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Er, a little longer chapter sort of. Lol, I had to cut it off at the end cause otherwise it'd ruin the next chapter. You sort of find out who's attacking everyone, but kinda not. Just read and you'll understand!

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Todd hadn't heard them apparently, he walked along the path oblivious to The look of horror that had crossed Kurt's face. Todd seemed to be getting further away and Kurt realised he had stopped.

Todd noticed then too.

"Yo...What's up?" He asked, turning back towards Kurt frowning. The X-men had stopped talking, maybe they had gone away. Kurt didn't know, he was scared in case he ran into them, but he didn't know why.

The X-men HAD stopped talking, but they hadn't gone away. They'd heard Todd. It wasn't all the X-men. Just Scott, Jean, Evan, Bobby and Rogue. They'd made some excuse about going shopping to get out of the house, just to get away from Logan and another one of his special training things.

Evan peeked around the bush separating them from the path that Kurt and Todd where on then jumped back. "It's Kurt and Todd," He whispered to the others. Everyone looked at each other then down to the floor.

Scott and Jean sat a little way off talking. They hadn't heard what Evan had said.

"I feel really guilty Scott, I mean, I know what we did was wrong and horrible, but I never thought we'd drive him to actually leave. Besides after what the Professor said..." Jean trailed off leaving Scott time to reply.

"I know, but how could we have known? I know we should've listened to what he said, but it came as such a shock that we didn't really...We should've known he'd never do anything like that." Scott shook his head, only Jean and him knew about the conversation that the Professor had had with each of them the day before. It had come as a shock to learn that Kurt had left, especially to go to the Brotherhood.

But the bigger shock was finding out it wasn't Kurt attacking those people.

"I hope we can convince him to come back to us." Said Jean worriedly, biting her lip slightly.

"Hey guys," hissed Evan, waving slightly to get their attention. "Kurt's over there. On the path, with Todd." He motioned for them to be quiet, it seemed that the other X-men there were getting to eavesdrop on the conversation between Todd and Kurt, which so far, was nothing as Kurt was still standing on the path and Todd was still watching him.

To their surprise (Kurt's, Todd's an all the other X-men apart from Jean) Scott stood up, walked past the bush and then walked over to the path were Kurt stood. He looked at Todd who was watching him dumbfounded then said clearly. "I need to speak with Kurt, alone."

Kurt shot Todd a terrified look then swallowed and looked back at Scott. "No way Yo," Said Todd stubbornly, "You say anything to my man Kurt, you say it to me too." He folded his arms and scowled resolutely at Scott, and the other X-men who had appeared from behind the bush and were watching the scene.

Scott sighed and looked at the ground, then back up at Kurt. "Fine, Kurt we - we want you to come to the X-men, we're sorry we didn't listen to you in the first place, we know for sure now that it wasn't - isn't you attacking people."

Kurt's throat felt very dry all of a sudden. "You vant me to join you guys again?" He asked incredulously.

Scott nodded and Kurt felt a rush of happiness. But then he looked back at Todd, who was frowning and looking at the ground, and he remembered how he had been treated by them when the X-men wouldn't talk to him.

"Sorry Scott." He said simply, walking to Todd and turning round. "I'd rather stay with the Brotherhood."

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Lauren - He did didn't he? Oh well, maybe he didn't because Logan had already set off for the scream, or maybe he just didn't think to, maybe he had his mind on other things such as whistling and his wonderful sandwich, who knows?

NightCrawler03 - Um, nope, what's impact? I was in France this past Saturday. *grumble* You'll find out soon enough, theres only a couple more chappi's to go actually...

duck - of course I still have him hostage! *looks over at Kurt who's tied up in a chair asleep* He doesn't mind... I'm glad you like the story ^_^ I try to update every day, and sure you can have a plushie! *Hands you a Kurt plushie*

LewsTherinSanity - That's true! Glad you like the story ^_^

ToiletDuck85 - Now you can find out! I'm writing more, I'm just hoping the next couple of chapters turn out okay, this one did, this one was one of the key things I had in mind!

Raskolion Phoenix - I think the reader will freak out! I did when I thought of it in Maths and this really obnoxious lad saw my fishnet gloves (I love 'em!) and he was all 'why are you wearing fishnets - going fishing?' and I was like 'they're called gloves you silly boy.' Sometimes people just get on my nerves. Lol.

Fantasy Cat - I told you! Were you surprised? What question did I ask?

Kiki Cabou - I don't know about it being evil in German, I'm not German, I'm English lol. (I'll check my German dictionary later) I can't really say what Ersatz means 'cause it kinda gives away a bit of the plot, lol. I'll probably tell you guys later. Glad you liked the chappi's.

gyuumajo - short but good right? I try to update everyday ^_^

Alliriyan - is this more okay? Or you still want more? Lol

Ruzzy - ooh, did I surprise you? Hehe, t'wasn't like that at all! School sucks, I hate it. Everything goes wrong there! Kurt doesn't die in this story, but there's still the one following this...which has yet to be announced....

Jacombo: it did, lol. And yeah I was, but I'm clever and kept my mouth shut! Hehe, 17 that's cool, lol. I actually started out writing like, Pokemon fics when I was about 10, they really suck. Then I got into DBZ, then I got into all this other stuff and finally I'm obssessed with XME!