CHAPTER 7 My First Night With You (and) Fighter
Part I- My First Night With You
Author's Note- This chapter is a double chapter. So please don't be confused about it
Author's Note(2)- When the text is italicized, the character is thinking. When the text is surrounded by **stars**, then a song is playing.
***Disclaimer- In the last chapter and in this one are songs obviously not written or produced by me. So I have no rights to them, they're just featured in these scenes.
The phone began to ring, just as Damia flopped down the bed in her room after another repetitive scene around the Mansion. She answered, "Aspramos. (Greetings.)"
"Afternoon Damia, it's Nicole."
"Aspramos, Gliko poili (sweetie bird)."
"Have you seen Scott today?"
"Yeah, he's here at the mansion."
"Could you please give him a message?"
"Sure."
"Tell him to meet me at the park."
"OK, I'll give it to him.
"Thank you so much, Damia. I owe you one."
"It's nothing. Call me when you get off your date, and tell me how it went."
"Alright, I'll speak with you later, Aphrodite."
Damia laughed, "See you later, Gliko poili (sweetie bird)." She hung up the phone, Damia then thought to herself. It's awfully strange that Nicole and Claudette never invite her over to their house, and they never have anyone pick them up, nor drop them off at home. What are they hiding? It can't possibly be that bad. John stepped into her room, "We're waiting for you, Sheila. We want to watch this video sometime this year." Damia just shook her head and smiled at him as he led her off downstairs.
Meanwhile, Nicole was in a frenzy at the boarding house. She wanted everything to be perfect; this was the day she was going on an actual date with her American dreamboat. I have to have everything perfect tonight. Anything less than one hundred percent is unacceptable. She and Claudette spent the last five hours preparing for this date. Nicole decided she go with a midnight blue, strapless corset, see-though at the torso area; dark denim low-rise jeans; black sandals and waved hair. "CLAUDETTE!" Nicole called out to her.
Claudette rushed from the bathroom, "What?! What do you want?! I have places to go, too!"
"How do I look?" She said as stood up straight and pressed down on her hips.
Claudette looked at her sister "You look fine. Good enough to get him in the backseat in the first five minutes."
"I knew it. Ugh. I knew I looked slutty. Now I have to change. I have redo my makeup and my hair and...."
"Nic, I was kidding. You look great. You look fine, you shouldn't change a thing."
"Thanks." She sighs, and grabs her bag and matching denim jacket. "Well, here I go. I have a date with Scott Summers."
"Go get 'em, tiger." Claudette winked and playfully punched her shoulder.
Nicole shook her head at her, and walked down the hall, down the stairs, and out the front door. Claudette went in Pietro's room to look out the window and watch her sister drive off happily away from the house. Claudette was happy that her sister found someone, but she was very uncomfortable that someone was Summers. She had been thinking that once he found who she really was she might have her heartbroken. She felt like Nicole was putting her feelings too much into pursuing this guy, and it was only a matter of time before....
"Nicole?" Lance called out.
Claudette turned around and answered, "Nah, Claudette. Nic just left."
"Where to?"
"Date with Scott."
"Summers?!"
"Yeah."
Lance had gotten very jealous, the house was shaking, and Claudette was scrambling for a place to hold on. Lance regained sense of himself, and stopped the shaking. Claudette now knew things between the Scott, Nicole, and Lance weren't going to be pretty.
Nicole pulled into the park's parking lot. She as she parked next to a shiny, red convertible similar to hers, she noticed Scott standing in front of the car, leaning against it.. He was wearing a red American Eagle T-shirt, medium blue carpenter jeans, white sneakers, and his signature, mysterious red sunglasses. When she found him, he was staring off into space again. As she did a hair check, she thought to herself, Well, here it goes.
"Hey there." She called out as she approached him from behind.
As soon as called out, he snapped out of his daze. "Hi." Nicole walked into him and he hugged her, she embraced him back. "So who's driving?"
"Can you? But only if you want to, I don't want to sound like a freeloader."
"Oh no, It's fine. You're not freeloading. So you ready?"
"Yeah let's go."
