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Chapter 7 of Junior X
Dropping the Bomb.
The thirty minutes the Professor had given everyone to prepare for the meeting passed all to quickly for the
Wagners. For a whole week, they had discussed and how they would break the news, guessed on what
each team members' reaction would be. They knew themselves, as X-men, that the abnormal and strange was
all too normal for them. They had certainly had their share. But this? A pregnant man? Would they share in
their happiness? Would they hate Kurt? Would they treat him differently?
Kurt sat on one side of the Warroom table next to his wife. Kitty noticed Kurt nervously tugging at the bottom
of his shirt, looking around and taking in the prescence of each X-man as he or she walked in and took their place at
the Warroom table.
"So, what's this about?" Rogue asked, "Ah didn't think the Warroom was goin' to be a place to discuss Kurt or Kitty."
"It's the best place. Everyone is here, and apparently this meeting is going to take a while. We're here to discuss Kurt
and Kitty. Hopefully, it's good news." Jean said.
"What about dem?" Remy said, leaned back in his chair, feet propped up on the table, shuffling a deck of cards.
Rogue gouged him in the arm. "Ye're tryin' ta make this sound unimportant! Grow up!" Rogue shouted and looked
around to her brother.
"Ya'll gotta forgive him," the southern belle said and cast a look at Remy that could have killed him. "Swamp rat's
got no manners."
"It is quite all right, Rogue." Kurt said , uneasy. This was going to be more difficult than he thought. Kitty grasped his
hand tightly. "Don't worry, love. Everything's going to be O.K., you'll see." Kitty reassured him. To hear her say it,
he could almost believe it.
"I certainly hope you're right." Kurt gave a shaky smile.
"I wonder where the Professor and Hank are?" Scott asked, curious. " I sure would like to get this show on the road.
This has got me dying of curiousity."
No sooner than this was said, that the Professor arrived in the Warroom, with Hank following close behind, binders and
charts under one blue, powerful arm. He had dressed to the nines, in a Khaki colored suit and tie. Kurt was almost honored
that Hank decided this was an important enough occasion to be formal for. As the Professor took his place at the helm
of the table, Hank sat up his charts, and walked over to Kurt.
"Are you ready, Kurt?" Hank whispered in Kurt's ear.
"As ready as I'll ever be. Just do me one favor, Herr McCoy."
"Name it, my friend, and it's yours." Hank nodded.
"Protect me from the mob that may ensue once the news is out. It is one thing when people tryed to stake me for being
a demon. It is quite personal when they try to stake me through the heart for being a male demon with child." Kurt whispered
back, trying to make light of the situation, a dire attempt to relieve his tension.
"Ever the joker, my friend." Hank whispered back. "It's good to have the old Kurt back." Hank patted Kurt on the shoulder and
proceeded to take his place next to the professor.
"My children, my X-men." the Professor stated. "We have been through thick and thin. Encountered all sorts of trials and tribulations. Experienced the fantastic. We have always been there for one another. We are more than friends, we are family. The Professor looked over to Kurt and Kitty. "Now, two members of our team have an important announcement to make. Your support and love are needed now more than ever. We have cause for celebration, do we not?"
Kitty and Kurt looked at each other, love in their eyes and smiling widely."I believe I should start." Kitty said.
Both Kitty and Kurt stood to their feet and faced the rest of the X-men. Kurt could feel each pair of eyes drilling into him. "Oh, God." Kurt thought to himself, "I'm going to pass out."
"As you know," said Kitty, "Kurt and I have been attempting to have a child for the past six months. Well," Kitty trailed off, glancing her husband in the eye one last time before telling the secret they held the past week. "Our attempts have been successful. Kurt and I are expecting!" Kitty said with glee.
A rush of heat flooded over Kurt. There. It was out. He stood somewhat dazed as all the other X-men started clapping and cheering.
"Way ta go, big fella!" Remy said, giving Kurt a hardy pat on the back. "I knew you could do it!"
