Chapter 5: Dinner Disaster
"Get back here Swamp Rat! Where are ya!" Rogue rounded the corner after jumping off the last three stairs. Rogue popped her head in the Rec. Room but didn't see him. She muttered under her breath, "Stupid Cajun playin' a stupid game tryin' to bug me…" She walked past Jean who gave her an odd look. 'Well that wasn't odd or anything' thought Jean.
She then poked her head into the Dining Hall. Remy wasn't there but Kurt was already at the table a long with Sam, Jubilee and Bobby. She started to speak to Kurt when someone tugged on her arm. She looked down to see Jamie. Rogues hard face became a little softer. "What, Ah mean ya Jamie, what do ya need?"
Jamie just smiled and beckoned her to lean down so he could whisper in her ear. All the others at the table snickered but Rogue started to smile. This confused the group at the table and Sam shrugged.
"Vat did he say Rogue?" Kurt was curious but Rogue only shook her head giving Jamie a high five. Rogue then left the dinning Hall into the main lobby.
"Well that wasn't weird or anything," Said Jubilee.
Jean walked in with a bowl of potatoes. "What wasn't weird? Is Rogue talking to herself still? I passed her in the hall and thought the same thing.
"No Jamie whispered something in her ear and she went from angry grouch to all sly and sneaky," said Sam. "It was actually kind of freaky."
Kitty entered the Dinning Hall next with a basket of rolls. Everyone that was there looked at them. Kitty sighed, "No I did not like make them. You are all like safe from Kitty's Killer Cooking." She then walked out and everyone sighed. Kitty returned with a bowl of carrots and then said, "You know you could like help us out or something." She then diapered back into the kitchen.
Meanwhile Jamie had created twelve copies of himself and had entered into many rooms. One copy went back to the Rec. Room and flipped on the television to watch cartoons, one went back to his bedroom, one sat in the library, one played outside, and the others were strewn throughout the mansions halls and spare rooms. Jamie himself wore a whistle and Rogue sat in the library with a clone. She was pretending to read him 'The Stinky Cheese Man' when they heard a high pitched whistle. They jumped up and ran towards it.
No one else in the mansion was expecting this and so Scott dropped the pasta, Sam fell off his stool, Logan let out a yell due to the high pitch, Ororo dropped the salad but it was caught by Jean and placed gently on the table by her gift. Amara ran into the kitchen to see what was happening only to slip on some pasta and crash into Scott why wound up throwing the meatballs in the air. Storm caught them in a gust of wind landing them back in the bowl and carried them out to the table. Jubilee threw her hands over her ears; Kitty let out a yelp of surprise almost as high a pitch as the whistle itself. Kurt and Bobby called out, "Ahh, make it stop! Make it stop!" The professor wheeled by the kitchen to see the chaos and used his ability so that Jean and Scott didn't get hit by the boiling sauces that started to fall as the meatballs were flying. The whistle ceased and everyone froze once they knew things were secure in the kitchen. Then they groaned as they listened to the noise coming down the hall.
"Ow, Cherie please! Ow, Rogue dat really hurts!" Gambit looked at Jamie who was buckled over laughing. "Petite 'elp, ow, please 'elp, ow! Remy need 'elp." Jamie shook his head as Rogue continued her attack.
"That's fer callin' meh a River Rat," Rogue smacked Remy with a pillow. "This is fer making meh run 'round the house ta find ya, (smack smack smack), this is fer upsettin' Logan in the DR (smack smack), an' this is because you're, well you're you!" smack smack smack!
"Oh well, ow, Gambit can't, ROGUE! Remy can't 'elp be 'imself. Rogue, Cherie Remy surrender! Ow, please Rogue I said Remy surrender!"
Rogue was straddling Remy pinning him in place as she wacked him with one of the Rec. Room pillows. She stopped for a second, looked at him and said, "Ah heard ya the firs' time Swamp Rat. Now take that!" She gave a good strong swing, wack! The pillow hit Remy for what seemed like the hundredth time in the past 2 minutes.
"Dats it, Gambit done wit' dis!" Remy grabbed Rogue's arms above both their heads pinning her to the floor then he rolled over so she was now the one on the wooden floor. Rogue squirmed but couldn't get loose. As she squirmed she attempted to wack the back of Remy's head with very little luck. "Remy tinks it time he have da, ow!" Remy looked up to find Jamie with another pillow. "Petite dis ain't ya war, go 'elp, mon dieu! Petite, Gambit not happy!"
"Free my Rogue!" Jamie yelled. He was attacking Remy on the back of the head and back, whack, whack, whack!
"Non," Remy replied.