Scott lead to the passenger side, and held the door open for her. She daintily stepped in. God, I feel like a real damsel, a true girly-girl. Scott went to the driver side, started the car, and drove off to their first destination, the movies. I sure hope Rogue is right about this date. Nicole's very pretty, and she's a sweet girl. But, my heart still belongs to that cheerful redhead.
"So I'm liking that outfit." Scott commented her graciously. "Very Christina Aguilera."
"Really? This old thing... It's something I threw together thirty minutes ago. But thank you, that was very thoughtful." She smiled
He chuckled.
"But you're looking very sexy in a preppy sort of way. Very Freddie Prinze, Jr."
"Thanks. You're a very interesting person. How'd you end up in the states, anyway?"
"Claudette and I were sent here by our father to live with our grandma after our mom died."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's ok. But my dad's still alive though, he's back in Algeria... So where are your parents?"
"They died. Both of them."
"Oh Scott, I'm so sorry."
"I recently found out that my little brother survived the accident that killed them."
"That's great. Where's he?"
"In Hawaii, he decided that he was better off with his foster family." Nicole nodded her head as he stated that. "Do you have any other brothers or sisters other than Claudette?"
"Yeah, I have an older brother and an older sister."
"Are they in Algeria?"
"No, actually I have no clue where they are. My brother got into a quarrel with my father and he threw him out. My sister just disappeared exactly one year after he left. I haven't seen either since I was ten."
"Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that. But I know you'll be reunited some day."
"Maybe..." Nicole looked at him, and back out the window.
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Nicole and Scott arrived at the movie theater, and the place was packed full of Bayville High students. They stood out in front of tellers, as the decided what movie to see. They decided on a comedy to settle ease their moods. The two walked into the theaters in a casual "Just Friends" kind of state. An hour and a half later, they were walking out the building gabbing, laughing, reinacting scenes, just basically enjoying each other's company, like they were actually on the date. They were in the car on the way back to the park when Scott had a thought.
"Hey I have an idea." Scott stated.
"What is it?" Nicole asked.
"Instead of going back to the park and going straight home, let's just walk around, and get to know each other more."
She smiled as she nodded at the idea. That night Nicole actually found herself having alot more fun with Scott than she'd had in a long time. Scott was enjoying Nicole's presence around him, she was smart, sarcastically funny, attractive, and all-around sweet girl. He found more likeable qualities in her than he found in Jean. Besides she wasn't budging on their relationship anytime soon, so why not take a chance on a good thing. They entered the parking lot in silence. After Scott parked he got out the car, to open the door for her, but Nicole got out on her own. She looked at him and smiled smugly. "Follow me." He told her.
She followed him out to a secluded, deserted area in the park. This was where he took a lot of other girls for romantic privacy. There the two had laid out a blanket on the grass, and sat down and looked back up at the stars.
"Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there weren't any stars?" Nicole asked him glancing over at him then back up at the star filled sky.
"Sometimes. Especially when I'm out here alone."
"If there weren't there, there wouldn't be anything that beautiful to look at."
"No, there would be."
"Why is that?"
He looked back over to Nicole, "Because I'm looking at something beautiful right now."
Nicole blushed. "Aw! You are so sweet."
Scott just smiled, looked back up at the sky, "So why did you and your sister move here? To the states I mean?"
"Well, our life in Algeria was just one tragedy after another."
"What do you mean?"
"Remember when I told you I haven't seen my sister and brother in almost 7 years?"
"Yeah."
"Well, the main reason of that is my father's devotion to my sister. My sister was favorite child; she was his only child in his eyes. He didn't really care about the rest of us. She was his treasured prize piece. No matter what the rest of us did, it still wasn't good enough for him. But everything she did was extraordinary."
"Oh my god. Are you serious?"
"Yes."
"How could he treat you guys like that?"
"I know. He loved playing favorites. It would always benefit him in the end."
"So how exactly did you guys get here?"
"Claudette and I bought plane tickets, and decided that we could find our grandmother on our own. So we flew over here to North Carolina, we wandered around there for about a half-year. Then we were in South Carolina for the other half. Then once in Georgia, we finally contacted her and we moved in with her. So far she's the only one other than my mother to appreciate our existence."
