A/N: Woohoo! Chapter 4! And a new reviewer! Granted, one I had to hit over
the head with an iron pipe and force to read, but still! LOL. Well, here's
another chapter for the both of you!
Chapter 4, Change
Kurt was dumbstruck. He blinked, thinking that perhaps he misheard. He shook his head. "Your parents said zis? Vhy?" She squirmed uneasily, looking down.
"Because it's true..."
"No eets not! Look at you, I mean, you're beautiful! And you haff an awesome mutant power. I don't care vhat zay say, you are perfect in my eyes." She looked up at him and he was lucky that his furr covered the redness of his cheeks. She smiled, blushing as well.
"D-do you really mean that, Kurt?" she asked. He nodded, smiling. She hugged him and he felt the wetness of hear tears dampen his fur. He sighed, laying a hand on her back as she cried silently. When she pulled away, the only sign was the wetness of her cheeks and the redness around her eyes. She was smiling. "I love to hug you," she said, her cheeks reddening a bit once more as she spoke. She kept her gaze downcast as if embarassed. "It makes me feel like I'm hugging my stuffed animals..." Kurt smiled, putting his arm around her gently.
"Vell, you can hug me anytime." She looked up at him, shock and happiness in her eyes. He continued to smile at her and she gave him a quick hug, then pulled away. "Uh, zere is vone sing..." he said, a bit uncomfortable with the decision he had made, but knowing it needed to be done.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Vell, I just sink it vould be better if ve keep you avay from anysing sharp, okay?" he looked at her sympathetically, hoping she would understand. She hesitated a moment, then nodded. "Also, vhy don't you try to get to know ze ozer students here as vell?"
"I see," she said, looking down sadly. Kurt blinked, confused. She had obviously taken his request the wrong way. "You're tired of me always hanging around, aren't you? I understand..."
"No! eets not like zat at all!" he said quickly, his mind whirling as he tried to figure out a way to explain it to her. She looked up at him questioningly. "Vell, you see, ah... Professor McCoy and Logan both know about... about your condision. Zey haff been advising ze Professor against keeping you here. I just sink zat if you acted more like a normal girl, zen zey vould sink you cured and be more inclined to letting you stay." He was hoping her performence had convinced her. She stayed silent for a moment, taking it all in, then nodded.
"I think I see what you mean. If I'm normal and make friends, then the others will let me stay, right?" Kurt smiled, nodding.
"Right. So how about it?"
"Sure," said Marian, smiling now. "But... can you do it for me?"
"Do it for you? You mean make friends? I could introduce you, but you haff to make friends vith zem yourself. Let's start vith somevone easy, like Kitty, okay?" Marian nodded, standing. Kurt took her hand and she squeezed it, hugging his arm again. He was slowly starting to get used to this. Probably because his arm was starting to lose feeling. He led her down the hall to Kitty's room and knocked. She opened the door and smiled.
"Oh, like, hey Kurt!" she said in her ever-so-cheerful way. "Come on in! Don't mind Rogue, she's got, like, some concert tonight or something." She stepped aside, letting them in. Kurt smiled at Marian reassuringly as they entered the messy room and sat on the bed.
"Hey blue," said Rogue absently, still getting ready and not even glancing at them.
"Hello Rogue. Kitty, zis is Marian, ze new recruit ve heard about. I've been assigned to introduce her to ze rest of ze students here," Kurt lied. He thought that it would be best to keep her past few days a secret.
"Oh yeah, like, I remember. You're the one that we, like, rescued from Magneto, right? What a jerk! I hate that guy!" She smiled, holding her hand out to Marian. "My name's Kitty Pryde. Nice to meet you, Marian!" Marian hesitantly shook Kitty's hand, smiling.
"Uh, you, too, Kitty. So, what can you do?" she asked. She really had been curious about all the other students here and what they could do.
"Oh, like, I'll show you!" she said, smiling. She phased through the door, then walked back in. "Cool, huh? I can also, like, take out a mahcine by doing that. It, like, totally makes it short-circuit!"
