Chapter 7: Come Back
Disclaimer: Next person that asks me if I own the X Men has to eat one of Kitty's muffins!
Shadowcat stared out the window, it was getting dark but she was still holding on to some hope. Kurt had joined her a little while ago and she was grateful for the company. "They aren't coming." She whispered sadly.
She heard Kurt exhale slightly angrily, "Zen zey do not know vhat zey are missing." He said forcefully; his accent always got thicker when he was emotional.
She gave him a sad smile, "Thanks Kurt."
He sighed, "Oh Katzchen." He wrapped his arms around her.
"I just thought, that maybe they'd..." she took a shaky breath, "I don't know what I expected."
He kissed her hair, "You expected them to actually be your parents." She nodded. "Give it some time." She sighed, hugging him tightly.
They stayed in that position for a little while, eventually falling asleep on the couch. That was how Ororo found them a little while later. She smiled slightly and laid a warm blanket over the couple.
Just as the weather witch was about to take the first step upstairs, there was a tentative knock on the door. She blinked before rushing over and opening it a bit to see Suzanne Pryde. "Mrs. Pryde?" the woman nodded, "Is Kitty around?"
Storm nodded, "Yes, follow me." She opened the door to let her in and took her down the hall where the two teens were still sleeping peacefully.
Suzanne felt herself smile, they looked cute together and she couldn't remember the last time she'd ever just watched her daughter do anything.
Quietly, she crept over and placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. She shook her slightly and Kitty's bright blue eyes opened, "Mom?"
Suzanne held a hand to her daughter's lips. "We don't want to wake up your boyfriend." Kitty glanced up at Kurt and smiled before turning intangible and slipping out of his arms.
Shadowcat placed a light kiss on Kurt's cheek before taking her mother out of the room and down the hall to the rec. room. Ororo had gone upstairs, leaving the Prydes to talk.
Kitty looked to her mother with hope, "Why are you here?"
Suzanne sighed, "Because you're my daughter and while I've been a lousy mother I love you." Kitty felt tears slip from her eyes and threw herself in her mom's arms. Mother and daughter hugged each other tightly. "I'm sorry I didn't come sooner but-"
"Dad wouldn't let you." She supplied.
Suzanne smiled ruefully, "Unfortunately."
"I want to know everything."
Kitty cocked an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"I want to know about you. Your friends, your school. I don't know enough."
Kitty smiled and pulled her mother down so they sat side by side on the couch. "Ask away."
Suzanne smiled brightly, "Alright...Well first of all, what's your boyfriend's name, I seemed to have forgotten and how old is he. In fact, just tell me everything about him." Kitty giggled, this was one subject she enjoyed.
"Okay, his name's Kurt and he's seventeen. He's a teleporter and before we started going out he was my best friend..." She trailed off, caught in memories. Suzanne saw this and quickly decided she liked the blue mutant.
Kitty shook herself, "He's the funniest guy here, insanely optimistic, loves to make me smile, is always supportive, really protective and has about a million little quirks that just make him Kurt." Kitty's eyes shone in a way that had Suzanne fighting tears, her daughter was in love. "He's really gentle, even if he's an incredible fighter, he's strong and sweet and," Kitty smiled at her mom, "And he loves me." She was so sure, and it filled her tone.
Mrs. Pryde smiled and squeezed her daughter's hand, "He sounds wonderful."
Kitty nodded and grinned, "Next question."
Suzanne laughed, "Alright, your other friends, what can you tell me about them?" Kitty smiled and spent the rest of the night talking with her mom.
It was one in the morning when Kurt woke up and found the absence of his girlfriend. Confused, he used his sixth sense [1] to find her.
He walked into the rec. room to see mother and daughter curled up next to each other on the couch. The half demon grinned and threw a blanket over them; it was then that he noticed that Kitty looked quite similar to her mother.
"Nacht Katzchen und Mutter Katze." He smiled and left the room, his feet padding softly on the carpet until he reached the stairs where he bamfed up to his room.
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Kitty woke up to having her mother stroking her hair. "Mm, morning mom." She yawned and sat up.
"Morning hun." Her mother, for some reason, had a strange half smirk half smile on her face.
"What?" Shadowcat looked around the room, half expecting Kurt to be perched somewhere or maybe hanging from the ceiling.
"Nothing dear, but you were right."
"About what?" Kitty questioned.
"Your boyfriend is quite protective." Kitty's eyebrows knitted together.
"What did he do?"
"He made sure I wasn't attacked by Logan." Kitty laughed at that.
"May I ask vhat is so funny?" Kurt came into the room, crawling along the wall.
Kitty smiled, "Nothing Fuzzy."
The blue teen grinned and leapt off the wall to the chandelier. "Guten Morgen Frau Pryde."
Suzanne smiled, "Good morning Kurt."
He grinned upside down before bending to grab the chandelier in his hands and hang upside down before dropping to the ground. "I'm here to get you for breakfast."
The Prydes stood from the couch, "And Mr. Logan?" Shadowcat asked tentatively.
"Vill not attack anyone with the last name Pryde unless eet is your fazzer." He smirked slightly and Kitty sighed.
"I can't expect either of you to be good around him can I?"
Kurt shook his head, "Nein." His fangs flashed and he led them down the hall to the kitchen.
The three entered the nearly empty kitchen, the only other person there being Pietro, and as always the speed demon was nearly done.
"Did you sleep in or something?" Kitty questioned.
