AN: I decided that after the last chapter, which very affectionately kicked my ass. That I wanted to write a fun feel good chapter. I doesn't have much plot progression until the very end, but I decided I wanted a chapter of everyone having a good time.
I do not own x men evolution disclaimer cakes
Chapter 10
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That had not gone as planned. He wished she had yelled or snarled, or... anything. Instead, she just turn and walked quietly back into the institute. Hell, he would feel better if she had started hexing various things, but she didn't. Instead she was quiet, and it wasn't that creepy quiet she used to get, when she was pushed pass the anger and violence that tended to rule her life. It was a silence like she hadn't really heard him, or didn't want to deal with Magneto at the moment, but his sister wasn't one to not deal. She tended to hit her problems head on, which is why her reaction to the news freaked him out so much. She just looked at him blankly for a couple seconds, stood up, and left him standing there.
Wanda opened the bedroom door to see Rogue furiously scribbling in a notebook on her bed. She sat down on her bed and looked at the girl as if she were in a daze. "Are ya alright?" Rogue had been slightly worried. She had talked to John while Wanda was with her brother. She didn't get the whole story out of him, and she knew he wouldn't betray Wanda's confidence, but she knew enough to know about why she was in Chicago, and how she didn't have a very good reaction to it. She never explained to John what her freak out was. Magneto on top of that. Rogue didn't even want to think about it.
"I'm fine." Wanda said forcing a small smile. "I just need to get out of here for a while. Do you want to go out tonight?"
"Ah don't know if that is such a great idea."
"If you never leave the institute you are going to become anti-social, more so than you are already." Wanda said already flipping through her clothes.
"With your father on the loose.." Wanda held up a hand to shut her up.
"I know." She said in a tone that would have made Iceman shiver. She turned and looked towards the girl. "It isn't like we have any idea what he is planning. I really need this. I refuse to deal with this after what I went through this week. I need a night out first." She said in an almost begging tone. Rogue studied the girl for a few minutes as she started flipping through her clothing again.
"Just me and you."
"No, I was thinking more like a group of us." She said quickly. She looked back at Rogue and screamed. "Jesus Christ Kitty you scared the fuck out of me." Wanda said to Kitty who was halfway phased through the bedroom door.
"We're all, like, gonna go out."
"If you really want to. It'll be me, Rogue, Remy, You, Peter, my brother, and John."
"That sounds like fun. I will go to my place and get ready. I'll meet you guy back here at, like, eightish." Kitty said leaving the room again.
"Wanda, ya can't ignore this."
"I know. I'm just going to ignore it for the night. So quit mentioning it. What all has happened since I have been gone?"
"Lance and Blob went back to their place, but Todd decided to stay." Wanda looked at Rogue strangely.
"Todd the x-man." Wanda said quietly finally throwing a pair of pants on her bed. "You guys should give him a new nickname. Toad just seems mean."
"Not any meaner than Cyclops."
"You got a point." Wanda said quietly. Rogue got up and started digging through her clothes. "Rogue what size are you?"
"Why?"
"Well your wardrobe isn't exactly "look at me I can touch" friendly. Pick something of mine, while I go tell everyone what we are doing tonight." Rogue nodded.
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Somehow Rogue had convinced Remy to come. No one knew how, considering Gambit hated the kinds of clubs that the Maximoff twins would frequent. They were the ones who decided where they were going, and they had picked some mutant friendly place in the city. He shuddered at the thought, but since Rogue asked him. He would do it. He asked who else was going, and when Rogue said Peter. He couldn't help but start laughing. He knew since Kitty asked he would go, but he laughed at how out of place that Russian farm boy would be in a New York City night club. He also knew that the girls and Pietro would be the only one dressing for a night out.
Piotr looked at Kitty. She was beautiful, and he couldn't for the life of him understand why she said he looked great. He wore the clothes he had worn that day. His hair the same, and he was convinced he was underdressed, but Kitty said it was fine so of course he had complied. What was it about X-girls that just made any man want to do anything to make them happy? Kitty got out of their car and walked into the foyer. He watched her walk away, and couldn't believe how lucky he had been.
"Oh my god, Rogue you look fantastic." Kitty yelled as Rogue walked down the past steps. She had on a pair of Wanda's black low riders and a green halter that set off her eyes and her hair.
"Ah would have worn somethin' different, but red ain't my color, and that is almost all you own." She said looking at Wanda. She smiled.
"We are taking my car and Pietro's car." Wanda stated as John put Wanda coat around her shoulders. He looked at her funny. "What?" He removed the jacket and tugged at the lace on the back of her corseted shirt.
"How do you put this on?" He said curious. Wanda sighed. What was it with men?
"You just put it on, lace, and tie it up in the back."
"But the lace is in the back. How do you do that?" Pietro rolled his eyes.
"They're girls, supposedly they are talented or some shit. Every one riding with me lets go." Rogue and Wanda started giggling. Pietro walked out the door. Wanda gave John a quick kiss.
"Let me get my car keys."
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The beautiful people. That is what they were. Todd flipped through the TV stations. Here he was on a Saturday night with nothing to do. Not that he ever did anything on a Saturday night. There she was the object of his affection all those years ago. He looked at her and really he didn't feel anything. He was still concerned about her, but he realized that he was in love with the idea of her, not necessarily Wanda herself.
Wanda walked into the rec room, and looked at one of the end tables. There they were. "Stupid keys" she muttered under her breath. She turned around and was surprised to see Todd there. She hadn't smelled him, so maybe being an x-man would do him some good. She walked to leave.
"Have a good time." She heard him say quietly. She sighed and turned around leaning against the frame of the door.
"Hey Todd, do you want to come with?" He looked at her shocked.
"Are you kidding?"
"No." She said softly.
"Ok." He said, trying to hold in his excitement. It was Saturday. He had plans. He was going clubbing. Yay! He followed her out.
"You can ride with Pietro, and if he gives ya lip. I'll personally hex him so he can't have children." She said with John, Rogue, and Remy following her towards her car. She swiftly took her extra car key off of her key ring and tossed it to Rogue. "I nominate you designated driver." Rogue didn't mind. She was the last person that needed to be drinking tonight. She shuddered at the thought of what could happen at that place if she were shitfaced.
The cars took off down the road, radio blasting, completely oblivious to the car following them.
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They dropped their coats off at the large circle booth and table in the upstairs corner, before taking in their surroundings. Where the table was it was quieter than the where the dance floor was below them. They sat down and they all ordered drinks. Wanda snuggled closer to John, a fact that did not escape her brother's attention. After a quick glare, he drank some his drink. His caught sight of a girl at the bar. A red head. Beautiful. The woman felt his glare on her and she turned around and looked at him. She debated on whether or not to wave at him. In the end she only smiled and turned to get her drink. She walked pass the table and smiled at Pietro once again. Wanda noticed her brother's reaction and had to chuckle softly. She had never seen him so... nervous. Most of the time he would have gone up to the girl without a second thought. She drank her drink, and ordered another.
"Merde. How many have ya had already?" Wanda smirked.
"I'm fine. Don't worry. I could out drink you, Cajun." Gambit looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Is dat so?"
"Great, Wanda ya got him started." Rogue said under her breath as she took a sip of her coke. She had to chuckle at the intense stare down between Gambit and Wanda. It was like one of those movies about the old west, right before the shoot off.
"Yea, dat's so." She said quickly. "I'll even let ya pick da drink, mon." She said trying to copy his accent but failing miserably. There was in eruption of laughter, including Gambit.
