Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this. I'm gonna start deleting all the fics I can't finish. This one's nearly over so if you like this fic you don't need to be worried.

This chapter has been written for LeeDiz (see, I'm not that evil!)

I own Danielle, Mindbender, Ben Franz but no one else.

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Kitty walked sadly through the woods. How had all this happened? Everything was against her suddenly. She'd just thought that Kurt would always dote on her while she messed him about and dated Lance. The impact of these words hit her, why should he? He had a right to date someone too.

Kitty kicked the base of a tree angrily. She'd been out here for hours but was still too het up to go back. She wondered if she'd suddenly come across where the villagers were being held. Maybe if she did the x-men would get them out and Kurt would be so grateful he'd like her again.

Had he meant what he'd said though? There was no reason for him not to but maybe he was just fooling around. Damn it!! This was complicated!!

She scuffed her shoes a bit when she heard something. It sounded a little like very distant thunder. No, more like pounding. Like hooves really, coming this way.

Kitty made the connection very quickly: A horse was coming in her direction, possibly Night rider.

Just as she thought that The horse leapt through a bush with Kurt on it's back.

"Kurt!!" Kitty screamed. The horse didn't even falter and for a split second Kitty thought it was going to trample her.

Nightrider swerved at the last minute and Kitty realised that somehow she'd ended up on him.

"HUH??" She screamed

"You'll be hours trying to find your way back! 'might as well take you with me!" Kurt yelled over the sound.

Kitty was sitting in an uncomfortable spot between the saddle and Kurt, galloping was very different from the light running she and Danielle had been doing a few hours earlier. Kitty was jumping up and down so hard Kurt had to stop her falling more than once.

"Where are we going?" Kitty cried

"To find Ben Franz and get my village back!!" Kurt yelled

"I WANT OFF!!!" Kitty suddenly screamed "WHAT ABOUT THE OTHERS!!"

"THEY WONT HELP!!" Kurt's eyes were flaming at her "Will you help me or not?"

"I'll help! I'll help!" Kitty back pedalled, Kurt was scary when he looked at her like that "How will we know when we've found this secret hiding place thing?" Kitty asked

"I already know where it is" Kurt said simply

"What?? How!!??" Kitty cried

"Mindbender likes pain and suffering, there is one place in these woods that has seen more of that then any other. I think Ben Franz would like that place too. Lots of plants for him to control"

"Woah! THAT'S his power??" Kitty gasped "Kurt! NO way are we going to be able to beat him when we are surrounded by plants!!"

"I'd rather die than not try" Kurt muttered.

Nightrider gave another sharp jump to dodge a tree, almost being thrown off Kitty threw her arms out to grab some support. Kurt was the only thing there. Her arms shyly grasped his waist, feeling no resistance she snaked them around properly and held herself very close to Kurt's back.

"Yeah, sure NOW you can't resist me!" Kurt muttered to himself. He was so het up about Danielle, he had to know where she was! If only Kitty hadn't been so lost! He was certain he was leading them both into danger.

"Woah!" Kurt cried

"What is it?" Kitty asked as the horse came to a stop

"Lights, up ahead" Kurt replied quietly, "we're here"

Kitty realised that she was shaking, Scott and the others had always been fighting with her before. And she'd never had to deal with a hostage situation before either.

Kurt's hand touched hers

"You can wait here if you want but I have to find Danielle" He said

"No, I-I'm coming to" Kitty tried to sound brave but if Ben Franz could control nature them he defiantly had the upper hand.

"Okay" Kurt jumped off Nightrider easily. Kitty looked down, she'd never realised how big horses are. Falling off one would hurt.

"Hoboy" She muttered

"I'll catch you" Kurt hissed.

Kitty shut her eyes and jumped. Rather than catching her, Kurt's legs gave way. They both ended up on the ground.

"Hey! What happened to 'I'll catch you'??" Kitty cried

"You're heavier than you looked" Kurt gasped forcing himself up

"Thanks" Kitty said sarcastically

"Come on, we don't have time for this" Kurt grabbed her hand and they walked towards a large group of trees.

"Look!" Kitty hissed, a family had been tied to a tree in a clearing

"That's the Haustrang family, they don't know about me" Kurt whispered "That git must want to know if I'll help people who I'm obviously gonna' terrify"

"I could rescue them" Kitty pointed out

"No, I'll do it. Wait here" Kurt hissed and ran out.

Kitty watched as The family screamed 'Demon!!' at the top of their voices. She felt so sorry for Kurt, she couldn't even begin to imagine what he'd been through

Kurt untied them and stood so that when they ran from him at least they'd be running towards their village.

Kitty wanted to run out and hug him until that terrible indifferent expression left his usually jovial face but she knew she couldn't. Kurt was always very sensitive when this kind of thing happened. He usually just wanted to be alone.

Kitty began to get up to try to talk to him when a hand suddenly grabbed her around the front and another grasped her mouth to stop her yelling it out. Suddenly she was jerked backwards - RIGHT INTO A TREE!!!

Then everything disappeared

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"Kitty?" Kurt turned around when he realised his friend hadn't come out from behind the bushes "You can get out now"

Still nothing

"Kitty? This is no time to play games" Kurt walked forwards and looked into the bush.

Kitty was gone.