"Whoa. That's some story."
"And it's all true." She looked back over to Scott. "So what about you? What happened to your family?"
"It's really hard for me to explain it now. I haven't been able to tell anyone but Professor X."
"That must be some awful tale."
"It is. At one time I was having constant nightmares reminding me of what happened that night."
"I'm sorry Scott. I know it must be tough. I mean you lost your parents, I lost my mom, I know it had to take apart of you when they perished. I could eat or sleep for days, not to mention the nightmares and other things you get when it happens."
"Your exactly right. But we have to move on from it. There is a thing as life after death, and we have to live ours."
Nicole was emotionally drawn to Scott at this moment. It was taking all her inner strength to keep from jumping on him, and kissing him fiercely. "Can I tell you something?"
"Shoot."
"Well, this is going to sound corny. But, I've had a crush on you ever since the first time I saw you."
Scott blushed, "Are you sure it was me you were crushing on?"
"I'm definite. Scott, you are the sweetest guy I have ever met. You're honest and responsible" She moved closer to him, and closed her eyes as she said, "Not to meantion, you are strikingly gorgeous."
Scott blushed, "You really feel that way about me?"
"Yes. I really wanted to tell you but my grandmother always told me to make friends with a guy first before you persue him. And I really liked having...."
She was cut off by as Scott pulled her into him and kissed her passionately. She was overwhelmed by the feelings she was experiancing in that kiss. Scott was suprized by how good a kisser Nicole was, so he too was overwhelmed by the feelings of that moment. Nicole pulled away for a second, "What am I doing? I can't do this. I don't kiss on the first date. What is wrong with me?"
"I'm really sorry, Nicole." Scott replied.
Nicole looked at Scott and imagined him as he looked that day during gym. "Oh fuck it." She pulled Scott into another steamy kiss and down on top of her. The two were so into the kissing, they didn't notice they rolled over onto the grass. Nicole had sprigs of grass in her hair, Scott had grass stains over his pants and his shirt. They stayed in their makeout session for a little over two hours, before Scott realized that he had to be back to the mansion. He pulled his watch to eye level and saw that it was a quarter past nine. He stopped Nicole, "Nicole, we gotta stop. I have to get back home now."
Nicole and Scott grabbed their things and headed back to the parking lot. They throw the sheet back into the trunk and embraced each other once more before going their separate ways. "So are we on for another date?" Nicole asked.
"You know it." Scott replied lifting her up on top of the trunk. The two kissed passionately once more, not wanting to leave each other. Nicole being the goody two shoes that she loved to be, but definitely not wanting to stop, trying to push him away.
"Scott, baby. You have to go, do you?"
"I can be five minutes late." He told her, kissing on her neck.
"Scott, Scott. Really, if you have to be back. I don't want you to be late." Pushing him back.
"Alright."
"Promise to call me?"
"Does it look like I'll forget?"
"I guess not. I'm just making sure I have another day lined up later on this week."
"Babe, by the looks of things at this point. You'll have more, everyday for the next year."
Nicole hugged Scott, forcing back the urge to give him a peck, knowing it would lead up to more. "See you soon."
"Bye, Nic." He hugged back, and helped her off the trunk.
The two parted ways getting back in to their own cars, and left the parking lot in different directions.
Not far behind the two at the park, was Nicole's housing family. Pietro, Lance, and Claudette had followed them to the park after the movie. They were in Pietro's jeep, and watched Nicole and Scott's little romp in the grass. Pietro was driving, Lance in the passenger side, and and Claudette in the back. "Well wasn't that the most lovely scene in this loved filled feature tonight." Pietro remarked.
"I don't like this, you guys." Claudette stated, "She really has feelings for the character, I've never seen her so ga-ga over a guy before. I mean she always says that she has not time for romance."
"So is she a virgin?" Pietro asked.
"Pietro. What the hell kinda question is that? You're with me you butthole."
"I'm sorry, huns. I was just curious." He remarked giving her a kiss. "So is she?"
She punched him in his back. "No, she's not. But that's still doesn't mean she's not a prude."
