Contuined from Part Six

Rogue, Kitty, and Remy were having a rowdy game of pool in the rec. room when Jubilee walked in. "Hey you guys. Remy, the Prof. said it was cool with him if we went with you but he was wondering if Rogue could come too. She was gonna rent an apartment in the city but the Prof. would like way rather if she stayed with us. That is if it's cool with you two…"

Rogue shrugged, "Ah'm fine with it. How about ya Remy?"

"Well dere doesn’t seem t' be any problem with dat," said Remy uncomfortably. "We were plannin' on havin' de girl's come tomorrow… can y’ be ready by den?"

"Ah've been ready ta move out for a couple o' weeks now. Ah'm just wondering if Jube will be ready."

Kitty looked at Rogue and grinned. "I'm ready, all my stuff's downstairs. We can help you pack tomorrow Jube."

"Sure! There's just one tinny, winny little, big problem. How are we gonna get all our stuff there?" Jube asked.

Remy grinned. "I'll take care o' dat 'tite. Y'just worry 'bout getting' packed."

"Alright."

Remy quickly finished off the game of pool and turned to leave. "It's been fun but I'd better go an' let y’ ladies get some sleep for tomorrow. I'll be back 'ere around 5 in de afternoon. Y’ t’ink y’ can be ready by den?"

"Yeah I'm sure us three can handle that," Jubilee said. "See you tomorrow Remy."

After Remy left, Rogue and Kitty helped clean up and then all three of them headed off to bed. Rogue stopped Jubilee before she went into her room. "Jube, what the deal with ya an' Remy? He ain't a family friend is he?"

"No he's not… he could be… I don't know. He knows so much about my past. Yeah I actually didn't know him before yesterday but for some freaky reason, I trust him. Don't you?" Jubilee asked confiding part of the truth to her Southern friend.

Rogue thought about this for a minute before replying. "Ah guess Ah do. It's like Ah knew him before we met today."

"You like him don't ya?"

"Yeah, Ah suppose Ah do. Weird huh?"

Jubilee just smiled and went into her room. "Night Rogue." How is this gonna work? How are we gonna keep our 'hobby' a secret if she's there? Oh well, that's for Remy to sort out… Before getting into bed, Jubilee looked around her room. Her stuffed animal collection in her net that was hanging over her bed was collecting dust. All her clothes were on the floor or draped over chairs and the ones that weren't, were dumped in half closed drawers. Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Val Kilmer, the Backstreet Boys, the Spice Girls, David Boreanaz (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and other stars stared down at her from her walls. "We could be busy tomorrow."

"Daddy, who's that?" the young Jubilee asked her father as he came in the door after work with a strange man behind him.

She had always been an outgoing kid but for some reason, this man scared her. Her dad picked her up and gave her a big hug. "Jubilee, this is Jean-Luc, he's a friend of our family's," he explained as he put her down.

"Hi."

Jean-Luc smiled and reached down to shake Jubilee's hand. "Allo 'tite."

Jubilee looked at him. "What does 'tite mean?" she asked innocently.

"It's short for petite."

Her father smiled glad that these two were getting along. Jubilee still looked puzzled. "What's that?"

Jean-Luc laughed, "It's French for little one."

"I'm not little!" Jubilee said pulling herself up to her full 4 feet.

"Jubilee…" someone called.

The older Jubilee rolled over and landed on the floor. "Hmm?" she mumbled still half asleep.

Rogue pulled off her blankets. "Jube!"

"What? Leave me alone… I wanna sleep!" Jubilee replied.

Rogue and Kitty laughed. "Jube, ya were the one who wanted ta move in with Remy. Now it's time ta get up an' get movin'."

Jubilee reluctantly opened one eye. "What time is it?" she asked yawing.

"It's 7 am," supplied Kitty dropping an outfit on Jubilee. "Time to get dressed."

Jubilee tried to roll over only to bump into her bed. "Alright… Seven!?!?!?! Are you guys nuts?!?!" she exclaimed sitting up.

"Nope! We're gonna need all day to get your stuff packed up." Kitty laughed at Jubilee's sleepy attempt at an evil glare.

"Fine… " Jubilee grumbled as she got off the floor where she'd landed.

A half-hour later, she had eaten breakfast and was physically ready to get started packing. "Rogue, could you go to the attic and bring down my stuff down there? There's a couple things I wanna take with me."

Rogue looked curiously at her but didn't protest. When she was gone, Jubilee headed straight for her closet. Kitty followed her. "What are you looking for?"

