Another time, another chapter, and I am SO happy at the responses I got for this story! Thank you all! so I really hope you enjoy this chapter as much, but don't forget to give me your views at the end by reviewing; its always SO useful! Ooh! Forgot to mention; two NEW characters ALREADY! And their pets too. They will be introduced to this chapter so I really hope you enjoy it and them :D
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Chapter 2VvV Meet the Goths VvV
Friday Afternoon; Maximoff Household, EntranceHall;3:10pmWanda stepped into the house and immediately she knew it was the day her half-sister and cousin would be arriving; the marble floor and staircase sparkled, the glass hanging from the chandelier reflected rainbow lights over the hall and the windows were so clear Wanda could see a minuscule bug easily as it landed on the other side. But as soon as it appeared Raven rapped the windows viciously and it flew away, then Wanda wished she could too when Raven's gaze landed, with an accompanied shriek, on her shoes. "WANDA MAXIMOFF! DO NOT STEP ANY FURTHER! Take those shoes off now! Why are they so filthy!"
"Walked home with Rogue and John over the field…is this all really necessary? It just makes the place look creepy…" Rogue joined Wanda on the step and didn't even allow Raven time to scream at her before both muddy DocMartens were removed, then her gaze followed Wanda's around the entrance hall and she raised both eyebrows.
"Ah agree…have ya evah considered goin ta a doctah? Coz ah swear ya have- "
"Rogue Anna-Marie Maximoff! If you even think of saying what I think you are going to say then you will go to your room, and you'll tidy it while your at it," this time it was a scrubbing brush pointed like a dagger at Rogue's stomach and, on impulse, both Rogue and her step-sister covered themselves.
Ignoring her mother's comment and instead, by habit of saying what she thinks, Rogue carried on; "what? The fact that you have an obsessive compulsive disorder in the cleaning area?" a choking sound came from Wanda and as Rogue turned to her, she saw Wanda leaning forward, choking on her own laughter.
Furious, Raven poked both girls in the stomach as Wanda straightened, only to have her step-daughter double up again in laughter as Rogue groaned, after receiving an extremely painful poke. "Right! Go to your room," Raven turned from Rogue who stumbled up the stairs; clutching her stomach, to Wanda who straightened and tried to control her laughter, but the fact Rogue was now pulling faces behind her didn't help and Wanda doubled up again. "And you: to your room now!"
Wanda stumbled towards the stairs, managing to control her laughter, "Rogue you bitch!"
"LANGUAGE!" Raven's shriek was ignored as Wanda chased Rogue up the stairs, both girls shrieking loudly.
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Friday Afternoon; Maximoff Household, Driveway; 3:20pm"Ah feel lahke a soldier," Rogue scratched and pulled at suit-like trousers she had been forced to wear and huffed, "ahn these trousers ahre annoying tha hell outah meh!"
Giving a shake of his head in response Kurt replied, "leave it alone, how do you think Amanda feels; she has to wear a pair of those everytime she goes to church!"
Rogue turned to Wanda and both girls rolled their eyes, speaking simultaneously, "hear we go again with Amanda!" they doubled over in laughter but straightened their faces as Eric raised an eyebrow in their direction.
"Come now girls, behave."
Pietro looked up at his father from where he stood and frowned at his sisters, "I don't think that's possible father," Eric smiled down at his son in approval, not noticing as Rogue placed a significant finger up at her step-brother and as Wanda crossed a hand over her throat in a death threat. Pietro would have responded by mouthing obscene words at them, however Kurt placed a hand over his mouth with simple words of caution.
"Don't aggravate them Pietro."
"Shut it geekazoid," Pietro grabbed Kurt's wrist as he hissed at him and twisted it behind the geek's back, but moments later the jock was shoved off of Kurt as a force jumped onto his back.
Both Wanda and Pietro fell onto the ground, the former falling onto her brother as they rolled over, landing in the grass where Wanda began to hit her brother's chest, being kneed in retaliation, both ignoring their step-mother's shrieks and their father's yells. Rogue however checked on Kurt, making sure his hand was ok before she turned to Pietro and Wanda; watching as the tables turned and as Pietro rolled them over so he was the one attacking from above.
