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My eyes swing open and I stand in the middle of Alcatraz. There's no one in sight. Did the team forget about me? Did they leave me behind? I begin to look around but the smoke from all the flaming cars and debris overwhelms me and sends me into a coughing fit. My eyes burn but I force them open and continue looking. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. The island is a disaster. Besides the multiple fires the research facility is destroyed and anything that was standing now lies on the ground, burning. I hear a cough from behind me. I turn around and see something I didn't see before, a man's body lying in the middle of the ground. Cautiously, I step closer to the man and then recognize him.
"Dad," I choke out, tears filling my eyes. The man coughs again. "Daddy?" I cry out like a little girl running over to him.
"Katherine," He looks up at me weakly. His face is badly burned, I try not to look away. "Sweetie I…" His body bursts into flames before he can finish.
"Daddy," I cry, I sense a presence behind me and I jerk around. "You!" It's Pyro. He just stands there and laughs.
"Miss me Kitten?"
The next thing I know I jump up and gasp for breath and I'm in my bed. A dream? No, a horrible nightmare. It wasn't real get a hold of yourself Kitty. Why is my door open? Was someone in here? I jump out of bed and run out the door and right into someone knocking us both down and him right on top of me.
"Owe," I don't even have to look at who it is to know. It's him.
"What the hell were you doing in my room?!" I shout pushing him off me. I can't believe this, is he trying to kill me now or something?
"I… I heard you scream," His voice is so soft, innocent, caring and nothing like a murderer's.
"Wanna know why I screamed? Because of you Pyro! You're the reason why I haven't left my room in two weeks! You're the fucking reason why I've been depressed! You killed my father, Pyro!" I scream.
"The name's John," Is that seriously all he can say.
"Really, that's such a normal name. The name of a normal man you murdered! Pyro suites you better, sounds like the murderer you are. You deserve to be rotting in jail you bastard!" I'm getting a bit of an adrenaline rush, letting my anger out feels so good but then I look at Pyro's face. The once wise cracking, smart ass doesn't have a single thing to say to me. He just holds his head down, not making any eye contact.
Now I realize what I have done, multiple people have come out of their rooms and are staring at me including a few teachers. Now the anger is turning into embarrassment. Pyro walks away still holding his head down. In guilt? Yeah right, Pyro feeling guilty, regretting something.
I turn around and go back into my room, slam the door shut and lay back down on my bed and start crying. I've gone from being extremely pissed to upset in moments. Does this come with the depression? There's a knock on my door and then it flies open, why knock when you're just gonna come in anyways? It's Storm, she cautiously makes her way towards me, probably afraid I'm going to like attack her or something. I don't blame her. She sits down on the edge of my bed.
"Are you okay Kitty?" That's her way of asking me if I'm sane now or still like how I was out there.
"Yeah fine," I try to stop crying but can't myself to.
"Do you need a few more days?" I can tell she feels guilty for telling me I need to go back to class tomorrow. Or maybe she thinks I'm too insane to be around the other students? Either way she's just being caring.
"No," I finally get myself to stop crying, "No, I'll be in class in the morning."
"Are you sure?" I nod. For some reason I feel a lot better now and maybe going back to my old schedule will help me feel even better.
"I'm sorry for waking you up," I apologize, truly embarrassed.
"It's okay," She sounds like she means it. "Kitty if you need someone to talk to you know I'm here."
"I know," I sniff. Storm has tried so hard to help me the past few weeks. Heck, she's always been a motherly like figure to me. So I hug her, because she's the only one I have left now.
AN: I typed this chapter up quickly not originally wanting to make the mother-daughter like relationship between Kitty and Storm a main theme but I decided it works and its cute so I'm making it flow.
Next chapter: Maybe you'll see Kitty and John have a civil conversation, or maybe not.