Chapter 15
Kitty and Rogue both walked down to the dining room together the next morning, but they weren't talking. In fact they both seemed unusually glum. Well, Rogue was until she walked in to hear Bobby and Ray exclaiming.
"Alright, ... who drank all of the milk?! I know there was still some left yesterday!" Bobby exclaimed.
Ray snorted as he looked in the freezer. "It must be a complete dairy theft because the ice cream is gone as well."
Rogue rolled her eyes at the two guys, but then she noticed Kurt and Scott sitting across from each other and both of them were struggling to keep a straight face. Rogue crossed her arms and looked at the two of them with an expression of amusement.
"So, which one of you two polished off the rest of the dairy last night?"
Everyone looked over at Kurt and Scott who now both sported looks of guilt on their faces. Jean actually giggled from the look.
"Since when do you two get the midnight munchies?" Jean asked.
Kurt shot her an innocent grin. "Do you know who you're talking to Jean? I always get the munchies," Kurt suddenly grimaced, "or at least I used to," he added.
Once again, Kurt's appetite was completely lacking that morning. But the good news was that with the absence of Tabitha and Amara's eggs, Kurt had actually managed to keep any previously eaten food down that morning.
However, he'd obviously been eating late last night ... with Scott as a companion.
Jean continued to give Scott and Kurt an intense stare until it made her boyfriend crack.
"Okay, I drank the rest of the milk, but Kurt polished off the ice cream," Scott confessed.
"Hey!" Kurt protested, "I kept a straight face for you and then you had to go and blow our cover!"
"Okay, neither of you two kept a straight face," Rogue said.
Everyone laughed as Scott and Kurt looked at each other and shrugged. However, Kurt was lightly rubbing his stomach as he did so.
"Kurt, why are you rubbing your stomach?" Rogue asked.
Even Kitty was drawn out of her momentary glum attitude to look up at Kurt in concern.
Kurt wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Another stomach cramp. It's been more of a dull ache all morning, but I swear it's not easing up."
"Jean, is it like normal for him to be having these stomach cramps?" Kitty asked tentatively.
Jean shook her head. "No I don't think so. Kurt maybe you should ..."
Kurt held up a hand to stop her from talking. "Way ahead of you Jean. The Professor already asked me to see Hank after school. Maybe he can give some kind of pain medication zhat ... won't harm anything," Kurt said.
Everyone remained silent after Kurt's statement until Kitty sighed.
"You know ... I'm not really hungry so I think I'm just going to skip breakfast," Kitty said as she turned around and headed for the dining room door.
However, she decided to make her exit from the room just when Logan came and she ended up phasing right through him.
"Hey, watch it Half-Pint," Logan grumbled. He then sniffed the air as she continued walking away and turned towards the others in the room.
"What's eating the Half-Pint? She seemed kind of depressed," Logan asked.
Everyone shrugged or murmured something like 'beat's me.' They were all just as confused as Logan.
Except for Rogue. She had a weird look on her face that seemed to suggest that she knew more than she was willing to share, but there was no use trying to pry information out of her. She sat down at the table and started grabbing some stuff to eat.
Her expression clearly indicated that she wasn't in the mood to talk.
But Logan wasn't the only one who noticed Rogue's aloofness. Kurt also had been watching Rogue since Kitty had abruptly left. He'd been confused because Kitty had seemed to be avoiding his gaze the entire time. And since Rogue was Kitty's roommate, she might know what was bothering Kitty.
Because Kurt really didn't want to lose his best friend.
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Kurt managed to corner Rogue when they had a free study period together at school. Both of their English classes were meeting in the library and Rogue had already staked out the table in the furthest corner.
And just Kurt's luck, Rogue was sitting towards the inside of the table close to the bookshelves. Which is why Kurt quickly took the seat to the right side of her so that if Rogue decided to try and leave to avoid his questioning, she would have to go through Kurt first.
"Vhy vas Kitty acting so strange today?"
Rogue shrugged. "I'm supposed to know exactly what goes on in her head."
Kurt studied his adopted sister's face and suddenly narrowed his eyes. "You said something to her! Vhat vas it?!"
"Geez, are you a telepath now as well?!" Rogue said as loudly as she could without attracting attention in the library. She slammed her book closed and glared at Kurt.
"Nein Rogue. I'm no telepath, ... but I recognize guilt vhen I see it," Kurt said.
Rogue sighed. There was no use lying to Kurt. He deserved a little bit of honesty with her. Besides, if he wanted to date Kitty there really was nothing she could do to stop him. Short of zapping him with her power 24/7, but that would just be cruel.
