They were all happily and harmoniously talking until they heard Mr. Burton on his way in. They rushed to their seats and Lance hid under Kitty and Scott's table.

"What are you all doing?" He demanded. "I didn't tell you to laugh, I told you to sit in silence."

"Oh, sorry sir," Pietro said sarcastically. "I forgot that we no longer had free will."

"You! Watch it, unless you want to join Alvers!" Mr. Burton pointed a finger at him.

"Excuse me sir?" Kitty raised her hand. "But where is Lance?"

"He's sat in the cafeteria with me, where else?"

Kitty nodded and shrugged.

"Well, do you mind if...I go and like, give him his pencil?" She asked, picking up Lance's pencil from behind her and holding it up.

"Very kind of you," Mr. Burton sighed. "But he's using one of my pens."

"But...this is his favourite pencil, I just want to give it to him." Kitty replied.

Mr. Burton growled and snatched the pencil from her hands. "Fine, I'll give it to him. Now don't let me walk past and hear all this noise again!"

With that he walked out of the room. Pietro burst out laughing.

"I swear he doesn't even work at this school, he just comes in to make our lives a living hell!"

Lance crawled out from under the table.

"Well, I'd better get back to the store cupboard before he does." He sighed, dragging the desk below the hole in the ceiling and standing on the desk to climb into it.

The rest of them sat in their current positions and watched Lance as he crawled away. Except for Pietro who moved the desk back to where it was supposed to be.

Lance quickly and quietly crawled through the vent to the store cupboard.

He gently lowered himself down onto the floor just in time when Mr. Burton unlocked the door and opened it.

"You forgot your pencil!" He said sarcastically, holding it up in the air and handing it to him. "Your little girlfriend was worried about you."

"What would you know about girlfriends?" Lance replied harshly.

"I know that I don't screw them just for respect." Mr. Burton hissed back.

"You think I do?"

"I know your kind."

Lance stopped and glared at him.

"My kind?"

"Yeah, all of you no good bums who'll decide they like a girl, screw them and then drop them like they're on fire."

Lance took a deep breath and sighed in rage.

"I'm sick of people categorising me for who I hang out with and what things I do. Just because I'm a ruffian doesn't mean I don't care about other people, anyway, Kitty's not my girlfriend!"

"Aww, my heart bleeds for you!" Mr. Burton replied sarcastically.

"You know, if teachers give 'my kind' support like this, how do you expect us to turn out?" Lance snarled.

Before Lance knew it, Mr. Burton's fist was met with the side of his eye.

He backed into brooms and mops in shock and held his eye. He looked at Mr. Burton, who had a stern, guiltless expression. A strand of grey hair hanging over his hawk like eyes.

"Oh, did you fall there Alvers? Slip on some water or something? That's a little clumsy huh?" He sighed quietly.

"You psycho!" Lance looked him up and down as he panted in shock.

"Come on then, let's go, right here, right now! Go on, hit me!" Mr. Burton moved closer to Lance, pointing at his face.

"I want to see how tough you really are!"

Lance stayed back and stared at him in fear.

"Just as I thought." Mr. Burton sneered. "You gutless turd."

Mr. Burton quickly threw his fist towards Lance's face. Lance didn't flinch, he just stared at him. Burton's hand stopped a few centimetres from Lance's face. Mr. Burton scoffed then took a few steps back, closed the door on Lance and locked it.

Lance rested his head against the back of the wall and listened to Burton's footsteps walk away.

He then lifted his head up again when he heard footsteps coming back down the corridor.

His eyes widened when he saw Kitty step through the door.

She looked up and smiled at him. Her expression changed when she saw his huge black eye.

"What happened?" She whispered and gently touched the large bruise.

"Apparently 'I slipped over.'" Lance winced as pain went through him.

"Did he hit you?" Kitty gasped, Lance nodded.

"Forget it, no-one will believe me anyway." He sighed.

She ran a hand down his cheek sympathetically and sighed.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Lance then asked, with a small smile. "You lost?"

