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Rogue woke up slightly earlier than the others, why did Kitty have to go to sleep crying AGAIN??? Rogue hated listening to people crying, whenever she absorbed someone's memories all the sad depressing ones always came at once which was pretty annoying. Hearing somebody cry always brought those alien memories flying back.

Rogue decided not to go downstairs for a minute, she didn't want to see the chirpy little couple yet. Jeeze those two bugged her!

Rogue noticed that CD case next to a hi-fi system, absentmindedly she walked over and began looking through them.

Sugar babes

The vengaboys

A whole load of people she didn't know

Rogue was very tempted to listen to a few of these but she didn't want to wake up Kitty or Jean. She stopped suddenly when she saw a Japanese CD

"What the-?" Rogue flipped to the next one, Italian! As she went through the others Rogue found a total of six different languages on disk!

"This kid has got weird taste" Rogue muttered and decided to see if there was a CD player downstairs.

The first site she saw nearly made her throw up. Kurt and Danielle were both asleep on the couch, their arms wrapped around each other tightly.

"Gimme' a break!" Rogue groaned and pretended to throw up

She put the Japanese one in the hi-fi in the corner. It sounded weirder than Rogue had expected.

"Hey! Turn that off!" Rogue looked up to see Danielle hissing at her from Kurt's arms

"That's really sick you know" Rogue sneered

"Like I care!" Danielle replied getting up "Look, Kurt's sleeping and I don't want you to wake him"

"The guy's been sleeping since yesterday! I think he's rested enough" Rogue said sarcastically

"Hey! What are doing with Kurt's C-D's?" Danielle asked

"These are Kurt's??" Rogue gasped

"Yeah, he didn't choose to learn English first you know" Danielle stuck her tongue out and walked over before turning the C-D player off

"I liked you better when you didn't understand English" Rogue muttered

"Likewise" Danielle growled

The glass window suddenly smashed. Rogue looked up in time to see vines creeping around the window frame.

"It's him!!" Danielle screamed

"Who?" Rogue cried

"Ben Franz!"

The vines sprung forwards and wrapped themselves around Danielle's wrists and feet

"Danielle!" Rogue may have hated the girl but she didn't want her to get hurt. More vines appeared in half a second and tied her up too.

Kurt's eyes snapped open as he was also encased

"H-Hey!" He yelled in surprise

"mmph!" Was all Rogue could manage

"It's Ben Franz!" Danielle explained quickly

"Indeed it is" A tall man stepped into the room "So glad you could make it Mr Wagner, at least your cousin did one thing right"

Kurt struggled

"I'll never come willingly" he grunted

"Oh don't worry about that yet" A voice came from outside. A simply dressed woman walked into the room. Her hair was long and ever so slightly messy. Her clothes were relatively ragged but what really attracted the others were her eyes.

They were Kurts

"Great vision with these mate" she smiled darkly. This was Mindbender.

"Please! Go away!!" Danielle was shaking like a leaf, she was terrified

"And hows my favourite little plaything?" Mindbender teased

"NO!!NO!!" Danielle screamed as she was lifted up by Ben Franz "NOT AGAIN!!"

"BRING HER BACK!!" Kurt roared

"When you are willing to meet me under my conditions" Ben Franz said simply. He slowly began carrying Danielle off on his shoulder. She was screaming all the way

"DANIELLE!!!" Kurt screamed

Mindbender walked towards them and held out her hands towards the two teens.

"Strange that you should be so tired when you both just woke up" she laughed gently, her voice almost hypnotic.

Both Kurt and Rogue felt their eyes grow heavy, exhaustion suddenly appeared out of no where and they were both asleep within a minute.

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"Kurt??"

Kurt was vaguely aware that he was being slapped around the face. Voices surrounded him but everything was wrong

"Ach!! Ich bin dich Ben Franz!!" He heard someone say. She sounded like Jean but that was impossible.

"Ist er torte?" that one sounded like Evan. He was pretty dumb too by the sound of it, Kurt was obviously not dead

"Nien, er ist nicht Torte" Jean said simply to Evan

"Vas?" He heard Rogue next to him, what was going on?

"What's going on??" He asked

There was complete silence

"Warte!" Scott cried "Sprichen sie deutch!"

"Why are you all speaking German?" Kurt asked in English

Then he remembered what Dannie had said.

'They're speaking in German now!' his mind screamed.

"(What's going on?)" Kurt asked still a little sleepy

"(Oh thank god!)" Jean sighed "(We thought you wouldn't be able to work it out)"

"(Where's Kitty?)" Rogue asked

"(She left a few hours ago, before we found you guys. Said she needed some air)" Scott explained. Everyone one slowly looked at Kurt but he no longer really cared.

Kurt suddenly remembered what had happened. He tried to sit up but was forced back down by his friends

"(Let me up!!)" He yelled "(I've got to save her!!)"

"(Don't be an idiot, elf)" Logan appeared in the door way "(Those two are very powerful, we need to wait until we've got a plan)"

"(Or until my cousin's DEAD!!)" Kurt howled angrily

Rogue suddenly whimpered, drawing everyone's attention to her.

"(what's wrong?)" Scott asked

"(Something really hurts, on my back)" Rogue hissed, she was half writhing on the floor and was lifted to her feet

"(Let me see)" Kurt said gently as he began to lift her shirt at the back

"(This is sooo embarrassing)" Rogue blushed

Kurt gasped involuntarily, everyone else did the same

"(Guys? Come on, you're scaring me! What's there??)" Rogue asked nervously

Three words had been physically branded onto Rogues skin. They were black but unlike Danielle's wounds they weren't yet infected.

"I'll go get some anti septic" Scott said hurriedly while running to where the x-jet was.

"Kurt? What does it say?" Jean asked timidly. The words were in English and only Kurt would understand them now.

"You're next eleven" Kurt whispered reading the words quietly

"What?" Evan asked "That doesn't make any sense"

"The German word for the number eleven is 'elf', Danielle heard Logan's nick name for me and thought that my nick name was eleven. Ben Franz must have thought that would be funny" the humour was clearly lost on Kurt.

There was complete silence for a while

"I've got to help her" Kurt said simply

"When we've got a plan" Logan replied just as simply

"NO!! I've got to help her NOW!!" Kurt roared

"I'm not gonna let you get killed!!" Logan yelled but Kurt was beyond reason.

He disappeared in a puff of smoke, outside there was a quiet whinny from night rider and the others could see Kurt riding him off.

Logan let out an angry roar and leapt out the door. He ran as fast as he could, encouraged by the fact that he was getting nearer to the sound of the horses hooves. In an instant he leapt onto a branch and managed to over take the elf who had to steer very carefully not to harm the animal he was riding.

"RARRRR!" Logan roared again and jumped in the gorses path, expecting Kurt to stop instantly but the horse continued to run. It was getting closer and closer. Logan refused to be worried but the danger was still there. The horse was barely three meters away when Kurt suddenly threw his arms around Night riders neck and ported.

There was a large cloud of smoke which caused Logan to choke quite badly but when he recovered both the elf and his stupid horse had disappeared.