Chapter 6
When school ended, everybody left home in a hurry. Kurt tried to tell Kitty about Peter, but she wouldn't listen to him.
"Kitty you're making a mistake. I'm telling the truth." Kurt pushed further when they got to the mansion.
"Kurt, I can take care of myself. I dealt with Lance and I can deal with Peter. But what you said is not true. He's not a mutant!"
"How do you know," they now continued their argument in her room. "How do you know he isn't betraying you." She turned around after putting away all her school work, and looked at Kurt.
"I just know you're lying. You don't know him like I do. Besides, you're only saying this because you like me and you don't want me to like him, just stay out of my business!" She shouted at him. Her room was suddenly silent as Kurt just stared at her, hurt by her words. "Kurt, no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean--" she tried to take his arm.
"I know exactly what you meant," he pulled his arm away from her. "Just forget it, see if I care what happens to you and your new boyfriend." Kurt turned off his inducer, showing his true blue fuzzy self, and teleported out of her room.
Kitty threw herself on her bed and smushed her face into her pillow. "What have I done to deserve this?" She screamed, muffled by her pillow.
The next day went as horrible as the day before. Kurt was still mad with Kitty from last night, and he pleaded to Logan to give him a ride to school because he didn't want to even be in the same car with her. Even Rogue and Jean gave her the cold shoulder, they knew all too well what Kitty said to Kurt the other night. So that morning, Kitty rode with only Scott (Evan took his skateboard and met up with a couple of friends).
"Pardon me for asking Kitty, but what's been going on with you and the others?" Scott stopped at the red light and looked at her. "A team is only as good as its leader, and a leader must make sure his teammates work together. If I don't know what's wrong then--"
"Scott, not now. I'm not in a good mood." Kitty said without looking at him, and the light changed to green.
The whole day had reflected on Kitty's mood. Grey skies covered Bayville with a high chance of a thunder storm. Peter was gone that day so she had no one to talk to. At lunch, she just ate by herself and then went to the library to study. Her friends from school couldn't even get close to her to find out what was wrong.
After lunch, Kitty passed by Kurt but he didn't say anything to her, he didn't even acknowledge that she existed. She couldn't wait to get back to the mansion, her day couldn't possibly get any worse.
"Well, it's definitely a flat," Scott kicked his tire in anger. He popped his trunk to check for the spare, but it was missing. "I don't believe this," he slammed the trunk shut and looked at Kitty. "I'm going to go back inside and call Logan for a spare, you wait here, it'll only take a minute." Scott dashed back inside and left Kitty alone.
The sky grew dark and the wind started to pick up. It was cold and all Kitty could think of wearing that day was a jean skirt and a halter top, no sweater, no jacket. She had to face it . . . she was a jinx. First the fight with Kurt, then losing three of her best friends, her being late to class, Scott's flat tire; all happening within a two day period. The air became moist and a single raindrop fell at her feet, but only one of many as it instantaneously began to pour uncontrollably. Make that three days.
Who would have thought that when all had seemed so horrible, Kitty lit up to see a car passing by. "Hey--hey!" She shouted, trying to get their attention. Kitty started to feel like her luck was turning around. As the car drove closer she walked toward it, but in doing so, the car did not stop and when Kitty got close to the curb--
SPLASH!
Soaking wet, she just wanted to give up. "Just go ahead, strike a sad, lonely girl when she's down. Like my life isn't bad enough." Kitty screamed at the speechless sky.
"Who are you talking to?" Someone asked. Kitty turned around.
"Peter!" Kitty threw herself in his arms. He was thrown back a couple of inches, but he didn't fall over.
"Kitty--" Scott came back seeing the two of them all over each other. He cleared his throat, "Logan'll be by in a couple of minutes. We better wait inside, out of the rain."
Kitty took Peter by the hand and persuaded him to wait with her and Scott. He had nothing else to do, so, why not?
