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The rest of the week was really strange for me. As soon as we landed back at the Xavier Institute, I busied myself with helping the doctors with caring for the mutants in the MedBay. I purposely avoided Kurt at all costs. Luckily, he was too occupied to come looking for me. Xavier and Jean began working on undoing the brainwashing that still affected him, starting with putting him in a small version of the Danger Room. This room was programed to have healing and calming effects on the occupant rather than testing and training their abilities.

Everyone told me how good he was doing. Every one of the X-men went to see him, visiting him as frequently as they could. They moment they were done visiting they came to find me and told me of his progress. Every one of them mentioned how he's still having troubles regaining his accent. Then they would ask me if I've seen him yet. I found excuses to why I hadn't.

Kitty was still in the Medbay from her bullet wound and concussion. It was while I was changing her dressing that she started on me.

"You can stop pretending that you're too busy to see him, Kat." Kitty told me sternly. "Most of the mutants have been sent home or to Muri Island by now, so Hank and Jean can deal with the amount of patients still here."

"Um," I started, not sure how to finish. How could I explain what was going on in my head right now?

"You can't avoid him forever! Seriously, with both you living here you- you've got to be joking." Kitty interrupted her scolding when she saw my expression. I've learned that in the short amount of time we've been friends, she had already learned how to read my face almost as well as the Professor could read my mind. I quickly turned away. "You're not leaving, are you?"

"Keep your voice down." I said quietly, looking around to make sure no one was listening. "I just, I don't think I can stay here."

"You have no where else to go! You'll be out on the streets again!" Kitty almost screeched.

"I can't just spring this all on him. I made up my mind a long time ago that I could do this by myself. This is his home, not mine. Its just too hard to be here with him." I confessed.

"Oh yeah, because everything will be a walk in the park living on the streets. Don't be stupid, Katie, Kurt will help you. Its his right to be in the baby's life." Kitty's brown eyes narrowed.

I shrugged.

"I'm serious Kat! You-" Kitty stopped talking as her privacy curtains were pulled open. There stood Peter holding a beautiful large bouquet of flowers.

"Um, I'm not interrupting something, am I?" Peter asked shyly.

Before Kitty could speak, I answered.

"No, you're not. I'll leave you guys alone." I said quickly stepping away. Before pulling the curtains closed around them I commented. "Nice flowers."

I let out a deep sigh of relief. I knew Kitty wouldn't let this be, but at least I could avoid talking about it, for awhile at least. About to go check on Gambit's vitals, I took a step towards his bed and the next moment I found myself on the roof. I let out a gasp and stepped away from the roof's edge.

"Sorry, my teleporting has been a bit off since I got back." His voice apologized behind me. "The Professor thinks its because they tried to tamper with my mutant abilities while I was at the base."

I turned slowly to see Kurt standing there. "Hello Fräulein."

I looked down at my feet (well, I tried to. I ended up looking at my protruding stomach instead). "Hi."

He looked at me for a very long time. "You must be cold, I wasn't thinking, bringing you out here. Or do you need to sit down? Maybe you shouldn't be standing. Sorry, I just wanted a quiet private place we could speak." He moved towards me, but I backed away.

He looked very hurt by that gesture. "Would you like me to bring you inside?"

"No, I- This is fine." I said, struggling to sit down. "We do need to talk, it's just-hard."

"You're telling me." Kurt said, sitting easily in front of me.

After awhile, I said. "I know, I should of told you."

"Yes, you should of. I never would have left you if I'd known." Kurt said wholeheartedly.

"You didn't leave, I pushed you away. I'm, really sorry about those things I said. I just needed you to leave and that was the only way I could think of." I said miserably. "I was just so ashamed and, I didn't want you to get hurt."

"Get hurt?"

I looked up into his eyes. "Kurt, those boys almost killed you because you were dating a human, how would people treat you if they knew you got one pregnant? It was safer if you weren't in the picture."

"Not for you. You needed me." Kurt said, inching closer.

"No I didn't." I lied. I hung my head and Kurt came closer still.

"What about your parents?" Kurt asked softly.

I felt ready to cry. "They, kicked me out. I had to go to the doctor one day and he was a family friend. He told them and, well, my dad flipped. He got even madder when he realized a mutant was the father. He-he threw me down the stairs, trying to make me miscarriage. It didn't work, so he got his gun. I barely got out of there."

"That, that bastard! I could kill him!" Kurt sputtered angrily.

"I was on the streets for months, I made my way to New York." I explained the rest of my story. How I saw him be taken, how Xavier offered me a job here, how I went to the base to help him.

"And that's been my life for about seven months. What's new with you?" I joked weakly.

"Katie, you should have told me. I would have gotten you out of there the moment I knew." Kurt said. "I would have taken care of you."

"Do you know how many times a girl gets pregnant and her boyfriend ditches her? It happens all the time. You could have wanted nothing to do with me, or you could have made me get an abortion or you-" I completely broke down at this point.

Kurt wrapped his strong arms around me.

