And I give you...my longest chapter yet!
Pairings :
Romy, Litty, Amyro, Jott, AmeliaxQuicksilver, AndrewxTabitha
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"I heard you kidnapped Kitty," Andrew said as Amelia walked into the building, "They seem to know it was you."
"It'll blow over when they realise they'll never find her, plus," she grabbed his neck, her hand going skeleton, "how would they know it was me?"
"Don't look at me," he growled, "I haven't said anything."
She released him and she began to slink away, "Maybe you've been letting some," he paused and smirked, "revealing memories slip," he strode past her, "really Mystique, I thought you could do better than that." She lunged at him but he was already gone and her hands closed on thin air.
"I'm going to have to take two, but should I choose?" Mystique smirked as evil thoughts ran through her mind.
---The Institute---
The newer of the students, mainly Amara, Sam, Bobby and Jamie were the ones that were worried the most, besides the Professor, about Kitty's disappearance. However, Rogue couldn't help but feel it was her fault, she kept thinking about those images of those cages that she'd seen in what couldn't be Amelia's memories. Rogue walked out of the kitchen where she was currently situated and was about to ascend the stairs when the front doors flew open.
In the wake stood a heaving Lance, anger, fear and desperation dancing in his eyes, his brown hair was matted and his cloths were rumpled, "Where's Kitty?" he gasped out.
"She's not here Alvers," Rogue replied.
"What have you done with here?" he demanded pushing forward and latching onto her arm, thankfully it was clothed.
"Get off Alvers," she yelped shaking her arm trying to rid herself of his leach like presence.
Suddenly both found each other hurled sideways, Rogue grabbed onto the banister and yelled as Lance's grip was torn form her arm leaving a tattered sleeve. Rogue, shaking like a leaf, arose to her feet her knuckles turning white due to their fierce grip on the marble banister. She looked down to where there was now a smouldering dent in the wall that was significantly noticeable.
Rogue moved to stand next to it, wafting the disturbed dust and debris out of her face with her hand. Two boys, one on top of the other, both unconscious form the force of the impact; Rogue shook her head and the stupidity of their actins. It had been Sam that came to her rescue, being the impulsive Cannonball he is he had obviously dived for Lance and smashed them both into the wall.
"Hey, you okay?" Rogue asked, shaking Sam by the shoulders, he groaned and his eyes cracked open, he grinned cockily at her.
"You cool now?" he asked, apparently not hearing, or simply ignoring, her earlier placed question.
"Yeh, thanks," she replied helping to stand, he grinned.
"No problem," he grinned again and then they both noticed the debris begin to pile up and the dent to pull slowly back into its original shape. Both teens gulped nervously, Sam uttering a small, "Uh oh."
"Uh oh is right," announced the red haired Jean Grey as she, with Scott in tow regarding to scene with an amused smirk adorning his features.
"So who got Alvers?" he asked, Sam blushed and raised a reluctant hand, "Good one," Scott replied causing Jean to turn and give him a reproachful look.
"You shouldn't encourage them so Scott," she chided, meanwhile Sam and Rogue stood transfixed as they watched the obvious couple bicker like they were married, like that wasn't on their 'to do' list.
Suddenly something happened, well two things; that caused them all to turn, first, Lance sat up and gingerly rubbed the back of his head where a small lump was rapidly making itself apparent. Then a scream reverberated through the hallways of the mansion until it found its way into the ears of the five mutants gathered in the spacious entrance hall.
"Not again," Rogue choked as she made an instant move for the stairs, Jean, Scott and Sam in hot pursuit.
Lance, soon finding himself completely alone it what, at first glance, would appear a deserted hall, was under the impulse to laugh. He wasn't sure why, but after a second thought he didn't much like the idea so he apt for simply following the fleeing X-men.
Jamie stood there, his mouth open, his eyes wide looking no less than terrified, he was the youngest one there and whatever happened couldn't be nice for him to be looking like that. Rogue peered around the doorframe and her breath hitched in her throat, she coughed nervously in an attempt to rid herself of the lump that bunged up her throat.
