The little girl sat in her room on her bed. She was reading her books and
humming to herself. She was a pretty little thing for one so young as she.
She had beautiful long, blonde, straight hair that reached to the small of
her back. It hung over her shoulders like spun gold, glimmering in the
bright light of day. But it changed to wet hair wrapped around a tiny pale
white face who's eyes were opened wide as if in shock looking up ay the
sky, seeing but yet not seeing. It was filthy with pondweed and dirt as the
little girl lay floating in the water. The girl was then alive and dry once
again sitting on her bed. Her yellow dress was not torn, ripped and covered
in blood but clean and looked as if it had only just been pressed. The girl
was underwater again and she was kicking and struggling while a man held
her head under water. She didn't deserve this, she may be a mutant but she
was only a child, why where they doing this to her? Holly went and sat
beside the girl on her bed, "It's alright Mummy, it doesn't hurt anymore
and I can breath now."br
Hollybr
I sprang up in my bed, a cold sweat all over me clinging to my clothes. My bed covers where tangled around my legs and my pillows were on the floor. The coffee from my breakfast was spilled all over the floor next to my bed for I must have thrashed out in my sleep and knocked it over. I could tell it was night as there was a silvery glow coming from the open windows. It made me shiver as it made the room look so cold and threatening.br
I looked to see if Kurt was still there which he wasn't. In the time when I most needed him he wasn't bloody there but there was a bit of paper laying in the dip in the pillow where his head had been. It was a poem. I read it out loud but under my breath so it was barely a whisper. I was crying by the time I'd reached the end. I was also a Catholic like Kurt but I had given up on my faith when my mother died when I was only 5 and reading something like this made me smile slightly as I knew the bible very well and God's replies where all to familiar. I had taught Ella in the Catholic way and she had embraced it whole-heartedly. I only wish that she could have met Kurt, they would have adored one another.br
I looked at the poem once again then up it in the top draw of my bedside table as if I was shutting out the words of the bible that now sounded in my head. I didn't feel safe here, in this room. I never felt safe anywhere at all anymore. I decided that I would take a look around this place that was to be my home. I am sure that I got lost somewhere on the 3rd floor but finally I found the kitchen but I was not the only one up at this ungodly hour. The woman Ororo was sitting reading a book with a tub of triple chocolate ice cream in front of her. She looked up at me and smiled and I smiled sleepily back.br
"Hi. Want some ice cream? It's good for a person who can't sleep." She smiled again and gestured to the stool beside her, "You just missed Kurt, we where having some ice cream and then he remembered that he started teaching Russian tomorrow and had to sort out things for the kids to work on. Your welcome to his spoon and share of ice cream if you want."br
"Thanks I could use a chocolate fix right now." I ate a mouthful of the wonderful frozen desert and closed my eyes. I hadn't tasted chocolate in the longest time as I hadn't had time in my day to eat hardly at all which I had hated because chocolate had always been my treat at the end of a day, even if I didn't deserve it.br
"So. You and Kurt are going out. It's weird cause I always had the feeling that Kurt was the type that was afraid of women." Ororo laughed and took out a spoonful.br
"He was when he first came here but he's loosened up now and is, if I saw so myself, quiet a ladies man." We both started giggling.br
"No, it's true in fact there are a group of girls that giggle like, well, girls, whenever he says hello to them in the corridors. He won't admit it but he has broken quiet a few young girls hearts when they found out about me and him." Ororo seemed to beam with pride at the fact that Kurt was loved by so many of the girls that he taught. She actually had to stop herself from snickering when she watched him teach once when the girls looked at him dreamy eyed hanging on his every word.br
"Oh I can't wait until I see that not that I'm saying that no one would like Kurt cause he's a very likeable person, and I'm talking a load of gibberish aren't I?" Ororo smiled knowingly, I saw a lot of Amdy in that smile.br
"I heard about your daughter, it must have been hard. I've never lost a child, to tell the truth I've never had I child to lose but I can't imagine what you went through, what your still going through."br
"Well it was, is, really hard. Sometimes I wake up screaming in the night because I've had a dream that she's still alive then I flash back to the morgue where they showed me this tiny body for me to identify. I'm actually on 5 different kinds of anti-depressants. But I have to stop taking them now cause I just can't take them three times a day when I'm a doctor cause they make me drowsy and cranky as hell. I'll probably have to go into rehab just to get off 'em." I could hear the bitterness in my voice. I loathed myself at the way I spat such information at her. She hadn't been the one who had taken away my daughter, she didn't deserve it.br
