A Harmless Little Sleepover

The Friday after Kitty's run in with Logan, almost two weeks after their unforgettable game of truth or dare, Amanda, Rogue and she were again together in her bedroom. This time they were having a little slumber party – er…sleepover, as Rogue demands it be called since she feels them all beyond the age of "slumber parties."

"I never thought I'd miss having my bed in here instead of having my own room."

Kitty looked up at her friend's griping and saw Rogue frowning over the pile of pillows and blankets the other girl was trying to make into her bed for the night.

"I told you. You can like sleep up here with us there's plenty of room."

Rogue plopped down on her makeshift bed and looked at Kitty like she'd just made one of the dumbest suggestions ever.

"Yeah, sure. I can see how that would go now. Some time during the night someone shifts in their sleep and touches my skin. Morning comes and I find myself having to try to find a way to explain to the Professor how I came to accidentally kill you both with my mutation. No matter how reasonable my explanation is, the pervs around here immediately have it said that your deaths were the result of a lesbo orgy gone horribly wrong and I have to kill them all."

The two girls on the bed exchanged a look at her quip remark then picked up their pillows and threw them at the girl on the floor, all of them laughing.

Rogue smiled wickedly as the pillows hit her.

"Gee, thanks girls, these are just what I needed."

She shifted and placed the cushions under her before wiggling into a comfortable position with an exaggerate sigh of satisfaction.

"Hey, give those back! Those are the only ones you haven't already hogged!"

Kitty hopped up from the bed to glare at her friend as she gave the command.

Rogue wiggled deeper into her bed, confiscated pillows cushioning her body quite nicely.

"Ya shoulda thought of that before you threw 'em at me," she taunted.

Kitty was about to move forward and take them back by force, when Amanda urged the other girl to sit on the edge of the bed while she whispered something in her ear.

Rogue scowled at them as she tried to gauge what the girl was saying to Kitty.

When Kitty's eyes went wide with understanding and delight, Rogue decided she didn't like whatever it was.

Her friend nodded eagerly at Amanda before turning to look at Rogue with an innocent expression on her face.

"I seem to remember Logan having lots of extra pillows on his bed. I'm sure he isn't sleeping so soundly that he'd mind my popping in to borrow a couple."

Knowing Logan had retired early that night to head out on a trip early the next morning, Rogue glared at her friend and jumped to her feet.

"Stay outta mah man's room, you …. you…. poacher!"

While Rogue advanced on her friend who'd shown far too much interest in Logan since seeing his goodies, she totally missed Amanda sliding off the other side of the bed and sneaking around behind her to snag the pillows from Rogue's stash.

She caught on to the other girl's scheme when she hurled one pillow forward to Kitty then clutched the other to yourself with a laughingly uttered, "Yoink!"

Amanda moved quickly away from Rogue to collapse laughing on the bed with Kitty at the other girl's stunned expression.

Watching them roll around, giggling like they'd been breathing in laughing gas, Rogue's shock faded and she stooped to pick up a large pillow from her pile.

"Oh, it is on now!"

Kitty stopped laughing at the words and with a squeal dove off the other side of the bed just in time to avoid the pillow Rogue had swung at her.

Peeking over the top of the bed from her now safe position on the floor, Kitty could do nothing to help Amanda as Rogue turned her attention on the dark skinned girl.

Amanda felt no need to run for cover. In fact she smiled broadly and excitedly asked, "Pillow fight?"

"You betcha," Rogue said with a wicked smile the second before her grip tightened on the pillow and she whacked the grinning Amanda with it.

Unable to watch them any longer, Kitty sank back to the floor and decided to wait in the safety of the position until the girls wore themselves out.

Though no long watching, she knew that pillowed blows were being exchanged fast and furious from the sounds that filled the room.

The soft thuds of each girl's pillow hitting some part of the other girl's body were mixed with shrieks, wicked laughter, and promises of revenge from both girls.

Suddenly the racket ceased and the bed beside the cowering Kitty bounced twice before the room became eerily still.

Though she knew they couldn't possibly have killed each other with a harmless little pillow fight, Kitty was worried by the silence.

After it continued for a few moments, her curiosity got the better of her and she pushed herself up to stare again over the top of the bed.

Her mind recognized the trap they'd set for at in the same second Amanda and Rogue began pelting Kitty with blows until she fell back to the floor shrieking in protest and convulsing with laughter.

