Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men: Evolution.
Notes: Thanks everyone! You guys and girls diggin' this story is enough incentive to keep on writing. That said, I also have to say that this chapter is not going to have as much action in it as I thought it would. I've decided to write mainly for the "angst" angle on this story.
More Notes (or an apology and justification to Lance/Kitty fans): I'd just like to explain my position on something real fast. If any of the characters seem OOC, that's because it's my story, and I can do that. That comment really only pertains to Lance. I really hate that character, so I'm sorry if I offend any Lance fans. I truly do apologize, but I've read these characters for something like 15+ years, and the Kitty/Lance thing doesn't do it for me. I'm glad it works for some people, just not for me. I love X-Men: Evolution, though. Anyhow, if you're a Lance/Lancitty fan, I really recommend that YOU DON'T READ MY STORIES. I just don't like him. Sorry.
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*** The Third Day - Afternoon to Evening ***
Kitty ran out of the building and towards the institute. Tears ran from her eyes, and she couldn't figure out whom she was shedding them for. Kurt, or Lance? She just didn't know. She figured that, more than likely, she was shedding her tears for herself. She hated that. She hated the self-pity more than anything, and she'd do anything to stop it. But, try as she might, she just couldn't.
The last five minutes played over and over in her mind, and still she couldn't make sense of it. She felt as if she had walked into some parallel dimension where things just didn't make sense, or even run the same way. She thought back to Lance's wounds, and became angry at Kurt. She thought back to Lance calling Kurt a freak, and she got mad at Lance. She thought back to her kiss with Lance, and hated herself for it. She hated Lance for initiating it. She hated Kurt for seeing it.
"What's wrong with me?" she wondered, yet again.
With that, Kitty sped up and bolted towards the institute, phasing through anything that got in her way.
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Kurt appeared in mid-air over the lawn of the Brotherhood Boarding House. Lance was in his grasp, somewhat shaken by the teleporting. Kurt looked down at him with disgust, tired of holding him. As soon as Kurt touched the ground, he dropped Lance, and rolled the older boy over with his foot.
"Glad we're alone now." Lance said, before trying to lift himself off of the ground. He promptly fell down and vomited.
"Jah. Teleporting can do zat to ze uninitiated." Kurt said, and then pushed Lance back down onto the ground. "Now, ve're going to haff a little talk."
"Shut up." Lance said.
"Nein. Vhat vas Kitty talking about? Vhy is she mad at me?"
"Doesn't matter anymore. How'd you like that kiss? I thought it was great. I mean. . ."
He didn't get a chance to finish. Kurt had listened to the first part of what he was saying, and then grew enraged when he was about to finish. He kicked Lance in the side. Hard. Lance rolled over on the ground.
"Vhat does she zink I did?" Kurt screamed.
"You know what you did. You kicked me this morning."
"Jah, after you punched me in ze stomach!"
"Like I said: doesn't matter. When I told her that you had kicked me, she got all concerned about me. She was so mad at you!" Lance said, laughing.
Kurt looked down at Lance, amazed. He had to be lying. Kurt couldn't believe that Kitty would think that he was the type of person to attack unprovoked. She knew him too well. She would never think of him as that type of person. Would she?
"Face it, Kurt. She just doesn't want to be with you anymore. Who would?"
"Shut up!"
"You're covered in blue fur, you've got pointed teeth, and you have a tail for Chrissakes!"
"Shut up! Kitty loves me! She told me so!"
Lance rolled back over and looked Kurt in the eyes. "Kitty kissed me. It's not like I kissed her and she didn't return it. She kissed back, man. I think she's pretty much over the novelty of having a furry boyfriend."
"SHUT UP!" Kurt screamed, lunging at Lance. Lance did nothing but crawl backwards along the ground, laughing.
"Yeah! Go ahead! Hit me! I'm sure Kitty will love taking care of me!" he yelled back at Kurt.
Kurt froze, his hands both curled into fists. He was squeezing his fingers so tightly together that it hurt. He looked at Lance with a murderous glaze in his eyes, wondering what to do.
"Go ahead. Hit me. It'll make you feel better." Lance taunted.
Kurt loosened his hands, and fell to the ground. He tried hard to stop the tears forming in his eyes from falling, and got modest results. Lance looked up at him, feeling disgusted. He really is just a nothing, Lance thought. Kurt bowed his head, fighting the emotions inside of him. Finally he looked back up at Lance, who was just beginning to stand up.
