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A/N - Sorry for the wait. First I couldn't upload my chapter for ages after that I just got lazy! LOL.

Chapter six

Kitty saw the boy lying on the table and her mind was screaming at her but she was no longer under her own control. Every pore in her body was telling her not to stand there, she had to help Lance but she couldn't move. She watched, her eyes passive, as one of the doctors came forwards holding a large syringe filled with a strange drug.

"Kitty" she heard Lance call and she could see the fear in his eyes but she couldn't do anything.

She wanted to close her eyes or raise her hands over her ears so she couldn't hear his screams as they began to torture him. None of this showed on her face but she felt it, locked in the deep recesses of her own mind she felt it.

"Katherine, walk towards the table" a voice sounded over the intercom.

Trying to struggle she walked towards Lance, her legs no longer belonging to her.

"Kitty, oh god" Lance began to swear.

"Katherine, pick up the scalpel."

Kitty watched as her hand reached out and picked up the scalpel and she waited for her next order. She knew that something bad was going to happen and she forced herself to try and gain control over her body.

"Katherine cut his hand, not to deeply" came the next command.

Kitty saw Lance's eyes widen and his mouth go slack with fear as she raised the scalpel over his hand. She stabbed it down and at the exact moment as she thought it would hit she concentrated on phasing it through his hand. She had never concentrated on anything so hard in all her life.

She heard Lance scream and she thought that she had gotten him but her eyes saw that she had managed to phase. She was still under their control but she was slowly breaking through.

"Leave us alone" she said through gritted teeth.

She shook her head and felt as if the fog had lifted. Her mind was becoming clear and her body was becoming her own.

"Kitty" Lance said again.

Kitty forced her head down and nodded. It was painful to go against the drugs in her system but she forced her hands to work on getting Lance out of there. She had got one buckle done when she felt something heavy hit her on the back of her head. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and they last thing she saw was Lance looking at her before she fell to the ground.

She woke later and had no idea of the time, or exactly where she was. She looked around and realised, for the first time in ages, that she was no longer drugged to insensibility. She was sick of being in there and she wanted to get out.

"Kitty, are you okay?"

Kitty felt a scream rise in her throat when she heard the voice, her head swung in every direction until she saw the figure huddled against the wall, nursing a bandaged hand.

"Lance" Kitty choked before running into his arms.

"I missed you" he mumbled.

Kitty began to laugh so hard that she didn't realise she was crying.

"Hey don't cry" Lance told her.

Kitty hiccuped trying to stop the tears but she felt as if she had died, being stuck in this hell for so long and now here was Lance. To her he seemed like a salvation.

"How did you get here? Where are the others? Are you okay? Is anyone else here? What happened to you hand?" the questions came out in rapid fire before Kitty could stop herself.

"I got caught, looking for you" she saw him smile sadly.

"You were looking for me? How about the others?"

"They have been looking for you as well. In fact Jean, Rogue and Jamie almost joined you here" Lance said.

"Are they okay?" she cried.

"Everyone is fine, I think" he muttered.

Kitty moved back and rocked on her heels as she looked at him. She hadn't seen any of her friends for a long time and her mind was still reeling with his appearance. Now that she was in marginal control of her body she felt happier than she had for months.

"What has happened on the outside?"

She watched as Lance jerked his head up to look at her.

"Open season on mutants" he answered.

Kitty felt the smile fall from her face as he explained all that he knew about what had happened.

~*~

Lance answered Kitty's questions patiently, he was tired and pain but he was relieved to see that Kitty was more attentive than she had been in the lab. He was shocked to see how pale she was and there were dark circles under her eyes. Her hair was longer and her figure seemed thinner but she was still Kitty and he was glad to see her.

"Oh god Kitty, it's good to see you" he said to her.

He smiled as he saw a small blush rise on her cheeks. They hadn't seen much of each other after he had left high school but he knew that there was still something there. He had loved Kitty, he had even tried to join the X-Men but he had realised that he wasn't cut out for that life.

He still had strong feelings for her. Ever since they had first met at high school, even when they had been recruited into different teams he had still liked her.

"What happened to you, Kitty?" he asked.

He knew that it was a bad question but he had to know. He saw her face pale even more and her eyes had a haunted look in them. Her hands were trembling and she hugged her knees.

"Did they...um...touch you?" he choked.

"No, no, nothing like that" she replied quickly but Lance wasn't totally convinced.

He watched her for a moment waiting to see if she would tell him anything but she stayed silent.

~*~

Lorna Dane sat in a comfortable chair in a huge mansion surrounded by a group of mutants and for the first time in a long while she felt safe. As safe as a mutant could be in the world today. Everyone was talking or listening and she was quite happy to sit back and do nothing but listen. She was good at that. When she was listening she didn't worry about her powers go haywire, which they liked to do every so often. She didn't worry about anything.

She had become so comfortable that when her powers did start acting up she didn't notice until someone else said something. She looked around and saw that everything that had some metal in it was moving of its own accord.

"Oops, sorry" she muttered and drew her power back into her.

"Trouble with control?" someone asked.

"Yeah, I have my good days and my bad days. I had a lot of problems when they first appeared" she tried to explain but she didn't like talking about her past that much.

"You said something about Aidan Kale?" a southern voice drawled in her ear.

She jumped and saw Rogue sitting there. She had been quickly introduced to all the people who had rescued her but she hadn't paid any attention until now.

"Oh crap, you're the one he wants" she said to the girl.

"What?" the girl asked, her eyes widening.

"You've met him. You are the one who got away" Lorna told the girl.

"What do you mean?" another person asked.

"Aidan was super pissed when she got away. In fact he still hasn't gotten over it. For some strange reason he is obsessed with you and not in a good way" she said, her eyes wide.

She watched as the girl shook her head in disbelief then a wall seemed to drop over her face and she had a determined look plastered on.

~*~

"She was telling the truth and she knows where Kitty is. In fact she knows quite a bit" Xavier told the adults as he sat with his hands under his chin.

"So we have a name to our enemies" Ororo said grimly.

"I'm afraid so. At least we know who we are up against" Xavier replied.

"A bunch of crazy idiots" Logan growled.

Xavier looked around at his teachers a frown lingering on his lips. He was scared but he would not tell them that. He was the leader and he was supposed to be strong for all of them and he normally was but to have all this pressure put on him at this time he didn't know what to say or do.

"Don't worry, Charles. We will stop them" Hank said as if he could read his worry on his face.

To Be Continued...