"Wow!" said Marian, genuinely impressed. She had no idea that there were that many others like her in the world. And to think, they all had different powers.
"Thanks," said Kitty, smiling. "So, like, want me to help introduce you to the others? I think I'm, like, getting in Rogue's way here, anyway." They all agreed that that would be a good idea and went down the hall a little more to Jean's room. She answered before they even knocked, scaring Marian a little.
"Eets okay, she's psychic, too," said Kurt, smiling. "Marian, zis is Jean Grey."
"Hey Marian, feeling better? The Professor told us that you weren't feeling so good and we hadn't seen you at mealtimes. We were getting kinda worried."
"Yes ma'am, I'm fine. It's nice to meet you," said Marian, still a bit awkward about being around others besides Kurt.
"Oh, you can call me Jean. It makes me sound old if you say ma'am." She smiled and walked out of her room. "So, are you going to go meet everyone else?" she asked the group. They all nodded.
"We're, like, helping her meet friends here," explained Kitty. Jean nodded.
"Go bug Scott for me next, okay? Tell him to come see me. We were supposed to go out today, but he hasn't talked to me all morning. See if you can get him to tell you what's up, okay?"
"Sure sing, Jean. Talk to you later!" Kurt put a hand on Kitty and Marian's shoulder and bamfed them to a different hall. He knocked on Scotts door and he called for them to come in. They did and found him sitting at his desk, working on homework.
"Like, hey Scott."
"Hey Kitty, Kurt. Who's this? We didn't get your name when we were bringing you home," said Scott, adjusting his glasses as he looked up at them.
"Zis is Marian. She vasn't feeling too vell, but now she's better. Ve're helping her meet friends here," he said, the lie sounding more normal every time he said it. He hoped it was also sounding more believable.
"Oh, hey Marian. Excuse me for not getting up, but I'm kinda in the middle of something here." It was true, getting up would be a chore. He had a book on his lap, opened, with a notebook inside it. There were scribblings all over it and he proceded to continue to write.
"It's alright, really," she said, loosening her grip on Kurt's arm, much to his relief.
"So, like, what's the deal with you and Jean?" asked Kitty, jumping right in with the question. Scott seemed surprised.
"W-what do you mean? Has she said anything?" he asked, worried.
"Only that you were supposed to go out on a date today. She feels like you're avoiding her, maybe you should go see her," suggested Marian. Scott hit his head with the heal of his hand.
"Oh man! I totally forgot! It's our two month anniversary this week and I don't know what to get her. I've been freaking out about it all week. Thanks guys. I better go see her. Bye!" With that he closed the book and ran out of the room. Kurt bamfed them to the kitchen.
"Zat's enough for now, I'm hungry!"
"But we just had a snack in your room," said Marian.
"Kurt's got, like, high metabolism or something. It makes him really hungry all the time, but he never gains any weight. That's, probably the reason he's so, like, hyper all the time," explained Kitty.
"Hey, I'm a growing mutant!" he protested. Marian smiled, slowly loosening up. She let go of Kurt's arm as he made a TV dinner. Kitty got a bag of chips and Marian made herself a bowl of icecream. She looked in the fridge and frowned, seeing no sauce. She got a glass of water and looked at Kurt uneasily.
"Uh, can I use my powers here?" she asked. Kurt smiled.
"Sure, I don't see vhy not." He went back to eating and Marian concentrated on the glass of water, closing her eyes. It grew darker and became grey, starting to swirl. It slowly became thicker and darker until it was black. She opened her eyes and smiled. The water had become chocolate syrup.
"Awesome!" Kitty exclaimed, smiling. Marian blushed.
"It's nothing, really."
"Are you kidding? That's, like, totally awesome! So, can you make, like, anything out of water?"
"Well, sort of. I can change the chemical formula of liquids, making them any other liquid." To demonstrate, she poured the syrup over her icecream, then concentrated again. The syrup thinned and strated swirling again. It became lighter, turning to a brownish liquid. Marian smiled again when she opened her eyes. "See? Chocolate milk!" Kitty gaped and Marian smiled, handing it to Kitty. "Here, try some! I don't really like it. I prefer regular, but I'm not too good at re-changing something. It kind of got stuck on the way to normal milk."
