Inked

by untouchable hexing witch

Jubilee needs a summer job before starting her college life. As an aspiring artists to be the idea of a tattoo shop isn't so bad. With the perk of having good looking co workers with interesting tattoo's that maybe have interesting stories to go with them, why not? [Jubilay][Amarto][Romy][Xietro][Jonda] [AU No Powers] In shorter Words: The X-men Evo Tattoo AU no one asked for.

2. A New Family

O-o-O-o-O-o-O-o-O Disclaimer O-o-O-o-O-o-O-o-O

X-Men Evolution and it's Characters do not belong to me. I'm writing this for pure fun and selfish reasons; those being that I want to see all my crack ships do very very naughty things ;)

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Hi Guys! See, it wasn't a horribly long wait :P Thank you so much to Clamchuck (I hope where I take this keeps feeding your tattoo fix. Thanks so much for reviewing!), Ava Fay, Little Gem Magnolia, and Guest (Well I'm pretty sure this is going past chapter three so I guess you'll be stuck with me for another decade :p Jk, I won't take that long. But that's for sticking around for another one!) for reviewing the first chapter! I really appreciate your guys' excitement into this new journey!

I forgot to put that this is a no power Au, but I'm sure that's been figured out. I'll go ahead and leave the ages of the characters in the ending AN. And now I won't keep you guys here waiting any longer, thanks for reading, hope you'll review and Please enjoy this chapter.

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Jubilee looked down the street one way and then the other. Though it was 8:40 in the morning the street was already buzzing with activity. Cars were zooming past her and she looked through all the windows to see if she recognized any of the people she had seen at the tattoo parlor the days prior. After a few minutes she looked down at her phone, pressing the button to check the time and make sure she hadn't had any missed messages.

"You're early."

Jubilee looked up startled to see the girl that had been at the front counter when she applied heading her way. She was cladded in red, her dark black and red corset vest showed a good amount of shoulder and chest area making the tattoos she hadn't seen when she first saw her very visible.

"Oh yeah, sorry I just wasn't sure how early I should be or if you wanted to go over stuff with me beforehand..."

The girl gave a slight smile, "Don't worry, I didn't say it was a bad thing. Nice glasses by the way."

"Oh, thanks," Jubilee responded with a big smile. She knew that going shopping was a good call, even though Amara had looked at the bright fuschia sunglasses in disgust.

"Come in and I'll show you around, oh...I'm Wanda by the way. Wanda Maximoff, I didn't introduce myself last time."

"Nice to meet you. "

"And you said you prefer Jubilee right?"

"Yeah."

"Why? Jubilation is unique," Wanda asked, opening the door and motioning her to go in.

"It's a mouthful," she responded with a shrug. She then noticed that she locked the door behind them making her perk a brow which didn't go unnoticed.

"We open at 9, I always open the shop on Tuesdays and get here early to prepare for the week and get the bank deposits ready. We're closed Mondays so today is the first day of the week."

"Oh, are you the manager?"

"I'm the owner."

"WHAT?! How's that possible!" Wanda smirked at the exclamation making Jubilee turn red in embarrassment, "I mean, you seem so young."

"Thanks," Wanda remarked as she walked into the lobby area, since Jubilee had already looked around the last time she had been there she followed closely behind. "My father is pretty well off so it's made having my own business easy."

"Ah," Jubilee nodded while suddenly imaging a silver spoon in the red tipped girl's mouth.

"So let me go over the basics with you. The most important fact, like I let you know when you applied, this is only a temporary position." Jubilee nodded in acknowledgment. "The main reason for that being that we need the extra help during summer. With college kids being out on breaks and people going on vacation we tend to get busier. It also helps that we're right next door to a club."

"You guys get a lot of drunken accidents?" Jubilee asked putting it together.

Wanda smirked and shrugged, "I guess we can call it an accident but I mean at some point that night they wanted that ink."

Jubilee found herself grinning at the answer and nodded letting the older girl continue.

"They're usually always two people in the shop so everyone usually charges out their own clients but again I'm expecting it to be busier so I need someone to do that so the others can focus on other appointments."

"So I'm handling the money?"

"Yeah, you're also going to be making the appointments, answering the phones, taking care of the lobby. Pretty much receptionist work. What do you think?"

