Kitty and the Rocktumbler
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "Clamping Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, our road tax dodging friend".
Thanks to all my reviewers. No Pyromaniac, Sid won't be in this one, i'm afraid, she's too busy in 'Thicker than Water' :D
ACT SIX - A deal
Kitty had finally got to the castle with Jott.
"What is this place?", she murmers to herself.
"A creepy scary place", replies Scott, "I wanna go home!".
"Yeah....we can always get another Forge", says Jean, "give this one up for lost".
Kitty gives her horse a 'loving' smack across the head as she gets off, walking through the gate. She stops, picking up Forge's tie-dye banadanna.
"There's only one man in the world who still wears things like this in Bayville", she says, "Papa"
"Oh look that that, he's been eaten, too bad", says Scott, "lets go home".
Kitty gives Jott a smack before entering the castle, looking for Forge
"Hello? Is anoyone there?", she calls, "Papa?".
Inside, Todd and Pietro are bickering
"Couldn't keep quiet, could we?", rants Todd, "Just had ta invite him ta stay, didn't we? Serve him tea, sit in the masters chair, pet the pooch!".
"I was trying to be hospitible". replies Pietro with a shrug.
Inside the kitchen, Beast is cleaning up lots of little cups. Jamie hops over
"Momma there's a girl in the castle!", he says excitedly, before shuddering, "calling you that is so very, very wrong"
Now, Jamie, I won't have you making up any wild stories", says Beast, pouring himself, tipping hot water into a bowl.
"No, really, momma, I SAW her!", protests Jamie.
"Not another word", rpelied Beast, "now into the tub".
He dunks Jamie into the bowl of water. Suddenly, a brown feather duster with a white streak running along her comes in...she passes a resembalance to Rogue.
"A'h hate this part, a'hm alergic to dust bunnies", Rogue mutters, before grinning, "A girl! A girl in the castle!".
"See I told ya", says Jamie, poking his errrr head out of the water, "Just because I'm little doesn't mean I'm not right".
Elsewhere in the castle, Todd and Pietro are STILL bikering, Pietro making his candles move like Todd's mouth as he speaks and pulling a face
"Irrisponsible, devil-may-care, waxy-eared, slack-jawed...", says Todd.
"Papa?".
The two blink at the voice, then look around the corner to see Kitty looking for Forge.
"Did you see that? It's a girl!!!!", grins Pietro.
"You don't say!", replied Todd sarcastically, "I know it's a girl...and you are a candelabra...I don't think you're compatable".
"Not for me!", growls Pietro, "Don't you see?. She's the one. The girl we have been waiting for. The girl who will break the spell! Whoooot, feet, here I come!".
He bounces off after her, Todd close behind
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!", he hisses under his breath.
They sneak up behind Kitty and open the door to the tower where Forge is being kept. The door creaks and Kitty walks towards it
"Papa?", Kitty calls out again
Todd hides behind the door while Pietro rushes up the stairs before her, hiding on a shelf and watching her
"Papa, Papa? Hello, is someone there?", she calls, the hears Pietro move, spinning around, looking around her in confusion, "Wait!, I'm looking for my father I...".
Pietro quickly takes the form of a normal candelabra
"That's funny. I'm sure there was someone", she murmers under her breath, "..... Is...is anyone there?".
"Kitty?", comes Forge's echoy voice, "hey cool, echo echo echo"
Kitty rushes up to the cell to find him attempting to break out of his cell with his arm, to no avail. He changes his arm back and sighs
"You know, it took you long enough, lazy good for nothing", he mutters,
"Oh Papa!", says Kitty, then frowns, "you'd rather I leave you here?, 'cause I can!"
"Guys, lets try to be civil to one another, please", sighs Kurt.
"How did you find me?", asks Forge.
"Oh, your hands are like ice", says Kitty, ignoring his question, holding onto one of his hands.
"Actually, that's my false, metal one", points out Forge.
"Oh...that explains it", says Kitty, dropping his arm with a thunk, clearing her throat, "We have to get you out of here".
"Kitty, you have to leave this place". says Forge, glancing around warily, "he's worse than Normal Bates. You check in, but you don't check out, man!!!"
"Who's done this to you?", she asks.
"No time to explain, you must go, now", says Forge, "I mean it!. Exercising fatherly rights here".
"I won't leave you", says Kitty stubbornly.
Suddenly, Lance grabs Kitty by the shoulder and wheels her around. She drops her torch, extinguishing it, the only light source now being a ray of light from a sky light
"What are you doing here?!", snarls Lance.
"Run, Kitty!", shouts Forge, "run like the wind!!!"
"Who's there?", she calls out, "Who are you?".
