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A few minutes later, Rogue tapped Kitty's shoulder. "Kit? Hey, are you ok?" Her friend didn't move, just continued staring at the path the Jeep took as it drove away from her, leaving only a broken heart in it's wake. "Alright, you just stay right here."
She returned a few minutes later with Kurt, who looked just as worried. "Katzchen?" The siblings exchanged a look when Kitty didn't respond. "Alright, we'll take you inside…" Kurt wrapped an arm around each girl, and thanks to Xavier working with him, managed to teleport them into their bedroom.
Kitty sat hard on her bedspread, eyes still wide in disbelief. Her mind was still processing what had happened. She didn't want to accept it, hence the delayed reaction. Rogue tried again. "Kitty, what's wrong?"
"Lance…" she whispered, the words finally forming. "Lance broke up with me." Then the tears started. Heavy and hard, they rolled down her face as she gasped for air.
Her friends were equally shocked. Obviously, they'd missed something. Rogue sat down next to her and Kitty buried her head against the black cloth of her shirt. "Um…there, there…" she patted her back as it heaved with another sob. "It's gonna be ok, Kitty."
"No! It's all my fault and it'll never be ok again!" the brunette protested, arms around Rogue's waist as she used her as an anchor to reality.
Rogue looked at Kurt desperately. He wasn't sure what to do though. He wasn't used to women crying; this was a lot more Jean's department than his, but the redhead had obviously checked out and Ororo said not to bother her. "Um…" he grabbed the box of Kleenex off her dresser and held it out. "Tissue?"
Kitty took one hesitantly as her roommate rolled her eyes. "Thanks…" Without ceasing her tears, she blew her nose, then threw the tissue to the trashcan. She missed, which only made her cry harder.
"Sugar, Ah'm sure if you talk to him, y'all can make up," Rogue attempted.
"He said he never wanted to see me again!" she wailed, falling back on her pillows and sobbing.
Rogue felt the need to hit her head against something hard and blunt. Or maybe she should hit Lance's head against something hard and blunt. That would certainly make her feel better right about now. "He just said that because he was angry. If ya just talk to him…?"
Kitty shook her head and her friend realized that it was very hard to make someone feel better about something when you didn't know what the hell happened. There was a voice out in the hall, "Dinner!"
Kurt and Rogue watched Kitty pale. "Don't worry, we'll tell them you're not feeling good," he told her. "Um…we'll…yeah." They left, each wondering what to do as they sat down at the table.
"How's Kitty feeling?" Mr. McCoy asked.
"Not so good," Kurt answered slowly.
The professor looked over at them. "So she won't be up to going to school tomorrow?"
"The next time she steps in that school she'll be taking my kids…" Rogue grumbled under her breath, then managed a smile. "Yeah, Ah think it's a safe bet to say she won't be up to going to school tomorrow."
"Oh, dear, and I thought she was doing better earlier." Ororo sighed. "Would you bring her something after we eat, please?"
"Sure."
"And Scott," she continued. "You'll bring some to Jean?"
His fork stopped midway to his mouth and he stared at her from behind his sunglasses. "Um…"
"I'll do it!" Amara suggested quickly. "I wanted to ask her about something anyway."
"Thank you, Amara." The weather witch looked curiously at Scott, then continued her conversation with Logan about a cold front coming in.
After dinner, Rogue hesitantly went back to her room. She and Kurt hadn't mentioned to anyone about the break-up. If Kitty wanted them to know, she would tell them. Her friend had obviously cried herself to sleep if her wet pillow and flushed cheeks indicated anything. "Don't worry, Kitty. Ah'll make this right, tomorrow."
It was common knowledge that making the women of the Xavier Institute upset was generally a bad thing. Rumors around Bayville High said that if you made them mad, they may not be able to find your body. So when they saw Rogue as she stomped down the hallway, they moved out of the way.
Lance didn't even look up as she leaned hard against the locker next to his. "What do you want, Rogue?"
"We've always been on the same page, more or less, right?" she asked.
He glanced over, raising an eyebrow. "I guess."
"Now, me, Ah thought ya'll were doin' pretty good. Kitty was happy. You seemed happy. Our teams were tearin' each other apart. Emma Frost exists, so the worlds not perfect, but it seems like things were gettin' there," she sighed. "So, what gives?"
"What exactly did she tell you?" Lance closed his locker a little bit harder than necessary.
"First of all, don't say 'she' like that or soon Ah'll be the one making earthquakes and you'll be the one in a coma. Second, Kitty didn't tell me anything. All she said was that you two broke up and then she started crying, which Ah believe she hasn't stopped doin' since."
His face softened a bit, then turned right back to stone. "Well, maybe she shouldn't have cheated on me then."
