*Notes*

-I do not own x-men evolution or its characters in any way, shape or form

-This is my personal fanfic; please don't re-post it as your own… thx

-Here's where I explain how Mystique 'captured' Professor X… I would have had Kitty explain this 2 or 3 entries ago but I slacked on it (sorry!)

**************************************************************************** ************

6/12-Wednesday

Dear Diary,

Scott, Jean, Rogue and I went to the park yesterday. Scott and Jean opted to go with us in case anything bad happened. They gave Rogue and I our space and hung out together. It was actually really cute watching the two of them. They were like two little kids again running around chasing each other, swinging on the swings, teeter tottering—they even did the monkey bars! A family left the park in disgust, realizing we were the mutants from TV but another family spoke to us some. The woman was especially nice. Her little son, named Ben, hugged all over Jean's leg. She told us she recognized us from TV. We asked the husband and wife in the nicest way possible why they weren't afraid or disgusted with us. They replied that we were people too. She said she didn't want her son to grow up hating someone because they were different. It was a beautiful moment. It strengthened our hope that one-day humans and mutants will be able to co- exist peacefully.

We bid that family farewell and they wished us the best luck in the world. It was a perfectly sweet moment but it didn't last long. Duncan came along and ruined it.

He showed up at the park with a few of his football jock friends to play a game of football when they spotted us. Scott saw them coming our way and wanted us to leave but Jean said we should stand our ground and not let him and his friends run us out.

Duncan approached us and said mutants weren't allowed at the park. Jean laughed and asked Duncan when he became God of the park. Duncan's friends sneered and Duncan replied that we weren't wanted and us "freaks" should just learn to accept it. Rogue told him we would always be around and he should learn to accept it. Duncan lost his jeering smile and sorta beefed up like he was going to attack Rogue. Scott stepped in front of her. Duncan backed down a little and asked Scott what he planned on doing. Scott said, "nothing except protect the lady if I need to." Duncan half laughed and said that Rogue was no lady, in fact, none of us were anything but a bunch of freaks. Jean raised her arms in frustration and said she never knew what she saw in such a pig-headed jerk. Duncan got angry and yelled some incoherent things at Jean. Then he took the football one of his friends was holding and he threw it right at Jean! She stopped it with her power and let it fall to the ground. Duncan and his group stared in awe. Scott bent down and picked up the football, said, "here you go" and lightly tossed it back to Duncan but it just bounced right off his chest. Jean beamed at Duncan then took Scott's hand and said that she was tired of the park and that we should go now. We all did and left Duncan's group still standing there pondering what had just happened. When we got back to Scott's car, he leaned over and kissed Jean on the cheek saying he was proud of her for standing up to that jerk. She blushed but I don't know if Scott noticed it.

We got back to the house and relayed the park story to everyone. Tabitha was ready to go mini-bomb the whole park but Bobby calmed her down.

The rest of the day passed slowly and I went to bed early.

I got up around 9am today and have just been hanging around the house with everyone. Amanda came over and hung out with Kurt. I caught them cuddled up with each other asleep in front of the TV. It was so cute! She's been praising him for his heroics in saving the others.

The Professor pulled me aside today and we had a little talk about everything. I apologized to him for not realizing sooner that it had been Mystique in his guise all along. He said not to worry about it because she was that good of a shape-shifter. I asked him to explain again, in detail, how she had captured him (or rather, had him captured).

He said that that day he went to visit Wanda in the asylum he was doing his routine check up on her. Apparently, Mystique had shape-shifted into the form of a doctor and that's how she managed to get Wanda out. Then Mystique reentered the building disguised as a cop. As the Professor was about to leave the building (he felt Wanda's power surge and noticed her troubled mind), the cop stopped him. The Professor tried to be let go because he wanted to go find Wanda, knowing she had escaped but the cop had the Professor committed for helping Wanda escape. The Professor realized that the cop was Mystique and tried to explain it all but it just furthered their determination to lock him up. He tried to use his powers but they were no use on Mystique. She made sure to reiterate to the officials at the asylum that the Professor was an extreme telepath and that he was dangerous beyond belief. So he was locked up and too far away to be able to mentally contact any of the X-Men. He said he did pick up on Lance's mental energy twice, probably when Mystique had him go check out to make sure the Professor was still being held captive there. They communicated shortly, and he knew that Lance was helping out Bobby, Jamie, Ray, and Roberto.

I sat in awe listening to the Professor describe his ordeal and how no one at the asylum would believe him. It was so sad.

I also made the Professor understand that Lance didn't want anyone to know he had helped us out. The Professor was really cool with it. We sat and talked for about 2 hours, just filling each other in on what's been going on—I told him some stuff we forgot to tell him about (like Principal Kelly's new mutant sign-up program and what will happen at school if we're caught using our powers)

He says he's going to sit down and have a long chat with Principal Kelly as soon as he can. We're supposed to be getting our report cards in the mail sometime this week. I don't know but I have this feeling that Evan and Rogue won't be moving on to the next grade because of missing finals from their capture and all. If that's the case, then we'll all be sophomores together.

We're also moving to our new house sometime next week. The Professor's going over there tomorrow with Forge to work on some computer stuff. He wanted me to go along but I told him Forge was his man. We ended our talk when Ororo and Mr. McCoy came in and I was dismissed.

Well Diary, that's about it for now. See ya later

~Kitty~