Disclaimer: Yey! I'm back! WoOT! I guess I should put this up here: this first part of this story is pretty long. It's interesting but the main point of the story, the climax or the main conflict…what ever you wanna call it doesn't really start in part one. Yes there will be most likely two parts. Maybe three if necessary. I really don't know exactly what's going to happen. Anyhoo…I do not own X-Men Evolution and seeing how you already know all this (because it is very necessary to have read the first story about Lhach, Alive or Just Breathing, in order to understand any of this…) I will not be putting up a disclaimer on every chapter. Just this one and sometimes when I need to write authors notes or thank every for reviewing SO MUCH (hint,hint) Also, I think I might have said this in the last story but just in case I didn't Lhach is pronounced 'lohkh' like a lock with an small 'h' sound at the end. One more thing…at the beginning of every chapter, it starts out with Kitty writing in her journal. It always has something to do with the story so don't just skip it. Anyhoo…..enjoooy!!
Summery: Almost a year has past since Lhach joined the X-Men and learned to control his powers. But just one crack in a structure can tear it down from the inside out. But Xavier quickly learns that not everything is as it seems and sometimes even the smartest people can't see what lies beneath the surface. Rated PG-13 for swearing, some violence and some lemmon. Highly recommended to read 'Alive or Just Breathing' first.
Chapter 1 – Default Chapter
'I've very happy today…talk about getting right to the point… I'm not sure why though. It seems like it's been a long time since I've had a bad day. I guess things have just been going well for me lately. It seems like forever since Lhach finally took control of his powers and joined the X-Men. It'll be a year next month. He's really improving. He's showing great control over is powers and everything. I'm really impressed. He's even been joining us in the Danger Room sessions in the morning. I guess he's not considered 'lethal' any more as Kurt puts it. And not too long ago Lhach was allowed to attend Bayville high school with the rest of us as well. I'm really happy for him. I don't know why but it's like, I can completely understand him. It's weird. I can consider him a close friend now. I bet not even the professor could have seen that coming.'
Kitty put down her pen and leaned back in her chair. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She closed her eyes as a smile tugged at her lips. She really was happy for Lhach. They had gotten very close after what had happened with him.
The sound of the door creaking open penetrated her thoughts as Kitty opened her eyes. Rogue was standing the doorway, her backpack messily hung over her shoulder as usual.
"C'mon Kitty. We're gunna be late. Scott said he'd give us a ride."
"Okay." Kitty closed her book and placed it carefully under her desk. She grabbed her own backpack off the ground and followed Rogue out the door.
Kitty pushed a piece of chocolaty brown hair back behind her ear as she casually walked into Bayville High. The crowded hallways were as noisy as ever but one topic seemed to remain on everybody's lips. Duncan Matthews's party. He was throwing a huge Halloween bash at his house as he did every year. But this year was special. Since Kitty was finally old enough, was had received an invitation.
"They say Duncan's party is gunna be the best!"
"Ya! I heard his parents are gunna be away for the whole weekend!"
Kitty smiled in satisfaction as she heard the gossip from around the school. She was finally able to go.
Kitty began to open her locker and place her backpack inside when a boy with ebony hair walked up to her. His messy bangs lightly fell over his eyes and his pack bag hung effortlessly around his shoulder.
"Lhach! What's up?" She said cheerfully.
"Nothin' much. How 'bout you?" He asked, stalling.
"Um. Same here…why?"
"Oh, well I was just wondering, if..um…"
But before Lhach could finish his sentence they heard the bell ring that marked the beginning of class.
"Oh, great. Late again!" Kitty moaned as she shut her locker, "That's the third time this week!"
Her and Lhach walked hastily to their first class, which was luckily the same one. The teacher, Mrs. Thornburough, (a/n HA that was my evil bitchy 7th grade teacher! Revenge to her! REVENGE!) gave them that 'how-many-times-are-you-going-to-try-to-pull-this-off-in-one-week??' look, which wasn't very pleasant.
"Um…my locker got jammed?" Lhach lied.