"What?" the question came out as little more than a whisper. "What are you talking about?"
"She cheated on me. I can't make it any clearer." He started to walk away, when Rogue reached out, pulling him back by his leather vest.
"You're a fuckin' liar, Alvers!" she hissed. "Kitty would never cheat on you. The girl is loyal to a fault and Ah won't have you talkin' shit about her."
"Two days ago I would have agreed with you," he pulled away from her angrily.
Rogue glared at him. "Who told you that? Huh? Who told you Kitty was cheating on you?"
"No one had to tell me!" he roared, earning himself a few stares from passing students. "I saw it for myself!"
She stared at in him shock. "With who?"
"Guess," he demanded, animosity coating his voice.
Rogue thought about everyone who could have possibly been there at the moment and the realization came over her. "Wing." He didn't answer, but she knew she was right. "Lance, she doesn't like him. Ah'm sure it was an accident. She loves you."
"Sure has a funny way of showing it," he spat. "And tell me exactly how you can accidentally cheat on someone."
"Well…" the bell rang before she could come up with an answer.
"Exactly. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to class." He walked away before letting her respond, leaving a very confused Rogue in the hallway.
There was an overbearing weight on Kitty's chest when she woke up. It took her a moment to realize that it was her heart, or at least the leftover pieces of it. She couldn't remember feeling more miserable and alone in her entire life.
The tears didn't take long to start again, and Kitty sat in bed, pulling her knees up to her chest and resting her chin on them. Without the nightly bustle of the house, Ororo overheard her from the hallway. "Child, what on Earth is wrong?" she brushed some of the tears away.
Kitty looked at her incredulously. "You mean…Rogue didn't tell you?"
"Tell us what, Kitten?" Storm pulled her into a motherly embrace and the young girl realized how much better this was than Rogue's careful hug.
"Lance broke up with me," she told her, the words still hard to say.
"Oh, no, dear. Is there anything I can do? Anything you can do?" she removed Kitty's ponytail holder, stroking the loose brown locks.
Shadowcat shook her head, marveling at her guardian's comforting smell of rain. "He doesn't even want to look at me. I…He hates me, Ororo. Just hates me."
"I just can't believe that. How could anyone hate someone as sweet and wonderful as you?" She hugged Kitty closer. "What happened?"
The girl shook her head, indicating that she didn't want to talk about it. "Doesn't matter. He'll never speak to me again."
"Still, I think you should try to call him later," Ororo suggested. "There's a good possibility he's calmed down by now. Perhaps you'll have a chance to get through to him."
As if the helplessness had finally settled over, Kitty began to cry again. Storm held her, whispering words of comfort until she was interrupted by Logan. "What's going on in here?" He demanded. "What happened to Half-pint?"
"Lance broke up with her," Storm explained in her most sympathetic tone.
"That's it? You're crying over the rock-tumbler?" It was obvious that the Wolverine didn't believe her. "If you want a boyfriend, I'm sure Kurt's still got a thing for you."
"Logan!" the goddess glared at him furiously. "If you're not going to say anything helpful, then—"
"Hey, Red!" He looked at Jean, who was coming down the hall from the bathroom. "Are you still upset because Lance broke up with you too?"
She blinked at him in confusion. "Oh, Kitty, did Lance break up with you? I'm so sorry!"
"Thanks, Jean," Kitty sniffled and her friend telepathically gave her the box of tissues.
"Alright, we know her problem, what's up with you?" Wolverine tried again.
She glared at him. "For the last time, it's none of your business and I don't want to talk about it!" Jean stormed down the hall and slammed her door behind her as he sighed in defeat.
"That's all my fault too…" Kitty began to cry again, burying her head against the soft cotton of Storm's shirt.
"Logan, maybe you should go hit something. The Danger Room doesn't have to listen to you talk," Ororo told him coldly. He finally got the picture and left the two alone, but not for long. Then someone worse came.
"Is there something wrong?" Emma Frost asked smoothly, actually managing to look like she cared. "I couldn't help but overhearing the ruckus."
"A bit of a personal problem; nothing you need to be concerned with," Storm explained. Kitty curled closer, but held her tongue. She didn't want to know how her teacher would react if she said "Bite me!" to Miss Frost.
"It seems you and your little boyfriend broke up. I'm terribly sorry." Her words flowed nicely, coupled with a timed fake sympathy as she approached the bed. "I'm sure you'll find someone else. But you know, I am a telepath. Maybe I can help…" she reached out as if to touch Kitty's head.
Like her namesake, she pulled back and smacked Emma's hand away. Neither of the women would have been surprised if she had hissed as her ears flattened against her head.
