Standing By The Bridge

Written By: Kaede Kinkade

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Rating: PG-13

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Disclaimer: Still I only own Kali.

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Author's Note: Quick little note before we begin Chapter one of this story, Please I'd love to know what you all want to have happen in this story. Do you want me to kill off Frank so Kali can get her groove on with someone from X-Men? Do you want everyone to hate Kali? What? Just tell me, if you want it…I'll try and put it in the story.

Thank-you for reading, please review.

Note: / = telepathic conversation/

*The dead's voices*

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Chapter One: Moving

Kali groaned and rolled over in her bed trying to get away from the sunlight that was pouring into her room, and trying to wake her up. Next to her Frank rubbed at his eyes with a slightly tan hand before glancing towards his watch. It was almost noon, that gave them only a few short hours to pack and get everything ready. Gently he shook at Kali's shoulder who currently was trying to burrow into his chest trying to avoid waking up at all costs.

"Come on Kal, it's noon…" He started but her pale hand quickly covered his mouth for a moment as she spoke, her voice muffled by his chest.

"Let's pretend it isn't…"

"Kal…" He started getting up, even with her small body still laying on him.

"Fine…I'm up…I'm up…it's not my fault we were up so late last night…" She stated, her ice blue hues watching as Frank pulled his pant's on over his blue and white boxers.

"Oh I do believe you were the one who talked me into going with you on your little killing spree of killer's last night…I even lost count…didn't know that there were so many killers…" He started sarcastically causing a small laugh to escape Kali's mouth as she too started to get dressed.

Frank shook his head slightly as he headed out of her room to try and find some coffee, leaving Kali to start right away on working to pack up important things she would take with her.

When he returned with two cups of steaming coffee, Kali was already folding her dark hunter green comforter and placing it with it's matching sheets and pillows in a large box which she then marked bedding.

She happily took the offered coffee as she sat next to him on her bare mattress, she was dressed in a simple pair of khaki's and a v-neck white tee shirt, which Frank had a hunch was his.

"It won't be that bad…" He started, already knowing her angst about leaving.

"Says he that doesn't have to go." She stated taking a small sip of her coffee, before getting up again and going to a pile of cloths on the floor picking them up and placing them inside a box, not bothering with folding them or anything.

"Figures" Frank mumbled with laughter as he took another sip of his coffee before standing and placing his cup on her makeshift, box for a night stand. Bare footed and only in his black dress pants he headed into her living room to collect and organize her file's, as she worked with her room.

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Scott frowned when the professor called off after school training in the Danger Room. Around the room his team-mate's were all jumping and chattering with joy. Scott stepped forward to the professor after everyone other then Logan left the lower levels in search for a fun filled afternoon.

"Don't you think we should be training some more? I mean, look at Magneto's acolytes, we barely beat them the last time we fought them…and now we have apocalypse to worry about." Scott stated, he was a leader in every since of the word and this just proved it even more. Scott always had to much on his shoulders, The professor frowned, it wasn't fair that this seventeen year old had to worry about the end of the world, had to worry about being killed in a battle against a mutant so powerful he was locked up centuries ago.

"Yes, I'm well aware of our current situation Scott…but working yourselves to death won't help any." The professor started as he glanced towards Logan who was already walking out of the training room, to probably go and change his uniform, "Anyway, today we will be getting a new student from the city. I've trusted Logan and you to go pick her up…"

"Why me?"

"Because I think you have more in common with her then Logan, besides since I can't go due to my meeting with the Bayville school board, I'd rather have someone go with Logan…I think him in our knew student might get at each other's throats if not…you'd be surprised how much the two are a like…and how much they aren't a like." The professor explained wheeling out of the room. "Logan will be waiting in the garage for you…please do hurry."

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By four o' clock all of Kali's stuff that she was going to bring to the school with her were packed in four different boxes, one labeled: Bedding, the other labeled, clothing, another labeled Files and books [fragile] then the last one was labeled, Misc. By the time they got done both Frank and Kali were exhausted, not only did they pack…but they cleaned the rest of the place up, dusting, vacuuming, that kind of thing.

In the end, on the worn red sofa Frank sat with a tired expression watching CNN, while Kali was in the kitchen getting two bottled water's out of the fridge. She returned and turned Frank into a makeshift cushion seeing as she sat herself down on him rather then the actual sofa. She opened up a bottle of water and handed it to him while drinking the other one with glee as the cold liquid traveled down her throat.

"The hour of doom approaches…" Frank stated with a small laugh as he handed the water bottle back to Kali who then placed it with her's on the coffee table in front of the sofa. Kali gave him a slight flat look for what he said as she settled back down into his lap, leaning her head on his shoulder.

"That's not funny…" She started, but had to stop as his lips were over her's in a matter of seconds, silencing whatever she had left to say.

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Scott glanced up at the old apartment complex as he stepped out of the X Van, his hues hidden by wrap around ruby quartz sunglasses glanced back towards Logan.

"You sure this is the place?"

Logan chuckled deeply before disappearing into the building, "That's the exact same thing I said…it's not really as bad as it looks kid."

"So what's this new girl like?" Scott asked as he stepped in to the elevator, cringing as it creaked under his weight…it was really a faulty elevator.

"Hmmm…" Logan started, thinking slightly as the door's dinged open on the third floor. "Like she's a thirty year old trapped in a seventeen year olds body."

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It was four thirty by the time someone was banging at the door, Frank and Kali still lip locked…Kali's top completely off.

"Ya know…if we ignore it…it will go away…" Kali started with a slight sigh as she pulled her lips away from him.

"I wish it were that easy…" Frank stated getting up off the sofa as Kali tugged her shirt back on and fixed her dark orange hair as best as she could before throwing Frank his shirt that he had never put on. Frank was the one who answered the door as Kali finished pulling her shirt on.

