Ok I've been starting to run out of ideas but that's coz I'm just going
through a draught of imagination right now but I promise that ill keep
going as long as I can. But I have just had a great idea of what's now
going to happen and I'm just hoping that it works out. (br
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Kurtbr
It had been a week since the day trip to the Theme Park and Xavier seemed greatly pleased at the fact that Holly seemed so much happier. She was smiling a lot more and had been working hard trying to get her class work plan approved by Xavier (which I had been helping her with naturally). She had seemed to find a good friend in my little sister Rouge and they spent some time together.br
It was a Monday morning. Usually I would be bounding down the corridor, full of energy and raring to start the week. But to my misfortune I had caught the cold off of one of the children from my new Russian class and I was feeling like death warmed up then left out in the sun and has now sprouted little white hairs like an onion. Ororo had tried to get me to take a day off and stay in bed but the children's exams were coming up and I had to get all my students ready.br
So there I was literally dragging my feet along the floor as I made my way to Holly's room so that I could walk her to her first ever class. I felt and looked terrible. My nose was red (but with my blue skin it looked purple) and runny, my throat was dry, sore and my voice crackled when I spoke, I had bags under my eyes (they were also bloodshot) also I had a long multi-coloured scarf wrapped around my neck like a million times and it was still reaching my waist. Ororo joked that I looked like Dr. Who, if he had blue skin. I decided to take it as a complement.br
I was in front of Holly's door and away to knock when I heard her voice, it was low but with my ears I could still hear her:br
I will offer up my lifebr
In spirit and truth,br
Pouring out the oil of lovebr
As my worship to you.br
In surrender I must givebr
My every part.br
Lord, receive the sacrificebr
Of a broken heart.br
br
You deserve my every breath,br
For you've paid the great cost -br
Giving up your life to death,br
Even death on a cross.br
You took all my shame away,br
There defeated my sin,br
Opened up the gates of heavenbr
And have beckoned me in.br
Amenbr
The prayer ended and before I could move away from the door Holly had opened it and seen me with my hand in the air in post knock. She looked down at the floor and was blushing a very deep red, which made her face blend in with her hair.br
"You heard that didn't you?" I nodded and looked to the ground. Her prayer had been one of begging for forgiveness in straying from the path of our faith. She smiled meekly, "That's ok Kurt. I don't mind just don't tell Logan that I've become a proper Catholic again ok. If he found out I wouldn't hear the end of it." I nodded again and said nothing more about it. I had a feeling that if Holly had anything to say to me about her faith, well, I had a feeling that she would come and tell me when she was ready.br
"God you look terrible!" She said. I couldn't blame her for saying so but she was right, I did look terrible.br
"Thanks." I said sarcastically and she smiled faintly.br
"What's the matter with you today? You kinnda look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards, twice." I could nothing but smile back at her; her Irish wit had made her famous among the children, "I'll bet it's that flu bug that's going round the Institute at the moment. It seems that a lot of the kids are just staying in their beds." We began to walk along the corridor towards the stairs when everything seemed at shake. Paintings and pictures fell from the walls, the children who were still in their beds were screaming as the building shook violently.br
"What the hell is happening!?" shouted Holly as she tried to keep her balance at the edge of the stairs. She began to fall, I tried to catch her but my illness had made me slow so all I could do was watch as Holly plummeted down the stairs looking like a rag doll being thrown about. The shaking stopped when she hit the floor with a thud at the bottom of the stairs. I looked over the banister praying and begging to God to make her move or show some sign of life. My heart sank when she didn't move at all. I had to calm myself down and ported to were her battered body lay. I was crying when I got to her and frantically searched for a pulse. I was still pleading with God to let her live and not to snatch her away from me. I cried harder and sighed when I found a faint but very real pulse. I thanked God that she was still alive.br
I took control of my senses and picked her up. Although she looked very light she was the exact opposite. I, what one could only call, power walked to the elevator that led to the infirmary. I whispered prayers under my breath in German begging her to hold on. I found Dr McCoy standing beside beds that were ready for patients, then he to must have felt the shaking.br