"I told you she'd be with me again. I told you that this morning. I wasn't lying. She wants me. You were just the rebound guy."
"You tried to kill her." Kurt said in a small voice.
"Well, apparently she's gotten over that. I suggest you get over her, now."
"She loves me." Kurt said in an even smaller voice, his eyes closed and head bowed.
"Maybe she did. But not anymore." Lance said.
Lance got up and left Kurt there. Entering his house, he called over his shoulder.
"Get off of this property before I do something about it."
With that, he closed the door on the young mutant, still on both knees on his front lawn.
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Kitty reached the institute and ran straight to her room. Both Professor X and Logan marked her early return from school. But Professor X also marked her emotional state, and decided to leave her alone. He told Logan to leave her alone as well. From Kitty's room, Xavier felt a mix of emotions within the young girl. Love, hate, anger, loyalty, confusion, and pain were among the many things running through her mind.
Inside her room, Kitty was sprawled over her bed. Her face was shoved into a pillow in an attempt to quiet the sobs that were racking her body. It was a useless attempt. Scott was passing by her room, and heard her in it. He knocked gently on the door before opening it slightly.
"Kitty? Are you okay?"
"Get out of here, Scott." She said into her pillow.
"My God, Kitty. What's wrong? What happened to you?"
"Nothing."
"Are you hurt?"
"Will you just leave me alone, Scott?"
"Sorry. Sorry." Scott said, and began to leave.
"No, I'm sorry, Scott." Kitty said, sitting up on her bed, drying her eyes on her blanket.
"You want to talk about it?"
Kitty nodded. She took a deep breath and then filled Scott in on the events that had taken place since she had been dropped off at school. Scott listened to her, interrupting every now and then to clarity certain points. When she was finally finished, she looked up at Scott, who was shaking his head.
"Kitty, that just doesn't sound like Kurt. I just can't see Kurt starting an unprovoked fight."
"Well, he did."
"Yeah. According to Lance." Scott said. He was doing his best to try to make Kitty realize that she sounded as if she were bad mouthing her boyfriend, who loved her.
"Yeah? He said it, and I believe it!" Kitty said, raising her voice.
"What? Kitty, you know Kurt. . . "
"Scott, Kurt even said that he should have hurt Lance more than he did! He said it right in front of me!"
"All I'm saying, Kitty, is that you don't know what happened between them. You don't know if Kurt's attack was unprovoked. You don't even know if Kurt actually hit him."
"Well, Lance said he did."
"He could be lying."
"You just hate Lance, and you're making him out to be the bad guy!"
"Well, Kitty. . . you supposedly love Kurt, and it sounds as if you're making him out to be the bad guy!"
Kitty was thrown for a second, wondering if that were true. She thought back to the fight in the hallway. She had been so mad at Kurt. How dare he hit Lance, she thought. She wasn't even thinking of the heartbroken look on Kurt's face when he had seen the kiss. She hadn't thought anymore about Lance calling Kurt a freak. All she thought about was the blood that was running down Lance's head, and how unfair Kurt was being. He was being mean to her at school that day. How could no one believe Lance when he said that Kurt went off on him? Thinking back, Kitty realized he must have done it after their fight in the library during lunch. It was the only time that he could have beaten on Lance.
"Well, maybe I, like, spoke too soon about love. I obviously don't know him as well as I thought I did." Kitty said in a small voice, almost whispering it.
"What?!? You're really going to take Lance Alver's word over Kurt's?"
"Just get out, Scott!" Kitty yelled, and flopped back onto her bed.
Scott sat there for a moment, amazed. He shook his head, giving up hope. He left to find Kurt.
Kitty fell asleep hoping that Lance was okay.
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Kurt watched the sun set, crouching on a bough in a tree on the Institute's grounds. His tears had become few and far between, but you could still see that the young man had been crying. He had never, ever felt like this before. He felt as if someone had stolen all the happiness he had ever had, and ever would have and left him empty inside. He bowed his head, and began to think to himself.
"I'm leaving." Thought Kurt. "I'm not sticking around to watch zose two get back togezzer. I'll leave and make my life somevhere else. I don't care if I live homeless."
"Oh, I don't think it'll come to that, Kurt." He heard in his head.
"Hallo, Herr Professor." Thought Kurt.
"I'm sorry for invading your privacy, but I wanted to make sure that you were okay. I caught some of Kitty's feelings this afternoon. . . "
Kurt cringed.
