Disclaimer: I don't own 'The Princess Bride'. I don't own Star Wars. I don't own the X-Men. Or the Acolytes. Or the Brotherhood. Or...you get the idea.
Note: This chapter has some slight (and I mean slight) spoilers for 'The Return of the Jedi'. So if you've never seen it,(I find that very hard to believe, but I guess it's possible) then stop reading this chapter, go rent the movie, watch it, then return. Or if you really don't care, just keep reading.
Shout out's: Auramistealia- I'm sorry your on crouches, hope you heel up fast! And I'm glad this was an amusing diversion. :)
Rogue151- accents are hard, someone needs to write a book, showing how you would write them. Thanks for reviewing!
Nightcrawler03- glad you loved it :)
StormHeart- the last one was the best? Yay! I didn't think it was as well written, but it was the most fun to write.
Evil-Cheese-Monkey- I'm glad this is one of your favorites, hope you keep reviewing!
JB- I did fine on the accent? Thanks, I was a little bit worried about it.
Alliriyan- thank you for reviewing and writing the last chapter in your fic.
Suzaka- yes, poor ~Kitty. Thanks for reviewing!
Chapter 12: Movie Night
"We can take them!" said Kitty as she got in her fighting stance.
Remy quirked an eyebrow, Piotr's mouth quivered with contained laughter, and John looked a little worried.
"Kitty," said an exasperated Rogue, "Ah highly doubt they have it with them."
"Oh." said Kitty putting her fists down.
"What makes you think we won't just give it to you?" asked Remy.
"You would?" ~Kitty asked hopefully.
"Maybe."
"If?" asked Rogue.
"If you, chèrie, would forgive Gambit for almost killing you when we first met."
Kitty asked, flabbergasted, "That's all!?"
"Oui."
Rogue stared at Remy. Then she looked at John and Piotr. John was staring at Remy, then at Rogue with a confused expression on his face, and Piotr was looking highly amused.
"Fine. Ah will forgive ya if ya give us that machine."
"All right den. When should we deliver it, and where?"
Piotr and John both noticed the 'we', but decided to let it go without comment.
"At the mansion. Tomorrow at...four o'clock. Just ring the door bell and then hand us it."
"Magneto might find out..." said John, trailing off.
"Ah'm sure one of ya can manage to get away unnoticed."
Since ~Kitty had not said anything for a while Rogue looked around the bathroom for her. ~Kitty was rifling through one of Piotr's bag of books.
"Ohhh." ~Kitty said appreciatively, staring at the cover of a paper back book.
Piotr had just noticed what she was doing too. He tilted the bag so that ~Kitty could see into it better.
"Thanks," said ~Kitty, "Could I barrow this one?"
"~Kitty!" said both Rogue and Kitty.
"What? Oh, sorry, it's just in my dimension I'm always borrowing books and stuff from Peter. My mind wondered a bit there."
"We are not enemies in your universe?" Piotr asked.
"Nope. You're an X-Men."
This seemed to startle Piotr.
"~Kitty, we don't have time for ya to give a history of your Colossus. Sooner or later someone's going to find us in here." said Rogue.
"Until tomorrow at four o'clock den." said Remy, bowing slightly, and exited the bathroom. John did a mock bow, imitating Remy, which made Kitty giggle, and went out. Piotr followed him, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
~Kitty belatedly realized she still was holding Piotr's book.
"Now what should we do?" asked Kitty.
"We need to get back to the Institute before a crazed mob finds us. Any ideas?" said Rogue.
"We'll, duh, we can phase." said Kitty, waving her hand to include ~Kitty.
"Do ya remember where Ah parked the car?"
"I think so, do we, like, just make a dash towards it, phasing through all the walls and people?"
~Kitty said "How about we just phase through the floor and come up to take a peek every once in a while to see how close we are to the car?"
Rogue gave her left hand to Kitty and her right hand to ~Kitty, the video tapes still in the bag, wrapped around her wrist. "Ok, lets go."
Both Kittys started phasing through the floor. It was an interesting experience for Rogue, the journey through the concrete under the mall. Checking every ten feet, by phasing up through the floor only showing their heads, they finally found themselves in the parking lot. ~Kitty and Kitty stopped phasing after the had made it to their car, and Rogue had to let go of their hands to get the key out of her pocket. Quickly opening and unlocking the rest of the doors, all three girls hopped in and felt relieved to be in the relative safety of the car.