"Vas?" Kurt asked in a dream-like state. It then dawned on him. They now knew Kitty and he were expecting a child. Kitty just neglected to tell them that he was the one carrying it.
"Oh, Kitty!" Betsy walked up to Kitty with tears in her eyes. " How far along are you? When are you due?" Betsy placed her hand on Kitty's stomach. Kitty looked confused."Oh,no." she thought, "They think it's me!"
"Well, Betsy," Kitty stammered, "You see, I'm not pregnant."
The beautiful telepath's face twisted in puzzlement. "What? But you said..."
"I know what I said, but I need to clarify something. LISTEN EVERYBODY!!"
Kitty shouted, and the room fell silent again, eyes glancing up at the couple.
"Kitty isn't pregnant." Betsy told the others. Their confusion began to ignite as well. Betsy turned back toward Kitty. "If you are not pregnant, then, did you and Kurt somehow arrange to adopt?" She asked.
"No, nothing like that." Kitty explained. Boy, this was hard. If she couldn't explain this without difficulty, she could imagine how Kurt felt. "We are expecting our own child."
"Let me get this straight. Ye're not in the family way. How are gettin' this kid, then?
Some magical baby fairy?" Logan belly-laughed. "Oh, I know." he continued with his joke. "It's the elf, there." Logan had tears of laughter in his eyes as he pointed toward Kurt. Kurt felt his heart drop. "He's got a bun in the oven. HAW!!"
"Bingo, mein freund." Kurt's voice broke through Logan's laughter.
"Oh, ye're funny, elf. Stop gaggin around. Really, what's goin' on?" Logan probbed,
wiping tears of humor out of his eyes.
Kurt cleared his throat, and looked to the others. "Attention, everyone." Kurt announced. "We are having a baby. I'm pregnant."
A dead hush fell over the Warroom. The same eyes that looked at him earlier as he stood to attention earlier were wide with astonishment and disbelief at what they had just heard.
Scott finally broke the silence. "What?" he asked, still in shock over the announcement.
"Yes, it's true." Kurt looked at Kitty, and took her hand into his. He looked back toward the audience before him. "I am with child, pregnant,in the family way, expecting. Whatever you wish to call it, it all means the same to me. This is no joke. I am not crazy.
I am pregnant, and the good Dr. McCoy is here to explain how it came about." Kurt calmly took his seat once again, his heart slamming in his chest. "Here we go." He thought to himself.
"We heard you, Kurt. It's just, well, so, well, different. Exactly how did this come about?" Jean said, intrigued. Everyone was still in shock. Fascinated and briming over with questions, of course, but this was oddball and intense in every sense of the word.
Kurt looked toward the X-men. "Kitty could not carry our child. With Dr. McCoy's knowledge of Shiar technology, we were able to have our own child, no outside surrogate involved. As I said earlier, Dr. McCoy will give you the complete rundown of details."
Kurt explained.
"So, what yer tellin'me," Logan interrupted, "That there is a baby growin' in ya? IN A GUY!! ? ARE YOU CRAZY KURT?!! WHY ARE YA DOIN' THIS?!! I don't believe it...." Logan trailed off, chewing on the end of his cigar.
"You don't believe it?" Kurt was irritated now. Of all the X-men, Kurt and Logan shared one of the closest friendships. They relyed on each other as two brothers would. Yet, here was the same man, trying to deny what was going on instead of accepting it and supporting him as Kurt himself had done so many times before.
"No, I don't." was all Logan had to say.
"Well, mein freund," Kurt paced over to Logan. "When my stomach begins to swell and the child inside me begins to kick, and in nine months Dr. McCoy takes a healthy ten-pound infant out of me, you will believe then, Ja?" Kurt snarled. Not only was he angry, he was hurt that his friend felt this way.
"I didn't mean I didn't believe ya," Logan retorted sarcastically, " I just can't believe you were ignorant enough to go through such a crazy experiment!"
"Please, please gentlemen!" Hank wedged his way between the two men. "If everyone would allow me to explain this in greater detail, it would help you better understand it."
Kurt and Logan both returned to their seats, both angry and upset.