Kitty took the glass and sipped. Her eyes widened and she pulled it away, looking at it. "That's great!" She took another drink and Bobby came in. He served himself some icecream as well and sat down.
"Hey, where'd we get chocolate syrup? Oh, and Kitty, that milk in the fridge is probably bad, I wouldn't drink it."
"Bobby, zis is Marian. She's ze vone from Magneto's place," Kurt introduced. Bobby waved from across the table and Marian smiled.
"She, like, made the syrup! And the milk!" said kitty excitedly.
"What? How? Were you raised on a farm or something?" he asked. Marian smiled, getting another glass of water.
"Would you like some or do you want butterscotch? I could try caramel..." she looked doubtuflly at the glass.
"No, chocolate's fine. But that's just water," Bobby insisted.
"Just vatch," said Kurt as Marian sat down, concentrating on the water and turning it to chocolate syrup. Bobby's eyes widened as she handed him the glass. He put his finger in it and sucked the chocolate off.
"This is really good! Cool, thanks!" Marian blushed and nodded, sitting down to eat her own, but it had melted. "Oh, here, let me fix that for you." Bobby blew on her bowl and the icecream refroze itself. Marian watched in awe.
"Uh... thanks..." she said, smiling. He winked and nodded. They finished their snacks, then went to meet the rest of the mutants together. They invited Bobby to come, but he said he needed to help Beast with something on the computer.
Afterward, back in Kurt's room, Marian smiled to herself. Had she really found a place that she fit in? The people here were so nice to her. No one seemed to have a problem with her 'gift,' either. She was starting to like it here. That night, she got some sleep for the first time since she'd arrived.
A/N: Awwwwwe. She made friends, and chocolate syrup! This was one of the more light-hearted chapters. I don't think that there will be many more. My muse is a sick, sadistic freak. It loves to torture me while I want to write by not giving me ideas, but now that I'm injured and feeling sick, it's givine me too many! Well, hope to get some more reveiwers! Bai!
Chapter 4, Change
Kurt was dumbstruck. He blinked, thinking that perhaps he misheard. He shook his head. "Your parents said zis? Vhy?" She squirmed uneasily, looking down.
"Because it's true..."
"No eets not! Look at you, I mean, you're beautiful! And you haff an awesome mutant power. I don't care vhat zay say, you are perfect in my eyes." She looked up at him and he was lucky that his furr covered the redness of his cheeks. She smiled, blushing as well.
"D-do you really mean that, Kurt?" she asked. He nodded, smiling. She hugged him and he felt the wetness of hear tears dampen his fur. He sighed, laying a hand on her back as she cried silently. When she pulled away, the only sign was the wetness of her cheeks and the redness around her eyes. She was smiling. "I love to hug you," she said, her cheeks reddening a bit once more as she spoke. She kept her gaze downcast as if embarassed. "It makes me feel like I'm hugging my stuffed animals..." Kurt smiled, putting his arm around her gently.
"Vell, you can hug me anytime." She looked up at him, shock and happiness in her eyes. He continued to smile at her and she gave him a quick hug, then pulled away. "Uh, zere is vone sing..." he said, a bit uncomfortable with the decision he had made, but knowing it needed to be done.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Vell, I just sink it vould be better if ve keep you avay from anysing sharp, okay?" he looked at her sympathetically, hoping she would understand. She hesitated a moment, then nodded. "Also, vhy don't you try to get to know ze ozer students here as vell?"
"I see," she said, looking down sadly. Kurt blinked, confused. She had obviously taken his request the wrong way. "You're tired of me always hanging around, aren't you? I understand..."
"No! eets not like zat at all!" he said quickly, his mind whirling as he tried to figure out a way to explain it to her. She looked up at him questioningly. "Vell, you see, ah... Professor McCoy and Logan both know about... about your condision. Zey haff been advising ze Professor against keeping you here. I just sink zat if you acted more like a normal girl, zen zey vould sink you cured and be more inclined to letting you stay." He was hoping her performence had convinced her. She stayed silent for a moment, taking it all in, then nodded.
