All That They Needed (Part One)
Title: All That They Needed
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Pairing: Laura Kinney (X-23)/Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
Rating: T-M
Summary: There were a lot of reasons why Pietro and Laura shouldn't have gotten together, but all they needed were the few reasons to stay together.
Notes: This has to be the crackiest pairing I have ever stanned for. They never even met each other in the show! I don't know I even get into these pairings.
It really started with that one night.
“Who are you?”
The question was mostly just to stall, until Wanda came, or until Lance woke up. And they both knew that. She didn't grin, or laugh at the question. Eyes red, deep frown, she only growled. Then she launched herself on him. Pietro did the only thing he could do. He ran. He didn't go far, he wanted her to go after him. The others was still knocked out. There was no doubt in his mind about her intentions. She was going to kill them.
He was in the forest, leaning against a tree, trying calm himself. He was no good if he was panicking. He could hear her coming. She was quiet, trying to sneak up on him, but Pietro could hear her. If he lived through this, he told himself, he would thank Mystique and his dad for the training.
The rain was pouring harder then, beating down his bare back and soaking his pajama pants. He wondered how long it would take 'till morning came. He wondered if the other's were up yet. He wondered why she was coming after him, who sent her and why. The Brotherhood has been good. They've been under the radar. There was no reason for anyone to come after them now. Then the first hit came.
Pietro barely missed it. Her claws grazed his chest. Two slashes on his chest, a stinging sensation starting from the cuts then surging through his body. His arms automatically went to cover the wound on his chest in an attempt to stop the blood from coming out. And that's when she pounced on him. One hand was on his neck, and Pietro opened his mouth to get some air in. The only thing he got was rainwater. He heard the snikt of her claws, recognizing the sound from somewhere, from someone, and closed his eyes, waiting for the end to come for him.
Nothing happened.
The hand on his neck suddenly loosened and he could hear those claws re-enter. The weight of the girl shifted from his chest to the lower part of his stomach, Pietro cringed as this happened. Pietro started coughing; the water from the rain was getting stuck in his throat. Started coughing harder. It hurt to cough and both the weight on his stomach, the rain that was beating down on him was not helping.
The weight left him completely, and Pietro could feel the girl sit him up. There was one hand beating on his back and one hand on his chest, holding him up. It hurt, the hands on his wounds and the beating on his back, but it was effectively getting the water out of his throat.
That was the first time he met her. They spent about ten minutes sitting out there in the rain as Pietro coughed. She sat there, rubbing his back, trying to calm him down. He remembered that neither of them said anything and he still remembered the throbbing pain coming from his chest. And that was when Wanda and the other's came looking for him, she left.
The second time the two met was about a few months after their first encounter. Pietro was sitting on the porch of the boarding house, waiting for his sister to come back from her first date with that crazy red-headed Aussie. Enough time spent with Wanda taught Pietro that his twin was more than capable of taking care of herself but that didn't stop him from worrying. Especially since he spent enough time with those Acolytes to know just how they operated. He saw her from the corner of his eyes, staring at her. Didn't say anything. There was nothing to say to her. Nothing polite anyway.
She was hiding behind a tree, but Pietro knew she was watching the place for longer than that. Could tell that she wanted him to see her too. She started walking towards him, and the only thing he could do was tense up, get ready to run, in case she decided to attack him again. Forced himself to at least relax when she sat down next to him. If the girl wanted to kill him, she would have done it long before that.
He couldn't bring himself to look at her. Not even when she laid her hand on his chest. instead, he placed his hand on top of hers, pressing his thumbs against her knuckles. The small pinch he felt on his thumb confirmed the one thought he had about her. Then did he look at her.
"X-23."
"Not any more. Laura."
Pietro nodded, looked away from her, and released her hand. Felt the warmth of her hand as she laid it on his chest again.
"Doesn't hurt any more, if you're wondering," his voice was barely a whisper.
"I don't even remember doing it..."
"Then how did you even..."
"Kitty."
Another nod. They spent that time just sitting there, staring at the wind pick up the leaves and the sun set. The sun was just over the horizon when Pietro had let out a sigh.
“She's not coming...”
“Who?”
“My sister...”
“That's bad?”
“She's on a date.”
“Oh.”