"Is this the first of the casualties Kurt?" he said as he began to check Holly over after I had laid her on the nearest bed.br
"I. I,I don't know. Everyting happened zo quickly." I was trying to stay calm when Ororo came in with at least five of the young ones who had been hurt, Scott was carrying a small boy who had slipped into unconscious and Logan was close behind carrying Rouge who's leg was covered in blood from a very large picture that had fallen on her. The children that had come in with Ororo were crying and asking what had happened. I would have helped her if I hadn't been so worried about Holly. Logan told me after that he had never seen me like that; I looked as if I were in a dream. He said that I did not suit the distressed, paranoid guy look. I didn't even notice any of the others coming in really I just watched, as Holly lay there, lifeless.br
Hank had put her on a life support machine and asked Ororo to see to the children's injuries as they didn't seem too serious while he put Holly on a drip. I stood at the foot of her bed, just watching her. In the space on an hour she had been linked up to drips, machines and now there were so many tubes coming from her that it made her look as if she were a machine herself. Hank had said that her fall down the 2 flights of stairs had badly damaged her. Both her legs were broken as was her right arm, she had fractures of the skull and quite a few of her ribs had been snapped. He said that there was a good chance that she could wake up but a very slim chance that she would be the same person, she could lose her memory or have brain damage that would brand her an invalid for the rest of her life.br
"The Professor wants to see us all in his office Kurt." Ororo said from behind me. Her voice was low and mournful, "Please say something." I could here the tears in her eyes as she spoke. I slowly turned around but I kept looking at Holly as if I stopped looking over her she would leave this world all because I had looked away. Just as I had guessed she had been crying. Her cheeks were wet with tearstains. As always I could tell something wasn't right.br
"Liebchen? What's wrong?" she broke down into sobs but when I went to comfort her she put her hand forward keeping me at arms length.br
"I,I saw something, a memory, before the house started to shake. It was the day I met Jean. I could see her right in front of me Kurt but when I shouted at her she couldn't hear me. Oh God Kurt it was so real." I pushed her hand aside and held her while she cried. The emotional wound that Ororo had suffered from Jean's death seemed to have not fully healed. When the cries died away I reluctantly went with her to Xavier's office were everyone else was waiting.br
Xavier's expression was a grave one as was Scott's though to tell the truth he always looked grave. Xavier rested his hands on his desk and began, "I hope that I am right in believing that you all felt what happened today," everyone nodded, I stepped into the shadows of the room, doing the thing that I did best. Being invisible. "Well I have to say that we have a new threat besides Magneto and the Government. A new and very powerful mutant. I managed to look into his mind before he seemingly disappeared into nothingness. Although without a doubt he is very powerful, he is very young and by what I managed to retrieve very angry and confused." He looked at my for a moment and a picture of Holly was placed in my mind by him. This mutant was after Holly?br
"I do not know anything other than he has the same draining powers as Rouge but he can also bring painful memories to life and re-enact them in front of everyone. I had the feeling that he wanted to kill our new biology teacher, Holly Newton, who hasn't even started yet. But Dr McCoy has sadly informed me that she is in a coma and may not wake up for some time. So I am afraid that we can get no answers about this mutant from her for the time being. But I did get something that might be of some use to us. I saw the old so called haunted house that is just a few blocks from here. I believe that he is hiding out there. Logan, Scott and Kurt I would like you to go and see if you can find him while I use cerebro to see if I am correct." He was about to dismiss us when Logan spoke up.br
"I think it would be better Charlie if Bobby goes instead of big blue over there. Holz might wake up and I think he would be the first one she would want to see when she dose instead Hank. No offence." Logan said looking at Hank to give his apology.br
"None taken my friend." Hank said from his chair.br
Xavier didn't say anything for a few moments, "I agree with you Logan. It would be much better for all included if Kurt stays here. As you requested Bobby will go with you." He looked over to were I had been standing but only saw the blue smoke I had left behind me. I had been away from Holly to long.br
