Don't own X Men.
Kitty ran. She ran and ran and ran and didn't look back, knowing that if she did, she would run back to everyone. Then their sacrifices would be for nothing. It was hard, not looking back at the people who had became her family. Bobby, her husband. Magneto, her former enemy. Piotr, her old flame, and more. Elle, her close friend. Sentinels had once again crashed their quiet and peaceful time together, and they were now sacrificing their lives so she could send someone back in time to stop this. Kitty will not fail them. Never.
She will save them all, protect them all, just like they were protecting her now.
They will get to see each other again, and she will get to be held in her Bobby's arms again. She just had to run, and not look back.
Kitty grabbed onto Bishop, who was waiting for her.
"Come on," she shouted. "I have to send you back."
Kitty flew up from her bed and groaned. Not again. Ever since Wolverine told them about how he came back to the past to prevent that horrible future, she's been having these nightmares of the things she wasn't supposed to remember. It was always the same. Sentinels attacking, and the others risking their life so that she could send someone back in time to stop the attacks. She saw her comrades, her friends, her family sacrifice themselves repeatedly to try and give her enough time to send someone back. Some, she recognized. Others, not so much.
But... to her that wasn't all. In the future that Wolverine had prevented, she had married Bobby. Not officially, but a marriage all the same. They had loved each other, and relied on each others' strength in the darkest situation. But now that Wolverine had fixed that future, Bobby was still with Rogue and she was alone. That, perhaps, was the worst part, knowing that she and Bobby had a future together, but now could never have one. She wasn't going to destroy a perfect relationship. Rogue and Bobby were happy, and she wasn't a home wrecker.
Kitty sighed, and slid out of bed, careful to not wake anyone up. She bundled herself up, and headed outside. Kitty has been isolating herself from everyone, and they were slowly started to take notice. First Bobby, then Jean, then the rest of the school. Especially Bobby. She couldn't stand being near him, being so close, and remember what they once had. She climbed onto a tree, and phased into it. It was easier to stay phased. It gave the illusion that nothing could touch her. Not Bobby, not all the emotions, nothing. She was exhausted but was too afraid to fall asleep and have a vision come to her.
She tried to convince herself to stop falling for the visions, that she and Bobby lost their chance. That they never even had a chance.
Kitty started when she felt her phone vibrate. She pulled it out, and looked at it. She first noted that it was six, the time that the teachers normally woke up at. Somehow, an hour had passed while she mulled over this vision. Second, Bobby was calling her. She pressed on the decline button and slid the phone back into her pocket. Bobby still didn't understand why Kitty was ignoring him. He didn't see the visions she saw, didn't get to see the closeness between them, didn't feel their love for each other. Kitty sighed and leaned backed on the trunk before noticing that it had chilled considerably since she came out. She jumped off the branch before realizing her brain must be really slow and messed up from the lack of sleep because A) air couldn't cool off that quickly, and B) the ground had turned into ice. It was too late to stop herself, and her feet hit the ground before sliding back, hitting someone else, and knocking them over.
"Bobby!" She yelled. Sure enough, under her was a sheepish but determined looking blond, grinning up at her. She let out multiple profanities and scrambled off of him.
"Sorry, I wanted you to come down and talk to me." He said, getting up from the ground.
"I don't want to talk to you." Kitty said staring at her feet, the leaves, anything but Bobby.
"Why not? You never had this problem with talking to me before. In fact, you seemed to like talking to me." He pointed out, sounding hurt. More than anything, Kitty wanted to hug him, and spill everything out. Instead, she started examining a leaf and said "What's there to talk about?"
"Why you aren't talking to anyone."
"That is my business, and my business alone. So back off, and tell the others to as well. I'm fine." She spat out.
"Kitty." He murmured, placing his hand on her cheek. She instantly swiped it off, ignoring the hurt look that appeared on Bobby's face.
"I'm your best friend," He started again.
"Were." She cut in. "You were my best friend."
