Disclaimer: I do not own X-men Evolution
( if i did own it- then i'd own my own computer as well)
Author: Damge control....but how do you help someone whos been betrayed, attacked, nearly ran over............and thats just Kurt.
Chapter 9: Uncomfortable (Its just not enough)
Kurt Wagner woke up about 12 noon the next morning, understandably confused.
He looked up at the plain white ceiling with a vague morbid fascination and a thought, 'did Magneto find me?! This' a lab?' and then he slowly looked over to his arm and at the fluids going down through the IV tube and disappearing under his blue fur. He hated things on his fur.
He then noticed that clutching his hand for dear life, even in her sleep, was Kitty Pride. She was leaning, a little, onto his bed and sitting in one of those really uncomfortable chairs, probably the only thing Kurt couldn't sleep on was an uncomfortable chair.
"So not a lab" he muttered out loud and listened to the faint beeping of a monitor, though it was not his. He shifted his head to the other side and saw a sleeping youth in another bed, he had a matching IV, some monitoring equipment and a mask to help him breathe easier.
Kurt sighed, his ribs hurting him with an uneasy pressure on his lungs, and closed his eyes again.
About 30 minutes later Kurt heard footsteps cross the room and cracked open an eye to see Rogue walking over to the other patient with a coffee in one hand, she sat down and held Gambits hand in her gloved one with a typical Rogue comment, "wake up! I'm starting to get bored, come on! You've scared me already! Happy? Now wake up!" her voice cracked towards the end, "I want a rematch!" (Refers to Day of Reckoning)
Kurt couldn't help but look back over to Kitty, he nearly jumped six foot (or more) into the air, "Ahh! Geez Kitty!!! Awake already?"
She just smiled, unusually calm and collected, "How you feeling, fuzzy?"
"Could be worse…I could be in the hospital wing with machines beeping, a white ceiling, the nice antiseptic smell, friendly people whom I was just so desperate to see again…" he drifted off a little with his sarcastic tone, "wait I am!" his eyes flashed.
An uncomfortable silence filled the room and Kurt more felt than saw Kitty walk out the room, and it stung him, he felt worse than before- abandoned. He closed his eyes, not sighing this time.
"You not slept enough elf?" the familiar gruff voice shattered the vague silence. Logan watched Kitty leave and since only one visitor was allowed at a time for each patient, it was his turn.
He'd walked all the way up to Kurt before speaking but never really got the effect he was looking for. Instead of jumping or getting startled, Kurt reacted with a cool, "Logan".
"That's Mr Logan, squirrel, but I'll cut you some slack- just for today".
Kurt took some time to notice a fruit bowl loaded with grapes sitting on a plain bedside table- so did Logan as he speared some and started picking them off his claws to eat.
"So why'd you leave?" it was such a direct question, perhaps cold in it's phrasing but the fact that it had been asked either showed concern or a general curiousity.
"Just did" came a sullen teenagers response.
"Kurt" Logan growled, "Do you realise how worried everyone was?" he was careful not to say "I"- Logan actually liked his scary reputation.
"Why?" it was half snapped, growled but laced with something that resembled desperation. Kurt looked Logan straight in the eyes as though looking for something.
"Why?! Because we were worried! We were scared that you'd gotten into trouble" Rogue hollered from across the room, her chair screeched as she pushed it back and herself up. She marched over and stood with hands on hips at the foot of Kurt's bed.
Logan's actually gulped and he felt like he was in trouble as well; Rogue was not a force to be reckoned with.
"I can't believe you" Kurt blinked away, he'd deliberately said 'can't' instead of 'don't', and looked over to the fallen Gambit.
"Can't or won't?" she got no reply, "Kurt? What's got you so upset?…" still no answer, "..Is it that letter?" she ventured and knew she'd hit the mark when he visibly flinched.
"He saved me" Kurt seemed to realise as he looked at Gambit, "don't remember much, just getting pushed" he mused.
Rogues anger died down a little, Logan still sat awkwardly in the room and the Kitty walked in- carrying what looked like a collestrail ( hmmm how do you spell that? ) bomb.
"Hey Kurt! I brought you something to make you feel better" she beamed but got no reply.
"Can I talk to Logan alone? And could you get Scott and the Professor too?" Kurt asked but it sounded oddly like an ultimatum- do it or I leave now!
Rogue looked a little uneasy, "Uh Kurt…"
"Sure, I'll go get them" Kitty almost skipped out of the room, "Happy to help".
Kurt raised his eyebrows, "Is she ok?"
Logan just shrugged.
"Uh Kurt, you probably want to see me as well" Rogue bit her lip.
"You knew, err know, too?" he looked very non-shocked; "was there a notice or a memo I missed?" he seemed irritated.
