I don't own any of the X Men or anything else that seems familiar to you.
To comment on Rogue and Scott's kiss, it was fast, I'll remember to
elaborate on any future stories.
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Kurt and Kitty sat at the kitchen table wondering what the heck they had been thinking when they decided to help Rogue and Scott get together. They were all eating breakfast but Rogue and Scott seemed to think that everyone found it as sweet as they did when they fed each other.
"I think I'm going to barf." Kurt got up. "Vant to valk to school today?"
"Oh yeah." Kitty left the kitchen table and went to her bedroom to grab her book bag. Kurt was downstairs waiting for her by the time she phased through the ceiling. "Can they, like, be any grosser?" Kurt nodded his head in agreement. "You have to admit it's cute though." Kitty sighed.
"Vhat's vrong vith you?"
"I don't know it's just that I, like, get lonely sometimes ya know? When we were pretending to be together, it felt nice. Sometimes I feel like it's never gonna happen to me." Kurt smiled at her and grabbed her hand.
"Oh come on! How can no one vant to be vith you?" Kitty snorted.
"That's an easy question. I'm, like, nerdy and so unpopular." Kurt rolled his eyes.
"You're insane, Katze." They walked the rest of the way talking about random things, like they always did. They found comfort in each others friendship. They finally got to school and had to separate to go to their classes. "Meet me outside for lunch."
"Okay." She smiled at him and he went into his class. He spent most of the morning thinking about what she had said.
How can no one like her? He thought. He laughed to himself at the idiotic statement she had made.
***
"Oh my God, Kurt! You so won't believe it!" Kurt looked up and smiled as he gazed into the flushing cheeks that belonged to Kitty. "Aaron asked me out today after Biology."
"Aaron?" Kurt asked. Aaron was one of the drama club students. He had eyed Kitty a couple of times but never made a move.
"Yup, and you won't believe why he never, like, asked me out before! He said that he thought we were going out." Kitty started to laugh and Kurt laughed along with her, than he stopped.
"Hey vhats so funny about that?" His face had a look of mock indignation.
"Nothing of course, you know I'd, like, choose you over Aaron, any day." Kitty gave him a suggestive wink and Kurt growled pouncing on her and tickling her in the ribs. Kitty laughed helplessly loving the way he made her feel. It was good to have a friend like him.
Kitty yawned and decided to take a nap since they had twenty minutes left before their afternoon classes. Kurt brushed his fingers through her hair and remembered how much fun the last week had been. He looked at her and thought about the butterflies in his stomach. That alvays happens around pretty girls, he said to himself. He woke her up in time for class and promised to meet her after school. They went their separate ways.
***
"Vhere is Kitty!" Kurt ran inside and asked Scott and Rogue who were sitting on the couch. He had waited almost two hours for Kitty after school and the fear that creeped into him when she hadn't met him was overpowering.
"She's upstairs." Kurt teleported up to the room Kitty shared with Rogue and found Kitty laying down on the bed with her back to him.
"Kitty are you okay?" Kurt reached out to her.
"Like, hold on okay?" Kitty turned around and saw Kurt standing there. "Kurt, oh my God! I'm so sorry! Aaron offered me a ride and I forgot about meeting you." Kurt had nothing to say to that; the hurt he felt didn't allow him to say much.
"Okay." Kurt teleported away, Kitty just continued talking on the phone forgetting the incident that had just occurred. Kurt spent the afternoon doing his homework. It wasn't that he was jealous of the new guy. It was just the fact that she had forgotten all about him two minutes after she had a new guy in her life.
"Hey Kurt, wanna watch a movie tonight?" Kurt's face brightened when Kitty phased her head through the door and asked him that question.
"Ja!"
"All right, I'll, like, bring home a DVD after my date with Aaron, and I'll tell you all about it!" Kurt's smiled stayed in place, managing to keep the strain to a minimum.