Pietro looked over at Laura, taking in her features. When he first saw her, she looked so angry... so wild. Here she was, with the calmest look on her face. Hair flying a bit in the wind, Pietro wondered if it was as soft as it looked. The first time he saw her, her eyes were so hard, and angry. She was literally seeing red. The eyes Pietro saw that day were just relaxing. That first time he met her, the only feeling she gave him was fear, curiosity, and anger. Now the only thing that was left was the curiosity. Why was she here? She locked eyes with him at that last thought. And these piercing green eyes stayed on icy blue ones. And the only thing that Pietro could think of was of how beautiful he thought those eyes were.
0o0o0
There were other times when the two bumped into each other after that day. Like those times when Lance dragged Pietro and Toad to the mall when he and Kitty got into some stupid fight - though he made up some bull on how he needed new socks... God, he was such a bad actor - and they would, for some strange reason, bump into Kitty with a few other of the other institute kids, one of them being Laura. While Lance and Kitty argued, Pietro and Laura would have a small conversation.
And when Mystique came back with the Acolytes, the Brotherhood saw a lot more of the X- Men. Pietro learned that Laura didn't really fight up to her full potential on these fights. She really just sat back and watched the two teams fight. Pietro, after a while, started following her example. And then she started visiting him more often. As in going to the boarding house, and staying a while.
And that freaked the X-men out. The brotherhood were much more... tolerant. What with Kitty getting back together with Lance and Rogue flirting with Gambit and being friends with Wanda. Hell, even Pietro and Wanda's dad was considering joining up with the X-men. The problem was that even though the X-men wanted unity, they only wanted people to unite with them. Stuck up pricks.
Laura didn't mind. Because Wolverine didn't care (or didn't show it). That relaxed Pietro enough. Laura may be younger than Kitty and Rogue, but she was a whole lot smarter than the both of them. Laura came over after school, watched TV with Pietro and Lance until Kitty came and dragged the earth shaker away. Pietro and Laura would spend that time talking. About everything and anything. Pietro loved it; those were the most interesting conversations that he ever had. Sometimes Wanda and John would join and if the conversation was really good, so would Gambit and Piotr. By then, Rogue would have came to pick up Laura and Kitty but she would end up staying longer than intended, courtesy of Gambit. That left a lot more time that Pietro spent with Laura.
When winter time came around, Pietro was just escatic. Most of the X-men would have left the institute to visit family. Wanda would go with John to the small apartment that he had rented, Gambit would have went down to New Orleans or something but this time he stayed around. Toad and Freddy disappeared somewhere and Lance had left for business or something (probably had nothing better to do but didn't want to stay here). That just left Pietro and Gambit at the place. When the break from school came, both men had been visited by Laura and Rogue.
“Had no place ta go,” said the Rogue.
They spent that time just watching movies, joking around, and playing cards. Wasn't that fun. Pietro had found that Remy was an exceptional cook and that he had enough talent that he didn't even need to cheat, that Rogue was an extremely good dancer and was just good a thief as the Cajun. And that Laura could speak Romanian along with over 50 languages.
Wanda could only speak fragments of Romanian. Enough to cuss a person out and find out where the bathroom is. Magneto retained a lot of the Romanian language as well as Pietro, but both never really bothered to use it as much. Nobody to talk to with it.
The two X-girls decided to stay for one weekend before deciding to return back to the institute. Neither men complained. Remy had the idea of going out Christmas shopping, and they all agreed. They all went to the mall then the two Southerners ditched Pietro and Laura.
“I'm hungry,” Pietro muttered.
“Then you should eat,” was Laura's reply.
“I don't like mall food.”
Laura looked over at Pietro, Pietro just avoided her gaze. She had this really irritating way of threatening the speedster with just one look. It was like Wanda's except for it was scarier. With him not looking at Laura, he didn't see her hand stretch out to grab his. She yanked at his arm, leading him to food court.
“Hey!” came Pietro's startled shout, a few people passing by looked at the couple.
“Come on, I'll even pay,” Laura grinned.
“I eat a lot,” Pietro couldn't help but say.
“So does Kurt.”
The amount of money spent that day was a little over $500. Turns out Laura was pretty loaded. And Pietro ate more than Kurt. They had gotten presents for people in the institute, the Brotherhood and a few others. Laura had asked Pietro to take her to Hell's Kitchen to deliver one of the presents. Pietro had met the guy once before, but from where he couldn't remember. Then she asked to go to the X-District to deliver another present; the person was never there. There were the dozens of trips down town and the three other trips as well. For a seemly anti-social person, Laura knew a hell of a lot of people. Pietro felt like a horse or something. But at the end, it sort of seemed worth it. That was the happiest Laura has been in quite a while.
