Kelly made the choice that she would like Logan. He wasn't like the other
men she had met along the way. He was sexy; certainly, he had a rough edge
about him that made him almost irresistible. The only problem Kelly
discovered was that he was her father, and thinking that way about your
father was wrong, very wrong.
As she followed a pretty black girl with platinum blonde hair down the long hallway, she slowly absorbed all that was around her. "So," Storm said slowly "Logan's your father?" Kelly looked around as the door whooshed open. "Yeah he is, why do you like him or something?" Storm smiled slowly. "I don't swim in other people's pool" Kelly raised an eyebrow and Storm laughed. "He loved someone else and though she could never really admit it, she loved him too" Kelly's lips tipped in a small smile. "Sure"
The room was more then Kelly ever expected. The walls were painted garden pink and the bed was covered with thick white blankets to ward off the chill in the night. "Is something wrong?" Kelly bit the inside of her cheek to keep the tears from welling in her eyes. "No it's great," She said as she wandered and felt the smooth silk of the curtains between her fingers. "Really great" Storm watched her for a moment then smiled softly. "I'll let you get unpacked"
Kelly was packed and washed in 10 minutes and she took the rest of the time to root through the cabinet that loomed like a silent giant. To her surprise, there were beautiful dresses and skirts and jeans stocked in the closet. There was a sudden movement behind her and Kelly grabbed something for defense, spun around and nearly screamed.
Kurt was standing close to her, very close and his eyes peered at her with his eerie eyes. "Who are you?" She asked, trying to keep her voice from trembling. "Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus I was known as the Incredible Nightcrawler" She carefully replaced the delicate skirt she was holding. "You're the girl that Mr.Logan has told me about" Kelly forced herself to smile. "Yes, I'm Kelly Morgan" She held out a delicate hand that Kurt decided looked too fragile to touch, so he didn't.
"You're very pretty" Kurt said a little nervously and sat on the bed. "Thank you," Kelly said as she fussed with her short cap of hair. "Do you know my father well?" She asked as she turned to look through the closet again. "No. I have only known his a few weeks, the pain is still fresh for him" At this Kelly turned around and gazed at Kurt.
"Pain? What pain?" Kurt seemed hesitant to answer, so Kelly pushed on. "Kurt what pain?" She asked again. "There was a woman, a Dr.Jean Gray who Mr.Logan was very taken with. But Dr.Jean already had a lover, Mr.Scott Summers, who I don't know if you have met" Kelly shook her head and waited for Kurt to continue.
"A week ago," He began again. "There was trouble with a dam, and Dr.Jean went outside to try to stop the water from destroying the plane, and she never came back. Mr.Logan has been having these nightmares or visions it seems of her now, seeing her where she shouldn't be seen" A feeling that Kelly hadn't felt for a long time began to flood (if you can forgive the pun) her heart as she thought about the pain that he must have gone through. 'Still going through' she added mentally.
"I didn't know," Kelly said softly. "You couldn't have. I liked Dr.Jean very much myself, I believe I am going to miss her terribly." Kelly smiled sadly and Kurt patted her hands. "So," She said as she tried to change the subject. "What is your mutant.thing?" "I'm a telaporter, however if I can't see where it is I'm supposed to go, I could end up in a wall or in the ocean" Kelly nodded. "Can you show me?" She asked almost childishly. "To where?" Kelly shrugged a shoulder. "To the side of the room" Kurt smiled, showing his pointed teeth and vanished in a swirl of inky blue smoke she had the urge to reach out and touch.
He reappeared at the window, holding a dress. "This would look beautiful on you tonight at dinner, when you meet the others" Kelly was too distracted by the gorgeous dress that was made of silk so soft it felt like water. "Hmm? The others?" Kurt nodded as he watched her. "Yes, the ones you will be going to school with if you are to be staying?" There was a slight pause. "You are staying?" Kurt asked a little hopefully. "Yeah," Kelly said as she snapped out of her daydream and looked up at Kurt to smile. "Yeah I'm staying"
After Kurt informed her that she should be down at the dining hall, which wasn't very hard to find, at 8 o'clock, he left her alone for time to prepare. Slowly she lay down on the huge bed and admired the dress Kurt had picked for her. The color of the dress was hard for her to describe, but she finally came to the conclusion that it was the color of lilacs that had just bloomed.
