Chapter 12
Kurt growled at Lance.
He absolutely couldn't believe the nerve this guy had. Here he was freaking out because he was thinking some psycho human or one of those darkly dressed henchmen was trying to murder him, and all it was a jealous Lance.
Kurt pushed Lance away from him.
"Lance zhis is ridiculous! You and Kitty broke up!" Kurt hissed back at the angry boy in front of him. "Du bist nicht gut genau für sie sowieso!"
If it was possible, Lance got even angrier at Kurt. He walked up and grabbed Kurt by the front of his t-shirt.
"What did you say to me freak!"
If Kurt had been thinking rationally he probably would have just walked away from Lance. After all, it had been only a little over a month since him and Kitty had broken up so it was still fresh in his mind.
However, the events of the past two weeks were taking their toll on Kurt and so he impulsively reached to his wrist and turned off his image inducer. Without the hologram covering up his true form, Lance was easily able to see Kurt's fangs when the young teen growled at him.
"Back off Lance. Kitty is being a friend by helping me out through a difficult time," Kurt paused and then mumbled under his breath, "not that it's any of your business."
Lance had momentarily stepped back when Kurt bared his fangs at him. He'd always known they were there, but Kurt had always been so non-aggressive that Lance had never felt any fear towards him. That moment of fear mixed with Kurt's last comment had the direct effect of causing Lance to get even angrier. Reacting without thinking, Lance punched Kurt right in the stomach.
Kurt felt all the air rush out of him in rush.
Unfortunately Lance's blow had been fairly accurate and Kurt felt his muscles tighten and cramp when the punch hit him.
Crying out from both the punch and the unexpected cramping, Kurt crumpled to the ground in a heap of pain.
The action helped draw Lance out of his angry haze. Kurt lay on the ground clutching his stomach and groaning in pain. Confused, Lance looked at his fist in amazement.
He didn't think he'd hit Kurt that hard.
However, before Lance could help Kurt off the ground or even make an attempt at an apology, he was suddenly thrown backward and away from Kurt.
Kurt froze as he suddenly sensed people surrounding him. Swallowing nervously, Kurt slowly glanced up.
This time when he cried out, it was from fear.
A figure dressed all in black, was standing directly above Kurt.
Kurt flipped onto his back and started inching away from the black figure. It was dressed exactly like the figures who had tried to kill him at the movies.
Kurt hand was still around his stomach, but he kept it there for protection because suddenly the comment Jean had received from Magneto all made sense.
They'll kill him because they must, but it's not really him they want dead.
These mysterious assassins really wanted to kill his child!
Kurt continued backing away from the black figure while still laying sprawled on his back. Unfortunately he ended up backing into two more black figures.
Kurt looked up and screamed as the two figure grabbed him by each of his arms and pinned him to the ground. Another two figures came forward and pinned his legs to the ground.
In his greatly fatigued state, Kurt could barely put up any kind of a fight and he couldn't even think about teleporting.
Then he quickly went from mildly panicked to hysterical when the black figure still standing in front of him pulled out a long, gleaming butcher's knife.
"Nein! Nein! Bitte tun mich nicht weh! Tot mein Kind nicht!" Kurt screamed at the assassins.
Odd how he hadn't felt any kind of feelings towards the child until now. When faced with the prospect that his own flesh and blood was about to be murdered right in front of him.
However, the black figure paid no heed to Kurt and advancing on him.
When the figure simply raised the knife over Kurt's stomach, Kurt was so panicked by then that all he could do was scream hysterically.
Fortune was on Kurt's side though. A fast whirlwind suddenly buzzed past the looming black figure. The knife was suddenly gone from the figure's hand and it was pushed back into the tree. The black figure dropped to the ground unconscious.
Kurt looked up in confusion to see Pietro standing there with the figure's butchers knife in his hand.
"You guys picked kind of a public place to commit a murder don't you think," Pietro said smugly to the black figures.
The two figures holding Kurt's legs down suddenly jumped up from their position and lunged at Pietro. They'd obviously not seen how fast Pietro had taken out their comrade and had no prior knowledge of his mutant gifts.
Because wasn't standing in his position above them anymore. In a split second the two figures were lying next to their already fallen comrade and were also unconscious.
But Pietro didn't stop there.
Kurt suddenly found himself free as they remaining two figures were thrown off of him and crumpled into a heap behind him.
