Here is the next chapter. It's kind of funny how thing come full circle. Originally, this was one fic, then it split into two fics, and now it's one fic again.

I don't own X-Men. Someone who gets paid a lot more money, and works a lot less harder than I do does. :::sigh:::

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CottonCandyChopsticks: Thanx for the review, and trust me, there are a few suprises coming in this fic.

Agent-G: Yeah, it is kinda tricky re-writing a fic let alone combining two fics into one. I'm also planning to add a few bits of my "Actors studio" Fic into this as well. The thing that really sucked when it was removed, was that I had the next chapters for "Meeting", and "Trials" ready to post.

X00001: Thanx, this fic will be harder to write, but it will be asier for you to read since you won't have to read two separate stories.

Anna still can't believe that Kitty gave her phone number. Granted, chances are that it was more of a friendly gesture than a sign of attraction, but it was a start. She debates

if she could call her. What would she say to her? Anna is lost in her thoughts when Scott saunters into the waiting room.

"Hi Anna." He says while shaking a cup of ice in his hand causing the cubes to clack together.

Anna looks up from the piece of paper with Kitty's scribbling. "Morning Scott."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just thinking about stuff." She says as she begins fiddling with her fingers.

"So how did his meeting go with Kitty?"

Anna's head snaps up at the sound of Kitty's name, then blushes at her knee jerk reaction. "K-Kitty?!?!?!"

Scott raises an eye brow at Anna. "Y-Yeah.....Well, I heard that Jody won the pool. I was way off."

"Yeah, I was so close." Anna says as she pouts in her chair, "I missed it by a little over a minute and a half....." Anna stops mid thought as she notices something shinny in Scott's mouth. "I-Is..... Is that a tongue ring??????"

"Yeah," Sticks out his tongue, "Do you like it? Paul really does."

"Really didn't need to know that Scott!"

Scott glances at the number written on the paper in Anna's hand. It is somehow familiar to him, but he can't quite place it.

"So.....Uh.....What are you looking at?"

Anna blushes deeply "Err.....Uh.....Nothing."

Scott looks at Anna quizzically, then remembers why he recognizes the number. "KITTY!!!!!"

Scott's sudden out burst startles Anna causing her to fall out of her chair. "Whoa?!?!?!" She says looking up at Scott form the floor.

"Oh, Nothing." Scott says as he reaches down to help Anna up. "Well, I better head in for my meeting."

10:30 am: There is a knock at the door. Shortly afterwards Scott Summers enters James's office. He saunters over to the desk carrying his cup of ice. He takes a seat and femininely crosses his legs.

"Good Morning Scott, and Thank you for coming."

"No problem," I assume that this is about the up coming seaso....."

As he speaks, James notices a tongue piercing in Scott's mouth. "What is that!?!?!" James expounds.

"What is what?????"

"That thing in your tongue?"

"Oh this?" Scott sticks out his tongue to show off his new piece of jewelry. "It's a tongue ring silly. I got it yesterday."

Scott sits back in his seat. He pops an ice cube into his mouth, and proceeds to suck on it.

"Scott, what are you doing? You know that you can't have a tongue piercing while you're on the show."

"Yeah, but the show is on hiatus, and I figured that it wouldn't hurt anyone."

"And what about when filming begins again?" James inquires, "Are you going to take it out?"

"No, I figured that I could get a clear ball or maybe you guys could airbrush it out or whatever it is that you guys do." Scott says as he pops another ice cube into his mouth.

"Scott, you can't keep doing things like this.....This is the Restroom thing all over again. We're lucky that a certain musician was a fan of the show and took the heat for you."

Scott rolls his eyes. "Whatever.....the publicity that he got and that music video that he made rejuvenated his career. You can't buy that kind of publicity."

"Whatever, lets move on." James says very agrivated. "As you know, the show has been picked up for another season, and we at Kids WB would just like to sit down, and meet with all the cast to see if there are any issues of perhaps suggestions that they may have for their character."

"Yeah.....I realize that Jean and I are supposed to be a couple, but is there anyway that we could tone it down a bit, I'm a little uncomfortable having to do those intimate scenes with her."

"Scott, it's a Saturday morning children's show. The most intimacy you two have is holding hands or an occasional kiss."

"Yeah, that's it. The kissing." pScott says as he pops another ice cube into his mouth.

