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Chapter 10: Fixing a Relationship
Medical Lab, Xavier Institute, Bayville, NY- May 17, 11:10 PM
Back at the Institute, Kitty was sitting beside Lance's bed, and one could tell that she was very worried.
'Okay, why isn't Lance, like, waking up? I mean, if what, like, Mr. McCoy, like, said is true about us having, like, built-in healing factors, then shouldn't he be, like, healed and awake? I mean, he can't be, like, dead… can he? Okay, Kitty, you need to, like, calm down. Lance isn't dead; he can't be dead. I love him too much for him to be, like, dead,' were the thoughts racing through Kitty's mind as she watched Lance, waiting anxiously for him to awaken.
"Oh, Lance," whispered Kitty as she took his hand in hers. "Please don't die. I need you… I love you." Kitty then gently kissed Lance's hand, and then leaned towards Lance's face and placed a soft kiss on his lips. What she didn't expect was to get a response.
"Lance! You're alive!" exclaimed Kitty as she let go of Lance's hand and stood up in surprise as she watched Lance's eyes open. She watched in relief as Lance slowly sat up, and then turned and flashed her a smile.
"Hey there Pretty-Kitty. You worried at all?" asked Lance, but was surprised when Kitty threw herself on him, and cried into his ripped shirt.
"Lance, I'm so, like, glad that you are alright! I mean, I thought that I'd, like, lost you," said Kitty as she cried into Lance's shirt, and felt his arms wrap around her in a reassuring hug.
"Hey, it's okay," murmured Lance as he comforted Kitty. "It's okay; I'm not going anywhere; at least, not without you."
After a few minutes, Kitty released Lance from her hug, and Lance slowly got up out of the bed, and noticed for the first time that he still had on his ripped and bloody clothes from the night before, and also that his arms were green.
"Okay, what the hell is up with this! I'm green and scaly! No way can this be happening!" Lance yelled as he looked at his arms and clawed hands, and then noticed he had a pair of wings crossed in front of him, and a green spaded tail- a bit longer than Kitty's- wrapped around his feet.
"Okay, this is freaky; even by my standards, considering that I also have wings and a tail! One question: is my face green and scaly like the rest of me?" asked Lance as he looked up at Kitty with a hopeful look, saying that he wanted the answer to be no, but the look faded when he saw her nod yes. He sighed in exasperation, and walked over to Kitty's bed and picked up the mirror that Kurt had left there and looked at his reflection and blanched at what he saw.
"Is this permanent?" asked Lance softly as he put the mirror down and turned to look at Kitty, and in response she walked over to him and hugged him, and he once again felt tears on his shirt as he heard her whisper, "Yes."
When Kitty pulled away, Lance could see tears still glistening on her cheeks. He lifted up his still gloved hand, the glove now torn, dried blood staining his fingers, and wiped Kitty's tears away and then asked "Kitty… how did this happen?"
Kitty then told Lance what Hank had told her and how they had new powers, along with their original ones. "And Lance, when you use your original powers, you'll no longer get headaches from using them, no matter how long they're used," added Kitty as she and Lance sat on his bed.
"You're serious?" asked Lance in disbelief as he digested this, knowing that without the headaches, he could finally gain full control over his powers.
"Yes, I'm sure," said Kitty after a moment of thought. "I know this condition is permanent, and the only difference between us in our new forms is that I'm purple and you're green, but this is good. I mean, with our new powers, we can overcome any enemies that we come up against, no matter what they are, right?" asked Kitty as she looked at Lance.
"Yeah, right," replied Lance as he looked back at her, and then at the door to the lab. 'It's now or never,' thought Lance as he looked at the door for a few minutes, then turned to Kitty. "Kitty, I have to ask you something."
"Okay, shoot," replied Kitty as she looked at Lance strangely. 'I wonder what he wants to ask me about,' she thought.
"Kitty, I know we agreed to spilt up a year ago, but when you came to my garage, I guess it was two days ago, I realized that I still love you, even after a year. I realized that this whole time I've been regretting that breakup, but not telling anyone because I was afraid that they would think that I was desperate or a stalker or something, plus I thought that you would be better off without me. But Kitty, I have to know: can you forgive me for breaking up with you? Hey, what's so funny?" asked Lance in confused tone as he saw that Kitty was laughing, and got a bit angry because he was telling his feelings to the woman he loved and she was laughing at him.