Jubilee nodded, "Ya, sounds great."

"Let me show you around before I show you your area."

The young Asian girl nodded again and followed as they went past the lobby and towards the hall she hadn't noticed that last time she had been there. The walls in this direction were pitch black with picture frames hanging on either side, the only difference in them being the colors of the frames. On one side the frames were a dark red color with more tattoo designs on them. On the other side the frames were blue, pictures of musical instruments and famous musicians at their center.

Wanda pointed a finger to the end of the hall, "That's the way you'll actually be coming in. I knew you'd come in the other way today cause it's the way you entered the first time but this is our actual entrance for employees." As they neared she noticed what she thought was the end of the hall was actually a black door, the only thing giving it away being the silver knob and lock.

When they finally reached it she noticed black metal double doors at the right side, "These doors lead you into the club next door. Sometimes we like to sneak over there and get a peak of the action. They have local bands and groups play so it can get entertaining." Across for that door was another one, unlike the other two black doors this door was a grayish blue.

"You'll never have to worry about going in here. It's the office of the asshole who owns the club, since we share the building we need to give him an office. That one is mine, I hardly use it but it's there." Wanda pointed to a door some feet away, a red door they had actually passed to get where they were.

She moved to another closed door and opened it letting her take a peek inside. It resembled a kitchen, with a sink, counter and cabinets against the wall at one side. On the other side was a table with a few chairs tucked under it, a comfy looking couch and weirdly enough another pool table.

"This is the break room. Lunch's are an hour long, unless some of the tattoo artists are following behind and have to rush. The bathroom," her head tilted to a room opposite of the exit before she started moving back to the lobby.

The next room she stopped in was the circular room she had accidentally stumbled into the last time she had been there. The one with the chair in the middle.

"This is the piercing and pipes room. For obvious reasons, you're going to have to card pretty much anyone who comes into the parlor. We don't sell anything to minors unless an adult comes with them."

"Even the piercings?"

"Yes, it may be the minors body but when parents find out they usually come back to yell at us and that's never good."

"They get really upset?"

"Yes...but that's not why it goes all bad." Jubilee perked a brow in question, making Wanda smile innocently, "I get mad too…" she added cryptically and walked back into the lobby area.

They didn't linger there long, Wanda walked towards the counter opening the door at the side and let herself into the back area. Jubilee followed and her eyes widened at what she found, "And back here is where all the magic happens."

She motioned for Jubilee to go deeper into the room to look around. The area it led into, which wasn't really visible by just looking from the lobby was a lot bigger than what she had expected. It was sectioned into four cubby type rooms, pony walls dividing all the areas with a small opening connecting them to walk from one to the other. As she walked closer to them she realized that the areas were decorated in specific taste.

One was decorated in red. Candles and pagan symbols were scattered around the desk, different color ink bottles were stationed at the corner with a few different bins holding different supplies that she wasn't able to identify. Besides the desk was a silver movable cart, a handful of instruments in pouches laid on top of it. Other than that, what caught her attention next were the pictures on the wall. Most of the tattoos in the photographs were also red in color, some mixed in with black ink as well. The most prominent of them being an arm, the tattoo going from the back of the palm to mid shoulder.

On the back of the palm was a skull, designed in black ink. It's mouth was open, it was hard to distinguish if it was laughing or screaming. Red and black lines surrounded it and swirled upwards. She followed the lines up and it was easy for her to see the form of the flames come together. A second skull was drawn at the forearm, this one smiling widely, the flames surrounding it combined with the first skull and went up as high as the curve of the muscle on the bicep.

"These are mine."

Jubilee glanced behind her shoulder to see Wanda eyeing the arm wearily. "Yours?" She asked, confused.

"My clients. I tattooed these," she responded and squeezed her forearm without looking away from the picture.

"You're also one of the tattooists here?"

Wanda smirked, "Well I'm here for a reason," she then turned and walked around from her own area.

Jubilee took a last look at the inflamed arm before following and looking around the other stations. Like Wanda's station they had pictures on the walls showcasing certain works that identified the artist with a particular skill they had.

On one wall there were multiple pictures of people with sun tattoos, on another wall the pictures were demonic looking creatures and even monsters from famous movies. On the last one and the one that seemed the most peculiar to her due to the lack of color was a wall where the pictures were with people who had solid black, some without designs. Literally pictures with just hands, feet and even a chest in solid black.