"You think the Professor can mind wipe all those people, so it's like it never happened?" Kitty asked.
"Ah don't think so. All those people have spread out now, unlike that time at the soccer game. Maybe he can fuzzy up some of the peoples memories though, so they don't remember what we look like."
"That would help, if he could get most of them."
"We'll have to ask him."
~Kitty asked in a small voice, "He won't get mad at me, will he?"
Rogue started the car, seeing a group of people exiting the mall. "Why would he be mad at ya?"
"Because it was all my fault."
"Like, there's no way he can blame you for what you did, I would have done it too." said Kitty.
"Don't worry, he won't get angry at ya. If anything, he'll blame us." Rogue said smiling.
"Why would he do that?"
Kitty answered "Because we didn't control the situation very well. Do we, like, have to tell him about being rescued by Pyro?"
"How else are we goin' explain Gambit at the door tomorrow, bringing the other dimension people sucker?" said Rogue.
"The other dimension people sucker?" asked Kitty.
"Call it what ever ya want. Or, ask Forge, I'm sure he can come up with a complicated technological name for it." Rogue said as she swerved around a on coming car in the mall parking lot.
"What are you reading?" Kitty asked ~Kitty, since she had opened the book she had borrowed.
"It's called 'The Princess Bride'. I read it once, ~Kurt recommended it, but I don't remember all of it, so I want to read it again."
"It's a book?" asked Rogue.
"Yes." ~Kitty held up the paper back and showed it to Rogue, who glanced at it out of the corner of her eye.
"There's a movie, but I never knew it really was a book."
"There's a movie? That's great! Do you think we could go get it..." ~Kitty trailed off, remembering their current plight.
"I think the Professor has it." Kitty said.
"Oh, good. After I watch all the Star Wars movies, I can watch that."
Kitty laughed. "I can see it now, 'What did you do in the other dimension, ~Kitty?' 'Oh, I watched movies the whole time.'"
~Kitty smiled. "And caused a mob scene at the mall."
"That wasn't your fault, so don't go blaming yourself." Rogue said.
A small dog made the extremely unwise decision to cross the road. Rogue swerved out of the way slightly, and the dog made it to the other side, unaware of how close it had come to death.
"Drat, missed it." muttered Rogue, trying to show she had not almost had a heart attack when the dog had nearly became road kill.
"Rogue!" said Kitty, thinking she had meant to hit the dog.
"Yes?" said Rogue innocently.
Kitty sighed dramatically.
~Kitty had missed the whole thing because she had been reading Piotr's book.
"Next time, I drive." said Kitty.
"Yeah, right. When pigs fly." was Rogue's response.
Upon arriving back at the mansion, ~Kitty said "I got to tell ~Kurt." and jumped out of the car and ran for the door. Once inside, she looked around. Spotting the dinning room door, she made a dash for it, pushed it open and said "He's not evil!" Then she held up the book, as if it were proof.
Since it was dinner time, the X-Men and Forge had assembled in that room. All looked up at ~Kitty's arrival.
"Who is not evil Kätzchen?" asked ~Kurt.
"Peter! He let me barrow this book, we met them at the mall, Pyro saved us and-"
Rogue, who had followed ~Kitty at a slower rate, broke in "Professor, we have ta tell ya about what happened at the mall."
"Yes, you do, but first, how did you get there?" asked the Professor.
"Umm, in a car."
"Rogue..."
"Oh alright, Ah drove us there."
"I was unaware of you getting your licence."
"Really? Why it must of slipped mah mind..."
The Professor sighed. "We'll talk about this later, Rogue. Now what happened at the mall?"
The three girls seated themselves at the table. ~Kitty began, "I stated a riot by accident-"
~Kurt put down the fork that had been on his way to his mouth. "How did you menage that?"
"Well..." the story came out with Kitty and Rogue jumping in and telling bits of their adventure. At the end of it Forge said, "So Gambit is coming to the Institute tomorrow at four o'clock?"
"Yes." said Kitty.
"How is he planning to get away from Magneto?" Logan asked.
"Ah'm sure he'll think of somethin'." said Rogue.
"Why," asked Ororo, "is he doing this for us?"
Rogue's face started turning red.
~Kitty came to her rescue. "Maybe he just wants you to know his fighting against you guys isn't personal, its just what Magneto forces or pays them to do."
