25 Unicorn Street- Monday

[throughaphase]

Scott had called first, telling Kitty all about his blowup with Logan, and how things were splitting up. He'd asked her to join his team, come back to teach, and while she'd entertained thoughts, she'd said she would think about it but didn't have any real want to do it.

Today Logan called while she was walking the dogs. It was a much longer conversation, and he was opening a new school in Jean's honor, and he wanted Kitty to help him. Maybe it was the "help" word, or maybe it was just because it was Logan, but she found herself seriously considering it.

She'd hung up by the time she got home and let the dogs in, calling, "Honey, we're hoooome."

[For the booooy.]

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[so_hawkward]

Clint turned around from where he was sitting on the couch and grinned. "Oh good, all my favorite people are back," he said. "I might have made a small mess while you were out." The "small mess" being arrow parts scattered all over the living room table, in various states of being sorted. "It's not going to stay like this, I promise. You guys took a nice walk, huh?"

[throughaphase]

"Eh, its nit mess, it's work," she said, making sure she wouldn't be sitting on any supplies if she sat next to him. "Yeah, longer walk than I planned. Logan called, and I kind of got distracted and kept walking."

[so_hawkward]

"How's everything going back home?" Clint asked, nuzzling a little closer to her because he could.

[throughaphase]

Kitty sighed as she leaned against him, which should say something right there.

"Scott and Logan had a massive blowup, and they're splitting up the X-Men. It's a lot more complicated than that, but that's the basic rundown."

[so_hawkward]

Uh oh, it looked like the arrow work was getting paused as Clint wrapped his arm around Kitty and pulled her into a hug. "Can they even do that? What are they going to do, pick teams like a high school basketball game?"

[throughaphase]

"Everyone's picking their own teams, but yeah, sort of," she said. "They're both trying to recruit me for theirs."

She wasn't sure how Clint would react to that.

[so_hawkward]

Clint had to smirk at that. "Well, that's because you're awesome, of course they both want you on their team. Are you going to side with one of them, or hope they make up and this whole thing blows over?"

Clint definitely preferred one of them to the other, sorry Scott.

[throughaphase]

Kitty sighed. "I don't know. Scott asked me a few days ago and I was planning on staying out of it, but... It's different when Logan asks, you know?"

He was her big brother/dad type mentor guy, really.

[so_hawkward]

"I was going to say Logan's probably the one you want to listen to, so... yeah. But they still shouldn't pull you into their mess like this," Clint said, giving Kitty another hug. "It's childish. It'd be like if Steve and Tony had a fight and tried to split us all up. It just wouldn't work."

Heh.

Clint sighed and gave Kitty a little kiss on the cheek. "Do either of them want you to come back away from Fandom?" That was definitely a deciding factor too.

[throughaphase]

"Yeeees, but," she began, "even if we wanted to leave now, I just started a semester here, and I'm just finally getting the bar ready again. Scott seems to want me back and active with the team again, whereas Logan asked me to be headmistress, but I know I could talk him down to a day or two a week like I used to do."

She did like the thought of being headmistress. It just didn't work here.

[so_hawkward]

Sorry Kitty, you were going to have to excuse Clint for a moment as "headmistress" brought up a very dirty picture in his head. "I guess that would be a good compromise," he said, trying not to smirk. "And maybe you can smack some sense into these guys while you're there."

[throughaphase]

"I'm not sure about that," she said, raising an eyebrow at his expression. "But I can help. Teach a class or two, help out with administrative stuff if I can, but I can't be full time."

[so_hawkward]

"You would make a good headmistress, for the record. Or maybe that's only in my own head," Clint said.

[throughaphase]

"The kind of headmistress you would see would be very different then the kind they'd see," Kitty said, lightly slapping his knee. "What do you think about this? I know you weren't exactly thrilled with all my time away before."

And you know, then she'd gotten shot off into space, turned ghostly, and died for a minute. So.

[so_hawkward]

Clint sighed a little, but he knew lying wouldn't do any good. "I can't say I won't miss you. I know it's pathetic to miss you when you're gone, but I do. And I worry about you when you're home, like I know you worry about me. I'd feel a lot better if you were stepping into the middle of a dramatic mess, but I'm not going to tell you not to go and try to help people who mean so much to you."

[throughaphase]

"It's not pathetic. Does it help if I don't join a team?" Kitty asked, kissing him on the cheek. "If I go, it's to teach and that's it?"

She couldn't guarantee that problems wouldn't come to her there, but at least she wouldn't be actively running towards it.

[so_hawkward]

"That would help a lot, yeah," Clint said. He could feel his shoulders relaxing, and he hadn't even realized he was tensing himself up at this, but not worrying about Kitty just wasn't an option anymore. "I know you'll be good for those kids."

[throughaphase]

"Thanks," she said, smiling. "And you're totally welcome to come along when you want. You're pretty much an honorary X-Man anyway."

[so_hawkward]

"I won't believe that until I get one of your cool uniforms," Clint said, only half joking.

[throughaphase]

"You do have a good butt for spandex," Kitty mused.