Chapter 27
This had to be the hottest night that had hit yet. Although to be fair, it was early July so it was bound to be hot.
Kitty had kicked her covers off in the middle of the night before rolling over and drifting off to sleep. Even with her fan running on high, she was still sweating in her sleep. However, there was a tiny smile on her face.
Anyone watching her would find that smile out of place considering the uncomforting stickiness that was covering the room.
But Kitty wasn't smiling because of any physical comfort. She was having a good dream.
Kitty was sitting in the city park with Kurt. They must have been having some kind of picnic, since they were sitting on a blanket and there was a basket nearby.
There were other people walking around in the park, but Kitty and Kurt paid them no heed. They were to wrapped up in each other.
Kurt didn't even have his image inducer with him. He was completely comfortable to go out in public as his true self. And Kitty loved it. Kurt was beautiful on the inside and that was all that mattered.
Kurt nuzzled Kitty's neck, and Kitty giggled slightly at how his fur tickled. But it was also soft and velvety.
From behind the two, there was the sound of childish laughter. And from the rising volume, whoever was making the noise was heading towards Kurt and Kitty.
Kurt had a silly grin on his face as he turned towards the laughter and called out to someone. He had such a look of love on his face that Kitty knew instinctively who Kurt was calling too.
It was his daughter.
Kitty also turned to look over her shoulder.
"Keety? Keety are you awake? I've got zomething to show you!"
"Huh? Wha?" Kitty asked as she came awake. She groaned as she sat up from a deep sleep, and she was suddenly aware of how hot and sticky she was feeling.
She looked up to see Kurt standing in the door.
"Kurt?" Kitty groaned again, "what time is it?"
Kurt grinned at her sheepishly. "It's actually 3:40 in the morning I think."
Kurt walked forward as Kitty growled at him.
"And you chose to wake me ... Kurt are you okay?!"
Kurt nodded vaguely, but he didn't look okay. He looked like a complete mess for lack of a better word. For one thing, if Kitty thought she was uncomfortable in the midst of this heat wave, it probably couldn't even compare to what Kurt was going through. Most of his fur and hair was slightly damp from sweat, and his eyes had a slightly glazed look to them. Almost as if he was somewhat disoriented.
And then there was the bulge in his stomach which was what was causing the most discomfort for him. Now five months along, Kurt actually had a big enough stomach to look like he was maybe in his sixth month. And according to Kurt, the baby seemed to be making his temperature rise regardless of the actual temperature outside. This had made the whole month of June almost unbearable for Kurt.
And Kitty just hated to see the man she loved going through that much pain.
"Kurt if you're okay, then why are you up this early?" Kitty asked, patting her mattress to indicate that Kurt should sit down.
Kurt obliged and carefully sat down. His feet and lower legs had also constantly been sore lately.
"Actually the little one was keeping me up," Kurt said as he reached for Kitty's hand.
"Kurt, what are you doing?" Kitty asked.
Kurt didn't answer. He simply took Kitty's right hand and gently placed it over his own abdomen.
Kitty opened her mouth to ask Kurt what this was all about when she suddenly felt a slight fluttering movement from Kurt's stomach. Pressing her hand a little more into Kurt's stomach, but not enough to hurt him, Kitty gave out a tiny cry of surprise as she realized the baby was moving.
"How long has she been doing that?" Kitty asked.
Kurt was grinning with joy. "Since the beginning of July I've been feeling some fluttery movements. But it's never been that much and I've never been able to feel it from the outside."
"I thought this would be weird," Kitty confessed to Kurt, "but it's just simply amazing."
Kurt smiled warmly at Kitty. "I'm sorry for waking you up Katzchen, but I just had to share this with someone."
Kitty wasn't at all offended. "Well I'm glad you shared it with me."
Turning towards her nightstand, Kitty lifted her half full glass of water and handed it to Kurt. "It's not completely cold, but you look parched Kurt."
Kurt gave a relieved sigh and took the glass from Kitty. "Danke Katzchen."
Kitty lightly ruffled Kurt's hair as he started draining the glass. "I'll go grab another glass of water for you Kurt."
