Genosha, Day One

[just_a_phase]

Getting to Genosha--at least, if you want to be as discrete as possible and not announce to all the island that you're X-Men--involves more flight transfers than Kitty wants to think about at this point. More than once she drowsily woke up to find her head on Piotr's shoulder.

He didn't say anything about it, so she didn't either.

But after the second time, she found she'd also wake up with a faint smile.

They're finally here, though, finally through customs and security, and they can just...be. Be the two of them. Be lost in the crowd.

It's a little scary, and a little neat, and a lot needed.

Her head's on Piotr's shoulder--well, upper arm--again as they walk by the shoreline, and for once...

Kitty Pryde has nothing to say.

And she thinks that's okay.

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[konocc]

His eyes dart out to the sea. "Da."

It's quite peaceful here.

"Sometimes, love is not enough." His hand finds hers. "But it is sometimes, it is the only thing that matters." He puts a finger to her lips. "You matter to me. You have mattered to me every day of my life. Even on those days where I did not remember or matter to myself, you mattered to me."

His hands return to the steering wheel. "But I can't do this the same way we have been. All I have to offer is myself, Katya, but will -"

When the ground shakes under them, the instinct kicks in before thought does. The shift to steel is instantaneous. Attack!

[just_a_phase]

He has never heard her voice like this; it's not only pained, it sounds like the words are physically ripped from her with a meat hook.

Because she's not exactly stupid.

And she wants, oh, she wants, what she knows he was about to offer.

"Not fucking now, damn you all to hell!"

She's already phased.