"Oh no, not again," Jean breathed, Scott's arms wrapped protectively and re-assuredly around her small waist, Sam took a few tentative steps forward, as he did this Jamie turned and flung his arms around the blonde, tears soaking his shirt. Sam was at a loss as to what to do so deciding to follow his instincts began to hug Jamie back and steer the small boy's gaze from the room that had once housed two of his friends; Amara and Bobby.
Lance came to a shocked stop a few metres form the remains of the door, the beds were overturned, there was splashes of slowly melting ice on the walls and charred marks on the bed spreads and carpet. Half the room had been blown out, part of the floor had fallen through and you could see through the ceiling of the room directly below. Needless to say it was draftee.
"Scott, Jean, what's happened?" asked the Professor as he made his way towards them.
"It's Bobby and Amara," Jean wailed in a distressed panic that Scott was finding hard to subdue.
"Bloody hell," Sam breathed out, whistling through his teeth.
Lance ran a hand through his hair tentatively, "Guess this explains where Kitty's disappeared to," he was rattled, you could tell, he came form an orphanage and then to a boarding-house where you had to get Toad on the roof in order to get signal for the TV. For him, life was laid back, casual and relatively uneventful but now, well, it was definitely a change of pace.
"Hey anyone home?" someone yelled from the entrance hall, Scott was gone in a flash, Jean flew after him, Rogue looked at Sam and Lance, both shrugged and they followed, there was the sound of running footsteps from all directions as the entire mansion made for whoever had come into their midst. The professor followed behind as fast as he could, that was accounting for his crippled predicament.
"What are you doing here?" Scott growled, his hostility towards Andrew clear as day, raising a hand to his visor as he descended the flight of stairs.
"Last time I checked there wasn't anything saying I couldn't come," Andrew sneered at Scott who proceeded to fire at him but the other boy just vanished to come up behind Scott and wrap an arm around his throat. Andrew's other arm coming up so his hand could pluck the visor from around his eyes. Scott instantly closed his eyes and Andrew chuckled, "Not so tough now are we?" he grinned and turned to face the rest of the X-men. "You really need to work on your welcome parties Xavier," Andrew commented, his grip tightened on the visor as he felt it being slowly lifted from his grip, "Watch it red," he growled at Jean.
"Why are you here anyways?" hollered Jamie form where he stood on the banister next to Evan, he glared as best he could at Andrew.
"Actually, I was looking for Amara," he glanced around the gathered mutants, "is it just me or is there a lacking in the ranks?" he raised an eyebrow and no body answered him. He sighed, "Oh well," he shrugged, "guess that's no," he made to turn but instead found himself blasted off his feet.
He landed on his back and tumbled down the stairs to land in a heap, he groaned and shook himself while getting off the floor and back on his feet, he was surrounded by laughter, "That, was embarrassing," he groaned.
"Bada-bing, bada-boom!" he teleported just before the small bombs exploded, "Hey, where'd he go?" Tabitha asked looking round. Logan sniffed, the kid was near, he could smell it, however, he didn't say anything, ended up regretting it thought when a portal opened behind Tabitha and she was pulled through.
"Bam-bam!" Lance exclaimed.
"Not another one," Kurt groaned.
---Andrew---
"What was that about?" he demanded glaring at the blonde that stood warily before him.
"Hey I was just having some fun, chill," she instructed pushing him away and moving away.
"Where you gunna go?" he smirked as she looked around, they were by the sea, stranded at the base of a very tall cliff, the ocean lapped at her boots. The sky was grey and at that precise moment began to rain, "Lost?"
She turned on him and growled, the rain pouring down in torrents, "Take me back now," she screamed, she brushed wet hair out of her eyes and rubbed her arms as a cold wind blew past her. The water dripped off him as he leaned against the cliff, his arms crossed, he merely sighed casually.
"Hey, I'm only having fun," he smirked nonchalantly.
"Who the hell are you anyway?" she demanded stalking up to him, he raised an eyebrow at her erratic behaviour.
"I'm Andrew Harrison and you are?"
"Tabitha Smith," she shivered, he put an arm around her shoulders.
"Had enough?" she sniffed miserably and nodded, next thing she knew they were in what appeared to be a bathroom.
"Where are we?" she asked looking around.
