Authors Note- The placement is so screwed up on this, sorry guys. I can't get it to fix, or at least it looks it now. Maybe posting it will fix it. I'm sorry about the delay. I'm a senior this year so colleges have me on my toes and I got into a car wreck and have pulled and ripped all the muscles along my spine, but I'm not here to complain, I'm here to make my readers happy. Anyway, this is taking so long because to top all of this off my band season has been hectic, and the day I got in the wreck I had bought my new car the afternoon before and got hit that morning. If it doesn't sound quite right blame it on the pills. I'm on muscle relaxers and narcotics for the pain.

Note 2- It would really make my day if everyone who reads this reviews and that you all would then go and read my new story, Gypsy Magic.

Chapter 4- But promise me…

"Kitty! You must hurry!" Storm grabs Kitty's wrist, allowing the girl's feet barely touch the ground, as she is quickly led to her dying friend. Though any words or complaints that she had about the pace at which she was being led were quickly dropped as her eyes met with Kate's sunken ones. The normally bouncing, bubbly girl was now a pale and sickly woman. Looking at Kate was like looking at death directly or staring in the face of an old woman you knew as a mere child.

"Kate!" Kitty barely gasps out as she runs and throws herself at her now frail childhood friend, one of the few things lasting from that now long ago closed chapter of her life. "Kate… I'm so sorry… I never meant-"

"Shh. Kit, it's like totally all right. I can like… you totally like… had your wedding…planned for like weeks"

"Kate! I should never have gone to Vegas. That was such a big mistake. I'm so sorry." Kitty cries desperatly pleading for forgiveness and for her childhood best friend to live and be healthy.

"No… marriages are only… legal for us there… but Kit, promise me… promise me that… you'll try to…be happy. And promise me that… no matter what happens… you won't hate… my parents. Try to make… the humans understand. It's not … their fault." Kate utters just barely above a whisper, trying to get her frantic friend to understand her in what she knows to be her last moments.

"Kate, I promise. Don't worry about them. Just don't worry. Remy and I didn't need to get married, not at this cost. Kate, don't leave me." Kitty cries her fists clenching the blankets covering the small frame of the dying young woman.

"Kit, like try to… make Remy happy… and keep yourself…happy." Kate says as her voice fades even more and her eyes close, her breathing becomes more labored and she stiffens for a moment, obviously in pain.

"Kate, don't! Save your energy! You're going to make it!" Kitty pleads, hoping like a child that she has pleased a higher power enough to grant her one desperate wish.

"No, Kitty… this is the end for me. But at least… I got to see… you and Remy married…. Congrats Mrs. LeBeau." Kate says barely audibly as her muscles relax and everyone understands that there is nothing that can be done, though Kitty refuses to believe this theory which to her is wrong.

"No! Kate! Don't leave me!"Kitty wails throwing herself onto Kate's now limp form and receiving no response from her now dead best friend finally realizes that there is an end to everything from her life before becoming a mutant, and that those times are gone forever.

-A Mansion-

"Remy! Watch out!" Melinda screams as 'Scott' directs a a red blast toward Remy before giving him a chance to realize what is happening at his own house.

"Thank ya petite." Remy says gracefully dodging the blast by a mere inch or so and watching it blow a hole through the wall of the mansion. Remy swiftly runsto where his fellow teammates are hiding and waiting for the perfect moment to attack.

"Where's Kit?" Rogue asks softly as he approaches them causing Remyshake his head slowly indicating that now was not the right time to talk about it.

"Remy'll tell ya later. She's on some business." Remy remarks sadly after thinking for a moment about what to tell the gothic girl who was obviously worried about her newlywed friend.

"Oh."Melinda remarks catching on that things were going badly on other fronts too. "So all is not well at the X-Mansion either?" Melinda asks looking up into Remy's frowning face.

"Non, Kate be either dead or dyin. Mon chere may not be commin back anytime soon." Remy says looking hatefully at their new enemy with a malice that would kill, if that were possible.

"Don't look at me like that." Margaret says. "I've done nothing to you, after all it was you and your whore who killed my husband. I am allowed to get my revenge. Watch your backs because just when you think that you're safe, I'll be there. You can't be allowed to live when other more deserving people have been killed by your hands." Margaret threatens. Margaret throws 5 small black balls onto the ground and the entire army vanishes in the smoke and is nowhere to be found when they smoke clears.

"That is just slightly suspicious." Melinda says resting her head on Pyro's shoulder as he wraps his arms around her slender waist and rests his head on top of hers. "I don't like this at all."

"Jenny was only a child. No child deserves what just happened to her, but there is no way to reverse it. Someone find Tami and don't let her see Jenny until she's bandaged up. God, that woman did a number to her, it's a miracle that she lived, look at how cut up she is." Pietro spouts out almost at once.

"I'll get her bandaged up, since Melinda apparently doesn't like the sight of blood. Just go find Tami. She can't see her sister until I'm done. The poor girl might loose her eyesight in one eye, if not both. Bad thing ta loose it this young, if ya ask me." Pete says going about the task he appointed himself to.

"Thank you, Pete." Melinda says. "I didn't mean to impose it on you, but well… I'm just not sure that I could bandage that, it's too severe for me, poor girl."

"Come on, let's get you inside." Pyro says leading her inside.

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