Chapter 13
Kurt had actually half expected Magneto to show up within a week after the incident in the park and smugly explain why he'd chosen to impregnate him.
But nothing like that even happened.
However, twice while Kurt was walking to school with Kitty and Rogue, he could have sworn he'd seen Gambit hiding in the shadows beside the building. Unfortunately, when Kurt had tried to investigate further, Gambit or whoever the figure was, had quietly slipped away and vanished.
Both times Kitty and Rogue had asked what was wrong, and Kurt had simply had to shake his head and claim fatigue for making him see things.
A couple weeks later, at the start of March, Kurt had actually given up hope of Magneto ever showing up. True it had only been a few weeks, but pregnancy must have been making him more impatient.
Kurt sighed as he woke and felt the familiar twinge in his stomach that he'd been getting every morning for the past few weeks. Groaning, Kurt turned over on to his side and hit the alarm off with his tail. Just once he'd like to wake up without nausea to accompany him.
Kurt had talked to Hank the other day and Hank had hesitated before admitting that morning sickness could last through the third month of the pregnancy. Since the beginning of March marked the fact that Kurt was only 1 month pregnant.
This could last another two months!
Grumbling to himself, Kurt quickly pulled the sheets back and got out of bed before any of the others came to throw him out.
Ignoring the slight cramp in his lower abdomen, Kurt stumbled out of his room and towards the nearest bathroom.
He grinned as he realized that once again, no one was outside that particular bathroom. All it had taken was one or two performances of severe retching, and all the other X-men had refused to go anywhere near that bathroom since they'd wanted to maintain an appetite for breakfast.
Kurt didn't really mind in the least. Just because he wasn't eating in the morning didn't mean everyone else had to have their appetites ruined. And actually Kurt had been able to eat some fruit and pancakes yesterday morning without throwing them up again afterwards, and he was hoping his luck would hold true for today as well.
His hope for a nausea fear morning vanished, however, when he walked into the bathroom and his stomach immediately dipped at the sight of the container of prenatal vitamins sitting on the counter.
'I vish I didn't have to take zhese' Kurt groaned in his head as a choked down a couple. Kurt didn't think it was the pills themselves, but the actual action of swallowing them that made his stomach protest.
Shaking his head in annoyance, Kurt hopped into the shower and turned the water to it's hottest. The extremely hot water had seemed to help soothe his tired muscles and had significantly helped to ease the cramping in his lower abdomen.
And the slight cramping did ease, very fast, this morning, but his nausea didn't. Pitching forward, Kurt had to brace the side of the shower under the spray of the water, and he preceded to vomit ... right there in the shower!
Luckily the spraying water managed to watch all the vomit away almost immediately, but the smell lingered making Kurt nauseous all over again.
"Zhis day is not off to a good start," Kurt moaned to himself.
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Jean had sent Kitty towards what had officially been labeled 'Kurt's bathroom' with orders to check and see what was taking the Fuzzy elf so long to shower. And Kitty could have sworn that when Jean sent her off down the hall, the redhead had actually giggled and winked at her.
"Geez, was I this awful when you and Scott started dating?" Kitty asked with a shake of her head.
Jean giggled again. "Actually you and Kurt were worse. I don't think either of you guys realized how ridiculous you were."
Kitty rolled her eyes for emphasis. "Come on! We weren't that bad!"
Jean fixed Kitty with an amused glare. "On the cruise we took, Scott and I were actually debating which one of you was more easily amused."
Kitty sighed. "But why the teasing me over Kurt?"
"Oh come on Kitty," Jean said, "everyone at the mansion has been talking about you guys."
Kitty actually blushed at Jean's words. "We're not even ... like, a couple."
Jean shrugged. "Maybe not officially, but everyone can see the chemistry between you two."
"Even ... after what's ... going on with Kurt?" Kitty asked.
Jean laughed. "That's the amazing thing ... the gossiping about you two has actually gotten worse."
Kitty groaned. "I was afraid of that."
