Chapter Seven: The Shake (Awful Feeling)
"Danger Room sessions are the best cure for a broken heart, love. And I can't believe that I'm actually going to say this but get your sexy ass out of my bed, get dressed for a work out and let's kick butt!"
Those were the words Pyro had said only an hour ago, before throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her down the stairs to her room where he grabbed her shower stuff and then threw her literally into the bathroom on the hall, chucking her shower stuff in there after her. He then plopped himself on the bed and waited for her to return.
Tatyana thinks about staying in the shower for hours, letting the hot water burn away the emotions she was trying to repress but the shower obviously didn't agree with her being emo today and turned freezing cold causing the girl to shriek. She walks back to her room with her towel wrapped around her and grabs her clothing, ignoring the leer and the smirk that John gives her when she walks through the door, choosing instead to blush and rush back to the bath room to get dressed. She returns later, wearing a pair of tight black and red workout pants and a black sports bra and tying her hair into a long ponytail and she blinks when she notices that John was already wearing a pair of gray jogging pants and a sleeveless red shirt.
"When are you going to look…well like you again," John asks softly, stepping behind her as she pulls on her tennis shoes, his fingers brushing through the end of her ponytail, "Because it's weird to see you all washed out like this and last night your leopard form was white as well."
Tatyana just shrugs, glancing at her washed out form in the mirror on her door, and the only color on her body, other than her clothes, came from her eyes which were their normal green. She couldn't tell him that while in the shower she had tried to change her colors back and that it had failed, her skin shifting as if it wanted to change but something stopping it. She felt tired and drained and didn't know what to do about it because even though John was helping, she felt broken.
John's fingers wrapping her around her wrist and tugging her bring her back to earth and she slowly smiles, well tries to anyway. The corners of his mouth twitch just a little and he pulls her into a slow hug, his arms wrapping around her waist and his chin leaning against the top of her head.
"Don't think about it. It's going to hurt for a while but just don't think about it." He says silently and for the first time she notices that he had a slight accent.
She sighs.
Kayvan glares down at his phone, wondering why Tatyana wasn't answering his calls. He knew that the girl was probably busy with her new friends but she always tried call or text him back whenever she could. And yet since last night after he had texted that he missed her, he hadn't heard from his old friend and that worried him, causing the bodyguard side of him to freak out.
Pietro frowns at his…, well he couldn't quite call him boyfriend yet since they hadn't gone farther than make out when they were together and that was only because he had gotten tired of beating around the bush and kissed him, friend with benefits. He hated the fact that all the boy's thoughts were on his childhood friend and kept feeling like he couldn't really compete with some girl his crush didn't even like any more. That bothered him a lot because he didn't even know what Kayvan felt about the girl and Kayvan didn't like talking about it instead choosing to shut him up with a kiss, which was nice but Pietro was tired of feeling pushed to the side. He had felt that way with his father most of his life, constantly being reminded that he and his beloved sister were the result of his father's "weakness" with a human woman and it grew worse when he told his father that he was gay and was leaving the Brotherhood. Eric fully turned his back on him then, saying that he had no son, and left him to find a way on his own. Pietro defiantly didn't want to feel that way with someone he actually cared about and who didn't care about who his father was and who he used to be.
"She's fine demon boy. She's a big girl and can take care of herself," Pietro says, sliding his arms around Kayvan's neck, "You have other things to worry about, you know."
Kayvan glances back at the older male, who smirks at him, "Like what?"
"Like entertaining me, your boy…friend," Pietro flinches just a little after he says this, not wanting to see Kayvan's face and being pushed away for his words.
Kayvan just smiles slowly and kisses the boy gently on his lips, surprising him, "It's about time you said that."
Pietro smiles and pulls him into a deeper kiss falling back against the bed and for once makes his new boyfriend forgetting completely about his old friend.
"You know, Pyro, this is so not helping like you said it would!" Tatyana yelled dodging the fireworks that Jubilee tossed her way and hiding behind a metal wall that popped up.
"It could be because you aren't using your powers like you could be doing! I need some cover over here, girl!" Pyro yells back as Iceman shoots ice at him from across the room, "Why do I always have to fight him anyway?!"
"Cause you love each other and how in the heck am I supposed to help you?!" Tatyana glances up just in time to see a bunch of multi colored fireworks come her way and she ducks behind the wall again only to notice that they just hit the wall in front of her, "You missed Jubes."
"Wasn't aiming for you Ty. I would move if I were you." Jubilee says grinning and popping her ever present bubble gum at her.
Tatyana glances at the wall to see it crackling with energy and she rolls out of the way just as it explodes, "That could have killed me, Woman!"
"Oh you're fine. Now fight me Ty Ty."
