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Kurt looked miserable. He looked down over the forest, cursing his luck.
"When I get a hold of Jean, I'm going to kill her." He thought to himself. "She had to have known. That's why she paused."
He looked back up at Ororo, who looked down at him, smiled, and then winked before looking back up at the sky before them.
"I'm going to kill Jean." Kurt thought. "Let's see. . .Amara, Jubilee, Amanda, Tabby, Jean herself. . .and Kitty. Well, I know it wasn't Ororo who had secret feelings for me."
"We're almost home, my love." Ororo said.
"Good. So, are ve meeting ze Professor vhen ve get home?" Kurt asked, hopeful.
"No. First, I must leave you in my room when we get back. I have a score to settle with Rogue for the embrace I witnessed earlier." Ororo said, her eyes narrowing. "And then I'm returning to you, and we will consummate our love."
Kurt's eyes widened. He had once witnessed Ororo coming out of her bathroom in nothing but a towel and it had embarrassed him so much that he hadn't been able to look her in the eye for weeks. Now she was coming onto him so hard that he believed that when everything was over, he would have to leave the mansion.
"Vhat did Marie do?" Kurt asked, bewildered.
"I witnessed her embrace you at the park. Goddess! No other woman shall ever sample your beautiful, felt-like skin as long as I breathe!"
"Mein Gott. . .um. . .Storm? Ms. Munroe? Ororo? I zink zat you are making a mistake. You love Mr. Logan, remember?" he ventured.
"That little, hairy beast is nothing compared to you, dearest one."
"I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean." Kurt thought.
The two of them flew into the night, ever closer to the mansion.
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Jean watched them fly. She wasn't far behind them, but the last thing that she wanted was for Storm to see her. She didn't need a mid-air battle with the weather witch at this time. Jean was tired, weak. She flew after them, praying that Evan had been able to get in touch with Professor Xavier.
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Xavier wheeled into his office. Having just gotten home, he wanted to check any messages that had been received. After having checked his messages, he sat back in his chair and closed his eyes. He was tired, and felt as if he could fall asleep right then and there. Realizing that he couldn't go to sleep without checking on the status of the school, he picked up his phone. He dialed Logan first. No answer. That wasn't odd. Logan would sometimes leave without telling anyone, even Ororo. Next he tried Ororo, but she wasn't there. That was odd. After hanging up the phone, he dialed Hank's number. Hank picked up on the second ring.
"Hello?" Hank said.
"Hank. It's Charles. I've just returned from Muir Isle. How are things here?"
"I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person, Professor. I've been in my lab for the better part of two days. I haven't even seen a student during that time. You'd be better off calling Ororo."
"Yes, yes. I've tried. She's not answering."
"I'm sorry, Charles." Hank said.
"Thank you anyhow, Hank. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Xavier hung up the phone, and rubbed his temples. Reaching out, he called for Ororo. He realized that she wasn't in the mansion when she didn't return his call. He was about to reach out and call for her when he realized that he had missed a couple of messages off to the side of his desk, each written on a piece of paper. He picked up the first, seeing his name written on the outside. Opening it, he began to read.
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Professor,
As soon as you get in, we really need to talk to you. Something strange is going on with Kurt and the women of the Institute. They're all chasing him. We thought it was kinda funny at first, but it's taking a kinda violent turn. They're literally fighting over him. Kitty came home today all muddy and singed, and I know Jubilee told me that the two of them had fought with Boom Boom for a good part of the night. Anyhow, Jean's really worried. She wants you to meet them at the diner off of Main Street (sorry, can't remember the name). She says it's important.
Evan and Marie
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Xavier almost laughed out loud at the beginning of the letter.
"Fair game to Kurt." he thought.
He did, however, become concerned when he found out that the events had turned violent. He sighed, and put the letter down, opening up another one that was over it. It had his name on it as well.
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Professor Xavier,
I would like to put in a formal request for a change of roommate. I don't think that Marie and I will ever get along, and I can't stand her choice in music any longer. Don't worry about who to choose. I've already moved my stuff into Kurt's room. Now, I know you may not agree with this, but I feel it's the best course of action. So, I guess this isn't so much a request as it is a letter just to let you know that Kurt and I will be living together.
Sincerely,
Katherine Pryde
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Xavier could feel the onset of a pretty horrible headache, and suddenly wished that he were back with Moira McTaggert on Muir Isle. Wheeling away from his desk, he called out to Evan.
"Evan, please get dressed and join me in the garage. We will be leaving for downtown Bayville in five minutes.
In his room, Evan heard the Professor in his head, and began to get dressed.
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Kitty was sitting on a chair in the corner of Kurt's room.
"Our room." She thought, and smiled.
How could she have been so blind? How long had Kurt been chasing after her? A year? Two years? And she had never looked at him as a real possibility. She had been too hung up on trying to appear as normal as possible. Lance had seemed so cool. The ultimate bad boy. Never mind the fact that he was a moron. Never mind the fact that he was emotionally cold after a couple months of dating. He did nothing nowadays but ignore her, or try to get into her pants. Oh, and cheat. Lance didn't think Kitty knew, but what Lance didn't know could just about fill an ocean.
"That's why I can't stand Tabby. She went after Lance while I was dating him, and as soon as I get interested in a new guy, she goes after him, too. Well, she can have Lance."
Lance had proven to be the exact opposite of what Kitty had wanted. She couldn't hide who she was from herself. Kurt was kind, funny, intelligent, caring. He was everything that Lance wasn't. And Kitty was surprised that it had taken her so long to see how handsome he was. He really was gorgeous! Kitty supposed that you just had to be able to look at him with the right eyes. Eyes unbiased by ignorance.
Kitty had begun to drift of to sleep, thinking about her little elf, when she heard shouting in another part of the house. She got up, and ran out of the door to see what the shouting was about.
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Ororo touched down on the roof of the mansion, setting Kurt on his feet gently. She grasped him by his hands, and pulled him along with her, gently but firmly.