Jean suddenly frowned. "However, every time Rogue enters a room, she glares at the kids and they all immediately stop gossiping about you and Kurt."
"Geez!" Kitty said running a hand through her hair in frustration, "what is Rogue's problem with Kurt and I as a couple."
Jean put a hand on Kitty's shoulder. "I don't think it's anything against you personally Kitty. Rogue's just worried about Kurt. If he gets into a relationship and has a bad break-up it will be even worse right now."
Kitty didn't know what to say to Jean's words, so she just ran off to Kurt's bathroom to check and see what was taking the blue fuzz ball so long. Even with his fur Kurt should have been done by now.
Not even thinking about the time that Kurt had ported into her room as she was getting out of the shower, Kitty simply phased through the door ... and came upon the sight of Kurt just stepping out of the shower!
"Keety!" Kurt gasped out as he quickly covered himself with a towel.
Kitty blushed a deep crimson and quickly averted her eyes. 'Oh my God. I did not just see ... that!' Kitty thought to herself in embarrassment.
Kurt, in the meantime, laughed nervously. "We have got to stop doing this Katzchen."
"Um, yeah ... I think you're ...," Kitty paused as she sniffed the air, "no offense Kurt, but ... it like smells in here."
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Yeah zorry. I couldn't quite get the vomit smell out of the shower."
Kitty darted around without thinking and was relieved that Kurt was now wearing pants and she wouldn't embarrass either them again. "You threw up in the shower!"
Kurt grimaced. "Unfortunately."
Kitty gave him a small smile as she headed towards the door. "I'll just tell Jean you were ... indisposed."
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Kurt was extremely relieved when he got to the dining room and his nausea had apparently vanished completely. Although he was also amused that everyone sitting at the table tensed up as he entered the room ... and then visibly relaxed as Kurt grabbed a peach from the table and started eating it.
Fruit was one of the few food items that he was actually able to keep down in the morning.
"Geez, all of you should have seen the looks on your faces when I walked in," Kurt said, chuckling as he continued to eat his peach.
Everyone started laughing along with Kurt.
"Sorry Kurt," Bobby said from one end of the table, "we were just expecting you to walk in and then high tail it out of here almost immediately."
Kurt shrugged. "I managed to eat something yesterday morning ... I guess my luck's holding out through today."
About that time, Scott, Jean, Kitty and Rogue all walked in. And stopped short at the sight of Kurt actually eating.
Kitty raised an eyebrow in response. "You throw up in the shower this morning and fifteen minutes later you're eating!"
"Ja, life is weird isn't it," Kurt replied.
"And some of us are trying to eat here!" Ray complained from beside Bobby.
"Like sorry," Kitty said as she grabbed an apple and sat down.
Kurt remained standing, however, since this was one of the few days were he actually felt rested and not completely fatigued.
He was standing near the door to the kitchen when Tabitha and Amara walked through it and each of them had a plate with eggs and bacon on it.
"Hey everyone who's it ...," Tabitha broke off as she looked at Kurt's face which had gone completely pale when the girl's walked in. "Kurt are you ...?"
Tabitha never got to finish her sentence. In less than two seconds, Kurt dropped his peach and teleported into the bathroom off the dining room.
Logan walked in just before Kurt teleported, and then looked towards the bathroom as everyone could hear sounds of retching coming from the room.
Bobby, Sam, Ray, and Jamie all pushed their plates away from them in disgust.
"We might as well resign ourselves to the fact that we're not going to be eating much at breakfast for the next few months," Sam said.
Logan growled at the boys. "This hasn't been any easier on Elf, so don't say anything to him."
Jean looked towards the closed bathroom door in confusion. "And besides ... Kurt was feeling completely fine a minute ago. Morning sickness is just plain weird."
Scott, in the meantime, walked up to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Hey buddy do need anything?"
Everyone could hear some coughing before Kurt answered. "Ja, I need those eggs gone by the time I get out of here," he called out weakly.
