Kurt banged on Jean Grey's door the next night, "Jean, are you donez in zhere yet? You haven't passed me your keys yet! I von't want to be late picking Amanda up."
"Just a minute, Kurt! I want to make sure my hair is perfect." Jean Grey then telekinetically opened the door.
Dropping the keys in Kurt's three-fingered hand, she told Kurt, "Make sure I don't see a single scratch. I saved up for that SUV you know."
Kurt rolled his eyes, "Ja, fine." Kurt then ported away with a familiar "Bamf"
Lance Alvers drove up to the gates, which were wide open. Obviously security had been turned off to let the other guys drive in without being blasted into something black and roasted.
"Perfect," Lance mumbled under his breath as he swerved in. He wasn't used to driving into the institute. First of all, they were his enemy and second, it felt weird.
Just as he reached the front of the institute (catching Scott's car drive away too), Kitty hopped down the stairs, two at a time, briskly.
"Lance, like, hit it! Mister Logan's coming this way!" Kitty yelled as she phased into Lance's jeep.
"Huh? Uh, Ok…" Lance stepped on the gas pedal and his green jeep took off, almost knocking into the statue at the side of the road.
Once they were out on the road, Kitty couldn't help but heave a sign of relive. There's no telling what Logan would do if he spotted Avalanche there.
Lance smirked, " 'Fraid Logan's going to chop me into pieces?" Kitty giggled at his joke, "Lance, get real!"
"So how's life with the geek-squad anyway?"
"Lance, those people are like my family, not some geek-squad you call. Well, like, more assignments, danger-room and Logan sessions and a bunch of homework too." Then, she burst into a fit of giggles.
"Maybe you should take a break, Kitty. I'm worried, you'll like, get hurt or something."
Kitty's mouth formed an 'o'. "Lance, I can take care of myself. But thanks for your concern."
Lance shrugged, "Whatever you say then…"
The party was flooded with people. The atmosphere was almost perfect and music boomed around, making all to feel like grooving. Principal Kelly stood at one side with folded arms.
Kitty and Lance, Scott and Taryn and Evan and Natasha were enjoying themselves on the dance floor.
"Now, this is one, neat party I'd say. Let's get out there and show em' how to move!" Tabitha said, already can't wait to join the beat of the booming music. She and Toad hurried to blend in with every one else. They lost Freddy some where near the refreshments table.
Pietro then walked in with four girls and a wide smile. Toad chuckled and Tabby said, "Now, that boy knows how to work it."
Next came a slow dance. "Sorry about ze' gloves, Amanda," Kurt said. Amanda smiled warmly, "Really? I think they make you look handsome, Kurt."
"You don't think I look like a butler or something?" Kurt glanced at his hands.
Amanda smiled once more, "No. In fact, I have to confess something, Kurt. I know…you don't always look like this."
Kurt's eyes widened, " Yeah, this is one of my good days. You should see me in the mornings." He tried to play off as nothing.
Amanda shook her head, "No, Kurt! I know the real you, that you hide."
Kurt straightened up, "Amanda, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm vhat you see, that's all."
Amanda nodded, "It's Ok, Kurt. I can wait, until you're willing to show me."
She then hugged Kurt while dancing, leaving him speechless.
Across the dance floor, Lance was having problems with the slow dance. It wasn't easy. He struggled with it and said, "You know, I'm not very good with slow dances, Kitty."
"Yeah, well," Kitty begun, "I'm not as good as I am with the slow dance either, but I figured we can fake it together."
Lance smiled. He liked every bit of her. If only she knew…if only she did know…
At the institute, Wolverine was telling Forge and Professor Xavier how hostile the demons were. Forge told them they had nothing to worry about. " The chances of it are slim. Plus, or else, it'd have already happened.
Wolverine said, "well, sees that it doesn't, Bub."
"Yeah…hey! What going on down there?" Forge looked down from the planning room.
Staring down from the control room above the danger room, they grasped as they saw the dimension open and a few demons jumped out.
"Oh, no," Professor X said.
Forge exclaimed, "The dance!"
"Boy, I can't dance any more!" Fred leaned against the lockers.
He and Toad were outside the girls' locker room, waiting for Tabitha to finish her little 'toilet break'.
"Man, and she's just getting warmed up," Toad said.
Just then they saw a demon come out from the hallway. "Aaaahhh! What's that?" Toad exclaimed loudly.
"I'm not sure I wanna find out," Fred answered backing away.
Just at that moment, Tabitha walked out. Seeing both Fred and Toad with their mouths hanging open, she snapped, "Come on, I don't look that bad!"
Toad pointed to her back, "Bububut there's a…. a…"
Boom-boom spun around, grasping. A demon was standing in front of them, baring its jaws wide open.
"Okay! Stand back cos' this is gonna' get nasty." Boom-boom made a dozen of her cherry bombs and blasted it with it.
