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(Setting: Two nights before the six go to Dreamstate. Everybody in the Mansion is sleeping, Ivan sits on a couch alone, pondering about the trip and searching things with his laptop.) (This is a monolog.)

"… hmm, so these are the things to do there… eh, doesn't sound too bad. At least the people there are going to be drunk so if I slip a bit, nobody would remember or care." He looks closely at a list of complaints. "…'the DJ was creepy, when he played this song called 'Persona', my friend said she was feeling dizzy, and she didn't act normal.' 'I had the time of my LIFE, but for some reason, I didn't feel myself, it caused me, on the last day, to slap my girlfriend in the face. I saw it happen, but I couldn't do anything about it. it's the music that changes you…' 'If it weren't for people being drunk, it would be fine, but I was stalked by some…seemingly drunk guys, but I could tell they were completely sober, it was creepy.'" Ivan looked at the muted TV. He looked at the sobriety of the people that commented, most of them seemed to be in a buzzed state.

"On the Cruise ship, Dreamstate, they encourage passengers to comment about the trip using only the computers on board. Other computers won't work on the ship for some reasons, even wireless ones. That might pose as a problem for Kitty. Hmm it says that there have only been several deaths, but due to accidental reasons, such as leaning to far over the railing, one getting trampled to death under the feet of other dancers, one person accidentally got tangled in safety rope and fell over the edge, hanging himself, and a few unidentifiable deaths, as if died in their sleep. All over the course of 10 years, but about three happened in the two most recent years." Ivan sighed and shut his laptop and turned off the TV. "This is starting to get a little freaky…" he dismissed himself to bed.

"WAKE UP SLEEPY HEADS!!!" Jessica and Kitty yelled as the two entered the guy's room. Kitty jumped on Piotr and Jessica stood in the doorway. Bradley looked at the clock and groaned.

"PLEASE tell me you did not just wake us at six fifty nine…" he was interrupted by an annoying buzzing sound of the alarm. "Piotr, would you do the honors?"

"With pleasure…" Piotr made a fist and smashed the small alarm clock, without opening his eyes or turning towards the clock.

"You're so violent, Piotr." Jessica commented as she sat on Piotr's bed right next to Kitty.

"So why did you wake us up?" Bradley asked as he sat on his bed, facing the girls. Piotr was still lying in the bed face down.

"We were watching some TV when we woke up and we heard that there was a document signed that Mutants can live freely with humans now, and Dr. McCoy is now some political person, so now WE ARE FREE TO USE OUR POWERS… for good that is." Jessica gleamed "And also… ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!" Kitty jumped up and hugged her.

Bradley stood and hugged her, but Piotr just turned around to face her. Kitty elbowed him in the ribs, and he shot straight up. He got himself out of bed and embraced her.

"Well guys, Kitty and I are going to have a small celebration down stairs, and have a chatroom party with everybody. So get to your computers and get online! Lets go Kitty." Kitty was pulled off the bed and ran to catch up with Jessica.

(A/N this next part is going to be Chat Room Dialog so I'll try to keep it simple in layout.)

Chat room list: PhasingKitty – Kitty Pryde, HarmonySmAsHeR – Jessica Tell, Ripplet – Bradley Wes, Man o Steel – Piotr Rasputin, Caesar – Julius Imesca, StarryNight – Starla Carabulta, Fire of Fires – Hula Jubaca, MutantsRoxMeSoxNOT – Jaracarla Harlet.

PhasingKitty: Hello Room!

Caesar: Hello PK, how are you?

PhasingKitty: I'm great, say hi to my friend, its her Birthday today!

HarmonySmAsHeR: Geez Kitty, you don't need to announce it to the whole world!

Caesar: Hello Harmonysmasher. Happy birthday.

HarmonySmAsHeR: Thanks, call me Pitch, it's a whole lot easier. Lol

(StarryNight and Fire of Fires have entered the room.)

StarryNight: HEY PEOPLES. NOW WE CAN LIVEN UP THIS ROOM NOW THAT ME AND MY HO ARE HERE!

Fire of Fires: Um I told you, please don't call me that, seriously!

Caesar: Welcome SN and FoF, How are you?

StarryNight: Um… exCUSE Me? Who gave you the right to talk to me? Huh?

PhasingKitty: Hey hey hey. He was only greeting you SN, you didn't have to, like Snap at him or anything.

StarryNight: Hula… why is this bitch talking to me?

Fire of Fires: Starla. Please.

(Man o Steel and Ripplet have entered the room)

StarryNight: What!? Only you have the right to talk to me upfront, not some PhasingKittyBitch.

Man o Steel: WHAT DID YOU SAY!

PhasingKitty: Piotr please don't get involved, I can handle it.

Ripplet: Are you sure?

PhasingKitty: Yeah I can and if I cant, I'll have Jessica scream, then you will know if I can handle it or not.

HarmonySmAsHeR: That's right, lol

StarryNight: Hey Man o Steel, how are you doing?

Caesar: Fire of Fires, may I privately talk with you?

Fire of Fires: Sure.

(Caesar and Fire of Fires have left the room)

(MutantsRoxMeSoxNOT has entered the room)

StarryNight: Hey MRMSNOT I love the Screen name,

MutantsRoxMeSoxNOT: thanks.

PhasingKitty: Piotr we need to talk now…

(PhasingKitty and Man o Steel have left the room)

HarmonySmAsHeR: hey Ripplet, hows it going lol

Ripplet: Going good, wish you were up here in my room.

HarmonySmAsHeR: Give me a minute and I will. Lol

StarryNight: OMG IT'S A FREAKING SOAP OPERA IN HERE!!!

(Caesar and Fire of Fires have entered the room)

Caesar: Thank you so much Fire of Fires

Fire of Fires: lol you're welcome.

