A/N: Everyone wants to know how Kitty takes to Boom-boom and Wanda. You'll have to wait and find out because I'm going with the episodes as far as I can when including the obvious reality changes. This one takes place after 'Speed and Spyke' during 'Middleverse', mostly cause I want nothing to do with the little porcupine, he's such a whiner. Also there comes a reality change, Kitty distracts both Rogue(by force) and Kurt(by just being there) enough through the day that Kurt never ports away from Scott in anger and Rogue never even comes close to accidentally sending the Fuzzy One into Middleverse. Hence, Forge does not get released. Poor Forgey...I'll find a way to get him out later, promise.
Ghost
Kitty made her way groggily to the bathroom. Showering and other morning rituals weren't that big a deal in the Brotherhood household. Fred and Toad had failing hygiene practices and Lance usually only showered at night before bed. So Kitty and Rogue had more than enough time and hot water between them in the morning.
She halted mid-hallway when a blur passed by. Pietro crossed his arms suddenly a bare two feet in front of her. "Hey Kitty-cat, you still not up yet?"
Oh yeah, she'd almost forgotten.
"Damn it Pietro, can't a girl get ready in the morning without some egotistical freak bothering her?" She phased through him still determined to get to the bathroom.
He turned on a heel nearly putting a burn mark down on the floor. "Aw, c'mon Kitty-kitty." He sped to her side. "Is that anyway to treat a teammate?"
"Teammate? You got here *yesterday*."
The speed demon shrugged. "Somyplanewasdelayed." He pointed at her. "You better just get used to me."
"Already am." She phased through him again and passed through the bathroom door locking it when she came out the other side.
She heard him take off, fast as he was his startups were as loud as anyone's.
She took her shower and blow-dried her hair in time to hear Rogue knocking on the door. "I'm almost out." She called. Her makeup wasn't in the bathroom, too many guys around that would get curious about the little containers and just make a mess with them. She and Rogue had set up a sort of vanity table in their room that was big enough for them both to sit at.
She unlocked the door and opened it holding her towel around her with one hand. "All yours."
"'Bout damn time." Rogue muttered. She was such the morning person.
"Like, you're welcome!" Kitty said in her sappiest tone as the door was shut in her face. She laughed and went back to her room. She pulled on one of many red tank tops she'd been able to dig out of a second-hand store and threw the spider-web like black top over it. She rather liked that last piece of clothing, it had been a lucky find hidden deep among the clothing in a bargain bin at the same second-hand store.
Infact a lot of her new clothes were from places like that, along with everyone else's. The Brotherhood wasn't greatly financed. They had enough for food, some clothes and the bills but that was it. And the food wasn't always the best quality either.
Thus was the life of the Brotherhood Mutants.
She sat on her end of the impromptu vanity table, which was a stolen park bench set before a couple of mismatched end tables with a large mirror they'd wedged against the wall. Rogue had deeply influenced her new makeup choices to enhance how pale she was.
After a while Rogue came in to change. Kitty averted her eyes from the mirror to the table as if she couldn't decide which lipstick to use.
Rogue finally sat beside her preparing to apply her own makeup fully dressed and somewhat less grumpy.
"Ah swear, that Quick-what's-it guy's a pest." Rogue muttered sifting through her various shades of dark purple eye shadow.
"You know." Kitty said blotting her now dark red lips. "He keeps staring at you."
Rogue gave her a 'no-really?' look. "Tha' only reason he don't stare at you is 'cause Lance can break his neck."
Kitty snickered. "Yeah, okay, but still, it's better than Toad gawking right?"
Rogue gave an exasperated sound. "Don't remind me."
Kitty finished well before Rogue. "See you downstairs."
"Uh huh." Rogue said trying not to jam her mascara in her eye.
The other girl hopped down the stairs and dashed to the kitchen. Fred and Lance were already at the table and Toad was perched on the countertop by the trash. Kitty took the seat next to Lance and reached for some toast.
Ah breakfast, toast, whatever was drinkable and oh hey look, bologna if you could stomach it.
"Hey lovely people, who's up for a run before school?" Pietro was back apparently bored of whatever had been keeping his interest in the last fifteen seconds.
Lance gave him a look and ate the last of his toast. "Only you." He said dully, he wasn't quite a morning person either but he was a damn sight less cranky than Rogue.
And speaking of the devil. "Who's driv'n today?" Rogue asked pushing Pietro out of her way.
Kitty caught the boy quirking an eyebrow at her with a fairly evil grin across his face.
"I am." Lance said holding up the keys to the jeep.
"Yo man, anyone got my English teacher? I gotta have a worksheet filled in by today." Toad asked before snagging a fly.