Kurt didn't answer her since he was still draining off his first glass. Kitty had already left by the time he'd finished, so he just set the glass down and laid down and Kitty's bed.
Closing his eyes, Kurt whispered the words into the darkness that he'd been carrying around with him for months. "Ich liebe dich, Katzhen."
By the time Kitty came back with a second glass of water, she found that Kurt had fallen asleep on her bed.
Far from being annoyed, Kitty placed the full glass on the nightstand before lying down behind Kurt. She then wrapped her arms around him from behind so that her hands were resting on Kurt's swollen belly. The baby was still apparently awake.
Kitty then lightly kissed Kurt on the cheek. "Good night Fuzzy. I love you."
She fell asleep with her hands still on Kurt's abdomen. The baby still awake and moving in Kurt's body.
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Kurt and Kitty were rudely awoken only two hours later by the sounds of the alarms going off throughout the whole Institute.
Both jolted awake and Kurt rubbed his ears as the sound rang through them.
"Vhat is going on?"
Kitty, who wasn't quite all awake, looked around in confusion. "I'm not sure Fuzzy. Let's go find the Professor and find out what's going on."
The duo stepped out in the hallway and ran towards the front foyer. They just barely caught a glimpse of Logan, Ororo, Jean, Scott, Bobby, Amara, and Tabitha running out the front doors in their full uniforms. However, before either one of them was allowed to contemplate the situation any further, Rogue came by to intercept the two of them.
"Kurt, I don't know what's going on, but the Professor asked me to tell you to go back to your room," Rogue said, "he said he'd explain everything later."
"But Rogue ...," Kurt started.
Rogue interrupted him by holding her hand up. "Please Kurt! The Professor sounded like he was really concerned about you."
Kurt sighed and looked completely dejected, so Rogue turned to Kitty. "Kitty can you please stay with Kurt until this is all over? I'm not sure what the big deal is either, but if the Professor is concerned it must be something serious."
Kitty must have seen something in Rogue's eyes to suggest that this situation was in fact fairly serious and that Kurt should be somewhere safe. Gently, Kitty took Kurt's arm. "Come on Kurt. I'll stay with you so you won't feel left out. What's most important right now is your safety."
Kurt grudgingly went along with Kitty while Rogue turned around and headed in the direction the others had went.
Kitty led Kurt back to her room where Kurt slumped down on the bed and burst into tears.
"Kurt please don't cry. I'm sure you'll be told what's going on later," Kitty said putting her arms around him.
"I know that Keety. But ... I feel so useless and helpless," Kurt said still sniffling.
Kitty gave him a brave smile. "Would this be a mood swing, Kurt?"
Kurt smiled through his tears. "I guess so. I don't think I'd normally be getting this upset."
After a few moments in Kitty's room, the alarms sounded off and the two waited in trepidation for some word of what was going on.
The first person to pass by Kitty's room was Logan. And he looked mad enough to kill the next person who crossed his path. However, Kurt still ran up to him intending to ask what was going on since Logan wouldn't dare attack him while he was pregnant.
"Herr Logan, vhat is ...?"
"Go back to bed Elf," Logan growled at him.
Kurt was taken aback by Logan's behavior and so was Kitty, who had come up behind Kurt during Logan's little verbal attack on Kurt.
However, Kurt was even more confused by the sight of his mother crying in his father's arms while the Professor tried to explain something to them.
The other X-Men were also heading back to their rooms, but they looked almost as confused as Kurt did.
Jean and Scott were the only ones who looked remotely like they knew what was going on, and they were walking up to Kurt and Kitty.
"Come on Kurt," Jean said, "we're supposed to make sure that you're heading back to bed."
Kurt was almost frantic from his lack of knowledge of what was going on. "Jean ... what's going on?"
"Please Kurt," Jean started, "everyone's tired, your parents are upset, and I think we should resolve this in the morning."
Kurt sighed as he allowed himself to be escorted back to his bedroom by Jean, Scott, and Kitty. Kitty brought the full glass of water from her room into Kurt's room while Kurt simply flopped down on his bed. Despite his protests, he fell asleep almost immediately.