"Um, Storm, vhere are ve going?" Kurt asked, hoping for a different answer.
"My bedroom." She said, turning around and smiling at him.
"Oh. Great." Kurt said, feeling his stomach sink even lower.
Ororo lived in one of the attics of the mansion. The attic was quite large, and Ororo's room was absolutely beautiful. She had filled the attic with all sorts of plants. When you entered, it was like stepping into a jungle. She showed such love and devotion to her plants that Kurt was afraid of what she would do to him with her new found feelings. On the roof of the house was a skylight into her room, which she slid apart and dropped through along with Kurt.
As soon as both of their feet were on the floor, Ororo pounced on Kurt like a hungry tiger. Her tongue probed his mouth as he lay there on the floor, frozen. Her hands ran up and down his body, even as his tried to grab her to make her stop. Her tongue trailed from his mouth to his neck, where she nipped and licked him, tasting him. Her knee moved up between his legs, caressing his thighs.
"Okay, okay! Zat's enough for now!" Kurt said, crawling out from under her.
She clawed after him, chasing him on her hands and knees.
"No! No, love, it's never enough!" she said, almost snarling.
"Ororo! Ororo! Wait! Didn't you have something to tell Marie?" Kurt asked, desperate for a way out of his nightmare.
Ororo sat up on her knees, looking confused. Then the light came back to her eyes, and her eyes narrowed.
"Yes. Yes I do have something that I want to "discuss" with her. I'll be back, dearest. Will you wait here? Will you wait for me?" She asked, pleading.
"Of course. You just go talk to Rogue." He said, trying his best to placate her.
"I'll be back, love." She said, and literally ran out of the door.
Kurt waited for a couple of moments. He needed to catch his breath. When he felt secure that she wasn't going to bust in on him anymore, he teleported to Marie's room. It was on the other side of the mansion, and he needed to get her out of there before Storm got to her.
Marie was lying in bed. She was tired, but sleep would not come to her. She had come back to her room only about thirty minutes ago, and all of Kitty's stuff was gone. Oh well. She figured it was just another item on her list of "what the hell's going on here?" So now she was just lyaing down, listening to a CD. A sound was picking up, though, and beginning to overpower to volume of her stereo. Was that wind? It sounded as if something was going on, but she couldn't figure out what. She got out of bed, and walked to the door. Opening it was like opening a door on to a hurricane. The wind was coming from the hallway, and it all seemed to be flowing straight to her door. She squinted her eyes against the force of the wind. Suddenly, she could see a dark shape coming from the end of the hallway. She wished that the lights were on, she may be able to see who it was. Then she realized that whoever it was, they were flying towards her at an incredible speed. Lightning blew the door next to her apart, and when she turned back to the dark shape, she realized who it must be. She slammed her door shut, and turned around, facing into Kurt's yellow eyes.
"Ve haff to go!" he shouted over the wind. He grabbed onto her, and suddenly they were gone. Not two seconds later, the door blew off of it's hinges, and Ororo stepped into the room. Seeing that Rogue was no longer there, she shrieked. There was only one way for Rogue to get out of that room so fast, and Ororo had a sinking feeling that she knew what happened. She shouted incomprehensibly again, and ran back towards her room.
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Kitty phased through the ceiling to the floor below. Looking around, she was in shock. What happened here? The hall was trashed. It looked as if a tornado had been through there. Paintings and pictures had been smashed against the walls. The carpet was torn apart in some places, and completely ripped off of the floor in other places. Door hung on their hinges, and one was completely gone. Looking at it, she realized that it was her old room. She walked cautiously down the hall, and peeked inside. The room was torn apart much in the same way as the hall. Marie wasn't there, though. Kitty turned, and made off into the lower floors of the mansion, looking for someone who may know what was going on.
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"She did WHAT?!?" Marie asked shouted.
Kurt had teleported them outside, and they were currently hiding in the garden in the back of the mansion. Kurt had just told Marie what Jean had done, and she was astounded.
"Vell, I can't say zat I don't appreciate ze sentiment. However, I agree zat vhat she did vas wrong." Kurt said.
"You're not mad?"
"Listen, I've learned in ze past twelve hours zat ze road to hell really IS paved viz good intentions. Trust me. I'm in hell. But she vas trying to help me. It just backfired. Big time. Ororo tried to sex me up in zhere." He said, looking up at the mansion.
Even though her room was trashed, at least one hall of the mansion was destroyed, and one of her caretakers had just tried to kill her, Marie couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Wait a second! Hold on! She did what?" Marie asked, trying to stifle her giggles.
"It's not funny!" Kurt said, trying not to laugh himself.
"Okay, so what do we do now?" Marie asked.
"We hide." Said a voice behind them. They both whipped their heads around, readying themselves to run. Instead they just found Jean. "Don't worry, it's just me!"
"Jean! Vhy didn't you tell me?" Kurt asked.
"About Storm? I thought it might freak you out too much. She was my biggest accident. She walked in when I was working your magic on Kitty." She said.
"Well, what do we do now?" Marie asked, looking up at the sky. The clouds were beginning to roll in, and the night was becoming pitch black. Lightning was crisscrossing the sky, and it wouldn't be long before it began to rain. "Looks like Storm is really pitchin' a fit."
"Jah. By now she'll haff realized vhat happened, and zat I helped you. And zat I'm not in her room." He said and shuddered.
"Well, did you ever get in touch with the Professor?" Jean asked Marie.
"No. The best we could do before we gave up was leave a message on his desk." Marie said.
"Hold on, I'll try this. I'm really tired though, so I don't know if it'll work." Jean said, putting her hands on the sides of her head. "Professor!" she thought. "Professor, can you hear me?"
"Yes! Yes, Jean, I can! Where are you?" Came Xavier's reply.
"We're at the mansion! We need help! Storm's gone crazy!"
"I'm on my way!" Xavier thought.
