get some food and we'll have the perfect fixings for the perfect meal." Lance said as he led us out of the house, looking rather proud of himself, "And we'll all have enough to eat."
"What ever you say boss man." I said with a salute as I teleported into the first house and looked around before unlocking the front door and leaning outside to where the others waited "S'all good, son."
And it went on like that for the next hour or two. We split up into two teams. Pietro and I would go into houses to make sure they were empty then the rest of the group would run in and take as much food as we thought we could get away with with out getting caught. And by the time that the car was full of food we had done probably about twenty houses and had headed back to the Brotherhood house.
"How are we going to pick who get's what?" Tabby asked as we stared at the food scattered across the kitchen.
"Battle royal?" Lance asked as he looked around. And the second he said that we all pounced. Toad wrapped his tongue a pile of food, Tabby threw bombs in random direction, Fred just held on to his, Lance made and earth quake to make a hole in the ground separating his food from the rest, Pietro ran in circles around his, and I made a large shadow dome around myself and my food while using some more shadows to take food from other piles that I wanted.
"Okay, are we all good?" Pietro asked as he stopped running. We all looked around and stopped our battle techniques.
"How the fuck did you get so much food?" Tabby asked as she looked over at my pile which was considerably larger due to my mild cheating, but I merely shrugged.
"I'm a skilled bitch."
"I agree with that." Pietro nodded as he pointed towards me with a small smirk.
"Too much information, yo." Toad said with a revolted look on his face as he began to look through what he had grabbed. Looking at the scene around me, it actually seemed more like Halloween than Christmas. Ironic.
"So are we going to eat, or what?" Fred asked as he stood back up off of the floor. Typical fat ass.
"Yeah, let's dig in." Tabby smiled widely as she stood up to go and microwave her dinner.
"Shouldn't we say a prayer or something yo, I mean it is Christmas or some shit." Toad said as he looked around quickly, still shoving his food down his throat regardless.
"Shut the fuck up Toad." I said with a lazy roll of my eyes while digging into a box of strawberry pop tarts I had stolen from Pietro's pile. "Nobody cares."
Pietro stood up with a shiver going through his body, "I'm going to go restart the fire. It's colder in here than it is outside."
"Oh!" I said quickly while I began to go through my pile before pulling out a long square shape "I got a duraflame log!"
"Why did you grab a duraflame log?" Lance asked as he stared at me.
"I was hungry and delusional!" I yelled at him angrily before turning away with a slight pout, "And it seems delicious at the time."
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"Sweets, hurry up!" Pietro yelled up the staircase just as I heard Toad hop his way down the hallway, making sure to hop onto my door in case I was still sleeping, "We're going to be late for school!"
"Fuck school." I mumbled lazily as I walked out my door and down the stairs.
"I don't think that's physically possible." Tabby commented as she stepped out of the kitchen, "I'm gonna go hop in the car!
"Have fun!" I yelled back with absolutely no enthusiasm as I searched through our cabinet that still had food in them and grabbed a pop tart.
"You ready to go?" Pietro asked as he came up beside me, I nodded and we made our way outside to Lance's car. Which was not there.
"Has anybody seen Lance today?" I asked as I looked all around us for any signs as to where he could be. Blank stares all around."Fuck today."
"I don't think that is pysic-"
"Shut up, Tabby." I cut the girl off with a glare.
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"Hey blue boy." I said as I walked past him and into my seat, messing up his hair on the way.
"Hello Roxy." Kurt said with his normal smile as he turned around to talk to me. "How vas your vinter break?"
"Pretty normal, you know, helped set fire to the Brotherhood house." I said with a casual shrug, "How about you?"
"I vent back to Germany to visit my parents." I said with a warm smile as he remembered.
"Ah, so that's where you ran off to." I nodded in understanding, "And how was that?
"It vas amazing! It had just started snowing but it vasn't too cold. Ah, Ich vermisse manchmal Deutschland." He said with a sigh before looking back up at me as if he just remembered something, "Zhat reminds me! I got you something."
"You got me something?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, very much confused.