By this time everyone was gathered on either side of the hall. They had watched Rogue beat Remy silly with the pillow. Jean was slightly shocked but amused non -the -less. Kitty was trying to contain her laughter, Amara and Jubilee looked as though they wanted to join in, but knew better to cross paths with Rogue or better yet Rogue and Remy combined. Kurt and Bobby looked as though their eyes were bugging out of their heads and Scott was mad and stood there with his arms crossed. As for the adults there were mixed expressions and emotions. Logan couldn't decide if he wanted to tell them how they had almost ruined dinner or if he should be cheering on his Stripes, Charles was amused and smirked a little and storm as shocked as she was finally became the voice or reason. "Jamie, stop hitting Gambit, Gambit get off of Rogue, and Rogue get up off the floor."
None of them had heard the crowd approach and looked at Storm as she spoke. It took all three of them a second to process what she had said and then the whacking stopped and Jamie stepped away from Remy. Remy then looked at Rogue. "Ya heard her Swamp Rat, get off a meh." Remy got off pouting and Rouge responded with, "What, ya wan' meh to keep beatin' ya?" Remy backed away from Rouge as she still had hold of the pillow.
The professor spoke next, "Rogue, please put the pillows back in the Rec. Room and then can you and Remy join me in the kitchen." She nodded returning the pillows to their rightful spots and entered the kitchen with Remy and the other adults.
Once in the kitchen Rogue took one look around and said, "What the hell happened in here?" There was pasta on the floor and walls, sauce stains all over the stove, the stray meatballs under the counter that Storm hadn't caught in time and a very angry Scott.
"What happened? You want to know what happened!" Now Rogue wasn't so sure she wanted to know any more. She looked at Storm who only gave her the 'Everything will be fine, he is just upset right now' look. She then looked to Logan who had the 'Stripes, ya messed up, but because it was amusing I'll tell ya later' look on.
Rogue gulped and looked at Remy who was looking around seeing that the salad had actually been tossed and that they weren't having lasauna as it was upside down on the floor. "Scott, wha' did we do?" Scott's veins were boiling. When he didn't say anything Rogue kept on going. "Looks lhike ya'll had a food fight in here. Ah know ya can't cook Scott but that's no reason to be throwin' all the food around." That did it; all the adults broke out into laughter.
"How can you all laugh at this? It's because of Rogue and Jamie's prank that we don't have a proper dinner!" Scott turned on Rogue, "Thanks to Jamie's high pitched whistle everyone was startled and we all started dropping things, and some of those things were hot. Do you always just think about yourself or is there a hidden gene embedded in you that is the 'only me' gene and you are incapable of thinking of others?"
Before anyone could do anything about it Rogue blew up at Scott. "Scott I don't have to take this crap from you! It's not my fault that you're a kluts and dropped the dinner! We live in a house full o' mutants where there are weird sounds all the thime for god sakes! Sam crashin' inta a wall wouldn't make ya blink an' eye. Jubilee setting somein' 'lectrinic into sparks is normal! Hell toxic smoke from Kurt and a phased head through the wall with no body is a common thing too, and yet when a kid has a regular toy whistle and blows it all hell breaks loose! You have got to be fucking kidding me!"
"STRIPES, language!"
Rogue faced him briefly, "Logan, Ah a'int in the mood!" She then whipped around to Scott, "Summers Ah don't care what any of 'em think o' me right now, ya had it coming the moment ya said I only think 'bout mahself. If that were the case Jamie wouldn't be as good as he is in the Danger Room, Kitty wouldn't 'ave her license, yes that's right, Ah risked mah neck so she could earn it back again 'cause you and Jean wouldn't take her so put that shocked face away. Ah lent Amara and Jubilee mah CD player knowin' very well that it could go up in smoke, and it did but Ah did it anyways 'cause Ah knew theirs was broke. Tell me Scott, do Ah only think about mahself?" Scott looked at her dumbfounded. Jean had a similar look on her face. Rogue looked at Jean, "So ya thought the same as Scott than? Sorry ta disappoint ya with my good deeds by thinkin' of others."
Rogue turned for the door and then turned back "Ah guess ya'll are still hungry huh?" There were some raised eyebrows, pursed lips and a small nod from various spots in the room. Rogue sighed, "Ah guess we could get some pizza. Ah'll be back."
Rogue turned to go her head facing the floor. "Rogue, I..." Scott started. She stopped and looked at him. "I'm sorry Rogue; it was just dinner I don't know what made me blow up like that. I'll go get the pizza."
Rogue shrugged, "All right than. I'll tell the others that we'll be eatin' a bit later."
Scott and Rogue parted Scott and Jean headed to the garage to go the Papa's Pizza and Rogue and Remy to the dinning hall to announce that they were sorry about dinner but it was on its way.