"No, I just, just…with Mystiques, mem, memory…an, bits of yours..i…" she fumbled over the words.
"You called Kurt?" Scott's friendly voice interrupted the current flow of Rogues stuttering. He strolled easily up to his friend, ignoring the tension from the three. Kitty had literally just bumped into him as he was going to visit Kurt.
"Yeah I was just curious" Kurt smiled at his friend, took a deep breath but winced at the inkling pain it caused, "were you ever going to tell me about my mysterious, shadowed, past or were you just going to write a novel later on?"
"Crap!" Scott cussed, "Kurt I, it was just that…I dunno, the professor and Wolverine agreed and it was just that.."
"WILL SOMEONE JUST GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER??" Kurt shouted but instantly went into a coughing fit with shooting pain in his chest and sparkly bits affecting his vision, "I just want the truth from the people I trusted," he continued in a whisper and sunk into his bed, "I just want the truth!"
The Professor took the opportunity to come into the room, "You should rest, Kurt".
"No!" Kurt's voice sounded strained, "I want to know now!" he spoke like a child almost.
Scott looked stressed, "We just didn't want to hurt you, you've already been through so much, we thought that we we're protecting you".
"I could have handled it…being an experiment…but being lied to" Kurt closed his eyes to blink away any rebel tears, "you're part of my family, we're a team…that's what you all always tell me!"
Scott couldn't find any words, Logan was still sitting uncomfortably, Rogue was hugging herself but the Professor seemed calm and collected enough.
"Kurt, we thought as a group, that perhaps you were just not ready to find out such a thing. Perhaps we were wrong Kurt, maybe it's just that we got caught- but the fact is that we all genuinely thought that what we were doing was best for you. We are you're family and we are a team but part of that is protecting one another. I admit that keeping secrets hasn't exactly been a success but it was to avoid exactly what has recently transpired and although I am not proud that I kept this from you, believe me when I say that we are all sorry".
"Yeah Kurt, we are" Logan's rare use of his name sounded almost foreign.
Scott walked over to Kurt and kneeled down on the floor, touching his friend's shoulder with a simple statement, "Sorry".
Kurt looked over to Rogue; she just nodded with a weak smiled, her apology.
He looked at his friends and then down to his hands, "its just not enough!" he shrugged off Scott's hand and looked back up to them, "Its just not".
Author: A simple apology...to fix all that??!! yeah right! i refuse to let them off that easily!
Please review (but no flames)
( if i did own it- then i'd own my own computer as well)
Author: Damge control....but how do you help someone whos been betrayed, attacked, nearly ran over............and thats just Kurt.
Chapter 9: Uncomfortable (Its just not enough)
Kurt Wagner woke up about 12 noon the next morning, understandably confused.
He looked up at the plain white ceiling with a vague morbid fascination and a thought, 'did Magneto find me?! This' a lab?' and then he slowly looked over to his arm and at the fluids going down through the IV tube and disappearing under his blue fur. He hated things on his fur.
He then noticed that clutching his hand for dear life, even in her sleep, was Kitty Pride. She was leaning, a little, onto his bed and sitting in one of those really uncomfortable chairs, probably the only thing Kurt couldn't sleep on was an uncomfortable chair.
"So not a lab" he muttered out loud and listened to the faint beeping of a monitor, though it was not his. He shifted his head to the other side and saw a sleeping youth in another bed, he had a matching IV, some monitoring equipment and a mask to help him breathe easier.
Kurt sighed, his ribs hurting him with an uneasy pressure on his lungs, and closed his eyes again.
About 30 minutes later Kurt heard footsteps cross the room and cracked open an eye to see Rogue walking over to the other patient with a coffee in one hand, she sat down and held Gambits hand in her gloved one with a typical Rogue comment, "wake up! I'm starting to get bored, come on! You've scared me already! Happy? Now wake up!" her voice cracked towards the end, "I want a rematch!" (Refers to Day of Reckoning)
Kurt couldn't help but look back over to Kitty, he nearly jumped six foot (or more) into the air, "Ahh! Geez Kitty!!! Awake already?"
She just smiled, unusually calm and collected, "How you feeling, fuzzy?"
"Could be worse…I could be in the hospital wing with machines beeping, a white ceiling, the nice antiseptic smell, friendly people whom I was just so desperate to see again…" he drifted off a little with his sarcastic tone, "wait I am!" his eyes flashed.
An uncomfortable silence filled the room and Kurt more felt than saw Kitty walk out the room, and it stung him, he felt worse than before- abandoned. He closed his eyes, not sighing this time.
"You not slept enough elf?" the familiar gruff voice shattered the vague silence. Logan watched Kitty leave and since only one visitor was allowed at a time for each patient, it was his turn.