He felt the ground rumble a bit at the small tremor he unknowingly sent through it, and instantly stopped it with his thoughts.
"It's you," said Kitty as she stopped laughing, and looked at Lance, but with a smile on her face, and said to him in a serious tone: "Lance, listen: You're not the only one who resents the past; I do too. I mean… what I guess I'm trying to say is… that… I still love you, Lance. I think the reason we broke up a year ago wasn't because I thought you were cheating on me, or vice-versa. I think it was because I was being pressured to stop dating the enemy by those who thought that I might go over to the "dark" side: Scott and Jean. I soon got suspicious of them, or more than I had been.
"Then, when I asked Rogue to use Jean's power of telepathy- in order to help her learn to control her powers- to read Jean's thoughts, I found out that Jean lied to me on purpose. She wanted to break us up because she was afraid the perfect situation of "the X-Men vs. the Brotherhood and the Acolytes" would be ruined if you and I got really close, so that's why, with Scott's help, she broke us up. And it wasn't only last year, but all the times in the past when we broke up were caused by Jean and Scott. You would think that we would've learned our lesson by now, huh?" finished Kitty as glanced at the ground, letting what she said sink into Lance.
Lance, meanwhile, was just staring at her in shock, thinking 'God, I can't believe this. Kitty still loves me… she loves me! This is amazing!'
"Wait a minute…" Lance said after a few moments, "You mean to say that we broke up all those times because Summers and Grey told us that we were always cheating on each other, when we really weren't? That's it! I'm going to go and find them and beat the shit out of them!" declared Lance as he got up angrily and prepared to storm out of the door. He never made it out of the door, however, as Kitty restrained Lance with some of her newly found strength.
"Lance, stop! This isn't, like right! However…" said Kitty as she got an evil look on her face, with Lance staring apprehensively at her. He knew what Kitty was capable of when she got an evil look on her face, remembering the revenge she had gotten on some of the X-Factor members when they had taken her driver's license. They'd hidden it, saying that she was a danger to the road, and that people would be safer if she didn't have it. ((Had to put it in… but this is another story for another time…))
"The best way to get revenge is to make you one of the teachers here at the Institute like Scott and Jean. I mean, when Jean, not to mention Scott, see you teaching the young mutants to control their powers, they'll be really pissed off, but won't be able to do anything about it, because you'll have Xavier's approval. Revenge is sweet. Lance, what's wrong?" asked Kitty after she had finished telling Lance about her plan, but got worried when she saw Lance tense up.
"God, we have to get to the Danger Room; now!" yelled Lance as he ran towards the door, and stopped to wait for Kitty. He didn't even notice his wings come unfolded from his chest.
"But Lance, why?" asked Kitty as she came up beside Lance, unaware that her wings had come unfolded as well. "Why do we need to get to the Danger Room now?"
"The reason's that Magneto's planning an attack on the Institute tonight, because he wants to get Cerebro's blueprints for himself so he can build an exact duplicate that will run on his magnetic powers instead of Xavier's psychic ones. He's then going to use it to find new mutants and train them to hate humanity. Even if he doesn't get Cerebro, he wants to capture as many of the students as he possibly can in order to brainwash them and bring them over to his side. Sabretooth was to get Logan out of the way, but I ruined that, thank god! But he's still going to attack, even without Sabretooth, and he's bringing both the Brotherhood and the Acolytes and, of course, himself. I was supposed to help, but now that I'm an X-Men, I'm going to help defend humanity instead of help destroy it. We've got to tell the Professor, now, because he attacks at midnight, which is only an hour away! We have to go, now!" finished Lance as he looked at Kitty, hoping that she would believe him.
"Right!" agreed Kitty as she nodded her head in agreement, not pausing to think about whether or not she believed Lance.
"Let's go!" she said as she and Lance both rushed out of the lab. They did so without any thought as to how they looked in their new mutant forms, with their wings flapping behind them as they ran or their tails streaming out behind them, or even their torn, bloody clothes from the night before.
All they thought of was getting to the X-Men in time to prevent what could be the beginning of the end for humanity.