"Why are most of his covers on the floor?" Scott asked as he bent to pick them up.
"You might want to leave them off," Kitty said, "the combination of July, the pregnancy, and his fur has made Kurt pretty hot lately."
Scott shrugged as he stood up. "Let's head back to bed."
"But Scott, what is going on?" Kitty asked.
"In the morning," Jean said. "We'll deal with this in the morning."
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Kurt, despite having woken up twice during the night, was still out of bed and heading down to the kitchen by seven o'clock the next morning. Actually he'd only drifted back to sleep for about an hour.
He was simply too apprehensive to sleep, and he knew Jean and Scott had been keeping something from him the previous night.
Kurt walked into the kitchen to see Kitty already there, playing with a cut up apple on the plate in front of her.
"Too nervous to eat Katzchen?"
Kitty looked up at Kurt. "So, you couldn't really sleep either huh?"
Kurt shook his head as he opened the fridge. "When you know you're friends aren't being entirely truthful with you, it's a little hard to sleep."
Kitty nodded in understanding. "If it makes you feel any better, they didn't really tell me anything of what's going on either."
Kurt sighed. "It's not just that Keety. When I looked at Scott and Jean, ... I could tell they were concerned about me for some reason. And my parents were crying. Vhat happened last night to get everyone so upset?"
Kitty shrugged, hating to see how upset this was all making Kurt, but then her face lit up. "I think I have an idea Fuzzy."
Kurt looked at her nervously. "Vhat is it?"
At first Kitty didn't answer and simply grabbed the remote control on the table, turned on the tv, and started flipping through the channels. "If the alarms went off last night, there's a chance it's on the news. After all, the public seems to want to keep an eye on us."
Kurt grinned at her. "Great idea Kitty!"
Kitty finally reached the morning news station. When she flipped to it there was some kind of a story on the upcoming city elections.
"Ugh," Kitty said sounding disgusted, "can you believe that Kelly is running for mayor?"
Kurt groaned. "If he's elected this can't go well for us."
However, Kurt and Kitty's conversation was cut short as the reporter moved into another story. The information the two had been waiting for.
"Kelly's main stance is his position against mutants. And that brings us to incident that happened early this morning at the mysterious Xavier Institute. Police were called to the front of the gates around five o'clock am eastern standard time. Apparently a group drunks from the bar had tried to break into the Institute. While the mutants were able to subdue them, several of the men were carrying knifes or broken beer bottles. The Chief of police said earlier that this 'was a completely unprovoked attack and unjustified.' However, what makes this incident very mysterious, is that several of the men who were interviewed report not being able to remember anything about this morning. The police also said that while the men had been drinking, they didn't have enough alcohol in their systems to be declared legally drunk. The names of the men involved are not being release at this time.
Coming up when the morning news returns, a look at an incident down ...."
Kitty quickly snapped off the television before anymore could be said. "Mesmero," she said absentmindedly, but then she looked over at Kurt to see how he had reacted.
Kurt was in shock. If he hadn't had fur, Kitty was sure he would have been dead white right about then. His eyes were round and his mouth was hanging open slightly.
"Kurt ... Kurt say something!" Kitty said worriedly.
About this time Jean and Scott walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, what are you two doing up?" Jean asked.
Kurt slowly turned his head towards Jean and Scott with a hurt look on his face. "Vhy didn't you tell me?"
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Logan walked towards were the Professor was quietly sitting amongst a small cluster of trees. The spot was a favorite spot of the Professor's to go and think.
The Professor's back was turned to Logan, so Logan was simply able to walk up and stand next to him. There was a long pause before the Professor spoke.
"Kurt knows." It wasn't a question, but a statement.
"Yeah Charles he does. He's with his parents right now, but ... I think the Elf is pretty upset that we didn't tell him this last night."
"I know," the Professor stated, "I spend so much time trying to protect him that I sometimes forget that I can't do that for much longer."
Logan nodded. "He's going to be a parent Charles. You have to start telling him these things from now on."