She traced a finger down the delicate seems of the dress, sleep slowly crept upon her and lulled her into its warm embrace. She awoke to the feeling of eyes on her and she sat up with a start to see a girl with long brown hair streaked with blonde staring at her. "What is it with people in this place staring at you? Christ" She said as she rubbed sleepily at her eyes. "Yeah you must be Logan's daughter" Rogue said as picked at the lent on her sleek black sweater. "Yeah so what if I am?" For reasons Kelly supposed she would never be able to explain, she felt more comfortable around men then she did with other girls.
"They wanted me to come remind you that it was almost 8 o'clock, and to see if you needed any help" Kelly, still disoriented from being awoken from her first pleasant slumber in a long time, reached down and picked up the dress that Kurt suggested that she should wear. "No. I'm just gonna wear this and be a good little trained monkey tonight" Rouge seemed confused and just a little miffed. "If that's how you're going to act then that's what you're going to be seen as for as long as you're here"
Kelly ignored it and rolled her stiff shoulders. "Say you don't know where there might be any chocolate do you?" She asked as she pulled the sheets away. "We're about to eat dinner" Rogue began primly. "Yeah I know that, but I want chocolate" Rogue rolled her eyes and picked out a pair of ice pick heeled flats to go with the dress and tossed them on the bed, just nearly missing Kelly's head.
After giving up on the notion of chocolate, Kelly shimmied out of her clothes and wandered into the connecting bathroom and was pleased and intrigued to find rows of glass bottles and containments filled with lotions, scents and various powders with the softest brushes. She pulled open a draw and let out a small squeal of delight when she found trays of makeup.
She painted her face for a while until her eyes were big and glamorous, her cheeks a pretty dandelion pink, and her mouth looking sleek and glossy. She slipped into the dress and loved the way it gently whispered against her bare thighs when she walked. She stepped into the shoes and went back into the bathroom to experiment with the perfumes and powders.
When she emerged, she smelled like a garden on wildflowers and didn't notice the time on the clock, which hovered just over the mirror. When she did notice it, the time had just ticked to 8:25 and she began to panic a little. Would they be angry? Would they ask her to leave? She didn't know, however she did know that if they did ask her to leave, she had no where to go and that she would willingly shot herself before she went back to where she had come from. She didn't have much to loose anyway.
She found the dining hall and walked in sheepishly as the heels clicked soundly on the marble tiles. All eyes seemed to be on her and she had to fight back the almost hysterical giggle that was rising like sour bile in her throat. She noticed that Logan wasn't there, the empty chair confirmed it. "Where's, um, Logan?" She asked, almost stuttering. "Why?" A boy with pitch-black hair asked. "Can't hack it without him?" Storm sent the boy a furious stare. "Ben, unless you want to discover just how badly I can ruin your life," A man she guessed must have been the Scott Summers that Kurt had told her about, commented lazily. "I suggest, that you best shut up and give Ms.Morgan your seat. Don't worry Kelly, Logan doesn't normally show up until everyone else is gone"
Ben rose guilty before Kelly could say anything. She slowly walked to the seat, which was just emptied and tried to apologize for being late. "I really am sorry, time just seemed to pass by so quickly and-" There were footsteps in the hallway. "Save it kid, they don't want to hear it" Kelly couldn't help but smile when she heard Logan's voice coming from the threshold. She looked up from pushing the green vegetables around on her plate and nearly grinned. "You're late Slick" Logan nodded at Kelly and smiled at the dress she was wearing and how it seemed to showcase every precious curve of her body.
He sat across from Kelly and stretched out his long legs. When he looked up again, he didn't see Kelly, but instead he saw Jean smiling back at him, her dark cherry hair perfectly in place and her doe brown eyes filled with a mix of innocence and pure sexuality. "Jean?" Logan asked and received a few odd looks, especially from Scott. "They're starting again, aren't they Logan?" Storm asked him rather sympathetically as Scott murmured something that no one else could hear, but Kelly guessed by the way his bottom lip sort of quivered, it had to do with his lost love.