"Sure Kitty." Kitty smiled and left. Kurt stared at the door that she went through and wondered if he'd ever get used to sharing Kitty's time with another guy. It had barely been a few hours and he was already not liking it.
***
Scott and Rogue sat in the living room staring at Kurt who was staring at the clock. At exactly ten thirty he got up and opened the door. A bouncing Kitty walked in.
"You are so not gonna believe this. He like asked me to go with him to the dance this Friday." Scott and Rogue looked at each other than at Kurt. They had assumed Kitty and Kurt would follow them and get themselves together but apparently fate wanted to complicate things by making the whole Kurt and Kitty thing a love triangle.
"That's cool, I vas planning on asking Amanda to the dance. (a/n: this is au so we'll just use her to make things interesting.)" Kitty smiled.
"She's cool; I spoke to her before on our way to class. We can, like, go together all four of us, since Scott and Rogue weren't planning on giving us a ride." She gave them a mock glare and than turned to Kurt. "I brought Bridget Jone's Diary!"
"Again?"
"Well, it was my turn to pick it out this week anyway!"
"Fine, ve'll go the rec room since Scott and Rogue already stole our spot on the couch." That gained them another glare, this time by both Kitty and Kurt. Rogue and Scott watched as their friends made their way to the other room.
"This is not good." Rogue said.
"Why does she want to go with that weird guy anyway?"
"Ah have no idea."
"Should we get involved?"
"Maybe not this time. Ah think they have to work it out themselves." Scott sighed but soon forgot about why when Rogue gave him a 'come hither' look.
***
"That is so romantic!" Kitty said for the hundredth time. Kurt had stopped asking why when she began to say it over again. For the first time since they had begun their movie nights a few months ago he felt uncomfortable in the way they sat. Kitty as usual was leaning against him and playing with the furry hand that was wrapped around her waist.
He leaned into her and smelled her hair, he knew she used Strawberry's and Cream shampoo since he usually went out with her to buy her toiletries. Her scent impacted his sensitive senses greatly. He coughed into his other hand and just breathed in deeply. Kitty looked up at him.
"You're all right Fuzzy?" Kitty asked. No, he thought.
"Yes," he answered. Her favorite part of the film came on; she had stiffened against him as if tensing up for what was to come.
"I like you just as you are." Mark Darcy said to Bridget Jones. Kitty sighed and relaxed again. Kurt sighed; it was going to be a long night.
***
Kurt had seen little of Kitty as the week passed. Aaron had asked her out almost every night of the week and it was now Friday morning. Kitty had walked arm in arm with Aaron making Kurt feel slightly disgusted. Amanda had agreed to go with him to the dance and he was sort of glad to have her as a date since she knew about his 'situation' and wouldn't feel weird touching his weird shaped hands.
That evening he waited for Kitty downstairs since they were going to meet Amanda and Aaron there. She walked down the stairs and his eyes glowed brighter behind his holographic image. She was wearing a champagne colored knee length slip dress with gold high heels. Around her neck was a gold necklace and on her wrist was the thin gold bracelet with her name etched in script on a thin gold plate that Kurt had given her for her seventeenth birthday.
"You look beautiful." Kitty blushed and managed to not trip. He grabbed her elbow and let her go into the taxi first, having a nice view from behind. "Vell Kitty, I can proudly say that you make up for your lack in the upper department with you're other ass-ets." Kitty punched him hard on the arm while he laughed merrily, feeling slightly more relaxed than he had felt before. This was his friend, his best friend! That would never change.
Aaron whistled as Kitty stepped out of the car and Amanda latched herself onto Kurt's arm. Kitty and Kurt smiled at each other and promised to have at least one dance.
"You look really pretty tonight Kitty," Aaron's voice was deep and baritone like; it reminded Kitty of melted chocolate.
"Thanks, you look good yourself." Aaron pulled her onto the dance floor where they began to sway to the music. She comfortably leaned against his chest and gazed into his eyes.
