Dance on, Kietro, Dance on!

By: XMENobsession

AN: This is it: THE LAST CHAPTER!!!!! I know, I'm sad too, but it had to come eventually. I hope you all enjoyed reading the story because I sure did enjoy writing it. If I get enough reviews than I might write a sequel. Trust me; once you read the ending you will want one! I love all of my readers! Good-bye! (Well, not really good-bye because you still have to read the story, but good-bye for the author's note)

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing! (Glad I don't have to write that any more!)

Chapter 20

The End!

Magneto was in his study, packing for the move to Genosha when he felt a soft pang in his head. Unlike most people, he was skilled enough to know when someone was reading his mind. 'Charles' he thought in his head, knowing the professor could hear him. 'What do you think you're doing?'

'I'm sorry to invade your privacy, Erik, but I was hoping to find out the reason for this move,' Xavier answered telepathically from his library at the Institute.

'I've told you already; I need a change of scenery.'

'Than go on vacation! Visit your house in California! There's no need to sell your home and permanently move to some remote island in the Indian Ocean! I know you, Erik; this isn't that simple. You've got some plan working in that head of yours and I would like to know what it is.'

'Well, I'm sorry, but you'll just have to wait like everyone else. Now please get your voice out of my head and let me get back to packing.'

Xavier sighed. He should've known he would get nowhere with Magneto, but it was worth a shot. He just couldn't figure out what he was up to and it was driving him crazy. Why the move? And why the recent trip to London? At first, Charles had believed that it was just a vacation, but that was before he heard about the 'Mutant Council' Mags had apparently held there. It was all very suspicious, but none of it made sense. Maybe he would just have to wait like the rest of the world, but by then it might be too late...

Magneto taped his box shut and grabbed another one. He opened it and placed it on his desk as he looked around the room. Now that he had packed all of his metal items, he was forced to do the rest manually. He picked up a picture frame and studied it. He stood there, just looking at it for a while, and then Pietro walked in.

"Yes?" Magneto asked, quickly putting the picture in the open box.

"Um..." Pietro looked at the floor. "I... uh..."

"Pietro, I'm very busy right now, so if you have something to say please say it quickly."

"Well... Um..."

Magneto sighed impatiently. Pietro figured he might as well just let it out:

"Kitty's pregnant."

Magneto didn't move. Pietro wasn't sure if he was thinking or if he was just paralyzed. But after five minutes of agonizing silence he picked up another picture frame and put it in the box. Then another. Then he put his calendar in there, followed by a can of pencils.

Pietro watched him closely, looking for some sign of anger, rage, or any sort of emotion, but he showed none. He continued to pack and Pietro continued to stare.

"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to help?" Magneto asked him in a voice no different than his normally annoyed one.

Pietro immediately began to help load random office items into the cardboard box. After the entire room was empty and the last box was taped and labeled Magneto turned to Pietro. His face was still expressionless as he asked in an unreadable tone, "What are you going to do?"

Pietro honestly didn't know how to answer that. "Uh... I guess I should probably do something responsible, right?"

"A little late for that, isn't it?"

Pietro looked down at his feet. "We should probably get married, I guess..."

"That's a good idea, but there's more to it than that. Where are you going to live? How are you going to pay for it? Are you going to continue school or will you drop out and get a job? If you get a job, what will you do? What sort of skills do you have? How do you expect to support, not only yourself, but a wife and child as well?!"

Pietro paused, then answered quietly, "I don't know."

"No, you don't. You have no idea what you just got yourself into. This isn't some game, Pietro! This is life, and thanks to your stupid mistake you just jumped head-first into it!"

"I know that!" Pietro yelled back in response. It was the first time he had ever talked back to his father. "You think I don't realize that I just screwed up my life?!"

"It's not just your life any more! Think about Kitty and the baby! If you're going to do this, than that means it's not all about you!"

Pietro looked at him, shocked. "What do you mean 'if'?"

"What?" Magneto put his hand on his head and leaned against his desk. He didn't need this; not now.

"You said, 'If I decide to do this'. What's with the 'if'?"

"You have a choice, Pietro. You don't have to do this."

This seemed to be the first time that this thought crossed Pietro's mind. He was silent for a minute, but only a minute. "Yes, I do."

For the first time, Magneto smiled. "Good answer. Now I will ask you once again; what are you going to do?"

Pietro took in a deep breath and answered, "I think I need some help."

Magneto nodded.

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Kitty avoided her fellow X-Men as much as she could, which was surprisingly easy considering that they live together. When she woke up in the morning she immediately ran into the bathroom and morning sickness began. After that, people pretty much stayed away from her. She was happy with that though because she wasn't sure if she could handle being around her best friends and not telling them this huge news she had. But she new she wasn't ready to tell them; she was barely ready to tell Pietro. When the doctor told her she was pregnant she needed a few minutes to let it sink in. She was pregnant. She was going to have a baby. She was going to have Pietro Maximoff's baby. She definitely wasn't expecting that.

