A/N- This is looking much better than it did the last time it was posted, making me proud. I still have the original story if anyone wants it. I can repost it, it just isn't very well written, in comparison of course. College English Professors are the best at telling someone how to write with more skill. Try taking out every be verb (am, is, are, was, were, be being, been, etc) in a ten page paper... that will change your writing style.

This chapter is a little angrier than I intended, my stupid teacher gave me a D on an opinion paper! It wasn't even an English class and he gave me a D! He didn't agree with my opinion, and my writing style was too advanced and he nearly failed me! Stupid teacher. I wish I had my own portable X-Man, save me from this teacher... lmao.

My Beautiful Kitten

Chapter 2

In the Heat of the Moment

"Did ya tell Lance?" Rogue asks as Kitty curls into a ball, or at least the best ball a pregnant woman can, shaking as she hides her face with her hair. "Did ya tell him that tha baby ain't his? I'd love ta see tha look on his face when ya do."

"Yeah, he is not happy. He is so furious. Should I tell the real father? What will he do?" Kitty asks slowly, softly as her shaking begins to subside.

"Ya need ta tell him sugar. It ain't gonna be any easier tomorrow. He will wanna know, he has a right ta know. What happens if Lance does something stupid and then Ah have ta go beat beat his ass while screaming the daddy's name hoping he hears and comes ta join tha fight? Then again I guess Remy'd be more then happy ta kick Alvers' ass a time or ten." Rogue says smiling softly at Kitty causing her to giggle softly.

"Don't Rogue!" Kitty says moving too quickly and falling off of the couch stomach first, but managing to turn her body around just in time to hit her side instead of her fragile cargo protected inside of her body.

"Are ya ok?" Rogue asks running over to the fragile looking girl. "Do Ah need ta call Hank?"

"Yes… maybe…." Kitty says slowly moving her hand to the in circles on her swollen belly, as if checking to see that there is no damage. "Yes, I need him." Kitty moans moving her hands to the underside of the bulge. "Get her father too, I need to tell him, and I need to tell him now, before she is born." Kitty groans clenching her teeth as her face breaks out in perspiration. 'Professor'! Kitty calls out mentally, the moan even evident in her mental voice, 'I need Dr. McCoy, can you get him to the lab, and get me help?'

'Of course I can, he is on his way to the lab and Piotr is on his way to you, to help you to the lab.' The Professor replies quickly, his voice full of concern. 'He just asks that you don't phase through his grasp like the last time.' The older man continues, the chuckle evident in his tone.

'Thank you very much.' Kitty responds closing her eyes and letting out a scream as her body tightens into a ball around her stomach for a few long moments before she slowly relaxes and attempts to stand, using the couch as a crutch to hold her weight. "Rogue, I really don't feel well." She explains, as if the screaming wasn't evidence of pain. "This is different than the last time. I've fallen twice in two days. Clumsy me, I'm only athletic till it will save my baby, then I'm falling all over the place." Kitty proclaims with a sad smile on her face.

"I can tell sugar. We are going to get ya down there ta Hank. The professor is sendin Piotr, Ah don't wanna carry ya and hurt tha baby. Ya don't need ta be drained at this point."

"I know, he told me too." Kitty says as she bends over and grinds her teeth together again. "Do you think the father will be mad that he hasn't known? Or do you think that my announcement last night was enough for him. I don't know how intuitive he is." Kitty mumbles sitting down on the couch, her movements betraying her for the pain that racks her body.

"Ya only found out today, and there has been no time ta tell him. This ain't tha time ta think about him honey, just calm down and remember ta breathe." Rogue says as Piotr rushes into the room, breathing heavily. "Thank God, yer here. Ah was afraid Ah'd have ta carry her myself!" Rogue greets the gentle giant, relief lighting up her face.

"I am more than happy to help her. I understand that you do not want to risk touching her bare skin." Piotr says walking over to Kitty. "Is it okay if I pick you up now?" He asks gently and she nods in reply. The giant mutant slowly wraps one arm around her still slender shoulders and the other under her knees before lifting her off of the couch and pulling her into this body so that she can lean against him.

