Meeting the Enemy
Chapter 1
The threat that approaches
"Kurt! I'm going to kill you if you don't give me that back!" Kitty squeals to the blue mutant dangling from the chandelier. "I mean it. I need it."
"Oooh! Kitty wrote an essay on how violence witnessed in childhood affects adults. Are you writing about Lance, trying to justify his actions?" Kurt asks swinging from side to side while reading off of the screen of Kitty's laptop. "Kitty, why do you have anything to do with him? He is bad news!"
"Kurt! Give me my laptop and stay out of my love life!"
"He is jus tryin ta save ya tha heartache that is comin from that freak." Rogue says looking up from her book to briefly look from Kurt to Kitty. "Kurt give it back ta her. Her voice is gettin' on my nerves. Ah can't take much more of it."
"All you had to do was ask nicely Kitty!" Kurt says handing it back and disappearing in a puff of smoke causing Kitty to cough.
"Gee, thanks Rogue." Kitty says sarcastically."
"Anytime sugar."
"Lance, I don't get it. Why are you doing this?" Kitty cries into her hands sitting on the Brotherhood's couch. "Who is she?"
"Kitty, it's not like that. I just think that we need some time apart. There are a lot of things on my mind right now. Your friends don't like me, and my friends don't like you. We are on different sides in the same war. It's just too much sometimes." He says placing one of his hands on her shaking shoulders.
"Lance, that is just a sorry, pathetic excuse. It's Tabby, isn't it? You have been sleeping with Tabby. I knew it. I knew you were doing it months ago. I thought… damn it, I don't know what I thought." Kitty cries standing up and walking out the door as Lance chases after her.
"Kitty let me take you home." Lance says grabbing at her arm but freezes when it just passes through her. "Fine, walk then, see if I care."
"I know you don't Lance. That is why I won't let you drive me home. If you decide you want me, don't even bother. I'm done." Kitty says turning her head slightly to glare at him as she walks away into the pouring rain.
"Where is Kitty?" Jean asks walking into Rogue and Kitty's shared room.
"Out with Lance. She neva listens ta me at all." Rogue says dismissing both the question and the person asking it.
"Well, you don't have to be so short with me Rogue. I'm just worried about her, that is all. Try to find her, dinner in ten." Jean says leaving ass quickly as she had entered the small room.
"Not like I care what ya think about meh. Seriously, get a grip." Rogue says putting the book on her bed and stretching slightly.
"I can't believe him." Kitty cries into her hands as she sits on a cold park bench. "I love him, I gave myself to him! He was my first." She sobs uncontrollably.
"Now Remy has ta wonder what a belle femme be doin all alone in de cold park. Sure, she was not left by her loser boyfriend who thinks he is a worthy of the femme that he never should have been able ta get?" Remy asks sitting beside her and placing his trench coat around her shoulders.
"Are you here to gloat Gambit? I don't need that right now. I'd like to be alone." Kitty says bringing her knees up to her chin and leaning into the warmth of the jacket.
"Non, Remy not be de gloating type. He just worries why such a belle femme has ta be so sad and lonely." He says tilting her chin so that she looks into his demonic eyes.
"You know why, I'm sure you've been in love."
"Sure, Remy been in love before." He says smiling softly, but it was quickly replaced by a stern look. "Remy knows what love can do ta a person. It can eat ya alive, and it doesn't let go easy. Non, Remy knows all too well."
"We're enemies, why would you want to be seen with me? Can't you get in trouble for being around me?" Kitty asks unaware that she was now leaning into him, and that his arms were draped around her still crying form.
"Maybe, but Remy don't mind. Dis won't be de first time dat he has pissed off Mags. He seems ta do it a lot now, much more den before."
"Well, you don't seem as cold hearted as they make you Acolytes out to be, why don't you come join the X-Men? We have hearts you know, and we accept everyone."
"Remy knows, he was on his way there." Remy says pulling the small girl onto his lap.