Hey again, I hope everyone reading this is good and in the Christmas spirit! 5 days to go! So, due to that fact; I have a short Christmas story for you all. A couple of things first; the Brotherhood and Acolytes (all of them) are with the x-men and are staying that way, so are Psylocke -Betsy Braddock, Angel -Warren Worthington and X-23 -Lexa Howlett. Also, there are only five chapters in this story; one for every day leading up to Christmas day! So glad we could get that sorted and now for the plot of the story;

Summary; Christmas is coming and relationships in the X-mansion are at the high; denial, decisions, lust or love, understanding of new emotions and whether or not to reveal a relationship…and that's just the main problems…

Still Rogue denies any feelings for Remy, Kitty is constantly in a love triangle with Piotr and Lance, and will Lexa's relationship with Pietro become anything more than pure lust? Will Wanda ever finally realise what these feelings for John are? And will Betsy and Warren ever feel secure enough together to reveal their relationship to the rest of the mansion? And quite a bit more…

ROMY, JONDA, X-IETRO, ANLOCKE, KIOTR and LANCITTY love triangle, JOTT, BOBILEE and JUBILAY love triangle, ORGAN, KURMANDA, TATRO hints, BOBITHA, AMERTO, RAMERTO hints, RAM and DANNIE (check out my profile if you aren't sure what some of these are; they're all up there.)

Please enjoy.

Key:

"…" Speech

'…' Thoughts

(…) Extra information

Songs are in bold

"Telepathic thoughts are in italic and speech marks"

The Season Brings You Love

Chapter 1

VvV Tremors VvV

The fire crackled merrily in the fireplace, casting a faint cheerful glow over the living room and its current occupants, whilst the Christmas tree stood tall and proud, displaying its stylishly decorated branches with honour and pride. Kitty sat curled up beside the fire like a cat, soaking up its warmth with a soft, small smile playing delicately around her lips. On the sofa opposite the fire Remy pulled Rogue into his lap, rapping his arms around her waist until she stopped struggling and gave in. Next to them with her back facing them, Wanda chatted quietly to Lexa who sat facing her, sitting in between Pietro's legs whilst he leant on the arm of the sofa, a smirk cast across his face. His smirk changed however as Lexa turned to face him and kissed him lightly on the lips, and he smiled genuinely before she turned back to carry on chatting.

Lance watched this with a sigh, and his gaze turned to land on Kitty who blushed having been caught watching him behind Piotr's back as he sat next to her, with his arms rapped protectively around her. Piotr frowned slightly at the interaction between them both but made no comment and instead playfully pulled Kitty onto his lap, smiling warmly as she rested her head into his chest and closed her eyes in satisfaction. Out of the corner of his eye Piotr saw Lance frown sulkily and turn away from them both to start a conversation Lance, glad of the distraction, but she could gradually fell her gaze being drawn back to Warren's. He watched her from next to the Christmas tree and every time he felt eyes on himself he turned away to look at the tree above him or the crackling fire until he couldn't take it anymore.

He stood quickly and looked at everyone as they turned their attention to him, "I'm going to go and get…" he paused, trying to think of something when a voice spoke in his head,

"A drink and some snacks, maybe we could all watch a movie, couldn't we Luv?"

"…A drink and maybe some snacks, what does everyone say to a movie?"

"That sounds like a great idea, Luv, do you want some help?" Betsy smiled from the couch and stood up.

"Oh, yeh that would be great Betsy." Warren smiled shyly and looked around at the rest of the x-men in the room, "what do you think?"

Kitty removed her head from Piotr's chest and smiled, "that would be, like, awesome. Do you want me to help?"

"Na, that's fine Luv; we've got it." Betsy smiled to Kitty and then looked at Rogue, Lexa and Wanda, "what do you girls think?"

"Ya, ah suppose that wouldn't be ta bad…"

"Don't mind."

"As long as we watch Tomb Raider; kick ass movie!" Lexa put her thumbs up as she spoke and looked to Wanda and Rogue for their opinion.

"Ah totally agree; has ta be ma favourite movie." (Hehehe, yes as you have probably all guessed; they're only saying that because, a) Tomb Raider is a KICK ASS MOVIE! And b) IT'S MY FAVOURITE! I think…its Tomb Raider, Titanic and the Incredibles I think…)

"That's all I'll be willing to see." Wanda smirked and watched as Betsy nodded her head in agreement.

"What's this I hear 'bout Tomb Raider?" John poked his head around the door with a smirk and winked playfully at Wanda whose heart momentarily skipped a beat.