"I wouldn't have. I love you with all my heart, as I will this baby." Kurt promised in a whisper. "You almost killed me when you dumped me, I loved you so much. Please let me be in your life again. I'll take care of both of you, even if you don't want us to be together like we were."

I hiccupped, as I wiped my eyes.

"I'm sorry, these stupid hormones are making me crazy." I apologized. Feeling a strange sensation in my lower stomach, I grabbed it. "Whoa."

"What is it? Is the baby coming?" Kurt yelped.

"No, no, its- um, I think she's kicking me." I said.

"Really?" Kurt said in wonder. He reached out his hand hesitantly , only completing the gesture when I gave him a nod. Gently he placed his hand on my stomach. Feeling the strange sensation he said. "Whoa."

I laughed, releasing all the tension in me. Slowly I laid down and put my head on his lap. He began stroking my hair.

"I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm scared out of my mind." I whispered.

"Yeah, me too." Kurt admitted. "But at least we can be scared together now, right?"

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Life improved for me after our talk on the roof, but it also got more complicated. Kurt insisted I stopped working as a maid, even though I still worked in the MedBay. He said his income as a teacher would be enough and said I was too close to be around chemicals and doing heavy lifting. I said I could handle it, but eventually he fought me enough and got the Professor on his side so it was easier for me to give in. The X-men treated me less like a disease, which was nice. I guess they say how happy Kurt was so they decided I wasn't that bad. It felt good to know I didn't have to worry about everything on my own anymore.

Difficulty came two days after our time on the roof. I came back from a shift in the MedBay with Kitty, making plans for dinner, when I noticed everything was missing from my room. I didn't have much, just what I had when I ran away from home with. But when you have only about a duffle bag worth of possessions, you really notice when your sol possessions are missing.

"What the Hel-" I started to say.

"What happened? Do you think it was a student?" Kitty said, looking around my empty room. She was probably thinking about some of the 'pranks' students pulled when I first got here. They didn't like me and they wanted to show it. I had my room trashed before, my door vandalized and rude notes shoved under the door, but no one had ever stolen from me.

"Should I go talk to the Professor?" I asked.

Peter and Kurt entered through the door.

"Good! You're here." Kurt said excitedly. "I have something to show you."

"Not right now Kurt, can't you see my-ah!" Without warning, Kurt grabbed me and Kitty and teleported us away. We found ourselves in front of an unknown wooden door.

"Kurt, we talked about this." Kitty said sternly. "You can't just kidnap people like that!"

"I didn't kidnap you, just gave you a lift against your will." Kurt said happily, then turned to me. "Katie, welcome home."

Kurt opened the wooden door to reveal a pretty apartment. I could see a living room and a kitchen from where I stood. Kurt grabbed my hand.

"Come on, I'll show you around!" Kurt gave me a quick tour of the kitchen, living room and bathroom. I was speechless the whole time. Then he showed me a nursery. It was fully furnished and painted. There was a white crib, a mobile with a variety of superhero symbols hanging from it.

"Uh," Was all I could say.

"Great, isn't it? There's more." Once again Kurt pulled me along to a bigger room. "And this, is your new room!"

"My new room, huh?" I said, fighting to be calm. By now Peter had caught up with us and Kitty read me easily. She saw Mount Kat was about to explode.

"Uh, let's go check out the kitchen Peter." Kitty said quickly, trying to push him out the door.

Sweet but clueless Peter didn't catch in.

"We already saw the kitchen." Peter said, confused. Kitty rolled her eyes and grabbed him around the waist, phasing him through the floor.

"What is up with them?" Kurt questioned. He then teleported to the bed. "Come try the bed! Its king sized." He said flirty, wriggling his eyebrows.

"So, um, remind me when we discussed moving in together?" I asked coolly.

"Uh," Kurt stammered. "I guess we didn't talk about this, did we?"

"Nope."

"I just thought, I'd surprise you. The room you're in now is tiny and its really far away from mine. When the baby's born, we have to share a space so we can share the work load and um…" Kurt saw my face become darker. "You don't agree?"

"Well, I guess those are good reasons. But before you just decide to just move me in here, did you not think maybe you should have asked me? No, you didn't." I answered before he could. Shaking, I sat down on the bed. "This is a lot to take in."

"Katie, we don't have much time left before the baby's born." Kurt said softly. "I know this is hard but-"

Kurt tilted his head slightly and had a far off look in his eye, as if listening. A moment later, he came back.

"I'm sorry Katie, that was the Professor. He needs me for a mission." Kurt apologized. "I have to go, but we'll talk about this, later, yah?"

With a quick kiss on my forehead, he teleported away. I heard running footsteps of Kitty and Peter and a door slam as they hurried away to get to the briefing room. I sighed and laid back on the large bed. That was another thing I had to worry about, Kurt rushing away to save the world. I must sound so selfish and I feel guilty, but I can't help but not want him to. He could get badly hurt, or get kidnapped again.

What if I go into labour and he's in some distant galaxy fighting aliens?

I pulled one of the large fluffy pillows over my head as I continued to worry.