"My 'stuff'. I made a huge stash off of Remy… how else do you think we met? I'm not about to leave that here."

Kitty's jaw dropped. "You stole from Remy… the Prince of Thieves?"

"Yup, he said it was all a test but I was the only one to get away with the money and I don't intend to give it back."

"What?!" Kitty exclaimed.

"I stole $250 000 from him and he hasn't asked for it back so…."

Kitty began to phase through the floor before she recovered. "Do you even realize who Remy is?"

"Yeah, he's a recruiting agent for the Guild. Big deal. He probably has set ups like this all the time… I'll just bet I'm the first recruit to can him and get away with the loot," Jubilee said really not knowing who Remy was.

"WHAT?!?!?! YOU CANNED HIM?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Kitty exclaimed very loudly just as Rogue was walking in.

"Canned who sugah?" she asked behind three cardboard boxes marked 'Jubilee's Stuff' in black marker on the tops.

"Nobody, just a guy that was getting on my nerves the other day," Jube replied telling a half-truth.

Kitty raised an eyebrow knowingly as Jubilee exited the closet with a closed box labeled 'Jube closet junk.' She put the box over by her bed. "Well he was!" protested Jube loudly. "That covers a part of my closet. Now for the clothes and everything out here."

"Are ya takin' your furniture?" Rogue asked.

"Nah, Remy said that the rooms are already furnished and if we don't like what's there than he'll take us shopping for stuff we like," Jubilee explained as she started to put clothes from her closet into a big box.

Rogue and Kitty started folding clothing on the floor and in the drawers and put it into other boxes.

The three of them worked diligently until noon when they realized that they were famished and not even half done. Deciding to take a break, they went downstairs for some lunch. "Hey guys how's it going?" Bobby asked from the rec. room.

Jubilee smiled at him wearily. "There is no way on the face of this planet that we are going to get all my stuff packed by 5 today. We've finally finished off my closet and my dresser that held all my underwear and t-shirts."

"We still have another dresser, her shelf and desk to pack yet," Kitty sighed.

Bobby looked at them and shook his head. "Why are you taking everything? I mean you'll still be back here right? Why not just take some stuff and leave the rest here so that when you do come back you have some things here? You can have two homes that way. It's not like you're leaving the team or anything."

The three X-women looked at each other and began to laugh. "I hate to say it Popsicle but you've got a point," giggled Jubilee.

"Thank you," smirked Bobby as he got up and bowed dramatically then returned to watching t.v.

After lunch, they quickly unpacked what Jubilee wanted to keep at the manor and packed what she wanted to take. Jubilee looked around and remembered the boxes Rogue had hauled down from the attic.

Slowly she went over to them and opened the one that was labeled 'Jubilation Lee- orphanage'. One of her later sets of foster parents had been kind enough to retrieve this box for her. This box and the other two contained all of Jubilee's most precious belongings. In fact, they were the most important things from her life. Some of the things were from her time with the X-men like her first uniform, gifts, and things like that. The other things were things that had been recovered from her house and stored at the orphanage. She had lost a lot but she'd also made sure they'd kept the important things like pictures and albums that her mother had always taken care of.

Inside the box she had just opened though, were her most important things. Jubilee didn't want to leave this box so she gently closed it up and quietly put it with the others to be moved. She quickly went through the other two boxes, removed a few select items to bring, and decided to leave the rest here in her closet.

"There I'm ready," she said in an unusually quiet voice.

Kitty went up to her and hugged her. "Are you going to be alright?"

"Yeah, it's just kinda hard leaving again. The X-men are like family to me. I wanna leave but a part of me is still that scared little 13 year old," Jubilee said.

Kitty and Rogue nodded. They all understood each other.

This quiet moment was interrupted by Scott knocking on the door. "If you're ready, Jean and I will help you carry your stuff down to the door."

"Come in. I'm ready."

The entire X-team except for Logan and Storm and Xavier helped carry Kitty, Rogue and Jubilee's boxes to the door. This act in itself took a good hour and to top it all off, Scott announced that there was a team Danger Room session right away. Nobody was supposed to change because it was a test to see how well they preformed on the spot.

"What? Scott we're leaving in about an hour and a half and you want us to train?" Jubilee asked disbelievingly.

Scott just nodded sternly and everyone reluctantly followed him to the Danger Room observation lounge. "Alright, here's the scoop," Scott began with Jubilee trying to see into the pitch dark training room below.

"We're going to go down there and a preplanned program will be activated once we get down there." Scott said and Bobby turned away to hide a huge grin.

