Author's note: Thanks for the reviews. I'm going to start the second plot soon so get ready for it. It's going to be a big one! Or a small one…I can't remember.

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The next morning was frantic. Fritz awoke to a mansion full of teenage mutants yelling at the top of their lungs; running up and down the halls. He looked at his clock on the bed stand; 7:53 am.

"Shit!" Fritz rolled out of bed and hurriedly dressed before running into the bathroom to brush his teeth.

He looked at his messy bleached hair in the mirror, "whatever." He said as he rushed out of the room and down the stairs to the kitchen.

Fritz ran back upstairs a few minutes later with a can of soda in one hand, an apple in the other, and a frozen waffle in his mouth.

Fritz sat in the back seat of Jean's SUV. Everyone was crammed into the X-Van, Jean's SUV and Xavier's Rolls Royce. Fritz sat on the right of Kurt and Kitty was on Kurt's left. Jean and Scott sat in the Front and were talking about college and future plans.

Fritz's batteries died in his CD player after about an hour into the trip. "Fuck, I knew I should have bought some new batteries," he cursed himself. He decided a nap would be good and pulled his pillow out from the back. He propped it against the window and before he dosed off, he looked over at Kitty who was leaning against Kurt's shoulder; Kurt was asleep with a large smile on his face, "fucker!" Fritz yelled in his head before he looked away and fell asleep.

Fritz woke up after a short, rough nap. He looked out the window and saw snow covering the ground. "Finally," he accidentally said out loud.

"Oh, Fritz. Your up," Kitty said from his left. "How'd you sleep?"

"Fine, thanks," Fritz said. "Are we there yet?" He asked Jean.

"No," Jean said.

"Can I drive?" Fritz asked. He had never been more bored in his life.

"No," Jean said instantly.

Fritz slouched in his seat and crossed his arms. "I'm hungry."

"Shut up Fritz," Scott said finally.

The three vehicles carrying everyone from Xavier's institute for gifted youngsters, minus Beast who had volunteered to stay behind and take care of the mansion, pulled up to the front of the Tree Top resort. Slowly, one bye one, the students and teachers stepped out of their cars. Xavier and Ororo went ahead to check in, leaving Logan in charge of the sixteen mutants.

Fritz trudged into his hotel room followed closely by Evan. He and Evan were placed in one room while Scott and Kurt shared a room across the hall. The girls were split up as well as were the new recruits. Logan shared a room with Xavier; Ororo was in a room with Jean.

Fritz looked around the plain room. To his right was a door leading to the bathroom. There were two beds against the right wall and a window at the back; on the left was a TV and a table. Fritz claimed the bed closest to the window and threw is bag on top of it. He and Evan then left the room to meet the others in the lobby for there lift tickets.

Fritz rolled over onto his back and stared up at the sky in aching pain. Evan had convinced Fritz that this hill wasn't hard at all. But Fritz failed to tell Evan that he had never been snowboarding before. So he had stumbled, fallen, tripped and skid in every way and shape possible, down the hill.

Fritz slowly sat up and looked around. He was laying at the bottom of the hill with his legs spread in an awkward position and his board laying a few feet away.

"Hey Fritz!" Kitty said from his left. "Isn't this like, so much fun?"

"…yes." Fritz said plainly. "I love laying in the snow."

"So you're like, hurting pretty bad huh?" She skied up next to him and helped Fritz to his feet.

"Yeah, you could say that." Fritz limped over to his board and picked it up. "What are you up to?"

"I was just about to go cross-country skiing." Kitty looked at Fritz's snowboard. "Do you like, want to come?"

"Yeah! I mean…sure." He new today was going to get better.

Kitty helped Fritz pick out a pair of skies and boots, she showed him how to put them on and strap into the skies. The two left the ski rental shack and headed down the long trail. Fritz didn't really want to go but he new if he went it would mean spending time with Kitty and he didn't want to miss a chance like that.

The two of them continued down the trail making small talk. Conversations ranged from, where did you go to school, to what are your parents like? They were making pretty good time, even with Kitty stopping at every flower to smell them and give Fritz a quick lesson on the history of the flower.

Fritz wasn't aware of the time until he looked up at the sun and noticed it was off to the side. He looked at his watch, 4:37pm. They had left at 1:00pm. Had he really been walking with Kitty for four hours? He didn't notice much when he was with her. Like when they first started their hike, Fritz almost walked into a tree. He couldn't help it. Kitty was such a distraction to him.

He was still looking up at the sky when a snowball hit his arm. He came out of his daze and was hit by another snowball only this time it hit him in the leg. Fritz saw Kitty in front of him with a ball of snow in her hands.

"Are you like, awake?" Kitty asked before she threw the snow at him.

This time Fritz moved out of the way. He scooped up a hand full of snow himself and threw it in her direction missing on purpose. "Now I am."

"Good, cause now you can like, dodge this!" Kitty threw two snowballs in Fritz's direction. One of them missed him but the other hit him dead center.

Fritz tried to move closer to Kitty but he slipped and fell. He tried to get up but fell again so he kicked the skies off. He got up and ran over to Kitty with a big snowball in hand. He threw it at her and hit her in the thigh. He was about to tackle her when she phased. Fritz fell threw her and hit the snow on the other side. face first.

Fritz spun around onto his back but before he could get up Kitty jumped on top of him. She straddled his hips and held his shoulders down with her hands. "Got ya'," Kitty said.

"Not yet," Fritz pushed himself over and took Kitty with him. He now straddled her and had her hands pinned above her head.

Fritz looked down at her into her eyes. They stared into each others eyes for what seemed like minutes. Again Fritz became totally oblivious to everything happening around him. He felt sucked into her gaze like a black hole swallowing the enterprise. He couldn't look away from her even if he tried.

Fritz moved his head closer to hers. She didn't resist so he moved even closer. He could smell her hair now. The smell of her strawberry shampoo was just as strong now as it was last time he had smelt it, when they were in the same position in the kitchen. Fritz took a moment to commit the smell to memory.

Fritz parted his lips as he closed the gap between him and Kitty. "Am I interrupting something?" Fritz heard in a deep growl from behind him. He spun off of Kitty and found himself face to face with sabretooth.

"You two are a long way from your friends; no one to hear you scream." Sabretooth said in a low voice.

"What do you want Sabretooth!?" Kitty yelled.

"Xavier." Sabretooth lunged at the two younger mutants.

Fritz jumped aside and Kitty phased through the airborne cat. Sabretooth hit the snow but was up on his feet again in seconds. Fritz took this slip moment to jump onto the feral mutant's back. Fritz wrapped his arms around Sabretooth's neck. Sabretooth however, grabbed Fritz's sweatshirt and lifted him into the air bringing him into view.

"Well well well, what have we here?" Sabretooth tossed the lightweight mutant to the ground. Fritz slid a few feet before stopping.

"Fritz!" Kitty yelled. She started in his direction.

"I wouldn't try it chere." Gambit walked out from behind a tree followed by Colossus. "Give up and we'll make it easy on you and your boyfriend."

"No, you won't hurt him!" Kitty yelled trying to protect her friend as best she could.

"You don't have a choice" Gambit pulled out a card from inside of his trench coat and waved it in the air beforecharging it.