A Romantic Tale

"So are you goink to tell me vhat you girls vere up to vhile I was gone?" Kurt asked as he stood with Amanda outside the institute.

"Are you going to tell me what Scott needed you for that was so improtant," she countered.

"Zhat's different." He exclaimed.

"How so?"

She cocked her head to the side and watched him squirm as her tried to answer.

"Because I askt you first!"

"Ok, since you asked me first. It was just girl talk. Now what did you and Scott do?"

"Heh. Just guy stuff."

"What kind of answer is that?"

"You should know, you gave it first."

He gave her his endearingly shy smile and Amanda melted.

"You're so adorable," she moved forward to kiss him on the cheek then whisper in his ear. "Let's get me home real quick."

He wrapped his arms around her and within a heartbeat they were gone from the grounds of the institute into the privacy of Amanda dark bedroom.

"Do you zhink zhat your parents have caught on yet?"

Smiling at his reference to how they snuck around to avoid her disapproving parents, Amanda shook her head.

"Not a clue. They still think I come in here every day to sulk for being grounded."

Momentarily disturbed again by how she came to be grounded, he frowned and looked down at his feet.

"Vill zhey ever forgive me?"

Dropping her schoolbooks on a chair by the window, she slid her arms around his waist in a gentle hug. She tilted her head back to look into his eyes – made a nice dark shade by his image inducer – and smiled at him again.

"It all just startled them. Soon they'll get to see you when you're more relaxed and your truly wonderful self – with or without the inducer – and come to love you like I do."

She leaned in for a gentle kiss that he eventually responded enthusiastically to.

"Are you sure zhat you love me, Amanda?" he asked once they parted to breathe.

"All of you," was her answer spoken as she flipped the dial on his inducer to turn it off.

His pale yellow eyes seemed to glow faintly in the shadows of her room and she looked right into them as she nuzzled her nose against his.

"I love your silky fur against my fingers and these incredible yellow eyes only you have that see all the good things inside me. I love the color of your real skin and how soft and warm it always against mine. I love the pointy tips of your ears and how you giggle when I touch them."

To demonstrate she stroked a hand through his fur until reaching an ear and tickling lightly over the tip. He instantly giggled against her throat and squirmed for her to stop.

Her hand slid back into his fur to hold is face against the hollow of her neck.

"I love how you bury your face there when something I say flatters you and you don't want to show it."

He smiled against her skin and wrapped his arms around her.

"I love being in your arms." She sighed and snuggled closer.

Her eyes drifted shut as her thoughts turned to actions rather than words, so she had no idea he'd ported them from their standing position near her window to a lying position in on the bed until she felt the softness of her mattress beneath her.

She opened her eyes slowly while giggling. "I really love being swept off my feet like that."

He laughed too until remembering that the boyish sound could carry and tip off her parents.

"So, you really like me like this?"

He turned on his side, propping himself up on one hand and running the three big fingers of the other over the clothing covering her body.

Always delighting at him slightest touch she moaned a little and pressed against him.

"I've only told you so about a hundred times and shown you a hundred more."

"Let us go for vone hundred and vone."

His lips claimed hers and swallowed the laughter that bubbled up at his words.

~*~*~

It was only as she was getting ready for school the next day that she remembered Rogue's dare to her and the fact that Kurt's homework was in her backpack.

Digging it out from her own work, she placed it in the front of her pack so she'd remember to give it to him first thing.

Before zipping the paper into the compartment, she smiled and ran her fingers on his name as it was written at the top of the page.

Kurt, she sighed.

He'd vanished from her bed last night after kissing her off to sleep and dream sweet dreams of him as he had done three other nights in the past two weeks.

That's how long they'd been intimate.

Two wonderful weeks.

Fortunately she hadn't been lying to Kitty and Rogue about how Kurt's mutation helped them. He'd been able to teleport them into a big, empty bedroom at the institute for their first time together and he'd found all kinds of other private locations for them to enjoy that no one else would ever know about. His ability to get across great distances in heartbeat helped them both to always make it into their own beds by curfew.

It was all so…magical.

Their romance a fairy tale complete with dragons to slay, though she didn't want the obstacle of her parents to be removed by slaying them.

Sometimes when her father was realllllly pushing it by saying something against Kurt or grounding her for even longer periods, she entertained a brief dark fantasy of him meeting some humorous end, but he was her dad and she loved him so she always laughed it off.

The best part was that Kurt would never dream of really harming anyone who stood in their way. He always tried in his shy, somewhat bumbling way to make others see the beauty of their relationship that they saw. If he failed he stepped back to let them accept at their own pace, but not for a second really thinking of walking away from her.

He offered for her sake, as he thought it would be harder for a human to be ostracized by others when as a mutant he'd grown used to having to deal with it.

He was such an incredible young man and she knew her parents would come to see that like she did. In time, they would see in, but while they caught up Amanda and Kurt had to keep their love secret from all but the two girls outside the couple who knew.

Finally zipping up the compartment, she stopped all those thoughts and noticed the time.

~*~*~

"Here, I grabbed this up last night by mistake." She said later in the hallway at school as she leaned against the lockers next to Kurt's.

"My geometry homeverk, I vas flippink oust tryink to find zhis zhis morning."

He practically hugged the sheet of paper to his chest causing her to laugh and think how Rogue would hate having missed the end result of her dare. Kurt really had sweat it out, worrying that the assignment he'd taken such time to complete was gone and he'd never be able to do it again.

"Sorry to worry you," she inwardly cringed upon realizing that to be a slight untruth.

"No, No, I zhank you, sveetie. You saved my sanity vonce again."

That time she was riddled with guilt when he followed the sincere words with a hug and quick kiss.

I'll just blame it on Rogue.

She had to be a bad influence or something considering how easy she'd made it for both Amanda and Kitty to complete their dares.

Amanda refused to concede that she had her own mischievous streak a mile-wide.

"So, what will we be doing this weekend?"

As the first bell rang for first period, he closed his locker and turned to her with a surprising wicked look on his inducer-altered features.

"Vhatever ve can for as long as ve can," he whispered warmly into her ear before giving her another quick peck and dashing off to his first class.

Wow.

I love that boy, she thought leaning absently against the lockers still until the second bell jerked her into motion.

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And voila. That's what I have for Amanda and Kurt in this series that really touches on their romance. Each character will appear in future chapters together and/or separately, but this is the only real juicy stuff.

A quick belated note to all readers: I realize I haven't previously stated that I've gotten into the habit of writing Kurt's dialogue with the accent Alan Cumming used in the X2 movie. Though I watch the cartoon lots and now it isn't really a fit with the way Evo-Kurt talks, everytime I begin to write for him it's all zhis and zhat and vhy or vone, etc. Sorry if anyone really dislikes my habit.