After she began to feel better she went outside to the backyard and sat under an oak tree to think. That's when she saw Lance running across the lawn toward her.

"Kitty!" he yelled and stopped when he reached her to catch his breath.

"Lance?! What is it?"

"Freddy..." he said, still panting.

"What about him? Is he all right?" She was starting to worry.

"Freddy... he told me... Todd... Gambit..."

"Lance, calm down and slowly tell me what you have to."

Lance continued to pant until he was rested enough to speak. "Freddy told me that Todd told him he heard from Gambit who was told by Pyro who overheard Magneto and Pietro talking and apparently... YOU'RE PREGNANT!!!"

"WHAT?!" Scott asked as he sprinted toward them.

Kitty's eyes widened and she stood up. "Scott! Where did you come from?"

"I was coming out to see if you're feeling all right, and I wound up overhearing this whacko lie his face off!"

"It's not a lie!" Lance yelled at him. He turned to Kitty. "Is it?"

Kitty looked from one face to the other. Scott looked like he was about to explode, but was holding it in. He wanted Kitty to tell him that it was a lie and there was no need to freak out, but she couldn't do that. "It's the truth," she said quietly. Lance's face immediately dropped. It seemed he had been holding onto the hope that this was just a mean rumor. The reality of the situation hit him hard, but not as hard as Scott.

He yelled some very bad words and some more of the X-Men found their way onto the lawn. Once the information got around, the institute was absolute chaos. Kitty was bombarded with questions. She wanted to do anything but answer them. So in the midst of the craziness she phased through the ground. She wound up at the institute back doors and turned around to catch one last glimpse of a fight beginning between Lance and Scott. She sighed and walked inside.

Her phone rang. She picked it up and looked at the caller ID. "Hello, Pietro," she said when she answered it.

"I told my dad," Pietro said on the other end of the phone.

"I know."

"How?"

"Apparently Pyro overheard you two talking and he told Gambit who told Todd who..." She sighed. "It eventually got to Lance and he came here and told Scott."

"So now the entire Institute can't stop talking about it?"

"You'd think you were an X-Man."

"I'm sorry, Kitty."

"Don't be. You didn't know John could hear you."

"No, not about that, about... well... everything! It's all my fault..."

"Hey, it takes two, you know?" Kitty cringed as she heard something explode outside. "Is there any way you could come pick me up? I just want to get out of here!"

"Actually, I'm on my way now."

"Why?"

"My dad made me a very... interesting offer. Well, really he made us an interesting offer."

Kitty was starting to get scared. "What is it?"

"He said that we could live with him in the house he just bought. It's in some place called 'Genosha'. He would pay for everything for us and the baby. He claims we'd never have to lift a finger."

This sounded great, but Kitty knew Magneto. "What's the catch?" she asked.

"We'd be living with Magneto. Not only would that be completely against everything Xavier's ever taught you, but... it's Magneto! I know he's not your favoritest person in the world."

"No, he's not, but this sounds like a pretty sweet deal."

"So you're for it?"

"I don't know..." There was another explosion. "Maybe."

"You think about it and I'll be there in a few minutes. Stay out of trouble until I get there, okay?"

"I'll try. Bye." She hung up and took a deep breath. "You can come out now," she said and Rogue walked out from behind the door. "How long have you been there?"

"Too long," Rogue answered. "By the way, you should really turn down the volume on your phone; I could hear everything."

"So now you're going to tell me what an idiot I am and how I should stay here where I'm safe."

"I think you should do what you think is best. This is your life and your decision."

Tears filled Kitty's eyes. "I wish it weren't." She turned around, put her head on Rogue's covered shoulder, and began to cry. Rogue awkwardly patted her back and said, "It's going to be okay."

Kitty lifted her head. "How do you know?"

"Honestly, Ah don't. But it sounds like you've been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"You think I should move to Genosha?"

"Ah'd miss ya like crazy, but Magneto has something the X-Men can't offer: stability. There's no way these guys could handle saving the world and a baby. Magneto may be a whacko, but he'd keep you safe and out of harm's way."

'No he wouldn't,' Kitty immediately thought to herself, but then she remembered the dance competition where he had stopped her from falling. Then she thought about the missile base. He had her right in the palm of his hand. He could have killed her and had one less X-Man to deal with, but he didn't. Instead he let her go. Why? Why did he invite her to Christmas dinner? Why was he offering her a place to live? She couldn't make any sense of it. Was he just looking out for his son and future grandchild, or did he have some complex evil scheme in the works? She couldn't decide, but she also couldn't ignore the fact that she was being offered protection, not just for her, but for her baby as well.

"I think I'm going to do it," she said after a long pause.

"You're leaving?"

Kitty nodded. Now it was Rogue's turn to start crying. She hugged her friend and said softly, "Good luck... with everything."

"Thank you," Kitty whispered back. "I'll really miss you. You were a great friend."

