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Halcyon Chapter Five
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“How long
was I under?” Lance gasped, heaving a deep breath and closing his eyes in bliss
as his lungs filled with oxygen. “Ten
minutes? Twenty?”
“Dude, you’d
be dead,” Todd sighed, flopping back into the mud at the edge of the lake. “More like four or five.” He reached out and jabbed Lance in the
shoulder as hard as he could, making his friend grunt. “Beat you.”
“Fuck you,”
Lance muttered. “That was an unfair
contest. That’d be like… I dunno… me
challenging you to an earthquake contest.”
He sucked in another breath and caught a whiff of his lake water soaked
clothes. “Ugh. I smell like slime!”
“You smell
like water,” Todd sighed. “It’s not a bad smell. I kinda like it.” He wondered how much of that was a natural
like and how much was a self-imposed idea that he should enjoy the organic,
green smell of the lake water on a summer morning. The silence stretched between them and he
realized that Lance was giving him a hard, intent look. “Uh, I meant that I
like it in a totally hetero way, man.”[1]
Lance
snorted. “Good cause I’d hate to have to
break your heart.” He forced himself to
sit up and coughed once, bringing up a mouthful of water and spitting it back
at the lake. “Ick.”
“So did
they even see us?” Todd asked after another moment of silence. “I know they were watching…”
“No, they
didn’t… They walked off I think.” Lance peered at the last spot he had seen
their girlfriends and he muttered a curse.
“Dude, this is dumb. How’s this
going to prove anything unless Al Gore’s right and the ice caps flood New York?” He stood and stretched his arms over his
head, frowning as his back popped. “Maybe
we should just say fuck it and go inside.
I’m missing a Danger Room session…”
Todd nodded
slowly, twisting to pop his own back as he considered the situation
carefully. “Race you!”
Kitty
giggled as she caught sight of Todd and Lance running as if the hounds of Hell
were nipping at their heels all the way across the lawn from the lake. “So they’ve decided to prove their manhood by
staging a really bad triathlon? What’s
next, the bike ride to get eggs and milk from the market?”
Kurt rolled
his eyes heavenward but and elbowed Scott to look out the window of the
upstairs study room, the sight of their two friends pelting towards the house
more amusing than not. “They’re idiots
sometimes,” the German teenager chortled.
“Who cares if they can outrun each other or… or open a pickle jar?”
“They’re
doing it to prove to their girlfriends that they’re not wusses,” Scott
shrugged, a smirk playing at the corner of his lips. “And the girlfriends aren’t even
watching. I just saw Rogue and Amara
heading for the gym when I was on my way up here.” He shot Kitty a look and noticed her
thoughtful expression. “Uh oh… she has
an idea…”
“Bite me,”
she smiled pleasantly, not even sparing him a glance. “I don’t know… sometimes a girl likes it if
her significant other can open the pickle jar for her.” A tiny sigh left her lips and Kurt stiffened
beside her, his gaze sliding subtly to her face. “I mean, yeah, we can open our own pickle
jars but it’s nice to have someone do it for you sometimes.” She smiled faintly and tapped her fingers on
the wooden ledge of the window. “Pickles
are usually better when you share them.”
She sighed softly and shrugged. “I’d
better get down to the library before Mark comes looking for me. Mystique and Magneto will be back soon and he
wanted to be done with the self help section by then.”
Kurt
remained quiet until Kitty had disappeared through the door leading into the
hall. “Pickle jars?”
“I think it’s
code…”
“For?”
Scott gave
it a few moment’s thought. “Either sex
or condiments.” He lost sight of the two
running teenagers and shifted his full attention to Kurt. “You don’t think Jean wants me to…er… open
the pickle jar for her, do you?”
“It all
depends on if we’re thinking this means sex or a snack,” Kurt sighed. “…Do you think Kitty wants me to?”
“Open Jean’s
pickle jar?”
“Nein!”
Kurt felt his face heat with an unseen blush but thankfully, Scott did not seem
to notice or care about his flustered state.
“I mean… Pete Wisdom isn’t like me… he’s a football player… and very… um…”
“Big,”
Scott supplied. “He’s a hoss.”
“Ja,
thanks. Just what I needed to hear” Kurt
muttered, resolutely turning away from the window. “I’m an acrobat, damn it! I’m wiry!” He slid a glare at Scott and found his friend
staring thoughtfully off into the distance.
“Scott?”
“I’m
thinking that… maybe… showing the girls we’re not henpecked, pussywhipped
pansies might not be a bad thing…”
“I’m not
racing you.”
“No! Just… I don’t know!” He rolled his eyes in frustration, pressing
on with his ill conceived notion. “Do
something that proves our manhood! In a
totally non public nudity kind of way!”
Kurt nodded
slowly. “Okay… I think that’s not a
terrible idea…” The image of Kitty
smiling up at Pete Wisdom crossed his mind and a growl rose, unbidden, in his
throat. “I’ll follow your lead.”
[1] Shades
of Jay and Silent Bob.
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