(A/N): If I get any suggestions or questions from reviewers I'll answer them personally, but to the people who already reviewed: thanks for the support!
Akaluk: Sorry. I realized about an hour or so after I posted the prologue that Gehen Sie aus is 'Get out' or something to that effect because the verb ausgehen means 'to go out'. The rest of the German is correct and I'll try to make sure it stays correct. With two years in German, freetranslations.com, a German dictionary, and a German mother I should be able to do it. Once again, sorry about the mistake. I heard Nightcrawler say 'Gehen Sie aus' in the movie and got a little mixed up.
foxfire111: There's a very good chance that this will be a Kurtty, since Lancitty just bugs. Just keep voting for it.
Chapter One
How Charles Xavier knew to have the infirmary ready for Kurt, Hank McCoy would never know.
The former high school teacher known around the institute as Beast had just been leaving the infirmary when Storm had rushed in and told him to be ready for a patient.
Hank had been ready to grumble in annoyance until he saw the look of complete seriousness on Ororo's face.
"What's wrong Storm?" Hank asked.
Ororo sighed. "I'm not entirely sure Hank. But the impression I got from the Professor when he told me to come down here and tell you to get a bed ready was that something might be wrong with Kurt."
Hank's tired eyes widened in surprise. "They found Kurt?! What's wrong with him?!"
Before Storm could reply the door to the infirmary suddenly burst open and Logan came in with Kurt in his arms and Scott, Kitty, Jean, and Rogue following close behind.
Storm gasped at the condition Kurt was in. "Logan, is he okay?!"
Hank was also shocked at the weakened condition of the young man, but he wisely held in his questions for later. From the condition the fuzzy guy was in he obviously needed medical attention right then and there.
And besides, from the looks on the faces of all the teenagers who had followed Logan into the infirmary, they had no clue how Kurt had gotten into that condition.
Hank moved forward to take Kurt from Logan, but the gruff stepped back and held up his hand.
"Be very gentle Hank. Elf is disoriented, in a lot of pain, and he keeps clutching his stomach and groaning."
Hank wanted to smile at Logan's protectiveness of the German teenager, but he simply nodded in understanding.
As gently as he could, Logan transferred Kurt into Beast's arms. The sudden movement still caused Kurt to whimper and clutch his stomach even more.
"Nein, nein. Es tut weh. Warum? Warum machen Sie mir dies?"
Hank placed Kurt on one of the beds in the infirmary as quickly as possible without hurting him any further. He then quickly gave Kurt a mild sedative and pain killer.
The blue fuzzy elf began to relax and still after only a few minutes. His breathing became more even and he stopped whimpering. His hands weren't clutching his stomach anymore, but they were still resting there lightly.
Hank turned towards the others still standing around the infirmary. Scott and Kitty still looked pale and worried. Rogue had visibly relaxed after Kurt had been given the medication, but someone observing her closely would notice how tense she still was.
Hank then turned his gaze to Jean. Since graduating the redhead had decided to pursue a career in medicine. She had learned quite a bit already from both Hank and the Professor and could be of some help.
"Jean," Hank started, "give me a hand in treating Kurt. The rest of you head upstairs and get some rest. We'll notify you if Kurt's condition changes."
Scott opened his mouth to protest, but Hank held up his hand to stop him. "The best thing you can do for your friend is to let me and Jean treat him."
Scott sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. He guided Kitty out the door with him and motioned for Rogue to follow.
Rogue grumbled, but followed them out of the infirmary. Her tone left no doubt that she expected to be notified if anything else went wrong with her brother.
Logan in the meantime sat down in a chair across the room, crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at Hank. As if daring Hank to ask him to leave.
Hank almost laughed at Logan's voice until Jean's voice called him over to Kurt's bedside.
Hank walked up to Jean's side at the bed where he noticed that Jean had already gotten Kurt comfortable and into a clean pair of pants and a t-shirt.
With her telekinesis she'd probably been able to easily lift Kurt without hurting him.
She'd also managed to get his hands down to his sides and was now lifting the edge of Kurt's t-shirt with a concerned look on her face.
Hank looked down at Kurt's bare abdomen and frowned.
Even with the fur covering his body, an angry looking scar was still visible.
The scar looked like it was about three to four inches long and the flesh surrounding the area looked swollen which seemed to indicate that a deep incision had been made.
Since it had been Magneto who had done this to Kurt, Hank wasn't entirely sure he wanted to know the purpose behind the incision.
Whatever it was, it couldn't be good for Kurt.
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For the past couple of days, all the images going through Kurt's head were hazy at best.
All he'd been aware of was pain.
He'd been vaguely aware of lying on a metal bed and being strapped down. He'd been too drugged to even attempt teleporting anywhere.
And then the pain had started.
A burning fire that started at his abdomen and then spread all the way from his groin to his sternum until he could barely breathe.
The figures standing around him had been completely hazy to his weakened vision, so Kurt had had no idea who was doing this to him.
Kurt had still managed to find his voice to yell out at them. Although since he was already disoriented, he hadn't realized that he'd reverted back to his native language and the figures probably didn't understand him.
