Who: Kitty and Rogue NPCs: None When: Tuesday, After Classes, Week Three Where: Room #137 What: Kitty and Rogue have a long overdue talk and make some plans. Rating & Warnings: PG
Kitty had been working really hard all day at her classes, and gym classes. She really did like swimming it was so relaxing, but still was pretty good exercise. He had mulled over everything that Logan had told her the day before, and she was going to talk to Rogue about the practicing together to see if they would be a good team. She already knew like no one else to touch her only on cloth and it was almost automatic for her to look for a clothed area for her to touch, unless she was not being aware, like half asleep or something.
She had placed Jack away in his jar when she first came in and the little guy had fallen asleep instantly. His pretty much always wanting to be with her know made him a tuckered out little fey, or it was just easier for her to think of him as a faerie then anything else. She sat on her bed and was going to wait until Rogue got in, so she read a bit from her school work to wile the time away
The past week or so had been hectic and Rogue couldn't remember the last time she'd spent more than 5 minutes in her room except to sleep. It felt like there were always places to be; classes, training, the kitchen. But, even with the usual kitchen visits, she'd also been trying to spend more time training. During Alex's training session it had occurred to her, not for the first time, that she was pretty useless against things like robots and other machines. People she could attack, suck their powers or just their life force if they weren't mutant, but with machines she was just a sitting duck and she hated that. She came with natural agility and her combat skills had been advanced by Logan's training in the past but it wasn't enough. She'd taken to walking a lot and even done some running, accompanying Alex on what seemed like his tri-daily (or maybe more) runs around the grounds once or twice.
Of course, exercise wasn't the only reason Rogue liked to roam the grounds, particularly the area around the lake. Somewhere in the back of her mind she was hoping to see him, her Cajun stranger. Well, she couldn't call him that really, not now that she knew his name. Remy Le Beau. But that was his real world name, not the name of the guy he was in their dream encounters. She'd seen him in the real world now on more than one occasion but they hadn't interacted; the two world's had briefly touched but not completely meshed.
Rogue found herself shaking the thoughts of him out of her head -- they both comforted and confused her -- as she approached the door to room #137. She had a book bag slung over her shoulder, filled with homework that she knew she should sit down and do. She wouldn't though; there was nothing so urgent that she couldn't put it off. That was Rogue all over; she was a good student and a bright enough girl but academics had never been her main concern. She'd do a little more than the bare minimum and leave it at that, unless it was one of the rare classes she was particularly fond of like German.
So, thinking she might just relax in the room for a while and wondering if Kitty was in, she pushed open the door and stepped inside.
Kitty looked up when the door opened, a bright smile came to her face. "Hey Roomie!!!" She exclaimed. Sitting up more from her laying down on her bed position reading. "Gosh it seems forever," she laughed, "I mean that we actually talked. I didn't see you at the party. How come you didn't go?" She asked. Moving into an indian style position with her feet tucked in.
She had a lot to tell Rogue, since she spoke to Logan. Well, most everything she would tell, some things she would keep just between them. She liked having some things just with Logan. She smiled at Rogue. "Got tons of things to tell you." She seemed much more relaxed then she had been in weeks after her return from her trip.
Rogue grinned at Kitty in response to her enthusiastic greeting, hooking her book bag on the back of her desk chair as she crossed the room to her bed and crashed down on it. "I know, it has been forever!" She replied, pulling herself into a cross-legged position facing Kitty's bed. She reached up and pulled the band out of her hair, releasing it from it's ponytail to fall loose over her shoulders, white streaks framing her face as always.
She gave a shrug in part-response to the question about the dance, "I wasn't really in a dancing mood," she admitted, although she said it lightly. It hadn't been that she was sad, it had just been that; she hadn't been in the mood for the dance. She'd been there, of course, but not as a dance goer. Deeming this a good enough explanation she leaned forward, elbows on her knees, eager to hear the tons of things that Kitty had to tell her.