"The master of this castle", growls Lance, hidden by shadow.
"I've come for my father. Please let him out", pleads Kitty, "Can't you see he's sick?".
"Here's me being sick", says Forge, "Cough, cough".
"Then he shouldn't have trespassed here". snarls Lance.
"But he could die!". says Kitty
"Still in the room", mutters Forge, "I can hear every word"
"Please, I'll do anything!", begs Kitty
"Anything?", asks Lance.
Anything for you!, sings Kitty (1)
"Wrong musical", groans Kurt, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Sorry. There's nothing you can do", growls Lance, "He's my prisoner!".
"Lucky me", says Forge dryly, "I feel so loved and wanted".
"Oh there must be some way I can", Kitty pauses, "....wait! Take me instead".
"You!", Lance sneers, before pausing, "......you would take his place?".
"That's it, she's finally gone wiggy", says Forge, "Kitty, no, you don't know what you're doing!".
"If I did, would you let him go?", says Kitty.
"Yes, but you must promise to stay here forever", says Lance.
"See, what did I tell you?", says Forge, "I bet he has his dead mother on some rocking chair in the attic".
"Come into the light", says Kitty, narrowing her eyes.
Lance does so, revealing himself as a beast, Kitty gasps,
"Is that what you'd look like if you didn't shave?", she asks.
"Funny", says Lance, "you're a real comedian"..
Kitty bites her lip, hanging her head.
"No, Kitty, I won't let you do this!", tries Forge..again.
"You have my word", says Kitty quietly.
"Are words coming out of my mouth here?", says Forge, crossing his arms.
"Done!". growls Lance as Kitty drops to the floor sadly.
Lance unlocks the door, yanking Forge out
"Hey, easy on the mood ring!", snaps Forge, before wincing, "Man, do I have to say this line?".
"Ja", says Kurt with a smirk.
"Next time I'll read a script before I sign up for a fic", mutters Forge, "No, Kitty, listen to me I'm..ugh.. old, I've lived my life...".
"See, that vasn't so hard now, vas it?", smiles Kurt plesantly.
"Bite me, blue boy", snaps Forge.
Lance grabs Forge by the sruff of his shirt and drags him off
"Wait!", shouts Kitty, "wait!"
Lance ingores her, dragging Forge outside.
"No, please spare my...err...daughter", says Forge.
"She is no longer your concern!", snarls Lance, shoving Forge into a pallenquin, which comes alive, "Take him to the village!".
The pallenquin starts to gallop off towards the villiage.
"Please let me out, please", says Forge, "....I get pallenquin sickness".
Kitty watches this from her tower and starts to cry. On the stairs on the way back up, Lance is stopped by Pietro
"Master?"
"What!", snarls Lance.
Pietro looks sheepishly to the ground.
"Since the girl is going to be with us for quite some time", he says, "I was thinking that you might want to offer her a more comfortable room".
Lance growls at him, flickering his candles
"Then again..maybe not", says Pietro with a nervous laugh.
Lance mutters to himself and enters the cell, where Kitty is still crying
"You didn't even let me say goodbye", she sobs, glraring at him, "I'll never see him again. I didn't get to say goodbye".
Lance winces, starting to feel more than slightly guilty.
"I'll......show you to your room", he mutters.
"My room?", asks Kitty, confused, "But I thought....".
"You wanna stay in the tower?", snarls Lance, gesturing around him.
"No", admits Kitty.
"Then follow me", growls Lance.
He leads her along the coridors, using Pietro to lead the way. Kitty glances at all the scary sculptures before gasping and running after Lance. Pietro taps Lance on the head and leans in to whisper to him.
"Say something to her".
"Hmm?, says Lance, "Oh....I...hope you like it here".
"Yeah, right I'm a prisoner without a father, I'll be just peachy", mutters Kitty.
He glances at Pietro, who gestures him to carry on
"The castle is your home now, you can go anywhere you wish", says Lance, then adds quickly, "EXCEPT the west wing".
"What's in the west wing?", asks Kitty.
"It's forbiden!", snarls Lance.
He opens a door, letting her into her room
"Now, if there's anything you need", he says, "My SERVANTS will attend to you".
"Yeah, rub it in", mutters Pietro, "Dinner, invite her to dinner".
"You will join me for dinner", growls Lance, "that's not a request!".
He slams the door closed, leaving Kitty alone and sobbing on the bed
"Real smoothe, Romeo", says Pietro, sarcastically clapping.
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(1) - Yes, this joke was in it before. There's an aouthors note because I FINALLY got to see a musical, in a theatre! And it was Oliver! Yey!...Regular readers will understand my glee.
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