By The Black gryphon
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Author's note: This takes place around 2 years after Season 2. The age/class changes are:
Kitty/shadowcat: 17-Junior
Kurt/Nightcrawler: 18-Senior(not mentioned in first chapter)
Evan/Spyke: 17- Junior(not mentioned in first chapter)
Pietro/Quicksilver: 18-Senior
Scott/Cyclopes: 20-Sophomore(college)(not mentioned in first chapter)
Jean Grey: 19-Freshman(college)(not mentioned in first chapter)
Lance/Avalanche: 20-Sophomore(college)
.... You can figure out the rest. Even though the first chapter (and maybe the 2nd) seems humorish, this WILL turn serious and if your wondering why I'm putting it as a Romance(or drama)/Angst, you'll see why in future chapters. Note, I do not know what the pairing in this will be, well I sorta do. I am NOT a Kurtty fan, so you Kurrty fans, don't hold your breath (though I may take back these words if I learn to like kurtty) but please read. the Romance doesn't really matter right?
the rating is R for a reason. This fic will, as stated, get serious, and it will include some Sexual mentioning, Heavy cussing, rape, and violence. I will Put a warning up before any sexual based scenes for the kiddies who are reading this. Hopefully the honor system still works Ne?
thanks for reading this and please review! I thrive on them.
Almost forgot..... the X-men and brotherhood characters aren't mind (otherwise I'd be filthy stinkin rich!) but characters such as Mathew are mine.... But we already knew that didn't we? Lets just get on with the show!
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Something was wrong... the silence was thick enough to choke me alive, though I was calmly breathing. I opened my eyes to see nothing but level ground and pools of blood. I gasped and then I felt someone grab me. Turning, I found out that the someone was actually 2 people. One was lance, who was trying to hold a huge gaping wound from his side. The other was a unknown girl, her face grave. I tried to push Lance away, but I wouldn't even move. I tried phasing, but I found myself looking down at Lance picking me up. My body was half gone, as if was blown apart by a laser or something. I stared as Lance's shoulders shook and was he crying?
Feeling her eyes water, Kitty tried to look away when there was a earth shattering cry from behind her. She felt herself being grabbed by a huge hand. Beating against it's fingers, her skin crawling where it touched her, but she froze as it disappeared, only to leave her handing there, as if she was hanging from a crucifix with the darkness, so cold it burned, holding her. She screamed.
Her eyes snapped open as Kitty woke up screaming. Clutching her shoulders, she fought for control as Rogue and Kurt ran to her side. "Kitty? What's wrong?" Rogue asked, but Kitty could hardly speak. Shaking her head, she reassured her friends, but in the back of her mind, she felt something horrible inching it's way up. She sighed and got out of bed, pushing the horrid thought out of her head. She couldn't think of that NOW, the 2nd and last day of tryouts for the fall play was TODAY, though ironically, it was AUGUST, but school had, like stared on the 17. She opened up her drawers, looking for something to wear.
"Kitty?"
A voice cried, but Kitty wasn't listening really.
"Kitty!"
Again, no response.
"Kitty!!!!!!!"
"Huh?"
"Finally. So how'd the test go?" Mathew asked, catching up to his friend, taking off his glasses and cleaning them with the end of his shirt. No, he wasn't a geek or anything, far from it, he was considered one of the cutest guys in school. His smile was to die for and his glasses made his eyes gleam a dark amber.
"I think I did okay, but Mr. Bradford was, like, a total jerk though." Kitty grumbled.
She had lost the 'valley girl' accent but sometimes it slipped in. Mathew just nodded, letting her go ahead so he could talk to a friend of theirs, when the earth started to shake. Kitty struggled to keep her balance and grabbed the railing, but this tremor was unusually strong; the railing and the whole Bridge to the south wing collapsed, Kitty nearly being caught in the middle if she wasn't grabbed by a quick hand and pulled into the south wing entrance. Peeking one eye open, she found herself looking at Pietro, the one person she couldn't STAND... well one of the people anyway.
"..." She blinked as Pietro smiled, shrugging.
"No thanks needed, I get too much praise as is." He said, earning a huff from the girl and her walking away from the tall, slender white-haired Senior.
"I can't believe that your still so ARROGENT Pietro." She said and then frowned. 'Well, at least I'm in the right wing... though I think classes are gonna be canceled... Hopefully the play tryouts aren't.....' She wished when the intercom came to life.