"We're gonna watch it Johnny, y' wanna come et join us, mon ami?" Remy smirked at the interaction and nodded to the space he had pulled Rogue from, right next to Wanda.

"I'd love to mate, if there is one thing I love its Angelina Jolie; wouldn't miss her for the world." He smirked again and took the place Remy offered leaning against the sofa and putting an arm around Wanda, who knocked it off before he put it straight back.

"Do you mind!" Wanda bared her teeth ferociously and knocked his arm back off again.

"Not really, Luv." John smiled down at her and pulled her so that Wanda's head rested against his chest, before rapping his arm around her shoulder again. With a sigh of defeat Wanda allowed John to pull her closer to him and she let herself lean against his chest, not able to understand why she enjoyed the attention he gave and devoted to her.

Betsy smiled at the moment before Wanda caught her and scowled, and she quickly turned to the boys, "what do you guys think? Tomb Raider?"

Pietro smirked, "anything to keep Lex in my lap."

Lance rolled his eyes and both he and Piotr shrugged, "don't mind."

"Dat iz ok viz me."

Remy smirked with Pietro, "Remy ain't going nowhere wid his Chere like dis." He looked down at Rogue, and smirked again as she rolled her eyes up at him, before he turned to Warren who shrugged.

"Fine by me, I'm not complaining and we might as well, seeming as we all agreed."

"Hey, Kitty never got to speak her opinion!" Lance blushed very slightly as everyone turned to him and he tried to look anywhere but Kitty, who was blushing herself, and Piotr who scowled defensively at him. "Uh…neither did Betsy!"

Betsy giggled slightly as everyone ignored the comment and carried on looking between Lance and Kitty, "Kit, what do you think about Tomb Raider, Luv."

"Oh…uh," Kitty blushed as everyone's attention was focussed on her and tried to ignore Piotr's jealous gaze, "yeh…uh, that would, like, be, like, totally cool…"

"Did ya evah notice Kit that when yahre embarrassed yahre accent kicks in twice as heavy?" Rogue smirked in amusement and Kitty blushed harder.

Betsy looked at everyone; their attentions solely focussed on Kitty and raised her eyebrows, "hello people! Movie here!" As she got no response she raised her voice; "OI! HELLO! MOVIE!"

Everyone gave her a quick glance and turned back to Kitty, all apart from Warren, "let's just go Betsy…"

No one noticed as Betsy and Warren left the room, and it was probably better that way because as soon as they made it to the kitchen they turned to each other with lustful gazes. Betsy looked up at Warren and smiled at him before he leant in and kissed her, but just as he pulled away Betsy brought her hand to his head and pulled him in deeper. Warren's tongue slowly ran along Betsy's bottom lip pleadingly and she opened her mouth, allowing him to enter. He ran his tongue along her own and she reacted by moaning and copying the motion, until their tongues were caught in an intense battle, running along each other and delving into the other's mouths. Warren's hands rapped themselves around Betsy's waist and he lowered them, pinching her bottom lightly and making her giggle and squeal slightly into their kiss, returning the action herself smiling as Warren smirked. She ran her hands slowly and teasingly along his back, smiling as Warren shuddered at the teasing touch, and he brought his own hand to the back of Betsy's head, bringing her in as close as he could, not able to get enough of her. But the moment didn't last long, although it felt like eternity for the both of them, Warren and Betsy soon had to pull apart as they heard voices coming from outside the kitchen. And they ran to either side of the kitchen, hurriedly fetching drinks and popcorn for the movie, trying to act as unsuspicious as possible as the voices grew louder. Yet they soon both realised that they weren't growing louder because the people moved closer to the kitchen but that instead the people speaking were now shouting at each other.

VvVvVvV

Kitty blushed harder if possible as everyone's attention remained focussed on her and she stood from Piotr's lap, ignoring him as he tried to pull her back down. She quickly walked towards the door but instead of opening it she phased straight through and never stopped walking, trying to get away from the accusing gazes. She hadn't walked very far however when she heard the door being opened, but she didn't stop; it wasn't very hard to guess whom had followed her and she didn't want to face him right now. But no matter how fast she walked the person walked faster and just metres away from the kitchen door she was grabbed on the arm and turned to face him. But it wasn't Piotr, it was Lance, and he gazed down at her with such longing in his eyes that Kitty looked away in embarrassment.

"Lance, I don't' want to, like, talk right now."

"Kitty…I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say it…I just did you know?" Lance turned Kitty to face him but she turned away and phased her arm out of his grip.

