A/N Here's the next chapter! Okay, note here, it's after the sentinel incident, but Magneto and Mystique and everyone else is gone. Just in case you needed to know.
"Miss me?" Remy asked as he walked through the door.
"What do you want?" Lance snarled, standing protectively in front of Kitty.
"Get out of here," Pietro said.
"Hey Speedy," Pyro said. "Hey, we have some luggage in the car, can you start bringing it in for us?" Pietro stopped, and looked confused, until Remy pushed him lightly out.
"The car," he whispered as Pietro was pushed out the door. He then looked at Lance and burst out laughing.
"Is that slime?" he asked, pointing at his head, which was still covered in the slime that Todd had dumped on him.
"Man, what happened to you?" Pyro asked.
"Why are you here?" Kitty asked, ignoring their questions.
"Hey, chill out, Magneto just told us to come down here and check you out," Pyro eyed Kitty.
"He meant to see if she was Acolyte material," Remy said, smacking Pyro on the head. "Not to check her out."
"Kitty's staying with us," Lance said. "How'd Magneto even know she was with us, or where we were?"
"Magneto knows everything about you guys," Pyro said, in what could be considered his most serious voice. He sat himself on the desk in the entryway, and started flicking his lighter.
"He knows about the time when Lance joined the X-men, when you got kicked out of school, and when you fought your way back in, which Remy still can't understand," Remy said.
"And when he said that a girl had joined you guys, well, we had to come out and get a closer look," Pyro finished, checking Kitty out.
"Why is Magneto watching us?" Todd asked.
"Just in case one of you decides to do something stupid," Remy said, taking out a deck of cards.
"Hit the deck!" Todd screamed, remembering the last time Remy had cards out, and almost charged him into oblivion. Remy laughed, and started to shuffle his cards.
"Don't worry, if we wanted to attack you, we would've already done it," Remy said.
"This is more of a vacation," Pyro said, "a break from the hard work of doing nothing while Magneto busies himself with plans of taking over the world."
"It's actually very tiresome," Remy said.
"We don't want you here," Lance said.
"Hey, mate, we're not really wanted anywhere," Pyro said.
"Not much different from you," Remy pointed out.
Kitty pulled Lance towards her, "They're not going to leave, might as well enjoy ourselves right?"
Lance looked at her, trying to decide if she was serious. Once he decided she was, he said, "You and your stupid optimism." He turned towards their uninvited guests, "you guys can stay, but you do anything wrong, and I'm kicking you out of here. And what's your problem?"
Pyro was staring at him intently, "you know, you kind of look like the Hulk, only, without the muscles," he said. Lance rolled his eyes, and went to wash off the slime that was starting to leak into his shirt.
"Well, since we have more people than expected, I expect you two to set the table," Kitty said to Remy and Pyro, "and you two to help me in the kitchen," to Todd and Fred.
Pyro and Remy stood there, mouths open as the others left. The mighty Gambit and Pyro taking orders from a girl? Mystique, they might listen to, but only because she was scary, but this was a 15 year old girl who looked like she would freak out if she broke a nail.
"Hey, should we be doing this?" Pyro nudged Remy. "I mean, we're supposed to…"
"Remy knows what's to be done," Remy snapped. "Just play along for now, we'll see what happens."
They searched around a few random cupboards, until they found some dishes. Pyro stood with some forks and knives, and stared at the table, with a confused look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Remy asked, noticing his friend's confused expression.
"I don't know how to set the table," Pyro confessed sheepishly. Remy rolled his eyes.
"Aw come on, it's just the fork on the...wait, Remy don't know either," Remy said.
"We're terrorists, why do we need to know how to set the table?" Pyro asked.
"Who cares," Remy said, "just throw them anywhere. And when Remy say 'throw' he means put them in any order, not throw them across the room again."
"It was just the one time," Pyro said.
Remy rolled his eyes, and continued setting the table.
In the kitchen, Kitty was starting to regret having Todd and Fred help her. Between Todd sliming things while taste-testing them, and Fred eating everything that came too close to him, she wasn't sure that there was going to be any food left for the others.
"Fred! Don't eat the cauliflower. Todd! When I said to check the potatoes, I did not mean stick your tongue in!" Kitty yelled. "Okay, you guys go help the others with setting the table, I'll handle this, and where's Pietro?"
"He came in a couple minutes ago, but he didn't have any of the suitcases," Todd said, "when I told him to help us, he said no."
"He said you were too bossy," Fred said. Kitty rolled her eyes, she might be bossy, but nobody did anything around here unless they were forced to. She didn't have a choice.
"So, what do you think Gambit and Pyro are doing here," Todd asked, lowering his voice.
"I don't know," Lance said, walking into the room, "but I hope they don't plan on staying, we don't have enough rooms as it is."
"Well, they have a lot of stuff in their car," Fred said.
"Yeah, I think they're planning on staying with us for awhile," Todd said.
"Why would two of Magneto's lackey's need to stay with us?" Lance mussed out loud.
"You don't think he's spying on us, do you?" Kitty asked.
