"Defiance for Love…"
'She hates me.' he thought.
"I'm sorry." She said.
Set after' MAINSTREAM'… Kitty calls Lance a hood after their fight outside school… this captures what I think must've happened next… enjoy…
DISCLAIMER: I do not own X-men or any of the characters. (Though I would love to….)
Rogue woke up to a sudden sound of sniffing. She switched on the bedside lamp placed between her and Kitty's bed.
The sound came from Kitty who sat doubled up; clutching her feet close to her chest, her head bent down on her them. The sound ceased as the light flooded the room. Still, Rogue could see her silhouette shaking.
"Oh kitty…" she said and sat near her; putting an arm around her.
"I shouldn't have said… he'll hate me now." Said Kitty before starting again with a fresh round of tears.
Rogue always had problem with handling emotional outbursts. So, she didn't know how to make her stop crying. She just stroked her arm slowly and said- "it doesn't matter Kitty- he won't hate you. He loves you."
"You don't understand, Rogue." Kitty said between sobs- "I told him the one thing everyone does… the one thing he hates. I could've told him anything… but no, I had to go ahead and call him a hood!"
Rogue knew that calling him a hood was the meanest thing one could do. And that Kitty herself had called him that; only worsened the matter. But telling that to her wasn't going to help either. So she just kept quiet and gave her some water to drink.
Eventually, Kitty stopped crying after an hour or so and as exhausted vas she was; fell asleep soon after. Rogue did the same after tucking her best friend in.
LANCE's POV:
Why me?
No. why her? If anyone else would've said the word to him; he would've beaten him to pulp and then made sure that he lay rested beneath the ground rubble for eternity.
Not her.
Never her. She was his life.
She was the core of his existence.
Why did she have to call him a…
The words echoed in his ears even as hard as he tried to forget them…
"So this is the real you, isn't it? You're nothing but a hood."
So that's what she thought too. Like all the others.
He looked at the charm he'd gotten her for her birthday in advance. Tiny stars hung from the chain and a solitary heart in the middle.
He'd been saving money since past two months to purchase it for her, cutting down on his own needs. The heart twinkled in the light that seeped through from the street lamp outside his window. Tears welled up in his eyes; hot compared to the cold outside. He placed the charm inside his wallet.
It wasn't her fault.
Maybe I am this bad and I deserved this. Maybe Summers was right. I didn't deserve her. I would never be good enough for her. So, from now on, I wouldn't bother her anymore.
Yes.
I'll stay away from her until all signs of their ever knowing each other vanished.
Kitty's POV:
My eyes burned from all the crying I did last night.
Serves me right for hurting him.
Okay. So he broke his promise. What was new in that? He fought Scott badly. And anyway he did whatever he did in self- defense. It wasn't as if he hit Scott without provocation…
She still remembered the hurt in his eyes when she'd called him a hood. The pain etched on his face as she faced him angrily. And his broken emotion less voice as he'd said- "I'll never be good enough for you."
It wasn't true. She knew that. He was the best for her. He'd always cared for her. Loved her like she was his prized possession and even fought with his friends for her sake. He'd even tried to join the X-Men to make her happy and endured Scott and Logan for her sake. And what had she done? Stabbed him in the back?
No. she couldn't leave him alone once again. No matter what Scott and Jean may say- or Logan; for that matter; she would apologize to him. She won't let their love suffer for the rift in their teams.
Moreover, she loved him more than anything. Even more than herself. She couldn't afford to lose him. He'd lived with too many hardships in the past. Now she wouldn't add another one to them.
Yes. She would apologize to him. Even if that meant going against her friends. Because they didn't know him the way she did.
And anyone who truly knew him couldn't ever hate him. Rogue was a proof to this fact. She sighed and cursed herself for hurting the guy who gave her the priority over himself and vowed to never do it again.