"Oh gross frog-boy." Rogue said turning from the kitchen. "Ah think Ah jus' lost mah appetite." She disappeared around the corner.
"Oh me too!" Pietro said speeding off after her.
Kitty shook her head. "Like, Toad, can you be any worse?" She asked getting up to head for the fridge for some juice.
"Probably." The small boy replied picking at his ear.
Lance finally got up. "You guys got five minuets unless you all want to join Fred in detention today."
Fred groaned. "I almost forgot about that." He got up picking up the last of his toast and bologna sandwiches and followed Lance.
"I'll probably get it anyway yo. Those teachers got it out for me." Toad said letting himself down to the floor.
She finished pouring a small glass of 'grape drink' and downed it quickly ignoring him. But she had to admit, he was probably right. As the only one of the Brotherhood that had grown up in Bayville most every teacher knew who he was and what kind of trouble he could cause.
She put the container away and set her glass to the side before migrating to the living room to search for her book bag and hope Toad wasn't rummaging in it for something he could copy. Thankfully he was trying to bum a paper or two off Rogue instead.
"Everyone head out." Lance said herding the others out the door.
Pietro sped past them all waiting impatiently in the Jeep. "Hey, hey! Hurry up okay?" He stood in the Jeep waving them forward with a blur of arms. "C'mon! You guys move at six frames! Speed it up!"
"Shut the hell up Pietro!" Rogue snapped reaching for him with an ungloved hand.
Pietro wasn't stupid and hadn't been dropped into this collection of Mutants without a few things being explained to him. So immediately he escaped her soon to be contact before she was even close enough. "Heynowayyou'regonnadothat!" He fired off, but immediately he leered. "Not unless you're into the kinky stuff."
"Ah god." Rogue huffed. "Get over yer self." She put her glove back on and trying to make room for Kitty with her in the front passenger seat.
Kitty idly made sure she didn't accidentally expose any skin to Rogues own and glanced to the back. Fred took up the most of the back with Toad half perched, half clinging to the space beside him. Pietro seemed too energetic to be seated in one place for too long and was basically all over.
Arrival at school became a godsend. Between Fred nearly crushing Toad, Pietro bouncing around the car like a hyper five-year-old but speaking like lecher and Rogue constantly pulling down her shirt and sleeves because of touch paranoia, the Jeep could be labeled a madhouse.
"Alright, get out!" Lance snapped trying to undo his white-knuckle grip on the steering wheel.
Kitty let the others take off without her. Rogue didn't have much time before her first class and Kitty could afford to be late. But what she was most worried about was Lance.
Lance's ability gave him pretty bad migraines, too much stress triggered them just as well as forcing an earthquake.
She climbed back into the Jeep into the back and put her hands on his shoulders. They were tense as all hell, it was a sure sign that he was building up to a blinding headache.
"You gonna make it?" She asked in a faint whisper.
He made a small 'erng' sound and shook his head. After a moment she rubbed his shoulders going slowly so she didn't aggravate the pain. After a few minuets he leaned back relaxing a little.
She leaned forward and kissed him just under his ear. "Feeling better?"
"Much."
"You wanna just go home?"
He nodded. "More than anything." He sat up and turned to look at her. "But I gotta stick around, if you-know-who finds out I ditched its double runs out on the trail."
Kitty could only look sympathetic. They had no real training area and did most of their workouts on a disused hiking trail on the outside of town. "Well I'm totally sure she doesn't want you to like have an aneurysm in the middle of class."
"Maybe she does." He opened his side door. "C'mon we gotta at least look like we want to be here."
* * *
Lunch had mercifully arrived and talk of Duncan's party was all over the place. On instinct Kitty wanted to go but quickly found out that Freshmen were not allowed. That and the reputation of Toad was soon stamped onto her along with the rest of her housemates.
Kitty pulled Rogue away from her lonely gloom-and-doom session among the wooded area of the grounds to the main court.
"Ah seriously don't wanna be here Kitty." Rogue said.
"I'm sorry, I'm just so used to having a big group around. Even if I didn't know all their names and got ignored most of the time. It was still nice. Besides you can read later, it's gawk at the boys time now."
Rogue gave her a look but did notice that Pietro was showing off his speed on the concrete basketball court. He wasn't going full out on the poor normal humans but he was outstripping them by far.
She suddenly spotted a far table with quite a few familiar faces.
"Oh god. They're looking at us."
"Who? Oh." Kitty stared coldly at the table containing the X-men. "Like I care."
At said table Kurt was drooling again.
"C'mon Kurt man, what's with you and that girl?" Evan asked sneaking the fuzzy Mutants milk away.
"He's been like that for awhile now. Think he's comatose?" Scott asked staring down at his friend.
