Black Velvet Chapter 7
Disclaimer: See chapter one…
A/N: Okay, not many reviews for these last few chapters. Please review my fellow fictioners. This is pathetic. Even criticism would be better than nothing. I couldn't help but get some drama going with Lancitty.
In the mall with Lance and Kitty…
"Lance? You're not seriously going to put that dinky little Christmas tree in your house, are you?" Kitty asked Lance, an unimpressed look on her face and hands on her hips.
"Kitty, are seriously going to spend all your allowance money on decorations for that dumpy house that I live in?" Lance asked matching her expression.
"Actually, I'm not spending my allowance money. The Professor, like, totally said I could use the school credit card to pay for all this. He said he's a sucker for charity cases. Well, not in so many words, he just said not to go overboard." Kitty said and went back to choosing the biggest tree she could find.
"Excuse me, Pryde, but Pietro Maximoff is not a charity case. Get it through your bubble gum head, Barbie." Pietro said in annoyance. He already wasn't happy about going shopping with Lance's squeeze of the week, but now he was getting annoyed at their constant bickering over every little thing.
"Pietro, why don't you take your rude comments and shove 'em up your-" Kitty started to yell before Lance cut her off, not wanting a fight between the two in the middle of the mall.
"Whoa, Kitty, calm down, no need to shout." Lance said as he stepped between the two with his hands raised in a calming manner.
"Well, tell your little butt buddy to get his attitude in check before someone does it for him." Kitty said and crossed her arms with a disgusted look on her face aimed at Pietro.
"I'm not the one running around a mall ogling everything that might look like a stupid Christmas decoration. I mean, seriously, you're Jewish, and you're celebrating Christmas?" Pietro said rolling his eyes at the iron of it all.
"Okay, you two, enough with the insults, we're in public for crying out loud. Pietro, stop bashing Kitty for trying to do something nice for us. Kitty, where did you learn that foul mouthed language?" Wanda asked, interjecting before things got out of hand.
"Ray and Bobby say stuff like that to each other all the time, I guess it just, like, rubbed off on me, or something." Kitty said with a shrug.
"Well, you're starting to sound like Rogue, so tone it down a bit, would you?" Wanda asked, feeling a headache coming on.
"Only if he leaves me alone." Kitty said glaring at Pietro over Lance's shoulder.
"Only if I can get away from little Miss Priss." Pietro said and stuck his tongue out at Kitty, who took great offense to the childish act.
"Fine, I'll take these boys home, along with what you've already paid for, and come get you two when you're ready." Wanda said, slapping Pietro for his rudeness.
"Sounds good to me, here take my jeep, don't let Toad drive. Where is Toad? And Blob?" Lance asked when he looked around and didn't find the other two boys anywhere.
"We'll find them, let's go Pietro." Wanda said as she and Pietro pushed the two carts full of an assortment of Christmas decorations to go find their fellow Brotherhood members, who were in a movie theatre on the other side of the mall watching a movie about some monster that eats kids that lie to their parents. (me: shrug)
"Finally, why is Pietro, like, being such a jerk?" Kitty asked Lance once the siblings were out of hearing range.
"He's in strong like with Tabby. He refused to say the word 'love', and slapped anyone who said it. He said that Tabby was a 'unique creature unlike any other'. Something like that anyway. He just doesn't know how to tell her. It's kind of weird hearing him talk about her. It's like they've been married for years, as much as he knows about her. He's going all Twilight on the poor psycho." Lance said, rolling his eyes as they moved over to the next store that had a large, porcelain village displayed in the front window.
"Twilight?" Kitty asked, not getting the reference.
"Stalking her, going into her room while she's sleeping, almost like Gambit and Rogue, but more secretive. He has a shrine dedicated to her in his closet. If he turns out to be a serial killer, I won't be able to say I didn't see it coming." Lance said with a heavy sigh.
"You mean that jerk off that sold us all out to Magneto and his friend that made the Sentinels and tried to kill us and inevitably outed us all as mutants, an action that has thus far made our lives miserable actually has enough of a heart to crush on someone?" Kitty asked, surprised at what had just reached her ears.
"If you wanna be that elaborate about it, then yeah, there you go." Lance said after he took a minute to process what she said.
"That's news to me." Kitty said with a scoff. "On another note, Bobby and Jubilee are going out to the movies tonight, and she wanted to know if we wanted to double with them." Kitty said as she walked into the store they had stopped outside of, expecting him to reject the offer immediately.
"Sure, why not." Lance said offhandedly. "By the way, Kitty, I heard the fuzz balls human girl is moving cross country." He said, quickly changing the subject. Kitty, however, didn't seem to notice, and launched headlong into the new topic.