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Across town, Evan turned to the Professor.
"Where to?" Evan asked.
"Back to the mansion. And Evan, go as fast as possible."
"Yes sir." Evan said, and the car took off.
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"What now?" Marie asked.
"Now, we just wait. This'll all get cleared up when Professor Xavier gets here." Jean said.
The three crouched down in the hedges, not wanting to go inside. Kurt was wide-awake, alert. Meanwhile, both Marie and Jean were yawning. Jean was tired from using her powers, and Marie was tired from hunting all over for Charles Xavier that evening. So it wasn't a surprise that Kurt was the first to hear the noise.
"Do you hear zat?" Kurt asked as the lightning peeled out across the sky and thunder boomed in the distance.
"Yeah. She's gotta be pretty pissed." Marie said.
"No, not zat! It sounds like. . .footsteps!" Kurt whispered.
"What are you talking about?" Jean asked.
"Listen." Kurt said.
The three of them sat there, listening to the storm. Kurt heard dead leaves crunching on the ground. Gravel sliding under someone's foot. He could hear it, and turned to the others. Jean just looked confused, but Marie had her eyes closed, as if she was concentrating. Kurt listened again, and heard another footstep, closer this time. Marie must have heard it too, because her eyes flew open.
"Should I get up to look?" Marie asked.
"No! Keep your head down!" Kurt whispered back.
"What are you two talking about?" Jean asked.
Nobody got the chance to respond as two seconds later three small balls of light bounced on the ground between them and they were all thrown in different directions. Kurt flew into the flowerbed, throwing up the earth around him and sliding onto the pavement. Marie hit the ground not far from him, scraping her arm along the cement. Jean got the worst of it, as her head hit the cement. In her weakened condition, she blacked out. Above them all stood Tabby.
"Kurt! Are you okay?" she asked, running over to him.
"Tabby! What are you doing?" he asked, standing up. She pushed him back down onto the ground and crawled onto of him.
"Kurt, I have something to tell you! I shouldn't have left you a year ago! I shouldn't have left. I want to be with you!" She said, and then tried to kiss him.
Kurt teleported out from under her, and she fell to the ground.
"Oof." Tabby said.
Kurt reappeared about ten yards from her, and began to run back towards the mansion. Tabby looked around after picking herself up, and saw him running away. A smile came across her face, and she took off after him.
"Oh! Gonna play "hard to get," huh? Cool! I'm game!" she shouted after him.
Kurt opened the back door that opened into the kitchen, ran inside, and slammed it shut, locking it before taking off again. He ran downstairs, towards the sublevels. Inside the kitchen, the back door slammed against its hinges. The knob rattled, and the panes of glass shook. Then everything was quiet except for the storm outside. Then suddenly the door exploded, flying into the kitchen and through the wall. Tabby stepped inside the kitchen, and looked around.
"Let the games begin." She shouted, pumping her fists in the air, before running out of the kitchen and towards the stairs.
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"Did you hear that?" Amara asked Jubilee.
Amara and Jubilee were still in the clothes that they had been wearing that day. They were lying in Amara's bed, surrounded by chocolate empty ice- cream containers and tissue boxes.
"Yeah, I did! Sounded like an explosion. Downstairs." Jubilee said.
"Should we go see what it is?" Amara asked.
Jubilee was already on her way to the door.
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"Hellooooooo?" Kitty called. "Is anyone down here? Does anyone know what happened upstairs?"
Kitty turned around in a circle. Great. Beast wasn't down here. Logan wasn't in his room. She had tried to call Ororo from one of the offices down there, but the phone line was busy. Now she'd have to walk all the way back upstairs to the attic to talk to Ororo. She turned, and started walking down the hall. She cursed her luck. These halls in the sublevels were horribly long.
"Professor Xavier should think about putting in a "people mover" or something." She thought to herself. She glanced down the hall and saw a figure running towards her. She squinted her eyes and tried to see better. The figure was running and then slid to a halt when he/she saw Kitty. Kitty looked closer. The figure had a tail!
"KURT! KURT! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU! I'M SO HAPPY YOUR BACK!" She shouted while running towards him.
Kurt looked down the hall and saw Kitty running towards him.
"Verdamnt!" he whispered, and turned around to run from her.
"Kurt! No! Don't leave again!" she said, putting on some speed.
Kurt ran back the way that he had come. He ran as fast as he could. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that Kitty was putting on some speed as well. When he looked forward again, Amara and Jubilee were standing there, waving.
"Kurt! Kurt! Come on! We want to talk with you!" Amara shouted.
Jubilee looked past Kurt and saw Kitty running after him.
"Hey, Kurt, come on! We know where to hide! Come on! Follow us!"
Amara looked at her as if she was crazy, but Jubilee just pinched her arm.
"Trust me." She whispered.
Kurt ran up to them, and Jubilee grabbed his arm and ran in front of him, Amara following. Amara turned around and quickly shot two fireballs at Kitty. Kitty screamed and jumped out of the way, phasing through a wall into another room. She landed roughly, but rolled back up, and quickly phased just her head through the wall. Kurt, Jubilee, and Amara were all gone. Kitty cursed, phased through the wall, and ran down the hall in the direction that they were last running in.
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Jubilee threw Kurt into a closet on the first floor of the mansion. Amara jumped in, and Jubilee did as well. Jubilee closed the door, and suddenly, the three of them were in the dark.
"Zank you, Jubilee, Amara." Kurt said, breathing hard.
"Oh, no prob, Kurt!" Amara giggled.
"No problemo, Kurt. And remember, call me Jubes." Jubilee said.
"Zank you, Jubes." Kurt said, putting his ear to the door to listen for anyone.
"Hey, Kurt, can we ask you a question?" Amara asked.
"Um, sure." Kurt said, still distracted by trying to listen for other noises. He thought he heard someone coming.
"Well, you have to lean down here. We don't want to be to loud." Jubilee whispered.