"We all have our own styles and things we specialize in. It doesn't mean there's things we can't do but there's things we definitely prefer to do. He's good at blackouts. " Wanda remarked from behind her noticing her interest.

"There's just four of you?"

"Yup, we were all here when you came in actually. You'll meet Ray and Roberto today. We're all here weekends because it's the busiest time but we're off early Sunday and off Mondays. This is your area."

Jubilee walked out of the sectioned area she was in towards the front counter. It held a computer, a calculator, a book, a cup holding multiple writing utensils, a phone and oddly enough a fish bowl with little scraps of paper in it.

"It's all pretty straight forward. I want you to eventually use a scheduling program on the computer but I'm still looking into that, for the meantime we are using the scheduling book," Wanda opened up the book to show multiple lines separating timeslots. There were names on the top in capital letters, in the boxes there were different times and multiple neat scribbles, names and phone numbers.

"It might take a bit to get used to it this week but I don't think you'll have a problem catching on. Do you have any questions?"

"No, like you said it all seems pretty straightforward. Well actually what's the Fish bowl for?"

Wanda turned to the small bowl. "Oh yeah," she opened a drawer and pulled out a blank sheet of paper. She then wrote two words down and cut the paper so the words were on separate little pieces of paper. She then scrunched them up and threw them into the bowl. When she was done she slid the rest of the paper to her.

"Write two music genres, or music artists or specific songs, cut them up like I did and add them into the bowl. We each put two in and draw one in the morning and that's how we decided what we listen to that day."

"That's a fun way to decide."

"It's the only way we agreed on that didn't end with someone getting hurt."

Jubilee smiled, "You guys sound like a rowdy bunch. Sounds like fun."

"We'll see if you still feel the same after you meet the others."

Jubilee's lips parted to reply but before she could they were interrupted by the phone ringing.

Wanda looked at the time, "It's showtime. Go ahead and answer, just say the name

of the shop and your name."

Jubilee nodded and picked up the phone putting the receiver to her ear, "Scarlet Ink, Jubilee speaking."

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Ray's lips closed over the small cylinder in his hand, he pressed the button and sucked in. He released the ice cold vapor seconds later letting the O shaped smoke ring drift away from him and looked around before taking a step into the building. He walked down the hallway into the break room putting any unnecessary things including his vape into his locker.

When he was done he made his way back into the hall towards the lobby. When he got to the front counter he saw Wanda cleaning up her area, she must have just finished her first client.

"Morning," he greeted, passing the door to the back area and coming to a stop at the counter in front of the phone.

"Hey," she greeted back. "How the beach plans go this last weekend?"

"It went alright. Tabby went into another one of her fits, threatened to leave the apartment so I guess it could have been better."

"I thought that the new boyfriend of hers was supposed to mellow her out?"

Shoulders shrugged upwards, "Not my business, not my problem. How's the morning going? Busy just being you?"

"Oh I forgot to tell you guys, I hired for the front desk so I wasn't alone this morning. I've only had one client so far so it hasn't been too bad and I've had a chance to go over a lot with them."

"Oh, cool did you hire the guy with..." he stopped talking as the counter door behind him opened. He turned to look over his shoulder and felt deja-vu as his stormy blue eyes met dark brown. His eyes unconsciously traced down her body. Black halter top barely showing an inch of smooth flesh at her midriff, tight black pants with random cuts scattered, a short yellow jacket and black and white converse. Fuschia pink sunglasses on her head finished her ensemble.

"Ray this is Jubilee, she's our new shop girl. Jubilee this is Ray, he's my blackout expert, you know that section at the back left corner."

"Oh!" Jubilee exclaimed, the wall she had been interested in earlier coming to mind. "Hi! Nice to meet you..."

"...Hey..." his lower lip went inwards and he licked at his snake bite piercings before his lips parted to speak again but before he could get anything out the phone rang and she seemed to spring up from where she was.

"I'll get it!" She yelled and maneuvered her way between him and the counter pressing her stomach into the counter and having her butt stick out in front of where he was.

"Scarlet Ink, this is Jubilee."