Kitty nodded. It was okay. She had, had some fun, and it had been a good relaxing time for her away from her thoughts. Though most of those thoughts were elevated now. She did have a few more things that she had to go over in her mind, but for the most part things were much straighter in her mind now about everything that happened on her trip. She gave a big deep breath. "I talked to Logan yesterday. We had a long nice talk. I am glad we finally talked, I was being so silly about somethings." She smiled and looked at Rogue.
She rolled onto her stomach her feet kicking in the air, her chin in her hands as she held her head up. "One of the things we talked about was you and I seeing if we could make a team between us sort of like Jubilee and Logan have formed." She grinned. "What do you think of that? I liked the idea, at least we could try, I mean I am already comfortable about the being careful of touching and have learned more how to touch you safely when I have to." She grined.
She nodded as Kitty said she talked to Logan; she hadn't asked the details but it had been obvious to her that something had been up between him and Kitty. Rogue found she was focusing strictly on what Kitty was saying as she spoke about him, their shared mentor. She hadn't really spoken to him herself since Canada and, though she'd long since calmed down, she didn't know where they stood and she wasn't going out of her way to find out. Maybe when she knew what was happening with her Cajun str ... Remy, or maybe not even then. She found she was still sore about Logan and Jubilee and, in not letting herself think about it, neither had she let herself deal with it. Well, whatever, why should she worry about it? She found she was blocking out the 'Logan' and 'Jubilee' mentions in Kitty's words and just focusing on what they actually meant.
"A team," she repeated, her voice distant through thought before her eyes returned to meet Kitty's. "A team, yeah, I like that." She guessed on a whole she came off as pretty independent; she wasn't relying on Logan like she had been when she was first at the school and she spent quite a lot of time alone. But she could be independent and still be part of a team too, right? "I'm willing to give a try," she said earnestly, not pretending it would always be without hitches but still genuinely enthusiastic about the idea.
Kitty shrugged, and then said, "Yeah, I don't know if we would be a match or not." She cocked her head in thought, and continued, "It seemed that Jubilee got put on the team when she was really young because of Xavier. I wonder what he had seen in her to put her on the team so soon?" Once again Kitty was being totally oblivious to the fact that at the time it seemed that Jubilee was one person that could get Logan out of his rages. Though she didn't know about that element of their whole team work together, along with the years of just getting used to working together. She still was in the hope that his rages could be thwarted by those he cared about so anyone really. Though that she didn't know, she just knew that he seemed to be okay around her even if in a bit of a rage in Japan. Maybe it had been luck, or maybe not. "I want to try. You should be with someone that you know won't hurt you, or that knows how to be around you to not get themselves hurt, and who better then me? Right?" She grinned.
"I missed you at the party. You could have kept Jack in line with me." She sighed, looking at the sleeping man in the jar right now. "He can be such a pest sometimes, but I feel odd when he isn't near. Like I should see if he is okay. I almost went mad when he was gone for so long." She sighed. "Do you have anyone that you can't seem to be far from?" She asked.
"Right," Rogue agreed. She meant what she said; she was willing to give it a try. It wasn't Kitty she doubted, it was her own ability to do well in a team when her power seemed to want her to do the opposite. But she trusted Kitty and she knew her friend knew the dangers of her ability and that was the most important thing. It could work.
Rogue glanced over at the jar. She still didn't get this whole Jack thing, though she'd seen him on more than one occasion now. Well, she knew there really wasn't that much to get at all, but she still didn't get it. The little man, his actions and Kitty's fondness for him were outside the circle of her understanding but it didn't seem to matter. If he made Kitty happy, aside from obviously frustrating her at times, then that was all that mattered.
She cocked her head to the side as she considered Kitty's question. Though Kitty would definitely be who she called her best friend a the school, she hadn't really thought about telling her about Remy. Aside from the fact their encounters had been of the dream-like variety, there wasn't much concrete she could say. He could touch her, she supposed she could tell Kitty that, but she found she didn't want to bring it all any more into the 'real world' than it already was. Perhaps the whole thing was messing her up, it certainly confused her, but she seemed to forget those thoughts when she was with him.
