Re: The Return of Kitty Pryde
Oh. Crap. Sweet monkey crap. They all had to participate. In an ethics class. Jubes was so screwed.
Granted, this wasn't the first time the class had dealt with having to debate; it was Mr. Cassidy's favored standby. But she and her classmates had expected Kat's guest lectures to be a welcome departure from that. And now she found herself actually missing the slides.
Or maybe the slides had been just a clever ruse to lull her into a false sense of relaxation. And then the sexy body stuff had been a ploy to distract Jubilee further. And then a month later, BAM! Ethics debate.
Kat Pryde was a diabolical mastermind. Jubilee was becoming convinced of this.
And what was this crap about Jubes having to argue for something involving DNA? On the same team as Monet, no less. That was going to be a guaranteed disaster, because Jubilee made it a point of honor to disagree with Monet on everything under the sun.
But once the premise of the argument had been explained to her, Jubilee decided to give it her best shot. She wasn't going to let Kat's plot succeed; if she had to team up with Monet to do it, then so be it. She was an X-Man, a superhero. Uneasy truces between good an evil against a greater evil was part of the territory.
Jubilee was absolutely not being over-dramatic.
For her argument, she brought up the idea that killers could be more easily found if there would be a database; she decided not to let on that she had a personal stake in this, what with her parents having been murdered. Then Everett pointed it out, because he knew her backstory. Well, damn. And Paige pointed out that such a DNA database would make Sentinels and other hate groups' jobs easier, by exposing people who were either mutants, or were likely to give birth to them. Jubilee didn't have a response to that, so Monet carried her team's side of the issue. Angelo insisted that the government -- and especially the police -- couldn't be trusted with that kind of information; he didn't seem to care that he was arguing for the other side. Monet insisted that the use of the databe would only be for criminals, and she even argued for the medical benefits of early detection of hereditary diseases. Jono pointed out that the medical benefit was a derail, and that there would be a temptation for governments to weed out the ugly people.
By the end, Jubilee was pretty sure her side's collective ass had been thoroughly kicked, and her head was spinning. She sank into her chair and waited for class to be over. She even glared daggers at her boyfriend for being so good at being on the opposing team.
She was even more convinced that Kat Pryde was a diabolical mastermind worthy of the Hellfire Club. Abruptly, she pictured Kat wearing the kind of Hellfire Club lingerie she'd seen Miss Frost wear in pictures. But maybe in black. She gulped as she realized that visual worked a little too well, and her traitorous hormones agreed.