"Ja, for Christmas!" He said in an excited voice as he pulled a small box out of his book bag and handed it to me. Opening the box I saw a small silver bracelet that ended with two giant spirals that connected in the middle with a round black gem.
"Oh, it's so pretty!" I squealed as I leaned forward and hugged Kurt tightly, "But I didn't get you anything."
"Don't vorry about it!" Kurt said quickly as he held his arms up in defense, "I just saw it and thought it vould look good on you is all."
"Thank yo Kurt." I smiled warmly while putting it on, before a thought quickly popped into my head, "Hey, have you seen Lance around? He wasn't at the house this morning so I had to walk here."
"Lance Alvers? Ja, he showed up at the Institute at like one in zhe morning asking to move it." Kurt said with a confused face, "It was very veid."
"The institute?" I asked with an equally confused look before standing up suddenly, "Mother fucker!"
"Is there something wrong, Roxy?" Our teacher asked with a scowl as I began to gather all of my stuff into my bag.
"Damn strait there is!" I said angrily before turning back to Kurt, "Thank you for the bracelet, I'll see you later. Kay?"
"Um, j-ja." He said with a nervous stutter as he watched me make my way towards the door.
"Where do you think you're going?" The teacher yelled again as I walked into hallway and I ignored her. Not used to not being feared she followed me, "I'll write you up."
"Go for it." I called over my shoulder with a smile as I turned down another hallway, thinking. Pietro and Toad had history together this period, so that's where I headed. Once I was outside their class room I made a small note and placed it onto a slim shadow disc and sent it into the class, trying to make it as unnoticeable as possible.
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Pietro say quietly in class pretending to pay attention, while actually just drawing boredly in his notebook. Toad say across the room, watching a fly fly across the room. Actually going to class sucked, Pietro decided. And that was when he noticed a folded piece of paper sitting on his desk. Looking all around he figured that it was hopefully from nobody near by. Seeing as how he was surrounded by a band geek with braces and an overweight kid with breathing problems. Focusing, Pietro looked down and opened the note slowly.
'I need you. Now. Bring Toad.'
Defiantly one of the weirdest messages he had ever received. But hell, did he really have anything better to do? Raising his hand, Pietro waited for the teacher to call on him.
"What is it?" She asked with a bitter tone in her voice.
"I don't feel too well, may I please go to the nurse?" He asked with a pathetic whimper to his voice.
"Fine, go." She barked back at him, folding her arms in distrust.
"I don't think that I'll be able to make it there. Can I please have someone help me there?" Pietro added while standing up slowly.
"Let me guess, you want to take Todd?" She asked then rolled her eyes when Pietro nodded and held his stomach lightly, "This had better not be like last week when Todd pretended to choke on his own tongue just to get out of class."
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"What the fuck, Roxy?" Pietro yelled at me the second he and Toad were out of the class room. "What is up with the note?"
"I needed you guys to hurry up and that was the fasted note I could write." I said with a lazy shrug as I began to head towards the doors at the end of the hallway that lead outside.
"Well please tell me that you do not want to have a threesome with Toad, cos that's seriously what your note sounded like!" Pietro said angrily as he sped to stand in front of me and stare at me seriously.
"Well his tongue would be really useful, ya know?" Head tilted to the side, I contemplated the possibilities.
"I am not having a threesome with Toad!"
"Glad to hear it, yo." Toad mumbled darkly as he hopped beside us, a small pout on his face. Whether it be Pietro and I discussing his possible sex life right in front of him, or the fact that he had finally acquired normal senses of smell and realized how badly he smelled, we would never know.
"No, but I found out where our dear friend Lancelot was this morning."
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"Hiya Lance, long time no see." Pietro sad in that amazing bitchy voice of his just as Fred rammed Lance into a locker, the rest of us standing in a semi-circle to pin Lance to said locker.
"Yeah, where ya been old buddy?" Fred asked with an extra shove.
"Get your hands off of me, wide load." Lance demanded while pushing Fred away from him and started to try to make his exit, only to be stopped by Tabby.
