3rd Card Dealt [Action/Voice]

[kineticcajun]

[Finally. Finally the damn lights are out of his window. Gambit's never minded a little festivity, but when your eyes are sensitive to bright light, it gets a little hard to sleep when you can't. Take down. The Christmas lights.

So he's in a pretty good mood today. Snow aside, of course. He could do without that. But he's still venturing out in it - totally not slipping from time to time, you guys are imagining that - to swing by the grocery store.

Important business here. New Year's is coming up, and that means black-eyed peas. With the bad luck streak he's had going since he got here, he's going to need to make a ton of them for luck.

Which is making an idea dawn...]

[Voice]

What kinda New Year's celebrations y'all got 'round here? Seems like wit' all the dif'rent traditions poolin' in, there oughta be some kinda party. Gotta be one night outta the year this place gets good an' noisy.

[Filtered to Jubilee | 80% locked]

Hey, petite. I'm t'inkin' we could use some fireworks next weekend. Sound like a plan?

Comments

[bamfing]

[BAMF. Kurt appears, crouched on a bench, grinning at Gambit. He totally caught that 'not slip'.]

Now if only Iceman knew your weakness was slick ice.

[kineticcajun]

[You saw nothing, bro. Nothing. Look, he's regained his footing and has his balance.]

Ain't much of a weakness if I can get 'round it, homme.

[bamfing]

Only because there's not enough of it, yet.

[If only you could be as graceful as Kurt, bro! And doomed to never be able to wear ice skates.]

[kineticcajun]

[Gambit looks up at snow-laden clouds and gives a shrug.]

At this rate, prob'ly ain't even gonna need that Iceman'a yours freezin' up the place.

[bamfing]

Probably not. But this place gets even colder than Bayville once the snow really sets in. [That blizzard business aside, this is the mild stuff.]

[kineticcajun]

Well, ain't that reassurin'.

[Nightcrawler, you better be yanking his chain about that.]

[bamfing]

Sometimes it's hard to even get outside, because the snow blocks the door! Last year I had to teleport a path out of the place.

[Nope. He's not kidding.]

[kineticcajun]

...You're bluffin'.

[This is sounding way too far-fetched. Quit trying to spook the Southerner, Kurt!]

[bamfing]

No joke, man! Sometimes I think we're in Canada or something!

[kineticcajun]

[If this is Canada, then where is Wolverine?]

Canadians kidnappin' people from all over the galaxy an' across time, huh. I'm not so sure 'bout that, mon ami.

[bamfing]

It might explain why they're so polite, yeah? They're hiding something.

[kineticcajun]

Always the quiet ones you gotta look out for.

[bamfing]

Yeah, usually. [Well. That bit of provoking out of the way. Time to. Say a thing. And get it over with.]

By the way... Thanks for the help. With the... battle and everything. [He knows that was different than the whole bit with Apocalypse. He wasn't following Magneto's orders and could have easily stuck with some other people if he wanted.]

[kineticcajun]

[Gambit is actually quiet for a moment over the thanks. He's not 100% certain he even really deserves it, but hey.]

Don't mention it. T'ink I owe you one too after all that.

[Not that he expected any less from one of the X-Men, but he appreciates that Kurt had his back.]