"Thank ya darlin. Ah really appreciate it." Rogue gushes following the helpful mutant out of the room, but stopping at the doorway as he continues down the hallway.

"I understand why it is necessary. I will help her gladly." Piotr says walking quickly down the hallway, away from the motionless Rogue.

"Chere, if ya cry ya won't be da Rogue no more." Remy says suddenly standing beside her, causing Rogue to jump.

"Remy, good God. Ah was about ta go lookin fer ya. Kit… God Ah don't even know what happened ta her. She just fell over an then started havin' these pains. Oh Remy, it was awful to look at. Ah don't wanna follow them, but Ah don't wanna just stand here useless." Rogue says looking down at the ground and closing her eyes, her gathered brows the only part of her features betraying her confusion.

"Dat ain't like ya. Kit needs ya." Remy says wrapping his arms around Rogue's shoulders causing Rogue to stiffen for a moment before relaxing and then leaning into his body. "Go ta her. Ya know she wants ya, she needs ya." Remy whispers into her hair.

"Then do me a favor." Rogue asks from his embrace.

"What do ya need." Remy responds instantly placing his hands on her shoulders and stepping back a step to meet her eyes.

"It's what Kit needs, not what Ah need. Ah need ya ta get someone for me, or at least prepare him for what she is about ta tell him." Rogue confides looking away from him, toward the direction Piotr had carried Kitty moments before. "He might not like tha idea, but he's gotta meet her down here. I'm sure most of the mansion will show, but he has ta be there."

Same Time, Hallway

"Katherine, you're doing good." Piotr whispers into her ear. "Hang in there, we are almost there. You will be okay." He continues reassuringly as his hand on her shoulder moves in sofr circles.

"Piotr… thank you so much… I appreciate your help." Kitty moans through her clenched teeth. "I really… needed your help."

"It is nothing. You are important to me, you are one of my friends." Piotr says smiling at the small fragile girl, with a hint of something more behind his kind, patient eyes.

"Thank you." Kitty says as her eyes close tightly and tears start to trickle down her cheeks from the pain.

"Get her in here, quickly Piotr." Dr. McCoy says as he washes his hands and pulls his gloves onto his hands. Piotr walks quickly into the room and gently places Kitty onto the hospital-like bed. "Thank you for carrying her, but could you please leave? I do not know what I will have to do to her while she is in here, and I do not need anyone else in here."

"Of course Dr. McCoy." The giant Russian says walking out and closing the door behind him. As the door closes Piotr releases a breath that he didn't know he had been holding and slumps slightly against the door before walking across the hallway to a small, padded chair without armrests and sitting down.

"Where is she?" Rogue asks running up to Piotr, breathless as she leans over and grips her knees with her hands. "Where is Kitty?"

"With Dr. McCoy. He asked me to leave the room for the moment. I do not know when you can go in to see her. He did not say anything to me." Piotr says looking up into Rogue's eyes, but when they both recognize the identical looks of worry they wear they look away quickly.

"Ah understand that, Ah was just askin', no need ta get all defensive." Rogue says trying to act calmer than stance proclaims loudly. "Ah mean, it's not that bad, right?"

"Of course not." Piotr replies as Rogue sits beside him, burying her face in her hands. Carefully, Piotr places a hand on her back to comfort the normally less emotional girl.

"God, Ah blame myself. Does that make any sense ta ya?" Rogue asks trying to mask the choking of her voice, the choking that nearly makes it impossible to speak. "Why did Ah bring it up?"

"It can't be your fault. It is, most likely, labor pains, and no one can stop them." Jean says walking into the hallway with her fake smile in place on her face. "This hallway just seems too tense." Jean says smiling at the two, and attempting to cheer them up.

"Ah don't need ya down here right now Jean, there is only so much that Ah can handle, and you aren't one tha list." Rogue snaps at the psychic, her eyes full of hatred.