"You know, we heard the craziest thing Lance" She cooed as she leaned in real close to him, totally invading his personal bubble, "They're saying that you were living with the geek squad."
"Yeah? Is that what they said?" Lance asked boredly, which only caused Toad to bounce around like the idiot that he was.
"I knew it!" He cheered, then stopped as soon as he realized the situation, "Mystique is going to hand you your left arm when she gets back."
"She's not coming back! The Brotherhood is history!" Lance declared angrily while swatting his arms in the air at us, "You guys just don't know it yet."
"Oh yeah?" Fred yelled angrily as he thought for a moment before continuing, "Well! Well..." And finished lamely.
"Way to make a come back, Blob." I commented in dryly as I inspected my nails, not really caring all too much about the conversation.
"You're becoming one of them aren't you?" Pietro asked snidely, hands instantly going to hips, "You're becoming an X-man."
"So what if I am?" Lance asked with rolled eyes.
"Say what?"
"Oh man, and to think I used to look up to you." Fred really was great at adding to the conversation today, wasn't he?
"You're making a mistake Lance. You;re never going to fit in with those guys." Tabby said with a knowing smirk as Lance pushed Toad out of the way so he could escape the circle, "And they're never going to accept you." And just like that, Lance walked away.
"Hey sweets," Pietro said as he turned to me, "Why didn't you say anything?"
"Lance's sudden issues of right and wrong consist completely in his pants and are not of my concern, " I remarked boredly before looking up with a wide smile, "Plus, he'll get what he deserves."
"Why do you have that crazy look on your face that says that you are going to do something incredibly stupid?"
"Because I probably am."
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A car. I landed inside a fucking car. And it is full of kids. Mutant kids. Who are all now staring at me, very confused.
"So, aren't you guys a bit young to be driving?" I asked with a raised eye brow as I worked hard to keep my dark hair in place.
"Who are you?"
"Please don't tell on us?"
"Hey, aren't you that freaky ninja chick?" Were the responses I got from the inhabitants of the car.
"Yeah, ninja. That's me." I said with a nod of my head to the driver, whom I distinctly remembered could make ice. "So are you guys still going to be out driving in about half an hour?"
"Yeah, probably." The driver nodded back, "Why?"
"Cos I'm going to need a ride home." I said with a wide smirk.
"Can't you just do some of that transporting stuff to get back home?" The other boy asked with a fairly thick southern accent.
"See I could, but it's really hard to teleport when you haven't exactly slept in two days." I said with a casual shrug, "Hence, why I am in the car."
"Yeah, we'll be here." The icy driver man said calmly as he drove closer to the mansion, "Why are you here anyway?"
"Say, do you know which room is Sir Lancelot's?" I asked with a smile as I stuck my head out the window.
"Um, it's that one. All the way on the left." The girl with long black hair and a tan said while pointing to said room. And with that, I was gone. And now standing directly about Lance on his bed, with my feet standing on either side of his waist. Waiting.
"Roxy?" Lance mumbled under his breath as he finally woke up, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"No, the real question is what are you doing here?" I asked with a raised eye brow as I leaned down to get in his face.
"I live here now. You know that." He sighed and sat up in bed.
"No, the girl you like lives here." I clarified angrily, "You live at the Brotherhood house!"
"The Brotherhood is dead!" He yelled back. "You all need to learn that!"
"If the Brotherhood is dead then why is it that you asked me to come live with you guys to help out?" I raised a delicate eye brow.
"Because I hadn't accepted it yet. But now I have, and you should too." Lance laid back down in bed before saying finally, "Go home Roxy."
"Fine." I muttered angrily before heading to the door. But just as my hand touched the door knob I turned back, "But the only reason why the Brotherhood is dead, is because you left. Nobody else will admit it, but you're our leader and the only thing keeping us together." And then I opened the door and made my way down the hallway and towards the front door. Only to be stopped by a familiar voice from behind me.
"Vhat are you doing here, Roxy?" Kurt asked just before I turned around. Running my hand through my hair, I noticed that I had gone back to my white hair, so all was fine.
