Disclaimer: I own nothing (cry) Anyhoo…I just saw the movie Donnie Darko and fell in love with it. That movie RAWKS! A lot! I recommend it to everyone who likes movies and even to those who don't…it is still worth your time. The reason why I put that is cuz for those of you who might have already seen it (which I bet is barely any) I based Lhach's outfit of off Donnie's at the Halloween party. And no, Donnie Darko is not as corny as it sounds. One more thing…I am located in England so sometimes I write 'ou' instead of just 'o' without realizing it such as favour or colour so don't think I'm stupid if you see that. Okay time for you to read and review. Enjoy…
KeaIshTak: Yes…I was talking about Kyo and Jeco (Jecco?) too . Like I said, it was a very interesting conversation. And you probably guessed, it was Jeco who started it.
Dark4u( ) – Kool name. And I don't normally do pairings with my own characters but this one was just to good to pass up. If you like the Kitty/Lhach pairing you're gunna love chapter 4 (laughs evilly)
Chapter 3 – Trust is a Commitment
'TGIS. Thank god it's Saturday! There were tons of rumors flying around about Lhach and that he had gotten into a huge fight with the Brotherhood! I wouldn't know why but even my friends, Ashley and Amanda called me this morning to tell me. Meanwhile I still don't know what to wear to Duncan's party. I don't know why I feel so compelled to impress Lhach. Why would I need to? I think I'm still not quite over the fact that he asked me out. Oh well. We'll just have to see what happens."
It was Saturday morning, the morning of Duncan's Halloween party, even though Halloween was the day after. Xavier had called everybody up early for a short, fourty-five minute training session in the Danger Room.
Lhach had come along as well with the other X-Men and new recruits. Xavier had just gotten done explaining what they would be up against and was making his way up to the control room the start the session.
Kurt looked over at Kitty who had been talking with Lhach, "Man, Kitty's been hangink out vith Lhach a lot, ya know." He mentioned to Scott.
"So, they're good friends. What's wrong with that?"
"I just…I just don't know if I can trust him."
"Aw, c'mon curt. You gotta give him a change."
Kurt sighed, "I know, but I still can't get over how Lhach stabbed Kitty. And after everyzink I heard about Lhach's encounter vith ze Brotherhood ze other day, I just don't know." He said quietly, "I know zhey're still a little sore about vhat had happen last year, and I know Lhach didn't mean to hurt her…" he said, practically pulling the words out of Scott's mouth, "But he still did hurt her. He kinda…well, practically kil...."
"I know. But the professor's been working a lot with Lhach, every day actually, and Lhach has pretty good control over his powers now. I mean, if he didn't…he wouldn't have been able to attend the high school."
The siren sounded, signaling the session to start.
"Vell, ve'll see." He said, running out toward the center of the room with the others.
Out of nowhere, four giant metal tentacles flew out of the walls on either side of them. They were mounted with various lasers and ray guns that immediately begun shooting at the teams. Everyone took the arms head-on, including Lhach.
Much to everyone's surprise, he showed great control over his powers. His eyes no longer went black and every time a ray gun or a plasma beam would shoot at him, the gun would simply darken and shatter to pieces.
However, the more he fought, the harder it became to suppress the memories of what had happened in the detention room the day before. His one problem was being burdened by memories and guilt. That's what triggered his emotions and his deepest, darkest powers that he lost control of before.
Lhach never told anyone about this. He thought that if Xavier knew, he'd get kicked out of the X-Men. Lhach had worked his butt off all year and not once had his eyes turned black. Until the other day with the Brotherhood.
All of a sudden, the entire wall with one of tentacles attached to it began to crumble to pieces and suddenly explode. The wall became a darker shade of gray as it fell heavily to the ground below.
Scott and Jean tried to hold it back but nothing was working. Everyone cleared the area as the wall crashed onto the ground and exploded on impact. Dust and large pieces of debris flew everywhere. But Lhach was frozen. His pupils grew small and his eyes began to turn darker once more. He couldn't move. Frozen in shock. But a sharp piece of metal from the tentacle was headed in Lhach's direction unseen and unheard.
Kitty knocked Lhach onto the floor just in time. His eyes changed back to normal as he hit ground. He shook himself mentally and snapped out of the trans-like state he was in. He immediately broke into a cold sweat after realizing what had happened.
As the smoke cleared, Kitty noticed that she was practically lying on top of Lhach. Her face beamed red as she backed away slowly.
