Cooking Lessons
Shadow Knight
Chapter 4: Burn Out
Disclaimer: I WISH! Um.That's all. ^_^
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As I said, I held a poll for who Kitty should be hooked up with and..HERE'S THE WINNER! DRUM ROLL PLEASE!! DUM DUM DUM DUM! The winner is _LANCE_!
I don't know if any of you people read my little notes at the top of the story, but it certainly doesn't seem like you do cause I announced the winner a while ago, but people kept asking to put it Kurtty or Lancitty, so I decided to hold ONE FINAL last poll. Now I got the results in, and as I said the winner is Lance.
AND NO SQUIRREL! YOU CAN'T VOTE MORE THAN ONCE!!! Well, at least it wont count for more than once..
Sorry, all you Kurtty fans, I held the poll and the winner was Lance, so there. But, just for you guys, I will add a little.EMPHASIZE _little_ Kurtty. ^_^ Hope you like the story. And don't worry, there will be Rietro fluff in this too! ^_^ Ah sweetness...
Hope ya enjoy! ^_~
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# Noise #
~ Thoughts ~
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~Well that was certainly interesting.. ~
Reaching up, two fingers, incased in a layer of silky leather, rested lightly upon a pair darkly stained lips. The lips curved suddenly into a sly grin. She didn't know why, but Rogue felt so... wonderful.
Rogue smiled lightly as her shaded eyes shut lazily. Wrapping her pale arms around her body in an embrace, she felt something run rampant inside of her, carrying her on a steady wave. Could it be... love?
Suddenly, her eyes snapped open as two jade orbs stared with confusion. No, she couldn't be...should she say it?...in love? Rogue felt a shudder run through her body, leaving her numb inside as her thoughts began to swirl into a chaotic storm. She couldn't actually...love him... Could she? No, it would only hurt him....but....
Carefully, she reached up to her lips once again. She knew that her lips were full of deadly poison. Any contact with her would cause others only severe pain. That's why all the others avoided her. Even in the X-Men mansion, she couldn't find anyone who wouldn't flinch away from her when she reached out to them. Yet, even when she was in the Brotherhood house she couldn't find one person who was afraid of her. Except one.... One impish boy who simply found her mutant gene a challenge. He found her an interesting puzzle that he wanted to solve.
He was the only one...who cared like that.
Suddenly Rogue felt something explode behind her eyes. Something... clicked. Then she understood. Pulling her right hand to her chest, she laid it over her heart, feeling the rapid hum of her heartbeat that were caused by Pietro's absorbed powers. She wanted to memorize this moment. She felt as if she had a part of him now. And that he held a piece of her in his heart also.
That was when she realized that she loved him too.
Turning around in a gleeful twirl, Rogue faced the barbecue set she had pulled out. She reached down absently and began drawing a heart only seen to her. As her leathered finger finished tracing two words in the invisible heart, she jerked her finger back. A scarlet sheet spread across her face, greedily covering her normally pale face.
~ What...what am Ah doing?! I've turned into a love-struck fool now haven't Ah? But.... it feels so nice... being with him. ~
Her lips curved into a gentle smile as she once again reached up to her heart.
Reaching up she felt an odd fluttering feeling in her chest, almost as if a wild butterfly had rested on her heart, tickling lightly at her heart and teasing her emotions. She smiled brightly as she turned and looked out onto the fields of the Mansion.
She loved this place. It was the perfect place to escape from all chaos surrounding her life as an X-Men. There were of course always other places she could go and find peace with herself. Yet, for some strange reason, she always loved being in these open fields.
This was where winds of summer brought tantalizing aromas from far off places. Where winter brought the cold yet beautiful snow, chilling the air she breathed. When the autumn brought its fall leaves in a tumbling dance. And, when the time was just right, the grass would grow long among the twisted wild flowers, weaving sweet scents into the air.
Rogue closed her eyes and breathed in deeply, loosing focus of anything and everything. She had no more problems, no more troubles or worries. She was just.... herself. She felt all the troubles had drip like liquid from her fingers, pouring out from her being. She felt free and untamed.
Suddenly, she felt something burst quietly into her emotions, making her feel as if she were on a cloud of happiness. Something began to well up inside of her, pushing past her lips. And, before she could stop herself, she let the feeling pass by her dry lips in a slight gush of air.
