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thelostmaximoffTitle: Cool Hand
Fandom: X-Men The Movie
Rating: K+
Genre: Angst
Pairing: KittyxPyro in that unrequited way
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes, nothing is a real cool hand. Unfortunately, the rest of the time nothing is just nothing.
Cool Hand
Kitty Pryde sits on her bed with her legs crossed and her desk drawer in front of her. She sifts through the layers of junk as if she’s an archeologist digging for ancient treasure. She used to keep memories in the drawer, memories of someone special to her, but now the contents of the drawer hold no meaning to Kitty. She absently picks up a paper airplane and recalls the day she first met John Allerdyce. It was her first day at Xavier’s and Cyclops had just introduced her to his geometry class. He had just finished his introduction when said paper airplane collided with his chest. Kitty remembers giggling as she took her seat and Cyclops moved John to the front. She offered to return his creation but he shrugged and told her he could always make more.
Kitty feels a sense of heaviness inside her as she lets the paper airplane slip from her fingertips and then continues rummaging through the drawer. Her fingers trace the large, red letter on a geometry test that isn’t hers. John needed help in the class and he decided that Kitty was going to do his homework. Kitty quickly responded that she would tutor him but she wasn’t going to do the work for him. The “B” on the test was the first fruit of their collective labors. John told her that she should keep it since she was the one who had helped him earn it. Kitty always knew that John was smarter than he let on. Knowing that makes understanding some of John’s choices all the more difficult and Kitty isn’t sure if she has the stamina to keep believing in him anymore.
Kitty remembers sitting in Ms. Munroe’s English class when John had to read the poem he had written as part of their assignment for the day. It was quite possibly one of the most beautiful things Kitty Pryde had ever heard. She remembers scouring the internet later that day in an effort to see if he had just copied some long forgotten verse and passed it off as his own creation. She was surprised to discover that what she had heard was a John Allerdyce original and she politely asked him if she could have it. John shrugged his shoulders and passed it to her, explaining to her that he would probably just throw it away.
Kitty almost laughs out loud when she remembers the time that she and John were assigned as partners in Chemistry and their bickering coupled with John’s obsession for fire almost blew up the whole lab. Both of them received two weeks worth of detention. Pyro joked that at this rate he was going to end up like Judd Nelson’s character from The Breakfast Club. Kitty knew that part of him enjoyed the reputation he had cultivated over his time at Xavier’s. Pyro was dangerous. Pyro was arrogant and selfish. Pyro was cool.
Kitty picks up a piece of paper in her drawer and unfolds it carefully. She knows exactly what it is because of all the memories she has concerning John Allerdyce she never forgets this one for a moment. Kitty’s eyes skim over the clunky prose on the paper. The letter was meant for Bobby Drake, the object of Kitty’s schoolgirl crush at the time she had written it, but Kitty knows now that her attraction towards Bobby was never anything but a crush. John caught her writing it and promptly began teasing her about the fact that Bobby was already with Rogue. Kitty still wonders what’s wrong with nice guys. They aren’t dangerous or arrogant or selfish. They don’t run out on their friends like bad boys do. Kitty kept the love letter because somewhere in all the bickering that day, John Allerdyce had kissed her on the cheek and told her that she could do “so much better”. Secretly, Kitty had hoped that he was referring to himself but she really doubts it.
Kitty Pryde stares at the mementos before her but the emotions once attached to this collection of papers aren’t in her anymore. She knows the events happened but she no longer feels any connection to them. Since she learned that John Allerdyce isn’t coming back, that he really is a selfish, arrogant ass who doesn’t care what people think of him, Kitty Pryde feels disconnected from everything because despite her intentions to the contrary she somehow fell in love with the dangerous rebel that her mother had always warned her about when she was younger. The problem with falling in love with arrogant, selfish asses is that eventually you end up heartbroken and alone. The same things that make them cool are the same things that make them adept at destroying your illusions about love and romance.
“What’s in the drawer?” asks Bobby Drake as he leans against Kitty’s doorframe and watches her stare into the drawer as if it holds some great and poignant truth about life that Kitty’s trying to discern.
“It’s nothing,” assures Kitty as she takes her memories of John Allerdyce, the friend she never really knew and the person she thought she might love, and dumps them into her trashcan, “It’s nothing at all.” The scariest thing for Kitty is that she means every word of it.
