Ok quite a long chapter but I thought that you'd all like Mel's pov in one chapter! This ones courtesy of Oracles Maiden!
"He… you…? How…" I gasped like a fish for oxygen, not comprehending what the drunken (but one) morons were telling me.
"We helped Kurt with your date." Slurred Kat, a cocktail umbrella in her hair. "course he didn't follow all the instructions we gave him… I suggested he dye his hair pink but he didn't. I think that's why it didn't work out."
"It didn't work out because he was dressed as a pimp, kept trying to put the moves on me and spent most of the evening under the table looking up my skirt!"
"Ahh," Kat smiled back at me, holding up a finger that she was involuntary waving at me, "But he wasn't see. He was looking at his own lap see, 'cause he couldn't remember all the things we'd told him, see. So he made some cards with all the things on, and hid them under the table, see?" She smiled proudly and Beast gave her a short round of applause. However I had turned a bright shade of red. I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. You see normally this kind of information would be passed along in private, hushed tones a couple of 'You just got it wrong' Mel's afterwards to reassure, make me feel better. But not now and never in Kats life would she have done that. She had just screamed it without realising in the middle of the ships lounge. All the fancy passengers were staring in my direction, a couple of the younger- I guessed honeymooning- couples were breaking into fits of badly disguised giggles.
And then the lump appeared in my throat and the sting of tears were at the corner of my eyes. I'm made a fool of myself… my friends had made a mockery of my life. The man I loved couldn't look at me, didn't care for me, I'd made a living hell from his life. And for what? My friends, and complete strangers enjoyment. What had I done…
Logan stood up seeing the state I was getting in, "Kid you alright?"
I didn't answer just listened to the whispers and giggles filling the room, even the terrible lounge singer/drag act had stopped his/her set to stare and point…
I had to get out of there.
I pushed past two waiters who were sniggering to each other… "She can't even sort out her love life…" I thought I heard one of them say.
I continued running, not caring anymore about the people turning to look at the mad woman pushing her way through them in tears. I didn't care; I just kept running till I reached the landing to all of our suites. There on the wall stood a floor length mirror, and her own reflection staring back at her. Blonde hair falling in elegant waves, dress perfect… eyes puffy and red, Lip trembling. I was a mess.
And then I saw it out of the corner of my eye… the cause of all my sadness and anger. My dog-tags, the symbol of my friendship and my devotion to my team. A team that had spat on my life… a team that didn't care about what they'd done… I was a joke.
I reached up and pulled them from my neck, throwing them to the floor. I didn't want to be part of this team anymore!!
Then behind me I heard three girls' drunken giggles. Ash, Ev and Jubes slowly staggering back to their rooms… leaning on each other for support. Support…
Now they were fumbling for their keys and shhh-ing each other, so I quickly jumped and hid behind a rather large vase of flowers on a pedestal. I leaned forward however just enough to see them so I could tell when they entered their rooms.
"Hic did you see that waitress all over Kurt, Boy he's really picked up since he got over Mel... shame she's still obsessing though." Ev said pushing her card into the door, opening it… and collapsing over the threshold, unconscious and snoring loudly. Jubes started to giggle… and couldn't stop so she let herself in and closed the door behind her… her giggling still audible.
Ash however wandered over, still giggling, to kick Ev's legs into her room far enough to close the door behind her. He foot became entangled in my discarded tags. She reached down… trying to hook them off, lost balance and went crashing to the floor…
"Heee Heee" She laughed.
"Whats up?" Came Jubes Voice through the paper-thin wall.
"I fell over" Giggled Ash. So Jubes continued Laughing.
Now Ash turned her attention to the cause of her being on the floor. She turned my tags over in her hand and put them right up against her face…
"Damn You letters stop moving!" She instructed the tag.
"Hee hee" Came from Jubes room.
"Ok you can shut up with the giggling now Jubes, its wearing a little thin." This just resulted in more laughing.
She again turned to the dog tags and read them aloud… "Tantalus mutant no 17889 Retribution X" She looked proud of herself then knocked on Jubes' wall and shouted "Hey firecracker… there's more mutants on board… and they have the same team name as us… and theirs one with mels codename… ohh wait a minute…" She looked even prouder and knocked loudly again on Jubes' wall "Jubes… I've found Mels Tags and they aren't around her neck like normal!!!" No sound came back from Jubes's room for a second "Jubes you asleep?" then suddenly more high-pitched giggling.
