A/N: I've decided to start posting the response to reviews at the end of each update after any … translations.
Chapter two
After Hank and Jean had finished their examination of Kurt, Logan had seated himself in a chair besides Kurt's bed and declared that he would be watching the elf that night.
Neither Jean nor Hank had even attempted to argue with him. They'd both known that someone had to watch Kurt that night, just as they'd both known that Logan would volunteer for the job.
Logan didn't always give the appearance that he like the students at the Institute, but nobody hurt them or messed with them.
Logan hadn't planned on falling asleep. But it had been a long couple of days for everyone in the institute since they'd all been out looking for Kurt and the elf in question was fast asleep at the moment himself.
Eventually as Logan watched the steady rise and fall of Kurt's chest, he allowed himself to be slowly lulled to sleep. His heightened senses would let him know if anything happened to Kurt during the night.
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Kurt, in the meantime, was experiencing peaceful sleep and dreams for the first time in days.
Kurt dreamed about coming to the Institute for the first time. No one, not even his foster parents, had had any idea how terrified he'd actually been of leaving his home and coming to the Institute. And when he'd first laid eyes on Storm, the Professor, Scott and Jean (the only ones there at the time) he'd thought that his worst fears had been confirmed.
They may have been mutants as well, … but they didn't look any different then normal people.
However, Scott was surprised at shaking the hand of someone who was blue and had only three fingers, but he hadn't recoiled in disgust.
And neither had anyone else.
Except Kitty.
Kitty had at first been terrified by Kurt's appearance, but truth be told, Kurt hadn't been that bothered by her reaction.
She been less scared and judgmental then almost everyone else who had seen Kurt and known that he wasn't wearing a costume.
And Kurt had always figured that Kitty's reaction to him was more out of response to her own fear of being a mutant and having everything changing so fast.
It had been a lot for a 15-year old girl to deal with. After all, Kitty had had barely enough time to adjust to her powers before coming to the Institute. Unlike Kurt, who had never been able to hide the fact that he was different.
Kitty's reaction to Kurt had probably had nothing to do with Kurt as a person and everything to do with Kitty's difficulty in all the changes in her life.
However, Kitty couldn't deny that she'd come to care about Kurt as a friend at least. After all, she'd been freaked the first time Kurt had accidentally been injured on a mission by Rogue.
That's when she'd given him the nickname Blue Fuzzy Elf.
If Logan had been awake at that moment he would have noticed Kurt's mouth curving into a smile in his sleep as he remembered Scott bewildered reaction to Kitty calling him that nickname for the first time.
Unfortunately, Kurt's expression quickly turned troubled and full of fear as his dreams shifted from the comfort of his friends to the events of the previous few days. Kurt once again saw himself lying on a metal table.
Only this time he recognized one of the figures as Magneto and he saw the flash of a scalpel being raised before he felt the pain tearing through his abdomen.
His dreams once again shifted to another lab, more experiments, but a different place and time. Magneto was once again there, and Kurt felt as if his entire body was on fire.
He was distinctly aware of a baby crying, until he realized it was him
"Monster! What have you done to him?!"
With a jolt, Kurt came awake.
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Logan had woken up the minute Kurt started stirring in his sleep. The focus of Kurt's dreaming was fairly obvious in the way his head was moving back and forth and his tiny whimpers of 'nein.'
He was right there the second Kurt came awake with a start and tried to sit. Trying to sit up was a mistake.
Kurt immediately clutched his stomach and groaned.
Logan suppressed a slightly amused grin as he helped Kurt lie back down.
"Easy Elf," Logan said, "you've been through quite a bit and if I were you I'd just lie back and take it easy. You need some rest."
Kurt was in no condition to argue or fight with Logan so he allowed himself to be laid back down. His held tilted towards Logan and his eyes blinked a couple of times to focus.
"Herr Logan?" he asked weakly.
Logan smiled at the German teen. "Yeah Elf, it's me."
Kurt looked a little panicked as he started speaking rapidly. "Herr Logan, was ist zu mir passieren? Warum verletzt mein Magen deshalb viel?"
Logan held up his hand to stop him from saying anything. "English Elf."
Despite the pain he was obviously in, Kurt somehow managed to smile. "Zorry Herr Logan. Vhen I'm … not all there I don't realize vhen I'm speaking Deutsch."
Logan grinned. "Don't worry about it. Now you were saying."
Kurt looked at Logan. "Vhat happened to me?"
Logan ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "Well, we were kind of hoping you could tell us what happened Elf."
Kurt blinked his eyes a couple more times and stared at the ceiling. His mind was still a little disoriented and he was trying to focus his mind on the events of the past couple of days.
