Demonlrd here! I'm still trekkin along with this story (even though only 8 people have read the third chapter T.T) ((then again that might have something to do with the different time zones, haha))
Anyway! Enjoy the chapter!! (and kudos to anyone to understands the title)


Chapter 4: The Wild Blue Yonder

The dining room was way too full for her taste. She snuck silently around the other students, grabbing food from the buffet and took a seat at the far end of the table, away from the others. She would have eaten in her room, but there was a crowd at the door and she didn't think she could get through. She frowned slightly when she heard a quiet "bamf" behind her. Turning, she saw a boy about her age with…

Does he have blue hair?!?!

"Hi, mein name is Kurt Vagner. You must be new here," he said, sounding rather excited.

"Um, yeah." She extended a hand. "Leigh."

He shook her hand and then disappeared in a puff of dark smoke. She blinked in surprise and then turned around as he re-appeared in another puff of smoke across the table. Each had been accompanied by a soft "bamf" noise. She would have to remember that…

"Do you mind if I eat with you?" he asked.

"Not at all." She smiled, and he quickly smiled back. "I've been wondering something…"

"Vat?"

"I thought we weren't allowed to use our abilities."

"The professor doesn't want us using our powers in public," he said with his mouth full. "He's afraid we'll be exposed." He quickly stuffed more food into his mouth. "But we shtill oosh dem awound da manshin," he mumbled.

Leigh giggled despite herself. Cute kid. "But you never use your abilities outside of the mansion?"

Kurt swallowed. "Not unless we have to. Sometimes there's just no other choice, ya know?"

She nodded silently. Yeah, she knew.

"But what's the big deal anyway?" he asked. "The professor is giving us a chance to be normal. Why question it?"

"Normal?" she growled. "We are normal. This is the way we are. Hiding it does not make us normal, it makes us cowards."

Leigh quickly stood, her chair falling to the floor behind her. She ignored it and quickly walked out of the room. In the hallway, she ignored everyone around her and walked straight to her room. Once she was next to the open window, brushing her fingers over Mary-Anne's velvety leaves, she could relax again.

She'd over-reacted. She did that a lot. It wasn't unusual for a mutant to want to be… 'normal'. Leigh gagged mentally. Just the word 'normal'… it burned like acid. She hated it. No one had the right to decide what was 'normal'. They were what they were, there was no changing that.

She growled and spun around at the almost inaudible "bamf" behind her. Mary-Anne's thorns stood straight up from her stems, straining to reach whatever had upset Leigh.

"Sorry." Kurt held up one hand in apology, keeping close to the door. "I just vanted to explain… well, show you I guess… that is… I mean." He waved his hands in front of his face. "Never mind. Just… look."

He touched a button on his watch and the air around him shimmered slightly. Leigh's eyes widened as she stared into Kurt's large yellow ones. He waved with a three-fingered hand covered in blue fur and then scratched his pointed, blue ears. Slowly, Leigh stood and crossed the room to very slowly reach out and touch the tip of Kurt's tail.

"So…" Kurt muttered. "Nice to meet you." He extended a three-fingered hand. "I am ze amazing Nightcrawler of ze X-men!" When Leigh continued to just stare, he withdrew his hand and blushed. "Yeah, I know. I'm horrifying." He tried to act scary and laughed, then scratched his head and stared at the ground.

"No."

He looked up. Leigh was so quiet he could barely hear her.

She put her hand under his chin. "You're beautiful." She lightly kissed his cheek and he turned a bright purple. "Now get out of my room."

"Uh…" Unable to think of a witty reply, Kurt simply 'ported out of the room.

Leigh shook her head and curled up in her bed. Boys, she sighed inwardly.


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~ Demonlrd

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