See chapter 1 for disclaimer and thanx!

I stopped the car in the garage and got out. 'What ever happened to the little girls who had entered the institute two years ago all shy and nervous' I thought with a sigh 'and why can't it happen to Kat.' I added mentally walking in on her sat on the kitchen floor eating ice cream

Knock Knock

'God who the hell is that?' I thought angrily 'All I want to do is sit and watch sport and have a beer! Is that too much to ask?'

"Who is it?" I shouted gruffly at the door.

"Is Kat there?" Came a male voice

"You ain't Pyro are you?" I asked looking for the nearest window to bundle Kat out of

"No I'm a friend" Came the voice proudly before adding "I brought Twister"

Oh well if it'd keep the kid quiet I thought as I opened the door

In the kitchen

"A friend for yer kid" I said leading the iceman into the Kats domain

"Arrrgggghhh! Get it away get it away!" The kid screamed charging at Drake with the ice cream scoop

I rubbed my eyes this was gonna be a long night.

5 Minutes later

"Left Hand red"

"Right Hand red"

"Right foot red"

"Left foot red"

"Ooopppssie I fall over" Kat said with a giggle

"Cant you take her somewhere else to do that Drake?" I asked

"Can you drive?" the frigid one replied with a grin

Mels Room (Or anxiety central)

I stood in front of my mirror smoothing my ice blue spangled top and trying to pull my black mini skirt a little further down my legs. I winced, it wasn't exactly the image I wanted to present (Kurt probably would have preferred a demure English lady) but it was better than the sandy curls and leggings of last time.

I wish I hadn't promised I wouldn't use my powers on team-mates or teachers.

There was a loud beep from outside in the driveway. As the only girl apart from Kat left I knew it was my date and so scurried down the stairs and into the main room.

"Break his Legs Mel!!" she called, shovelling more ice cream into her mouth.

"Don't you mean break a leg?" I opened the door. The last thing I heard as it closed behind me was

"I never believe in doing thing by half's."

What was In front of me was a shock, but not totally a bad one. A six-wheeled limo took up most of the drive, a large white and gold limo.

I smiled like an idiot as one of the doors opened. Ok so the limo was a bit of an eyesore but as long as the blue mutant inside it was the right one then.

'Oh dear…' My eyes informed my brain.

Standing now out of the car was, Kurt… but not MY Kurt. My Kurt would be wearing a nice black suit, his hair washed and swept back from his face; he'd be holding a bunch of roses and move aside to let me in. THIS Kurt was wearing a nice suit… if his date had been colour blind. It was fluorescent yellow, you know, the kind of suit a PIMP would wear. Oh and he looked like a pimp alright because he was wearing the pimps hat with a feather in it and instead of rose he was clutching a silver topped cane.

He looked me up and down and licked his lips in a seductive manner. "Me like." He strung out.

I must admit I was a little taken aback. "Kurt…? Is that you?" I asked genuinely unsure.

He nodded back and indicated his 'Threads' "You like?"

My now fake smile got two sizes bigger. I didn't answer; anything I said would either be a lie of hurt his feelings. Obviously he'd gone to some effort.

"So…" I said changing the subject, "where are we going… Ballet, Broadway…"

He sauntered up to me, "I was thinking dinner."

Now I smiled… But he hadn't finished…

"… And then home to my…" He looked down to his hand with a look of panic, then his expression changed back to that swarthy one of a second earlier "Digs…"

He moved closer, trying to wrap his tail round my waist.

Now any other time that Kurt might have tried that move on me I'd have welcomed it, Hell I'd have ENCOURAGED it. God if I'd have had enough alcohol in my system I would have grabbed it and wrapped it round my own waist. Now however…

I slapped it sharply. That wasn't what I was expecting from the gentlemen.

"Ohhh… Like it a little ruff do we." He purred, and I felt sick again, for all the wrong reasons though.

"Haa haa" I tried to laugh it off, hoping this was some colossal joke and Remy and Kat would jump out of the bushes with a large can of shaving foam and spray me, however it was looking less likely they would with every second.

"Shall we go?" I suggested quickly, then realising I was going to have to share a back seat with this monster.

He had obviously had the same idea… "I thought you'd never ask."

I leapt forward to the door, realising I'd have to crawl over the leather seats to get to the other side. I put my knee onto the first seat so that I could pull my other up underneath me. This move however left a certain part of my body exposed, and Kurt capitalised. He landed a sharp hit on my rump. "Owww!" I squealed out of annoyance. "Kurt will you stop that!" I moaned. As I crawled deeper and deeper into the creatures lair.

