"That is so weird…" Caitlin muttered over Kitty's shoulder.
"I know, right?" the other brunette replied as she browsed on her laptop. "Look at this one!"
"Wow, okay that's not anything I'd have ever imagined."
"But now you can't get it out of your head."
"Dammit. Yes. And now I have to read it."
Rebecca put her book down with an irritated huff. "What are the two of you discussing?" she asked querulously.
"This site here…" Caitlin murmured distractedly. "It's… Okay, so it's a bunch of people who write stories, right? Only, they're based on superheroes and the like."
"They are fictional representations?" Rebecca got up from her perch on the bed, suddenly interested.
"Yeah, but the biggest category is pairings," Kitty snickered. "It's huge, thousands of stories."
"Thousands?"
"Here, take a look," Caitlin offered, scooting over so that Rebecca could lean in over Kitty's other shoulder.
Rebecca's eyebrows furrowed as she read some of the titles and summaries listed on the page. "Captain America and Wolverine?" she murmured, confused. "Spider-Man and the Hulk? I do not understand…"
"They're pairings," Kitty explained gently. "As in, couples? Stories about, um, hook-ups…?"
Rebecca still looked at the screen blankly. Caitlin giggled slightly. "Becca, they're sex stories."
"Oh," the redheaded girl said, and then her eyes widened. "Oh! I see. So… this one is about Iron Man and War Machine having… sex?"
"Yep, pretty much. Oooh, check this one out, Wanda and Natasha and Jean Grey. I might have to read that…" Caitlin chuckled lightly. "Oh, um…"
"Does that one say, Falcon and Hulk?" Rebecca asked quietly.
"Yeah, Becca. Yeah, it does."
The petite redhead blinked her eyes, turned, and walked back over to her book again. "I am no longer interested in continuing this exploration," she declared firmly.
"I don't even get how that would work, anyway," Kitty mused. "I mean, Hulk is… well, you know…"
"Big?"
"Yeah."
"And now you can't stop thinking about it."
"Oh, hush," Kitty giggled.
"Do you think you're in there?" Caitlin asked with a grin.
"Me?" Kitty squeaked. "What? No, I couldn't possibly…"
"There's a search box."
"No. I'm not looking."
"Kitty…"
"No."
"You know you wanna."
"No, I really don't."
"I'm gonna look when I get back to my room, so you might as well look now."
"Kitty, you may as well humor her," Rebecca commented, her nose once again buried in her book. "She will not leave it alone otherwise."
"See?" Caitlin chuckled.
"Oh, fine…" Kitty tapped a few keys. "There, nothing."
"You used your given name. Try Shadowcat."
"Okay, and then we're done… Oh. Oh, my."
"Wow, so someone actually wrote a Shadowcat and Colossus pairing?"
"Yes. Yes they did."
"Are you blushing, Kitty?"
"No. And shut up."
"Are you going to look?"
"I'm… Fine. Just a peek."
The pair of girls were silent for a span of a few minutes, long enough to make Rebecca look up in concern. Both Caitlin and Kitty were staring at the laptop screen with their mouths slightly agape.
The redhead rolled her eyes and got to her feet once more. "That cannot possibly be as enrapturing… as…" Her eyes widened as she began to read over their shoulders. "Is that possible?"
"Technically? Yeah," Caitlin replied softly.
"How?"
"Well, Kitty would have to very, very flexible."
"I can be flexible," Kitty whispered.
The two sisters turned to regard the brightly blushing girl sitting between them.
"Do you need a moment, Kitty?" Caitlin snickered. "Perhaps we should give you some time alone?"
"I'm… No, no, it's quite alright." Her hand snaked out to hit a quick combination of keys. A small notification popped up in the corner of the screen to indicate the page had been bookmarked. "Ahem. Let's just go back to the main page again."
"Do you suppose Caitlin would be in there?" Rebecca mused.
Her sister looked at her askance. "Why would I be? Nobody knows me."
"But you have been active with both the Avengers and the X-Men. Surely some have heard of your exploits." Rebecca offered her a very small smirk.
"Becca, you're a devious girl," Kitty proclaimed. "Knew I liked you." She began to type in the search box. "Okay, bunch of results for Cat, but nothing that has you that I can see… wonder if we use Caitlin… Oh."
The three girls stared at the screen in perplexion.
"Why is my name on there?" Rebecca asked quietly.
"It's… It's…" Caitlin sputtered. "Really? They paired us? We're sisters, for God's sake!"
"I don't think that matters much to whoever wrote it," Kitty laughed.
"Caitlin, do you notice the author's name?" Rebecca asked, her eyes glittering dangerously.
"Pyro_is_da_man... Oh, he is dead," Caitlin declared with a growl. "Very, very dead. C'mon, Becca, we need to pay Johnny a visit…"
Kitty waved merrily as the pair stormed out of the room. "Don't kill him too badly!" she called out cheerfully. She turned back to the laptop again, her hand poised over the mouse.
"Should I…?" she pondered, regarding the Caitlin and Rebecca story. "Nah." A couple of mouse clicks brought her bookmarks up and she pulled the previous story up once more.
With a dreamy look in her eyes, she began to read again, a soft sigh falling from her lips as she squirmed slightly in her chair.
