Chapter 2: Guten tag Fraulein!
Kitty blinked up at the ceiling, her head was pounding slightly and her tongue felt thick and fuzzy.
~Ugh, what happened? ~
She blinked a few more times before realizing something, this wasn't her bed.
Alert and wide awake, she sat up and looked around seeing an unfamiliar bedroom. She wasn't in her dorm and Amber wasn't in her own bed across the room.
Amber…oh that bitch she would pay, and so would he!
She could focus her anger on her traitorous boyfriend and roommate later though, right now, she had to figure out where the hell she was!
Terrified, she looked down at herself to see she was wearing her bra, and underwear underneath a baggy red t-shirt and nothing more. The clothes she'd been wearing the night before weren't anywhere in sight either.
She swallowed, trying to recall her memories from the night before, but it appeared that alcohol affected your memory as well as your judgment.
~Not good. ~
Trying to figure out what she would do next was interrupted when the soft sound of footsteps approached the door.
~Shit, what the hell happened last night? ~
The doorknob turned and in stepped a young man, probably only about a year or so older than her newly turned twenty.
He had longish blue black hair that hung down to his shoulders, and deep blue eyes. His skin was a pale white, almost like he hardly ever saw the sun. He was fairly handsome, Kitty had to admit, and she would have admired that more if she wasn't so freaked out by what she could've done the night before. She didn't feel any different, but then again, how could she tell if that meant anything or not.
The man smiled at her, "Hey I vas vondering vhen you'd vake up."
She blinked and tugged the blankets up to her neck. He gave her a soft smile and held up his hands in a defensive position, "Hey, don't vorry, I'm not going to hurt you Keety."
Another blink, "How do you know my name?" she asked suspiciously.
He chuckled and came to sit on the edge of the bed; she scooted back a little further. He gave her a grin, "Really? You haven't figured it out?"
She shook her head, nervousness bubbling in her like a frothy beverage.
He chuckled and reached out; she froze when she noticed how his fingers remained together.
~Impossible. No way. It's just too much of a coincidence. ~
His hand brushed her bangs away from her face and Kitty felt something that wasn't skin touch her.
He smiled softly and she slowly reached out to the watch on his wrist. She located the buckle and closed her eyes as she removed the watch. Barely breathing, she opened her eyes to see a blue face and golden, glowing eyes gazing back at her.
He cupped her cheek with his three fingered hand, "Guten Tag Katzchen." He whispered.
Kitty let out a soft whimper mixed with a cry of happiness and threw herself on him. Her arms locked around his shoulders they toppled back onto the bed.
Kurt let out a gasp as all the air rushed from his lungs. Kitty nuzzled her face into his chest as his arms tightened around her.
They stayed in their embrace for several minutes before Kitty pushed herself up, Kurt following her as she rested back against the headboard, staring at him with disbelief.
"How? I mean, I thought you went back home."
He smiled gently and sat beside her, wrapping a friendly arm around her shoulders, "I did go back home, I got the Prof. to update my image inducer then I got myself this place." He grinned goofily.
Kitty rubbed at her eyes that had decided to start to tear up, "Jerk. Making me cry." She mumbled.
Kurt's arm tightened around her and she found herself pulled to his side much more tightly than before, "I'm sorry Keety I didn't mean to."
She gave a watery giggle, "I didn't mean it like that Fuzzy. I just…" she sighed and hugged him, trying to get acquainted with her best friend's new form.
Kurt had most certainly grown in the past few years. He was still lithe, but the muscles she'd known he had were now more pronounced, he still had the body of an acrobat though. His hair was also a bit longer and the gold of his eyes darker. He'd most certainly grown taller and she guessed she'd have to look up when they stood side by side to see his face.
She sighed, "I missed you."
He smiled, "I missed you too."
"So…vhy did I find you drunk off your ass last night?"
Her smile left and she looked down, not so much embarrassed as the memory of last night brought a feeling of emptiness and betrayal in her chest.
"I needed to get my mind off some stuff."
