Author's note: My first Kitty/Lance fic, I hope you enjoy it.

Kitty's heart was beating fast. The school had collapsed and she was trying as hard as she could to get people out.

Of all the days for the seniors to go on a school trip.

Dragging people out of the wood and concrete, she was getting tired out. But still, she had so many more people to save. She heard cries, screams and groans from under the piles of rubble and concrete.

She closed her eyes. Trying so hard to contact Professor X and ask for help. It didn't work. She was left to deal with this on her own.

Now was no time for her to stand and worry about it. She phased in and out of the ruins, retrieving students and teachers from underneath.

She was on her final person, she pulled him from under the concrete and led him towards the crowd of people standing at the edge.

Just then, she looked up to see a huge piece of wood come flying towards her. It had fallen from the part of the building left standing.

Automatically, she changed so that the wood couldn't hit her, not realizing that the guy wasn't touching her.

The wood went right through her, hitting him. He was thrown backwards and lay on the floor, badly injured

Kitty turned around in shock, running to his side, apologizing all she could and doing her best to help him.

Behind her, she heard people muttering and talking.

"Did you just see what she did?"

"She meant to do that!"

"She's always hated him,"

Those voices in her head made her loose concentration. She turned to face the angry crowd.

"I…I didn't mean to…I thought he was touching me, I just…" She stuttered.

"Was that because of what he said in gym?" His girlfriend shrieked at her, running to him, pushing her out of the way in the process.

"No…I was trying to help him, but I just forgot. Usually, I'd have Scott or Jean move it before it hit us." She said, still in shock from everything.

Then, other people started joining in.

"Duncan was right, you freaks don't belong here."

"Just 'cause she's got powers, she thinks she's friggin' wonder woman."

"Go back to your own planet freakoid!"

The words hurt. Kitty felt tears in her eyes, but she refused to let them see her cry.

They all started walking towards her with threatening looks in her eyes.

"Let's teach her a lesson!" One of the boys from the soccer team said, thumping his hand with his fist.

Everybody agreed and carried on walking towards her, mocking her, laughing at her.

"Y..You can't touch me, I can go so that you'll go right through me, remember?" Kitty said, in a pleading kind of tone.

They carried on moving closer to her. She was scared.

Suddenly, she saw a flash and a blue creature appear next to her.

"Kurt!" She cried in relief, throwing her arms around his neck.

He looked at her with worry and then chuckled.

"Wow, something must be wrong, you never hug me whenever you see me!" He laughed.

"The professor sent a message to Jean telling her to send someone to help you, what's up?"

It worked! Kitty thought. Then pointed at the angry crowd coming towards then.

"Whoa, what did you do?" He said to her.

"It's a long story," She replied, dodging a bottle that had just been thrown at them.

"Ok guys, this is close enough. You've all gone to far now! Back off!" Kurt projected to them all, trying to stay calm and fairly polite. Only to be answered with a sandwich bounced off his head.

"Fair enough, let's get out of here." He said, indicating for Kitty to hold onto him.

She did so, there was a flash and they both ended up in the Xmen mansion.

Kitty told Kurt all about what had happened while they sat on the sofa drinking a soda, waiting for everyone else to return home.

"Wow, you really pissed off a lot of people huh?" Kurt said, thinking.

"Yeah, I'm just dreading tomorrow, they're gonna' beat the shit out of me." Kitty replied, sipping her soda.

"Well you've got us to protect you, we won't let it happen." Kurt said with a smile.

"And, you can just cling onto your boyfriend for the day, he'll beat anyone who even thinks about hurting you." He added, teasing her.

"oh, and who's that?" Kitty asked with a grin.

"You know perfectly well." Kurt said, suddenly appearing next to her, laughing at the way she jumped when he did so.

"I don't have a boyfriend, and even if I did, I don't need him to look after me." She said, giving Kurt a light punch.

Kurt was about to reply, then the door opened and Scott, Jean, Rogue and Evan walked in.

"Kitty are you okay?" Jean said, walking towards her.

Kitty just nodded and told everybody about what had happened.

By now, it was dark. All of the gang were sitting on the sofas, talking, laughing and joking around.

Scott was sure he saw movement out of the window and glanced outside. But convinced himself that it was just a tree or something.

They were all taken by surprise when a brick smashed the window and landed on the floor.

All of the present Xmen rushed to the window to find out who the vandal was.

Every one of their eyes widened when they saw.

Half of the school were standing outside, bricks, stones, pellet guns, anything that they could use.

They were after Kitty.

Their gate was forced open and the vandals were on the premises. The Xmen all ran to action to protect Kitty.

She played her part by hiding. She sat against the door in her room, hoping that they would soon go away.

She watched as two hands appeared in her window, followed by a face and a body. A boy was climbing through the window. He ran at Kitty, and ran right through her. She ran out of the room and down the stairs.

"Why did the Professor and other teachers have to be away tonight?" Rogue whined as she karate kicked one charging girl.

"Nightcrawler! Get Shadowcat out of here, there's too many of them for us to protect her!" Jean Grey called to Kurt.

Kurt nodded, disappeared, reappeared by Kitty, grabbed her by her shoulders and then reappeared at the park.

"You should be okay here." Kurt said in his German accent. "I have to get back and help, will you be alright?"

Kitty nodded.

"I think I can be brave enough." She joked sarcastically.

Kurt rolled his eyes at her then nodded and disappeared.

There she was, alone in the park. She wasn't exactly scared, in fact, she always felt at ease in the park. It was like her safe zone, where she would always go as a child.