The Professor sighed as he looked up at the sky. "And it looks like we're going to have something else to explain to him very soon."
Logan looked up at the sky and growled, but didn't try to stop the raven from landing right in front of the Professor.
"What can I do for you Mystique?" the Professor asked calmly as the raven shifted right into her natural form.
"What is going on with my son?!"
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Okay, let me start by saying that this chapter was a big pain in the butt to write. For one thing, I'm getting into a section of the story where I really have to think about what to write. That and this week I had a test in one of my history classes and I'm currently trying to get one of my two projects finished by Thanksgiving.
So, just as a warning to all my readers, there's probably only going to be one update a week for the remainder of the semester. Just because I don't have as much time as I used to. Sorry, but my schooling comes first. Anyway, sorry about the delay. Here's the replies to reviews:
~C~ I would have felt weird replying to daughtersofgondor ... because then I'd be replying to myself. And you're right. I like your witty comments.
Scrawler: Don't worry ... the baby's room isn't going to be pink. I do have an idea for it though. And no the baby is not going to be TJ from the exiles. I never really intended to pursue that kind of a story line. Hope that doesn't disappoint you too much.
InterNutter: Okay ... that's a weird kind of angst. But I wouldn't know how to work that into the story. shrug. I'm not sure were the next few chapters are gonna go so ... who news what will come out of my twisted mind.
Pilar Sama: Not sure were the idea for the water fight came from ... Oh well. Glad you liked it.
Mayzon: Yeah, I'm trying to get Kurt more and more used to the pregnancy as the story goes along because he had to accept it eventually. However, he still has a few more surprises in store for him.
Raskolian Phoenix: Yep. Read your update for whatever that story with Rahne is called. Sorry I've had a stressful week. It's very good and I really hope Rahne doesn't die. And I'm glad you liked the last chapter.
ShadowJax: Well I certainly took my time with this chapter ... and I wasn't completely satisfied with the end results. But I am very tough on myself.
Jebbadilla: Thanks for the compliment, but I don't think it's that good.
Anyway, I gotta run.
~Ice~
This had to be the hottest night that had hit yet. Although to be fair, it was early July so it was bound to be hot.
Kitty had kicked her covers off in the middle of the night before rolling over and drifting off to sleep. Even with her fan running on high, she was still sweating in her sleep. However, there was a tiny smile on her face.
Anyone watching her would find that smile out of place considering the uncomforting stickiness that was covering the room.
But Kitty wasn't smiling because of any physical comfort. She was having a good dream.
Kitty was sitting in the city park with Kurt. They must have been having some kind of picnic, since they were sitting on a blanket and there was a basket nearby.
There were other people walking around in the park, but Kitty and Kurt paid them no heed. They were to wrapped up in each other.
Kurt didn't even have his image inducer with him. He was completely comfortable to go out in public as his true self. And Kitty loved it. Kurt was beautiful on the inside and that was all that mattered.
Kurt nuzzled Kitty's neck, and Kitty giggled slightly at how his fur tickled. But it was also soft and velvety.
From behind the two, there was the sound of childish laughter. And from the rising volume, whoever was making the noise was heading towards Kurt and Kitty.
Kurt had a silly grin on his face as he turned towards the laughter and called out to someone. He had such a look of love on his face that Kitty knew instinctively who Kurt was calling too.
It was his daughter.
Kitty also turned to look over her shoulder.
"Keety? Keety are you awake? I've got zomething to show you!"
"Huh? Wha?" Kitty asked as she came awake. She groaned as she sat up from a deep sleep, and she was suddenly aware of how hot and sticky she was feeling.
She looked up to see Kurt standing in the door.
"Kurt?" Kitty groaned again, "what time is it?"
Kurt grinned at her sheepishly. "It's actually 3:40 in the morning I think."
Kurt walked forward as Kitty growled at him.
"And you chose to wake me ... Kurt are you okay?!"
Kurt nodded vaguely, but he didn't look okay. He looked like a complete mess for lack of a better word. For one thing, if Kitty thought she was uncomfortable in the midst of this heat wave, it probably couldn't even compare to what Kurt was going through. Most of his fur and hair was slightly damp from sweat, and his eyes had a slightly glazed look to them. Almost as if he was somewhat disoriented.