"If you could change anything you wanted what would it be?" Kitty was surprised at his question.
"Probably my hair, it's, like, too thick. What about you?"
"My nose, I think it's a little big."
"Are you crazy, it like gives you character!" Aaron smiled at her. She was sweet and nice; it would work out just fine. He had had a couple of girlfriends in the past but they hadn't worked out, not understanding his needs. Kitty was more prone to being the type of girlfriend he would want.
Kurt was watching Kitty over Amanda's shoulder. He turned to her and saw her staring at one of the new guys at the school.
"Vhy don't you ask him to dance vith you?" Amanda began to blush; she hadn't meant to be so obvious.
"No, I came with you." Kurt smiled, he really didn't feel like dancing and saw a way out and luckily it would make her happy too.
"Yes go, you only have a few more dances."
"Thanks Kurt, you're the best." Amanda walked towards the guy and asked him, when the guy nodded Kurt smiled and walked over to the bench that held all the wall flowers. He didn't want to admit that he was happy to get her out of his hair but it was true. He had just asked her to the dance so that he wouldn't go alone but he had felt weird most of the night so he was glad to have some down time.
He watched intently as Kitty and Aaron walked off the floor, Kitty looking a little disappointed since he knew she loved to dance more than anything. He decided it wouldn't be a problem to ask her to dance if Aaron didn't want to.
"Hey Kitty you vanna dance vith me?" Kurt asked her, smiling at Aaron. Kitty got up to join him when Aaron grabbed her arm.
"Don't you think that you danced long enough Kitty?" He gave Kitty a look the made her uncomfortable but she shrugged it off as nothing.
"No, I love to dance." She pulled her arm slightly and his hand let her go. Kurt stared at Aaron and saw the dark look before it disappeared the next. He became slightly wary but decided that Kitty could take care of herself and would back off if she had to.
They began dancing to a slow song and every other song after that, since Aaron hadn't interrupted them they hadn't even realized until they announced that it was going to be the final song. "Hey Kitty, ask Aaron to dance again." Kitty smiled and went over to Aaron who was waiting for her impatiently.
"Hey let's dance." Kitty grabbed his hand and dragged him to the floor where they also danced to a slow song. She was smiling and her face was pink with a healthy flush.
"You should know I'm a little jealous of your friend." He said.
"Who Kurt? Oh, come on, there's no reason to be, he's, like, my best friend and nothing more."
"I sure hope so." He pulled her closer to him and looked at Kurt over her shoulder. Kurt was beginning to feel uneasy; the guy's face changed emotion at every passing minute. He decided that he would follow them home, to make sure that nothing happened.
***
Aaron and Kitty didn't notice the young man that teleported behind them all the way to the mansion. They had been quiet for most of the ride, Kitty thinking about how great the dance was and Aaron wondering how to tell her that the rules of being his girl.
"Kitty," She looked at him and smiled. "I really want us to work out and there are a few things that I think we should talk about. I get jealous easily so if you can sort of try not to be so friendly with guys I'd appreciate it." Kitty continued to smile, she knew she was a flirt but she would never disrespect a boyfriend that way so she assured him.
"I'm so not that kind of girl, so, like, don't worry about it. I had a great time tonight." Aaron smiled and tried to kiss on her lips but she turned and he got her cheek instead. "'Night." She hopped out of the car and got into the institute.
Kurt watched Aaron bang the steering wheel and drive away. This did not look good, but as close as he was to Kitty he knew she would tell him he was over reacting so he decided to just keep them in check.
***
By the time the next week had passed Kitty was invited over to Aaron's house to meet his parents on Sunday night. Kitty walked into their house and looked around happily, turns out they were Jewish as well.
"Hello dear, it's nice to meet you." Aaron's mother looked a little weary and her eyes seemed to shift back and forth. Kitty moved closer to Aaron and looked at his father. His father looked nervous as well.
