Disclaimer: I own neither XME nor "Simba's Pride" (thank GOD!)
A/N: I seem to be doing a lot of Disney stuff lately . . .
A/NII: Okay, this takes place right after "The Toad, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Am I the only one who noticed that the very first on-screen kiss in this entire show was between WANDA and TODD?!?! How random was that?? grr. KurtnManda. Or at least Jean and Scott!
Love Will Find A Way
"I'm not giving up on us."
What had prompted those words? What was so special about him that she was willing to risk her world - everything she'd known, her parents, her friends if his mutation ever came out?
So she told him. It was like she could read his mind, maybe not telepathically, the way the Professor could, but . . . Empathically. She always seemed to know how he was feeling, when to yell at him for being paranoid, when to laugh, and when to just sit next to him and put her head in his shoulder. Sure, she was a little intense something - she hated his image-inducer with an unforeseen vengeance.
Sometimes, sabotage is the only answer.
"I won't give up on us, Manda, I promise," he covered her hand on his check with his own, not cringing at touching someone else because he knew she wouldn't cringe. Would never. "It's so hard sometimes, though," he shifted position and they continued walking, arms around each other. Since she was nearly as tall as him she couldn't rest her head on his shoulder and walk at the same time, so they mostly watched each other when they could spare sight from the path. "One of these days, I'm going to get fed up and bamf to school without the image-inducer."
She smiled at him, that slightly mischievous, mostly happy smile that was one of the first things he'd fallen for before she asked him to the dance. "I look forward to it."
*
[Amanda]
In a perfect world,
One we've never know
We would never need
To face the world alone.
They can have their world
We'll create our own
I may not be a mutant like Kurt,
But somewhere in my secret heart I know
Love will find a way
Anywhere I go
I'm home
If you are there beside me
Like dark
Turning into day
Somehow we'll pull through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
[Kurt]
I was so afraid
Then I realized
Love is never wrong
And so, it never dies.
There's a perfect world
Shining in your eyes
[Both]
And if only they could feel it too
The happiness I feel with you I know
Love will find a way
Anywhere we go
We're home
If we are there together
Like dark
Turning into day
Somehow we'll pull through
Now that I'm with you
Love will find a way
*
They walked a little farther, conversation having turned to menial, everyday things. After all, that's what they were trying to do, right? Live "normal" lives in the midst of fear. So Amanda dragged a laughing Kurt to the top of a hill in the small clearing to look at the stars, and curled up against his side when they lay down to get a less neck-breaking view. This gave his tail all sorts of sordid ideas, most of which they managed to stave of despite it's best attempts.
Finally, Amanda sat up. "Well, unfortunately, it's getting cold, and my parents think I'm at Candy's house working on a 'project'."
Kurt levered himself up by his elbows, then clambered to his feet. Reaching down a hand to help her up, he pulled her to her feet with a little extra power so she flew toward him for a moment. "Then I suppose I had better escort you back to your - erm, would you call that a car?"
"Yes, fuzz ball," she elbowed him. "And as your teleportation, due to adverse effects on the teleportee, does not count as a speedy form of transportation, I'm the only one of us who has one. Hah!"
"And whoooo shows up to school every day in a convertible?"
"Scott's convertible. Brr! It is definitely cold!" Amanda rubbed her hands together, then looked sideways at Kurt, who didn't seem to be cold at all.
Then she tackled him.
"Ahh! Liebe, what are you doing?!"
"You're warm!" she informed him, burrowing her hands underneath the large, floppy t-shirt he was wearing over a long-sleeved shirt. "If you think I'm letting go before I turn the heat on in my car, you've lost it," she teased. They'd reached her car, a batter '86 Oldsmobile that was only half repainted. "What does 'liebe' mean?"
"Ah . . . love. It just sort of . . . popped out," Kurt looked vaguely nervous, as if he weren't sure whether or not it was something he should have said (or whether he should have lied about what it meant!).
She smiled.
"Thank you," she reached up a little and kissed him on the nose.
It was quiet for a moment.
"On the nose?" he demanded exasperatingly, and Amanda burst out laughing. "So Todd can kiss Wanda and all I get is a kiss on the nose?!"
"Oh, c'mere elf."
Kurt's very happy tail twined around Amanda's waist as they kissed.
*
I know love will
Find a
way . . .