"What the hell was that?" Wanda looked at John. She quickly regained her composure.
"That's how he sounds." Everyone laughed some more.
"Wanda, that accent that came out of ya mouth was Jamaican." Rogue said bursting into laughter again.
"Well, that's how he sounds to me." Wanda said with mock defensiveness.
"Remy don't sound like dat." She rolled her eyes. He left and walked up to the bar. Pietro looked at the girl again as she disappeared down the stairs. He looked to be debating something, before he finally stood up and took a final drink.
"Go get her, little brother." Wanda said laughing. He shot her an angry glare.
"You have no proof of that." He said smugly before he sped after the red head.
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He saw her sitting with some friends and he walked up. He saw her point to him and talk to the blonde beside her. He got up the courage and sat down next to her, and she snapped her friend a look to leave. Her friend excused herself and left the table.
"Crystalia Amaquelin. My friends call me Crystal." She said holding out a hand. He raised an eyebrow at her. "I know it is a strange name." He smiled and took her hand.
"Pietro Maximoff."
"And you raised an eyebrow at my name?" She said laughing. "What kinda of name is Pietro anyways?" She asked him, taking a drink of her drink. He looked at her strangely.
"It's Italian." She looked at the silver headed, blue eyed man in front of her.
"You're Italian?"
"No, the name is." They sat in silence for a few moments. He looked at her. Her green eyes were scanning the dance floor, and she was beautiful. Damn beautiful. "Want to dance?" He asked. "You know you want to?" He said almost arrogantly, like everyone always wants to dance with him, and she had to admit she was no exception. She scoffed and rolled her eyes, not wanting to feed his ego. He feared that for a minute she wasn't going to dance with him. She finally took his hand, and in his mind he sighed with relief. What was it with this girl? She almost had him doubting himself. He led her to the floor at almost a not human speed.
"So your fast?"
"Yea, but it's more a curse than anything." She cocked her head at him quizzically and then began to dance. He looked at her, while she circled him on the floor. "What can you do?"
"I can manipulate the four natural elements, fire, water, air, and earth, but..." She trailed off. "I'm not a mutant." He stopped suddenly. What the fuck? How the hell did that shit work? She noticed the weird look on his face.
"I think you may be in denial." He said quickly. "Ain't no shame in it." She rolled her eyes. What was she thinking telling him that? Hell, what was she thinking dancing and flirting with him like an idiot?
"So everyone with a special ability is a mutant." She said, hips swaying to the music. He looked down at her and seriously seemed to be thinking. His mind went straight to Wanda, and he remembered some of the weird shit Agatha had helped her or taught her to do, things that were in no way related to probability changing hex bolts. Still though a lot of that stuff was hit and miss, telling futures, or meditation to help channel her powers, so there was a chance that those teachings just helped to evolve her powers.
"I don't know." He finally admitted, putting hands on her hips as she grinded against him. He had to keep a groan in his throat. There was just something about this girl that was different from the rest. She made him think, which was a welcome difference from the brain dead bimbos he tended to date.
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At the table Kitty and Piotr were talking quietly amongst themselves, while John, Todd, and Rogue watched, with great amusement, Gambit and Wanda take their shots.
"What do you guys think about next month for a wedding date?" Kitty asked suddenly. Wanda and Gambit put there shots down and Gambit poured the next one.
"Don't ya think that's kinda fast?" Rogue asked.
"Not really. I mean, like, it is just my mom and my dad, and Peter has a small family and all our friends, like, live at the institute. It would be small it wouldn't take that much planning." Rogue almost spit out her drink. Wow, how people change. She couldn't believe that this was the same girl she had shared a room with. The same girl that had her wedding planned and the only thing that could ever rival it would be a royal wedding, an actual Royal wedding.
"Ah think that would be nice. That is what Ah'd do, small. It ain't like Ah got much family anyways."
"Aw chere, ya plannin' our weddin' already." Rogue rolled her eyes, noticing his reactions. She was going to kill Wanda for challenging him like this. She was going to have to deal with a drunk gambit coming on to her all the way home.
"Ya wish Swamp Rat." He shrugged as he and Wanda took their next shots. Wanda poured.
"What do you think Wanda?" Kitty asked.
"Hell, I don't know. I wasn't one of those girls that wore bed sheets on my head pretending it was my wedding. I never planned it, and to tell you the truth, I never thought I'd ever get married. I sure as hell never want to deal the stupidity of a long ass ceremony and drawn out money wasting reception for a slip of paper. Elopement at the court house is better, and much more romantic in my opinion. It reminds me of like those old stories. Engagements are like the drawn out and stressful times. So if you can skip it. I say skip it." She took a drink, and Gambit poured. "I'd rather just run off and get married one day, less stressful."
"Let's do it, luv." He said. She started laughing, and knew the alcohol in his system was already beginning to take affect. Everyone at the table just gaped at him. What the hell? Was John Allerdyce proposing to Wanda Maximoff? Just wait until Pietro heard about this.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course not, but why not?"
"Maybe because we have been in a romantic relationship for," she looked at her watch. "Seven hours." He laughed.
"I know I was just wondering if there was something else." He downed his drink. She looked at him strangely, before taking her next drink. She looked at the Cajun across from her, and he smiled smugly. Damn him. She had underestimated him. She was getting bored with this little contest. He poured their next shots.
"I think your brother is gonna get laid tonight." Kitty said, causing Wanda to spit her drink out.
"What?!? Why in God's name would you tell me that?" Kitty was turned around on the booth, and watching Pietro on the dance floor. "I don't need to know any details that prove that my brother is a sexual being." She looked at her glass and gave Gambit a motion like a toast, and downed it. "I am so bored with this." She stated to no one in particular. "You are formidable opponent, Remy LeBeau, but I am bored out of my skull."
"Chere, ya forfeitin'?" He asked smugly.
"I can take you. I would just like to do something else besides drink with you all night." She spat coldly.
"Ya tryin' to hurt my feelings." She rolled her eyes, and looked at everyone at the table.
"Where did Todd go?" John pointed to the bar.
"Let's dance." Kitty asked Piotr. He looked at her strangely, he didn't know how to dance. Well at least not like that, but the look on her face made him want to dance.
"I can try." She squealed as she jumped up taking his hand and leading him downstairs.
The four remaining people at the table turned around and watched with great amusement as Piotr tried to dance with Kitty. They could tell he was blushing even though there were different colored lights flashing all around. Pretty soon laughing about Piotr lack of dancing ability got boring, but what could they expect of the farm boy? They turned back and settled back into their seats. Wanda leaned against John and Rogue kept some distance between her and Remy. She was happy about the affection that Remy sometimes poured upon her and the fact that she could now accept it, but she still enjoyed her personal state, and could never handle someone constantly being in her space. They had gotten into a fun cycle of making fun of the various people walking up to the bar to get drinks, and the four had been laughing hysterically, and having a relativity good time, and Rogue noticed that the Scarlet Witch really wasn't an angry emotional drunk.
"Ok ok, Ah wanna pick the next person." Rogue said scanning the people at the bar. Her eyes fell on this pretty blonde not dressed slutty, and looked almost flawless. "How about Barbie?" Rogue said pointing to the woman. The other three studied her for a few moments, looking for something to make fun of. She turned around and smiled at the four of them. Not in mean how dare you stare at me fashion, but in a nice way. Still though she looked slightly upset not at them, but at something else. John, Remy, and Wanda watched the girl pass not being able to take their eyes off of her. Wanda heard a yelp and Remy turn his attention back to Rogue, and John did the same, but Wanda's eyes lingered on the girl for another minute.
