Alrighty! Here is a little bit of fluff, and once again, a plot surfaces!

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Hank and the Professor rolled in to the dining room to join kids for lunch. Dr. McCoy had made mac and cheese, and in his naiveté had forgotten the group was made up of two very provocative troublemakers.

Hank laughed seeing that there was some obvious time out action going on in the dining room. Kurt was being telepathically suspended upside down, watching his friends eat their food and laugh.

"Kurt is being an example to everyone. When you disobey Ms. Jean, what happens Kurt?" Jean smiled and looked at the young boy. She was very satisfied and Scott was grinning widely.

"When we disobey Ms. Jean and cause trouble we get a time out. And hung upside down until she thinks we've learned our lesson," Kurt recited flawlessly, having obviously heard this and been forced to memorize it. The Professor broke out laughing, and rolled over to take his place at the head of the table between Wanda and Kitty.

"Kitty, what have you been doing today?" The Professor asked, knowing that the children knew whom he was, but they were not all that comfortable with him in their new situations.

This was all the invitation the young girl needed. She started explaining in excruciating detail just what she had done during the day so far. The Professor was listening intently as well as being a presence at the table. This gave Jean and Scott a chance to get some time to themselves in the kitchen. Hank and the Professor could handle them for a couple minutes.

Jean gently set Kurt down and he wobbled back to the table to finish his lunch with the others. Scott led the way to the kitchen, Jean close behind.

"I never thought it'd be this much work taking care of kids. We don't ever get a break!" Scott threw his hands up in the air, but had a hard time wiping the small smile off his face.

"Don't act so exasperated, you know you love it," Jean said, leaning against the counter across from Scott. They stared at each other, smiling. Both were asking the same question. Is this what they wanted some day? To have children of their own? The thought of marriage had risen up in conversations between the two multiple times, but it was always pushed aside. Secretly though, they both knew that there was no way anyone else could make them as happy as when they were with each other.

Sighing, Scott broke the stare, glancing back out the door towards the other group. "Have you noticed how they still kind of act like they do when they're… you know… older?"

"Yeah, like how Remy still picks on Rogue."

"And Kitty is still loud."

"And Kurt still lacks boundaries." Scott smirked at this.

"Yeah, maybe we should try that time out thing with Kurt when he goes back to normal. Hey, it may just work!"

Jean laughed. She glanced back at her friends and family. "Logan and Ororo seem to be completely oblivious to the each other, though. I mean, I know it wasn't common knowledge they liked each other before they started dating, but shouldn't there be something there? I mean all the others have something. Kitty is still trying to pester Piotr, which is not that different from when they're older."

"Oh Logan HAS noticed Ororo. Every time she walks into the room he blushes and looks down, trying to avoid her." Jean giggled after Scott said this.

"Scott, what do you think we would have been like if we were changed like them?"

"Hmmm," Scott thought for a moment. "Well you would have either been quiet and shy, or loud, bossy, and obnoxious like Kitty." Jean glared at being compared to the phaser.

"Well you would have been bossy and controlling."

Scott moved towards her in a couple steps, wrapping his arms around her waist. Jean crossed her arms and scowled off to the side, knowing if she looked the man in the eye she would give in.

"Jean," he said, smiling at her. "Jean, you know I love you no matter how bossy you are." Jean glared into his eyes this time. She was about to say something about being insulted when Scott quieted her with a kiss. Jean melted into his arms and moved her hands to play with the wisps of hair on the back of his neck.

When they pulled away, Jean sighed. "Scott, that is NOT fair. You know that when you do that I…" Just as Jean started to speak, a sound ripped through the room. It broke the two apart faster than had the Professor rolled in. The sound rang in their ears.

It sounded like their door being ripped off it's hinges…