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I reappeared beside Holly's bed. She hadn't moved at all in the short time that I had been away. She had been in state now for a day and some of the machines that Hank thought not really necessary were taken away so now there were a lot less tubes and wires coming from her. She looked more like she was a sleep than in a coma. But it was not a peaceful sleep, her eyes were shut tight and her features showed that she was scared. The machine that bleeped constantly to sow her heart rate bleeped faster and faster. Holly began to kick and move about as if trying to run away from something she then sat bolt up right her eyes wide open and her brow covered with sweat.br
Hank came running in and I was ordered to leave. I was more or less shoved out of the infirmary and towards the elevator. I waited for hours in the grounds. I had teleported to my favourite oak tree were I would spend countless hours reading my pirate novels but I was not here at this moment in time for reading, I was here because I just couldn't stay inside any longer. Everything was now to quiet as the children had been sent home 2 weeks earlier so the teachers and X-men could focus their full attention on the matter at hand. In the lonely hours that I spent that day, sitting on the highest branch of the gigantic oak thinking of the 10 years of touring Italy with the very people who found me as a baby floating down a river when they were on their way from Germany to Italy. I remembered the time when I was 13 and had tried, for the first time to shave with a razor. My foster sister, Amanda and my foster brother, Stefan had both made fun of me constantly as I was badly cut, had scraped off my first layer of skin on my face and had not only taken off the facial hair that came with my growing up but had also taken off my fur. I now only used an electric razor as it didn't take off my fur and also I didn't risk losing a great amount of blood when using it.br
I hadn't noticed my little sister walking towards me. Logan had trained her well at being quiet so not to be heard by an enemy. I only knew that she was there when she pulled my tail lightly causing me to leap a foot in the air with fright then plummet to the ground, landing with a loud oof! Rouge smiled down at me with a twinkle in her eye, she then joined me on the grass, laying down beside me in the fading sunlight, "What's up big bro? You seem distant. That's not like you." She watched me as I looked at the sky through the branches of the tree.br
"Holly woke up today. Before I could even say a word to her Hank tossed me out the room and I have been banned from zhe infirmary for zhe time being." She shuffled closer to me, wrapping her arm around my waist and resting her head on my shoulder.br
"That sucks." I chuckled at her attempt to make me smile but I would only smile again when I knew that Holly was better. "Logan told me to go find you and get your big blue butt back inside cause Holly wants to see you. Although his words were a lot more vulgar." Her head hit the ground softly as I bamfed away to the front door of the mansion.br
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Hollybr
I was sitting up in my bed all alone in a room that I had never seen before. The professor had been to see me and asked me if I had been close to any other mutants besides Kurt. I had said no and I was telling the truth. I had fallen to sleep again after he left but only to be plagued by nightmares unlike any I had ever had before. They were of a small boy of 13 who was skinny and pale and having a strange green glowing liquid being injected into him. He had been motionless before but as soon as the needle had pierced his skin he began to kick and squirm. His veins were now visible from under his deathly white skin and they showed up green. His toes curled and his fists were clenched so tight that blood appeared from them. A horrible icy voice spoke and made me shiver in my sleep, "Welcome back my boy. Welcome back to the land of the living. Now is the time for your revenge on that woman who betrayed you." After the voice had stopped I had woken with a start and had began to scream for Kurt. A man, if that's what you would call him, who called himself Dr McCoy said that if I would calm down then he would send Rouge to go and find Kurt for me.br
I waited impatiently but I relaxed when I saw a familiar and very welcome figure in blue. Kurt ran until he was close enough to hug me. He held me tight and whispered, "Thank Gott that you're alight." Into my ear. When Kurt finally let me go I was shocked to see that the beautiful features of his face were stained by a small river of silver tears. His golden honey eyes were filled with something that I could only recognise as relief. He sat in a chair near my bed and tried to get it as close to me as he could possibly manage.br
