Can I Keep You?
By: E-chan Hidaka
Author's Notes: I do not own X-men. I just own the story. So please do not sue me for I do not have any money, I'm broke as a bum that I'm bumming money off my sibling….O_o;;
Couples: Lancitty
Setting: Alternate Universe
Rated: G-PG
Genre: Romance/ Angst
I want to thank all the readers who had review my story and I want also thank them for pointing out some errors…now on with the story. Also I do not own the song Goodbye to you by Michelle Branch.
Author's Rambles: I'm sorry it took me a long time to update this fanfic. I'm alive I tell you! Checks pulse…hmm yes I'm alive.
Words in Italics are a dream or memory sequence in this chapter and words in Bold are the lyrics of a song.
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Chapter 3// Never good enough for you
Kitty sat quietly during the long train ride with headphones on listening to Michelle Branch 'Goodbye to you'. She watched the scenery speeding by her and slowly drifted off.
Of all the things I believe in
I just want to get it over with
Tears from behind my eyes
But I do not cry
Counting the days that past me by
"I'll never be good enough for you kitty." Lance said to her. Tears ran down her beautiful face as she began to sob. Lance couldn't stand it when she started to cry, so he turned his back to her. "What ever I do, it wasn't just enough for you." Kitty grabbed his sleeve.
"Lance, it's not…" Kitty stuttered.
"It's not what? Kitty you made it perfectly clear to me last night." Lance said harshly.
"Lance, just let me explain." Kitty begged.
"Why should I? You explain a lot last night! And what are you going to tell me lies? And rip my heart out again!" Lance retorted.
"Lance, I love you!" she cried.
"You didn't seem like that last night." Lance replied. He shrugged off her petite hands off him as she tried to grasp on to him again. "I'm leaving you and Bayville." He told her. "Like you told me last night."
"No! Please Lance." She cried.
"This is goodbye to you Kitty Pryde." Lance said sadly. "I will always love you." He started to walk away from the teary eye teenager. From his love and only love he'll ever have.
"Lance!" she cried as she watched him walk farther into the distance. "Please Lance…" Rouge looked at Kitty with sympathy, she was talking in her sleep again.
Kitty entered the mansion and ran up the stairs towards Mystic's room. She busted into the room. "Kitty!" Mystic said startled. Kitty walked up to her. [SLAP]
"How could you do that to me? I trusted you!" Kitty shouted. Mystic blue hand was press again her blue right cheek still shock at what just happened. "I loved him!" She started to cry even more; her vision was blurry because of her tears. "You BITCH!"
I've been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old
Looks like I'm starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend and I say
Rouge could tell Kitty was in distress because she would stir in her sleep more roughly. Rouge listened quietly as Kitty continued to murmur hate and angry. "How can you take him away from me?" she continued. "Are you happy that I'm sad now?"
'Stop it Kitty. I ordered Mystic to do that to you.'
"But why Professor?" Kitty asked him.
'He was in the way.'
"What? That doesn't make any sense." Kitty told him. She looked at Mystic for answers. 'She won't tell you.' "Mystic please tell me," Kitty begged her. Mystic shook her head.
"I wish I can Kitty or he'll kill my love ones." Mystic said sadly and turn away from disgrace.
"I hate you all!" Kitty shouted. "And most of all I hate you Professor!" She ran out of the room. "Ah! Let go of me Professor!" she screamed. Rouge came out of her room and saw Kitty stuck in some type of tube.
"What the…" Rouge said. 'Rouge mind your own business if you know what's good for you, and if you don't want to end up in the same predicament as your friend here. ' Profess telepathy talked to Rouge. Rouge grinded her teeth and backed away.
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I love
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
***
He pressed his fingers against his alarm clock to shut it up. He groaned. He didn't feel like getting up today for his daily run through the city. But he pushed himself up from his bed. He began to stretch his arms. He yawned lazily. He didn't have another good night sleep. He dreamed about her again. Why couldn't she leave him in his sleep and let him sleep in peace. But no she had to haunt his dreams too making him tormented by her beautiful face. He shook his head. He turned on his TV to MTV and it was playing the video called Goodbye to you by Michelle Branch. He remembered when he said those exact words to Kitty when he left Bayville.