Through out the evening they both seemed to do everything that Aaron said, without a fight or an argument. Kitty didn't like his demanding tone but figured if his parents allowed him to slide than it wasn't her business to butt in. The only time she commented on it was when his mom accidentally poured her sprite when she had asked for a coke.
"Mother, didn't she say that she wanted coke?" His voice was menacing and eerie.
"It's like all right Aaron, it isn't that serious." Aaron visibly relaxed but still stared his mother down. His mother took the cup and gave her a glass of sprite. Kitty began to think that being with him wasn't a good idea. He was demanding and irrational and she didn't want to have a control freak as a boyfriend.
When he drove her home she told him how she felt. "Look, I sort of felt uncomfortable, with the way you, like, spoke to your mom. You should respect your parents."
Aaron looked at her and smiled. "You're right. I was a little hard on them, I just was a little nervous, I wanted everything to be perfect ya know?" He smiled at her and held her hand. Kitty surrendered her thoughts on breaking up with him and decided that he was just worried. She kissed him on the cheek and went into the mansion, intending to ask Xavier the next day if she could invite Aaron over to meet her family, as in the X- Men.
But the next day when she came home from school the visitor that greeted her in the professor's office caught her off guard. Mrs. Kipplestein was seated in front of the professor's desk, twitching as she had done at dinner, the Professor's face was grim as well as Logan's who was sitting in a chair at the corner. As soon as Kitty said hello to her, the woman began to cry.
"Please don't tell him I came." Kitty rushed over and put an arm around her shoulder, the professor passed her a tissue.
"Tell who?"
"Aaron, he'd be so angry at me. I had never done this before but you're such a nice girl, and I wouldn't want him to hurt you." Kitty looked up at the professor.
"It seems Kitty that Aaron has a problem. He had participated in anger management and graduated a year ago, but now he is going back to his old ways." Kitty's mouth slightly opened at the news. Mrs. Kipplestein wasn't crying as hard but the sniffles drew Kitty's sympathy.
"I came because I didn't want to see you get hurt. I wanted to warn you off before you got in deeper into the relationship, he managed to scare the other girls into doing what he said and I just didn't want the same thing to happen again. Anyway I have to go, please don't tell him I was here." With that she hurriedly left, not giving anyone time to be able to lead her out of the door.
Kitty slumped into the chair Aaron's mother had been sitting on. She was emotionally exhausted by what she had just heard and didn't know how to react. The professor remained quiet as well, Logan was the first to speak up.
"Look Half-Pint, I'ma make sure nothing' happens to ya. Ya tell that guy ya don't wanna be with him and if that's a problem, I'll handle it." Kitty straightened up.
"It's okay Logan, I can, like, take care of myself. And can you guys not tell Kurt, he wouldn't be happy to know that my boyfriend is an abusive maniac." She joked. She left the office and bumped into Kurt.
"Are you okay Kitty?" Her face was pale, and he was afraid she was sick.
"Yeah I-I'm fine." Kurt didn't believe her lie but decided to let it go.
"You vant to get some ice cream." Kitty sighed in relief.
"Sure Fuzzy." They went to get their jackets and go to the mall. The long quiet walk suited them both and Kitty's heart had almost returned to normal. They sat in the ice cream parlor and shared a banana split.
"Well here, here." Aaron had walked in with two of his friends and a girl with a black eye on his arm. "Hey Kurt, why may I ask are you sitting here with MY girlfriend?"
Kurt looked at Kitty wondering why Aaron had suddenly become so aggressive. Kitty interrupted anything that Kurt was about to stay.
"Um, Aaron I, like, have to talk to you." She got up and grabbed his arm. They went to a booth in the corner and Aaron's friends and the girl sat at his table. He was wary of it all.
"Excuse me," the girl whispered to Kurt. He looked up at her questioningly. "Is that his girlfriend?"
"Um, yeah. Who are you?" Kurt asked. The girl's eyes brimmed with tears.