"A bathroom," she rolled her eyes.
"Where is said bathroom?"
"Um…Magneto's place," he offered gingerly, her face paled her eyes widened and she made to run, "I wouldn't go out there if I were you," he smirked at her panic, "who know what the guys might wanna do to ya."
She stilled, her hand on the doorknob, "Come on, you don't think I brought you here for target practice do yah?" she turned he was holding a towel out to here, "I'm not going to send you back there and have them blame for anything you might have caught out there."
She took a look at his apologetic face and took the towel, "Thanks," he smiled.
---The Institute---
"Professor, can you track them?" Scott asked turned to the bald gentlemen, however, Xavier, with his fingers laced and eyes closed shook his head, "Jean?" his girlfriend merely gave him the 'What-do-you-think?' look.
"Don't worry Scott, Andrew won't hurt her," Rogue commented turned to leave, "she'll be back, don't worry."
"How can you trust that creep?" Evan asked following her, as did Sam.
"Yeh, he's like, a total jerk, I bet it's his fault that Kitty, Amara and Bobby are gone," Sam moaned, Rogue turned and glared at him.
"Blowing holes in the sides of buildings isn't Andrew's style, you saw how easily he snatched Tabitha, he doesn't need to cause a fuss like that," Rogue explained, "As for how can I trust him, I've known him longer than you have pin spike ball," she growled jabbing a finger in his chest.
"Gee sorry," Evan replied holding his hands up and backing away.
"Yeh right," Rogue muttered and left.
"Some one got up on the wrong side of the bed," Sam commented before heading for his room, hanging his head and sighing in defeat Evan did the same.
---Andrew---
"You dry now?" he asked watching as she raked her fingers through her vividly blonde hair.
"Yeh," she grinned, but all too soon her face contorted as she sneezed loudly, there was a groan form the door, "Oh no", she gasped as she sneezed again; she grabbed his arm, "teleport."
"No time," he growled and shoved her in the shower stall, "stay," he hissed as the knob turned and the door swung open.
"Who you talking to?" asked a dazed looking Remy Lebeau, his eyes half shut from drowsiness.
"No one," Andrew replied from where he leaned against the sink.
"You Andy-rue are going nuts, Remy knows what he heard and he was hearing a girl," Andrew raised an eyebrow as Remy grinned and left, he didn't notice the door lying slightly ajar.
"Well, Andy-rue?" Tabitha said while gasping for breath, she tripped and Andrew just managed to catch her and she stumbled out of the shower.
The door flew open and a triumphant looking Remy stood there, "Ha, Remy knew he was right, well Andy-rue," he saluted the other mutant, "enjoy," he winked at Tabitha, "just save some for me."
Andrew blushed form his nose to his ears and gulped as Remy fled the vicinity leaving Tabitha in his arms, "You know," she dragged a finger down his chest, "that wasn't a bad suggested, even if Remy is a stupid Cajun."
"Um…" Andrew swallowed hard as he found himself backed against a wall and pinned there by the body of a girl no less, "I don't think…"
"No you don't," she grinned, "what's the matter big boy, scarred?" he shook his head, "well, what's wrong then, am I not good enough for you?"
"It's not that it's just," she was an inch away from him now, "well, um…"
"You're an idiot," Tabitha informed him.
"I realised," she was a centimetre away.
"I," he couldn't talk anymore, his mouth was occupied, he couldn't even form incoherent words, his tongue was involved in a fierce game of tonsil hockey.
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TruleyRogue - Thank for reviewing again and your most gracious comments and why did you have to change you name?
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Claire - Thank you for your input and I could have Amelia x Quicksilver and still have Andrew x Wanda (If they had kids there would only be Aunts and Uncles, none of this 'in-law' business) :-)
Lady Farevay - I'm happy to know your enjoying yourself, I have a very strange head, why? Because so far I have the beginning, scenes and the end all planned out. Like, there's going to be a club scene, where Rogue gets into a fight and she has an 'unknown saviour', there's going to be a lot of Graveyard dreams for Rogue, be prepared to have very graphic mental images protrayed! :-) TO know more, E-mail me, I'd appreciate some suggestions! BTW, have you read any Sidney Sheldon?