Kurt found himself trembling. The assault had ended even faster than it had begun.
Kurt glanced over to his left as he heard a groan coming from that direction.
Lance was slowly sitting up and he had a rather large cut running across his forehead which suggested that he'd hit a rock or something else that was hard when he'd been pushed away from Kurt.
Pietro suddenly rushed up to stand in front of Lance.
"You might wanna get out of here Lance," Pietro said, "the X-geeks are out looking for Nightcrawler and apparently Tabitha saw you dragging him away. They're all pretty angry."
Lance's head must not have been hit that hard, because he actually listened to Lance and quickly ran out of there.
In the meantime, Pietro walked up to Kurt.
"I think it will be okay if you teleport to the front of the park, but you might want to turn your image inducer on first," Pietro said.
Still trembling, Kurt reached over and tapped on his image inducer without even looking. He looked up at Pietro in confusion.
"Why are you helping me?" Kurt asked.
"My father told me you needed protection," Pietro said throwing Kurt a meaningful, "and I think you know why."
Kurt suddenly stilled. "He told you."
Pietro nodded.
Kurt stood up. His face showed he was furious.
"Why?! Why did he do this to me?"
Pietro wasn't at all fazed by Kurt's reaction.
"I don't know all the details. Magneto only tells me what he wants me to know. But don't worry he'll let you know ... soon enough. But you might want to split. Those guys won't be unconscious for long," Pietro said.
Then he to took off in a rush.
Kurt growled in frustration, but listened to Pietro.
He teleported himself to the edge of the park. Where Scott, Kitty, Rogue, Amara, and Tabitha all rushed up to him.
"Kurt are you okay?!" Kitty said rushing up to hug him.
"What did Lance want with you blue?" Tabitha asked.
"Was he being a total jerk to you?" Amara asked right on the heels of Tabitha's question.
"Kurt, you're trembling," Rogue commented.
"Girls quit chatting Kurt's head off and give him a chance to explain," Scott commented.
Kurt threw Scott a look that clearly said "Thank you" before going into an explanation about Lance dragging him to the park and then him being attacked by the black figures.
Kitty shook her head in anger. "Man, Lance can be such a jerk at times!"
Scott, in the meantime, looked at Kurt in concern.
"Kurt, were these the same guys that attacked you at the movie theater?"
Kurt nodded, still trembling in Kitty's arms. In response, Kitty hugged Kurt even tighter.
Rogue narrowed her eyes at the embrace, but chose not to say anything. It wasn't the time to talk to Kitty about what her intentions were regarding her brother and besides ... Kurt would just get angry at her for bringing it up.
Scott, looking both angry and determined, started walking towards the park and everyone just started following behind him.
"Scott, where are we going?" Amara asked.
"If those guys are still there, we're going to question them. This is the second attempt on Kurt's life and I want some answers!" Scott said. His voice was extremely tight and he was making one heck of an effort not to yell in anger.
However, when they got to the spot Kurt had described, there was no one there.
"Is this where they were Blue?" Tabitha asked.
Kurt looked at the spot. He had felt much braver going into the park with five of his teammates behind him, but when he looked at the area where the assailants had been lying unconscious and saw that it was suddenly empty, Kurt suddenly started trembling again.
"Zhey vere right there," Kurt replied. His voice shook as he spoke.
Scott turned towards Kurt and placed a hand on his shoulder while Kitty continued to hug him.
"Are you gonna be okay buddy?" Scott asked.
Kurt shook his head as he tried desperately not to cry. "Nein Scott," Kurt said. "I'm not going to be okay until I find some answers."
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A/N: Okay ... so I lied and I managed to get one more chapter finished before the weekend. But I didn't want to leave the situation with Lance unresolved for several days and besides I needed to get this chapter finished before I really started to get going with the story. I'll be covering a little more time in the next chapter.
Also, fanfiction.net is being a little screwy right now so I'm just going to try and upload the chapter and then post it, so I'll be responding to reviews in the next update. So, I apologize to anyone who really wanted a question answered, but hey I can't do everything.
I don't think I'm going to make Lance a complete slimeball, but I figured if he and Kitty only broke up a month ago, he still be kind of jealous seeing her with Kurt.
Anyway, I hope everyone likes the chapter.
Thanks for the continued reviews and support.
