Mystique was asleep, her face comfortably tucked under Destiny's chin, her right hand holding Destiny's left hand. The two were lying on Destiny's bed. Destiny kissed her on the forehead and Mystique lazily opened her eyes.
"Oh hello beautiful" said Mystique, in a sleepy voice, and secretly smiling. She knew how much Destiny liked her "just-woken-up" voice.
Destiny gently caressed her girlfriend's red hair.
"I had a vision" she said, "about another mutant who needs help."
"Well," replied Mystique, "if that however-it-is needs our help, we will help."
"No" replied Destiny, sounding suddenly very serious.
"That mutant does not need our help. That mutant needs yours."
Mystique wondered who could be that mutant who needed her help.
"And did your vision allow you to see who that mutant was?" she asked, but she already knew that Destiny had that information.
"Yes." replied Destiny.
Mystique gasped when Destiny told her the name of the mutant.
The middle aged woman behind the counter could not help but to smile at the young man who had just come to apply for a learner's diving license. She had to admit- With his dark hair, his fair skin and his grey eyes, he looked stunning. And he seemed aware of that. He also seemed to show a slight arrogance about it.
"I also need a passport size photograph. A recent one would be the best." The woman at the counter said.
"I have only recent ones anyway." replied the young man, smiling back charmingly at her.
"Oh my" though the woman, "he is even cuter when he smiles."
The young man handed over the photograph.
As he was about to leave, the woman could not help but to ask him one last question.
"Sorry for asking this, but why didn't you apply for a driving license earlier? I mean, most of youngsters try to learn to drive the earliest possible, so what made you wait?"
The young man did not seem offended at all. On the contrary, he even seemed quite pleased with the question, something that did surprise the woman.
"Oh, I had other means of transport back then." he replied.
"Have a nice day" he paused for a moment, checking the name of the woman on the blue colored badge she was wearing. "Paula" he added.
Paula checked the boy's name on his license application form.
"You too, Mr Kurt Wagner." She replied.
Kurt was feeling over excited. He was going to have his own driver's license. Of course, that was one of his main priorities now. He no longer had the ability to teleport himself wherever he felt like going. Thus, he had to compensate for this. But this was a small price to pay in exchange for being normal. He could walk on the streets, and girls actually looking at him. Not because he was a blue mutant with a tail and weird eyes, but they actually found him attractive. As soon as he had taken the cure, his tail had shrunk and soon, it was gone. And it was as if it had never been there in the first place. His blue skin reverted back to a normal aspect, and his eyes became normal. He would have never guessed that the true color of his eyes would be grey. He had expected them to be brown. And since he was a human now, he had managed to find a part time job and rented his own house. It was not a huge mansion like Professor X's mansion. Of course not. But that was what he could afford. And he loved it.
As soon as he stepped inside his house, he felt someone's presence.
He walked until the lounge. Mystique was sitting on the only sofa he had.
Kurt found it weird to see her in her normal human form, without her blue skin.
He felt a bit sorry for her, because although he had also taken the cure, he had chosen to do it.
Mystique did not have any choice and he knew this is not what his mother wanted for herself.
"Mom!" he exclaimed genuinely happy to see her, "what a surprise!"
"Kurt." She replied back, remaining seated where she was.
"How do you find the "New" Kurt Wagner?" he asked, unable to hide the pride in his voice.
Kurt felt disappointed by his mother's reaction. Of course, he knew that she had never been the motherly figure he had always expected her to be. But at least she could feel happy for him. For a once, he was proud of his appearance. Mystique could at least show some happiness for him. Instead of this, she looked sad.
She rose up from the sofa and walked towards him.
"Euh mother, what's wrong?" He asked, starting to feel weird.
"There is something that you need to know about the cure" Mystique explained.
"Yes" asked Kurt, nervously.
A feeling of fear and apprehension engulfed him utterly.
Mystique seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then she morphed back to her true, naked blue form.
Kurt stepped back, clearly shocked after what he had seen.
"The cure" Mystique explained, "It is not permanent. The effects of the cure eventually wear off."
Kurt did not say anything. There was nothing left to be said.
Kurt had agreed to move in with Mystique and Destiny. At least until his abilities would be completely back. He was surprised when he learned that Destiny and his mother was in fact, a couple. However, he did not mind about it. At least, she had finally found someone who loved her just the way she was. And that blind mutant seemed to genuinely care for Mystique.
It was Kurt's eyes that mutated back first. After some time, Kurt's eyes reverted back to their original color. And overnight, his skin had mutated back to their normal blue color. Only the tail seemed to take some back to show itself again.
"I don't miss it!" Kurt had once said to Mystique and Destiny, when Mystique had pointed out how weird it was that he still hadn't grown his tail back.