Frost stepped back quickly. "Well, if you need anything, you know where to find me." She turned and left, closing the door quickly behind her.
"You can retract your claws now, Kitten," Ororo instructed, but Kitty could tell she was amused and relaxed.
Her blue eyes matched the other woman's. "You know she wasn't trying to help!"
"Though I agree it's doubtful, we don't know that for a fact. She may very well have been trying to."
"Storm, you may be able to fly, but pigs still can't." Storm chuckled as Kitty sighed, "When did things start getting so messed up? Miss Frost, me and Lance, Jean and Scott…"
The African woman blinked. "And what, pray tell, is wrong with Jean and Scott?"
"Nothing," she replied quickly. When Ororo gave her an appraising look, she clarified. "Nothing I can talk about without Jean killing me. Or making me think I'm a turtle for the rest of my life."
She nodded. "Well, what do you want to do?"
"I think I'll just do my homework," she sighed, and walked to the desk to get what Kurt had brought home for her yesterday.
"Alright, Kitten. If you need me, I should be in my garden." Ororo kissed the top of Kitty's head. "Don't dwell on this, dear. Try to talk to Lance later." With that, she left.
For the next few hours, Kitty filled her brain with equations, wars and physics. There was no room left for depression or thoughts of a certain Brotherhood boy. She was just starting her Spanish homework when Logan peeked his head in. "Um…hey, kid."
"Hi, Mr. Logan," she whispered and stopped conjugating her verbs. "Is there something you wanted?"
"Kinda wanted to…apologize," he muttered. "I mean, I could have been nicer earlier. I just don't like seeing you beat yourself up over Alvers of all people."
She looked up at him. "But…Mr. Logan…I love him. I didn't mean to, like, I mean, it wasn't on purpose. Haven't you ever had a broken heart?"
He stared for a second. "Y-Yeah…I guess I have." Logan put a hand on her shoulder. "But, you know, there are a lot of fish in the sea. I can promise you that while Alvers may be the Catch of the Day, he shouldn't be the fish you mount on your wall."
"Mr. Logan?"
"Yeah?"
"Just because my name is Kitty doesn't mean you need to use fish euphemisms."
He chuckled. "Right, right. Well, if you want someone to help you take your mind off this, come see me. I'll toss ya in the Danger Room and watch ya break stuff."
She smiled at him. "Thanks. I think I'm just gonna finish my homework and maybe wallow some more."
"Whatever, Half-pint," Logan rolled his eyes and left just as Rogue was coming in.
"Hey, how was school?" Kitty asked.
"Interesting," Rogue replied after considering her answer. "Ya know, Kitty, Ah really wanna know what happened yesterday."
"And I really don't want to talk about it," she grumbled, rolling on to her side to face the window.
Rogue sat on her bed so Kitty had to look at her. "Well, Ah do. Ah talked to Lance."
"What? Why?" she shot up in bed.
"Ah wanted to know what sort of idiot breaks up with a great girl like you!" her roommate told her adamantly. "He said that you cheated on him."
"It's…not like it sounds." Kitty covered her face with her hands. "It was an accident."
"How do you accidentally cheat on someone?"
"I didn't mean to!" she insisted, standing up angrily. "I would never hurt Lance and you know that!"
"Why don't you just tell me what happened?" Rogue pleaded.
Kitty sat down sadly. "The other day, Wing came in. After I yelled at him for fighting with Lance, I helped him with his homework. Before he left, he, like, kissed me."
"He kissed you," Rogue repeated in order to get the story straight.
"Right," she nodded.
"Did you kiss him back?"
"What?" Kitty blinked. "Why does it matter?"
"Because it's different if you kiss back. So did you?"
"I don't really remember," she sighed. "Anyway, the next day we went outside to talk and he said that if he could kiss me one last time, then he'd leave me alone."
"And you believed him?" Rogue asked in a deadpan.
"Um…yes?"
She rubbed her face mid-eyeroll, then gestured for her friend to continue. "Go on."
Kitty sighed again. "We kissed and Lance showed up to take me out—I'd totally forgotten all about it—and he saw us and freaked out and broke up with me and left. Not that I can blame him. I'm a horrible person."
"You're not horrible. You were just stupid." Rogue leaned back against her own pillows. "Were you gonna tell him? If he hadn't caught you?"
"No!" She blinked. "Of course not."
"Why not?"
"I…I didn't want him to be upset. It was my choice and I should have been able to handle it however…I wanted to…" Suddenly, it dawned on her. "Oh, man."
"What's wrong?" Rogue asked.
"If…I dunno, say, Kurt told Lance about Wing, do you think that's ok?" Kitty questioned.
"Personally? Yeah. Ah think he deserved to know, one way or another," she told her, stretching her arms over her head.