"Maybe," said Scott, "but what if it's a trap?"
"Gawd, Scott, ya think everything is a trap."
"I do not! And it could be, it sounds very suspicious."
"I agree with Scott, it could be a trap. We should keep our eyes open." said Jean.
Evan asked "Who will take the machine when he arrives?"
"Rogue should." said Kitty.
"Why should Ah?"
"Because," Kitty said, as if it were obvious, which it was, "He's doing this for you."
Rogue again started feeling her face burn.
Kitty smiled smugly, having felt she now had her revenge from earlier.
"Then she shouldn't be the one." said Scott, "if he's only doing this to get to Rogue-"
"What do ya mean by that?" Rogue interrupted.
The Professor lifted his hand to stop Scott from answering. "Rogue will be the one to get the door. The rest of you will be waiting behind her, unseen, just in case."
With that agreed, the Professor continued, "I can try to find all the people who saw you at the mall. It will be hard, and I won't be able to wipe all their memories, maybe just fuzz up their remembrance of you."
"Thank you, Professor." said ~Kitty.
"Your welcome. Now let us finish up our supper before it gets cold."
During the meal, the younger X-Men and Forge, ~Kurt and ~Kitty decided to watch 'The Return of the Jedi' after dinner had been cleaned up. Ororo offered to do the dishes, and somehow got Logan to agree to help her. ~Kurt and Scott said they would manage the popcorn, and Jean and ~Kitty would get everyone drinks. Forge, Kurt, Evan, Rogue and Kitty would happily be lazy and waited upon.
After the dishes had been wiped and put in the dishwasher by a grumpy Logan, Scott and ~Kurt searched for popcorn in the pantry, and Jean got glasses out of the cabinet while ~Kitty took everyone's orders.
While the popcorn was popping, Scott asked ~Kurt "What is the Scott in your universe like?"
"A fearless leader." ~Kurt said, smiling.
This was appreciated by Scott but he wanted more. "That's great, but what is he like?"
"Don't take this badly, but he can be brooding. And bossy. And pig headed. But you can count on him, and he's a great friend."
"Oh." said Scott. Then, softer, "How did he take Jean's death?"
~Kurt stopped smiling. "He took it badly at first. Understandable so. He left the X-Men after her funeral. That's vhen ~Kitty joined. But he rejoined, I think he just needed some time off."
Beep, beep, beep. First bag of popcorn done. Scott poured it into a big plastic bowl, and ~Kurt put the second bag in.
~Kitty came in with everyone's orders. Jean had already asked what ~Kurt and Scott wanted, and had started to pour the drinks. Since Scott and ~Kurt were on the other side of the room, Jean whispered a question to ~Kitty. "What was I like in your dimension?"
"I'm not the best person to ask," said ~Kitty, "I hardly knew her, but she were very nice. When I was scared out of my wits, she did a good job of calming me down."
"Why where you scared?" Jean asked.
~Kitty smiled and said "Half because I was being chased by the bad guys, and the other half..." she pointed at ~Kurt, who was talking to Scott. "I had just met some of the members of the X-Men, Ororo, Peter, and Logan, when they were captured. Ororo told me to call a number she had on a piece of paper. I called it, and told the person on the other end (~Kurt) that they had been captured, but was interrupted when the bad guys saw me. The first time I actually met ~Kurt, I had almost been run over by Ms. Frost's (the White Queen) minions, and was lying on the ground exhausted while Jean, as Phoenix, fought them. Then I was picked up by a demon and we were scaling the wall of a building. My mind didn't connect his voice with the one I had talked to on the phone. When we reached the roof of the building I didn't wait for any explanations, I just broke away and dove through the roof."
Her narrative was broken when the bottle of soda exploded, when ~Kitty opened it. "Oops."
"I got it." said Jean, as she used her powers to summon a few sheets of paper towels. ~Kitty continued, "That's when Jean found me, huddled in that old building, trying to hide."
"And that's when you joined?" asked Jean.
"Oh, not just then, but after my parents agreed to it, and all the stuff involved, like transferring schools, and packing, were taken care of. But by the time I got to the mansion, Jean was already dead, and the other X-Men were at her funeral."
Evan poked his head through the doorway, "You guys done with the drinks yet?"
"Yes," said Jean, "And you can come help pass them out."