"I'm his girl too." Kurt became angry about to get up. "Please don't get up, don't say anything or he'll get mad." The tears threatened to spill down her brown eyes. Kurt felt sorry for her.
"Vhy are you taking this?" One of the guys who looked like a replica of the girl next to him answered for her.
"She's scared. He threatened to kill her and her family if she ever left him."
"And who are you?" He asked the guy.
"Her brother, don't give me that look there isn't much you can do man." The guy looked ashamed of himself and Kurt decided not to press the issue instead he got up and went to Kitty to take her home. By the time he got to her, she was finishing on why she wanted to end their relationship.
"This is just not going to work out." Aaron stared at the napkin he was holding. Suddenly he got up and began to curse at her, spewing vulgar names at her that even the dirtiest mouthed person would never use. His face had turned red and angry in rage and Kitty became afraid. Kurt stepped in though he himself was frightened by the turn the guy had taken, but he wouldn't allow Kitty to get hurt by the maniac.
"Look, she doesn't vant to be vith you so back off." That got up a hard punch to the face, his nose began to bleed and he knew it was broken. Kitty got up and sat Kurt down on the floor, all the anger that entered her caused her fist to fly to Aarons jaw. The fact that he hadn't expected it, made the impact searing and painful. He fell back into the booth and stared at her while blood trickled down the side of his mouth.
"Come on Fuzzy, let's go." At that moment Logan walked in, he didn't pay any mind to the register person who was staring on in shock, not making a move. He grabbed Aaron by the shirt collar and pulled him out of the booth and banged him against the wall.
"I'ma tell you somethin' punk, ya go near my little girl and her friends again and I swear I'll rip you into pieces. That goes for anyone else too. And I best ta find out ya got yourself back into that program or I'ma do worse that just shred ya up." He dropped Aaron on the floor who was shivering with fear and lifted Kurt over his shoulder. Kitty walked out and touched the arm of the girl at the table.
"Get out of it before it's too late." Kitty said. She looked at the girl's brother who was looking ashamed at the table. He had never made a move for his sister because of his fear. But this time, the courage he had seen in the German skinny guy gave him some too. He was naturally bigger than Aaron but for some reason backed off. He grabbed his sister's arm and left the parlor, intending to stop at the police station before going home.
***
Kitty held Kurt in her arms in the back of the van, and thanked Logan for coming to her rescue.
"I've been following ya since you guys left. I was waiting till he came by. It's not that I doubt ya could handle yourself, but it doesn't hurt to be around just in case." Kitty smiled at him and brushed her fingers through Kurt's hair. By the time they got the institute she had managed to get his bleeding nose to stop.
She stayed behind in the living room while Mr. McCoy set his nose back into place. She came down stairs and saw the black and blue between his eyes and the thick white tape covering his nose.
"That's, like, gonna hurt something lovely when you take it off." She sat on the bed and looked into the golden eyes of her dearest friend.
"The pain is vorth it liebe." He took her hand and gallantly kissed it.
"Ah, my knight in shining armor." They sighed simultaneously and burst out into laughter. She was happy to have a friend like him. She laid her head down on his chest and hid her face in his fur, taking in his scent. He ran his fingers through her thick dark hair and realized that he would have done much more than threaten to keep her safe.
**************************************************************************** ** I want to apologize for the seriousness that seemed to come out of no where. My fingers began to type and I didn't even know what I was writing. Please review. They aren't together yet, so I don't know whether or not you would like me to make another fic. It would be much more humorous than this one.
On the side, I would like you all to know that an abusive relationship is harder to get out of when you're deeper in the game. I have seen the pain and suffering as an outside viewer who has seen the devastating turns it's had on the lives of some people close to me. If you need help, call a hotline and get help.
Kurt and Kitty sat at the kitchen table wondering what the heck they had been thinking when they decided to help Rogue and Scott get together. They were all eating breakfast but Rogue and Scott seemed to think that everyone found it as sweet as they did when they fed each other.
