Chapter Five

"Kitty open the door!" Bobby shouted as he banged vigorously on her bedroom door hoping that the young girl would finally let him in.

"Just leave it Bobby" Kitty pleaded in return, as she remained sat with her back against the door. A faint hint of crying was echoed through her voice alerting Bobby.

"Come on Kit! Just open the door or I'll force my way in" he was becoming impatient and he ever so desperately wanted to know why she had ran off earlier.

After a further minute Bobby could hear the click of the lock on the door be unbolted leaving it to steadily open and reveal his teammate and her tear stained cheeks. She stepped out of the way so he could make his way inside before closing the door behind him and making her way back to bed, wrapping her arms around her legs as she sat against the headboard. This puzzled Bobby, every time he had seen her recently she had chosen to always look like she wanted to just keep herself separate from the rest of the world, and it scared him to think that this was the same girl who always put everyone else first and never ever seemed to let anything affect her.

Sitting down crossed legged at the end of her bed, Bobby wondered whether or not Kitty would open up to him like she had done so many times in the past, but she looked like she wasn't going to talk to him anytime soon. "Kit-Kat you can't just block me out, I want to help you but if you won't tell me what's wrong then I can't do anything for you"

Her eyes flicked towards Bobby at his words, sighing deeply she rested her legs and mirrored his pose. She didn't really want to talk to him, except every time he talks to her like he does, she finds it hard to ignore him and block him out. He was the one person that she could never phase away from. "What exactly do you want to know?"

Relief flooded over Bobby as he finally felt he was getting through to her. "Why did you run off when you were outside earlier? You didn't even say hello, you just ran."

"That's not really important" Kitty got on the defensive, it was bad enough that she was going to tell him about everything that had happened recently but she didn't want to have to include her own personal feelings in the chaos.

So much for being honest with me Bobby thought to himself at her rejection to his question. "Kit, everything is important and it doesn't matter what's going on, I won't ever judge you. You should know that by now"

"You really want to know?" Bobby nodded "I saw you kiss Jean on the cheek and I kind of freaked out."

This confession shocked Bobby, he never expected Kitty to seem so jealous of his actions, but it made him glad that she could show some emotion towards some of his actions. "Kit, that was nothing. Jean asked me to be Best Man at her and Scott's wedding and I accepted and I gave her a kiss on the cheek as a thank you"

Once again the room was filled with relief as Kitty felt bad that she ever doubted Bobby's actions and it brought a genuine smile to her face.

"Now why have you been spending quite a bit of time with Rogue? Normally you two try not to have much to do with each other" Bobby had now decided just to get down to the key thing that was bothering her. He could see it was affecting her to think about whatever it was that was the matter, so he walked over and sat next to her on the bed letting Kitty rest her head against his shoulder and placing an arm around her shoulder in protection, letting her know that nothing was going to happen to her.

"She was the only one that could relate to what was going on and the only person that could help me out. Everyone else was too busy to notice and I didn't want to bother you with it"

"You can always come to me no matter what"

"Thanks Bobby, but I kind of just wanted to hide from it all rather than face it and Rogue was my only way that I believed I had a chance of getting through it. And once I told her, she promised to help me, so I truly couldn't say no" It was easier for Kitty to talk about this but she knew that the inevitable question was soon to be asked.

"So what exactly was it that you couldn't face?" He didn't want to keep pushing her into answering his questions but if he didn't keep her talking, she would shut him out again and that would complicate matters even further causing her more stress.

"I was out in town a couple of weeks ago and I started to develop yet 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 he … he was …. He was d… dead, 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"

The tears had engulfed the girl again, leaving Bobby to allow the girl to cry her eyes out into his shoulder once again while whispering words of encouragement to try and soothe the girls sobs of sadness. He felt for her he really did, he had never had a problem with his powers that led to a death or near death for someone on the receiving end, so he couldn't empathise with the girl but could make sure he did everything he could to stop such thing occurring again in the future.

After a while Kitty's sobs had calmed and Bobby sat with both arms around her, still in a protective manner. He didn't want to let go for fear that she would just fall apart after everything that she seemed to have gone through.

"Do you hate me?" Kitty's words were barely whispers, but each word stung the Iceman. He couldn't believe that after all this Kitty would think that he would hate her, if anything it made him like her more for having the courage to tell him about it all.

"I couldn't hate you Kit-Kat. I would be a fool if I did" Bobby was trying to reassure the petite girl that she didn't have to worry about him, he would always be there for her, after all what are partners in crime for.

"You can hate me you know, I won't mind. I killed someone after all, it's only natural to hate me for that" Once again her words pulled hard against his heart strings, leaving him with yet more sympathy for her.

"It wasn't your fault though. I couldn't ever hate you, I care about you too much to let that ever happen" These word caught her attention, as she raised her head from its resting place on Bobby's shoulder, and now looked him directly in his eyes to make sure he wasn't just saying those things. "If I ever lost you Kit-Kat I don't know what I'd do, I wouldn't be able to pull a joke as the memories from our previous practical jokes. I wouldn't be able to do another danger room training session without remembering the numerous times you've saved my ass and I wouldn't even be able to attend Scott and Jean's wedding without thinking about how much I truly care about you. You mean the world to me and nothing will ever make that change."

There he had said it, the feelings that he had kept bottled up inside, always with the fear of being rejected but something inside of him told him that now was the right time to let it out. To make her feel loved, to make her carry on and forget about the worry and confusion from this unknown power. And he didn't care if she didn't feel the same way as him, he just had to get it out there so she knew that no matter how alone she felt, there would be at least one person constantly standing by her side.

It shocked her, his words had come out so natural as he expressed his true feelings. She had never known Bobby to express himself except in video games or on his own in the danger room where no one was around, but to hear him say the words that she had dreamed about for so long was like music to her ears. Her face lit up more and more with joy as he said each word. And she was glad that she finally knew exactly how he felt about her.

Their faces drew ever closed to one another until their foreheads were rested against each other. Looking each other directly in the eyes, they both knew what they wanted and within an instant Bobby twisted his head and passionately kissed Kitty as passionate as she was kissing him back!

Thank you to everyone that is reading this and I REALLY hope that you are enjoying this story as much as I enjoy writing it for you. For the next chapter there will be the return of the headaches and it will start to evolve how it fits in with the main storyline that I am trying to lead up to. Although I have to say that the next month and a half I have exams, but whenever I am not revising I will try my best to update this story with a chapter or two. I can't make any promises but I shall do my best.

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