Well here goes nothing. Time for the next chapter. Cause I see a lot of people reading it, and otherwise it will rot inside mt head.
A few days later I get a new visitor come into room with Stephen. Erik in a wheelchair.
"He's awake. That's great Stephen it worked, but why didn't you say anything to me yesterday? You were here yesterday, and I asked you. What the heck man?" I was signing to fast for him keep up, or follow.
"Kitty, calm down. I can't understand you. Your signing too fast. I don't know some of those signs. Have you skipped ahead? You know that I won't understand you if you do that" I felt more like a child being scolded for something really bad. Then he gave me a dirty look.
"Stephen, really your mad at me for skipping ahead when in reality this is the only way that I can talk now. Seriously, how can you be mad at me? Like things are so good for. I'm so bored that it is one of the few things that I can really do. I can't even sleep all I can do is study stuff. Are you really mad at me for studying?" I look at him demanding an answer. Is it really fair for him to demand that of me? I THINK NOT! He realized his mistake at this point and looked so ashamed. That a ghost girl in a bottle could make a grown man twice her age could make him roll his shoulders in shame. That is weird. I mean it's not that much of a stretch to say that I have been toe to toe with beings way bigger then me. I don't always win, but I have faced them. To see Stephen actually look away in shame was a whole 'nother world.
"I'm sorry Stephen. I have just been so frustrated lately. I didn't mean it, but this is the only thing that I can do. I'll wait for you from now on. I just wanted to be able to talk on my own" I guess I looked really sorry cause next thing I knew he was smiling at me. I guess we were both were both ashamed of our actions. Erik who was quite during the whole thing finally came closer to my tube.
"Katherine, are you not able to talk? How long have you been awake? How long have I been asleep?" his look so intense that I couldn't look away. He really looked scared. I have seen him so many times in my life that to see him like he was now actually scares me. I have seen this man do things that are so unforgivable they boggle the mind. To see him scared makes me realize just how old he really is. Having Stephen around me all the time I really haven't the time to think about all the time that I have lost. Looking at Stephen I really felt scared.
"I have to use Stephens' voice to talk to you, but I can understand you. I'm not really sure how long I have been awake. I'm guessing that it has been about a month or two. So I'm guessing that you have been asleep for just as long. Stephen has used his magic to heal use both, but you were easier for him to work with" I went slowly so that Stephen could tell Erik what I was saying and not get overwhelmed. It was hard because I wanted to ask so many questions.
"Actually you both have been here for almost four months. Kitty you lost a lot of time back when you couldn't see. I couldn't come some days because of a crisis that I had to handle, and it was hard to see you like you were. Sorry to tell you that Kitty. It was just so depressing, and I know it was like that for you. It was like you were projecting your feelings into the room. So the first month or so I wasn't here very much. Sorry about that" his shoulders started to sag again. I guess that this was the day to tell everyone the truth about all matters. To think that on just the second day being awake Erik has to deal with all this.
I was trying to get Stephens' attention to tell him to take Erik back to his room. I figure with both of us in our different conditions that we'd have tons of time to talk about a lot of things.
"Stephen, take Erik back he looks like he's about to fall asleep. We can talk after you get back" as I signed it Erik's head was dropping so more. Stephen nodded his head and then took Erik back to his room. He took longer then I thought to come back. Maybe Erik started to wake up, but I don't know. When he did come back in Stephen looked really tired.
"Did you heal him. Cause you only look like that when you have healed someone, and you just healed Erik a couple of days ago. It's not safe to do it again so soon. Are you trying to end up like us, because I do not suggest it. You really don't want to join us here. The place of broken people" I was trying to lighten up the rift that was growing between us. Just the other day we had a conformable companionship this was gone. I didn't want this to happen. He was fun to talk to, and I didn't want to lose one of the few friends that I had now. "So are we going to talk or just feel guilty?"
"No I didn't heal Erik again. I was just tired from all the lies being exposed all at once. Logan warned me not to lie to you, and he was right. Logan told me that you had experienced things harder than this, but I didn't believe him. You are so young I just can't think of you in that way. When you first came out of the bullet it was like you weren't really there. You looked so helpless that I just underestimated you and your strengths. I am so sorry I thought that I was protecting you from the truth. I have come to see you as a daughter or little sister. Someone to take care of, and not seeing them as strong. I am so sorry" I was so shocked I didn't know that he saw me that way.
"It's alright Stephen I forgive you. Logan is right though I am very strong, and he helped me get that way. I had to become strong. When I was younger and just starting out in the X-Men I returned home to see my parents. I followed my father to Japan where I found out some bad things about him. I was taken over by a demon. He destroyed me and made me again in his image. Within a matter of days I was a different person one that tired and nearly killed Logan. Not something that I would ever think of doing now. After that was the really hard part Logan was training me to get this guy out of my head. The training was really hard and I just wanted so bad to just go back to Xaiver's and have him make it right. I was fourteen at the time, but Logan pushed me to see what I could do, and even a bit further. I will always be grateful to Logan, and after that he was more like my dad rather than a teammate" I was happy with our talk. Stephen looked really tired so I told him to go home. After all we could talk more tomorrow.
I took liberties with Magneto and Doc Strange. Sorry but this is in no way anything like the comics for a reason. And the comics that I'm referring to at the end of the chapter is Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 1-6. One of the best comic one shots.