Part 50 – Left Behind

Author: Okay, I am very aware of the fact that after you finish reading this note, if you even decided to, that you will probably want to hunt me down for this chapter. It's short, and probably anger inducing, but I dunno why I decided to write it, maybe I'm just a fan of irony. So, hey. It's my fiftieth chapter, SOMETHING had to happen, so yeah. I am very happy that you all decided to read my fanfiction, there's probably going to be a lot more chapters still, but nonetheless, thank you all. I guess this isn't exactly much of a thank you present...;...but anyway. I love you all, and thank you so much, here's my fiftieth chapter of Think Twice.


Everyone stared in complete shock, even the soldier. Bobby had come out of nowhere, and was now flying through the air with an indescribable expression, and a bullet through his uniform.

"BOBBY!" screamed.

Watching everything, practically frame by frame, Kari stared in horror as her friend flew through the air, then slammed into the dirt, rolling at least three times and finally stopping on his stomach without one more moment of movement. John couldn't breathe.

The soldier, not exactly having the same sympathetic reaction as Bobby's friends, raised the gun again, only to be caught in the side of the head by a very angry girl's foot.

Kari's.

The soldier was sent a few feet sideways before getting kicked again, then kneed in the stomach so hard he was almost lifted into the air. A shock even to Kari, seeing as in full uniform, this man had to weigh over two hundred pounds. He slumped over and Kari caught him under the chin with a punch, and then swung around, slamming the side of her boot right into the side of his skull.

He careened off to the side, then fell into the dirt, gun sliding off a few feet, and Kari stood there with her fists clenched and teeth gritting. She never wanted to kill something so bad in her life. It was almost equivalent to the time she met Toad at Alkali Lake.

Kitty came out of nowhere and ran to Bobby, who was still face down in a mix of blood and dust. She rolled him over, not getting any response. Kari looked up and saw the rest of the X-Men advancing towards them with half sullen expression. John was still standing a few feet away, speechless and in more shock than he had ever been. After all this time, it had been Bobby to take the bullet? It made no sense.

"No, no, he can't be dead. Bobby this isn't funny, wake up!" Kitty was rambling, trying to shake Bobby awake. Kari stood beside her, and finally knelt down at his side. She reached for Bobby's jacket and Kitty grabbed her hand in a blink.

"It's fine, trust me," Kari insisted. Her friend slowly let go and Kari unzipped Bobby's jacket, pulling it open and finding nothing but a blood stained T-shirt over an unmoving chest.

"Oh god. No, Bobby wake up, you're not being funny —"

"Kitty —"

"GET UP, BOBBY!" Kitty screamed, making Kari stop.

"Kitty, stop screaming, it hurts my head…"

Everyone froze and Bobby opened his eyes. They looked cloudy and tired. He coughed, and his chest jerked violently.

"Oh, thank God," Kitty practically cried.

"What were you thinking, jumping in front of the gun like that!" Kari asked.

"Because…I knew if John got shot…I'd never hear the end of it," Bobby half laughed. Kari gave an uneasy smile and John didn't say anything.

"Is he really okay?" Kurt whispered to Scott.

"These uniforms aren't meant to be bulletproof, I doubt he has much longer," Scott answered reluctantly under his breath.

"I can't —" Bobby coughed and shut his eyes tightly.

"Bobby —" Kitty said worriedly.

"I can't feel my legs," he groaned.

"You're fine, we're going to take you back to the jet, and you'll be fine, I promise,"

"No, no. I'm all right," Bobby added, turning his head to look at John, who was staring at him as though he were about to turn and run for it.

"If you die, I'll kick your ass when you get to hell," Bobby said, twitching his hand and pointing a finger at him. John started breathing erratically as though he was close to crying.

"Why did you do that?" he asked in a half choking voice.

"Don't die," Bobby repeated, turning his head after and looking at Kitty, who couldn't block her river of tears from streaming down her face.

"Bobby," she said, grabbing his hand as he laughed a little.

"You guys can't die either. Especially you," he added, looking at Kari, "Just because you didn't die the last three times doesn't mean you won't the next."

Kari felt her own tears coming, but simply nodded and managed a smile.

"And just, don't do anything stupid…"

Kari nodded again and Bobby turned back to Kitty, who looked like she was struggling so hard to not just start screaming.

"Sssh, I'm fine," he reassured, putting his hand around hers as she held her breath.

All of the adults exchanged glances, and Kari looked up at John, who swallowed dryly, and then ran both of his hands through his hair before bringing them down and covering his mouth. He then dropped them and let out a broken breath, then turning to the side, he looked away as Bobby shut his eyes tightly, and Kitty felt his hand drop onto the ground.