Chapter 29: Jinxing luck.

Disclaimer: I don't own X-men… nope, lost interest.

She tossed softly as her senses took in her surroundings. Peace, warmth, a velvet soft pillow, and… grass? Her eyebrows furrowed as she ran her fingers through the short coarse greenery. She carefully blinked her eyes open and was met with the suns bright mid morning rays. She lifted her head to get a better view of her surroundings, memories of the past night flooding back to her with a vengeance. She looked down at her warm pillow to find Kurt, calm and undisturbed from his dream state. His chest rose and fell with every breath he took, making her smile thoughtfully. She studied him a little more meticulously, one of his arms lazily hung from her waist as the other lay bent up by his head. His hair was shaggy and piecey, sticking up in random places here and there, cowlicks galore. His fur was slick from all the morning dew that clung to the ends, making her giggle as she lazily walked her fingers through the sparse trail of drops. His face twitched softly, till his tail came out from nowhere and quickly slapped her hand.

She jumped in surprise and rolled herself backwards, "Nahhh!"

Kurts eyes flashed open as he jolted forward, looking around franticly before his memory caught up with him. He turned his attention to his side, where a very beautiful but disgruntled Elana lay. He cocked a questioning eyebrow to her "Guten Morgen?" his head inclined a little to her, "Vwhat might I ask are you doing liebe?"

She sat up a little on her elbows and pouted to him cutely, "You slapped my hand!"

His lips formed into an amused smirk as his eyes began to twinkle again, "That vwas you?"

"Yes that was me!" She sat up more so that she was sitting towards him. "Who did you think it was?"

"You mean vwhat did I think it vwas…"

Her lips pursed together to give him an innocent yet perturbed expression. "Hu?"

He's smile grew wider, "I vwas dreaming Elana, und it vwas quite enjoyable before I imagined a giant spider crawling up mein stomach."

"Oh." She giggled and held out her hand, "But you still scared me."

He chuckled as well, eyeing her nude form. "I'm sorry schön, here..." he reached his tail to gently take hold of her wrist and leaned down to kiss the back of her palm.

She smiled and moved forward to kiss his lips tenderly. "Thank you." He chuckled again before sitting up himself to look around a bit more. She peered at him a bit more intently, "Tell me you recognize where you are now."

"Vwell it's a vwhole lot more familiar… I'll say that much."

"Does that mean you think you can lead us out of here or are you just trying to make me happy?"

He paused for a moment, as if he were taking in the two choices, "Vwhat if I said both?"

"What does that mean exactly?" she eyed him attentively.

He stood up cautiously, as if awaiting a surprise of some sort, and then slinked over to retrieve the pile of their cloths. He tossed her clothing over to her and then pulled on his own before speaking, "It means that vwe may have to do some unnecessary hiking, but I'm certain that vwe'll get out of here sometime today." He then stopped to add with a satisfied smile, "Good thing most of my painful muscle tension is gone from last night. It's strange, I feel so much better." He stretched his back out, cracking once or twice to relive the pressure between his bones. "Maybe I was just suffering from Elana vwithdrawal."

"…Elana withdrawal." She blushed at remembering last night's affair but then smirked to herself with some displeasure as she pulled on her undergarments "Great, nothing like hiking through the cold harsh wilderness in nothing but your knickers."

He chuckled again before pointing out to her, "Elana, It's very vwarm out today."

He outstretched his hand to help her up from the ground as she huffed, "How does that make anything better?"

His grin never faltered, "Vwell instead of dying from frostbite vwe can bight it from sun poisoning?"

She rolled her eyes and let a very placid smile spread across her features, "Ha ha ha, very funny."

"I thought so…" he then arched his head back to look up into the trees, "I'm going to get a better look at vwhere vwe are."

Her gaze followed his upward, and then gave a disapproving stare, "You know you can't teleport yet."