Now that she thought about it, Rogue found that Remy didn't fit the criteria in Kitty's question anyway. She was far from him quite a lot of the time, their encounters weren't that frequent, and she dealt with it quite easily. She wondered if she would see him, of course, but in her day-to-day life she preferred not to, lest she ruined the dream. "No," she replied, not feeling as if she was lying. "I have nothing that simple."
Kitty nodded accepting her answer with no problem. She didn't mind that she may or may not tell her everything in her life, she knew she didn't tell her everything. She really hadn't still told much to anyone about Japan, and she probably wouldn't Nope, that would probably if she could keep figuring things out on her own be just between Logan and her. It was too hard to explain, and there were parts of it she still didn't understand of want went on, and so if she didn't understand it why would she want to explain it to anyone else? Especially when it was something that sometimes she felt was very personal to herself. I mean thinking, having to look at, and contemplate your own possible demise whether physical, or mental was something very personal, at least she felt so. Anyway, she thought that for the most part she was getting more comfortable about it all, and except for the occasional blues from thoughts of her father, she was (She thought.) coping with things rather well.
"Would it bother you if Logan helped us work together sometimes? You are still training with him privately right?" Poor Rogue, she didn't get it that it was a sore spot with her right now, but at least she didn't mention both Jubilee and Logan in the same sentence this time. As such, really, poor Logan and Jubilee, as since she had got used to the whole thought now of them never being anything but friends that seemed to grow into more from constant closeness and trust, or so it seemed she could only guess, and really it was a broad guess as she knew nothing about relationships, really. But it seemed like a logical thing to her, and she was anything but logical in most things. Anyway, she was very curious about them since they were the closest two people in her life that seemed to be traveling down a path that even before they were thinking of such she was starting to gain interest in herself. So, she was constantly battling with herself not to ask questions of either on something that she would assume would be very personal just to them.
"Do you think about your own... Mortality?" She asked suddenly. A bit out of the blue, but she wondered if anyone that was young thought about it ever. She hadn't until she had to for that week, and now while it was slowly fading in her thoughts as day to day life continued on, and the whole Japan fiasco died in her memory little by little.
"It wouldn't bother me." Or, at least, she'd not let it bother her. She realised she couldn't avoid Logan forever and he was the only person she thought of as a trainer. She was starting to come around to the idea of Alex being a leader but he wouldn't take the place Logan had. Logan had been the one to bring her to Xavier's, the one to look after her and bring her out of her shell. She was starting to realise she couldn't have that with him any more though and it would take some getting used to. "I haven't trained with him for a while though, I guess he's busy with other stuff." She tried not to sound bitter.
Kitty's question surprised her, mostly because the answer was no. She never thought about her own mortality. There had been times when she had, when Logan's camper had almost blown up with her in it or when Logan had accidentally skewered her or when Magneto had drained her almost to the point of death. They were all valid times to be thinking about her mortality. But here, in the school, where she was mostly unharmed except for cuts and bruises she might get in a Danger Room session, and that made her own mortality the last thing on her mind. "I don't. Do you?"
She shook her head. "Yes, sometimes, because of my trip." She sighed and sat up again, looked down. "I sort of had a brush with death like you have had. I ..." She cocked her head, how to even begin to explain. "I was inhabited by someone elses mind in my mind, and they threatened to take it over. In effect killing me off per sey, and locking my essence away, and him controlling what I do." She shuddered. That thought scared the hell out of her. Someone in her head controlling her and making her do things she didn't want to do. "Anyway, I would have died, because I would have told Logan to kill me because I wouldn't want that, and I don't think he would have wanted that either..." She sighed, playing with a little thread on her cover on her bed.
"That is what I have been trying to deal with, the fact that for a while I was controlled by him, and I hurt Logan, or well... Tried to. I was battling for my own mind, Marie. Of course, I won, but if I hadn't..." She didn't answer, just looked down at her bed between her crossed indian style legs.
