*This is while Katie is still dreaming on the Blackbird, on her way to save Kurt! Updates soon!
I nervously moved around my bedroom, fiddling with my hair, tidying, applying more lip gloss. Anything to keep busy and to calm my nerves. I kept telling myself that I shouldn't be so nervous because I wanted this, I think. Kurt and me have become really close over the past months and I think its time that he met my family. Any normal couple has the whole "meet the parents", why shouldn't we?
Because your boyfriend is a blue guy with a tail and your parents are super nuts that think mutants are creations of the devil? A small voice inside my head hissed snidely.
I groaned and flopped onto my bed.
I had asked Kurt if he would be my date to my cousin's wedding reception as we star gazed on top of my silo a week ago. At first he just stared at me with his yellow eyes, his mouth hung open.
"Uh, frauline, jah know I vould love to show you my moves on the dance floor but, vell, I don' think I have a tux. It's so hard to find clothing because the blue, it clashes with everthing." Kurt answered gesturing at himself.
"Please come? My parents think I'm dating someone and they're upset because they haven't been introduced yet." I said, snuggling up to his muscled body.
"And you don't think they'll be the tiniest bit upset by their daughter dating someone vith a tail?" Kurt asked, the extremity in question flicking anxiety behind us like a cat's.
"Well, they'll be a little shocked at first, but once they get to know what a kind, funny smart guy you are, they won't even notice it." Kurt didn't respond to this, probably because he didn't believe it anymore than I did. But I had to try.
I sighed and laid down on the cold roof. "I guess I'll just have to dance with the handsome groomsmen."
I watched amused as Kurt's tail came to a stop and stood right up and rigid. He did not like hearing that. I watched his face become still as his eyes had this calculating look in them. Finally, he laid back beside me and entwined his hand in mine.
"Maybe, I can arrange something." He answered.
Since then I've been going back and forth between not caring what my family thinks to worry about them killing me.
I rubbed my sore temples now as I laid on my bed, waiting for Kurt to show up. I told my parents that he was coming tonight as my guest and would come over around six thirty to head over to where the reception would be held. I didn't tell them anything about him.
My heart practically jumped out of my chest when I heard the door bell ring and my father answer the door. It was very muffled and I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I also couldn't hear yelling. Maybe my dad just fainted or had a heart attack.
Then I heard my dad call up the stairs to me.
"Katie, someone's here to see you."
Oh dear Lord, he sounds calm and cheery. He's probably having a mental breakdown, I thought anxiety as I went down stairs.
I did not see what I was expecting (which was my dad screaming for his gun, my mother fainted on the floor and Kurt trying to escape). For a moment I thought I was in the wrong house. My mother and father stood smiling, Dad holding a camera, both dressed for the reception and talking to a dark haired stranger.
Dad looked over his shoulder and winked at me. "Katie, you didn't tell us your suitor had his own jet."
"Um, yeah, it slipped my mind." I replied mindlessly as I tried to get a better look at my "suitor". From my angle I couldn't see him very well, but I could defiantly tell that this guy wasn't blue and was tailless.
The stranger stepped closer and into better light, "Actually sir, the jet isn't completely mine. It belongs to a group I belong to. Hello Katie." The man smiled at me and my mouth dropped. He was like a…de-bluedified Kurt! He had the same black thick haircut short and spiked at the front. The same elfish facial structures and smile. He was built the same, minus the tail and add human hands and feet. He had a smooth pale completion and human eyes the shade of blue his skin was supposed to be. He had normal teeth and human ears. He was dressed in a nice suit with a red tie in the shade to match my red dress. In his human hand was a large bouquet of white and blue roses. He was hot, but he wasn't Kurt!
"Katie, you look like you hardly recognize the boy!" My mother laughed, giving me a push forward. I was now face to face to this strange new Kurt. He took my hand and kissed it softly then handed me the flowers.
"Well, you know, put a guy in a suit and it's like you never seen him before." I answered. "Will you excuse us? I want to show…Kurt, the garden."
With that I dragged the suited man outside to Mom's flower garden.
"Alright, want to tell me what's going on?" I demanded. "Are you a robot or-"
"Katie, I'm real!" The Kurt-wannabe laughed. He fiddled with his watch and a moment later my Kurt stood before me, smiling his white smile.
I stared at him, then slowly said. "You're going to have to explain this one to me."
"The Professor has veen vorking with the Shi'ar to create a holographic image inducer. It vends the light around me to make me look human. Cool, yes?" Kurt explained excitedly. "I'm testing it for them.
"But, but…Kurt, you shouldn't have to hide." I said weakly.
"And you should half a boyfriend jah can actually show to your parents." Kurt said, adjusting his watch. "I vant to be able to take you out for dates that aren't in the middle of novhere, to been there for you in the open, not hiding in the shadows. I'm doing this just as much for me as it is for you. The vorld isn't ready for us Katie, they are too blinded by their hatred."
Before I could argue, I heard my mother call us. When I looked at him again, he was back in human form offering his arm.
"Come on Katie, let's just dance the night away." Kurt said, in a charming old way.
I sighed, but took his arm and let him lead me away. I'd just have to talk to him about this later.
