"Alvers! What are you trying to do? Kill her?" Finn yelled at him from the beach. Lance lay on the ground, ignoring him.
"Come on Kitty, let's get you in and dry. We're going out in about an hour." Finn said, placing Kitty's towel over her shoulders. Kitty walked away with him, glancing over her shoulder and giving Lance a grateful smile.
The voice inside Lance's head came back as he watched them walk away.
"See? He really does care for her and she seems happy with him."
"Yeah, that's until he hits her again!"
"You and her we're sitting there, you were topless and she was rubbing your chest. Wouldn't you go crazy too?"
"Maybe, but it's still no excuse to hit her!"
He shook his head to try and forget about the voices as he picked up the board and walked in.
Kitty was sat on the sofa, snuggled up to Finn. She glanced over as Lance walked inside and smiled at him.
"Lance, there's a fair on further down the beach, we're going in a little while. You wanna' come?" She said to him. The look on Finn's face was a picture to Lance.
"Sure." He shrugged, going to walk into the dorms corridor for a shower.
"On one condition!" Kitty stated. Finn and Lance looked at her. "You two can't fight once."
Lance sighed and walked towards the bathroom. That was going to be tough. Anyway, it wasn't him that she had to tell.
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"For me?" Kitty said with a reluctant look.
"Don't you like it?" Lance asked, handing her a stick of pink candy floss.
"Yeah, I love it! But I've really gotta' like…watch my figure, you know with the xmen outfit and all that. There's nothing worse than a fat person in one of those suits." She grinned, taking a small bite.
"Ah, no, you're perfect as…" Lance stopped himself and looked away, scratching his neck.
Kitty smiled at him.
"It's okay Lance, it was sweet, what you said." She said gently to him.
Lance looked at her and smiled. Hoping that she didn't notice the blush on his cheeks.
Finn had just finished on the gravity wall. He walked over towards Kitty, stopping dead in his tracks. Lance had noticed him but Kitty was still looking around. Finn suddenly looked angry. Then he painted on a smile and walked over.
"Hey who bought my girl candy floss?" He said in a playful tone, although he glared daggers at Lance as he walked past. Kitty grinned at him.
"I did." Lance replied casually.
"Well you needn't have bothered." Finn said, walking behind Kitty and grabbing her waist. Giving Lance a triumphant look. "She's sweet enough already."
He started munching at Kitty's neck, Kitty beamed at Lance and then turned her attentions to Finn. Meeting his lips and passionately kissing him.
"I know she is." Lance whispered sadly, loud enough for only himself to hear.
"Oh a carousel! I haven't been on one of those since I was like six!" Kitty squealed excitedly and pulled out of Finn's grip. She took his hand and they walked over to the carousel queue. Kitty looked at Lance as they walked, her eyes signaling for him to follow. He did so.
"Room for one more?" The operator shouted through the crowd. "The wait is probably about five minutes."
"Why don't you go on Kit Kat, this isn't really my kind of ride anyway." Finn said to Kitty. She looked at Lance, he just shrugged.
"I have a real bad headache, the spinning won't do much for it."
Kitty shrugged and hopped onto the last horse. She looked at its sash and pointed to its name. Huckleberry.
Lance sighed and rolled his eyes, which Finn noticed.
"Got a problem Alvers?" He hissed.
Lance just shook his head.
"Not at all Huck." Lance said in a hillbilly kind of accent, then grinned at his own joke, obviously finding it much more amusing than Finn did.
"You know I won't think twice about kicking your butt if you piss me off Alvers." He said in a harsh, threatening tone.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Lance said, trying to be mature.
"Oh, your scared now are you! Now you know that I will kick your ass."
"No!" Lance hastily said. "It's just, Kitty hates us arguing all the time."
"She's not yours to worry about Alvers!" Finn scoffed. "And you're both getting a little too close for my liking, so back off!"
Lance gritted his teeth.
"You know, I'm not the kind of guy who steals other guys' girlfriends, no matter how much I hate the guy or how crazy I am about the girl! I may be many things…But I'm not a girlfriend stealer." He said, getting rather irritated with Finn's overprotective boyfriend act.
"Pssh," Was all Finn could muster out.
Lance was trying to count to ten in his head, to calm down his anger.
