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Once Upon a Dream Part V
On Christmas Eve Day Faye, Rogue, Kitty, and a very hyper Jubilee decided it would be fun to drag Sydney out onto the frozen lake behind the mansion to go ice skating. Needless to say the even did not go so well and Sydney stalked off the ice thirty minutes after being pulled on cold, bruised, wet and hungry.
"What the hell happened to you?" Logan asked as Sydney stalked past him in the hallway.
"Damn hyper teenagers and their freaking need to skate on the frozen water." She mumbled.
"Ahhh I see." He replied jogging quickly to catch up with her. "You okay?"
"Fine and dandy." She replied angrily opening the door and then quickly closing it in Logan's face.
She peeled off the wet clothing and pulled on some pajamas before climbing into bed and falling asleep. She was woken up several hours later by Faye bounding into the room.
"Aww don't be mad at us Syd." She said sitting down on Sydney's bed. "It was just a bit of fun. Besides, it's Christmas Eve. It would be immoral if you were upset on today of all days."
Sydney responded by throwing a pillow at her cousin. It wasn't the fact that she was mad anymore, the Logan dreams had taken care of that; she was just annoyed at Faye for walking her up.
"Fine be like that." Faye said getting up off the bed in a huff. "I'll just find someone who can get you out of bed."
Sydney ignored that comment and drifted back off to sleep only to be awakened by the sound of heavy boots on the floor which could only belong to one man.
Sydney pulled the covers tighter around her but they were of no use. Logan already had the covers off of her and was giving her an evil stare.
"It's Christmas Eve, get out of bed Sydney." He said poking her in her side.
"No" Sydney replied pulling the pillow over her head.
"Fine, you asked for it." Logan responded. He grabbed her wrists and held them above her head while the other hand began to tickle her ferociously.
"Logan stop!" Sydney yelled in-between fits of laughter.
"Not until you're out of bed." He replied.
"Okay. Okay I'll give." She shrieked.
The tickling ceased and Logan let go of Sydney's hands.
"Okay I'm up now what?" she asked.
"I don't know." He replied. "I was just sent to get you up, not entertainer you."
"Damn you Faye." Sydney muttered as a laughing Logan left the room.
Sydney sighted and went to change out of her pajamas and into some jeans and a long sleeved shirt.
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Sydney spent the remainder of the day playing monopoly with Rogue, bobby, Peter, Kitty, and Faye.
It was nearing eleven o'clock at night when the crew called it quits. Kitty had been asleep on Peter's shoulder for the last half our and even the normally hyper Faye was beginning to yawn.
The teens trudged up the stairs and to bed.
An hour passed and yet Sydney still couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned, even tried beating up a pillow, but nothing worked. Finally she gave up and after pulling on her University of Texas Longhorns hoodie, she silently crept past a slightly snoring Faye and out of the room. Not knowing where to go, she crept down the stairs and headed for the kitchen where one warm body already sat, also unable to sleep.
"Couldn't' sleep?" the voice asked surprising Sydney.
Once over the initial shock, Sydney glanced over to see Logan.
"No" she said quietly sitting across from him. She glanced at the bottle of Jack Daniels sitting on the table in front of Logan.
"And I thought this was a school." She said jokingly, pointing at the bottle.
"Early Christmas present from Storm." He muttered putting the cap back on.
"Oh you don't have to stop your drinking fest just because of me." Sydney told him sincerely.
"I wouldn't want to corrupt you." He returned.
"Oh trust me, I'm already corrupted." Sydney said opening the bottle back up and taking a swig to the astonishment of Logan. She smirked and then laughed at the look on his face.
"My family is German. I was introduced to alcohol at the age of five. I go to school with a bunch of rednecks. Trust me, I know what alcohol is. At any given family wedding we can go through four kegs easily. My dad's brother and my mothers' brother make homemade wine each year so you don't have to worry about my well being. I don't like the heavy stuff anyways. I would prefer something fruitier and less apt to get me wasted."
"Ya know you really surprise me sometimes." Logan said taking another swig of the liquor.
I'm not the good little girl you think I am." Sydney replied. "I have my secrets too."
"When you turn twenty-one I'm taking you out drinking." Logan said thoughtfully after a few moments of silence.
"I'll hold you to that." Sydney replied getting up. "I'm going to bed. I think Mr. Daniels is working on putting me to sleep." She began walking out of the kitchen but stopped once she got to the doorway. "Merry Christmas Logan.
"Merry Christmas Sydney" He replied back.
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"Damn it Faye I want to sleep." Sydney grumbled at her extremely chipper cousin who was whacking her over the head with a pillow.
"Nope it's Christmas and I want to open presents with you." Fay replied in a sing-song voice and began to pull the covers off of Sydney.
"You're an annoying git you know that." Sydney said grumpily getting out of bed. "I'm up but I sure as hell ain't gonna get out of these pajamas anytime soon."
"Suit yourself." Faye replied bounding out of the room, probably to go wake up the other members of the mansion.
It was five-thirty and Sydney doubted any of them would be happy to be awake at this time, Christmas or no Christmas. Even Sydney with her running, didn't wake up until at least six-fifteen. She contemplated going back to bed but knew Faye would be back with vengeance if that happened.
She gave a sigh before heading into the living room where the giant Christmas tree stood, piled high underneath it were presents of all shapes and sizes. Sydney made her way to the couch and curled up on one end of it. It didn't' take long for the sound of shuffled feet and yawns to fill the air. A body sank on the couch next to Sydney forcing her to open her eyes.
"I see she got you too." Sydney said to the grumpy Wolverine sitting next to her.
"Damn pixie wouldn't leave me alone." He mumbled, his head using her shoulder as a pillow.
Sydney looked around the room at the many occupants. It seemed Faye had woken up every occupant in the mansion. Rogue and bobby sat on the loveseat yawning and Kitty was already back asleep using Peter's shoulder as a pillow, from their place on the floor. Several of the younger kids were sparkled around the floor, like Kitty, asleep. Even professor Xavier looked ready to fall out of his chair. The only soul who seemed to shown any signs of life was Faye who was already at the tree grabbing gifts to pass out.
As soon as presents were tossed at them, the inhabitants of the mansion woke up and soon wrapping paper littered the floor.
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It took no time at all for the presents to be removed from their wrappings and soon everyone had a pile of presents sitting beside them, including Sydney.
The younger children were all playing with their toys while some of the older students sat in groups talking while others had gone back to bed.
Storm, Jean, Scott, and the Professor were all in the kitchen getting breakfast while Logan was gently snoring on Sydney's shoulder. Faye was sitting on the other side of him, passed out over the couch's arm.
Sydney looked around her and studied every person in the room. She leaned her head on Logan's' and let sleep overtake her.
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Sydney awoke to a bright flash of light and giggling.
She heard a grown from Logan and opened her eyes to see Faye smiling down at both of them, a camera in her hand.
"I knew I shouldn't have gotten you that blasted thing." Sydney grumbled standing up and stretching. She collected her gifts and after giving Logan a pat on the shoulder, headed up the stairs and to Faye's room. After dumping the gifts on her bed and changing, she went back downstairs to have breakfast and just spend the rest of the day relaxing.
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