Time Alone Together
Title: Time Alone Together
Words: 1,000
Verse: Comic Verse with a Twist
Community Prompt: xmen100
He held her close, just like he had held her so many times before. She could feel his arms around her, could feel his heartbeat against her back. She turned, so that she could wrap her arms around him and snuggle against him.
"I've missed this," she whispered
"As have I, Katya," he responded.
"What took us so long to find our way back?"
He chuckled softly. "Stubbornness, timing and an incredible lack of maturity until now?"
She huffed. "I have always been very mature."
His voice sobered. "I was talking more of myself, sweetheart."
Kitty shook her head. "No, Peter. It takes two to make it work." Sometimes three or four or more, she thought as she remembered the "advice" she had been given recently by everyone around her lately. There were several minutes of silence. "Piotr? What are you thinking about? Your muscles suddenly got very tense."
There were several more minutes of silence. "Katya, are you still angry at me for beating your last boyfriend to within an inch of his life?" Peter finally asked her.
Of everything that she had thought he would say, she certainly hadn't been expecting that. She turned in his arms so that she was staring into his eyes. She could see the pain and the worry hidden in the depths of the eyes she had loved looking into so much all of those years ago. She lay her hand alongside his face and shook her head. "I’m not angry, honestly, I wasn't that angry to begin with. You weren't yourself, and you thought you were protecting me."
"I was jealous."
"You were in love." She smiled. "Peter, the two of us have been through so much, both together and apart. We're heroes, and we're hunted. I would be foolish to hold such a grudge. We never know what tomorrow brings, whether we will live or we will die. That is the life we choose to live. After everything I've seen, I've been through, I'm not about to waste this chance we have by looking back and being hurt or angry."
"What did you ever see in him, Kitty?" he asked the question that had been gnawing at him for so long. The idea of his Cat with that stupid, slimy and arrogant Englishman made him want to break something. He looked at her seriously and again marveled at this second--or was it third--chance he had been given to hold this woman he loved close to his heart. "I mean, I know it's not really my business, but I love you. I have always loved you and seeing you with someone who was so unworthy of you was hard."
"Piotr, out of everyone, you have more right to ask that question than anyone." Kitty sighed and looked down for a few moments.
He lifted her chin up so he could look into her eyes, "Katya, dear one, you don't have to answer that question. I'm just glad to have another chance to hold you... to love you."
She smiled softly at him and then looked away. "Pete Wisdom was everything I hated. He was arrogant, irritating, and he was involved with people that I had been trained to fight. However, there were times that he was such a sweet and loving man." She sighed and looked at him. "There were other times that I was tempted to phase him somewhere and leave him. Still, we might have made a stronger go of it, but..."
"But?"
"He couldn't handle you still being in my life." She sighed. "If there is something that I feel very strongly about, and that I have learned during my time as an X-Man and a member of Excalibur, is that you don't let someone tell you who you can be friends with." She touched Peter's cheek. "And no one was going to get away with telling me that you had to go."
"Kitty..."
"No, love, I need to tell you all of this, or I might never have the courage to do so. I love you. I don't know if I've made it clear to you how much. My feelings are so intense and they terrify me. Sometimes I want to run away and hide because my feelings are so strong. They frighten me because I've never felt this way before---not until I met you. My blood and my soul sing when you hold me close. My heart sobs when you're not with me. I know that you're not a believer in happily ever after. I also know that you have a practical feeling about the duration and ending of relationships. How can you not after everything we have been through and seen? I'm afraid if I tell you things like: You're my sun or You're the air I breathe it will make you worry or panic about the idea of a stronger commitment. But I am not about to let another minute go by without telling you how I feel. I love you, I need you, I want you."
There were tears shining in Peter's eyes when Kitty stopped speaking. In embarrassment, Kitty tried to slide off the bed and away from him, but he wouldn’t let her. He drew her back to him and held her close. He cleared his throat and lifted her face to meet her eyes.
"Katya, you're not the only one that is terrified of the intensity of the feelings between us. You're right, I'm not a believer in happily ever after, but you give me a reason to have hope for the existence of such a thing. Neither one of us know where this may go or how long it will last between us. I'm willing to try and to ride out whatever gets sent our way."
"Peter, are you sure?"
"Kitty, I saw what my life was without you in it, and I hated it. I don't want to ever know that feeling again. I love you."