Ray looked down at the body pressed in between him in surprise and then looked up to see a smirking Wanda with a perked brow.

His eyes rolled and he moved back so his body was no longer touching the younger girl and then without another word he turned and walked to his station to get started with his day.

Wanda followed towards her own station, "You gotta admit she's eager."

He made a sound of acknowledgement but didn't say anything else, deciding he wasn't sure he liked how she phrased it.

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"When Jubilees comes back from her break I'm stepping out to go do the deposit"

"Wait! What? You're leaving me alone with her?" Ray looked up from cleaning his chair.

"I don't have a choice, I was on my way to do it this morning before I opened but I saw she was already waiting outside, I wasn't going to make her wait half an hour until I got back."

"What am I supposed to talk to her about?"

Wanda rolled her eyes, "Talk about whatever with her, what's the big problem? You literally talk to strangers for a living while stabbing them with a needle a few thousand times."

"Yeah and everything they say goes in through one ear and out the other."

"Well then pay attention."

"But..."

Wanda smirked at seeing how lost and flustered he was at the idea, "What's the problem?" she repeated. "Is it cause she's cute?"

"Those were Roberto's words not mine."

"So you don't think she's cute?"

"..."

Wanda rolled her eyes, "Just keep her busy for a bit, At least till Roberto gets in for his shift and then he can charm the pants off her like he does with most of his clients."

Ray rolled his eyes, "Yeah that's a great idea," he muttered sarcastically.

"Glad you agree. Anyway, you should really just get to know her and get used to it just being you two. You're both my full timers meaning that it's going to be you two that are gonna be here the longest all week," as she finished speaking Jubilee rounded the corner.

"I'm back," she remarked cheerfully and headed for the lobby to tidy up the magazine's clients that had scattered throughout the day.

"Great, I'm going to go to the bank real quick, you and Ray are in charge." With those words she opened the door to the lobby and walked towards the hall leading to the back door.

"...O...k..." she remarked but the short haired girl was already gone. She looked over towards the counter and the steel blue orbs that were on her suddenly looked away.

They worked in silence for a bit. Her dusting off the pool table making sure the frames weren't dusty, making sure the binders were closed and centered on the coffee table. She wasn't sure what he was doing but he was moving around quite a bit. It wasn't until a few frustrated sighs' echoed that one of them finally spoke.

"Hey, do you know where the appointment book is?"

She looked up and moved towards the counter. "Yeah it's in the drawer under the phone."

A few moments later she heard the drawer open, "Oh...thanks I wanted to see when my next..."

"Three o'clock." He looked up surprised, making her give a slight shrug. "Wanda said it's going to be my job to check on your guys appointments so I memorized what the day looked like."

"Oh, I would have saved some time just asking you then."

She gave a small smile, "probably."

He nodded and looked at the black clock on the wall. 2:40. "Hmm there's time before my next client then. Did Wanda show you how to sterilize?" She shook her head, "Want to learn?"

"Sure."

He nodded and waited for her to go through the door. When she was in the work area he walked past all four stations, a tray of the instruments he had just used in hand, towards a door at the end of the room that she hadn't noticed before. The first thing she saw was the sink right by the door. The walls were lined with shelves, multiple boxes resting on them. At the end of the room was another sink, different color containers were on the counter along with two large white machines she had never seen before.

"This is the storage room. If we ever run out of needles , ink or cleaners at our stations this is where you'll find it. Wanda will probably have you stock up the areas next week once you're more familiar with the front."

He walked over to the sink and machines. "If you ever have some free time we'll really appreciate it if you help sterilize the instruments that aren't disposable."

She nodded and followed him to the machines letting him describe the cleaning procedure. After he was done he pointed at the instrument he had brought with him. "Want to give it a try."

Her shoulders shrugged up, "Sure" she answered and started putting gloves on to handle the contaminated items. He watched her for a few seconds noticing the focused expression and couldn't help but find it cute how determined she was. He then thought back to Wanda's words about the fact that they would be the two people most in the shop and he should find something to make conversation about.

"So... California?"

"Hmm?"

"That's where you're originally from?"

"Oh, yeah. Beverly Hills."

"What brought you over here?"

"A student exchange program. The main focus of it being the art class. At the same time I thought it would be really cool to travel so I thought that I might as well take advantage of it especially since it's related to a future career choice."