"-and I know as a fact that you are not okay." He continued, ignoring Kitty's previous words.
"I'm FINE!" She shouted, shocking herself and Bobby. "Just leave me alone." She started walking away. Bobby growled from behind her.
"Kitty, what the hell did I do? I don't know what I did to make you so angry at me! Come on, please tell me what I did wrong. Anything but continuing to push us away!"
Kitty restrained herself from turning and looking at him, knowing it would all come pouring out if she did. To keep it pouring out that they had loved each other more than anything in the world. To keep it from coming out that she did love him.
"Nothing's wrong Bobby, just drop it." She said in a resigned tone and started walking to the school.
"Kitty, why won't you talk to me?" He demanded. " I don't remember doing anything bad to you and-"
"That's the whole darn point!" She snarled. "You can't remember! Only one person will, only one person should, and only one person can. Yet here I am with nightmares of what once was! Yes, I helped create this future by sending Logan back, and yes, its a better future than the other one, but I don't want these nightmares! They keep showing some things I want, things that would never happen!"
Bobby was stunned silent during her outburst. She knew she shouldn't have revealed that much, but she just couldn't keep it inside her anymore.
"Kitty..." Bobby said softly and reached for her.
"Just- just leave me alone Bobby, please." She said, moving out of his reach.
Kitty only let out the tears once she locked her door. She was tired. Tired of the visions that she couldn't make a sense of, tired of having to watch Bobby and Marie and knowing that she and Bobby were once closer than that, tired of being constantly badgered. She just wanted things to go back the way they were. When she could actually look at things and didn't get reminded of something that didn't exist.
"She didn't not telling me why." Bobby frowned as he talked to Scott, Logan, Jean, Marie, and Ororo, as well as Charles. "I don't think she's planning on telling anyone. She made sure to emphasize that she especially didn't want to talk to me."
Jean winced. "She's in pain. I could feel it from here and it's giving me a headache." A massive headache to be exact. She looked at Xavier. "Can't you take a peek into her mind and see what's going on?"
"I could," Charles leaned forward and frowned. "I could take a peek, as you call it, but not without her consent. And that, I believe, is one thing we don't have."
"I don't get it." Scott spoke up, also frowning. "Kitty's never done anything like this before. She's never done anything this drastic."
"Well, she did mention something interesting that might help us figure this out." They all looked at Bobby. "Kitty was the one who sent Wolverine to the past, right? When I talked to her, she let it slip that there was only one person who should remember, but instead she was having memories of things that didn't exist. So, maybe she remembers the other future, and that's what is causing this."
Logan shrugged. "That still shouldn't effect her as much. In fact, it shouldn't cause her to distance herself like this. It should make her become closer with us."
"But there is one thing that could cause this distancing." Charles spoke up again. He looked at Logan and nodded significantly at Bobby and Rogue. More specifically, nodded at Bobby. Logan groaned and rubbed his temples.
"Oh, she remembers that."
"You did mention how close they were."
"What do you mean?" Marie finally spoke up. "How close who were?"
Charles only hesitated for a moment.
"How close Kitty really was with Bobby." The reaction was immediate. Marie looked plain furious, Bobby looked stunned, and so did Ororo, Scott, and Jean.
"So that's what she meant." Bobby muttered softly, forgetting that Marie was right next to him.
"What do you mean?" Marie snapped.
"She had mentioned something else to me that I had found very strange. She said that the visions showed her something she wanted, something that would never happen. I had been confused, because Wolverine mentioned that the other timeline was a nightmare." Bobby turned towards Wolverine. "In that other timeline, Kitty and I... we were dating weren't we?" Rogue inhaled sharply after Bobby finished talking. Her grip on Bobby tightened, and a scowl was making a way onto her face. Wolverine smirked.
"Oh no. Not dating." Rogue let out a relieved sigh.
"You two were married."
A/N: This might sound similar to other stories but I swear, this will be different. This is my first story here, and I hope it will be good. I'll should be able to update soon, seeing how I'm on break from school.