He'd walked all the way up to Kurt before speaking but never really got the effect he was looking for. Instead of jumping or getting startled, Kurt reacted with a cool, "Logan".
"That's Mr Logan, squirrel, but I'll cut you some slack- just for today".
Kurt took some time to notice a fruit bowl loaded with grapes sitting on a plain bedside table- so did Logan as he speared some and started picking them off his claws to eat.
"So why'd you leave?" it was such a direct question, perhaps cold in it's phrasing but the fact that it had been asked either showed concern or a general curiousity.
"Just did" came a sullen teenagers response.
"Kurt" Logan growled, "Do you realise how worried everyone was?" he was careful not to say "I"- Logan actually liked his scary reputation.
"Why?" it was half snapped, growled but laced with something that resembled desperation. Kurt looked Logan straight in the eyes as though looking for something.
"Why?! Because we were worried! We were scared that you'd gotten into trouble" Rogue hollered from across the room, her chair screeched as she pushed it back and herself up. She marched over and stood with hands on hips at the foot of Kurt's bed.
Logan's actually gulped and he felt like he was in trouble as well; Rogue was not a force to be reckoned with.
"I can't believe you" Kurt blinked away, he'd deliberately said 'can't' instead of 'don't', and looked over to the fallen Gambit.
"Can't or won't?" she got no reply, "Kurt? What's got you so upset?…" still no answer, "..Is it that letter?" she ventured and knew she'd hit the mark when he visibly flinched.
"He saved me" Kurt seemed to realise as he looked at Gambit, "don't remember much, just getting pushed" he mused.
Rogues anger died down a little, Logan still sat awkwardly in the room and the Kitty walked in- carrying what looked like a collestrail ( hmmm how do you spell that? ) bomb.
"Hey Kurt! I brought you something to make you feel better" she beamed but got no reply.
"Can I talk to Logan alone? And could you get Scott and the Professor too?" Kurt asked but it sounded oddly like an ultimatum- do it or I leave now!
Rogue looked a little uneasy, "Uh Kurt…"
"Sure, I'll go get them" Kitty almost skipped out of the room, "Happy to help".
Kurt raised his eyebrows, "Is she ok?"
Logan just shrugged.
"Uh Kurt, you probably want to see me as well" Rogue bit her lip.
"You knew, err know, too?" he looked very non-shocked; "was there a notice or a memo I missed?" he seemed irritated.
"No, I just, just…with Mystiques, mem, memory…an, bits of yours..i…" she fumbled over the words.
"You called Kurt?" Scott's friendly voice interrupted the current flow of Rogues stuttering. He strolled easily up to his friend, ignoring the tension from the three. Kitty had literally just bumped into him as he was going to visit Kurt.
"Yeah I was just curious" Kurt smiled at his friend, took a deep breath but winced at the inkling pain it caused, "were you ever going to tell me about my mysterious, shadowed, past or were you just going to write a novel later on?"
"Crap!" Scott cussed, "Kurt I, it was just that…I dunno, the professor and Wolverine agreed and it was just that.."
"WILL SOMEONE JUST GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER??" Kurt shouted but instantly went into a coughing fit with shooting pain in his chest and sparkly bits affecting his vision, "I just want the truth from the people I trusted," he continued in a whisper and sunk into his bed, "I just want the truth!"
The Professor took the opportunity to come into the room, "You should rest, Kurt".
"No!" Kurt's voice sounded strained, "I want to know now!" he spoke like a child almost.
Scott looked stressed, "We just didn't want to hurt you, you've already been through so much, we thought that we we're protecting you".
"I could have handled it…being an experiment…but being lied to" Kurt closed his eyes to blink away any rebel tears, "you're part of my family, we're a team…that's what you all always tell me!"
Scott couldn't find any words, Logan was still sitting uncomfortably, Rogue was hugging herself but the Professor seemed calm and collected enough.
"Kurt, we thought as a group, that perhaps you were just not ready to find out such a thing. Perhaps we were wrong Kurt, maybe it's just that we got caught- but the fact is that we all genuinely thought that what we were doing was best for you. We are you're family and we are a team but part of that is protecting one another. I admit that keeping secrets hasn't exactly been a success but it was to avoid exactly what has recently transpired and although I am not proud that I kept this from you, believe me when I say that we are all sorry".
"Yeah Kurt, we are" Logan's rare use of his name sounded almost foreign.
Scott walked over to Kurt and kneeled down on the floor, touching his friend's shoulder with a simple statement, "Sorry".
Kurt looked over to Rogue; she just nodded with a weak smiled, her apology.
He looked at his friends and then down to his hands, "its just not enough!" he shrugged off Scott's hand and looked back up to them, "Its just not".
Author: A simple apology...to fix all that??!! yeah right! i refuse to let them off that easily!
Please review (but no flames)