"Your parents were cool with the idea of you being this far away?"

Her lips twitched upwards, "It took a lot of begging and using the puppy dog eyes but I'm here. I know they're sad but I also think they needed a break from me and maybe even get a small taste of knowing what life could have been if I never came around."

"That's a weird way to see it. I can't imagine them ever thinking of times where they didn't get pregnant with you, especially after you know, knowing you."

"True, I'd imagined that would be the case if they ever were pregnant with me, but they weren't. They've only had me since I was five and like I said I can be a handful, so I bet a break wouldn't be so bad."

"You're adopted?"

"Hmm, oh yeah," she responded, taking the wet instruments and laying them down a thick towel to start drying them off.

"Must have been tough."

"Not really. I was really young at the time of my parents death so it feels like they've always been there. Wait that sounds really bad doesn't it?"

His mouth parted to speak but he didn't get the chance as she rambled on, "I mean I'm sure it was hard at that time to be away from my parents but at that age we dont really understand things like death and murder. Now that I'm older I understand it but it's not like there was anything I could do about it anyway so I try not to let it bother me. I'm just lucky I got found by people who wanted me you know?"

Ray's mouth dropped open. Death? Murder? Fuck this conversation got dark, he thought to himself. Why did he have to open his big mouth at all? He knew the safer choice would have been to stay quiet. He pressed his lips together realizing that his mouth was wide open. After a bit he bit at his lip piercings before opening his mouth to apologize for even bringing it up but before he could they both heard a yell from outside the room.

"Ray! You can stop crying, the person you've been waiting for has arrived!"

Jubilee turned to the tall boy and perked a brow while he emitted a low groan. A few seconds later they heard footsteps approach and the dark skinned boy that Amara liked to ogle at while at the gym appeared.

His eyes widened in surprise catching sight of her, "Oh hello..." he greeted before turning to Ray with a sly smile, "I didn't know you were busy."

Ray rolled his eyes at the shorter boy and went towards Jubilee bypassing her to put on gloves. "I can't take it from here," he murmured, taking the instruments she had just bagged in pouches. "This is Roberto. Roberto this is Jubilee, she's the shop girl for the summer."

Jubilee took her gloves off letting the two tone haired boy take over her spot. "Hi," she greeted with a smile.

"Hey, Roberto Da Costa, at your service." He outstretched his hand to her. She went to take it and as he did he squeezed her hand, "You're a member at Logan's Training Room right?"

"Yeah, I am."

"I knew you looked familiar! Yeah, I've seen you around. You're always with your friend right? Dark hair, big brown eyes..."

"That sounds like her."

"Cool, you guys always just do the treadmill? I don't think I've ever seen you in a class."

"Yeah we just stick to the machines. I thought it was an extra cost to do the personal training."

"Personal training, yes, but the classes are free. You should try out the kick boxing class. I coach it."

"Oh, you work there?"

"Yeah part time there and part time here. You should really check it out. Logan has some pretty good programing schedules."

"Oh yeah...maybe I..." before she could finish the sentence, the ringing of the bell indicating the front door opened sounded, making all three individuals freeze.

"That's probably my three o'clock," Ray mumbled, throwing the bagged instruments into the autoclave.

"I'll get it," Jubilee stated and pretty much ran out of the room, Roberto followed her for a few steps.

When she was gone he whistled, "We got a cute one."

Ray rolled his eyes, shutting and starting the sterilizing machine, "You think all girls are cute."

"You don't think she's cute?" Roberto asked skeptically. "Cause I'm your roommate and I've seen your porn stash so..."

"Really?" Ray groaned and walked past the smirking boy.

He followed with a low chuckle! And added, "You didn't answer the question!"

Ray's mouth opened to answer but stopped as Jubilee turned to them with a curious look. Instead he shook his head and turned to throw Roberto a glare warning him to shut up. That just made the dark boy laugh louder.

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Jubilee smiled as she walked into the tattoo shop. Her first day hadn't been a total bust and she felt that she actually caught on pretty fast. It helped that she was taking notes so whenever she had a question she just looked over it trying not to bother the others.

Wanda was the one she felt the most comfortable with, it could be because she was a girl. She would argue that it's because she's the first one she spoke to but if she was going to be technical the first person she interacted with would be the 6 foot dark grayish blue eyed boy.