"Stop! Stop!" she cried out, "I surrender, I give up. I come in peace. Make love, not war and all that!"

"Eeew," Rogue made a face at Kitty's 'make love' statement and responded, "Sorry, Kitty, I like ya and all but not that way."

Amanda heard the quip, dropped her pillow and nearly fell off the foot of the bed laughing.

Seeing the other girl had given up, Rogue mentally declared herself winner and fell back against the bed laughing a bit herself.

~*~*~

An hour later, their were finishing up the horribly fattening ice cream sundaes they had made when Rogue looked at Kitty and asked a question.

"Ya know, Lance has been hanging around here a lot lately. You guys back together?"

Kitty rolled her eyes and resisted the urge to fling some perfectly good ice cream in her old pal's direction. Seeing how Amanda stopped eating to wait for an answer, Kitty resisted a similar desire to do the same thing to her new friend.

"I don't remember us starting another round of that."

"Of what?" Rogue asked, frowning at the evasion.

"Truth or dare."

"Oh, boy, I doubt we should play that again." Amanda said with a blush.

Rogue nodded absently and said to Kitty, "I was just asking, friend to friend."

"Ok. Friend to friend, have you made any progress in really making Logan 'your man'?"

"I asked you first."

Amanda kept her ears peeled for any juicy details but focused her attention away from the bickering buddies to finish up the last few bites of her dessert.

"Maybe I don't like want to answer."

"Would you if I dare you to?"

"You really wanna start with your dares again, Rogue? It hasn't been at all that long since the last time you got us in trouble."

"Who got in trouble? No one but Logan knows anything about it and he's not given us any trouble."

"Ha. Only if you call his sitting me down in the kitchen to discuss it Wednesday something other than 'trouble'."

"Logan talked to you and you didn't tell me?! What did he say?"

Rogue sat up abruptly, spilling the remains of her sundae onto Kitty's comforter.

"OMG, what did YOU say?!"

"Rogue, like look at what you did! That's gonna be like all sticky the whole night."

Kitty didn't really ignore the question, she was so busy trying to clean up the ice cream to keep it from soaking into her covers that she kind of missed it.

Rogue was nearly freaking at all kinds of possibilities forming in her mind and so she quickly grabbed Kitty's hand and forced the other girl's attention to her.

"Kitty, what did you say to Logan?"

Kitty gulped and tried very very hard not to look guilty at Rogue's slowly uttered question, but something must have showed.

Sensing some very entertaining trouble brewing, Amanda quickly removed all the bowls from the bed so no more ice cream would be spilled then settled back to watch the fireworks.

"N..nuh…nothing," Kitty was stammering in answer to Rogue's question.

"You told him, didn't you!"

Rogue somehow managed to glare and gape at the other girl at the same time. Then both expressions melted into a confused frown.

"What exactly did you tell him?"

"Nothing, really. He'd already like figured out most of it by himself. He asked me who told me to go in his room and then went in with me. I told him the truth, that it was you."

Kitty cringed and looked at the ice cream stain now marking her comforter.

"So you only sold me out? What about Amanda? She went in with us, pretty much pushed you in, too."

"Hey! I did not push anyone in."

"I totally recall you saying something how you wanted to go see him all naked for 'an anatomy lesson.'"

Forced to remember and acknowledge the truth of that statement, Amanda settled back down and removed herself once more from the discussion.

There was no way Kitty could explain the annoyance at her friend that had led her to selling Rogue out and only Rogue, so she just sank down to the bed.

"It just happened."

"How'd he react?"

"I …uh…. I like kinda ran away before really noticing."

"And this happened on Wednesday?"

At Kitty's nod, Rogue sat back down and tried to figure out just what Logan lack of any retaliation in the past two days could mean.

The situation seemed to have been resolved without another pillow fight and Amanda disliked the silence the other girls lapsed into.

"Oh, heck, let's play again." Amanda broke the silence to say. "Only this time," she turned her dark eyes to Kitty to add, "whatever happens in the game stays only in the game and between us."

"You expect us to believe you haven't told Kurt that you told us you guys were doing….it?"

Amanda looked Kitty straight in the eye and answered honestly. "He hasn't a clue about that and he thinks I 'accidentally' put that geometry assignment in with my own papers."

Rogue gave Amanda a slight look of admiration at being able keep her boyfriend in the dark like that.

"You really want to do all that again?"

"Sure. You gotta admit we had fun last time."