Ash put my tags in her pocket and then went to get up before giving up entirely and settling on the floor when she found that one) gravity was a constant no matter how much you flapped your arms and two) that alcohol did serious things to your balance and when that happened you shouldn't proclaim yourself to be the worlds great ballerina, start to dance the nutcracker and fall and bang your head on the side of a pedestal holding a vase of flowers that your friend was hiding directly behind…
"Owwch that looked like it hurt…" I said not thinking.
Ash looked up at me… drunken eyes focusing… then she started to laugh… not her drunken giggle with Jubes but Her belly laugh when she found something truly amusing…
"Hey Jubes Mel's out here and she looks like a spaz!!" Then she continued laughing… and Jubes joined in with her fevered giggles, she stopped only to burp and then resumed.
Whatever thoughts I'd had in my head were now gone… all hope, all trust everything was gone. I was a shell with no crab. I was empty. There was nothing left to do…
Ok so a woman in a long blue dress crying her eyes out and panting sobs was drawing more attention to myself than I usually liked but hell I really honest to god didn't care at that moment. Hell I didn't care about anything anymore… if Kurt had leapt out of the shadows professing undying love… actually that would have stopped me. But he didn't so I kept running.
In the distance before me I saw a man in a hover wheelchair looking over the rail… another man with him. As I neared them however I realised I'd made an error… it was the professor and Jean. I kept running however, I didn't stop when Jean looked at me like I was something she'd scrapped off the bottom of her shoes… "Oh Mel, what's wrong?" She said in her most infuriatingly caring voice as I ran towards them… I ran close to them and then past… not looking up…
"AHHHHHHH" came the professors voice as I heard his chair creak forward, the sound of metal sliding against cloth and a wait of a few seconds before a splash.
"Charles!!!" Jean screamed in a pained voice then the sound of ripping material and another wait before another near identical splash.
I must have knocked the hover chair… oh well.
Finally I reached the back of the boat. Looked about… there was no one. No one was here… oh well, the better for that poor sap. When he'd have piped up that he'd seen me do what I was about to do Wolvie probably would have ripped his throat out because he hadn't stopped me… actually he probably wouldn't have… he wouldn't have cared, he'd have laughed as they pulled my corpse from the water, then suggested a tequila drinking contest.
I ran to the rail and started to climb up and over hands clutching the top bar when I was over heals catching on the bottom. I looked down tears streaming down my face… the propellers were churning the sea into foam churning everything up.
"Don't do it…" came a voice behind me shouted… he didn't sound really like he cared or not.
I turned on the rail, trying not to slip or let go. With my hair pulled out behind me by the wind and my dress doing the same I must have looked like Cathy on the moors… searching for Heathcliff… or in my case death.
"Don't come any closer… or, or I'll jump." I called out not recognising the voice as that of any of my team mates… or their teachers.
From the shadows of the warm sunset a man appeared… well man but he looked only about my age, young like me.
He had floppy Blonde hair that fell beside his face and flopped over his eyes when the wind took it. Blue eyes, Baby blue. He had a baby's face. He looked like Leo de Caprio in that damn movie about the boat.
"Why don't you come back in? Come on, Just take my hand and I'll pull you back." He said putting out his hand, now that he could see me better he looked a lot more concerned for my welfare… always because of the beauty.
I shook away the help, "No, stay where you are or I'll do it… I'll jump." I closed my eyes as if to prove I was going to.
"Liar." The mans voice replied.
I opened my eyes, "What did you say?"
"I said liar… your not going to jump, you would have done it by now if you were. You wouldn't have turned around and talked to me if you were actually considering jumping." He said scoffing.
I opened my mouth dismayed. "Just go away and let me do this in peace."
"Ahhh, but you see I can't. see I'm involved now and I'd feel guilty if I heard you'd jumped. Plus if you did you'd be depriving the world of a beautiful flower if you don't mind me saying so. In fact I might just have to jump in and save you."
Now I scoffed, "You'd be killed as well."
"Well I'm quite a good swimmer… I think I could rough it out in there." He said looking over the rail.
"The falls enough to kill you." I said shaking my head.
"Possibly. I'd be more worried bout the propellers though, that would hurt, chop you into two they would then drag you in again and cut you up even smaller. Not a great way to go… but then again I've seen worse."
"EEEPPPPPP!!!" I screamed at the thought of being small enough for fishes to eat.
The man Laughed… "That's the kind of reaction I always get."
"Do you hang around a lot of boats then when women try to hurl themselves of the back then?" I asked entranced.