"Pietro..."
"PIETRO?!," a voice from behind her shrieked.
Rogue's breath suddenly became caught in her throat, choking her words and emotions back to normal. She felt her eyes snap open as she turned slowly to look behind her. Jade orbs opened up to see a shocked face smiling with amusement. Rogue began to feel her head pound, her temples become overwhelm with cold sweat. A red curtain of color fell over her face as she stuttered out.
"K-k-Kitty!? What are yah doing here?!"
Kitty's shocked smile suddenly twisted into a evil grin. Sliding up slyly beside Rogue, Kitty suddenly whispered just low enough for the blushing girl to hear.
"So, you have like a total crush on Pietro, eh, eh?" Kitty asked nudging Rogue in her ribs with her elbow.
"N-n-no." Rogue tried to say, her face still a flaming scarlet flower.
"Surrrreeee," said Kitty, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Kitty! A-A-Ah mean it! Ah don't have a crush on P-P-Pietro," Rogue exclaimed, trying to get rid of the annoying blush on her face and try to stop the fluttering in her heart.
"Uh huh. Whatever Rogue," Kitty said casually, "Now, if you don't mind, I, like totally think I have some cooking lessons to be learned. I would appreciate it if you would be able to teach me... That is if... you don't want to keep fantasizing about your handsome Pietro..."
"That would be nice.. AH MEAN, WHY WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT?!" Rogue shouted, trying to ignore the fact that she had just spilled the beans as Kitty beamed with satisfaction.
Kitty waved Rogue's comment off with the fan of her hand. "Whatever you, like, say Rogue, we'll have to talk about this later. Right now I like, have to learn how to cook. How about we say you stop fantasizing and try to keep your head out of the clouds. I know you like, might like Pietro, but you have other responsibilities first, kay?"
Rogue tried to shout out curses at Kitty, explaining that she did _not_ like Pietro, even though she knew she was lying to herself. But there was no way she was going to let Kitty or anyone else know about her crush. Yet, Kitty continued to dismiss her furious ravings. Instead, she walked up to the barbecue, inspecting the different tools and supplies laid out on the table.
With interest, she picked up one instrument, inspecting it carefully. "What's this for," she asked Rogue.
Turning toward her teacher, she felt her eye twitch slightly as a humorous smile grow on her face. She was still flustering in a war she could not win. Kitty brought the tool up to her chin and smiled. She knew what she saw and she would not let Rogue get away with not explaining it to her.
She felt interest in watching the young Goth continue to argue to no one. Yet, after a few moments, Kitty began to get a bit irritated, as the girl continued. Tapping the tool slightly against her shoulder, a frown began to grow on her face. Finally she couldn't take it anymore.
"ROGUE!"
Rogue suddenly was cut off from her babbling when she stared at an annoyed Kitty tapping the metal object up and down on her shoulder. Each tap made Rogue's left eye twitch, moving in sync with the object. Finally, Rogue jumped over to Kitty and pulled the object quickly from her hand, grasping it carefully.
"What was that for," Kitty asked, slightly offended by Rogue ripping something out of her hands.
"Kitty! Yah don't mess with this! It's very fragile! Yah could have lit your hair on fire with this!" Rogue exclaimed, waving one hand in the air in exasperation.
Kitty's glossy lips quickly closed to form a circle as an "Oh" ushered quietly from her mouth. She reached up a hand and covered the bottom half of her face, embarrassed. After a bit, she remembered she still hadn't asked what exactly the tool was.
"Um...Rogue? Like...what is that exactly called?" she asked meekly.
Rogue sighed, resting a black-leathered hand on her forehead. "It's a blow torch Kitty. Were gonna use it to light the fire," she explained, "Get it now?"
"Um...yes."
Rogue sighed heavily again and pointed to the barbecue. "Alright Kitty, let's start, okay? How about we begin by lighting the barbecue? Ah'll set it up and show yah an example of how to use it. Then Ah want you to show me if yah know how to start it, okay?"
Kitty merely nodded her head, still slightly embarrassed about the torch.