Words: 1,000
Verse: Comic Verse with a Twist
Community Prompt: xmen100
He held her close, just like he had held her so many times before. She could feel his arms around her, could feel his heartbeat against her back. She turned, so that she could wrap her arms around him and snuggle against him.
"I've missed this," she whispered
"As have I, Katya," he responded.
"What took us so long to find our way back?"
He chuckled softly. "Stubbornness, timing and an incredible lack of maturity until now?"
She huffed. "I have always been very mature."
His voice sobered. "I was talking more of myself, sweetheart."
Kitty shook her head. "No, Peter. It takes two to make it work." Sometimes three or four or more, she thought as she remembered the "advice" she had been given recently by everyone around her lately. There were several minutes of silence. "Piotr? What are you thinking about? Your muscles suddenly got very tense."
There were several more minutes of silence. "Katya, are you still angry at me for beating your last boyfriend to within an inch of his life?" Peter finally asked her.
Of everything that she had thought he would say, she certainly hadn't been expecting that. She turned in his arms so that she was staring into his eyes. She could see the pain and the worry hidden in the depths of the eyes she had loved looking into so much all of those years ago. She lay her hand alongside his face and shook her head. "I’m not angry, honestly, I wasn't that angry to begin with. You weren't yourself, and you thought you were protecting me."
"I was jealous."
"You were in love." She smiled. "Peter, the two of us have been through so much, both together and apart. We're heroes, and we're hunted. I would be foolish to hold such a grudge. We never know what tomorrow brings, whether we will live or we will die. That is the life we choose to live. After everything I've seen, I've been through, I'm not about to waste this chance we have by looking back and being hurt or angry."
"What did you ever see in him, Kitty?" he asked the question that had been gnawing at him for so long. The idea of his Cat with that stupid, slimy and arrogant Englishman made him want to break something. He looked at her seriously and again marveled at this second--or was it third--chance he had been given to hold this woman he loved close to his heart. "I mean, I know it's not really my business, but I love you. I have always loved you and seeing you with someone who was so unworthy of you was hard."
"Piotr, out of everyone, you have more right to ask that question than anyone." Kitty sighed and looked down for a few moments.
He lifted her chin up so he could look into her eyes, "Katya, dear one, you don't have to answer that question. I'm just glad to have another chance to hold you... to love you."
She smiled softly at him and then looked away. "Pete Wisdom was everything I hated. He was arrogant, irritating, and he was involved with people that I had been trained to fight. However, there were times that he was such a sweet and loving man." She sighed and looked at him. "There were other times that I was tempted to phase him somewhere and leave him. Still, we might have made a stronger go of it, but..."
"But?"
"He couldn't handle you still being in my life." She sighed. "If there is something that I feel very strongly about, and that I have learned during my time as an X-Man and a member of Excalibur, is that you don't let someone tell you who you can be friends with." She touched Peter's cheek. "And no one was going to get away with telling me that you had to go."
"Kitty..."
"No, love, I need to tell you all of this, or I might never have the courage to do so. I love you. I don't know if I've made it clear to you how much. My feelings are so intense and they terrify me. Sometimes I want to run away and hide because my feelings are so strong. They frighten me because I've never felt this way before---not until I met you. My blood and my soul sing when you hold me close. My heart sobs when you're not with me. I know that you're not a believer in happily ever after. I also know that you have a practical feeling about the duration and ending of relationships. How can you not after everything we have been through and seen? I'm afraid if I tell you things like: You're my sun or You're the air I breathe it will make you worry or panic about the idea of a stronger commitment. But I am not about to let another minute go by without telling you how I feel. I love you, I need you, I want you."
There were tears shining in Peter's eyes when Kitty stopped speaking. In embarrassment, Kitty tried to slide off the bed and away from him, but he wouldn’t let her. He drew her back to him and held her close. He cleared his throat and lifted her face to meet her eyes.
"Katya, you're not the only one that is terrified of the intensity of the feelings between us. You're right, I'm not a believer in happily ever after, but you give me a reason to have hope for the existence of such a thing. Neither one of us know where this may go or how long it will last between us. I'm willing to try and to ride out whatever gets sent our way."
"Peter, are you sure?"
"Kitty, I saw what my life was without you in it, and I hated it. I don't want to ever know that feeling again. I love you."