Mistakes
By: Mooninthenight
Disclaimer- I don't own.
A/N- This is a "what if?" story, set during the episode Bada-Bing, Bada-Boom, the third episode of the second season. I was watching it the other day and thought, "Dang, that could've ended badly. Hm…" and this fanfic was born. I don't know if anyone else has done one like this already, but if they have, sorry. Oh, and this is probably not going to be a Kurt/Tabby story. Sorry again. I like Kurtty better. Enjoy, and R/R!
"Confirmed. He's unconscious."
"And starving. C'mon, hurry up Evan, I need my breakfast!" Early morning Logan sessions were always bad, but today Kurt was the "victim" in a fake rescue mission on the side of a cliff, and now he was uncomfortable on top of being hungry and tired.
"Quiet! Just ten more minutes, Kurt! Then you can eat enough Gut Bombs to feed a small country."
"Right." The rocks Jean had very carefully placed on him were already starting to make his legs ache.
"Okay, Tabby. Get down here with that basket." Spike said into his headset.
"Boom-Boom? You're putting my life in the hands of a maniac?"
Fifty feet above them, said maniac was brought back to Earth by a disgruntled Cyclops.
"Hey, Cy! Am I up?" She took off her headphones, which were still blasting some pop song.
He sighed. "Yeah." It was way too early to be doing this kind of stuff, but Logan insisted on it.
"Yeah! Look out below, Boom-boom's bombing in! Weehoo!" She jumped onto the side of the rescue basket, putting one foot on the side, and held onto one of the ropes. Wolverine shook his head and started to lower the basket. Boom-boom swung it side to side as she descended, almost hitting Evan.
"Hey! Watch it, will ya?"
"Sorry, Prickles! Didn't see you there." Evan grunted. He sure didn't want to be in Nightcrawler's place right now. Below, Kurt turned his face downwards in an effort to avoid the pebbles Tabitha's collision with the cliff had sent down.
"I'm going to die." He sounded strangely accepting. He had already said mental goodbyes to his family when Tabby finally reached him.
"Hey, cutie." Kurt was thankful for his fur right then; it covered his blush.
"Hi. I have to know. Are you insane?" Kurt cocked his head. Tabby didn't answer, just gave Kurt a little pinch on the cheek. Now he was really thankful for his fur.
"Hey, 'Crawler! You're knocked out, remember?" Evan called down, clearly annoyed.
"Right." He slumped, very convincingly unconscious, if it weren't for the small smile on his lips.
"Well. First things first, right? We gotta boom apart these rocks!" As she spoke, a golf ball-sized glowing ball appeared in her palm.
"Vait, vait!" Kurt cried, but Boom-Boom had already wedged her bomb between two rocks.
"Fire in the hole!"
"Ah!"
The rocks cracked apart into rubble, leaving Nightcrawler mostly unhurt; his tail was going to pay for that one.
"And in the basket you go!" Her foot roughly shoved him off the safety of his little cliff into the basket where he swung wildly.
"Ouch! I'm an injured victim, not a log!" Tabitha only laughed and ignored Kurt's complaint.
"Nightcrawler, huh? That name's just not working for you, I'm sorry. Hey," eyes lighting as if struck by sudden inspiration," how about 'Wild Blue Yonder Boy'?"
"You are insane!" -She's funny. And kind of cute…- Kurt was suddenly thankful that Tabitha couldn't read minds like Jean.
"Hey, guys? Sorry to interrupt, but could we move this along?" Evan said.
"Oh, yeah. Hey Badger, tug us up!" Tabby called up.
"It's Wolverine" growled Logan, but started up the crane anyway.
They started up, and were almost half way there when Nightcrawler got a mischievous grin on his face, and rolled himself out of the basket. Tabby gasped, terrified.
Kurt bamfed back after a moment, laughing. "You forgot to strap me in! Minus ten points!"
Evan, twenty feet above, saw the incident, and shook his head. This is not going to end well.
"Oh, yeah? Well, hang on to your blue tail, Yonder Boy." Half-playful, half wanting to cover up how scared she was a second ago, Boom-Boom started swinging the basket wildly side to side.
"Woohoo!" she yelled joyfully, and started throwing a few cherry bombs against the wall of the cliff. Kurt was laughing.
Then the basked swung too far, against the cliff side.
Kurt, still lying back in the basket, took the blow full force to his head. He was knocked out instantly and slipped from the basket.
Tabby watched her limp teammate fall for the second time that day, only this time he wasn't playing.
"Hey, stop messing around! Get back up here!"She hoped against hope that he would port back again, laughing. But Kurt didn't answer. He didn't port back. He wasn't laughing.
Jagged rocks were the only thing to break his fall as he crashed into the waves below.
A/N- I know the first chapter was almost word-for-word the first 2 minutes of the actual episode, but I had to change one thing, that Evan was on the cliff with Tabby and Kurt, not Cyclops, so he couldn't blow up the rocks in the water. And don't worry, this is going in a completely different direction than the episode. But I would recomend that you watch the first bit of the real episode, since they are basicly the same for a couple minutes.