And then there was the bulge in his stomach which was what was causing the most discomfort for him. Now five months along, Kurt actually had a big enough stomach to look like he was maybe in his sixth month. And according to Kurt, the baby seemed to be making his temperature rise regardless of the actual temperature outside. This had made the whole month of June almost unbearable for Kurt.
And Kitty just hated to see the man she loved going through that much pain.
"Kurt if you're okay, then why are you up this early?" Kitty asked, patting her mattress to indicate that Kurt should sit down.
Kurt obliged and carefully sat down. His feet and lower legs had also constantly been sore lately.
"Actually the little one was keeping me up," Kurt said as he reached for Kitty's hand.
"Kurt, what are you doing?" Kitty asked.
Kurt didn't answer. He simply took Kitty's right hand and gently placed it over his own abdomen.
Kitty opened her mouth to ask Kurt what this was all about when she suddenly felt a slight fluttering movement from Kurt's stomach. Pressing her hand a little more into Kurt's stomach, but not enough to hurt him, Kitty gave out a tiny cry of surprise as she realized the baby was moving.
"How long has she been doing that?" Kitty asked.
Kurt was grinning with joy. "Since the beginning of July I've been feeling some fluttery movements. But it's never been that much and I've never been able to feel it from the outside."
"I thought this would be weird," Kitty confessed to Kurt, "but it's just simply amazing."
Kurt smiled warmly at Kitty. "I'm sorry for waking you up Katzchen, but I just had to share this with someone."
Kitty wasn't at all offended. "Well I'm glad you shared it with me."
Turning towards her nightstand, Kitty lifted her half full glass of water and handed it to Kurt. "It's not completely cold, but you look parched Kurt."
Kurt gave a relieved sigh and took the glass from Kitty. "Danke Katzchen."
Kitty lightly ruffled Kurt's hair as he started draining the glass. "I'll go grab another glass of water for you Kurt."
Kurt didn't answer her since he was still draining off his first glass. Kitty had already left by the time he'd finished, so he just set the glass down and laid down and Kitty's bed.
Closing his eyes, Kurt whispered the words into the darkness that he'd been carrying around with him for months. "Ich liebe dich, Katzhen."
By the time Kitty came back with a second glass of water, she found that Kurt had fallen asleep on her bed.
Far from being annoyed, Kitty placed the full glass on the nightstand before lying down behind Kurt. She then wrapped her arms around him from behind so that her hands were resting on Kurt's swollen belly. The baby was still apparently awake.
Kitty then lightly kissed Kurt on the cheek. "Good night Fuzzy. I love you."
She fell asleep with her hands still on Kurt's abdomen. The baby still awake and moving in Kurt's body.
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Kurt and Kitty were rudely awoken only two hours later by the sounds of the alarms going off throughout the whole Institute.
Both jolted awake and Kurt rubbed his ears as the sound rang through them.
"Vhat is going on?"
Kitty, who wasn't quite all awake, looked around in confusion. "I'm not sure Fuzzy. Let's go find the Professor and find out what's going on."
The duo stepped out in the hallway and ran towards the front foyer. They just barely caught a glimpse of Logan, Ororo, Jean, Scott, Bobby, Amara, and Tabitha running out the front doors in their full uniforms. However, before either one of them was allowed to contemplate the situation any further, Rogue came by to intercept the two of them.
"Kurt, I don't know what's going on, but the Professor asked me to tell you to go back to your room," Rogue said, "he said he'd explain everything later."
"But Rogue ...," Kurt started.
Rogue interrupted him by holding her hand up. "Please Kurt! The Professor sounded like he was really concerned about you."
Kurt sighed and looked completely dejected, so Rogue turned to Kitty. "Kitty can you please stay with Kurt until this is all over? I'm not sure what the big deal is either, but if the Professor is concerned it must be something serious."