"How could he do it?" Logan grumbled to himself . "Damned, crazy, stupid man!"
He continued to chew on the end of his cigar in disgust. He proped one elbow up on the table and rested his head in his hand, turning away from Kurt.
"Kurt." Hank whispered to Kurt, somewhat annoyed at the german. "Need I remind you, stress is not good for you right now?"
Kurt's face hardened toward McCoy. " And need I remind you that Logan started it?"
Kurt winced at that last statement. He sounded like a child trying to shift blame.
Hank nodded. " Yes, but you of all people should know how he is. Now, I must insist that you calm yourself down." Hank sternly ordered Kurt and pointed toward the young man's seat.
"Danke, mutter." Kurt said sarcastically and returned to his seat.
"Please, Kurt. Pay Logan no mind. Hank's right." Kitty began to rub Kurt's back and stroked his hair in a comforting gesture. "You need to take it easy."
Kurt's angry expression slowly softened. He smiled sheepishly at Kitty. "Ja, you are right, as always." Kurt agreed as he kissed Kitty's hand.
"Now, as I was saying," Hank began as he took the platform and started setting up his charts. " I am going to give a lecture, of sorts, to answer all of your questions and curiosities as to how this came about. After all," Hank stated, adjusting his glasses. "It is of dire importance that we all go into this well-informed."
From across the table, Kurt glanced over at Logan. "It just caught him off-guard. We have been friends for years. Surely, this is not as shocking to him as to make him give up on our friendship." Kurt thought to himself. His anger subsiding and giving over to his reasoning side, he began to feel badly about the argument and wanted to try to make the feral mutant understand.
Logan lifted his head off his hand and glanced back toward Kurt. He shot Kurt a look of
pure disgust, anger and dissappointment with his blue eyes before looking back toward Hank to listen to the lecture. Sadness filled Kurt's golden eyes before looking away.
"Then again," Kurt thought. "Maybe I'm wrong."
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After nearly an hour of intense step-by step explanation, as well as going over detailed diagrams and answering many questions, Hank finally folded his pointer together and stuck it into the inside pocket of his sportsjacket.
Each X-man in the room was still in awe of this new idea, but Hank's thorough explanation gave them the understanding they needed to accept it.
Another long silence followed after Hank returned to his seat. Too long of a silence for the Wagners, who were looking at each face in the room intently, searching for their reactions to all this.
Scott was the first to speak. He stood, looking at each team member, and then turned to Kurt and Kitty. Scott's face broke into a wide smile. "As team leader, I think I speak for everyone in this room that, while this totally was 180 degrees from anything we expected to hear, we love Kurt and Kitty both. In our line of work, the outrageous is completely acceptable for us." Scott's smile became a warm, happy grin. "Kurt, you have our full support, and, as always, our love." Scott walked over to Kurt and took his hand. "We're all going to be here for you, Kurt. You should have thought no less of us. We're family, aren't we?" Scott asked.
"Ja, that we are." Kurt grinned with happiness and relief. He stood to his feet, and Scott gave Kurt a big-brother hug.
All the other X-men, save Logan, exploded into happy cheers and applause.
"Well, how about dat?" Remy said. "They's gonna be anoder little elf runnin' around de mansion.
Uncle Remy show him de ropes on de cards, non?" Remy said, walking over to give Kurt a pat on
the back.
"Oh,no!" Kurt laughed. "I don't want him or her to be a looser at poker!" Kurt smiled, patting Remy
back on his shoulder. Kurt was so relieved. It was out, and everyone was happy. Well, almost everyone.
Kurt felt ashamed that he had doubted them.
"Oh, mah brother's gonna make me an aunt again!" Rogue had tears in her eyes. She walked over to Kurt, placing her
hand on his stomach. "How ya feelin' so far, Kurt?"
"Unglaublich!" Kurt smiled down at his sister.
"I was wondering, Kitty," Betsy asked the younger woman. "How would we go about giving a baby shower to a guy.
After all, this is the world's first, and I think pink is slightly over-feminine." Betsy smiled.
