Dance on, Kietro, Dance on!

by X-MENobsession

Dancing is fun. Or so Kitty and Pietro think, but that's before the dance lessons, the competition, and the whole falling in love with each other thing.

16. Hips don't lie

Dance on, Kietro, Dance on!

By: XMENobsession

AN: The song is 'Hips Don't Lie' by Shakira. Don't worry if you don't know it or don't like it, it doesn't ruin the chapter for you. I'm sorry that this isn't a Christmas chapter, but it leads up to the Christmas one. I'm going to write that over the break, but for now be happy with this.

Happy Festivus!!!!!

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing. Not the people (except for Trixie, who I don't believe is in this chapter), not the song, and definitely not the paper.

Chapter 16

"Hips don't lie"

Pietro was in the middle of fighting Spyke when he saw Kitty run into the base out of the corner of his eye. He quickly trapped the armadillo in his own spiked cage and followed her. He raced through the front doors, and right into Pyro.

"Hey, mate, what're you doing' here?" he said.

Pietro tried to peer around him, but when he did Kitty had already turned the corner. "Great, I lost her!"

"Lost who? You're little dancing buddy?"

"How do you know...?"

"All I had to do was turn on the TV. to see your ugly face staring' back at me."

"So that means my dad saw me too?"

Pyro nodded. "He wants to talk to you."

Pietro sighed and started to walk down the corridor to find his father. John stopped him and said, "Not now, though."

"Than why is he here?"

Pyro hesitated. Pietro gave him that 'I'm gonna dunk all your matches in water again' look. "He...he came to get his hat."

"Hat?"

"Yes. We were here last week, on a tour of the base and Mags forgot his brown hat. Actually, that's what I'm supposed to be looking for right now. Help me."

Pietro looked down the hall. Pyro could tell he was thinking about finding Kitty, but he couldn't let him go so soon. "Come on! The sooner we find this hat, the sooner we can all go home." Pietro didn't move. "And so can your little girlfriend."

Pietro didn't want to look for some stupid hat, but he knew that Pyro wasn't going to leave him alone until he found it. So he quickly ran to the nearest hat store, swiped a brown hat, ran all the way back to the missile base, handed the hat to a stunned Pyro and then went to look for Kitty (all within 5 seconds, mind you).

He figured she had been looking for his father, although he couldn't figure out why. Scott must've been pretty desperate to send Kitty to take on Magneto. He smiled to himself as he remembered the X-Men's leader sweating out on the field.

He entered the command center and found Kitty sitting on the floor in the middle of the room. Magneto was nowhere to be found. He raced over to her. "Kitty! Are you okay?"

She nodded very slightly.

"Where is he?" Pietro could tell that Kitty was upset about something, and he knew that his father was behind it.

"I...," Kitty stammered. "I think he left."

"Well, duh!" Kitty looked at him. She didn't make a face, but her eyes seemed so sad. He automatically regretted yelling. "I'm sorry, Kitty, but this is serious."

"You think I don't know that?" she snapped.

"What do you want me to do? I can't help you if you won't tell me what happened!"

Kitty sighed and stared at the floor. "Nothing. He just...scared me. It's not everyday you come face to face with a mass murderer."

Pietro could see that she was fine, just shaken up. He had overreacted. He took her arm and helped her to her feet. She could stand on her own, but she still leaned on him as they walked outside.

The fight was over. The Brotherhood was gone and the X-Men were attempting to regroup. "I should probably go before someone sees me and decides to give me the blame for this entire mess," Pietro said. Then he turned to look Kitty straight in the eye. "Will you be okay?"

She nodded more confidently than before and even managed a weak smile. The speed demon kissed her and then ran off. She stood in his roadrunner-like dust cloud and thought. That's when Rogue found her. "Kitty!" she yelled and the rest of the X-Men noticed her for the first time as well. "Kitty, are you all right?"

"Of course," she answered. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Because our idiot leader here decided to send you after Magneto all by yourself."

"Hey!" Scott said. "Everyone's entitled to one bad decision. This happened to be mine." He looked at Kitty. "Did you find him?"

"Yes, just as he was leaving."

"You didn't try to confront him, did you?" a worried Jean asked.

"Of course not, I'm not stupid!" 'He confronted me,' she added silently to herself. "So what happened out here?"

Scott shrugged. "We're not sure. The Brotherhood just up and left without warning. Magneto must have told them to go, but it's anyone's guess as to why."