'This isn't going to be a good night' I realised.

Outside the Jade room (Or 'Hell' As Melody called it)

"The Jade Room? You mean our really nice first date, is going to be in the tacky sushi bar that gave my friend a possession." Now I was really cranky. If it wasn't bad enough that I'd had to fend off both his wandering hands and his wandering tail in the limo now I was going to have to avoid the vomit of overweight Japanese men on the pavement outside.

It was rather cold though, I started to with I had gone for practicality instead of seductiveness- cause if Kurt kept up this act the only thing he'd be cuddling up to tonight would be a bag of frozen peas from where I'd decked him.

Then I softened I must confess because when he saw me shivering he pulled out from the floor under the seat of the limo a huge fur coat. I smiled; maybe the old Kurt could emerge after all. I smiled expecting him to drape it around my shoulders and help me in. And for a second it looked like that was what he was going to do… until he twirled it around and slung it around his own.

I scowled as he sauntered towards the door leaving me behind to struggle past the piles of different coloured puke on my stiletto heals. With every step I repeated one word in my head that I would now and forever call Kurt.

'Bastard… Bastard… Bastard…' and then just for good measure I kicked the arm of an unconscious man who was in my way.

Kurt went through the door and stated to chat to one of the waitresses. As I stood beside the door expecting him to be a gentlemen and open it for me like he had on other occasions. How ever he just kept talking to the attractive woman in uniform and I scowled even more.  Then finally after what seemed an eternity he noticed and opened the door just enough to stick his head out.

"Aren't you coming in?" he asked before closing the door and resuming talking to the waitress.

I reached forward and grabbed the handle pulling it with the strength accumulated from my rage. If I had been Wolvie I'd have had my claws out by now. By the time I had gotten inside and had checked my shoes for the tell-tale signs of vomit though, my 'Date' Had already moved off through the crowd, following the waitress and if I was right, checking out her behind in front of me.

He was a dead man.

In the Jade room

"What's that noise outside?" Kevin my date asked

"I Dunno, kids?" I said between sips of my drink

"It sounded like someone pushing them out of a car!" He said worriedly

"Shall we go check?" I asked "I could do with some fresh air anyway"

"Come on then"

This date was going better then I thought possible the guy was funny, kind and considerate as well as hot! And from the looks of things the Jubes and Ev's dates were going well to I watched them dancing with their dates cheeks rested on their shoulders as they danced to a slow song. Jubes gave me the thumbs up as I walked past her. But the least said about Mel's date the better.

We walked outside and were instantly hit by the sounds of children at play

"Your IT!!"

"Arrgghh! Keep away from me!"

I sighed trust Kat to turn up. I watched as her and Bobby played tag along the street. Kat waved when she spotted me.

"Do you know her?" Kevin asked green eyes dancing

"Never seen her before in my life must be some street urchin" I made my way back inside the Jade room.

Inside the Jade room 45 minutes later. (Or Hell with a vengeance)

"So I beat him up." I chewed on the end of a breadstick. For the last forty-five minutes I'd been sitting opposite him in the centre of the restaurant as we ate.

The waitress had lead us to an 'Intimate valentines booth' which was basically a corner table decorated with crappy paper hearts and cupids but one look at the seat sent a chill down my spine- he'd be in easy reach of my legs. That wasn't going to happen. So I quietly made a suggestion to the waitress that she might move us to a more highly visible table, I didn't want him to pounce on me and be out of hearing range of any of the other of the Retribution X couples.

So in between mouthfuls of the few things on the menu that I knew that wouldn't cause possession of any kind, Kurt Fed me stories of his time in Excalibur and the X men proper- almost all of them involved him saving the day and beating up the bad guy. I knew almost all of them however were false or hadn't happened like that. Kitty had told me most of the Excalibur stories and Hank and Wolvie had told all of Retribution X all the old X men stories and they certainly didn't involve most of the ones Kurt was spinning for me. And I was getting rather annoyed.

In between these however there were tales of his many sexual exploits with various partners. More often than not he would throw in the fact that they often said he was the best they'd ever had.

It was one of these stories he was telling me now, but my eyes had glazed over at least half an hour ago. Instead I just stared down at the remains of my desert. But when I heard the phrase "Best she'd ever had" again I finally lost my temper and broke the breadstick in half pretending it was his back and promising myself that next time I entered the danger room I kick his holographic ass from wall to wall just as long as I didn't do anything now.

I stuck my hand in the air at the speed of light and yelled at the top of my voice "CHECK PLEASE!"

He smiled again seductively "You really are in a hurry to get out of here."

He didn't know how right he was.

