Oki, it WAS a one off, but then someone mentioned the brotherhood and
talking on the phone with my friend about it made me think, while all this
is going on, what's happening with the boys at the boarding house?
So, Valentines Day take two, the brotherhood.
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The four boys and Tabby had a much less organised system on Valentines Day, someone had left their card on the side the evening before and everyone else who had one had put theirs there too.
The next morning, Tabby was the first up. She collected the pile of cards off the table and the small pile that came in the post and decided to play cupid by giving everyone their cards, as well as annoy them by waking them up so early (it was only 8.30am after all).
Fred she didn't have to wake, he hadn't sent or received any cards, said he never did. Pietro, hardly surprisingly, had got a lot of cards, 5 through the post from girls at school and one from Tabby herself, it was partly just a friend thing but partly a little bit more. Lance had, again unsurprisingly, received one through the post, obviously from Kitty, with all the 'i's in the address dotted with little hearts. The most surprising of all was Todd, who had got a card through the post. Tabby had got two cards, both anonymous and neither through the post, so it didn't take much working out to guess it was Pietro and Todd who'd sent them.
When they'd all finally got up and dressed and came downstairs, Lance was busy grinning about something Kitty had written in his card, but wouldn't tell anyone what it was, and none of them could find it when they tried to look (stopped rather abruptly by 'suspicious' earthquakes). Tabby and Pietro kept sneaking looks at each other, they'd obviously both admitted slightly more than friendship in their respective cards to each other, and by midday they were up in Pietro's room with the door locked.
Todd was sitting there staring at his card and, with the help of Freddy, trying to work out who it could be from.
"Well I think we can rule out the institute girls, Kitty sent hers to Lance, Jean and Scott probably sent each other cards and that's not rogue's writing." Said Fred as they sat trying to work it out.
"But who else can it be yo? Must be a joke." Todd mutters, who would want to send a card to him?
"Who would go to all the trouble of getting such an expensive looking card, coming up with a poem to write in it, finding your address and posting it, just for a joke?" Fred pointed out; he could be quite perceptive at times.
"I suppose. But who could it be?" He reads through the card again and searches the envelope as if the name may have suddenly appeared magically. As it happened, there was something he'd missed, a piece of paper fluttered from the envelope, he caught it with his tongue before it hit the ground and carefully read the second poem written on there, clues to who it was.
"I've hair of black and eyes of blue,
When we're in class I'm watching you.
You seem to have a tale to tell,
You have me in some kind of spell.
I love to read and dance and sing,
If that tells you anything.
Who am I Todd? Just wait and see.
Monday at school is where I'll be.
I'll see you there and just might find
The courage to do what's on my mind." He reads the verse out loud, then looks to Fred to see if he guessed anything from it.
"Um.There's a few girls at school with black hair and blue eyes, but I don't know any of them." he shrugs.
While they continue to puzzle out who it might be, Kitty, who left the mansion not long after Amara and Bobby went off on the ice slide, arrived at the boarding house. They were about to ask her if she might have any idea, but she didn't stay downstairs long enough. Lance disappeared up to his bedroom with her almost the moment she arrived.
It was almost midnight and Todd still hadn't worked out who sent the card. Kitty had left around seven, Pietro and Tabby had never come out of his room and they obviously wouldn't until tomorrow morning now, and Fred hadn't been able to think of anyone either.
Putting the card and poem on the side, he switched the lamp off and lay in bed staring at the ceiling. Only one more day and back to school, then maybe he'd find out who this mystery girl was. if there was a mystery girl, he still kept in mind that it might be a joke. Eventually he fell asleep and dreamt of black hair, blue eyes and finally getting a girlfriend.
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Awwww, wasn't that sweet? Heh. Again I think I messed up the tenses, and it's not the middle of the night this time. eh well, please review!
Oh, and this will have some bearing on the Toad fic which I might actually get done (once I've finished numb or Polo will kill me) so if you want to know what happens with Toad and the mystery girl it'll be in there when I get it written.