"What the fuck are you two babbling about?" Lance remarked, "We're here to see what Summers is up to, and you to losers are talking about her virginity. God, why did I even bother asking you two to help?!"
"Hey rock boy!" Claudette snapped, "She's my sister ok. I happened to care about her, maybe a little bit more than you two. So don't catch an attitude with me if I get a little bit off subject."
"Sorry. I'm just a little..."
"Jealous?" Pietro said. "Envious? Spiteful?"
"Shut up alright, Maximoff."
"You know you want her."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Lance? You have a crush on Nicole? You're joking right?"
"What's so wrong with that?"
"You have no chance. You're not her type."
"Whatever. All I'm saying is that what's happening between her and Summers isn't good for either squads..."
"We know that now. We can't do anything about it."
Nicole smirked. I know a little secret that could possiably stop them....
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Part II- Fighter
Author's Note (3)- This is the second part of Chapter 7, I wanted to make these scenes all in one chapter but thought it would be a waste of time to make this upcoming sequence another chapter so I put it all together. Plus, this next sequence happens right after Scott and Nicole's date.
"I'm so happy tonight." Nicole said sing-songingly strolled into the house. Wanda and Todd had been sitting on the couch watching TV. Freddy had been sitting in the loveseat, sleep and drooling, with a sandwich on his chest. "What's up, Nic?" Todd asked, "Have a good time with Lance?" Nicole was so busy twirling around and humming love songs, she didn't notice that Todd spoke to her. She glided upstairs, gloating; once she reached the top of the stairs, she leaned over the banister and shouted, "Isn't tonight the most wonderful night?! A starry filled sky, such a glorious night made for lovers." Wanda and Todd looked at each other, both thinking, is she for real?! Nicole whisked away from the banister, still very gleeful, and began reciting shakespearean quotes,
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
She strolls down the hall, projecting through the house.
"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself."
She begins reciting verses from a Midsummer Night's Dream as she enters her room and closes the door, and her voice faded into the interiors of her room. Wanda and Toad looked at each other, shook their heads, and continued looking at TV. The phone rang five minutes later, Mystique called and told the gang to suit up, Rogue informed "Risty" of the X-men's plan to find out what's in those boxes. Pietro, Lance, and Claudette came in just as Wanda was awaking up Freddy. They suited up and headed over to an old deserted office building on the east side of town.
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Venus and Pyro were in the basement searching for and recent additions to the old building. Cyclops and Jean were inside on the first floor looking for the crates and keeping look out for the brotherhoods arrival. Rogue and Nightcrawler were running through the upper four levels also looking for the crates.
"Um...Sheila, I think you should come take a look at this." Pyro called out to Venus, pulling the top off of a crate.
Venus walked over to her boyfriend's location to see what he found. She grasped as she looked into the crate. "John, why would they have these?" Venus stuck her hand inside the crates and lifted up lots of little precious jewels; diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, etc.
Pyro hesistated to answer at first, but stated, "I remember Magneto sayin' something before I left about needing some kind of secret materials for his 'liquidation device'. But I guess he meant a jackpot."
"What kind of device is it? And why were you holding out on this kind of information, Mr. Allerdyce?"
"Because I didn't know what that thing was for. So I didn't think I needed to say anything, love."
"We have to get this back to the mansion as soon as possible."
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During the discovery in the basement, Jean and Cyclops were searching and having a little discussion at the same time. "So Scott." Jean said pulling up dusty white sheets off of office furniture, "How was your night with the mystery girl?"
"She's not a mystery girl." Scott answered back, only four feet away from her. "I told almost five times who I was going out with. You just acted like you didn't care. And besides that, I had a great time. Much better than I thought I could have with you."
She scoffs, "Well I'm so sorry, Scott. So who was the lucky girl?"
"You really want to know?"
"Yeah."
"I don't think I should tell you. You'll probably hate me for it."
"I won't hate you. Just tell me."
"Ok fine. Her name is Nicole St. Croix."
"Nicole St. Croix." Jean repeated bluntly. Just the sound of her name coming out of Scott's mouth made gave Jean chills. It made her blood boil, the thought of them together, made Jean tense up. "You went out with her. And she didn't treat you like a peaseant? I mean come on Scott, she thinks she's princess of the world."