"I … don't … I mean I … can't remember that much of the past few days," Kurt said. "Except I do remember some … other mutants, Magneto was one of them, … I was on a operating table and they … they cut me open!"
Logan placed a hand on Kurt's shoulder to give him some comfort. "Yeah, we guessed that from the evil looking scar on your abdomen."
Kurt instinctively started to lift his shirt to take a look, but Logan's hand closed over his before he could take a look.
"You don't want to do that. It looks a lot worse than it actually is. Magneto and his henchmen are complete slime balls, but they didn't leave any internal bleeding. However, the stitching was done a little hastily so Jean and Hank had to redo the stitching last night." Logan paused in his explanation. "The skin is a little red and irritated there."
Kurt relaxed at Logan's diagnosis. But then he turned towards the gruff man with a serious look on his face. "Vhy vaw this done to me?"
For once the Wolverine actually looked worried. "I don't know Elf."
Before anything more could be said, a voice spoke up from the doorway to the infirmary. "Mr. Logan? I know I shouldn't be down here without permission, but like, before heading to school and wanted to see how Kurt …"
"Keety?" Kurt interrupted.
"Kurt!" Kitty came fully into the room then and dropped her bag and books on the floor in her rush to get to Kurt. "The blue fuzzy elf is okay!"
Kitty wrapped her arms around Kurt in a hug and Kurt almost screamed at the pain in his stomach, but instead he just gently hugged her back.
Logan, in the meantime, was rubbing his ears in reaction to Kitty's scream. "Hey Half-Pint, you wanna go easy on the Elf. He doesn't need to be injured again."
Kitty instantly jumped back. "Sorry Kurt. The last thing you need is me jumping all over you right now."
Kurt managed to grin up at her from the bed. "No problem Keety." Secretly, under different circumstances, Kurt would have loved to have Kitty jumping all over him. But anything even close to that in nature would have to wait.
Kurt was so used to being active the majority of the day that this lack of movement would probably drive him crazy in the next few days more than the pain. He absolutely hated feeling like some kind of fragile egg.
"Is that valley girl already re-injuring mah little bro?"
"Nein Rogue," Kurt called out to the Goth chick who had just entered the room. "At least not with Herr Logan to pull her off."
"Well someone's gotta look out for you Elf," Logan said. "Cause we all know you don't look out for yourself."
Kitty and Rogue laughed as Kurt lightly swatted at Logan with his tail.
"Guess there are some good uses for that thing," Logan grumbled.
"Should I assume from the laughing and light atmosphere that our resident fuzz ball is awake?" Scott asked, poking his head in the door.
"Who are you calling a fuzz ball, Shades?!" Kurt tried to sound irritated, but he just came off as amused.
Scott laughed as he came in the door.
"The Professor wants to talk to you when your ready Kurt, but until then …" Scott trailed off as he held up the item he had brought with him.
A breakfast tray.
"Breakfast!" Kurt exclaimed.
Kitty and Rogue started laughing as Logan helped Kurt sit up in bed with an amused grin on his face.
"You must not be feeling to bad to want breakfast," Rogue commented.
"Vunderbar," Kurt replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes for emphasis.
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Was ist zu mir passieren?: What happened to me?
(A/N: freetranslations.com gave me a different verb for 'to happen' but for some reason my word document kept respelling it so I just checked out my German-English dictionary and used the verb passieren)
Warum verletzt mein Magen deshalb viel?: Why does my stomach hurt so much?
And of course to the reviews:
Crazy11: Did you really think I wouldn't know who that review was from? Hee hee. (It's an inside joke)
Skittles the Sugar fairy: I don't have everything planned out right now, but I'm working on it. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see.
Foxfire111: Where you on a sugar high when you wrote your review? Hee hee. We all love the blue fuzzy elf. This will probably end up being a Kurtty, but I might keep Amanda in there as a friend. Kurt's going to need all the friends he can get.
Jettwolf90: I'll try to keep up as much as I can. Can't tell you exactly what I have planned for Kurt yet, but don't worry … I could never be too mean to him.
Ner'ual of Say'lar: You can call off your Devil dogs and Flying Monkeys … I've updated. Besides, … I've dealt with worse than dogs and monkeys.
Raskolion Phoenix: I can't tell you anymore about where I'm going with this except for what's in the summary. I'm not even entirely sure what I'm all going to do with this fiction, but I have big plans for it.
I think I replied to everyone else on my last update. I actually meant to get this chapter done and up yesterday, but hey I had my top wisdom teeth pulled. Everyone needs a break once in awhile.
