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Perfectly Normal Chapter
Forty
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Jubilee
rocked forward on her toes, stretching her calves easily as she reached over
her head and let her spine lengthen. She
was in a bad mood and using the uneven parallel bars always cheered her up or
made her too tired to care about what had annoyed her in the first place. Either way, she thought, she would sleep well
at night. The gym was empty; everyone
else save Kurt avoided it like the plague unless they were in an assigned class
or showing off for a potential significant other, which made the silence seem
even more thick and blanketing than the times when she shared it with someone working
on a new skill or working off a punishment.
With a deep breath, Jubilee launched into her routine, feeling her
muscles stretch and tighten, her body twist and turn almost without a
thought. The actions were so familiar,
so comfortable, it was like a moving meditation, putting her into an active trance,
making her move with her eyes closed. She
shed thoughts of Remy as she moved, of the documentary crew creaking about
overhead, of the strange air of tension between her friends that seemed to be
growing worse with each passing day. Just breathe, she chanted inwardly, a mantra from her first
days in gymnastics. Just breathe, Jubilation and soon it’ll be done and you can start
again. A cold breeze caught at her ankles halfway
through her routine, not sharp enough to break her rhythm but enough to make
her frown and open her eyes. She could
not see who had come in but she knew there was someone else there now, that it
was not the central air that had kicked on and sent a draft of cool air across
her legs. She twisted away from the bars
and landed with a firm thump on the mats, her legs straightening after a moment. She exhaled noisily, her eyes darting from
left to right as she strode with purpose towards the bench where she had left
her towel and water.
A
slither-hiss sound made her stiffen and jerk around to face the interior of the
gym, putting her back to the wall. “Hello?”
she demanded more than asked. “I swear,
Remy, if that’s you lurking…” The sudden
feeling of fear washing over her made Jubilee lose her breath. It felt like being at the top of the Dungeon
Drop[1],
she thought, and waiting for the damned clicking to stop right before the
fall. “Rogue?” No response. “Jono?” she hazarded one last guess. Her arm itched where she had been cut earlier
and she took it as a warning, some sort of wound-scry about her visitor. Setting her water bottle down carefully,
Jubilee scanned the room one more time, sweeping her gaze from ceiling to
floor, cursing not turning on more lights before coming into the room. The switch was across the floor, which seemed
to stretch forever at that moment.
Nightmare visions of crawling humanoid things with long, forked tongues,
creeping along the ceiling and scenting their prey blossomed to life in Jubilee’s
imagination. “Okay,” she breathed. “Time to go now…” She edged along the bench, not turning her
back to the seemingly empty room. The door, she knew, was just a few steps away. Her burgeoning relief exploded into a scream
of shock as she met resistance; it was firm, large and warm, like someone’s
torso. Jubilee did not wait—she threw up
her hands and spun away from whoever it was, an array of plasma sparkles
spraying out in a pixilated shield.
“What the…”
Logan broke
into a loping run at the distant sound of screams. Storm frowned but followed, the faint tones
almost too muffled for her to hear at all.
“Sounds like Jubilee,” Logan
called over his shoulder as he swung down the steps leading to the ground
floor.
“She is
probably fighting with Remy again,” Storm opined, just a few steps behind Logan. “She has a temper…”
Any further
conversation was cut off by the sound of a man screaming in pain, incoherent
but sounding desperate to communicate.
Jubilee’s voice carried over it all. “OH MY GOD! I THINK I KILLED
SOMEONE!”
Logan burst into the gym
to find Jubilee frantically pouring water over the face of Brian, who was
rolling on the floor, screaming and clawing at his skin. Bright red, shiny
patches showed where he had been burned, the smell of singed hair lingering in
the air. “Jubilee,” Logan growled, pushing her aside as he
grabbed Brian’s wrists and held his hands away from his face. “Stop drowning him and go get Bea…Doctor
McCoy. Now. Tell him not to forget his
watch.”
Storm was
already moving, taking Jubilee by the arm and leading her to the doors. “Hurry,”
the older mutant ordered. “Talk later,
run now.”
“Freak,”
Brian groaned. “Fucking girl’s a freak! She burned me! She BURNED ME!”
“This isn’t
good,” Storm muttered. “These burns are
pretty serious. She must have been close.”
“What was
going on in here?” Logan
demanded, checking Brian’s pulse and finding it very high, unsurprisingly. He glanced up at Storm and they shared a
mutual look of near-panicked worry. “How
did this happen?”
“That…that
fucking freak shot shit out of her fingers,” Brian groaned. “I saw her! Before
she fucking blinded me, I saw her!” He
felt the familiar heaviness in his jacket pocket and experienced a twinge of
relief. The small, thin camera was still
there, hidden. “Freak…”
“Hush now,”
Storm ordered, standing to pace. “You’ve
been hurt…” She vented a soft, harsh breath and felt like screaming. “Logan…”
“Everything
will be fine,” he said to both of them. “Just…fine…”
[1] That was
the name of a ride at the now-defunct Astroworld in Houston.
Go straight up for what felt like years then suddenly drop and end up
flat on your back. There’s a sex joke in
there somewhere, I’m sure…
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