A change in the air

By Todd fan

Disclaimer: "No, our guy is just a floating head".

Okay people, if it appears i'm igonroing requests, i'm not being rude, honest!. It's just that i have already writen most of this fic. I'm actually a few chapters ahead of this one. :)

Chapter 5 - Finding a date

Sidney was sleeping soundly on the couch in the Brotherhood home when the tiniest of knoks could be heard. She opened her eyes slightly and frowned. Their came another hestitant knock. The feline mutant sighed and got off the couch, walking towards the door, she opened it to find Rogue.

"Hey..Rogue?", she said, blinking, "what are you doing here?".

"A'h was just wondering if....", said Rogue, looking around despreately, "if..a'h could borrow a..a.... tea bag".

"A tea bag?", said Sidney, "what, you don't have any tea bag's in the mansion?".

"Not the kind a'h drink", said Rogue with a nervous laugh, "so....".

"Yeah..okay", said Sidney, opening the door a little wider, "come on in".

Rogue walked in while Sidney went into the kitchen. There was the sound of rummaging around and a few minutes later, Sidney returned with a tea bag.

"Here you go Roguey, one tea bag", she said, giving it to the gothic mutnant, "you want some hot water with that too?".

"Err...no", said Rogue, "so...err....is Pietro at home at all?. Not that a'h care".

"Ahhhhhh now i see", said Sidney, nodding knowingly, "no Rogue, you just missed him. He and the guys have gone 'mayonase shopping'.".

"Oh", said Rogue, looking slightly down.

"You want me to take a message?", asked Sidney, "i can do that you know, i won't charge you".

"Just tell him....a'h came around", said Rogue, starting to leave, "errr..thank for the tea bag".

"Nice seeing you Rogue", said Sidney, opening the door for Rogue to leave, "oh and by the way. Pietro hasn't got a date for the dance yet".

Rogue stopped with her back turned to Sidney and smiled. She then turned around with a serious look on her face.

"Why would a'h care about that?", she said, crossing her arms.

"Just thought you'd like to know", said Sidney with a shrug, "enjoy your tea-bag".

With that she closed the door. Rogue smiled again and did a little victory dance before heading back to the institute.



"We have mayonase, hey!. We have mayonase, hey!", came the voice of Pietro Maximoff as he arrived a few hours later.

He walked into the front room and smiled at Sidney.

"Hey good lookin', whats cookin'?", he said with a grin.

"Nothing", said Sidney, "it always smells like that in here".

"Aren't we humerous today?", said Lance as he walked past, his arms full of jars of mayonase.

"As always", said Sidney with a grin, "oh yeah Pietro, Rogue called asking about you".

"Really?", said Pietro, stopping in his tracks.

"Well actually she came to borrow a tea bag. Then she brought you up in conversation".

"Ahhh the ol' 'pretend like you don't care and bring him up in converstaion' maovere", sighed Tabby, "works everytime. Though i thought Rouge could do better than a tea bag".

"So did i", said Sidney with a shrug.

"Wait...", said Pietro, "that's a tactic?".

"Well duh!", said Sidney, "who in their right mind would borrow a tea bag?".

"So what does this mean?", asked Pietro excitedly, "she likes me?".

"I guess", said Tabby with a shrug, "you'll just have to ask her won't you?".

"Fine, i will", said Pietro, pulling a face.

He ran over to the door and opened it, dashing out.

"How much do you want to be he chuckens out before he even gets to the main gate?", said Tabby.

"Wow, the mian gate. Your being generous", said Sidney, "i bet he wont even get halfway there.

"Your on", said Tabby with a grin.



Despite what the girls had speculated, Pietro got further than any of them had said. He had climbed over the gate and had been standing underneath Rogue's window. Unfortunately for him, Logan had sniffed him out. He was now running around the mansion grounds being chased by the angry mutant.

"I only wanna talk to Rogue!", he pleaded.

"Yeah right", said Logan, "i'm not that gulible Speedy-boy".

"Come on Claws", said Pietro, "please?".

Logan growled and put back his claws.

"Ya got five minutes", he said with a frown, "tick tick tick tick tick".

"Okay, okay", said Pietro, running into the mansion.

Kitty was sitting in the common room when she felt a gust of wind pass her.

"Hello Pietro", she said indifferently, the blinked, "wait!. Pietro?. What are you doing here?".

The gust of wind returned and Pietro was standing in front of her.

"Where's Rogue?", he asked, "i really need to speak to her and Logan's got me on a time limit".

Kitty sighed.

"It's about time", she said, "she's in her room".

"Thanks Kitty cat", said Pietro with a grin, speeding off to the room shared by the two girls.

He stopped and tapped on the door. He heard Rogue muttering to herself as she walked across to the door.

"For the last time Bobby", she said as she opened the door, "ya'll can't borrow my...Pietro?".

"Hey Rogue", said Pietro with a grin.

"How did you get in....actually a'h don't tink i want ta know", said Rogue, "so what do ya want"?.

"Well", said Pietro, running a hand through his hair, "i was..wondering if you'd like to go to the haloween dance..with me?".

He gave her one of his winning smiles to seal the deal.

"Okay", said Rogue quickly with a smile, then clear her throat, "a'h mean, sure, whatever".

"Cool", said PIetro, "see you at school tomorow?".

"Okay", said Rogue.

Pietro gave her a salute and dashed off, running past Logan.

"You still have 2 seconds left speed-boy", he said, "impressive".

"I could have done it faster", boasted Pietro, "only i wanted to take my time".

The second Pietro left, Kitty dashed upstairs to Rogue.

"Well?", she asked, hopping excitedly from foot to foot.

"Well what?", said Rogue, trying to give an air of not caring.

"Oh don't, like, give me that!", said Kitty, "what did Pietro want?. Did he ask you to the dance?. Did he, did he?".

"Yeah", said Rogue with a dreamy sigh.

Kitty squealed with delight and grabbed Rogue.

"Oh wow", she said, "you are so, like, totally lucky!".

"Okay okay, put we down will ya?", said Rogue, squirming out of Kitty's grasp.

"Wow, that all of us with dates..well....almost all of us", said Kitty, "i mean i'm going with Lance, your going with Pietro, Kurt's going with Amanada, Evan's going with that starnge girl that creeps me out".

"Haley?", said Rogue.

"Yeah, Haley", said Kitty waving her hand, "ooooh and then there's the new recruits. Rhane's going with Sam, Julbilee's going with Bobby, Amara...".

"Okay, okay", said Rouge, "stop talking, please".

"Sorry", said Kitty with a giggle, "so what are you, like, going to wear?".

"Oh Gid, a'h didn't think of that", said Rogue.

"Its okay", said Kitty, "you can borrow some of my stuff".

"Yeah, like a'hll ever wear somethin' ya'll would wear", said Rogue, crossing her arms.



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