The Jean Grey School- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Normalcy these days at the school was chaos. It was too many kids for too few teachers who were under a lot of stress, and there wasn't any real consistency to who was around and who was off fighting. Also, in Kitty's opinion, it was all pretty stupid. And now with the whole Phoenix Five mess, where five of her old friends and teammates had had the Phoenix Force they'd all been so worried about split among them and were now being publicly revered for it, she trusted nothing.

And sure enough, when she heard the words "you should see this," the only surprise was that she wasn't in the middle of class when whoever showed up.

When she walked outside with Warbird, they found Peter, armored up and on fire, floating in the sky above the school. "Get back to your classes," Kitty said, not looking away from him. "If I don't come back, call the Avengers."

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[so_hawkward]

Clint tightened the hold he had around Kitty's waist. "I'm sorry," he said again. "I'm so sorry. Maybe... maybe we can still help them see reason, someday."

[throughaphase]

Kitty nodded. It wasn't like the X-Men hadn't been at each other's throats ever before. She was relatively sure at the end of this at least a lot of things could be fixed. But this one was going to hurt, for a long time.

"Come on," she said. "Let's get us both fixed up."