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Chapter Ten: We're Over

"Pietro Maximoff! If you want to live, you better get off Kitty right now!" They both cringed before Pietro rolled of Kitty, turning around to face a very angry Lance. Kitty sat up, sighing heavily. Ah yes, there was one of the things she wanted to forget about. "Kitty! What are you doing?" She looked at him sadly.

"Lance...you just...don't understand, do you?"

"Why you're trying to screw Pietro? No, forgive me Kitty, I don't." She stood and put her hands on her hips. Pietro preferred to stay sitting and let the X-Geek handle it.

"You, Lance, are making yourself sound like a hypocrite."

"Are you trying to say that I also tried to screw Pietro in a moment of emotional frustration, because, I believe that I have never done that."

"You've never used someone for sex, Lance? To try and forget something?" She said softly and dangerously, looking him directly in the eyes. Pietro winced as she restated her reason for coming to him. Is that all he was known for?

"Kitty..." He hesitated, "Not to hurt someone else, no."

"I wasn't trying to hurt anyone Lance!"

"You weren't trying, no. You were playing another one of your games that you claim you're so not fond of. Who's really the hypocrite, Kitty, who?"

"Don't go trying to get rid of your guilt by blaming me!"

"I'm not blaming you, this is your fault! I didn't ask you to try and sleep with Pietro!"

"But I wasn't going to..." she whispered, looking at the ground, slightly confused. Lance frowned growling

"That is not what it looked like."

"He made me realize..." she wasn't listening to Lance, talking to herself in her own little world. "I shouldn't do this...I have to stop..."

"Stop what Kitty?" asked Lance, slightly annoyed. "Playing hooker? Um, yeah Kitty, it would be great if you would stop that." Pietro suddenly stood angrily.

"Lance, we weren't going to do anything, okay? She was getting a little carried away but she realized that she didn't want to do anything."

"And what about you Pietro? I know you, you'll screw any girl you can get!" Lance advance on the speed demon angrily "You were going to do something, weren't you?"

"No! I know she's yours, okay? I wasn't going to touch her!"

"You were on her when I came in!"

"Only to prevent her from doing anything!" He didn't mention the fact that they were kissing. "Stop yelling at her, okay!" Lance was about to say something, but he glanced over at Kitty to see her eyes glued to the floor, tearing up quickly.

"Fine." he gritted out.

"I'm sorry..." murmured Kitty, tearing her eyes from the carpet to cast a thankful look to Pietro, then moved them to rest on Lance pitifully. He sighed heavily before walking over to her and hugging then girl slowly. Pietro turned away slowly and left the room, going downstairs.

I did the right thing. He thought to himself. After all, she is with Lance. And if they break up, she'll go for Kurt. You know you're last on her list, Pietro. As usual, you being a jerk probably caused it. What happened tonight was the closest I'll ever get to Kitty. Did the right thing my ass. He continued downstairs, muttering angrily to himself while upstairs, Kitty was getting comfortable in Lance's arms.

"Forgive me, Lance? Please?" He gazed down at her softly.

"Okay..." leaning down, he kissed her softly, smiling a little bit. "You want to stay here tonight?" she hesitated a moment, after all, this is exactly what she had been hoping to not do.

"I'll get in trouble at the institute..."

"Do you care?" Tilting her head, she replied quietly

"No...not really. In fact, I could really go for getting in trouble right now."

"Okay, come on, let's go into my room." They exited Pietro's room, moving to the one next-door where Kitty sat on his bed, letting him kiss her and make his way down to her jaw line, her neck, his hands working on her shirt and eventually, her pants. Closing her eyes tightly, she pretended that she was dreaming and Lance really cared about her, not just what they were doing.

Kurt got up and went downstairs after he had listened to numerous songs by the Beatles. They seemed sympathetic, having the same problems with girls that Kurt was. He was hoping to run into Kitty, but Lady Luck was not with him on this cool night.

"Kurt! I've been looking for you all over!" He pasted a smile on his face before turning around to smile at Kichi.

"Ki! Really? That's veird; I've been in my room practically all evening. Vhat's up?"

"I was wondering if you want to see this movie tomorrow. Kitty could come, and bring Lance!" Kurt resisted the urge to growl, contenting himself with an undetectable shudder. Kichi looked at him carefully, biting her lip so she wouldn't frown.

"Oh well, actually, I'm looking for Kitty. Have you seen her?"

"Uh...she left about an hour ago I think. She was running through the mansion and when I asked her where she was going she yelled something about a walk to forget some things. Or something."

"Verdammt."

"What?"

"Uh...nevermind. Anyway...I have to go find her."

"Why?"

"Because she's supposed to help me with a school project! That's due tomorrow!" He lied quickly. She smiled, seeming to buy it.

"Okay! I can help if you want!"

"Uh...sure. You stay here in case she comes back, then just tell her I'm looking for her. I'll go out and look for her."

"Sure!" Kichi watched as Kurt walked away quickly. She let the frown appear. This was ridiculous. Kitty swore Kurt liked her, but he had turned down her offer of a movie. And Kichi was pretty sure he hadn't been unhappy with just the mention of Lance, but that fact that he would be Kitty's date. She just couldn't win.

