Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men.

Notes: Okay, so this is the prequel to "Welcome Home." Sorry I'm doing this backwards, but, jeez, I have to set up some stuff for the sequels to "Welcome Home." Also, JDH3, thanks for all your reviews. You rock. And everyone else who reviewed and liked my first fanfic, I hope you enjoy this one as well. By the way, if anyone else wants to write some Kurtty, I wouldn't mind. I think I've read all of them.

Another note: Kitty seems a bit cruel here, I'm afraid. Don't worry, she'll see the error of her ways.

Yet another note: I gave Kurt a sword. None of the Evolution episodes I've seen have him with a sword, but that's a big character thing with him in the Uncanny X-Men comics, so I gave him one. If you don't like it, neener neener neener!

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"Watch out, Kurt!" Evan screamed.

Kurt looked over his shoulder and saw the tentacle coming at him. He 'ported, and the tentacle grabbed empty air. Suddenly, he appeared above it, and grabbed on. It went wild. It slammed into the wall, leaving a dent deep enough to sleep in. Kurt kept a hold on with one hand while pulling his sword from its sheath with his other. He twirled it over his hand, and then plunged it deep into the machine. It rolled up on itself, meaning to crush him. Instead he 'ported again to it's base, bringing his sword down in an arc that chopped it off from the rest of the machine. He didn't see the seeker 'bots behind him, though.

Evan dropped low to the ground and shot at the seekers behind Kurt. They were impaled to the wall as Kurt 'ported behind Scott, grabbing him, and 'porting them away before a laser hit the ground where Scott had been standing. Scott and Kurt reappeared behind Kitty, and Scott took the laser gun out with his optic blast. Kitty ran on the air in front of her and phased through the master computer, shorting it out. Suddenly, every machine in the room froze, and then died.

"Good session, kids." They heard, and then Logan walked into the room.

"Thanks, Logan." They all said.

"You're all learning to control your powers much better. But that's not what I'm so pleased with."

"Then what are you so pleased with?" Kitty asked him.

"I'm pleased with how well you are all working together. That was the best team work I've ever seen from you guys."

"I guess we're just becoming closer. Ya know, caring about each other like family." Evan said.

Kurt 'ported next to where Kitty was standing, and put his arm around her.

"Ja! Ve all care about each other very much!" Kurt joked. He looked at Kitty and winked.

"Like, go away!" Kitty yelled, and Kurt 'ported behind Logan, peeking at her from over his shoulder, looking as if he really feared Kitty.

"Vell, at least SOME of us care!" Kurt yelled back at her, and then quickly ducked behind Logan.

"I'll be up in my room." Kitty said, and then stormed off. She phased through the ceiling, toward the top part of the mansion.

"Vell, my ears may vork for her, but ze rest must not." Kurt said.

"Easy Elf, she's still getting used to you." Said Logan.

"Ja, I know." He smiled sadly, and 'ported away. Kurt had 'ported to the door of Kitty's room. He was planning on apologizing to her, and was about to knock on the door, when he heard her talking to someone.

"She must be on ze phone." He thought. She must have been very upset, because he could hear her through the door.

"It's just so annoying. He always chasing me around, disappearing and reappearing next to me. He's ALWAYS flirting with me. It just makes me so uncomfortable. No, Lance. I don't want him hurt." She was saying.

"Mein Gott! She's talking to Lance about me?!?" Kurt thought.

"No Lance!" Kitty yelled, and then giggled. "Leave him alone! If he doesn't let up, I'll just go talk to the professor about him."

Kurt backed away from the door. He suddenly felt as if he was going to throw up. A single tear fell from his right eye as we walked down the hall, towards the stairs, and away from her door. When he was far enough away so that she wouldn't hear or smell it, he teleported up to his room. When he appeared there, he laid down on his bed.

"She vas laughing vhen Lance told her he'd hurt me." He said aloud.

He hadn't realized how his infatuation with Kitty had annoyed her so. He hadn't realized how uncomfortable it made her. Most of the time he was with her, he was only trying to make her laugh, trying to make her feel comfortable around him. He knew now that it hadn't worked. And he knew what he had to do.

"I'll leave her alone from now on." He thought. "No more Kurt for Kitty." And with that, he fell asleep on his bed, the tears drying on his pillow.