"Never thought blonde would be your type, luv." She turned towards him and rolled her eyes.
"Is it wrong that I thought she was gorgeous?" She asked him, and he looked at her strangely before he seemed to space out. She scoffed. "Enter lesbian fantasy in my boyfriend's head." She said hitting him in the back of the head.
"Hey it was just getting good." He said joking. She shook her head at his antics.
"I'll be right back." She said walking off to find the woman.
"What da hell is that about?" Remy asked confused. Rogue shrugged.
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Wanda found the woman sitting downstairs, and she sat next to her. The girl looked at her strangely.
"I'm Wanda." She said holding out her hand. The girl looked at her skeptically before taking it.
"Lana."
"Ok, Lana I know this'll sound really strange, but you looked like you've had a rough night." The girl cut her off.
"Listen, I'm flattered really, but I'm not."
"I'm not coming on to you. It is just that I have this friend, and I promise he is really sweet just the opposite sex doesn't seem to give the time of day." The girl looked at her, and her face softened somewhat.
"What the hell? I just got stood up. I should be on a blind date tonight."
"Great. He is upstairs sitting at the bar. He is kinda green. You'll understand what I mean when you see him. Don't tell him I asked you to do this." Wanda said as she got up and walked back to her friends.
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She sat down next to John.
"What was that about?" Wanda shushed Rogue, and pointed towards Todd sitting at the bar. "What?"
"Just watch," she said softly. Lana walked back up the stairs and saw the person Wanda had been talking about. She sat next to him. Todd noticeably stiffened, completely nervous.
"Hi," She said politely. "I'm Lana."
"Todd."
"I saw you up here when I was getting a drink earlier, and I was wondering if you wanted to dance."
"Yes!" Todd said voice breaking, because he was trying to remain cool and hide his excitement. She smiled at him brightly, and walked to the dance floor.
"How da hell did ya get her to do dat?" Wanda smiled.
"I'm just that good." She said standing back up. She grabbed John hand and led him to the dance floor.
He linked his fingers in her two front belt loops and pulled her close to him and kissed her neck.
"Don't, You're gonna make me want to do something else besides dance." She said smiling seductively. He moved his hands from her belt loops to her hips as she danced against him.
Crystal looked at Pietro confused, when he stopped dancing. She followed his gaze to two people dancing on the other side of the dance floor, dancing far closer than she ever would in a public place. The girl's back was to them.
"Who is she?" She asked him.
"My sister." He said coldly. She looked back and forth almost not believing what he had just said. John spun Wanda around, and Crystal looked the girl in the eyes for a fraction of a second.
"Now I see it." She said returning her attention to Pietro. "Do you not like him?"
"Not really." She grabbed his hands and led him back to the table. They both sat down. She looked at him. It wasn't her fault she was completely taken with him. They both took drinks out of their glasses.
"Why don't you like him?"
"He annoys me. There is a lot of issues that would take a life time to explain between my sister and me that affect how I feel about John." He said pointing over to the two. What was it about her that he felt so comfortable about baring his soul to her?
"We could go somewhere else. There's a coffee shop down the street. We have all night." He nodded.
"OK let me get my jacket."
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"Ya havin' a good time, Chere?" Rogue rolled her eyes. She could kill Wanda for leaving her alone with a drunk Gambit for the past hour.
"As good as can be expected." Gambit look at her hurt.
"Not enjoyin' da company." She rolled her eyes, and he kissed her. She was too shocked to do anything. He pulled away. "Let's see what we can do about that." Rogue smiled and kissed him deeply. He leaned into her with his upper body. She moaned in protest when he separated from him.
"Ya win, Swamp Rat. Ah'm havin' a good time." He smirked at her, and took his sunglasses off.
"It's cause Remy's perfect, River Rat." She shook her head.
"Ya blew it."
"They be droppin' like flies, chere." He said motioning to the dance floor.
John and Wanda had slowed their dancing and were smooching it wasn't an intense make out session, but it was almost adorable. It made Rogue smile. The closeness of the two seemed so intense at times. She knew Wanda wasn't one to get close to people, and she knew that anything Wanda did could still surprise John. A person can never know everything about another person, but Wanda had shown John exactly what he would be getting himself into just being friends with her. John knew exactly what he was getting into, he still wanted to pursue something more with her, and he honestly did not seem to care. That was amazing, and she wondered if Gambit was as unstable as Wanda, if she could handle it.
Piotr still hadn't gotten much better at dancing, but just looking at him and Kitty made her extremely happy for them. He was willing to try all these new things for her, and she would do the same for him. She chuckled remembering the one time Piotr had made Kitty as authentic Russian dinner. She hated every bite, but she never let him know that. She told him it was fantastic and even asked for seconds.
For the past hour Rogue and Gambit had just sat up in the booth watching their friends dancing on the floor and chatting. The change in Pietro had been astounding in Rogue's opinion. For the past two hours she saw Pietro and the girl he had met. Her body language said she was smart and that if he were to try anything, he'd end up dead. They talked why they danced or while they danced. She was happy he needed someone, even if he was too arrogant to admit it. He left with her anyway knowing he wasn't going to get play tonight.
The surprise of the evening had been Todd. He was currently glued to Lana, and she actually genuinely seemed to be having a good time with Todd. She had even kissed him, and giggled at his stupid pet names that always drove Wanda up the wall. She would probably date him, if he kept up with his showers.
"They are." She said in agreement, as an extremely tired Kitty and Piotr flopped down in the booth.
"I can't believe I'm, like, this tired and it is only midnight."
"We should probably take off soon. The drive back is an hour."
"Peter's right, no matter how fun tonight is... Mags is still out there and we have a big day tomorrow." Rogue said, taking charge. "Ah gotta pee." Rogue said getting up.
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She walked up to the sink and looked at her reaction in the mirror. It was funny how every body paired off tonight, not that she didn't want to be paired off with the Cajun. She pushed the soap dispenser with her hand, and began to wash her hands. She reached for a paper towel, and noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She spun around into a fight stance, and looked around the bathroom suspiciously. There was no one there.
"Get a grip, Rogue." She said to herself. Blowing a platinum strand of hair out of her face. She tossed the towel into the Garbage can and quickly ducked. The man punched the mirror in front of her. She kicked his feet out from underneath him, and waited for him to get back up. She felt someone put her in a bear hug from behind, but she threw her feet on the sink and pushed off, knocking the person through the bathroom stall, taking the door off the hinges and landing roughly on the toilet. The person loosened their grip. Rogue saw someone else move out of the corner of her eye, and the person on the floor get back up. She debated whether or not to stay and fight or run. She went to take off, but she had lingered a moment too soon. She felt something hit her on the back of the head. Everything went fuzzy and dark.
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John threw his arm around Wanda and kissed her temple. She snuggled on his shoulder.
"I'm tired."
"We'll leave soon as soon as Rogue gets out of the bathroom." Wanda nodded.
"I'll go check on her. She's, like, been in there forever." Kitty said taking off for the bathroom.
"So Todd ya get lucky?" Wanda asked. He smiled.
"I got a phone number."