"This is a first…" He smiled looking deep in my eyes.
"What do you do, then?" I asked returning the look.
"I'm an artist… I tend to sit on boats and see if women don't mind me drawing them sunbathing… sometimes when they don't notice me they'll take their tops off."
Ok, the magic was gone "Classy" I sighed, disappointed.
"Yeah…" He was miles away, staring into the distance…. "Oh," He snapped out "Maybe one day a woman of your beauty will let me draw her."
"Someday I'm sure one will." I sighed again.
"My names Jon by the way." He said chearilly.
"Mel." I moaned back
"So Mel, why do you want to jump? Nothing could be that bad."
"I'm a laughing stock! My friends gave this guy I like advise and its completely ruined both my life, his life and my chances of being with him… he'd rather be with anyone than me."
"I don't believe that… How could anyone not want to be with you." He smiled and… ohhh I was a puddle at his feet… he'd redeemed himself from his job.
He brushed his hair from his eyes. "Look why don't you come down from there, you must be frozen. We can go get a drink, warm you up… and we can talk and whatever's wrong we can try and make better. Is that good for you?"" He said inching closer…
"Yes," I whispered as lips neared mine…
"However its not good for me!!!" A voice came from behind me… where the open air and drop to the sea should have been. I turned quickly to see my blue Romeo hanging from the flagpole by his tail.
"Kurt what are you…?" I felt his arms close round me his head over my shoulder and heard him blow a raspberry at Jon. Then before I knew what was happening… everything was gone.
BAMPH
"Please Kurt I want to come down now please… just let me down…" Another kind of tears were falling from my eyes now, tears of fright and the sting of the wind in my eyes. He'd BAMPH'ed us to the front of the ship where the railings were, slung me over the side and climbed back over himself. I had stood shaking with fear for a moment before making my request… however he didn't look as though he was about to help me down.
"NO." He stated… "you're going to stay up there until I can talk you down… now STAY THERE!!" He said before running off into the shadows. I heard him cough clearing his throat then I heard him start to walk back towards me.
"MELLY!!!" He screamed, trying to sound surprised, like he hadn't left me here two seconds earlier. "What are you doing over there?"
"Why don't you ask the demented German Mutant, who's a strange shade of Indigo, Who put me over here you fruit!!" I screamed back at him…
"There's no need to shout Melly." He said as he neared me.
"No need to shout, no need to shout Kurt! I was about to get down… I was about to go inside to get warm but noooo you decide instead to grab me from the back of the ship and place me at the front of the ship then play these weird head games with me!!!" I shouted, Bemused at what was happening.
Kurt however was not. "I wanted to save you." He said bashfully shuffling his feet. "I thought that would make everything all right again… always does in the movies." He looked up… the rapidly decreasing sunlight reflected in his yellow eyes.
I couldn't resist softening… he looked so helpless. He looked so sorry.
I leaned over the rail toward him… "But what about the waitress? Isn't she going to be telling everyone tomorrow you were the "Best she's ever had"?" I smiled seductively… and Kurt blushed at the memory of what he'd said.
"I was trying to make you jealous…"
I smiled even more. "You were trying to impress me?"
"And I am truly sorry for everything I did in that restaurant… if I had listened to my heart and not your friends…"
"You were trying to impress me." I smiled even wider, "No ones tried to impress me before… everyone's used me to impress other people not the other way around. Kurt this is amazing… and I feel so…" I started to climb over the railing towards him but someone had obviously touched the bar when wet… as my high heal slid straight off of the bar and I went first tumbling forward, then, trying to save myself from the metal, pushed myself back and into the clear air in front of the ship.
Damn Stupid Mel. You start making up with the man you want to be with and then you go and kill yourself through your own stupidity. It could only happen in my life…
I went falling through the air… I didn't even scream because I felt it was fruitless, what was the point when nothing could be done.
Then two arms embraced me, strong around my torso. Then a BAMPF and we were no more.
We appeared back on the deck, my arms round his neck, his arms round my waist… I was shaking against him… crying again, millions of thoughts running through my mind, a million things I had never said…
"I'm-so-sorry-I've-treated-you-terribly-can-you-ever-forgive-me-I've-been-a-numb-skull-Please-say-you-love-me-cause-I-love-you-and-i…"
"What?" Kurt said interrupting my tirade.
"Which bit?" I asked genuinely confused "The bit about being dumb as a chimp?"
"No, the bit where you said you loved me?"
