Disclaimers on chapter 1

I was gonna update my other fics first however not even I can't withstand murderous stares from Nightcrawler's Shadow & others after the cliff-hanger in the last chapter so hopefully this chapter will make them drop their weapons of torture.

Explanations

Scott could not believe what he just saw. Him and Jean had just gotten out of the warehouse she had been held prisoner to see the Blob about to crush Kurt and Kitty. Before anyone could do anything Stefan had gotten between Blob and his target and caught his massive fist in his own. What Scott could not understand was that when Stefan caught the fist instead of crumpling like a paper bag under the weight he just stood there whilst Blob collapsed for no apparent reason. It was safe to assume that Stefan had a trick up his sleeve.

"What in tarnation was that?!" Rogue hollered at the teen as she walked up to him. "Ya'll should've been pancakes after a blow lahk that!"

Stefan just shrugged his right shoulder seeing that his left was still dislocated. The rest of the team gathered round as the Professor, Storm and Evan arrived.

"Is anyone else getting a case of déjà vu here?" Evan asked as he nodded to where Kurt was holding an unconscious Kitty.

"I don't get it" Kurt said as he gently placed Kitty on the ground letting her head rest on his knee.

"Whilst you were snoozing Kit-cat had your head in her lap, lucky guy" Evan explained trying not to smile at the embarrassed look that appeared on Kurt's face. "What happened to her?"

"Apparently the two were acting as bait to draw the big guy away from his ammo" Login answered. "'Half-pint was on one side of the wall holdin 'Elf's' tail whilst he was on the other side taunting him into charging through 'im. It worked tho she fainted after phasing through the guy, typical teen"

"Then how did you defeat jumbo there?" Evan asked indicating the unconscious Blob.

"Ask 'Snake-fer-Brains'" Rogue told him jerking her thumb at the guy who was looking at her like he was insulted whilst Storm was looking over his left arm. "The guy caught Tubby's fist yet Tubby was thah one tah fall"

"Gross..." Kitty mumbled as she stirred causing them all to turn to the awakening teen. "I so need a bath when I get home"

She suddenly bolted up when Stefan yelled in pain at getting his left arm shoved back into its socket before cursing in several different languages. She then turned to Kurt who was kneeling beside her to ask for a translation but he just shook his head apparently unable to understand anything other than the German words used but did not want to translate.

"Like, what happened? And where's that Fatso?" She asked shivering as she remembered phasing through him. 'Gross'

"Fred's unconscious" Scott told the girl. "As to how is what we're waiting for Stefan to tell"

Stefan, who until this moment was trying to get the soreness out of his left arm, looked up when he heard his name. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Don't act thah fool 'Snake-fer-Brains' yer too smart fer that!" Rogue said as she pointed at him. "Tell us what happened or ah'll fahnd out mahself!"

She was surprised when he turned a sorrow filled face to his brother as if asking for forgiveness for what he was about to say. Kurt nodded whilst sporting a similar expression on his face indicating that his brother's hidden power had some kind of terrible history behind it or something along those lines.

"I redirected the energy vectors" Stefan started. "Basically it's like rearranging the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. By catching the blow in my hand, in a split second, I rearranged the space around me and the Blob thanks to the distortions so that the force and power of the attack he sent was redirected to strike him in the back of the head rendering him unconscious"

"What are these distortions you mention?" Jean asked of him. "And how can you see them?"

Stefan tapped the skin beside his eyes. "My 'Evil-eyes' got a permanent active ability that lets me see the world how it truly looks. As for the distortions, well it's kind of like looking at people through a sheet of graph paper where as the distortions are the gaps that are between the graph squares"

It was safe for Stefan to assume that apart from the Professor, Storm, his brother and maybe Jean that no one understood what he was on about.

"Okay, imagine an ordinary picture and put a graph on top of it" Stefan tried to explain. "The lines should be unseen, even just hairline cracks, when you can see the lines more clearly then you have a distortion"

"So when Fred's hand came into contact with yours" Jean began. "You moved the 'graph square' that held its force to behind his head, right?"

