Chapter 9
Kurt groaned and complained the entire way down to the Infirmary.
Although he didn't really objected to the Professor trying to figure out what was wrong with him (honestly he was beginning to wonder as well) but the whole situation was completely humiliating for Kurt.
He wasn't used to being the center of attention of having everyone fretting over him.
Although on the fair side, the only people who were with Kurt as he laid down on a bed in the infirmary were the Professor, Scott, Jean, Kitty, and of course Mr. McCoy.
"Professor do ve really need to do this now?!" Kurt asked as Hank activated the X-ray screen to go over Kurt's abdomen, "can't ve just do zhis after school?"
"Kurt I'm concerned about you," the Professor said, "you don't seemed to have recovered from your encounter with Magneto and everyday that passes you seem to have something else wrong with you."
Kurt sighed while Kitty gave his hand a squeeze for reassurance from where she was seated by Kurt's bed. "I know Professor. Something just seems … I don't know … off, with me."
Scott silently nodded from where he was standing behind the Professor. Kurt really hadn't been himself the past few weeks.
Meanwhile, Jean was assisting Hank on getting the X-ray machine ready.
"So, what exactly are we looking at, Hank?" Jean asked the man beside her.
"We're first going to take a look at this extra organ of Kurt's," Hank replied, "since that was giving him some pretty severe stomach cramps the other day, it might help to look at that first."
Kurt groaned. "The organ doesn't do anything … kind of like an appendix. Why is everyone hung up on that?"
Kitty smiled a little at Kurt's annoyed tone. For that matter, so did everyone else.
"Kurt, it's not the fact that you have an extra organ that we're concerned about, but the fact of what it has been doing lately," the Professor said with a hint of a smile.
Kurt gave off a low rumble in his chest that sounded suspiciously like a growl.
In the meantime, Jean and Hank had continued with there work at the monitor even while smiling a little at Kurt's obvious irritation.
"There it, right there," Hank said pointing to the object in question.
Jean narrowed her eyes at the suspicious looking organ. "It seems to be quite active. Was it like that the last few times you looked at it?" she asked Hank.
"Yes," he said, "although not quite to that extent."
Hank looked over at Kurt. "Are you experiencing any pain or nausea right now Kurt?"
Kurt shook his head at Hank's question. "Nein, Herr McCoy. The nausea seems to have eased off and I haven't had any stomach cramps for a couple of days."
Jean was still looking at the monitor with a pensive look on her face while Hank talked with Kurt. "What is that?" she asked pointing at the screen.
Hank looked over and snorted. "It's just a dot on the screen Jean. Probably just a glitch on the monitor."
"Are you sure?" Jean asked. "I mean it's centered right in the middle of the organ."
Scott, in full leadership mode with Kurt's health on the line, spoke up. "Why don't you put the image up on the overhead monitor so all of us can look at it?"
"I agree with Scott," the Professor said.
Hank shrugged and pressed a couple of buttons to project the image on the overhead monitor. The image came up a couple of seconds later.
"I feel like such a guinea pig," Kurt replied jokingly. Although not even he was laughing since everyone was concentrating on the image on the screen.
"It definitely looks like something is in there," Scott said. He may have been confined to wearing shades or a visor, but he still had almost perfect 20/20 vision.
Suddenly Scott turned to the professor with a concerned look on his face. "Didn't you say when you probed Kurt's mind that you saw Magneto surgically implant something into Kurt?"
Kurt and the Professor's eyes met as they absorbed what Scott had just said. But it was the Professor that answered since Kurt seemed unable to speak.
"Yes, Scott. He did."
Kitty, out of nowhere, giggled. "The organ looks kind of like a womb."
Kurt was knocked out of his melancholy as Kitty's words registered and he actually started laughing for the first time in days.
"Very funny, Katzchen," he said, "let's do an X-ray of you next so I can say that your intestines look kind of like testicles."
Kitty playfully swatted Kurt. "I didn't say it was a womb Fuzzy. It was just a silly observation."
The other four remained completely silent and unaware of the playful scene taking place between Kurt and Kitty.