"I think I see what you mean. If I'm normal and make friends, then the others will let me stay, right?" Kurt smiled, nodding.
"Right. So how about it?"
"Sure," said Marian, smiling now. "But... can you do it for me?"
"Do it for you? You mean make friends? I could introduce you, but you haff to make friends vith zem yourself. Let's start vith somevone easy, like Kitty, okay?" Marian nodded, standing. Kurt took her hand and she squeezed it, hugging his arm again. He was slowly starting to get used to this. Probably because his arm was starting to lose feeling. He led her down the hall to Kitty's room and knocked. She opened the door and smiled.
"Oh, like, hey Kurt!" she said in her ever-so-cheerful way. "Come on in! Don't mind Rogue, she's got, like, some concert tonight or something." She stepped aside, letting them in. Kurt smiled at Marian reassuringly as they entered the messy room and sat on the bed.
"Hey blue," said Rogue absently, still getting ready and not even glancing at them.
"Hello Rogue. Kitty, zis is Marian, ze new recruit ve heard about. I've been assigned to introduce her to ze rest of ze students here," Kurt lied. He thought that it would be best to keep her past few days a secret.
"Oh yeah, like, I remember. You're the one that we, like, rescued from Magneto, right? What a jerk! I hate that guy!" She smiled, holding her hand out to Marian. "My name's Kitty Pryde. Nice to meet you, Marian!" Marian hesitantly shook Kitty's hand, smiling.
"Uh, you, too, Kitty. So, what can you do?" she asked. She really had been curious about all the other students here and what they could do.
"Oh, like, I'll show you!" she said, smiling. She phased through the door, then walked back in. "Cool, huh? I can also, like, take out a mahcine by doing that. It, like, totally makes it short-circuit!"
"Wow!" said Marian, genuinely impressed. She had no idea that there were that many others like her in the world. And to think, they all had different powers.
"Thanks," said Kitty, smiling. "So, like, want me to help introduce you to the others? I think I'm, like, getting in Rogue's way here, anyway." They all agreed that that would be a good idea and went down the hall a little more to Jean's room. She answered before they even knocked, scaring Marian a little.
"Eets okay, she's psychic, too," said Kurt, smiling. "Marian, zis is Jean Grey."
"Hey Marian, feeling better? The Professor told us that you weren't feeling so good and we hadn't seen you at mealtimes. We were getting kinda worried."
"Yes ma'am, I'm fine. It's nice to meet you," said Marian, still a bit awkward about being around others besides Kurt.
"Oh, you can call me Jean. It makes me sound old if you say ma'am." She smiled and walked out of her room. "So, are you going to go meet everyone else?" she asked the group. They all nodded.
"We're, like, helping her meet friends here," explained Kitty. Jean nodded.
"Go bug Scott for me next, okay? Tell him to come see me. We were supposed to go out today, but he hasn't talked to me all morning. See if you can get him to tell you what's up, okay?"
"Sure sing, Jean. Talk to you later!" Kurt put a hand on Kitty and Marian's shoulder and bamfed them to a different hall. He knocked on Scotts door and he called for them to come in. They did and found him sitting at his desk, working on homework.
"Like, hey Scott."
"Hey Kitty, Kurt. Who's this? We didn't get your name when we were bringing you home," said Scott, adjusting his glasses as he looked up at them.
"Zis is Marian. She vasn't feeling too vell, but now she's better. Ve're helping her meet friends here," he said, the lie sounding more normal every time he said it. He hoped it was also sounding more believable.
"Oh, hey Marian. Excuse me for not getting up, but I'm kinda in the middle of something here." It was true, getting up would be a chore. He had a book on his lap, opened, with a notebook inside it. There were scribblings all over it and he proceded to continue to write.
"It's alright, really," she said, loosening her grip on Kurt's arm, much to his relief.
"So, like, what's the deal with you and Jean?" asked Kitty, jumping right in with the question. Scott seemed surprised.