I still get lost in your eyes
And it seems like I can't live a day without you
Closing my eyes till you chase my thoughts away
To a place where I am blinded by the light but it's not right
That's how he exactly feels about Kitty. The song expressed almost every emotion that he was going through in his mind. He began to stretch out his legs while listening to the music video. He got out of his bed and started to fix his bed. He was reminiscing about his past again. Remembering her face. It was a face he can't forget. He felt like his heart was breaking into pieces again as he remembered the break up went. To separate yourself from your love ones that it just hurt so badly.
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
He walked into his kitchen and opened his fridge; took out the carton of milk and drank it straight out of it. He laugh as he remembered when Kitty would hit him over the head because he would drink the milk out of the carton and she thought it was disgusting.
"Ew…Lance how can you drink your milk like that?" Kitty questioned him. Lance was gulping down his half-gallon milk that was left. He finished the milk and looked very satisfied with himself.
"I don't know… I just can drink it like that." Lance replied.
"Typical guy." Kitty Shrugged. "I have a bet for you Lance Alvers…" Kitty smiled. Lance raised his eyebrow to his girlfriend and grinned. "What is that Kitty?"
"I bet you can't drink out the carton for one week." Kitty said.
"Yes, I can. But what do I get if I win the bet?" Lance asked her. "No, wait I know what I get. You get to be my slave for a week." He smiled. Kitty looked at Lance who was smiling like a little boy in a candy store.
"What fine! You see if you can't do it. You're my slave for a week and every time I see you drinking out of the carton I get to hit you over the head with this newspaper." She picked up the newspaper.
"Well Miss Kitty, you got a deal! This is a piece of cake." Lance said with confidence. Kitty smiled.
"And it start tomorrow Lance. So be prepared!" Kitty warned him.
"No, problem babe. I got this in the bag!" he said cockily.
Ohhh yeah
It hurts to want everything & nothing at the same time
I want what's yours and I want what's mine
I want you but I'm not giving in this time
He smiled at that memory. Kitty won. He was her slave for a week. He treated her like a queen. Did everything she wanted him to do. That was one unforgettable week they shared together. It's been two years why can't he forget her? Why couldn't he get over her? He thought to himself. He slammed the empty milk carton onto the white counter. "Dammit!" he cursed.
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
***
In Bayville…
Three teenagers sighed as they reach the humble broking down home. It wasn't the same without him. He left them. No one to boss them around anymore, at first it was a dream come true for them. They didn't have to listen to his bossy leadership attitude anymore. They let loose on Bayville, but after a while it just got tiring doing the same thing over and over. Then there were always the X-geeks who would interfere with their fun. So they lost interest quickly.
"I wonder what Lance is doing." Pietro asked himself and his companies as they entered the house.
"Yeah, what more important being in the brotherhood?" Todd questioned as he jumped on the broken down brown couch. "Oof" Todd yelped as a spring towards him and hitting him in the face. Now he had a bright red pink springy mark on his left cheek. Fred and Pietro couldn't help, but laugh at the young teen. Todd glared at them. "That wasn't so funny yo!"
"Is too." Fred cracked up even more.
"Well at least I was turn down in public by a girl yo." Todd spat back.
"You take that back, you ugly excuse of a mutant." Fred roar.
"Oh! Was that supposed to hurt my feelings fat boy! Haha!" Todd insulted.
"Whoa! Todd, Fred cool down. Look what this arguing is getting at. Now we are fighting among our self." Pietro interfere. The two mutants looked at each other.
"Man, we need Lance back. I'm sorry yo! Fred friends again." Todd asked the big guy.
"Yeah, man. Friends." Fred said and smiled. "Hmm…I wonder if we got any food." Fred walked towards the kitchen.
"Where ever you are Lance, I hope you're all right." Pietro said quietly to himself.
***
"I loved you Lance…." She whispered in her sleep. "Please come back to me…"
We the stars fall and I lie awake
You're my shooting star
"I loved you Kitty…" Lance said sadly as the song ended looking at his TV. He turned off the TV and began to work out again.
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To be continued….
Author's ramble: I'm sorry once again that it took me a long time to update this fanfic. Thank you for being patient with me. And I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Please review this chapter or I will not continue this fanfic! And hopefully I would get the next chapter done quicker! Well click that button down there and review please!
HAPPY HOLLOWEEN!
E-chan Hidaka 10/24/02