Tails of Change [Revamping!]

22) Kitty and Lance

[Author's Note:

X-Men Characters in this Chapter: Nightcrawler (Kurt), Cyclops (Scott), Phoenix (Jean), Spyke (Evan), Shadowcat (Kitty), Professor X (Charles Xavier), Avalanche (Lance), Toad (Todd), Blob (Fred), Wolverine (Logan)

OC Characters in this Chapter: _____(Sorin)

*Italicized words are either German words or English words with a more Germanic spelling. Any words that are dissimilar to the English version (or a bit out of context) will have a translation appearing here:

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{8.15.2020} Revamped! New material!]

After Evan, Blob, Kurt, and Toad had disappeared outside, Sorin moved cautiously along the wall so he could see clearly into the gymnasium. The gymnasium floor was cracked, a few pieces jutted up here and there. On a fairly undisturbed section near the middle, Lance and Kitty were standing roughly ten feet apart. Sorin could just barely make out their words.

"I told you to stop doing that bullshit!"

"Well I think it's fun!"

"Crime shouldn't be fun, Lance! If you can't abide by laws, you and I can't be together. You know that!"

"No, I don't know that. There's nothing that says that! And who would want to follow a bunch of rules made by non-mutants for non-mutants?" The ground trembled as he spoke.

"The rules apply to everyone, Lance," Kitty emphasized his name.

"Stupid rules are made to be broken, Katherine," Lance imitated her tone.

"Shut up! And no, they're meant to protect people."

Lance rolled his eyes.

Sorin watched Scott enter through the opposite side of the gymnasium. Kitty acted like she didn't see him, and Lance had his back towards that entrance.

"Kitty, come on, I thought you'd like it."

"You thought I'd like a stolen necklace? A one-of-a-kind necklace that was all over the news? That I immediately realized was stolen and so would everyone else? A necklace so obviously stolen that I can't even wear it because I'd be arrested for theft?" She tapped her foot on the floor, clearly annoyed. "You thought I'd like being blamed for a crime I didn't commit?"

"Well, I," Lance stuttered. "I didn't think of it like that. I wasn't trying to get you arrested or anything. I just thought you'd like it because it was pretty."

"Bring it back."

"What?"

"The place you took it from. Bring it and anything else you stole back to where you got it from."

"You can't be serious."

"Until I see on the news that it's been returned, I'm not talking to you." She tried to walk around him towards Scott, but Lance caught her arm.

"Come on , Kitty, don't be like that."

"Let go of me. I'm going home." She phased her arm, and it slid right through his fingers. She kept walking away.

"Oh, back to your goody-two-shoes mansion, with your goody-two-shoes friends, and your cushy lifestyle. Big tough Scott coming to the rescue again I see. You having goody-two-shoes sex with Captain goody-two-shoes?"

"Learn a new insult, Lance," Scott said calmly, cutting whatever Kitty was about to say off, as he wrapped an arm around Kitty's shoulders and escorted her out of the gym.