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Pietro brought two cups of coffee back to the booth and sat across from Crystal. He glanced around the coffee shop. He noticed various people from the club hanging out, most likely trying to sober up. He took in her appearance. He could tell she was pretty at the club, but here in regular light. She was something else. He had never seen anything quite like her before. Or met for that matter. He never talked to anyone about anything, and all night they had talked about various things. He just felt at ease around her.
She looked at the man in front of her, and could very easily see where his arrogance came from. She sipped at her coffee. She could very easily get lost in his eyes. They were a distinct blue. That very few people possessed and it was the only reason she could tell that his sister was his sister, back at the club.
"Where exactly are you from?" She smiled.
"There is an island called Attilan in the Atlantic ocean, but I live here. What about you?"
"My sister and I were born in Germany, but we don't remember it much by the time we were toddlers we were in the states." She nodded.
"You two get along well?"
"We used to, actually we used to only have each other, but we got separated, and for along time we didn't. It is a lot better now." She traced the outline of the cup with her finger and looked back up at him.
"She sounds... seems great. I mean with everything you have said about her and that bout of overprotectiveness you had when she was dancing. Why were you guys separated?" He hesitated. He knew Wanda didn't talk about the asylum and he had to seriously wonder whether or not she would actually mind him talking about it.
"Our father isn't exactly... father of the year. Our mother fled with us from him when we were young, changed our last name and everything, and one day Wanda and I saw him at the park and we left with him."
"Wait a second, he kidnaped you two?"
"We left willingly. We left our mom for that son of a bitch."
"You were children, and you just wanted to be with your father. There isn't anything wrong with that." She stopped to let him finish with his story.
"Wanda has always had a temper. Once I messed up dad's office and blamed her for it. She was five and gave me the silent treatment for a week. Anyways one day she asked our dad why mom couldn't live with us also, and why we couldn't be a family again. He said we couldn't, and he never gave her a reason. She went into a rage and her powers manifested."
"What are her powers?"
"I think I heard someone say once that they were probability changing hex bolts, but that isn't all she can do, an to tell you the truth I don't even think she knows what she is capable of. I mean sometimes she has still has trouble controlling them, especially when she gets into an emotional fit, and she seems like someone who doesn't get emotional, but she wears her emotions out on her sleeve. I can feel it." He took a drink of his coffee. "She was really young for her powers, and they were dangerous. She really was a danger to herself and to others. That is one thing I won't deny. Our father got tired of having to deal with her. So one day he packed us up in the car, and had her admitted to an asylum so they could control her. Not long after he sent me away to live with some people. The last memory I have of her in our childhood is of her crying for dad not to leave her in the rain."
She looked up at him. Damn. She was totally engrossed in the story, but she really didn't want to push him into anything. "Her last memory of me was me leaving her there. So it was quite different. That is all that dwelled in her mind for the seven years she was in there. She never talks about what happened in there. I know dad payed for tutors and teachers. He wanted her isolated, but he also wanted her educated just in case he needed her one day. He didn't want an idiot around, and he had this old friend of his that tried to help her with her powers, but that doesn't help the isolation at such a critical age. She wasn't crazy when she went in, and she isn't crazy now. That place just made her incredibly unstable. She is fairly better now, but still not all there. I am beginning to think that she may seriously have something wrong with her head, like bi-polar disorder or some thing. The strange thing is that she graduated from Oxford with a degree in psychology and I know she wants to go further.
I can't think of a day when I didn't think about her while she was gone. She was always the darker, cooler, more serious of the both of us, but she was loveable, innocent. Nothing like the next time I saw her." He thought quickly trying to tell the story without mentioning the brother hood. He didn't want to lie, but damn he did some stupid shit back in the day. "Let's just say it didn't go over to well, she still didn't have control of her powers, and they had grown. Plus she was so full of rage it hurt to look at her, and she seemed to hate me." He said stopping his story there. Wanda's mind swipe was really her story and while it affected him. He wasn't comfortable telling ALL his secrets to some woman he just met, no matter how she made him feel.
"But things are better now?"
"As well as can be expected." she nodded. "We aren't as close as I think we should be, but there are siblings that never talk at all. I know she cares and would do anything for me. So what more can I ask for?"
"The trust that she could ever feel the same for you. I mean, I think your problem is that even though you feel like you could trust her and that she would do anything for you, you don't feel like the opposite is true. Do you feel that she trusts you to do anything for her? She probably does. It can't be completely one sided, especially if you two have a psi link. She just doesn't show it and you're frustrated with her about it." She suddenly looked down sheepishly. "I mean... I just met you and I have never met your sister, so that is just my opinion based on what you've told me."
"It was good opinion, but I know she trusts me, but you're right she doesn't trust me as much as I trust her, or at least that's the way I feel about it." She nodded, like she understood, but he really had never thought of him and Wanda like that. "I don't want you to think that it is all her though. I do have my quirks."
"So I've noticed." She said smiling, welcoming the slight change in topic. She had this philosophy that while it was good to talk about your issues. A person should never talk about them for extended periods of time. It tends to bring even the happiest people down.
"What have you noticed?" She leaned across the table on her elbows and smiled at him.
"You are arrogant, and slightly childish." She said with his face moving closer to hers.
"That hurts anything else?"
"You have an ego that could suffocate every living person on the planet." She said only half joking, so far she actually liked that little personality quirk. She heard him laugh, there is no way she couldn't their faces were so close together. She kissed him, which was completely out of character for the Attilan Princess, of course she didn't tell him that. She really didn't need to expand his ego anymore than it already was. Here she was kissing some guy she met at a club. Her proper manners out the window. She felt like she could trust him just based on how open he was with her. She pulled away from him and he smiled. His phone rang, and he now decided he wanted to kill whoever decided the cell phone was a wonderful idea. They were annoying only tending to ring when you didn't want them to. He looked down and saw Wanda's name on the caller ID.
"It's my sister. I took off without telling anyone. Everyone probably wants to leave, and I'm not there." She nodded and leaned back. "What Wanda?... What's wrong?... What do you mean she's gone... I'll be right there." He said quickly hanging up the phone. She slid a piece of paper across to him.
"Call me." She said quickly.
"I gotta go." She smiled. She seemed to always be smiles. He went to leave, but instead he quickly turned around and kissed her. "I'll call. I don't think I could pull that "I promise I'll call tomorrow" bullshit with you." He was gone in a gush of wind.
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AN: I admit I don't know a whole lot about Crystal, besides what I read in bios and thing of that nature, but I seriously wasn't going to make her a huge part of the story. I just realized I have kind of been emotionally torturing Pietro and I wanted him to talk to someone, even if both the Maximoffs are too stubborn for their own good. Lana is a completely made up character. I realized that Todd is almost loveable on Evolution so I should quit pushing my 616 dislike on him. So I gave him a girl, a hot girl. I figured some girl out there would love his quirks.
Demonrogue13- Thanks for reviewing. I actually already have the family reunion scene written in my head.
Amieva- I am glad you love the Jonda. I think everyone should love the Jonda.
evanescence kicks ass- I was happy that John and Wanda got their acts together, but think about now with Jonda officially being Jonda, and Rogue's kidnaping we can let the ROMYNESS begin. I hope you are happy with the Pietro ness in this chapter. I decided to give him some sort of outlet. I hope you enjoy it.
Isandahalf- You like the family drama, wait until everyone meets back up. That should be intense. Emma does want Rogue, but she really didn't think her decision through. She just saw the power she possesses and got greedy. I hope you enjoyed the Romy this chapter. I can really start some major stuff now with the ROMY, sometimes I wish that I could spend a ton more time on it, but Jonda is my muse, but now that JONDA is JONDA, I can do bunches of Romy.