"Are you okay?" She said, trying to recover her composition.
Lhach still seemed like he was in a state of shock.
Two words escaped past his lips without him knowing it. Those two words sent a chill down Kitty's spine. She repeated them in her head just to make sure she wasn't imagining it. She stared at Lhach hard and he looked around with a confused expression on his face. He starred past her and noticed the damage from the wall.
Had he really done that?
Xavier had called Lhach down to his office right after everyone had left the Danger Room to talk about what happened. Xavier was not expecting something like this to happen. Not now anyway.
"Lhach, what happened?"
Lhach looked to the ground in shame, his dark ebony hair falling losing in front of his eyes, "I'm sorry professor. I…I just lost control. I didn't mean too. It just, sort of happened."
"Lhach, things don't just 'happen'. There has to be some reason or some cause." He stated, "I understand it wasn't intentional. I know you wouldn't purposely endanger the lives of your fellow teammates. But you did. And I want to know why."
Lhach had been making so much progress but ever since that detention incident his powers had been lingering on uncontrollable. And it finally came out that morning. Xavier simply didn't understand.
He looked up into Lhach's eyes and he didn't need to read his mind to see that he was sorry. He had been doing so well. He didn't want to lose Xavier's trust or want him to be disappointed. And Xavier could see that.
"Alright. I believe you. We'll just have to find out why that happened, and work on it in our next session, okay?"
Lhach nodded slowly, not taking his gaze of the floor.
"Lhach, I'm not upset with you. Accidents happen. I know that. But you can't dwell on these things. I think that has a great deal to do with your control."
He didn't want Xavier to give up on him. But nothing was working, and Lhach thought he very well might.
"You can go now."
Lhach nodded again and left the room silently.
Kitty stumbled into her room collapsed on her bed in exhaustion. Both mentally and physically. She took a deep breath and let it out quickly. Lhach's words couldn't get out of her head. Why did he say that? Did he mean he was losing control of his powers again?
Kitty rolled over on her back and watched the ceiling fan make circles around the white paneling, "Lhach, did you really say that?" She whispered to herself.
Her eyelids fluttered closed as she watched the fan spin in an almost hypnotic fashion and she quickly fell asleep.
A little while later, Kitty woke up to the sound of a hair drier being turned off.
Rogue was standing in front of the mirror by her own bed, drying her hair. Kitty looked around at the clock above her bed at noticed it was six thirty already! She had less than a half an hour to get ready for the party.
"Rogue!" She whined.
Rogue put the drier away and began to work a comb through her thick brown hair, "Whut?"
"Why didn't you wake me up?"
"'Cause if Ah did, you'd probably yell at meh like yeh do every mornin'. Then again Ah guess even if now that Ah haven't woken youh up, you're still yellin at meh so Ah guess it's irrelevant." She said.
It took Kitty a second to process all that but nevertheless she let out a frustrated sigh and got up. "I'm taking a quick shower."
"Ah'll alert the media."
Kitty rolled her eyes and shut the bathroom door shut tight.
About fifteen minutes later, Kitty got out of the shower and noticed that Rogue was gone. She took a quick survey of her surroundings and quickly got dressed.
"Well at least she left out my make-up out for me." She thought.
Kitty wore a pair of low rise, kaki capri's with a tight black shirt which an unbuttoned, light blue one over that. She wore light blue eye shadow with light pink lip-gloss to add to that.
Another fifteen minutes had passed by and Kitty received a knock at her door. She opened it slightly and peered out. Lhach was waiting outside her door.
"You ready?"
Kitty turned of the light in her room and closed the door behind her, "Yep!"
Lhach was wearing lose black jeans with the same style black shirt and had dark gray jacket over that. The shirt had a picture of the midsection of a skeleton, as if it were part of a costume. A few chains fell loosely from his side and one around his neck. He left his dark hair as it was, messy, yet somehow still neat. (a/n i kno its weird but just use yer imaginations. I KNO u have them!!!)
They headed downstairs and met up with Scott and Jean.
"Hey guys," Jean said cheerfully, "Kurt, Evan and Rogue already left. So we'll just catch up with you guys later." She informed them.
Kitty smiled, "Okay, thanks."
And with that, Lhach and Kitty headed out the door for Duncan's party.
I can't wait to write the next chapter! Man am I gunna have fun. I might even add in some fluff for you too . But I can't say between whom. Anyhoo, please review.