Intuition
By: Kryptonite
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*One Year Nine Months After*
" Xavier's Institute for the Gifted. Kitty speaking, how may I help you?" Kitty asked, repeating the simple memorized phrase.
" Hey Kitty." Kitty straightened up at the sound of that voice. " Don't say my name, I don't want anyone to know you're talking to me."
" What's your name again miss?" Kitty played along, anxious to talk to her friend, under any circumstances.
" Thanks Kitty. Call me Jess."
" Jess it is then." Kitty bit her lip, looking around foyer where the cordless was located. Her eyes fell on the door to the rec. room where most of the inhabitants of the mansion were gathered on that Saturday night watching t.v. and playing games.
Her eyes scanned the hall again and finally settled on the stairs. " If you'll hang on for just a second." Kitty took the silence as an affirmative and went up the stairs at a slightly faster pace than usual. Slipping into Rogue's old room Kitty shut and locked the door behind her.
" You can speak now." Kitty spoke, hoping that Rogue was still on the line.
" Thanks Kitty. You always were a good friend. How've you been?" Kitty smiled at Rogue's voice, sliding along the door to the wooden floor.
" Where are you?" Kitty waited as Rogue paused, seeming to weigh her words.
" I'm safe. I'm with friends." Kitty bit back a small cry of frustration at that. " I'm in California, not that that will help much."
" Are you sure everything's fine?" Rogue chuckled into the phone.
" Yes Kitty, everything's fine. In fact the reason I called was I wanted you to tell Professor Xavier that I'd be coming home in a few months at most. I'm bringing a friend with me."
" Why Professor X?" Kitty stared at the darkened room, willing her friend to appear.
" Because he'll already know that you talked to me by the time we hang up. I don't want anyone else to know. I want it to be a surprise."
" Alright, Ro- ah Jess. Whatever you want." Kitty agreed, happy that Rogue was coming home.
" I'll see you soon Kitty. Bye." Without waiting for a reply Rogue hung up, cutting Kitty off from her.
" Kitty? Everything alright?" Scott's voice called through the door moments after she punched the power button on the phone.
" What do you care?" Kitty muttered moodily, not liking her new leader much better than she had when she had joined the X-men.
" Kitty let me in." Rolling her eyes Kitty stood up, undid the locks and threw the door open to glare at the leader and teacher.
" Stop glaring and shut the door." He spat, coming into the room and resting lightly on the bed. Kitty looked at him suspiciously as his head found his way into his hands but she closed the door as told and went to sit in the recliner next to the door.
" Why are you here?" Kitty asked into the silence that followed.
" I've been a real idiot haven't I?" Kitty refused to comment, knowing whatever she said would just make him mad at her. " That was Rogue." He didn't ask, he stated what he knew to be a fact.
" No." Kitty protested weakly, knowing he didn't believe her. " It was Jess."
" Kitty, knock it off. I picked up the phone. I heard her talking. She's coming home. I have a lot to make up for."
" Yes you do. So what made you see the light, so to say?" Kitty asked quietly, eyes focused on the ground in front of the chair.
" A rather unpleasant image of Logan and Jean in the lab." Kitty winced, not pushing for details. " I knew it was happening, I just didn't want to believe it."
The human mind will 'know' many things intuitively but most of those things are bad, mean, or just plain nasty. Therefore the mind will dismiss these intuitions as nothing more than a recurring uneasy feeling. It takes physical evidence to see what you've always known.
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A/N: I would have updated Chapter 22, Friends sooner but FF.net wasn't working properly so instead you get two updates at once. Enjoy :D
Have a good life everyone, catch ya on tha flipside.