"Why are you crying you great blue fuzz ball?" He laughed/choked at the use of the nickname I had decided to give him as every one at the school seemed to have their own versions.br
"Becauze I thought zhat I had lost you." He told me as he pressed my knuckles to his lips and closed his eyes. I squeezed his hand as he held mine. I studied him as I had done so many times before but compared to the other times he looked much, much different. The skin on his hands were rough and dry despite his wonderfully soft fur, his eyes were bloodshot as if he had not slept in many hours, he looked thin and weary and his usually deep indigo skin seemed paler, whiter if that was possible.br
"Never cry in front of my again Kurt, please. I hate it when you cry cause you stop being the swashbuckling silver-tongued-devil that I have come to love as if he were my brother." His eyes reappeared as tired eye lids were lifted and in the dim light of the infirmary they glowed as if they were those of a cat by the roadside in the black of night. The tears were dried and a please smile was spread across his face, "You know last week I realised that your face reminds me of a bit out of Juliet's speech in Romeo and Juliet.br
Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die,br
Take him and cut him out in little stars,br
And he will make the face of heaven so finebr
That all the world will be in love with night,br
And pay no worship to the garish sun."br
His smile broadened as I spoke the small passage in hushed tones.br
"I am truly honoured to be held so highly in your affections Holly. But do you really believe that the world could fall in love with a creature that looks the way I do?" I became angry at the thought of Kurt not considering himself to be human and I defiantly let him know what I felt and thought about it.br
"Firstly Kurt Wanger, you are not a creature! You are a human even if you are a slight diffraction to what would be known as the norm. And secondly, the world and its people, that exists within this school has already fallen for you. Why shouldn't the rest of the world?" His face lit up when my voice grew soft again after scolding him for calling himself a creature.br
We said nothing more to each other and he rested his weary and heavy head upon my lap and I stroked his silky hair that curled slightly at the ends as he slipped into a blissfully sound sleep. I didn't mind the sharp pain I felt as his head leaned on only one of my broken legs and I just let the poor thing sleep, deciding to tell him of my nightmare once we were both feeling better.
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Kurtbr
It had been a week since the day trip to the Theme Park and Xavier seemed greatly pleased at the fact that Holly seemed so much happier. She was smiling a lot more and had been working hard trying to get her class work plan approved by Xavier (which I had been helping her with naturally). She had seemed to find a good friend in my little sister Rouge and they spent some time together.br
It was a Monday morning. Usually I would be bounding down the corridor, full of energy and raring to start the week. But to my misfortune I had caught the cold off of one of the children from my new Russian class and I was feeling like death warmed up then left out in the sun and has now sprouted little white hairs like an onion. Ororo had tried to get me to take a day off and stay in bed but the children's exams were coming up and I had to get all my students ready.br
So there I was literally dragging my feet along the floor as I made my way to Holly's room so that I could walk her to her first ever class. I felt and looked terrible. My nose was red (but with my blue skin it looked purple) and runny, my throat was dry, sore and my voice crackled when I spoke, I had bags under my eyes (they were also bloodshot) also I had a long multi-coloured scarf wrapped around my neck like a million times and it was still reaching my waist. Ororo joked that I looked like Dr. Who, if he had blue skin. I decided to take it as a complement.br
I was in front of Holly's door and away to knock when I heard her voice, it was low but with my ears I could still hear her:br
I will offer up my lifebr
In spirit and truth,br
Pouring out the oil of lovebr
As my worship to you.br
In surrender I must givebr
My every part.br
Lord, receive the sacrificebr
Of a broken heart.br
br
You deserve my every breath,br
For you've paid the great cost -br
Giving up your life to death,br
Even death on a cross.br
You took all my shame away,br
There defeated my sin,br
Opened up the gates of heavenbr
And have beckoned me in.br
Amenbr
The prayer ended and before I could move away from the door Holly had opened it and seen me with my hand in the air in post knock. She looked down at the floor and was blushing a very deep red, which made her face blend in with her hair.br