Kitty had made a point. Now that they looked closely the organ in question did in fact look like a womb. Probably the only reason none of them had thought of that before now was because Kurt was a guy. They hadn't been thinking in those terms.
Jean, however, was running through a mental checklist of Kurt's symptoms of the past two weeks.
First of all, Magneto had obviously implanted something in Kurt. That was suspicious enough in itself. Than there was Kurt's stomach cramps. In one of her medical classes Jean had heard that some woman experienced pain early in a pregnancy as the embryo embedded itself into the walls of the womb. It wasn't common, but it also wasn't unheard of. Then there was the constant fatigue and the … morning sickness.
No it couldn't be.
"Hank, I think we should run a sonogram," Jean said to the man standing beside her.
Both Kurt and Kitty looked up in surprise.
"You're like, not actually taking my comment seriously?!" Kitty asked in disbelief.
Kurt was also in disbelief. "Jean … maybe you missed something in health class, but … I'm pretty sure I'm a guy!"
Jean sighed. "I didn't say I was taking Kitty's comment seriously, but the sonogram will give us a better perspective."
Kurt placed his hands over his face and moaned. He couldn't believe he was actually having this conversation with Jean. It felt more like a bad dream.
*Kurt please just do this. We don't want anything to happen to you. You mean so much to everyone here.*
Kurt uncovered his eyes and looked at the Professor completely surprised. He usually didn't' show this much emotion even thought everyone knew how important his students were to him.
Sighing once more, Kurt sat up slightly, arranged the pillows behind him to get a little more comfortable, and raised his t-shirt around his abdomen so Jean could perform the sonogram.
Thank god no one was laughing. Kurt was already completely humiliated.
*Thanks Kurt. I'm not trying to make this difficult for you.*
Kurt smiled at Jean.
*I know.*
Jean and Hank wheeled the sonogram machine over and Kitty quickly jumped up to get out of their way. She wanted to stay by Kurt's side and reassure him, but this was more important at the moment.
It took a few moments for Hank to get the sonogram machine on and get the thing loaded up. While he played around with getting the thing started, Jean quickly applied some gel to the end of the device used to place on Kurt's stomach.
Soon the machine was up and placing the gelled device onto Kurt's stomach.
Kurt squirmed a little as Jean placed it on his stomach and when she looked at him he simply shrugged and replied, "It tickles."
Jean smiled as Kitty giggled.
For awhile absolutely nothing happened as Jean continued to whirl the device on Kurt's stomach, but then suddenly a steady thump-thump caused everyone to glance up in concern.
"Tell me that's just mein own heartbeat!" Kurt replied frantically.
Jean looked at him gravely. "No, Kurt. The heartbeat is coming from that extra organ."
"Was?!" Kurt yelled. "So, not only does Magneto put something into me, but … it's alive!"
*Kurt calm down*
Despite the Professor's words, Kurt still managed to sink down even lower into the bed and place his face in his hands out of total despair.
Jean reluctantly got up, walked over to the table and grabbed a cup.
This would be an incredible bruise on Kurt's already dented ego, but there was no choice. There was only one way to find out for sure.
Kurt glanced nervously at the cup in Jean's hand as she walked up to him.
"That had better for candy," he said with a dangerous edge to his voice.
"You know it isn't," Jean said. *It's for you to pee in*
She hadn't wanted to say that out loud in front of everyone.
But Kurt at the moment wasn't as silent.
"YOU ARE NOT ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT GIVING ME A PREGNANCY TEST!!" he practically screamed the words.
Everyone winced at the shrillness in Kurt's tone, but didn't say anything against it.
Scott was standing against the wall almost expecting someone to some out and say that this whole thing was all one big joke.
This couldn't be Kurt they were talking about.
Pregnant?
It just simply couldn't be possible.
If Scott had been reading all of this he'd probably be laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation.
But he would never laugh at Kurt. After all, he'd have been just as humiliated if it was him in Kurt's position at the moment.
"Kurt, … please?" Jean said.
Already in a rage over the events that were fast spiraling out of his control, Kurt jumped off the bed and grabbed the cup out of Jean's hand before stalking off to the bathroom.
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"I feel like I should pinch myself, because I must be dreaming," Kurt replied in a daze as he sat by Kitty and waited for the results from the test.