His eyes intently sized up one of the tallest trees he could manage to find, that was sitting on the outskirts of the clearing. Then turning to peek at her with his dare devil smile he replied, "Vwho said I needed to port?" His eyebrows hitched suggestively to her, right before he took off to a running start. He leapt up into the trees limbs with practiced ease, and though he could just as easily have climbed up the bark, he had to admit, he wanted to show off just a little. He jumped up high enough to grasp the next looming branch, and let his instinct do the rest. His abdominals flexed, pulling the weight of his body backwards into a skillful swing. His momentum pushed him into the air, up to the next awaiting branch that he knew would be there. It was almost a sixth sense, a gut feeling that he could never describe to anyone. His ability to perform all sorts of amazing stunt-like acrobatics, with even his eyes closed was simply put, his intuition. A reflex so deeply rooted into his system that it could only be compared to a predatory bird taking flight. His tail latched quickly to the next branch and he let gravity pull him around like a swing, letting go at the exact moment to catapult himself even higher into the top of the tree.

She was amazed, how could it be that such an incredibility sexy being wasn't taken already? Sure, she could see how the fur and tail might not do it for everyone, but come on! As she stared up in bewilderment and fascination her mind kept revolving around the one simple fact… she was his first, and God damit she was determined to be his one and only. Once he quite effortlessly settled himself on the top of his vantage point, she sat herself down in the cool soft grass again to ponder her thoughts. As she began to closely inspect around her, she found tiny clovers that were sprinkled amongst the lawn. She rolled herself over so that her belly came crashing into the lush greenery and then crossed her arms and legs, balancing her elegantly sloped chin on top of her wrists. Intently she eye stocked the ground around her in the little clearing. The trees seemed to tower over her with their pleasant assortments of shade. Her deep intuitive eyes glanced back down to the little clovers that danced and tickled at her skin, intently searching for that ever absent staple of luck, a four leaf clover.

Kurt smirked to himself as he silently walked up to her, she was so focused that she didn't even take mind to his descent upon her. She scanned the ground around her, cutely plucking every luckless clover that stood in the wake of her fingers wrath. She was searching for something… but what? He stared at her menstruations and noted her sweet little grunts of displeasure every time she looked at her newly plucked victim. "She's weeding out the clovers?" He looked down at his feet to find his toes wrapped in a patch of the small, green, leafy plant. As he leaned down further to spy he found a little oddball trapped by one of his toes. The little four leaf clover lay on its side helplessly, as if it was gasping for air. "Ah." His brain pieced two and two together, and he plucked the straggler, holding it up to his face. "Lucky bastard, you're so different and yet you blend in so nicely… I'd like to see you pull that one off vwile sporting a dashing color of navy blue." He looked up to find her cautious stare adorning him.

"You're talking to a plant?" she paused and smiled at his mocking expression. "Don't tell me you turned all guru on me in the three minutes that you were lost in the trees." She raised her hands and waved them around to emphasize the hippy like voice she used to end her statement.

Kurt went whole heartedly to respond to her quip but merely exhaled and shook his head as he walked towards her. "Ja Elana, I've now become one vwith nature…" he knelt down to her to hold out the little unusually shaped cloverleaf.

"Awww, how'd you find it?" she curiously looked up at him as she took it, intent on listening.

"Vwell you see… on my vway back down from my spiritual enlightenment, I heard this little guy boasting up a storm about how freaking lucky he vwas to all the other ones."

She giggled, "So what did ya do?"

"I'll tell you vwhat I did! I plucked the little bastard. Lucky clover my furry ass." Her laughter grew as she peered to the little leafy weed pinched between her fingers. He moved his face close to her hand so the clover grazed his nose and caused him to go cross eyed. "So vwhy vwere you looking in the first place?"

"I figured we would need all the luck we could find before we attempted to sneak into the Institute, which is like a futuristic Fort Knox on steroids."

He let a couple chuckles resound from his chest, "You know you don't have to come vwith me. People seeing me in my boxers is one thing, but someone catching you strutting down the hall in…" he paused to let an evil smirk grace his lips, "I'm sorry, does that even count as underwear?"

"Hey!" She socked him hard on the arm earning some more chortles from the furry blue mutant.

