Disclaimer-X-Men: Evolution isn't mine

Notes-Tabitha lives at the mansion. Kitty is not a valley girl, and that means no 'Likes', 'Ums', and 'Duhs'. My style doesn't really take me down that way. I have more respect for her than that.

The Phone Call

Kitty Pryde was listening to her ratty old tape player. It was one thing she had managed to salvage from her house before she was taken. It often died because of bad wiring and it didn't have a Rewind button, but it was what she had in the way of entertainment. She was listening to a techno-pop tape that a sympathetic Human friend, Caitlyn, had recorded for her. However, sound was bad, and that was why she could hear the phone ring.

She looked at the phone. It was an antique phone, the kind with a spin dial. Kitty often wondered how that thing could even work; it was so outdated.

She put down her tape player and picked it up. "Hello?"

"I need to speak with Raven NOW."

"Who is this?"

"Irene Darkholme. I need to speak to Raven."

"No one named Raven is here."

"No, she is!" Irene shouted. "Tell her not to bring Marie and Kurt back here! Tell her Eric is coming for them!"

"What? Who's Eric? What about Rogue and Kurt?"

"Just tell her not to come back to Louisiana! They'll…" Suddenly, her words were cut off by a scream. Her own.

"Hello?" Kitty shouted into the phone, as gunshots were heard in the background. "HELLO?!"

A different voice came over the phone. "You muties

better watch out. We're going to get you."

With that, the phone went dead.

Kitty gently put the phone back in the cradle, her hands shaking. She slowly sank into the couch, trembling. She wrapped her arms around her and tried desperately to find some warmth. Nothing came to her.

"Kitty?"

Kitty looked up to see Tabitha in the doorway, looking at her. "What's wrong?"

Kitty took a few deep breaths. "Someone called just now…someone named Irene Darkholme. She was saying to tell someone named Raven not to bring Rogue and Marie to Louisiana. And then she screamed. Some man picked up the phone and told us to watch out, and they're going to get us."

Tabitha sat down and put her arms around Kitty's shoulders. "Our first threatening phone call. I was waiting for it."

"We should go tell the Professor," Kitty said. "He'll up the security."

"Yeah, guess so," Tabitha said, standing up. "Let's go get him."

Kitty stood up as well, and headed towards the library with Tabitha.

"Professor?" Kitty said, coming into the library. "We just…who's she?" Kitty looked at Raven quizically.

"I'll explain later," Charles said. "What is it, Kitty?"

"We just got a phone call," Kitty said. "From someone named Irene."

Rogue stared at Kitty. Irene had called?

"She said to give a message to someone…Raven. Not to bring Kurt and Rogue back to Louisiana 'cause someone was after them…Eric, she said his name was."

Raven clenched her fist. He was always screwing up her life!

"But it gets worse," Tabitha said.

"Yeah," Kitty said. "She stopped talking and started screaming, and then some guy grabbed the phone and said to watch out, because they're coming after us."

"Oh my God," Rogue said.

"Did he say who he was?" Raven demanded.

"No."

"But who are you?" Tabitha interjected.

"I'm Raven, Irene's sister. And I'm also Kurt's mother and Rogue's aunt."

"No way," Tabitha said.

"Well, it's the truth," Raven said. Her face suddenly turned worried. "Did you hear anything before the guy got on the phone?"

"Yeah," Kitty said. "I heard…I heard gunshots."

There was a cold, dead silence, before Rogue slumped to the ground, unconscious.

"Rogue? Rogue, can you hear me?"

Rogue's eyes opened slowly to see Kurt leaning over her, looking her in the face.

"Yeah…"

"Thank God. How do you feel?"

"Like someone ran me over with a truck."

"You look like it, too."

"Thanks." Rogue straightened herself up and leaned against the pillow on the infirmary bed. "How long have I been out?"

"About 6 hours."

"Yeah, well, it's not every day you hear your mother gets shot." Rogue slunk down into the covers and turned on her side.

"She—Mother—left. She said she'd be back soon. She was going to head back to Louisiana to do some of that legal crap and come back."

"I don't care." Rogue waved her hand. "I'd like to sleep. Go away."

"Oh, come on, Rogue. Listen, we've known we were half-siblings for awhile. And now we're cousins, too. I think that gives me the right to make sure you're fine."

"Whatever. Just don't talk to me."

"Fine. I'll talk to myself."

"Fine."

Rogue buried her head under the covers, where she was free to cry in solitude.

Thanks to Goldylokz and blue for the ideas.

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