"Don't worry about him. We have to worry about them." Jean said giving a mental nudge to the boys that she was talking about Kitty and Rogue. "How are we going to gain they're trust now?"
Scott sighed. "Jean, you know the Professor said they have to join of their own free will or not at all. We just have to wait and see."
"I suppose." She cast on last hopeful look at the two girls. But the bell rang for the end of lunch. Maybe time would help.
Ghost
Kitty made her way groggily to the bathroom. Showering and other morning rituals weren't that big a deal in the Brotherhood household. Fred and Toad had failing hygiene practices and Lance usually only showered at night before bed. So Kitty and Rogue had more than enough time and hot water between them in the morning.
She halted mid-hallway when a blur passed by. Pietro crossed his arms suddenly a bare two feet in front of her. "Hey Kitty-cat, you still not up yet?"
Oh yeah, she'd almost forgotten.
"Damn it Pietro, can't a girl get ready in the morning without some egotistical freak bothering her?" She phased through him still determined to get to the bathroom.
He turned on a heel nearly putting a burn mark down on the floor. "Aw, c'mon Kitty-kitty." He sped to her side. "Is that anyway to treat a teammate?"
"Teammate? You got here *yesterday*."
The speed demon shrugged. "Somyplanewasdelayed." He pointed at her. "You better just get used to me."
"Already am." She phased through him again and passed through the bathroom door locking it when she came out the other side.
She heard him take off, fast as he was his startups were as loud as anyone's.
She took her shower and blow-dried her hair in time to hear Rogue knocking on the door. "I'm almost out." She called. Her makeup wasn't in the bathroom, too many guys around that would get curious about the little containers and just make a mess with them. She and Rogue had set up a sort of vanity table in their room that was big enough for them both to sit at.
She unlocked the door and opened it holding her towel around her with one hand. "All yours."
"'Bout damn time." Rogue muttered. She was such the morning person.
"Like, you're welcome!" Kitty said in her sappiest tone as the door was shut in her face. She laughed and went back to her room. She pulled on one of many red tank tops she'd been able to dig out of a second-hand store and threw the spider-web like black top over it. She rather liked that last piece of clothing, it had been a lucky find hidden deep among the clothing in a bargain bin at the same second-hand store.
Infact a lot of her new clothes were from places like that, along with everyone else's. The Brotherhood wasn't greatly financed. They had enough for food, some clothes and the bills but that was it. And the food wasn't always the best quality either.
Thus was the life of the Brotherhood Mutants.
She sat on her end of the impromptu vanity table, which was a stolen park bench set before a couple of mismatched end tables with a large mirror they'd wedged against the wall. Rogue had deeply influenced her new makeup choices to enhance how pale she was.
After a while Rogue came in to change. Kitty averted her eyes from the mirror to the table as if she couldn't decide which lipstick to use.
Rogue finally sat beside her preparing to apply her own makeup fully dressed and somewhat less grumpy.
"Ah swear, that Quick-what's-it guy's a pest." Rogue muttered sifting through her various shades of dark purple eye shadow.
"You know." Kitty said blotting her now dark red lips. "He keeps staring at you."
Rogue gave her a 'no-really?' look. "Tha' only reason he don't stare at you is 'cause Lance can break his neck."
Kitty snickered. "Yeah, okay, but still, it's better than Toad gawking right?"
Rogue gave an exasperated sound. "Don't remind me."
Kitty finished well before Rogue. "See you downstairs."
"Uh huh." Rogue said trying not to jam her mascara in her eye.
The other girl hopped down the stairs and dashed to the kitchen. Fred and Lance were already at the table and Toad was perched on the countertop by the trash. Kitty took the seat next to Lance and reached for some toast.
Ah breakfast, toast, whatever was drinkable and oh hey look, bologna if you could stomach it.
"Hey lovely people, who's up for a run before school?" Pietro was back apparently bored of whatever had been keeping his interest in the last fifteen seconds.
Lance gave him a look and ate the last of his toast. "Only you." He said dully, he wasn't quite a morning person either but he was a damn sight less cranky than Rogue.
And speaking of the devil. "Who's driv'n today?" Rogue asked pushing Pietro out of her way.
Kitty caught the boy quirking an eyebrow at her with a fairly evil grin across his face.
"I am." Lance said holding up the keys to the jeep.
"Yo man, anyone got my English teacher? I gotta have a worksheet filled in by today." Toad asked before snagging a fly.
"Oh gross frog-boy." Rogue said turning from the kitchen. "Ah think Ah jus' lost mah appetite." She disappeared around the corner.
"Oh me too!" Pietro said speeding off after her.
Kitty shook her head. "Like, Toad, can you be any worse?" She asked getting up to head for the fridge for some juice.
"Probably." The small boy replied picking at his ear.
