Golden days of summer (OPEN)

[Jubilee]

"Insuinating nothing, I'm flat out te- hey!" Jubilee yelped as he bit her elbow, before jumping out of range. She sat up, eyes narrowed behind the Raybans and flicked her fingers at the Cajun. Balls of light danced from her fingertips as she turned to settle back down on the lounger, mentally guiding the fireworks until they exploded against his swimshorts.

Just enough bite in them to be felt, not enough to actually hurt him. Kind of like his teeth.

"Yeah, and we all know how the Summers boys appreciate a nice piece of meat," Jubilee called out, getting in on the gutter rolling. Why should the guys have all the fun, after all? "Especially Alex."

[Tatiana]

((sidenote...I so did not mean to accidently delete that last post of mine...never try to watch the nfl draft and post at the same time..))

"Seeee? Snacks go great with everything." Tati gave an encouraging smile. Ok, so she knew she wasnt really getting a welcome reception here. But this was supposed to be a happy day! And by gosh she was going to do her best to spread a little of that happy happy cheer. "So if you need anything else just give me a wave. I'm going to return to my food before it too gets frozen."

"Oh, and I'll just leave these nibles here for ya." The chipper young cook said with a smile as she stood up and set the food plates on the chair where she had been. Tatiana waved and turned to go back to keep a watchful eye over her carefully prepared desserts. Mess with her food and you were going to be in trouble.

[Kenny Orion]

((OOC:been a while lets see what i can do, lets say Kenny was an x-man fair enough))

The day seemed a bit out of the ordinary as Kenny calmly stepped out of the mansion wearing red and black board shorts, a black sleevless shirt and brown flip flops. Apparently he noticed the other mutants were at the poolside having a bbq party and he felt like he should at least blend in for a change. As he made his way towards the party he looked around for a place to sit down so that he can relax and wait for the cooked foods to be ready as he felt his stomach begin to growl.

He then looked around and saw some dessert already set out and figured why not have a plate before the meal. He then got up and head to where the dessert was but then he suddenly was having trouble deciding what to pick. "That's just great, I want something to snack on and now i can't decide between the red cake and the double layer cake, and there both so good" he said with a troubled sigh

[Christine MacTaggart]

"Children," she called over, pointedly looking over at Jubilee and Remy (more one then the other, though who the pointed look was more intended for was clearly open to debate). "Behave." She glanced over at Alex and Guido, who were trying to out gutter the other. Men. Go figure.

[Havok]

Well, that was crass. Honestly, they were having a sweet, innocent meat joke competition, and Remy and Jubilee had to go and turn it into an insult slinging bout. Well, he wasn't about to stoop to their level. He would observe the purity of the spirit of this most noble competition while simultaneously defending himself.

"Actually, I only make the offer to 'de hommes' with a whole lot of meat." There. Not a blatant insult but a subtle snide remark about the nature of Remy's manhood. And now on for the rest of the competition. "Cause I love lots of meat. Nothing beats shoving a big piece of meat in your mouth." Alright, he might be overstepping some bounds here, but was anyone really going to call him out on it? Probably Remy, but only because the man was sometimes more of a dick than Alex's brother.

He felt bad for Remy, sometimes. He honestly did. I mean, if a person can't play nice and be friendly during a friendly competition, then what does that say about that person? Can a person like that have any real, meaningful friends? Sure, Remy hung around Jubilee a lot, but was it really healthy for a 30-something year old man to be hanging around a teenager still in high school?

Meanwhile, thanks to his devoted concentration, the meat was finally defrosted.

"Alright, everybody," he announced to the crowd at large. "This barbecue is back on track. I should have the first batch of burgers and dogs done in fifteen minutes." And he began to place the burgers onto the grill. The patties sizzled as they touched the hot metal, the fat dripping off of them and feeding the flames, one leaping up to lick at Alex's hand. It tickled.

"Okay, Guido, there is one thing that I forgot. I'm gonna need some hand sanitizer so that when I take the meat off, I don't transfer anything to the new meat."

And Alex realized that he'd been thoroughly entrenched in this meat joke competition, because he didn't even realize the connotations of what he had said until after he had said it. He sighed, the hard-earned college education he had gotten slipping its way down into the gutter along with his sense of pride.

"That one wasn't intended to be a joke. Please see if you can't get someone to get me some hand sanitizer. Try Tatiana, she might have some on her."

[Rahne]

Hauling herself out of the pool, Rahne sneezed chlorinated water out of her muzzle and moved away from the grill area. Once she'd done that, she put her four paws out to the points of the compass, her head down and gave herself a good thorough shake. Water sprayed from the ends of her long coat as she shook herself mostly dry, before giving her tail one last hard wag and deciding it was good.

No one ever paid attention to the wolf. Well, most people didn't pay attention to things below chest height anyway, and she stood a bit more down than that. Still dripping some water from the ends of her fur, she slunk around the edge of the pool to walk around to Chris. And maybe deliberately whack her with a swish of a wet tail, but that was what mostly like sisters were for, right?

[Christine MacTaggart]

OOC: oh, go for it ::giggles:: the sisters need to interact somehow XD

Christine was completely unaware that her sister was in wolf form, or wet. No, Christine's mind was somewhere, somewhen else. When was the last time they had a BBQ where everyone could relax and be themselves without worrying about the impending forces of darkness beating down the front door. Mum always did accuse her of borrowing tomorrow's trouble today but well.. Mum wasn't an X-Men, now was she?

She took a small cleansing breath before smelling something. Something wet. No matter. Wasn't important - after all, everyone was wet or getting wet. At least someone hadn't come out to ice the pool like at the last BBQ, not that she was naming names and all.