"Ich bin ein Scherz, ich bin ein Scherz! Its sexy!." -(I'm kidding. I'm kidding!) He then reached his hand up to tenderly rub his upper arm, "Man, vwho are you channeling, Muhammad Ali!"

Her scowl cracked with a small grin. "One of these days Wagner…"

"Vwhat? I'll learn not to be as charmingly comical vwith you as always? Elana, Elana, you must know you're not the first person to vwish the jokester some much needed maturity."

"Oh I could have assumed that the first day I met you." She smirked challengingly to him.

He chuckled, "Ouch… und now you're hurting my insides."

"Baby." She lifted an eyebrow.

"Sadist." He mirrored her expression back to her.

She got up slowly, signaling to him that they should begin walking, "How's that?"

He smiled as she stood and began leading her through the thick shrubbery, "Vwell you do seem to enjoy physically assaulting me, I can only figure that you like pain… other peoples' pain to be exact." He pushed a bush aside for her to daintily step through.

"It's not my fault you seem to love it, ya masochist. Accusing me of taking selfish pleasure when I'm really making you happy."

He followed behind her, chuckling lightly though still defying her. "You think I'm a masochist? I don't remember begging you for pain before."

She looked over her shoulder with a sinful expression, "…If I do remember correctly you didn't seem to mind when I bit you pretty dam hard. In fact, I recall you enjoying it." Her eyes narrowed teasingly.

He walked up next to her, absently rubbing her bight wile pondering. "Huh…" she looked to him to see him smiling to her, still rubbing the base of his neck. "Right again I see. How do you do it?"

"Eh… natural born talent."

"Let's not forget modesty, there's always that." His smile never faded.

"Everyone's got a flaw." She quickly skipped down the small hill that they had marched up to.

"Ja? Then vwhat's mine?" He skillfully leapt after her, landing beside her again with his catlike grace.

"Other than the fact that you like to show off more than a slutty drunk stripper on a Friday night… lemme think."

He squinted accusingly, "Hey, hostile much? It's not my fault I grew up in a circus und developed a very assertive personality." He smirked.

"Never said it was now did I?"

He flailed his arms in the air and stepped in front of her, "Gah! Vwhat am I going to do vwith you?" his face was that of exasperation and hummer.

She sweetly looked up at him with her innocent light blue eyes, "Carry me?"

"I'm the hurt one here."

"Yah… you looked pretty hurt when you preformed a perfect Olympic routine up the side of a tree."

"True, but vwhy vwould I…" he eyeballed her again. Her lips were cutely pursed and her eyebrows were hitched up high, adorably but intently waiting for his reply. Her beautiful figure accompanied with her very satisfying attire, and lush mane of wild tresses was enough to make his resolve melt into a puddle of helplessness and self pity. "Huh… Gott steh mir bei."-(God help me.)

She smiled happily, "Yay!" He turned and let her grip onto his shoulders so she could jump to straddle his back. He grasped the backs of her thighs and wrapped his tail around her midriff just for his own safe keeping. He huffed as she giddily giggled, a little annoyed that she had such a good hold over him. That is until she leaned her head over his shoulder and kindly kissed his cheek, "Thank you fuzzy…" she leaned closer to his ear, "You won't regret it later on."

He smirked, pleased with the thought "Ah, sweet compensation." She laughed some more while twirling the little four leafed clover between her fingers, as he led them off into the forest.

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a very populated and sometimes crowded home for mutants. That is, unless it's the weekend. Sunday, the last possible day for the kids to let loose before another drudging week of early training sessions, endless school days and book work galore. The two of them stood with their backs against the institute's wall, heaving for dear life at the major sprint they just had pulled off. The large expanse of land that separated the building from the small backyard forest was just the lack of cover they needed to get caught. Elana looked over to her heavily panting boyfriend, "Do you think we were spotted?"

"I don't know, no one is going to set off the alarm if they see two hysterically laughing streakiers running across the lawn."

She glared at him, "I would!"

He chuckled a bit more as he let his body slide down the wall he was practically plastered to, "No Elana, I don't think anyone saw us."

She held the little clover right up to her face, squinting her eyes evilly and letting a little smile grace her lips she whispered "Yessssss".

