InsaneJournal

Who: Kitty Pryde and Pyro
What: Damage control
When: Today
Where: Around town and through the doors


When she'd woken the day before she hadn't realized how much things were about to change. Both with the arrival of something so welcome and familiar and then something that sent a stab of shame through her. Not just because she hadn't told John about the wedding, but more because she had let it happen in the first place, she'd been too stubborn to admit that she'd known before it had all gone down that it wasn't going to work, that she had too much doubt to really commit herself to it, but she'd still let her mother walk her down the aisle, and she'd taken Piotr's hands and waited until there was absolutely no choice and then run like the coward she was.

The whole thing had been a mess, and though she'd told Bobby about it after she arrived, she hadn't talked about it sense, or even really let herself work through it. Bobby was good at making her laugh, at distracting her, but he hadn't been the sort of emotional support she'd needed at the time. But she'd let that happen too. And she hadn't talked about it since then, she'd gotten new clothes, she'd stuffed her wedding dress into a bag and tossed it into a corner that she didn't have to look at and that was it.

It was finished.

And then the invitation had shown up, for a wedding that had already taken place, and she realized not long after that it hadn't just come to her, and not even to just her and John, but to the entire town - Kitty didn't know how she was going to look any one of them in the face again without dying a little inside. \

But before she worried about any of that there was John to consider. John who wasn't replying to her messages, who didn't know about the wedding, who was no doubt blindsided by it. And though she almost didn't want to she needed to talk to him, to explain.

So she'd pulled herself together and gone to find him. Of course what she found was the very clear and obvious reminder that she had messed up this time, and not just a little bit by the smoldering remains that littered John's yard, or even the worried sounds that Squirtle was making from inside, she knew as soon as she saw it that John wouldn't just be sitting there waiting. She left Kasai there with Squirtle, telling them to take care of one another and try to put out the fires that still burned a little. And then went to find John.

Of course he'd gone through the doors, Kitty shouldn't have been surprised, but she followed the trail and found very clear evidence of him there. "John!" She called as she stepped through, she could fix this, they could fix this. "John, please."