Jean was walking down the halls of the school when she heard the cry
'Help me'
The voice echoed mentally in her mind.
'Kitty!' she thought picking up her pace until she was near running.
She reached the place she was looking for and stopped suddenly.
"Rogue, it's Kitty" she said while catching her breath.
The other girl stood from her shaded spot beneath a tree and the two ran towards Jean's car. They climbed off and speed off to find their friend.
"Kitty?" John whispered moving closer to her collapsed body
She wasn't moving. He touched her pale hand, it was still warm. Moving his eyes up he saw the bow staff standing tall within her abdomen, blood pouring out of the wound.
"I'm sorry" he whispered kissing her hand lightly
Jean pulled the car up next to Lance's and stopped. They two girls jumped out and walked slowly around the cars. Lying on the ground in a growing pool of blood lay Kitty, a bow staff stabbed through her abdomen. Jean rushed over to the girl and searched for a pulse. Turning on the spot while Jean looked after Kitty Rogue meet the guilty eyes of John and Lance.
"You did this?" she yelled her temper flaring "you could've killed her!"
The two just stared solemnly at her
"It's all your fault!"
"Rogue, she's alive" Jean whispered in a small voice
But Rogue barely heard her.
"Just keep away from her! I never want to see you with her again!"
Rogue turned on the heels and helped Jean to get Kitty into the car before getting in herself.
"Just stay away," Jean said before they drove off.
Kitty's frail body lay on the white washed bed of the medbay. Her body was now it an induced coma in order to help her heal and fight for her life.
"It's possible," Hank said, "she can make it."
The frail girl had lost a lot of blood and had a deep wound where the bow staff had been. Hank had done all he could but all that was left was to wait and see if she won the fight for her life.