"And the only reason I didn't blab about you're little make out session you were having with Em when I walked in to get my wetsuit, was because I didn't want her to get hurt." Lance nodded towards Kitty as she rode past on 'huckleberry', they both smiled and waved at her.
"And if you do blab, you won't just have to worry about the pain of your sunburn! You'll have something much worse to deal with!" Finn growled.
Lance was virtually on the brink of exploding with anger.
"Your threats don't scare me!" He hissed sharply. Turning and facing him.
"Oh yeah?" Finn yelled. Throwing a punch across his jaw.
Lance retaliated and began to clench his fists.
"Oh no! No mutant powers! We're gonna' settle this the uncowardly way!" Finn bellowed. He dived and Lance, knocking him to the ground. Kicking him in the back, the head, the face.
Lance kicked his leg sharply, tripping him to the ground. Lance then felt the urge to punch him, to take his anger out on Finn, for all that Finn had put Kitty through.
He climbed on top of Finn, pinning him to the floor, then he pulled him up by his color and started thumping him, again and again.
"Stop it!" He heard Kitty yelling in the background.
He ignored her, he took Finn's scrawny neck in his hands and squeezed and shook as hard as he could. The crowd that had gathered around him was talking about him, it infuriated him more!
"Lance! Stop!" He could hear the fear in her voice, she was pounding hard on his back, trying to make him let go.
He wanted to do as she said. He hated to hear her so scared. But he was so angry, he just couldn't stop.
Finn kicked him hard in the stomach. Causing him to fall backwards into Kitty. She fell back into a hot dog stand. It toppled and she fell with it. Lance turned around to see her on the floor, leaning against the fallen cart. Mustard, Ketchup and onions all over her. She looked at him with wide eyes, full of horror and sorrow. She gazed around at the crowd who were pointing and laughing at her. Then she looked back at him, visible tears welling up in her eyes.
After regaining oxygen, Finn stood up and hobbled over to where Kitty was sat. He held out his hand and pulled her up. Then he wrapped his arm around her and limped as they turned around and walked the direction on the beach house.
That FAKER! Lance hadn't even touched his leg!
"Kitty!" Lance gasped.
She stopped walking and turned to look at him.
He stared back, not knowing what to do or say.
She narrowed her eyes and her eyebrows nearly met. She turned around again and carried on walking, huddling closer to Finn.
The voices of the crowd surrounded him.
"They ought to lock up people like you!"
"It makes you wonder how the parents raise them!"
"No good hooligan. He should go back where he came from!"
He screamed to himself. Covering his ears and tugging his hair. He looked around him. The whole place was a blur. The best thing he could thing of to do, was run. He ran the opposite way to Kitty and Finn, away from the crowd, away from the beach house.
He soon came to a large rock. Where it was silent, and the only light was the moon reflecting on the water.
He sat on the rock and grabbed his hair tightly. Yanking at it and even ripping some out. He was panting heavily from running so far and so quick. He closed his eyes and counted to ten. Breathing in…and out…in…and out…in…and out…
He took one deep breath and then gazed out into the water. Watching the calm waves glisten in the silver moonlight. He never thought he'd say this, but he wished that Quicksilver were there, or Blob, he wouldn't have even minded Toad. He just needed someone to talk to. Someone who he could even only half class as a friend.
He sat for hours, watching the moonlight, skimming stones on the water and watching their ripples. He decided to go back around two in the morning, the thought everybody would be in bed by then so couldn't kick up a fuss.
It was a pretty long walk back. He didn't really realize how far he'd actually run to get away from everybody.
He stepped through the door quietly, extremely surprised that then hadn't locked him out. Much to his disappointment, Em and Janey were sat on the sofa doing each others nails.
They stared and whispered when he walked past. Loud enough for him to hear.
"Oh, he didn't go and jump off a pier then!"
"You know he never does anybody any favors."
"Careful, we'd better be nice or he may try and kill us."
He ignored them and walked into his dorm, down to his room. Finn wasn't in there, which Lance was thankful for. He didn't know where he was, neither did he care.
He lay on his bed, and stared up at the ceiling. He couldn't sleep. All he could think of was that sorrowful, disappointed look that Kitty gave him.