"We're on it," Amara called back as she and Tabitha began wolfing down their eggs.
Beside the door, Scott smacked his head and started chuckling to himself.
"What's up with you, Shades?" Logan asked.
"It just occurred to me," Scott said as he continued to chuckle, "we were out of eggs yesterday, and Kurt was actually able to eat breakfast normally."
Kitty picked up Kurt's discarded peach from the floor while listening to Scott's words and she (along with everyone else) suddenly realized Scott was right. Tabitha and Amara liked to have a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon, and every morning for the past few weeks Kurt had ran to the bathroom after the two girls had walked in with their usual breakfast. Odd how no one had made that connection before now.
"Are zhe eggs gone?" Kurt called out weakly from the bathroom.
Tabitha and Amara both looked down at their plates. "Yeah, they're gone Blue," Tabitha called out.
The sound of a flushing toilet could be heard before Kurt came out of the bathroom still looking quite nauseous. "In case anyone is still confused, I no longer eat eggs anymore," Kurt said. Walking to the fridge and pulled out a carton of orange juice. He quickly poured himself a glass and started sipping it in an effort to settle his stomach.
Tabitha groaned. "Does this mean I can't have eggs for breakfast anymore?!" However, she quickly backed off at the glare she got from Logan, Kitty, Rogue, Scott and Jean. "Or something a little less selfish than that," she added.
"You can still eat your eggs in the morning Tabitha," Kurt said pausing in between sips of his orange juice, "just not around me."
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Luckily there were no more nauseous incidents for Kurt during the day. But his lack of food that morning simply just resulted in him eating even more at lunch ... again.
However, he also became more and more fatigued as the day wore on. So much so that he actually ended up slumping against the front doors to the Institute when he got home from school.
"Geez Kurt! If you're going to take a nap can't you even wait to get up to your room," Kitty said from inside. She then phased her arm through the glass front doors and pulled Kurt through. Kitty had accompanied Kurt when he decided to walk home from school instead of waiting for Scott to pick them up. Kitty had thought it was a bad idea from the beginning because Kurt had already had two attempts on his life. But Kurt had thought that a walk might help him wake up and there was no way Kitty was going to let him go by himself. She wasn't that stupid.
Kurt yawned was Kitty pulled him through the door. "I'd love to take a nap Keety. But the Professor wanted me to see Herr McCoy after school."
"Why?" Kitty asked.
Kurt grimaced. "Another sonogram. The Professor has me scheduled for one every month," Kurt groaned as he explained. "I don't vant to go."
Kitty grinned as she grabbed Kurt's hand and started steering towards the elevator to take them both to the subbasement where the infirmary was. "Come on, I'll come with you Fuzzy. This isn't as bad as you're making it sound."
Kurt glared at her. "You try getting that gel out of fur! It's really annoying."
Kitty started laughing as Kurt continued to groan. "Sorry, but the way you said that was kind of funny."
"I'm glad someone's getting some fun out of all of this," Kurt grumbled.
Kitty took some pity on him and stopped laughing. "The sonogram isn't what's bothering you Kurt so what is?"
Kurt ran some frustrated fingers through his hair. "It's everything Kitty! I mean I've never had a normal life, but at least before all this I was able to go to school and have friends and at least enjoy some small piece of normal life. But now ... I don't think I've ever felt more helpless or humiliated in my life! You think I don't notice all the weird looks I've been getting from the others at the Institute? I know that they all think is just one big joke. And what's worse, is this situation is just like the other time Magneto experimented on me. I never get a choice. I feel like my whole life is being decided for me!"
Kitty quickly walked up and put her arms around Kurt both to calm him down and to keep him from yelling in German. Once he got on a role in his native language it was almost impossible to shut him up.
Besides it wouldn't be healthy for either Kurt or the baby if he got himself all worked up.
Because Kurt was already silently crying, Kitty led him towards the infirmary. Hank was already there waiting for him, and he raised an eyebrow at the sight of Kitty leading a very upset Kurt in.