Tatyana growls at her and bites her lip before charging at the girl, her right arm shifting and becoming a metal blade. Pyro sees this and raises an eyebrow at her only to be hit in the face with a ball of ice.
"Oh it is on now, Popsicle." He clicks his arm lighters and starts sending streams of flames at the fully iced Iceman who just makes an ice slide and starts sliding around him while shooting pieces of ice at him.
Meanwhile Jubilee yelps as Tatyana's left arm shifts into another metal blade, the girl smirking as she slashes at her, the blade just grazing over the girl's uniform and making a tiny incision.
"Since when can you do that?"
"I'm making it up as I go man. I have no idea what I can and cannot do yet. Speaking of which…I want to try something Professor Ororo told me about one day." She looks up in the air where Ororo was dodging Kurt's teleporting attacks and the strange energy blasts of a bat winged boy. Her hair starts to lengthen and suddenly Jubilee is tangled in the white strands and lifted into the air.
"Kinky," Jubilee says grinning and trying to throw a firework at her friend but the girl's hair wraps around her arms, "Okay you win."
"Really?" Tatyana smiles and Jubilee smirks slowly.
"Um no, now do you want to end up bald or do you want to let me go?" It is then noticed that Jubilee was slowly charging up her hair and if she didn't let go it probably would have ended badly.
"But I like my hair…and my head for that matter, fine you win Jubes."
Jubilee is placed on the ground and Tatyana's hair goes back to its normal mid back length, the girl crossing her arms and pouting.
Jubilee grins and throws an arm over her shoulder, "It's okay. I've been at this longer then you have. Now do you want to go help Firefly and Popsicle or to you want to go jump in on Storm's battle?"
"We can do that?"
"Nope but it will be fun regardless. The only problem is getting up there but you can handle that."
"Um how?" Tatyana says blinking and Jubilee rolls her eyes, tapping the girl's forehand.
"Um hello purple girl well formally purple girl, you are a shape shifter, Shape shift duh!"
"But my…"
Jubilee frowns at her, "Look I don't care. You're here to train and this in one of the Danger Room classes that isn't taught by Wolvie and that we can actually have fun in. It's best to find out what your powers can do in here then while you're getting beaten to a bloody pulp by one of Logan's exercises okay?"
"Fine. What should I do to get up there?"
"Wings?" And Jubilee laughs nervously when the girl gives her a look, "Fine you've seen Mr. Fantastic, try to stretch your body out like that."
Tatyana closes her eyes and reaches up and… nothing happens.
"God you're lame."
"Shut up." The two girls hear a crackling sound then a boom and the next thing Tatyana knew the bat winged boy was falling from the air. Tatyana freaks out and the next thing she knows she had dove forward, her arms and hair were stretching out to wrap around the falling boy's body causing him to land on top of her hard. Tatyana winces slightly when his back hits her chest but realizes that it didn't really hurt as much as she thought it did. Her arms unwrap around him, snapping back into place, and she untangles her hair from his body and the two sit up slowly.
"Heh sorry about that. Thanks for the save." The boy says turning his head to look at her and Tatyana looks into a pair of very familiar blue eyes.
"Cole!" She shoves him away from her, scooting backwards and hitting her back against Pyro's legs, who helps her up slowly.
"You know this guy?" He asks looking from her to the blond boy with bat wings, who was wearing a pair of ripped blue jeans.
Tatyana nods as Cole walks forward and stares at her. Their eyes meet and Cole finally realizes who he was looking at because her eyes were what he remembered most.
"Ty?" He says using her nickname. He hadn't seen her since the attack and even though he knew that she was at the school, he couldn't find her among all the other students and now he saw why.
"Hey…Cole. What are you doing here…" She then fully notices the wings on his back and raises an eyebrow as the boy smirks slightly.
"Let's just say Karma's a bitch."
Ororo floats down from the air and begins to check over the students with Nightcrawler's help, "Is everyone okay?"
"Yes, Storm. Tatyana helped the new guy." Iceman says dusting a few ice crystals and ashes away from his uniform.
Ororo smiles at the girl who was still eyeing Cole warily, "That is very good of you Tatyana. I'm glad you are learning control over your powers." She blinks at the girl's albino like coloring.
"Well some control but I'm sure you'll eventually get the hang of them. Now it seems that you two know each other, Cole, Tatyana?"
Tatyana glares at Cole then sighs, "Yeah I guess you could say we were old friends. I'm gonna hit the showers. Thanks for letting me come to your training session Miss. Munroe."
"Anytime, Tatyana."
Cole watches as the girl jogs out of the room and he slowly follows behind her, a smirk gracing his lips, "I wonder where her little pet demon is?"