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Kurt exited from an odd looking store and wander through the streets of downtown Bayville. In his hands he held Amanda's birthday present a blue brooch. He involuntarily sighed, ever since the incident with her parents it became increasingly more difficult everyday to see her each and everyday. He shook his head and took a deep breath. Now is not the time to worry about things like that, he told himself mentally, today is suppose to be a good day. With that, he continued walking. He caught a glimpse of Toad walking into an alley. Several seconds later he saw the familiar features of Duncan Mathews and several others with pipes and other assorted weapons follow. Kurt scoffed serves him right, he thought maliciously. Toad had ruined his life, his one chance to impress Amanda's parents all because he had wanted to impress Wanda. He turned and looked at the alley Toad had just gone through and felt a pang of guilt. Todd just wanted to be normal; to be liked, was that so hard to understand? With a sigh he vanished into a cloud of smoke.

A wave of pain echoed through Todd's head as he attempted stand up. The alley seemed to spin as looked around he managed to stand up leaning against the brick wall. He heard laughing but couldn't tell where it was coming from. Another wave hit him sending him to the floor. His hand reached the back of his head and he felt the blood slowly leaking out through the back of his head. He blinked several times and his vision returned to normal, but everything still sounded distant. He readied himself to leap over them but found himself instantly on the ground again as Duncan kicked him. The former jock towered over him smirking.

"If it isn't my favorite freak Tolensky?" Duncan smiled as he put on of his foot on Toad's back. His demeanor instantly changed as kicked him. "Its because of freaks like you!" He said with vemon dripping from his voice "We got expelled!" He yelled angrily at the downed boy. "Now its time for a little revenge." His face turned into a sadistic smiled as he approached him with lead pipe in hand.

"Step away from him and you won't be hurt!" a voice growled from the dark corner of the alleyway.

"Get out here and fight us like a man you fucking mutie!" Duncan yelled at the shadow.

"If you insist." Kurt replied as he appeared from the dark corners undisguised. Several of the guys ran while others stayed. Their grips on their weapons only hardened.

"You don't scare us you freak." One of them yelled as he charged Kurt. He ducked and whipped his tail slamming the guy into the wall. He slumped against the wall knocked out.

"Now I'm giving you one last chance to walk away from this…" None of them moved. "Okay I guess will do it your way."

BAMF

He appeared right in front of a dark skinned boy and tossed him into the dumpster. He dodged quickly as another boy swung his pipe at him and retaliated with a punch into the boy's gut, who crumpled onto the floor like a piece of paper. Duncan swung his pipe at Kurt who barely side stepped out of the way. He swung his tail and Duncan dropped the pipe. He threw a punch at Kurt who caught it with one hand and tried with the second the same thing happened.

"I tried to warn you." Kurt growled, "But you didn't listen." He bared his fangs at him before kneeing the former jock in his stomach. He turned to Todd who was getting out of his daze. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah…I think so…" he struggled to reply.

"Look we better get you out of here." With a flash of light the two of them disappeared.

A few moments later they appeared in front of the Brotherhood boarding house. "Are you sure?" Kurt asked the Todd again."

"Yeah…Thanks." Todd managed as he headed towards the door. He stopped when he reached the porch. "Hey why did you help me yo?"

A thousand different replies flashed through his head. How it was his duty as an X men. How Duncan deserved it. How mutants were supposed to look after each other, none of these seemed right. "I don't know." He answered truthfully. "I guess it's because the two of us aren't really that different from one another. Our mutations make us the least humane looking among ourselves." His face twisted into a look of extreme disgust. "The two of us are constantly hiding. Me with my inducer and you with your…willing to please anyone to be excepted." he cracked a smile. "Doesn't really matter does it nien." He said looking towards the sky. "All I know is I did." Without another word he looked at the toad mutant and vanished into thin air. Todd turned to enter the house when something caught his eye…

Kurt tore through his room looking for Amanda's gift to no avail. He could not find the sapphire box which held the gift he bought not even an hour ago. In frustration he tossed a textbook across his room and glowered at it.

"Yo what happened here a tornado?"

Kurt whipped his head towards his window and glared at Toad who just hopped in. "What do you want?" He growled at the younger mutant.

"You dropped this at the Boarding house yo." Todd said as he flipped a small blue box at Kurt.

He opened it slowly to reveal the brooch he had bought earlier. He gazed at Todd who shifted uncomfortable. "Why did you do it…I mean come and deliver it to me?" he asked softly.

Todd scratched the back of his head slowly. "I really don't know. Maybe because of what you said yo. 'We aren't that different after all' Maybe cause we both are really hiding who we truly are. I really don't know either. Later fuzz ball." Toad yelled as he hopped through the window.

Kurt smiled at him before softly whispering "Good by mien friend."

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