"I get it Rogue, you are upset." Jean begins stepping toward Rogue and reaching out a hand toward her shoulder as if in comfort.

"No, Ah just don't like ya, and I don't wanna hear yer mouth right now. So get lost. Ya are never there when Kit really needs ya. Did ya even know that she isn't with Lance anymore?" Rogue yells at Jean, closing the distance between them before grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her in anger.

"Jean, where is she?" Lance asks running down the hallway toward the two girls as Jean psychically pushes Rogue back against the far wall with a loud thud. "Where is my precious Kitten? Our baby is being born." Lance asks joyfully running up to the red head whose smile returns with blinding intensity.

"It's not yers asshole." Rogue yells running back toward the pair with fury written all over her face. "Ah don't want ya anywhere near this baby. The father is so much better than ya are, it's like comparin a Saint ta yer trailer trash ass. Well, then again, yer not even at that level, yer way below it aren't ya?"

"Rogue, the whole other father thing is just an act, and we all know it. No one here would fuck my woman, so I know she was faithful to me." Lance says balling his fist and shaking the building.

"If you keep doing dat I'm is gonna have ta break yer face. And if ya don't just get lost now, I'm just gonna break yer face fer da hell of it." Remy says stepping up behind the shaggy boy and placing a charged card at the base of his neck. "Don't think dat I won't be doing it. I will and I'll be having a blast doing it, trust me. I don't like ya, and I side with Kitty and Rogue. Ya caused da girl enough heartache, so just get lost."

"Don't I ever know this. No one here would want to fuck around with me, and fucking her would have done that. We all know that Kitty was faithful to me." Lance yells at the Remy, causing the mansion to shake even more around them all, like a leaf.

"Yeah, we all know." Jean reassuringly him, placing her hands on his shoulders. "But Lance, if you don't stop the tremors the roof may fall down on your girlfriend and your baby." Jean informs him quietly, and the tremors stop.

"Ya'll did break up quite a few times." Rogue reminds him.

"It was never for long! It would be a week, tops!" Lance screams turning to face Rogue as the building shakes again, causing Remy to replace the card on his neck and push it more forcefully into Lance, sending a trickle of blood down his neck.

"Remy knows dat she don't want ya around, so get out of here." Remy warns venomously.

"What the hell do you know? She is in love with me! That child is proof!" Lance screams in return balling his fists more tightly, turning the knuckles white.

"Actually, the baby isn't yours." Rogue admits glaring at Lance. "Kit told ya that earlier today. When she told me about it, Ah knew who the father was, so she never had ta tell me. It happened a few months ago when y'all were broken up. It was at a party that we threw fer her. She got real tipsy, started makin' out wit this guy she liked, still does too, and it went deeper then that. She took him into tha bed that y'all shared and this little girl will be the product of that." Rogue informs him as her eyes ask him to challenge her.

"Who is the father then? Is this a lie, like the one she told me earlier? She never told me his name, so I have to be the father."Lance replies confidently placing his balled fists on his hips defiantly.

"Ah can't say, he has ta be tha first she tells. Kit neva told me. Ah knew who it was when she told me the father wasn't you. Ya can't even claim that she wasn't faithful ta ya, cuz she wasn't wit ya when it happened." Rogue says in a deadly sounding whisper, just begging him to contradict her.

"Woah! We're missing a fight! Lance might just get his ass kicked!" Pietro calls out to Pyro who is running down the hallway to meet them. "Hurry up! Remy and Rogue versus Avalanche! My money is on Rogue, he won't even know what hit him!" Pietro calls out to Pyro, cheering them on.

"Shut up Pietro, no one cares what you think. Little daddy's lapdog doesn't get an opinion, especially since daddy is dead." Lance retorts before turning his attention back to Rogue. "That lying, scheming little bitch, I did so much for her, and this is how she repays me? This is not over; I want to talk to her now!"

"I'm afraid that isn't possible, Lance." Xavier says slowly coming down the hallway. "Hank has remained in contact with me through this entire ordeal, and Kitty is not doing well enough to talk to you. Now I don't mean to worry anyone, she just is not up to having visitors. She has asked for one man, and that man isn't you."