Kurt growled at Lance.
He absolutely couldn't believe the nerve this guy had. Here he was freaking out because he was thinking some psycho human or one of those darkly dressed henchmen was trying to murder him, and all it was a jealous Lance.
Kurt pushed Lance away from him.
"Lance zhis is ridiculous! You and Kitty broke up!" Kurt hissed back at the angry boy in front of him. "Du bist nicht gut genau für sie sowieso!"
If it was possible, Lance got even angrier at Kurt. He walked up and grabbed Kurt by the front of his t-shirt.
"What did you say to me freak!"
If Kurt had been thinking rationally he probably would have just walked away from Lance. After all, it had been only a little over a month since him and Kitty had broken up so it was still fresh in his mind.
However, the events of the past two weeks were taking their toll on Kurt and so he impulsively reached to his wrist and turned off his image inducer. Without the hologram covering up his true form, Lance was easily able to see Kurt's fangs when the young teen growled at him.
"Back off Lance. Kitty is being a friend by helping me out through a difficult time," Kurt paused and then mumbled under his breath, "not that it's any of your business."
Lance had momentarily stepped back when Kurt bared his fangs at him. He'd always known they were there, but Kurt had always been so non-aggressive that Lance had never felt any fear towards him. That moment of fear mixed with Kurt's last comment had the direct effect of causing Lance to get even angrier. Reacting without thinking, Lance punched Kurt right in the stomach.
Kurt felt all the air rush out of him in rush.
Unfortunately Lance's blow had been fairly accurate and Kurt felt his muscles tighten and cramp when the punch hit him.
Crying out from both the punch and the unexpected cramping, Kurt crumpled to the ground in a heap of pain.
The action helped draw Lance out of his angry haze. Kurt lay on the ground clutching his stomach and groaning in pain. Confused, Lance looked at his fist in amazement.
He didn't think he'd hit Kurt that hard.
However, before Lance could help Kurt off the ground or even make an attempt at an apology, he was suddenly thrown backward and away from Kurt.
Kurt froze as he suddenly sensed people surrounding him. Swallowing nervously, Kurt slowly glanced up.
This time when he cried out, it was from fear.
A figure dressed all in black, was standing directly above Kurt.
Kurt flipped onto his back and started inching away from the black figure. It was dressed exactly like the figures who had tried to kill him at the movies.
Kurt hand was still around his stomach, but he kept it there for protection because suddenly the comment Jean had received from Magneto all made sense.
They'll kill him because they must, but it's not really him they want dead.
These mysterious assassins really wanted to kill his child!
Kurt continued backing away from the black figure while still laying sprawled on his back. Unfortunately he ended up backing into two more black figures.
Kurt looked up and screamed as the two figure grabbed him by each of his arms and pinned him to the ground. Another two figures came forward and pinned his legs to the ground.
In his greatly fatigued state, Kurt could barely put up any kind of a fight and he couldn't even think about teleporting.
Then he quickly went from mildly panicked to hysterical when the black figure still standing in front of him pulled out a long, gleaming butcher's knife.
"Nein! Nein! Bitte tun mich nicht weh! Tot mein Kind nicht!" Kurt screamed at the assassins.
Odd how he hadn't felt any kind of feelings towards the child until now. When faced with the prospect that his own flesh and blood was about to be murdered right in front of him.
However, the black figure paid no heed to Kurt and advancing on him.
When the figure simply raised the knife over Kurt's stomach, Kurt was so panicked by then that all he could do was scream hysterically.
Fortune was on Kurt's side though. A fast whirlwind suddenly buzzed past the looming black figure. The knife was suddenly gone from the figure's hand and it was pushed back into the tree. The black figure dropped to the ground unconscious.
Kurt looked up in confusion to see Pietro standing there with the figure's butchers knife in his hand.
"You guys picked kind of a public place to commit a murder don't you think," Pietro said smugly to the black figures.
The two figures holding Kurt's legs down suddenly jumped up from their position and lunged at Pietro. They'd obviously not seen how fast Pietro had taken out their comrade and had no prior knowledge of his mutant gifts.
Because wasn't standing in his position above them anymore. In a split second the two figures were lying next to their already fallen comrade and were also unconscious.
But Pietro didn't stop there.
Kurt suddenly found himself free as they remaining two figures were thrown off of him and crumpled into a heap behind him.