'He's really upset' Kitty mouthed to Hank.
Hank nodded and silently finished the set up equipment while Kitty helped Kurt up onto the infirmary bed. Just her presence must have had a calming influence on Kurt because by the time Hank had everything ready to go Kurt had stopped crying. However, the fur around his eyes was still wet and matted, and he still looked quite upset.
"Sorry Kurt. I don't want to make your life anymore difficult, but we wanna make sure you and the child are okay," Hank said as he pressed a couple buttons on the sonogram machine.
Kurt nodded silently at Hank's words.
"I've been doing a little experimenting and I think this gel I've come up with should come off of your fur a lot easier than the gel we used the last time," Hank said as he applied the gel to the end of the device.
"Zhanks Hank. It was such a pain to get that gel out the last time," Kurt replied.
Kitty giggled as she grasped one of Kurt's hands for reassurance. Kurt smiled as he squeezed her hand back.
Hank didn't respond to their mild flirting, but he was smiling on the inside. Despite what Rogue was always grumbling about, Hank thought that Kurt's relationship with Kitty was actually having a positive influence on him. And he also had to agree with Tabitha and Amara when they said those two were so cute together.
Being a teacher didn't make him immune to gossip.
"Okay, I'll try to make this as painless as possible," Hank said as he placed the end of the device on Kurt's bare abdomen.
Kurt squirmed and chuckled as Hank moved the device around on his stomach. "It still tickles." Unfortunately Kurt's laughs were contagious, and Kitty and Hank soon found themselves laughing along with him. The laughter was cut short though when a steady thump-thump-thump was heard through the sonogram.
The sound of the baby's heartbeat was enough to cause all three of them to pause in complete astonishment.
"I'd say from the sound of the heartbeat, your child is doing quite fine, Kurt," Hank said.
Kurt didn't say anything. He couldn't even if he'd wanted to. The first time he'd been here and had a sonogram, the whole impact of the heartbeat hadn't really hit him. He'd been entirely too hysterical to really appreciate it.
Now Kurt felt his eyes fill with more tears as it finally really hit him. This was happening ... he was going to have a child. Even through all the difficulties that he'd already been through and the ones he was sure to go through, Kurt still managed to fill the beginning of love for this tiny being.
Kitty, who was watching Kurt's face, was quite touched by the seen. Kurt might not have known it then, but he was going to be a great father. Kitty had no doubt of that.
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whew another chapter finished. Sorry about just using terms like 'the device' for the sonogram machine, but I honestly don't know what the different parts of the machine are called. If anyone else knows, please tell me. I'm starting to feel like kind of an idiot.
Okay now on to the reviews.
~C~ now don't you go using my name for a review. Because it looks like I'm reviewing myself and that is just wrong! Hee hee. Sorry, I just had to say that.
Pyrolova: Are you talking about a pyro/kitty story in the future? Because I've already planned to put Kurt and Kitty together in this story and I think I might pair Pyro with someone else. But I really haven't decided who yet.
Raskolion Phoenix: I do have a plan for how Kurt is going to have the baby, but I won't tell you if you don't want to know. It's true that male bodies aren't designed to carry babies and give birth, so of course will have some complications, but at the same time his body makes him a little more ... flexible than a normal human being. I'll let you know what's going to happen as I get the chapters updated.
Since no one really has any questions, I think I'll leave this review section a little short. Oh and I do plan on bringing Magneto and the Acolytes back in just not quite yet. And I'll probably bring Mystique in (I hinted at that in the prologue and I am kind of ignoring what the tv series did to her) but I just don't know how to do it yet.
Anyway, I realized after I posted the last chapter that I forgot to post the German translations. So, here they are for the last chapter:
Du bist nicht gut genau fur sie sowieso: You aren't good enough for her anyway.
Bitte tun mich nicht weh: Please don't hurt me
Tot mein Kind nicht: Don't kill my child
Okay that's it for now. Thanks for the reviews!
