Never Let Me Go

Chapter 6

(I don't own X-Men)

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Kitty's POV

I've made a lot of progress over the last few weeks, my sessions with the professor were going well and he said he was looking into a possible way of blocking the memories or at least some of them but he wasn't guaranteeing anything. I still struggled with my self-harm but I now had Bobby who stayed with me and made sure I didn't go too deep or get them infected.

He slept in my room with me a lot now, I slept better knowing he was close and when I woke up screaming from a nightmare he'd comfort me and stay until I fell back asleep or keep me company until I forced him to go back to sleep.

His constant closeness does make it hard for me sometime given what I knew about our would be relationship and he didn't, I didn't know how I could tell him. What if the information made him reject me? I couldn't lose him as a friend.

I was making my way to another session, hopefully soon I would be back to teaching classes again. I missed working with the students, besides my sessions I spent most of my time in the gym or the danger room.

I was walking towards the Professor's office when I heard voices from a nearby corridor

"She seems better" Ororo

"Yeah, she still has nightmares every night but I think she's finally making some progress" that was Bobby. Would these people ever learn to take a conversation in private? After the last time I thought Bobby would be more careful.

Marie had been avoiding me since, the few times I have seen her she'd glared at me and spun around in the opposite direction but I couldn't deal with her at the moment. I had my own problems to deal with right now.

I pause and listen to their conversation "You're good for her Bobby, you're helping her so much"

"She's my friend, I just want to help her"

"You care about her so much, I can see why the two of you were together in the other timeline"

I freeze, my heart stops beating in my chest and my mouth suddenly feels incredibly dry.

"What?" I can tell by the tone of his voice that he is shocked "Together? What are you talking about?"

"Oh god, Bobby I am so sorry I thought she'd told you, I assumed she would have said something" Storm fumbles over her worlds uncharacteristically.

"What do you mean together? Like we were dating?"

"Not exactly….you two were married"

"MARRIED!"

"I'm so sorry Robert I thought she would have said something"

"Why would she keep this from me? I mean does she get memories about us? Is that why she avoided me?" My heart breaks at hearing this, I want to go and tell him everything, tell him how sorry I was about keeping it from him but I can't, my feet are stuck to the floor.

"I can't deal with this right now" he says and then I hear his feet storming down the corridor. I rush off to my room, phasing through countless walls until I get there and let out a scream of frustration, angry tears coming down my face.

I've ruined everything! Bobby and I were finally starting to be what we used to be, before my suicide attempt, before the memories started coming back and now it was all ruined. How could I face him after this? I started to cry, tears angrily streaming down my face as I covered my face with my hands.

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I stayed in my room until the next day, Bobby hadn't come to talk to me and I didn't want to chance running into him. Maybe I could leave for a while, give him space and time to process this. I couldn't bear to lose him as a friend.

I decided to go down to the danger room, get some more practice in. I might be able to distract myself that way. I'm working through a simulation when the doors are opened and I turn momentarily distracted but learnt from my mistakes the last time I was distracted in the danger room and pause the simulation.

"How could you not tell me? About us, the other timeline" Bobby is coming towards me, he is obviously angry and confused.

"Please just let me explain I-"

"Explain what? How you lied to me? How could you keep something like this from me? Did you not think I had a right to know?" he cut me off

"No it wasn't like that! Okay I just, I didn't want to make things more complicated or make you feel confused or obligated" I tried to explain, reaching out to him but he turns away from me

"Is this why you avoided me for so long, do you get memories of us?"

"No Bobby that's not why I…... look I only did that to protect you. I wanted to keep you from getting hurt!"

"So you do get memories about us? I thought we were getting somewhere Kitty, how could you keep this from me?

"Because I care about you! I care about you and I don't want to hurt you!" I shout, breathing heavily,

He has this look on his face that I can't read and his cheeks are slightly red from the shouting, he walks forward suddenly and I tense up expecting another argument but what he does instead surprises me.

He grips my face with his hands and pulls my face to his, crashing his mouth down onto mine. I almost die there and then. For so long I have dreamt of this moment and now it was happening and not in a memory.

The kiss albeit passionate is short and he breaks away, I open my mouth to say something but am cut off by the ground shaking and the sound of an explosion. Bits of the ceiling fall down and dust comes from upstairs, the sounds of alarms blaring. I grip onto Bobby to keep me upright and we both look at each other, for a moment forgetting about what just happened.

"What the hell was that?" I ask

"I don't know, some sort of explosion I think"

"The students! You need to go and help them, I'll be right up I've just got to get into my suit"

He seems reluctant to leave "seriously Bobby it's fine go and help the others, I can phase remember?"

He smiles briefly before reluctantly leaving me to help out, I quickly get changed into my suit and then race after him. It's chaos upstairs, there's smoke slowly filling the corridors and the students are being quickly led out by Ororo, Bobby and Scott.

"I'll go see if there's anyone trapped!" I shout to them, ignoring their protests and racing towards the source of the smoke.

I find myself in the gym. Or what is left of it. There are pieces of the ceiling hanging down and fire amongst the rubble that used to be the gym floor. I use my ability to go through the fire, checking to see if anyone is stuck down here.

I find a couple of students in the corner of what's left of the gym, huddled away from the fire and covering their mouths to try to filter out the smoke.

I quickly help them out, phasing them outside and then going back to see if there's anyone else. Once I'm satisfied that there is no one else I make my way back outside.

A sharp pain hits my shoulder and I wince, grabbing the source of the pain. In my arm is a dart.

"What the hell!" I mutter pulling it out

"Well well look who we found!"

John.

He comes up in front of me "I thought that this would be harder" he says smirking at me

I try to phase to run through him, but instead run into him. I can't phase! Why can't I phase? The dart!

"What the fuck have you done to me?" I yell

"Oh this, this is just the beginning. A small dose of something we've cooked up, designed to momentarily disarm your powers"

I feel something cold being clasped around my neck from behind, I turn to see Multiple Man and Juggernaut with him, I reach up to my neck and recognise the feel of inhibitor collar.

"Now we can do this the easy way and you can come quietly or we can do this the hard way." He sneers

I immediately try to run, elbowing Multiple man in the face and kicking John in the stomach making him double over. I make it two steps before I'm flung into a wall by Juggernaut, my head exploding with pain.

I faintly aware of blood dripping down my forehead and the back of my hair and matting it as John drags me up from the floor, his arm going around my neck in a way that if he applied pressure it would cut off my oxygen.

He drags me outside, I try to fight against him but I suspect I might have a concussion because I feel dizzy and my vision is slightly blurry. I can tell that we're outside and that I'm being dragged towards a jet, probably to take me back to wherever the brotherhood is hiding out.

Then we stop.

I can hear shouting but can't figure out who's saying what. Then John speaks

"Hello Robert"

"You'll never get away Pyro! If you think you can get away with bombing the school you're mistaken!" I can hear him yelling but our backs are still turned

"Oh I think you will let me go Bobby, I have something very dear to you all after all" he says turning us around.

Bobby makes a move to run to us, shouting my name but Pyro's arm tightens and all of a sudden my airway is restricted. I start to choke, struggling against him.

"Nuh uh uh, I thought you'd be smarter than that. If you move towards me or try and stop us from leaving I'll kill her. You know I'm not joking" he sneers

"Please, please don't hurt her! John please just let her go!" he pleads

"Sorry Robert but I owe someone a favour, say goodbye to your precious X-Men Kitty Cat because it's the last time you'll ever see them" he says before pulling me backwards onto the plane.

Then everything goes black.

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