Lust and Cookies

Within minutes, the X-Men were all fully conscious again. Zazelle had told the truth when saying that they wouldn't be drugged for much longer after Intoxicator left the area.

Soon, all of them were fully up and gathered around the plastic bag, in the mansion's main hall. Hank had even carried Dave's limp body from the lake.

"He's out cold, but he will soon be up and about, so don't worry, Rogue" Beast told her.

"Who said Ah'm worried about him?"

"I do. Stop pretending you don't like him already."

"It's just his mutation, the one who makes him physically attractive. No big deal."

"Yeah, right."

They both turned towards Jean, who was about to make the most difficult decision in her whole life (or lives, duh).

"I said, I will *never*,ever, touch that...that...piece of crap!!!" Jean yelled.

"But, honey, you have to, it's the only way to read his mind and get to know where Zazelle's hideout is! Don't you want to get Logan back?", Scott tried to make up her mind.

"What do *you* care, you never liked him anyway!", she snapped back at him.

"You did, however. We *have*to rescue him!"

"Yeah, who would want to live forever being a 24/7 sex slave to a mutant, nymphomaniac hottie anyway? Jeez" Bobby tried to give some comic relief there.

Paula slapped him at the back of his head for calling another woman a hottie. The woman she hated the most.

"Hey, watch your hands, lady, after all, you never really wanted me! It was the sex-bug that made you take an interest on me anyway!" he snapped at his...girlfriend?

Paula clenched her teeth in anger, slapped him again twice harder than before, and then stormed out of the room.

Everyone stared at Bobby with a "look-what-you've-done-now" look.

"What? What did I say?» he asked, panicked.

After all, Paula had been with him only by pure coincidence. The sex-bug inside her would make her have a crush on anyone she really looked at before him. Hank, Scott, even Logan had the same chances of being the ones she would set her eyes upon. She just saw Bobby first. When he greeted her in the rec room, where she sat with Jubilee.

She could have as easily been with anyone else, if she hadn't seen him first. But...wait a minute. She had seen all of them before, in the bank. Maybe that time didn't count, as she was in shock, Bobby thought.

But, wait, the first guy she saw after the shock was the Professor, who reached her mind and made her snap out of the shock she was into. She didn't fall in love with Xavier, though. Maybe Xavier can't be considered as the hot stuff, but there had been a Shi'Ar queen who was in love with him. Why not Paula too? And she had probably set her eyes-even briefly- on everyone after coming to her senses...so why Bobby?

The Zazelle woman had said she would fall for the first decent guy in there. So Bobby was decent and the usual studs, Logan and Scott weren’t. That felt flattering. So maybe she wanted him. Then what's the bug's role in their affair? Maybe the longing was there, and the bug just sped things up? There have been other quickly evolving relationships who turned up well...

And after the sex, where they staid on the bed and talked, and talked...The affection afterwards...?Her making nicknames on his chilly buttcheeks? The kiss they shared before going to battle? Paula slapping him on the head, like she was marking her territory? She considered him *hers*...not her sex-toy, but her guy...Maybe he just did a terrible mistake after all...the bug didn't work anymore, but she still considered him *hers*.

"Shit, what *did* I say?", he finally thought to himself, coming to a conclusion. He had to find her.

"No wonder no woman ever remains with you for long", Storm finally commented.

But Bobby was already out of the room by then.

Scott cocked his head back to his wife, a breath of exasperation leaving his lungs.

"So, will you do it or not?"

"Uhm...okay...but you all owe me", Jean sniffed.

She didn’t try to hide her disgust as she slid her hand through the wrappings to touch Captain Poop. Dammit, it felt twice as gross as she expected...

"What is this...a lesbian porn magazine?", she asked, before the memories shot into her mind.

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Bobby finally found Paula standing at the rec room, looking at the blank screen of the TV. From the sound of it, he could say she hadn't been crying. So, he obviously didn't have the sweet side of Paula across him, but The Tigress. He couldn’t help shuddering.

"Can I help you with something, Mr.Robert Drake?», she said in a cold voice as she heard him walking to her direction.

"Look, Paula, I'm...I don't know why I said that."

"I perfectly understood what you said, Bobby, and it didn't feel like a joke to me or something. Just admit that you don't believe that any of us felt something real for each other", her voice was rough and colder now, like she was talking to her subordinate and was about to fire h
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"I...don't know but I think you really felt something for me. Something that wasn't instructed by some stupid organic bug. Come on, Paula, I can still see it in your eyes...if you thought that all we had was sex, forced to us by a wickedly irresistible device, now we wouldn't even be talking about it."

Her eyes lightened up a little, he could tell, but then she hid the brightness under a stream of disbelief.

"Paula...the implant is out of your system now, and yet you hit me for making a comment that would make a girlfriend feel peculiar. It doesn't affect us now, but here I am, trying to talk you into something you think I don't believe in". Wow, where had this inspirational words been when I needed them with previous girlfriends, he thought to himself.

"What are you trying to talk me into, Robert Drake?" she said, her face not so hardened anymore.

"Maybe it wasn't the best beginning for a relationship, the whole thing with the bug I mean, but the bug based it's work on something that already had foundations. And what eventually happened was more than sex. I think that this...me and you...this relationship can work itself out. Let's not throw it in the wind, right?"

She smiled. A little, but she did. "Bobby, we have been together for what, an afternoon, do you consider this already a founded relationship? Well, I don't know..."OK, Bobby knew she was convinced, but now she was just playing stubborn.

"Oh come ooooon", he pouted, trying to be cute and talk her into it that way.

"During this brief relationship, I remember myself clearly telling you that pouting and playing cute to me will never work."

"Point taken», he paused for a little, trying to think of another approach.

"You know what, just screw this!» he finally burst out.» I will make it up to you anyway you want, just, don’t leave me!», he considered falling to his knees, but that was waaaaay too cliche.

"Never mind», answered Paula.» I can forgive you this first time. But if you ever-EVER-pull such a trick on me...I will spank your chilly butt until it gets as warm as Australia in January!"

She finally cracked a glorious smile, enlightened by sparkling eyes. She fell on his arms and they kissed like a couple in a stupid kissey-lovey pocket book.

Bobby whispered in her ear, while still holding her in his arms. “About this last thing, if everything turns out well today, you might do it without me being naughty!"

"A-hem.» Jubilee was standing behind Bobby for a long amount of time, and from the suppressed grin on her face Bobby could tell she had heard every single word, even the last whispered kinky ones.

"Oh, Jubilee!" Paula tried to sound surprised. After all, she wasn't the one with his back at Jubilee all this time.

"I would tell you to get a room, but more urgent things are ahead of us. Jean located the slut's hideout. We will be off as soon as she rinses her hands with something strong...like alcohol, for example. So come on, get outta here!"

Paula ran outside, ready for action. Bobby followed her, but as he passed next to Jubilee, she slapped him hard on the butt. He just kept running, protesting with an "ouch" to her.

"Slut puppy..."Jubilee muttered under her wide grin.