With an impatient growl, Logan pushed away from the table so violently that a few of the glasses knocked over and stained the white satin with various drinks. At a loss of what else to do, Kelly quickly rose and went after him, following the sound of his brisk footsteps down the hall. Deciding that she would never be able to catch up with him, since his legs seemed to be miles long, Kelly debated about were he would be as she sizzled and snapped.
Logan stifled the scream into a manly yelp when Kelly suddenly appeared in front of him. "What is going on?" She asked as he continued to walk away, yet she dogged his heels in a way that would have made Jean smile. "It's none of your concern" He said and Kelly sighed deeply and let the harsh tone roll off her. "Yes it is. Who's Jean?" She asked as if she didn't already know, but she wanted to see if Logan would tell her the truth, something she realized other adults rarely did.
" A woman I knew is all," He said coldly and tried to walk away again, but Kelly had managed to slither in front of him and blocked his passage way. "That's bullshit" She said almost cheerfully and had Logan raising an eyebrow. "Excuse me?" Kelly smiled widely and repeated it. "Kurt and Whatsherface told me all about her, how you love her, so why bother to lie about it?" Logan gave up on trying to get around her and turned to walk the other way, yet she had managed to do the same thing.
"Because sometimes lying is the easiest thing in the world to do. Yeah I love Jean, so what's the big deal? She's dead now and that's that, I have a theory called 'wishing don't make it so' and just because I wish that Jean could be here today and that I wish I had told her I was in love with her don't make it so either. And so maybe I see her ghost or whatever the fuck it is, doesn't everybody?" Moved by his sudden anger that made his face light put almost frighteningly, Kelly risked saying "No. No they don't Slick. They're worried about you because of it"
Logan darted his furious glare to the ground, stained glass window, to the ceiling then finally to Kelly. "You've been here for 2 hours, what could you know about it?" Trying not to let his tone affect her mood but failing, Kelly angled her chin so she could look directly into his burning eyes with her own. "A whole lot more then you think" Then sizzled away to nothing.
As she followed a pretty black girl with platinum blonde hair down the long hallway, she slowly absorbed all that was around her. "So," Storm said slowly "Logan's your father?" Kelly looked around as the door whooshed open. "Yeah he is, why do you like him or something?" Storm smiled slowly. "I don't swim in other people's pool" Kelly raised an eyebrow and Storm laughed. "He loved someone else and though she could never really admit it, she loved him too" Kelly's lips tipped in a small smile. "Sure"
The room was more then Kelly ever expected. The walls were painted garden pink and the bed was covered with thick white blankets to ward off the chill in the night. "Is something wrong?" Kelly bit the inside of her cheek to keep the tears from welling in her eyes. "No it's great," She said as she wandered and felt the smooth silk of the curtains between her fingers. "Really great" Storm watched her for a moment then smiled softly. "I'll let you get unpacked"
Kelly was packed and washed in 10 minutes and she took the rest of the time to root through the cabinet that loomed like a silent giant. To her surprise, there were beautiful dresses and skirts and jeans stocked in the closet. There was a sudden movement behind her and Kelly grabbed something for defense, spun around and nearly screamed.
Kurt was standing close to her, very close and his eyes peered at her with his eerie eyes. "Who are you?" She asked, trying to keep her voice from trembling. "Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus I was known as the Incredible Nightcrawler" She carefully replaced the delicate skirt she was holding. "You're the girl that Mr.Logan has told me about" Kelly forced herself to smile. "Yes, I'm Kelly Morgan" She held out a delicate hand that Kurt decided looked too fragile to touch, so he didn't.
"You're very pretty" Kurt said a little nervously and sat on the bed. "Thank you," Kelly said as she fussed with her short cap of hair. "Do you know my father well?" She asked as she turned to look through the closet again. "No. I have only known his a few weeks, the pain is still fresh for him" At this Kelly turned around and gazed at Kurt.