"Well if you do decide to get off them then I'm always free to talk and I'm sure that Kurt is to as well as the Professor if you ever do need help. In this place we're all family and we all stick together." She rested a reassuring hand on my shoulder as she got up to leave.br
"Thanks." I blurted out as she walked out the door and I was left on my own with lots of melting ice cream.br
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Kurtbr
I was still sitting at my desk when Ororo came up, book in hand. She came over to me, rested her head on mine and put her arms round my neck. Something wasn't right, I could tell.br
"What's wrong my liebchen? Something is bothering you." She signed behind me into my hair.br
"I was talking to your friend, Holly. Did you know she's on heavy meds for her depression?" She had walked away from me and sat down on the end of the bed. She looked confused and frustrated.br
"Yes, I knew. And now that she is here she has another chance, another hope of getting back to a normal sort of life. Even if it is among mutants." I gave her a cheeky little grin and she laughed, "She will come round sooner or later. I have faith in her."br
"Well I got to tell you that I think that you're the only one who dose. Also I don't even think she wants to stop." I could nothing do nothing by question her.br
"Why do you say that, what has she said?" Nothing changed in Ororo's expression and she still seemed confused.br
"It's not anything she's said, it the way she says it. When she told me about Ella she would get really angry and almost spit her words out then when she talked about her meds she was calmer and she sounded to me as if she's hooked on them." Her hands went to her temples as she tried to fight off the headache that threatened to take over her head. I looked at the clock and saw that it was one o'clock in the morning and that we both had to be up by seven to get ready for classes. I had always thought the students lucky as they got an hour more in their beds than we did with which of course I had complained about to the Professor.br
I switched of the desk lamp and tidied away the papers and work books that seemed to have taken over my corner of the room. Ororo was already snug under the covers but didn't seem to be getting any sleep. I cuddled in beside her, wrapping my tail around her waist and pulled her closer.br
As she put her arms around me she rested her head close to mine, "Why don't you skip your classes today and I'll cover for you. You could take Holly somewhere, you know, spend some time together. It would do you both good." I looked down at her to answer but there was no need as she had already drifted off to sleep so I followed her example.br
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Hollybr
After I had finished the ice cream I had gone back to my bed and slept until I heard a knock at my door. When I didn't answer the person knocked again only they didn't stop until I did get up. When I pulled open the door already to yell at the person who had so rudely awoken me I saw a man with pale skin, brown eyes, brown hair and glasses at my door I didn't, couldn't, say anything. He was wearing a black vest and jeans and was also accompanied by two young students.br
"Come on zleepy head, you better get ready if you vant to go to zhe theme park with Rouge, Bobby and me." I had no idea who this man was until I looked at his waist and saw a small crucifix and a silver ring on a set of prayer beads.br
"Kurt!? Is that you?" The young ones called Rouge and Bobby were giggling at the amazement in my voice.br
"Yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Who vhere you expecting, zhe tooth fairy? Come on Holly, Xavier haz given me zhe day off and haz let Rouge and Bobby off for zhe day az vell zo hurry up if you vant to get in zhe front seat of Scott's very nice sportz car." Kurt said with a mischievous grin and a cheeky wink. I was still dumbfounded by his appearance.br
"Which by the way he doesn't even know your taking." Said the girl who I figured was Rouge.br
"Ach Rouge your zuch a buzz kill!" I couldn't help but laugh. This was a side to Kurt that I had never seen before, I liked it. This seemingly care free spirit suited him better than the shy, quiet, tortured catholic mutant. He looked at me again as if annoyed at the fact that I hadn't moved from the spot on which I was standing, "Vell? Vhat are you vaiting for? Go und get dressed. Mein Gott you are lazy fraulien." He moved around me into my room and began to make my bed as Rouge took me to the boxes that had my clothes in it.br
"It's really sunny and warm outside today so bright colours are the order of the day." She pulled out one of my floaty orange skirts that went down to my shins, she also took out one of my red strappy tops that I had bought summers before but had never gotten round to wearing ever. She went to my box with my shoes in it and handed me a pair of high-heeled strappy satin shoes that Amdy had bought me when I first came to Boston, "Ok, so go and get changed in the bathroom and I'll be here waiting for you while the guys go and find Scott's car." She giggled as she shoved me into the bathroom. I heard the door shut as Bobby and Kurt left and there was only the shuffling sound of Rouge as she tried to occupy herself.br