"Kurt's favorite colors are red and black. Maybe we can do something with that?" Kitty giggled.
"I certainly think we can." Jean said. She turned back toward Kurt, smiling at her old friend. "When your
pregnancy advances, I should be able to detect the baby psionically. Would you like that?" Jean asked,
a smile covering her beautiful face.
"I and Kitty will truly love that. Thank you, Jean." Kurt beamed.
"Are ya gonna be with Kurt when the baby arrives?" Rogue asked. "Hank said somethin' about the orb primin'
itself. Said somethin' about that it would be similar to labor pains? Mah poor brother. Don't know what ya
got yerself into." Rogue looked at Kurt. The vision of a very pregnant Kurt laying in bed panting, sweating, and
screaming at the top of his lungs crossed Rogue's mind for a split second.
"I do not mind it in the least bit. To have this baby in our lives is worth anything I must endure. I would go through
hell and back." Kurt said, a serious tone in his voice.
"I'm going to be there every step of the way. No question about it." Kitty looked at Kurt with love in her deep brown eyes.
Amongst all the commotion, Logan, whom had been listening quietly this jabbering and still huffing in his seat, stood to his feet
and bellowed. "Ya all HAVE GONE CRAZY!!" Logan shouted at the top of his lungs. "How in the world can ya all be happy about this?"
He span back around toward Kurt, his eyes burning holes in the demonic-looking young man. Everyone else fell silent yet again,
watching the two men.
Kurt looked at Logan this time, not with anger, but with sadness in his face. "Logan." He quietly said to his friend. "Please, don't
do this. Give yourself time to adjust. We all need that." Kurt placed his hand on Logan's shoulder in a friendship gesture.
"Get yer damned hand offa me, Kurt!" Logan snarled, grabbing Kurt's hand and throwing it off his shoulder. "What the hell is wrong
with ya, you damned crazy idiot! I thought you had more sense than this! Guess I was wrong!" Logan screamed, turning his back to Kurt
in raw anger.
Kurt shook his head. He wasn't going to let their friendship break apart like this. They had been through too much together.
Kurt had to proceed carefully, otherwise he would say something he would later regret. Logan was stubborn and could try your
last nerve, but..., "Logan, please look at me! I need your support in this. Next to the Professor, you are the closest thing I
have to a father. It's important to me..." Kurt placed his hand once again on Logan's shoulder.
"I told ya, get yer hand offa me!!" Logan jerked away. "My support is important to ya, huh? An' yer own life means nuthin?
Ya'll heard Hank," Logan was addressing the others. He looked back to Kurt. "And you still did it , stupid!! What's gonna happen if
somethin' goes wrong and kills ya off? Then not only has Kitty lost a son, she's lost her husband, too, and I've lost.." Logan cut
himself short. "Just ferget it!! I can see I can't get through yer dumb, blue head. Maybe, when ya finally do yerself in, you'll
finally be happy!" Logan was in Kurt's face now. "If it weren't fer yer so-called 'condition', I'd call yer butt to the carpet, and beat
some sense into ya!" Logan glared at the others, and stormed out the Warroom door.
Kurt merely stood in place, a deadpanned look on his face. Kitty was in tears. She loved Logan just as Kurt did. Why did he have to
be such a jerk about this? She threw her arms around Kurt.
"Oh, Kurt, please don't let this get you down." Kitty held him tight.
"She's right, Kurt." Scott said. "Logan has always been stubborn and hardheaded. He'll come around."
Scott rested a reassuring hand on Kurt's shoulder.
"I hope you are right, mein friend." Kurt said sadly. Logan, his best friend, his big brother, his second father figure, could not
give him the support he desperately sought.
He turned to Kitty. "I will pray Logan comes around." He glanced down at the floor. Kurt was disheartened. "Surely Logan will
come to an understanding, wouldn't he?" Kurt thought to himself.
"I hope so. Dear God, please don't let me loose my friend. Please give him the understanding he needs to get through this."
Kurt whispered this prayer to himself as he left the Warroom.