Rogue then twisted one of the knobs as a hiss sounded in air, breaking the silence. Turning back to the younger girl, Rogue smiled. "Okay Kitty. Ah have the propane gas turned on. This is used to light the fire, okay? Good. Now, yah need to lightly twist the handle on the blow torch to create just enough gas to start the torch. Then yah use one of these matches," Rogue explained as she pointed to a book of matches lying next to her, "Once yah have a good solid flame, lower the notch so that it is not too big. Then yah simply light the fire and....presto! You finish with a wonderful fire to cook your food."
Kitty watched the whole thing with careful eyes, making sure that she didn't miss a single step in the process. She would get this right if it killed her. She was going to prove that her cooking was not bad. She was going to be a good cook!
"Kitty, Ah'm going to put out the fire and let yah start, okay? Once yah get the fire started, we'll start making hamburgers, alright? Good," Rogue explained, getting some water.
Rogue handed the blow torch to Kitty, nervousness pricking at her as a bad feeling stirred in her stomach. ~ Ah feel like Ah just made my death wish...~
Kitty smiled as she turned on the gas burners. She didn't notice that she had turned them a _little_ too far... She was too happy by the fact that nothing wrong had happened yet. She turned the gas on the blow torch up just a notch and groped for the matches. Kitty began to frown as the match would not become detached from the book. She began to pull harder, all the while the gas continued to hiss.
"ARGH!!! Come out you stupid match!" Kitty screamed, pulling roughly on the match. Suddenly she felt something release under her finger, Pulling the match up she smiled... only to discover a broken stub of the match top. She threw the match down angrily and began to reach for another when a gloved hand suddenly stopped her.
"Let me handle this Kitty," Rogue stated calmly, all the while watching Kitty with a critically bemusing stare.
"Here Kitty," said Rogue as she handed a match to Kitty, "Next time Ah'll get a box of matches instead..."
"Thanks Rogue!" Exclaimed Kitty, dismissing Rogue's comment. ~Now, back to that fire...~
Rogue watched, still cautious as she felt a violent churn in her gut. Something was definitely wrong about this... Kitty scratched the match.
~
A man walking his dog (I love this guy ^_^) by the mansion was began walking briskly as he began to pass the gates. He stopped and winced as he expected something. When nothing happened, he slowly opened his eyes and looked up through the mansion gates, a look of awe on his face.
Smiling broadly, the man began to walk again.
#KA-BOOM!#
The man fell smack down on his bottom as a gush of hot air exploded from between the metal bars and knocked him down. His dog yelped as it found its tail to be slightly aflame. The man noticed his dog's distress and jumped to his feet, quickly throwing his jacket down to muffle the fire on the dog's tail.
After the flame was put out, the man grabbed his coat and watched his dog whimper piteously from it's singed tail, not a single hair remaining. He quickly began to walk home. All the while cursing about weird mansions and what stupid kids do for fun.
~
In the Mansion:
#KA-BOOM!#
"Vat in the world was that?!" Kurt exclaimed from his fallen position from the ceiling.
"I don't know," mumbled Scott with worry, "but we're going to find out! X- Men assemble!"
In a flash, every team member (with the exception of two) goes through a 2 minute routine of getting ready and zipped up. With a boom, Cyclops throws open the door and begins to run to the source of the boom. Behind him are the new and old X-Men, Professor Xavier slowly wheeling his way out the door, stopping when his wheels got caught on the door's bottom frame.
"Storm? A little help here please." Xavier called out meekly to the snow white head of hair, already soaring into the air, following the others.
Xavier sighed. Then he smiled. ~So that's what's going on. I see.~
Yet, when he remembered that he would not be able to see the girl's or his X-Men's faces when they found each other. "Oh pooh," he sighed.
Turning back, he forced his chair backward and went back into his study.
~
"Um....Rogue? Is that you? Kitty?"
Everyone felt the same thoughts go through their minds as they looked around them and at the two girls. The two girls sat on the ground, their clothes burned to a crisp, leaving them with blackened clothes. Both were covered from head to toe in soot. Only their eyes remained white from the rest of them. All around them was a blackened ground where the tremendous boom had taken the plant life with it. Only the ground beneath the barbecue remained fresh and green.
Suddenly everyone burst out laughing. Kurt began to hold his stomach as tears rolled down his cheek in merry laughter. Jean herself began to giggle which turned into a snort (Sorry, Jean lovers! I couldn't resist! ^_^). Everyone stopped for a moment and stared at her before they all went back to laughing.