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Chapter 10
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That had not gone as planned. He wished she had yelled or snarled, or... anything. Instead, she just turn and walked quietly back into the institute. Hell, he would feel better if she had started hexing various things, but she didn't. Instead she was quiet, and it wasn't that creepy quiet she used to get, when she was pushed pass the anger and violence that tended to rule her life. It was a silence like she hadn't really heard him, or didn't want to deal with Magneto at the moment, but his sister wasn't one to not deal. She tended to hit her problems head on, which is why her reaction to the news freaked him out so much. She just looked at him blankly for a couple seconds, stood up, and left him standing there.
Wanda opened the bedroom door to see Rogue furiously scribbling in a notebook on her bed. She sat down on her bed and looked at the girl as if she were in a daze. "Are ya alright?" Rogue had been slightly worried. She had talked to John while Wanda was with her brother. She didn't get the whole story out of him, and she knew he wouldn't betray Wanda's confidence, but she knew enough to know about why she was in Chicago, and how she didn't have a very good reaction to it. She never explained to John what her freak out was. Magneto on top of that. Rogue didn't even want to think about it.
"I'm fine." Wanda said forcing a small smile. "I just need to get out of here for a while. Do you want to go out tonight?"
"Ah don't know if that is such a great idea."
"If you never leave the institute you are going to become anti-social, more so than you are already." Wanda said already flipping through her clothes.
"With your father on the loose.." Wanda held up a hand to shut her up.
"I know." She said in a tone that would have made Iceman shiver. She turned and looked towards the girl. "It isn't like we have any idea what he is planning. I really need this. I refuse to deal with this after what I went through this week. I need a night out first." She said in an almost begging tone. Rogue studied the girl for a few minutes as she started flipping through her clothing again.
"Just me and you."
"No, I was thinking more like a group of us." She said quickly. She looked back at Rogue and screamed. "Jesus Christ Kitty you scared the fuck out of me." Wanda said to Kitty who was halfway phased through the bedroom door.
"We're all, like, gonna go out."
"If you really want to. It'll be me, Rogue, Remy, You, Peter, my brother, and John."
"That sounds like fun. I will go to my place and get ready. I'll meet you guy back here at, like, eightish." Kitty said leaving the room again.
"Wanda, ya can't ignore this."
"I know. I'm just going to ignore it for the night. So quit mentioning it. What all has happened since I have been gone?"
"Lance and Blob went back to their place, but Todd decided to stay." Wanda looked at Rogue strangely.
"Todd the x-man." Wanda said quietly finally throwing a pair of pants on her bed. "You guys should give him a new nickname. Toad just seems mean."
"Not any meaner than Cyclops."
"You got a point." Wanda said quietly. Rogue got up and started digging through her clothes. "Rogue what size are you?"
"Why?"
"Well your wardrobe isn't exactly "look at me I can touch" friendly. Pick something of mine, while I go tell everyone what we are doing tonight." Rogue nodded.
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Somehow Rogue had convinced Remy to come. No one knew how, considering Gambit hated the kinds of clubs that the Maximoff twins would frequent. They were the ones who decided where they were going, and they had picked some mutant friendly place in the city. He shuddered at the thought, but since Rogue asked him. He would do it. He asked who else was going, and when Rogue said Peter. He couldn't help but start laughing. He knew since Kitty asked he would go, but he laughed at how out of place that Russian farm boy would be in a New York City night club. He also knew that the girls and Pietro would be the only one dressing for a night out.
Piotr looked at Kitty. She was beautiful, and he couldn't for the life of him understand why she said he looked great. He wore the clothes he had worn that day. His hair the same, and he was convinced he was underdressed, but Kitty said it was fine so of course he had complied. What was it about X-girls that just made any man want to do anything to make them happy? Kitty got out of their car and walked into the foyer. He watched her walk away, and couldn't believe how lucky he had been.
"Oh my god, Rogue you look fantastic." Kitty yelled as Rogue walked down the past steps. She had on a pair of Wanda's black low riders and a green halter that set off her eyes and her hair.
"Ah would have worn somethin' different, but red ain't my color, and that is almost all you own." She said looking at Wanda. She smiled.
"We are taking my car and Pietro's car." Wanda stated as John put Wanda coat around her shoulders. He looked at her funny. "What?" He removed the jacket and tugged at the lace on the back of her corseted shirt.
"How do you put this on?" He said curious. Wanda sighed. What was it with men?
"You just put it on, lace, and tie it up in the back."
"But the lace is in the back. How do you do that?" Pietro rolled his eyes.
"They're girls, supposedly they are talented or some shit. Every one riding with me lets go." Rogue and Wanda started giggling. Pietro walked out the door. Wanda gave John a quick kiss.
"Let me get my car keys."
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The beautiful people. That is what they were. Todd flipped through the TV stations. Here he was on a Saturday night with nothing to do. Not that he ever did anything on a Saturday night. There she was the object of his affection all those years ago. He looked at her and really he didn't feel anything. He was still concerned about her, but he realized that he was in love with the idea of her, not necessarily Wanda herself.
Wanda walked into the rec room, and looked at one of the end tables. There they were. "Stupid keys" she muttered under her breath. She turned around and was surprised to see Todd there. She hadn't smelled him, so maybe being an x-man would do him some good. She walked to leave.
"Have a good time." She heard him say quietly. She sighed and turned around leaning against the frame of the door.
"Hey Todd, do you want to come with?" He looked at her shocked.
"Are you kidding?"
"No." She said softly.
"Ok." He said, trying to hold in his excitement. It was Saturday. He had plans. He was going clubbing. Yay! He followed her out.
"You can ride with Pietro, and if he gives ya lip. I'll personally hex him so he can't have children." She said with John, Rogue, and Remy following her towards her car. She swiftly took her extra car key off of her key ring and tossed it to Rogue. "I nominate you designated driver." Rogue didn't mind. She was the last person that needed to be drinking tonight. She shuddered at the thought of what could happen at that place if she were shitfaced.
The cars took off down the road, radio blasting, completely oblivious to the car following them.
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They dropped their coats off at the large circle booth and table in the upstairs corner, before taking in their surroundings. Where the table was it was quieter than the where the dance floor was below them. They sat down and they all ordered drinks. Wanda snuggled closer to John, a fact that did not escape her brother's attention. After a quick glare, he drank some his drink. His caught sight of a girl at the bar. A red head. Beautiful. The woman felt his glare on her and she turned around and looked at him. She debated on whether or not to wave at him. In the end she only smiled and turned to get her drink. She walked pass the table and smiled at Pietro once again. Wanda noticed her brother's reaction and had to chuckle softly. She had never seen him so... nervous. Most of the time he would have gone up to the girl without a second thought. She drank her drink, and ordered another.
"Merde. How many have ya had already?" Wanda smirked.
"I'm fine. Don't worry. I could out drink you, Cajun." Gambit looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Is dat so?"
"Great, Wanda ya got him started." Rogue said under her breath as she took a sip of her coke. She had to chuckle at the intense stare down between Gambit and Wanda. It was like one of those movies about the old west, right before the shoot off.
"Yea, dat's so." She said quickly. "I'll even let ya pick da drink, mon." She said trying to copy his accent but failing miserably. There was in eruption of laughter, including Gambit.
"What the hell was that?" Wanda looked at John. She quickly regained her composure.