His arm strengthened around her shoulders, "Vhat kind of stuff Katzchen?"
She sniffed, "Well, I went back to my dorm room after my last class. Everything was normal, y'know? But the second I unlocked the door, I see my roommate and my boyfriend goin' at in her bed!" her tears renewed, as she sobbed into her hands. It was typical, she hadn't given it up to him, so he'd gone to someone else.
Kurt stared at her and tried to wrap his mind around this.
He groaned and leaned back against the headboard, "I vill never understand Americans." He muttered.
Kitty sniffed, "So, after a long screaming match, I just had to get out of there. I ended up in the bar and drank myself stupid." She was not proud of what she'd done.
Kurt gave her a sympathetic smile and kissed her temple.
"How'd you find me anyway?"
He chuckled, mainly because she wasn't going to like the answer.
"You don't vant to know."
"Yeah, I do."
He sighed, "Alright, but you aren't going to like it."
"I vas in that bar as vell, mainly de-stressing from an exam I'd had earlier, and I suddenly hear a bunch of volf- vhistles and hollering and chanting. I had no clue vhat these guys could be freaking out over, but closer inspection revealed a young brunette girl dancing on the dance floor. She most certainly vas not vorried about all the men surrounding her."
Kitty bit her lip and buried her face in her knees, "God, that was me, wasn't it?"
~I acted like such a slut! ~
He rubbed her arm, "Anyway, it took me a few seconds to figure out vhy I recognized her, vhen I finally realized it vas you. So, deciding to either be stupid or a genius, I pushed through the crowd of guys, grabbed you and dragged you out of there." He chuckled, "They vere not happy about that."
"Anyvay, I brought you back here and you passed out pretty quickly, I got you out of your clothes and put you in that mainly because your other clothes smelt terrible!"
She got a small smile on her face and turned her head to look at him, "Thanks for looking out for me Fuzzy Elf."
He grinned and kissed her cheek, "Ah, Katze, just because I haven't seen you in years doesn't mean I've stopped caring about you…I still have a 'Touch mein Katzchen und die' persona you know."
Kitty laughed at that; his 'Touch mein Katzchen und die' persona had been labeled as such after he thrashed Lance for groping her during a fight.
"I love you Kurt…thank you."
He got a soft smile on his face as she nuzzled her face into his chest, "Love you too Katzchen…more than you know."
She sighed and closed her eyes, she could deal with everything else later, for now…
She could be content in her protector's arms.
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[Present]
Carter whistled shrilly, "Wow, Aunt Kitty used to wear a lot of pink."
"Lemme see!" Megan grabbed the picture from the older boy's hand.
"Duh, we coulda told you that." Adam informed them as he dug through another box.
All the kids, forced inside because of weather that Ororo refused to get rid of, had travelled up to the attic and had been spending the last few hours going through the many boxes that resided there. They'd found tons of old photos from when their parents were students, but what they really wanted to find were more recent photos. For example, Sarah had expressed interest in finding their parents' wedding album.
"Hello? Anybody up here?"
Jackie, Rogue and Evan's oldest and only child, yelped at the sudden noise and dove behind Carter. Her bright hazel eyes peeking out from under a curtain of dirty blonde hair.
"Relax Jackie, it's just one of the students." Carter hushed the younger girl who nodded but stayed behind her protector's back.
"Yo, hello?"
"He doesn't sound very smart." Sarah said flippantly causing her older brother to snort.
"There you are." A boy, about sixteen, maybe seventeen came around a stack of boxes. He had shaggy brown hair and looked otherwise unremarkable aside from his multi colored eyes.
"Your parents are looking for you, y'know." He informed the children.
"By looking you mean?" Megan asked.
"Five seconds from tearing the mansion apart to find you." He smirked.
"Oh." The kids all shared a look before racing to the ladder and running downstairs to show their parents that they hadn't been abducted by flesh eating, zombies.
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A/N: Cute ja? I love this chapter, it was so fun to write!
Love ya long time and can't wait for reviews!