Truthfully Rogue had never been trying to split the two of them up to begin with. She was just worried that they were rushing into a relationship without really thinking about the consequences.
"I just, ... talked to her, about ..." Rogue hesitated.
"About vhat?" Kurt asked.
"About what's going on between the two of you," Rogue answered trying to avoid her brother's eyes.
Kurt groaned in suppressed fury. "Rogue why couldn't you have dropped the subject."
Before Rogue could even think up a reply, Amara shyly came over the their table.
"Hey you two. I don't mean to interrupt your conversation, but I have something to finish here in the library and I really don't want to sit at a table with a bunch of mutant haters," Amara said.
Kurt and Rogue both nodded absentmindedly and turned back to continue their discussion as Amara took a seat and started working. Neither of them bothered to hide what they were saying from Amara. She already knew everything that was going on at the Institute anyway.
"Rogue, vhat is your problem vith me and Kitty as a couple?" Kurt asked. He asked the question lightly, but there was hurt in his eyes.
Rogue felt a deep well of sympathy for her bro. After all, she had only confronted Kitty because she'd been trying to protect both of them from getting hurt.
"Kurt, it has nothing to do with the two of you," Rogue started, "I just ... I think you're both getting in way over your head."
"Vhat do you mean?" Kurt asked.
Rogue shot him a look before lowering her voice and continuing to speak. "Kurt ... you're pregnant. Before you realize it you're going to be dealing with so much and do you really think you and Kitty can handle a relationship at the moment?"
Kurt looked almost scared when he asked: "You're not just talking about the responsibility of raising das Kind are you?"
Rogue placed a hand lightly on Kurt's shoulder. "I know you don't like to appear weak or helpless, but ... if you think you're in an emotional state right now Kurt, can you even imaging how it's going to be in even just a couple of months?"
Kurt stared down at the table. He couldn't come up with a decent response, and somewhere deep inside he had to admit that Rogue did have a point.
"I mean relationships are usually on shaky ground in the beginning anyway," Rogue continued, "add that to the fact that you'd be making the difficult transition from friends to a couple, the mutant haters, the attacks, everything at school and the Institute, ... and the fact that there's a baby on the way ... Kurt do you really think a relationship can withstand all of that? There's so many obstacles that the two of you would have to overcome and I just don't think that you're emotionally able to deal with that right now."
Kurt sat there in complete silence. Oddly it hadn't comforted him to know that Rogue was acting out of genuine concern, because the truth had been one heck of a vicious slap in the face.
What had he been thinking trying to start a relationship right now! But on the other hand ... would he and Kitty ever have another chance?
"I really do hear what you're saying Rogue," Kurt sighed, "but, ... I can't help but think that me and Kitty for some reason should be together."
"And I won't try to keep you guys apart ... I just want both of you to be aware of what you're getting into."
Suddenly Amara grabbed her books from the table and stood up quickly. She'd only been there a couple of minutes, so she couldn't possible have finished her work already ... and she looked oddly shaken.
"I'll see you guys at lunch," she called over her shoulder as she practically ran out of the library.
Kurt and Rogue turned to each other in complete confusion. "Mensch. Benehmen jeder sich seltsam heute?"
Rogue had no idea what Kurt had said. But she was pretty much thinking the same thing.
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Kurt's stomach started grumbling about halfway through English period. The continued rumbling actually made Rogue start chuckling.
"Someone's obviously hungry," she said with a raised eyebrow.
Kurt gave her a half grin. "Actually there's two of us over here who are hungry."
Rogue suddenly gave a mock groan. "I just realized, you already eat too much with your ultra high metabolism ... but now you're eating for two."
"It must be the end of the world," Kurt said completely deadpan.
Luckily the bell signaling lunch, rang a few minutes later, and Kurt and Rogue gathered up their books and headed off to lunch together.
Even though Kurt wasn't really expecting Kitty to be at the lunch table after the way she'd acted that morning and what Rogue had told him, he still felt disappointed when he got to the table with all the mutants and she wasn't there.
The boys were off at there own table (Kurt felt weird around them now anyway), but Tabitha and Amara were at the table.
And Amara for her part looked much more relaxed than she had in the library not too long ago.
Rogue snorted. "I guess pretty Kitty won't be joining us today." She completely ignored the glare that Kurt threw at her as the two of them sat down with their lunch trays.
Amara shook her head. "She has been acting really weird all day."
Kurt snickered. "You're one to talk, Amara. You were acting quite strange yourself in the library a few moments ago."
