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New Kid at School

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"Rogue!" Scott yelled up the stairs. "If you want a ride early, get down now!"

"Just, like, forget it," Kitty said, pulling him by his sleeve outside. "She's going to be late as it is; don't let her, like, make us late."

"Yeah," he gave one last look up the stairs and turned around. "Lets get going."

"I'll stay vere," Kurt said, not moving from his place. "You all go; I'll vait for Gauner."

"Like, sure," Kitty rolled her eyes and left through the door; Scott lingered for a bit.

"Kurt?" he looked up at the leader. "Make sure she's alright, okay?"

"Vhat do you mean?" the elf asked. "Izn't she alvight?"

"Yeah," Scott started to the door, saying the rest over his shoulder. "But she's been acting strange lately..."

"Ja," Kurt agreed under his breath; he blinked, and ported to just outside her door, and knocked. "Gauner?"

Nothing.

He opened the door slowly, and peered inside.

Nothing.

He started to panic, upon seeing nothing. He entered the room, and did a quick look around, trying to see if he missed something; he did.

Lying on the desk was a card; an ace of hearts. But that wasn't what caught his eye about it...

The heart had a dragon twisted around it, and was spitting a flame at the top left corner...

But through it all, he thought that he recognized it from somewhere...

An image of a boy, searching the side of a river in the morning sun flashed across his vision, along with the image of a 2 of clubs, a dragon from the bottom left to top left, and another going from top right to bottom right, both staring inward to two white and black clovers.

As fast as it had all flashed in front of his eyes, it was gone.

"Strange," he thought; he picked up the card and put it in his pocket, and looked out the window. He saw Scott still exiting the driveway. He ported his way into the back seat of the car.

"Kurt!" Kitty yelled, surprised and slightly choking on the smell of sulfur. "I, like, thought you were getting Rogue!"

"She's not zere," he said calmly; everyone turned to look at him. Even Scott diverted his attention from the road for a few precious seconds to give him a worried look.

"What!" they all chorused.

"She's not zere," he repeated, looking at each of them in turn. "She left."

"That, like, can't be ture!" Kitty said frantically. "She can't be gone!"

"She'll be back Kätzchen," Kurt smiled at her, glad that he had his image inducer on.

"Like, how do you know?" she stared at him questionably.

"Ich weiß nur.." he breathed, staring back at her.

"What?" she, unfortunately, didn't understand Germen.

"I just know," he repeated in English. "I just know..." In his pocket, he fingered the card...

"I've got to tell the professor!" Jean said, startling them all. She started concentrating, but Kurt stopped her.

"It vont do you any good," he said, looking at her. "She vill be back, I know it," he gave the rest of them another look. "Just believe mich, ja?"

"Alright," Jean said hesitantly. "But we have to tell him when we get back, deal?"

"Geschäft," Kurt smiled, and laid back to enjoy the rest of the ride to school; everyone eyed him warily, as if he had gone crazy.

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The blond sighed, looking at all the kids around him. He held his books a little tighter to his chest, afraid that they might fall and he would have to pick them up.

"Hello!" someone behind him said; he turned slowly, only to see that it was a girl. One of the ones that had been eyeing him back over in the parking lot. "My name is Laura; what's your name?"

"John," he said carefully, looking everywhere around him as if learning every step of the way. "John Allerdyce," he finally settled his gaze on the girls face, looking at her with menacing eyes. "I'm new here."