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"No, I have the money, don't worry about it" insisted Pietro as he guided Andie to a table in a cosy Italian restaurant, his arm around her waist.
"Ok, but I can't contribute to the bill. And I did suggest take-away" warned Andie. Pietro rolled his eyes.
"I really do have money" reassured Pietro in his smooth tone, "the real question is, do you have a place to stay tonight?"
"Not really" Andie stuttered nervously.
"Stay with me tonight then. I have my own hotel room, we can open a bottle of wine, watch a movie, you know, just some fun stuff" offered Pietro, thickly laying on the charm.
"Alright, but just tonight" replied Andie, hoping Pietro didn't expect too much of her.

Andie swirled her fork through a bowl of creamy pasta. She looked up at Pietro and saw him quickly glance away, he had been staring at her.
"I was wondering" began Andie, "what brings you to Denver in the first place?"
"You know, the usual. Magneto sent me to check out that lab the X-Men hit, you know, see if there really was mutants locked in there. Now I'm just waiting here until he asks me to come meet him, or to go somewhere else." Pietro nonchalantly replied. Everything he said was spoken very quickly.
"That' the usual?" scoffed Andie.
"For me it is" he said, looking into Andie's eyes, "What brings a pretty girl like you here?"

Andie rolled her eyes. She very much doubted she looked good after her long day, but secretly glowed from the compliment.
"Similar to you. I was living in Santa Fe for a bit, end of my lease, I was getting a little bored when I saw a 'Breaking News Story' about a lab in Denver. It looked like X-Men stuff, and I wanted to check it out." Andie suddenly realised that this was the first real conversation she'd had in the 3 months since her brief trip to the Institute. She had never spoken deeply with her fellow ice-cream shop employees, and she had no other friends in Santa Fe.

Pietro smiled at her.
"How do you know about the X-Men?" Pietro asked her, his tone a little sharper.
"I lived at the Institute" Pietro raised his eyebrows as though he didn't believe her. "Yep, really I did, for less than 48 hours before I ran."
Pietro laughed in reply. "I know the X-Men pretty well. I went to the same high school as most of them". Now it was Andie's turn to laugh.
"I can't imagine any of you in high school" she replied.
"Yeah, well, times have changed" sighed Pietro.
"That they have".

Andie and Pietro walked arm-in-arm back towards the hotel where Pietro was staying.
"Actually, tell me what the address is and I'll drive there. I have to grab my car" Andie remembered.
"Oh, it hadn't occurred to me that you drove here, I assumed you, I dunno, teleported or ran or whatever you did at the lab" said Pietro, a little unsure, "I suppose I'll get some provisions for tonight then".

Pietro wrote the hotel's address on a slip of paper and handed it to Andie. As they walked off in their separate directions, Pietro turned to watch Andie. She was pulling her coat tighter around her shoulders as she sped up into a jog. It occurred to Pietro that she might not come to the hotel, she might just leave. Pietro decided that he shouldn't tell Magneto abut Andie coming into his life just yet. Meanwhile, Andie shivered as she began to shuffle towards her car. What provisions could he possibly need? she wondered.

Andie knocked on the door of Apartment 201. She looked around nervously, hoping this was the right room. Pietro ran to the door and looked through the peep-hole to see Andie. He swung the door open with great enthusiasm and speed, as well as a look of relief on his face.
"Hello" stammered Andie.
"Come in, come in" replied Pietro, taking her bag and ushering her into the room. His room was a studio apartment, one large room with a small kitchen in one corner and a bed in another, a couch in the third corner, and a small separate bathroom in the last.
"Bed or couch?" called Pietro.

"Couch. You take the bed, you're the one paying for this place" replied Andie. Pietro dropped the red bag on the couch and jumped backwards onto the bed with a smirk. He rolled over to the bedside table and grabbed some DVD's as Andie sat down awkwardly on the couch. He waved the DVD's around in his hands, indicating for Andie to choose one.
"Troy. I love that movie" Andie beamed. Pietro nodded his head,
"Troy it is, then". He pushed the DVD into the side of the TV and got it ready to play. He hadn't really cared what they watched.

"Can I offer you a drink and a snack?" asked Pietro, oozing fake charm as he played the ultimate host.
"Sure" Andie replied absent-mindedly, her gaze fixed on the television screen. She felt the couch sink down as Pietro sat next to her. He carefully placed a tray of food and drinks on the floor in front of them and carefully handed Andie a tall glass of red wine.

Andie was a little unsure and surprised. She hadn't drunk wine before. She'd only ever drunk with her friends at parties, and it had always been cheap Vodka mixes. Pietro grabbed a beer off the tray and turned to Andie,
"Cheers" offered Pietro. Andie smiled at him as they clinked glasses.

After the tall glass of wine, Andie was quite relaxed. Her anxious thoughts slowed. She reached into her mind to seek out the comforting and familiar presence of time energy. She felt it's all-consuming and felt grounded in reality. She blinked a few times as she came back to reality and realised that Pietro was staring at her.
"Why did your eyes just glow?" he asked her, his voice soft and kind, "Is that part of your mutation?"
"I'm not sure. I didn't realise my eyes did that. It must happen whenever I scan through time."
"Time?" questioned Pietro, leaning closer, intrigued by her powers.
"It's time energy, it's kind of like a rush of blue flame. It's like I can see the timeline of everything in my head, but, If I want to find a really precise moment in the timeline, I kind of 'zoom in' and the energy becomes kind of a halo around me", she explained.

"I can run and think at superhuman speeds" Pietro stated. It wasn't to compete with her powers, he just wanted her to know. "I can run up walls, and across water" he continued. Andie nodded. Pietro was the first mutant she had willingly told her powers too (without later turning back time to undo it).
"The reason I left the Xavier Institute wasn't because the people were evil or anything like that, it's because I lied about my powers. I let them believe I used teleportation and telekinesis. I wore foil-lined hats to protect my thoughts and my true nature. But, that got old pretty quickly, Charles found out, and I ran. Here I am, 3 months later."
"They wouldn't have understood anyway" consoled Pietro. He hated the X-Men for making Andie feel she needed to hide who she was.

Andie was near the end of her second glass of wine. She placed it on the carpet near her feet and leant back in her chair, stretching up towards the ceiling. Pietro watched her, his eyes widening as her sweater lifted to reveal a toned expanse of stomach. She turned and smiled at him as she settled back onto the couch. Andie eyes once again locked onto the television screen, and Pietro took the chance to shuffle his hand over to caress her leg. He gently ran his hand over her knee and up her thigh, where he began to lightly draw patterns with his fingers. Andie glanced down at Pietro's hand, and then awkwardly back at the television, her body stiff.

Pietro leaned back into the couch and reached his arm around the back of it, ready to put it around Andie's shoulders when she came closer. The room grew colder quickly as the night grew darker. Andie (who was acutely aware that she could reverse a bad decision), decided to take a chance and snuggle up to Pietro. She shuffled her butt along he velvet couch pillows and leaned her body against his. Pietro wrapped his arm around her shoulders as they both slowly relaxed into the position, thankful for the extra warmth it brought. Andie felt happiness spread throughout her being. She hadn't been close or had human contact of a meaningful sort in so long. She craved human touch.

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Also... I'm thinking about doing a Pietro x Andie smut chapter next, but if people don't want that, I'll just move along with the story. Let me know.