With the help of Evan, Jean and ~Kitty brought all the drinks into the TV room.
When the third bag of popcorn was done, Scott and ~Kurt brought in the bowls of popcorn, Scott carrying one, ~Kurt carrying the other two, with the help of his tail.
Rogue pushed the tape into the video player.
The Stars Wars theme music started to play, movie quality sound thanks to the Professor's wonderful sound system. ~Kitty read the words scrolling on the screen silently, excitement growing.
When the Ewoks appeared, ~Kitty swore to herself she'd find a stuffed animal of them. They were just to darn cute, like miniature Wookies.
And when it was revealed that Luke and Leia were actually brother and sister, ~Kurt and ~Kitty were shocked.
At the end of the movie ~Kitty said "That was the best movie ever."
"~Kitty, you said that after the other two Star Wars movies." ~Kurt reminded her.
"Well, this is the best." said ~Kitty.
Kurt wondered if she'd still think that if she saw the 'Lord of the Rings' movies.
Everyone agreed to watch 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' tomorrow night, and Jean and Scott collected all the glasses and popcorn bowls to wash.
Everyone else trooped upstairs to their rooms, and Forge down to the lab to get ready for the arrival of Magneto's machine. When Kitty and Rogue got to their room, and Kitty saw Rogue's book bag, she asked "Did you finish your homework?"
"Maybe, Ah don't remember. Tomorrow is Friday, right?" said Rogue as she searched her closet for her pajamas.
"Yeah, and after school you have to get the 'other dimension people sucker' from Gambit."
"Did ya ask Forge what we should call it?"
"No, I didn't get around to asking. Do you think he will bring it?" asked Kitty.
"Huh?"
"Gambit. Do you think he will really bring it? I mean, what if he can't get it away from Magneto?"
"Then we won't get it, and ~Kurt and ~Kitty will be stuck here forever." Rogue said, always the optimist.
"Unless Forge thinks of another way."
"There is always that." said Rogue, flopping into bed.
~~~~~~~~~~~
If anyone wants to know, 'The Princess Bride' was made into a movie in 1987. I'm currently reading the book, and its funny as anything. I suggest you all read it. Its by William Goldman (not by Morgenstern, don't believe what Goldman tells you, he lies). Now review please!
~:b~
roguehobbit
Note: This chapter has some slight (and I mean slight) spoilers for 'The Return of the Jedi'. So if you've never seen it,(I find that very hard to believe, but I guess it's possible) then stop reading this chapter, go rent the movie, watch it, then return. Or if you really don't care, just keep reading.
Shout out's: Auramistealia- I'm sorry your on crouches, hope you heel up fast! And I'm glad this was an amusing diversion. :)
Rogue151- accents are hard, someone needs to write a book, showing how you would write them. Thanks for reviewing!
Nightcrawler03- glad you loved it :)
StormHeart- the last one was the best? Yay! I didn't think it was as well written, but it was the most fun to write.
Evil-Cheese-Monkey- I'm glad this is one of your favorites, hope you keep reviewing!
JB- I did fine on the accent? Thanks, I was a little bit worried about it.
Alliriyan- thank you for reviewing and writing the last chapter in your fic.
Suzaka- yes, poor ~Kitty. Thanks for reviewing!
Chapter 12: Movie Night
"We can take them!" said Kitty as she got in her fighting stance.
Remy quirked an eyebrow, Piotr's mouth quivered with contained laughter, and John looked a little worried.
"Kitty," said an exasperated Rogue, "Ah highly doubt they have it with them."
"Oh." said Kitty putting her fists down.
"What makes you think we won't just give it to you?" asked Remy.
"You would?" ~Kitty asked hopefully.
"Maybe."
"If?" asked Rogue.
"If you, chèrie, would forgive Gambit for almost killing you when we first met."
Kitty asked, flabbergasted, "That's all!?"
"Oui."
Rogue stared at Remy. Then she looked at John and Piotr. John was staring at Remy, then at Rogue with a confused expression on his face, and Piotr was looking highly amused.
"Fine. Ah will forgive ya if ya give us that machine."
"All right den. When should we deliver it, and where?"
Piotr and John both noticed the 'we', but decided to let it go without comment.
"At the mansion. Tomorrow at...four o'clock. Just ring the door bell and then hand us it."
"Magneto might find out..." said John, trailing off.