Chapter 7 of Junior X
Dropping the Bomb.
The thirty minutes the Professor had given everyone to prepare for the meeting passed all to quickly for the
Wagners. For a whole week, they had discussed and how they would break the news, guessed on what
each team members' reaction would be. They knew themselves, as X-men, that the abnormal and strange was
all too normal for them. They had certainly had their share. But this? A pregnant man? Would they share in
their happiness? Would they hate Kurt? Would they treat him differently?
Kurt sat on one side of the Warroom table next to his wife. Kitty noticed Kurt nervously tugging at the bottom
of his shirt, looking around and taking in the prescence of each X-man as he or she walked in and took their place at
the Warroom table.
"So, what's this about?" Rogue asked, "Ah didn't think the Warroom was goin' to be a place to discuss Kurt or Kitty."
"It's the best place. Everyone is here, and apparently this meeting is going to take a while. We're here to discuss Kurt
and Kitty. Hopefully, it's good news." Jean said.
"What about dem?" Remy said, leaned back in his chair, feet propped up on the table, shuffling a deck of cards.
Rogue gouged him in the arm. "Ye're tryin' ta make this sound unimportant! Grow up!" Rogue shouted and looked
around to her brother.
"Ya'll gotta forgive him," the southern belle said and cast a look at Remy that could have killed him. "Swamp rat's
got no manners."
"It is quite all right, Rogue." Kurt said , uneasy. This was going to be more difficult than he thought. Kitty grasped his
hand tightly. "Don't worry, love. Everything's going to be O.K., you'll see." Kitty reassured him. To hear her say it,
he could almost believe it.
"I certainly hope you're right." Kurt gave a shaky smile.
"I wonder where the Professor and Hank are?" Scott asked, curious. " I sure would like to get this show on the road.
This has got me dying of curiousity."
No sooner than this was said, that the Professor arrived in the Warroom, with Hank following close behind, binders and
charts under one blue, powerful arm. He had dressed to the nines, in a Khaki colored suit and tie. Kurt was almost honored
that Hank decided this was an important enough occasion to be formal for. As the Professor took his place at the helm
of the table, Hank sat up his charts, and walked over to Kurt.
"Are you ready, Kurt?" Hank whispered in Kurt's ear.
"As ready as I'll ever be. Just do me one favor, Herr McCoy."
"Name it, my friend, and it's yours." Hank nodded.
"Protect me from the mob that may ensue once the news is out. It is one thing when people tryed to stake me for being
a demon. It is quite personal when they try to stake me through the heart for being a male demon with child." Kurt whispered
back, trying to make light of the situation, a dire attempt to relieve his tension.
"Ever the joker, my friend." Hank whispered back. "It's good to have the old Kurt back." Hank patted Kurt on the shoulder and
proceeded to take his place next to the professor.
"My children, my X-men." the Professor stated. "We have been through thick and thin. Encountered all sorts of trials and tribulations. Experienced the fantastic. We have always been there for one another. We are more than friends, we are family. The Professor looked over to Kurt and Kitty. "Now, two members of our team have an important announcement to make. Your support and love are needed now more than ever. We have cause for celebration, do we not?"
Kitty and Kurt looked at each other, love in their eyes and smiling widely."I believe I should start." Kitty said.
Both Kitty and Kurt stood to their feet and faced the rest of the X-men. Kurt could feel each pair of eyes drilling into him. "Oh, God." Kurt thought to himself, "I'm going to pass out."
"As you know," said Kitty, "Kurt and I have been attempting to have a child for the past six months. Well," Kitty trailed off, glancing her husband in the eye one last time before telling the secret they held the past week. "Our attempts have been successful. Kurt and I are expecting!" Kitty said with glee.
A rush of heat flooded over Kurt. There. It was out. He stood somewhat dazed as all the other X-men started clapping and cheering.
"Way ta go, big fella!" Remy said, giving Kurt a hardy pat on the back. "I knew you could do it!"