Kurt had actually half expected Magneto to show up within a week after the incident in the park and smugly explain why he'd chosen to impregnate him.
But nothing like that even happened.
However, twice while Kurt was walking to school with Kitty and Rogue, he could have sworn he'd seen Gambit hiding in the shadows beside the building. Unfortunately, when Kurt had tried to investigate further, Gambit or whoever the figure was, had quietly slipped away and vanished.
Both times Kitty and Rogue had asked what was wrong, and Kurt had simply had to shake his head and claim fatigue for making him see things.
A couple weeks later, at the start of March, Kurt had actually given up hope of Magneto ever showing up. True it had only been a few weeks, but pregnancy must have been making him more impatient.
Kurt sighed as he woke and felt the familiar twinge in his stomach that he'd been getting every morning for the past few weeks. Groaning, Kurt turned over on to his side and hit the alarm off with his tail. Just once he'd like to wake up without nausea to accompany him.
Kurt had talked to Hank the other day and Hank had hesitated before admitting that morning sickness could last through the third month of the pregnancy. Since the beginning of March marked the fact that Kurt was only 1 month pregnant.
This could last another two months!
Grumbling to himself, Kurt quickly pulled the sheets back and got out of bed before any of the others came to throw him out.
Ignoring the slight cramp in his lower abdomen, Kurt stumbled out of his room and towards the nearest bathroom.
He grinned as he realized that once again, no one was outside that particular bathroom. All it had taken was one or two performances of severe retching, and all the other X-men had refused to go anywhere near that bathroom since they'd wanted to maintain an appetite for breakfast.
Kurt didn't really mind in the least. Just because he wasn't eating in the morning didn't mean everyone else had to have their appetites ruined. And actually Kurt had been able to eat some fruit and pancakes yesterday morning without throwing them up again afterwards, and he was hoping his luck would hold true for today as well.
His hope for a nausea fear morning vanished, however, when he walked into the bathroom and his stomach immediately dipped at the sight of the container of prenatal vitamins sitting on the counter.
'I vish I didn't have to take zhese' Kurt groaned in his head as a choked down a couple. Kurt didn't think it was the pills themselves, but the actual action of swallowing them that made his stomach protest.
Shaking his head in annoyance, Kurt hopped into the shower and turned the water to it's hottest. The extremely hot water had seemed to help soothe his tired muscles and had significantly helped to ease the cramping in his lower abdomen.
And the slight cramping did ease, very fast, this morning, but his nausea didn't. Pitching forward, Kurt had to brace the side of the shower under the spray of the water, and he preceded to vomit ... right there in the shower!
Luckily the spraying water managed to watch all the vomit away almost immediately, but the smell lingered making Kurt nauseous all over again.
"Zhis day is not off to a good start," Kurt moaned to himself.
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Jean had sent Kitty towards what had officially been labeled 'Kurt's bathroom' with orders to check and see what was taking the Fuzzy elf so long to shower. And Kitty could have sworn that when Jean sent her off down the hall, the redhead had actually giggled and winked at her.
"Geez, was I this awful when you and Scott started dating?" Kitty asked with a shake of her head.
Jean giggled again. "Actually you and Kurt were worse. I don't think either of you guys realized how ridiculous you were."
Kitty rolled her eyes for emphasis. "Come on! We weren't that bad!"
Jean fixed Kitty with an amused glare. "On the cruise we took, Scott and I were actually debating which one of you was more easily amused."
Kitty sighed. "But why the teasing me over Kurt?"
"Oh come on Kitty," Jean said, "everyone at the mansion has been talking about you guys."
Kitty actually blushed at Jean's words. "We're not even ... like, a couple."
Jean shrugged. "Maybe not officially, but everyone can see the chemistry between you two."
"Even ... after what's ... going on with Kurt?" Kitty asked.
Jean laughed. "That's the amazing thing ... the gossiping about you two has actually gotten worse."
Kitty groaned. "I was afraid of that."