Lance finally got up. "You guys got five minuets unless you all want to join Fred in detention today."
Fred groaned. "I almost forgot about that." He got up picking up the last of his toast and bologna sandwiches and followed Lance.
"I'll probably get it anyway yo. Those teachers got it out for me." Toad said letting himself down to the floor.
She finished pouring a small glass of 'grape drink' and downed it quickly ignoring him. But she had to admit, he was probably right. As the only one of the Brotherhood that had grown up in Bayville most every teacher knew who he was and what kind of trouble he could cause.
She put the container away and set her glass to the side before migrating to the living room to search for her book bag and hope Toad wasn't rummaging in it for something he could copy. Thankfully he was trying to bum a paper or two off Rogue instead.
"Everyone head out." Lance said herding the others out the door.
Pietro sped past them all waiting impatiently in the Jeep. "Hey, hey! Hurry up okay?" He stood in the Jeep waving them forward with a blur of arms. "C'mon! You guys move at six frames! Speed it up!"
"Shut the hell up Pietro!" Rogue snapped reaching for him with an ungloved hand.
Pietro wasn't stupid and hadn't been dropped into this collection of Mutants without a few things being explained to him. So immediately he escaped her soon to be contact before she was even close enough. "Heynowayyou'regonnadothat!" He fired off, but immediately he leered. "Not unless you're into the kinky stuff."
"Ah god." Rogue huffed. "Get over yer self." She put her glove back on and trying to make room for Kitty with her in the front passenger seat.
Kitty idly made sure she didn't accidentally expose any skin to Rogues own and glanced to the back. Fred took up the most of the back with Toad half perched, half clinging to the space beside him. Pietro seemed too energetic to be seated in one place for too long and was basically all over.
Arrival at school became a godsend. Between Fred nearly crushing Toad, Pietro bouncing around the car like a hyper five-year-old but speaking like lecher and Rogue constantly pulling down her shirt and sleeves because of touch paranoia, the Jeep could be labeled a madhouse.
"Alright, get out!" Lance snapped trying to undo his white-knuckle grip on the steering wheel.
Kitty let the others take off without her. Rogue didn't have much time before her first class and Kitty could afford to be late. But what she was most worried about was Lance.
Lance's ability gave him pretty bad migraines, too much stress triggered them just as well as forcing an earthquake.
She climbed back into the Jeep into the back and put her hands on his shoulders. They were tense as all hell, it was a sure sign that he was building up to a blinding headache.
"You gonna make it?" She asked in a faint whisper.
He made a small 'erng' sound and shook his head. After a moment she rubbed his shoulders going slowly so she didn't aggravate the pain. After a few minuets he leaned back relaxing a little.
She leaned forward and kissed him just under his ear. "Feeling better?"
"Much."
"You wanna just go home?"
He nodded. "More than anything." He sat up and turned to look at her. "But I gotta stick around, if you-know-who finds out I ditched its double runs out on the trail."
Kitty could only look sympathetic. They had no real training area and did most of their workouts on a disused hiking trail on the outside of town. "Well I'm totally sure she doesn't want you to like have an aneurysm in the middle of class."
"Maybe she does." He opened his side door. "C'mon we gotta at least look like we want to be here."
* * *
Lunch had mercifully arrived and talk of Duncan's party was all over the place. On instinct Kitty wanted to go but quickly found out that Freshmen were not allowed. That and the reputation of Toad was soon stamped onto her along with the rest of her housemates.
Kitty pulled Rogue away from her lonely gloom-and-doom session among the wooded area of the grounds to the main court.
"Ah seriously don't wanna be here Kitty." Rogue said.
"I'm sorry, I'm just so used to having a big group around. Even if I didn't know all their names and got ignored most of the time. It was still nice. Besides you can read later, it's gawk at the boys time now."
Rogue gave her a look but did notice that Pietro was showing off his speed on the concrete basketball court. He wasn't going full out on the poor normal humans but he was outstripping them by far.
She suddenly spotted a far table with quite a few familiar faces.
"Oh god. They're looking at us."
"Who? Oh." Kitty stared coldly at the table containing the X-men. "Like I care."
At said table Kurt was drooling again.
"C'mon Kurt man, what's with you and that girl?" Evan asked sneaking the fuzzy Mutants milk away.
"He's been like that for awhile now. Think he's comatose?" Scott asked staring down at his friend.
"Don't worry about him. We have to worry about them." Jean said giving a mental nudge to the boys that she was talking about Kitty and Rogue. "How are we going to gain they're trust now?"
Scott sighed. "Jean, you know the Professor said they have to join of their own free will or not at all. We just have to wait and see."
"I suppose." She cast on last hopeful look at the two girls. But the bell rang for the end of lunch. Maybe time would help.