Keep up with the reviews. Thanks!
Chapter two
After Hank and Jean had finished their examination of Kurt, Logan had seated himself in a chair besides Kurt's bed and declared that he would be watching the elf that night.
Neither Jean nor Hank had even attempted to argue with him. They'd both known that someone had to watch Kurt that night, just as they'd both known that Logan would volunteer for the job.
Logan didn't always give the appearance that he like the students at the Institute, but nobody hurt them or messed with them.
Logan hadn't planned on falling asleep. But it had been a long couple of days for everyone in the institute since they'd all been out looking for Kurt and the elf in question was fast asleep at the moment himself.
Eventually as Logan watched the steady rise and fall of Kurt's chest, he allowed himself to be slowly lulled to sleep. His heightened senses would let him know if anything happened to Kurt during the night.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Kurt, in the meantime, was experiencing peaceful sleep and dreams for the first time in days.
Kurt dreamed about coming to the Institute for the first time. No one, not even his foster parents, had had any idea how terrified he'd actually been of leaving his home and coming to the Institute. And when he'd first laid eyes on Storm, the Professor, Scott and Jean (the only ones there at the time) he'd thought that his worst fears had been confirmed.
They may have been mutants as well, … but they didn't look any different then normal people.
However, Scott was surprised at shaking the hand of someone who was blue and had only three fingers, but he hadn't recoiled in disgust.
And neither had anyone else.
Except Kitty.
Kitty had at first been terrified by Kurt's appearance, but truth be told, Kurt hadn't been that bothered by her reaction.
She been less scared and judgmental then almost everyone else who had seen Kurt and known that he wasn't wearing a costume.
And Kurt had always figured that Kitty's reaction to him was more out of response to her own fear of being a mutant and having everything changing so fast.
It had been a lot for a 15-year old girl to deal with. After all, Kitty had had barely enough time to adjust to her powers before coming to the Institute. Unlike Kurt, who had never been able to hide the fact that he was different.
Kitty's reaction to Kurt had probably had nothing to do with Kurt as a person and everything to do with Kitty's difficulty in all the changes in her life.
However, Kitty couldn't deny that she'd come to care about Kurt as a friend at least. After all, she'd been freaked the first time Kurt had accidentally been injured on a mission by Rogue.
That's when she'd given him the nickname Blue Fuzzy Elf.
If Logan had been awake at that moment he would have noticed Kurt's mouth curving into a smile in his sleep as he remembered Scott bewildered reaction to Kitty calling him that nickname for the first time.
Unfortunately, Kurt's expression quickly turned troubled and full of fear as his dreams shifted from the comfort of his friends to the events of the previous few days. Kurt once again saw himself lying on a metal table.
Only this time he recognized one of the figures as Magneto and he saw the flash of a scalpel being raised before he felt the pain tearing through his abdomen.
His dreams once again shifted to another lab, more experiments, but a different place and time. Magneto was once again there, and Kurt felt as if his entire body was on fire.
He was distinctly aware of a baby crying, until he realized it was him
"Monster! What have you done to him?!"
With a jolt, Kurt came awake.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Logan had woken up the minute Kurt started stirring in his sleep. The focus of Kurt's dreaming was fairly obvious in the way his head was moving back and forth and his tiny whimpers of 'nein.'
He was right there the second Kurt came awake with a start and tried to sit. Trying to sit up was a mistake.
Kurt immediately clutched his stomach and groaned.
Logan suppressed a slightly amused grin as he helped Kurt lie back down.
"Easy Elf," Logan said, "you've been through quite a bit and if I were you I'd just lie back and take it easy. You need some rest."
Kurt was in no condition to argue or fight with Logan so he allowed himself to be laid back down. His held tilted towards Logan and his eyes blinked a couple of times to focus.
"Herr Logan?" he asked weakly.
Logan smiled at the German teen. "Yeah Elf, it's me."
Kurt looked a little panicked as he started speaking rapidly. "Herr Logan, was ist zu mir passieren? Warum verletzt mein Magen deshalb viel?"
Logan held up his hand to stop him from saying anything. "English Elf."
Despite the pain he was obviously in, Kurt somehow managed to smile. "Zorry Herr Logan. Vhen I'm … not all there I don't realize vhen I'm speaking Deutsch."
Logan grinned. "Don't worry about it. Now you were saying."
Kurt looked at Logan. "Vhat happened to me?"
Logan ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "Well, we were kind of hoping you could tell us what happened Elf."
Kurt blinked his eyes a couple more times and stared at the ceiling. His mind was still a little disoriented and he was trying to focus his mind on the events of the past couple of days.