"Bingo!" Stefan said snapping his fingers and pointing to her. "Right on the money"

"But why didn't you tell us?" Scott asked. "Why try and hide it instead of mastering it?"

The cheerful look that had shown on Stefan's face when Jean caught on disappeared. "I didn't want to bring up bad memories"

"It vas going to happen sooner or later brozzer" Kurt mumbled now looking as blue as his fur.

Kitty looked between the two brothers. "Like what do you mean like 'bad memories'? Could you like stop speaking in riddles?"

She apparently struck a nerve as Stefan walked up to her and lifted her by the shoulders so that they were eye to eye.

"Put it this way" He spoke in a low tone that scared the girl. "If it weren't for the Professor, Kurt would've had a prime seat for the re-enactment of the medieval witch burnings"

He let go of the girl, whose eyes were wide as she understood what he meant, and walked off in the direction of the institute hoping the walk home would help defuse his temper. Rogue was about to follow after him when Storm grabbed her by the shoulder shaking her head.

"He needs time to himself" The Professor told the girl before turning to the rest of them. "And we should be heading home as well"

Everyone else nodded mutely before they started making their way back to the X-jet. Rogue remained where she was staring off in the direction Stefan had gone before following after the rest of the group.

~#~#~

"Vhat a day" Kurt mumbled as he got under the covers. "Mien limbs are now vet spaghetti until breakfast ze day after tomorrow"

"Kurt?" A timid voice whispered from behind the door to his room that he had no trouble recognising. "Can I come in please?"

"Only if you don't mind talking to a talking corpse" He joked his ears picking up the faint sound of her laughter.

"That'll like have to do I suppose" She replied as she phased through his door and walked towards his bed. "Could you like budge over a bit?"

"Don't have ze strength I'm afraid" He answered smiling apologetically.

Kitty shrugged before phasing herself under the bed then back to the top, under the covers and a surprised Kurt's arm. "This is like way better actually"

"Be zankful zat I'm on my side" Kurt managed to say without stammering thankful that his fur could hide his blush. "Vhat brings you here at two in ze morning?"

Kitty stayed silent for the moment. She was currently enjoying being in his arms whilst at the same time preventing herself from blushing. "I just...want to...like...apologise for tonight"

Kurt had to re-establish a connection to his memories in order to figure out what she was apologising for. "I guess I should say sorry for vhat happened vith ze Blob as vell"

Kitty smiled at him. "Let's just call it evens and like leave it at that, yeah?"

Kurt smiled lightly himself before putting what strength he had left to his arm that was draped over Kitty to hug her closer to him whilst the girl snuggled into his chest. "Ja, let's"

The two remained quiet, letting only the sounds of their breathing permeate through the silent air. It was several minutes later when Kitty's voice disrupted the quiet.

"Could you like tell me what happened back in Germany?" Immediately after she asked that she felt Kurt tense up as if he just received some very bad news. "I know it must like be so terrifying for you, but you'll totally feel better if you like talked about it"

Kurt nodded slowly as he calmed down whilst Kitty stroked the fur on his cheek. Sighing deeply Kurt began his tale.

{~#~}

Kurt panted as he ran down the street on all fours, trying desperately to get away from the mob that was chasing him waving lit torches and pitchforks. He nearly lost his footing as he made a sharp turn into an alley before teleporting to another alley going in the opposite direction. He hid himself behind a large barrel as he tried to regain his breath.

"Why do they believe the words of a five year old yet not let a sixteen year old utter one word?" He sobbed into his hands as he curled into a ball as his tail wrapped itself around him. "I'm just like them, just like them but furrier"

"Don't you dare try and compare yourself to us demon!" Said a gruff voice as he felt himself get pulled up by his neck roughly. "I've found him! He's over-!"

The man who was calling to the rest of the mob fell silent as he was knocked out. He fell forward releasing Kurt to reveal Stefan behind him wielding a plank of wood that looked like it was swung against something hard, like the man's head.