"Warum? Warum machen Sie mir dies? Wer sind Sie? Bitte Halten Sie an! Es tut weh!"
No matter what Kurt had yelled, the figures hadn't responded. He had eventually passed out from the pain.
When he'd awoken again the figures were gone, but he was still in pain.
The next thing he'd been aware of was some more figures crowding around, but these ones seemed more familiar and comforting. They had spoken soothing words and gently carried him away.
Somewhere in the back of Kurt's mind he'd known he was back at the institute.
This time when Kurt surrendered to the blackness, he'd done so much more willingly.
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"So, how is Kurt?" the Professor asked.
Hank and Jean looked at each other. Not sure exactly what the should tell Xavier.
"Well," Hank started, "I don't think there's any permanent physical damage. Knowing Kurt he'll probably be bouncing off the walls in a couple of days." Hank paused before continuing. "Logan said he'd watch Kurt for tonight. He refused to leave teh infirmary."
Xavier smiled at that. "Logan likes to give the appearance of a lone wolf, but truthfully he'd give his life to protect anyone here." His smile then turned to a frown as he looked at Jean and Hank. "Was there something else you wanted to tell me?"
Hank avoided his eyes and Jean hesitated before speaking up. "Well, we were concerned about a deep incision made in Kurt's abdomen. Why Magneto go to all that trouble to take blood from all of us for the past month, then kidnap Kurt, and perform some kind of ... surgery on him."
Xavier seemed confused as well, but not as confused as Hank and Jean. "I'm not sure. Somehow I think this incident and Magneto's earlier experiments on Kurt are not unrelated."
Jean looked surprised just as Hank looked angry. "You mean he enjoys hurting Kurt for some disgusting reason! Is this just what he does when he wants to punish Mystique?!"
Xavier shook his head. "I didn't get any impression of hatred or malice towards Kurt from Magneto. Only a sense of ... finality. Like what he was doing to Kurt had to be done, but he wasn't happy about it."
Jean spoke up with a slight hitch of worry in her voice. "So ... what does this mean for Kurt?"
Xavier sighed. "I don't know. But with the coming rise of Apocalypse and this incident, I have feeling things are about to get really difficult for Kurt."
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There ... I got the update finished. Sorry about the delay, I was having some difficulty with fanfiction.net.
And here's the German translations:
Warum: Why
Warum machen Sie mir dies?: Why are you doing this to me?
Wer sind Sie?: Who are you?
Bitte Halten Sie an: Please stop!
I think I got everything. Let me know if I didn't.
Akaluk: Sorry. I realized about an hour or so after I posted the prologue that Gehen Sie aus is 'Get out' or something to that effect because the verb ausgehen means 'to go out'. The rest of the German is correct and I'll try to make sure it stays correct. With two years in German, freetranslations.com, a German dictionary, and a German mother I should be able to do it. Once again, sorry about the mistake. I heard Nightcrawler say 'Gehen Sie aus' in the movie and got a little mixed up.
foxfire111: There's a very good chance that this will be a Kurtty, since Lancitty just bugs. Just keep voting for it.
Chapter One
How Charles Xavier knew to have the infirmary ready for Kurt, Hank McCoy would never know.
The former high school teacher known around the institute as Beast had just been leaving the infirmary when Storm had rushed in and told him to be ready for a patient.
Hank had been ready to grumble in annoyance until he saw the look of complete seriousness on Ororo's face.
"What's wrong Storm?" Hank asked.
Ororo sighed. "I'm not entirely sure Hank. But the impression I got from the Professor when he told me to come down here and tell you to get a bed ready was that something might be wrong with Kurt."
Hank's tired eyes widened in surprise. "They found Kurt?! What's wrong with him?!"
Before Storm could reply the door to the infirmary suddenly burst open and Logan came in with Kurt in his arms and Scott, Kitty, Jean, and Rogue following close behind.
Storm gasped at the condition Kurt was in. "Logan, is he okay?!"
Hank was also shocked at the weakened condition of the young man, but he wisely held in his questions for later. From the condition the fuzzy guy was in he obviously needed medical attention right then and there.
And besides, from the looks on the faces of all the teenagers who had followed Logan into the infirmary, they had no clue how Kurt had gotten into that condition.
Hank moved forward to take Kurt from Logan, but the gruff stepped back and held up his hand.
"Be very gentle Hank. Elf is disoriented, in a lot of pain, and he keeps clutching his stomach and groaning."
Hank wanted to smile at Logan's protectiveness of the German teenager, but he simply nodded in understanding.
As gently as he could, Logan transferred Kurt into Beast's arms. The sudden movement still caused Kurt to whimper and clutch his stomach even more.
"Nein, nein. Es tut weh. Warum? Warum machen Sie mir dies?"
Hank placed Kurt on one of the beds in the infirmary as quickly as possible without hurting him any further. He then quickly gave Kurt a mild sedative and pain killer.
