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Numbuh half way hell: Sorry, but...as the song goes, "She makes such a thin little target!" ;) Actually, it was the dramatic Lancitty relationship that made me pick her over...somebody likeRogue or whatever. Actually, Rogue gets a lot of Angst stuff in fics already... whew!
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Chapter 5
Kitty's body wept numb.
"No." She said, in a hollow voice.
Xavier sat up straighter, trying desperately to maintain his composure. Logan was equally unsteady, as the implications of the disease ran through his mind. Storm, for her part, had to get up and leave the room, chocking back tears. Hank, forever the scientist, occupied his mind with imagining solutions and options, however farfetched they may be. The professor? Well, for all of his wisdom, at this time and place…he had no words…no counsel. 'This young girl…Kitty…the sweet and innocent student…may die.'
"No." Kitty repeated, numbly, shaking her head. "No. I do not have cancer."
Hank swallowed. "The scans we took before your blood sample…"
"The scans?"
"Yes. Routine enough…but…Kitty, there is no doubt. The blood sample alerted me to look for signs of a cancerous tumor…you have…" His voice broke. "Indeed, a cancerous tumor in your brain."
Tears streamed down her stone cold face. "I'm going to die." She felt the word, die, echo through her body and mind. She gave way to sobs.
"No!" Logan said, embracing her. "We're not going to give up on this. We're…we're going to fight it!" As she sobbed in his arms, he once again felt the bond between them. She was like a daughter to him. No, indeed, he would not let her die. 'If it were only me' He thought to himself, in rage. 'Why her?'
The professor interrupted his wild mental ramblings. "Yes, Kitty. We are gong to fight it. Any way we can."
"I want to go to my room." Kitty managed.
Xavier nodded. "You need to rest after such a shock. Kitty, we will discuss…options later. Hank and I are already exploring treatments and choices."
Kitty, once again reverting to quiet numbness, allowed Logan to walk her out, but left him at the professor's door. He blinked back tears and tried to win over the urge to slice everything in sight in two. Eventually, he joined the Professor and Hank down in the lab.
Kitty phased through the bedroom door and, without a word, climbed into bed and buried her face into her pillow.
Rouge entered the room, having just went to the bathroom, and rolled her eyes at Kitty, making chocking sounds into her pillow.
"Aw, come off it, girl. If yah miss that airhead so much, just call 'im. Ah'm sick of your cryin' all the time. If ya just-"
Kitty rushed at her in a fit of rage. "You thoughtless idiot!" She screamed. "Can't you just for ONCE think about something else but pointless irrelevant-"
"Whoa!" Rouge yelled back. "Don't take out yer lover's spat on me you shallow-"
"I HAVE CANCER, YOU INSENSITIVE DENSE JERK!" Kitty screamed with all the rage her small body could contain.
Rouge stood in shock as Kitty broke down and went back to sobbing.
"W-what?" Rouge whispered.
"Hank found…a lump…of cancer in my…brain yesterday." Kitty sobbed.
Rouge felt cold all over. "But…you're not…you're healthy!"
Kitty just continued to sob.
Rouge blinked back tears, but to no avail. Her stream of tears were as unstoppable as Kitty's. "Kitty- Ah'm…I can't tell ya how sorry ah am…ah shouldn't 'a-"
Kitty shook her head. "It doesn't matter. You didn't know."
"What…what are we gonna do 'bout it?"
"I don't know…the professor is going to talk to me more tomorrow." She tried to stop crying but the pain was too deep. "Rouge…" She whispered now, almost imperceptibly."…I don't want to...to die."
Rouge sat with Kitty on the floor, and she held her close. "Shh…" She rocked Kitty in her arms as if she were her child.
'No, not my child…' thought Rouge. 'My sister.'
