Sadness – Chapter 16 – Kitty's Mission

A/N: Thanks to:

-LonewolfPunk

-Darkness1

-crazysilverkitty

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Logan just drove through the roads, looking at every five minutes outside the window. When they reached the place Kitty had been found before, he stopped the car and switched it off.

"You, kids, stay in here while I look for her." Logan said and slammed the door in front of the teen's faces.

The three of them sat in absolute silence, broken only by heavy sighs coming from Kurt.

"So? Do you know where Kitty is or not?" he asked roughly.

"When you refer to a person you usually call her or his name." Rogue answered him as an older sister would.

"Ok, I will make the question again. Larissa, do you know where my Katzchen is?"

A shy smile appeared on Rogue's face as she heard the words 'my Katzchen' slip out of his lips.

"I tried my best and I can see through her eyes that she's still in Bayville, kept somewhere dirty, in a small room." Larissa said looking at her hands.

"Why didn't you tell me before?" Logan growled as he opened the door of the van, "She isn't here.

"I'm not a telepath, I can't read people minds. It just happens that I saw inside Kitty's head and now I'm full of prep little thoughts. It takes a long time for me, like, to track her down. If you wanted fast answers you should have used Jean or the Cerebro. Oh, I'm sorry, you're not able of using it." As Larissa finished her speech everybody just sat there astonished.

Logan was fuming and his hands were gripping the steering wheel as it was a life boat. Rogue could feel that if Larissa kept talking she would be sliced down. Fortunately she didn't say anything for the rest of the trip, and when she did, she asked Kurt to repeat her words for Logan.

"She said that Kitty might be in a hangar. A place that is fast to escape from and she can say it by the echoes she is hearing through Kitty's ears." Kurt said a little afraid of the reactions that might come.

"There aren't hangars in Bayville." Logan answered looking at the road, and only the road.

"Umm, there was one. I overheard Ororo and Hank talking about a place to leave the Black-Bird at night, because of the students that must sleep and can't go on battles. The place is a bit far, but still in Bayville. Umm, uh, I'll take the map and give it a look." Rogue said and unfolded it, hiding her face behind it.

As she did so, the paper perturbed Logan's driving and he said in a growl:

"Fk! Would you mind being quiet and do it slowly?"

Rogue swallowed her breath and thought grinning a little:

'Is PMS contagious?'

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Kitty woke up feeling strong and cold hands gripping her upper arm. Her first thought was 'stay alert if you need to phase'. The problem was that she was too alert and nothing was making sense, not yet.

"Where are you taking me?" Kitty asked trying to get rid of the thick saliva. She had been eating a lot of junk, but it seemed that they had forgotten she needed water, as any living being.

"To our master." The man holding her said with a Russian accent. And for the first time she looked at him, Colossus.

"I know who he is, but I promise that if you let me go, Professor Xavier will give the double on what you're earning here."

"There's nothing your master can give me." He said and put her up which wasn't difficult at all, due to her small size and light weight.

"What is Mesmero giving you?"

"Revenge."

And then, he dragged her away from the room as if she was a rag doll.

Kitty looked around and saw a thick wooden table in the center of what seemed to be a hangar. A jet was parked there, not as big as the Black- Bird, but they had how to escape.

"Here is the princess. Did you sleep well, mate?" the orange-haired mutant as she recognized as Pyro asked.

Kitty decided to get in their game and be at least a little friendly, once Mesmero wasn't in sight.

"Maybe a glass of water would be good." She said and shrugged.

Pyro ran to one of the gallons on the corner of the hangar behind the jet. Kitty could only see his legs walking here and there to get glasses and fill them with water.

"Umm, so you guys play poker?" she tried.

"Yeah, we do, but Cajun is always winning. No fair." Pyro came back holding a metal and crushed cup of water.

Everybody in the hangar rolled their eyes as Pyro said it. He gave Kitty the cup and sat on one of the chairs beside Gambit.

They kept in silence for several minutes, but it was broken by Colossus voice when he said:

"Master, she's here and willing to help."

Kitty looked at her tattooed kidnapper and did the best ironic face she could. If Mesmero looked inside her mind he'd see that it was all smokescreen. And he did. Kitty's brain was in fever again, incoherent thoughts ran through her head, and his voice said gently:

"There's an old artifact hidden inside the earth somewhere in Europe, an artifact that will destroy mutants if we use it. But it will only destroy mutants who aren't helping us. Mutants like your dear Professor Xavier, the blue furry doctor, the white haired woman, and it will finally kill that Wolverine. It's all up to you. Remember that you will survive. And what really matters now is your life, isn't it, precious little girl?"

"Yes, master." The answer escaped her lips. She wasn't herself anymore, she was only a puppet.

"Now, Katherine, get in the jet." Mesmero changed the tone of his voice from a gentle one to a harsh one.

"Yes, master." Kitty answered again.

She turned around and was guided/dragged to the inside of the jet by Sabertooth, who was grinning stupidly since Mesmero said about killing Wolverine.

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"What time is it, Logan?" Rogue asked as they stopped in front of the only hangar in Bayville.

"I don't know," he answered and looked to the sky above, "but judging by the position of the moon I'd say it's almost midnight."

Rogue didn't answer and kept looking to the decaying hangar. 'Poor Kitty. This place is gross.' she thought.

Kurt was even more impressed than Rogue. He couldn't imagine that his Katzchen was being kept in this place.

Larissa didn't look anywhere else but her hands; she was almost hypnotized by their heart, love and life lines.

But suddenly she said:

"We better hurry up. They won't keep Kitty here for too long. Someone should go in there and save her as fast as possible."

As she said it, the wind grew wilder and a huge black jet took fly into the sky, from the hangar.

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