"That's how he sounds." Everyone laughed some more.
"Wanda, that accent that came out of ya mouth was Jamaican." Rogue said bursting into laughter again.
"Well, that's how he sounds to me." Wanda said with mock defensiveness.
"Remy don't sound like dat." She rolled her eyes. He left and walked up to the bar. Pietro looked at the girl again as she disappeared down the stairs. He looked to be debating something, before he finally stood up and took a final drink.
"Go get her, little brother." Wanda said laughing. He shot her an angry glare.
"You have no proof of that." He said smugly before he sped after the red head.
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He saw her sitting with some friends and he walked up. He saw her point to him and talk to the blonde beside her. He got up the courage and sat down next to her, and she snapped her friend a look to leave. Her friend excused herself and left the table.
"Crystalia Amaquelin. My friends call me Crystal." She said holding out a hand. He raised an eyebrow at her. "I know it is a strange name." He smiled and took her hand.
"Pietro Maximoff."
"And you raised an eyebrow at my name?" She said laughing. "What kinda of name is Pietro anyways?" She asked him, taking a drink of her drink. He looked at her strangely.
"It's Italian." She looked at the silver headed, blue eyed man in front of her.
"You're Italian?"
"No, the name is." They sat in silence for a few moments. He looked at her. Her green eyes were scanning the dance floor, and she was beautiful. Damn beautiful. "Want to dance?" He asked. "You know you want to?" He said almost arrogantly, like everyone always wants to dance with him, and she had to admit she was no exception. She scoffed and rolled her eyes, not wanting to feed his ego. He feared that for a minute she wasn't going to dance with him. She finally took his hand, and in his mind he sighed with relief. What was it with this girl? She almost had him doubting himself. He led her to the floor at almost a not human speed.
"So your fast?"
"Yea, but it's more a curse than anything." She cocked her head at him quizzically and then began to dance. He looked at her, while she circled him on the floor. "What can you do?"
"I can manipulate the four natural elements, fire, water, air, and earth, but..." She trailed off. "I'm not a mutant." He stopped suddenly. What the fuck? How the hell did that shit work? She noticed the weird look on his face.
"I think you may be in denial." He said quickly. "Ain't no shame in it." She rolled her eyes. What was she thinking telling him that? Hell, what was she thinking dancing and flirting with him like an idiot?
"So everyone with a special ability is a mutant." She said, hips swaying to the music. He looked down at her and seriously seemed to be thinking. His mind went straight to Wanda, and he remembered some of the weird shit Agatha had helped her or taught her to do, things that were in no way related to probability changing hex bolts. Still though a lot of that stuff was hit and miss, telling futures, or meditation to help channel her powers, so there was a chance that those teachings just helped to evolve her powers.
"I don't know." He finally admitted, putting hands on her hips as she grinded against him. He had to keep a groan in his throat. There was just something about this girl that was different from the rest. She made him think, which was a welcome difference from the brain dead bimbos he tended to date.
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At the table Kitty and Piotr were talking quietly amongst themselves, while John, Todd, and Rogue watched, with great amusement, Gambit and Wanda take their shots.
"What do you guys think about next month for a wedding date?" Kitty asked suddenly. Wanda and Gambit put there shots down and Gambit poured the next one.
"Don't ya think that's kinda fast?" Rogue asked.
"Not really. I mean, like, it is just my mom and my dad, and Peter has a small family and all our friends, like, live at the institute. It would be small it wouldn't take that much planning." Rogue almost spit out her drink. Wow, how people change. She couldn't believe that this was the same girl she had shared a room with. The same girl that had her wedding planned and the only thing that could ever rival it would be a royal wedding, an actual Royal wedding.
"Ah think that would be nice. That is what Ah'd do, small. It ain't like Ah got much family anyways."
"Aw chere, ya plannin' our weddin' already." Rogue rolled her eyes, noticing his reactions. She was going to kill Wanda for challenging him like this. She was going to have to deal with a drunk gambit coming on to her all the way home.
"Ya wish Swamp Rat." He shrugged as he and Wanda took their next shots. Wanda poured.
"What do you think Wanda?" Kitty asked.
"Hell, I don't know. I wasn't one of those girls that wore bed sheets on my head pretending it was my wedding. I never planned it, and to tell you the truth, I never thought I'd ever get married. I sure as hell never want to deal the stupidity of a long ass ceremony and drawn out money wasting reception for a slip of paper. Elopement at the court house is better, and much more romantic in my opinion. It reminds me of like those old stories. Engagements are like the drawn out and stressful times. So if you can skip it. I say skip it." She took a drink, and Gambit poured. "I'd rather just run off and get married one day, less stressful."
"Let's do it, luv." He said. She started laughing, and knew the alcohol in his system was already beginning to take affect. Everyone at the table just gaped at him. What the hell? Was John Allerdyce proposing to Wanda Maximoff? Just wait until Pietro heard about this.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course not, but why not?"
"Maybe because we have been in a romantic relationship for," she looked at her watch. "Seven hours." He laughed.
"I know I was just wondering if there was something else." He downed his drink. She looked at him strangely, before taking her next drink. She looked at the Cajun across from her, and he smiled smugly. Damn him. She had underestimated him. She was getting bored with this little contest. He poured their next shots.
"I think your brother is gonna get laid tonight." Kitty said, causing Wanda to spit her drink out.
"What?!? Why in God's name would you tell me that?" Kitty was turned around on the booth, and watching Pietro on the dance floor. "I don't need to know any details that prove that my brother is a sexual being." She looked at her glass and gave Gambit a motion like a toast, and downed it. "I am so bored with this." She stated to no one in particular. "You are formidable opponent, Remy LeBeau, but I am bored out of my skull."
"Chere, ya forfeitin'?" He asked smugly.
"I can take you. I would just like to do something else besides drink with you all night." She spat coldly.
"Ya tryin' to hurt my feelings." She rolled her eyes, and looked at everyone at the table.
"Where did Todd go?" John pointed to the bar.
"Let's dance." Kitty asked Piotr. He looked at her strangely, he didn't know how to dance. Well at least not like that, but the look on her face made him want to dance.
"I can try." She squealed as she jumped up taking his hand and leading him downstairs.
The four remaining people at the table turned around and watched with great amusement as Piotr tried to dance with Kitty. They could tell he was blushing even though there were different colored lights flashing all around. Pretty soon laughing about Piotr lack of dancing ability got boring, but what could they expect of the farm boy? They turned back and settled back into their seats. Wanda leaned against John and Rogue kept some distance between her and Remy. She was happy about the affection that Remy sometimes poured upon her and the fact that she could now accept it, but she still enjoyed her personal state, and could never handle someone constantly being in her space. They had gotten into a fun cycle of making fun of the various people walking up to the bar to get drinks, and the four had been laughing hysterically, and having a relativity good time, and Rogue noticed that the Scarlet Witch really wasn't an angry emotional drunk.
"Ok ok, Ah wanna pick the next person." Rogue said scanning the people at the bar. Her eyes fell on this pretty blonde not dressed slutty, and looked almost flawless. "How about Barbie?" Rogue said pointing to the woman. The other three studied her for a few moments, looking for something to make fun of. She turned around and smiled at the four of them. Not in mean how dare you stare at me fashion, but in a nice way. Still though she looked slightly upset not at them, but at something else. John, Remy, and Wanda watched the girl pass not being able to take their eyes off of her. Wanda heard a yelp and Remy turn his attention back to Rogue, and John did the same, but Wanda's eyes lingered on the girl for another minute.
