A/N: Broke college student in the house. Does it sound like I own X-Men Evolution or Young Justice? Didn't think so…
"I hate monkey suits," Conner yanked at his collar. He still didn't see any real way out of this engagement, so there was no real way this night could get much worse.
"Cheer up Con," Robin said, clapping a hand on his shoulder. "At least she's pretty."
They were so helpful, really.
Conner had only met Kitty once, at another one of these pompous affairs. She spilled punch on him while laughing about shoes.
He placed a black mask over his eyes, as did Wally and Robin. Let's get this over with…
Meanwhile
Kitty's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "What do we do?"
"We?" Rogue hissed. "Answer the door."
"Alright then answer the door."
"I'm not answering the door this is your room."
"I'm a princess!"
"Ugh!" Rogue stomped over to the door, hiking the skirt of her dress to her knees. The door flew open just before he could knock it off the brassy hinges.
She put on one of her calm faces. "Hello Logan, such a pleasure to see you," she smoothed the skirt of her dress down. "There was just an… incident with a royal firework and well, um…" How did she get stuck being the distraction—again?
"Tell Princess Half Pint to get her roal little self over here," Logan, head of the royal guard, loomed in the doorway, speaking loudly enough for the whole kingdom to hear. Kitty winced, tip-toeing toward the door.
"Hello Logan," A smile plastered itself to her shiny pink lips. "Did you do something with your hair? It looks very- very- pointy. It's a… a nice look. For you." She finished up with a simpering twitter.
Logan inhaled a long breath through his nose. Really, he was nervous for the fate of the kingdom. The king couldn't live forever- and when 'Princess' became 'Queen' Kitty, well… He shook his head. Few things gave him nightmares (very few) but that day might have been one of them.
"We believe there was a very strange, misguided assassination attempt,"
Kitty tried really, really hard not to roll her eyes, because what kind of assassin aims for a princess and misses to his a fruit cart? Really.
"So your father has requested I look out for you, personally."
Rogue and Kitty wheezed out a unanimous sigh. This could be a very, very long night.
Meanwhile
"Here comes Prince Charming and Crew." Artemis grinned. A hint of pinkish blush colored Megan's cheeks. "Someone's looking good."
"Artemis."
"What?" Artemis and Zatanna both turned to look at Megan.
"Oh my gosh," Zatanna said after a moment of staring.
"What?" Megan searched around her, still blushing.
"You totally like him." Artemis' flirty demeanor flattened.
"No- I didn't- we barely even met!" Megs got redder with every word. "He's a prince!"
"This is a fairy tale. Love at first sight is allowed." Artemis sighed, her gaze falling on the royal posse. She was going to have to be a good friend and do the right thing here, wasn't she? "If you want him, we'll get him for you." She nodded 'the nod' at Zatanna.
"I-" Megan didn't get the chance to answer.
"I'm giving up the opportunity to flirt with a prince for you, so you better make this count." Artemis linked elbows with Zatanna, leaving a near helpless Megan to fold her arms in front of herself.
"You guys don't happen to dance by any chance?" Artemis said, confidant as ever.
"Only if you can keep up beautiful," the redhead, Wally, took her by the hand and led her to the floor. She was about to break her no ginger policy in half. Megan so owed her for this.
Robin shrugged. "It could be asterous."
"Asterous?" Zatanna's brow quirked.
"Just- never mind."
"Like successful?" A smile brightened her face.
"Exactly." He nodded- this chick totally got him. "How about that dance?"
Meanwhile
"Don't look now Petey, but Remy don't think we're the only ones who crashed this swaray."
Pete scanned the now crowded hall to find that classic brown mullet. He almost didn't recognize it- seeing as it had been washed for tonight's festivities.
"Wonderful," Pete muttered.
"And here comes your Princess."
Piotr looked up at the staircase. She was… exquisite. For a moment, he couldn't see anyone else. Until Remy nudged him- when he came back to reality, where she was a princess, on the verge of being engaged to a prince, with an unexplainable infatuation with a hoodlum.
"I'm going to go make things difficult for Lance. You go seize opportunity."
"Remy-"
Too late. Remy was gone. No doubt doing evil to an unsuspecting Lance Alvers.
He needed to surround himself with better company. Calmer company.
Meanwhile
"We need to ditch Logan," Kitty whisper-hissed through the side of her mouth. Rogue rolled her eyes- talk about 'stating the obvious'.
"How?"
"Distract him. Duh." Kitty put on her best fake smile as she waved to the dukes and duchesses who's names she couldn't remember.
Again, Rogue rolled her eyes. "Grass is green; the sky is blue; we need to distract Logan," her hip popped out to the left. "I know that. I'm asking you how?"
Kitty waved her hand, motioning for her to get closer. Cautiously, Rogue leaned in as Kitty whispered her plan. Rogue set her jaw firm.
"No." She said. "I'm not doing it."
"Please?" Kitty opened those blue eyes as wide as they would go, but Rogue would not budge.
"No."
"I'll scream."
"No, you will not."
Kitty opened her mouth, ready to shatter some really expensive stained glass windows (normally, she didn't like to feed into the 'princesses are brats' stereotype. But you know what they say about desperate times: they call for temper tantrums).
Rogue slapped her gloved palm over the tiny brunette's big mouth. "Fine!" Rogue snapped. "But you owe me!"
She pulled her dress up, speed walking to where Logan was staring at them with the all seeing eye of the Wolverine. "Logan," she whisper hissed. "Princess Kitty just saw some suspicious looking figures head up toward the tower."
Logan's eyes narrow suspiciously.
"You want to be the one who lets her get assassinated?"
"Better safe than sorry." He muttered, heading for the stone tower down the long hall.
"This way," she said. Keep going Logan, just keep going.
He ran straight. When he was half way up the stairs, Rogue accidentally heaved the door shut. Click. Where it would automatically lock. Only to be opened from the outside.