"Hey, don't talk like we're never gonna see each other again!"

"You're right. I'm sorry. It's just going to be really weird not sharing a room with you anymore."

"Ah know. What will Ah do with all the peace and quiet?" They both laughed and then they heard a loud noise come from out front. They walked to the doors to see all of the X-Men as well as the Brotherhood (Lance apparently called Todd and Fred) crowded around a large, professional-looking jet.

There was some mumbling in the crowd of people, but other than that it was silent while Magneto regally stepped out of the jet, followed by Pietro. Magneto spotted Kitty and smiled at her. "Have you made your decision yet?" he asked.

She nodded. "I have decided... to accept your offer."

Scott looked at Kitty, confusion all over his face. "What offer?" he asked in a tone that barely hid his rage.

"I have offered Kitty and Pietro a residence at my new home on the small island of Genosha," Magneto replied. "They have accepted."

"Why?" Jean asked. "Kitty, do you really want to leave the X-Men?"

"No, but I'm afraid I'm going to." She looked Jean straight in the eye. "I love you. I love all of you. But I love Pietro too, and you know just as well as anyone that if I stayed here things would only get more tense and complicated. I had to make a choice, and I did. I'm not changing my mind. I'm sorry."

Kitty knew Jean was inside her head, giving her mental 'suggestions' to stay, but they weren't going to work. She had made up her mind. Jean knew that too, and instead just hugged Kitty good-bye. Then the rest of the X-Men did the same thing.

Scott was last. "Good-bye," Kitty said and went to hug him too, but he stepped back.

"No. I'm not saying good-bye because you're not leaving. You can't..." He held out for a few minutes while he and Kitty just stared at each other, but eventually he had to give in. He hugged Kitty harder than any of the others, but still wouldn't say the words 'good-bye'.

While all of that was going on, Lance and Pietro walked up to each other. "So you're leaving?" Lance asked in a casual tone.

"Yeah," Pietro answered just as nonchalant.

There was a long pause. Then Lance said, "You got Kitty pregnant?"

"Yeah."

Lance wasn't sure whether to punch Pietro in the face or give him a high-five. So he just nodded and said, "Well, see ya later."

"See ya," Pietro said back and walked over to Todd and Freddy who both, it seemed, had been crying.

"This is it," Todd said. "This is the big thing that's gonna break up the Brotherhood isn't it?"

"Only if you want it to," Pietro said.

Todd shook his head. "I don't, but it won't be the same without you, man." He gave Pietro a hug and Freddy joined in.

"Freddy!" Pietro yelled. "I can't breathe!"

"Sorry," he said and let go.

"It's okay." Pietro rubbed the back of his neck and slowly walked away.

"We'll miss you!" Todd yelled.

Pietro just waved at them, but said under his breath, "I'll miss you too."

Then he met up with Kitty. They smiled at each other and got on the plane together. Magneto locked eyes with Xavier. 'Get out of my head, Charles,' he mentally said and the Professor laughed to himself.

'I figured it was worth one last try,' he replied telepathically.

Magneto nodded and followed Kitty and Pietro onto the jet.

Kitty waved from the plane while tears started flowing from her eyes again. She kept waving until the jet took off and she could no longer see the people she considered her family since the day she got her mutant powers. Then she turned around and Pietro grabbed her hand and squeezed it.

"Oh, I almost forgot," he said and reached under the seat to pick up a yellow book. He handed it to Kitty.

"Pregnancy for Dummies," she read out loud and laughed. "Thank you, Pietro. I love it!" She kissed him on the cheek and Magneto walked out of the cockpit.

"We'll be there in a little less than an hour," he said and sat down across from them. "Are you excited?"

"Among other things," Kitty said.

Magneto nodded. "Nervousness is understandable. This is a big step for all of us."

Kitty smiled. "Thank you for this... all of this. It means a lot to me."

"I'm happy to help," Magneto said and turned on the TV that was in the room with them. The news was on and, of course, talking about 'Dance On!'.

"In recent news," the reporter said while shuffling her most likely blank papers. "The popular dancing show 'Dance On!' recent aired its last episode and revealed the winners. To many viewers' surprise the popular couple from New York, Pietro Maximoff and Kitty Pryde, lost first place to the California team. Here is some video footage of their last dance."

Kitty covered her head in embarrassment as they played the clip of her running off the dance floor. "Turn it off," Pietro said and Magneto did so.

"We didn't win," Kitty said sadly.

Pietro cupped her chin in his hand, lifted her face, and said comfortingly, "Yes we did."

Kitty smiled at him and the rest of the trip was spent mostly in silence. However the silence was broken when Magneto looked out the window and said happily, "We're here!"

Kitty and Pietro each gazed out their own window and watched as the clouds cleared away to reveal a lush, green island.

"This is Genosha," Magneto said proudly. "Welcome to the rest of your lives."

THE END

(Or is it...?)