Xavier School- ridiculously early Friday morning

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Kitty and Clint were still at Xavier's, because there were still plenty of kids who needed to talk after being tortured by a sentient Danger Room using their dead classmate's body to do so. Kitty was just glad she didn't have the job of calling Wing's parents or dealing with that, because after the last couple days, she just didn't have it in her. The day had been traumatic and stressy, and she'd fallen asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow.

In her dream, Kitty was sitting under a tree on the lawn of the school when she heard someone call her, and she turned around to see her dad, alive and well. She ran to hug him, to assure herself that he was real, and he told her he only had one question. That question was, "Why did you let us die?" and then he began burning away right in front of her-

And that was when Kitty startled awake, not even sure what the noise she'd made was and hoping that she didn't wake Clint up, while also kind of hoping she woke Clint up because she probably needed a hug.


[For the guy.]

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"Guess I haven't really been looking at it that way," Kitty admitted, squeezing his hand back. "Feels kind of weird to be proud of myself in a situation where the Sentinel that killed millions of people almost killed us, you know?"

[so_hawkward]

"I know. This whole thing was weird and awful," Clint said. "Do you want to stick around for a few more days, for the kids? Or do you want to get back to Fandom?"

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Kitty paused. "I probably should. I hadn't really thought about it," she said. "You don't have to stay if you don't want to. I know it's crazy and the dogs probably miss you." And her life was insane, she couldn't blame him if he wanted to head off.

[so_hawkward]

"Yeah right, like I'm going to head back to the island without you," Clint said, scoffing quietly. He closed his eyes and nestled in closer to Kitty. "If you're going to be dealing with the kids tomorrow, you should try to get some more sleep."

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"Yeah," she said, and draped her arm around him to give him a little hug. "Love you."

He should hear that since this probably wasn't the only time she was going to wake him up like this for a while.