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“It still bothers me,” Scott shook his head as Ororo pulled her Focus up to the garage.

“It’s going to bother all of us,” Jean admitted from the back seat next to JP.

“Whatever it is,” the Canadian said, “I’m sure we’ll find out eventually.”

“Just hopefully not too late,” Scott sighed, but then as the garage door opened, he couldn’t believe what he was looking at.

“Oh my,” Jean must have seen it too, “are those…?”

“Look like it to me,” JP leaned between the seats as Ororo brought her car to rest next to the SUV.

Instantly everyone was out, checking out the damage to Bobby’s Escape, Ororo the first to say, “We need to check on them.”

“Wait,” Jean had her hand to her temple, “they’re fine, they didn’t get hurt.”

“Thank god,” Scott breathed a sigh of relief, “what happened here?”

“We should go see the Professor,” Jean told them, “it will be best to leave Bobby and Kitty for now.”

…

“I’m going to regret this later.”

“Probably.”

Empty cartons of ice cream laid strewn about the floor next to the two mutants who had tucked themselves away into a corner of the kitchen between a mobile freezer and a cabinet. They sat facing each other, their backs against the structures, feet pressed to each other’s with their knees in the air.

“So,” Kitty, freshly showered, was digging into some Cookies and Cream, “you have a super secret stash.”

“Until Jubilee finds it, yeah,” he ate a spoonful of Rocky Road.

She gave a light chuckle at that thought, surprised the girl hadn’t found it already. Kitty wondered if maybe she had but left it alone so Bobby wouldn’t know and continue to keep ice cream on stock for her to ‘appropriate’.

Then a frown fell uncontrollably to her lips, “William was a nice guy.”

Bobby glanced up, an unusually thoughtful look on his face, “I think he generally wanted a peaceful world,” he shrugged, “just went about it the wrong way.”

“She shot him,” the memory was fresh and hazy at the same time, “didn’t even hesitate.”

“There’s nothing you could have done,” Bobby reminded her, trying to be helpful, she supposed.

“I could have tried to disarm her,” Kitty pointed out, “that’s what Logan’s been teaching me.”

“You taking on Mystique?” he let out a bit of a chuckle, “that’s about as smart as me taking on Sabretooth, and we know how that turned out.”

Kitty scrunched up her nose, “I didn’t know it was her though, I just picked the easy option, cut and run.”

“It was the smart option,” he pointed his spoon at her, “and this is Mystique we’re talking about, she blew the place up, she was gonna wrack up a body count regardless if we were there or not. If anything, we saved a lot of people, Trask, those in the meeting hall.”

“Stop sounding reasonable, Bobby,” Kitty frowned and started to roll the lump of ice cream at the bottom of her container around, “or I’ll start thinking you’re actually Mystique.”

“Hhhmmm,” he pressed his lips together, “blue might be a good look for me.”

Letting out an involuntary chuckle, she appreciated his humor but shouldn’t help but think, “Professor is going to take me off the team.”

“He tell you that?” Bobby asked.

“Not in so many words,” she sighed.

“You’re eighteen in like, what, a month? Worst he could do is make you sit out for a bit,” he pointed out, but when she didn’t immediately say anything, “You do want to stay on the team, right?”

“I dunno,” Kitty leaned her head back to rest it against the cabinet, “I just watched a man die and all I can think of is two things: one, the bullets passed through me, they went through me, and two, I was right.”

Bobby shook his head lightly in confusion, “Right about what?”

“If we don’t stop the Brotherhood now,” she caught his eyes, “then Jubilee, Meg, Ben… all these kids are going to go through the same thing, maybe even worse… I can’t let that happen. I won’t.”

The Ice Man looked down, unable to continue to meet her gaze, “It’s a big lie, you know, one person can’t save the world.”

“Maybe not,” she replied quietly, “but why should that stop me from trying?”

He didn’t answer her, so the two mutants continued to sit, tucked away in their little corner of the world…

…

A man paced in one of the bunkers, “You said no one knew I was here.”

“I don’t think they were after you, Boliver,” Simon told his brother, “the two mutants were at one of our meetings yesterday, got themselves an invite. I think they were planning on destroying our base, we just became a bonus.”

“Mutants,” he shook his head, “nothing but destructive abominations.”

“They got away,” Simon apologized, “but we chased them out before they could do more damage,” he waved at one of his team members forward, “we have Jameson to thank for that.”

Jameson stepped forward, giving a slight nod of his head, “I saw an opportunity, I took advantage of it.”

“Forward thinker, good,” Boliver sized him up, “we could definitely use more men like you in the HLS.”

“Jameson,” Simon caught his attention, “I want you to put together a team to see Boliver back to his base.”

“Good idea,” Jameson said thoughtfully, “if the mutants found out he was here, they might try to take advantage of it.”

“My thoughts exactly,” Simon nodded, “or at the very least, they could come back to try to finish the job of destroying the camp.”

“We’ll have to abandon it anyway,” Boliver sighed, “they know where it is now.”

“This is true,” Simon agreed with his brother.

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” Jameson smiled, “sometimes these things have a way of working out better in your favor.”

On the next episode of X-Men: The (fan fic) Series…

—“I save people’s lives, I don’t care what colors they’re waving.” – Cecilia Reyes

—“Theresa!” – Jean
“Mr Cassidy.” – Scott

—“There’s no doubt Moira’s work is important, so why you wanna turn her island into a penal colony?” – Sean Cassidy

—“Vigilantism isn’t the answer, but it sounds really good, doesn’t it?” – Jean

—Call 911!” – Cecilia

Episode 1X07 – El Chacal

1X06 – The Trask at Hand

Written by JayCee

Based off Marvel Comics’ X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby,
with Chris Claremont.

Adapted for Television by JayCee

Executive Producer – JayCee
Co-Producer – Chellerbelle

Soundtrack: Safe and Sound by Capital Cities

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