All three of them smiled as they remembered their last game of truth or dare.

"Ok. Anyone know where we left off?"

Rogue asked the question and got an are-you-stupid-or-something look from Kitty.

"Yeah, like I remember. You had just dared me to phase all us into Logan's room and see the man all….naked," she sighed the last word.

"Am I gonna have to regret that forever? Stop daydreaming about him, dammit!"

"Like I can help it and you should regret it. It was a big mistake on your part if you wanted to be the only one seeing Logan like that."

"Whoa, let's leave that in the past where it belongs and just start all over."

Amanda drew their attention to her.

"Kitty, since the last dare went to you, you can go first if you want."

"Oh, I want," her hazel eyes gleamed. "Rogue, truth or dare?"

"Lol. Who didn't see that coming? Ok, dare."

"I dare you to tell us how much progress you've made in making Logan your man."

Rogue smiled cockily. "You so just wasted a dare, there's nothing to tell I was just baiting you to try and get the dirt about you and Lance."

"Define 'nothing.'"

Amanda giggled at that getting a look from the other girls.

"'Nothing' as in he stills only knows that I'm alive because I'm one of the team as well as one of the many kids who disturb his peace around here."

"That's so not true. It's obvious he sees you as much more since that day your powers went crazy. He like didn't leave your bedside for a full day. Even after he did he kept like standing guard over you like you were his to protect or something."

Rogue looked hopeful at those words, "You think?"

"I don't know much about what all goes on here, but even I can see that the man feels differently toward you than the others around here."

Amanda voiced her unasked for opinion and was rewarded with a smile from Rogue because the opinion was a positive one.

"Well, even if he does there's been no move on his part or mine to do anything." Rogue sighed. "Ok, Kitty – truth or dare?"

"Truth! I'm never accepting a dare from you again."

"Your loss. In future I'll use blackmail." Rogue winked and smiled at Kitty as she said that. "Ok, so truth – Why is Lance spending so much time around here lately?"

"Pietro's been driving him crazy lately and he's thinking of seriously becoming a member of the team if the Professor and Scott can be convinced."

"And?"

"And what? That's the truth."

"But not the whole truth and we all know it."

"If you know it then why ask?"

"Because I can and I wanna hear you admit it."

Kitty rolled her eyes at Rogue and gave the complete answer. "Ok, the whole truth is we're dating again and he wants to join up. Satisfied?"

"Till my next turn."

Kitty made another face at her friend and turned to Amanda. "Truth or dare?"

"Considering where this game seems to be going, I'll take truth."

Curious at that statement, Rogue asked, "What do you mean where the game seems to be going?"

"So far it's been semi-serious relationship talk all night."

Kitty cleared her throat to interrupt the other girls. "Truth, Amanda. When you told us how far you and Kurt had gone you got this daydreamy expression on your face. What were you thinking of at that moment?"

Amanda sat back and seriously tried to remember the moment in question. It took her a few minutes to remember and she smiled softly as she did.

"Ahhh. I was remembering this one time when Kurt was being really romantic and decided to take me in a bed of roses. It was real dark and he teleported us into a huge rose garden, I still don't know whose or where, and we made love in the path between the bushes and the smell of all the flowers was just incredible."

Both girls listened to the fondly retold tale sighed at the idea of the men they were with or wanted doing something like that.

"Now, a dare for you Rogue?"

At Amanda's question the other girl nodded and she tried to think of a really good dare.

"Kitty, have you got any stationery, like girlie note paper and an envelope for it?"

"Yeah, sure. It's in my desk. Why?"

"Because," Amanda leapt up to get the materials she needed from Kitty's desk. "I dare you, Rogue, to write Logan a note on it – telling him how you really feel about it – and slide it under his bedroom door."

"WHAT?!"

Rogue nearly fell off the bed as she scrambled away from the writing implements Amanda tried to give her.

"Relax, you don't have to sign it and you can like disguise your writing so he can only think you might have done it. If he does know it's from you than I bet it'll be just what he needs to make his move."

"Oooh, that does sound like a good idea!" Kitty enthused.

"Yeah, sure, unless I'm right and he doesn't want me. Then I've written down how I feel about him and let him see it and get left looking like an idiot."

"Rogue, if you really care about someone that way you have to take that risk. Love makes us all vulnerable at first, but once you know for sure whether it's returned you find the strength to deal with it. You could easily find out he feels the same for you and then voila no more wasted time being insecure. If you find out he doesn't, then you can start recovering before having spent too much time fixating on him."