"Oh… that bit!" I said happily before realising exactly what had come out of my mouth. "I… I… Said… I love you?" I said slowly lowering my head in embarrassment.
"But I thought that you hated me?" Kurt replied shocked.
I winced and lifted my head again… "Well yeah… I kinda lied." I tried to brush it off but it didn't work.
"You lied." Kurt said, even more confused… "Meaning you do like me?"
"Oh yes…" I said nodding vigorously "in fact if you didn't hear me the first time… I love you."
"Me?" Kurt asked, still confused.
"Yes, You." I said starting to get a little bored of the repetitiveness of the conversation.
Kurt looked around a little, his field of vision restricted by my arms around his neck.
"Kurt do I have to spell it out, do I have to put it like I'd have to with Kat? Do I have to give you the dumbed down idiots version." I left his side and ran at the rails jumping on to them again and grabbing hold of the flag pole at this end for balance and called to the world "I Melody Fields Loves, wants to spend every moment with, adores, Worships, am devoted to in every sense of the word to the one the only Mr Kurt Wagner, the incredible Nightcrawler, The fuzzy blue elf, the demonic one!" I looked down at him delirious with joy "Now do you understand? Now do you get what I'm saying Kurt. I love you. I always have, I always…"
I was only silenced when the man I was spouting love vows for ran and jumped onto the rail too. He silenced me in a very pleasurable manner too, he kissed me, on the lips. It was heaven… that was until I noticed that the force at which he had thrown himself at me had knocked us both again over the bars. With his eyes shut, Kurt didn't realise we were plunging towards the ocean at an alarming rate.
"Kurt!!" I screamed though his lips were plastered over mine. His eyes shot open and he closed his eyes again, BAMPHing us back to the deck.
The kiss continued, before he scooped me into his arms… I was shaking again. He started to walk with he scooped against his chest.
"Where are we going?" I asked snuggling down against him.
"I thought I would take you home, back to your room. You must be tired." He said still walking towards the deck where Retribution X's suites were situated.
"Or," a though occurred to me "You could take me back to YOUR room and take advantage of me in my fearful and weakened state."
"I wouldn't be a gentleman if I did that."
"Yes but I wouldn't be a Lady if I didn't repay you for your kindness."
He looked down at me, "What about that boy back at the railings- the one who really did talk you down? Are you going to repay him too?"
I smiled another seductive smile "I thought I might thank you instead of him. Give you what was coming to him, but now what's coming to you"
He gulped… "I'd feel better if I took you back to your room."
"If you take me back to my room then all the girls will hear me rip your clothes off and leap on you. They'll hear you screaming like a little girl for mercy." I said playfully, nuzzling his ear.
"Mel have you been Eating Sushi from the Jade room?" He asked looking confused.
"No why do you ask?" I said nuzzling again.
"Because you certainly don't sound like you normally do."
I paused "Maybe I'm just a little more assertive, now that I know that you love me… you do love me right?" I asked apprehensively.
"Oh course I do melly."
"And you do want me to love you too don't you?" I asked again.
"Yes" He replied.
"And you do want us to…"
He was one step ahead of me.
"God yes!!!"
"Tonight?" I asked.
He paused.
"Yes."
"And then tomorrow I can join the list of people telling you that you were the best I've ever had…" I said nuzzling again.
"ohhh" Kurt let out all the air in his body in this little scream of anticipation. With me in his arms he began to run as fast as he could. We reached the windows to the main bar with all our friends in and he didn't even duck… he just avoided the door opening in front of him with a quick deviation as The sound of Barry white drifted out from the karaoke
"WE GOT IT TOGETHER
DID'NT WE
NOBODY BUT YOU AND ME
WE GOT IT TOGETHER BABY"
"Barry!!!" I screamed, but looking through the window I realised that it wasn't so much the walrus of Luuurve but the yeti of Luuurve backed up by the dorks of Luuurve, the midgit of Anger and Lord of Alcohol.
"Barry, that must be the lords blessing!!" Kurt said whooping with delight as he began to salivate, moving even faster.
When we encountered stairs he Bampfed up them, when there were long corridors he Bampfed to the other end.
He was running so fast he almost went past his own door. But he slid backwards and pushed the door open in one… he was desperate for the moment he'd been waiting for since valentines day and before that.
He hurled me roughly to the bed and turned to lock the door, so we wouldn't be disturbed till the morn.
Phew that was a long one! Please remember we need YOU to read and review! Picture of Kat wearing an ice cream tub as a hat pointing her finger!