...Bobby.

She shook her head and laughed softly.

[Guido Carosella]

"This could take a while, there's a lot of meat."

Guido nodded in mock solemnity. This was an old game.

"That there is, 'Lex. Especially tha Italian sausage I brought. Ya might need both hands fer that one, it can be hard ta take in all at once. An' make sure ta lift with yer legs, not yer back. That's a good way ta slip a disk."

Oh, and now the crawdad and the Raincoat Ranger were getting into the game. This ought to be good. And Rahne was swimming in her wolf form. Guess who got to clean the pool later.

And now Alex wanted hand sanitizer to keep from getting his meat juice all over someone else's meat.

"Fine. Whatever. I'll ask her."

He stopped by Tati's plate of dessert, and was brought up short by a heavenly looking creme horn. He was briefly tempted to do an Animal House reenactment, but that was a sad waste of a creme horn. He took a bite and...Ye gods. Heavenly.

He sketched a bow to Tati as he tried to talk through a mouthful of whipped cream. "Compimenth to tha thef. Thith ith awethome!"

[Rahne]

Unnoticed and undetectable to telepathy when in her wolf form, Rahne slunk up behind Christine while trying not to seem like she was up to mischief. Everyone was more concentrated on their own conversations, anyway. It made excellent background noise to cover even the slight tick-tack of her claws over tiles.

THWACK!

Turning her head to look at Christine after her wet tail slapped across her sister's leg, Rahne affected a puzzled canine look. Like, that's your leg there, oh, I didn't know! Really, no idea. Still, movement was probably the best idea, and Rahne was wondering if a spot of impromptu thievery would go unnoticed by Alex. Or not.

It wasn't like she ate raw hamburger any other time, but there was something very satisfying about it when she was wolfed out.

[Christine MacTaggart]

Christine blinked when something wet hit her leg before she glanced over and saw her sister in wolf form. "I was wondering what I smelt. Thought it was all the wet meat on grill," she said with a light laugh. "I'd scratch behind your ears, but I like my limbs attached, Sis." She rolled her eyes at the conversation over by the grill. "Men."

[Kenny Orion]

It seems that Kenny's decision to pick the best dessert seemed to be answer surpisingly enough as he noticed the big man Guido take a quick bite of what looked like a horn but of course a creme type. The young mutant took a piece of it and took a bite and was a bit intrigued by the taste as he grinned a bit and then looked at the grill when he heard that the bbq was resuming as he carefully walked to the grill to take a look at what was cooking. He stared at the cooking patties on the grill as if he was in a dazed state as the meals on the grill was making him as hungry as ever.

[Tatiana]

Tati smiled. "Why thank you very much, glad you like them." She pointed to a plate of cookies she had just brought out. "Dont forget to try the triple chocolate chunk cookies later." She tried not to laugh at herself. Overkill? Maybe. When she was bored, she baked.

"Did I hear you say you needed to ask me a question?" Tatiana grinned. "First, yes I have hand sanitizer, and second, No, I dont want any meat from you guys." Lame answer for sure. But hey at least she tried. She reached into her pocket and got out the small bottle. "Butterfly Flower scent, enjoy."

[Callie]

((I just haven't played dinky Callie enough, so it's dinky Callie in the care of the X-men))

Lured by the delicious smell of cooking, Callie peered wide violet eyes around the door and took in the sight. A party, a party with a whole lot of people too, it was a little bit unnerving for such a small girl, but the food was just too tempting, so she shuffled through the door towards the grill.
Of course, she checked the floor for ice first, because some people didn't think nine year olds were too young to prank, naming no names.

....Bobby.

Sidling up to Surge, since she was the closest, Callie looked up with a (well calculated) expression of pure, adorable innocence.
"How long's de food gonna be, do y'know?" She asked sweetly.

[norisurge]

Why was she still talking to her? Didn't the whole, taking a chip and looking away to eat it thing give off the impression of anti-socialness well enough? Sigh. Nori was just about to shoot off some kind of (more than likely soon to be regretted,) snide comment at the girl, but before she could even get out a sound, Tati was leaving.

Clearly, there was a god. Or goddess, you know. Female power and all that.

Smiling a bit, and getting a little more comfortable in her chair, Surge slyly snagged a cookie off the tray and was just about to eat it when all her well deserved and hard earned aloneness was dashed yet again. Turning a very unhappy glare down at the small voice which was now talking to her, she knew the instant she saw that face - that look - that her ability to ward people off with surliness had all just been shot to hell.

Damn....kids....being so damn cute...

"Don't know. I haven't exactly been caring what everyone else is doing. It's fun you know, you should try it sometime." Like now. So you wont be bothering the one person who doesn't want to be bothered and can't bring themselves to be mean to you. Looking at the cookie in her hand, and down at the little expression of disgusting cuteness, Surge sighed and handed her treat over.

"Just eat that, then you wont notice being hungry."

She might be parting with her cookie, but she still had her beers, and that was her only silver lining for the day.

[Callie]

Fun? Not Caring? Callie stared at her with wide eyes, wondering about the statement. Why would anybody want to push people away?
Callie had enough of people pushing her away in her short life, she always cared about what other people were doing because for once she was somewhere she was actually accepted.
Just as her eyes grew even wider and she opened her mouth to say all this sad little tale to Surge... cookie!

Sob story or not, sometimes kids can just get distracted that easily.
Taking the cookie with a sudden, beaming smile, she managed to get out a 'thank you' before shoving the treat in her mouth, practically whole.

"Are dere any more?" She asked hopefully, who need a barbecue when you had cookies? Well, probably her, she was a growing girl and all.