". . . and I wanted you to know that we're here for you."
"Professor, I won't stick around and vait for zem to get back togezzer. I vill not be a vitness to zat. I vant to leave. I can't take living here much longer."
"I'm sorry to hear that Kurt. However, before you run away to join the circus. . . "
Kurt smiled for the first time in hours.
". . . please join me in my study. I'd like to discuss an option with you."
"Jah. I'll see you in a little vhile."
"I'll see you then, Kurt."
Kurt sighed, and picked at a piece of bark on the branch. He was going to leave, no matter what the Professor had to say about staying. He couldn't take this life much longer. He lowered his head, and heart footsteps coming towards him. He held his breath, hoping it was Kitty.
"Hey, Elf." Scott said.
Kurt's heart dropped again.
"Hallo, Scott."
"How are you?" Scott asked, looking up at Kurt.
"Vell, I haff been better." Kurt joked. The two looked at each other and laughed gently.
"I heard what happened today."
"Jah?"
"Yeah."
"I'm leaving." Kurt said.
"What?" Scott asked, turning his head to look Kurt in the eyes.
"I'm leaving. I'm not sticking around to vatch Kitty and Lance get back togezer. I can't take zis any longer. I can't live in ze same house and pine avay for her."
"You're not really leaving? Are you?" "Jah. I am. As a matter of fact, I haff to go talk to ze Professor about it now." Kurt said, and jumped down from the tree next to Scott.
Kurt began to walk away, and Scott ran to catch up to him.
"Hey, Kurt! Listen, I know this is the wrong time to talk about it, but I have to tell you now because. . . well. . . I think of you as my brother. And so, you're kind of my family." Scott joked sadly.
"Vhat?" Kurt asked.
"Look." Scott pulled out a beautiful diamond ring from his pocket. "I'm giving it to Jean tonight."
Kurt looked at the ring, and his heart went out to his friend.
"I hope she says yes, and zat you two are happy for all time. . . brozzer."
And saying that, he teleported away, leaving a saddened Scott.
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Okay, so that's it for now. I'm going to try to get another one up either tonight or tomorrow morning. That will be the last chapter of Change of Heart. Anyhow, hope everyone liked it. I'm off to sleep and then back to school.
Notes: Thanks everyone! You guys and girls diggin' this story is enough incentive to keep on writing. That said, I also have to say that this chapter is not going to have as much action in it as I thought it would. I've decided to write mainly for the "angst" angle on this story.
More Notes (or an apology and justification to Lance/Kitty fans): I'd just like to explain my position on something real fast. If any of the characters seem OOC, that's because it's my story, and I can do that. That comment really only pertains to Lance. I really hate that character, so I'm sorry if I offend any Lance fans. I truly do apologize, but I've read these characters for something like 15+ years, and the Kitty/Lance thing doesn't do it for me. I'm glad it works for some people, just not for me. I love X-Men: Evolution, though. Anyhow, if you're a Lance/Lancitty fan, I really recommend that YOU DON'T READ MY STORIES. I just don't like him. Sorry.
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*** The Third Day - Afternoon to Evening ***
Kitty ran out of the building and towards the institute. Tears ran from her eyes, and she couldn't figure out whom she was shedding them for. Kurt, or Lance? She just didn't know. She figured that, more than likely, she was shedding her tears for herself. She hated that. She hated the self-pity more than anything, and she'd do anything to stop it. But, try as she might, she just couldn't.
The last five minutes played over and over in her mind, and still she couldn't make sense of it. She felt as if she had walked into some parallel dimension where things just didn't make sense, or even run the same way. She thought back to Lance's wounds, and became angry at Kurt. She thought back to Lance calling Kurt a freak, and she got mad at Lance. She thought back to her kiss with Lance, and hated herself for it. She hated Lance for initiating it. She hated Kurt for seeing it.
"What's wrong with me?" she wondered, yet again.
With that, Kitty sped up and bolted towards the institute, phasing through anything that got in her way.
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Kurt appeared in mid-air over the lawn of the Brotherhood Boarding House. Lance was in his grasp, somewhat shaken by the teleporting. Kurt looked down at him with disgust, tired of holding him. As soon as Kurt touched the ground, he dropped Lance, and rolled the older boy over with his foot.
"Glad we're alone now." Lance said, before trying to lift himself off of the ground. He promptly fell down and vomited.
