HEAD'S UP! My last two chapters scared the hell outta G lol… So. Just to assure you others who may not be so happy about this, trust me. There will NEVER be a Mary/Pietro couple as long as I'm around. Ever. Ew. No. We clear? Get it? Got it? Good . P.S- yes, this was uploaded for G's peace of mind.
Mary didn't have Literature class the next day, and barely saw Pietro around the halls. If she did per chance see him, she never had enough time or courage to go up and talk to him. She wanted to ask what went on between him and her sister for such an animosity to be between the two, but she was afraid that if she did, the same animosity would form between herself and him as well.
She snapped out of her daze when a paper ball bounced off her the side of her head and landed on her desk in front of her. She jumped and looked to her side to see Tabitha twirling her pencil in her hand innocently. Right. Like Tabitha's ever innocent. The two-tone glanced up at the math teacher, who was busy reading a book at the front of class, and picked up the paper ball and unwrapped it.
Last class of the day girl… then it's weekend! Perk up. We're going out tonight.
P.S. Yes, I'm making you go. No complaining.
Mary perked her brow at the letter and waded it up and chunked it as indiscreetly as she could at Tabitha's head. It bounced off and landed in her bag and she stuck out her tongue. Mary followed suit, and by the time the final bell rang, they were pinching each other unbeknownst to the teacher. They both stood to leave, and Mary effectively won the battle by flicking Tabitha in the nose and dashing out the classroom.
Due to her height, she was able to duck below many elbows and she was near the exit before she slammed into a body. "Hey! Vatch it!" An annoyed voice chastised. Mary looked up to see Kurt at his locker packing up for the weekend.
"Kurt!" She exclaimed before he grabbed her arm and pulled her up. By this time, they had gained the attention of a few other students. "Want to do a favor for your darling little sister?" She asked, pleading with puppy eyes.
"Sure thing, sis." He smiled, patting her on the head.
"Get me outta here before Tabitha gets me!" She begged. "Teleport us." She whispered to him. His entire demeanor changed, and he looked around to make sure no one had heard her.
"Mary… no one here knows I'm a mutant. They've only seen Nightcrawler, not Kurt Vagner. Ruhe, schwester." He whispered. "I'm sorry. I can't help you right here… and you might vant to run for it." He added as he heard Tabitha coming down the hallway.
Mary gave him an apologetic look and continued on her way. She ran out onto the campus and looked around. Neither Jean or Scott were out here at the moment, and they were the only two who drove today. She couldn't take the bus; they had been prohibited from the bus since the mutant discovery, and while Mary wasn't assumed a mutant yet necessarily, word had gotten out that she lived at the Institute and she had been somewhat avoided since then. Not that it mattered to her, the less people around her the less likely she was to be found out as a mutant. So, being without a car, without a bus, and without any other mode of transportation, Mary stood there, waiting the inevitable.
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Pietro sped down the hallway, stirring up a breeze around the normal humans who couldn't even see him. "At last! The weekend! No more of these losers who aren't even worthy enough to eat my dust." He thought cockily as he sped through the heavy wooden doors and nearly plowed into Mary. "AGH. Just what I needed. I've avoided her all day without using my speed. Now that she can't even see me is the time I run into her. I hate this. Damn my father for making me do this. Damn him." Pietro scowled as he ran around Mary and stopped suddenly in front of her. "Hey there." He greeted mere inches from her face.
Mary was shocked, to say the least. She knew Pietro was a mutant, but she had never seen his powers. She stumbled back and tripped over her own feet, effectively making an idiot of herself in front of the few students outside. Luckily for her, Pietro had sped back around her and caught her in his arms. "Careful there." He chuckled as he pushed her back up. "I missed you today… how are things going?" He asked, mentally killing himself for having to be so congenial to an enemy.
Mary stood there, wondering how he could randomly appear like that and pretend like it was nothing out of the ordinary. "How… you… where'd you come from?" She sputtered.
"Super-speed. I can be here one second," He paused as he sped around behind her. "And here the next." He explained as he tapped her on the shoulder.
Mary looked around her and noticed that other students were staring at the mutant. "Does that not bother you that people know you're a mutant and look down on you because of it?" She asked, tilting her head so her hair shielded most of her face from their glares.
"Why should it bother me? I'm proud of what I am. Let's face it. Mutants are just the next step in the human race, and everyone else is just going to have to accept that one day." He said loudly enough for many to hear him. His voice was prideful, and somewhat shocked Mary.
"Well…yeah… I guess." She agreed softly. "But I don't think I'm ready for everyone else to know I'm a mutant. I'm new here… I don't need a bad rep this soon." She whispered to him.
