TimeWarp: If we'll ever come full circle, we have to start somewhere...

[just_a_phase]

Some days, she hates being the only true student here, despite what the others are listed as being.

It means she has to do actual schoolwork, and Kitty Pryde does not want to be comparing the various leaders of the Civil Rights movement with specific mutant activists today.

Not that she gets to choose.

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[just_a_phase]

"What do you think?" she asks, smile a wide grin now.

[konocc]

She generally pounces him. It's now it's his turn. He sweeps her up off her feet. His smile is still shy, but it grows as she settles into his arms. He squeezes her closer.

[just_a_phase]

She gasps a little, but she's laughing a lot.

"Okay, are you sure you're actually Piotr Rasputin?" she demands, teasingly.

He doesn't have time to answer right away, though, because she's kissing him again.

[konocc]

He's not in a hurry to stop and she weighs barely a thing.

"I want to do this more often," he murmurs into her hair while he pauses for breath.

[just_a_phase]

"Mmm," she exhales, resting their foreheads together.

"But it feels like you're always running away," she responds, mostly teasing and just a bit not.

[konocc]

"I am shy, and I was not sure. I did not want to be of interest because I was the only one here." His eyes lower to a half-lidded gaze. "But I have enjoyed the attention."

[just_a_phase]

"Really?" It's a little shy, but her smile's wide.

"That's, um. Well. It was the intent, anyway." She's still smiling, if a little more serious, when she adds, "And, y'know, Salem Center, not exactly far away. What with the going for dance classes and general getting-out-of-this-madhouse visits to town...it's not like I don't see other guys."

There's a pause.

"I just...I guess I just don't notice them." Not since you.

[konocc]

"I don't see other girls," he admits. "Just you."

[just_a_phase]

"You're oblivious, then, sweetie," Kitty replies, but she's flushed with pleasure anyway. "They definitely notice you."

And she might hate that a little bit.

[konocc]

He furrows his brows, "Does not matter if I like you, does it?"

[just_a_phase]

"That is a very, very good reply," Kitty concludes after a moment's thought.

And leans in to kiss him again.

Because it's fun.

And sorta something other and more than just fun, too.

[konocc]

He smoothed back her hair from her face. "Normally, I would be asking your father for permission to court you, but I think I just ask you here in America, da?"

[just_a_phase]

She blushes, now, which is very different than flushing. "You can skip dad and just ask me, yeah. And are you asking to court me," she teases, trying to make the blush go away, "or to date me?"

[konocc]

"What is the difference?"

[just_a_phase]

"...Uh."

Why doesn't she keep her big mouth shut? EVER?

Kitty awkwardly rubs the back of her neck with one hand, though the other is still resting lightly on his shoulder. "Well. It's. Dating kinda--you can go on a date, or even a few dates, I guess, and it still not...go anywhere. Or it could. But when you're just dating, before you're, like, exclusive or whatever, it's sorta...not super-serious. I guess courting sorta...implies that there are serious intentions from the start," she finishes, accurately if rather quickly and with her gaze rather fixed on the stack of books she'd been recording information from for her citations.