"Oh, great. Now it's open season to mutants again." Kurt crouched on the ground.
"Well, as what ah'm seeing now…" Rogue pushed the curtains of the window back with a long sigh. People were already at the door of the University. Not many, but enough to create a major commotion. "-Ah think we're SO dead."
Kitty played with a tiny lock of her hair. "Like, what's it with them? We helped save them!"
Kurt immediately pointed an accusing finger at Lance, "If the Richter Scale hadn't erupted the ground, we vould'nt have blown our cover!"
"I did it to save Kitty!" Lance shot straight back, his arms crossed.
"Quit it, ya' two. We all got enough trouble here already and ya' two are pointing fingers now at somebody t' blame. Man, grow up, will ya'?" Rogue shouted at them.
She grabbed her towel. "Let me take m' last shower her in peace, before the "anti-mutant" shit ass thin' starts." Slam!
"And I think I'll go clear my evidence before Shola or anyone else finds anything." Kurt ported away.
"Um, thanks, Lance. For just now…" Kitty mumbled quietly.
"Nah no big deal. I know you don't want me around. I'll be…leaving then." Lance stood up to go.
Kitty got him to stay. "Lance, really, I like you. You don't have to do this. I don't even know we'll end up like this." And tears begun to spill out.
Lance smiled down at her. She looked good, even if she was crying. "Yeah, I didn't know we'd be anything like today then. Do you know how much I…"
"Lance, I don't wanna' hear anything mushy, especially not from you."
Lance leaned down at kissed her tears away. "Kitty, I don't know. I'll try if you want me too. I mean, I'll do whatever I can to give you a better life."
Kitty pulled him down and her lips touched his, turning it into a kiss they both didn't have for four years.
"Lance," Kitty started to cry again, while she was still kissing him, "I…I've been, like, dying to hear that. I…I hate being angry with you. It really hurts like hell."
Lance said, "Kitty, we really make a good fit. We fight and always make up so fast."
"I don't care. I just want you to shut up now and-." Kitty pulled him closer to her and hugged him so tight he could barely move.
"Uh-hm…" Rogue tapped her fingers on the side of the bathroom door, her hair still wet and she had a raised eyebrow.
"Rogue! How…how long had you been watching already?" kitty pushed Lance away before Rogue could "catch them in the act" anymore.
Rogue over to her CD player (yes, the raised eyebrow is still raised) and pressed the start button. She was hoping not to sound too…too involved in the Lance and Kitty thingy, but it wasn't everyday that she gets to catch them kissing… especially not when they had a major crisis in their hands.
"Well, ah didn't know you guys were that fast. Not when it's still anti-mutants out there," Rogue hung her towel up, her head slightly (only, slightly) swaying to the Ashlee Simpson "La La" song.
"Hey, look Goth queen, we didn't choose to be born with these damnable powers here!" Lance said, as if Rogue was accusing him of something.
Kitty stared at Lance, "Lance, we were born with these powers cos' God knew we'll use them and do good things. We can save people with our powers. What's up with that?"
"I'm not saying that I hate my powers, Kitty. If only the people out there had half a idea of what we use them for, then maybe we wouldn't be fearing dinner so much…"
And speaking of dinner…
Stares…more stares…
The four of them, with Kurt occasionally glaring at Lance and Lance passing piercing looks towards Kurt, everyone was staring at them.
The hurtful words that pierced through them. The words they always used to hear back in Bayville. Mutants…Freaks…you hear so much you almost start to believe it yourself.
They settled down at a table in the middle of the room. Usually, Kurt and Lance would've started to yell stuff at each other but not today. They were busy enough just coping with all the words that were shouted at them.
"Ah don't like it." Rogue couldn't help but say.
"Aw, just leave it. Let them say all they want. It won't hurt us." Kitty said. She hoped she wasn't lying because she really hated what she was hearing herself.
"Man, they are looking for trouble." Lance threw his fork on the dish and wanted to rock the place and hopefully, he could bury all this crap that was going on now.
"Lance, are you crazy? We all can't do that! Once we do, we're dead!" Kitty stopped Lance before he could do anything else idiotical.
Lance stopped only on the account on Kitty. If none of the X-Men were here, he'd have done it long ago.
Lance looked behind him, spotting the school class-chairman heading towards their table with "followers" tailing behind. "Don't look now but Alice of hell-land is here."
"Alice?" Kurt stood up to see better.
"Well, well, well, hello. Oh, how should I address you? Muties? Freaks?" Alice stifled a laugh.
"Not very funny, Alice." Rogue stood up too.
"We'll make this short and sweet then, muties. Leave this school and leave Illinois as well." Alice shouted.
Kitty took a step up front, "But we're here to study, just like evear back in Bayville. Mutants…Freaks…you hear so much you almost start to believe it yourself.
They settled down at a table in the middle of the room. Usually, Kurt and Lance would've started to yell stuff at each other but not today. They were busy enough just coping with all the words that were shouted at them.
"Ah don't like it." Rogue couldn't help but say.
"Aw, just leave it. Let them say all they want. It won't hurt us." Kitty said. She hoped she wasn't lying because she really hated what she was hearing herself.
"Man, they are looking for trouble." Lance threw his fork on the dish and wanted to rock the place and hopefully, he could bury all this crap that was going on now.
"Lance, are you crazy? We all can't do that! Once we do, we're dead!" Kitty stopped Lance before he could do anything else idiotical.
Lance stopped only on the account on Kitty. If none of the X-Men were here, he'd have done it long ago.