"I think I'm going to barf." Kurt got up. "Vant to valk to school today?"
"Oh yeah." Kitty left the kitchen table and went to her bedroom to grab her book bag. Kurt was downstairs waiting for her by the time she phased through the ceiling. "Can they, like, be any grosser?" Kurt nodded his head in agreement. "You have to admit it's cute though." Kitty sighed.
"Vhat's vrong vith you?"
"I don't know it's just that I, like, get lonely sometimes ya know? When we were pretending to be together, it felt nice. Sometimes I feel like it's never gonna happen to me." Kurt smiled at her and grabbed her hand.
"Oh come on! How can no one vant to be vith you?" Kitty snorted.
"That's an easy question. I'm, like, nerdy and so unpopular." Kurt rolled his eyes.
"You're insane, Katze." They walked the rest of the way talking about random things, like they always did. They found comfort in each others friendship. They finally got to school and had to separate to go to their classes. "Meet me outside for lunch."
"Okay." She smiled at him and he went into his class. He spent most of the morning thinking about what she had said.
How can no one like her? He thought. He laughed to himself at the idiotic statement she had made.
***
"Oh my God, Kurt! You so won't believe it!" Kurt looked up and smiled as he gazed into the flushing cheeks that belonged to Kitty. "Aaron asked me out today after Biology."
"Aaron?" Kurt asked. Aaron was one of the drama club students. He had eyed Kitty a couple of times but never made a move.
"Yup, and you won't believe why he never, like, asked me out before! He said that he thought we were going out." Kitty started to laugh and Kurt laughed along with her, than he stopped.
"Hey vhats so funny about that?" His face had a look of mock indignation.
"Nothing of course, you know I'd, like, choose you over Aaron, any day." Kitty gave him a suggestive wink and Kurt growled pouncing on her and tickling her in the ribs. Kitty laughed helplessly loving the way he made her feel. It was good to have a friend like him.
Kitty yawned and decided to take a nap since they had twenty minutes left before their afternoon classes. Kurt brushed his fingers through her hair and remembered how much fun the last week had been. He looked at her and thought about the butterflies in his stomach. That alvays happens around pretty girls, he said to himself. He woke her up in time for class and promised to meet her after school. They went their separate ways.
***
"Vhere is Kitty!" Kurt ran inside and asked Scott and Rogue who were sitting on the couch. He had waited almost two hours for Kitty after school and the fear that creeped into him when she hadn't met him was overpowering.
"She's upstairs." Kurt teleported up to the room Kitty shared with Rogue and found Kitty laying down on the bed with her back to him.
"Kitty are you okay?" Kurt reached out to her.
"Like, hold on okay?" Kitty turned around and saw Kurt standing there. "Kurt, oh my God! I'm so sorry! Aaron offered me a ride and I forgot about meeting you." Kurt had nothing to say to that; the hurt he felt didn't allow him to say much.
"Okay." Kurt teleported away, Kitty just continued talking on the phone forgetting the incident that had just occurred. Kurt spent the afternoon doing his homework. It wasn't that he was jealous of the new guy. It was just the fact that she had forgotten all about him two minutes after she had a new guy in her life.
"Hey Kurt, wanna watch a movie tonight?" Kurt's face brightened when Kitty phased her head through the door and asked him that question.
"Ja!"
"All right, I'll, like, bring home a DVD after my date with Aaron, and I'll tell you all about it!" Kurt's smiled stayed in place, managing to keep the strain to a minimum.
"Sure Kitty." Kitty smiled and left. Kurt stared at the door that she went through and wondered if he'd ever get used to sharing Kitty's time with another guy. It had barely been a few hours and he was already not liking it.
***
Scott and Rogue sat in the living room staring at Kurt who was staring at the clock. At exactly ten thirty he got up and opened the door. A bouncing Kitty walked in.