"Shut-up now," whispered a icy voice.
The whole group seemed to listen and obey the chilling voice as they saw Rogue's death glare upon them. She wasn't the only one either. Kitty's own rage was upon them.
"Kurt, you like better get out of here now or else I'll wipe that smile off your face!" Threatened Kitty with a menacing fist.
Kurt gulped and was gone in a cloud of brimstone and sulfur.
Rogue turned her furiously silent eyes toward the rest, and in a flash, they were gone, running back to mansion as a chill ran down their backs.
"I think that solved our problems, right Rogue? Rogue?" Kitty asked, slapping her hands.
As she turned, she saw Rogue's face bowed beneath a mass of not so shiny hair. Like a blackened halo, Rogue's hair obscured her face from Kitty. Kitty began to get closer when suddenly she heard something rasp out from the folds of hair. It started softly and got louder.
"Kitty. Ah'll give yah 10 seconds to run.... Then AH'M GOING TO KILL YAH!!!!"
Rogue's head suddenly whipped up and Kitty backed away fearfully when she saw Rogue's green eyes burning with anger.
Kitty got a _lot_ of exercise that day.
~
WOW!!!!! This is AMAZING! 0_o...I finally got inspired and finished this! This has got to be the longest chapter I've wrote for this story! Dunno how many pages, but still LONG for me.
This has got to be my favorite too, so far. ^_^ Ah...comedy goes a long way... ANYWAYS, as I've said, LANCE IS THE WINNER!!!! (In case you didn't read the top!)_ I will add a LITTLE sparkle of KURTTY for you Kurtty fans. But, in the end, this WILL be a LANCITTY! Got it? Good. ^_^
THANK YOU! For all those who voted and ended this big dispute for me. I know that both are good matchups, but still, I think I need your guy's opinion. ^_^
Hope you liked the chapter.
TELL ME IF YOU DID AND PLLLLLEEASSEE REVIEW!!!! ^_~ Ciao.
P.S. I don't know ANYTHING really about barbecues...their foreign to me...^_^
Shadow Knight
Chapter 4: Burn Out
Disclaimer: I WISH! Um.That's all. ^_^
~
As I said, I held a poll for who Kitty should be hooked up with and..HERE'S THE WINNER! DRUM ROLL PLEASE!! DUM DUM DUM DUM! The winner is _LANCE_!
I don't know if any of you people read my little notes at the top of the story, but it certainly doesn't seem like you do cause I announced the winner a while ago, but people kept asking to put it Kurtty or Lancitty, so I decided to hold ONE FINAL last poll. Now I got the results in, and as I said the winner is Lance.
AND NO SQUIRREL! YOU CAN'T VOTE MORE THAN ONCE!!! Well, at least it wont count for more than once..
Sorry, all you Kurtty fans, I held the poll and the winner was Lance, so there. But, just for you guys, I will add a little.EMPHASIZE _little_ Kurtty. ^_^ Hope you like the story. And don't worry, there will be Rietro fluff in this too! ^_^ Ah sweetness...
Hope ya enjoy! ^_~
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# Noise #
~ Thoughts ~
%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%
~Well that was certainly interesting.. ~
Reaching up, two fingers, incased in a layer of silky leather, rested lightly upon a pair darkly stained lips. The lips curved suddenly into a sly grin. She didn't know why, but Rogue felt so... wonderful.
Rogue smiled lightly as her shaded eyes shut lazily. Wrapping her pale arms around her body in an embrace, she felt something run rampant inside of her, carrying her on a steady wave. Could it be... love?
Suddenly, her eyes snapped open as two jade orbs stared with confusion. No, she couldn't be...should she say it?...in love? Rogue felt a shudder run through her body, leaving her numb inside as her thoughts began to swirl into a chaotic storm. She couldn't actually...love him... Could she? No, it would only hurt him....but....
Carefully, she reached up to her lips once again. She knew that her lips were full of deadly poison. Any contact with her would cause others only severe pain. That's why all the others avoided her. Even in the X-Men mansion, she couldn't find anyone who wouldn't flinch away from her when she reached out to them. Yet, even when she was in the Brotherhood house she couldn't find one person who was afraid of her. Except one.... One impish boy who simply found her mutant gene a challenge. He found her an interesting puzzle that he wanted to solve.