So, Valentines Day take two, the brotherhood.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The four boys and Tabby had a much less organised system on Valentines Day, someone had left their card on the side the evening before and everyone else who had one had put theirs there too.
The next morning, Tabby was the first up. She collected the pile of cards off the table and the small pile that came in the post and decided to play cupid by giving everyone their cards, as well as annoy them by waking them up so early (it was only 8.30am after all).
Fred she didn't have to wake, he hadn't sent or received any cards, said he never did. Pietro, hardly surprisingly, had got a lot of cards, 5 through the post from girls at school and one from Tabby herself, it was partly just a friend thing but partly a little bit more. Lance had, again unsurprisingly, received one through the post, obviously from Kitty, with all the 'i's in the address dotted with little hearts. The most surprising of all was Todd, who had got a card through the post. Tabby had got two cards, both anonymous and neither through the post, so it didn't take much working out to guess it was Pietro and Todd who'd sent them.
When they'd all finally got up and dressed and came downstairs, Lance was busy grinning about something Kitty had written in his card, but wouldn't tell anyone what it was, and none of them could find it when they tried to look (stopped rather abruptly by 'suspicious' earthquakes). Tabby and Pietro kept sneaking looks at each other, they'd obviously both admitted slightly more than friendship in their respective cards to each other, and by midday they were up in Pietro's room with the door locked.
Todd was sitting there staring at his card and, with the help of Freddy, trying to work out who it could be from.
"Well I think we can rule out the institute girls, Kitty sent hers to Lance, Jean and Scott probably sent each other cards and that's not rogue's writing." Said Fred as they sat trying to work it out.
"But who else can it be yo? Must be a joke." Todd mutters, who would want to send a card to him?
"Who would go to all the trouble of getting such an expensive looking card, coming up with a poem to write in it, finding your address and posting it, just for a joke?" Fred pointed out; he could be quite perceptive at times.
"I suppose. But who could it be?" He reads through the card again and searches the envelope as if the name may have suddenly appeared magically. As it happened, there was something he'd missed, a piece of paper fluttered from the envelope, he caught it with his tongue before it hit the ground and carefully read the second poem written on there, clues to who it was.
"I've hair of black and eyes of blue,
When we're in class I'm watching you.
You seem to have a tale to tell,
You have me in some kind of spell.
I love to read and dance and sing,
If that tells you anything.
Who am I Todd? Just wait and see.
Monday at school is where I'll be.
I'll see you there and just might find
The courage to do what's on my mind." He reads the verse out loud, then looks to Fred to see if he guessed anything from it.
"Um.There's a few girls at school with black hair and blue eyes, but I don't know any of them." he shrugs.
While they continue to puzzle out who it might be, Kitty, who left the mansion not long after Amara and Bobby went off on the ice slide, arrived at the boarding house. They were about to ask her if she might have any idea, but she didn't stay downstairs long enough. Lance disappeared up to his bedroom with her almost the moment she arrived.
It was almost midnight and Todd still hadn't worked out who sent the card. Kitty had left around seven, Pietro and Tabby had never come out of his room and they obviously wouldn't until tomorrow morning now, and Fred hadn't been able to think of anyone either.
Putting the card and poem on the side, he switched the lamp off and lay in bed staring at the ceiling. Only one more day and back to school, then maybe he'd find out who this mystery girl was. if there was a mystery girl, he still kept in mind that it might be a joke. Eventually he fell asleep and dreamt of black hair, blue eyes and finally getting a girlfriend.
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Awwww, wasn't that sweet? Heh. Again I think I messed up the tenses, and it's not the middle of the night this time. eh well, please review!
Oh, and this will have some bearing on the Toad fic which I might actually get done (once I've finished numb or Polo will kill me) so if you want to know what happens with Toad and the mystery girl it'll be in there when I get it written.