It was a lot to take in. The horror that Rogue felt when she thought of her friend having to go through this was made even worse when she considered how it must feel for someone else to have control of your mind. She hadn't had that; she'd had both Logan and Magneto's selves and memories flooding her mind at respective times but she had never not been in control of herself. And this person who had threatened to take over Kitty's body had tried to make her kill Logan? God, no wonder things had been so tense between them.
"Wow, Kitty," Rogue uttered finally, the emotion that flooded her voice also evident on her face. "I had no idea. I mean, I've heard you shout out while you've had nightmares, but I didn't know it was that serious. Oh my God." She couldn't find the words to say, not wanting to ask more but also having a morbid curiosity about it all.
She shook her head again. "Yes, those were dreams of me remembering attacking Logan, as at first after he put me to sleep I didn't remember much when I woke up in my mind and not Ogun's." She wondered if that was the first time she had said his name since returning. She wasn't sure she didn't want to think about it really. He had almost took control or her and used her as a vessel of his own command. "It was awful," she shuddered, "I stabbed him, and said things I would never had said to him before. I couldn't believe I was capable of that, but Logan said it was because of 'the ninja's' magic and that he wasn't bothered as he knew it wasn't me, so he made me feel less guilty about it."
She looked at Rogue. "You see, my dad died at the hands of the mafia, because somehow he got involved with them. I got in the middle cause I thought I could help him. Silly me." She sighed. "I got kidnapped and then Logan thank god got involved or I wouldn't be here."
Rogue had been worried about Kitty, sure, but she would never have imagined in a million years all that Kitty had been through. She didn't blame her friend at all for not telling her until now; it couldn't be an easy thing to talk about. It meant a lot to her that she had told her now though, even it was things that Rogue didn't know how to deal with. It didn't matter, this wasn't about Rogue.
"Wow," she repeated, at a loss for what else to say. "I can't believe you had to go through all of that. How are you dealing now?" She was genuinely concerned, genuinely wanting to know how Kitty was doing after all of that. She couldn't possibly have helped at the time but she could help now, if and when Kitty needed her.
Kitty looked at Rogue. And smiled slightly, while saying, "I am actually doing a lot better then when I first got back. I have put together, and digested a lot of the things myself and found a way to look at it that makes it easier for me. However, yeah there are things that I may never really get over. I don't know." She shrugged. "I guess just time will tell on that."
Kitty then looked devilish whatever need she had to talk about Japan gone. It would probably be like that for a while. Talking about it until she couldn't handle it anymore, and then maybe talking about it again some other time until really she had figured it out completely in her head. "Guess what Logan did with me on Monday?" Her smile was pure devilish mischief something as of late that hadn't popped out much so it coming into light meant that things were getting better for her truly. It would take time, but it was already getting better, trust Kitty to not be mopey for too long. "I teasing told him he should go and take me to get more lip gloss.... AND HE DID!!! You should have seen him Rogue... It was a sight to see really." She laughed and rolled back onto her back laughing so hard her stomach hurt at the memory.
The soft smile that Rogue had sported as Kitty told her that she was doing okay (which was exactly what Rogue wanted to hear) turned into a grin as she processed the fact that Logan had actually taken Kitty out to get lip gloss, of all things. She pictured Logan in a store like Claire's Accessories and the thought made her burst out laughing. "Oh my God, that's priceless!" Rogue paused, her smile turning devious as an idea occurred to her. "Oh, we should so get him to take us shopping, real clothes shopping, make him hold our purses!"
Kitty sat up quickly and still laughing said, "OH MY GOD!!! Yes!!! I would love to see his face and he growling come from his lips while he is waiting on us in the dressing rooms, and I don't really carry a purse, purse just a back pack." She still hadn't grasp completely all things girly, and she still wasn't to sure if she would. Though maybe if she could find a cute little purse that didn't look to girly and could carry the few things she did carry with her would be good. She cocked her head.
Another little cheeky grin came on to her face. "Have you ever been to a musical?" She asked.