"Brother!" Kurt exclaimed as he jumped into Stefan's arms and started crying. "I thought no one was going to help me"

"I couldn't forgive myself if I just left you to fend for yourself" Stefan whispered to his younger brother as he tightened his hold on him. "We've got to get out of town, Mother will signal for us when it's safe"

The two brothers had barely made it to the end of the street before they found themselves captured by several villagers. They were then dragged to the village square where a lone wooden pillar was standing amidst a small hill of firewood. Kurt, upon seeing where he was going began struggling for all he was worth whilst screaming for Stefan who was trying to free himself from the grip of the two villagers holding his arms.

He eventually managed to free himself by striking one of the villagers in the knee with his foot allowing him to use his free arm to throat chop the other villager. Once free of his captors Stefan ran over to the group trying to hold his struggling brother. He was suddenly confronted by the leader of the mob who punched him in the face making him fall down before being kicked in the gut.

"Snap out of it boy he's a demon not your brother!" He yelled at the teen whilst others watched.

"You're the one's that should snap out of it!" Stefan threw back as he stood up unscathed making the leader's eyes bulge.

"Then I'll send you on ahead of him!" He hollered as he stuck him in the face three times feeling bones snap upon connection.

Yet not only was Stefan still standing he had no signs of being beaten up whilst the men holding Kurt were clutching their faces, or stomach for one, crying in agony allowing Kurt to return to his brother's side. The scary part was that all of their injuries were the ones that Stefan should have suffered. Had someone been watching Stefan carefully during the fight they would have noticed that each moment before the leader struck him they would have seen Stefan quickly catch the blow in one of his hands then pretend he had suffered the blow until he had redirected enough blows to knockout his little brothers captors.

"What are you?" The leader spoke hoarsely.

"Use your head pug-face!" Stefan spat as his eyes went all snake like. "If my brother's a demon, then that makes me one as well"

The crowd that had gathered during the spectacle had backed away when they saw Stefan's eyes. The mob leader however spat at the brothers before pulling out a pistol and aiming it at the older one.

"Let's see you avoid this Houdini!" He shouted as he pulled back the hammer.

Stefan put both hands out in front of him hoping his quick estimate as to where the man was aiming was correct. However the man did not shoot. In fact now that he thought about it he did not even move. No one moved asides him and Kurt.

"What did you do brother?" Kurt asked as he looked around cautiously.

"Nothing" Stefan answered just as confused as Kurt. "I didn't do anything"

"It was me"

Turning in the direction of the foreign voice the two brothers saw an old man in a wheelchair roll towards them.

"My name is Charles Xavier and I am here to offer you a place at my home for people like yourselves and help with your gifts"

{~#~}

"After zat he took us back to our home, let brozzer copy his power to see if he vas lying zen here ve are" Kurt finished.

Both himself and Kitty were crying slightly when he finished his tale. Kitty wiped her eyes before hugging Kurt tightly.

"I'm like glad you told me" She whispered as she felt herself drift off to sleep.

"Me too mien lieb, me too" She heard him say before sleep finally took its hold on her.

Kurt looked at the girl in his arms before kissing her lightly on the forehead making her smile before he too succumbed to the sand-mans power. Neither of them noticed the door to the room open ajar allowing Stefan to look in on them smiling both happily and sadly at the same time. He started making his way toward his own room before Scott stepped out in front of him.

"Just because he's found someone else means he won't need you anymore" He said.

"Yeah I know" Stefan muttered. "Look, about on the jet-"

"Forget about it" Scott cut him off. "You were right, I wasn't thinking straight. Guess I really did see red"

Stefan chuckled as he moved past him. "Now all you have to do is admit to her that you love her and we won't have to watch you dance around one another"

Scott could not help but chuckle himself. "Easier said than done Stefan"

"But it's doable all the same" Stefan countered as he walked off. "See you in about four hours for breakfast"

"Make sure you check in on Rogue on your way to your room" Scott called after him making Stefan stop in his tracks. "She seemed worried about you when you took off at the factory"

"I'll say hi in the morning" Stefan replied as he continued walking. "We've all had a rough night"

Scott chuckled as he headed off to his own room. Despite his red shades he could tell that Stefan was blushing if barely.

'He's got more free time now anyway' He thought to himself. 'Guess it must be a Wagner's charm'

~#~

There now can Shadow, Knight, Shaitan & others please stop plotting my demise?

R&R

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