"Then who the hell does my woman want? She's mine God dammit! Why would she want someone else?" Lance screams sending his fists into the wall.

"That is not for you to know, she has been asking that it doesn't get to you, until after he knows. Kitty is being very honest with everyone, but she wants the father to be the first to know. She is doing a very honorable thing. She told you first that it is not yours, now she must tell the father it is his." Xavier says in a monotone, causing Pietro and Pyro to mockinly look on with wide eyed shock, covering their mouths with their hands before bursting into laughter.

"That makes no sense! The lying bitch!" Lance screams again, attempting to punch Pietro, who dodges easily.

"Lance, I am going to have to ask you to leave the premises, until you can calm down." Xavier says as Logan appears through a doorway. "I can't have you throwing punches at your fellow students, and since we do have children on the premises, I can not permit this foul language."

"You needed me Chuck?" Logan asks, excitement in his eyes as he stares at Lance.

"Yes, I did. I need you to escort Mr. Alvers here off the property, and into Bayville. I will program the security to not let him back in until after he has proven that he is no longer this upset. Lance this is for your own good. I have many students here, I can't have the building falling down on them." Xavier says as Logan grabs Lance's arms and begins to pull him down the hallway.

"Come on Bub, this is the end of the line for you. I'll set ya up in a nice by the hour hotel. I hear there are a few in the neighborhood you used to live in." Logan mocks dragging the boy out of the building.

"Wow, we have bodyguards. I wish I had brought my bloody camera. Would love ta replay that a few dozen times." Pyro laughs out as Lance fruitlessly fights Logan's grip.

Hank McCoy's Office

"Does that feel better, Katherine?" Hank asks the exhausted girl as sweat pours down her face like a waterfall.

"Yes, thank you." She replies tiredly turning her head so that her eyes meet his. "The quakes stopped. Did the Professor make Lance leave?"

"Yes, Lance was making a mess of things. Charles feared for the rest of the students, Lance is a hot-head, not that that is news to you." Dr. McCoy comments causing them both to laugh.

"I'm nervous, Dr. McCoy, I'm really nervous." Kitty confesses burying her face in her hands.

"It will be ok Katherine. No one will hurt you, we shall all see to that, you are an X-man, and you always have been. The X-men take good care of their own."

"But Lance is an X-man as well." Kitty moans out from behind her hands.

"It's not the same with him. You have never been our enemy. You have always fought the good fight. Look at what he did in the brotherhood. If Charles is forced to choose, he will choose to keep you on our team, and he will side with you regardless of what Lance claims."

"Do you think that my baby will be ok, with this stress?"

"Yes, it was just false labor. Your body is getting ready to deliver. She will be fine, have you picked out a name for her?"

"Not yet, I don't know. Lance wanted to name her Anna, but I will never name her that. Even when I thought that it was his, I never wanted to." Kitty declares, her voice thickly coated with venom.

'Kitty wants to see you.' Charles Xavier says, intruding in Kitty's thoughts of the hatred of the name Anna for her baby.

'I know.' Kitty replies back, sighing and making Hank chuckle softly.

Xavier's office

'Are you ready for what she has to tell you?' The telepathic voice of Charles Xavier asks as he closes his eyes.

'Possibly.' A nervous voice replies softly.

'You will be fine, I know that you and Kitty both want this. I can't see the future, but I can see intentions. There is nothing wrong with being nervous about being a father, the best fathers are always nervous before the birth of their children.' Xavier replies as if from experience.

'Are you certain? Will she want to tell me after all of this? I just saw her ex, the man she thought was the father, get pulled off the property like a criminal, isn't she going to want time to deal with that? They were together for so long!'

"Don't you already know if it isn't Lance it is you? Don't you want to be a part of your own child's life? What would she think if you refused? Could your conscience allow you to remain here? I know in the past you have been accused of not having one, but in the past year that you have been here you have shown immense growth of character.'

'Yes, but is it not-'

'It will be fine.'