"W-what do you mean? Has she said anything?" he asked, worried.
"Only that you were supposed to go out on a date today. She feels like you're avoiding her, maybe you should go see her," suggested Marian. Scott hit his head with the heal of his hand.
"Oh man! I totally forgot! It's our two month anniversary this week and I don't know what to get her. I've been freaking out about it all week. Thanks guys. I better go see her. Bye!" With that he closed the book and ran out of the room. Kurt bamfed them to the kitchen.
"Zat's enough for now, I'm hungry!"
"But we just had a snack in your room," said Marian.
"Kurt's got, like, high metabolism or something. It makes him really hungry all the time, but he never gains any weight. That's, probably the reason he's so, like, hyper all the time," explained Kitty.
"Hey, I'm a growing mutant!" he protested. Marian smiled, slowly loosening up. She let go of Kurt's arm as he made a TV dinner. Kitty got a bag of chips and Marian made herself a bowl of icecream. She looked in the fridge and frowned, seeing no sauce. She got a glass of water and looked at Kurt uneasily.
"Uh, can I use my powers here?" she asked. Kurt smiled.
"Sure, I don't see vhy not." He went back to eating and Marian concentrated on the glass of water, closing her eyes. It grew darker and became grey, starting to swirl. It slowly became thicker and darker until it was black. She opened her eyes and smiled. The water had become chocolate syrup.
"Awesome!" Kitty exclaimed, smiling. Marian blushed.
"It's nothing, really."
"Are you kidding? That's, like, totally awesome! So, can you make, like, anything out of water?"
"Well, sort of. I can change the chemical formula of liquids, making them any other liquid." To demonstrate, she poured the syrup over her icecream, then concentrated again. The syrup thinned and strated swirling again. It became lighter, turning to a brownish liquid. Marian smiled again when she opened her eyes. "See? Chocolate milk!" Kitty gaped and Marian smiled, handing it to Kitty. "Here, try some! I don't really like it. I prefer regular, but I'm not too good at re-changing something. It kind of got stuck on the way to normal milk."
Kitty took the glass and sipped. Her eyes widened and she pulled it away, looking at it. "That's great!" She took another drink and Bobby came in. He served himself some icecream as well and sat down.
"Hey, where'd we get chocolate syrup? Oh, and Kitty, that milk in the fridge is probably bad, I wouldn't drink it."
"Bobby, zis is Marian. She's ze vone from Magneto's place," Kurt introduced. Bobby waved from across the table and Marian smiled.
"She, like, made the syrup! And the milk!" said kitty excitedly.
"What? How? Were you raised on a farm or something?" he asked. Marian smiled, getting another glass of water.
"Would you like some or do you want butterscotch? I could try caramel..." she looked doubtuflly at the glass.
"No, chocolate's fine. But that's just water," Bobby insisted.
"Just vatch," said Kurt as Marian sat down, concentrating on the water and turning it to chocolate syrup. Bobby's eyes widened as she handed him the glass. He put his finger in it and sucked the chocolate off.
"This is really good! Cool, thanks!" Marian blushed and nodded, sitting down to eat her own, but it had melted. "Oh, here, let me fix that for you." Bobby blew on her bowl and the icecream refroze itself. Marian watched in awe.
"Uh... thanks..." she said, smiling. He winked and nodded. They finished their snacks, then went to meet the rest of the mutants together. They invited Bobby to come, but he said he needed to help Beast with something on the computer.
Afterward, back in Kurt's room, Marian smiled to herself. Had she really found a place that she fit in? The people here were so nice to her. No one seemed to have a problem with her 'gift,' either. She was starting to like it here. That night, she got some sleep for the first time since she'd arrived.
A/N: Awwwwwe. She made friends, and chocolate syrup! This was one of the more light-hearted chapters. I don't think that there will be many more. My muse is a sick, sadistic freak. It loves to torture me while I want to write by not giving me ideas, but now that I'm injured and feeling sick, it's givine me too many! Well, hope to get some more reveiwers! Bai!