Chapter 11
Charles frowned deeply, taking of Cerebro and pushing his chair slowly out of the room. It had been three days and there had been no sign of Kurt. Or, he supposed, Azazel, who somehow ended up not just possessing Kurt but fully pushing his mind out of his body. The professor didn't understand it at all.
He went to the control room, the rest of the children were still safe. Training against lasers and robots, but safe. He rolled up to a door and slipped inside to another control room. This one was exclusively his and he kept security cameras around the mansion. He even had it set up in the students' rooms, although the footage was automatically deleted after a week unless Charles saved it. Of course, he had saved all the footage of Kurt's father's arrival. He scrolled back to the morning, frowning at Kurt's lethargic state. One of the children stepped on his tail but all Kurt did was whimper. Luckily they apologised, but Kurt's lack of, well anything, scared Xavier. Then he got to the part Kurt was shaking and screaming at some unknown terror. Suddenly the body went still, but then Xavier really saw Azazel truly possessed his son's body. The tail moved again, his posture was more proud, even the way he looked at wolverine was as if he felt he dominated the man.
As the tape showed Xavier recoil from Azazel's memory, the man flinched. Azazel had made him relive a terror that saddened the professor, as he knew it hurt Azazel far more at the time. The scariest part of the footage was when Azazel ended up eating everything in the kitchen. Kurt had been eating but his body hadn't seemed to absorb any of his meals. Not even Azazel had managed to eat properly, as Kurt's body vomited up his meal. The man was shaking, but Xavier knew Azazel was more worried about the condition of his son than to be scared of Logan. He teleported, something Xavier now realised Kurt had refrained from doing these past few weeks. Then the bedroom camera showed Azazel making what Xavier could only presume was a spell before the camera went black.
Xavier suddenly felt a commotion outside. Locking up the security room he wheeled himself as fast as he could towards the foyer. He was frustrated he couldn't put more of his energy into finding Kurt.
"Charles." A blue mutant nodded in greeting. Despite half the x-men surrounding her in an attack position, she looked unconcerned. Perhaps that wasn't the best way to describe it, it was more she was so blinded by rage that she didn't care of anything else.
"Raven." Xavier greeted his sister gravely.
"Don't suppose you've seen my son?" The last part she screamed as she launched for him.
Of course Jean threw up a telekinetic field around Xavier, which actually broke three times. Eventually Raven calmed herself.
"I'm so sorry, Raven." Charles said, taking her blue scaled hand.
She paled. "Don't you dare tell me my son is…." She couldn't finish.
"No, I think he's alive." Charles frowned again. "But a few days ago, Azazel possessed him and teleported off."
"Verdamit, a vessel swap." She growled.
"A vessel what?" Kitty blurted out.
"Kurt was sick, wasn't he?" It came out as a whisper.
"Yes, but try as we might we had no idea how to help him." Charles sighed.
"Azazel has done something called a vessel swap. Actually, Kurt did that himself." Raven sighed.
"What do you mean Mystique?" Logan growled.
"If… well, when someone like Kurt is sick or badly injured or in a situation they might die, the body can send out a telepathic distress signal to the parents. Of course, I'm… not quite like that so it went straight to Azazel. The whole action seems almost unconscious, and neither would have been able to do it unless Kurt was close to dying. Azazel's body was safe, so Kurt took over and Azazel was sent into his son's body to clear up his mess. I bet the idiot still used Kurt's body as if it was fine." Raven growled.
"Well, until bub decided to vomit."
Raven sighed heavily.
"Raven, do you know where Kurt is now?" Xavier saw her cringe.
"He's with his father, who last time I checked was back in the demon dimension."
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Azazel moved in a way that was best described as dancing, as two twin swords danced through the air, killing thousands upon thousands of imaginary foes. Kurt sat on the side-lines, watching his father move around the garden with wonderment.
Eventually he stopped, teleporting to his son. "You wish to try?"
"Ja." Azazel practically beamed, handing Kurt on of the swords. His three fingers grasped the hilt clumsily.
"Ah, perhaps this is too advanced if you can't use my grip." Teleporting, Azazel brought back two wooden katanas. The grip was still difficult, but at least if Kurt was to drop the sword it wouldn't cut him.
Thirty minutes later Kurt lay panting on the grass, Azazel grinning down at him.