"Due to the damage in the area between the South Wing and the central buildings, School is dismissed." Cheers from certain classrooms were heard. "The Tryouts for the school play however will still be held." Kitty sighed in relief. She heard that this years play, Lend me a Tenor, was hilarious. 'A play about Love, Sex, and Italians' as her acting instructor said. In fact Mathew, when hearing this, had said in the middle of the class, "I am going to get a part!" When inquired, he replied, "Because the guys make out in this one!" She remembered how hard she laughed.
"Why the pleasant look Pretty Kitty?" Pietro teased. She had almost forgotten about him. She glanced at the Senior and huffed. "None of your business. If you excuse me, I have to get my stuff." And with that, she walked away. Pietro tsked and then looked outside. This wasn't a natural earthquake, but Avalanche didn't cause it either, just what triggered this? Shrugging, he shouldered his light book bag and headed for the exits. Kitty was in for a BIG surprise when she looked at the casting list this Friday. He grinned and left.
A Blur passed by uninterested people, just thinking it a stray breeze. Pietro arrived at the Now empty Brotherhood house. Only he, Fred, and Ted were left. Lance had gone off to SOMEWHERE, supposedly nearby, but college life apparently was too hectic for the older member to CONTACT his old comrades in arms. Opening the door, he was greeted with a rather unexpected surprise. On the couch, Lance was lounging as if he had never moved. Lance looked up and smiled.
"How's life treating you?"
"Lance?????????????"
Kitty skipped down the hall, dubbed the Cat's club hall, for it's many classes based on either music, visual arts, and theater, and looked at the Theater Guild board, or just "the board". THe list was posted up and she scanned for her name. giving a little cry, she found herself as one of the 4 main female roles (well, there were only 4 female roles). She was playing MAGGIE, that was, like, the biggest role a girl could get! She scanned the other names, but froze. In Math wing, AKA the upper east wing, a cry was heard.
"WHAT THE??? Pietro Maximoff is playing MAX??????????" Pietro snickered.
So she had just read the list.
This was going to be fun.
His teacher shot him a glare of death, which caused him to focus on the Calculus work being explained, but a single thought strayed to something Pietro never considered... What Lance was going to do to him if he ever heard that Pietro was Kitty's 'partner' in the play. Torture wouldn't even begin to describe it. Even if Lance didn't hear about it, Pietro then realized that he would have to KISS Kitty about 3 different times in the play, at LEAST. What has he gotten himself into? He let out a almost inaudible sigh, but of COURSE the teacher heard it.
"Is something FUNNY Mr. Maximoff?" Mrs. Teri asked.
"Nope, nothing at all." He said, giving her a bored look. The teacher continued to talk and His mind trailed off. He had read the whole book anyway.
Kitty scanned over the first 80 pages, more then halfway through the play when there was a cough. Sitting in the park, she ignored the other people. So she didn't even notice someone sit beside her before the person 'coughed'. Looking up, she found herself sitting next to Lance. She nearly jumped, but smiled.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?" She said, memorizing the page number before closing it.
"I guess. So, what drags you from the exciting world of College fraternity parties, drunk women, and the statute imitating professors?" She asked sarcastically. Yes, over the 2 years while he had left, according to Pietro, she had gotten a sarcastic side.
"the fact that the parties were boring, the women not that drunk and the professors being professors are too simple for a man of my standards." Lance said, smirking when he noticed the book. "What are you reading that for?"
"School play. I got Maggie." Kitty replied, letting him take the book.
"I remember Pietro talking about that..." Lance mumbled, flipping through he pages till one particular page, page 86 to be exact (AN: This is true because I have a copy of Lend me a tenor... hee hee hee!), and his eyebrow twitched.
"Who's playing this 'Max' guy?" He asked, just about ready to rip the book to tiny shreds, burn it and then call a priest to purity the ashes. But Kitty wouldn't like that.
"Didn't you know?" Kitty asked, not aware of Lance's mood to kill the person. "Pietro is." Something in Lance's brain when snap. Handing the book back, he stood up.
"I have some business to do. I'll talk to you later Kitty." Lance said, hastily leaving.
"Now that was, Like, WEIRD." Kitty said before opening the book to page 83. After a minute of reading, she realized just WHAT Lance had read. "Oh no...."
"PIETRO!!!!!!!!!!"
Lance roared as he entered the brotherhood's house. Pietro jumped, turning around slowly. Lance was FURIOUS... Did he...
"Your Max in the school play?"
He did...
Lance, when not getting a response, repeated it slowly, though the venom in his voice was enough to kill a box full of rattlers.
"yeahIguessIambutIdidn'tknowkittywasplayingMaggieotherwiseIwouldn'toftiredout. Ohlookatthetime! gottogo!" And with that, ran out of the room, Lance yelling after him.