Jean suddenly frowned. "However, every time Rogue enters a room, she glares at the kids and they all immediately stop gossiping about you and Kurt."
"Geez!" Kitty said running a hand through her hair in frustration, "what is Rogue's problem with Kurt and I as a couple."
Jean put a hand on Kitty's shoulder. "I don't think it's anything against you personally Kitty. Rogue's just worried about Kurt. If he gets into a relationship and has a bad break-up it will be even worse right now."
Kitty didn't know what to say to Jean's words, so she just ran off to Kurt's bathroom to check and see what was taking the blue fuzz ball so long. Even with his fur Kurt should have been done by now.
Not even thinking about the time that Kurt had ported into her room as she was getting out of the shower, Kitty simply phased through the door ... and came upon the sight of Kurt just stepping out of the shower!
"Keety!" Kurt gasped out as he quickly covered himself with a towel.
Kitty blushed a deep crimson and quickly averted her eyes. 'Oh my God. I did not just see ... that!' Kitty thought to herself in embarrassment.
Kurt, in the meantime, laughed nervously. "We have got to stop doing this Katzchen."
"Um, yeah ... I think you're ...," Kitty paused as she sniffed the air, "no offense Kurt, but ... it like smells in here."
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Yeah zorry. I couldn't quite get the vomit smell out of the shower."
Kitty darted around without thinking and was relieved that Kurt was now wearing pants and she wouldn't embarrass either them again. "You threw up in the shower!"
Kurt grimaced. "Unfortunately."
Kitty gave him a small smile as she headed towards the door. "I'll just tell Jean you were ... indisposed."
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Kurt was extremely relieved when he got to the dining room and his nausea had apparently vanished completely. Although he was also amused that everyone sitting at the table tensed up as he entered the room ... and then visibly relaxed as Kurt grabbed a peach from the table and started eating it.
Fruit was one of the few food items that he was actually able to keep down in the morning.
"Geez, all of you should have seen the looks on your faces when I walked in," Kurt said, chuckling as he continued to eat his peach.
Everyone started laughing along with Kurt.
"Sorry Kurt," Bobby said from one end of the table, "we were just expecting you to walk in and then high tail it out of here almost immediately."
Kurt shrugged. "I managed to eat something yesterday morning ... I guess my luck's holding out through today."
About that time, Scott, Jean, Kitty and Rogue all walked in. And stopped short at the sight of Kurt actually eating.
Kitty raised an eyebrow in response. "You throw up in the shower this morning and fifteen minutes later you're eating!"
"Ja, life is weird isn't it," Kurt replied.
"And some of us are trying to eat here!" Ray complained from beside Bobby.
"Like sorry," Kitty said as she grabbed an apple and sat down.
Kurt remained standing, however, since this was one of the few days were he actually felt rested and not completely fatigued.
He was standing near the door to the kitchen when Tabitha and Amara walked through it and each of them had a plate with eggs and bacon on it.
"Hey everyone who's it ...," Tabitha broke off as she looked at Kurt's face which had gone completely pale when the girl's walked in. "Kurt are you ...?"
Tabitha never got to finish her sentence. In less than two seconds, Kurt dropped his peach and teleported into the bathroom off the dining room.
Logan walked in just before Kurt teleported, and then looked towards the bathroom as everyone could hear sounds of retching coming from the room.
Bobby, Sam, Ray, and Jamie all pushed their plates away from them in disgust.
"We might as well resign ourselves to the fact that we're not going to be eating much at breakfast for the next few months," Sam said.
Logan growled at the boys. "This hasn't been any easier on Elf, so don't say anything to him."
Jean looked towards the closed bathroom door in confusion. "And besides ... Kurt was feeling completely fine a minute ago. Morning sickness is just plain weird."
Scott, in the meantime, walked up to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Hey buddy do need anything?"
Everyone could hear some coughing before Kurt answered. "Ja, I need those eggs gone by the time I get out of here," he called out weakly.