"We'll get you carrying a purse in no time," Rogue teased. She didn't really carry a purse that much either -- she just made use of her pockets -- but she'd be sure to dig one out if it meant making Logan hold it while he waited outside the dressing rooms (while she and Kitty tried on a million outfits, of course).
A musical? Well, Rogue was from the South, she didn't exactly have the most cultured upbringing in the world aside from her mom's piano playing. But a musical actually sounded like a whole lot of fun. "I haven't but I'd like to," she replied, grinning. She hadn't quite grasped what Kitty was getting at, the idea of making Logan sit through a musical as well as the shopping hell, but it wouldn't be long before she realised.
She grinned even harder. "I was looking on the internet a couple of days ago and I saw I musical that I want to see, as I haven't really been to one either, and I think it would be fun." Her grin became positively mischievous as she continued. "The musical is called Wicked, with a name like that I bet Logan would think nothing about taking us to it and then when he gets there he be like... What is this!!??" She giggled. "We are being sooo mean but it would be the best joke played in a while." She winked.
"We could have him come with us shopping for clothes, then tell him he sort of has to dress up a bit, and then we can get all dressy and have a fun night out!!!" She liked the idea, however, later on she might not like the idea that she gave of dressing up as for herself she was thinking of a pretty pant dress suit, but it could be a great way for Rogue to play a little trick on her too. And see what Kitty would look like in an actual girly dress when they finally go to get their dress clothes. Oh the fun one could have with friends....
When Kitty said 'dress up' Rogue's mind immediately went to real dressy dresses, the likes of which she hadn't worn since a couple of years earlier at her junior prom. The idea excited her, as did the idea of getting Kitty to dress up in something similar. Of course, Rogue realised that Kitty would probably be reluctant but that was all part of the fun.
"Hell yes!" Rogue cried, sitting up from her cross-legged position up onto her knees, unable to contain the excitement that was made clear by her sparkling eyes and the grin spread across her face. "God, we so have to get all of this happening!"
"Oh we will so get it done. We have to now!! I will talk to Logan, do you maybe want to get Kurt involved? I know he appreciates a good joke!! I think he would get a kick out of Logan's reaction just as much as us." She winked. "What do you think?"
She sat forward too, she was excited, though she might not be as excited if she knew what was on Rogue's mind about dressing up, but well that was not to be found out until much later, and probably too late, and her idea about Kurt would probably just get Kurt and Rogue ganging up on her about wearing a pretty dress. If not just once in her life, and that she might even like it.
Rogue hadn't thought about Kurt, she hadn't seen him around that much outside of classes so far this year. But he was her favourite teacher and a good friend and she knew he'd love to be there when they pulled this on Logan and it'd be fun to have him come along on the little trip anyway. "Yes! Kurt totally has to come! This is going to be so good!" It felt good to have something to look forward to, and something with Kitty as well. Camping had been the last thing she had had to look forward to but that had been mostly disappointing and not the same without Kitty there. This, however, this would be epic.
Kitty smiled, mischief made, now it just had to be put into play. "Yes, I think this will be very fun, and I think that Loan while at the time will be miserable will hopefully look back at it and think it very entertaining what we had played on him." She nodded. Then looked at her abandoned book. She sighed.
"I guess we should try to crack open some books and do some homework for a while?" They actually when they put their mind to it could study in the same room without bothering the other too much. Except maybe to ask questions of the other. They really were a good team together, but whether they would be a good team together in fighting together only time would tell.
Her grin toned down to a smile now but no less excited, Rogue glanced over to where she had hung her book bag on the back of her desk chair and also at the desk itself which already held a few assignments that needed to be done. Kitty was right, they should do some work. Maybe she'd just do the work that was due in first and then go down to the kitchen and make some food, or just drop into dinner in the cafeteria. Yes, that sounded like a plan.
"To the books it is," Rogue replied, flashing a smile at her roommate and best friend before she made her way over to her desk. She sat down, picking up a pencil and idly chewing the tip as she thought about how cool this whole thing was going to be if it went to plan.