25 Unicorn Street- Saturday morning

[throughaphase]

Kitty had fully intended to stay in bed and sleep until either someone physically came to get her, or she got hungry. Whichever came first. It wasn't even that she was tired, just lazy. So she rolled over to find a new comfy position... and there was a boy there. A boy she didn't even know. He definitely didn't go to the Xavier School.

Hopefully he didn't mind being woken up by the little shriek and Kitty practically jumping off the bed, a totally mature reaction.

[For the hubby but not!]

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[so_hawkward]

Clint had been happily asleep when the shriek happened, and he sat up quickly in the bed, his hands immediately going to a defensive position. "What was that?"

[throughaphase]

"What are you doing in my bed?" Kitty demanded, though... this didn't actually look like her room. Though she knew she hadn't gone to any strange rooms overnight...

[so_hawkward]

"What are you doing in my bed?" Clint shot back, his brain working on autopilot as he looked around. He wasn't sure exactly where he was, but he wasn't about to be questioned while he was still getting his bearings without being a jerk about it.

[throughaphase]

"I asked first!" But seriously this was totally not her room. There wasn't a single poster anywhere and Illyana's bed wasn't there, but she was still freaked out by that wake up so she was gonna ride this out.

[so_hawkward]

"I was sleeping until someone woke me up," Clint said, relaxing a little with no immediate threat. "Did something wake you up?"

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, morning," Kitty answered. "Okay, how about this: who are you?"

[so_hawkward]

"I'm Clint," he said, looking her up and down. At least she was cute, so she had that going for her. "What's your name?"

[throughaphase]

"Kitty. So we have that covered," she decided. "And how did you get here again?"

[so_hawkward]

"Um. I needed a place to crash and you were nice enough to offer one?" he said with a little uncertainty. Maybe if he looked cute too, she'd take pity on him and go with the lie?

[throughaphase]

Well he was cute. But still.

"I am 100% sure that didn't happen," Kitty said. "Of course this also doesn't look like my place. Were we kidnapped overnight?"

[so_hawkward]

"I don't know. I don't think so? But this isn't my place either. Do you get kidnapped often?" He was at least partly kidding, he hoped.

[throughaphase]

"I mean, it's happened," Kitty said, casually. Being an X-Man was still new and things like that hadn't started scarring her yet so she could still brag about it. "Should we investigate? Maybe the others are around somewhere."

Clearly if this was an X thing they had picked Clint up from somewhere, because that was how things like this worked.

[so_hawkward]

"Sure. Better than just sitting around here, I guess," he said. Clint glanced around the bed, and grinned when he spotted his jeans. "We should probably be fully dressed to investigate, yeah?"

[throughaphase]

Kitty wasn't really bothered with what she was wearing, but she didn't want to be the only one going around in pajamas, so she shrugged and went to the closet.

"Ugh. It's all so boring."

[so_hawkward]

"Somebody really likes purple," he said, peeking over her shoulder. If it gave him a reason to be closer to her, well, that was a bonus.

[throughaphase]

"It's all plain," Kitty complained, looking through the things on the hangers, and pulling one thing from the closet. "Are these leather pants with holes in them? That is awesome."

[so_hawkward]

"You should totally wear those. You could definitely pull them off," Clint said. Meanwhile, he grabbed one of the purple shirts, gave it a sniff to be sure it was clean, and changed into that.

[throughaphase]

"That's really more of a nighttime look," said Kitty, who knew nothing about this stuff and just talked like she did. She pulled a pink t-shirt that looked like it had a little detailing to it. "I guess this is fine."

[so_hawkward]

"It's nice that whoever put us here left us somewhere with clothes." After a moment, Clint added, "You don't have to answer, but I have to ask--what do you do that makes it so that you're kind of unfazed about possibly being kidnapped?

[throughaphase]

"Uh." She didn't have a ton of experience in coming up with excuses, and they were probably in some kind of weird superhero-y situation anyway, so... "I'm an X-Man."

[so_hawkward]

"You... used to be a guy?"

Clint, oh Clint, no.

[throughaphase]

Fourteen-year-old Kitty was very good at looking at someone like they had three heads. (She had not yet had a ton of experience in mutants with physical manifestations so she didn't know that was insensitive narrative.) "No. The X-Men are superheroes."

[so_hawkward]

"Oh. Oh! Wow, that's really cool!" Clint said, grinning at her. "I mean, I'm pretty super, but I'm not a superhero. So you like, help people in trouble?"

[throughaphase]

"Yep! Also, fight aliens, apparently," Kitty said, and then said, "I don't know if everyone on Earth knows about that stuff yet, so um. Keep that part quiet, okay?"

[so_hawkward]

Clint's eyes got wide, and then he made a motion like he was zipping his lips closed. "Your secret's safe with me. I don't think anyone I know would believe me if I said that anyway."

[throughaphase]

"Where are you from?" she wondered, finding a pair of jeans that looked like they might fit her.

[so_hawkward]

"I'm from all over the place. I used to be in the circus," Clint said, trying to look a little proud of that. "I was part of one of the acts. I can hit any target you put in front of me, no problem."

[throughaphase]

"Like, shooting...?" Kitty asked.

[so_hawkward]

"I can do knife throwing too, but yeah, I shoot a bow. Like Robin Hood." Clint laughed and gave Kitty a little more space. "I could be a superhero too, I bet, except I don't have any superpowers."

[throughaphase]

"There are some superheroes that don't have any. No X-Men, though," she said, apologetically. The X-Men of course were the best.

The New Mutants did not count.

[so_hawkward]

"Does that mean you have a superpower? I bet it has something to do with being hot."

Clint, still, no.

[throughaphase]

Her mouth opened and closed a couple times as she tried to figure out what she was supposed to say because she'd never been called hot before, and also had he actually looked at her? Also she was hoping she wasn't blushing.

Even though she was totally blushing.

"I can turn myself intangible?" she said.

[so_hawkward]

"Whoa. That's really cool! That must make you hard to kidnap. Maybe they had to drug us or something and that's why we don't remember," Clint said.

[throughaphase]

"Maybe," Kitty said, ducking past him to go to the door, which opened. "If we've been kidnapped, they shouldn't have quit their day jobs."