A/N: Spoilers hey everyone sorry about the delay. I meant to update this a long time ago. This chapter catches up with the movie. Just in case you guys have been living in a whole Scott is going to die and storm and best are going to loose their powers.
Chapter 8
We had stopped telling time the way the rest of the world did. Today was PR+14 exactly fourteen days after what we called the "Phoenix Rising". Several weeks had passed since I had arrived at the school in that time almost everything had changed. Scott's wife Jean had literally come back from the dead just to turn and kill him. Bobby had finally given up on Rogue and had been dating Kitty ever since Peter had come out of the closet. As a result Rogue and I did not socialize with the rest of the team much. After Bobby had broken Rogue's heart she wouldn't leave her room for days crying her self to sleep every night. That was until one night when Logan visited our room. The next day neither of them could be found anywhere on campus. When they finally showed up that night rogue had a spring in her step and a song on her lips. I spent a week egging her about their relationship. I would like to say that our bond became stronger that week but that would be a lie. In all reality I was jealous. After Henry lost his powers I realized that I was never really in love with him. He had taken the news pretty hard but in the end I think we parted as friends.
Logan had been given the job of putting the team back together. With Scott gone and Storm and Henry without powers those of us left were a pretty rag tag group. The team was made up of Logan, Rogue, Me, Bobby, Kitty, and Peter. Only Logan and I had any combat experience. Logan decided that we would split the teams training schedule up into to different sessions a day. One was a basic jujitsu course that Logan taught while I worked on getting the group to better use their powers as a team. So far things were not going well I had blamed most of the failure on myself however Bobby and Kitty did not make things easy. I found myself watching them wherever they went. I even followed them around campus. I wasn't sure exactly why I did it what I did know was I had this insatiable desire to hit Bobby when ever I noticed him ignoring Kitty.
I let the team go early so that they could get ready for their dates. It was Friday and I knew they could use the break. I was the only team member without a date. Bobby was taking Kitty to the movies and Logan was taking Rogue into town to see a musical. Even Peter had a date I felt pathetic. Leaving the danger room I didn't even bother to change out of my sweaty sports bra and sweat pats. With all of the students gone of the summer I had started to take full advantage of not having to be as modest. Quietly walking to my room I managed to make it to the bed without having to talk to anyone. Once in my room I plopped down on the bed and passed out.
When I finally woke up I realized that I had not even bothered to take off my dirty cloths. I got up out of bed and headed into the bathroom. The shower radio clock read seven thirty and I let out a sigh of relief I would have the mansion to myself for several hours. Peeling off my cloths I stepped into the shower and turned the hot water all the way up. I was half way through washing my hair when I heard a high pitched shrill over the sound of the shower. Quickly turning off the water I grabbed my bath robe and headed down stairs. When I reached the kitchen I found boxes of food thrown all over the room and large puddles of water on the floor and soaking the walls. From the kitchen I walked into the TV room. There curled up in a ball was Kitty she was leaning against the wall desperately clutching her legs. Walking over to her I squatted down and laid a hand on her shoulder. At first she tried to jerk free but relented when she recognized me. My hair was sopping wet and I had no cloths on but the thin robe. But for some reason I didn't care all that mattered was that Kitty was hurt and afraid.
"Are you going to be ok honey?" I tried to calm her down. "What happened?"
"He attacked me. He just attacked me." Kitty still wouldn't look me in the eye but this was a start.
"Who attacked you?" before she could answer I knew he answer.
"It was Bobby. He got mad all of a sudden and started throwing balls of ice at me." I was furious he had no right attacking her.
"Where is he now?" I wanted to bash his face in with his own damn ice balls. "He won't hurt you anymore" I started to get up when her eyes shot up and looked me straight in the eye. Her eyes seemed to be pleading me to stay.
"Please don't go I don't want to be alone." I had heard of people looking so sad and cute that they looked like a puppy but I had never experienced it myself. Yet that was exactly how she looked.
"Don't worry dear I'm not going to go anywhere." I pulled her up off of the floor and sat next to her on one of the couches facing the door. Wrapping her in my arms I kissed the top of her head and willed with all of my heart that I could make everything better. This wasn't exactly how I had expected to find out that I was gay but I suppose no one really does.