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Rouge and I were walking along towards the car park, we were both laughing as she told me of the pranks Kurt had played on some of the students (he once turned Bobby's blonde hair into shocking pink that didn't come out for weeks), how he had been named school clown and storyteller as well as telling me about the young Kitty Pryde who had the biggest crush on Kurt, "I hate the fact that I share a room with her cause it's always Kurt this and Kurt that. My German teacher Kurt is so funny, my German teacher Kurt is so witty, my German teacher Kurt is so great!" She made a funny face when she said great and we both burst out laughing.br
"Well it certainly sounds like Kurt feels at home here." I said as Rouge looped her arm in mine.br
"He's my big brother. He looks out for me and I look out for him. I owe him my life. When we first met him he didn't say much but when I fell out of the jet he bamfed to me, caught me and bamfed back to the jet. He didn't even know me but he still risked his life." I stopped. Bamfed?br
"Bamfed? What's that?" Realisation dawned on her face and she slapped her forehead.br
"That's what we call it when Kurt teleports either that or just port. It's a lot easier to say." She smiled as a car horn honked and I could hear Kurt's voice shouting as he pulled up in a very nice, red sports car. Rouge jumped into the back with Bobby and Kurt got out, ran around the car and opened the door for me.br
"Vould Milady care to board zhe carriage?" I laughed at him as he gave me a cheeky wink. I got into the car and jumped when Kurt bamfed into the drivers seat. He put his foot down and we were off.br
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We got to the theme park that was just outside of New York. All the way there the radio had been blaring and no matter what the song, Kurt sang along and drowned out the shrill voices of the now no longer together Ncync*.br
"Don't vanna be a fool for you. Just anada player in ja game for two. Vou may hate me but it ain't no lie. Bye, bye,bye!" Rouge and Bobby were singing to and I just laughed until my sides hurt. I had never seen Kurt so free. He seemed confident and making up for the teenage carefree years that he had missed out on. After a while I joined in singing and Kurt and I ended up have a singing contest trying to see who could sing the loudest. Rouge had been the first to stop, then Bobby but Kurt and I kept going strong. But Kurt was more determined than me and so he won. His prize was a free lunch that I offered to pay for but Rouge and Bobby said they would chip in because they knew how much of a greedy pig Kurt was.br
"I don't eat zhat much, at least I do not drink az much az Herr Logan." Said acting as if he was hurt but making it plainly obvious that he was just joking.br
"Yes you do. You stole my ice cream at lunch yesterday, as well as Kitty's." said Bobby from the back seat. He had his shades on and was soaking up the sun that beamed down on us.br
"I didn't steal your ice zcream, you just veren't quick enough at eating your meatloaf. Und mein Katzchen gave me her strawberry ice zcream of her own free vill." Bobby just smiled and said nothing more on the matter. Rouge feeling slightly lonely because of being left out of the conversation put her arms round her so called "big brothers" neck and rested her chin on his shoulder. Kurt did nothing about this and just smiled. He seemed truly happy and I was happy that he was happy. I had had enough of the silence that now took over the car as it sped down the highway so I turned to Bobby who was still trying to sunbathe.br
"So what can you two do, as mutants I mean?" Bobby looked at me then looked at Rouge who seemed a little frightened. Bobby took her gloved hand and smiled at her.br
"I can produce ice and freeze things. It's pretty cool. And-"br
"And haz zaved my azz plenty of timez." Kurt cut off Bobby as he pulled into the theme park. Bobby just laughed and shook his head.br
"What about you Rouge? What can you do?"br
"I. I, I can't touch people with my bare skin. Cause if I do I take all the energy and life out of them and they die. That's the reason for the gloves. But it's ok. You know, cause even if it stops me from touching the people I love it helps me take down my enemy in battle. I've just had to learn to see the good in the bad." Everyone went quiet until I spoke up.br
"Your not the only person Rouge in the world with that kind power. When I was 19 and a nurse I lived in India for like a year were I would work with children who were on the streets. Now, there was this boy who was 13, Dominic was his name. He had been living on the streets of a small village ever since he was 9. When his mother was tucking him into his bed one night his mother gave him a hug. He had no nightshirt on as they were in the middle of a heat wave so when his skin came into contact with his mothers he drained all her energy. He hadn't meant to but within a matter of seconds she was dead. His father blamed him for his wife's death and would beat him within an inch of his life every night. Eventually his father hanged him self and Dominic was left alone.br