"You heard that didn't you?" I nodded and looked to the ground. Her prayer had been one of begging for forgiveness in straying from the path of our faith. She smiled meekly, "That's ok Kurt. I don't mind just don't tell Logan that I've become a proper Catholic again ok. If he found out I wouldn't hear the end of it." I nodded again and said nothing more about it. I had a feeling that if Holly had anything to say to me about her faith, well, I had a feeling that she would come and tell me when she was ready.br
"God you look terrible!" She said. I couldn't blame her for saying so but she was right, I did look terrible.br
"Thanks." I said sarcastically and she smiled faintly.br
"What's the matter with you today? You kinnda look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards, twice." I could nothing but smile back at her; her Irish wit had made her famous among the children, "I'll bet it's that flu bug that's going round the Institute at the moment. It seems that a lot of the kids are just staying in their beds." We began to walk along the corridor towards the stairs when everything seemed at shake. Paintings and pictures fell from the walls, the children who were still in their beds were screaming as the building shook violently.br
"What the hell is happening!?" shouted Holly as she tried to keep her balance at the edge of the stairs. She began to fall, I tried to catch her but my illness had made me slow so all I could do was watch as Holly plummeted down the stairs looking like a rag doll being thrown about. The shaking stopped when she hit the floor with a thud at the bottom of the stairs. I looked over the banister praying and begging to God to make her move or show some sign of life. My heart sank when she didn't move at all. I had to calm myself down and ported to were her battered body lay. I was crying when I got to her and frantically searched for a pulse. I was still pleading with God to let her live and not to snatch her away from me. I cried harder and sighed when I found a faint but very real pulse. I thanked God that she was still alive.br
I took control of my senses and picked her up. Although she looked very light she was the exact opposite. I, what one could only call, power walked to the elevator that led to the infirmary. I whispered prayers under my breath in German begging her to hold on. I found Dr McCoy standing beside beds that were ready for patients, then he to must have felt the shaking.br
"Is this the first of the casualties Kurt?" he said as he began to check Holly over after I had laid her on the nearest bed.br
"I. I,I don't know. Everyting happened zo quickly." I was trying to stay calm when Ororo came in with at least five of the young ones who had been hurt, Scott was carrying a small boy who had slipped into unconscious and Logan was close behind carrying Rouge who's leg was covered in blood from a very large picture that had fallen on her. The children that had come in with Ororo were crying and asking what had happened. I would have helped her if I hadn't been so worried about Holly. Logan told me after that he had never seen me like that; I looked as if I were in a dream. He said that I did not suit the distressed, paranoid guy look. I didn't even notice any of the others coming in really I just watched, as Holly lay there, lifeless.br
Hank had put her on a life support machine and asked Ororo to see to the children's injuries as they didn't seem too serious while he put Holly on a drip. I stood at the foot of her bed, just watching her. In the space on an hour she had been linked up to drips, machines and now there were so many tubes coming from her that it made her look as if she were a machine herself. Hank had said that her fall down the 2 flights of stairs had badly damaged her. Both her legs were broken as was her right arm, she had fractures of the skull and quite a few of her ribs had been snapped. He said that there was a good chance that she could wake up but a very slim chance that she would be the same person, she could lose her memory or have brain damage that would brand her an invalid for the rest of her life.br
"The Professor wants to see us all in his office Kurt." Ororo said from behind me. Her voice was low and mournful, "Please say something." I could here the tears in her eyes as she spoke. I slowly turned around but I kept looking at Holly as if I stopped looking over her she would leave this world all because I had looked away. Just as I had guessed she had been crying. Her cheeks were wet with tearstains. As always I could tell something wasn't right.br
"Liebchen? What's wrong?" she broke down into sobs but when I went to comfort her she put her hand forward keeping me at arms length.br
