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Chapter 9 of Junior X
Surprises

As Scott and Kurt made their way in the kitchen from their early morning basketball game, the first sight to
hit them in the face was one red and black eyed cajun stuffing pancakes into his finely-chisled face, and a
silent Logan reading the morning's paper.

"Ya'll got here just in time!!" Remy said through a mouthful of pancakes and syrup. "If you didn't get
here sooner, Remy would have eat the last o' dis, I guarantee. Where de butter?" Remy got up to look
in the fridge.

Logan looked up from his paper, glancing at the two men whom had just arrived at the breakfast table.
"Mornin', Scotty." Logan said. He took a sip of coffee, and shot Kurt an evil look.

"If you'll excuse me, My jeep needs some tunin'up. See ya later, Scott. Remy." Logan walked through the
kitchen door.

Kurt sighed heavily. "How long does he plan to keep this up?" the blue X-man asked Scott and Remy.
"If you are all happy for me and Kitty, why can't Logan?" Kurt crossed his arms up on the table, and
buryed his face in them.

"Who knows?" Remy said, busy piling more pancakes on his plate. "I tink de
world of Logan, but I blame de animal in 'im, no?" Remy began pouring gops of syrup on
his pancakes.

Scott, for a moment, was taken aback by the food on the cajun's plate drowning in so much syrup.
He then looked back toward Kurt, sympathy in his voice. "Kurt, look at me."

Kurt raised his face from his arms. "Ja?"

"Just give it a little more time. I'm sure Logan isn't going to give up on an old friend. Here."
Scott said, placing a stack of pancakes in front of Kurt. "You'd better eat these before Remy
stakes a claim."

Kurt smiled. He was starving to death, but he couldn't get the hurt he felt toward Logan out of
his mind.

Kurt suddenly turned his attention to the kitchen door as he heard female chatter coming closer and
closer. The door swung open to reveal Jean and Kitty happily discussing something that neither of
the men in the room could make out.

Kitty sat next to her husband, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him on one blue cheek.
"How is my wonderful husband this morning." she asked.

"Wunderbar." Kurt said, a sad expression on his face.

"Oh,Kurt, sweetheart! What's wrong?" Kitty looked into his golden eyes, then frowned as it dawned on
her what probably upset Kurt. "Logan?" she asked. Kurt merely nodded.

"I would do anything, anything to make Logan see..." Kurt finally spoke and
began to drink his orange juice next to him.

"My poor elf. Come here." Kitty hugged him as hard as her small frame would allow her. Kurt instantly began
to feel better. His wife had a talent for that. "I'm fine, Kitty. You have always had a certain knack for
making me happy, Ja?"

"So, Kurt." Jean grinned. "You have a checkup today, I hear."

"Indeed." Kurt smiled.

"Well, I was talking to Kitty upstairs. Do you remember what I told you when we first found out about this?"
Jean asked.

"Ja. Something about reading the baby's thoughts?" Kurt's eyes widened at the prospect.

"Yes, well, I think that you are far enough along to do it. Would you still like the idea? Jean asked sweetly.

"Oh, yes! Yes we do!" Kurt was incredibly excited. "When can we do it?"

"Right now, if you like."

Just as Jean said this, Hank came stumbling in, huffing and puffing, trying to find his breath so
he could talk to Kurt.

"Oh, Kurt!! Just the man I want to see? Did Jean tell you? About psionically scanning the fetus?"
Hank was still trying to find his breath. This whole experiment was so exciting for the young doctor.
To Hank, everyday of Kurt's "pregnancy" was a new discovery, a new adventure to him.

"Ja, Hank. Jean just now told us. I can't wait!"

"Neither can I, Kurt, but not so fast." Kitty pulled Kurt back down in his seat.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Kitty pointed at Kurt's uneaten breakfast.

"I'll take it! Dibs on the elf's pancakes!" Remy shouted.

"Oh, no." Kurt said. " I do not want my baby's first thoughts to be anger toward me because
I didn't give him or her a good breakfast!" Kurt chuckled, rubbing his stomach as he dug into
his food.

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Jean, Hank, Kurt and Kitty all walked into the recreation room. They decided that it would be quiet and
give them plenty of privacy for this moment. Kurt sat down on the large sectional sofa with Kitty and Hank
on either side of him. Jean was crouched down on the floor in front of Kurt on her knees.