"You are so not gonna believe this. He like asked me to go with him to the dance this Friday." Scott and Rogue looked at each other than at Kurt. They had assumed Kitty and Kurt would follow them and get themselves together but apparently fate wanted to complicate things by making the whole Kurt and Kitty thing a love triangle.
"That's cool, I vas planning on asking Amanda to the dance. (a/n: this is au so we'll just use her to make things interesting.)" Kitty smiled.
"She's cool; I spoke to her before on our way to class. We can, like, go together all four of us, since Scott and Rogue weren't planning on giving us a ride." She gave them a mock glare and than turned to Kurt. "I brought Bridget Jone's Diary!"
"Again?"
"Well, it was my turn to pick it out this week anyway!"
"Fine, ve'll go the rec room since Scott and Rogue already stole our spot on the couch." That gained them another glare, this time by both Kitty and Kurt. Rogue and Scott watched as their friends made their way to the other room.
"This is not good." Rogue said.
"Why does she want to go with that weird guy anyway?"
"Ah have no idea."
"Should we get involved?"
"Maybe not this time. Ah think they have to work it out themselves." Scott sighed but soon forgot about why when Rogue gave him a 'come hither' look.
***
"That is so romantic!" Kitty said for the hundredth time. Kurt had stopped asking why when she began to say it over again. For the first time since they had begun their movie nights a few months ago he felt uncomfortable in the way they sat. Kitty as usual was leaning against him and playing with the furry hand that was wrapped around her waist.
He leaned into her and smelled her hair, he knew she used Strawberry's and Cream shampoo since he usually went out with her to buy her toiletries. Her scent impacted his sensitive senses greatly. He coughed into his other hand and just breathed in deeply. Kitty looked up at him.
"You're all right Fuzzy?" Kitty asked. No, he thought.
"Yes," he answered. Her favorite part of the film came on; she had stiffened against him as if tensing up for what was to come.
"I like you just as you are." Mark Darcy said to Bridget Jones. Kitty sighed and relaxed again. Kurt sighed; it was going to be a long night.
***
Kurt had seen little of Kitty as the week passed. Aaron had asked her out almost every night of the week and it was now Friday morning. Kitty had walked arm in arm with Aaron making Kurt feel slightly disgusted. Amanda had agreed to go with him to the dance and he was sort of glad to have her as a date since she knew about his 'situation' and wouldn't feel weird touching his weird shaped hands.
That evening he waited for Kitty downstairs since they were going to meet Amanda and Aaron there. She walked down the stairs and his eyes glowed brighter behind his holographic image. She was wearing a champagne colored knee length slip dress with gold high heels. Around her neck was a gold necklace and on her wrist was the thin gold bracelet with her name etched in script on a thin gold plate that Kurt had given her for her seventeenth birthday.
"You look beautiful." Kitty blushed and managed to not trip. He grabbed her elbow and let her go into the taxi first, having a nice view from behind. "Vell Kitty, I can proudly say that you make up for your lack in the upper department with you're other ass-ets." Kitty punched him hard on the arm while he laughed merrily, feeling slightly more relaxed than he had felt before. This was his friend, his best friend! That would never change.
Aaron whistled as Kitty stepped out of the car and Amanda latched herself onto Kurt's arm. Kitty and Kurt smiled at each other and promised to have at least one dance.
"You look really pretty tonight Kitty," Aaron's voice was deep and baritone like; it reminded Kitty of melted chocolate.
"Thanks, you look good yourself." Aaron pulled her onto the dance floor where they began to sway to the music. She comfortably leaned against his chest and gazed into his eyes.
"If you could change anything you wanted what would it be?" Kitty was surprised at his question.
"Probably my hair, it's, like, too thick. What about you?"
"My nose, I think it's a little big."
"Are you crazy, it like gives you character!" Aaron smiled at her. She was sweet and nice; it would work out just fine. He had had a couple of girlfriends in the past but they hadn't worked out, not understanding his needs. Kitty was more prone to being the type of girlfriend he would want.