"Okay." Kurt said, and leaned down.
The two girls grabbed his head and held it in place. Amara began sucking on his earlobe, while Jubilee whispered into the other one.
"How do you feel about younger girls?" she asked, giggling, and then tried to kiss him.
Suddenly, the two girls fell into one another. Kurt had left them, and the only thing between the two was smoke and the smell of sulphur and brimstone.
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Kurt reappeared outside, back in the garden. He spit as much as he could, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"Ach! Molested by a freshman and a middle schooler!" he said.
"Who has molested you, dearest one?" Ororo asked, flying out of the sky behind him. "Who has dared to touch you?"
"Ah, no." Kurt said, and ran off towards Marie and Jean, who were still lying on the cement.
"Rogue! Wake up! I could use some assistance!" Kurt yelled.
Marie sat up, confused. She looked over at Kurt, who was running from Storm. Then she looked over at Jean, who was still unconscious. Marie then rolled over and, taking her glove off, touched her hand to Jean's forehead. It was a brief moment, but it was enough time for Marie to gain Jean's powers, and the knowledge of how to use them.
Kurt skidded on the ground next to Marie, who stood up. Storm flew towards them, her eyes narrowing at the sight of Marie.
"I'm glad you're here, child! I have a lesson to teach you!" Storm cried.
Storm threw her hands forward, and lightning arced from them. The lightning raced towards Rogue, who brought her own hands down, creating a TK shield around her and Kurt. The lightning bounced backwards, hitting Storm. It had no effect on her whatsoever.
"Kurt! Get back inside! I can feel the Professor! He's on his way!"
Kurt didn't need to be told twice. He teleported away.
Storm flew back towards Rogue. Rogue turned to face Storm again.
"Okay, let's try this with me in the air." She thought to herself, and then flew upwards.
Storm moved towards her, throwing a punch at Rogue's face. The impact made Rogue spin in the air, flying towards the forest. She hit the ground, but spun back around and into the air.
"That's right, Storm. Follow me." Rogue thought, and moved over the forest. Using Jean's TK, she uprooted a tree and sent it flying at Storm. Storm dodged it easily and sent a bolt of lightning at Rogue. Rogue got out of the way just in time, and the bolt hit another tree and demolished it.
"Damn! She's not pulling her punches. She's trying to kill me!" Rogue thought.
"Storm! Stop this! It's me! Rogue! You're gonna kill me!" Rogue shouted.
"You should have kept your hands off of Kurt!" Storm shouted, rising in the wind.
"And ya should rememba that he's sixteen years old, and a little young for ya!" Rogue shouted, flying into Storm and hitting her in the face.
Storm rolled over on the ground, wiping the dirt from her mouth. Growling at Rogue, she shot back off into the air.
"God, Ah hope the Professa gets here soon." Rogue said to herself, flying off over the woods with Storm trailing after her.
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Kurt hit the ground in the Professor's office, and ran to the door, locking it. Then he dragged the heaviest chair there was, and leaned it against the door, blocking the knobs. Breathing heavily, he backed away from the door, praying it would hold, praying that no one would think to look for him in there.
"I no longer vant ze chicks to love ze fuzzy dude." He whispered, hiding under Xavier's desk.
He listened to the clock tick, he listened to the sounds of the storm outside. He sat there, hoping that Marie was okay. He hoped that Jean was okay. He wished that the Professor would hurry up. He wished that Kitty would stop staring at him. He hoped that Storm would come to her senses. He. . .
Kitty was staring at him! Kitty's head was phased through the floor, peering at him under the desk! Kurt began to panic.
"Kurt! Hold on! Stop it! I just want to talk!" Kitty said, phasing the rest of the way through the floor.
"Sure you do!" Kurt said, crawling out from under the desk and backing up to the wall.
"No! Seriously! I do! Just talk. I promise. If I do anything to scare you off, just teleport away. I promise I won't chase." Kitty said.
Kurt calmed down a little, and kept his back to the wall. Breathing slowly, he nodded his head.
"Just talk. Zat's it." He said.
Kitty smiled, and sat in front of him. She folded her legs in front of her, and put her head in her hands with her elbows on her knees.
"Okay. Listen. I just wanted to tell you. . .that. . .things aren't going that well with Lance right now." Kitty said.
"Jah. . .?"
"And because of that, I started thinking about how good you are to me."
"Like a consolation prize." He said, shaking his head.
"No! Not at all! It's. . .complicated. He ignores me. You make me feel wanted. He tells me that he thinks other girls are good looking. You tell me I'm gorgeous. He tells me what I can and can't do. You make me feel as if anything is possible."
"I don't follow you."
"You're everything that Lance isn't. And that's what I want." Kitty said.
Kurt's eyes widened and his heart raced. It's what he had always wanted to hear. He knew, however, that she was only saying this because of what Jean had done. This was a fake happiness, and it hurt him in a place that no super villain could ever reach.
"Kitty, you don't know what you're saying." Kurt said.
"Yes, Kurt, I do know what. . ."
"No you don't!" Kurt yelled. "You don't know vhy you're saying zeese zings, but I do! Now stop it!"
"Kurt. . ."
Kurt leaned forward, and put his hand over her mouth.
"In just a little vhile, zis vill all be cleared up. And hopefully, you von't remember zis conversation. But I vant you to know, you just said everyzing zat I've vaited to hear you say for two years."
Keeping his hand over her mouth, he kissed the opposite side of his hand, and disappeared. Kitty sat there, watching the smoke clear, wondering where Kurt was.
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So there's the new chapter. A little long, eh? Ah well. For those of you who may have thought that I've been lax with Kurt's accent, remember one thing. When he's speaking, the accent would be placed phonetically. Not every word that begins with "W" would sound like a "V," like "wrong." You wouldn't place a "V" there because when pronounced, it has an "R" sound at the beginning. So now that I've given that confusing explanation, hope everyone enjoyed this chapter.
Later.