(Man o Steel and PhasingKitty have entered the room)

MutantsRoxMeSoxNOT: ok its getting bored in here, time for topic discussion. MUTANTS SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH AND TORTURED!!!

(PhasingKitty, Man o Steel, Ripplet, HarmonySmAsHer, Caesar, and Fire of Fires have left the room)

StarryNight: I couldn't agree more.

"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGG! I can't take it any longer!" Kitty screamed into Piotr's chest. "If that Starla girl didn't agitate me so much, I would be more helpful."
"You did what you could, Katya." Piotr kissed the top of her head.

"Don't feel bad Kitty," Jessica sat down by her. "they're just a bunch of mutant haters. And if it makes you feel any better, two other people in the chat room left. That might possibly mean that they were mutants, mutant supporters, or people that just didn't want to be in the discussion. Anyway, we leave tomorrow morning, so let's have fun. Ok?"

"Ok." Kitty turned on the TV and sat in Piotr's lap. Jessica and Bradley went to the Danger Room for some more practice and passed Rogue on their way.

"Hey, have ya'll seen Ivan?" Rogue asked, but was responded with shaking of their heads.

"Dad, congratulations on the title. I know you worked hard for it." Ivan spoke into the lighted Laboratory. Dr. McCoy was working on something, but turned his head to see his son.

"Thank you, Ivan. What do you need?"

"I was just going to tell you good bye, since we're leaving early in the morning and you might be down here the whole time. Oh wait, you have a press conference, don't you?"

"Yes that is correct, well I hope you have a good trip and try to keep in check."

"Alright old man, I will."

After lunch, Kitty went to sit outside by the lake. She didn't want Piotr to follow so she said she was going to sleep and not disturb her. Yes she did enjoy the company, but sometimes she just wanted to be alone. She layed down under a tree and looked at the lake. All of a sudden a shadow came from above her as if it was sliding down the tree.

"Piotr, if you don't mind, I just want to have some time to myself, I'm sorry I lied."

"First of all," Kitty turned at the unfamiliar voice, "I'm not Piotr. And second of all, I don't think you would have had to lie to say you wanted to be alone."

"Ivan, don't scare me like that."

"You want to talk about it?"

"Not really. I just want to be alone so I can hear myself think once in a while. But I'll talk to you later, ok?"

"Sure I guess." Ivan jumped from the trunk of the tree and stood in front of her. "I'll see you later then." He walked towards the Mansion and left Kitty alone.

Kitty breathed a sigh.

"I honestly thought I would never attract anybody. Oh crap, here I go on this whole 'I'm loved' monolog! At least I'm dating! But what if he wants to get married? I'm only 16 and he's about 21. OH THAT REMINDS ME! There must be hundreds of women on that cruise; what if he would want one of them? Oh well, I'll try not to think of it while on the trip. I just want to have some fun before school starts again."

Kitty got up and dusted herself off. She walked towards her room and jumped onto her bed. Jessica came in and got the second half of her luggage

"You haven't packed?"

"Oh, I have, its already in the van. Hey are we going to get a room together or are we going to go with dates or one big room or what?"

"Well," Jessica started. "Since Ivan and Rogue aren't couples. They have to have two beds, even though Rogue doesn't have her powers because of the cure, she still wouldn't want to be in the same bed with Ivan if she could help it. Oh, that reminds me. She was looking for Ivan when Bradley and I were going to the Danger room. Do you know what that was about?"

"Yeah she was trying to get it clear to his head that she was not somebody to take advantage of or she would kick is butt." Kitty started to giggle.

"I bet that got to his head real fast. Hey I'm going to bed because we're getting up early in the morning to start out."

"Goodnight Jess. I'm just going to say goodnight to Piotr, and then I'll come right back."

"Whatever…" Jessica was already half asleep as she squirmed in her bed.

Kitty was just about to open the door to Piotr's room when she heard Ivan speaking rather loudly.

"Think about it. It could be very special to her." Ivan tried to reason to Piotr.

"Ivan, you have got to understand the person Piotr is. His outward appearance may advertise it, but inside, he would rather wait until Kitty was of age before he took it.

Kitty knew exactly what Bradley was talking about.

"Ivan, it sounds very well planned, but I am more than capable of waiting for Katya. Then it would be even more special." Piotr concluded.

"Why, is it like you are going to marry her or something?" Ivan pried.

There was no answer, it almost made Kitty's heart stop.

"Well Piotr? Are you going to marry her?" Bradley asked.

"But with age as it is, I could go to jail right now if it weren't for Ororo's consent."

"Pete, didn't you tell Kitty that those laws were made for humans, not mutants?"

"Brad, you know that they apply to us too." Piotr informed.

"You're avoiding the question, Piotr." Ivan spoke once more.

Piotr sighed a big sigh and continued. "Yes, if age was truly not a problem, I would ask her to marry me, but you know its illegal, and I don't believe in premarital sex."

"That didn't seem to stop you with this one girl, and she had your kids."

"Correction, she was my WIFE, and they WEREN'T MY kids. And now that's over. I love Katya with all of my heart, and I am willing to wait for her as long as it takes."

"Yup, he has his mind made, Ivan." Bradley stated the obvious. Ivan shrugged and walked towards the door. Kitty quickly phased through the floor just as the door opened. She ran through walls and flew up a flight of stares and phased through to her room.

"HE WANTS TO MARRY ME!!!" she whispered as loud as she could to a sleeping Jessica. Kitty crawled into her bed and fell into sleep fast, thinking of the trip and how much fun she would have with Piotr.

GOODNIGHT PEOPLE. IM TIRED AND I'M GOING TO BED!!!!! LAST CHAPTER IS COMING UP NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!