"From now on, we can practice together before we break the fast?" His voice was hopeful.
"Ja, but maybe not every day?" Kurt panted out.
"Ah, yes. Maybe not on school days." Suddenly, Kurt found himself teleported to Azazel's bath. The man was probably putting away the weapons.
"Hello, sire." Kurt suddenly jumped.
"You scared me Onkel." Kurt glared, but he saw the blue man glow with the title.
"Remember its Seph in public."
"Ja, but this is not public, this is the bath." Kurt frowned. Seph was just sat in the bath/pool against a marble railing.
"We're family Kurt, we can bathe together without it being weird."
"It's weird for me, I'm almost an adult."
"Not until you're ninety you're not." Azazel teleported behind him. The man was stark naked and Kurt nearly screamed.
Azazel saw no problem with the fact however, teleporting above the bath and landing with a splash.
"Childish as always." Sephareith splashed him. Kurt now realised they were completely different with each other in private.
The two began splashing each other, Azazel even teleporting water above Sephareith. The blue man in turn tackled Azazel underwater.
Eventually, Azazel yelled over. "You joining us, Kurti?"
Slowly, Kurt took off his clothes and slipped into the water whilst the two 'adults' were splashing each other. Sure, the x-men often took showers together after training, but Kurt usually just teleported to his private bathroom.
Thinking about home only added to the weight on his heart. It had been three days since Sky had been taken off. He needed to get her back.
Kurt was finally relaxing into the bath when a voice invaded his head.
"Well Kurt, you killed all the targets, but you didn't do it quickly enough." The silhouette of a man stared down at him.
"You know what that means?"
Kurt felt his body try to protest when a horrible clamping feeling seized his body.
Azazel and Seph turned from their game to see Kurt slip quietly underwater. The red demon teleported over, lifting his son's head above the surface of the pool. Kurt wasn't moving, but his face was scrunched up in pain.
"Can you get in his mind, Zazel?"
"I'm not sure Seph, he's having a flashback. I think me going in might stop his memory flow."
Kurt felt the pain tighten. The silhouette stroked his face with the back of his hand.
"Good job your mother won't be around to see this." His pearly white smile the only thing Kurt could make out. Then suddenly a hot pain ripped Kurt in half.
Azazel watched as his son woke from the memory. The first thing he did was panic and fight the water. Then as Azazel lifted him onto the steps of the pool he gripped his father's body tightly and sobbed.
"No more…." He cried.
It wasn't the same sobs as when Kurt was little and he'd fallen over. It was the sobs of men who had lost everything, the ones that begged Azazel to just take them away. It was a cry that meant the person really couldn't take anymore.
Seph understood too, looking sadly at the child. He brought two towels, one already wrapped around his waist.
Azazel still managed to warp a towel around as well as hold Kurt. The boy was far too skinny.
"Little one?" Azazel began. "Kurt?"
"Ja." He choked out.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I…" Kurt started to shake, before breaking out in sobs again. "Something happened."
"What happened, little one?" Kurt's pain was crushing Azazel's heart.
Kurt's sobs faded away and he slumped heavily against his father, trying to breathe.
"I can't say."
The pain went to his head again.
"You're not to tell anyone, or I'll kill your mother and you."
Azazel frowned, he had been in Kurt's head. "Who was the man threatening you?"
Kurt's face went white as a sheet. Then he teleported. Azazel sighed as the two brothers dressed, Seph holding clothes for Kurt.
"Do you sense him?"
"Yes. Luckily he went to his room." Azazel frowned, teleporting across the room to Kurt's. He was by the bookcase, trying not to hyperventilate.
"Kurt, whatever happened he can't get to you here. He can't get to this realm, let alone the palace or me." Azazel leaned down, putting his hand on Kurt. The boy's knees were to his chin, his hands over his eyes and his tail between his legs. He was shaking terribly.
"V-Vatti." The sound was so broken, so defeated that Azazel let out a whine. He had no idea what to do.
"Kurt, let's get you dressed." Sephareith held out a black t-shirt and grey shorts. Kurt let them put the t-shirt on him but thrashed around as they went for the shorts. That's when Azazel saw the marks on Kurt's thighs. They were hidden with Kurt's fur, but there was no doubt Kurt had been whipped. The circular burns that were most certainly from a cigar almost sent Azazel into a rage. But he remembered his son's state of mind.
