Disclamier: You know the routine. Me equals Nothing. Except for Des, Volt, and the idea. Borrowed Marc though.

After taking a shower and getting settled back into regular clothes. Des sat down on the couch next to Marc. Sometime when Des was in the bathroom, Ceres had came back and was now laying down on the living room floor. "Glad you are well again." She said to her.

Marc hugged her for what seemed the hundreth time already. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you again like that." He said, determinedly. Des pulled away from him. "Jeez, I get it so stop."

Volt chuckled at his sister's attitude. Reminding it of his own when he gets a temper. Except that his was way more worse though. "Shouldn't you be getting back to the mansion?" Wanda asked Marc, appearing next to Volt in the doorway.

Marc sighed, knowing she was right but he didn't want to leave though. Most likely he'll be in trouble by the adults when he gets back. And that's NOT a good thing with Logan. Meaning extra Danger Room sessions and not going anywhere except out for school.

"Now why did you have to bring that up?! I was happy without doing the DR sessions." He said as he hung his head. Everyone gave him questionable looks as to what he meant by that. "Well it can't be that bad." Volt suggested knowing he's been through worse then what Marc makes DR sound like.

"You have no idea how a Danger Room session is like. Especially, when mine have to deal with my powers." He then shuddered. Obviously, remembering his first session and how horrible it had went.

"Well I'll take you home later if you don't mind." Volt offered. Seeing Marc nodding in approval, Wanda and him turned around to start leaving. "And where are you two going?" Marc asked in a fatherly tone, joking around of course.

"He's just going to take me back to the boarding house." Wanda stated, giving him a glare. Which caused a slight shiver to go down his spine. "Jeez, you didn't have to be mean about it. I was just asking that's all."

Des and Ceres chuckled at the way Marc was acting. Volt smirked then it turned into a look that Marc didn't ever want to see again. Like silently telling him if he tried to do anything with Des. That he'd kill him before she has a chance to even try to do so.

Once they left, Marc streched and reached acrossed to the table. Picking up the remote to the tv and turned it on. While he flipped threw channels, Des got up and headed to Volt's room to let her pet snake out. Coming back into the living room with Morbid around her shoulders, she sat back down petting it.

Out of the corner of Marc's eye. He could see the serpent flicker it's tongue out at him. Sensing his very warm body heat, he slowly slithered away from Des's shoulders over towards Marc. "Hey now. That's not cool." Marc said, moving over to one side. Des chuckled as she moved the snake off of her shoulders to her lap now.

"It's not like he'll bite." She said as Marc finally stopped channel surfing and had it on Cartoon Network with The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy on. He just shook his head not liking that comment even though he knew that the serpent would never harm him.

"Fine I'll go put Morbid back if you don't like him being out. I'll just go get Medusa instead." Marc's eyes went wide at the mention of that name. "No, anything but that." He pleaded with her. She stopped at the entrance of Volt's room. She raised a brow, not liking the idea to touch the black tarantula.

"Like I'd really do something like that." She stated, heading in her brother's room and set the boa back in his aquarium tank. She then went to sit back down on the couch again. "Well that's a relief then." He said with a sigh. Ceres chuckled at his responce. "Seems as though you are afraid of something that can be afraid of you."

"So, that can't be helped. Besides go back to the jungle where you belong for awhile." Marc said, stating her to leave them alone. The black jaguar yawned while streching to get up off the floor. She looked at him before actually speaking directly to him so that Des couldn't hear telepathically anyways.

"Looks like you can't wait to be alone with her. Except you do know what Volt is going to do to you if he finds out anything. Also, I am starting to get hungry and a nice capybara is starting to sound good right about now." She basically stated to him. Her senses, as keen as they were, was picking up his hidden emotions.

Well that didn't scare Marc that much, except for the Volt part. The big cat seemed pretty cool about the way he felt about Des. Which brought up his confindence as she left to Volt's room and disappeared into the shadows. "Well that was strange." Commented Des on how silently Ceres agreed to go away as Marc stated her to do.

Soon the show was over with and they had sat in silence threw the half an hour of it. "Ok the silence is killing me here." Marc yelled dramatically. Des slightly laughed at his out burst but couldn't blame him though. X-man or not he seemed pretty cool to be around. At least he did livin' the mood a little she had to admit.

"You are one of the weirdest people I have ever met in my life." Des stated while shaking her head. Marc stood up and bowed. "Why thank you. You're so kind when you want to be." He said and bowed a few more times. The last bow he did though, he ended up leaning to far forward and smacking his head against the table. She flinched when he did that.

Reminding her of the part in Ace Venture: Pet Detective, when Ace smacks his head against the bench in the Mental Institute. "Are you ok?" She managed ot get out with a slight laugh. Seeing as he didn't move from that spot. He suddenly jumped up like he was fine, slight headache but nothing more.

"Just peachy." He replied, turned to the side and fell like a cartoon character would onto his back. Des got off the couch and knelt down beside him. "You're weird and I like that." She said with a smile. With a double take, Marc still couldn't believe that she actually smiled at him.

He sat up into a sitting position and said with a pleased expression, "I knew you couldn't resist my charm. Seeing as I got you to smile." She rolled her eyes at him and punched his arm.

"Ow that hurt." He said, rubbing the area where she hit. "Wuss." She muttered under her breathe and Marc heard it. He lowered his head and slumped his shoulders. Begining to look all pathetic just over one word.

"Would kissing me make you feel better?" Des asked him, hating how pathetic he looked. Even worse then Pietro getting the cold shoulder. She didn't know why she said that and wished she didn't in the first place. But then started to wish she had sooner for some odd reason. Marc felt like dying right then and there. He was so shocked that he was utterly speechless. His mind kept telling him to speak but no words would form in his mouth.

He looked at her and nodded in a yes fashion. He leaned forward and finally kissed those luscious lips of hers. After a few moments of hesitation, Des kissed him back. He moved her onto his lap as they kissed. Resting his hands on her hips as she slipped her arms around his neck. The moment was a perfect Kodak moment until Marc had a sudden feeling that they were being watched.

After hearing someone cough to tell them that they weren't alone. Marc cursed that his hearing betrayed him from any signs of warning. "Oh shit." Des thought, not liking on what was going to happen. They both stopped and very slowly turned their heads over towards the doorway to see Volt standing there. Not a happy look on his face either more of a disappointed look towards the two.

Des got up off of Marc's lap and sat back on the couch. While he stayed where he was on the floor. "Both of you out to the car. I'm taking you home now, Marc." He stated. Des quickly obeyed his order and left.

Marc got up and started making his way to head out. Volt placed a hand on his shoulder while he passed. Making him stop dead in his tracks. "That's the first time in a long time that I've seen her happy. " Volt commented with a smile. Marc was relieved to a certain point about that.

"If she wants to go out with you then I'm not going to stop it from happening. Except, if I find out that you mistreated her or break her heart. Then you won't be so lucky." He warned him with vast seriousness. Marc nodded in agreement. "Of course, I won't do such a thing towards her." He said with a smile of his own.

With that all settled, they headed out to Volt's car.

A/N: Eh, seems kind of boring. But, hey, at least Marc and Des FINALLY kissed. Booya!