"Jah. Teleporting can do zat to ze uninitiated." Kurt said, and then pushed Lance back down onto the ground. "Now, ve're going to haff a little talk."
"Shut up." Lance said.
"Nein. Vhat vas Kitty talking about? Vhy is she mad at me?"
"Doesn't matter anymore. How'd you like that kiss? I thought it was great. I mean. . ."
He didn't get a chance to finish. Kurt had listened to the first part of what he was saying, and then grew enraged when he was about to finish. He kicked Lance in the side. Hard. Lance rolled over on the ground.
"Vhat does she zink I did?" Kurt screamed.
"You know what you did. You kicked me this morning."
"Jah, after you punched me in ze stomach!"
"Like I said: doesn't matter. When I told her that you had kicked me, she got all concerned about me. She was so mad at you!" Lance said, laughing.
Kurt looked down at Lance, amazed. He had to be lying. Kurt couldn't believe that Kitty would think that he was the type of person to attack unprovoked. She knew him too well. She would never think of him as that type of person. Would she?
"Face it, Kurt. She just doesn't want to be with you anymore. Who would?"
"Shut up!"
"You're covered in blue fur, you've got pointed teeth, and you have a tail for Chrissakes!"
"Shut up! Kitty loves me! She told me so!"
Lance rolled back over and looked Kurt in the eyes. "Kitty kissed me. It's not like I kissed her and she didn't return it. She kissed back, man. I think she's pretty much over the novelty of having a furry boyfriend."
"SHUT UP!" Kurt screamed, lunging at Lance. Lance did nothing but crawl backwards along the ground, laughing.
"Yeah! Go ahead! Hit me! I'm sure Kitty will love taking care of me!" he yelled back at Kurt.
Kurt froze, his hands both curled into fists. He was squeezing his fingers so tightly together that it hurt. He looked at Lance with a murderous glaze in his eyes, wondering what to do.
"Go ahead. Hit me. It'll make you feel better." Lance taunted.
Kurt loosened his hands, and fell to the ground. He tried hard to stop the tears forming in his eyes from falling, and got modest results. Lance looked up at him, feeling disgusted. He really is just a nothing, Lance thought. Kurt bowed his head, fighting the emotions inside of him. Finally he looked back up at Lance, who was just beginning to stand up.
"I told you she'd be with me again. I told you that this morning. I wasn't lying. She wants me. You were just the rebound guy."
"You tried to kill her." Kurt said in a small voice.
"Well, apparently she's gotten over that. I suggest you get over her, now."
"She loves me." Kurt said in an even smaller voice, his eyes closed and head bowed.
"Maybe she did. But not anymore." Lance said.
Lance got up and left Kurt there. Entering his house, he called over his shoulder.
"Get off of this property before I do something about it."
With that, he closed the door on the young mutant, still on both knees on his front lawn.
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Kitty reached the institute and ran straight to her room. Both Professor X and Logan marked her early return from school. But Professor X also marked her emotional state, and decided to leave her alone. He told Logan to leave her alone as well. From Kitty's room, Xavier felt a mix of emotions within the young girl. Love, hate, anger, loyalty, confusion, and pain were among the many things running through her mind.
Inside her room, Kitty was sprawled over her bed. Her face was shoved into a pillow in an attempt to quiet the sobs that were racking her body. It was a useless attempt. Scott was passing by her room, and heard her in it. He knocked gently on the door before opening it slightly.
"Kitty? Are you okay?"
"Get out of here, Scott." She said into her pillow.
"My God, Kitty. What's wrong? What happened to you?"
"Nothing."
"Are you hurt?"
"Will you just leave me alone, Scott?"
"Sorry. Sorry." Scott said, and began to leave.
"No, I'm sorry, Scott." Kitty said, sitting up on her bed, drying her eyes on her blanket.
"You want to talk about it?"
Kitty nodded. She took a deep breath and then filled Scott in on the events that had taken place since she had been dropped off at school. Scott listened to her, interrupting every now and then to clarity certain points. When she was finally finished, she looked up at Scott, who was shaking his head.
"Kitty, that just doesn't sound like Kurt. I just can't see Kurt starting an unprovoked fight."
"Well, he did."
"Yeah. According to Lance." Scott said. He was doing his best to try to make Kitty realize that she sounded as if she were bad mouthing her boyfriend, who loved her.
"Yeah? He said it, and I believe it!" Kitty said, raising her voice.
"What? Kitty, you know Kurt. . . "
"Scott, Kurt even said that he should have hurt Lance more than he did! He said it right in front of me!"