Everyone else was standing on the other side of the room by the Professor, understanding that Kurt needed a little space at that moment.
Wordlessly, Kitty put an arm around Kurt's shoulders.
"I know what you mean Fuzzy. I mean like … this whole thing just seems impossible," she said, still not able to believe it herself. Although it certainly explained Kurt's symptoms for the past few weeks.
Kurt looked over at Kitty with a shaky expression on his face. "Vhy aren't any of you laughing or making jokes?"
Kitty looked surprised at Kurt's question. "I would never laugh at you Kurt. Not in a circumstance like this."
Kurt sighed. "But you don't find all of this weird," he paused at Kitty's incredulous look, "I mean earlier this morning you're kissing some guy," Kurt actually blushed as he said that while Kitty giggled and also blushed, "and then the next thing you know he might actually be … I don't even think I can bring myself to say it."
Kitty gave Kurt's shoulder a slight squeeze for reassurance.
"Four years ago I would have found the situation weird. But then I fell through the ceiling in my room and nothing has been the same since. I'm not normal, but I believe I'm just as unique and special as anybody else. And Kurt, … you've gotta believe that you're beautiful in your own way," Kitty raised a hand to silence Kurt's protest. "I mean the fuzzy look works for you and you have the sweetest soul of anyone I've ever met. And like, just look at it this way: even if that test comes out positive, you'll be able to do something no other guy can lay a claim to. Create life. That's a heck of a gift Kurt."
Kurt actually managed to relax and smile.
"I'm sure if I can agree with you at this moment Keety, but …thanks," he said.
Kitty smiled and kissed Kurt lightly on the cheek. "None of us will leave you Kurt. No matter what that test says."
It was just at that moment that a beep went off signaling to everyone in the room that the test had been completed.
Everyone looked up in apprehension. No one, especially Kurt, wanting to walk up and actually see the results of the test.
Finally Jean swallowed nervously and walked up to the table where the pregnancy test had been placed.
Everyone else walked up and gathered a short distance behind her. Scared to look and scared to ask.
"Vell?" Kurt asked, "Vhat does it say?"
Jean swallowed again before turning back around. Her expression seemed to say it all, but Kurt still hung to the slight hope that this was all either a joke or a bad dream.
"I don't know what to say Kurt," Jean said in a resigned matter and Kurt's heart sank at her statement. He couldn't actually be pregnant.
"Kurt, … the test came out positive."
Kurt was vaguely aware of several gasps coming from the others in the room and the Professor's eyes actually widened in surprise.
However, suddenly the room started getting hazy and Kurt ended up swaying on his feet.
He vaguely heard Scott yell "Kurt!" and run forward just as Kurt pitched forward in a faint. The last thing he was aware of was the concerned and disbelieving look on Scott's face just before the darkness consumed him.
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Oh my God! Becky I actually managed to finish the update without a short one shot fic to get me over my writer's block! Although I'll probably write that short one shot fic we talked about tomorrow because I'll need something to do tomorrow evening.
Everyone else just ignore me here.
I'm answering reviews for chapter 8 and 9 here because I didn't have time to review the last time.
Maxine-chan: I'm glad you thought the 'extra organ' was neat. For a minute I didn't think I'd get the next chapter up this week, but I actually finished. Although I might have some writer's block that I'll try to get over during the weekend. I should still be able to update at least once a week.
I liked the Kurt/Kitty scene too. Very sweet. Wanted them to have one kiss before the shit hit the fan so to speak.
Raskolian Phoenix: I've actually written mpreg that are slash (those are all with my friend and under daughtersofgondor though) but for this one I didn't want to do a slash. And this is one story I intend to finish.
Ach-da-ba: Thanks for the sign in name. Put the next one under 'Oui' (Okay, you did Oh-si-yoh, but the next next one.) hee hee.
Dragon Slayer: Hmmm. .. I might actually be able to have Lance attack Kurt and have Pietro save him. (I don't hate Lance, but I don't particularly love him either). I need a chance to think about this over the weekend. Might not get to the attack until another two chapters though. Don't give up, I should be able to get to it.