Kurt grabbed Kitty's hand, lovingly placing it to his cheek. "Are you ready to know what your baby is thinking,
my love?" Kurt asked.

"Oh, yes! We can find out what our baby's feeling, what is going on. Oh, Kurt." Kitty placed a hand tenderly
on his abdomen. "This is going to be wonderful!"

"Yes, indeed." said Hank in agreement. " If you do not mind, I will be taping this conversation on audio tape.
It will be critical to my studys on this marvelous and miraculous breakthrough." Hank said excitedly, loading a
tape into the mini tape recorder.

"By all means, Hank. But I would like a copy of the tape for myself." Kurt said.

"Of course, my friend. May I ask exactly why?" Hank grinned

"Well, everyone has mementos of their baby's first workd, their baby's first step. I will have my baby's first
thought." Kurt smiled.

"Are you ready, Kurt?" Jean asked.

"More than ready." Kurt replyed.

Jean reached over and gingerly lifted Kurt's shirt. Exposing his bare stomach. Jean gently layed her
hands atop it, and a soft pink glow surrounded them as her powers surfaced.

Kitty, Kurt, and Hank all three watched Jean's face carefully for her reaction. "Oh, please, dear Lord, let
our child be alright." Kurt thought to himself.

Slowly, a wide smile spread across Jean's face. She began to laugh histerically. Her green eyes flew open
in disbelief and shock, but from what everyone in the room could see, this was the sort of shock that was the
good kind. Her eyes were welled with tears of happiness, and Kurt and Kitty sighed with relief that the baby
was obviously fine.

Kurt opened his mouth to ask, but Hank beat him to it. "Jean, what did you detect? It is apparently very good
from your reaction. What's going on?" Hank asked.

"I have never felt such joy and happiness. Such contentment. Oh, Kurt, everything is just fine."
Jean said with a sly smile.

Kurt Wagner's heart filled with joy. "Oh, Jean!! This is wonderful!! Oh Kitty!" Kurt grabbed his wife up in
his arms.

"Yes, pure and utter happiness." Jean breathed. "From all three of them." she giggled.

Kurt stopped dead in his tracks. He looked down at Kitty with shock in his face, then looked back at Jean.

"Did you say all three of them?" Kurt asked. He turned to Dr. McCoy, who was also in deep shock over this revelation.

"Jean, are you saying that..." Hank rose to his feet. " That Kurt is pregnant with triplets?"

"Yes, that is exactly what I said." Jean said happily. "And rest assured, they are all doing very well."

Hank went over this in his mind. A male pregnancy. A medical first. And now, to beat it all, it would be a multiple
birth. This was getting better all the time.

Kitty's eyes began to flow with tears of pure joy. " Oh, Kurt!! Did You hear that! Oh sweetheart, this is truly a miracle!!"
Kitty squealed as she hugged up to her husband.

Kurt's own eyes were filled with happiness and fascination. He grabbed his wife tightly, and looked to the sky in sheer ecstasy.
"YES!!" Kurt cried in utter splendor. They stood there for the longest, in their own little world, so happy. Jean and Hank looked on
so filled with hope and happiness for their friends that stood before them.

Kitty finally broke loose from Kurt's arms. She began to affectionaltly rub Kurt's belly. Kurt placed his own, two-fingered
hand on top of his wife's. Pure joy and relief in their faces.

"Hello in there!!" Kitty spoke to Kurt's stomach. " Mommy and Daddy are so sorry that we haven't been talking to all three of
you, but we didn't know you were in there!!" Kitty snuggled to Kurt.

The look on Kurt's face told everyone that he was in heaven. He patted his stomach lovingly, looking down at it with hope in his
eyes. "Oh, Daddy's little miracles! Daddy's tiny gifts from heaven!" He buryed his face in Kitty's hair, just holding her.

"Oh, Kitty." He whispered in his wife's ear. "God has answered our every prayer. Not only has He given us a second chance, but now
a third and a fourth."

"Uh, Kurt?" Hank hated to interrupt their private celebration, but he had to make something clear.

Kurt looked up from his wife's hair. "Yes, Hank?"

"Remember your appointment for this afternoon. It is going to be very exciting." Hank smiled

"Indeed, mein freund, Indeed." Kurt laughed.

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Four thirty p.m. found Kurt and Kitty Wagner in the medroom for Kurt's monthly checkup.
Kurt was sitting on the examination table, dressed in a plain white t-shirt and
jeans, with Kitty beside him.

