Where Boys Fear to Tread
Disclaimer: I don't own the X-men. The title belongs to a Smashing Pumpkins song.
Lin Waddell: Thank you so much for pushing me to get this chapter out, thanks for editing the early chapter I sent out, though as you can see its changed a little. Still thanks!
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Amara was someone whom one should kneel before, head bowed before her, offering their necks to her, or at least he was pretty sure that's how it should be anyways. There she was, sitting quietly, doing her homework. Todd briefly wondered if that's what he looked like doing his homework, but then remembered he refused to do homework. She wore glasses, he had never known that about her, but then he'd never known her before.
Usually he would hop or try to do something to get the girl's attention, but he didn't feel that he had to with her. She had given him her attention so easily the last time they'd met that there was no reason to resort to gimmick or some goofy display of powers. He'd just walk up to her and say her name. He'd step with his right and then his left, then right again, followed by another left, and then…he'd say "Amara."
But what if… What if she was busy and couldn't be bothered? He'd seen Wanda bothered on several occasions; in fact most times he was the catalyst for her bad mood. How many times had been hexed into a wall or out of a window? Amara burned things; the scars would be more permanent. Could he risk that?
Still, she wasn't Wanda. Amara was cool she wouldn't just blast somebody because she didn't feel like giving them the time of day. Stick her nose up at them…enough with the thinking! He just needed to do this. Walk up to her, walk up to her, walk up to… "Todd what're you doing-" Todd was so shocked by the voice he fell from his perch on the ceiling, turning just in time to land on his feet. Leave it to Kitty to call him out like that.
"Uh hey," he said meekly, embarrassed at having been caught.
"Hey Todd," Amara said with a slight blush, but her smile was still there. He smiled back, forgetting Kitty was even in the same room.
"So uh what you workin' on," he said, trying to make conversation.
"Just some math homework for Mrs. Ketchner's class."
"Oh, you got her too? Did you need any help," he didn't know where that last request had come from, but he wished he'd never said it. He was horrible in math, could never get the decimals and percentages right. 'Please God, don't let her say yes, please, please,' he briefly thought.
"Actually I'm just about done, so did you want to do something?"
Todd looked to his left and saw Kittie still standing there, but decided now was as good a time as any. "Um well actually I was wondering if you wanted to go out um together, official and uh yeah…" he finished lamely.
Amara smiled brightly, briefly losing control of her powers and setting her chair on fire. "Oh no," she shouted and then tried blowing it out, but remembered her powers and just took the fire out mentally. "Sorry," she said with a blush.
"That was so cute," Kittie said, smiling, but then stopped after she saw the looks she was getting from Todd and Amara. She quickly took the hint and left the room, but not without leaving the door to the TV room slightly open so she could still hear what was going on.
"You want to go out with me," she asked.
"Uh yeah, well I mean… I like you and we went on that date and I had a good time and I thought maybe you did too and… So do you?" The anticipation was killing him, he needed an answer. He needed to know if this had all been a joke or she was actually interested in him. He knew only one thing for certain and that was no matter what her answer was he could never look at her the way he'd used to her. He'd never overlook her again, she'd never be just a face in the crowd to him. He once was blind, but now, well, now he saw her in all of her clumsy, imperfect radiance.
"Yes of course, I mean," she briefly burst into flames, but quickly controlled it and blushed a little bit. "I would like that very much Todd," she said smiling.
"Yes," Kittie shouted from outside the room and then rushed around the mansion with the latest gossip. Todd and Amara didn't mind, after all a wish of theirs' had come true.