"No…" Kitty whispered. "She didn't need to know."
"Huh?" Rogue cocked her head to the side. "What are you going on about?"
She stood up and went to the door. "There's something I have to do. Be back in a second." Kitty walked down the hall and knocked on Scott's door.
He opened it within a few seconds. "Um…hi. Listen, I heard about Alvers and I'm really sorry. It's not my fault or anything. I even heard that some people came forward and they were cleared of all the charges from City Hall and everything…"
"Stop!" she interrupted quickly. "I'm the one who should be sorry."
He noticed that she was starting to cry again; according to Kurt, she would do that for a while. "Come in." Scott ushered her to sit on his bed and closed the door behind her. "Why are you so sorry?"
"I'm the one who told!" Kitty choked out. "I told Jean about you and Emma."
"You? But, how…?"
"Jamie said you wanted to see me, so I went to your room and I saw her kiss you. And then I told Jean. It was wrong of me!" she admitted, tears dripping on to his bedspread. "This was your business and you should have handled it however you wanted, without me butting in. I'm so so sorry, Scott."
He sat with her and made her look at him. "It's not your fault. You were trying to help your friend. I should have told her, but I destroyed that trust between us. I'm not going to shoot the messenger." Scott gave her a hug and felt like a jerk. Kitty had enough of her own problems without worrying about what was left of his love life.
"You're really not mad at me?"
"Of course not. Forget about me and Jean. I want you to know that I still think Alvers is a jerk. I love you, though, Kitty and I never wanted him to hurt you." He gave her a squeeze.
"I know you didn't," she smiled lightly, then hugged her big brother, feeling all the tension between them melt away. "Do you think I could just stay here for a while?"
He rubbed her back, a plan forming in his head. "Sure, Kitty. Sure."
Rogue got up to look in the hallway after her friend, but the only person she saw was Wing. Within a second, he was pinned against the wall with one hand, the other one dangerously gloveless in front of his face. "Look here: Don't go near Kitty. Don't look at her, don't talk to her, don't even ask her to pass the salt. If you even try to do anything to hurt her again, I'll kill you. Do you understand that?"
He eyed her skin hesitantly. "Got it."
She went back into her room and he continued down the hall and went into the guest room Emma Frost was occupying. "I'm here. What did you need to talk to me about?"
Emma put down her silver lipstick and smiled at him. "Kitty broke up with that Brotherhood boy. Good work."
"I feel like a jerk," He admitted, sinking in to a chair.
"You like her, don't you?" she pointed out. "Now you can have her and nothing will stand in your way. Or my way either."
"Miss Frost, you still haven't told me exactly what we're doing here." Wing eyed her suspiciously. "Aren't I supposed to be learning from you?"
"Don't worry, Edward. You are going to learn a lot very, very soon." She smiled at him. "Just wait a little longer and everything will come into focus."
A/N: Another chapter done. School starts for me next week, but I'll try to keep updating as much as I can.
Questions, comments, reactions and reviews are greatly appreciated.
Review Responses:
Iamhollywood: Yes, Emma is up to her tricks again. I'm really glad that you like Logan though. Thanks for reading.
Rogue14: Kick away. Or if you can get the trigger for Logan to slice him up, you can do that as well. You'll find out about Emma's evil schemes soon, I promise.
Starrydreamz: I'm so happy you love it. You'll find out what happens to our favorite pair next chapter.
Jenskott: The people at Marvel are idiots. No one likes Scott with Emma. I don't even think Scott really likes that he's with Emma. If Rachel wasn't a telepath, I'd say that Emma had her hypnotized too. Maybe it was all a dream sequence. Yeah, let's call it that.
Sugarhighnutjob: That makes me so happy. You're so sweet. I promise to keep updating as much as I can.
DOJ: If I walked in on my boyfriend kissing another girl, heads would be rolling. Or another boy. Because that has happened to me before. There will be some things resolved soon.
Kitkatfox: Oh my god, I love that pun! Maybe I have a sick sense of humor, but that really made me laugh. And you're not alone. I've caught 2 of my ex-boyfriends cheating on me (one was with a guy…that really helped my self-esteem).
ScrewSociety666: I'm so happy you're that in to the story. I really hope you like this new chapter. I'm sorry there isn't a lot of Wing for you to beat on, Rogue got to him first.
Shadyk: Yes, let's all hate Emma! And I really can't hate Wing, since I molded him to do that. I'm glad you can feel some sympathy for Jean and Scott. Thank you for reading.
El Diablo: Ranting is never pointless. Poor Lance and Kitty though. How will this ever get fixed? Find out next chapter. And I'm very sorry if that sounded like a plug. Thanks for reviewing.