"Oh my gosh, she left yesterday, Lance, it was so sad! I, like, can't believe you actually care, you are such a kind and considerate person when you want to be." Kitty said affectionately, and wrapped her arms around Lance's neck, and gave him a quick peck on the cheek, before pulling away and continuing to browse the store they were in.
"Speaking of human girl, have you noticed anything weird about Rogue lately?" Lance asked as he inspected a rather creepy looking marionette.
"Now that you mention it, I totally have. It's like she wants to tell me something, but she can't. Do you think she wants to confess her feelings for Gambit?" Kitty asked, a hopeful gleam in her eye as she turned to lance with puppy dog eyes.
"Yeah, probably not, Kitty, but keep dreaming." Lance said, rolling his eyes at Kitty's naivety.
"Anyway, Amanda said her parents didn't want her being influenced by the mutant menace that Bayville has taken to housing. Kurt said they left because they found out that Amanda was dating Kurt behind her parents' backs after they said she was forbidden to see him. Kurt has turned her into quite the little rebel, in her own way." Kitty said getting bored and moving on to another of the little mini stores inside the mall.
"That's cool. Do you think Logan really is Rogue's biological father? I mean, I don't actually care, and I wouldn't put it past Mystique to pull some crap like that, but Rogue's still my friend, and it would hurt her if she found out that this was just another one of her games." Lance said forlornly.
"Hey, Lance, did you and Rogue have anything going on between the two of you? You know, like, when she was still living in that house with all you boys." Kitty asked skeptically. (A/N: I read some fics about Rogue and Lance having a relationship when she was a B-hood member, but breaking it off when she left. I always wondered what Kitty's reaction would be if it were true and she found out. Let me know if there are any out there like that.)
"Where did that come from?" Lance asked defensively, and a little too quickly for Kitty's taste.
"Just answer the question, Lance, and don't get so defensive, I'm just curious." Kitty said impatiently with a sneer, putting her hands on her hips.
"Curiosity killed the cat, Kitty, stay out of my business." Lance said, a little meaner than he had intended.
"So it is true. I thought Pietro was just trying to mess with me again, but it turns out the little rat actually wasn't." Kitty said snidely.
Flashback
"Hey, Pryde, Lancey the pansy isn't here, he's at work. What do you want?" Pietro asked as he zoomed over to the front door where Kitty had just entered, carrying bags of groceries.
"Don't be such a snot, Pietro, I brought you idiots food so you don't die. Rogue would be so sad if that happened, no idea why, you guys are a bunch of wannabe thugs. Except for Lance, of course." Kitty said as Pietro took some of the bags from her and they carried them into the kitchen. "Be a dear and fetch the rest of the bags, would you?" Kitty asked politely and Pietro was gone and back in seconds with the last few bags of groceries.
"You know, Pryde, speaking of Lance and Rogue, those two had something going on while the girl was living here." Pietro said smoothly as he began to put away the food.
"What are you talking about, Pietro? If there was anything going on between those two, Rogue would have told me, she is my best friend, you know." Kitty said, a bit doubtfully.
"Yeah, maybe now, but she wasn't when she first joined the X-Men, but just think about this for a second. You two spend time together, paint each other's toe nails, gossip, and suddenly you're BFF's. Then you talk to her about being interested in a one Mr. Lance Alvers, and ask her opinion. Struck with guilt, she tells you to go for it, have the perfectly pretty little relationship with the hot guy she can never have. Weeks go by, the Sadie Hawkins dance comes up, and, of course, she encourages you to take the plunge and ask said hot guy to the dance. In return, you try to get her to ask four eyes, but everyone knows he totally wants Big Red to ask him, but unfortunately for everyone, Terryn asks him, and, being the nice guy he is, accepts, like an idiot. After you two are going steady for awhile, the dirty duo meet up and make a pact to never tell of all the things they did together, and vow to keep it their little secret." Pietro said dramatically while the two of them put the groceries away.
"Do you honestly expect me to believe that crap?" Kitty deadpanned, with a disbelieving look on her face.
"I really don't care if you believe it or not, but my conscience is clear, so shove off." Pietro said rudely as he sped to the living room and flicked the TV on, leaving Kitty to see herself out.
Reality
"That's what happened." Kitty said spittingly once she finished telling Lance the story. "So, what do you have to say for yourself?"
"That's none of your business." Lance said and walked off, leaving Kitty fuming with a cart full of Christmas stuff.
A/N: Okay, that's what you get for this chapter. Take it or leave it. I'll be updating more often once I get my own internet this week, right now I'm at the neighborhood center.