"Ah'm sure one of ya can manage to get away unnoticed."
Since ~Kitty had not said anything for a while Rogue looked around the bathroom for her. ~Kitty was rifling through one of Piotr's bag of books.
"Ohhh." ~Kitty said appreciatively, staring at the cover of a paper back book.
Piotr had just noticed what she was doing too. He tilted the bag so that ~Kitty could see into it better.
"Thanks," said ~Kitty, "Could I barrow this one?"
"~Kitty!" said both Rogue and Kitty.
"What? Oh, sorry, it's just in my dimension I'm always borrowing books and stuff from Peter. My mind wondered a bit there."
"We are not enemies in your universe?" Piotr asked.
"Nope. You're an X-Men."
This seemed to startle Piotr.
"~Kitty, we don't have time for ya to give a history of your Colossus. Sooner or later someone's going to find us in here." said Rogue.
"Until tomorrow at four o'clock den." said Remy, bowing slightly, and exited the bathroom. John did a mock bow, imitating Remy, which made Kitty giggle, and went out. Piotr followed him, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
~Kitty belatedly realized she still was holding Piotr's book.
"Now what should we do?" asked Kitty.
"We need to get back to the Institute before a crazed mob finds us. Any ideas?" said Rogue.
"We'll, duh, we can phase." said Kitty, waving her hand to include ~Kitty.
"Do ya remember where Ah parked the car?"
"I think so, do we, like, just make a dash towards it, phasing through all the walls and people?"
~Kitty said "How about we just phase through the floor and come up to take a peek every once in a while to see how close we are to the car?"
Rogue gave her left hand to Kitty and her right hand to ~Kitty, the video tapes still in the bag, wrapped around her wrist. "Ok, lets go."
Both Kittys started phasing through the floor. It was an interesting experience for Rogue, the journey through the concrete under the mall. Checking every ten feet, by phasing up through the floor only showing their heads, they finally found themselves in the parking lot. ~Kitty and Kitty stopped phasing after the had made it to their car, and Rogue had to let go of their hands to get the key out of her pocket. Quickly opening and unlocking the rest of the doors, all three girls hopped in and felt relieved to be in the relative safety of the car.
"You think the Professor can mind wipe all those people, so it's like it never happened?" Kitty asked.
"Ah don't think so. All those people have spread out now, unlike that time at the soccer game. Maybe he can fuzzy up some of the peoples memories though, so they don't remember what we look like."
"That would help, if he could get most of them."
"We'll have to ask him."
~Kitty asked in a small voice, "He won't get mad at me, will he?"
Rogue started the car, seeing a group of people exiting the mall. "Why would he be mad at ya?"
"Because it was all my fault."
"Like, there's no way he can blame you for what you did, I would have done it too." said Kitty.
"Don't worry, he won't get angry at ya. If anything, he'll blame us." Rogue said smiling.
"Why would he do that?"
Kitty answered "Because we didn't control the situation very well. Do we, like, have to tell him about being rescued by Pyro?"
"How else are we goin' explain Gambit at the door tomorrow, bringing the other dimension people sucker?" said Rogue.
"The other dimension people sucker?" asked Kitty.
"Call it what ever ya want. Or, ask Forge, I'm sure he can come up with a complicated technological name for it." Rogue said as she swerved around a on coming car in the mall parking lot.
"What are you reading?" Kitty asked ~Kitty, since she had opened the book she had borrowed.
"It's called 'The Princess Bride'. I read it once, ~Kurt recommended it, but I don't remember all of it, so I want to read it again."
"It's a book?" asked Rogue.
"Yes." ~Kitty held up the paper back and showed it to Rogue, who glanced at it out of the corner of her eye.
"There's a movie, but I never knew it really was a book."
"There's a movie? That's great! Do you think we could go get it..." ~Kitty trailed off, remembering their current plight.
"I think the Professor has it." Kitty said.
"Oh, good. After I watch all the Star Wars movies, I can watch that."
Kitty laughed. "I can see it now, 'What did you do in the other dimension, ~Kitty?' 'Oh, I watched movies the whole time.'"
~Kitty smiled. "And caused a mob scene at the mall."
"That wasn't your fault, so don't go blaming yourself." Rogue said.
A small dog made the extremely unwise decision to cross the road. Rogue swerved out of the way slightly, and the dog made it to the other side, unaware of how close it had come to death.