But that soon changed again, and Pietro was thrown off of Wanda as both he and Rogue rolled into the shrubs; having Rogue thrust herself at him in a rugby tackle was bound to make him fall off Wanda and once again the hitting and kicking resumed. But this time it was accompanied by cheers of encouragement to Rogue from Wanda, anxious cries from both Kurt and Eric, and shrieks about the state of her shrubs coming from Raven. No one noticed as two Porsche Boxsters pulled up on the driveway: one black Porsche with purple Chinese symbols decorating the back of it, with its black roof down, and a plain, forest-green Porsche, again with its black roof down.
Two girls stepped out of their cars, raising an eyebrow and sharing a look as they watched Pietro and Rogue brawling, before they both bent back down, picking their dogs up out of their cars, one picking up a black Labrador puppy, and the other picking up a black and white, old English bulldog puppy. They walked over to the apparent family, who were so engrossed in the fight that they didn't notice the girls.
"GET UP NOW! If those girls were here I don't know WHAT they'd think of you both!" Raven's shrieking echoed over the drive and both girls shared another look as the dogs' whimpering was drowned out.
Another voice spoke up and the girls turned to look at Eric, "please children, Pietro you are more mature than that and should be acting like a gentleman, and Rogue you should be acting like…well, not like that." He shrugged as Raven shot him a glare and she finished her husband's sentence alternatively.
"You should be acting more like a lady!"
These words seemed to strike something in Rogue who began to beat Pietro more ferociously, but then as Wanda turned slightly to give her mother a 'don't even try' look, she spotted the girls who were intrigued by the fight and she ran to her siblings, hissing to them as she dragged Rogue away. "Get up you assholes…stop it…no Pietro leave it; look next to mum," Pietro turned around and looked to the left of his mother and his jaw dropped in horror.
"Shit!"
Red; that was the exact colour of Raven's face but it seemed to colour further, to a shade that represented magenta, "PIETRO! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!"
"Son, I would expect more from- " Eric paused as he spotted Pietro staring at someone next to Raven, and he turned to his wife, noticing both of the new girls with an 'oops' look and he mouthed something that looked a lot like 'uh oh.'
Raven however was still oblivious to the girls standing right beside her until she caught Eric's shocked gaze, "what are you looking at now?" She turned to face her husband properly and then the cars caught her eye, "bloody hell!"
"Raven, language!" Eric faced his wife with a shocked expression and then turned to face what she was looking at and swore himself, but a bit more foully.
"Nice aren't they?" Betsy managed to keep a straight face as people turned to her, following the lead down to her black Labrador and then turning to her cousin Lorna, taking in the Old English Bulldog puppy she was cradling in one arm. Rogue and Wanda smirked, Eric raised both eyebrows but chose to say nothing, Pietro snarled at the girls' appearances and Kurt hid behind his father slightly, but Raven was a different matter; her eyes widened in horror and she opened her mouth to protest.
A shake of her head was all she needed to hush Raven up as Wanda laid her eyes onto, what she guessed to be, her half-sister and half-cousin, she new that Raven would hate Lorna and Betsy's style…right from the moment the two girls stepped out of their cars it would be obvious to both girls that Raven wouldn't be happy. It was the whole image of the house; a large posh house with perfectly fresh, lush green grass, the house itself was spotless and looked beautiful like those rich peoples' houses in the movies, apart from the fact two people were brawling outside…but that just added to the view.
Wanda took in the spiked collar clinging to Lorna's neck, the matching collar that decorated both wrists and the multiple silver earrings and studs dotted over the girl's ears and the extra stud stuck through the girls' nose. Dark green jeans with rips all up the sides, a black tank top that was only big enough to reach an inch below Lorna's bust before the material stopped and revealed pale skin, hidden slightly by a fish-net top. The fish-net top draped over Lorna's shoulders and ended above her navel and at the elbows, so it wasn't like she was hiding much; then the look that the skull, imprinted onto her black top, gave…well it just completed the ultra-gothic look. Of course the black combat boots and dark make-up just didn't help to the look…and then there was Lorna's hair. It was dyed dark green and if it wasn't gelled up it would of reached to the girls chin, but it was gelled up; in spikes that shaped around the girls head in a spiral, sticking out in a perfect twist of spikes.
(If you want to see an excellent picture for this I got the design from http/ hostingprod .com/ xmen. html (remove the spaces first though) just click on the design labelled Jaden in the Original X-Characters section. It should work, but if not then go onto Google Images and type in Rogue, then select the cartoon of Rogue and Kurt and it takes you to the site.)
