Sadness – Chapter 13 - A new friend for Kitty

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Kitty thought it would be a good idea to speak to the girl beside her who was sweaty and breathing hard.

"Err, is it too difficult to create illusions?"

"A little. But with you it was so different. Our minds merged into one and I saw your dream, I mean, nightmare." She answered in between several minutes to catch her breath.

"What's your name?" Kitty asked looking at her tanned skin and trying to change the subject.

"My name is Larissa and I'm from Brasil."

"Really? I heard it's a beautiful country." Kitty tried to be nice. Well, she heard about Brasil and saw some pictures, it was beautiful. The beaches, the monuments, the guys were hot. "By the way, we have another brasilian mutant, his name's Roberto, the Sunspot."

"We were already introduced to each other." Larissa said, now a little bit stronger than before. "The only guy that didn't introduce himself was the elfish guy." She thought it wouldn't be nice to say the 'blue guy'.

"Oh, that's Kurt Wagner, a.k.a Nightcrawler and he is able to teleport. And I am Katherine Pryde, a.k.a Shadowcat and I get intangible, what I call phase." She added with a little smile, becoming the old Kitty that all the team knew.

"I think I should introduce myself better too. I'm Larissa Rocha, but I still don't have a code name and I can create illusions. I know what you will say, just like Danielle Moonstar."

There was an awkward moment of total silence, while they could hear some bacon being fried for lunch at the kitchen.

"I think I should call Professor Xavier." Larissa said, shuffling on the hem of her black shirt. Kitty saw that and saw how shy the girl was.

"I rather stay here for a while without being bothered by anyone." Kitty said.

Larissa looked confused but left all the same without saying goodbye. But when she had reached the double doors, she said without looking over her shoulder:

"Just don't sleep."

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The classes past really slowly for Kurt. He didn't know what happened since he 'ported away from the cafeteria.

He was walking down the lane to finally leave the school, when Evan came on his skateboard.

"Hey K-man. You left me alone with that Alvers and Principal Kelly, man. Are you insane? I can't go to his office again or Auntie O will kick me out of the mansion." He said.

"I'm sorry. But I really don't want to talk to Alvers again. And I told him a lot bullshit . . . "Kurt was interrupted.

"As usual."

Kurt looked up and saw Scott looking down at them.

"I was thinking about 'porting us back to the mansion." Kurt saw Scott's bright red car and right behind it, the X-van, driven by Jean Grey who was waving hello to them.

"I think you couldn't handle it with other half dozen mutants in tow. So I decided that a little help would be good." Scott said holding up the keys of his car.

When everybody was settled in both the sport car and the van, they drove off, back to the Institute.

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Kitty decided she needed to get a walk. She was feeling fine and rested. Her head was aching a little, but it was nothing an aspirin wouldn't handle.

As her feet touched the floor, she noticed how cold the weather was. She looked for some of her outfits and found them well folded in the small locker in the corner of the room. The medical nightgown wasn't quite comfortable, mainly because there was a really big opening from her neck down, revealing all that she certainly didn't want to show.

She put her clothes on and walked slowly, as an old person would, finding some furniture to lean on. And this way, step by step, she reached the kitchen. The smell of bacon was really comforting, even though she was a vegetarian.

She pushed the swinging door and was greeted by the sight of Logan dressing an apron and turning the bacon like a chef would. Ororo was sat on her usual chair, reading the Cosmopolitan and grimacing, Hank was hidden behind a pile of books and Larissa was sat by the window, reading a huge and old book. They all looked towards Kitty when she entered.

"Oh, well. I can see you're better." Hank said pushing his books aside and taking off his glasses.

"And I can see you're hard headed." Logan said turning off the fire on the stove and eating the bacon he had just fried.

"For Heaven's sake, Logan! These bacons are for the lunch!" Ororo said and turned to Kitty while throwing her magazine in the trash can, "I don't think you need to go back to the infirmary. You look pretty good. Larissa might have done a good work on you." And she turned to the girl dressed in black who was eating a pear now, "What did you find out, child?"

Larissa looked at Kitty who shook her head negatively, and then she answered:

"Nothing much. She just reacted after a few happy images."

Kitty breathed relieved and said:

"Where's Professor?"

"He went out to London. Family affairs." Logan said, chopping more bacon. "Hey girl", Kitty looked at him. "No, not you Half-Pint. You the Half-Pint in black, take some tomatoes in the fridge."

Kitty smiled and walked away, deciding to take a walk on the gardens which were green again.

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Kurt saw a girl walking through the gardens and finally resting on the angelic fountain. He 'ported near her right away. Kitty was breaking the thin layer of ice. Kurt could see the round holes that her index finger had made.

He cleared his throat and spoke up:

"Hallo, Katzchen!"

Kitty jumped on her feet and phased through the angel on the top of the fountain, running back to the mansion. Kurt's heart was shattered in many pieces. He heard the gates being opened and 'ported to his room. He didn't want his team mates to look at him with pity.

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