"I,I saw something, a memory, before the house started to shake. It was the day I met Jean. I could see her right in front of me Kurt but when I shouted at her she couldn't hear me. Oh God Kurt it was so real." I pushed her hand aside and held her while she cried. The emotional wound that Ororo had suffered from Jean's death seemed to have not fully healed. When the cries died away I reluctantly went with her to Xavier's office were everyone else was waiting.br
Xavier's expression was a grave one as was Scott's though to tell the truth he always looked grave. Xavier rested his hands on his desk and began, "I hope that I am right in believing that you all felt what happened today," everyone nodded, I stepped into the shadows of the room, doing the thing that I did best. Being invisible. "Well I have to say that we have a new threat besides Magneto and the Government. A new and very powerful mutant. I managed to look into his mind before he seemingly disappeared into nothingness. Although without a doubt he is very powerful, he is very young and by what I managed to retrieve very angry and confused." He looked at my for a moment and a picture of Holly was placed in my mind by him. This mutant was after Holly?br
"I do not know anything other than he has the same draining powers as Rouge but he can also bring painful memories to life and re-enact them in front of everyone. I had the feeling that he wanted to kill our new biology teacher, Holly Newton, who hasn't even started yet. But Dr McCoy has sadly informed me that she is in a coma and may not wake up for some time. So I am afraid that we can get no answers about this mutant from her for the time being. But I did get something that might be of some use to us. I saw the old so called haunted house that is just a few blocks from here. I believe that he is hiding out there. Logan, Scott and Kurt I would like you to go and see if you can find him while I use cerebro to see if I am correct." He was about to dismiss us when Logan spoke up.br
"I think it would be better Charlie if Bobby goes instead of big blue over there. Holz might wake up and I think he would be the first one she would want to see when she dose instead Hank. No offence." Logan said looking at Hank to give his apology.br
"None taken my friend." Hank said from his chair.br
Xavier didn't say anything for a few moments, "I agree with you Logan. It would be much better for all included if Kurt stays here. As you requested Bobby will go with you." He looked over to were I had been standing but only saw the blue smoke I had left behind me. I had been away from Holly to long.br
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I reappeared beside Holly's bed. She hadn't moved at all in the short time that I had been away. She had been in state now for a day and some of the machines that Hank thought not really necessary were taken away so now there were a lot less tubes and wires coming from her. She looked more like she was a sleep than in a coma. But it was not a peaceful sleep, her eyes were shut tight and her features showed that she was scared. The machine that bleeped constantly to sow her heart rate bleeped faster and faster. Holly began to kick and move about as if trying to run away from something she then sat bolt up right her eyes wide open and her brow covered with sweat.br
Hank came running in and I was ordered to leave. I was more or less shoved out of the infirmary and towards the elevator. I waited for hours in the grounds. I had teleported to my favourite oak tree were I would spend countless hours reading my pirate novels but I was not here at this moment in time for reading, I was here because I just couldn't stay inside any longer. Everything was now to quiet as the children had been sent home 2 weeks earlier so the teachers and X-men could focus their full attention on the matter at hand. In the lonely hours that I spent that day, sitting on the highest branch of the gigantic oak thinking of the 10 years of touring Italy with the very people who found me as a baby floating down a river when they were on their way from Germany to Italy. I remembered the time when I was 13 and had tried, for the first time to shave with a razor. My foster sister, Amanda and my foster brother, Stefan had both made fun of me constantly as I was badly cut, had scraped off my first layer of skin on my face and had not only taken off the facial hair that came with my growing up but had also taken off my fur. I now only used an electric razor as it didn't take off my fur and also I didn't risk losing a great amount of blood when using it.br
I hadn't noticed my little sister walking towards me. Logan had trained her well at being quiet so not to be heard by an enemy. I only knew that she was there when she pulled my tail lightly causing me to leap a foot in the air with fright then plummet to the ground, landing with a loud oof! Rouge smiled down at me with a twinkle in her eye, she then joined me on the grass, laying down beside me in the fading sunlight, "What's up big bro? You seem distant. That's not like you." She watched me as I looked at the sky through the branches of the tree.br
