Chapter 6: Shocker
When Kitty opened the door to the bedroom she shared with Rogue, she wasn't prepared to hear the voice of Jared inside, it made her stop, and she took her hand off the door handle, the door hung slightly ajar.
"I can't just let this slide," Rogue's voice was saying, Kitty peered through the small space between door and threshold, watching Rogue. Rogue was pacing, the long skirt of her black cotton dress dragging along the floor.
"Why not?! You told me you didn't care about him," Jared sounded angry, angrier than Kitty felt she'd ever heard him sound before.
Kitty leaned against the threshold, she held her breath, scared even that her breathing would be heard through the commotion of their heated argument.
"You can't just switch feelin's on and off like that," Rogue responded, trembling with emotion, "I can't."
"So you're saying, what? That you still love him?!" Jared demanded, Jared was standing still, fists clenched by his sides.
"I don't know!" Rogue yelled back at him, "I don't know! How can you expect me to know what I'm feeling?!"
Jared frowned, "you chose me, not him, me!" he pointed out, "you left him FOR me!! You came to me that night and told me you'd left him and that you needed me to love you and I did! I loved you, I made the tears go away!"
"You made me choose you!" Rogue screamed, "if it hadn't been for you I would have never broken up with him in the first place, you left me no choice!"
"You always had the choice! I didn't make you do anything! You broke up with him yourself!"
Rogue had tears in her eyes, her thick eyeliner was diluted, streaming down her face, she looked pathetic and weak, almost corpse like, "I had no choice! He made me leave!" she screamed.
"And what does that say about his love for you?!" Jared pointed out, "if he wanted you to leave how could he possibly have loved you, how could he ever love you as much as I do!?!"
Rogue turned away from Jared, drawing her breath, she tried to remain calm, "he was hurt."
"He only cares about himself, Rogue, if he did care about you, why would he be trying to fuck your best friend?!"
Kitty frowned. She really wanted to burst in and announce to Rogue that Remy did love her still, and that he wanted her back, and that the kiss had been all some crazy plan to make her jealous.
Rogue was crying so hard she was shaking.
"Look what he's already done to you, Rogue! Think about all you've told me what he did to you!" Jared was exasperated, "He got you mixed up with Carol Danvers powers! He played with your emotions time and time again, lied to you about his real involvement with Carol and why he joined the X-Men! He FUCKED another woman while you were rotting away in some basement jail cell! Didn't tell you he was MARRIED to a fucking she-male, and then brings in a pregnant woman and plans for YOU to mother the baby!"
Rogue was sobbing so hard now, Kitty couldn't hold back no more, she pushed the door open, rushing in.
"She's had enough yelling at her, Jared," Kitty warned, she walked over to Rogue placing a hand on Rogue's arm.
"This doesn't concern you!" Jared responded, he swing his hand out at Kitty as if to shoo her away.
"I'm not gonna stand here and let you emotionally tear her apart!" Kitty stepped closer, fuming, "you say you love her but look at her!! She's a fucking wreck and its you who's causing it, not Remy!" Kitty's voice was a loud high pitched scream, "Remy would never do this kind of shit to her!"
"Stay out of it!" Jared swung his arm hostilely towards Kitty, and Kitty tried to dodge, she phased just in time as his arm passed through her midriff, having to hold her breath as long as he kept swinging at her.
"JARED, STOP IT!" Rogue screamed, she reached as if intent to pull Jared back from Kitty, but all this succeeded in was her hands phasing through his arms, his power leaving her with raw electricity searing through her skin, she screamed.
"ROGUE!" Kitty gasped, she saw Rogue's pain showing in the girls pale tearstained face, and panicked, she finally couldn't hold her breath anymore, and when she let out her breath that was when Jared struck
Kitty wasn't prepared for the sudden shock that she felt as Jared's hand passed through her face, it felt like raw electricity, like being stuck with lightning, her brain felt as if it were going through spasms in her skull as his hand passed through her and pulled back out.
Rogue watched, horror-struck as Kitty fell to the floor in seizure, convulsing violently, as if she were being electrically shocked.
"Kitty! No!" Rogue shrieked, she fell to her knees beside her friend, rolling her over, Kitty's eyes were wide, mouth trembling, it was clear by the blankness on her face she was no longer aware of anything. Her legs flailing, her arms tight at her sides. "Jared! Do something! Get help!" Rogue squealed frantically.
And then it passed, Kitty's eyes fell closed, her breathing seemed to return to normal, and she fell limp back against Rogue's lap.
"Jared…did you—" Rogue turned to look where Jared had been, the door was wide open, and Jared was gone.
Remy LeBeau had been heading down to the kitchen when Amara came running up the stairs, "Oh my god, Remy!" she was gasping for breath, her cheeks red from running.
Remy looked at Amara, she too, could have the habit of occasionally overdramatising situations, "what?" he asked, looking at her quizzically.
"Kitty has just been taken into the hospital wing!" Amara panted. "I thought you'd want to know since you two are kind of seeing each other…"
Remy looked at Amara, "Huh? What? What happened to her?" He stopped in his tracks.