Fandom: X-Men The Movie
Rating: K+
Genre: Angst
Pairing: KittyxPyro in that unrequited way
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes, nothing is a real cool hand. Unfortunately, the rest of the time nothing is just nothing.
Cool Hand
Kitty Pryde sits on her bed with her legs crossed and her desk drawer in front of her. She sifts through the layers of junk as if she’s an archeologist digging for ancient treasure. She used to keep memories in the drawer, memories of someone special to her, but now the contents of the drawer hold no meaning to Kitty. She absently picks up a paper airplane and recalls the day she first met John Allerdyce. It was her first day at Xavier’s and Cyclops had just introduced her to his geometry class. He had just finished his introduction when said paper airplane collided with his chest. Kitty remembers giggling as she took her seat and Cyclops moved John to the front. She offered to return his creation but he shrugged and told her he could always make more.
Kitty feels a sense of heaviness inside her as she lets the paper airplane slip from her fingertips and then continues rummaging through the drawer. Her fingers trace the large, red letter on a geometry test that isn’t hers. John needed help in the class and he decided that Kitty was going to do his homework. Kitty quickly responded that she would tutor him but she wasn’t going to do the work for him. The “B” on the test was the first fruit of their collective labors. John told her that she should keep it since she was the one who had helped him earn it. Kitty always knew that John was smarter than he let on. Knowing that makes understanding some of John’s choices all the more difficult and Kitty isn’t sure if she has the stamina to keep believing in him anymore.
Kitty remembers sitting in Ms. Munroe’s English class when John had to read the poem he had written as part of their assignment for the day. It was quite possibly one of the most beautiful things Kitty Pryde had ever heard. She remembers scouring the internet later that day in an effort to see if he had just copied some long forgotten verse and passed it off as his own creation. She was surprised to discover that what she had heard was a John Allerdyce original and she politely asked him if she could have it. John shrugged his shoulders and passed it to her, explaining to her that he would probably just throw it away.
Kitty almost laughs out loud when she remembers the time that she and John were assigned as partners in Chemistry and their bickering coupled with John’s obsession for fire almost blew up the whole lab. Both of them received two weeks worth of detention. Pyro joked that at this rate he was going to end up like Judd Nelson’s character from The Breakfast Club. Kitty knew that part of him enjoyed the reputation he had cultivated over his time at Xavier’s. Pyro was dangerous. Pyro was arrogant and selfish. Pyro was cool.
Kitty picks up a piece of paper in her drawer and unfolds it carefully. She knows exactly what it is because of all the memories she has concerning John Allerdyce she never forgets this one for a moment. Kitty’s eyes skim over the clunky prose on the paper. The letter was meant for Bobby Drake, the object of Kitty’s schoolgirl crush at the time she had written it, but Kitty knows now that her attraction towards Bobby was never anything but a crush. John caught her writing it and promptly began teasing her about the fact that Bobby was already with Rogue. Kitty still wonders what’s wrong with nice guys. They aren’t dangerous or arrogant or selfish. They don’t run out on their friends like bad boys do. Kitty kept the love letter because somewhere in all the bickering that day, John Allerdyce had kissed her on the cheek and told her that she could do “so much better”. Secretly, Kitty had hoped that he was referring to himself but she really doubts it.
Kitty Pryde stares at the mementos before her but the emotions once attached to this collection of papers aren’t in her anymore. She knows the events happened but she no longer feels any connection to them. Since she learned that John Allerdyce isn’t coming back, that he really is a selfish, arrogant ass who doesn’t care what people think of him, Kitty Pryde feels disconnected from everything because despite her intentions to the contrary she somehow fell in love with the dangerous rebel that her mother had always warned her about when she was younger. The problem with falling in love with arrogant, selfish asses is that eventually you end up heartbroken and alone. The same things that make them cool are the same things that make them adept at destroying your illusions about love and romance.
“What’s in the drawer?” asks Bobby Drake as he leans against Kitty’s doorframe and watches her stare into the drawer as if it holds some great and poignant truth about life that Kitty’s trying to discern.
“It’s nothing,” assures Kitty as she takes her memories of John Allerdyce, the friend she never really knew and the person she thought she might love, and dumps them into her trashcan, “It’s nothing at all.” The scariest thing for Kitty is that she means every word of it.