"He was taught to fear fire long before that mob." Seph frowned at the burn marks.
"Indeed." Azazel linked minds with Kurt. He calmed down enough for them to get the shorts on. Azazel went to slide his tail through the tail slot when they both had a new memory of Kurt's flash up.
The assailant was a silhouette again, who was laughing at his handy work. He'd tied Kurt to the bed using his tail.
His God damned tail.
Azazel watched the memory of Kurt trapped there for nights on this disgusting old bed, straining to reach the water bowl placed too far for him to reach without putting his tail through more agony. Then as the silhouette roughly undid the knots in little Kurt's tail, he lit up a cigar.
"If you move, I'll tie you up again. No screaming."
He'd started at the knee and worked his way up Kurt's leg. Obviously the child's leg was so small that only four could be made before the man reached the hip.
The most haunting part for Azazel was that Kurt didn't scream. It meant he had had practice.
"Vati…" The child hissed as the man started on the other leg.
For the first time in a long time, Azazel let a tear pass along his face.
Kurt's tail had been successfully put through the tail hole, and the boy sobbed quietly into Azazel's arms.
"Zazel, I'll take over for today. Balan will get Kurt's work. The two of you stay here." The man flickered back into his green skinned disguise and walked off.
Azazel sat down on a plush royal blue armchair, Kurt still gripping him tightly. The man didn't know what to do. These past few days had been nothing but constant torture and reliving painful memories for Kurt. Eventually the boy stilled, falling into an exhausted sleep. Azazel just held him for the rest of the day, wishing that he had had the right to hold Kurt through his childhood.
"Forgive me Kurt, I thought you'd be safer without me."
Around the evening time, Seph brought up some soup and bread for the three of them. The two brothers ate their meal quietly, discussing the documents Seph had taken over for the day. Then two yellow orbs sprang from under the covers as Kurt began to wake.
"Vater." Kurt acknowledged. "Onkel."
"Kurt." Azazel smiled.
"Want some?" Sephareith offered the bowl.
Kurt just drunk the lukewarm soup and lay back down.
"Little one…" Azazel trailed off.
"Vatti, something happened to me. I started to remember today but… I don't think I vant to remember."
"Kurt, when you were born your mother and I were in a group. It was your mother's job to seduce a Baron. At the time, I had angels after me and could not put you both at risk. I was there for your birth, but an hour later I had to teleport rapidly to avoid them finding you and killing you. Obviously, your mother grew tired and the staff saw you. She was forced to throw you over a waterfall, but I teleported and caught you. With the angels on my tail I knew there was no way I could keep you, but once Raven blended in I lost her. Much of your little life has been a whirlwind. I thought I left you in safe hands…"
"Oh."
"So, I heard you were taken in by Xavier, I figured life with an Uncle would be good."
"Onkel? Who?"
"If he has not told you after all this time then I don't know what to say."
"Who?"
"Charles Xavier, he is your sister's brother in the same way Sephareith is mine."
A/N: hey, not as long as the other one, but 1: I do have a lot of exams and 2: I need to start bringing in some more characters. I've introduced you to most of them, but they need to come into the picture more.
*** I have a good idea of what I might change the title to, but if anyone wants to comment what they would name this fic then I would be really happy ***
Also Scarletnightcrawler, I am English, which may explain some spelling issues, but also have a disagreeable spell check and I'm in a family of dyslexics (mum and brother are officially but I might be too.) I do wish there was an easier editing tool on FanFiction because I also write on Wattpad and on their system you can edit really easily (A lot of 1D fans though…. And werewolves…) Glad you like the racism, I know no society is perfect. I was pretty unsure how to incorporate it, but Kurt deserves to be an elite somewhere.
I'm also really itching to start up another fan fic about Azazel raising Kurt from babyhood, losing him and finding him at the Circus. I want to add more x-men to the story as this fic here features a lot of OC (but I hope they're good OC 0w0 )
If I take too long, I suggest you read "All this and Heaven too" by Sheherazade's fable as its long, but it's a beautiful story about Azazel being a Russian mutant raising Kurt in the mountains, and its Amanda and Kurt, which I prefer to Kitty. And if anyone knows of some good fanfictions about Kurt, Azazel or Kakashi (Naruto) please tell me ^.^
Remember to comment with a title idea if you have one! 3 Ja ne x