Ray had been pretty quiet most of the time she was there, definitely the quietest of the three she had met. He seemed to keep to himself really giving himself that tall dark and gloomy look which sadly for her...she found sort of attractive. How sad and embarrassing already crushing on someone after day two. It was completely superficial, I mean she had only seen him twice.

Roberto was the complete opposite from him. Not to say he wasn't attractive, he was but his personality was much more open. He was talkative, went out of his way to start conversation and dangerously enough he was a flirt. She was pretty sure it was just in his nature because he didn't just tease her, he also seemed to love teasing and annoying Ray.

She shook her head in amusement as she thought back to the dark skinned boys' antics as she walked down the hall leading to the shop's lobby. When she reached the counter window she was surprised to see Wanda alone at the front counter.

"Morning!"

"Hi," she answered distractedly as she looked at her phone.

"You're alone?"

"Hmm, oh no. Laura's here, the boys are off today so it's just us girls. I sent her to break but she should be back any minute. Now that you're here though...I need to go get something from my office so I'll leave the front to you."

"On it," she answered and walked through the door to the other side of the counter. The short haired girl nodded and passed by her heading the way she had originally come from. While she was waiting she looked around at her area and started reorganizing it the way she liked it. She stopped once she heard the door open and watched the wall next to the entrance hallway to see a well dressed man in business attire enter.

His initial response when he caught sight of her was surprised but it quickly turned into a smile. While he walked closer to the counter Jubilee sneaked a peek downwards at the appointment book. There was nothing scheduled so it must have been a walk in.

"Hi! How are you?"

"Pretty good," he answered in a quick voice and looked behind her.

When he didn't say anything's after that Jubilee pulled out the script Wanda had made for her. "How can I help you? Were you interested in pricing?"

"Nah. I know what I want is going to be pretty pricey."

"Oh, have you been here before? Were you ready to schedule your appointment?"

"Hmm...yeah, let's put me down."

"Great!" She answered enthusiastically. "You already know what you're getting?"

"Yup! The placing is going to be on my lower back..." Jubilee nodded acknowledging him as she wrote down the information. "I want an arrow pointing downwards and the words, 'Kiss Here'..."

She stopped writing and looked up at him too see his thin lips curled upwards in a smirk, sapphire eyes shining with amusement.

"Don't you have anything better to do then harass my employees?" Both turned to the side to see Wanda looking unimpressed with the tall lean man.

"I probably do but this is fun too."

She grumbled and walked towards him, in her hands was a manilla folder which she smacked into his chest when she reached him. "Jubilee, this is the asshole who owns the club next door, Pietro Maximoff."

'Maximoff?' She thought to herself.

"Wow, nice way to introduce a business partner. Guess it's a good thing blood is thicker than water."

"Sadly he's also my twin brother," she added on.

He smirked even wider as she went from one to the other trying to find the similarities. Pietro was a few inches taller, skin complexion paler than Wanda with silver white hair. 'They looked nothing alike!' She thought to herself but stopped when she took a deeper look at his eyes.

That was their common denominator.

"Hi nice to meet you," she greeted snapping back to reality.

"You too," he answered back, before he could say anything else Wanda crossed her hands in front of her.

"What are you doing over here? I thought I told you I'd meet you in your office?"

"I was already coming this way when you texted me," he responded without turning to her and once again looked past Jubilee to the area behind her.

Wanda caught the action and rolled her eyes, "You're wasting your time, she's not even back there." Pietro humored her with a "hmm" before turning to her. She rolled her eyes at him yet again, "Never mind. Just give dad my numbers and let him know to expect a 20% increase by the end of the month."

"That confident that the numbers are going to go up?"

"Aren't you?"

"Guess it's a good thing that our ideas go hand to hand," he answered and looked through the documents in the manila folder. He was too focused on the numbers on one of the pages to notice when another party joined them until her voice broke through his thoughts.

"On this side to finally make an appointment?"

His eyes widened a fraction before they left the papers in front of him to watch the newcomer walk past the door to the tattooist area.

"I guess we can say that."

"Cool. Who are you gonna see? I'd recommend your sister, she would do some neat work on your arms," as she said the words her eyes went to the pale skin showing from his rolled up sleeves.