"Drat, missed it." muttered Rogue, trying to show she had not almost had a heart attack when the dog had nearly became road kill.
"Rogue!" said Kitty, thinking she had meant to hit the dog.
"Yes?" said Rogue innocently.
Kitty sighed dramatically.
~Kitty had missed the whole thing because she had been reading Piotr's book.
"Next time, I drive." said Kitty.
"Yeah, right. When pigs fly." was Rogue's response.
Upon arriving back at the mansion, ~Kitty said "I got to tell ~Kurt." and jumped out of the car and ran for the door. Once inside, she looked around. Spotting the dinning room door, she made a dash for it, pushed it open and said "He's not evil!" Then she held up the book, as if it were proof.
Since it was dinner time, the X-Men and Forge had assembled in that room. All looked up at ~Kitty's arrival.
"Who is not evil Kätzchen?" asked ~Kurt.
"Peter! He let me barrow this book, we met them at the mall, Pyro saved us and-"
Rogue, who had followed ~Kitty at a slower rate, broke in "Professor, we have ta tell ya about what happened at the mall."
"Yes, you do, but first, how did you get there?" asked the Professor.
"Umm, in a car."
"Rogue..."
"Oh alright, Ah drove us there."
"I was unaware of you getting your licence."
"Really? Why it must of slipped mah mind..."
The Professor sighed. "We'll talk about this later, Rogue. Now what happened at the mall?"
The three girls seated themselves at the table. ~Kitty began, "I stated a riot by accident-"
~Kurt put down the fork that had been on his way to his mouth. "How did you menage that?"
"Well..." the story came out with Kitty and Rogue jumping in and telling bits of their adventure. At the end of it Forge said, "So Gambit is coming to the Institute tomorrow at four o'clock?"
"Yes." said Kitty.
"How is he planning to get away from Magneto?" Logan asked.
"Ah'm sure he'll think of somethin'." said Rogue.
"Why," asked Ororo, "is he doing this for us?"
Rogue's face started turning red.
~Kitty came to her rescue. "Maybe he just wants you to know his fighting against you guys isn't personal, its just what Magneto forces or pays them to do."
"Maybe," said Scott, "but what if it's a trap?"
"Gawd, Scott, ya think everything is a trap."
"I do not! And it could be, it sounds very suspicious."
"I agree with Scott, it could be a trap. We should keep our eyes open." said Jean.
Evan asked "Who will take the machine when he arrives?"
"Rogue should." said Kitty.
"Why should Ah?"
"Because," Kitty said, as if it were obvious, which it was, "He's doing this for you."
Rogue again started feeling her face burn.
Kitty smiled smugly, having felt she now had her revenge from earlier.
"Then she shouldn't be the one." said Scott, "if he's only doing this to get to Rogue-"
"What do ya mean by that?" Rogue interrupted.
The Professor lifted his hand to stop Scott from answering. "Rogue will be the one to get the door. The rest of you will be waiting behind her, unseen, just in case."
With that agreed, the Professor continued, "I can try to find all the people who saw you at the mall. It will be hard, and I won't be able to wipe all their memories, maybe just fuzz up their remembrance of you."
"Thank you, Professor." said ~Kitty.
"Your welcome. Now let us finish up our supper before it gets cold."
During the meal, the younger X-Men and Forge, ~Kurt and ~Kitty decided to watch 'The Return of the Jedi' after dinner had been cleaned up. Ororo offered to do the dishes, and somehow got Logan to agree to help her. ~Kurt and Scott said they would manage the popcorn, and Jean and ~Kitty would get everyone drinks. Forge, Kurt, Evan, Rogue and Kitty would happily be lazy and waited upon.
After the dishes had been wiped and put in the dishwasher by a grumpy Logan, Scott and ~Kurt searched for popcorn in the pantry, and Jean got glasses out of the cabinet while ~Kitty took everyone's orders.
While the popcorn was popping, Scott asked ~Kurt "What is the Scott in your universe like?"
"A fearless leader." ~Kurt said, smiling.
This was appreciated by Scott but he wanted more. "That's great, but what is he like?"
"Don't take this badly, but he can be brooding. And bossy. And pig headed. But you can count on him, and he's a great friend."
"Oh." said Scott. Then, softer, "How did he take Jean's death?"
