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Chapter 2: Ends and Beginnings

The Professor felt his raging feelings and angry thoughts before he heard Kurt's entrance with a bamf

Xavier continued to read his book but couldn't help his own feelings of worry and perhaps guilt from entering his mind and he couldn't completely filter out the thoughts and feeling from one of his most confident-lacking students.

Kurt, instinctively perhaps, had teleported into the shadows of the professor's study, he saw the professor sitting with his back to him reading something but he knew that the professor knew that he was there regardless.

Kurt crept along the shadows of the wall, wondering vaguely if he should rename himself Shadow-Crawler but that could tick-off Kitty, the resident Shadow Cat. The thought was dismissed with a-"nein" and Kurt refocused his thoughts on finding out the truth from the Professor.

"Professor" Kurt's voice was the same soft Kurt but there was something menacing hinted there, "Did you know?"

Of course the telepathic man would have checked on Kurt, when his emotions had peaked enough to hit the rector scale, and they both knew it.

Kurt's tail flickered like the flame of a candle or a cat readying for the kill but the rest of his stance spoke of desperation and a fear, a fear of the answer he was going to get.

A crumpled piece of paper sat on the floor of a seemingly normal teenagers room looking as guilty as a piece of paper could.

Xavier turned around in his wheel chair and looked at him in that usual Xavier way and confidently answered,
"Yes Kurt, I knew but" now he didn't sound or feel as sure, "we felt that it was appropriate not to tell you".

"We?" the glowing eyes seemed to flash. Kurt was sort of ordinarily hoping that Xavier would dismiss the letter as a trick, now he was not only confirming the truth but also that others knew!

The tension in the room was for better words thick if not solid. Kurt felt almost shaky as his adrenaline faltered for an instant.

The Professor clasped his hands, "Wolverine, myself", he paused not sure how Kurt would take this, "Scott".

Something snapped, it couldn't be heard or seen but something snapped all the same.

"Is that all?" Kurt's voice drawled with sarcasm, the softness replaced with malice.

He couldn't seem to get his brain to work-his friends knew but didn't tell him. He was an experiment-why tell a mere experiment anything; why not just lock him up a lab?! One thing that he had to know though-who sent the letter? And Scott! Scott was someone who Kurt had totally looked up too and wanted to be so badly, he'd trusted Scott!!!!

"Kurt I..." Xavier began with his diplomatic side.

"No, I understand", Kurt interrupted, his entire stance spoke of defeat, "If you don't mind, I think I'll just go.."

Kurt didn't turn way and his eyes stayed looked on Xavier's right up until the flash and-
Bamf

The Professor futilely tried to contact Kurt but he simply couldn't find him.


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Bamf


They'd kept him in the dark, so to speak.

Kurt ported into an alley; it was the only place that had sprung to mind.

He'd used this alley nearly everyday or at least everyday he was running late for school (which was still everyday).

It was the safest place that came to mind, shadowy and safe. No one ever came here, even in the morning.

Kurt looked around regardless, advising himself-caution. He'd felt safe before, at the institute ... but how could he be safe in the company of people who hid his own past, secrets from him?

Maybe this was nothing to do with his own safety, this was something much more important- this was trust!

His tail flickered, nervously, though Kurt didn't have much option, he could swear that his tail had a life of its own sometimes.

He was about to reach his hand over to his watch to put his hologram on but hesitated when he heard the sound of a, perhaps soda, can being kicked into his alley.

At least Kurt was sure that he'd just heard something. He moved closer to the wall, blending into it for camouflage and crouched a little lower. He'd been positive that it'd been too early in the morning (especially on a weekend) for anyone to be around- especially in a dank little alley but Kurt was also intimidated by the cold feeling that travelled down his spine screaming that indeed- he was not alone.

'Maybe I should switch my hologram on anyways', the thought came with nervousness and he was just about to press his holo-watch when from the darkness a rectangular, red glowing object came flying straight towards him.

Kurt's eyes widened in haunted fear that someone was after him!



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Meanwhile at the Xavier Institute:

At the same time Kurt was going AWOL (absence without leave), Kitty was heading up to his room just to check on him, to make sure he wasn't getting into trouble or upset about something.

Missing breakfast almost like the coming of the apocalypse- when it came to Kurt's World.

His bedroom door was slightly ajar but since it opened both in and out- it could have just been the draft. Kurt always had the habit of leaving his window open and it gave his room a chill but that just meant that Kitty had the perfect excuse to 'let' him hug her.

There was nothing nicer than a hug from Kurt- he was so damn soft.

Snapping out of her daydream, she cautiously opened his door all the way out and walked into his room, wrapping her arms around herself, "Kurt?"

No answer.

"Fuzzy, you here?" she walked a little further in. Nope, no one was home.

Then she stood on it- A bit of crumpled and guilty looking paper.

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Author: oooo gripping stuff...... wonder how Kitty will react, can u guess where the rectangular red glowing objects are coming from?..... Sniff poor Kurt, his morning just keeps going from bad to worse.
Oh well... anyways- don't forget to review!!!

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