Amara looked at Kurt with a puzzled expression on her face. "Library? Rogue what is he talking about?"
"Come on Amara, how could you forget?" Rogue said, "you were sitting at the table with us and then about 15 minutes before lunch you practically bolted out of the library."
Tabitha also looked confused now. "When was Amara at the library today?"
"I wasn't!" Amara squeaked.
"But you had to have been," Kurt said, "Rogue and I just saw you there last period."
Amara continued to shake her head as Tabitha released a deep breath. "Blue, ... Amara was in the same classroom as me last period ... Earth Science. She never once left the room."
Rogue and Kurt looked confused, surprised, and utterly puzzled. "But how could there be two of you runn..."
The answer came to Rogue in the middle of her explanation and a split second after Kurt came to the same explanation. She was vaguely aware of Kurt growling low in his throat right beside her as she pounded her fist on the table in complete frustration.
"What?" Tabitha and Amara asked together. They were now just as confused as Rogue and Kurt had been a minute ago.
*Professor!*
Kurt only had to wait a few seconds before the shout in his mind was answered.
*Kurt not so loud. Whatever it is we can talk about ...*
*Mein Mutter is back.*
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Yeah! Another chapter successfully executed. And I do plan on resolving this issue between Kurt and Kitty (at least somewhat) in the next chapter. I didn't want to make this like a bunch of other fics were are there seemingly no emotional tests concerning the couple.
Also, Shadowwalker, I hope this somewhat satisfied your request because I had Mystique in there without actually having her in there. I just started writing this story before I saw Dark Horizons, so in the prologue I kind of hinted that Mystique was still around somewhere. But I don't plan on her coming to the Institute or getting all close with Kurt and Rogue.
I think she completely missed her chance to be a mother to both of them.
Anyway, here's the little bit of German:
Mensch. Benehmen jeder sich seltsam heute?: Man. Is everyone acting weird today?
(I did the translation as best as I could, but hey I had like a million things to do today)
Since no one really had any specific questions (although for that one person who asked: no I'm not going to kill the baby. I'm not that cruel and I plan on turning this into a series eventually. Just go with me on this.) I'm going to end this by saying thanks for the reviews and please CONTINUE REVIEWING. I LOVE REVIEWS!!!
~Ice~
Kitty and Rogue both walked down to the dining room together the next morning, but they weren't talking. In fact they both seemed unusually glum. Well, Rogue was until she walked in to hear Bobby and Ray exclaiming.
"Alright, ... who drank all of the milk?! I know there was still some left yesterday!" Bobby exclaimed.
Ray snorted as he looked in the freezer. "It must be a complete dairy theft because the ice cream is gone as well."
Rogue rolled her eyes at the two guys, but then she noticed Kurt and Scott sitting across from each other and both of them were struggling to keep a straight face. Rogue crossed her arms and looked at the two of them with an expression of amusement.
"So, which one of you two polished off the rest of the dairy last night?"
Everyone looked over at Kurt and Scott who now both sported looks of guilt on their faces. Jean actually giggled from the look.
"Since when do you two get the midnight munchies?" Jean asked.
Kurt shot her an innocent grin. "Do you know who you're talking to Jean? I always get the munchies," Kurt suddenly grimaced, "or at least I used to," he added.
Once again, Kurt's appetite was completely lacking that morning. But the good news was that with the absence of Tabitha and Amara's eggs, Kurt had actually managed to keep any previously eaten food down that morning.
However, he'd obviously been eating late last night ... with Scott as a companion.
Jean continued to give Scott and Kurt an intense stare until it made her boyfriend crack.
"Okay, I drank the rest of the milk, but Kurt polished off the ice cream," Scott confessed.
"Hey!" Kurt protested, "I kept a straight face for you and then you had to go and blow our cover!"
"Okay, neither of you two kept a straight face," Rogue said.
Everyone laughed as Scott and Kurt looked at each other and shrugged. However, Kurt was lightly rubbing his stomach as he did so.
"Kurt, why are you rubbing your stomach?" Rogue asked.
Even Kitty was drawn out of her momentary glum attitude to look up at Kurt in concern.
Kurt wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Another stomach cramp. It's been more of a dull ache all morning, but I swear it's not easing up."
"Jean, is it like normal for him to be having these stomach cramps?" Kitty asked tentatively.
Jean shook her head. "No I don't think so. Kurt maybe you should ..."
Kurt held up a hand to stop her from talking. "Way ahead of you Jean. The Professor already asked me to see Hank after school. Maybe he can give some kind of pain medication zhat ... won't harm anything," Kurt said.