Kurt groaned and complained the entire way down to the Infirmary.
Although he didn't really objected to the Professor trying to figure out what was wrong with him (honestly he was beginning to wonder as well) but the whole situation was completely humiliating for Kurt.
He wasn't used to being the center of attention of having everyone fretting over him.
Although on the fair side, the only people who were with Kurt as he laid down on a bed in the infirmary were the Professor, Scott, Jean, Kitty, and of course Mr. McCoy.
"Professor do ve really need to do this now?!" Kurt asked as Hank activated the X-ray screen to go over Kurt's abdomen, "can't ve just do zhis after school?"
"Kurt I'm concerned about you," the Professor said, "you don't seemed to have recovered from your encounter with Magneto and everyday that passes you seem to have something else wrong with you."
Kurt sighed while Kitty gave his hand a squeeze for reassurance from where she was seated by Kurt's bed. "I know Professor. Something just seems … I don't know … off, with me."
Scott silently nodded from where he was standing behind the Professor. Kurt really hadn't been himself the past few weeks.
Meanwhile, Jean was assisting Hank on getting the X-ray machine ready.
"So, what exactly are we looking at, Hank?" Jean asked the man beside her.
"We're first going to take a look at this extra organ of Kurt's," Hank replied, "since that was giving him some pretty severe stomach cramps the other day, it might help to look at that first."
Kurt groaned. "The organ doesn't do anything … kind of like an appendix. Why is everyone hung up on that?"
Kitty smiled a little at Kurt's annoyed tone. For that matter, so did everyone else.
"Kurt, it's not the fact that you have an extra organ that we're concerned about, but the fact of what it has been doing lately," the Professor said with a hint of a smile.
Kurt gave off a low rumble in his chest that sounded suspiciously like a growl.
In the meantime, Jean and Hank had continued with there work at the monitor even while smiling a little at Kurt's obvious irritation.
"There it, right there," Hank said pointing to the object in question.
Jean narrowed her eyes at the suspicious looking organ. "It seems to be quite active. Was it like that the last few times you looked at it?" she asked Hank.
"Yes," he said, "although not quite to that extent."
Hank looked over at Kurt. "Are you experiencing any pain or nausea right now Kurt?"
Kurt shook his head at Hank's question. "Nein, Herr McCoy. The nausea seems to have eased off and I haven't had any stomach cramps for a couple of days."
Jean was still looking at the monitor with a pensive look on her face while Hank talked with Kurt. "What is that?" she asked pointing at the screen.
Hank looked over and snorted. "It's just a dot on the screen Jean. Probably just a glitch on the monitor."
"Are you sure?" Jean asked. "I mean it's centered right in the middle of the organ."
Scott, in full leadership mode with Kurt's health on the line, spoke up. "Why don't you put the image up on the overhead monitor so all of us can look at it?"
"I agree with Scott," the Professor said.
Hank shrugged and pressed a couple of buttons to project the image on the overhead monitor. The image came up a couple of seconds later.
"I feel like such a guinea pig," Kurt replied jokingly. Although not even he was laughing since everyone was concentrating on the image on the screen.
"It definitely looks like something is in there," Scott said. He may have been confined to wearing shades or a visor, but he still had almost perfect 20/20 vision.
Suddenly Scott turned to the professor with a concerned look on his face. "Didn't you say when you probed Kurt's mind that you saw Magneto surgically implant something into Kurt?"
Kurt and the Professor's eyes met as they absorbed what Scott had just said. But it was the Professor that answered since Kurt seemed unable to speak.
"Yes, Scott. He did."
Kitty, out of nowhere, giggled. "The organ looks kind of like a womb."
Kurt was knocked out of his melancholy as Kitty's words registered and he actually started laughing for the first time in days.
"Very funny, Katzchen," he said, "let's do an X-ray of you next so I can say that your intestines look kind of like testicles."
Kitty playfully swatted Kurt. "I didn't say it was a womb Fuzzy. It was just a silly observation."
The other four remained completely silent and unaware of the playful scene taking place between Kurt and Kitty.
