Chaotic Boredom: It's not that bad, I get to see all my friends who live on the far side of the county. And you'll get those reactions, just not this chapter.
Chapter 32: Elevator fun in D.C.
The second day of the five day trip to Washington D.C. offered a bit of a choice. You could either go to the Smithsonian, or kill time in the hotel. The X-Men decided on the hotel. Why, you ask?
More chances to put 'Operation: Amyle' into effect.
Since they had already made it clear that they were not going to the Smithsonian, the X-Men were afforded the time to sleep in. However, Kyle, never having been one to sleep in much, was awake before the crack of dawn. Sighing, he headed down to the pool, which was located halfway down the side of the hotel, facing east, and, settling into a half-lotus, began to meditate.
The other X-Men, being well conditioned to waking up at very early hours, even though they complained about it, were up in time to watch the sunrise. Looking out from her window, Kitty glanced down to the pool, and saw Kyle, still in his meditative stance.
"How'd he get down there?" Asked Kitty to no one in particular.
"He's always up early." Said Amara, "He usually meditates in the dojo, though."
Kitty grinned, "How do you know that?"
Amara blushed, "Bobby told me?" she said, even though neither girl believed it.
"You SO cannot tell a lie. Bobby doesn't even, like, get up till he has to."
As Amara blushed, Kitty shook her head. "Kurt told me that you two had a fight yesterday."
Amara shook her head, "Yeah, well..."
"What was it about?"
She shook her head, "I don't even remember, it was like, we arguing, but we weren't."
Kitty smiled, a small, secretive smile. Wow, not even Scott and Jean got that bad. "I think you like him more than you think you do."
Amara stared at the girl, looking quite shocked, even as she thanked god that her training in her youth had included acting skills. "You must be joking."
"No, I'm, like, totally NOT joking."
Amara sighed, "Maybe your right." She then stood up, "I'm going to get something to eat."
Kitty smiled, and stood as well. "Me too."
As Kitty and Amara made their way down the hall, Kitty smiled over at Lance, who had his door open, just a crack, and mouthed 'Phase 1, complete.'
As the two teenage girls arrived at the in-hotel restaurant, they found that Bobby had rounded up Kyle, and brought him down as well.
"Fancy meeting you here." Said Kitty as they sat down. Bobby nodded, picking up the coded meaning.
"Well, great minds." Kitty smirked as she got the return answer she had been hoping for. Sitting down next to Iceman, she noticed, with some amusement, that it was a table for four, and that the seating arrangements left it so that Amara would be forced to sit next to Kyle. As the Nova Roman princess blushed, she sat down next to the blind martial artist.
Beneath the table, however, she reached over, and grasped Kyle's hand firmly. Years of training had helped Kyle develop quite the poker face, which he now put into use. Squeezing back gently, he continued his conversation with Bobby.
Breakfast went fairly uneventfully, although the constant, pointed comments from Bobby and Kitty began to get on both of the secret couple's nerves. Finally, Bobby stood, and said. "Hey Kyle, would you mind giving me a hand with something?" The young mutant nodded, and stood as well. As he walked away, Kitty spoke to Amara.
"I wanted to show you something, come on."
Nodding, the flame-wielding mutant followed her phasing counterpart, as they towards the elevator. Entering it, they found that Bobby and Kyle had, by chance, ended up on the same elevator.
As the elevator door closed, she nodded to Sam. The young Kentucky cannonball smiled, as he walked into the men's room. Still smiling, he spoke into a toy-store bought walkie-talkie.
"Phase 2 complete, begin final phase." He then had to explain to his freaked out classmate that had just come out of the toilet stall that they were NOT trying to blow up Washington D.C.
Up in the control room for the elevators, Kurt smirked, as he cut the power to the elevator that so conveniently held Bobby, Kyle, Amara, and Kitty. The power on the elevator was also so convenient as to cut itself at the midpoint point between floors so that one would need a ladder to climb to the next door up
As the power cut out, Bobby formed a pillar of ice underneath himself and Kitty, as Kitty phased them through the roof. Bobby continued his pillar straight up, till he was even with the door, and then formed it into an ice slide. At the end, Kitty was so kind as to phase them through the door.
Kyle chuckled, after the two of them left. "You've got to give them points for style."
Amara laughed, "That's true."
"How much do you wanna bet they have Rahne watching the security room so that they know when to let us out?"
Amara shook her head. "I'm not taking the bet for two reasons. First, I don't gamble. Second, you'd win, hands down."
Up in the security room, Rahne gave the closest thing to an indignant snort that a wolf could achieve. Luckily, the security guard on duty was neutral about mutants, so when they had explained it all to him, he had smirked and asked if they wanted a copy of that portion of the tape from the security camera, obviously this was nothing new to him. Reaching over, he casually flipped on the 'Out of Order' light for that elevator, and went back to reading his magazine.
Kyle smirked, "That's no fun. After all, what else do we do while we wait for them to finally get us out of here?"
Amara smiled, "Well, we could talk."
"What about?" Kyle asked, having a hard time keeping the poker face in place. It was just too funny; they were a couple that was acting out getting together as a couple, for their friend's benefit.
"During that truth or dare game. Did you, really mean what
your said?"
Kyle grinned. They had scripted this out last night during a secret rendezvous. "Which part? I said quite a bit."
"The part where you said you liked me."
He blushed slightly, "That part..."
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Did you mean it? Or were you just saying the first name that came to your mind."
Kyle's grin, which had formed despite his blush, vanished. "What do you mean 'first name that came to mind?' "
"I mean, did you really mean you like me? Or did you just say a name so that no one would know who you really like?"
Kyle shook his head. "I meant it, Amara."
As the Nova Roma princess listened, he continued, all the while thinking. This should give them a good show.
"But you're a princess. Last I checked, I don't have a drop of noble blood, and it's not like I have anything to offer you or your family. I'm a blind man, for heaven's sake!"
Amara, who had been sitting against the far wall of the elevator this whole time, stood up, and walked over to Kyle.
"You may be blind, but that doesn't matter. Remember what you did for me the first time we met? Remember the second time we met? You may not have noble blood, but you've got the spirit of a nobleman. And you do have something to offer. You have that spirit, your honor, your will, virtue, and knowledge. And it doesn't matter that your blind, you still see clearer than a lot of people I met back in Nova Roma." With that, she gave him a kiss that would by far outstrip any they would share up until to their wedding day.
"And if my father wants to protest, I'll tell him to go to Hades and stay there."
Kitty and Bobby phased through the roof a few minutes later, and, as the two 'lovebirds were removed from their nest'; they were already plotting their vengeance on their friends.