He was the only one...who cared like that.
Suddenly Rogue felt something explode behind her eyes. Something... clicked. Then she understood. Pulling her right hand to her chest, she laid it over her heart, feeling the rapid hum of her heartbeat that were caused by Pietro's absorbed powers. She wanted to memorize this moment. She felt as if she had a part of him now. And that he held a piece of her in his heart also.
That was when she realized that she loved him too.
Turning around in a gleeful twirl, Rogue faced the barbecue set she had pulled out. She reached down absently and began drawing a heart only seen to her. As her leathered finger finished tracing two words in the invisible heart, she jerked her finger back. A scarlet sheet spread across her face, greedily covering her normally pale face.
~ What...what am Ah doing?! I've turned into a love-struck fool now haven't Ah? But.... it feels so nice... being with him. ~
Her lips curved into a gentle smile as she once again reached up to her heart.
Reaching up she felt an odd fluttering feeling in her chest, almost as if a wild butterfly had rested on her heart, tickling lightly at her heart and teasing her emotions. She smiled brightly as she turned and looked out onto the fields of the Mansion.
She loved this place. It was the perfect place to escape from all chaos surrounding her life as an X-Men. There were of course always other places she could go and find peace with herself. Yet, for some strange reason, she always loved being in these open fields.
This was where winds of summer brought tantalizing aromas from far off places. Where winter brought the cold yet beautiful snow, chilling the air she breathed. When the autumn brought its fall leaves in a tumbling dance. And, when the time was just right, the grass would grow long among the twisted wild flowers, weaving sweet scents into the air.
Rogue closed her eyes and breathed in deeply, loosing focus of anything and everything. She had no more problems, no more troubles or worries. She was just.... herself. She felt all the troubles had drip like liquid from her fingers, pouring out from her being. She felt free and untamed.
Suddenly, she felt something burst quietly into her emotions, making her feel as if she were on a cloud of happiness. Something began to well up inside of her, pushing past her lips. And, before she could stop herself, she let the feeling pass by her dry lips in a slight gush of air.
"Pietro..."
"PIETRO?!," a voice from behind her shrieked.
Rogue's breath suddenly became caught in her throat, choking her words and emotions back to normal. She felt her eyes snap open as she turned slowly to look behind her. Jade orbs opened up to see a shocked face smiling with amusement. Rogue began to feel her head pound, her temples become overwhelm with cold sweat. A red curtain of color fell over her face as she stuttered out.
"K-k-Kitty!? What are yah doing here?!"
Kitty's shocked smile suddenly twisted into a evil grin. Sliding up slyly beside Rogue, Kitty suddenly whispered just low enough for the blushing girl to hear.
"So, you have like a total crush on Pietro, eh, eh?" Kitty asked nudging Rogue in her ribs with her elbow.
"N-n-no." Rogue tried to say, her face still a flaming scarlet flower.
"Surrrreeee," said Kitty, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Kitty! A-A-Ah mean it! Ah don't have a crush on P-P-Pietro," Rogue exclaimed, trying to get rid of the annoying blush on her face and try to stop the fluttering in her heart.
"Uh huh. Whatever Rogue," Kitty said casually, "Now, if you don't mind, I, like totally think I have some cooking lessons to be learned. I would appreciate it if you would be able to teach me... That is if... you don't want to keep fantasizing about your handsome Pietro..."
"That would be nice.. AH MEAN, WHY WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT?!" Rogue shouted, trying to ignore the fact that she had just spilled the beans as Kitty beamed with satisfaction.
Kitty waved Rogue's comment off with the fan of her hand. "Whatever you, like, say Rogue, we'll have to talk about this later. Right now I like, have to learn how to cook. How about we say you stop fantasizing and try to keep your head out of the clouds. I know you like, might like Pietro, but you have other responsibilities first, kay?"
Rogue tried to shout out curses at Kitty, explaining that she did _not_ like Pietro, even though she knew she was lying to herself. But there was no way she was going to let Kitty or anyone else know about her crush. Yet, Kitty continued to dismiss her furious ravings. Instead, she walked up to the barbecue, inspecting the different tools and supplies laid out on the table.
