More Guests Arrive

"Shipwreck Pietro's using his super speed at eating!" Todd complained. "And he's stealing stuff off my plate! If he gets to do that I'm gonna start eating with my tongue!"

"Todd…" Ororo's voice was stern. "Do not eat with your tongue! Pietro stop eating off other people's plates! Wanda I see the knife! Put it down! And you two stop playing with your food!"

Shipwreck and Daria looked at her. Both of them had breadsticks in their mouths placed like walrus tusks. "She started it!" Shipwreck pointed.

"Oh god I'm gonna end up in a convent after tonight I know it," Amanda moaned under her breath.

"Well you have to admit Xavier this does not give me much confidence in Kurt dating my daughter!" Mr. Sefton snapped. "And turn off that whatever you have on! We know what you really look like! Although I can't say I blame you not wanting to look like the monster you are!"

"KURT IS NOT A MONSTER!" Amanda stood up. "And he's beautiful just the way he is!" She shut off the inducer. "I think he's handsome and I love him! And I don't care who knows it!" She then gave Kurt a huge kiss on the lips.

"Way to go elf!" Todd raised his water glass.

"Told you he had potential to be a player," Quinn said to her sisters.

"AMANDA SEFTON YOU STOP THAT AT ONCE!" Mr. Sefton shouted. "AND AS FOR YOU…YOU…"

"Mr. Sefton I suggest you choose your next words very carefully," Rogue snarled. "I don't care if you are an adult, say one more bad word about Kurt and I'm gonna…"

"ENOUGH!" Xavier shouted. "Let's all calm down now shall we? Please, let's not turn this into a shouting match."

"Yeah give the kid a break," Shipwreck said. "I mean I'm a father of not one but four girls. And I have an extra one I'm looking out for over here!" He indicated Wanda. "You think I don't know what goes on in a father's mind? I live in terror of what the triplets will bring home when they start dating! They're already boy crazy enough as it is! I'd be thrilled if any of them were to find a boy as nice and polite as Kurt. He's a good kid! So he's got blue fur and a tail. Big deal! Hey at least he don't smoke or drink or has any tattoos! Not that we could see any if he did but that's beside the point. He don't steal cars or get in a lot of fights…most of the time. But it's kind of a family deal so that doesn't really count. As one father to another he's all right."

"Thanks Shipwreck," Kurt was taken aback. "I think."

"I'm just lucky with Althea," Shipwreck said. "Not every father gets a perfect boyfriend like Todd."

And of course Todd chose that moment to snag a breadstick from Pietro's plate. "EWW! Wart boy slimed my food!" Pietro shouted.

"I did not!" Todd snapped.

"Oh I think I am going to need a drink…" Mr. Sefton moaned.

*Ororo…I need a big favor from you, * Xavier sent with his telepathy. *Could you keep Shipwreck occupied? *

*Define 'occupied', * Ororo thought, not liking where this was going.

*Just keep him…well… *

*Charles you'd better not be suggesting what I think you're suggesting! NO! NO WAY! *

* Normally I wouldn't do this but it's an emergency! Think of Kurt's happiness! * Xavier pleaded.

"Think of my sanity!" Ororo hissed quietly. Then she caught a look of Kurt's pained face. "Oh god…Shipwreck would you like to sit next to me?"

"Huh?" Shipwreck blinked. "What'd you say?"

"I asked if you would like to sit next to me," Ororo tried to make her voice sound sweet as possible.

"Hot damn! You bet!" Shipwreck got his chair and set it next to Ororo. "See! I told you ya'd warm up to me!"

*Charles you owe me… * Ororo glared at him. * Big time! *

"I can't believe this…" Todd gulped.

"It's gotta be some of the herbs in the olive oil or something," Brittany looked at the dipping platter.

"No…" Ororo struggled to come up with a plausible lie. "It's about giving a person a second chance. Despite a person's outward manner…no matter how unbelievably crass…It's what's on the inside that counts. Shipwreck has a very good heart."

"Oh…" Mrs. Sefton blinked.

"Great…" Althea grumbled. "I now owe Lance ten bucks."