Mrs. Thornburough's expression did not change, "I'm marking this as another tardy you two. One more time and it's a detention for the both of you. Now take your seats." She said sternly.
Lhach and Kitty did as they were told and took their seats across the room from each other.
Meanwhile…in another part of the school.
Lance, Pietro, Blob and Toad were also late. However, they had no intention of going to class any way so it really didn't matter.
They were just casually wandering down the halls pretending like they were off to class.
"I heard the jock, Duncan Matthews, is throwin a huge Halloween party." Lance said
"Sounds like fun." Pietro commented in an almost sarcastic tone.
Toad had also heard about the party. He hopped in front of the group in order to get their attention, "Ya. I say we go in there, and wreck the place. Ya know, like crash the party."
Pietro smiled nastily "Now's that's my idea of fun."
"Ya. I say we go." Blob said, "Maybe we can even liven things up a bit."
Lance grinned, "Then it's settled. Tomorrow night we'll all go the party."
Blob stoped to think for a minute. Which was actually two minutes for him, "Wait, don't we need invitations to get into that party?"
Toad rolled his eyes, "Not when ya crash it, yo." He said.
"Excuse me…" A voice sounded from behind them.
They all stopped dead in their tracts.
A darker haired haired woman, obviously a teacher, was standing right behind them. She wasn't too tall and could barely look Pietro in the face. "Where are you going with out a pass?" She asked snobbishly in that 'matter-of-fact' tone.
Lance and the others exchanged looks, "Um…well you see…"
The teacher pulled a pad of small yellow paper out of her pocket and scribbled their names on them. She handed Lance the paper, "That's a detention. For all of you. Today after school in my classroom."
"But it's Friday!" Lance exclaimed.
The teacher eyed him, "Well maybe you should've thought about that when you were attempting to skip class!" And with that, she turned on her heal and walked back into her classroom without letting Lance else respond.
"Great." Pietro sighed.
Back in the classroom, Mrs. Thornburough had decided to go on one of her lectures about the 'proper' way to write a heading on you school assignments seeing how a whole two people forgot to put the class hour. (a/n my teacher goes off on this ALL the time it is so irritating!!)
Kitty leaned over and folded her arms on her desk. She tried to keep her eyes from going in and out of foucus but the urge to sleep was just too strong. She rested her head on her arms and closed her eyes. Just then, a small paper football landed on her desk. She opened one eye and studied it lazily. She casually picked it up and unfolded it. On the paper it read: hey kitty. wats ?
Kitty looked around the room to see who had sent it. She looked over and saw Lhach fumbling with a pencil. He looked over and gave a small sarcastic wave from under his desk. Kitty flipped the small piece of paper over and wrote: nuttin much. by the way…wut wer u gunna say 2 me earlier??
She folded the paper back up and threw it over to Lhach. When she got it back it read: if u wer goin 2 Duncan's Halloween party/dance/thingamachicken with any1'
Kitty laughed silently to herself and wrote back:
'do u count as sumbody?'
Lhach smiled at her after reading the note. But his smile was quickly replaced a nervous glance as he noticed Mrs. Thornburough was standing right next to him.
She looked at him with her cold hard stare and frowned, "Passing notes in class? That's a detention for you mr Laurenson."
Kitty laughed at him in her head. She had never heard someone say his last name before.
Lhach opened his mouth to protest but quickly shut it as he realized he was lucky to just have a detention. Even if it was on a Friday.
YES Laurenson is his last name! Hurrah! His middle name is Lucas! Howz aboutz dem apples?!?! And I assigned him the middle name Lucas before I saw Sins of the Son from X-Men evolution so I did not copy them. They copied me! You wouldn't believe how long I've had the character Lhach. I just loved his character so much and I didn't feel that I really portrayed his personality well in the last story. Then again it's pretty hard when he's polar schizophrenic. I think that's the correct use for the word. I'm not entirely sure. Oh well. As usual...I've put up two chapters to start off the story but that doesn't mean you don't have to review this one!! Over and out!