Kitty smiled at him and pressed her lips to his, giving him a peck on the lips.

"Why'd you do that?" Lance asked in shock when she pulled away.

She giggled and blushed shyly. "'cause I knew that you wouldn't."

Lance smiled and then snaked his arms around her waist to pull her in for another kiss.

Meanwhile in the library, Pietro was sat on the desk which Rogue was originally sat at, he was ripping up paper and throwing it on the floor. Rogue was perched next to him and watched him with disinterest.

"How do you cope here week by week?" Rogue asked him.

Pietro shrugged and answered her.

"I don't know, sometimes we have a cool teacher who'll have a laugh and a joke with us, other times we have a really uncool teacher who is so easy to wind up it's fun for the rest of the day. And other times, we just got to keep ourselves amused."

Rogue chuckled to herself and shook her head.

"So what did you do to get in detention this week?" She asked.

"I kept putting tacks on Miss Holmes' chair. Once she'd sat on one, I ran over and put another one on when she went to sit down. She guessed it was me without any evidence." He chuckled at his deed.

Rogue laughed. "I would have loved to see that, I hate that cow."

Pietro smiled and looked back at her.

"What did you do?" He questioned her.

She glanced back at him and gave a look of embarrassment.

"Nothing." She smiled. "I didn't want to go to Logan's morning training session, and when he told Scott and Kitty that they couldn't do it for getting detention, I decided I had nothing better to do."

Pietro burst out laughing.

"I always knew that you were weird." He chuckled. "But when you joined the X-geeks you lost your mind completely."

They both laughed. A moments silence followed.

"You're too much of a goody goody to get real detention." Pietro then laughed.

Rogue then looked at him smugly. "It's not that I'm a goody goody, I just never get caught!"

He glanced back at her with a sly grin and their eyes locked.

Pietro began to move his face closer to hers. She began to become drawn into also moving closer, at the last moment, when their lips nearly touched, Rogue pulled away.

"Pietro," She whispered, and glanced up to check that Scott hadn't came back from the lavatory without thier knowledge and was watching them, he hadn't yet returned.

Pietro then lifted his hand to cup her cheek, but she once again pulled away.

"I don't want to hurt you." She muttered sadly, referring to her curse of a power.

Pietro sighed deeply, his eyes fixated on her. She could tell that he was deep in thought.

"Then don't." He whispered back.

Rogue turned to look at him to see what he was talking about. Before she knew it, his lips were met with hers and he was softly sucking her lower lip. She closed her eyes and returned the gentle kiss.

When he pulled away, she opened her eyes and looked at him with confusion.

"How did you do that?" She asked.

"What?" He asked smugly, knowing full well.

"How did you manage to touch me without...you know?"

"I didn't do it, you did." He replied. "Every mutant can control their power. It just takes some longer to learn how."

"How did you know?" She asked, still surprised by the whole thing. "The professor has tried to find a way for people to come in contact with my skin without anything happening for years, I could never do it."

"I learned it when my father was training Wanda, when she used to hex everything uncontrollably. Dad said that to help a mutant control their powers, you have to get all of their fears together. Fear, sorrow...love." Pietro replied.

They both went silent as Scott walked back in.

Rogue looked at Pietro, who nodded at her. She stood up and walked over to Scott's side.

She gently placed her hand on his cheek. Focusing on all that Pietro had just said.

Scott looked up at her in shock and confusion.

"Nothing happened!" Rogue exclaimed happily.

"You didn't take my power?" Scott remarked.

Pietro just smiled at them and watched as Rogue cried with happiness as she could now finally control her power.

Author's Note: Uh Oh, the end is near. I wasn;t sure whether I wanted to do a Kitty/Pietro pairing or Rogue/Pietro pairing, because I've become pretty obsessed with both. In the end I decided Rogue/Pietro as I'm a Lancitty fan all the way.

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Hope you enjoyed this chapter ~x~