James is beginning to get very annoyed with Scott's endless slurping on ice cubes. "Scott, we've been over this before. We feel that we have been very generous in addressing your concerns.

"Yes, and I'm grateful for the show being understanding of alternative lifestyle."

James raises an eye brow at Scott. "Anyway, It was fine in season one. We thought that it was a novel approach to not make you two a couple yet. But it was inevitable, that you two would be paired together."

"Oh come on, kids are smart now-a-days, they'll understand."

"Scott, kids now-a-days are amazingly smart, but I don't think that they, or their parents for that matter, are ready for an openly gay character on Saturday morning T.V."

"What do you mean, there have been lots of gay characters on TV. What about Yogi and Booboo, Tinkywinky, and don't even try and tell me that Archie wasn't a flamer. I mean Betty and Veronica are practically climbing over each other to get to him, and who is he always hanging out with????? Jughead!"

James is beginning to give serious thought to jumping out his office window. "Okay Scott, first of all, if any of those characters were gay, they were not openly gay."

"Oh, sure they are," Scott says as he taps his right temple with his finger. "The gaydar never lies. In fact, I don't know if you know this or not, but your secretary has a thing for Kitty, but you didn't hear that from me."

Meanwhile, out front,Anna sits at her desk, and sighs. Anna faces her computer, and logs on to the internet. She logs on to her favorite DVD web site, and does a search for Kitty's OAV. Anna already had a bootleg copy of it, but she wanted a good copy for her collection. To her disappointment, it wasn't released in the U.S. yet. The bootleg was going to have to do for now.

Anna then logs on to her favorite fan site, . There is a, alert flashing in big red letters. NEW NUDE PICS FROM KITTY'S OAV! A big smile appears on her face, and she clicks on the download linkWhile Anna is downloading nude pictures of Kitty from her Anime OAV. She pulls out a collage made up of various pictures of Kitty from X-Men Evolution, as well as from her other works. She doodles hearts and smiley faces in the boarders as she lets out a sigh.

"Scott I do not think that it is appropriate for you to speculate as to the sexual preferences of my secretary." Says James as he tries to remember if she has ever had a boy friend in the three years that he has known her. "I believe in keeping professional lives professional, and private lives private."

"Sure, you keep telling yourself that.....Are you going to fire her now that you think she's a lesbian?"

"Scott! That is very unprofessional. I'm offended that you would think that I would do something like that."

"Admit it, homosexuals make you uncomfortable. It's alright, I don't mind as long as you just admit it." Scott stands up and leans over the desk.

"I am not uncomfortable with homosexu.....Scott could you please.....Your invading my personal space......You're making me feel very....."

"Uncomfortable?" Scott grins as he backs away, and sits back down.

"That's not the same thing, you were in my personal space."

"Yeah, sure." Scott says with a wry grin on his face. Scott reaches for another ice cube, but finds that his cup is empty. "Damn out of ice. Do you suppose that you could ask Anna to bring me mor....."

"I am not Homophobic! I would think that after all the work that we have done together.....I mean, I even gave your boyfriend Paul a part in the show."

"What are you talking about, you fired him after the second season."

"Scott, he sucked!!!!!"

"Very well actually."

James glances at the window again which is starting to look really tempting right now. "Gaaa! The boy could not act! He was terrible. It took him 23 takes to say his one line in the first episode."

"What? He was nervous, it was his first acting job."

"Scott, it was one line, we ended up having redub it in post production!

We couldn't even use him as an extra. He could not get through a scene with out looking at the camera."

"What, and you're so perfect?????"

Meanwhile, out front, Anna is finishing printing nude pictures of Kitty from her Anime OAV. She pulls out a collage made up of various pictures of Kitty from X-Men Evolution, as well as from her other works. Anna then pulls out a pair of scissors, and some glue. She cuts out the pictures, and carefully adds them to her collage. She then pulls out some colored pens, and starts doodling hearts and smiley faces in the boarders. She lets out a sigh, and leans her chin on her hand as she continues her doodling.

She hears the door to the waiting room open. She looks up from her art work, and sees Paul enter the room. She nonchalantly slides the collage into her desk drawer as she greets Paul.

"Hi Paulie." Anna says in a moppy voice.