"You're lucky," Pietro grumbled. "Fred's getting fifty from me."

"This night can not get any weirder," Rogue muttered.

"Hey I found them!" Fred suddenly popped his head in. "Hello!"

"Figures Blob would find the food," Lance walked in after him. "Hey guys they're in here! With Xavier!"

"And others are here as well," Xi remarked as he walked in.

"Oh my…" Mrs. Sefton blanched when she saw Xi.

"Oh no…" Kurt moaned.

"Oh god…" Xavier felt his stomach turn.

Spirit and the Blind Master walked in. "Greetings," Spirit said. "I hope we're not intruding on your meal."

"No pull up a chair and sit down!" Shipwreck told them. "I'm paying anyway!"

"Actually I'm the one who's paying," Kurt moaned. "For what I have no idea!"

"I thought you guys were tracking down Zartan?" Rogue asked.

"We were but he gave us the slip," Fred said. "Ooh! Antipasto!"

"Help yourself Blob!" Ororo raised her eyes in exasperation.

"Don't mind if we do!" Lance grinned as he sat down. "Tracking down criminals is hungry work!"

"Talk about the rock calling the concrete wall hard," Rogue glared at him.

"Who are these people?" Mrs. Sefton asked.

"The rest of the Misfits," Todd said. "That's Freddy, Lance and Xi. Spirit and the Blind Master over there are human but we love 'em anyway."

"How do ya doin'?" Fred happily pumped Mr. Sefton's hand.

"Ow my hand!" Mr. Sefton moaned.

"Sorry," Fred apologized. "Don't know my own strength."

"Are you all right dear?" Mrs. Sefton asked.

"I will be when we get out of here," Mr. Sefton growled.

"Hold it," The Blind Master said. "I know that voice from somewhere. Say something else."

"Wait you do look a bit familiar as well," Mrs. Sefton stammered.

"Margali?" The Blind Master asked. "Is that you? I thought I recognized that voice!"

"Gabriel Moore?" Mrs. Sefton gulped. "That is you!"

"You know the Blind Master?" Kurt asked.

"It's been a long time girl!" The Blind Master grinned. "How've you been?"

"Oh fine…" Mrs. Sefton said nervously.

"Wait you know Amanda's mom?" Pietro asked. "What you used to date her or something?"

"Pietro that's not funny!" Amanda snapped. She then looked at her mother. "Is it?"

"Margali?" Mr. Sefton blinked.

"Small world isn't it?" Mrs. Sefton smiled weakly.

"No way!" Todd laughed.

"When was this?" Mr. Sefton shouted.

"Well this was when I was in San Francisco," Mrs. Sefton said. "Before I met you. In college, remember?"

"You said you took some basic defense courses," Mr. Sefton looked at her. "You didn't say anything about studying with a ninja master!"

"Well I wasn't a full ninja master then," The Blind Master said. "But I was teaching. She was one of my first and best pupils. Of course she had to be considering…"

"The neighborhood I lived in," Mrs. Sefton finished. "It wasn't very safe."

"Well neither is Amanda dating that boy!" Mr. Sefton snapped. "I mean what kind of people does he run around with?"

"Okay maybe I can understand your husband objecting on Kurt because of his looks," The Blind Master said. "But Margali you of all people shouldn't be so hard hearted. After all you are a…"

"OOPS!" Mrs. Sefton knocked over a candlestick onto the tablecloth. "Silly me I've just set the table on fire! Dinner's cancelled!"

"No it isn't," Althea used her powers to put out the fire using the water in the water glasses. "There. A little soggy but all done."

"See pal mutant powers can come in handy!" Shipwreck said to Mr. Sefton. Then he put his arm around Ororo and grinned. "Right honey?"

"Yes…dear," Ororo said with as much control as she could. She thought to herself. And I will use them to my full potential to kill Shipwreck once this night is over!

"Hey waiter!" Shipwreck called out. "We're gonna need another tablecloth! And more chairs! And…Oh tell you what, why don't you bring out at least five of everything on the menu!"

"Oh I love buffets!" Fred grinned. "This is such fun!"

"Fun doesn't even begin to describe it," Kurt muttered.