"Vas?" Kurt asked in a dream-like state. It then dawned on him. They now knew Kitty and he were expecting a child. Kitty just neglected to tell them that he was the one carrying it.
"Oh, Kitty!" Betsy walked up to Kitty with tears in her eyes. " How far along are you? When are you due?" Betsy placed her hand on Kitty's stomach. Kitty looked confused."Oh,no." she thought, "They think it's me!"
"Well, Betsy," Kitty stammered, "You see, I'm not pregnant."
The beautiful telepath's face twisted in puzzlement. "What? But you said..."
"I know what I said, but I need to clarify something. LISTEN EVERYBODY!!"
Kitty shouted, and the room fell silent again, eyes glancing up at the couple.
"Kitty isn't pregnant." Betsy told the others. Their confusion began to ignite as well. Betsy turned back toward Kitty. "If you are not pregnant, then, did you and Kurt somehow arrange to adopt?" She asked.
"No, nothing like that." Kitty explained. Boy, this was hard. If she couldn't explain this without difficulty, she could imagine how Kurt felt. "We are expecting our own child."
"Let me get this straight. Ye're not in the family way. How are gettin' this kid, then?
Some magical baby fairy?" Logan belly-laughed. "Oh, I know." he continued with his joke. "It's the elf, there." Logan had tears of laughter in his eyes as he pointed toward Kurt. Kurt felt his heart drop. "He's got a bun in the oven. HAW!!"
"Bingo, mein freund." Kurt's voice broke through Logan's laughter.
"Oh, ye're funny, elf. Stop gaggin around. Really, what's goin' on?" Logan probbed,
wiping tears of humor out of his eyes.
Kurt cleared his throat, and looked to the others. "Attention, everyone." Kurt announced. "We are having a baby. I'm pregnant."
A dead hush fell over the Warroom. The same eyes that looked at him earlier as he stood to attention earlier were wide with astonishment and disbelief at what they had just heard.
Scott finally broke the silence. "What?" he asked, still in shock over the announcement.
"Yes, it's true." Kurt looked at Kitty, and took her hand into his. He looked back toward the audience before him. "I am with child, pregnant,in the family way, expecting. Whatever you wish to call it, it all means the same to me. This is no joke. I am not crazy.
I am pregnant, and the good Dr. McCoy is here to explain how it came about." Kurt calmly took his seat once again, his heart slamming in his chest. "Here we go." He thought to himself.
"We heard you, Kurt. It's just, well, so, well, different. Exactly how did this come about?" Jean said, intrigued. Everyone was still in shock. Fascinated and briming over with questions, of course, but this was oddball and intense in every sense of the word.
Kurt looked toward the X-men. "Kitty could not carry our child. With Dr. McCoy's knowledge of Shiar technology, we were able to have our own child, no outside surrogate involved. As I said earlier, Dr. McCoy will give you the complete rundown of details."
Kurt explained.
"So, what yer tellin'me," Logan interrupted, "That there is a baby growin' in ya? IN A GUY!! ? ARE YOU CRAZY KURT?!! WHY ARE YA DOIN' THIS?!! I don't believe it...." Logan trailed off, chewing on the end of his cigar.
"You don't believe it?" Kurt was irritated now. Of all the X-men, Kurt and Logan shared one of the closest friendships. They relyed on each other as two brothers would. Yet, here was the same man, trying to deny what was going on instead of accepting it and supporting him as Kurt himself had done so many times before.
"No, I don't." was all Logan had to say.
"Well, mein freund," Kurt paced over to Logan. "When my stomach begins to swell and the child inside me begins to kick, and in nine months Dr. McCoy takes a healthy ten-pound infant out of me, you will believe then, Ja?" Kurt snarled. Not only was he angry, he was hurt that his friend felt this way.
"I didn't mean I didn't believe ya," Logan retorted sarcastically, " I just can't believe you were ignorant enough to go through such a crazy experiment!"
"Please, please gentlemen!" Hank wedged his way between the two men. "If everyone would allow me to explain this in greater detail, it would help you better understand it."
Kurt and Logan both returned to their seats, both angry and upset.
