AN:I had to fly to California and deal with jetlag, which prevented me from updating. I wasn't being lazy this time!

A new day a closer step to freedom. At least Bobby and I got along. I couldn't imagine being here with Forge or Emma.

"Hey Kitty? Ready to go out?" Bobby said, probably hoping I'd say no.

"Yes Bobby, I am. Don't be so worried! The first time we went out we had no problems."

"That doesn't mean we couldn't run into any today! Even stepping one foot out of this cave could mean death! One of those things can spit acid!"

"Yeah, and you can shoot ice from your hands. Plus if we run into a problem we can't handle, I can phase us to safety. Nothing bad will happen."

"Not on my watch."

I had no idea why Bobby was being so protective of me. Yeah he liked me, but I thought it was just some teenage guy thing. I shrugged it off and put on my boots. We made our way outside and began our usual silent walk down the hill.

"Hey Kitty? Do you have any type of promblem with me being here?" Bobby said sadly. I was completely taken off guard by the question. What couldv'e made him ask that?

"Of course not! If anything I lo-" I stopped myself, realizing I was about to embarrass myself by saying I loved having him around. "I don't have any problem. Why did you ask?"

"I don't know. Just something inside me wanted to know. It was stupid to ask though."

"Why?"

"Because if you had said no I don't know what I would have done. That's why I'm so protective of you."

"Because you feel bad about annoying me? That's silly, you don't annoy me at all."

"No. It's because I'd die if something happened to you. I care about you." Before I could respond, almost on que, I was knocked to the ground by an unseedn force. Oh shit, not now!

"Bobby run up the hill!"

We sprinted towards our cave, when we were both knocked down. Standing in front of me was a guy. But this guy had something off about him. He was covered with dirt with cut up clothing. His face had a disturbing look on his face and an unknown substance was dripping from his mouth. He reeled his head back and spit at a tree, destroying it. Oh no. He began spitting acid at me, I reacted quickly and dodged the acid. I got distracted remembering Bobby. I turned my head to where he was. He had frozen one of the mutants in an ice block, turning towards me. I had forgotten my situation, and dodged another blow of acid quickly. Not quickly enough however, not to get my pant leg burned off. I tripped at this and waited for my flesh to be melted off. Bobby came just in time, shoving the mutant out of the way, making the acid hit a plant not even 3 feet away from me. Bobby helped me up while the mutant was distracted and we ran up the hill and tumbled into our shelter. We were safe. For the moment. I caught my breath and spoke up.

"You were right. It's a different world out there."

"Which is why we are never going out there again. You almost got hurt! Scrathc that, you were almost killed!" Bobby said frantically.

"But we need food!"

"We'll live. We are not going out there understand?"

Without saying anything I got up and slowly approached him. I put my hand on his shoulder to calm him down and spoke softly.

"Bobby, I'll be more careful now. You said you care about me right?"

"Of course."

"Well I care about you and you and I need food! We need to survive. We can't be afraid, we have to face those things. We are X men! We can live and fight in any enviornment."

"You're right. But we can't leave each other's sight for one second."

"Who said I would want to?" Bobby looked into my eyes and smiled. I realized how close we were to each other, but I didn't pull away this time.

"I know I wouldn't," Bobby said as his lips crashed down on mine. I kissed him back ferociously and was finally sure of my feelings for him. We kissed for such a long time only coming up for air. When we were tired out we looked at each other. He pulled back my hair lovingly as we began to fall asleep in each other's arms. Before we drifted off Bobby spoke.

"Hey Kitty?"

"What?"

"I love that you're here too."

AN:Thanks for reading! New Chapter Tomorrow!