Sorry this chapter's been so long coming!!! There's just been so many other
fics to update, and life's been sort of... I dunno, but I'm trying to make
excuses here. A lack of inspiration is the main reason really, I think.
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Alexandria Lyndsey Marie gave a great howl of hunger. At least, Evan concluded that she was hungry.
"I'll feed her," Jean informed everyone else.
"No, I will!" Kitty insisted.
"She likes me best," Evan added stubbornly.
All three glanced at Kurt. He was singing softly to Alexandria in German while she whimpered. He looked up. "Vas?" he asked, and then remembered to switch back to English so the others could understand him. "I vant her to be able to speak German."
Rogue, who had been standing around hoping to be allowed to hold her, said, "Ah thahnk that's a great idea."
Kitty wasn't so pleased. She knew what Kurt was like. "If her first word is like, 'vati' or something Kurt, you will be like SO dead!"
Kurt tried to look innocent as if the idea of getting Alex to call him "daddy" in German had never occurred to him.
Alexandria was still whimpering. She wasn't bothered who fed her as long as someone did it and someone did it soon.
* * *
Most of the mutants at the Institute spent the rest of the weekend begging to get a change to feed and play with Alexandria and begging for someone else to change her. Except for Ororo and Logan who spent the rest of the weekend arguing over what had happened on Friday night/Saturday morning. By Monday everyone was so tired that nearly everyone overslept and Logan had to go round and bang on everyone's doors to make sure they got up in time for school.
"Can't we stay home with Alex?" Kitty whined to the professor. "Just today... she'll miss us and who will sing to her when she gets grumpy?"
"I will," Xavier replied. "You are all going to school today."
There was a group groan. But Xavier refused to give in and everyone had to go to school. Kurt tried to pretend he was ill, but Ororo didn't believe for a second that Kurt had measles, chicken pox, tonsillitis, a migraine AND diphtheria. Besides, he couldn't go passing any of that on to Alexandria, could he? And his image inducer reappeared almost as soon as he reported it missing, hidden under a sofa cushion. So Kurt slumped slowly out of the hole where the front door used to be with everyone else.
It was one of those long, math-filled days that seem to drag on forever. It was hot and stuffy in Kitty's maths room and she couldn't concentrate. Her teacher droned on about irrational numbers for ages, but she didn't take in a single word. She just wondered if the professor knew that Alex's favourite song was "Ich habe ein Pony" (Kurt had taught it to her).
And it took Logan up until about half way through that Monday to work something out. About Alexandria. And suddenly he had a very good idea where she'd come from.
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Alexandria Lyndsey Marie gave a great howl of hunger. At least, Evan concluded that she was hungry.
"I'll feed her," Jean informed everyone else.
"No, I will!" Kitty insisted.
"She likes me best," Evan added stubbornly.
All three glanced at Kurt. He was singing softly to Alexandria in German while she whimpered. He looked up. "Vas?" he asked, and then remembered to switch back to English so the others could understand him. "I vant her to be able to speak German."
Rogue, who had been standing around hoping to be allowed to hold her, said, "Ah thahnk that's a great idea."
Kitty wasn't so pleased. She knew what Kurt was like. "If her first word is like, 'vati' or something Kurt, you will be like SO dead!"
Kurt tried to look innocent as if the idea of getting Alex to call him "daddy" in German had never occurred to him.
Alexandria was still whimpering. She wasn't bothered who fed her as long as someone did it and someone did it soon.
* * *
Most of the mutants at the Institute spent the rest of the weekend begging to get a change to feed and play with Alexandria and begging for someone else to change her. Except for Ororo and Logan who spent the rest of the weekend arguing over what had happened on Friday night/Saturday morning. By Monday everyone was so tired that nearly everyone overslept and Logan had to go round and bang on everyone's doors to make sure they got up in time for school.
"Can't we stay home with Alex?" Kitty whined to the professor. "Just today... she'll miss us and who will sing to her when she gets grumpy?"
"I will," Xavier replied. "You are all going to school today."
There was a group groan. But Xavier refused to give in and everyone had to go to school. Kurt tried to pretend he was ill, but Ororo didn't believe for a second that Kurt had measles, chicken pox, tonsillitis, a migraine AND diphtheria. Besides, he couldn't go passing any of that on to Alexandria, could he? And his image inducer reappeared almost as soon as he reported it missing, hidden under a sofa cushion. So Kurt slumped slowly out of the hole where the front door used to be with everyone else.
It was one of those long, math-filled days that seem to drag on forever. It was hot and stuffy in Kitty's maths room and she couldn't concentrate. Her teacher droned on about irrational numbers for ages, but she didn't take in a single word. She just wondered if the professor knew that Alex's favourite song was "Ich habe ein Pony" (Kurt had taught it to her).
And it took Logan up until about half way through that Monday to work something out. About Alexandria. And suddenly he had a very good idea where she'd come from.