With interest, she picked up one instrument, inspecting it carefully. "What's this for," she asked Rogue.
Turning toward her teacher, she felt her eye twitch slightly as a humorous smile grow on her face. She was still flustering in a war she could not win. Kitty brought the tool up to her chin and smiled. She knew what she saw and she would not let Rogue get away with not explaining it to her.
She felt interest in watching the young Goth continue to argue to no one. Yet, after a few moments, Kitty began to get a bit irritated, as the girl continued. Tapping the tool slightly against her shoulder, a frown began to grow on her face. Finally she couldn't take it anymore.
"ROGUE!"
Rogue suddenly was cut off from her babbling when she stared at an annoyed Kitty tapping the metal object up and down on her shoulder. Each tap made Rogue's left eye twitch, moving in sync with the object. Finally, Rogue jumped over to Kitty and pulled the object quickly from her hand, grasping it carefully.
"What was that for," Kitty asked, slightly offended by Rogue ripping something out of her hands.
"Kitty! Yah don't mess with this! It's very fragile! Yah could have lit your hair on fire with this!" Rogue exclaimed, waving one hand in the air in exasperation.
Kitty's glossy lips quickly closed to form a circle as an "Oh" ushered quietly from her mouth. She reached up a hand and covered the bottom half of her face, embarrassed. After a bit, she remembered she still hadn't asked what exactly the tool was.
"Um...Rogue? Like...what is that exactly called?" she asked meekly.
Rogue sighed, resting a black-leathered hand on her forehead. "It's a blow torch Kitty. Were gonna use it to light the fire," she explained, "Get it now?"
"Um...yes."
Rogue sighed heavily again and pointed to the barbecue. "Alright Kitty, let's start, okay? How about we begin by lighting the barbecue? Ah'll set it up and show yah an example of how to use it. Then Ah want you to show me if yah know how to start it, okay?"
Kitty merely nodded her head, still slightly embarrassed about the torch.
Rogue then twisted one of the knobs as a hiss sounded in air, breaking the silence. Turning back to the younger girl, Rogue smiled. "Okay Kitty. Ah have the propane gas turned on. This is used to light the fire, okay? Good. Now, yah need to lightly twist the handle on the blow torch to create just enough gas to start the torch. Then yah use one of these matches," Rogue explained as she pointed to a book of matches lying next to her, "Once yah have a good solid flame, lower the notch so that it is not too big. Then yah simply light the fire and....presto! You finish with a wonderful fire to cook your food."
Kitty watched the whole thing with careful eyes, making sure that she didn't miss a single step in the process. She would get this right if it killed her. She was going to prove that her cooking was not bad. She was going to be a good cook!
"Kitty, Ah'm going to put out the fire and let yah start, okay? Once yah get the fire started, we'll start making hamburgers, alright? Good," Rogue explained, getting some water.
Rogue handed the blow torch to Kitty, nervousness pricking at her as a bad feeling stirred in her stomach. ~ Ah feel like Ah just made my death wish...~
Kitty smiled as she turned on the gas burners. She didn't notice that she had turned them a _little_ too far... She was too happy by the fact that nothing wrong had happened yet. She turned the gas on the blow torch up just a notch and groped for the matches. Kitty began to frown as the match would not become detached from the book. She began to pull harder, all the while the gas continued to hiss.
"ARGH!!! Come out you stupid match!" Kitty screamed, pulling roughly on the match. Suddenly she felt something release under her finger, Pulling the match up she smiled... only to discover a broken stub of the match top. She threw the match down angrily and began to reach for another when a gloved hand suddenly stopped her.
"Let me handle this Kitty," Rogue stated calmly, all the while watching Kitty with a critically bemusing stare.
"Here Kitty," said Rogue as she handed a match to Kitty, "Next time Ah'll get a box of matches instead..."
"Thanks Rogue!" Exclaimed Kitty, dismissing Rogue's comment. ~Now, back to that fire...~
Rogue watched, still cautious as she felt a violent churn in her gut. Something was definitely wrong about this... Kitty scratched the match.
~
A man walking his dog (I love this guy ^_^) by the mansion was began walking briskly as he began to pass the gates. He stopped and winced as he expected something. When nothing happened, he slowly opened his eyes and looked up through the mansion gates, a look of awe on his face.