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Pairing: Laura Kinney (X-23)/Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
Rating: T-M
Summary: There were a lot of reasons why Pietro and Laura shouldn't have gotten together, but all they needed were the few reasons to stay together.
Notes: This has to be the crackiest pairing I have ever stanned for. They never even met each other in the show! I don't know I even get into these pairings.
It really started with that one night.
“Who are you?”
The question was mostly just to stall, until Wanda came, or until Lance woke up. And they both knew that. She didn't grin, or laugh at the question. Eyes red, deep frown, she only growled. Then she launched herself on him. Pietro did the only thing he could do. He ran. He didn't go far, he wanted her to go after him. The others was still knocked out. There was no doubt in his mind about her intentions. She was going to kill them.
He was in the forest, leaning against a tree, trying calm himself. He was no good if he was panicking. He could hear her coming. She was quiet, trying to sneak up on him, but Pietro could hear her. If he lived through this, he told himself, he would thank Mystique and his dad for the training.
The rain was pouring harder then, beating down his bare back and soaking his pajama pants. He wondered how long it would take 'till morning came. He wondered if the other's were up yet. He wondered why she was coming after him, who sent her and why. The Brotherhood has been good. They've been under the radar. There was no reason for anyone to come after them now. Then the first hit came.
Pietro barely missed it. Her claws grazed his chest. Two slashes on his chest, a stinging sensation starting from the cuts then surging through his body. His arms automatically went to cover the wound on his chest in an attempt to stop the blood from coming out. And that's when she pounced on him. One hand was on his neck, and Pietro opened his mouth to get some air in. The only thing he got was rainwater. He heard the snikt of her claws, recognizing the sound from somewhere, from someone, and closed his eyes, waiting for the end to come for him.
Nothing happened.
The hand on his neck suddenly loosened and he could hear those claws re-enter. The weight of the girl shifted from his chest to the lower part of his stomach, Pietro cringed as this happened. Pietro started coughing; the water from the rain was getting stuck in his throat. Started coughing harder. It hurt to cough and both the weight on his stomach, the rain that was beating down on him was not helping.
The weight left him completely, and Pietro could feel the girl sit him up. There was one hand beating on his back and one hand on his chest, holding him up. It hurt, the hands on his wounds and the beating on his back, but it was effectively getting the water out of his throat.
That was the first time he met her. They spent about ten minutes sitting out there in the rain as Pietro coughed. She sat there, rubbing his back, trying to calm him down. He remembered that neither of them said anything and he still remembered the throbbing pain coming from his chest. And that was when Wanda and the other's came looking for him, she left.
The second time the two met was about a few months after their first encounter. Pietro was sitting on the porch of the boarding house, waiting for his sister to come back from her first date with that crazy red-headed Aussie. Enough time spent with Wanda taught Pietro that his twin was more than capable of taking care of herself but that didn't stop him from worrying. Especially since he spent enough time with those Acolytes to know just how they operated. He saw her from the corner of his eyes, staring at her. Didn't say anything. There was nothing to say to her. Nothing polite anyway.
She was hiding behind a tree, but Pietro knew she was watching the place for longer than that. Could tell that she wanted him to see her too. She started walking towards him, and the only thing he could do was tense up, get ready to run, in case she decided to attack him again. Forced himself to at least relax when she sat down next to him. If the girl wanted to kill him, she would have done it long before that.
He couldn't bring himself to look at her. Not even when she laid her hand on his chest. instead, he placed his hand on top of hers, pressing his thumbs against her knuckles. The small pinch he felt on his thumb confirmed the one thought he had about her. Then did he look at her.
"X-23."
"Not any more. Laura."
Pietro nodded, looked away from her, and released her hand. Felt the warmth of her hand as she laid it on his chest again.
"Doesn't hurt any more, if you're wondering," his voice was barely a whisper.
"I don't even remember doing it..."
"Then how did you even..."
"Kitty."
Another nod. They spent that time just sitting there, staring at the wind pick up the leaves and the sun set. The sun was just over the horizon when Pietro had let out a sigh.
“She's not coming...”
“Who?”
“My sister...”
“That's bad?”
“She's on a date.”
“Oh.”