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Kurt looked miserable. He looked down over the forest, cursing his luck.
"When I get a hold of Jean, I'm going to kill her." He thought to himself. "She had to have known. That's why she paused."
He looked back up at Ororo, who looked down at him, smiled, and then winked before looking back up at the sky before them.
"I'm going to kill Jean." Kurt thought. "Let's see. . .Amara, Jubilee, Amanda, Tabby, Jean herself. . .and Kitty. Well, I know it wasn't Ororo who had secret feelings for me."
"We're almost home, my love." Ororo said.
"Good. So, are ve meeting ze Professor vhen ve get home?" Kurt asked, hopeful.
"No. First, I must leave you in my room when we get back. I have a score to settle with Rogue for the embrace I witnessed earlier." Ororo said, her eyes narrowing. "And then I'm returning to you, and we will consummate our love."
Kurt's eyes widened. He had once witnessed Ororo coming out of her bathroom in nothing but a towel and it had embarrassed him so much that he hadn't been able to look her in the eye for weeks. Now she was coming onto him so hard that he believed that when everything was over, he would have to leave the mansion.
"Vhat did Marie do?" Kurt asked, bewildered.
"I witnessed her embrace you at the park. Goddess! No other woman shall ever sample your beautiful, felt-like skin as long as I breathe!"
"Mein Gott. . .um. . .Storm? Ms. Munroe? Ororo? I zink zat you are making a mistake. You love Mr. Logan, remember?" he ventured.
"That little, hairy beast is nothing compared to you, dearest one."
"I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean. I'm going to kill Jean." Kurt thought.
The two of them flew into the night, ever closer to the mansion.
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Jean watched them fly. She wasn't far behind them, but the last thing that she wanted was for Storm to see her. She didn't need a mid-air battle with the weather witch at this time. Jean was tired, weak. She flew after them, praying that Evan had been able to get in touch with Professor Xavier.
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Xavier wheeled into his office. Having just gotten home, he wanted to check any messages that had been received. After having checked his messages, he sat back in his chair and closed his eyes. He was tired, and felt as if he could fall asleep right then and there. Realizing that he couldn't go to sleep without checking on the status of the school, he picked up his phone. He dialed Logan first. No answer. That wasn't odd. Logan would sometimes leave without telling anyone, even Ororo. Next he tried Ororo, but she wasn't there. That was odd. After hanging up the phone, he dialed Hank's number. Hank picked up on the second ring.
"Hello?" Hank said.
"Hank. It's Charles. I've just returned from Muir Isle. How are things here?"
"I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person, Professor. I've been in my lab for the better part of two days. I haven't even seen a student during that time. You'd be better off calling Ororo."
"Yes, yes. I've tried. She's not answering."
"I'm sorry, Charles." Hank said.
"Thank you anyhow, Hank. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Xavier hung up the phone, and rubbed his temples. Reaching out, he called for Ororo. He realized that she wasn't in the mansion when she didn't return his call. He was about to reach out and call for her when he realized that he had missed a couple of messages off to the side of his desk, each written on a piece of paper. He picked up the first, seeing his name written on the outside. Opening it, he began to read.
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Professor,
As soon as you get in, we really need to talk to you. Something strange is going on with Kurt and the women of the Institute. They're all chasing him. We thought it was kinda funny at first, but it's taking a kinda violent turn. They're literally fighting over him. Kitty came home today all muddy and singed, and I know Jubilee told me that the two of them had fought with Boom Boom for a good part of the night. Anyhow, Jean's really worried. She wants you to meet them at the diner off of Main Street (sorry, can't remember the name). She says it's important.
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Xavier almost laughed out loud at the beginning of the letter.
"Fair game to Kurt." he thought.
He did, however, become concerned when he found out that the events had turned violent. He sighed, and put the letter down, opening up another one that was over it. It had his name on it as well.
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Professor Xavier,
I would like to put in a formal request for a change of roommate. I don't think that Marie and I will ever get along, and I can't stand her choice in music any longer. Don't worry about who to choose. I've already moved my stuff into Kurt's room. Now, I know you may not agree with this, but I feel it's the best course of action. So, I guess this isn't so much a request as it is a letter just to let you know that Kurt and I will be living together.
Sincerely,
Katherine Pryde
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Xavier could feel the onset of a pretty horrible headache, and suddenly wished that he were back with Moira McTaggert on Muir Isle. Wheeling away from his desk, he called out to Evan.
"Evan, please get dressed and join me in the garage. We will be leaving for downtown Bayville in five minutes.
In his room, Evan heard the Professor in his head, and began to get dressed.
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Kitty was sitting on a chair in the corner of Kurt's room.
"Our room." She thought, and smiled.
How could she have been so blind? How long had Kurt been chasing after her? A year? Two years? And she had never looked at him as a real possibility. She had been too hung up on trying to appear as normal as possible. Lance had seemed so cool. The ultimate bad boy. Never mind the fact that he was a moron. Never mind the fact that he was emotionally cold after a couple months of dating. He did nothing nowadays but ignore her, or try to get into her pants. Oh, and cheat. Lance didn't think Kitty knew, but what Lance didn't know could just about fill an ocean.
"That's why I can't stand Tabby. She went after Lance while I was dating him, and as soon as I get interested in a new guy, she goes after him, too. Well, she can have Lance."
Lance had proven to be the exact opposite of what Kitty had wanted. She couldn't hide who she was from herself. Kurt was kind, funny, intelligent, caring. He was everything that Lance wasn't. And Kitty was surprised that it had taken her so long to see how handsome he was. He really was gorgeous! Kitty supposed that you just had to be able to look at him with the right eyes. Eyes unbiased by ignorance.
Kitty had begun to drift of to sleep, thinking about her little elf, when she heard shouting in another part of the house. She got up, and ran out of the door to see what the shouting was about.
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Ororo touched down on the roof of the mansion, setting Kurt on his feet gently. She grasped him by his hands, and pulled him along with her, gently but firmly.