"Hey! There she is!" She heard a voice.

She turned to see about five more people running towards her, she turned and ran as fast as she could. Making quick turns around trees to try and loose them.

In front of her, she saw a figure sitting on a bench, overlooking the bandstand. He was sat with his feat on the part where people would normally sit, and was perched on the backrest part of the bench. It was Lance.

She ran towards him and he noticed, he smiled vaguely at her, but frowned when he saw them chasing her.

He pointed his hand towards them and clenched his fist. Kitty felt the earth behind her shake, causing her attackers to fall to the ground. She carried on running.

He jumped off from the bench as she got closer and took one step towards the five.

Kitty ran and stood behind the bench that he was now directly in front of.

"Got a problem Bud?" Lance asked in a threatening kind of way.

"As a matter of fact, yes we have." A ginger boy said, standing up and brushing himself down. "My father always said that evil should be punished."

"Oh, and you think Kitty is evil right?" Lance said gesturing towards her.

"Yes, she almost killed someone today I'll have you know." The ginger boy said glaring daggers at Lance.

"Yeah, Toad told me all about the incident. And I heard that she saved half of your asses, made one mistake and then got crucified for it." Lance replied, returning the evil stare.

All five of them stayed speechless and motionless.

"Did you even attempt to help anyone else when that part of the building collapsed, or were you too worried thinking about your sorry selves?" Lance scolded them.

Once again, they stayed quiet.

"Yeah, I thought so. If I were you guys, I'd go right now unless you want to be fossilized into the earth." Lance threatened to them.

Without another word to either him, or one another, they all hastily walked away.

Lance turned to face her.

"You alright?" He asked. Kitty smiled sweetly and nodded.

Thunder was heard above them and icy rain began to pour. Kitty looked up with wide eyes, then pulled her pink jacket off and put it on her hair to shield it from the rain.

Lance just looked at her and laughed.

"Oh no Kitty, not the hair!" He then laughed again at the look of rage that she gave him. " Come on, let's get you out of the rain, you can come for a cocoa or something."

He beckoned to her to follow him and she did so. He led her to the Brotherhood's mansion and started to unlock the door.

"The guys went out drinking for the night. The only other one in here is Wanda, but don't worry the chances of her coming down are low." Lance said to her as he turned the knob on the door and gestured for Kitty to go in.

"Can I use your phone?" Kitty asked picking up the receiver.

"Well it looks like your going to anyway." Lance smiled, throwing his jacket on the floor.

Kitty dialed in the number and held the phone to her ear.

"Hallo?" The German accent prevented the person on the other side of the line from being anonymous.

"Hey Kurt it's me." Kitty said casually, placing a hand on her hip.

"Kitty! I was looking all over the park for you! I was just about to send out a search party! Where are you?" Kurt seemed worried.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine." Kitty said, attempting to calm him down.

"Look, Kitty, the mobs keep coming back after you. Is there anywhere that you can stay overnight without anybody finding out?"

Kitty thought for a moment, she couldn't think of any nearby hotels or B&B's.

"Don't worry, I'll find somewhere." She said softly.

"Are you sure? I could come and transport you to a…"

"Kurt, don't worry, I'll be fine, and I'll find somewhere." Kitty interrupted him.

"Well, okay, but if you need help, just call okay?" Kurt didn't sound convinced.

"Uh huh. Bye." Kitty said, hanging up the phone and placing it in it's original place…back on the sofa. She then collapsed on the sofa and placed her head in her hands. Trying to think of somewhere to go.

Lance appeared from the kitchen with to hot mugs. He gave her one then perched next to her and looked at her with curiosity.

"Find somewhere for what?" He asked her.

"Listening to my conversations huh?" Kitty smiled and looked at him.

"Well if you didn't yell down the phone then I wouldn't have to, would I?" Lance chortled back.

Kitty just bit her tongue and smiled at him.

"So what were you talking about anyway?" Lance asked.

"I need to find somewhere to sleep tonight. The mobs just keep going back to the mansion looking for me." She explained. Lance listened intently to what she was saying and then thought very hard when she had finished.

"Well, this may sound stupid but… why not stay here?" Lance said to her hopefully.

"What?" Kitty said, shocked at this.

"Stay here!" He repeated.

Kitty thought for a moment. "I have nowhere else to go. What's the worst that could happen?"

She looked back at Lance and nodded. "Thank you so much Lance. You don't know how grateful I am."

She hugged him tightly and then looked at him, grinning. He looked back at her, also smiling. When Lance realized how close they were, he blushed and pulled away.

"I've got to think of a place where you can sleep, where the guys won't find you." He said scratching his head. "If they do, you'll get nothing but harassment and abuse."

Kitty smiled and followed him as he walked up the stairs. He looked around the hall and scratched his head.

"Hmm, I forgot that Wanda had Boom Boom's room, and that was the only spare one." He said. "Toad never goes in his room but I'm not going to torture you like that, I suppose you could stay in my room."

Kitty shrugged and followed him into his room. She looked around as she walked in. It was pretty similar to her own room in the institute, only hers was a lot more tidy and his had dark blue walls.

"Excuse the mess." He said to her picking up some clothes which were on the floor.

Kitty just giggled.

"Well, welcome home for the night." Lance chuckled.

…..

OOO, what will happen next??

Stay Tuned XD

I hope you enjoyed this fic, please review, constructive criticism is welcome but no flames on the storyline please.