"Finally… I can figure out her power. Hopefully it's nothing like Rogue's and I can go back to wooing all the other hot girls in school… not this stupid sophomore." He thought to himself while putting on a face of interest. "Mutant? I knew you were related to Rogue… but that doesn't always mean you have a power… will you tell me what it is?" He asked hopefully.
The two-tone paused and looked around for eavesdroppers. "You know Rogue's power… right? It's the exact same as that, but I don't know how to control it at all yet." She replied as she subconsciously tugged at her gloves.
Pietro could have died right there. "So much for dumping her!" He thought angrily, his cold blue eyes flashing. "That's cool. I hope I don't get on your bad side with a power like that. You could lay me out flat if you really wanted to." He grinned, stepping back to gain a few inches between them. Mary noticed this and gave a sad smile.
"Yeah, so you better not piss me off anytime soon." She joked before stepping past him and heading in the direction of the Institute.
"Hey! Where are ya going?" He asked her, catching up with her easily.
"I'm getting away from Tabitha. She's pissed." Mary explained, not slowing her pace.
"I don't think you're going to get away from her going that slow." He pointed out.
"Well… do you have any better ideas? I can't drive and I can't wait on anyone who can." She told him.
"I need to gain her trust sooner or later… here's a good way how." He sighed to himself as he scooped her up in her arms and sped off to Xavier's Institute.
"What are yah doing?" She yelped as she wrapped her arms around his neck instinctively to keep herself from falling. She looked down and saw the ground rushing past her at an incredible speed and she shut her eyes in fear.
Pietro chuckled at her reaction. "I'm getting you home quicker. See? No Tabitha for miles. It'll give you time to run." He answered as he set her down at the gates of Institute. "I better not hang around here… that Badger of yours will be on me in a second. I'll see you around Mary." He said quickly, not giving her time to thank him or chastise him, and sped back down the street and to the Brotherhood House.
Mary stood flabbergasted. She didn't even have a chance to react before he was gone, and she was left standing at the gates alone. "I'll…see yah." She said, her accent drawn out from fear. She shook her head and punched in the codes to open the iron gates and walked inside to get ready for tonight.
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Back at the Brotherhood House, Pietro paced. "Why me?" He asked Blob and Todd, who had chosen not to go back to school.
"Why what?" Toad asked, taking his attention from the sitcom on T.V.
"Magneto wants to recruit Rogue's sister. Who do you think he demanded do it? Me of course. I don't see why he couldn't do it himself. He's got those metal orbs of his; he could just swoop down and get her at school one day. But does he? NO!" Pietro ranted speedily, but somehow Todd was able to keep up.
"Well… maybe he wanted to get the Brotherhood doing something, yo. Sides, he probably doesn't want the blame on him once she does disappear." Todd shrugged before turning his attention back to the T.V.
Pietro scowled and kicked an empty pizza box at his housemate. Todd yelped and jumped, narrowly missing the projectile and landing on Blob's shoulder. "Chill, yo! It's not gonna kill ya!" Todd exclaimed. Pietro glared in response and stormed up the stairs to his room.
He kicked his door shut and flopped down on his bed to stare at the ceiling. He stayed like that for a while, until his cell phone rang. He sighed, knowing whom it was, and pulled it out of his jeans pocket. "Hello father." He greeted.
"Pietro." Came a curt response. "Well, how are things progressing? Have you learned anything of any use?" Magneto demanded.
"Actually yes. Mary has the exact same powers of Rogue. No control, and I highly doubt she's absorbed many people at all. That means - " He was cut off.
"I know very well what that means. No psyche's, the lesser the chance Xavier would have started developing her powers." Magneto interrupted.
"Yes… and I also learned Rogue is extremely protective of her. If I make a misstep before the initial capture, I could be looking at a coma." The speed demon spat disdainfully.
"Well, hopefully for you, you will watch where you step." Magneto responded. "Keep up the work, Pietro. Don't fail me again." He said before hanging up.
"Nice chatting with you too, father." Pietro scowled again before shutting his phone and sitting up in bed. He knew he needed not fail this mission. Magneto was not one to be trifled with, and his past failures with the Brotherhood had not made him happy at all. Pietro was speeding on thin ice with this one. He also knew the other side of the mission. If he were to give the X-Men any reason to suspect he or Magneto had kidnapped the girl, they would be on his case in an instant. Rogue in particular. Pietro shuddered to think of the consequences of angering each side.
"What have you gotten myself into now, Quicksilver?" He asked himself.
