Chapter three

Rogue was the person that had entered through the door with the "unusual" smile upon her face, but dropped it at seeing the bloodshot eyes of her fellow teenager. She was never one for comforting anyone but her instincts told her to go over to Kitty and comfort her. Within second she was sat upon the chair next to Kitty's with an arm wrapped around her friend and pulled her into a tight hug.

"It's okay now, You're gonna be okay" Rogue knew her words probably wouldn't do much but she didn't want to see the youngster in such worry and it wasn't long until she felt the girl settle down.

"Thanks Rogue" Kitty mumbled as the tears stopped falling and she started to pull away from her friends grip.

"You gonna tell me what's wrong? Even I know you wouldn't be down here unless it was bad." Rogue pressed hoping to get some kind of understanding about what was wrong.

Kitty thought about not telling Rogue anything but she the pressure of carrying the burden alone was starting to get to her and Rouge would understand what she was going through more than anyone else. Taking a deep breath she began "It started about two weeks ago, I started getting these headaches and at first I just passed them off as migraines. But as the days passed it started getting worse, so I would run off to my room to stop anyone seeing me so vulnerable. And that's when it happened"

Rogue could see the girl struggling to carry on so placed a reassuring hand upon her shoulder and a smile, understanding that it must have been something big if she was that Kitty had chosen to confide in.

"I was out in town the other day and I started to develop another headache so I went over to an alleyway out of the way of the crowd in case anything happened. Anyway this lad was shouting something at me from further down the alleyway and I put my hands and backed away. A… And the next thing I knew something came out of my hand and H…hit him, and the next thing I knew he … he was …. He was d… dead!" Kitty couldn't stop the tears from falling this time but carried on talking regardless "I didn't know what to do so I ran. And most of the times since that I've had a headache, the blasts come again and I don't know what to do anymore. Without the professor I can't control it and I'm scared that if I can't control it that I'm going to hurt the people around me." By now the tears were streaming down her cheeks and Rogue once again pulled her into an embrace, inviting her to let it all out.

Rogue had no idea what to say to Kitty. What had happen to Kitty was what had happened to her all those years ago but while she had the professor to help Kitty had no one. As much as their powers were different they both resulted in Death/Near Death situations. She wanted to help so much but without knowing anything about Kitty's new found powers she had no clue as to what to do but she wasn't about to let one of her own suffer like she had over the years.

"It's alright Kitty, I'm gonna help you through this I promise. I may not be the professor and I may not have the same powers as you but I'm not going to see you suffer like I did".

Kitty looked up at her friend's words, she never expected that reaction from Rogue but she was grateful that she had someone to help her in her time of need. And once again she felt a smile creep onto her face and relief flood over her as some of the pressure was taken off her shoulders.

"Just come and find me whenever you feel a headache coming on and I will do everything that I can to help you, you're not going to be alone in this, it's both of us together" Rogue commented.

"Thank you so much Rogue this means a lot"

"Come on let's get back up there before someone thinks we've disappeared" Rogue stated as she pulled away from the comfort hug and helped Kitty to her feet as they walked back to the ground level of the mansion.

Bobby's mind had been racing ever since Kitty disappeared below. At the time he thought it best to leave her to sort herself out and come to him if she needed him but after two hours she hadn't resurfaced and this made him nervous. He cared for her so much, that he couldn't bare it to see something bothering her. He always wanted to be there for her the one that she could talk to about anything but it hurt him to think that she couldn't talk to him about whatever was bothering her.

He was laid across one of the sofas in the living room, repeatedly kicking the arm of the sofa as he stressed himself out with worry. The constant kicking kept him from trying to find Kitty while she probably wanted to be alone, so the more he kicked the more he stayed. It wasn't until Wolverine had a go at him for the constant banging that he stopped and thought about getting up and finding her. But as he was about to get up, he spotted Rogue and Kitty coming through the doorway laughing and smiling. Wolverine got up and went out of the room with Rogue, who gave what appeared to him as a reassuring smile to Kitty, right behind him. Leaving Kitty to come over to the sofa and jump over the back and landing on top of his legs, with her trademark smile gleaming at him. He couldn't help but smile back as it had been since he'd seen her as happy as she seemed now and he had to admit whatever had happened in the past couple of hours he was grateful.

Without him realising Kitty had grabbed hold of his feet and started tickling them, causing him to laugh out loud uncontrollably. "C…come on k…it..kat this i..sn't fair" Bobby tried to say over his laughter. And it wasn't long until Bobby managed to get hold of Kitty from behind and started tickling her under her arms, causing her to cry out in laughter as well. As she tried to turn around to grab his arms to stop him from tickling her anymore, she fell down onto the floor below and managed to pull Bobby down on top of her. The laughter started to die down as they looked into each eyes and their face drew closer together, until Kitty felt the pain rise in her head again and gripped her hands up around her head.

Bobby saw the action as soon as her hands started to move "Are you okay Kit?" He asked only to find Kitty pushing him away as she struggled to pull herself onto her feet. The last thing he heard was a mumbled "I'm sorry Bobby" as she ran out of the room, leaving him sat on the floor trying to figure out what just happened.

The pain was building as Kitty ran out of the room, luckily she didn't need to try and find Rogue as she ran straight into her. Rogue grabbed her hand without warning and half ran half dragged Kitty into her room, so that no one would be around to find out what was going on.