"Um, Storm, vhere are ve going?" Kurt asked, hoping for a different answer.
"My bedroom." She said, turning around and smiling at him.
"Oh. Great." Kurt said, feeling his stomach sink even lower.
Ororo lived in one of the attics of the mansion. The attic was quite large, and Ororo's room was absolutely beautiful. She had filled the attic with all sorts of plants. When you entered, it was like stepping into a jungle. She showed such love and devotion to her plants that Kurt was afraid of what she would do to him with her new found feelings. On the roof of the house was a skylight into her room, which she slid apart and dropped through along with Kurt.
As soon as both of their feet were on the floor, Ororo pounced on Kurt like a hungry tiger. Her tongue probed his mouth as he lay there on the floor, frozen. Her hands ran up and down his body, even as his tried to grab her to make her stop. Her tongue trailed from his mouth to his neck, where she nipped and licked him, tasting him. Her knee moved up between his legs, caressing his thighs.
"Okay, okay! Zat's enough for now!" Kurt said, crawling out from under her.
She clawed after him, chasing him on her hands and knees.
"No! No, love, it's never enough!" she said, almost snarling.
"Ororo! Ororo! Wait! Didn't you have something to tell Marie?" Kurt asked, desperate for a way out of his nightmare.
Ororo sat up on her knees, looking confused. Then the light came back to her eyes, and her eyes narrowed.
"Yes. Yes I do have something that I want to "discuss" with her. I'll be back, dearest. Will you wait here? Will you wait for me?" She asked, pleading.
"Of course. You just go talk to Rogue." He said, trying his best to placate her.
"I'll be back, love." She said, and literally ran out of the door.
Kurt waited for a couple of moments. He needed to catch his breath. When he felt secure that she wasn't going to bust in on him anymore, he teleported to Marie's room. It was on the other side of the mansion, and he needed to get her out of there before Storm got to her.
Marie was lying in bed. She was tired, but sleep would not come to her. She had come back to her room only about thirty minutes ago, and all of Kitty's stuff was gone. Oh well. She figured it was just another item on her list of "what the hell's going on here?" So now she was just lyaing down, listening to a CD. A sound was picking up, though, and beginning to overpower to volume of her stereo. Was that wind? It sounded as if something was going on, but she couldn't figure out what. She got out of bed, and walked to the door. Opening it was like opening a door on to a hurricane. The wind was coming from the hallway, and it all seemed to be flowing straight to her door. She squinted her eyes against the force of the wind. Suddenly, she could see a dark shape coming from the end of the hallway. She wished that the lights were on, she may be able to see who it was. Then she realized that whoever it was, they were flying towards her at an incredible speed. Lightning blew the door next to her apart, and when she turned back to the dark shape, she realized who it must be. She slammed her door shut, and turned around, facing into Kurt's yellow eyes.
"Ve haff to go!" he shouted over the wind. He grabbed onto her, and suddenly they were gone. Not two seconds later, the door blew off of it's hinges, and Ororo stepped into the room. Seeing that Rogue was no longer there, she shrieked. There was only one way for Rogue to get out of that room so fast, and Ororo had a sinking feeling that she knew what happened. She shouted incomprehensibly again, and ran back towards her room.
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Kitty phased through the ceiling to the floor below. Looking around, she was in shock. What happened here? The hall was trashed. It looked as if a tornado had been through there. Paintings and pictures had been smashed against the walls. The carpet was torn apart in some places, and completely ripped off of the floor in other places. Door hung on their hinges, and one was completely gone. Looking at it, she realized that it was her old room. She walked cautiously down the hall, and peeked inside. The room was torn apart much in the same way as the hall. Marie wasn't there, though. Kitty turned, and made off into the lower floors of the mansion, looking for someone who may know what was going on.
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"She did WHAT?!?" Marie asked shouted.
Kurt had teleported them outside, and they were currently hiding in the garden in the back of the mansion. Kurt had just told Marie what Jean had done, and she was astounded.
"Vell, I can't say zat I don't appreciate ze sentiment. However, I agree zat vhat she did vas wrong." Kurt said.
"You're not mad?"
"Listen, I've learned in ze past twelve hours zat ze road to hell really IS paved viz good intentions. Trust me. I'm in hell. But she vas trying to help me. It just backfired. Big time. Ororo tried to sex me up in zhere." He said, looking up at the mansion.
Even though her room was trashed, at least one hall of the mansion was destroyed, and one of her caretakers had just tried to kill her, Marie couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Wait a second! Hold on! She did what?" Marie asked, trying to stifle her giggles.
"It's not funny!" Kurt said, trying not to laugh himself.
"Okay, so what do we do now?" Marie asked.
"We hide." Said a voice behind them. They both whipped their heads around, readying themselves to run. Instead they just found Jean. "Don't worry, it's just me!"
"Jean! Vhy didn't you tell me?" Kurt asked.
"About Storm? I thought it might freak you out too much. She was my biggest accident. She walked in when I was working your magic on Kitty." She said.
"Well, what do we do now?" Marie asked, looking up at the sky. The clouds were beginning to roll in, and the night was becoming pitch black. Lightning was crisscrossing the sky, and it wouldn't be long before it began to rain. "Looks like Storm is really pitchin' a fit."
"Jah. By now she'll haff realized vhat happened, and zat I helped you. And zat I'm not in her room." He said and shuddered.
"Well, did you ever get in touch with the Professor?" Jean asked Marie.
"No. The best we could do before we gave up was leave a message on his desk." Marie said.
"Hold on, I'll try this. I'm really tired though, so I don't know if it'll work." Jean said, putting her hands on the sides of her head. "Professor!" she thought. "Professor, can you hear me?"
"Yes! Yes, Jean, I can! Where are you?" Came Xavier's reply.
"We're at the mansion! We need help! Storm's gone crazy!"
"I'm on my way!" Xavier thought.