Kurt found himself trembling. The assault had ended even faster than it had begun.
Kurt glanced over to his left as he heard a groan coming from that direction.
Lance was slowly sitting up and he had a rather large cut running across his forehead which suggested that he'd hit a rock or something else that was hard when he'd been pushed away from Kurt.
Pietro suddenly rushed up to stand in front of Lance.
"You might wanna get out of here Lance," Pietro said, "the X-geeks are out looking for Nightcrawler and apparently Tabitha saw you dragging him away. They're all pretty angry."
Lance's head must not have been hit that hard, because he actually listened to Lance and quickly ran out of there.
In the meantime, Pietro walked up to Kurt.
"I think it will be okay if you teleport to the front of the park, but you might want to turn your image inducer on first," Pietro said.
Still trembling, Kurt reached over and tapped on his image inducer without even looking. He looked up at Pietro in confusion.
"Why are you helping me?" Kurt asked.
"My father told me you needed protection," Pietro said throwing Kurt a meaningful, "and I think you know why."
Kurt suddenly stilled. "He told you."
Pietro nodded.
Kurt stood up. His face showed he was furious.
"Why?! Why did he do this to me?"
Pietro wasn't at all fazed by Kurt's reaction.
"I don't know all the details. Magneto only tells me what he wants me to know. But don't worry he'll let you know ... soon enough. But you might want to split. Those guys won't be unconscious for long," Pietro said.
Then he to took off in a rush.
Kurt growled in frustration, but listened to Pietro.
He teleported himself to the edge of the park. Where Scott, Kitty, Rogue, Amara, and Tabitha all rushed up to him.
"Kurt are you okay?!" Kitty said rushing up to hug him.
"What did Lance want with you blue?" Tabitha asked.
"Was he being a total jerk to you?" Amara asked right on the heels of Tabitha's question.
"Kurt, you're trembling," Rogue commented.
"Girls quit chatting Kurt's head off and give him a chance to explain," Scott commented.
Kurt threw Scott a look that clearly said "Thank you" before going into an explanation about Lance dragging him to the park and then him being attacked by the black figures.
Kitty shook her head in anger. "Man, Lance can be such a jerk at times!"
Scott, in the meantime, looked at Kurt in concern.
"Kurt, were these the same guys that attacked you at the movie theater?"
Kurt nodded, still trembling in Kitty's arms. In response, Kitty hugged Kurt even tighter.
Rogue narrowed her eyes at the embrace, but chose not to say anything. It wasn't the time to talk to Kitty about what her intentions were regarding her brother and besides ... Kurt would just get angry at her for bringing it up.
Scott, looking both angry and determined, started walking towards the park and everyone just started following behind him.
"Scott, where are we going?" Amara asked.
"If those guys are still there, we're going to question them. This is the second attempt on Kurt's life and I want some answers!" Scott said. His voice was extremely tight and he was making one heck of an effort not to yell in anger.
However, when they got to the spot Kurt had described, there was no one there.
"Is this where they were Blue?" Tabitha asked.
Kurt looked at the spot. He had felt much braver going into the park with five of his teammates behind him, but when he looked at the area where the assailants had been lying unconscious and saw that it was suddenly empty, Kurt suddenly started trembling again.
"Zhey vere right there," Kurt replied. His voice shook as he spoke.
Scott turned towards Kurt and placed a hand on his shoulder while Kitty continued to hug him.
"Are you gonna be okay buddy?" Scott asked.
Kurt shook his head as he tried desperately not to cry. "Nein Scott," Kurt said. "I'm not going to be okay until I find some answers."
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A/N: Okay ... so I lied and I managed to get one more chapter finished before the weekend. But I didn't want to leave the situation with Lance unresolved for several days and besides I needed to get this chapter finished before I really started to get going with the story. I'll be covering a little more time in the next chapter.
Also, fanfiction.net is being a little screwy right now so I'm just going to try and upload the chapter and then post it, so I'll be responding to reviews in the next update. So, I apologize to anyone who really wanted a question answered, but hey I can't do everything.
I don't think I'm going to make Lance a complete slimeball, but I figured if he and Kitty only broke up a month ago, he still be kind of jealous seeing her with Kurt.
Anyway, I hope everyone likes the chapter.
Thanks for the continued reviews and support.