He chuckled some more at her comical face, "Up for round two?" she looked down him questioningly and slowly lowered herself to a sitting position next to him. "First it vwas endurance vwhen vwe ran like headless chickens, now it's avoidance."

"As Tony the tiger would say, grrrate… how are we supposed to avoid everyone left in the mansion?"

"Vwell normally I vwould suggest sneaking in through the back, but since I can assume its locked vwe're going to have to use the main entrance and just bolt up the large staircase from there."

"Ten bucks says we run into Evan…"

A grin crossed his features, "Don't jinx us Elana."

"I'm merely stating that... mphh."

His hand reached up to silent her, "Shhhhhhhhhh."

She followed his eyes to the three teenage boys that had made their way out to the backyards pool. She lifted his hand from her mouth and whispered to him, "rude…"

He smiled as they both inched their way over to one of the hedges for cover. Once hidden he turned to her, "Vwhy didn't you just let me go in and get a blanket for you or something?"

She pouted as she gave a distressed look over to the three seemingly oblivious boys, "Because with my luck as soon as you would leave me by myself, some person… no, a group of people would find me."

He exhaled as he stared at her again, "Ok then… on the count of three vwe're going to run as fast as mutantly possible around the corner of the building, sprint the length of its side and stop at one of the institutes front hedges so vwe can sneak in the main entrance."

She smiled deviously and shook a finger at him, "Have you done something like this before? You seem well informed."

"Vwe X-men do have to practice very high level stealth missions all the time…" he then smirked a little as he looked back over to their corner goal, "Though, Evan und I did used to sneak out a lot junior and senior year of high school. It brings back old memories."

She quietly giggled, "Couldn't you just have teleported then?"

He paused with a thoughtful expression and then shook his head slowly, "…Vwe, vwe vwere very stupid then."

Her mouth turned up into a grin. "Well for one, I'm not sure how much has changed since then. Two, I bet I'm more sneaky then you any way. And three, - I'M GONNA BEAT YOU THERE!" She took off into a super sprint and dashed around the corner in a blink of an eye.

He stood star-struck for a minute before yelling back, "Damit Elana! Get back here! I said ON THREE!" He sped off after her leaving the three now alerted younger mutants thoroughly confused at the crazy half naked man running around the corner. He raced down the buildings side and dived for the closest cover where he found her in a mess of chortles. "That… vwas not… funny…" he panted halfheartedly.

She laughed some more, "Nope… it was hysterical. Totally… worth risking… someone seeing… my ass."

"Errraah!" he assaulted her with tickling fingers, making her giggle and squirm beneath him. She tossed and squeaked but he wouldn't stop, and in a desperate attempt to make him freeze she reached her hands up to his face and pulled him into a sweet kiss. His hands stopped their light feathering but held onto her bare sides tightly, his thumbs softly caressing the inner of her hip bones. Her lips against his, his breath against hers, it felt right but not. He growled at his inner nagging thoughts but reluctantly pulled from the kiss to lustfully look down to her, "Not here Elana… Es ist eine schlechte Idee." -(It's a bad idea.)

"Aww… what happened to my dare devil?"

"He jumped out the vwindow along vwith all my pride und dignity."

She sat up to nuzzle her nose to his, "Fine… mission impossible, take two."

He nudged her back playfully, "Just sit here." Skillfully, he slunk up to the large glass doors and opened one of them to lean inside, then waving to her to show the coast was clear she ran quickly up the few steps and shot through the door. Though they were now inside, her hurried pace never faltered as she practically bound up the stairs. He followed her effortlessly up to the top but then froze to find her crouched and focused, with almost a predatory look about her. She glanced back at him and was off, rounding the corner so quietly he didn't realize she had moved until she vanished from his line of sight. He slinked after her, keeping behind her down every hall, watching and receiving small chills every time she would stop to look at him with her sexy hooded gaze.

She stopped at another corner to check for bystanders when she suddenly felt his soft figure poke her shoulder and trail itself down her side. "What is it!" She turned her head to find him eyeing her fervently.