When I found him he was very ill and he was going to die it was just a matter of time. On the night that he died he was crying because he hadn't been hugged again by anyone. So in his last moments I held him. It hurt, a lot. But I just held on. He died in my arms with a smile on his face. It took me a few days to get back my strength but I was glad that he had some human contact before he died. So believe me Rouge, you're not alone in this world. I mean you have Kurt, Bobby and from what I've heard Logan really cares for you." Rouge flashed me a pearly white smile and hugged me. She made sure her face didn't touch mine as it wasn't covered, I then noticed that we weren't moving and were parked.br
"Vell I tink zhat it iz now time for zome vacky child like fun. Are you vith me?" Bobby and Rouge had jumped out of the car and were jumping about.br
"You bet Fuzzy Bro. I am in such a caramel corn mood today and I starving!" shouted Rouge as she began to pull Kurt from the drivers seat.br
"You go on a head fraulien. Holly und I vill catch up." He gave her the money to get in and watched as her and Bobby ran towards the gate, desperate to get on the scary rides before they lost their nerve. Kurt held back and took my arm, looping it in his. I could still feel the soft fur on his skin even if I couldn't see it. I could feel the scars on his skin but still I couldn't see them, "You vant to know how I look like zhis ja?"br
"Got it in one Kurt. How do you look like that?" we began to walk slowly after the two runaways.br
"This," he showed me a watch on his wrist, "It's called an Image Inducer. Vhat you zee before you iz just a hologram. My tail iz just wrapped around my leg. I can change my image into anything zhat I vant. Actually one time I vent valked into Ororo's class with this face, very long hair, make up and a very short mini-skirt singing Coca Cabana." He smiled at his jokes as I laughed at them. We got to the entrance and paid for a gold band that would let us go on any rides as many times as we liked.br
We found Rouge and Bobby eventually. They had been on the loop-the-loop 3 times already and wanted to go on again. Kurt dared me to go on the Waltzers in the Dark. He knew that I was absolutely terrified of the dark and Waltzers but he began calling me chicken and was making chicken noises so I gave him a swift kick in the shin. He began nursing it and called me a big bully. He then smiled and I agreed to go on.br
The lights were on when we got inside but it was only two to a cart so Rouge went with Bobby and Kurt went with me, "Now don't you two get up to anything funny vhen zhe lights go out ja?" Rouge stuck out her tongue as she got into her cart. Kurt sat down beside me and pulled back the safety bar. I yelped when the lights suddenly went off. I felt Kurt's arm around my shoulders and his hand squeezing me arm.br
"Don't worry liebchen. Az long az I'm here no harm shall come to you." I gripped onto the safety bar waiting for the ride to start and the minute it did I felt Kurt's grip on my arm tighten. I could hear Rouge and Bobby screaming behind us. Kurt was laughing and to my amazement I was to. I was actually enjoying being twirled around at a very high speed in the dark.br
After the ride was finished Kurt could hardly walk he was that dizzy and Bobby had ran to the boy toilets as he swore he was about to throw up. We spent the rest of the day going on the scariest rides, eating junk food, watching Bobby and Kurt throw up and basically just laughing until our sides hurt. Kurt must have spent a fortune on paying for everything but he never seemed to mind. It was dark out by the time we had gotten back to the mansion. Both Bobby and Rouge were asleep in the back of the car. Kurt picked up his little sister and "bamfed" her to her room. He came back a few moments later and took Bobby to his room. He came back again and parked Scott's car then turned to me, "Did you enjoy today mein freund?" He put my arm in his once again and began to walk me back to my room.br
"You don't know how good it is to hear you call me mein freund again Kurt. Yes, I didn't enjoy today." Before I knew it we were outside the door of my room.br
"Vell zhis seemz to be your stop Holly. I shall zee you tomorrow." He held me close and kissed me o the cheek. I watched him as he walked down the corridor, he still had his hologram on.br
"Hey, Fuzzy! You've still got your hologram on." He turned it off and winked at me then walked off again, his tail swinging in the manner of a content cat.br
Ok Now I REALLY enjoyed writing this chapter and I just love the way Kurt is going and by your reviews I can see that you love him as the ladies man, joker and swash-buckling pirate that we all know he is. So keep the reviews coming as only you can keep that chapters rolling out.