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Across town, Evan turned to the Professor.
"Where to?" Evan asked.
"Back to the mansion. And Evan, go as fast as possible."
"Yes sir." Evan said, and the car took off.
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"What now?" Marie asked.
"Now, we just wait. This'll all get cleared up when Professor Xavier gets here." Jean said.
The three crouched down in the hedges, not wanting to go inside. Kurt was wide-awake, alert. Meanwhile, both Marie and Jean were yawning. Jean was tired from using her powers, and Marie was tired from hunting all over for Charles Xavier that evening. So it wasn't a surprise that Kurt was the first to hear the noise.
"Do you hear zat?" Kurt asked as the lightning peeled out across the sky and thunder boomed in the distance.
"Yeah. She's gotta be pretty pissed." Marie said.
"No, not zat! It sounds like. . .footsteps!" Kurt whispered.
"What are you talking about?" Jean asked.
"Listen." Kurt said.
The three of them sat there, listening to the storm. Kurt heard dead leaves crunching on the ground. Gravel sliding under someone's foot. He could hear it, and turned to the others. Jean just looked confused, but Marie had her eyes closed, as if she was concentrating. Kurt listened again, and heard another footstep, closer this time. Marie must have heard it too, because her eyes flew open.
"Should I get up to look?" Marie asked.
"No! Keep your head down!" Kurt whispered back.
"What are you two talking about?" Jean asked.
Nobody got the chance to respond as two seconds later three small balls of light bounced on the ground between them and they were all thrown in different directions. Kurt flew into the flowerbed, throwing up the earth around him and sliding onto the pavement. Marie hit the ground not far from him, scraping her arm along the cement. Jean got the worst of it, as her head hit the cement. In her weakened condition, she blacked out. Above them all stood Tabby.
"Kurt! Are you okay?" she asked, running over to him.
"Tabby! What are you doing?" he asked, standing up. She pushed him back down onto the ground and crawled onto of him.
"Kurt, I have something to tell you! I shouldn't have left you a year ago! I shouldn't have left. I want to be with you!" She said, and then tried to kiss him.
Kurt teleported out from under her, and she fell to the ground.
"Oof." Tabby said.
Kurt reappeared about ten yards from her, and began to run back towards the mansion. Tabby looked around after picking herself up, and saw him running away. A smile came across her face, and she took off after him.
"Oh! Gonna play "hard to get," huh? Cool! I'm game!" she shouted after him.
Kurt opened the back door that opened into the kitchen, ran inside, and slammed it shut, locking it before taking off again. He ran downstairs, towards the sublevels. Inside the kitchen, the back door slammed against its hinges. The knob rattled, and the panes of glass shook. Then everything was quiet except for the storm outside. Then suddenly the door exploded, flying into the kitchen and through the wall. Tabby stepped inside the kitchen, and looked around.
"Let the games begin." She shouted, pumping her fists in the air, before running out of the kitchen and towards the stairs.
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"Did you hear that?" Amara asked Jubilee.
Amara and Jubilee were still in the clothes that they had been wearing that day. They were lying in Amara's bed, surrounded by chocolate empty ice- cream containers and tissue boxes.
"Yeah, I did! Sounded like an explosion. Downstairs." Jubilee said.
"Should we go see what it is?" Amara asked.
Jubilee was already on her way to the door.
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"Hellooooooo?" Kitty called. "Is anyone down here? Does anyone know what happened upstairs?"
Kitty turned around in a circle. Great. Beast wasn't down here. Logan wasn't in his room. She had tried to call Ororo from one of the offices down there, but the phone line was busy. Now she'd have to walk all the way back upstairs to the attic to talk to Ororo. She turned, and started walking down the hall. She cursed her luck. These halls in the sublevels were horribly long.
"Professor Xavier should think about putting in a "people mover" or something." She thought to herself. She glanced down the hall and saw a figure running towards her. She squinted her eyes and tried to see better. The figure was running and then slid to a halt when he/she saw Kitty. Kitty looked closer. The figure had a tail!
"KURT! KURT! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU! I'M SO HAPPY YOUR BACK!" She shouted while running towards him.
Kurt looked down the hall and saw Kitty running towards him.
"Verdamnt!" he whispered, and turned around to run from her.
"Kurt! No! Don't leave again!" she said, putting on some speed.
Kurt ran back the way that he had come. He ran as fast as he could. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that Kitty was putting on some speed as well. When he looked forward again, Amara and Jubilee were standing there, waving.
"Kurt! Kurt! Come on! We want to talk with you!" Amara shouted.
Jubilee looked past Kurt and saw Kitty running after him.
"Hey, Kurt, come on! We know where to hide! Come on! Follow us!"
Amara looked at her as if she was crazy, but Jubilee just pinched her arm.
"Trust me." She whispered.
Kurt ran up to them, and Jubilee grabbed his arm and ran in front of him, Amara following. Amara turned around and quickly shot two fireballs at Kitty. Kitty screamed and jumped out of the way, phasing through a wall into another room. She landed roughly, but rolled back up, and quickly phased just her head through the wall. Kurt, Jubilee, and Amara were all gone. Kitty cursed, phased through the wall, and ran down the hall in the direction that they were last running in.
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Jubilee threw Kurt into a closet on the first floor of the mansion. Amara jumped in, and Jubilee did as well. Jubilee closed the door, and suddenly, the three of them were in the dark.
"Zank you, Jubilee, Amara." Kurt said, breathing hard.
"Oh, no prob, Kurt!" Amara giggled.
"No problemo, Kurt. And remember, call me Jubes." Jubilee said.
"Zank you, Jubes." Kurt said, putting his ear to the door to listen for anyone.
"Hey, Kurt, can we ask you a question?" Amara asked.
"Um, sure." Kurt said, still distracted by trying to listen for other noises. He thought he heard someone coming.
"Well, you have to lean down here. We don't want to be to loud." Jubilee whispered.
