Yes, you should apologize for napping so long and at such an inconvenient time. [He smiles a little. Please don't apologize (even though he was extremely worried).]
I'm nearly there. I hope that you're prepared to be hugged.
Keep the spiky jacket on if you must. I will endure.
[He hangs up (do you hang up when you're doing the video thing?) to better fly and land the shuttle. By the time he does that and makes his way to Kitty's room, entire minutes have gone by. Maybe enough minutes for her to make a post and learn whatever is convenient or desired from other people!]
[She planned to meet him in the cargo bay, but she got distracted by increasingly concerning comments from others and she found a disturbing message from a week ago from Kurt. Consequently she's in her room on her bed with the door open and her eyes wide as she rereads the words. What does it mean? Why would he admit these things? What was he about to say? Why is it cut off?]
[That whole hug-Kitty-immediately plan falls by the wayside once he lets himself into her room. He stops at the threshold, wondering exactly how much she knows now.]
[Hug it is then! He picks up on the intention behind her question and keeps hugging her. Might be easier to say the thing that way.]
The planet, Lyuku... when the meteor hit, not everyone from the fleet was off-world. Some people didn't survive... Kurt and Remy among them. I'm sorry.
[She pushes him back at those words. On the plus side, she's not as toned and trained as she normally is since she just woke up from a coma. It's just enough to separate the hug.] What!? [Maybe she should have expected it. Maybe part of her was anticipating fleet deaths. Maybe even Kurt's after what she say, but it still hit her hard and suddenly.] No!
[He takes a couple of extra steps back and fumbles for a response.] I'm sorry, I wish that-- [that he'd personally chased down every single fleeter on the planet? sure] ... I'm sorry, Kitty.
[Why are you moving so far away when she needs to crumble back on you? Oh, was it the pushing? Should she not do that?
She steps forward, wrapping her arms around him as tightly as she can and burying her head against his neck. Her body shakes. There's a lot of unsatisfied energy there that needs to come out or be contained. She wants to destroy things. She wants to be held. The inner conflict is real. And she's just waking up to this. The others lived through it. They struggled and worked and watched people die around them. Watched a planet die. And Kurt's last words were about being the reason their world died? Why? Why did he tell her that then? Was it even true? Did he think she was some wild animal he nursed back to health and had to be mean to so she'd go live in the wild again instead of wanting to be with him?]
He can't be dead! I need to yell at him and hit him repeatedly! [Her voice is also a conflicted mix of anger and sorrow with a dash of desperation.]
He hugs her again--cautiously at first, more securely once it seems like she's not going to push away again. There aren't a lot of worse things to wake up to than dead friends.]
Maybe he will come back and you'll have an opportunity to do both of those things. [People didn't usually stay dead in the City or in MarinaNova. Weirder things than coming back from the dead happen all the time.]
[That jars her. She hadn't considered it. At least not recently. Sure, Marina did that at the end, but it hadn't always. Most of the time she was there when people died they stayed dead. The graveyard had marked people who'd never come back. But they could. They always could bring them back. They were always there in storage.]
...Wait, does that happen here? Do people come back?
[She'd never heard of someone dying. She'd asked a few times early on, but those people hadn't known and couldn't remember anyone dying. And then things seemed so peaceful most of the time it didn't feel relevant anymore. It's pretty freaking relevant now though.]
I have no idea, but since it was possible in both of the two prisons I was in previously...
[Not that he's going to get his hopes up--better to assume that Kurt and Looma are permanently dead than to believe that they will come back--and he doesn't want to get Kitty's hopes up, either. The possibility just seems worth mentioning.]
How long has it been? Who else? [Or was it only Remy and Kurt? X-Men making a final stand. Never mind the part where she hasn't heard Laura's name yet or that Remy was never an X-Man in his world.]
Nine days. There were others... Looma Red-Wind. Furiosa and Max, although I didn't know them. Those are the names that I've heard. [It's been oddly hard to verify who didn't make it. Everyone was scattered initially with so many of them on the space station.]
[She had never spoken to Max but was vaguely aware of him. There'd been a brief exchange with Looma. She knew Furiosa a little better. Tyrion would be hurting. Assuming he's still here. She nods slowly.]
Nine days seems like a long time. [At least it did when Marina brought people back the next day and she doesn't know how it works or if it works here. She shouldn't get her hopes up, but it's also hard to believe they're just gone. Kurt was home. And...a traitor? Kind of? She closes her eyes and squeezes more tightly to Chekov.]
[Tyrion is most definitely here! Not everyone is dead!]
It is. [As far as time spent being dead goes. It hasn't felt long at all; the six days after the meteor hit had been almost as busy as the six days leading up to it. That doesn't mean that it's impossible for them to come back, though. People don't usually wake up from comas after two months and here's Kitty.
He tries to convey some reassurance via hugging since there aren't a lot of reassuring things to say. You had no control over that, you know that.