The next day, Kitty had problems waking up for school. She laid in bed, wondering what was wrong, knowing that something was strange. Something was different. She thought about it, and then realized what it was while she was getting dressed.

"Kurt didn't teleport in here to make certain that I was awake." She thought.

Kurt had taken to teleporting into her room with a glass of orange juice to wake her up. It was their morning ritual. He would shake her awake, offer her the juice, and she would yell at him to get out. He would laugh and tickle her, and she'd chase him out of the room.

"Well, at least it would wake me up." She thought, and then yawned.

When she was done getting dressed, she walked down to the kitchen. Scott, Evan, and Rogue were already eating. Kitty sat down in the nook to eat her breakfast.

"Morning, Kitty." Evan said.

"Good morning. Where's Kurt? He wasn't around to annoy me today, thank God." She said.

"He left earlier this morning." Said Scott. "He left with Jean about twenty minutes ago."

"Lord, ah'd love to hear that conversation." Rogue said. "Jean talkin about herself, and Kurt talkin about." Rogue trailed off, looking at Kitty.

"Hey! Jean's not that into herself." Scott said.

"Scott, if she were any more into herself, she'd be pregnant with her clone." Evan joked.

Scott turned to Evan while Rogue laughed.

"I'm just kidding, Scott." Evan laughed. "Don't kill me."

"Is everyone ready to go?" Scott asked, a little too loudly.

Everyone said yes, and the troupe walked to Scott's car.

When everyone got to school, Kitty said bye and walked to class. She passed Lance in the hall, kissing him on the cheek. As she was walking to her class before the bell rang, she saw Kurt walking toward her. He was looking a book that he was holding. When he looked up and saw her walking toward him, he looked back down and took a right into the restroom. Kitty stopped for a moment, looking at the space that Kurt had just left.

"Was that on purpose? Oh well. At least he won't hold me up on my way to class." She thought.

Kurt stopped walking as soon as the bathroom door closed. He put his back to the door, and waited until he was sure that she had walked by. He was sure that she had seen him. She couldn't have NOT seen him.

"I vonder vhat she zought. Nein, Kurt! No zinking of Kitty. I must do vhat I can to get over her, and leave her alone." He thought.

Later, at lunch, Kitty felt that something else was wrong. She looked around, and couldn't see Kurt.

"Where is he?" she wondered.

"Hey, Scott, have you seen.?" Kitty began to ask. But just as she was about to finish her question, Lance walked outside with his lunch. She smiled, stood up with her food, and walked over to meet him. Kurt watched this from inside the cafeteria. He was sitting at a table, eating lunch with his friends from the gymnastics team. As he watched Kitty with Lance, his heart broke more, and his resolve to let her go hardened.

After school, Kurt stayed behind. He had no danger room session or chores assigned to him for the day. So he stayed at school in the library, studying. He still, however, could not get Kitty out of his head. He put his head in his hands, and rubbed his eyes.

"Zis is horrible." Kurt said.

Kitty was sitting at home, watching television. She looked around the room. Evan was skateboarding, Rogue was listening to music in their room, Jean was sleeping, and Scott was in the danger room, training. It seemed like he was always training.

"Like, doesn't he ever get tired?" Kitty thought.

She was wondering, once again, where Kurt was, when she heard a "bamf" outside the house. She turned her head around as he opened the front door. She was beginning to get ready for him to tease her, or 'port over and start tickling her. However, she got something else from him.

"Hallo, Kitty." He said, and then walked right by the room.

"He'll teleport in here and start bugging me in a minute." She thought. But then she heard his footsteps going up the stairs.

"Any minute now." She thought. "After he puts his stuff in his room. He'll be down here, ANNOYING me."

The moment never came. As soon as Kurt dropped his bag in his room, he teleported downstairs, ate something small for dinner (which is saying a lot as it's Kurt), and 'ported back up to his room. He laid on his bed, and fell asleep.

Kitty began to feel drowsy. She looked at the clock. It had been two hours since he had been home. He hadn't said anything more than "Hallo" to her.

"He'll be here." She thought. She woke up there, alone, the next morning.

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So there's chapter one. Kitty seems like a bit of a b*tch, huh? Well, she had to be at first, right? Once again, this is the prequel to "Welcome Home." And it promises to be much longer. At least by a couple of chapters. Have a lot to say before "Welcome Home" happens. Hope you enjoyed it.