Kitty must have seen something in Rogue's eyes to suggest that this situation was in fact fairly serious and that Kurt should be somewhere safe. Gently, Kitty took Kurt's arm. "Come on Kurt. I'll stay with you so you won't feel left out. What's most important right now is your safety."
Kurt grudgingly went along with Kitty while Rogue turned around and headed in the direction the others had went.
Kitty led Kurt back to her room where Kurt slumped down on the bed and burst into tears.
"Kurt please don't cry. I'm sure you'll be told what's going on later," Kitty said putting her arms around him.
"I know that Keety. But ... I feel so useless and helpless," Kurt said still sniffling.
Kitty gave him a brave smile. "Would this be a mood swing, Kurt?"
Kurt smiled through his tears. "I guess so. I don't think I'd normally be getting this upset."
After a few moments in Kitty's room, the alarms sounded off and the two waited in trepidation for some word of what was going on.
The first person to pass by Kitty's room was Logan. And he looked mad enough to kill the next person who crossed his path. However, Kurt still ran up to him intending to ask what was going on since Logan wouldn't dare attack him while he was pregnant.
"Herr Logan, vhat is ...?"
"Go back to bed Elf," Logan growled at him.
Kurt was taken aback by Logan's behavior and so was Kitty, who had come up behind Kurt during Logan's little verbal attack on Kurt.
However, Kurt was even more confused by the sight of his mother crying in his father's arms while the Professor tried to explain something to them.
The other X-Men were also heading back to their rooms, but they looked almost as confused as Kurt did.
Jean and Scott were the only ones who looked remotely like they knew what was going on, and they were walking up to Kurt and Kitty.
"Come on Kurt," Jean said, "we're supposed to make sure that you're heading back to bed."
Kurt was almost frantic from his lack of knowledge of what was going on. "Jean ... what's going on?"
"Please Kurt," Jean started, "everyone's tired, your parents are upset, and I think we should resolve this in the morning."
Kurt sighed as he allowed himself to be escorted back to his bedroom by Jean, Scott, and Kitty. Kitty brought the full glass of water from her room into Kurt's room while Kurt simply flopped down on his bed. Despite his protests, he fell asleep almost immediately.
"Why are most of his covers on the floor?" Scott asked as he bent to pick them up.
"You might want to leave them off," Kitty said, "the combination of July, the pregnancy, and his fur has made Kurt pretty hot lately."
Scott shrugged as he stood up. "Let's head back to bed."
"But Scott, what is going on?" Kitty asked.
"In the morning," Jean said. "We'll deal with this in the morning."
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Kurt, despite having woken up twice during the night, was still out of bed and heading down to the kitchen by seven o'clock the next morning. Actually he'd only drifted back to sleep for about an hour.
He was simply too apprehensive to sleep, and he knew Jean and Scott had been keeping something from him the previous night.
Kurt walked into the kitchen to see Kitty already there, playing with a cut up apple on the plate in front of her.
"Too nervous to eat Katzchen?"
Kitty looked up at Kurt. "So, you couldn't really sleep either huh?"
Kurt shook his head as he opened the fridge. "When you know you're friends aren't being entirely truthful with you, it's a little hard to sleep."
Kitty nodded in understanding. "If it makes you feel any better, they didn't really tell me anything of what's going on either."
Kurt sighed. "It's not just that Keety. When I looked at Scott and Jean, ... I could tell they were concerned about me for some reason. And my parents were crying. Vhat happened last night to get everyone so upset?"
Kitty shrugged, hating to see how upset this was all making Kurt, but then her face lit up. "I think I have an idea Fuzzy."
Kurt looked at her nervously. "Vhat is it?"
At first Kitty didn't answer and simply grabbed the remote control on the table, turned on the tv, and started flipping through the channels. "If the alarms went off last night, there's a chance it's on the news. After all, the public seems to want to keep an eye on us."
Kurt grinned at her. "Great idea Kitty!"
Kitty finally reached the morning news station. When she flipped to it there was some kind of a story on the upcoming city elections.
"Ugh," Kitty said sounding disgusted, "can you believe that Kelly is running for mayor?"
Kurt groaned. "If he's elected this can't go well for us."
