[FIC] Science Geeks (X-Men & Spiderman)
Title: Science Geeks
Author: WitchAnteia
Fandom(s): X-Men & Spiderman
Type: AU, One-Shot, Crossover
Rating: PG
Pairings: Implied Kitty & Spidey
Prompt: What if Spiderman was played by Jensen Ackles?
Character(s): Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), Peter Parker (Spiderman), Storm, Rogue, Bobby, Piotr
Summary: Kitty puts in her two cents during a class discussion and reflects on meeting enigmatic photog, Peter Parker...
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I’m so tired of being quiet. The young brunette raised her hand high above her head, impatiently waving it around like a white flag.
“Yes, Kitty?” An annoyed Storm answered.
“I mean, not to be a total snot here, but why do we have to learn about evolution and creationism in tandem?”
“Well for one thing it’s a requirement that every student in the state of New York receive both sides…”
“Please,” Kitty snorted, incredulously looking around the room from one blank face to the next. “We’re mutants, I think we’re a little beyond beginner’s genetics.” Indeed, the class seemed to wake up then.
Storm took a breath, realizing just then that teaching really wasn’t for her. She was more the take charge, headmaster, not really the patient, heart-of-gold teacher type.
“Just because you are beyond beginner’s genetics doesn’t necessarily mean…”
“No,” Rogue interrupted. “She’s right, even a Mississippi girl like me knows that the world wasn’t made overnight.”
“Thank you!” Kitty threw her arms up in the air in steady exaggeration.
“Girls!”
Storm was getting pissed. Her nails and several other things needed to be shaped up and she was not going to draft up a new lesson plan at the spa with Jean later. She straightened up. “Class, open your books to page one-eighty.”
An uproar of groans loudly went around the room. Storm quickly tapped her long, wooden pointer against some chalked words on the board:
As creationism is based on religious faith rather than evidence through experiment and observation, it cannot be evaluated by science, which in turn does not attempt to address issues of supernatural intervention.
“Huh!” Kitty snorted. That’s one way to end a debate.
Storm turned her back to the class to emphasize the last point by underlining the one final sentence. Kitty turned toward Rogue and saw that she was writing a letter. Stealing a sidelong look at Bobby, Kitty saw him peeking over Rogue’s shoulder at the note. The smallest X-Man sighed and turned back to stare at the wood of her desktop while Storm went straight from Creationism to Evolution and then back again before going into the components that make up DNA.
Kitty pulled out a lone item from inside her desk. I bet if Parker was here he’d have already gotten me out of here by faking a sudden fit of claustrophobic asphyxia… While going over important points about the separation of Church and State... The pretty brunette sighed dramatically again thinking about Parker and her loneliness at the mansion. She felt a nudge and snapped up to look at Piotr smiling at her like a madman.
“You ok, pretty tovarisch*?”
Kitty Pryde looked away quickly not wanting to show her unhappiness to a friend who was good enough to try and cheer her up.
“Never better, comrade…” She took the item in her hand and flipped it over staring at the image of Parker she’d begged him to let her take that night in New York:
Kitty had to swallow from how dry her throat went. Then she smiled her first real smile that day.
Oh yeah… We definitely have chemistry or something we need to talk about…
* tovarisch (Russian) = “Friend”