Part 9
N/A: Model au. Well, let´s make the big conflict finally happens.
The dress in the display is pretty, elegant and completely out of Kitty´s range as she never had to worry too much on what she has to wear, however, as a model she needs to look her best and is not exactly a task she has a mind to do so. Ororo is very kind and even help Kitty to pick a dress and give some encouragement.
"Uhm, is a really pretty dress, sure, but the event is formal but not enough to transport us to the Victorian period" Ororo jokes amused and Kitty wonders if she´ll ever have to dress like this in the future. Let it be known such dress belongs to the mansion and Kitty couldn´t walk away with such dress without permission.
In the end, the dress selected is a blue one- in fact, it seems blue is a color that suits her well, and she watches Ororo speaking with Tabitha when Piotr opens the door violently-and admires her dress until she hears Russians conversations being throw.
"Yana!" the man now is speaking in English ignoring the audience near him. "I´m your brother and I want to take you to the party" he demands with his metallic skin showing and glowing. Kitty covers her eyes as the light hit her doe eyes.
Yana is shorter and tiptoes to be taller and speaks in English still. "I´ll go with my friends!"
"No, you´ll come with me. Snowflake I haven´t seen you for a long while" he speaks in a sad tone as his face falls and this makes Yana arch one single eyebrow.
"You see me every day"
"You´re my only family Yana...sorry for care for your well being" and Yana look at the others looking at the scene and is hating the attention as she closes her eyes and exhales and inhale.
"Fine, we go together" and Yana ignores Ororo speaking about whatever she´s speaking to glare at her brother. She recalls a time where she was small and used to climb on his shoulder like a doll, now, all Yana wants to be away and be herself.
Am I being ungrateful?
Kitty appears next to Yana, like a ghost and sometimes Yana envies this ability on her friend and speaks calmly. "Do you want to go with your brother?" and Yana can detect some concern in her tone. And Yana has the urge to protect her brother.
"Yeah, that big oaf is just overprotective...too much, actually, he still sees me as a baby" and she presses her lips together. "Can´t blame him... too much, when I was a kid ...I was...kidnapped and it was a miracle that leads to my rescue but...Piotr never recovery from that"
And Kitty asks in her calm tone. "And are you ok?" all Yana can do is nod and change the subject of the conversation to the party and Kitty is gracefully playing along. If she doesn´t want to speak about her past, Kitty won´t force it.
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Amara watches carefully as Piotr and Yana are talking and how in the end, with a big of persuasion of Yana and Ororo giving him the stinky eye ("one thing is being protective, the other is being possessive... rumors fly, little brother" "I... I´m sorry, Yana. I just...want to make sure you´re safe. Don´t be mad at me" "I´m not mad at you, you big oaf") manages to convince Piotr to offer a ride to all the girls. Amara knows this could ruin her plan/prank.
"Hi, guys," Amara explains and when Piotr offer to take all the girls on his limo Amara shakes her head. "Me, Tabitha and Kitty will go together. Uber driver..." she looks down mentally counting to 10 until the questions are made and until is appropriate.
"We´re ...not used to such luxury and go to a limo is too much" Amara now meets Ororo and Piotr´s eyes with fear in her dark eyes as she starts to fidget the skirt nervously. "I hope...this is ok"
Ororo offers a small smile. A bit sad and Amara can see how she would prefer all the girls to be together, but, won´t force them. "Very well, I could go with you 3 to make sure you 3 arrive safely" and this could really ruin her plan.
"No, please...Kitty would be ashamed if you were there with us...she´s not very thrilled in being a model" Amara states with fear in her mind as if her friend is on the line.
Ororo looks at Amara for a moment. "I had no idea you and Kitty were so friendly" and Yana interjected this thought too.
"We both have similar backgrounds and the model world is too new for us, I mean, Yana has a brother who works in the model world and had an idea of what to expect. Us? nothing...we need to stay together" and Amara looks down crestfallen as if she´s a bunny ready to be sacrificed to a wolf.
Ororo sighs tiredly. "Next time, all the girls will go together, but, since this is a party only for mutants...I´ll allows it. Only this time, Amara"
Amara beams a grateful smile. "Thank you" and she leaves in a hurry. Ororo knows she must want to change her outfit now...she looks like a waitress with this combination.