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Scott blinked slightly as he stood next to Logan to see the man Logan called Frank answer the door,

"Hello there Frank, is Kali ready?"

Frank Stood away from the door letting both Logan and Scott in,

"Hello, I'm Scott Summers…I go to the school Kali is leaving for." Scott spoke to Frank while watching Logan head over to Kali who tugged her black boots on. Kali didn't look that bad…

"Frank Taylor." Scott blinked and shook his head slightly, he really needed to pay attention.

Kali explained to them all how since there were only four boxes of her stuff they wouldn't have to make another trip. Logan asked to carry the heaviest box, to which he seemed to regret.

"Jesus kid what do you have in this box?"

"Just books and files…" Kali stated with a slight snort before handing Scott a box labeled misc. which he took and followed Logan out the door with out a word.

Behind him going down the stairs, [Because Kali warned that the extra weight would probably send the elevator down a little to fast…] was Frank who had struck up conversation with Scott asking if he liked the school and such. Apparently Frank was much more social then Kali was. Scott as he placed the box he held in the back of the van had assumed Frank was Kali's older brother.

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Kali tried not to pay much attention to the teen Logan had brought with him…Scott as she learned his name to be was cute in that 'Preppy, bought all my stuff at Old Navy' type of way. Kali could never get along with her own peer group, and even though she would be around them everyday now it didn't mean she had to like it.

Kali placed her box into the van before nearly dropping it due to a rapidly honking car horn. All four of their current group turned around to see a slightly beat up blue car pull to a stop behind the van.

A black man, hair tied back in corn rows stepped out of the car, which was actually an unmarked police car. The badge that he wore dangling off a chain told all of them that he was with the NYPD, but Frank and Kali didn't need a badge to know that. This man used to be Frank's partner while he worked with the police department.

Logan who stood next to Kali growled at the man, causing Kali to raise her brows before running up to the ranting older police officer.

"Seriously girl, you were gonna leave without saying good bye to me? I had to learn from Frank here that you were leaving us…" The man stated as Kali drew him into a hug,

"Sorry Marco, but I was really busy last night." She stated after thinking for a moment, before walking Marco over to Logan and Scott and introducing them.

"The name's Marcus Cole, pleased to meet you." He spoke while shaking the two other men's hands before turning back towards Kali, "Yes I know you were busy…and how do I know that you were busy?" He asked with a stern glance at her then towards Frank with a slight frown.

"You talked to Frank?"

He pulled out a newspaper clipping from his suit's breast pocket dangling it in front of her face.

MORE KILLINGS OF LOCAL FELONS…WHAT IS GOING ON?

Kali grimaced slightly at the headline "That is how I found out…"

"But there is no proof that it's me…"

"Kali, you're the only one I know who carries around a sword…" He started tilting his head slightly glancing from Kali to the three other men who were looking over her shoulder at the Headline.

"Well it seems that won't be happening again…for awhile anyway…" She stated, as he put the clipping away.

"Yeah…yeah…which is good, the police are all over looking for their killer…I don't think they'd ever guess it was a seventeen year old girl though." He stated hugging her again before sending a wave and a 'nice to meet'cha' to Scott and Logan he headed back towards his car. "You best not forget about me!" He shouted out to Kali who was silently chuckling and shaking her head slightly before turning back around to face Scott and Logan, the previous of the two in some kind of shock…his mouth hanging open.

"You kill people!" He stated right away, before Logan put a heavy hand on his shoulder to silence him.

"Yeah, I kill people…but they really shouldn't be considered people." Kali stated back taking Frank's box from him and loading it into the van.

"Kali kill's killers. It keeps her sane." Frank stated with a slight lopsided smirk before Kali gave him a dirty look.

"Killing keeps her sane?" Scott questioned obviously not getting that it had to do with her mutant ability.

"I have dead screaming in my head…some of them were murdered…I do what I have to do to help them move on." She stated before Logan dangled the Van's keys.

"We should be going now." He stated in a gruff voice before shutting the Van's back door.

Scott gave a nod as he looked at his watch, and Kali just went silent for a moment before turning towards Frank.

"Promise me not to be so reckless?" She questioned him, which was ironic, because it was Kali that was normally reckless, but Frank was going to go along with it. He bit his bottom lip, now that the time had came, he really didn't want her to go.

"Promise." He stated enveloping her in a hug, bringing her off the ground slightly as he did so.

Much to Scott's surprise they started to kiss…and it wasn't a brotherly sister kiss either. His brows raised and he glanced over towards Logan who looked as though he already knew that they weren't brother and sister.

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Logan headed towards the front of the car, he knew how hard good-byes were…he had a couple of them himself in the days that he could actually remember from his gapping memory. The moment he sat himself in the driver's seat, Scott was in the passenger seat glancing towards the back window.

"He's like thirty!" Were the first words out of his mouth, causing Logan to roll his dark hues while starting up the car.

"I know."

"She's seventeen."

"I know."

"They kissed."

"I know"

"But…"

"Look kid, thing's out here in the 'real world' aren't the same as what goes on in the manor. Kali hasn't had a life like you, ya know? She doesn't hang out with kid's her age, instead she hang's out with those my age…why, I don't know…but if she loves him…and he loves her…that's all that matters." Logan stated gruffly before Kali hopped into the backseat, a sad smile on her face.

Scott nodded, Logan was right…she wasn't like him, or anyone else at the manor…which is why Scott didn't like her, he wished he could have a better reason. But he didn't, she wasn't like him, and that scared him. He sighed lightly and glanced out the window. This was going to be a long ride home.

Chapter One, finished; January 29th

Next Chapter: We meet the people at the school…and who does Kali share a room with?