"That's so easy for you to say. I just…I just can't handle his rejecting me right now."

"Look, Amanda how about you change the dare a little?" Kitty implored, concerned over how disturbed Rogue was.

"Yeah. I really meant it to be a good thing, Rogue, I wasn't trying to get you embarrassed or hurt."

Rogue nodded and smiled weakly to show her acceptance of the apology.

"I still like the note idea, but you get to choose what to put in it so long as it actually says something along the lines of how you feel for Logan and we all see you slide it in his room."

Apparently already having some idea of what she wanted to write, Rogue nodded and jotted a few lines down on a slip of pale pink stationery. Seconds later, she sets the pen down, folds the paper, slips it into a matching envelope and seals it inside.

"Ok, let's get this over with."

Almost as one, the three girls rose from the bed and left Kitty's room to make the trip to Logan's.

They moved quietly down the hallway to his door, knowing he was sleeping inside that room and not wanting to wake him again with one of their dares. With Amanda and Kitty hovering behind her, Rogue knelt and placed the envelope on the floor just under the door.

"No way, you've got to push it under the door or it doesn't count," Kitty whispered.

Rogue turned to glare at the other girl then turned and bent again with the intention of slipping the note further into the room.

To their horror, the knob above Rogue's head turned and a second later the door was yanked open.

Considering their surprise at the door opening, it was a blessing Logan had taken time to pull on a pair of sweatpants or else they would most likely have fainted from the combination of surprise and naked Logan.

As it was Rogue had to catch herself from falling forward into the room due to her shock.

"What are you kids up to now?" the man obviously roused from sleep demanded.

For a moment all three of said girls simply stared at his tousled hair and bare chiseled chest, unable to speak.

Apparently uncomfortable with their stares, he turned back into his room, grabbed a shirt off the floor and pulled it on.

Their expressions become disappointed at his actions and Rogue even emitted a sighing protest, but they got the point when he crossed his arms over that now covered chest and gave them his somebody-better-start-talking-not glare.

"Uh…um…sorry, guys, I like wanna live!"

At those words from Kitty, Amanda and Rogue turned to watch in disbelief as the girl phased down through the floor and away from the confrontation taking place.

Amanda and Rogue exchanged a look that promised they would get their revenge on Kitty for that maneuver at a later date.

An impatient growl from the doorway accompanied by the tapping of a bare foot on the wood flooring drew Rogue's attention back to the man towering over her.

Sighing, she dropped her gaze to the floor and tried to think of a way to answer.

Her gaze landed on the pale pink envelope that was responsible for all this and widened as her thoughts turned to how the heck she could get it back without him noticing it had ever been there.

"Um..well…it's…it's….um…..well kind of a funny story, Logan."

Rogue began stammering as she looked up to watch him closely while she shifted her body toward that envelope.

"We..um…the three of us, that is…are….um….having a sleepover tonight…and…um…."

She bit her lips and searched for inspiration.

Behind her, Amanda remembered something she had used earlier that night and spoke up eagerly as she realized it was perfect for this situation.

"We don't have enough pillows! You've got like tons in there and we thought you wouldn't mind giving us a couple."

The girl looked pleased with herself at the answer and Rogue could have hugged her then and there for saving the day.

Logan shifted his stance a little, his foot nearly touching the envelope on the floor causing Rogue's lungs to seize in panic.

"There's a linen closet in your wing that has all that stuff for you kids. Ain't got no reason to be bothering me."

"We..um….we already got them all! And like there's lots of people staying here this weekend so there are no more extras that we could find and I really need more 'cause I'm sleeping on Kitty's floor and you were the only place I could think of to get them."

Good lord, I'm starting to sound like Kitty!

Apparently her stammered words worked though, because after looking down at her skeptically Logan turned and went to his bed to get the extra pillows. Rogue nearly fainted relief as she lunged to grab up the envelope and tuck it out of sight in her shirt.

As she was finally rising to her feet, Logan returned with two fluffy pillows to toss at them.

"I'll let the Prof know our supply is low," he said just a touch sarcastically.

With one last look that told them he knew they were lying but didn't have time to call them on it right then he shut the door in their faces.

Rogue turned slowly to face Amanda then rushed forward to wrap the other girl in a bone-rattling hug.

"I LOVE YOU! You really saved our butts with that."