Jubilee shrugged. She headed toward the elevator with Kitty and Rogue right on her tail and the rest of the X-team following behind. "This is kinda a wiggy don't ya think Kitty?" Jubilee asked.

"Yup that's for sure. Maybe Scott's finally lost it," replied Kitty.

The elevator reached the ground floor with just the three of them and went back up for the rest of the team. While they were waiting Jubilee and Kitty tried to adjust to the dark and Rogue took up a defensive position. The weird thing was, despite all of their time as thieves neither Kitty nor Jubilee could adjust to this darkness. They both looked at each other and shrugged taking up defensive positions.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team had arrived and had snuck past the three others. When everybody was ready, Jean turned on the lights.

"Um… o.k. I see a big table full of food and us. Where is everyone?" Jubilee asked.

"SURPRISE!!!!!!!" cried everyone else jumping out from their hiding places.

"Holy shit!" Rogue muttered after Logan scared the living daylights out of her by coming around back.

"Wow. Thanks you guys. This is really awesome," Jubilee exclaimed enthusiastically.

The party went on until they heard a doorbell. The team filled out of the Danger Room reluctantly with Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty, and Xavier going last. "I'm gonna miss this place," Jubilee said not bothering to hide the emotion in her voice.

Kitty and Rogue both nodded mutely not trusting their voices. Xavier looked at his three students and smiled a sad smile. "I will miss you all my students. Although you are not leaving the team, I will miss the sound of your voices around the manor all the time."

He hugged them all then for a long time amidst the aftermath of an X-men party. "You had better get going, I'm sure by now your things are loaded." Xavier followed them upstairs.

Sure enough, almost everything was loaded. Remy stood patiently at the door while the X-men said their good-byes. After some time, the girls were finally ready. Jubilee tried to put on a happy face. "So Remy, what wheels are we riding in?"

Remy grinned mischievously. "I figured I give y’ a choice. We can either go in de limo or de rolls royce."

The girls looked at one another in awe. Their decision was made quickly and silently. "Limo," they announced in unison.

"D'accord, y' all ready den?" Remy asked leading the X-team to where the black Rolls Royce and the stretch limo where waiting on the driveway.

The girls slid into the backseat of the limo and Remy followed shortly after. Jubilee found the controls to the roof and as the limo pulled away she stood up and waved good-bye. "Bye you guys! We'll see you in the morning or whenever our next training session is. I'll call you later!"

Then before she could go on Kitty pulled her back inside by her legs. The girls soon started chatting and Rogue and Remy started to get to know each other a little better.

Following the car was the Rolls Royce and a tacky purple van which held all their stuff. The girls hardly noticed as the procession of vehicles drove off into the distance.

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"Luuuuuke…… I am your father."
Darth Vader (Star Wars)

WHATEVER!!!!! #3

Crystal: Ok, let’s see... Jubilee at Remy’s mansion. Oh boy... that could cause BIG problems.

Kristi: I hope he doesn’t have many breakable thing lying around... Jubilee running around... think about it.

Mike: Ohhh boy, watch out when she hits his "stuff".

Crystal: *lol* I can just see Jubilee deciding to play Tarzan or Jungle Jane finding some way to swing on a chandelier.

Iris: You could call THAT a trouble. Wait till Jubilee decides to cook for Remy. Then THAT would be.... interesting.

Crystal: Actually go read our fic... Jube DID cook for Remy in Part 4.

Kristi: Yup and she did an admirable job too... no cleaning! What havoc cold she cause anyways? A teenager in a house of valuable stuff, which by the way, was probably stolen.

Crystal: Well... she’s a thief so some of HIS stuff could mysteriously vanish...

Kristi: Not if Remy has anything to say about it! *smile* I wonder if Remy will give her an allowance... even though she did steal all that money...

Crystal: I thought we were talking about damaging Remy’s house. Jubilee could also push all Thieves Guild members past insanity with al her loud music....

Kristi: Hehehehe, Remy teaching Jubilee patience!!! Imagine this... "Stay ‘ere petite. I’ll be right back." Six hours later and he is still gone! *lol*

Crystal: Oh God. She’d be LONG gone!!! Come to ting of it... she’d probably get her hands on one of his credit cards and buy out the mall. *grin*

Kristi: Remy is going to teach her to be a thief one way or another! But... what about Shadowcat?

Crystal: Hmm... maybe her and Rogue got so fed up with the arrogant Frenchman and went to go join a convent.

Kristi: A convent... for Rogue perhaps...Shadowcat, no way, no how... I REFUSE!!! *stomps off*

... And the fat lady sings "Ahhh."