Kurt's face turned a deadly pale (Which was difficult considering his skin tone) "It was a trap" he whispered "And I fell for it"

{Indeed you did} mindbenders voice echoed around him {You played right into the palm of our hands, two hostages for the price of one}

Kurt yelled out in anger and frustration, how could he have let this happen?? No doubt they'd do to Kitty what they'd done to his cousin. He'd never be able to live with himself if that happened.

{But I hate to win this easily} Mindbender laughed {I want to make this fun}

Kurt became aware that one of the trees seemed to be opening, inside was a lot of grey light. Kurt could see no further in.

{Ben Franz and I have created a new dimension. We are keeping your village and the two girls in here. Once you enter you will loose your power of teleportation. Your friends will never find the opening, it will be purely up to you}

Kurt's mind was reeling, up to him?? Nothing had ever been just up to him. The most he'd ever been in charge of had been getting him and forge out of the middle verse. Saving Kitty and his entire village by himself was a whole different ball field.

{Have a nice playtime}

"I will" Kurt replied and walked steadily into the grey light

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Kitty opened her eyes, where was she? Everywhere seemed to be up and down, she was floating between the ceiling and the floor. The walls all seemed to be glowing red.

"Cool, I'm weightless" Kitty giggled, it was an insane giggle.

"MRRRRPH!!" Kitty span around but she wasn't used to her new environment and carried on spinning looking like an ungraceful ballet dancer. When she finally did stop she saw a gagged and tied up Danielle

"There you are! I knew you were just hanging around" Kitty did her hysterical giggle again, she'd lost it completely

After a moment of struggling Danielle's gag came off

"How'd you get here?" she asked

"The tree stole me" Oh god!! She was laughing now, tress, weightlessness, Kurt, it was way too much

"Are you okay?" Danielle asked worriedly

"Right as rain.WEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Kitty began bouncing off the walls

"Woah! Calm down! We need to get out of here!" Danielle yelled

"WEEEEEEEE!!" Kitty laughed

"SNAP OUT OF IT!!" Danielle yelled and slapped Kitty across the face "Think of my family and Kurt's" She said seriously

Kitty looked stunned for moment then shook her head "Sorry, I've got it now"

"How do we get out of here?" Danielle wondered absentmindedly.

The loss of gravity suddenly cut out and they two girls both landed on the ground hard.

"You had to ask" Kitty muttered from under Danielle.

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Kurt opened his eyes groggily, he couldn't remember exactly what had happened but at the moment he was tied to a chair. Evan his tail had been looped up and cello taped to the back of the chair.

Kurt struggled for a moment but whoever had tied him up had done a good job of it. That left him with only one other choice, Wait.

Not the best plan in the world

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The red walls vanished away leaving them outside again.

"What happened!?" Danielle gasped "We're back in the forest!"

"Maybe something went wrong" Kitty said "But this is the break we needed, come on! Kurt'll be looking for us!"

The two girls laughed from Joy, grabbed each others hands and began to skip (Yes skip) around, looking for Kurt.

"Do you know where we are?" Kitty asked

"I've lived in these woods all my life, of course I know where we are" Danielle rolled her eyes playfully

Kitty was so happy! Everything was going right finally! Kurt would be so happy to see Danielle again. Kitty could almost see that adorable face light up like a lamp. Even if she could only bask in the glow reflected off Danielle she'd be happy.

Danielle suddenly sniffed at the air "Do you smell something burning?"

Kitty inhaled deeply, "Now that you mention it, yes"

"It smells like burning wood"

"And If all the villagers have been kidnapped, how come we can hear chanting?" Danielle asked

She was right, Kitty could hear cheering and yelling somewhere to their left. The girls exchanged a glance and began to run.

They broke through a few more trees, the yelling was now so loud it made Kitty's eardrums throb. Then they saw something Kitty had never even dreamed, an image that would haunt her dreams for years to come.

Hundreds of men and women were all screaming, chanting, yelling, a single mob with a single voice. They were all crowded around a huge bonfire with a pole stuck on the top.

And tied to the pole was Kurt.

"KURT!!" Kitty howled, she began to run but Danielle grasped her wrist "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Kitty screamed "WE HAVE TO HELP HIM!"

She then saw the crystal tears running down Danielle's cheeks "We can't help" she sobbed

"Why not??" Kitty asked angrily

"Because this has happened before"

"What!!" she yelled

"Look closely at Kurt" Danielle said simply

Kitty did, he was quite far away but he did look different. Smaller, scared, terrified in fact. Then Kitty got an even bigger shock. This Kurt was only 13, possibly 14.

He was about to be burned at the stake.

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Kurt was very bored, he'd never been patient at the best of times but this was killing him.

"What ever you've got in stall for me, please just get it over with!" Kurt yelled knowing that he would be heard

{Very well}

Kurt wasn't even aware of any difference for a few seconds. Then he saw lots of figures around him.

'I'm going to get beaten up' he thought 'I can deal with that, it won't be the first'

But then he realised that he recognised some of them, Rogue was there, and Jean, Tabby. There were others too, girls he'd seen around the village, film stars. All female.

Kurt was confused, each girl was wearing...some very tight clothes. Short dresses, mini skirts, Belly tops, swimsuits. When they all started to approach him did her realise what he was going on.

Kurt's Scream could be heard many miles away. But there was no one to hear it.

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Biiiiiiiig grin!! Any suggestions as to what to do to these two groups would be well appreciated