The blue fuzzy elf began to relax and still after only a few minutes. His breathing became more even and he stopped whimpering. His hands weren't clutching his stomach anymore, but they were still resting there lightly.
Hank turned towards the others still standing around the infirmary. Scott and Kitty still looked pale and worried. Rogue had visibly relaxed after Kurt had been given the medication, but someone observing her closely would notice how tense she still was.
Hank then turned his gaze to Jean. Since graduating the redhead had decided to pursue a career in medicine. She had learned quite a bit already from both Hank and the Professor and could be of some help.
"Jean," Hank started, "give me a hand in treating Kurt. The rest of you head upstairs and get some rest. We'll notify you if Kurt's condition changes."
Scott opened his mouth to protest, but Hank held up his hand to stop him. "The best thing you can do for your friend is to let me and Jean treat him."
Scott sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. He guided Kitty out the door with him and motioned for Rogue to follow.
Rogue grumbled, but followed them out of the infirmary. Her tone left no doubt that she expected to be notified if anything else went wrong with her brother.
Logan in the meantime sat down in a chair across the room, crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at Hank. As if daring Hank to ask him to leave.
Hank almost laughed at Logan's voice until Jean's voice called him over to Kurt's bedside.
Hank walked up to Jean's side at the bed where he noticed that Jean had already gotten Kurt comfortable and into a clean pair of pants and a t-shirt.
With her telekinesis she'd probably been able to easily lift Kurt without hurting him.
She'd also managed to get his hands down to his sides and was now lifting the edge of Kurt's t-shirt with a concerned look on her face.
Hank looked down at Kurt's bare abdomen and frowned.
Even with the fur covering his body, an angry looking scar was still visible.
The scar looked like it was about three to four inches long and the flesh surrounding the area looked swollen which seemed to indicate that a deep incision had been made.
Since it had been Magneto who had done this to Kurt, Hank wasn't entirely sure he wanted to know the purpose behind the incision.
Whatever it was, it couldn't be good for Kurt.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
For the past couple of days, all the images going through Kurt's head were hazy at best.
All he'd been aware of was pain.
He'd been vaguely aware of lying on a metal bed and being strapped down. He'd been too drugged to even attempt teleporting anywhere.
And then the pain had started.
A burning fire that started at his abdomen and then spread all the way from his groin to his sternum until he could barely breathe.
The figures standing around him had been completely hazy to his weakened vision, so Kurt had had no idea who was doing this to him.
Kurt had still managed to find his voice to yell out at them. Although since he was already disoriented, he hadn't realized that he'd reverted back to his native language and the figures probably didn't understand him.
"Warum? Warum machen Sie mir dies? Wer sind Sie? Bitte Halten Sie an! Es tut weh!"
No matter what Kurt had yelled, the figures hadn't responded. He had eventually passed out from the pain.
When he'd awoken again the figures were gone, but he was still in pain.
The next thing he'd been aware of was some more figures crowding around, but these ones seemed more familiar and comforting. They had spoken soothing words and gently carried him away.
Somewhere in the back of Kurt's mind he'd known he was back at the institute.
This time when Kurt surrendered to the blackness, he'd done so much more willingly.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"So, how is Kurt?" the Professor asked.
Hank and Jean looked at each other. Not sure exactly what the should tell Xavier.
"Well," Hank started, "I don't think there's any permanent physical damage. Knowing Kurt he'll probably be bouncing off the walls in a couple of days." Hank paused before continuing. "Logan said he'd watch Kurt for tonight. He refused to leave teh infirmary."
Xavier smiled at that. "Logan likes to give the appearance of a lone wolf, but truthfully he'd give his life to protect anyone here." His smile then turned to a frown as he looked at Jean and Hank. "Was there something else you wanted to tell me?"
Hank avoided his eyes and Jean hesitated before speaking up. "Well, we were concerned about a deep incision made in Kurt's abdomen. Why Magneto go to all that trouble to take blood from all of us for the past month, then kidnap Kurt, and perform some kind of ... surgery on him."
Xavier seemed confused as well, but not as confused as Hank and Jean. "I'm not sure. Somehow I think this incident and Magneto's earlier experiments on Kurt are not unrelated."
Jean looked surprised just as Hank looked angry. "You mean he enjoys hurting Kurt for some disgusting reason! Is this just what he does when he wants to punish Mystique?!"
Xavier shook his head. "I didn't get any impression of hatred or malice towards Kurt from Magneto. Only a sense of ... finality. Like what he was doing to Kurt had to be done, but he wasn't happy about it."
Jean spoke up with a slight hitch of worry in her voice. "So ... what does this mean for Kurt?"
Xavier sighed. "I don't know. But with the coming rise of Apocalypse and this incident, I have feeling things are about to get really difficult for Kurt."
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There ... I got the update finished. Sorry about the delay, I was having some difficulty with fanfiction.net.
And here's the German translations:
Warum: Why
Warum machen Sie mir dies?: Why are you doing this to me?
Wer sind Sie?: Who are you?
Bitte Halten Sie an: Please stop!
I think I got everything. Let me know if I didn't.