"Are you serious?" the teen said after a while. Rogue rolled her eyes at Kitty. "What the hell?"
Rogue clicked her tongue. "Watch your language, Miss Pryde," she teased.
Kitty shot a glare at her, then turned back to the phone. "Are you sure?" There was a pause for Lance to reply. "Oh my god… what was she doing there?" Another pause. "Pietro?!" She shrieked angrily. "But she's supposed to have a training session with Logan right now. How did she manage to sneak away?"
This conversation finally appeared to be interesting. From what Rogue could gather Haley had been at the Brotherhood house with Pietro when she was supposed to have a one-on-one training session. Rogue smiled to herself. This was like playing Clue, only much more entertaining because it was real.
She had to give her props to Haley. Skipping a training session was bad enough already -especially if it was with Wolverine. But Haley was grounded and supposedly kidnapped by Pietro the night before. That took guts.
However, something didn't seem quite right to Rogue.
Kitty had hung up the phone. She was all in a huffy. "If Logan doesn't kill that girl," she snarled, her eyes narrowed angrily. "I will! Accident my ass," she muttered under her breath. It appeared to her that Kitty apparently knew more than she was willing to tell.
A few minutes later, Haley strolled into her room to find a very angry Kitty sitting on her bed. "So I'm guessing you talked to Lance or something," she said slowly, putting two and two together. Kitty nodded. "It was my training session," Haley continued, knowing that once again the truth looked a little shabby.
"Bull shit," Kitty hissed. "You just want to get with whatever boy you want. You don't care about Kurt's feelings."
"Yes, I do! I'm telling you that they felt that I need to 'get it out of my system.' Do you think I'd actually manage to sneak out of the mansion without being noticed? Have you seen Logan around since you last saw me? Of course not! He's not even back yet because I took his bike!"
Kitty let it sink in for a little bit. "You took his motorcycle?" she asked in awe.
Haley nodded her head. "Yes, as crazy as it sounds!" She sat down, suddenly tired. "This is terrible! I don't know why I agreed to do it…"
Kitty softened up a bit. "You were just doing what you thought was right. He's out of your system, right?" she asked gently, using the chosen words.
"I blasted him against the wall. What do you think?" Kitty giggled in response. "Yeah, he better be out of my system. I'm about to kill him and myself as it is." She buried her face into her hands. "What am I going to do?" she moaned.
"What do you mean?"
Haley sighed, looking up. "Kurt's going to find out eventually. It's...everything..." she exhaled angrily. "Life sucks," she concluded.
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Pietro had been fuming ever since Haley left. He had been storming around the house babbling too fast for anyone else to understand. He was obviously not in a very good mood. While trying to cover up their snickering, everybody chose to stay out of his way.
Toad on the other hand had been complaining ever since he recovered from his little run-in with Haley. He was being completely melodramatic about the whole thing, so the others just ignored him. Fred and Lance were getting a headache between Pietro and Toad.
"I know what we're doing!" Pietro finally announced. The rest of the Brotherhood stared at him, waiting for him to continue. "We're going to have a little play date with the X-men. Those little losers won't know what hit them." A pleased smile rested on his face. His eyes were glinting with vengeance.
Lance silently scoffed at this idea. Whenever they tried to go up against those geeks, they always lost. They were even more at of a disadvantage now because he was dating Kitty. Not only that, but they now had a new recruit, an extra person. From what little he knew about this new girl, he knew that she was pretty capable. They had the Toad shaped outline on the wall to prove it.
This was going to be a disaster. Yet another embarrassing defeat would be imprinted on their memories. At very least, now they didn't have Mystique to lecture them this time.
They all suited up and hopped in Lance's Jeep. They drove as close to the mansion as they deemed safe, and then walked the rest of the way. Lance would have tried to stop Pietro, but he saw that look in his eyes. He looked crazy -well, crazier than usual.
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Wolverine, Storm Professor X mentally reached out to his instructors. It seems that the Brotherhood is coming to pay us a visit. Stay out of their way. Let the students handle this. I have a feeling that Haley needs to let out a little anger after today's little "training session."
The chapters keep getting shorter, don't they? I'll try to fix that.