Amara tried to gasp for breath, "I heard Rogue screaming for help when I was in my room, Kitty was out like a light, Rogue said she had some kind of seizure…"
"Seizure…" Remy repeated the words.
"Yeah, I heard yelling from the room just before I heard Rogue shouting for help, I think that Kitty and Jared got into a fight or something…" Amara stated.
Remy didn't suddenly care about the pain in his back, he began to run towards the hallway leading into the hospital wing, he ran in, without knocking, Kitty was lying on a bed, just as Amara had said, unconscious, one arm hanging off of the bed. "What happened?!" he demanded loudly.
Kitty didn't look as if anything might be wrong, her normal peachy tone still vibrant, eyes closed lightly, no wounds, no signs of a violent struggle. Even her long ponytail was still in place.
Professor Xavier raised an eyebrow and glanced at Remy as if he'd just said the foulest thing and had offended him, Hank looked busy, and didn't give any indication he'd heard Remy come in at all.
Rogue was standing near the wall, fist pressed to her mouth, other arm half hugging herself, tears pouring down her face.
Remy stepped over to Rogue, "what happened!?!" he demanded.
"Will you two please wait outside!" Professor Xavier pleaded angrily, "we need concentration to find out what is wrong with Kitty."
Remy took a hold of Rogue's arm and pulled her out of the hospital wing, closing the door behind themselves. "What happened?" He asked, a little more softly.
"They fought…" Rogue swallowed through tears, "Jared was trying to hit her…trying to hurt her…he put his hand through her head…they think it might be her brain…he might have given her brain damage, I don't know…" Rogue burst into tears.
Remy clenched his fists, "I'll fucking kill the cunt, where is he!?!" his voice raised, his eyes flashing a dangerous red.
"I don't know…" Rogue swallowed again, a lump in her throat, "He took off…"
Remy put his hand to his forehead, he kept trying to convince himself that this just couldn't be happening, it just couldn't be. Why would he have turned on Kitty? "Why Kitty…?" Remy asked, "Why attack her…?"
"Because she tried to defend me against Jared…" Rogue answered in more tears, she leaned back against the wall, slid down it, wrapping her arms around her knees and crying into the black cotton fabric of her long skirt.
Remy looked down at Rogue, "what were you and Jared fighting about…"
Rogue took a deep shuddering breath, and into her skirt came the muffled word, "you."
Remy sighed and leaned against the opposite wall, sliding down into a sitting position, it causing his sore back some discomfort. And they didn't speak another word to each other.
Two hours passed of waiting, a clock in the hallway ticking intently, the sounds of the chimes first passed eleven pm, then to twelve am. Midnight had approached.
Rogue and Remy's heads finally raised, moving for the first time since having sat in silence, as Hank McCoy stepped out of the hospital wing, he looked weary.
"How is she?" Remy asked quickly.
"Recovering," Hank responded, "it seems that if Jared's had been any more intense it may have killed Kitty…" Hank explained, he gestured for the two of them to come into the Hospital wing.
Remy pulled himself up, his back aching almost so bad he almost doubled over immediately. He pressed on, stepping into the hospital wing at Rogue's back, Kitty was asleep soundly on the bed now, she looked fine.
"I've been in her psyche," Professor Xavier said as they entered, he looked at both Rogue and Remy with concern, "her thoughts are scrambled, if she was conscious now, she would be confused, disorientated…she wouldn't know who she was, or who you both were…" Professor Xavier stated. "This, though, should pass, already her brain is becoming respectively unscrambled – though this might take time."
Rogue hugged herself, "she'll be alright?"
"If your boyfriend had used any more force in his power he may have left her brain permanently damaged, Rogue…"
A single tear trickled down Rogue's face, already stained and smeared with makeup.
"Where did Jared go?" Hank asked.
"He took off…" Rogue sniffed, "I don't know where he went…"
Remy walked over to Kitty's sleeping body and put his hand upon her forehead, brushing away her long bangs, "no permanent damage whatsoever?" he asked of Professor Xavier.
"None at all," Professor Xavier insured.
Remy bent down – painfully – and kissed Kitty's forehead softly, "I'm sorry," he whispered, he glanced towards Rogue, and left the room. Guilt eating at him once more, Jared was gone, but it had almost cost Kitty Pryde her life. Jared was going to have to pay – if Remy ever found him.
Rogue followed Remy quickly, "Remy…"
Remy stopped, "oui?" He asked tiredly.
"I'm sorry she got hurt…you must love her a great deal…way you…way you came down here and waited with me…"
Remy turned slowly and looked at Rogue, "You're right, I do love her," Remy responded, he saw Rogue's eyes turn away as if she might cry again. "She's my team-mate…my friend…" Remy said.
"Your girlfriend," Rogue pointed out.
"No," Remy said, "that…was doomed for failure," he stated, "we were just…" he wanted to say that he and Kitty were just trying to make Rogue jealous, but he sighed, "we were just not well suited," he sighed, and with that, he left. In need of a good nights sleep now that immediate worry was over – for now.
- The End (Or is it?)