Kitty Pryde's eyes began to wander as Ms. Monroe wrote the homework on the board. Why do we even need to take history class? If you ask me it's a waist of time, she thought as she looked to the clock. Good, only one minute left. Bobby began to tap his pencil on the desk in rhythm with the ticking clock.
54, 53, 52, 51- ("Now remember, this homework is to be handed in on Monday, so you have the whole weekend to work on it.")- 42, 41, 40, 39- ("Rogue, do you know the answer to number 2?")- 35, 34, 33, 32, 31- ("So what is everyone saying about what happened to Ms. Grey?")- 27, 26, 25, 24, 23- ("Yeah, I hear they picked up some blue kid.")-20, 19, 18, 17, 16, ("Kitty, please pay atention to your homework.")-13, 12, 11, 10- (How am I supposed to know why we almost lost the American Revolution?)-7, 6, 5, 4, 3, ("Yo, Kitty, look at the clock! Get your stuff together!")
RING!
It figured, it really did, the minute Kitty started on her homework the bell rang. She struggled to put her books in her bag when Ms. Monroe walked up to her. "Kitty," she said setting a hand on a book Kitty still hadn't put away, "Do you mind coming here tomorrow and trying to make up some homework? You're very far behind." Kitty blushed. That figures too… I'm not out the door in the first five seconds and I get confronted by a teacher. She thought angrily. "Um," she said searching her mind for an excuse, "Tomorrow is my day for practice, you know that Ms. Monroe…" She tried to look innocent, but she knew Ms. Monroe could see right through her. "Funny, I thought Wednesday was your day to practice." Kitty blushed again. "Well, err; I needed an extra day because, umm, I keep, like, fazing through stuff, when I'm, like, asleep and stuff."
Once again she tried to hide her lies by smiling sweetly. Ms. Monroe laughed. "You mean like you did the other day I caught you sleeping in class?" Kitty bit her lip. She remembered the other day when Ms. Monroe had been talking about the Alamo she had fallen asleep and when Ms. Monroe yelled at her to wake up she had passed right through her desk, through the floor, and landed on one of the cars in the underground garage. "Yeah, like that…" Ms. Monroe nodded. "Okay, well, then I'll just have to see you tonight during your break." Kitty sighed. There was no getting out of it. She nodded and walked away.
Kitty walked stuffily down the hall on her way to lunch but as she went she heard someone coming. She backed up against the wall so she could listen.
"If you knew that they were registered why wait until now to try and find them?" said a voice Kitty knew was Mr. Summers. "Because I had trouble tracking them down…" said another familiar voice, Professor Xavier. Kitty held her breath. Finally she could know what was going on around here! She fazed herself halfway through the wall, so only her right side was there, hidden behind a statue of a gryphon. "But recently they have entered an aria full of mutants. When I looked harder I saw it was a mutant registration cell. There are thousands of registered mutants there, some do not realize their fate, and others have given up hope." Then another voice spoke, one she wasn't so familiar with. "Then we bust 'em out!" He said gruffly. She heard Scott sigh. "Right Logan, break into a mutant registration cell and set free thousands of mutant free when we don't know they can get out alright! Then we'll have the military at us, razing suspicion of mutant hostility!" "And if we don't," snapped Logan, "Magneto will go to free his kids, and when he does that, the others would sell themselves to him for freedom!" "Logan is right Scott; we need to get the mutants out before Magneto. If you think mutant hostility will go up if WE break them out, what do you think if Magneto gets to them first? Are we at an agreement Scott?" Scott sighed but said nothing. "Good, go and get the jet ready. Logan, I want you to round up the X-men." Logan nodded and turned a corner, Scott turned another. The professor closed his eyes and smiled. "Been doing a little spying have we Katherine?" Kitty heard in her head. She gasped. Did he know I was here the whole time? She asked herself. The professor answered for here. "I felt you here the minute I turned the corner."
Kitty blushed and stepped out of the wall she had been hiding in. The professor smiled. "Did you hear anything of interest?" He asked her seeming, what Kitty thought, was too calm. "Err, not if you didn't want me to." She said still blushing. "Fair enough," He said turning and rolling down the hall. She turned away and walked down the other hall, but the minute the professor left the hall she turned around and ran after him. Hey, she thought, I've been going here a lot longer than Rogue…if she and Bobby get to go why can't I?