"She does not. She's not anything you think she is. She's a very sweet, and kindhearted young woman."
"More like coldhearted. Ok, Summers, If you think she's so sweet and innocent, how come no one's ever seen where she lives, or her parents."
"She's a very private person, and her mom died when she was eight and her dad lives in Africa."
Jean just rolled her eyes, and continued searching throught the room. Cyclops stopped what he was doing, and looked at Jean, astounded by her reaction.
"Am I dectecting a hint of jealousy here?!"
"No. Me? Jealous of little miss princess? I think not."
"Yes. Yes, you are. Jean, you can't stand the fact that I have somebody. And that somebody happens to be your biggest threat of your popularity."
"If you think that she's all innocent and perfect, then you're wrong. No body's perfect, and I have a feeling that you'll find that out very soon."
Scott just crossed his arms, shook his head, and smiled.
"Whatever. Let's finishing looking for these stupid boxes, so we can go back to the mansion."
"...Well, Well, Well. Look what we have here." A female voice called out from them. Cyclops and Jean turned around quickly. M and Avalanche standing side by side in front of the doorway.
"It's one-eyed boy and the artist formerly known as Missy Perfect." Avalanche said caddishly. "So M sweetheart, what do you think we should do about these two tresspassing on our turf?"
"Oh, I know." M replied, "Let's give them a beating they'll never forget."
"I second that motion."
"Bring it on, hawkgirl." Jean stated, "I've been waiting for another shot at you since our last meeting."
"Are you completely sure, you're ready for that?" She asked beginning to hover a little above the floor.
"Oh yeah."
Jean and M charged at each other as did Cyclops and Avalanche. Jean and M started throwing punches at each other, Cyclops and Avalanche did the same. But they weren't getting anywhere, so Avalanche decided to level the battlefield, literally. "M." He called out.
"Yes?!" She answered dodging a few of Jean's hits.
"You might want to fly up right now."
M flew up, taking Jean with her. The ground started shaking, sending Scott up under a large pile of books. Jean was overwhelmed, before she realized where she was, M had dropped her on top of one of the hardwood desks. Jean was, once again, knocked unconcious by M. M came down for a soft landing. She began thinking that there may be others in the building, just as Quicksilver zoomed past her and up the stairs. Scarlet and Toad following him up the stairs, Blob was jogging in behind them stopped beside M and Avalanche.
"Blob. Avalanche. You two go to the basement, I'll stay up here and make sure these two didn't find anything."
The two did what she said and ran down the stairs. M turned her back to the pile of books that Cyclops was under and started looking for any discoveries. Cyclops emerged from the falled books, and spotted M.
"Hey hot stuff!" He called out to her. She turned around to see an unfazed Cyclops, standing in front the pile. "Didn't think you could get rid of me that easy, did you sweetheart?".
"Oh that wasn't my doing." She replied, M begin hovering. "But you're about to see what I can do."
She flew fast straight in his direction. Cyclops turned up his visor, almost to full charge. M saw this and squeaked 'UH OH'. The blast was a direct hit and sent M flying backward into a support column and into the brick wall, leaving a large hole there. Cyclops ran over to see if she was really out, but didn't let his guard down.
Cyclops approached the girl's unconcious body. But to his surprize, there wasn't just one body there. It was two, and they didn't look exactly like M, but they did favor her. It was Nicole and Claudette. Nicole was coming to and she realized what had happened. She looked up and saw Cyclops looking down at her.
"Oh my god." Nicole exclaimed. "Scott, let me explain.".
Scott was heartbroken, "It's ok. You don't have to."
Nicole looked at Cyclops facial expression..
Scott began backing away, "I just can't believe Jean was right again. Especially about you."
He turned away from her and sprinted up the stairs. "Scott. Come on, Scott. SCOTT!!" Nicole called out, tears streaming from her eyes. Venus and Pyro stood behind him the entire time, and saw everything. Venus stared at Nicole for a minute and then Claudette as she began to come to. Pyro motioned to Venus that they had to go, and she followed. Nightcrawler teleported in grabbed Jean and teleported back up to the Blackbird.