"He must have gotten what he came here for," Rogue said.

"We'll have to check the security scan the police are going to do; see if anything's missing."

Kitty looked at the ground. "Our work here is done, right? Right now the most we can do is speculate, so I suggest we all go home and get some rest." Then, right on cue, she yawned.

Jean smiled. "You've had a pretty tough day, huh? First dance lessons, now this. And if I remember correctly, tomorrow looks pretty hectic too."

"That's right, tomorrow is the next dance off!"

"Are ya scared?" Rogue asked.

"Naturally," Kitty answered. "But so long as I get some sleep I should be fine."

They all began to walk back to the X-Jet. "Don't worry," Jean said reassuringly. "We'll all be watching."

Kitty knew that she meant to comfort her, but somehow knowing that everyone she knew was going to be watching her dance on live television didn't make her feel less nervous.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kitty's hands were sweating like crazy as she waited with Pietro for the couple before them to finish. In her head she was going over the dance steps and telling herself not to be nervous. How does he stay so calm? she thought while looking at her partner. Pietro was leaning against the nearest wall and checking out his cuticles. He's not even watching the other team! He looked up, saw her staring at him, and smiled.

"Nervous?" he asked in that annoyingly overconfident way of his.

"Who wouldn't be? If we mess this up, we're out of the competition. Everyone loves that couple from Texas and have you heard the cheers for the California team?"

"They're nothing to worry about."

"I know, I know 'because we're the best'."

He nodded. "We're gonna win this, you'll see."

She sighed. That wasn't enough to completely ease her worries, but it did help. She turned back to the dance floor just as the dancers finished. Everyone clapped and then the host came on to announce them.

"Last time they wowed you all with their amazing foxtrot, and here they are tonight doing the classic Cha-Cha. From the great city of New York, here they are: Pietro Maximoff and Kitty Pryde!"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Scott, hurry up! Kitty's on!" Jean yelled up the stairs then she sat down next to Rogue on the couch. Kurt teleported in with a bowl of popcorn and sat down on the other side of Rogue.

"Zhis is so exciting!" he said and offered the girls some popcorn.

Ladies up in here tonight

No fighting, no fighting

We got the refugees up in here tonight

No fighting, no fighting

Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You make a woman go mad

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

And I'm on tonight

You know my hips don't lie

And I'm starting to feel it's right

All the attraction, the tension

Don't you see baby, this is perfection

"I love this song!" Freddy said at the Brotherhood's boarding house. As he started to sway with the music, Todd began to lip synch the words:

Hey Girl, I can see your body moving

And it's driving me crazy

And I didn't have the slightest idea

Until I saw you dancing

And when you walk up on the dance floor

Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl

And everything so unexpected- the way you right and left it

So you can keep on shaking it

"Stop it!" a very angry Lance yelled from the couch and almost made the entire house fall down. Todd and Fred immediately froze in their dance positions and looked to their leader. He was slouched on the couch with his arms crossed over his chest, staring at the TV. with a look of pure loathing. "Stupid Pietro..." he mumbled.

It wasn't very hard to figure out why Lance was angry, but he still refused to change the channel. But what fun is watching Dance On! if you can't dance along with it? So Todd silently motioned for Freddy to follow him and they tiptoed up the stairs and into Pietro's room where there was another television (They had caught Pietro watching it one day and managed to work out a deal. Pietro would let them watch the TV. anytime he wasn't home as long as they didn't tell Lance about it and didn't ask where he got it.) Todd turned on the TV. just loud enough that they could hear it, but Lance couldn't, and they started to dance.

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You make a woman go mad

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

And I'm on tonight

You know my hips don't lie

And I'm starting to feel you boy

Come on let's go, real slow

Don't you see baby asi es perfecto

Oh I know I am on tonight my hips don't lie

And I'm starting to feel it's right

All the attraction, the tension

Don't you see baby, this is perfection

Shakira, Shakira

"Wow," Jean said. "They're really good! They just might win this."

"I wouldn't be surprised if they did," Rogue said. "Kitty's been dancing for years, and Pietro... well... Pietro's just talented." Rogue couldn't believe that she had just complimented a member of the Brotherhood, and by the looks on the faces around her, neither could the other X-Men. However, as they continued to watch the young speed demon, nobody could argue with that.