Kurt headed out, switching on his holowatch and starting to peruse the streets nearby the mansion. After finding no one, his instincts told him that there was a good chance Kitty was at the Brotherhood's, "making up" with Lance. He bamfed into their living room where only Pietro sat, quietly watching TV.

"Is Keety here?" he asked the sullen mutant who glanced up from the electronic box blankly.

"Kitty? Oh yeah...I think Kitty-cat's still here. I haven't seen here for a bit..." he coughed and Kurt frowned.

"So she came to apologize to Lance?"

"Hell no!" growled Pietro angrily, "She came to...uh..." He shifted uncomfortably in his seat as he thought of an excuse. "Look, fuzzy, she came to see me. Okay?"

"It doesn't look like she is seeing you..."

"Lance convinced her to basically go with him...he was pretty pissed." Pietro snatched up the remote and muted the TV angrily, thinking of earlier when Lance had exploded into his room.

"Vhy vould Lance be mad?" asked Kurt hesitantly.

"Uh...well, to be honest fuzzy, 'cause Kitty and I were doing more than just talking." Kurt gasped at this, saying loudly,

"You're lying!" But he wasn't, as he wasn't using his usual bragging tone.

"No."

"You are! Keety vouldn't be caught dead vith you!" yelled the German mutant to cover his unhappiness, since he knew that Pietro wasn't lying.

"Well, I think that Kitty is going through some big thing because she was with me and maybe you should stop doing whatever you're doing that's making her unhappy."

"But...I'm not making her unhappy..."

"I think you are. You and Lance...whatever you two are doing is causing her to come running to me."

"Vell...I should...bring her back to the mansion."

"I wouldn't go up there," replied Pietro, relaxing his position on the couch slightly and flipping off the mute button.

"Vhy not?"

"'Cause I'm pretty sure that Kitty-cat and Lance aren't playing pictionary."

"She...can't do that. She isn't the type of girl who vould."

"Well fuzzy boy, I'm very sure that at the moment, she is."

"Ve'll see..." muttered Kurt darkly, teleporting up to Avalanche's room.

The room was dark and dusty and Kurt wrinkled his nose, coughing. This caused the couple on the bed to jerk up and the smaller, petite one to gasp, the larger one growling angrily.

"Fuzzy, what the hell are you doing here?"

"Kurt?" Kitty was secretly relieved, this meant that Kurt would drag her back to the mansion and Lance would have to stay here by himself.

"Maybe I should ask vhat the hell you are doing, Lance," murmured the blue furred mutant quietly, looking at Kitty's semi-grateful face, "I don't think Keety really vants you to be doing anything vith her.

"Yeah right, fuzzy. Just jealous, huh?"

"That is not the point Lance," said Kurt, trying his hardest to remain calm, "The point is that I am going to take Keety back to the mansion. Right now. Come on Keety." The small girl smiled faintly and pulled her shirt and pants back on, pushing Lance away.

"Kurt is right, Lance. I just...don't...want to..." she stammered before moving over to stand next to Kurt.

"Fine Kitty. You know what? I'm tired of this. I'm done. We're done. It's over. And I get to be the one to end it. Bye." thundered Lance as he turned away, lying back down in his bed. Kitty took a deep breath, sighing.

"Okay Lance, whatever. Come on Kurt, I want to go..." there was a bamf, a smell of sulfur and the two were gone leaving Lance to groan and grumble, knowing he still wanted Kitty and wouldn't let her go so easily.

Kitty sat down heavily on her bed as Kurt stood in the center of the room uncomfortably.

"Um...thanks Kurt." muttered the small teenage girl. Nightcrawler looked at her with concern and said quietly.

"Are you going to be okay?" He would have said that she was better off without Lance, but somehow had the sense not to. Kitty glanced at him and shrugged.

"As much as can be expected." She turned and caught a glimpse of the book. Suddenly a rage filled her and she lashed out, snatching the paperback savagely. Kurt stared at her with shock as she flung it across the room. "There! Now you can't ruin my life anymore!"

"Keety...I think that you are a little emotional. Maybe you shouldn't take it out on a book."

"Look at the title." the girl hissed. Kurt walked over to it and picked it up gingerly.

"'The Art of Seduction.' Okay. So it's a cheesy romance novel. Vhat's that supposed to mean?"

"I've been reading it to...learn stuff. And it's wrong! And I think...it's possessed."

"Possessed?" questioned Kurt apprehensively, looking at the book in astonishment. "This little thing?"

"Yeah. Rogue's been reading it too. And look at how she is with Remy!"

"Um...she's talking to him. Maybe flirting slightly. But that's about it."

"Exactly! And she would never do that normally! She's, like, the ultimate anti-social! So there you have it!" Kitty said triumphantly. "Give me that book. I'm going to burn it."

"Keety..." murmured Kurt, glancing at the volume in his hands. "I don't think this book is controlling anyvon."

Kitty stood anyway and walked over, taking the book from Kurt and going to the door of her room.

"What do you say I, like, convince the Professor to have a bonfire party?"

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