In a couple of minutes, Logan came by just like Scott said, and him and Scott started putting on the new tire. Once they finished Logan looked up to see Peter with his arm around Kitty, still keeping her warm. Logan surveyed Peter after the tire was put on and Scott got in the car.
"You must be Peter?" They both shook hands, but as they did so, Logan used his full strength to shake his hand. He watched Peter's face unchanged, then released his hand.
Scott was all ready to leave, and Kitty was disappointed to go. "Do you need a ride home Peter?" Logan asked.
"No thank you. I will be fine." Logan grunted and then got into his jeep and pulled away. After Logan pulled back, Scott did the same and then the two tailed each other.
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When they got back to the mansion, Logan cancelled that evening's training and went straight to Xavier's office.
"Are you certain of this Logan?" Xavier looked at him seriously.
"Positive." Logan sat in front of him.
"Well, in that case, we'll have to take further precaution. The other students should be alerted immediately."
"And Kitty?" Logan thought of her in concern.
Attention all students, please report to the living room for a mandatory meeting. That is all. Xavier thought to everyone in the mansion.
The kids came from all over. A few of them walked out of the secret elevator, no doubt coming from the science class Mr. McCoy taught. A handful walked briskly from the Recreation Room, another handful came from the library.
"What do ya think this meeting's all about?" Rogue and Kurt walked together. Kurt shrugged his shoulders.
Kitty ran out of her room and went straight to the living room.
Once everyone sat down, Xavier called to attention. The other staff, Logan and Ms. Munroe, stood to the sides of him looking serious. "It has come to my attention that there is an enemy among friends." Kurt stole a glance at Kitty and then looked back to Xavier. "In this time of acceptance it is important to stand together, but as most of you who know, Magneto does not share the same view as I do with living with humans. For that, I know he is plotting something, and what that something is could and might just jeopardize everything that we have all worked for. I must advise you all, now more than ever, to forget your conflicts with each other and unite with one another, because if you don't, it can mean the world for all mutant kind."
After that startling announcement everyone left the room making their own accusations, all of which were nowhere near the truth. Kitty was just about to blend in with the other students, when Xavier called her back. "Kitty, how well do you know Mr. Rasputin?" Not him too, she thought.
"Only a couple of days, professor." She replied.
"Well, Logan believes that he may be in league with Magneto. A plan, I believe, that if Peter can get to you, then he can find out our secrets." Kitty gave Logan an angry glare.
"Don't give me that look, half-pint," he growled at her.
"Kitty, it is my duty to insure your safety, and the safety of the others. Therefore, you are forbidden to see or speak with Mr. Rasputin any further."
"But that's not fair!" She said shrilly.
"Fair or not half-pint, my senses are never wrong, so if you can prove me wrong you're not allowed to see him. Got me?" Kitty started to get tears in her eyes and sped out in a huff.
Xavier looked to Logan. "Don't you think you were a little bit too hard on her, Logan?" The guilt ran through him when he said this.
Kitty ran into her room in tears and threw herself on the bed. How could everyone turn their backs on her, Peter was decent and wouldn't hurt anyone. Her phone rang and she jumped, startled. She knew it had to be Peter, but, she wasn't allowed to talk to him. "Screw what they said," she picked up the receiver. "Hello."
"Оn prebivayet, оn oonechtozhet Vas vesye. Oidetye, v ta vryemya kak Vi vesye yeshye mozhetye . . . " the line went dead after that.
"Hello? Hello?!" Kitty slammed down the phone in anger. She didn't understand a word he said . . . but maybe, that's because he was hiding something.
"Please don't let it be true, please don't let it be true." She said all the way down to talk with Mr. McCoy. "Hello? Mr. McCoy?" She couldn't believe it. All those times that Mr. McCoy always stayed up late, he just had to decide to take the night off in the time that she needed him most.
Kitty took a post-it paper slip and wrote, 'We need to talk, immediately!' in great bold letters, then signed her name.
Translation time-'He's coming for you, he'll destroy you all. Get away while you still can' . . . (Russian is very complicated, I know. lol)