"Okay." Kurt said, and leaned down.
The two girls grabbed his head and held it in place. Amara began sucking on his earlobe, while Jubilee whispered into the other one.
"How do you feel about younger girls?" she asked, giggling, and then tried to kiss him.
Suddenly, the two girls fell into one another. Kurt had left them, and the only thing between the two was smoke and the smell of sulphur and brimstone.
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Kurt reappeared outside, back in the garden. He spit as much as he could, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"Ach! Molested by a freshman and a middle schooler!" he said.
"Who has molested you, dearest one?" Ororo asked, flying out of the sky behind him. "Who has dared to touch you?"
"Ah, no." Kurt said, and ran off towards Marie and Jean, who were still lying on the cement.
"Rogue! Wake up! I could use some assistance!" Kurt yelled.
Marie sat up, confused. She looked over at Kurt, who was running from Storm. Then she looked over at Jean, who was still unconscious. Marie then rolled over and, taking her glove off, touched her hand to Jean's forehead. It was a brief moment, but it was enough time for Marie to gain Jean's powers, and the knowledge of how to use them.
Kurt skidded on the ground next to Marie, who stood up. Storm flew towards them, her eyes narrowing at the sight of Marie.
"I'm glad you're here, child! I have a lesson to teach you!" Storm cried.
Storm threw her hands forward, and lightning arced from them. The lightning raced towards Rogue, who brought her own hands down, creating a TK shield around her and Kurt. The lightning bounced backwards, hitting Storm. It had no effect on her whatsoever.
"Kurt! Get back inside! I can feel the Professor! He's on his way!"
Kurt didn't need to be told twice. He teleported away.
Storm flew back towards Rogue. Rogue turned to face Storm again.
"Okay, let's try this with me in the air." She thought to herself, and then flew upwards.
Storm moved towards her, throwing a punch at Rogue's face. The impact made Rogue spin in the air, flying towards the forest. She hit the ground, but spun back around and into the air.
"That's right, Storm. Follow me." Rogue thought, and moved over the forest. Using Jean's TK, she uprooted a tree and sent it flying at Storm. Storm dodged it easily and sent a bolt of lightning at Rogue. Rogue got out of the way just in time, and the bolt hit another tree and demolished it.
"Damn! She's not pulling her punches. She's trying to kill me!" Rogue thought.
"Storm! Stop this! It's me! Rogue! You're gonna kill me!" Rogue shouted.
"You should have kept your hands off of Kurt!" Storm shouted, rising in the wind.
"And ya should rememba that he's sixteen years old, and a little young for ya!" Rogue shouted, flying into Storm and hitting her in the face.
Storm rolled over on the ground, wiping the dirt from her mouth. Growling at Rogue, she shot back off into the air.
"God, Ah hope the Professa gets here soon." Rogue said to herself, flying off over the woods with Storm trailing after her.
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Kurt hit the ground in the Professor's office, and ran to the door, locking it. Then he dragged the heaviest chair there was, and leaned it against the door, blocking the knobs. Breathing heavily, he backed away from the door, praying it would hold, praying that no one would think to look for him in there.
"I no longer vant ze chicks to love ze fuzzy dude." He whispered, hiding under Xavier's desk.
He listened to the clock tick, he listened to the sounds of the storm outside. He sat there, hoping that Marie was okay. He hoped that Jean was okay. He wished that the Professor would hurry up. He wished that Kitty would stop staring at him. He hoped that Storm would come to her senses. He. . .
Kitty was staring at him! Kitty's head was phased through the floor, peering at him under the desk! Kurt began to panic.
"Kurt! Hold on! Stop it! I just want to talk!" Kitty said, phasing the rest of the way through the floor.
"Sure you do!" Kurt said, crawling out from under the desk and backing up to the wall.
"No! Seriously! I do! Just talk. I promise. If I do anything to scare you off, just teleport away. I promise I won't chase." Kitty said.
Kurt calmed down a little, and kept his back to the wall. Breathing slowly, he nodded his head.
"Just talk. Zat's it." He said.
Kitty smiled, and sat in front of him. She folded her legs in front of her, and put her head in her hands with her elbows on her knees.
"Okay. Listen. I just wanted to tell you. . .that. . .things aren't going that well with Lance right now." Kitty said.
"Jah. . .?"
"And because of that, I started thinking about how good you are to me."
"Like a consolation prize." He said, shaking his head.
"No! Not at all! It's. . .complicated. He ignores me. You make me feel wanted. He tells me that he thinks other girls are good looking. You tell me I'm gorgeous. He tells me what I can and can't do. You make me feel as if anything is possible."
"I don't follow you."
"You're everything that Lance isn't. And that's what I want." Kitty said.
Kurt's eyes widened and his heart raced. It's what he had always wanted to hear. He knew, however, that she was only saying this because of what Jean had done. This was a fake happiness, and it hurt him in a place that no super villain could ever reach.
"Kitty, you don't know what you're saying." Kurt said.
"Yes, Kurt, I do know what. . ."
"No you don't!" Kurt yelled. "You don't know vhy you're saying zeese zings, but I do! Now stop it!"
"Kurt. . ."
Kurt leaned forward, and put his hand over her mouth.
"In just a little vhile, zis vill all be cleared up. And hopefully, you von't remember zis conversation. But I vant you to know, you just said everyzing zat I've vaited to hear you say for two years."
Keeping his hand over her mouth, he kissed the opposite side of his hand, and disappeared. Kitty sat there, watching the smoke clear, wondering where Kurt was.
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So there's the new chapter. A little long, eh? Ah well. For those of you who may have thought that I've been lax with Kurt's accent, remember one thing. When he's speaking, the accent would be placed phonetically. Not every word that begins with "W" would sound like a "V," like "wrong." You wouldn't place a "V" there because when pronounced, it has an "R" sound at the beginning. So now that I've given that confusing explanation, hope everyone enjoyed this chapter.
Later.