Laughing with her own relief, Amanda returned the hug before gathering up the pillows that they'd just scored.

"Let's get out of here."

~*~*~

"You guys really aren't mad?"

Amanda and Rogue maintained their innocent expressions at the question Kitty had been asking them for the past ten minutes. They'd agreed their revenge would best be delivered after the girl had forgotten her cowardly actions.

"Of course not, Kitty. If I had had your powers, I would have been out of there just like you."

Of course, you could easily have grabbed on and taken me with you, you traitor! Amanda thought.

As if reading the thought and knowing now that Amanda would have abandoned her as well to face Logan alone, Rogue scowled at them.

"So, are we going to finish our game?"

"You've gotta be kidding me?! You still want to play after all that?"

"Of course. I was my turn!"

"Well count me out," Kitty folded her arms over her chest and huddled back against the headboard of her bed.

"Amanda, still game?"

"I guess I have to be since I started it again. Go ahead."

The dark skinned girl shrugged nervously and waited for a challenge she knew she'd regret.

"It's a dare this time," Rogue actually took the time to give the girl some warning.

Sensing something really good brewing in Rogue's mind, Kitty moved back into their little group.

Knowing, just knowing, she'd regret this, Amanda nodded for Rogue to continue.

"Ok. I dare you to strip down to your underwear and run downstairs through the rec room then kitchen and back up here again."

"But – " Amanda began to protest.

"Nothing to worry about, Amanda. It's after midnight, so the place is bound to be deserted even on a Friday night. Plus, it's not like you'd be naked, underwear is just like a bikini."

Seeing the logic of Rogue's argument, Amanda tried to convince herself that her underwear was no less intimate a thing to be seen in than a bikini.

It really didn't work, so she told herself Rogue could have dared her to really go streaking around downstairs and felt she'd caught a break.

Rising from the bed, she kicked off her shoes, wriggled out of her jeans and whipped off her top. With a smile at the shock on Kitty and Rogue's faces that she was actually going to accept the dare, Amanda calmly opened the door and stepped into the hallway.

Where she immediately had a major attack of nerves as the colder air of the open space caused goosebumps to rise on the large amounts of skin she had bared.

Only the I-told-you-so looks the girls still in the room lying on the bed stopped Amanda from chickening out. Sighing and standing up straight she began her dash down the hall to the stairs and level below.

"Oh my God, she's doing it!"

Kitty and Rogue both jumped up and ran to the top of the stairs to watch Amanda race into the rec room.

Seconds later they saw the girl race back out of the room, across the foyer and toward the kitchen.

While their nearly naked friend had obviously avoided running into anyone else in the rec room, her luck apparently ran out in the kitchen.

The sound of dishes clattering to and breaking on the floor reached the girls eagerly listening from upstairs seconds before they heard Kurt exclaiming, "Mein Liebling, vhere are your clothes?!"

For a moment they were silent as the words penetrated their shock. Then, his reaction sank in and they fell back on the floor laughing hysterically.

A mortified Amanda soon raced passed them back to Kitty's room.

Kurt had been following his girlfriend, concerned by her unusual behavior, but he stopped to stare at the laughing girls at the top of the staircase.

"Zhis is your doink, isn't it?"

The way he demanded an answer to the question struck both Kitty and Rogue as amusing and they began laughing even harder.

~*~*~

"We are NEVER doing that again. If I EVER suggest truth or dare again, kill me. Slowly and painfully and permanently."

Kitty and Rogue had to bite their lips from started to laugh like hyenas again, as they re-entered the bedroom to hear Amanda groaning the words from under the covers she was hiding under.

As if sensing their hidden laughter, she threw back the covers to sit up and glare at them.

"I'm serious. I never ever want to play truth or dare again as long as I live!"

Smiling, the other girls nodded and assured Amanda that they'd never do it again.

~*~*~

As they lay in darkness finally trying to go to sleep, Rogue stared up at the ceiling from her bed of pillows on the floor and started laughing again.

"Mein Liebling, vhere are your clothes?!"

Unable to resist she repeated Kurt's words aloud, in the exact same stunned tone he had used then began convulsing with laughter.

Kitty first snickered from her position in the bed, then began laughing out loud as well.

Beside her, Amanda slowly sat up and pulled the pillow from under her head. She first hit Kitty with it, then got up to get Rogue.

Both girls only laughed harder at the blows making Amanda glare at them.

"Oh, you two are a riot. I hope you laugh until you choke!"