"Or something." The blonde mumbled and Kurt struggled to cover a laugh with a cough.
Pietro glared, "Yeah, well it wouldn't have been so funny if it were you!"
Kurt let out a chuckle, "I vould have gotten out sooner zough."
"Yeah, well not all of us can teleport or walk through walls."
Kurt did laugh this time, "At least my sister doesn't lock me in a closet for three hours vearing nothing but a towel!" he fell down, then, unable to contain his laughter any longer.
Kitty stared at Quicksilver, "Wanda locked you in a closet wearing nothing but a towel?"
He blushed, "Last time I ever have a shower before her." He mumbled quickly finishing his cereal. "See ya!" he left the kitchen in a blur and Kurt was finally able to stand again.
Kitty looked at him with a barely suppressed grin, "You didn't get him out?"
Kurt shook his head, "Think of it as revenge for the Pixie Stix incident."
Kitty shuddered, "Yeah, you aren't allowed anywhere near those."
Kurt grinned, "I'm in complete agreement."
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Kitty waved to her mother as the car headed down the drive. It was only when the black limo disappeared that she stopped. Kurt wrapped an arm around her waist, "You happy Keety?"
She nodded, "Oh yeah, I'm really happy."
He grinned giving her a light kiss. "Come on, it's hot out and I think a svim is in order."
She nodded, "I couldn't agree more."
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Ororo sighed as she traced the pattern on a dress that hung on the wall. She was currently perusing a wedding dress store, in hopes of finding one for herself. Being the girls that they were, Kitty, Wanda and Marie had joined her. They were also acting as her bridesmaids, with Marie as her maid of honour.
"How about this one?" Evan had also come along, saying that while he was a guy, he was also her son and wanted to play the part that his birth mom would have.
No one had said anything after that.
She looked at the dress he held out, it was quite nice with a scoop neck and long sleeves, delicate beading up the sides gave the illusion of different fabrics. "I like it, but it's just..." Evan grinned and left to continue looking through the dresses. He was getting a few odd looks but he pushed them off.
"Oo, Ororo, what about this?" Wanda came over carrying a lace and silk piece. Ororo looked at it, it was just as nice, but it still wasn't the dress. She shook her head with a small smile.
"Hey, don't worry Ororo, we'll find the perfect one." Kitty chimed and dove back into the lines of lace.
The weather goddess sighed and started going through the racks again and not five minutes later, Kitty let out an "Ah Ha!" she turned and Kitty brandished an absolutely gorgeous dress.
It was strapless, the bodice laced up with silver ribbon, no back and the white silk skirt fell to the ground almost liquid like.
Ororo smiled and hugged Kitty, "It's perfect."
Kitty giggled and held it out, "Then try it on!"
Several minutes later the five X Men left the store, Evan deciding that he needed some serious guy time before he went insane and started painting his nails.
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Logan sighed as he went through an old photo album. No one but Marie and Ororo knew about it. It held some of his most precious memories, and he only had it because he'd stashed it away before he'd had those experiments done to him.
He sighed as he came to an old photo from World War II. It was of him and Captain America. God he missed his old friend.
With another sigh he turned to page and came to a few photos from a few years ago. There were all mainly photos of Marie. And as he turned the pages he came to photos of the rest of the X Men.
He chuckled when he found of photo from right before Spring Break. Kurt, in a moment of Cabin Fever plus sugar, had turned Scott into a human ice cream sundae.
The lesson that was learned that day was: Never leave the Elf with copious amounts of whip cream, sprinkles, cherries, and caramel sauce.
"Hey Dad." Marie popped her head into the room. "Whatcha doin'?"
He grinned, "Eh, just looking through a few old photos."
She smiled, "Well, we kinda need your help."
"Why?" whenever one of the kids came to him for help it was never good.
Marie smiled nervously, "Well, you see, Pietro didn't know about the sundae incident and, well, he kinda ended up as one."
Logan stared at her, his lips twitching. "Alright."
Rogue led him downstairs and out the front door where loud laughter could be heard.
Logan himself nearly lost it when he saw Quicksilver stuck in caramel, covered in rainbow sprinkles, cherries, whip cream, chocolate sauce and -where Kurt got this Wolverine would never know- more peanuts than you'd find on an overnight flight to Europe.
The laughter itself was coming from Kurt who had fallen over, a fair distance from the angry speed demon.
"I swear Kurt when I get out of this!" Kurt just continued to laugh.
"Breathe, Elf." Logan commented as he pulled Pietro from the sticky mass of dessert toppings.
Pietro grimaced, "Ew."
Logan shook his head. "Don't move." Evan, knowing what to do from when this had happened to Scott, pulled over the house and handed it to his future father. "Thanks Porcupine. Now hold still Speedy." Pietro yelped when he was hit by the cold water and Kurt continued to laugh.
Once Quicksilver was caramel free, if soaking wet, he glared at Nightcrawler. "You are so dead."
Kurt jumped up and started running. Pietro gave chase and Kurt quickly teleported to the top of the mansion. "Dessert is a good look for you mein friend!"
"Get back here Kurt!"
The rest of the night was spent dodging the two boys as they raced around the mansion. Kurt somehow never growing tired of the game.
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[1] I've mentioned this before but Kurt has a sixth sense (at least in this story) that helps him know and remember where everything is so he doesn't teleport into something or someone. It also helps him locate someone or something specific and he can tell you his exact location.
A/N2: MERRY CHRISTMAS! Here's your present my lovely readers.