"Oh, I left my mashed potatoes here last night. So I was just coming back for those." I answered quickly with a wide smile on my face, not really thinking about what I was saying..
"You veren't here last night." He said with a confused look on his furry blue face.
"And that was why I was just leaving, good night Kurt!" I yelled back before turning around and heading out the front doors. Looking around I saw that the car was about half a mile away, closer to the gate than to me. After quickly making sure that Kurt had left I teleported into the car, where I was greeted by three still confused faces. "Hey, what's up?"
"So where do you live?" The driver asked as he began to pull the car out of the gate of the mansion.
"The Brotherhood house, duh." I rolled my eyes at them all before looking around, "Who are you all anyway?"
"I'm Bobby." The driver said with a nod of his head.
"I'm Sam. Sam Guthrie." The Boy with longer blond hair and a southern accent spoke up next.
"I'm Jubilation." The girl answered last, causing me to stare at her.
"Your name is Jubilation?" I asked, "Isn't that an emotion?"
"Yeah, typically." She shrugged.
"So what can you guys do?" I asked boredly. God, can't Bobby drive any faster?
"I don't think we should tell you that. I mean, aren't you evil?" Sam said with a worried expression on his face.
"Not really." I shrugged, "I'm just bored and the Brotherhood offered me a place to stay. Actually, they aren't even really evil. Just a bunch of stupid delinquents."
"Well I can make ice." Bobby said confidently, obviously not afraid of me, "And they call me Ice man."
"Very fitting." I commented dryly before turning to the other two, waiting.
"I make fireworks," Jubilation said as she creaked a small colorful sparkler in her hand, "And my code name is Jubilee."
"They call me Cannonball," Sam spoke up at last, "Because I can... well I can produce a bunch of energy that makes it so I can... I don't really know how to explain it but I can fall really hard."
"You guys should have your own sitcom, seriously." I smiled widely before looking out the window, "But this is my stop."
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"Shit! I'm fucking late!" I screamed to the house as I ran down the stairs. It had been about a week since Lance had left and I still wasn't used tot he whole 'getting myself to school' thing. It was a major downer, "I'm late and I fucking hate everything!"
"If you're so late, why don't you just teleport, yo?" Toad yelled as I heard him hop across the other side of the house.
"Because my powers cause me to be a fucking insomniac and I haven't slept in like a week and last time I tried to teleport I ended up three miles away from my target then practically passed out." I yelled back at him while grabbing a cup of juice that Pietro had stolen the night before.
"I could give you a piggy back and run to school, Sweets." Pietro shouted from the top of the stairs as he made his way down, winking at me when he finally was able to see me.
"Hell no dill weed!" Tabby could barely be heard from inside her room, "She's walking with me! I am not being left alone with Fred and Toad again!"
"You heard the woman." I said with a serious look on my face as I nodded towards the stair case before walking towards the door., "Tabby, I'm heading outside!"
Once outside I looked up and saw a sight that was familiar and yes still surprising. I simply stood there and stared until the rest of the inhabitants of the house had made their way outside and stared right along with me.
"Hey guys, want a ride?" Lance asked nervously to break the silence. He was in his normal attire and had his legs crossed at his mud crusted boots as he leaned against the side of his car.
"Oh, so now you come back to us?" Pietro asked with venom in his voice, "What, did they kick you out?"
"No, I left." Lance snapped right back at him, "I figured you guys wouldn't be able to survive without me. And plus, I can stand you guys a lot more than them. So do you want a ride or not?"
"No." I said defiantly, causing the others to stare at me in disbelief, "You don't get off that easily." And with a wave of my hand a large shadow creeped from under a tree and shoved Lance back a good thirty yards. While he was down I ran and jumped into the drivers seat before looking at the remaining seats. Seeing that they were filled by the four other mutants I stepped on the gas petal and sped down the street, leaving Lance in our dust.
Derp derp. Shorter wait for a longer chapter. That takes skills, you know. But my town's fireworks were tonight and now my face is covered in mosquito bites. Why do insects always try to eat me alive while I update this story?
But please review, because they make me feel loved in my times of being eaten alive.