~Kurt stopped smiling. "He took it badly at first. Understandable so. He left the X-Men after her funeral. That's vhen ~Kitty joined. But he rejoined, I think he just needed some time off."
Beep, beep, beep. First bag of popcorn done. Scott poured it into a big plastic bowl, and ~Kurt put the second bag in.
~Kitty came in with everyone's orders. Jean had already asked what ~Kurt and Scott wanted, and had started to pour the drinks. Since Scott and ~Kurt were on the other side of the room, Jean whispered a question to ~Kitty. "What was I like in your dimension?"
"I'm not the best person to ask," said ~Kitty, "I hardly knew her, but she were very nice. When I was scared out of my wits, she did a good job of calming me down."
"Why where you scared?" Jean asked.
~Kitty smiled and said "Half because I was being chased by the bad guys, and the other half..." she pointed at ~Kurt, who was talking to Scott. "I had just met some of the members of the X-Men, Ororo, Peter, and Logan, when they were captured. Ororo told me to call a number she had on a piece of paper. I called it, and told the person on the other end (~Kurt) that they had been captured, but was interrupted when the bad guys saw me. The first time I actually met ~Kurt, I had almost been run over by Ms. Frost's (the White Queen) minions, and was lying on the ground exhausted while Jean, as Phoenix, fought them. Then I was picked up by a demon and we were scaling the wall of a building. My mind didn't connect his voice with the one I had talked to on the phone. When we reached the roof of the building I didn't wait for any explanations, I just broke away and dove through the roof."
Her narrative was broken when the bottle of soda exploded, when ~Kitty opened it. "Oops."
"I got it." said Jean, as she used her powers to summon a few sheets of paper towels. ~Kitty continued, "That's when Jean found me, huddled in that old building, trying to hide."
"And that's when you joined?" asked Jean.
"Oh, not just then, but after my parents agreed to it, and all the stuff involved, like transferring schools, and packing, were taken care of. But by the time I got to the mansion, Jean was already dead, and the other X-Men were at her funeral."
Evan poked his head through the doorway, "You guys done with the drinks yet?"
"Yes," said Jean, "And you can come help pass them out."
With the help of Evan, Jean and ~Kitty brought all the drinks into the TV room.
When the third bag of popcorn was done, Scott and ~Kurt brought in the bowls of popcorn, Scott carrying one, ~Kurt carrying the other two, with the help of his tail.
Rogue pushed the tape into the video player.
The Stars Wars theme music started to play, movie quality sound thanks to the Professor's wonderful sound system. ~Kitty read the words scrolling on the screen silently, excitement growing.
When the Ewoks appeared, ~Kitty swore to herself she'd find a stuffed animal of them. They were just to darn cute, like miniature Wookies.
And when it was revealed that Luke and Leia were actually brother and sister, ~Kurt and ~Kitty were shocked.
At the end of the movie ~Kitty said "That was the best movie ever."
"~Kitty, you said that after the other two Star Wars movies." ~Kurt reminded her.
"Well, this is the best." said ~Kitty.
Kurt wondered if she'd still think that if she saw the 'Lord of the Rings' movies.
Everyone agreed to watch 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' tomorrow night, and Jean and Scott collected all the glasses and popcorn bowls to wash.
Everyone else trooped upstairs to their rooms, and Forge down to the lab to get ready for the arrival of Magneto's machine. When Kitty and Rogue got to their room, and Kitty saw Rogue's book bag, she asked "Did you finish your homework?"
"Maybe, Ah don't remember. Tomorrow is Friday, right?" said Rogue as she searched her closet for her pajamas.
"Yeah, and after school you have to get the 'other dimension people sucker' from Gambit."
"Did ya ask Forge what we should call it?"
"No, I didn't get around to asking. Do you think he will bring it?" asked Kitty.
"Huh?"
"Gambit. Do you think he will really bring it? I mean, what if he can't get it away from Magneto?"
"Then we won't get it, and ~Kurt and ~Kitty will be stuck here forever." Rogue said, always the optimist.
"Unless Forge thinks of another way."
"There is always that." said Rogue, flopping into bed.
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If anyone wants to know, 'The Princess Bride' was made into a movie in 1987. I'm currently reading the book, and its funny as anything. I suggest you all read it. Its by William Goldman (not by Morgenstern, don't believe what Goldman tells you, he lies). Now review please!
~:b~
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