However, Kurt and Kitty's conversation was cut short as the reporter moved into another story. The information the two had been waiting for.
"Kelly's main stance is his position against mutants. And that brings us to incident that happened early this morning at the mysterious Xavier Institute. Police were called to the front of the gates around five o'clock am eastern standard time. Apparently a group drunks from the bar had tried to break into the Institute. While the mutants were able to subdue them, several of the men were carrying knifes or broken beer bottles. The Chief of police said earlier that this 'was a completely unprovoked attack and unjustified.' However, what makes this incident very mysterious, is that several of the men who were interviewed report not being able to remember anything about this morning. The police also said that while the men had been drinking, they didn't have enough alcohol in their systems to be declared legally drunk. The names of the men involved are not being release at this time.
Coming up when the morning news returns, a look at an incident down ...."
Kitty quickly snapped off the television before anymore could be said. "Mesmero," she said absentmindedly, but then she looked over at Kurt to see how he had reacted.
Kurt was in shock. If he hadn't had fur, Kitty was sure he would have been dead white right about then. His eyes were round and his mouth was hanging open slightly.
"Kurt ... Kurt say something!" Kitty said worriedly.
About this time Jean and Scott walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, what are you two doing up?" Jean asked.
Kurt slowly turned his head towards Jean and Scott with a hurt look on his face. "Vhy didn't you tell me?"
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Logan walked towards were the Professor was quietly sitting amongst a small cluster of trees. The spot was a favorite spot of the Professor's to go and think.
The Professor's back was turned to Logan, so Logan was simply able to walk up and stand next to him. There was a long pause before the Professor spoke.
"Kurt knows." It wasn't a question, but a statement.
"Yeah Charles he does. He's with his parents right now, but ... I think the Elf is pretty upset that we didn't tell him this last night."
"I know," the Professor stated, "I spend so much time trying to protect him that I sometimes forget that I can't do that for much longer."
Logan nodded. "He's going to be a parent Charles. You have to start telling him these things from now on."
The Professor sighed as he looked up at the sky. "And it looks like we're going to have something else to explain to him very soon."
Logan looked up at the sky and growled, but didn't try to stop the raven from landing right in front of the Professor.
"What can I do for you Mystique?" the Professor asked calmly as the raven shifted right into her natural form.
"What is going on with my son?!"
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Okay, let me start by saying that this chapter was a big pain in the butt to write. For one thing, I'm getting into a section of the story where I really have to think about what to write. That and this week I had a test in one of my history classes and I'm currently trying to get one of my two projects finished by Thanksgiving.
So, just as a warning to all my readers, there's probably only going to be one update a week for the remainder of the semester. Just because I don't have as much time as I used to. Sorry, but my schooling comes first. Anyway, sorry about the delay. Here's the replies to reviews:
~C~ I would have felt weird replying to daughtersofgondor ... because then I'd be replying to myself. And you're right. I like your witty comments.
Scrawler: Don't worry ... the baby's room isn't going to be pink. I do have an idea for it though. And no the baby is not going to be TJ from the exiles. I never really intended to pursue that kind of a story line. Hope that doesn't disappoint you too much.
InterNutter: Okay ... that's a weird kind of angst. But I wouldn't know how to work that into the story. shrug. I'm not sure were the next few chapters are gonna go so ... who news what will come out of my twisted mind.
Pilar Sama: Not sure were the idea for the water fight came from ... Oh well. Glad you liked it.
Mayzon: Yeah, I'm trying to get Kurt more and more used to the pregnancy as the story goes along because he had to accept it eventually. However, he still has a few more surprises in store for him.
Raskolian Phoenix: Yep. Read your update for whatever that story with Rahne is called. Sorry I've had a stressful week. It's very good and I really hope Rahne doesn't die. And I'm glad you liked the last chapter.
ShadowJax: Well I certainly took my time with this chapter ... and I wasn't completely satisfied with the end results. But I am very tough on myself.
Jebbadilla: Thanks for the compliment, but I don't think it's that good.
Anyway, I gotta run.
~Ice~