"Please Lance don't." it was more of a plead then an order but Lance ignored it anyway.

"Kitty…" Kitty couldn't resist the tone of voice and turned to look up at him, but Lance was instantly pulled away and Piotr stood where he had moments before.

He moved closer to Kitty, "Katya, is you ok, dah?" Piotr didn't give Kitty a chance to reply and instead turned to Lance, glowering ferociously at him. "You stay away from mine Katya."

Lance glared back and shook his head, "no way, she isn't yours!"

Piotr took a step towards Lance and raised his voice slightly; "stay away from mine Katya!"

Lance took a step forward himself and lowered his voice, hissing harshly, "make me."

Piotr balled his hands into fists and put them up in front of himself, his armour automatically covering himself with echoing clanks as his temper got the better of him, and he lowered his own voice to a hiss; "if you vish."

Kitty went to stand in front of Piotr and put her hands onto his metal fists in a calming manner, "Piotr, please don't"

Piotr looked down at her with a glance and his furious expression changed to one of softness as his armour clanked noisily away, "I iz sorry Katya, I did noot mean to upset you, dah?"

Kitty smiled and opened her mouth to speak but a gasp came out instead of words as the floor began to shake slightly, "leave Kitty alone!" Lance glared at Piotr, with his fists balled and his eyes shining with slight tears at the way Kitty had gone for Piotr over him.

Piotr opened his mouth to speak but stopped and closed it as Kitty put her fingers over his lips and turned to face Lance exasperatedly, "Lance calm down."

Lance gritted his teeth in anger at the way Kitty spoke to him, "why should I?"

Kitty folded her arms and frowned defiantly at Lance, trying to ignore the tears she could see shining, "Lance."

The mansion shook twice as much as it had before as Lance's anger doubled and he shook with suppressed rage, "don't talk to me like I'm some dumb kid!" he glared at Kitty, his eyes burning with unshed tears that blurred his sight slightly. He ignored the x-men that filled the hallway to see what was happening and he grew angrier still as Piotr placed a hand protectively on Kitty's shoulder. Yet when she noticed him getting angrier and did nothing to make Piotr take his hand off of her, that was too much for Lance. The mansion shook back and forth, the Christmas decorations falling to the ground and the other students falling into each other. Lance sent one last massive tremor through the hallway before he turned on his heel and ran to the front door, pushing through the rest of the x-kids and ignoring their complaints.

Everyone stared after him and watched him go, until finally Pietro got bored of waiting and pushed through everyone heading after Lance. He turned back as he heard an indignant growl and used his super speed to run back to Lexa, pick her up and run straight after Lance again.

As soon as Pietro had picked up Lexa and had ran off Wanda began to follow after him, turning once to look back at the crowd of x-kids, "what does this look like? Some kind of show!"

John watched Wanda run after Lance before it all sunk in and he suddenly started to run after her, "Wanda Luv! Wait up!"

"'Ey, Johnny wait up!" Remy grabbed Rogue's hand and ran after them being immediately followed by Warren who picked up Betsy and flew out.

The new mutants all stood and watched them go before turning around and looking back at Kitty and Piotr, Piotr turned his back to them and bent to pick up Kitty but she just turned on her heel and walked off in the opposite direction, phasing into the garden. Piotr gave one last glance to the new mutants who watched with interest and then he ran to the back doors to follow Kitty.

They all watched in silence as Piotr ran past the window and then they turned as one to look at the front door that Warren had closed behind himself before turning to look at each other, all in complete silence.

Bobby spoke up at last; "blimey…well that was interesting…"

"Yup." Tabby turned back to look out of the windows but when she didn't spot anything she turned back to the group.

Ray and Jamie suddenly caught everyone's attention as they looked at each other and gave each other high-fives.

"Like, what was that for?" Jubilee and Amara both rolled their eyes at the boys as Rahne spoke up.

Ray looked around at the rest of the group with a smirk, "well lets just say…with Storm, Wolvie, Red, Goggles and Prof. X all out at that conference thing, and with Freddy and Toad at those extra curriculum classes the Prof. organised and now everyone else out…"

Jamie put his thumbs up excitedly and finished off Ray's sentence, "we got the x-mansion…TO OURSELVES!"

End of Chapter

Oh my god! What have I done; giving the mansion to the new mutants! Well, you'll see the havoc they cause in next chappie and also quite a bit more romance too! I really hope you liked the chappie, of course I know all you LANCITTY fans won't be to happy with me…sorry! But things will get a lot better…poor Lance…don't forget those reviews! Love Thrills, xxx