"Actually I wanted to be booked with you."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah. I was thinking Sunday night, you have availability open at 7?" At the words Jubilee hurried to the page in the appointment book to check for her. The hazel eyed girl had reached her by then and gently closed the book.

"You know the answer is the same as last week," she responded, not even looking at the book.

His smile widened, "It's alright. If I keep asking maybe one day it'll work out." The sapphire orbs stayed connected to the hazel green ones. The connection broke when he turned back to the Asian girl, "Hey, how old are you?" he asked and took a glance over her. Seconds later there was smack at the back of his head prompting him to let a loud
"Ow" out and turn to glare at his sister, "I'm asking her to invite her to the club, not as a date stupid just so she can check it out."

"Oh…" Wanda answered but did not offer an apology while he turned his attention back to the Asain young adult.

"I'll be 19 by the end of the year."

"Hmm, you've definitely never been to Mercury then." She shook her head, "You should come by some night. We have different themed days so there's a night for almost everyone. It is twenty one and over but I make special exceptions on occasion," he winked at her but didn't wait for an answer turning to his sister and smacking her with the manilla folder. "I'll deliver these and talk to you later."

She nodded and they all watched him turn and leave towards the small hallway that led to the entrance, calling out their goodbyes as he disappeared behind the wall. When they heard the small bell notifying them that the door opened and closed sapphire eyes turned and narrowed.

"Could you please just say yes. Work is supposed to be my break from him, which is hard to do when he always comes around looking for you."

"Break? How is it a break? You share a building with him and your office is literally right next to his."

"We're hardly ever in our actual offices."

While they spoke Jubilee opened up the schedule, "He didn't want to stay right now? You don't have a scheduled client at the moment."

"He wasn't really making an appointment, he was asking for a date. We close at 5 on Sunday's."

"Oh...OH!" Jubilee responded more enthstatically when she got it.

Wanda shook her head as she passed through the door connecting both rooms, "I don't know why you just won't say yes, from what you've told me you've been on a dry spell for a while. It might do you some good."

"Oh you think so? And who am I gonna share the juicy details with afterwards? You?"

"Eww. No..." Wanda answered and made an action that made it look like she was going to vomit. Laura chuckled and went on to adding things they could discuss while Wanda kept making disgruntled sounds.

Jubilee watched them for a minute before stating, "So...what's wrong with him? I mean it definitely isn't the look factor."

Laura turned away from Wanda with a surprised expression at the question. After a few seconds she recomposed herself and shrugged, "He's...complicated. Anyway we haven't been properly introduced, Hi I'm Laura Kinney," she finished by putting out her fist towards her.

Without hesitation Jubilee put her own fist towards her making contact with the closed hand, "Jubilee...nice to meet you."

"Great, you've met everyone at the shop now so I guess you're officially part of the family," Wanda walked past them, "Now...let's get to work" she finished killing the moment and making the two other girls shrug and smile at each other before following her directions.

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Alright, maybe a little slow going with the flow of all the other characters that are missing but don't worry you guys! They're coming, they're coming. In this chapter I needed Jubilee to meet and connect with her new co-workers and you know, just give a small look at her job duties. Anyhoo..

Jubilay- I find it so amusing that Ray was scared of being alone with her XD Well it's safe to say that he's definitely noticing her… and like Wanda said, these two will be the ones spending a lot of alone time together because of their work schedules ;) Ages: Ray is 21, Jubilee is 18 (and like she said 19 by the end of the year).

Amarto- Pretty much MIA, unless you take into consideration that Roberto brought up the fact that he has seen her at the gym ;) Ages: Roberto is 21, Amara is 18.

Jonda- It's there if you're paying attention...or squinting ;) Ages: Johns is 23, Wanda is 22.

Xietro- That's right! I'm starting it off early and a little change of pace for what I usually do for Xietro. There's no games and playing around, Pietro's just here like...hey let me take you to dinner and she's like...No. XD Ages: Pietro is 22, Laura is 20.

Romy- MIA Ages: Remy is 24, Anna is 21.

And that ends this chapter. Thanks again for those joining me! I think at this time I'm planning to update monthly, so I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Stay healthy and safe you and I'll see you soon.

-UHW