Everyone remained silent after Kurt's statement until Kitty sighed.
"You know ... I'm not really hungry so I think I'm just going to skip breakfast," Kitty said as she turned around and headed for the dining room door.
However, she decided to make her exit from the room just when Logan came and she ended up phasing right through him.
"Hey, watch it Half-Pint," Logan grumbled. He then sniffed the air as she continued walking away and turned towards the others in the room.
"What's eating the Half-Pint? She seemed kind of depressed," Logan asked.
Everyone shrugged or murmured something like 'beat's me.' They were all just as confused as Logan.
Except for Rogue. She had a weird look on her face that seemed to suggest that she knew more than she was willing to share, but there was no use trying to pry information out of her. She sat down at the table and started grabbing some stuff to eat.
Her expression clearly indicated that she wasn't in the mood to talk.
But Logan wasn't the only one who noticed Rogue's aloofness. Kurt also had been watching Rogue since Kitty had abruptly left. He'd been confused because Kitty had seemed to be avoiding his gaze the entire time. And since Rogue was Kitty's roommate, she might know what was bothering Kitty.
Because Kurt really didn't want to lose his best friend.
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Kurt managed to corner Rogue when they had a free study period together at school. Both of their English classes were meeting in the library and Rogue had already staked out the table in the furthest corner.
And just Kurt's luck, Rogue was sitting towards the inside of the table close to the bookshelves. Which is why Kurt quickly took the seat to the right side of her so that if Rogue decided to try and leave to avoid his questioning, she would have to go through Kurt first.
"Vhy vas Kitty acting so strange today?"
Rogue shrugged. "I'm supposed to know exactly what goes on in her head."
Kurt studied his adopted sister's face and suddenly narrowed his eyes. "You said something to her! Vhat vas it?!"
"Geez, are you a telepath now as well?!" Rogue said as loudly as she could without attracting attention in the library. She slammed her book closed and glared at Kurt.
"Nein Rogue. I'm no telepath, ... but I recognize guilt vhen I see it," Kurt said.
Rogue sighed. There was no use lying to Kurt. He deserved a little bit of honesty with her. Besides, if he wanted to date Kitty there really was nothing she could do to stop him. Short of zapping him with her power 24/7, but that would just be cruel.
Truthfully Rogue had never been trying to split the two of them up to begin with. She was just worried that they were rushing into a relationship without really thinking about the consequences.
"I just, ... talked to her, about ..." Rogue hesitated.
"About vhat?" Kurt asked.
"About what's going on between the two of you," Rogue answered trying to avoid her brother's eyes.
Kurt groaned in suppressed fury. "Rogue why couldn't you have dropped the subject."
Before Rogue could even think up a reply, Amara shyly came over the their table.
"Hey you two. I don't mean to interrupt your conversation, but I have something to finish here in the library and I really don't want to sit at a table with a bunch of mutant haters," Amara said.
Kurt and Rogue both nodded absentmindedly and turned back to continue their discussion as Amara took a seat and started working. Neither of them bothered to hide what they were saying from Amara. She already knew everything that was going on at the Institute anyway.
"Rogue, vhat is your problem vith me and Kitty as a couple?" Kurt asked. He asked the question lightly, but there was hurt in his eyes.
Rogue felt a deep well of sympathy for her bro. After all, she had only confronted Kitty because she'd been trying to protect both of them from getting hurt.
"Kurt, it has nothing to do with the two of you," Rogue started, "I just ... I think you're both getting in way over your head."
"Vhat do you mean?" Kurt asked.
Rogue shot him a look before lowering her voice and continuing to speak. "Kurt ... you're pregnant. Before you realize it you're going to be dealing with so much and do you really think you and Kitty can handle a relationship at the moment?"
Kurt looked almost scared when he asked: "You're not just talking about the responsibility of raising das Kind are you?"
Rogue placed a hand lightly on Kurt's shoulder. "I know you don't like to appear weak or helpless, but ... if you think you're in an emotional state right now Kurt, can you even imaging how it's going to be in even just a couple of months?"
Kurt stared down at the table. He couldn't come up with a decent response, and somewhere deep inside he had to admit that Rogue did have a point.
"I mean relationships are usually on shaky ground in the beginning anyway," Rogue continued, "add that to the fact that you'd be making the difficult transition from friends to a couple, the mutant haters, the attacks, everything at school and the Institute, ... and the fact that there's a baby on the way ... Kurt do you really think a relationship can withstand all of that? There's so many obstacles that the two of you would have to overcome and I just don't think that you're emotionally able to deal with that right now."