"I … don't … I mean I … can't remember that much of the past few days," Kurt said. "Except I do remember some … other mutants, Magneto was one of them, … I was on a operating table and they … they cut me open!"
Logan placed a hand on Kurt's shoulder to give him some comfort. "Yeah, we guessed that from the evil looking scar on your abdomen."
Kurt instinctively started to lift his shirt to take a look, but Logan's hand closed over his before he could take a look.
"You don't want to do that. It looks a lot worse than it actually is. Magneto and his henchmen are complete slime balls, but they didn't leave any internal bleeding. However, the stitching was done a little hastily so Jean and Hank had to redo the stitching last night." Logan paused in his explanation. "The skin is a little red and irritated there."
Kurt relaxed at Logan's diagnosis. But then he turned towards the gruff man with a serious look on his face. "Vhy vaw this done to me?"
For once the Wolverine actually looked worried. "I don't know Elf."
Before anything more could be said, a voice spoke up from the doorway to the infirmary. "Mr. Logan? I know I shouldn't be down here without permission, but like, before heading to school and wanted to see how Kurt …"
"Keety?" Kurt interrupted.
"Kurt!" Kitty came fully into the room then and dropped her bag and books on the floor in her rush to get to Kurt. "The blue fuzzy elf is okay!"
Kitty wrapped her arms around Kurt in a hug and Kurt almost screamed at the pain in his stomach, but instead he just gently hugged her back.
Logan, in the meantime, was rubbing his ears in reaction to Kitty's scream. "Hey Half-Pint, you wanna go easy on the Elf. He doesn't need to be injured again."
Kitty instantly jumped back. "Sorry Kurt. The last thing you need is me jumping all over you right now."
Kurt managed to grin up at her from the bed. "No problem Keety." Secretly, under different circumstances, Kurt would have loved to have Kitty jumping all over him. But anything even close to that in nature would have to wait.
Kurt was so used to being active the majority of the day that this lack of movement would probably drive him crazy in the next few days more than the pain. He absolutely hated feeling like some kind of fragile egg.
"Is that valley girl already re-injuring mah little bro?"
"Nein Rogue," Kurt called out to the Goth chick who had just entered the room. "At least not with Herr Logan to pull her off."
"Well someone's gotta look out for you Elf," Logan said. "Cause we all know you don't look out for yourself."
Kitty and Rogue laughed as Kurt lightly swatted at Logan with his tail.
"Guess there are some good uses for that thing," Logan grumbled.
"Should I assume from the laughing and light atmosphere that our resident fuzz ball is awake?" Scott asked, poking his head in the door.
"Who are you calling a fuzz ball, Shades?!" Kurt tried to sound irritated, but he just came off as amused.
Scott laughed as he came in the door.
"The Professor wants to talk to you when your ready Kurt, but until then …" Scott trailed off as he held up the item he had brought with him.
A breakfast tray.
"Breakfast!" Kurt exclaimed.
Kitty and Rogue started laughing as Logan helped Kurt sit up in bed with an amused grin on his face.
"You must not be feeling to bad to want breakfast," Rogue commented.
"Vunderbar," Kurt replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes for emphasis.
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Was ist zu mir passieren?: What happened to me?
(A/N: freetranslations.com gave me a different verb for 'to happen' but for some reason my word document kept respelling it so I just checked out my German-English dictionary and used the verb passieren)
Warum verletzt mein Magen deshalb viel?: Why does my stomach hurt so much?
And of course to the reviews:
Crazy11: Did you really think I wouldn't know who that review was from? Hee hee. (It's an inside joke)
Skittles the Sugar fairy: I don't have everything planned out right now, but I'm working on it. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see.
Foxfire111: Where you on a sugar high when you wrote your review? Hee hee. We all love the blue fuzzy elf. This will probably end up being a Kurtty, but I might keep Amanda in there as a friend. Kurt's going to need all the friends he can get.
Jettwolf90: I'll try to keep up as much as I can. Can't tell you exactly what I have planned for Kurt yet, but don't worry … I could never be too mean to him.
Ner'ual of Say'lar: You can call off your Devil dogs and Flying Monkeys … I've updated. Besides, … I've dealt with worse than dogs and monkeys.
Raskolion Phoenix: I can't tell you anymore about where I'm going with this except for what's in the summary. I'm not even entirely sure what I'm all going to do with this fiction, but I have big plans for it.
I think I replied to everyone else on my last update. I actually meant to get this chapter done and up yesterday, but hey I had my top wisdom teeth pulled. Everyone needs a break once in awhile.
Keep up with the reviews. Thanks!