He answered in his husky German, his eyes laden with lust, "I know this isn't the right time… but I'm sooo turned on right now."

She smirked, "Kurt..."

"I can't help it! You're running around in your underwear!"

She turned around to poke his chest and replied flatly, "Yah I'm aware… Just keep it in your pants, ok?"

Someone chuckled darkly from behind her, "Aha… now I get it."

Elana eeped as Kurt swung her around him to hide her from prying eyes. "Vwho's…" he cursed himself, "Ah Wunderbar."

Wolverine leaned his right shoulder on the hallways wall with the sneakiest of all grins plastered on to his face. "So Elf… wacha been up to lately?" His eyes narrowed some as he swayed his body back from the wall to his feet, standing cross armed, awaiting an answer.

From behind her stuttering boyfriend, Elana pulled the little clover up to her face and looked down on it menacingly, "Dam you!"

Kurt stumbled on his words a couple more times before blurting out, "Vwe got looked outside last night." His blush was now very noticeable.

Wolverine gave him a look, "In your underwear."

"Ja."

"Any reason why I shouldn't tell the Professor about this?"

Kurt's eyes widened in horror but when he went to speak Elana's voice came out from behind him, "Because if you don't I'll give you a danger room training session that's so intense, your ass will never forget it."

Naturally the challenge couldn't be refused. Logan smirked, "An opportunity I've been looking forward to Mrs. Tikaani."

She rested her chin on Kurt's shoulder and leaned into his back, silently snaking her arms around his waist and clasping her hands low on his furry belly. "I don't know many people who look forward to a good ass whoopen."

He moved forward until he was right in front of them, "Well you don't know many people with a rapid healing ability. An ass whoopen to me is more like gett'n slapped. Hurts for about five seconds but goes away and just leaves me even more pissed off."

Her eyes were dangerous, "Well be ready to be ultra pissed."

He paused to take a quick glance at Kurt to gauge his expression and then refocused to her, "Tomorrow morning, 9:00, that way there isn't a giant crowd, they'll be in school."

"Why, don't want an audience?"

He chuckled as he walked past them and headed merrily down the hall, "No… I can just be very inappropriate with my taunting sometimes… wouldn't want something to slip." With that he gave a smile over his shoulder and rounded the corner.

Kurt spun himself around in her loose hold and pushed her back to the wall, his arms on either side of her head, leaning into her lovingly. "You scare me sometimes Elana… but it's the good kind of scare."

"Good kind?" she cocked her head cutely to the side.

"Your threatening, sexy, thrilling, invigorating." He took a breath to take his hand and smooth it down her face, resting on her now rosy cheek, "The kind of beautiful that can make the strongest of men stop dead in their tracks. I see myself never becoming board of you… for the rest of my life."

Her lips parted to let in a gasp but suddenly came crashing together with his. Romance poured from both of them; her emotions were swirling inside her. Love and passion radiating from every fiber of her being, never wanting to end. The kiss broke reluctantly, but slow, still aware they were in a very public setting. She grabbed his temples and forced his eyes to meet hers longingly. "I love you… and I hate you." She smiled.

His eyes shown with confusion, "Vwhy do you hate me?"

"You're too perfect. And you make my I love yous sound like shit." She pursed her lips together cutely and rolled her head down a little.

He chuckled and kissed her forehead lightly. "You don't need to vworry, saying I love you is all I need to hear."

She looked up slightly and smirked, "Stop being so dam perfect." She then dropped down quickly out of his gated hold and sped down the hall again, giggling along the way.

He sighed and put his hand on his face as he started walking after her again, "Now I did say invigorating… didn't I." and he started jogging down the hall after her, his room the next hall over.

Yesss. It's been a while since I've put a longer chapter up. I was going to keep going but I would have felt bad if I made you guys wait any longer. I know, A LOT of Kurt and Elana fluff, but the next chapter should not only have (finally) Wolverine and Elanas showdown plus a little more fluff (can you blame me?) but there is also going to be another background clue in. I loves you all and I hope you enjoyed… & Please Review! XD