"How could he do it?" Logan grumbled to himself . "Damned, crazy, stupid man!"
He continued to chew on the end of his cigar in disgust. He proped one elbow up on the table and rested his head in his hand, turning away from Kurt.
"Kurt." Hank whispered to Kurt, somewhat annoyed at the german. "Need I remind you, stress is not good for you right now?"
Kurt's face hardened toward McCoy. " And need I remind you that Logan started it?"
Kurt winced at that last statement. He sounded like a child trying to shift blame.
Hank nodded. " Yes, but you of all people should know how he is. Now, I must insist that you calm yourself down." Hank sternly ordered Kurt and pointed toward the young man's seat.
"Danke, mutter." Kurt said sarcastically and returned to his seat.
"Please, Kurt. Pay Logan no mind. Hank's right." Kitty began to rub Kurt's back and stroked his hair in a comforting gesture. "You need to take it easy."
Kurt's angry expression slowly softened. He smiled sheepishly at Kitty. "Ja, you are right, as always." Kurt agreed as he kissed Kitty's hand.
"Now, as I was saying," Hank began as he took the platform and started setting up his charts. " I am going to give a lecture, of sorts, to answer all of your questions and curiosities as to how this came about. After all," Hank stated, adjusting his glasses. "It is of dire importance that we all go into this well-informed."
From across the table, Kurt glanced over at Logan. "It just caught him off-guard. We have been friends for years. Surely, this is not as shocking to him as to make him give up on our friendship." Kurt thought to himself. His anger subsiding and giving over to his reasoning side, he began to feel badly about the argument and wanted to try to make the feral mutant understand.
Logan lifted his head off his hand and glanced back toward Kurt. He shot Kurt a look of
pure disgust, anger and dissappointment with his blue eyes before looking back toward Hank to listen to the lecture. Sadness filled Kurt's golden eyes before looking away.
"Then again," Kurt thought. "Maybe I'm wrong."
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After nearly an hour of intense step-by step explanation, as well as going over detailed diagrams and answering many questions, Hank finally folded his pointer together and stuck it into the inside pocket of his sportsjacket.
Each X-man in the room was still in awe of this new idea, but Hank's thorough explanation gave them the understanding they needed to accept it.
Another long silence followed after Hank returned to his seat. Too long of a silence for the Wagners, who were looking at each face in the room intently, searching for their reactions to all this.
Scott was the first to speak. He stood, looking at each team member, and then turned to Kurt and Kitty. Scott's face broke into a wide smile. "As team leader, I think I speak for everyone in this room that, while this totally was 180 degrees from anything we expected to hear, we love Kurt and Kitty both. In our line of work, the outrageous is completely acceptable for us." Scott's smile became a warm, happy grin. "Kurt, you have our full support, and, as always, our love." Scott walked over to Kurt and took his hand. "We're all going to be here for you, Kurt. You should have thought no less of us. We're family, aren't we?" Scott asked.
"Ja, that we are." Kurt grinned with happiness and relief. He stood to his feet, and Scott gave Kurt a big-brother hug.
All the other X-men, save Logan, exploded into happy cheers and applause.
"Well, how about dat?" Remy said. "They's gonna be anoder little elf runnin' around de mansion.
Uncle Remy show him de ropes on de cards, non?" Remy said, walking over to give Kurt a pat on
the back.
"Oh,no!" Kurt laughed. "I don't want him or her to be a looser at poker!" Kurt smiled, patting Remy
back on his shoulder. Kurt was so relieved. It was out, and everyone was happy. Well, almost everyone.
Kurt felt ashamed that he had doubted them.
"Oh, mah brother's gonna make me an aunt again!" Rogue had tears in her eyes. She walked over to Kurt, placing her
hand on his stomach. "How ya feelin' so far, Kurt?"
"Unglaublich!" Kurt smiled down at his sister.
"I was wondering, Kitty," Betsy asked the younger woman. "How would we go about giving a baby shower to a guy.
After all, this is the world's first, and I think pink is slightly over-feminine." Betsy smiled.
