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Kurt awoke in a strange bed. He glanced around and realized that everything in the room was foreign to him…with the exception of his growing headache. The room was sparsely furnished, resembling an army officer's bedroom. Only the necessities.

"Gott, can't I ever vake up vizout pain?" Kurt mumbled as he sat up on the bed. The rest had done him some good and he felt somewhat better, but not much. He tried to recall what had happened, but it came back to him as if it had been a dream. Bits and pieces of a puzzle that did not seem to fit together properly. As he tried to find the pieces missing in his memory, he heard footsteps in the hall. He snapped back into reality, tensed his muscles and looked anxiously towards the door. Entered Mystique, and with her came the memories, in full, of what had happened.

"Mystique!!" Kurt sprang to his feet and prepared himself for battle, knowing full well that he had little chance of winning.

"Sit down, I'm not here to hurt you," she told him, but he did not respond, "If I had wanted you dead, do you actually think that you would be standing there? Now sit down." Mystique took a seat in the chair opposite the bed and Kurt cautiously sat on edge, but never relaxed his muscles. They sat in silence for uncounted minutes when Kurt broke the silence.

"Vhy?" Kurt stared at Mystique, studying her expression. She showed none.

"Why what?" Mystique took the time to really look at the boy, her son.

"Vhy did you not take me? Vhy did you take all ze ozers and leave me behind? It'z not like I vould have been extremely hard to capture…in my current state, of course. And Volverine, why not him?" Kurt searched her face for answers but again it did not give away anything, if anything, she was feeling.

"We are only concerned in creating a race superior to all, mutant and human, but to do this we need genetic mutations that occurred naturally, which excludes Wolverine." In hearing this, Kurt inwardly cried out in anguish. The memories of his life before the X-Men rushed into his head. Feelings of inadequacy, hatred, hurt…Though being chosen was definitely not a good thing, Wolverine was excluded because he could not be used, but Kurt…

Kurt was not as skilled at hiding his emotions as Mystique and she picked up on his pain. She let him wallow for a time before continuing where she left off.

"We used the others genetic material to create a new breed of mutants. A race that are obedient, and lack the free will to choose their actions." Mystique avoided the question that Kurt was asking with his eyes. Kurt finally could not take not knowing.

"But Vhy not me? Vhy did you choose ze rest, but not me? Are my traits not desirable?" Kurt voice was laced with venom. He felt hurt, betrayed, inadequate, but did not understand why. It's not like he wanted to be part of the abomination, which was now standing in the doorway, but he was furious…and hurt…that he had been left out.

"Don't you understand? I did not do this to you because I did not want to hurt you," Mystique's response caught Kurt totally off guard. He definitely had not been expecting that.

"Vhat?!" He had to make sure he heard her right.

"Join me," Mystique's eyes glinted, and Kurt recoiled, "You are my son…don't you understand? We were meant to work together, not against one another!" Kurt's breathing quickened and he started to feel really tense. He had no clue why she was doing this. His eyes flickered to the door, only to see the super mutant in a position to easily block any of his attempts. He thought about porting, but he did not have the strength to keep that up, neither would he leave his friends. Mystique grew impatient and demanded an answer.

"Will you join me? Answer now, yes…or no?" With the last part of the ultimatum, Mystique's eyes grew extremely hard and cold. Kurt realized that she did not truly care for him. It is possible that she wanted to recruit him because he was her son, but not because she loved him. In a way it was a relief, but it also cut through him, for again he realized was not loved. It cut deep.

He could do nothing, at the time, but agree to join. The genetically engineered mutant was blocking the way out, and though he could bamf, but that would require him to leave his friends…not something he wanted, nor was he in anyway something he could handle at the moment.

He played along with Mystique's plans, changing his outfit, suffering through he instructions and cautions, but all he thought about were ways to free the others. After a few hours of debriefing and, what Mystique thought to be, brainwashing, Kurt was reintroduced to his "former" teammates. By that time, he had begun to believe what Mystique had forced into his mind…that they didn't care for him. He believed nobody cared…

**Did ya guys enjoy??? Its going deeper than I thought it would, but I think I enjoy where its going, do you? Its fun to write…sorry it was a little longer than my other updates (2 days…the horror!! Lol) but I had an English paper…do you know how much there is on Victorian England?…NOTHING!!! It was like nobody LIVED during that time period!! Oh well…Anyway, hope you enjoyed R/R!!