A cat, a dog, a Kitty.
N/A: something out of nowhere.
After everything, Fortress City is nothing but a distant memory, and as a reward the Pryde menages to get their old house and even Cameron´s old job. Right now, Kitty is on her old balcony on the second floor looking at the scene below her along with Cosmo and Jupiter.
Her right hand is petting Cosmo as her left is petting Jupiter, but, her eyes are focused on the woman talking with her parents. A real state agent named Clarice Smith. A woman with a round body and a small nose, yet, she has a tranquil voice that brings serenity in her words.
"IT is really good at this," Kitty said still looking at the real state woman and the Prydes talking freely and joyfully. This makes the cat and dog raise their heads. "IT must understand how humans laws works...because I sure hell have no clue how we manage to get our house back so quickly and in such...normal way"
Cosmo only makes a pensative sound, while, Jupiter answers. "Is IT´s business. He knows about humans well enough to manipulate them, and, I guess he wants to give you a present...IT knows you wanted to go back here" Jupiters concludes.
"And no Death was involved?" Cosmo asked surprised.
"Sometimes the Forever Alone can surprise us"
And Kitty watches as the real state agent concludes the conversation and enters in her car. Is official, the Prydes are back in Chicago.
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A week has passed down and Cameron and Terry Pryde are sure to be free of Dagon´s terror and eating fish is now a sense of victory for them(while Cameron still is a tad bit cautious with any fish he may encounter) and all remains well, until, Terry receives a piece of unsettling news.
"Uncle Fred is...dead," Terry exclaimed heartbrokenly. Fred was one of Terry´s relatives that live in New York. Her great uncle to be exact, and the man did live a well-lived life.
The family sit together and talk about Death and life.
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"So....Death is bad" Jupiter and Cosmo are discussion this late news. Kitty watches cat and dog going back and forth about the complexity of Death, and Kitty, who is amused by that, gives her two cents.
"Death is not evil. She´s terrible efficient as Sir Terry Pratchett once wrote. Death is essential to life. So as my great-great-uncle Fred is in Death´s arms, I know he´s safer and I can´t villainize Death nor you two should"
"Yeah...Gaia often says that" Cosmo explained mildly " but I still never get this concept...Death seems cruel sometimes"
"Not cruel, Cosmo, just terrible efficient" Kitty reinforces kindly. And somehow, that´s the ending of the discussion.
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After the funeral, time starts to heal Terry´s wound and life is slowly getting into a comfortable pattern. The X-men did call Kitty Pryde, of course, after knowing her family situation they were respectful and are calling with this proposition just now.
The invitation to join the X-men is a new approach that Storm and Cyclops come up with. Jupiter told Kitty that the X-men´s old method was not as good as they thought. "Egghead was a creepy person. And it comes from me, a talking cat that serves IT" and Cosmo nods "Yeah, well, now, we know Egghead won´t do any creepy thing anymore"
Kitty is pondering her situation. "I´d not think I want to join the X-men permanently. I´ve my career as a singer and yes, I know IT is behind the whole ''Kitty, take the time you want to write new songs'' don´t deny Jupiter, but, I think I would prefer something not permanent...like a reservist or something like that"
"Yeah, you don´t have all the time in the world" Jupiter concedes and Cosmo is laughing now, which, confused only Jupiter.
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The X-men greet Kitty Pryde and don´t seem to mind that she has a talking cat and dog, in fact, Rogue seems to know Cosmo. As the situation is unfolded and plans are being made, after all, Kitty is a reservist and can´t always be there to help the X-men, many people seem to take a like to Kitty.
Jean Grey is concerned, but, she confesses her fear is more from not understanding how powerful Kitty is than anything else. "Scott, I saw the fire...burning everything and that does not leave my mind no matter what I try" she confesses as Kitty and Rogue are talking in the other corner along with Dazzler.
"Jean...do you still want to go to that mission?" Scott asked sympathetically as he puts his hand on her shoulder, however, Jean denies.
"I can´t Scott...I need to be on this mission. I really need to be there"
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As Kitty is exploring the mansion, watching amusing the several types of mutants running around wildly makes a fond smile appears on her smile.
As she is walking by, without a real plan, when a German Accent calling her name makes her turn to the direction where the name is being called.
She turns to see a blue man with fur, golden eyes and tail waving his mishappen hand to her, of course, as his look is bizarre there´s no denying the man is handsome.
"You´re the newest member of the X-men," the man said charmingly and Kitty nods her head, she can see he would say something charming that would make any woman or even man woo, and she´s not entirely unaffected, but, before romantic words can be spoken Kitty respond. "I´m new as you´re too, but, the concept of time is a bit irrelevant to you, right, Chaos?"
And Nightcrawler stops smiling.
Kitty continues. "Actually, as we´re here. There´s something I always wonder about you, how can your mask really hide the true form?" she asked blinking and taking a step back and looks up for a moment. "How a hurricane of tentacles and fangs so huge be contained in a mask like that? how it does not break?"
Nightcrawler is in shock. "...you can see my face?"
Kitty nods. "I can see your face still has my punch. But, hey, cool tentacles, I like the fangs...give an authenticity style"
Nightcrawler is still in shock and Kitty is taking his arm as they are doing the tour together.
What is Kitty Pryde?