"We're on it," Amara called back as she and Tabitha began wolfing down their eggs.
Beside the door, Scott smacked his head and started chuckling to himself.
"What's up with you, Shades?" Logan asked.
"It just occurred to me," Scott said as he continued to chuckle, "we were out of eggs yesterday, and Kurt was actually able to eat breakfast normally."
Kitty picked up Kurt's discarded peach from the floor while listening to Scott's words and she (along with everyone else) suddenly realized Scott was right. Tabitha and Amara liked to have a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon, and every morning for the past few weeks Kurt had ran to the bathroom after the two girls had walked in with their usual breakfast. Odd how no one had made that connection before now.
"Are zhe eggs gone?" Kurt called out weakly from the bathroom.
Tabitha and Amara both looked down at their plates. "Yeah, they're gone Blue," Tabitha called out.
The sound of a flushing toilet could be heard before Kurt came out of the bathroom still looking quite nauseous. "In case anyone is still confused, I no longer eat eggs anymore," Kurt said. Walking to the fridge and pulled out a carton of orange juice. He quickly poured himself a glass and started sipping it in an effort to settle his stomach.
Tabitha groaned. "Does this mean I can't have eggs for breakfast anymore?!" However, she quickly backed off at the glare she got from Logan, Kitty, Rogue, Scott and Jean. "Or something a little less selfish than that," she added.
"You can still eat your eggs in the morning Tabitha," Kurt said pausing in between sips of his orange juice, "just not around me."
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Luckily there were no more nauseous incidents for Kurt during the day. But his lack of food that morning simply just resulted in him eating even more at lunch ... again.
However, he also became more and more fatigued as the day wore on. So much so that he actually ended up slumping against the front doors to the Institute when he got home from school.
"Geez Kurt! If you're going to take a nap can't you even wait to get up to your room," Kitty said from inside. She then phased her arm through the glass front doors and pulled Kurt through. Kitty had accompanied Kurt when he decided to walk home from school instead of waiting for Scott to pick them up. Kitty had thought it was a bad idea from the beginning because Kurt had already had two attempts on his life. But Kurt had thought that a walk might help him wake up and there was no way Kitty was going to let him go by himself. She wasn't that stupid.
Kurt yawned was Kitty pulled him through the door. "I'd love to take a nap Keety. But the Professor wanted me to see Herr McCoy after school."
"Why?" Kitty asked.
Kurt grimaced. "Another sonogram. The Professor has me scheduled for one every month," Kurt groaned as he explained. "I don't vant to go."
Kitty grinned as she grabbed Kurt's hand and started steering towards the elevator to take them both to the subbasement where the infirmary was. "Come on, I'll come with you Fuzzy. This isn't as bad as you're making it sound."
Kurt glared at her. "You try getting that gel out of fur! It's really annoying."
Kitty started laughing as Kurt continued to groan. "Sorry, but the way you said that was kind of funny."
"I'm glad someone's getting some fun out of all of this," Kurt grumbled.
Kitty took some pity on him and stopped laughing. "The sonogram isn't what's bothering you Kurt so what is?"
Kurt ran some frustrated fingers through his hair. "It's everything Kitty! I mean I've never had a normal life, but at least before all this I was able to go to school and have friends and at least enjoy some small piece of normal life. But now ... I don't think I've ever felt more helpless or humiliated in my life! You think I don't notice all the weird looks I've been getting from the others at the Institute? I know that they all think is just one big joke. And what's worse, is this situation is just like the other time Magneto experimented on me. I never get a choice. I feel like my whole life is being decided for me!"
Kitty quickly walked up and put her arms around Kurt both to calm him down and to keep him from yelling in German. Once he got on a role in his native language it was almost impossible to shut him up.
Besides it wouldn't be healthy for either Kurt or the baby if he got himself all worked up.
Because Kurt was already silently crying, Kitty led him towards the infirmary. Hank was already there waiting for him, and he raised an eyebrow at the sight of Kitty leading a very upset Kurt in.