Hollybr
I sprang up in my bed, a cold sweat all over me clinging to my clothes. My bed covers where tangled around my legs and my pillows were on the floor. The coffee from my breakfast was spilled all over the floor next to my bed for I must have thrashed out in my sleep and knocked it over. I could tell it was night as there was a silvery glow coming from the open windows. It made me shiver as it made the room look so cold and threatening.br
I looked to see if Kurt was still there which he wasn't. In the time when I most needed him he wasn't bloody there but there was a bit of paper laying in the dip in the pillow where his head had been. It was a poem. I read it out loud but under my breath so it was barely a whisper. I was crying by the time I'd reached the end. I was also a Catholic like Kurt but I had given up on my faith when my mother died when I was only 5 and reading something like this made me smile slightly as I knew the bible very well and God's replies where all to familiar. I had taught Ella in the Catholic way and she had embraced it whole-heartedly. I only wish that she could have met Kurt, they would have adored one another.br
I looked at the poem once again then up it in the top draw of my bedside table as if I was shutting out the words of the bible that now sounded in my head. I didn't feel safe here, in this room. I never felt safe anywhere at all anymore. I decided that I would take a look around this place that was to be my home. I am sure that I got lost somewhere on the 3rd floor but finally I found the kitchen but I was not the only one up at this ungodly hour. The woman Ororo was sitting reading a book with a tub of triple chocolate ice cream in front of her. She looked up at me and smiled and I smiled sleepily back.br
"Hi. Want some ice cream? It's good for a person who can't sleep." She smiled again and gestured to the stool beside her, "You just missed Kurt, we where having some ice cream and then he remembered that he started teaching Russian tomorrow and had to sort out things for the kids to work on. Your welcome to his spoon and share of ice cream if you want."br
"Thanks I could use a chocolate fix right now." I ate a mouthful of the wonderful frozen desert and closed my eyes. I hadn't tasted chocolate in the longest time as I hadn't had time in my day to eat hardly at all which I had hated because chocolate had always been my treat at the end of a day, even if I didn't deserve it.br
"So. You and Kurt are going out. It's weird cause I always had the feeling that Kurt was the type that was afraid of women." Ororo laughed and took out a spoonful.br
"He was when he first came here but he's loosened up now and is, if I saw so myself, quiet a ladies man." We both started giggling.br
"No, it's true in fact there are a group of girls that giggle like, well, girls, whenever he says hello to them in the corridors. He won't admit it but he has broken quiet a few young girls hearts when they found out about me and him." Ororo seemed to beam with pride at the fact that Kurt was loved by so many of the girls that he taught. She actually had to stop herself from snickering when she watched him teach once when the girls looked at him dreamy eyed hanging on his every word.br
"Oh I can't wait until I see that not that I'm saying that no one would like Kurt cause he's a very likeable person, and I'm talking a load of gibberish aren't I?" Ororo smiled knowingly, I saw a lot of Amdy in that smile.br
"I heard about your daughter, it must have been hard. I've never lost a child, to tell the truth I've never had I child to lose but I can't imagine what you went through, what your still going through."br
"Well it was, is, really hard. Sometimes I wake up screaming in the night because I've had a dream that she's still alive then I flash back to the morgue where they showed me this tiny body for me to identify. I'm actually on 5 different kinds of anti-depressants. But I have to stop taking them now cause I just can't take them three times a day when I'm a doctor cause they make me drowsy and cranky as hell. I'll probably have to go into rehab just to get off 'em." I could hear the bitterness in my voice. I loathed myself at the way I spat such information at her. She hadn't been the one who had taken away my daughter, she didn't deserve it.br
"Well if you do decide to get off them then I'm always free to talk and I'm sure that Kurt is to as well as the Professor if you ever do need help. In this place we're all family and we all stick together." She rested a reassuring hand on my shoulder as she got up to leave.br
"Thanks." I blurted out as she walked out the door and I was left on my own with lots of melting ice cream.br
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Kurtbr
I was still sitting at my desk when Ororo came up, book in hand. She came over to me, rested her head on mine and put her arms round my neck. Something wasn't right, I could tell.br
