The Roof, Friday Evening

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Jean was up on the roof again because that was totally where you met fun people and not creeps at all.

Really.

Sighing as she sat on the ledge, feet over the side, Jean tried to pick up what looked like a candy wrapper on the ground. It could easily be explained as the wind!

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Bobby was totally fun people! Who she'd already met, sure, but details. "Jeeeean," he drawled, sitting down beside her. "What'cha dooooing?"

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Bobby was Bobby and that was just---you know. Bobby.

And there went the maybe-wrapper.

"Boooobby. Thinking about the fall."

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"Yeah?" he gave her a look that pretty much said 'please say you're staying'. "Please say you're staying?" Yeah, little bit transparent sometimes. No pun intended.

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"No one has called my parents telling them the school was blown up, so I don't think they're eager to take me out of class."

Even though the rebuilding of the mansion should almost be done...

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"So that's a yes?" Bobby said hopefully. "I mean, if they need you back there, you should absolutely go, but if you can stay, I like having you here," he admitted.

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Jean grinned wide at that, turning to look out at the island. "That's a yes."

A beat.

"Thank you."

Maybe Bobby wasn't such a kid after all... Until, you know, the next time he pulled a prank. Then he was totally the obnoxious younger brother again.

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Bobby was pretty much doomed to eternally be the little brother, at least as far as certain people were concerned.

"Always glad to be of service," Bobby grinned back at her. "Hey, you realize as of tomorrow we won't be new kids anymore?"

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"Think everything will suddenly be less strange then?"

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"Totally," Bobby nodded. "We'll wake up and this'll all be old-hat."

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"Well, I'm going to be nice to my little sibling when I meet them," Jean insisted. "And try to help them adjust like Chuck and you did with me."

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"You'll be awesome at being a big-sister type," Bobby told her. "This much I know from experience, at least."

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"Did you get a sibling this time?"

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"Nope," Bobby shrugged. "I wonder how come you did and I didn't?" Probably had something to do with Bobby not even being aware of any sort of sign-up process for that.

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"You had to offer," Jean informed him oh so knowingly. She was totally the smart one here, oh em gee.

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"Ooooh," Bobby nodded. "I totally missed that. Maybe next time. It'd be kind of neat to not be the little brother for once."

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"You can help me with mine if you want," Jean offered.

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"Like a practice run!" Bobby replied. Because you should totally refer to people as 'practice runs', Drake. "Do you have a name or anything yet? Or is it like when we got here and you don't find out till the actual picnic?"

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"I think we find out at the picnic," Jean replied. "I mean, that's when I heard who mine was when I arrived."

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"Aww, man, now I'm gonna have to wait and find out," Bobby wrinkled his nose at Jean. "Patience is not one of my many, many virtues." Never you mind that he'd only just found out Jean was getting a fake sibling like five minutes ago.

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"It's tomorrow, you doofus."

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"So? That's like forever when you're me." At least he was honest about it.

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"You're such a doof," Jean replied, rolling her eyes.

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"Oh, Jean, you wound me!" Bobby cried dramatically, clutching at his heart and leaning backwards so that he fell off the edge of the roof. In the direction that didn't end with him going splat on the lawn, thank you.

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Jean pushed his chest to help him along that way then. "Have you decided on classes?"

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"Uh huh," he nodded from where he was sprawled along the, uh, floor of the roof. "Ethics, though I don't know if I'll get in to that one, apparently it's really popular? And Humorous History. And, uh..." he mumbled something incoherent.

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"What?" Because she couldn't hear him, you know.

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"Sex Ed," Bobby said. Still very quietly, though at least this time he didn't mumble.

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Jean's eyes went wide at the thought of Bobby and... you know. It just did not compute. At all.

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"What?"

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"Nothing!"

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"You totally made a face," Bobby complained.

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"You said sex ed!" That was a defense, yes.

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"Jean. I'm fifteen. I need to know these things!" Yeah, not helping, Bobby.

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Jean covered her ears, making a face. "Bobby, gross!"

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"It's either this or emailing War to ask about these sorts of things," Bobby pointed out. That was what billionaire playboy friends were for, right? He definitely wasn't about to mention the word 'sex' in front of Scott like ever. Hank would just give him a biology lecture. The Professor was all, you know, old... and his Jean? No. Just no.

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And in a wheelchair.

Eeeeew.

"You didn't take it before?" Maybe girls had to for... other reasons, okay?

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"Not really?" Bobby shrugged. "Classes at Xavier's were kind of um. Off the beaten track?" Because Fandom High's were so normal.

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"Well, didn't you also go to school outside the Institute?"

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"...No?" Bobby shrugged. "Why would I do that?"

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"Well, for actual classes."

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Another shrug. "We took a lot of assessment tests mostly." Xavier was... maybe a tad too focused on training them to use their powers, yes.

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"Weird." Jean offered him a hand. "I--we went to the highschool in town."

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Bobby took the hand up and pulled himself back into a sitting position. "Yet another weird difference between our worlds, huh?"

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"I was on the soccer team. Do you know if they have sports here?" Dear god, let the Sue Sue it up!

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"Well there's cheerleaders," Bobby pointed out, because by some wonder of wonders, he'd actually noticed- and read- the posters last week. "So they must cheer for something, right?" He might not be a fresh-off-the-plane newbie anymore, but clearly there were some things about Fandom he just didn't know yet. Like the fact that the cheerleaders existed despite a lack of anything to cheer for.

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So, basically they were from Bring It On.

...that made sense.

"Great! I'll have to sign up for tryouts."