"Kurt's favorite colors are red and black. Maybe we can do something with that?" Kitty giggled.
"I certainly think we can." Jean said. She turned back toward Kurt, smiling at her old friend. "When your
pregnancy advances, I should be able to detect the baby psionically. Would you like that?" Jean asked,
a smile covering her beautiful face.
"I and Kitty will truly love that. Thank you, Jean." Kurt beamed.
"Are ya gonna be with Kurt when the baby arrives?" Rogue asked. "Hank said somethin' about the orb primin'
itself. Said somethin' about that it would be similar to labor pains? Mah poor brother. Don't know what ya
got yerself into." Rogue looked at Kurt. The vision of a very pregnant Kurt laying in bed panting, sweating, and
screaming at the top of his lungs crossed Rogue's mind for a split second.
"I do not mind it in the least bit. To have this baby in our lives is worth anything I must endure. I would go through
hell and back." Kurt said, a serious tone in his voice.
"I'm going to be there every step of the way. No question about it." Kitty looked at Kurt with love in her deep brown eyes.
Amongst all the commotion, Logan, whom had been listening quietly this jabbering and still huffing in his seat, stood to his feet
and bellowed. "Ya all HAVE GONE CRAZY!!" Logan shouted at the top of his lungs. "How in the world can ya all be happy about this?"
He span back around toward Kurt, his eyes burning holes in the demonic-looking young man. Everyone else fell silent yet again,
watching the two men.
Kurt looked at Logan this time, not with anger, but with sadness in his face. "Logan." He quietly said to his friend. "Please, don't
do this. Give yourself time to adjust. We all need that." Kurt placed his hand on Logan's shoulder in a friendship gesture.
"Get yer damned hand offa me, Kurt!" Logan snarled, grabbing Kurt's hand and throwing it off his shoulder. "What the hell is wrong
with ya, you damned crazy idiot! I thought you had more sense than this! Guess I was wrong!" Logan screamed, turning his back to Kurt
in raw anger.
Kurt shook his head. He wasn't going to let their friendship break apart like this. They had been through too much together.
Kurt had to proceed carefully, otherwise he would say something he would later regret. Logan was stubborn and could try your
last nerve, but..., "Logan, please look at me! I need your support in this. Next to the Professor, you are the closest thing I
have to a father. It's important to me..." Kurt placed his hand once again on Logan's shoulder.
"I told ya, get yer hand offa me!!" Logan jerked away. "My support is important to ya, huh? An' yer own life means nuthin?
Ya'll heard Hank," Logan was addressing the others. He looked back to Kurt. "And you still did it , stupid!! What's gonna happen if
somethin' goes wrong and kills ya off? Then not only has Kitty lost a son, she's lost her husband, too, and I've lost.." Logan cut
himself short. "Just ferget it!! I can see I can't get through yer dumb, blue head. Maybe, when ya finally do yerself in, you'll
finally be happy!" Logan was in Kurt's face now. "If it weren't fer yer so-called 'condition', I'd call yer butt to the carpet, and beat
some sense into ya!" Logan glared at the others, and stormed out the Warroom door.
Kurt merely stood in place, a deadpanned look on his face. Kitty was in tears. She loved Logan just as Kurt did. Why did he have to
be such a jerk about this? She threw her arms around Kurt.
"Oh, Kurt, please don't let this get you down." Kitty held him tight.
"She's right, Kurt." Scott said. "Logan has always been stubborn and hardheaded. He'll come around."
Scott rested a reassuring hand on Kurt's shoulder.
"I hope you are right, mein friend." Kurt said sadly. Logan, his best friend, his big brother, his second father figure, could not
give him the support he desperately sought.
He turned to Kitty. "I will pray Logan comes around." He glanced down at the floor. Kurt was disheartened. "Surely Logan will
come to an understanding, wouldn't he?" Kurt thought to himself.
"I hope so. Dear God, please don't let me loose my friend. Please give him the understanding he needs to get through this."
Kurt whispered this prayer to himself as he left the Warroom.