Lance looked behind him, spotting the school class-chairman heading towards their table with "followers" tailing behind. "Don't look now but Alice of hell-land is here."
"Alice?" Kurt stood up to see better.
"Well, well, well, hello. Oh, how should I address you? Muties? Freaks?" Alice stifled a laugh.
"Not very funny, Alice." Rogue stood up too.
"We'll make this short and sweet then, muties. Leave this school and leave Illinois as well." Alice shouted.
Kitty took a step up front, "But we're here to study, just like everyone else! You can't just boot us out of here because we're a little more different than the others! We're all students, humans and men, very much alive as you are, not freaks."
Alice looked at Kitty. "What's the name, Pryde? Well, people let me tell you this. In our fair school, no one is allowed weapons, but right here at this very place, we got real life mutants, a living weapon themselves. We have the right for them to get out and leave, before we get turned into ashes."
Alice unfolded a piece of paper in her hand. "I've already done a little research. Pryde, Pryde, Pryde…ah, you can walk through walls? Well, who's gonna' be there to stop her when she decides to walk into our bedrooms? What happens of we decide to take action and shoot her and find bullets going beautifully through her? Who's going to do anything? Our University is never going to be safe and the same anymore?"
Kurt hissed at Kitty, "Kitty, I ace in Speech, let me-."
"Forget it, Kurt. I'll do it. I feel like giving her a piece of my mind right now, right here."
Kitty looked at Alice, "Alice, if you know me, you should know that I'll never hurt anyone here. You know what, you're a rasis. You judge people, even before you know them well enough. And know what else? I'm a Jew, my great-grandmother was a Chinese, and I am a CUBS fan. So what does that make me? So what if I have powers and I can phase through things? In me, I know I help people with my powers like what I did this afternoon and I never do anything harmful to anyone before in my life. Listen, so what if I'm a mutant? What would you do if you were in my shoes then? Rasicism is the worse thing I find on Earth. Why live to be so narrow-minded when you and the others are all the same? We, you and I and everyone in this planet, are the same. Being smarter, prettier and having an extra X-Gene doesn't change whom you are inside. So, tell me, do you still want us to leave then?
Rogue, Lance and Kurt were practically stunned at how well Kitty could talk. She really had a gift to shock people. Literally.
"Man, I never knew how well Kitty could be at Speech." Lance said.
"Yeah, ah thought she was the quietest of them all too." Rogue sounded stunned too.
"Wow, three million cheers for Kitty." Kurt hi-fived Rogue quietly.
Alice sounded pretty much defeated, but she tried to keep her stand. No way was she about to let a mutie run her down, especially not now.
"We still want you to leave. The school doesn't want this mutant freak case to affect the people coming to our University next year. And we're not letting you stay. We'll give you two days. Two days and if you still don't disappear from our fair school, we'll be doing extreme measures…and we mean it too." Alice turned tail, and marched off.
"Kitty, you did veally vell just now!" Kurt said.
"I…I did? I mean, I was just shooting my mouth off and…and I didn't mean for us to leave."
"She had 'er mind all set before she even came here. She was out to get us. None of us could have done anything better than ya', Kitty." Rogue praised her.
Kitty loved the support she got from her friends. "But that'd mean we have to go back to Bayville."
"Where our friends really are." Rogue added.
Kitty "requested" for Rogue and Kurt to leave her and Lance alone for once. Even though Kurt wasn't too "thrilled" about the idea, he agreed nevertheless. And he guaranteed he wouldn't eavesdrop on them this time.
The night was bright and dotted with stars. "Nice night, isn't it?" Kitty looked up at the shiny little things, hanging in the dark.
"Yeah, as nice as you are." Lance smirked.
"Well, when have you learnt that, Lance?" Kitty took a seat down on the bench. No one would come out in the midnight, especially not when they were mutants.
"I picked it up somewhere…" Lance had a really warm smile Kitty couldn't help but fall in love with. His eyes, his hair, everything about him were special.
"Lance, I'm sorry I was mad at you." Kitty leaned against him.
"Nah, I was the bad one. I shouldn't be such a mega-coward. You were right, I was a idiot."
"No, you're not, Lance." Kitty felt his hand stroke her hair slowly. Yes, it was too long a time since they both sat together in the dark like this already.
"Kitty, are you really sure? I mean, following me won't be anything very good to yell about. I probably can't give you much…" Lance sniffed at the smell of Kitty's beautiful, silky hair.
"Lance, there you go shooting your mouth off again. I don't care, I told you before. I'll stick with you, wherever you go. I love you so much, I just can't afford to lose you anymore." Kitty glanced up at him.
Lance looked down into Kitty's eyes longingly, "Learnt that from soap operas?"
"I hate you, Lance," Kitty leaned her head against his chest.
"Yeah, I hate you too. For making me love you so much." Lance said.
Kitty laughed, "You are the one watching too many soap operas."
"Are you positive that you really really REALLY want to stick with me?"
Kitty nodded, "Definitely, Lance. Because I really love you more than anything else."
Lance pulled Kitty closer to him and gave her yet another kiss. She had been longing for it, because she was crazy about his kisses. It was a warm, nice feeling they'd both been absolutely dying for.
"We'll have to go back tomorrow…" Kitty whispered in between their kisses.
"And it'd be a new beginning. Be in for a surprise…" Lance kissed her some more.
"Huh? What surprise?" Kitty asked.
Lance smiled. "Just wait, Kitty-Kat. Because I've been waiting for four years myself."
… ….The next fic I do would be submitted next week so don't check back till next week...>