Last one and I am done! Yeah…
MetaChi: Give or take a couple seconds, that's about how long it took, yeah. Not yet, but I am making plans! Go me!
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If Janella and Kurt got strange looks the next day when Ororo and Mr. McCoy entered to check Kurt over, they ignored them. Janella was perched on the edge of the bed, and they were playing war on the stand, which had been set up on the bed. Kurt was winning.
The tray on the table beside the bed, which had been so fully laden Janella almost couldn't carry it, was now almost completely divested of its contents, with only the myriad debris of breakfast scattered across it. They set aside the game and Janella retired to her corner while the two adults thoroughly went over him.
"Well, Kurt, I don't see any reason to keep you here any longer," Mr. McCoy said after they had finished up, handing Kurt his shirt so he could pull it back on. Janella was smothering a giggle, and Ororo cast a knowing glance at the girl. Kurt grinned, and Mr. McCoy slapped him on the back, nearly knocking him off his feet.
"Be easy on the boy, Hank!" Ororo said with laugh. "He's not entirely better yet!"
"Just 99% better!" Kurt declared, sticking out his chest and striking a pose. Janella rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, so was I when I had to come to rescue of your sorry behind," she said wryly. "Now look at me!"
"Oh, that's just a technicality to keep you from attempting to do something like that again," Ororo assured her.
"It's still annoying," Janella retorted, crossing her arms.
"Hey, since you're down here, why don't you let Ororo and I check you over too," Mr. McCoy suggested. Janella shrugged.
"Why not?" Her examination didn't take very long since they only had to look at her wing, so they were out of there fast. She and Kurt nodded to Ororo and Mr. McCoy, and ran off before either of the adults could say anything.
Unfortunately, the first person they ran into was Logan, who didn't look happy to see them, precisely, but did look like he had been looking for them.
"Ah, there you two are," he said. "I was looking for you."
"Er…dare we ask why?"
"Well, you have an excuse," Logan said quickly, pointing at Kurt, "but you," and here he points to Janella, "have been skiving off Danger Room sessions for days, so I figured we can begin making them up now." Janella's jaw dropped.
"Please tell me you're kidding, Mr. Logan," she said pleadingly. He opened his mouth to reply when Mr. McCoy emerged from a doorway a bit farther down the hall.
"Logan, you're giving the girl a heart attack," he said with a laugh. "Let her have the rest of the day free. She'll report to the Danger Room later tonight, won't you Janella?"
She laughed. "Of course I will, Mr. McCoy. Thank you!" She grabbed Kurt's arm and hauled him off as fast as she could.
"Note he didn't say I have to go to a session!" Kurt said with a grin when they were out of Logan's considerable earshot.
"Well aren't you lucky?" Janella asked sarcastically as the walked together, shoulders brushing.
"Kurt! You're, like, better?" The pair of them started as Kitty walked through a wall ahead of them. The girl's gaze flicked between them, and almost unconsciously they stepped apart.
"Ja!" Kurt said quickly. "I got released today! Have to take it easy for a couple more days, though." He made a face of suitable disgust for this injunction. Kitty laughed.
"It's going to be, like, hard to stay relatively still that long, isn't it?" she asked with a smile.
"'Specially when you're a human bouncy ball," Janella added, leaning against the wall.
"You mean a blue elfin bouncy ball!" Kitty said. They both laughed, and Kurt glared half-heartedly.
"Ja, ja, vhatever," he said, evoking more laughter.
"Right. Like, I gotta go," Kitty said after a minute, crossing the hall and phasing partially into the room there.
"See ya later, Kitty."
"Bye Kitty!" She phased entirely into the wall, and they continued down the hall.
"Oh, and you two?" They turned to see her head sticking out of the wall. "Everyone knows. Just thought I'd warn ya!" She pulled back in.
"I vould have been surprised if zey didn't," Kurt murmured as they turned and walked off. Janella rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, me too."
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The end!
No, seriously, the end. I'm done. *Dances* Now please, if you're reading this, and have been all along, leave me a review. Please? Please?! You gotta! *Begs*
Right. *Shakes head* I don't really have anything else to say.
Disclaimer: I disclaim. Janella was mine, the various aliens were mine, but that's about all. Sorry, lawyers, no work for you! Hah!