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And Amara enters in Kitty´s room- once Ororo and Piotr are gone along with Yana who looks displeased by all this- dressed as a waitress along with Tabby who is not smiling anymore. "Hey, what´s going on? Trying to bring the fancy waitress look?" Kitty jokes and Amara shakes her head.
"Kitty, Ororo didn´t tell you?" Amara shakes her head and she opens a cellphone and shows a video for Kitty. "this is a party to dress as something silly, and yes, waitresses aren´t silly and work hard for their money, but, the idea is for the newbies to show up as waitress" Amara let Kitty take the cellphone and watches some of the old newbies- who are now full model and heroines- dancing as a waitress and smiling to the camera.
"Ororo didn´t tell me..." Kitty can´t comprehend why Ororo didn´t tell her this. Amara dismissively waves her hand.
"She must have forgotten. That´s why we´re here. We´re in this together" Amara speaks amused and looks at Tabitha who nods silently and Kitty seems to take her silent as confirmation.
"Oh, thank you, Amara...I almost make fun of myself" Amara is being very hopeful.
"We can´t go together to the ball...Piotr and Ororo already take off, but, we can call the Uber. I mean...I don´t have money for all of us" Amara looks ashamed and Kitty smiles at this to appease her.
"I can call my Uber...and we´ll go to the same place, right?"
"Of course"
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Kurt Wagner is invited to the party and notices some of the mutants he knew since his debut and new faces- Karma and Mirage are one of the powerhouses and are dressed in dresses that they used to their first cover on Vogue- and Ororo, his friend waves at him in a friendly way and points at Piotr who is with his dear sister and has a big smile on his face.
"Kurt!"
"Piotr"
And the two mutants share a hug and speak in Russian and German for a moment and then switch to English as Kurt notices Yana´s frown in her pretty dress- the mutant is young but is really powerful and Kurt remember how many people vetted Yana to be even a model thanks to such powers- and decides to speak with Yana once Ororor greets him and excuse herself for a moment to get more drinks.
"How are you, Yana?"
"Good..." is her reply dry and monotonous and Kurt decides to try again as Yana Rasputin is, in his mind, still that innocent little girl who says a big blue demon and only rolls her eyes and told he stink.
"So, are you training teleportation abilities?" and maybe Piotr could have hinted to Kurt how this is not a good question to make. It was too late as Yana´s reply was short and rude.
"I´m a teleporter far better than you!" and it was right in time for Ororo to come back with drinks and to witness this scene. Yana looks at Kurt´s eyes for a moment softening her scowl for a moment. "Sorry, Kurt...I´m just worried...Kitty and the others haven´t arrived and I´m thinking the worse" and Kurt is gracious enough to not think badly of Yana after this response.
He turns to Ororo. "What she means? Where are the other girls?" Piotr scolded Yana in being polite and she only nods but her eyes are focused on the main door. So many mutants dressed elegantly and no signal of Kitty Pryde.
Ororo now looks worried like Yana. "I think I made a mistake...I should have..." she stops when her eyes widen and smile in relief. "Oh, Yana the girls are here...wait, where is Kitty?"
Yana sees Amara and Tabitha wearing elegant dresses and mixing well in the crown...and where is Kitty?
Amara is all smiles. Tabitha isn´t.
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Kitty enters the party and notices many people wearing elegant galls and hairstyles. She´s looking other people dressed as herself and so far she didn´t see Amara, Tabitha or Yana in the crown.
"Uhm, am I in the right place?" and her doe eyes notice an azzure man coming to her and for a moment her heartbeats louder as she´s looking at Nightcrawler´s handsome face.
The man offers a nice smile and aks. "Can you get us more wine?"
And Kitty stops smiling and scowl. "Excuse me?"
And Kurt blinks. "The wine is over, uhm, what do you have to drink? I´m not picky"
And Ororo enters the room along with Jean and the two ladies exclaimed. "Kitty? Why are you dressed as a waitress?"
"Am I the only one dressed as...waitress...?" and Kitty steps back away from Nightcrawler and hits a wall.
Did I get prank?