For the fifth time he ducked his head under the table. I wasn't sure what was so interesting, or if he was maybe trying to look up my skirt. But either way it didn't impress me.

The waitress he had checked out every time she came to our table appeared over his shoulder brandishing our bill; she hesitated by him before he shook his head. "Not my bill darling. My lady is paying."

Every ounce of constraint I had left in my body left me. I was paying for this horrible experience. HE'D been the one who asked ME, to hell with me paying.

I stood up, brandishing the straw that broke the camels back.

"I'M PAYING???" I said slowly and angrily- like Wolvie did when Kat was annoying him.

He smiled, nodding, unaware of what was about to hit him. My fist.

I looked around for a moment before seeing the perfect opportunity. A waiter passed close by our table, his tray stacked with two bowls of noodles that were steaming hot. I grabbed one and chucked it over Kurt's head. Now for the first time his face changed back to the befuddled Kurt I knew and had once thought loved.

"Vat are you doing?" He said removing the bowl from his head as our waitress applauded me.

"Something I should have done forty-five minutes ago." I said before grabbing the remaining bowl of noodles and chucking them strategically in the place that would cause him the most pain. He jumped up with a yelp as the boiling hot noodles came into contact with his groin.

"vhat did I do wrong?" he yelped as he pushed them off his legs as he stood looking at me.

"Try everything." I screamed as a headed to the exit. All of Retribution X looking after me- the rest of the patrons even those slumped over the bars or engaging in brawls stopped for a second and applauded me as I passed my head held high, not looking back as Kurt yelled my name pleadingly. 

Well I lie I did turn back for a second. I watched him leap from one foot to the other as the noodles slowly crept down his legs, scorching him. A waiter was trying to calm him down as he continued to call after me, asking that I give him another chance.

No way. I smiled at the pain he was in and when he saw me watching he begged me with his puppy dog eyes to come back. I stopped laughing. I stuck out my tongue and blew a raspberry instead- just like Kat had shown me.

As I reached the girls bathroom and ducked inside I suddenly realised how stranded I was, unable to drive and without a car and very little money on me- after all I though my date would stump the bill. Well he'd have to now I had 'Left'. But I was well and truly stranded.

I reached into my bag, trying to search out a little spare change in the corners of my bag. I thought I'd found some when my fingertips brushed against cool, hard metal. I hauled it out from the depths only to find it wasn't. It was my dog tags. The ones Wolvie had brought all of us. The ones I hadn't wanted to wear on my date for fear of Kurt jumping to conclusions about the whole of Retribution X, that we were all Wolvies property. That's why I'd made him pick me up, so he would feel I was his for the night and not Wolvies on loan. Now holding ' Tantalus mutant no 17889 Retribution X's dog tags I wasn't so sure- after all we always found our way back to the big bad-ass. No matter how grown up I was, I would still need Wolvie.

I reached into my bag, flipped open my phone and called Retributions private line. Finally a gruff voice picked up…

"Hi Wolvie. It's Mel. It's all gone horribly wrong- could you come pick me up from the Jade room. I'd be ever so grateful." With that I put the phone down not wanting to explain.

Not wanting to face the world or Kurt again, I huddled alone in a stall until Wolvie could come and collect me.

"Do you want to go on somewhere for some proper food?" Kevin asked as I began fidgeting as Kat walked through the door and was drawn like a homing beacon towards the karaoke.

"Only if we go to a drive through" I suggested remembering his lovely clean vintage car.

"Deal!" Kevin grinned back at me.

In the lovely Vintage car (Drool!)

I looked around the floor that had once been clean and now one drive through later looked like a war zone – a war zone where the bombs were MacDonald wrappers.

"I had a great time tonight" Kevin said stroking my cheek with the back of my hand; I fought back an urge to push it away.

"So did I" I said feeling incredibly stupid (I never did go for all that stupid soppy stuff).

I watched as Kevin leaned in and kissed me lightly on the lips. I looked at his green eyes slightly shocked before grinning. He leant in again to kiss me and this time I responded, hmmm…his lips were so soft.

But before I knew it he was kissing me differently, more urgently, more roughly. I tried to pull away as I felt his hand push up my skirt.

"Stop!" I said pushing at his hand

"Are you going to make me mutie?" He grinned evilly before adding "You know you want it your type always does"

How did he know I was a mutant, I wondered. However I didn't have time to think as he pushed his weight down upon me.

I should have screamed, I should have fried him with a high voltage electric shock, I should have kicked him in the balls, I should have done anything but what I did: NOTHING. I lay paralysed by fear as Kevin raped me.