Kurt sat there in complete silence. Oddly it hadn't comforted him to know that Rogue was acting out of genuine concern, because the truth had been one heck of a vicious slap in the face.
What had he been thinking trying to start a relationship right now! But on the other hand ... would he and Kitty ever have another chance?
"I really do hear what you're saying Rogue," Kurt sighed, "but, ... I can't help but think that me and Kitty for some reason should be together."
"And I won't try to keep you guys apart ... I just want both of you to be aware of what you're getting into."
Suddenly Amara grabbed her books from the table and stood up quickly. She'd only been there a couple of minutes, so she couldn't possible have finished her work already ... and she looked oddly shaken.
"I'll see you guys at lunch," she called over her shoulder as she practically ran out of the library.
Kurt and Rogue turned to each other in complete confusion. "Mensch. Benehmen jeder sich seltsam heute?"
Rogue had no idea what Kurt had said. But she was pretty much thinking the same thing.
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Kurt's stomach started grumbling about halfway through English period. The continued rumbling actually made Rogue start chuckling.
"Someone's obviously hungry," she said with a raised eyebrow.
Kurt gave her a half grin. "Actually there's two of us over here who are hungry."
Rogue suddenly gave a mock groan. "I just realized, you already eat too much with your ultra high metabolism ... but now you're eating for two."
"It must be the end of the world," Kurt said completely deadpan.
Luckily the bell signaling lunch, rang a few minutes later, and Kurt and Rogue gathered up their books and headed off to lunch together.
Even though Kurt wasn't really expecting Kitty to be at the lunch table after the way she'd acted that morning and what Rogue had told him, he still felt disappointed when he got to the table with all the mutants and she wasn't there.
The boys were off at there own table (Kurt felt weird around them now anyway), but Tabitha and Amara were at the table.
And Amara for her part looked much more relaxed than she had in the library not too long ago.
Rogue snorted. "I guess pretty Kitty won't be joining us today." She completely ignored the glare that Kurt threw at her as the two of them sat down with their lunch trays.
Amara shook her head. "She has been acting really weird all day."
Kurt snickered. "You're one to talk, Amara. You were acting quite strange yourself in the library a few moments ago."
Amara looked at Kurt with a puzzled expression on her face. "Library? Rogue what is he talking about?"
"Come on Amara, how could you forget?" Rogue said, "you were sitting at the table with us and then about 15 minutes before lunch you practically bolted out of the library."
Tabitha also looked confused now. "When was Amara at the library today?"
"I wasn't!" Amara squeaked.
"But you had to have been," Kurt said, "Rogue and I just saw you there last period."
Amara continued to shake her head as Tabitha released a deep breath. "Blue, ... Amara was in the same classroom as me last period ... Earth Science. She never once left the room."
Rogue and Kurt looked confused, surprised, and utterly puzzled. "But how could there be two of you runn..."
The answer came to Rogue in the middle of her explanation and a split second after Kurt came to the same explanation. She was vaguely aware of Kurt growling low in his throat right beside her as she pounded her fist on the table in complete frustration.
"What?" Tabitha and Amara asked together. They were now just as confused as Rogue and Kurt had been a minute ago.
*Professor!*
Kurt only had to wait a few seconds before the shout in his mind was answered.
*Kurt not so loud. Whatever it is we can talk about ...*
*Mein Mutter is back.*
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Yeah! Another chapter successfully executed. And I do plan on resolving this issue between Kurt and Kitty (at least somewhat) in the next chapter. I didn't want to make this like a bunch of other fics were are there seemingly no emotional tests concerning the couple.
Also, Shadowwalker, I hope this somewhat satisfied your request because I had Mystique in there without actually having her in there. I just started writing this story before I saw Dark Horizons, so in the prologue I kind of hinted that Mystique was still around somewhere. But I don't plan on her coming to the Institute or getting all close with Kurt and Rogue.
I think she completely missed her chance to be a mother to both of them.
Anyway, here's the little bit of German:
Mensch. Benehmen jeder sich seltsam heute?: Man. Is everyone acting weird today?
(I did the translation as best as I could, but hey I had like a million things to do today)
Since no one really had any specific questions (although for that one person who asked: no I'm not going to kill the baby. I'm not that cruel and I plan on turning this into a series eventually. Just go with me on this.) I'm going to end this by saying thanks for the reviews and please CONTINUE REVIEWING. I LOVE REVIEWS!!!
~Ice~