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Mary couldn't stand it any longer. She had to know one good reason why she shouldn't trust Pietro, because she was well on her way in doing so. She had finished dressing for tonight with Tabitha, and she some time to spare before they had planned on leaving. She walked next door and knocked lightly. After a moment of no answers, she went downstairs in search of her sister. She nearly plowed over Sam at the bottom of the stairs, and grabbed the handrail to steady herself.
"Oops… sorry Mary." Sam apologized as he balanced a few Cokes and a bowl of popcorn in his arms.
"Its cool Sam… hey… have you seen Rogue around?" She asked, hoping he would know.
"Umm… last Ah checked she was in the library." He replied before continuing onto the Recroom, where many of the New Recruits were. Mary paused, trying to remember which way was the quickest to the library, and started off to find Rogue.
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Rogue reclined on a couch reading her novel, cherishing the peace of it all. Not many ventured into the library during the day, and even fewer at night. This was her one place to find a break from the hustle and bustle of the Institute.
She looked up when she heard something stir towards the door, and saw her sister peering into the dim library. "Mary?" Rogue called, grabbing the girl's attention.
"There you are." Mary breathed a sigh of relief as she walked towards the older girl. Rogue scooted over and gave Mary a place to sit, and she accepted the offer.
"Where are you off tah tonight?" Rogue inquired, taking in Mary's apparel. She was wearing her black corset, with black and red striped arm socks, raggedy jeans and her black converses.
"Tabitha wanted to take me out… she told me living here and going to school didn't count as a social life." Mary replied, tugging at her gloves.
"She tried that on me too… after a while Ah stopped payin' attention." Rogue snorted, and then realized Mary had probably sought her out for something. "Was there something yah wanted? Or did yah just get lost again?"
Mary hesitated, but decided knowing would be better than not. "I… I was wondering why you and Pietro… Why am I supposed to stay away from him?"
Rogue's eyes narrowed. "Why?" Her voice wasn't exactly welcoming.
"Well… When you blew up at him yesterday he wasn't doing anything wrong. We were just talking." Mary replied, noticing her sister's tone and becoming nervous.
"Mary… Pietro is Magneto's son. Magneto… in case yah forget… has had it out for us since tha beginning. He tried tah have Kurt killed, he's tha one that suggested Mystique adopt me and train me tah be a part of his team… he put his own daughter in an asylum. Why should his son be any different from him? From what Ah know of him… he would be capable of all that and not have any remorse." She replied.
"But… maybe he could be different?" Mary asked hopefully.
"Ah doubt it." Rogue replied finally, her voice still cold. The two sat there in silence for a few moments, Mary contemplating what Rogue had told her, and Rogue hoping she had convinced her sister to stay away from the boy.
"Ok… I understand Rogue." Mary spoke up. "I don't believe he's as horrible as you say he could be, but I understand why you think so. But… that's not gonna stop me from being friends with him. He hasn't done anything to me… he at least deserves my friendship if he wants it." She explained.
Rogue sat there, speechless. Part of her didn't want to fight with her sister, and another part wanted to snatch her up and yell at her. Pietro was the enemy. He had proved himself evil a million times, and Mary wasn't going to listen to her? Why the hell not? She calmed her thoughts and composed a reply. "Ok Mary. Just promise me you'll be careful around him." She asked, her tone cool.
Mary smiled softly and nodded. She was about to speak up when Tabitha's voice rang out. "MARY! Let's GO!"
"I've gotta run… thanks Rogue." Mary thanked before turning and running out of the room.
Rogue stayed in the library for a while, seething. Mary should listen to her. Pietro couldn't be trusted, he had proven that. Questions plagued her mind. "Why is she so set on trusting him? Why won't she listen tah reason? Ah've been here a lot longer than she has… Ah've been with tha Brotherhood. Ah know these things… why won't she listen?…Why tha hell is he being so friendly anyway?" Her thoughts rushed by, she was beginning to upset her psyche's as well.
- You know, you're sister is pretty hot; I can see why he's going for her. She'd make nice arm candy- She recognized that psyche as Pietro, and scowled at being so foolish as to absorb him.
Ew! Like that was so totally shallow you jerk! Mary has a heart ya know? You break it and we'll hurt you!- Kitty's psyche defended. A small murmur of other psyches began to speak up, and Rogue struggled to take control. She mentally shoved them all back into their 'rooms' and locked the doors tight. She relished the quiet once again after the voices died away, and realized what Kitty's psyche had said.
Mary has a heart… You break it and we'll hurt you! Rogue shook her head at the realization. Mary was developing a crush on Pietro. She didn't realize earlier, but now it was understood. She set on the couch and a strange feeling of foreboding swept over her. She didn't know what it was, but she felt no good would arise of this.
"What have you gotten yourself into, Mary?" She asked the darkness, half hoping it would give her an answer.