A Long Week Without Me
By Sunset
Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men and if I did, I swear they'd be treated with much more respect than Marvel gave them. I don't know about the timeline, just fit it in before Onslaught and after the creation of X-Force and the X-Babies and before Cable showed any interest with Storm.
Comments, suggestions, and violent reactions are welcome. If you insist on flaming, don't be surprise if I visit your mail box sooner or later. This story is not open for MSTers, okay? Ask permission before taking this, if you want it. Credits go to Alicia M. who proofread this before, and to Jennifer for giving my story a home and waiting for a long while for me to get it done...
I go away for a week and the world goes to hell.
"First, Tabitha practically burned the whole kitchen trying to exterminate a rat she swore, on her mother's grave, she saw.
"Then those damn X-Men thought that the kids would make a good sitter so they brought the X-Babies out of Mojo World, to give Dazzler and Longshot a break, and placed those freaking kids under Jimmy's care. And of course, Jimmy's no daddy, so he couldn't handle it…
"And well, the X-Babies, being their baby, or bratty selves, won't stop crying so Jimmy and Berto bribed them by setting up a miniature football stadium. And that resulted to a big sloppy mess in the living room, which included a lot of burnt throw pillows in different shades, broken lampshades not to mention a nice white rug turned black. But let's not get too steamy, shan't we?
"Then Baby Iceman got hit straight on his poor nose bridge. Those damned kids didn't know what to do with a howling kid so they contacted Beast. When Beast came in, Baby Iced-cubes, I mean, Iceman, made a huge fuss and made a scene, shooting ice and snow all-over the house. Sam tried to help but because of his heroic, not to mention, pathetic deed, he got whacked at the face and the poor boy's lost a nice, slender nose bridge.
"So I decided to get the rest of the X-Force to take the babies out while Sam wallows his loss with a can of Doctor Peppers and me and Hank attempt to calm Baby Iceman. So the kids chose the worst possible place to bring the babies. To Toys 'R Us.
"When the Babies saw the variety of toys, they started grabbing them, much to the kids' dismay and I'm pretty sure they were in the parking lot longer than they were in the shop. Then something happened."
I raised an eyebrow.
"Sabertooth appeared and started trashing the whole place, not to mention the people in it. The kids got the babies and people to safety, and managed to outrun 'Tooth themselves, but unfortunately for them, FOH, who were loyally tracking the kids down, followed. The kids desperately sought refuge, dragging those blasted, crying babies with them.
"The mob followed X-Force and a fight broke in Central Park, that happened to be packed with media people. Of course they got televised and Shatterstar and Berto faced the mob while Teresa called for help. The crowd dispensed soon and the fight was over, the X-Force returned home in one piece but the park was very far from it.
"After a good lecture from Forge, I ordered the kids to fix up the damage they caused and dropped the X-Babies to their own world. Then Wolverine comes in saying they needed me for their new mission since they lacked man-power and I was the only one who met the definition of 'man-power'. I left the X-Force to Sam and told him to take care of the house.
"After a good fight with Apocalypse, I returned home, beaten up, only to find the house going mad. The kids had created a food fight in the dining room and left the showers running, flooding the whole bathroom. I tried my best to be patient but they all nearly got a busted eardrum and a mop. Soon, the house became more decent, and I felt more relaxed.
"Then Tabby complained of not feeling well appeared red and after a day, the whole team was red, with spots to match. Apparently, Tabitha got German measles from Baby Gambit and since no one from X-Force had contacted them, they were all quarantined. And frankly, so was I, so we went to New York and had Jean and Ororo babying us in the X-Mansion for a couple of days.
"And while we were getting fed with chicken soup and milk, Madelyne and Shaw decided to make another hell in Manhattan, causing a very large destruction to the whole place in New York. Luckily, not everyone was hurt but the mutant race was to be blamed again.
"Creed took this opportunity to launch a 'slaughter the mutants' campaign and the Brotherhood did the same thing they do when mutants get slaughtered, make pork chops out of homo sapiens. A lot blood was shed and the X-Men tried to help out, being the busy-bodies that they are, and half the team was injured. Since I hated being in bed without doing anything, the team and I cleaned the wounds of the X-Men and before the week was over, Scott kicked us out of the mansion, cursing whoever created German measles."
Nate looked at me, his eyes narrowing. "Say Dom…did you ever have those damned measles before? You have spots on your face."
I gave an odd look to Nate and searched for a mirror, half-hoping that it was Tabitha drawing on my face while I was asleep.
"You look really red, Neena. Maybe the measles are the reason why you have a fever."
"Oh god," I said, looking at the red spots on my face.
"I think He didn't hear you. Oh well…We still have some left-over chicken soup."
I cursed Nate and he laughed evilly and left the room. Reaching for my pillow, I smiled. He couldn't live in a week without me.