'He's really upset' Kitty mouthed to Hank.
Hank nodded and silently finished the set up equipment while Kitty helped Kurt up onto the infirmary bed. Just her presence must have had a calming influence on Kurt because by the time Hank had everything ready to go Kurt had stopped crying. However, the fur around his eyes was still wet and matted, and he still looked quite upset.
"Sorry Kurt. I don't want to make your life anymore difficult, but we wanna make sure you and the child are okay," Hank said as he pressed a couple buttons on the sonogram machine.
Kurt nodded silently at Hank's words.
"I've been doing a little experimenting and I think this gel I've come up with should come off of your fur a lot easier than the gel we used the last time," Hank said as he applied the gel to the end of the device.
"Zhanks Hank. It was such a pain to get that gel out the last time," Kurt replied.
Kitty giggled as she grasped one of Kurt's hands for reassurance. Kurt smiled as he squeezed her hand back.
Hank didn't respond to their mild flirting, but he was smiling on the inside. Despite what Rogue was always grumbling about, Hank thought that Kurt's relationship with Kitty was actually having a positive influence on him. And he also had to agree with Tabitha and Amara when they said those two were so cute together.
Being a teacher didn't make him immune to gossip.
"Okay, I'll try to make this as painless as possible," Hank said as he placed the end of the device on Kurt's bare abdomen.
Kurt squirmed and chuckled as Hank moved the device around on his stomach. "It still tickles." Unfortunately Kurt's laughs were contagious, and Kitty and Hank soon found themselves laughing along with him. The laughter was cut short though when a steady thump-thump-thump was heard through the sonogram.
The sound of the baby's heartbeat was enough to cause all three of them to pause in complete astonishment.
"I'd say from the sound of the heartbeat, your child is doing quite fine, Kurt," Hank said.
Kurt didn't say anything. He couldn't even if he'd wanted to. The first time he'd been here and had a sonogram, the whole impact of the heartbeat hadn't really hit him. He'd been entirely too hysterical to really appreciate it.
Now Kurt felt his eyes fill with more tears as it finally really hit him. This was happening ... he was going to have a child. Even through all the difficulties that he'd already been through and the ones he was sure to go through, Kurt still managed to fill the beginning of love for this tiny being.
Kitty, who was watching Kurt's face, was quite touched by the seen. Kurt might not have known it then, but he was going to be a great father. Kitty had no doubt of that.
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whew another chapter finished. Sorry about just using terms like 'the device' for the sonogram machine, but I honestly don't know what the different parts of the machine are called. If anyone else knows, please tell me. I'm starting to feel like kind of an idiot.
Okay now on to the reviews.
~C~ now don't you go using my name for a review. Because it looks like I'm reviewing myself and that is just wrong! Hee hee. Sorry, I just had to say that.
Pyrolova: Are you talking about a pyro/kitty story in the future? Because I've already planned to put Kurt and Kitty together in this story and I think I might pair Pyro with someone else. But I really haven't decided who yet.
Raskolion Phoenix: I do have a plan for how Kurt is going to have the baby, but I won't tell you if you don't want to know. It's true that male bodies aren't designed to carry babies and give birth, so of course will have some complications, but at the same time his body makes him a little more ... flexible than a normal human being. I'll let you know what's going to happen as I get the chapters updated.
Since no one really has any questions, I think I'll leave this review section a little short. Oh and I do plan on bringing Magneto and the Acolytes back in just not quite yet. And I'll probably bring Mystique in (I hinted at that in the prologue and I am kind of ignoring what the tv series did to her) but I just don't know how to do it yet.
Anyway, I realized after I posted the last chapter that I forgot to post the German translations. So, here they are for the last chapter:
Du bist nicht gut genau fur sie sowieso: You aren't good enough for her anyway.
Bitte tun mich nicht weh: Please don't hurt me
Tot mein Kind nicht: Don't kill my child
Okay that's it for now. Thanks for the reviews!