"Never thought blonde would be your type, luv." She turned towards him and rolled her eyes.
"Is it wrong that I thought she was gorgeous?" She asked him, and he looked at her strangely before he seemed to space out. She scoffed. "Enter lesbian fantasy in my boyfriend's head." She said hitting him in the back of the head.
"Hey it was just getting good." He said joking. She shook her head at his antics.
"I'll be right back." She said walking off to find the woman.
"What da hell is that about?" Remy asked confused. Rogue shrugged.
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Wanda found the woman sitting downstairs, and she sat next to her. The girl looked at her strangely.
"I'm Wanda." She said holding out her hand. The girl looked at her skeptically before taking it.
"Lana."
"Ok, Lana I know this'll sound really strange, but you looked like you've had a rough night." The girl cut her off.
"Listen, I'm flattered really, but I'm not."
"I'm not coming on to you. It is just that I have this friend, and I promise he is really sweet just the opposite sex doesn't seem to give the time of day." The girl looked at her, and her face softened somewhat.
"What the hell? I just got stood up. I should be on a blind date tonight."
"Great. He is upstairs sitting at the bar. He is kinda green. You'll understand what I mean when you see him. Don't tell him I asked you to do this." Wanda said as she got up and walked back to her friends.
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She sat down next to John.
"What was that about?" Wanda shushed Rogue, and pointed towards Todd sitting at the bar. "What?"
"Just watch," she said softly. Lana walked back up the stairs and saw the person Wanda had been talking about. She sat next to him. Todd noticeably stiffened, completely nervous.
"Hi," She said politely. "I'm Lana."
"Todd."
"I saw you up here when I was getting a drink earlier, and I was wondering if you wanted to dance."
"Yes!" Todd said voice breaking, because he was trying to remain cool and hide his excitement. She smiled at him brightly, and walked to the dance floor.
"How da hell did ya get her to do dat?" Wanda smiled.
"I'm just that good." She said standing back up. She grabbed John hand and led him to the dance floor.
He linked his fingers in her two front belt loops and pulled her close to him and kissed her neck.
"Don't, You're gonna make me want to do something else besides dance." She said smiling seductively. He moved his hands from her belt loops to her hips as she danced against him.
Crystal looked at Pietro confused, when he stopped dancing. She followed his gaze to two people dancing on the other side of the dance floor, dancing far closer than she ever would in a public place. The girl's back was to them.
"Who is she?" She asked him.
"My sister." He said coldly. She looked back and forth almost not believing what he had just said. John spun Wanda around, and Crystal looked the girl in the eyes for a fraction of a second.
"Now I see it." She said returning her attention to Pietro. "Do you not like him?"
"Not really." She grabbed his hands and led him back to the table. They both sat down. She looked at him. It wasn't her fault she was completely taken with him. They both took drinks out of their glasses.
"Why don't you like him?"
"He annoys me. There is a lot of issues that would take a life time to explain between my sister and me that affect how I feel about John." He said pointing over to the two. What was it about her that he felt so comfortable about baring his soul to her?
"We could go somewhere else. There's a coffee shop down the street. We have all night." He nodded.
"OK let me get my jacket."
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"Ya havin' a good time, Chere?" Rogue rolled her eyes. She could kill Wanda for leaving her alone with a drunk Gambit for the past hour.
"As good as can be expected." Gambit look at her hurt.
"Not enjoyin' da company." She rolled her eyes, and he kissed her. She was too shocked to do anything. He pulled away. "Let's see what we can do about that." Rogue smiled and kissed him deeply. He leaned into her with his upper body. She moaned in protest when he separated from him.
"Ya win, Swamp Rat. Ah'm havin' a good time." He smirked at her, and took his sunglasses off.
"It's cause Remy's perfect, River Rat." She shook her head.
"Ya blew it."
"They be droppin' like flies, chere." He said motioning to the dance floor.
John and Wanda had slowed their dancing and were smooching it wasn't an intense make out session, but it was almost adorable. It made Rogue smile. The closeness of the two seemed so intense at times. She knew Wanda wasn't one to get close to people, and she knew that anything Wanda did could still surprise John. A person can never know everything about another person, but Wanda had shown John exactly what he would be getting himself into just being friends with her. John knew exactly what he was getting into, he still wanted to pursue something more with her, and he honestly did not seem to care. That was amazing, and she wondered if Gambit was as unstable as Wanda, if she could handle it.
Piotr still hadn't gotten much better at dancing, but just looking at him and Kitty made her extremely happy for them. He was willing to try all these new things for her, and she would do the same for him. She chuckled remembering the one time Piotr had made Kitty as authentic Russian dinner. She hated every bite, but she never let him know that. She told him it was fantastic and even asked for seconds.
For the past hour Rogue and Gambit had just sat up in the booth watching their friends dancing on the floor and chatting. The change in Pietro had been astounding in Rogue's opinion. For the past two hours she saw Pietro and the girl he had met. Her body language said she was smart and that if he were to try anything, he'd end up dead. They talked why they danced or while they danced. She was happy he needed someone, even if he was too arrogant to admit it. He left with her anyway knowing he wasn't going to get play tonight.
The surprise of the evening had been Todd. He was currently glued to Lana, and she actually genuinely seemed to be having a good time with Todd. She had even kissed him, and giggled at his stupid pet names that always drove Wanda up the wall. She would probably date him, if he kept up with his showers.
"They are." She said in agreement, as an extremely tired Kitty and Piotr flopped down in the booth.
"I can't believe I'm, like, this tired and it is only midnight."
"We should probably take off soon. The drive back is an hour."
"Peter's right, no matter how fun tonight is... Mags is still out there and we have a big day tomorrow." Rogue said, taking charge. "Ah gotta pee." Rogue said getting up.
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She walked up to the sink and looked at her reaction in the mirror. It was funny how every body paired off tonight, not that she didn't want to be paired off with the Cajun. She pushed the soap dispenser with her hand, and began to wash her hands. She reached for a paper towel, and noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She spun around into a fight stance, and looked around the bathroom suspiciously. There was no one there.
"Get a grip, Rogue." She said to herself. Blowing a platinum strand of hair out of her face. She tossed the towel into the Garbage can and quickly ducked. The man punched the mirror in front of her. She kicked his feet out from underneath him, and waited for him to get back up. She felt someone put her in a bear hug from behind, but she threw her feet on the sink and pushed off, knocking the person through the bathroom stall, taking the door off the hinges and landing roughly on the toilet. The person loosened their grip. Rogue saw someone else move out of the corner of her eye, and the person on the floor get back up. She debated whether or not to stay and fight or run. She went to take off, but she had lingered a moment too soon. She felt something hit her on the back of the head. Everything went fuzzy and dark.
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John threw his arm around Wanda and kissed her temple. She snuggled on his shoulder.
"I'm tired."
"We'll leave soon as soon as Rogue gets out of the bathroom." Wanda nodded.
"I'll go check on her. She's, like, been in there forever." Kitty said taking off for the bathroom.
"So Todd ya get lucky?" Wanda asked. He smiled.
"I got a phone number."
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Pietro brought two cups of coffee back to the booth and sat across from Crystal. He glanced around the coffee shop. He noticed various people from the club hanging out, most likely trying to sober up. He took in her appearance. He could tell she was pretty at the club, but here in regular light. She was something else. He had never seen anything quite like her before. Or met for that matter. He never talked to anyone about anything, and all night they had talked about various things. He just felt at ease around her.