"Hi Girl," Paul takes a seat on the edge of her desk. "I take it that Scott is still in his meeting."

"Yeah, he should be out any minute now."

Anna, Scott and Paul had become close friends as the show progressed. She suspected that they knew that she was gay, but it was always an unspoken issue between them. With the exception of Jean, no one really knew that she was a lesbian, and the only reason that Jean knew was because of a drunken night of partying with the head party girl herself.

"Did you see my new toy that Scott bought me?" Paul asks mischievously.

"No, what was it."

Paul sticks out his tongue which causes Anna to wince as the mental image of Scott and his tongue ring enters her mind. "I really could have gone my entire life with out that metal image being introduced into my head. Thanks allot Paulie!"

Paul snickers at Anna's discomfort. "Scott and I are going to check out the new Dolce store that opened up, wanna come along?"

"Sorry, I have a lot to do here."

She lied. As much as she liked them, she tried to distance herself from Scott and Paul ever since they came out of the closet. She didn't want to take the chance that someone would figure out that she was gay though her association with them.

Back in the office, James looks at his watch. "Scott, I have another meeting in 10 minutes. If there is nothing else, I need to get ready for it."

"No problem, Paul and I are going shopping." Scott says as he gets up and walks towards the door.

"And we'll talk later about that tongue ring!"

Scott rolls his eyes, and saunters out of the office closing the door behind him.

"OH GOD!!!!! And it's not even 11:00 yet!!!!!" James begins to slam his head into his desk repeatedly.

Anna and Paul are chatting in the waiting room when Scott comes out. Paul practically tackles Scott as he comes out of the office.

"Uh-hey....." Scott says surprised.

"I missed you!!!!!"

As much as Anna loved those two, it still gave her cavities to see their sugary sweet relationship.

"I was only gone for a half hour."

"A half hour with out you is an eternity!!!!!"

"Oh give me a break! Stop being such a drama queen Paulie." Anna scoffs.

"Reahr!" Paul hisses as he pretends to claw in her general direction.

The three of them laugh when they hear a banging sound coming out of James' office. The two boys look at each other quizzically as Anna shakes her head, and gets up from her seat.

"There he goes again!"

"Scott, I hope I wasn't too hard on him."

"Nah, you should have seen him after his meeting with Raymundo from Xiaolin Showdown. He was LITERALLY climbing the walls." Anna giggles.

Anna opens the door, and peaks into his office. "Are you alright?"

James looks up from his desk at a puzzled Anna. "Yeah, how long until my next meeting?"

Anna gives him a strange look before leaving the office.

"A-Anna?"

Anna pops her head back into his office. "Yes James?"

"What do you think about Kitty Pryde?"

Anna's heart jumps. She curls her toes. Her legs begin to get weak. She can feel her pulse begin to race. She begins to fanaticize having her legs wrapped around her. She begins to sweat slightly. She imagines waking up in her arms feeling the warmth from her body, lost in the curls of her soft shoulder length brown hair. "She's nice, why do you ask?" Anna says non-chalantly

"Errr, Scott seems to think that.....I-I mean.....A-Are you....." James gets visions of getting thrown out onto the street after being fired because of her sexual harassment lawsuit. "Nnnnever mind."

Anna is puzzled by what he said, and closes the door while shaking her head. She turns around, and punches Scott in the arm.

"OW!!!!! What was that for!"

"What did you tell him!!!!!" Anna whispers forcefully.

"N-Nothing Why!?!?!"

"SCOTT NATHAN SUMMERS!" Anna gives him a stern look.

"Well.....Errr....." Anna punches him in the arm again "OW!!!!! OW!!!!! ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! I told him that I thought that you were a lesbian, and that you had a crush on Kitty."

Anna's jaw drops, then she curls up into a ball on the floor at Scott's feet.

"OH MY GOD!!!!!" She yells into her hands.

Scott bends over, and tries to help her up. He helps her to her chair, and she sits down with her face still buried in her hands.

"Scott, I can't believe you told him that!!!!! Now he knows that I'm gay!"

Scott begins to feel bad when he looks up at Paul, and they both say in unison.

"YOU'RE GAY!?!?!?!"

Well, that's it for now. I know that it kinda dragged a bit in the beginning, but I promise that things will pick up in later chapters, so please be patient. Thanx for reading, and please don't forget to review.