i'm the hero. i'm just in time.

With school finally ending- and not that she didn't love teaching disinterested, mostly mutant junior high kids but she needed the break- Kitty's life seemed to be mostly focusing on all the planning she had to do. Her dress wasn't ready and there were still a thousand tiny decisions to be made and while she wasn't a bridezilla she was trying to get things settled before her mom found something to get upset about.

So, she was sitting on the sofa with her laptop, playing with her spreadsheet on what still needed to be done and what vendors needed to be paid. And she was not at all cheating by keeping a browser window open to see all the arrangements they were making for the House of Magnus' gala. She was curious, okay?

[As of the last post Clint, Kitty and the rest of her world are under a glamor that they have some version of their perfect life. They've never been to Fandom and don't know anyone there unless they exist in Kitty's universe. Yes, it's temporary.
Open for calls to Kitty and Clint once he pings in!]

Kitty had pretty much just gotten to sleep when she heard her phone go off. Groaning in annoyance, she reached to pick up her phone to shut it off, but when the display showed it was Scott calling, she figured it was important. So she picked it up and went into the hallway so she could keep from disturbing Clint any more than she already had.

And then a couple minutes later, she came back into the room, more upset and headed straight for the closet so she could get dressed.


[For the guy, mwahaha.]

Kitty woke up to find more messages on her phone from after she went out last night and went to sleep. Now, she could reply to them now and see what happened, buuuut last time this happened (when she was a lion) she was pretty sure it only lasted a day, so. If she had your number she was sending a text:

Okay did anyone MEAN to actually tell me anything yesterday?

Just in case she missed something.

[Felt this was necessary and she got most of the messages yesterday so! Open for return texts!]

Kitty hadn't taken a lot of damage in the fight with the Inheritors, but phasing a bunch of people at once again kind of took it out of her. Again. Because this was like the third time in like two weeks that she'd had to do it and uuugh she was over it.

So once she got home, she cleaned the cut on her arm and stuck a bandage on it, and then flopped on the bed to cuddle Lucky whether he liked it or not.

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.]

It'd been a week since Kitty moved in and she was maybe still trying to put her best face forward so Clint wouldn't start thinking this was a mistake. At least not immediately. Which was why she even tried to wash any dishes that were used in the making of Super Bowl food right away, even if they were just used to make like, dip.

So that was all done when she brought some of the food out to the living room, saying, "So are we rooting for the game, too, or just the commercials?"


[For the guy!]

The thing about Kitty staying overnight in Westchester on Wednesdays was that when things like truth day rolled around, she didn't have other people or radio to clue her in that something was up. Sure, she'd gone off on Emma, but that could happen literally any day, Fandom weirdness or not. And okay, maybe she'd been a little talkier than normal, but she hadn't thought anything of it. Of course if she'd run into Peter at all today this would be an entirely different, more embarrassed story.

But it wasn't, and so once Kitty got back to Fandom she sent Clint a text to let him know she was back, and got a little caught up in unpacking and sorting things out since she actually hadn't been back to her apartment in like a week.

[Mwahahaha for one!]

After two years as a couple, there were almost too many options for where to spend the holidays, and after some deliberation Clint and Kitty decided that they'd stay in Fandom for once. And if they were going to stay here, then Kitty figured they at least had to do it right, which meant there was going to have to be a tree.

Besides, Kitty was kind of glad to get off island, because while she'd had the foresight to bring an umbrella for the snow, there were still patches of her clothes that had been turned colors, thanks a lot, Fandom.

"I thought we'd be cutting it close, but this is still a lot of trees," Kitty said, looking around.

[For the shopping partner.]

When they'd left what was left of Benetech, Kitty just wanted to get back to the mansion and crawl into bed and let everything sink in. Except on the way she'd found out that while she'd been getting Peter, the Stepford Cuckoos had reached out to Emma to tell her something was wrong there. That meant that once they got back, there were freaked-out kids to deal with, along with Wing himself, and Kitty barely had the energy to deal with it. That went for mental and emotional energy along with the physical kind. She tried anyway.

Finally, when Logan took it upon himself to get Peter settled in, he also told Kitty to go the hell to bed and things would still be broken in the morning, and that was all the encouragement she needed. She just went straight up to her (and Clint's, when he was here) room, phased out of her costume and threw on a sleep shirt and then flopped onto the bed without even bothering with the covers. It was that kind of night.


[For the Avenger!]

It wasn't a surprise for Kitty to spend the night over at Clint's or anything. Though normally she didn't wake up the next morning as Hayley, next to a guy she didn't know. She wasn't too worried about that, though. Mostly just annoyed at herself since that kind of thing was what had gotten her into her whole current mess to begin with.

She wasn't even that careful about trying not to wake him up. She just sat up and started looking for her clothes and trying to figure out where she was.


[Kitty is now Hayley from the Originals/TVD, for all your werewolf/vampire needs. For the guy who's not the normal guy!]

Another year, another hunt for a suitable costume. After her stuff was done for the day, Kitty and Irene set out for the costume store for some quality shopping time.

"Okay, I don't know about you," Kitty said as they walked in, "but I have no real idea of what I want yet."

This was how you ended up dressed as a giant banana, probably.


[NFB, and for Irene!]