She looked at the man in front of her, and could very easily see where his arrogance came from. She sipped at her coffee. She could very easily get lost in his eyes. They were a distinct blue. That very few people possessed and it was the only reason she could tell that his sister was his sister, back at the club.
"Where exactly are you from?" She smiled.
"There is an island called Attilan in the Atlantic ocean, but I live here. What about you?"
"My sister and I were born in Germany, but we don't remember it much by the time we were toddlers we were in the states." She nodded.
"You two get along well?"
"We used to, actually we used to only have each other, but we got separated, and for along time we didn't. It is a lot better now." She traced the outline of the cup with her finger and looked back up at him.
"She sounds... seems great. I mean with everything you have said about her and that bout of overprotectiveness you had when she was dancing. Why were you guys separated?" He hesitated. He knew Wanda didn't talk about the asylum and he had to seriously wonder whether or not she would actually mind him talking about it.
"Our father isn't exactly... father of the year. Our mother fled with us from him when we were young, changed our last name and everything, and one day Wanda and I saw him at the park and we left with him."
"Wait a second, he kidnaped you two?"
"We left willingly. We left our mom for that son of a bitch."
"You were children, and you just wanted to be with your father. There isn't anything wrong with that." She stopped to let him finish with his story.
"Wanda has always had a temper. Once I messed up dad's office and blamed her for it. She was five and gave me the silent treatment for a week. Anyways one day she asked our dad why mom couldn't live with us also, and why we couldn't be a family again. He said we couldn't, and he never gave her a reason. She went into a rage and her powers manifested."
"What are her powers?"
"I think I heard someone say once that they were probability changing hex bolts, but that isn't all she can do, an to tell you the truth I don't even think she knows what she is capable of. I mean sometimes she has still has trouble controlling them, especially when she gets into an emotional fit, and she seems like someone who doesn't get emotional, but she wears her emotions out on her sleeve. I can feel it." He took a drink of his coffee. "She was really young for her powers, and they were dangerous. She really was a danger to herself and to others. That is one thing I won't deny. Our father got tired of having to deal with her. So one day he packed us up in the car, and had her admitted to an asylum so they could control her. Not long after he sent me away to live with some people. The last memory I have of her in our childhood is of her crying for dad not to leave her in the rain."
She looked up at him. Damn. She was totally engrossed in the story, but she really didn't want to push him into anything. "Her last memory of me was me leaving her there. So it was quite different. That is all that dwelled in her mind for the seven years she was in there. She never talks about what happened in there. I know dad payed for tutors and teachers. He wanted her isolated, but he also wanted her educated just in case he needed her one day. He didn't want an idiot around, and he had this old friend of his that tried to help her with her powers, but that doesn't help the isolation at such a critical age. She wasn't crazy when she went in, and she isn't crazy now. That place just made her incredibly unstable. She is fairly better now, but still not all there. I am beginning to think that she may seriously have something wrong with her head, like bi-polar disorder or some thing. The strange thing is that she graduated from Oxford with a degree in psychology and I know she wants to go further.
I can't think of a day when I didn't think about her while she was gone. She was always the darker, cooler, more serious of the both of us, but she was loveable, innocent. Nothing like the next time I saw her." He thought quickly trying to tell the story without mentioning the brother hood. He didn't want to lie, but damn he did some stupid shit back in the day. "Let's just say it didn't go over to well, she still didn't have control of her powers, and they had grown. Plus she was so full of rage it hurt to look at her, and she seemed to hate me." He said stopping his story there. Wanda's mind swipe was really her story and while it affected him. He wasn't comfortable telling ALL his secrets to some woman he just met, no matter how she made him feel.
"But things are better now?"
"As well as can be expected." she nodded. "We aren't as close as I think we should be, but there are siblings that never talk at all. I know she cares and would do anything for me. So what more can I ask for?"
"The trust that she could ever feel the same for you. I mean, I think your problem is that even though you feel like you could trust her and that she would do anything for you, you don't feel like the opposite is true. Do you feel that she trusts you to do anything for her? She probably does. It can't be completely one sided, especially if you two have a psi link. She just doesn't show it and you're frustrated with her about it." She suddenly looked down sheepishly. "I mean... I just met you and I have never met your sister, so that is just my opinion based on what you've told me."
"It was good opinion, but I know she trusts me, but you're right she doesn't trust me as much as I trust her, or at least that's the way I feel about it." She nodded, like she understood, but he really had never thought of him and Wanda like that. "I don't want you to think that it is all her though. I do have my quirks."
"So I've noticed." She said smiling, welcoming the slight change in topic. She had this philosophy that while it was good to talk about your issues. A person should never talk about them for extended periods of time. It tends to bring even the happiest people down.
"What have you noticed?" She leaned across the table on her elbows and smiled at him.
"You are arrogant, and slightly childish." She said with his face moving closer to hers.
"That hurts anything else?"
"You have an ego that could suffocate every living person on the planet." She said only half joking, so far she actually liked that little personality quirk. She heard him laugh, there is no way she couldn't their faces were so close together. She kissed him, which was completely out of character for the Attilan Princess, of course she didn't tell him that. She really didn't need to expand his ego anymore than it already was. Here she was kissing some guy she met at a club. Her proper manners out the window. She felt like she could trust him just based on how open he was with her. She pulled away from him and he smiled. His phone rang, and he now decided he wanted to kill whoever decided the cell phone was a wonderful idea. They were annoying only tending to ring when you didn't want them to. He looked down and saw Wanda's name on the caller ID.
"It's my sister. I took off without telling anyone. Everyone probably wants to leave, and I'm not there." She nodded and leaned back. "What Wanda?... What's wrong?... What do you mean she's gone... I'll be right there." He said quickly hanging up the phone. She slid a piece of paper across to him.
"Call me." She said quickly.
"I gotta go." She smiled. She seemed to always be smiles. He went to leave, but instead he quickly turned around and kissed her. "I'll call. I don't think I could pull that "I promise I'll call tomorrow" bullshit with you." He was gone in a gush of wind.
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AN: I admit I don't know a whole lot about Crystal, besides what I read in bios and thing of that nature, but I seriously wasn't going to make her a huge part of the story. I just realized I have kind of been emotionally torturing Pietro and I wanted him to talk to someone, even if both the Maximoffs are too stubborn for their own good. Lana is a completely made up character. I realized that Todd is almost loveable on Evolution so I should quit pushing my 616 dislike on him. So I gave him a girl, a hot girl. I figured some girl out there would love his quirks.
Demonrogue13- Thanks for reviewing. I actually already have the family reunion scene written in my head.
Amieva- I am glad you love the Jonda. I think everyone should love the Jonda.
evanescence kicks ass- I was happy that John and Wanda got their acts together, but think about now with Jonda officially being Jonda, and Rogue's kidnaping we can let the ROMYNESS begin. I hope you are happy with the Pietro ness in this chapter. I decided to give him some sort of outlet. I hope you enjoy it.
Isandahalf- You like the family drama, wait until everyone meets back up. That should be intense. Emma does want Rogue, but she really didn't think her decision through. She just saw the power she possesses and got greedy. I hope you enjoyed the Romy this chapter. I can really start some major stuff now with the ROMY, sometimes I wish that I could spend a ton more time on it, but Jonda is my muse, but now that JONDA is JONDA, I can do bunches of Romy.
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