"Pain? What pain?" Kurt seemed hesitant to answer, so Kelly pushed on. "Kurt what pain?" She asked again. "There was a woman, a Dr.Jean Gray who Mr.Logan was very taken with. But Dr.Jean already had a lover, Mr.Scott Summers, who I don't know if you have met" Kelly shook her head and waited for Kurt to continue.
"A week ago," He began again. "There was trouble with a dam, and Dr.Jean went outside to try to stop the water from destroying the plane, and she never came back. Mr.Logan has been having these nightmares or visions it seems of her now, seeing her where she shouldn't be seen" A feeling that Kelly hadn't felt for a long time began to flood (if you can forgive the pun) her heart as she thought about the pain that he must have gone through. 'Still going through' she added mentally.
"I didn't know," Kelly said softly. "You couldn't have. I liked Dr.Jean very much myself, I believe I am going to miss her terribly." Kelly smiled sadly and Kurt patted her hands. "So," She said as she tried to change the subject. "What is your mutant.thing?" "I'm a telaporter, however if I can't see where it is I'm supposed to go, I could end up in a wall or in the ocean" Kelly nodded. "Can you show me?" She asked almost childishly. "To where?" Kelly shrugged a shoulder. "To the side of the room" Kurt smiled, showing his pointed teeth and vanished in a swirl of inky blue smoke she had the urge to reach out and touch.
He reappeared at the window, holding a dress. "This would look beautiful on you tonight at dinner, when you meet the others" Kelly was too distracted by the gorgeous dress that was made of silk so soft it felt like water. "Hmm? The others?" Kurt nodded as he watched her. "Yes, the ones you will be going to school with if you are to be staying?" There was a slight pause. "You are staying?" Kurt asked a little hopefully. "Yeah," Kelly said as she snapped out of her daydream and looked up at Kurt to smile. "Yeah I'm staying"
After Kurt informed her that she should be down at the dining hall, which wasn't very hard to find, at 8 o'clock, he left her alone for time to prepare. Slowly she lay down on the huge bed and admired the dress Kurt had picked for her. The color of the dress was hard for her to describe, but she finally came to the conclusion that it was the color of lilacs that had just bloomed.
She traced a finger down the delicate seems of the dress, sleep slowly crept upon her and lulled her into its warm embrace. She awoke to the feeling of eyes on her and she sat up with a start to see a girl with long brown hair streaked with blonde staring at her. "What is it with people in this place staring at you? Christ" She said as she rubbed sleepily at her eyes. "Yeah you must be Logan's daughter" Rogue said as picked at the lent on her sleek black sweater. "Yeah so what if I am?" For reasons Kelly supposed she would never be able to explain, she felt more comfortable around men then she did with other girls.
"They wanted me to come remind you that it was almost 8 o'clock, and to see if you needed any help" Kelly, still disoriented from being awoken from her first pleasant slumber in a long time, reached down and picked up the dress that Kurt suggested that she should wear. "No. I'm just gonna wear this and be a good little trained monkey tonight" Rouge seemed confused and just a little miffed. "If that's how you're going to act then that's what you're going to be seen as for as long as you're here"
Kelly ignored it and rolled her stiff shoulders. "Say you don't know where there might be any chocolate do you?" She asked as she pulled the sheets away. "We're about to eat dinner" Rogue began primly. "Yeah I know that, but I want chocolate" Rogue rolled her eyes and picked out a pair of ice pick heeled flats to go with the dress and tossed them on the bed, just nearly missing Kelly's head.
After giving up on the notion of chocolate, Kelly shimmied out of her clothes and wandered into the connecting bathroom and was pleased and intrigued to find rows of glass bottles and containments filled with lotions, scents and various powders with the softest brushes. She pulled open a draw and let out a small squeal of delight when she found trays of makeup.
She painted her face for a while until her eyes were big and glamorous, her cheeks a pretty dandelion pink, and her mouth looking sleek and glossy. She slipped into the dress and loved the way it gently whispered against her bare thighs when she walked. She stepped into the shoes and went back into the bathroom to experiment with the perfumes and powders.