Then Wanda's eyes travelled to Lorna's dog, taking in the dogs' collar, which was black with a polka-dot pattern on it with the polka-dots the same forest-green as Lorna's car. And then Wanda took in the single bracelet/collar-strap just above the dogs' left paw, which was also decorated in polka dots. Then Wanda's eyes travelled to the dogs' face and she smiled at how sweet the dog looked; with its wrinkled face that drooped, even though the dog was perfectly happy.
Lorna raised a single hand in greeting and showed numerous black and silver rings dotting her fingers, and nails painted a rich forest-green, "hi." That was it; no thanks for letting us stay here, no apologies for her ultra gothic look that made Raven's lip curl slightly, although to be truthful Raven should have been used to it by now; what with her two daughters that stood side by side in slight shadow behind the woman.
They definitely approved, and both Betsy and Lorna could tell, because Lorna could see them looking her up and down, both nodding to show they liked what they saw and then their eyes turned to Betsy and satisfied smirks unfolded again.
She wore a dark purple top, a sleeve hung from her left shoulder and the bust line was quite low, the other side had no sleeve but instead revealed a permanent tattoo on the right shoulder; of a small, purple devil, sticking a black forked tongue out at its audience as it curled around its own pointed tail. Betsy's top had black, curling writing imprinted on it, 'don't blame me if you get attracted, its not like I care,' and this comment caused Rogue to let out a small hiss of laughter.
The top finished above her navel and revealed a black belly-button ring shaped in the form of spikes, her hair was tucked behind her ears to reveal a skull and cross bones, dangling earring in a single ear and two silver hoop earrings in the other. The choker around Betsy's neck was plain black and she had dozens of thick, chunky black and purple bangles lining from her wrists all the way to her elbows. Her trousers were black and baggy, and tucked into violet boots that had two inch stiletto heels. Then there was Betsy's hair, which was a dark purple with black highlights, done in a side-parting so that most of it covered the whole of one eye. With the dark purple eyeshadow, the heavy amounts of mascara and eyeshadow and the purple lipstick, it was obvious they just took in two new Goths to the family. (I kinda took the hair idea and the look, from the design of Risty but just switch the colours around and changed the design slightly, you know.)
Then Betsy felt pressure on her leg and she crouched down, picking up her black Labrador puppy that had jumped up and placed its front paws on Betsy's leg; begging to be picked up. Betsy turned her dog so it was facing her and she held it by the sides, lifting the puppy so that Betsy held it face to face, admiring the plain dark purple collar around its neck, before she kissed it on the nose and put her dog back on the ground.
"Hi, I'm Betsy, and this is Lorna, Polaris and Psylocke," everyone looked around in confusion for the two other people mentioned and Betsy rolled her eyes. This time she indicated to the dogs, pointing at Lorna's dog "this is Polaris," pointing at her own dog "and this is Psylocke." (So sorry! I really couldn't resist!)
Raven's eyes widened further and she clutched at her chest, "you have dogs!"
Lorna rolled her eyes, "uh yeh, that's what they're called…" Lorna perked an eyebrow at Raven who nodded and then turned to her husband, whispering in his ear.
"Not dogs, I can't handle dogs; they'll ruin the house!"
"Calm down darling, they'll be fine." Turning back to the girls with a smile Eric looked down at the dogs, "are they house trained?"
"Yup, my luv is completely carpet friendly and so is Polaris," giving an 100Watt smile, Betsy picked up her dog again and then turned to the cars, "I'm sure your boys wouldn't mind taking our stuff for us? It's a bit heavy," Betsy gave Lorna a secretive smirk that Pietro didn't notice, and instead he accepted the challenge.
"Whatever; nothing I can't handle," he turned to Kurt with raised eyebrows, "come on Geekazoid."
Entrance Hall"Nice place you got here," Lorna placed Polaris on the floor and the dog began sniffing around, joined quickly by Psylocke who bounded around happily; investigating every corner possible, occasionally sliding on the floor. Looking towards Raven, who was watching the dogs suspiciously, Lorna smirked. "Polar; that's his nickname, is a boy, and Psy, that's her nickname, is a girl," she laughed as Raven looked like she was going to faint and followed Rogue into the living room, turning back to Raven, "sorry, did I say boy? I meant girls: they're both girls; Polar is a she, not a he."
Raven sighed and leant against her husband, "thank god!"