Smiling broadly, the man began to walk again.
#KA-BOOM!#
The man fell smack down on his bottom as a gush of hot air exploded from between the metal bars and knocked him down. His dog yelped as it found its tail to be slightly aflame. The man noticed his dog's distress and jumped to his feet, quickly throwing his jacket down to muffle the fire on the dog's tail.
After the flame was put out, the man grabbed his coat and watched his dog whimper piteously from it's singed tail, not a single hair remaining. He quickly began to walk home. All the while cursing about weird mansions and what stupid kids do for fun.
~
In the Mansion:
#KA-BOOM!#
"Vat in the world was that?!" Kurt exclaimed from his fallen position from the ceiling.
"I don't know," mumbled Scott with worry, "but we're going to find out! X- Men assemble!"
In a flash, every team member (with the exception of two) goes through a 2 minute routine of getting ready and zipped up. With a boom, Cyclops throws open the door and begins to run to the source of the boom. Behind him are the new and old X-Men, Professor Xavier slowly wheeling his way out the door, stopping when his wheels got caught on the door's bottom frame.
"Storm? A little help here please." Xavier called out meekly to the snow white head of hair, already soaring into the air, following the others.
Xavier sighed. Then he smiled. ~So that's what's going on. I see.~
Yet, when he remembered that he would not be able to see the girl's or his X-Men's faces when they found each other. "Oh pooh," he sighed.
Turning back, he forced his chair backward and went back into his study.
~
"Um....Rogue? Is that you? Kitty?"
Everyone felt the same thoughts go through their minds as they looked around them and at the two girls. The two girls sat on the ground, their clothes burned to a crisp, leaving them with blackened clothes. Both were covered from head to toe in soot. Only their eyes remained white from the rest of them. All around them was a blackened ground where the tremendous boom had taken the plant life with it. Only the ground beneath the barbecue remained fresh and green.
Suddenly everyone burst out laughing. Kurt began to hold his stomach as tears rolled down his cheek in merry laughter. Jean herself began to giggle which turned into a snort (Sorry, Jean lovers! I couldn't resist! ^_^). Everyone stopped for a moment and stared at her before they all went back to laughing.
"Shut-up now," whispered a icy voice.
The whole group seemed to listen and obey the chilling voice as they saw Rogue's death glare upon them. She wasn't the only one either. Kitty's own rage was upon them.
"Kurt, you like better get out of here now or else I'll wipe that smile off your face!" Threatened Kitty with a menacing fist.
Kurt gulped and was gone in a cloud of brimstone and sulfur.
Rogue turned her furiously silent eyes toward the rest, and in a flash, they were gone, running back to mansion as a chill ran down their backs.
"I think that solved our problems, right Rogue? Rogue?" Kitty asked, slapping her hands.
As she turned, she saw Rogue's face bowed beneath a mass of not so shiny hair. Like a blackened halo, Rogue's hair obscured her face from Kitty. Kitty began to get closer when suddenly she heard something rasp out from the folds of hair. It started softly and got louder.
"Kitty. Ah'll give yah 10 seconds to run.... Then AH'M GOING TO KILL YAH!!!!"
Rogue's head suddenly whipped up and Kitty backed away fearfully when she saw Rogue's green eyes burning with anger.
Kitty got a _lot_ of exercise that day.
~
WOW!!!!! This is AMAZING! 0_o...I finally got inspired and finished this! This has got to be the longest chapter I've wrote for this story! Dunno how many pages, but still LONG for me.
This has got to be my favorite too, so far. ^_^ Ah...comedy goes a long way... ANYWAYS, as I've said, LANCE IS THE WINNER!!!! (In case you didn't read the top!)_ I will add a LITTLE sparkle of KURTTY for you Kurtty fans. But, in the end, this WILL be a LANCITTY! Got it? Good. ^_^
THANK YOU! For all those who voted and ended this big dispute for me. I know that both are good matchups, but still, I think I need your guy's opinion. ^_^
Hope you liked the chapter.
TELL ME IF YOU DID AND PLLLLLEEASSEE REVIEW!!!! ^_~ Ciao.
P.S. I don't know ANYTHING really about barbecues...their foreign to me...^_^