When she emerged, she smelled like a garden on wildflowers and didn't notice the time on the clock, which hovered just over the mirror. When she did notice it, the time had just ticked to 8:25 and she began to panic a little. Would they be angry? Would they ask her to leave? She didn't know, however she did know that if they did ask her to leave, she had no where to go and that she would willingly shot herself before she went back to where she had come from. She didn't have much to loose anyway.
She found the dining hall and walked in sheepishly as the heels clicked soundly on the marble tiles. All eyes seemed to be on her and she had to fight back the almost hysterical giggle that was rising like sour bile in her throat. She noticed that Logan wasn't there, the empty chair confirmed it. "Where's, um, Logan?" She asked, almost stuttering. "Why?" A boy with pitch-black hair asked. "Can't hack it without him?" Storm sent the boy a furious stare. "Ben, unless you want to discover just how badly I can ruin your life," A man she guessed must have been the Scott Summers that Kurt had told her about, commented lazily. "I suggest, that you best shut up and give Ms.Morgan your seat. Don't worry Kelly, Logan doesn't normally show up until everyone else is gone"
Ben rose guilty before Kelly could say anything. She slowly walked to the seat, which was just emptied and tried to apologize for being late. "I really am sorry, time just seemed to pass by so quickly and-" There were footsteps in the hallway. "Save it kid, they don't want to hear it" Kelly couldn't help but smile when she heard Logan's voice coming from the threshold. She looked up from pushing the green vegetables around on her plate and nearly grinned. "You're late Slick" Logan nodded at Kelly and smiled at the dress she was wearing and how it seemed to showcase every precious curve of her body.
He sat across from Kelly and stretched out his long legs. When he looked up again, he didn't see Kelly, but instead he saw Jean smiling back at him, her dark cherry hair perfectly in place and her doe brown eyes filled with a mix of innocence and pure sexuality. "Jean?" Logan asked and received a few odd looks, especially from Scott. "They're starting again, aren't they Logan?" Storm asked him rather sympathetically as Scott murmured something that no one else could hear, but Kelly guessed by the way his bottom lip sort of quivered, it had to do with his lost love.
With an impatient growl, Logan pushed away from the table so violently that a few of the glasses knocked over and stained the white satin with various drinks. At a loss of what else to do, Kelly quickly rose and went after him, following the sound of his brisk footsteps down the hall. Deciding that she would never be able to catch up with him, since his legs seemed to be miles long, Kelly debated about were he would be as she sizzled and snapped.
Logan stifled the scream into a manly yelp when Kelly suddenly appeared in front of him. "What is going on?" She asked as he continued to walk away, yet she dogged his heels in a way that would have made Jean smile. "It's none of your concern" He said and Kelly sighed deeply and let the harsh tone roll off her. "Yes it is. Who's Jean?" She asked as if she didn't already know, but she wanted to see if Logan would tell her the truth, something she realized other adults rarely did.
" A woman I knew is all," He said coldly and tried to walk away again, but Kelly had managed to slither in front of him and blocked his passage way. "That's bullshit" She said almost cheerfully and had Logan raising an eyebrow. "Excuse me?" Kelly smiled widely and repeated it. "Kurt and Whatsherface told me all about her, how you love her, so why bother to lie about it?" Logan gave up on trying to get around her and turned to walk the other way, yet she had managed to do the same thing.
"Because sometimes lying is the easiest thing in the world to do. Yeah I love Jean, so what's the big deal? She's dead now and that's that, I have a theory called 'wishing don't make it so' and just because I wish that Jean could be here today and that I wish I had told her I was in love with her don't make it so either. And so maybe I see her ghost or whatever the fuck it is, doesn't everybody?" Moved by his sudden anger that made his face light put almost frighteningly, Kelly risked saying "No. No they don't Slick. They're worried about you because of it"
Logan darted his furious glare to the ground, stained glass window, to the ceiling then finally to Kelly. "You've been here for 2 hours, what could you know about it?" Trying not to let his tone affect her mood but failing, Kelly angled her chin so she could look directly into his burning eyes with her own. "A whole lot more then you think" Then sizzled away to nothing.