"What's wrong my liebchen? Something is bothering you." She signed behind me into my hair.br
"I was talking to your friend, Holly. Did you know she's on heavy meds for her depression?" She had walked away from me and sat down on the end of the bed. She looked confused and frustrated.br
"Yes, I knew. And now that she is here she has another chance, another hope of getting back to a normal sort of life. Even if it is among mutants." I gave her a cheeky little grin and she laughed, "She will come round sooner or later. I have faith in her."br
"Well I got to tell you that I think that you're the only one who dose. Also I don't even think she wants to stop." I could nothing do nothing by question her.br
"Why do you say that, what has she said?" Nothing changed in Ororo's expression and she still seemed confused.br
"It's not anything she's said, it the way she says it. When she told me about Ella she would get really angry and almost spit her words out then when she talked about her meds she was calmer and she sounded to me as if she's hooked on them." Her hands went to her temples as she tried to fight off the headache that threatened to take over her head. I looked at the clock and saw that it was one o'clock in the morning and that we both had to be up by seven to get ready for classes. I had always thought the students lucky as they got an hour more in their beds than we did with which of course I had complained about to the Professor.br
I switched of the desk lamp and tidied away the papers and work books that seemed to have taken over my corner of the room. Ororo was already snug under the covers but didn't seem to be getting any sleep. I cuddled in beside her, wrapping my tail around her waist and pulled her closer.br
As she put her arms around me she rested her head close to mine, "Why don't you skip your classes today and I'll cover for you. You could take Holly somewhere, you know, spend some time together. It would do you both good." I looked down at her to answer but there was no need as she had already drifted off to sleep so I followed her example.br
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Hollybr
After I had finished the ice cream I had gone back to my bed and slept until I heard a knock at my door. When I didn't answer the person knocked again only they didn't stop until I did get up. When I pulled open the door already to yell at the person who had so rudely awoken me I saw a man with pale skin, brown eyes, brown hair and glasses at my door I didn't, couldn't, say anything. He was wearing a black vest and jeans and was also accompanied by two young students.br
"Come on zleepy head, you better get ready if you vant to go to zhe theme park with Rouge, Bobby and me." I had no idea who this man was until I looked at his waist and saw a small crucifix and a silver ring on a set of prayer beads.br
"Kurt!? Is that you?" The young ones called Rouge and Bobby were giggling at the amazement in my voice.br
"Yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Who vhere you expecting, zhe tooth fairy? Come on Holly, Xavier haz given me zhe day off and haz let Rouge and Bobby off for zhe day az vell zo hurry up if you vant to get in zhe front seat of Scott's very nice sportz car." Kurt said with a mischievous grin and a cheeky wink. I was still dumbfounded by his appearance.br
"Which by the way he doesn't even know your taking." Said the girl who I figured was Rouge.br
"Ach Rouge your zuch a buzz kill!" I couldn't help but laugh. This was a side to Kurt that I had never seen before, I liked it. This seemingly care free spirit suited him better than the shy, quiet, tortured catholic mutant. He looked at me again as if annoyed at the fact that I hadn't moved from the spot on which I was standing, "Vell? Vhat are you vaiting for? Go und get dressed. Mein Gott you are lazy fraulien." He moved around me into my room and began to make my bed as Rouge took me to the boxes that had my clothes in it.br
"It's really sunny and warm outside today so bright colours are the order of the day." She pulled out one of my floaty orange skirts that went down to my shins, she also took out one of my red strappy tops that I had bought summers before but had never gotten round to wearing ever. She went to my box with my shoes in it and handed me a pair of high-heeled strappy satin shoes that Amdy had bought me when I first came to Boston, "Ok, so go and get changed in the bathroom and I'll be here waiting for you while the guys go and find Scott's car." She giggled as she shoved me into the bathroom. I heard the door shut as Bobby and Kurt left and there was only the shuffling sound of Rouge as she tried to occupy herself.br