Both girls were followed by their dogs and Psy bounded around the living room, whilst Polar kept her nose to the ground; sniffing about and occasionally turning around with her nose still on the ground, moving back to an area to sniff it again before she moved on. Betsy turned around hearing complaining and watched as Pietro lugged her massive suitcase into the hall, leaning against a wall to take a rest.
"What the hell is in here!"
Wanda and Rogue laughed with Betsy and Lorna, "clothes ya dumb ass."
"Language!" the word was only hissed in Rogue's ear, but it was just as loud and Rogue shut up immediately, but she resumed her language as Raven and Eric went to their bedroom, both Rogue and Wanda taking the fellow Goths on a grand tour of the house.
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Friday Afternoon; Maximoff Household, Living Room; 5:00pmWanda sat one the sofa with one leg crossed over the other, leaning against the back of the sofa as she controlled her racer with a single finger on the steering pad, smirking whilst she made a sharp turn to make her car do a stylish doughnut over the finish line. "I win again," turning to smirk at Rogue, Wanda was ignored and once again Rogue started another game. She sat forward, her shoulders hunched as she leaned into the TV; leaning with the car as it steered around corners, her hair was everywhere form the amount of twisting she had done and Wanda could tell she was concentrating hard, because she could see the tip of Rogue's tongue poking out of her mouth as she raced.
With a sneaky peek at Wanda, Rogue turned back to the game and veered the steering control suddenly, laughing as her car smashed into Wanda's; hurling it out of the race track and Rogue sped over the finish line with her own, scruffy doughnut. "Ah win."
"Hey, you cheater!" Wanda scowled at Rogue who just carried on laughing before she jumped on her and tackled her on the sofa.
"When tha tables ahre turned against ya, turn them so they're fohr ya…whethah cheating is involved is a different storah. Besahdes; ah didn't cheat, ah just accidentally smashed inta yahre car." Rogue fought back and laughed again as Wanda's shriek echoed around the room: Rogue had just ruined her hair.
Wanda growled, flattening her hair as she made to stand up as the doorbell rang, "accidentally my ass," but no sooner had she taken a step then Rogue had pushed herself so she was standing on the sofa and she jumped over it, running ahead of Wanda.
"AH GOT IT!"
"YOU COULD OF SAID SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO GET UP, BITCH!"
"WANDA MAXMIMOFF; YOU WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE YOUNG LADY."
Rogue laughed as she ran to the door, being accompanied by Polar and Psy who bounded ahead of her, both of them putting their feet up onto the door until Rogue had turned the handle and swung it open. She perked an eyebrow at the empty gap in the door but just as she was about to close it again someone stepped out, "'ello Cherie."
Jumping a mile backwards, Rogue clutched at her chest, the fact she was surprised wasn't helped by Polar and Psy who were both barking loudly, "GAH! OH MA GAWD! YA SCARED THA SHIT OUTA MEH!"
"LANGUAGE ROGUE!"
"Yeh Rogue," Wanda laughed as she joined Rogue but the door but only received a light punch in the shoulder in response, so inevitably she punched back and got a shove in the chest that she gladly returned. The play-fight could have lasted a while longer if Remy hadn't cleared his throat, drawing attention to himself. "What!"
Raven appeared on the stairs and scowled, ringing the flannel she held in her hands, "don't be so rude to guests Wanda!"
The girl in question rolled her eyes and managed to speak politely enough through gritted teeth, "how can I help you."
"It helps if y' don' speak through y' teeth Rouge (red,)" Remy turned back to Rogue, "Pietro in?"
"Hey Remy, wassup?" Pietro walked over to the door and both he and Remy hit their knuckles together and clapped each other on the back.
"Y' wanna come t' de park et get de ol' soccer ball up et runnin?"
Descending the last step, Raven smiled at Remy, "he'll be coming out in a minute; he just needs to tidy his room up a bit," her frown landed on Pietro who looked shiftily at his feet, "now." After watching his son run off she gestured to Rogue and Wanda, "why don't you accompany these two back to the living room? Girls," her voice growled menacingly at the girls, "be nice to our guest."
The girls were silent as they led Remy to the living room, ignoring the Cajun who stooped down to pat both dogs on the head as Psy jumped at his legs and as Polar sniffed his shoes cautiously.
A chair sat around unoccupied and Remy took it, immediately being climbed on by Psy, watching as Rogue and Wanda resumed their game but not before chucking him a packet of crisps and introducing a him to a book on vampires that soon lowered to reveal a girl sitting with a frown behind it, "Remy this is Lorna and Lorna this is Remy."