"My turn!" Toad didn't even know where his bravery came from. He hopped up and spit-spray the demon in its eyes, blinding its vision.
Blob ran forward, brushing past Boom-boom and Toad and jumped on top of the monster. Squash!
"Woah! Three cheers for the Brotherhood, people!" Tabby yelled, waving her fist in mid-air.
Back at the dance, Lance and Kitty were 'boogie-ing' to the music.
"Being with me hasn't been so bad, has it?" Lance asked.
Kitty shook her head no.
Suddenly, a rift opens up in between them. " Lance, did you…?" Kitty begun.
"I swear, it's not me!" Lance shouted as a demon popped out of the rift, followed by more.
One lunged at Kitty. However, she only let the monster phased through her and it banged itself onto the wall.
Taryn let out a scream as one of the monsters headed for her. Scott let out an optic blast and hit the demon on the chest.
A demon headed for Duncan and two of his mates. Jean, using her telekinesis, pulled the demon back before it could go any closer. She then gave it a mental blast before smashing to the basketball net.
"Lance!" Kitty cried as Lance Avalanche the ground in to half and brought it over the demon. "Come on, let's go!" Lance grabbed Kitty's hand and dashed to the hallways.
People were dashing out of the ruined gym. Cries filled the air. "Kurt, get us out of here!" Amanda cried. One of the demons had spotted them and was making it's way towards them already.
"How? We're trapped!" Kurt said weakly.
"Make us disappear! I've seen you do it! Please!" Amanda begged, her eyes watery.
Kurt noticed the monster diving for them. Without further a do, he wrapped his arms round Amanda and ported them away to safety.
Panting hard, Lance and Kitty reached the hallways. They both collapsed on the ground, sweating.
"I've…never…ran that…fast…not…not even in…track!" Kitty struggled to catch her breath. Her blue capis was a mess and she was still panting for life.
"Yeah!" Lance stood up, helping Kitty up as well. "Don't look now but I think we've got some company."
Kitty grasped, "Well, what CAN we do?" Lance's eyes rolled back and he reached his hands out, bringing half the school roof down on the demon. Unknown to Lance, one of the demons was behind him…heading for him…
"Lance!" Kitty screamed, "Watch out!" She ran forward, placing her arm round Lance's waist and turned them both in intangible.
The demon phased through them both and smashed itself on the lockers. Lance avalanched the ground and buried it under all that rubble.
Once the air was cleared, Kitty let go of Lance. "Are…are you OK?" Kitty had a concerned look on her face and her lips were thin, "I was so worried, Lance! I thought…"
"Nah! I wouldn't die. At least, not yet."
Lance broke into a smile. "Let me get you back now."
The X-men, along with Forge arrived soon after and ran towards the mess.
"Judging by all those rocks along with that amount of dust, I'll say it was Lance," Jean stated.
Scott said, "Well, if he's hurt Kitty. I swear I'll…"
"No, Scott. He's probably brought Kitty back to the institute. Kurt's taken Amanda back and Rogue left along with Risty. They're all fine!" Jean said.
"Yeah, and that leaves us with the mess," Evan said.
Using her telekinesis, Jean lifted up the rocks. They discovered the demons lying at the bottom of the pile. Forge zapped them back to where they had came from, while Wolverine gave a gruff look to all.
"They won't come back, would they?"
Forge rubbed his chin; "I've closed the gate already, so it'd be tough."
Evan crossed his arms, "I don't think we'll want a next time."
Lance stopped his jeep outside the institute gates. "I don't wanna risk going in and get fired into shreds, thank you."
Kitty smiled. "Lance, thanks for the great night."
"Yeah. I got your dress messed up, got us chased by demons and a whole lot of killer-shit, you call that a great night?"
Lance looked away. He didn't want to admit he had spoilt the night for her. For the both of them. He tried to hide his emotions behind his chocolate-colored bangs. He didn't feel like saying any thing at all.
"No, Lance! I loved this date and I don't want it to be our last." Kitty looked up at Lance.
Lance looked at Kitty with a smile. He noticed all her features. Baby blue eyes, a smile that could melt his soul and silky, brown hair, which could simply slip right through his fingers.
He could feel it. He was slowly leaning towards her. Closer, closer and closer. That was it. Their lips were just two inches away from each other. Just then, he inched forward some more and their lips touched. Kitty put her hands on the side of Lance's face as he placed his arms round her slim waist. Kitty widened her mouth slowly so as to let Lance's tongue slip in slowly.
Under the moon light, the kiss and the warm embrace was a lot better. Even better.
They finally pulled apart. Kitty blushed scarlet, "Uh, see you tomorrow, Lance."
She then phased through the Jeep and with a wave at Lance, she phased through the gates.
Lance leaned back in his Jeep. Did they just…? Yeah, they definitely did and it wasn't his imagination. It was real.