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Rouge and I were walking along towards the car park, we were both laughing as she told me of the pranks Kurt had played on some of the students (he once turned Bobby's blonde hair into shocking pink that didn't come out for weeks), how he had been named school clown and storyteller as well as telling me about the young Kitty Pryde who had the biggest crush on Kurt, "I hate the fact that I share a room with her cause it's always Kurt this and Kurt that. My German teacher Kurt is so funny, my German teacher Kurt is so witty, my German teacher Kurt is so great!" She made a funny face when she said great and we both burst out laughing.br
"Well it certainly sounds like Kurt feels at home here." I said as Rouge looped her arm in mine.br
"He's my big brother. He looks out for me and I look out for him. I owe him my life. When we first met him he didn't say much but when I fell out of the jet he bamfed to me, caught me and bamfed back to the jet. He didn't even know me but he still risked his life." I stopped. Bamfed?br
"Bamfed? What's that?" Realisation dawned on her face and she slapped her forehead.br
"That's what we call it when Kurt teleports either that or just port. It's a lot easier to say." She smiled as a car horn honked and I could hear Kurt's voice shouting as he pulled up in a very nice, red sports car. Rouge jumped into the back with Bobby and Kurt got out, ran around the car and opened the door for me.br
"Vould Milady care to board zhe carriage?" I laughed at him as he gave me a cheeky wink. I got into the car and jumped when Kurt bamfed into the drivers seat. He put his foot down and we were off.br
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We got to the theme park that was just outside of New York. All the way there the radio had been blaring and no matter what the song, Kurt sang along and drowned out the shrill voices of the now no longer together Ncync*.br
"Don't vanna be a fool for you. Just anada player in ja game for two. Vou may hate me but it ain't no lie. Bye, bye,bye!" Rouge and Bobby were singing to and I just laughed until my sides hurt. I had never seen Kurt so free. He seemed confident and making up for the teenage carefree years that he had missed out on. After a while I joined in singing and Kurt and I ended up have a singing contest trying to see who could sing the loudest. Rouge had been the first to stop, then Bobby but Kurt and I kept going strong. But Kurt was more determined than me and so he won. His prize was a free lunch that I offered to pay for but Rouge and Bobby said they would chip in because they knew how much of a greedy pig Kurt was.br
"I don't eat zhat much, at least I do not drink az much az Herr Logan." Said acting as if he was hurt but making it plainly obvious that he was just joking.br
"Yes you do. You stole my ice cream at lunch yesterday, as well as Kitty's." said Bobby from the back seat. He had his shades on and was soaking up the sun that beamed down on us.br
"I didn't steal your ice zcream, you just veren't quick enough at eating your meatloaf. Und mein Katzchen gave me her strawberry ice zcream of her own free vill." Bobby just smiled and said nothing more on the matter. Rouge feeling slightly lonely because of being left out of the conversation put her arms round her so called "big brothers" neck and rested her chin on his shoulder. Kurt did nothing about this and just smiled. He seemed truly happy and I was happy that he was happy. I had had enough of the silence that now took over the car as it sped down the highway so I turned to Bobby who was still trying to sunbathe.br
"So what can you two do, as mutants I mean?" Bobby looked at me then looked at Rouge who seemed a little frightened. Bobby took her gloved hand and smiled at her.br
"I can produce ice and freeze things. It's pretty cool. And-"br
"And haz zaved my azz plenty of timez." Kurt cut off Bobby as he pulled into the theme park. Bobby just laughed and shook his head.br
"What about you Rouge? What can you do?"br
"I. I, I can't touch people with my bare skin. Cause if I do I take all the energy and life out of them and they die. That's the reason for the gloves. But it's ok. You know, cause even if it stops me from touching the people I love it helps me take down my enemy in battle. I've just had to learn to see the good in the bad." Everyone went quiet until I spoke up.br
"Your not the only person Rouge in the world with that kind power. When I was 19 and a nurse I lived in India for like a year were I would work with children who were on the streets. Now, there was this boy who was 13, Dominic was his name. He had been living on the streets of a small village ever since he was 9. When his mother was tucking him into his bed one night his mother gave him a hug. He had no nightshirt on as they were in the middle of a heat wave so when his skin came into contact with his mothers he drained all her energy. He hadn't meant to but within a matter of seconds she was dead. His father blamed him for his wife's death and would beat him within an inch of his life every night. Eventually his father hanged him self and Dominic was left alone.br