She eyed him suspiciously, "hi…" and her book only went back up to cover her face after she had picked up Polar and sat the dog on her lap and after Remy had replied.
Remy sat watching the game and playing with Psy until he felt another presence entering the room and he turned, expecting to find Pietro but his smile faltered when a girl walked in, although it did light up again as he took in her body structure, 'nice tits…and one hell of a nice ass.' He watched it as the girl headed to Wanda and Rogue, still unnoticed by either of them; "HEY LUVS!" Her shout was followed by two shrieks and the lowering of Lorna's book, but Psylocke was a bit more enthusiastic, barking madly and jumping off of Remy's lap to bound over to her owner, who picked the dog up and patted her head.
"Don't do that ta meh!"
Betsy laughed at Rogue's response and jumped over the sofa, plonking herself between Wanda and Rogue with Psy, and Lorna's book once again lifted up to reveal her dog and to hide her face, "how could I resist luv? Besides, you deserved it: you nicked all the crisps," she patted her stomach as it growled, "gotta stop me luv from complaining."
Her smile was 100Watt as Rogue and Wanda gave her equally frightening glares but they quickly shoved a packed of crisps in her lap and continued the game. But it was when Betsy had to reach up to catch the crisps, which Rogue seemed to be aiming for above Betsy's head and out of the door, that she noticed Remy and she caught the crisps before standing up to walk over to him, "well, well, now who are you?"
"Betsy, do him a favour and leave him be."
"Why would I wanna leave such a cutie alone, luvs?" Betsy let out a laugh that rang sweetly in Remy's ears and it had the effect it always did on guys, one minute they were looking at her and the next their eyes were attached to her. She ran a finger softly down Remy's cheek and lifted his chin up so he was gazing at her face, not her chest…although, this being Betsy and all; she was used to it, "what's your name cutie."
"Remy this is our cousin Betsy ahn Betsy this is Remy; he's one of Pietro's jock friends come to play soccer with him," the words had the effect Rogue wanted; no Goth was going to fall for a jock, and Betsy proved this by releasing his chin reluctantly.
With a sigh Betsy got up and plonked herself back on the sofa, turning to Wanda, "but he doesn't look like a jock…"
"Remy take dat as a compliment."
The Cajun was ignored and Betsy continued, "and he doesn't sound or speak like one…he sounds like a Cajun!" The word was spoken with enthusiasm and accompanied with a dreamy sigh, but luckily for the other Goths it was at that moment Pietro returned and no one felt any need to respond.
"Come on Remy, lets go play some soccer," Pietro rolled his eyes as his mother entered the room, giving a suggestion as she did, and with a sigh he complied, "fine; do any of you girls want to play soccer?"
Rogue just shook her head without bothering to turn from the TV, and Wanda's answer was rushed as she kept her eyes frozen to the screen, "John's gonna be here soon: hates soccer; hates you Pietro, so no."
"Wanda! Don't be so rude, your brother was just trying to be polite, Betsy, Lorna?" Betsy turned and Lorna removed her book, "would you like to?"
Lorna's answer was to simply put up her book to hide Raven but Betsy just gave her most charming smile, 'well, if you can't date 'em, who says you can't play with 'em?' "is that like football?"
"Oui, mais der be a few different rules Chere," Remy's answer was accompanied with a charming smile of his own that made Betsy's heart flutter, but only due to the fact he'd had years of practice with it.
Innocently devilish; that was the only word to describe Betsy's next smile, "I hated football so I'd hate that…so no." she turned to the TV and ignored Pietro's scoffing.
"Football? We're in America not England," he muttered it quietly and to Remy but the comment still received a frown from his step-mother, "well I'll c'ya later then mum; got my mobile on me if ya wanna call." He put up a hand to say goodbye and steered Remy from the room, not even letting him say goodbye; much to Rogue's thanks.
End of ChapterSo…the girls have been introduced! I hope those links helped as well, if not just tell me on a review and I'll try to give you it again. I hope you like Betsy, Lorna and their dogs, I really couldn't resist with the names; Polar and Psy! What am I like! I hope you liked! Keep the reviews rolling and I'll keep the stories running! I'm gonna be cheeky now and say when I get 5 reviews I'll start on chapter 3…I just cant stand that BIG number on the "hits" column, and like, so few compared to it on my "reviews" column. Is that a deal, or is it a deal? LOL. .x.Thrills.x.