Kitty had made a point. Now that they looked closely the organ in question did in fact look like a womb. Probably the only reason none of them had thought of that before now was because Kurt was a guy. They hadn't been thinking in those terms.
Jean, however, was running through a mental checklist of Kurt's symptoms of the past two weeks.
First of all, Magneto had obviously implanted something in Kurt. That was suspicious enough in itself. Than there was Kurt's stomach cramps. In one of her medical classes Jean had heard that some woman experienced pain early in a pregnancy as the embryo embedded itself into the walls of the womb. It wasn't common, but it also wasn't unheard of. Then there was the constant fatigue and the … morning sickness.
No it couldn't be.
"Hank, I think we should run a sonogram," Jean said to the man standing beside her.
Both Kurt and Kitty looked up in surprise.
"You're like, not actually taking my comment seriously?!" Kitty asked in disbelief.
Kurt was also in disbelief. "Jean … maybe you missed something in health class, but … I'm pretty sure I'm a guy!"
Jean sighed. "I didn't say I was taking Kitty's comment seriously, but the sonogram will give us a better perspective."
Kurt placed his hands over his face and moaned. He couldn't believe he was actually having this conversation with Jean. It felt more like a bad dream.
*Kurt please just do this. We don't want anything to happen to you. You mean so much to everyone here.*
Kurt uncovered his eyes and looked at the Professor completely surprised. He usually didn't' show this much emotion even thought everyone knew how important his students were to him.
Sighing once more, Kurt sat up slightly, arranged the pillows behind him to get a little more comfortable, and raised his t-shirt around his abdomen so Jean could perform the sonogram.
Thank god no one was laughing. Kurt was already completely humiliated.
*Thanks Kurt. I'm not trying to make this difficult for you.*
Kurt smiled at Jean.
*I know.*
Jean and Hank wheeled the sonogram machine over and Kitty quickly jumped up to get out of their way. She wanted to stay by Kurt's side and reassure him, but this was more important at the moment.
It took a few moments for Hank to get the sonogram machine on and get the thing loaded up. While he played around with getting the thing started, Jean quickly applied some gel to the end of the device used to place on Kurt's stomach.
Soon the machine was up and placing the gelled device onto Kurt's stomach.
Kurt squirmed a little as Jean placed it on his stomach and when she looked at him he simply shrugged and replied, "It tickles."
Jean smiled as Kitty giggled.
For awhile absolutely nothing happened as Jean continued to whirl the device on Kurt's stomach, but then suddenly a steady thump-thump caused everyone to glance up in concern.
"Tell me that's just mein own heartbeat!" Kurt replied frantically.
Jean looked at him gravely. "No, Kurt. The heartbeat is coming from that extra organ."
"Was?!" Kurt yelled. "So, not only does Magneto put something into me, but … it's alive!"
*Kurt calm down*
Despite the Professor's words, Kurt still managed to sink down even lower into the bed and place his face in his hands out of total despair.
Jean reluctantly got up, walked over to the table and grabbed a cup.
This would be an incredible bruise on Kurt's already dented ego, but there was no choice. There was only one way to find out for sure.
Kurt glanced nervously at the cup in Jean's hand as she walked up to him.
"That had better for candy," he said with a dangerous edge to his voice.
"You know it isn't," Jean said. *It's for you to pee in*
She hadn't wanted to say that out loud in front of everyone.
But Kurt at the moment wasn't as silent.
"YOU ARE NOT ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT GIVING ME A PREGNANCY TEST!!" he practically screamed the words.
Everyone winced at the shrillness in Kurt's tone, but didn't say anything against it.
Scott was standing against the wall almost expecting someone to some out and say that this whole thing was all one big joke.
This couldn't be Kurt they were talking about.
Pregnant?
It just simply couldn't be possible.
If Scott had been reading all of this he'd probably be laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation.
But he would never laugh at Kurt. After all, he'd have been just as humiliated if it was him in Kurt's position at the moment.
"Kurt, … please?" Jean said.
Already in a rage over the events that were fast spiraling out of his control, Kurt jumped off the bed and grabbed the cup out of Jean's hand before stalking off to the bathroom.
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"I feel like I should pinch myself, because I must be dreaming," Kurt replied in a daze as he sat by Kitty and waited for the results from the test.
