Runaway Home - Part 1 ~ Chapter 12


The next morning was a Saturday, which every student knew meant the traditional 'murderball' game. Murderball was a no holds bared basketball game, for this reason it was only open to the older students. The students were allowed to use all their powers at their disposal, any injuries were instantly taken off the pitch and treated. Because of his status as a former student Leo was allowed to play, as was Skye. Beginning the game Leo was on the same side as Rogue, Bobby and Piotr. Against them there was John, Skye and Kitty, Ororo was also on their team to make up the numbers. All were dressed in protective gear including gloves except for Piotr, due to the increase in his size when he changed form the gear would be ripped apart. Beginning the game Leo got the ball and sprinted to the oppositions basket aiming to score before anyone noticed unfortunately his soulmate knew him too well. Skye sent a shockwave at the ground causing it to raise up in a large wave, Leo staggered and tripped falling to the ground. In the process he dropped the ball, it was picked up by Skye who used her seismic powers to propel the ball across the pitch to John who was waiting near Leo's team's net. John threw the ball at the net but midway it was shot down by a shard of ice thrown by Bobby. Piotr picked up the ball as it rebounded and took of running towards the net, he saw Skye infront of him and so took on his armoured form. He made it two metres from the net before he was struck by a bolt of lightening, due to his armoured form the electricity was magnified and he was knocked unconscious.
"Stop," called The Professor, "because Piotr can no longer play Ororo will withdraw to keep the teams even."
Kitty picked up the ball and started running staying phased to defend from attacks, unfortunately she forgot about Leo. He sped from across the room and just as he was about to hit Kitty he too phased allowing him to touch Kitty. Hitting her broke her concentration and they tumbled to the floor. Rolling over and over they eventually came to a stop, Kitty lying atop Leo. Kitty couldn't help but blush at their position as she looked into Leo's blue eyes, she blushed further when she realised how long she'd been staring into his eyes.
"Point!" Shouted Professor Xavier.
Looking up the pair saw that Skye and John had managed to score. Leo ever the competitive soul saw the ball re-enter the field of play and took of, shouting as he went. "Bobby take out John's fire, Rogue think you can keep an eye on Skye." Once he got an affirmative from both of them he took off. First he ran to Rogue removing one of his gloves he pressed it to her face saying, "see what you can do with that." He then sped of again, seeing Bobby had John in hand he ran straight for the ball and promptly managed to score with everyone else distracted.
"Murderball rules state that the next point wins," shouted Professor Xavier to the joy of the crowd. When the ball came down Rogue channeled the remaining speed from Leo and leapt at it. Picking it up she straight away threw it to Bobby who batted it with a huge hand made of ice. Leo decided to run interference and so was keeping both Kitty and Skye distracted. He ran round both of them making Skye shoot her powers of trying to catch him completely forgetting to shoot the ground. Leo ran behind Kitty, this meant that when Skye shot at him she hit Kitty instead. During their earlier fight Bobby had managed to freeze John's lighter fluid leaving him defenceless. Rogue sped ahead and caught the ball slamming it into the net to win the game for them.
"Rogue has scored bringing this game of Murderball to a close. Any injuries need to be tended to by Dr Grey immediately no arguing. After everyone has freshened up we'll meet in the mess hall for lunch, so of with you all."


Once lunch was over Ororo asked Leo to help her with a class on science. This left Skye with Kitty who had a free period from her foundation IT class. Leaving the mess hall together Skye said, "come on I've got something to show you," and lead Kitty towards Leo and her room.
"Hey where we going."
Getting through the door Skye closed it behind them and lead Kitty to the bed.
"I've seen the way you look at Leo it's not the siblingly way he looks at you. I know how you feel he's so easy to love, he worms his way into your heart without trying." Here Skye made to comfort Kitty resting her hand on her shoulder. When she did she felt a spark travel up her arm to her soulmark warming her up from inside.
"Oh my god, I knew I was right, I'm a genius."
"Wait you felt that too, what was it."
"That Kitty Kat was the formation of a soulbond."
"But it can't be your bonded to Leo."
"What I failed to tell you is that there's a third person in our bond, that person it would appear is you."
"But... Bu... Erm"
"I'm glad your taking this as well as is to be expected, now why don't we have some good old girl talk."
"Err...umm...ok"
"Good I want to know what made you stop thinking of Leo as a brother, there must have been something."
"Do I have to its a bit embarrassing?"
"Pwease," said Skye doing her best pout.
"Oh fine, it happened one day when Leo was practicing his mutation he got it into his head that he could phase, that's pass through objects. That's my mutation by the way," to prove it she phased her hand through the bed beneath them. "What happened was he phased but forgot to also phase his clothes. I was having a lie in when he came falling through the roof of my room, which was beneath his, and landed on the floor. As I said he phased out of his clothes meaning I got a full view of him, before he realised and flashed back to his room."
"Awwww now I'm soooo jealous, the closest I ever got was a rubbish picture of him while he was playing poker."
Getting into the spirit of their girly chat Kitty asked, "poker?"
"Leo had the really good idea of cheating by giving me some X-ray glasses that could see his opponents cards. Stupid me pointed out that that would mean I could see through his clothes, straight away he ran off so I only got a passing glance."
"We make quite a pair don't we."
"That we do Kitty Kat."
"Somehow I don't mind it when you say that."
"You do realise that in order for a full soulbond to form Leo has to see you as more than just a sibling."
"That'll be hard, he's annoyingly stubborn."
"There's a very easy way of doing it."
"You don't mean..."
"... Oh yes I do," said Skye grinning like Cheshire Cat. "We need to jump him. Unfortunately this needs planning so we can't jump him straight away we need to wait for the right moment."