What happens when Bobby Drake finds out about Logan's journey through time? It's not a question of how, but how much it will change the way his outlook towards life is - as if it wasn't already complicated enough.
Kitty X Bobby

The Alternate - Chapter 1

BOBBY

It's the first of September, my favorite month. It rains a lot this time of year. It's the time I can go out and have a little fun with the free water that comes falling from the sky. This way, I don't get to waste water from the shower AND piss off my room mate at the same time for making icicles out of the shower droplets.

I got up from bed, and as usual, I folded the blanket, plumped up the pillows, tucked in the sheets. Same thing everyday only this time, I was doing it with a little more enthusiasm. The excitement of going out for a jog was killing me. It was Saturday, after all. The day couldn't have gotten any more perfect.

I slipped into my track shirt and a pair of sweatpants. With everything in place I opened the door, only to see Dr. Grey quickly pacing past me. Why she was in a hurry, I didn't interest myself in finding out.

"Good morning, Dr. Grey," I said instinctively.

She turned and smiled, "Bobby. Off to your usual jog, I see?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Well you have fu-" she cut herself off as she rustled through the papers she had at hand. For a second I thought I heard her whisper the word damn. "On second thought, child, would you please run up to the lab and get me the file by the flasks?"

Personally, I loved doing errands for teachers. It somehow made me feel that I'm the teacher's pet, or at least during the time they ask something of you, like any student hates admitting.

"Okay," I said, as I gladly ran towards the staircase.

"Don't freeze it, though!"

She loved talking about the kids' powers and let us apply them in everyday activities, a reason why she was one of my favorite educators.

After having to run up two flights of stairs, I entered the lab and found the file that sat near the flasks, just as she said. It had red bold letters on it saying CONFIDENTIAL.

Of course it is, I thought. Everything they worked on in there was confidential. Sometimes the curiosity just burns you, especially if you're a kid like I was.

Seeing as she was in a hurry, I pressed on with walking, thus hitting the slab on my way out.

I dropped the hoard of papers and later I asked myself that day, why did I fucking read a confidential file?

The day couldn't have gotten any more perfect, except that day I found out I was living in an alternate reality.