Everyone else was standing on the other side of the room by the Professor, understanding that Kurt needed a little space at that moment.
Wordlessly, Kitty put an arm around Kurt's shoulders.
"I know what you mean Fuzzy. I mean like … this whole thing just seems impossible," she said, still not able to believe it herself. Although it certainly explained Kurt's symptoms for the past few weeks.
Kurt looked over at Kitty with a shaky expression on his face. "Vhy aren't any of you laughing or making jokes?"
Kitty looked surprised at Kurt's question. "I would never laugh at you Kurt. Not in a circumstance like this."
Kurt sighed. "But you don't find all of this weird," he paused at Kitty's incredulous look, "I mean earlier this morning you're kissing some guy," Kurt actually blushed as he said that while Kitty giggled and also blushed, "and then the next thing you know he might actually be … I don't even think I can bring myself to say it."
Kitty gave Kurt's shoulder a slight squeeze for reassurance.
"Four years ago I would have found the situation weird. But then I fell through the ceiling in my room and nothing has been the same since. I'm not normal, but I believe I'm just as unique and special as anybody else. And Kurt, … you've gotta believe that you're beautiful in your own way," Kitty raised a hand to silence Kurt's protest. "I mean the fuzzy look works for you and you have the sweetest soul of anyone I've ever met. And like, just look at it this way: even if that test comes out positive, you'll be able to do something no other guy can lay a claim to. Create life. That's a heck of a gift Kurt."
Kurt actually managed to relax and smile.
"I'm sure if I can agree with you at this moment Keety, but …thanks," he said.
Kitty smiled and kissed Kurt lightly on the cheek. "None of us will leave you Kurt. No matter what that test says."
It was just at that moment that a beep went off signaling to everyone in the room that the test had been completed.
Everyone looked up in apprehension. No one, especially Kurt, wanting to walk up and actually see the results of the test.
Finally Jean swallowed nervously and walked up to the table where the pregnancy test had been placed.
Everyone else walked up and gathered a short distance behind her. Scared to look and scared to ask.
"Vell?" Kurt asked, "Vhat does it say?"
Jean swallowed again before turning back around. Her expression seemed to say it all, but Kurt still hung to the slight hope that this was all either a joke or a bad dream.
"I don't know what to say Kurt," Jean said in a resigned matter and Kurt's heart sank at her statement. He couldn't actually be pregnant.
"Kurt, … the test came out positive."
Kurt was vaguely aware of several gasps coming from the others in the room and the Professor's eyes actually widened in surprise.
However, suddenly the room started getting hazy and Kurt ended up swaying on his feet.
He vaguely heard Scott yell "Kurt!" and run forward just as Kurt pitched forward in a faint. The last thing he was aware of was the concerned and disbelieving look on Scott's face just before the darkness consumed him.
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Oh my God! Becky I actually managed to finish the update without a short one shot fic to get me over my writer's block! Although I'll probably write that short one shot fic we talked about tomorrow because I'll need something to do tomorrow evening.
Everyone else just ignore me here.
I'm answering reviews for chapter 8 and 9 here because I didn't have time to review the last time.
Maxine-chan: I'm glad you thought the 'extra organ' was neat. For a minute I didn't think I'd get the next chapter up this week, but I actually finished. Although I might have some writer's block that I'll try to get over during the weekend. I should still be able to update at least once a week.
I liked the Kurt/Kitty scene too. Very sweet. Wanted them to have one kiss before the shit hit the fan so to speak.
Raskolian Phoenix: I've actually written mpreg that are slash (those are all with my friend and under daughtersofgondor though) but for this one I didn't want to do a slash. And this is one story I intend to finish.
Ach-da-ba: Thanks for the sign in name. Put the next one under 'Oui' (Okay, you did Oh-si-yoh, but the next next one.) hee hee.
Dragon Slayer: Hmmm. .. I might actually be able to have Lance attack Kurt and have Pietro save him. (I don't hate Lance, but I don't particularly love him either). I need a chance to think about this over the weekend. Might not get to the attack until another two chapters though. Don't give up, I should be able to get to it.