I don't mind as long as you know that it's irrational guilt. [They can stand here until she runs out of guilt, it's cool. Probably no one will need either of them for the next few hundred years.]
I know. [For what it's worth she knows the guilt over her parents' deaths is irrational too, but it's still something she deals with. She finds her guilt over her students' deaths pretty rational though.
They would be standing here a long time. Instead she slowly pulls away, taking a seat on the bed, leaving room for him.] Kurt and Remy...
What am I supposed to do? [Anytime someone died before she could just...fight something or someone whether it helped directly or not.]
[If they can find a way to do that and bottle it they'll make millions! Or is it billions or trillions with future inflation?]
Is there anything else I should know? Did a fever come through and wipe out all the puppies or did pizza get banned on the ships? You know, something more upbeat than the only person you know from home is dead.
No, no... I don't think so. Seeker is fine, pizza exists. [What else? Two months is a long time. He already mentioned Chloe and Kirk.] I wish that I could have had better news for you.
[No, seriously. It's a terrible way for her to wake up and it's not a fun way to spend time with someone he really missed.]
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And for sleeping while Kirk was too.
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I'm nearly there. I hope that you're prepared to be hugged.
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Does that mean I should take off the spikey jacket? [There's no spikey jacket.] I'll see you soon.
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[He hangs up (do you hang up when you're doing the video thing?) to better fly and land the shuttle. By the time he does that and makes his way to Kitty's room, entire minutes have gone by. Maybe enough minutes for her to make a post and learn whatever is convenient or desired from other people!]
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[She planned to meet him in the cargo bay, but she got distracted by increasingly concerning comments from others and she found a disturbing message from a week ago from Kurt. Consequently she's in her room on her bed with the door open and her eyes wide as she rereads the words. What does it mean? Why would he admit these things? What was he about to say? Why is it cut off?]
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...Kitty?
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What's going on? [This is not a casual greeting. This is a, "why does everything feel sideways?" question.]
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The planet, Lyuku... when the meteor hit, not everyone from the fleet was off-world. Some people didn't survive... Kurt and Remy among them. I'm sorry.
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She steps forward, wrapping her arms around him as tightly as she can and burying her head against his neck. Her body shakes. There's a lot of unsatisfied energy there that needs to come out or be contained. She wants to destroy things. She wants to be held. The inner conflict is real. And she's just waking up to this. The others lived through it. They struggled and worked and watched people die around them. Watched a planet die. And Kurt's last words were about being the reason their world died? Why? Why did he tell her that then? Was it even true? Did he think she was some wild animal he nursed back to health and had to be mean to so she'd go live in the wild again instead of wanting to be with him?]
He can't be dead! I need to yell at him and hit him repeatedly! [Her voice is also a conflicted mix of anger and sorrow with a dash of desperation.]
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He hugs her again--cautiously at first, more securely once it seems like she's not going to push away again. There aren't a lot of worse things to wake up to than dead friends.]
Maybe he will come back and you'll have an opportunity to do both of those things. [People didn't usually stay dead in the City or in MarinaNova. Weirder things than coming back from the dead happen all the time.]
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...Wait, does that happen here? Do people come back?
[She'd never heard of someone dying. She'd asked a few times early on, but those people hadn't known and couldn't remember anyone dying. And then things seemed so peaceful most of the time it didn't feel relevant anymore. It's pretty freaking relevant now though.]
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[Not that he's going to get his hopes up--better to assume that Kurt and Looma are permanently dead than to believe that they will come back--and he doesn't want to get Kitty's hopes up, either. The possibility just seems worth mentioning.]
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Nine days seems like a long time. [At least it did when Marina brought people back the next day and she doesn't know how it works or if it works here. She shouldn't get her hopes up, but it's also hard to believe they're just gone. Kurt was home. And...a traitor? Kind of? She closes her eyes and squeezes more tightly to Chekov.]
I should have been here.
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It is. [As far as time spent being dead goes. It hasn't felt long at all; the six days after the meteor hit had been almost as busy as the six days leading up to it. That doesn't mean that it's impossible for them to come back, though. People don't usually wake up from comas after two months and here's Kitty.
He tries to convey some reassurance via hugging since there aren't a lot of reassuring things to say. You had no control over that, you know that.
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They would be standing here a long time. Instead she slowly pulls away, taking a seat on the bed, leaving room for him.] Kurt and Remy...
What am I supposed to do? [Anytime someone died before she could just...fight something or someone whether it helped directly or not.]
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He sits next to her on the bed.]
I don't know. Talk to everyone who has missed you, probably. Eventually.
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Is there anything else I should know? Did a fever come through and wipe out all the puppies or did pizza get banned on the ships? You know, something more upbeat than the only person you know from home is dead.
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[No, seriously. It's a terrible way for her to wake up and it's not a fun way to spend time with someone he really missed.]
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