"All I'm saying, Kitty, is that you don't know what happened between them. You don't know if Kurt's attack was unprovoked. You don't even know if Kurt actually hit him."
"Well, Lance said he did."
"He could be lying."
"You just hate Lance, and you're making him out to be the bad guy!"
"Well, Kitty. . . you supposedly love Kurt, and it sounds as if you're making him out to be the bad guy!"
Kitty was thrown for a second, wondering if that were true. She thought back to the fight in the hallway. She had been so mad at Kurt. How dare he hit Lance, she thought. She wasn't even thinking of the heartbroken look on Kurt's face when he had seen the kiss. She hadn't thought anymore about Lance calling Kurt a freak. All she thought about was the blood that was running down Lance's head, and how unfair Kurt was being. He was being mean to her at school that day. How could no one believe Lance when he said that Kurt went off on him? Thinking back, Kitty realized he must have done it after their fight in the library during lunch. It was the only time that he could have beaten on Lance.
"Well, maybe I, like, spoke too soon about love. I obviously don't know him as well as I thought I did." Kitty said in a small voice, almost whispering it.
"What?!? You're really going to take Lance Alver's word over Kurt's?"
"Just get out, Scott!" Kitty yelled, and flopped back onto her bed.
Scott sat there for a moment, amazed. He shook his head, giving up hope. He left to find Kurt.
Kitty fell asleep hoping that Lance was okay.
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Kurt watched the sun set, crouching on a bough in a tree on the Institute's grounds. His tears had become few and far between, but you could still see that the young man had been crying. He had never, ever felt like this before. He felt as if someone had stolen all the happiness he had ever had, and ever would have and left him empty inside. He bowed his head, and began to think to himself.
"I'm leaving." Thought Kurt. "I'm not sticking around to watch zose two get back togezzer. I'll leave and make my life somevhere else. I don't care if I live homeless."
"Oh, I don't think it'll come to that, Kurt." He heard in his head.
"Hallo, Herr Professor." Thought Kurt.
"I'm sorry for invading your privacy, but I wanted to make sure that you were okay. I caught some of Kitty's feelings this afternoon. . . "
Kurt cringed.
". . . and I wanted you to know that we're here for you."
"Professor, I won't stick around and vait for zem to get back togezzer. I vill not be a vitness to zat. I vant to leave. I can't take living here much longer."
"I'm sorry to hear that Kurt. However, before you run away to join the circus. . . "
Kurt smiled for the first time in hours.
". . . please join me in my study. I'd like to discuss an option with you."
"Jah. I'll see you in a little vhile."
"I'll see you then, Kurt."
Kurt sighed, and picked at a piece of bark on the branch. He was going to leave, no matter what the Professor had to say about staying. He couldn't take this life much longer. He lowered his head, and heart footsteps coming towards him. He held his breath, hoping it was Kitty.
"Hey, Elf." Scott said.
Kurt's heart dropped again.
"Hallo, Scott."
"How are you?" Scott asked, looking up at Kurt.
"Vell, I haff been better." Kurt joked. The two looked at each other and laughed gently.
"I heard what happened today."
"Jah?"
"Yeah."
"I'm leaving." Kurt said.
"What?" Scott asked, turning his head to look Kurt in the eyes.
"I'm leaving. I'm not sticking around to vatch Kitty and Lance get back togezer. I can't take zis any longer. I can't live in ze same house and pine avay for her."
"You're not really leaving? Are you?" "Jah. I am. As a matter of fact, I haff to go talk to ze Professor about it now." Kurt said, and jumped down from the tree next to Scott.
Kurt began to walk away, and Scott ran to catch up to him.
"Hey, Kurt! Listen, I know this is the wrong time to talk about it, but I have to tell you now because. . . well. . . I think of you as my brother. And so, you're kind of my family." Scott joked sadly.
"Vhat?" Kurt asked.
"Look." Scott pulled out a beautiful diamond ring from his pocket. "I'm giving it to Jean tonight."
Kurt looked at the ring, and his heart went out to his friend.
"I hope she says yes, and zat you two are happy for all time. . . brozzer."
And saying that, he teleported away, leaving a saddened Scott.
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Okay, so that's it for now. I'm going to try to get another one up either tonight or tomorrow morning. That will be the last chapter of Change of Heart. Anyhow, hope everyone liked it. I'm off to sleep and then back to school.