"Vell, I hope they do win," Kurt said to break the silence. "Kitty deserves it. Let's just pray that nothing gets in their way like it usually does." Just as he said that the camera moved away from the dancers and focused on a man sitting in the audience. The hairs on the back of Kurt's neck stood up when he saw that face. The words at the bottom of the screen read: Erik Lensherr, Pietro's father.

Oh boy, I can see your body moving

Half animal, half man

I don't, don't really know what I'm doing

But you seem to have a plan

My will and self restraint

Have come to fail now, fail now

See, I am doing what I can, but I can't so you know

That's a bit to hard to explain

Baila en la calle de noche

Baila en la calle de dia

Baila en la calle de noche

Baila en la calle de dia

I never really knew that she could dance like this

She makes a man want to speak Spanish

Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa

Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that

You know you got me hypnotized

So be wise and keep on

Reading the signs of my body

Todd and Fred were dancing like their was no tomorrow!

"Senorita, feel the conga, let me see you move like you from Columbia," Todd sang as Fred attempted to do a pirouette. He, of course, fell down and landed on top of Todd. "Yo!" he yelled and tried to move him, but Blob did most of the work. Then Todd stood up and brushed himself off. "You gotta be more careful, Freddy, okay?" There was no reply. "Freddy?" He looked up and saw his friend staring at the television with his mouth hanging open. Todd simply assumed there was a food commercial on, but as he looked at the TV., his jaw dropped too.

Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi, say it!

Mira en Barrenquilla se baila asi

"Lance!!!" Todd yelled as he raced down the stairs and into the living room. "Lance, Magneto's on TV., and he didn't even kill nobody!"

Lance turned toward them with a creepy smile on his face and said, "I know."

Yeah

She's so sexy every man's fantasy

a refugee like me back with the Fugees

from a 3rd world country

I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty

I need a whole club dizzy

Why the CIA wanna watch us?

Colombians and Haitians

I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction

No more we do snatch ropes

Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats

Kitty's fears had totally disappeared when she started dancing. That's what happened to her every time. It's like the rest of the world doesn't even exist, only her and Pietro. She felt so happy and certain that nothing could take her bliss away. Then she turned her head slightly and looked past Pietro at the crow watching them...

And I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie

And I'm starting to feel you boy

Come on let's go, real slow

Baby, like this is perfecto

His face popped out at her like a vision from a nightmare. She was so shocked that she missed her dance step and tripped over Pietro's foot.

Oh, you know I'm on tonight and my hips don't lie

And I'm starting to feel it's right

The attraction, the tension

Baby, like this is perfection

She could feel herself falling. She knew that the moment she hit the floor the competition was over for them. She had already given up hope when she felt something push against her back and lift her up. She assumed it was Pietro and smiled at him as she began to stand up again. The crowd cheered for them, apparently not noticing the slip up. Then Kitty saw Pietro's hands. They hadn't moved. Than what had stopped her fall? Her gaze slowly moved over to Magneto.

No fighting

No fighting

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kitty and Pietro received wonderful scores from the judges, however that wasn't enough to assure them a spot next week. After the show, viewers would call in and vote for their favorite couple. The two who got the most votes would return next week for the final dance off, and the winners would be chosen. Normally Kitty would be freaking out over the votes, but she had more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.

After the judges scores were given, Pietro left to find his father and figure out what he was doing there. He seemed very angry when he left, but when he returned he was unusually quiet.

"Is everything all right?" Kitty asked.

Pietro nodded.

"Well, what did he say?"

Pietro's expression was very hard to read. You could definitely see shock, but there was also anger, confusion, and maybe a little fear? "Pietro?" Kitty said and comfortingly put her hand on his shoulder.

"He wants us to spend Christmas with him," he answered.

"Us? As in, you and me?"

Pietro nodded again.

"Why?"

"He said he wants the family to be together for the holidays."

"But I'm not family."

Pietro shrugged. "He says he wants you there."

Kitty thought about this. "Family... So does that mean that Wanda is going to be there too?"

"Most likely, and he wants you to invite your parents."

Kitty sighed. She couldn't figure out why Magneto was doing this. She thought back to the missile base. He could have killed her and had one less X-Man to deal with, but instead he simply gave her a lame excuse for being there (something about a hat) and offered her a ride home (which she politely turned down). Then he came to the show and saved her from blowing the entire competition. Now he was inviting her to spend Christmas with his family. She knew he was up to something, he had to be, but what?

"This should be a very interesting holiday."