When I found him he was very ill and he was going to die it was just a matter of time. On the night that he died he was crying because he hadn't been hugged again by anyone. So in his last moments I held him. It hurt, a lot. But I just held on. He died in my arms with a smile on his face. It took me a few days to get back my strength but I was glad that he had some human contact before he died. So believe me Rouge, you're not alone in this world. I mean you have Kurt, Bobby and from what I've heard Logan really cares for you." Rouge flashed me a pearly white smile and hugged me. She made sure her face didn't touch mine as it wasn't covered, I then noticed that we weren't moving and were parked.br
"Vell I tink zhat it iz now time for zome vacky child like fun. Are you vith me?" Bobby and Rouge had jumped out of the car and were jumping about.br
"You bet Fuzzy Bro. I am in such a caramel corn mood today and I starving!" shouted Rouge as she began to pull Kurt from the drivers seat.br
"You go on a head fraulien. Holly und I vill catch up." He gave her the money to get in and watched as her and Bobby ran towards the gate, desperate to get on the scary rides before they lost their nerve. Kurt held back and took my arm, looping it in his. I could still feel the soft fur on his skin even if I couldn't see it. I could feel the scars on his skin but still I couldn't see them, "You vant to know how I look like zhis ja?"br
"Got it in one Kurt. How do you look like that?" we began to walk slowly after the two runaways.br
"This," he showed me a watch on his wrist, "It's called an Image Inducer. Vhat you zee before you iz just a hologram. My tail iz just wrapped around my leg. I can change my image into anything zhat I vant. Actually one time I vent valked into Ororo's class with this face, very long hair, make up and a very short mini-skirt singing Coca Cabana." He smiled at his jokes as I laughed at them. We got to the entrance and paid for a gold band that would let us go on any rides as many times as we liked.br
We found Rouge and Bobby eventually. They had been on the loop-the-loop 3 times already and wanted to go on again. Kurt dared me to go on the Waltzers in the Dark. He knew that I was absolutely terrified of the dark and Waltzers but he began calling me chicken and was making chicken noises so I gave him a swift kick in the shin. He began nursing it and called me a big bully. He then smiled and I agreed to go on.br
The lights were on when we got inside but it was only two to a cart so Rouge went with Bobby and Kurt went with me, "Now don't you two get up to anything funny vhen zhe lights go out ja?" Rouge stuck out her tongue as she got into her cart. Kurt sat down beside me and pulled back the safety bar. I yelped when the lights suddenly went off. I felt Kurt's arm around my shoulders and his hand squeezing me arm.br
"Don't worry liebchen. Az long az I'm here no harm shall come to you." I gripped onto the safety bar waiting for the ride to start and the minute it did I felt Kurt's grip on my arm tighten. I could hear Rouge and Bobby screaming behind us. Kurt was laughing and to my amazement I was to. I was actually enjoying being twirled around at a very high speed in the dark.br
After the ride was finished Kurt could hardly walk he was that dizzy and Bobby had ran to the boy toilets as he swore he was about to throw up. We spent the rest of the day going on the scariest rides, eating junk food, watching Bobby and Kurt throw up and basically just laughing until our sides hurt. Kurt must have spent a fortune on paying for everything but he never seemed to mind. It was dark out by the time we had gotten back to the mansion. Both Bobby and Rouge were asleep in the back of the car. Kurt picked up his little sister and "bamfed" her to her room. He came back a few moments later and took Bobby to his room. He came back again and parked Scott's car then turned to me, "Did you enjoy today mein freund?" He put my arm in his once again and began to walk me back to my room.br
"You don't know how good it is to hear you call me mein freund again Kurt. Yes, I didn't enjoy today." Before I knew it we were outside the door of my room.br
"Vell zhis seemz to be your stop Holly. I shall zee you tomorrow." He held me close and kissed me o the cheek. I watched him as he walked down the corridor, he still had his hologram on.br
"Hey, Fuzzy! You've still got your hologram on." He turned it off and winked at me then walked off again, his tail swinging in the manner of a content cat.br
Ok Now I REALLY enjoyed writing this chapter and I just love the way Kurt is going and by your reviews I can see that you love him as the ladies man, joker and swash-buckling pirate that we all know he is. So keep the reviews coming as only you can keep that chapters rolling out.
