LimboSummary:

Limbo
Summary: Kitty spends time in a place where she re-evaluates her life, and makes a decision.
Disclaimer: Marvel owns Kitty. The other character... I'm pretty sure can't be owned.
Author's note: You ever have one of those dreams that has no real explanation, but it's really special, but sort of creepy and morbid? This is based on one of those.
I got a letter from Hank today. I'm not sure why he chose me to tell, I wasn't exactly her best friend. I guess we got along ok, but he said I'm the only one he told. Why not Warren? Or the Professor? I'm the last person on the list, not the first.
Maybe they shouldn't know.
Why not? Isn't it wrong not to tell them that Betsy died?
No, not really. Not many people who've been down that road have stayed.
Peter won't come back.
No, he won't. Would you like to see him?
Could I?
Not now. Later. Promise.
Why do we die? Why did they die? Am I going to die?
You have to. It was their time. Yes.

Maybe. It's up to you.
I get to choose?

People choose to die?
All the time.

Pain. Suffering. Depression. Lost loved ones.
Can I ask you something else?

Did Peter want to?


But you knew that.

What about when people come back?
They don't. They aren't really dead if they come back. Sometimes if they don't.
So Scott...?
He wasn't dead. Pushed into his mind, but not dead.
But Betsy and Peter are really dead? Not coming back?
They're gone. You're crying. Why?
You know everything. Why don't you tell me.
I'm... sorry. Humans have so many emotions. Some of them are hard to decipher. But you may see them later. If you choose.
So I have to decide if I live or die?

What if I can't decide? What then?
Everyone decides. No one has ever not.
So I just stay here until I decide? What if I take a long time, like hours?
This is a timeless place. If you decide to live, you go back minutes after you leave.
A timeless place...? Like Limbo?
...Yes, I guess you could say that. But what you think of as Limbo is not indeed Limbo itself.

Let me explain. The Limbo you know of is only Limbo in Name. This is the place of waiting, the stop between the place of the living or the worlds of the dead.
Like heaven and hell?
Yes, but they are not the places that you would think they are.

It is complex, best to ignore for now.
So the other Limbo was what?
A place of dark forces, and glimmers of light. It, like your world, was once in a balance. It is a mirror of the place you are from.
Th-there was a girl. Illanya. Did she come here?
Yes. She was here for quite some time. She waited for her brother.
So do I get to have my life flash before my eyes' to help me decide?
No. You're far past that stage now.
So no help? I have to decide on my own?

So are you the only one who does what you do? Y'know, answering questions and all?


As I told you before, this is a timeless place. You waited a hundred years to make your decision, yet I am the only one who knows this.
I...If I choose to.. not live... would I be with Peter and Illanya and Betsy and all them?
If you mean would you go to the same place as them, yes.
And it's a good place?
I can't tell you that. There are rules.
You have rules to follow?
Of course. I can't be allowed to upset the cosmic order of things anymore then you can.
I... I think I've made my decision.
Good. What shall it be then?
I want to go.
And in a flash of light, both were gone.
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