"If he wasn't, how could he have known about this cabin?" Lance asked. "The question is, why does he need more people to spy on us? He seemed to have enough information before, why does he need people here to watch us? Especially since he's avoided us since we fought Apocalypse."
"He's planning something," Todd said.
"And we're part of it," Kitty finished.
"What should we do?" Fred asked.
"For now," Lance said, "we just play along, act like nothing's happening. We'll see what happens later."
So through dinner, which was delicious in Kitty's opinion, even if she couldn't have the turkey, they acted like nothing was happening. Except for Pietro, he was acting strange, well, strange for him; he seemed to be eating slowly, slower than usual. But, Kitty supposed it was because he was an Acolyte for a while, and that he was just nervous about his old teammates watching him.
"Hey, Pie, what's wrong?" Todd asked, also noticing that Pietro wasn't his normal cocky self.
"Nothing," Pietro muttered, and put some food in his mouth, ending any more questions.
Lance knew something was wrong, but he figured that he would wait until after dinner. Besides Pietro, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, and was having a pretty good time. It was a bit awkward for Kitty to be dining with people whom she had fought against at least once, but, she had also worked together with them, so she figured it was alright.
After dinner, Kitty started getting the dishes together. "Remy I need you and…" Kitty paused, and looked at Pyro, "what's your real name?"
"St. John Allerdyce, but you can call me John," he said.
"Okay, so you and Remy get the dishes into the sink, Fred and Todd, I need you to put the left over food away, actually, Remy and Todd put the food away, I don't trust you Freddy," Kitty said.
"Where do you get off thinking that you can boss Remy around?" Remy said.
"Since you wouldn't do anything if I didn't tell you what to do," Kitty said calmly.
"Awww… I always have to wash the dishes," John complained. "How come Lance and Pietro don't have to do anything?"
"Just do it, you sound like a little kid," Kitty said. The four boys went to do their assigned chores, Remy complaining all the way.
"Pietro, I need to talk to you," Lance said, "in the living room." He expected Pietro to run off, and then complain that Lance was to slow when he finally got there, but he walked at a rate that was normal for regular people.
"Now," Lance said, once they were seated on the couch in the living room, "what's up with you? You usually eat as fast as Freddy," Lance told Pietro.
"I'm fine," Pietro said.
"Sure," Kitty said sarcastically. She made a face when she heard a dish break in the kitchen. "I'll leave you guys to talk; I have to make sure that the others don't kill themselves."
"So, now are you ready to talk?" Lance asked, once Kitty left. "Do you know what your father is planning?"
"Of course I do," he snapped.
When he didn't say anything further, Lance said, "So, what's going on?"
Pietro suddenly looked up at Lance and smiled. "This," he said, and stabbed him with a needle.
"What…what'd you do?" Lance asked, as he passed out on the ground.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Kitty was having a hard time keeping things under control.
"Todd, don't drop that plate you're not even supposed to be washing the dishes," there was a crash, "Fred! You're getting water everywhere!" There was a splash, and then a whoosh of fire, "John, I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help, but making a fire to evaporate the water is not going to do much."
Remy was leaning against a wall, not even bothering to help. "Looks like you're really in control, chere," he said sarcastically.
"Well you could try to help," Kitty said. "Lance," she said, as Lance walked into the room, "could you keep your friends under control here?"
"Of course, Pretty Kitty," Lance said, with a nasty smile on his face. Suddenly, he pulled out a handkerchief and grabbed Kitty, and put in over her mouth. "Bye Kitty," he said as she lost consciousness.
So, it's not the big chapter I promised, but now it's a cliffhanger, which is even better. I bet you weren't expecting that, huh? So, don't forget to review!
Oh, and thanks to my awesome-ly awesome reviewers: Anti-XYo, GothikStrawberry, Reddistherose, fudje, xmengirlzrule, and Idypebsaby.
And to those of you who left reviews that I just have to respond to, it's shout outs!
Valley Gurl 101- I would love to put in some love triangles, unfortunately, I don't know too much about the subject, and also, there's this mysterious 'Lance and Pietro just went berserk,' thing going on, so I might not have time to do it, thanks for your suggestion though!
EmeraldKatsEye- I thought you were serious about the 'darling' there in your review, man, I was cracking up, ah, it brought a smile to my face.
Ellen- yes, I know Kitty is very smart, but as you said, she's not really known for her common sense, for example 'the muffin incident'. Also, I get great grades, and am good on a computer, but I've been called a 'blonde at heart' more than once (I'm a brunette actually, but people tell me I'd make a great blonde, I'm not sure if that's an insult or not.)
Justjo438- Would you believe my family gave me the inspiration for the olive sampling story? They actually did it themselves, only they got through the entire can of rotten olives before they stopped.
XME- he he, I like my username to. There's a long story behind it, but I don't want to waste valuable reading time.
NightCrawler28- Sal's a jerk!
Ali-cat333- I don't know, maybe I'll bring Rogue in, I haven't decided yet, so, who knows?
Wow, that got long, anyways, don't forget to review this chapter!