Blueshift

Blueshift Chapter Forty (NC-17)
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A/N Goddess Foxfeather, Queen of Mad Plotbunnies, BUSIEST WOMAN ALIVE ™, Prophetic Muse, Hamster Witch and Uberbeta… *sniffle* We miss you! InterNutter, TC, Maxwell Pink and Dracena are loverly and wondermous for archiving/hosting! :) ProPhile: *GLOMP* Morgan: How goes the practice? Readers/Reviewers: I’m baaaaaaaack… :) Obviously…

“What the fuck…” Jubilee frowned at the folded up piece of paper sticking out of her door. “I swear to God, if this is a mash note…”1 She jerked the paper free with a savage tug and turned to vent her ire on whoever was behind her in the hall only to find Kitty, looking vaguely…confused, she decided was the best word, but mostly aggravated. “Did you see who put this here?” she demanded. Kitty shook her head and slid a sideways glance to the willowy, dark haired woman beside her. Jubilee finally noticed the newcomer and sighed. “Sorry. I’m not usually so bitchy but we’ve had a long day here… You’re new, huh? Gonna be a teacher? They were saying we needed a new bio teacher since Beast is kinda stretched thin as it is, what with the noobs and then the advanced classes…” She popped her gum for emphasis, stuffing the note into her pocket and promptly forgetting about it as she studied the silent duo. “Well?”
Kitty sighed and glanced ceiling-ward as if trying to decide on the best course of action for the moment. “Jubes… tell me something. You’re Buddhist, right?”
“Duh.”
“I wasn’t done…it’s a two part question. Part two,” Kitty continued, glancing at the woman beside her, “and I don’t think I’ve ever talked to you about this before really cause, like, religion is everyone’s own private thing and all…” She could hear the upwards inflection of her voice and winced inwardly as the “ditz speak” started to creep back into her tone. “Anyhoo…are you a polytheistic sort? Cause I know some Buddhists kind of are…” She shrugged halfheartedly and looked sheepish.
Jubilee raised a questioning brow and looked at Kitty as if she had said she were Napoleon and would like a carousel pony, please. “Why do you ask? This isn’t some new Jewish movement to convert people is it? I didn’t think you guys did that…”
Kitty rolled her eyes and the woman next to her snorted. “You know better,” she snapped, folding her arms across her stomach and looking slightly miserable.
The former pickpocket sighed. “Sorry. Trying for levity and the bitch interfered. Yeah, I do believe in several gods. Why?” Her gaze settled on the strange woman and she felt both brows shoot up towards her hairline. “Is that a toga?”
“It’s a chiton and himation,” she said with a quirk of her lips. “Togas are more for men.”
Down the hall towards the dorm like bathrooms put in for the new students, footsteps sounded. Kitty grabbed Jubilee’s wrist and Minerva’s upper arm and phased them into Jubilee’s room without warning. “Because,” she said, ignoring the aside about clothing, “I think I’m infested with deities again!”
Jubilee blinked, then snorted, then outright laughed, falling back onto her bed and slapping a hand over her eyes as she giggled and gasped. “Oh, lordy, Kit, you are weird as anything, aren’t you? Which god this time? Chronos? Cthulu?”
“No, Minerva.”
Jubilee sat up and wiped a tear from the corner of her eye. “I’m sorry, I know it’s not funny but on top of everything else, this whole aliens thing and Amara and Lance being arrested in Cartagena from an international offense…”
“Do what?” Kitty broke in. “What’d they do and how the Hell did they get to South America?”
Minerva shook her head and sighed. “That is not important right now, Aikaterine. What IS important is that your help is urgently needed and you have come to my attention as a mortal who has expertise in dealing with both worlds.”
Jubilee blinked again and all mirth drained from her face. “Oh, shit, not again…”
“That,” Kitty sighed, “is pretty much what I said. Look, other than Amara, who I STILL want to know about as far as how she got to South America and what the Hell she did to get arrested, you’re the only person I can talk to about this without being vaguely threatened with psychiatric evaluation.” Even after the events of nearly a year before, she knew that the Professor and the other adults had a tendency to think of her experiences with Shiva as some sort of a cry for help, despite several of them seeing the god for themselves.
Jubilee nodded sagely and raked her gaze over Minerva. “Goddess of Wisdom, right?”
Minerva took a deep breath and rattled off, “Wisdom, warriors, poetry, medicine, commerce, crafts, I invented music2 and I don’t care WHAT Bullfinch or Hamilton3 say, Athena and I are NOT the same!” She twitched her chiton haughtily. “She’s Greek, for one, and had that disgusting birth, and I’m Roman.” She drew herself up even taller and tossed her head just a little.
“Ooooooooooh, boy,” Jubilee breathed. “We so need Amara for this one. Damn…” She chewed her thumbnail idly and glanced at Kitty. “Have you asked her what she wants?”
“She told me she needed my help and Shiva recommended me to her…” Kitty tugged on her ponytail distractedly. “God…what am I going to tell Kurt? He’ll think I’ve flipped my lid…”
“I don’t think a blue, fuzzy, fanged, tail-having, elf-looking circus performer has room to talk when it comes to weird, Kit,” Jubilee pointed out.
Minerva folded her hands behind her back and exuded an air of leadership. “If you two are quite finished discussing my purpose and presence, I can get on with it.”
Kitty sighed wearily and sat at the foot of the bed and waved Minerva on. “I need to learn to just give into the weird,” she muttered. “Life would be so much easier that way…”
“It has come to Our attention,” both girls hear the capitalized ‘O’, “that certain individuals have made their presence in the Universe known at this time, which is far in advance of the optimal time for their presence to be known,” the goddess stated in a nearly sing-song tone.
“I think my brain just cramped,” Jubilee muttered.
Ignoring her, Minerva continued, “There is a confrontation coming, one of proportions which will cause irreparable harm to humanity and deity alike if this alien threat is not managed properly. The Liars,” again the girls heard the capital, “will try for the power but you must ensure they do not succeed.”
Kitty and Jubilee exchanged long, pained looks. After a lengthy pause, Kitty finally sighed. “Okay, I’ll ask. Who are The Liars?”
Minerva smiled sweetly, gave a wave which was little more than a slight wiggle of her fingers, and vanished. Jubilee fell back onto her bed again. “Chica,” she said after a moment, “life with you is never boring…”

A/N Kurtty smut up next, and some cohesion to the plot, and more Shi’ar…

1 “Do you like me, check this box…” type crap.
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
3 Bullfinch and Edit Hamilton are two of the foremost works on compiling mythology info but due to their age, they tend to have errors that we now can correct.