Remieverse. The Red Rose Cafe and environs. Another hop back into time.

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Joy stretched luxuriously, then adjusted her pale grey shorts, smoothing the front panel that made them look like a mini skirt.

"Are ye comin', me love?" she called, stepping through the bedroom door. Then she froze as she wound up on the night-time street of a human city instead of in the hallway of the castle on the way to breakfast. "Aii! Kurti?"

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"Vhat she said." Schalk waggled his eyebrows merrily. "Anything you'd like."

Joy's own brows shot up at his gesture, her surprise leaving her speechless for a moment. -Cheeky begger....-

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Kurt blushed, but on her way back two beers slid from Remie's hands over to the two.

"You are our friends, dis our bar, we treat who we wanna," Remie said.

"What about treatin' me, sweet cheeks?" a less-than-sober man grinned. Remie arched an eyebrow and looked at Schalk.

"Gutter delivery," she said calmly, walking over to them.

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"Ja." He vanished into the shadows, then rose up behind the drunk and calmly and gently hauled him out of the building, ignoring his protests and attempts to fight him off. "Ve don't serve people who start somevhere else, my friend."

"Vhat in the .... did he jes' do?" demanded Joy, her jaw dropped.

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"He go' rid of trouble for de trouble start," she said, nodding to a sign that told all customers that they could refuse service or peaceably evict anybody they need to.

"Sounds safer," Kurt nodded, Remie nodded with a smile.

"Dis a fam'ly resturaunt. Dere plenny odder places t' get drunk n' stupid. Dis place safe," she said.

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"I meant that appearin' 'n disappearin' thing." Joy turned to watch as carried the offender out, ears still perked in amazement.

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"Ah. Dunno. But he keep me safe a few times 'cause he can do it," she smiled warmly.

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"It's vhy ve're called Shadow Fairies," noted Schalk, suddenly behind the counter again and leaning on it with both elbows. "The Professor gave us a few other things as vell, like enhanced healing."

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"Ah," Kurt said thoughtfully, then looked at her. "Und you... you are X Men?"

"Dose negotiatin' goofs upcountry?" Remie blinked, then snorted. "Nah. Dere ain' much o' de fightin' X Men like in de odder verses. Here dey deal wit de muties who unleash hell on earth, otherwise dey don' got much t' fight."

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"Och." Joy shook her head with wonder, her black eyes studying the other wingling. "But vhy?"

"He says he vas bored." Schalk shrugged.

"Says... ye ken the Professor!" Joy sat up with astonishment.

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"Don' you?" Remie asked, slightly surprised.

"Liebe?" Kurt looked at her, slightly worried she'd be upset.

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"Ach, nae. He vas a legend me moeder told me 'o. She said he made our volk thousands of years ago."

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"Whoa," she said, eyebrows raising as she looked at Schalk and then kissed his cheek.

"Does... he perhaps live aroudn here?" Kurt wondered.

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The dark man ear-smiled down at his wife, once more folding her in his wing. Then he turned back to Kurt and shook his head. "No. He lives in another reality."

Joy had fallen silent, listening.

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"Ah," he nodded, kissing Joy's cheek.

Remie smiled and nodded, leaning into her husband happily.