"Holly woke up today. Before I could even say a word to her Hank tossed me out the room and I have been banned from zhe infirmary for zhe time being." She shuffled closer to me, wrapping her arm around my waist and resting her head on my shoulder.br
"That sucks." I chuckled at her attempt to make me smile but I would only smile again when I knew that Holly was better. "Logan told me to go find you and get your big blue butt back inside cause Holly wants to see you. Although his words were a lot more vulgar." Her head hit the ground softly as I bamfed away to the front door of the mansion.br
br
Hollybr
I was sitting up in my bed all alone in a room that I had never seen before. The professor had been to see me and asked me if I had been close to any other mutants besides Kurt. I had said no and I was telling the truth. I had fallen to sleep again after he left but only to be plagued by nightmares unlike any I had ever had before. They were of a small boy of 13 who was skinny and pale and having a strange green glowing liquid being injected into him. He had been motionless before but as soon as the needle had pierced his skin he began to kick and squirm. His veins were now visible from under his deathly white skin and they showed up green. His toes curled and his fists were clenched so tight that blood appeared from them. A horrible icy voice spoke and made me shiver in my sleep, "Welcome back my boy. Welcome back to the land of the living. Now is the time for your revenge on that woman who betrayed you." After the voice had stopped I had woken with a start and had began to scream for Kurt. A man, if that's what you would call him, who called himself Dr McCoy said that if I would calm down then he would send Rouge to go and find Kurt for me.br
I waited impatiently but I relaxed when I saw a familiar and very welcome figure in blue. Kurt ran until he was close enough to hug me. He held me tight and whispered, "Thank Gott that you're alight." Into my ear. When Kurt finally let me go I was shocked to see that the beautiful features of his face were stained by a small river of silver tears. His golden honey eyes were filled with something that I could only recognise as relief. He sat in a chair near my bed and tried to get it as close to me as he could possibly manage.br
"Why are you crying you great blue fuzz ball?" He laughed/choked at the use of the nickname I had decided to give him as every one at the school seemed to have their own versions.br
"Becauze I thought zhat I had lost you." He told me as he pressed my knuckles to his lips and closed his eyes. I squeezed his hand as he held mine. I studied him as I had done so many times before but compared to the other times he looked much, much different. The skin on his hands were rough and dry despite his wonderfully soft fur, his eyes were bloodshot as if he had not slept in many hours, he looked thin and weary and his usually deep indigo skin seemed paler, whiter if that was possible.br
"Never cry in front of my again Kurt, please. I hate it when you cry cause you stop being the swashbuckling silver-tongued-devil that I have come to love as if he were my brother." His eyes reappeared as tired eye lids were lifted and in the dim light of the infirmary they glowed as if they were those of a cat by the roadside in the black of night. The tears were dried and a please smile was spread across his face, "You know last week I realised that your face reminds me of a bit out of Juliet's speech in Romeo and Juliet.br
Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die,br
Take him and cut him out in little stars,br
And he will make the face of heaven so finebr
That all the world will be in love with night,br
And pay no worship to the garish sun."br
His smile broadened as I spoke the small passage in hushed tones.br
"I am truly honoured to be held so highly in your affections Holly. But do you really believe that the world could fall in love with a creature that looks the way I do?" I became angry at the thought of Kurt not considering himself to be human and I defiantly let him know what I felt and thought about it.br
"Firstly Kurt Wanger, you are not a creature! You are a human even if you are a slight diffraction to what would be known as the norm. And secondly, the world and its people, that exists within this school has already fallen for you. Why shouldn't the rest of the world?" His face lit up when my voice grew soft again after scolding him for calling himself a creature.br
We said nothing more to each other and he rested his weary and heavy head upon my lap and I stroked his silky hair that curled slightly at the ends as he slipped into a blissfully sound sleep. I didn't mind the sharp pain I felt as his head leaned on only one of my broken legs and I just let the poor thing sleep, deciding to tell him of my nightmare once we were both feeling better.