Pietro looked over at Laura, taking in her features. When he first saw her, she looked so angry... so wild. Here she was, with the calmest look on her face. Hair flying a bit in the wind, Pietro wondered if it was as soft as it looked. The first time he saw her, her eyes were so hard, and angry. She was literally seeing red. The eyes Pietro saw that day were just relaxing. That first time he met her, the only feeling she gave him was fear, curiosity, and anger. Now the only thing that was left was the curiosity. Why was she here? She locked eyes with him at that last thought. And these piercing green eyes stayed on icy blue ones. And the only thing that Pietro could think of was of how beautiful he thought those eyes were.
0o0o0
There were other times when the two bumped into each other after that day. Like those times when Lance dragged Pietro and Toad to the mall when he and Kitty got into some stupid fight - though he made up some bull on how he needed new socks... God, he was such a bad actor - and they would, for some strange reason, bump into Kitty with a few other of the other institute kids, one of them being Laura. While Lance and Kitty argued, Pietro and Laura would have a small conversation.
And when Mystique came back with the Acolytes, the Brotherhood saw a lot more of the X- Men. Pietro learned that Laura didn't really fight up to her full potential on these fights. She really just sat back and watched the two teams fight. Pietro, after a while, started following her example. And then she started visiting him more often. As in going to the boarding house, and staying a while.
And that freaked the X-men out. The brotherhood were much more... tolerant. What with Kitty getting back together with Lance and Rogue flirting with Gambit and being friends with Wanda. Hell, even Pietro and Wanda's dad was considering joining up with the X-men. The problem was that even though the X-men wanted unity, they only wanted people to unite with them. Stuck up pricks.
Laura didn't mind. Because Wolverine didn't care (or didn't show it). That relaxed Pietro enough. Laura may be younger than Kitty and Rogue, but she was a whole lot smarter than the both of them. Laura came over after school, watched TV with Pietro and Lance until Kitty came and dragged the earth shaker away. Pietro and Laura would spend that time talking. About everything and anything. Pietro loved it; those were the most interesting conversations that he ever had. Sometimes Wanda and John would join and if the conversation was really good, so would Gambit and Piotr. By then, Rogue would have came to pick up Laura and Kitty but she would end up staying longer than intended, courtesy of Gambit. That left a lot more time that Pietro spent with Laura.
When winter time came around, Pietro was just escatic. Most of the X-men would have left the institute to visit family. Wanda would go with John to the small apartment that he had rented, Gambit would have went down to New Orleans or something but this time he stayed around. Toad and Freddy disappeared somewhere and Lance had left for business or something (probably had nothing better to do but didn't want to stay here). That just left Pietro and Gambit at the place. When the break from school came, both men had been visited by Laura and Rogue.
“Had no place ta go,” said the Rogue.
They spent that time just watching movies, joking around, and playing cards. Wasn't that fun. Pietro had found that Remy was an exceptional cook and that he had enough talent that he didn't even need to cheat, that Rogue was an extremely good dancer and was just good a thief as the Cajun. And that Laura could speak Romanian along with over 50 languages.
Wanda could only speak fragments of Romanian. Enough to cuss a person out and find out where the bathroom is. Magneto retained a lot of the Romanian language as well as Pietro, but both never really bothered to use it as much. Nobody to talk to with it.
The two X-girls decided to stay for one weekend before deciding to return back to the institute. Neither men complained. Remy had the idea of going out Christmas shopping, and they all agreed. They all went to the mall then the two Southerners ditched Pietro and Laura.
“I'm hungry,” Pietro muttered.
“Then you should eat,” was Laura's reply.
“I don't like mall food.”
Laura looked over at Pietro, Pietro just avoided her gaze. She had this really irritating way of threatening the speedster with just one look. It was like Wanda's except for it was scarier. With him not looking at Laura, he didn't see her hand stretch out to grab his. She yanked at his arm, leading him to food court.
“Hey!” came Pietro's startled shout, a few people passing by looked at the couple.
“Come on, I'll even pay,” Laura grinned.
“I eat a lot,” Pietro couldn't help but say.
“So does Kurt.”
The amount of money spent that day was a little over $500. Turns out Laura was pretty loaded. And Pietro ate more than Kurt. They had gotten presents for people in the institute, the Brotherhood and a few others. Laura had asked Pietro to take her to Hell's Kitchen to deliver one of the presents. Pietro had met the guy once before, but from where he couldn't remember. Then she asked to go to the X-District to deliver another present; the person was never there. There were the dozens of trips down town and the three other trips as well. For a seemly anti-social person, Laura knew a hell of a lot of people. Pietro felt like a horse or something. But at the end, it sort of seemed worth it. That was the happiest Laura has been in quite a while.