DISCLAIMER:
The X-men, Excalibur and Pryde and Wisdom all are trademarks of Marvel Comics. The only character that I created is Katerina, for plot purposes, and I feel no proprietary interest in her whatsoever. This story is an unauthorized work done purely for my personal enjoyment, and is not intended to infringe on any of their rights in or profits from these characters. But this story is copyright to me.

BRIEF EXPLANATION:
This story is my reaction to all the comments on rac-mx wanting Kitty to be with Peter Rasputin, and not Pete Wisdom, waxing nostalgic over her beautiful love affair with Colossus. So I decided to explore what that relationship might have been like, if things had just been a little different.

OUTLINE/TEASERS:

Part 1 Experience is the Best Teacher

Part 2 Return to Reality

Part 3 Paying the Piper

Part 4 Hauntings

Part 5 A Glimmer of Hope

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
I'd like to thank both sevenall and Suzie Campos for much helpful discussion and feedback.

NOTES:
This is one story in a series of loosely-plotted stories entitled "Idylls of the Cat" that are mostly Pryde and Wisdom, and the others' reaction to Kitty's new relationship. Most of the stories in the series are not action or adventure, they're mainly sex and/or conversations, like this one. Other stories in the series so far include

• The Day After the Night Before (Pryde&Wisdom)
• Vigil (Excalibur)
• Pulling their Fat out of the Fire (Excalibur/Hellblazer)
• Time Goes By (Excalibur)
• Bearing Tidings of Joy (Excalibur/Storm)
• You Can't Go Home Again (Excalibur/X-men)
• Close Encounters of the Lethal Kind (Excalibur/X-men/DV8/Hellblazer)
• Warning: Good Habits May Be Hazardous to Your Love Life (Excalibur)
• What God Has Joined Together (Pryde&Wisdom/X-Files)
• Drugs, Spies and Videotape (Pryde&Wisdom/Puck/Rocky&Bullwinkle)
• All Nice and Gift-Wrapped (Pryde&Wisdom)
• Strawberry Shortcake (Pryde&Wisdom)
• Dark Reflections (Excalibur/Black Air)
• The Shadow of A Starless Night (X-men/Excalibur)
• The Glow of a Starlit Dawn (Pryde&Wisdom)
• Misplaced Pryde (Hellfire Club/X-Men/Hellions/New Mutants/Black Air/Excalibur)

These stories are all very kindly being archived by Lori McDonald on her webpage at http://web2.spydernet.com/lori/x-men.htm

These stories can also now be found on my own webpage at http://home.att.net/~lubakmetyk/

If you want to comment, send email to <mailto:luba@lubakmetyk.net

Continued in Prologue...