"Oh, Kurt! You wonderful elf!" Kitty rested her head on his shoulder. He smiled and kissed her on the cheek.

"Hello, proud papa." Hank smiled, carrying Kurt's medical file under one arm. "Are you ready for your
exam?"

"Of course." Kurt beamed. He lay flat on the table and proceeded to unzip his jeans, which he left on.
Hank lifted Kurt's shirt and began to prod around on his abdomen with his strong, furry hands. Hank smiled
and nodded in satisfaction. "Judging from the Shiar medical manuals, the orb is positioned as it should be,
and the wall of the orb is hardening as expected. How do you feel overall, Kurt?" Hank asked, pulling off
his latex gloves.

"I feel absolutely wonderful." Kurt said in a dream-like state.

"Very good, very good indeed." Hank opened the manila folder and began scribbling his findings on the paper
work inside. He looked back toward Kurt, who had sat back up. "And, according to the lovely Mrs. Summers,
we have triplets on the way. Just think, the first male pregnancy, and it's going to be more than one child!
All this, and I have my finger right on the pulse of this medical breakthrough!!" Hank exclaimed. He was
truly in awe and took pride that this had worked.

"Hank." Kitty asked. "Will carrying more than one baby put Kurt at more of a risk? I remember when I was pregnant,
you told me that a multiple birth was in a higher risk category." Kitty was concerned. She loved these babies and
her husband dearly. She didn't want anything to happen to any of them.

"Dear, dear Kitty." Hank shook his head with a grin of knowledge on his face. "We were talking about a normal
pregnancy. A pregnancy in a female. While I am well aware that's the way nature really intended it to be, there
are certain advantages to this orb."

"All I heard were risks. Not advantages." Kitty stated.

"There was no real advantages until now. Yes, I know that a multiple pregnancy puts a female in higher risk, but,
due to the orb's makeup, there are less risk factors. You see, the orb has no outside openings as a natural uterus has.
The only opening that will be in the orb is the one I will surgically make after it has ungone it's priming phase. It's walls
become harder and harder as the fetuses grow, and this protects the unborn children. In the last month of pregnancy, it will be
diamond hard due to its phalanx-type techno-organic nature. This same nature securely fastens the placenta to the walls of the
oorb, making an accidental detachment of the placenta from it's walls virtually impossible. So you see, Kurt is actually low risk,
in some areas." Hank kindly explained.

This put Kitty's mind at ease. But Kurt had a question. "Hank, not that I'm complaining, but how exactly did
triplets come about?" Kurt questioned.

"Well," Hank stared off, trying to find the best way to tell the couple. " You see, I extracted three eggs from Kitty.
This was in case we had any, well, duds, for lack of a better word. Apparently," Hank smiled in some shame, " I was so
excited about this prospect that I accidently injected all three eggs into the orb before I implanted it in you." Hank
was looking down at the ground. He hated to admit he made a mistake because of his neglegence.

Kurt smiled. "And it's the best accident you ever made, mein freund."

"I'm so glad you feel that way, Kurt. " Hank smiled and sighed, bringing out the fetal heart monitor.
"Are you ready to listen to the babys' heartbeats?" he asked.

Kitty began to beam. "Oh, yes Hank! We can't wait!" she said, her brown eyes sparkling with anticipation.

Hank gingerly strapped the monitor to Kurt's stomach. After a few adjustments, three clear, strong, tiny
heartbeats rang through the silence. Kitty stood beside the examination table, holding Kurt's hand.

Kurt's eyes filled with awe and love. Jean's mindscan of the children, and now, this. He and Kitty were listening
to their babys' heartbeats. He looked deep into his wife's eyes, which were filled with the same deep emotions he
himself was feeling.

"Kitty! Do you hear that? It's them! Our little ones!! Their little hearts!! MEIN GOTT!" Kurt was overjoyed.

Hank smiled. He took the monitor off, and gently ran a hand across Kurt's stomach. "Rest easy, Kurt. Your children
are doing fine in there. I have never had the pleasure of working on such a healthy pregnancy, male or female." Hank
chuckled.

Kitty threw her arms around her husband's neck. "Oh, Kurt." she rasped through sobs of joy. "Their going to be fine.
We're going to be fine." She said, not wanting to let her husband go.