Kurt was watching Kitty over Amanda's shoulder. He turned to her and saw her staring at one of the new guys at the school.
"Vhy don't you ask him to dance vith you?" Amanda began to blush; she hadn't meant to be so obvious.
"No, I came with you." Kurt smiled, he really didn't feel like dancing and saw a way out and luckily it would make her happy too.
"Yes go, you only have a few more dances."
"Thanks Kurt, you're the best." Amanda walked towards the guy and asked him, when the guy nodded Kurt smiled and walked over to the bench that held all the wall flowers. He didn't want to admit that he was happy to get her out of his hair but it was true. He had just asked her to the dance so that he wouldn't go alone but he had felt weird most of the night so he was glad to have some down time.
He watched intently as Kitty and Aaron walked off the floor, Kitty looking a little disappointed since he knew she loved to dance more than anything. He decided it wouldn't be a problem to ask her to dance if Aaron didn't want to.
"Hey Kitty you vanna dance vith me?" Kurt asked her, smiling at Aaron. Kitty got up to join him when Aaron grabbed her arm.
"Don't you think that you danced long enough Kitty?" He gave Kitty a look the made her uncomfortable but she shrugged it off as nothing.
"No, I love to dance." She pulled her arm slightly and his hand let her go. Kurt stared at Aaron and saw the dark look before it disappeared the next. He became slightly wary but decided that Kitty could take care of herself and would back off if she had to.
They began dancing to a slow song and every other song after that, since Aaron hadn't interrupted them they hadn't even realized until they announced that it was going to be the final song. "Hey Kitty, ask Aaron to dance again." Kitty smiled and went over to Aaron who was waiting for her impatiently.
"Hey let's dance." Kitty grabbed his hand and dragged him to the floor where they also danced to a slow song. She was smiling and her face was pink with a healthy flush.
"You should know I'm a little jealous of your friend." He said.
"Who Kurt? Oh, come on, there's no reason to be, he's, like, my best friend and nothing more."
"I sure hope so." He pulled her closer to him and looked at Kurt over her shoulder. Kurt was beginning to feel uneasy; the guy's face changed emotion at every passing minute. He decided that he would follow them home, to make sure that nothing happened.
***
Aaron and Kitty didn't notice the young man that teleported behind them all the way to the mansion. They had been quiet for most of the ride, Kitty thinking about how great the dance was and Aaron wondering how to tell her that the rules of being his girl.
"Kitty," She looked at him and smiled. "I really want us to work out and there are a few things that I think we should talk about. I get jealous easily so if you can sort of try not to be so friendly with guys I'd appreciate it." Kitty continued to smile, she knew she was a flirt but she would never disrespect a boyfriend that way so she assured him.
"I'm so not that kind of girl, so, like, don't worry about it. I had a great time tonight." Aaron smiled and tried to kiss on her lips but she turned and he got her cheek instead. "'Night." She hopped out of the car and got into the institute.
Kurt watched Aaron bang the steering wheel and drive away. This did not look good, but as close as he was to Kitty he knew she would tell him he was over reacting so he decided to just keep them in check.
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By the time the next week had passed Kitty was invited over to Aaron's house to meet his parents on Sunday night. Kitty walked into their house and looked around happily, turns out they were Jewish as well.
"Hello dear, it's nice to meet you." Aaron's mother looked a little weary and her eyes seemed to shift back and forth. Kitty moved closer to Aaron and looked at his father. His father looked nervous as well.
Through out the evening they both seemed to do everything that Aaron said, without a fight or an argument. Kitty didn't like his demanding tone but figured if his parents allowed him to slide than it wasn't her business to butt in. The only time she commented on it was when his mom accidentally poured her sprite when she had asked for a coke.
"Mother, didn't she say that she wanted coke?" His voice was menacing and eerie.
"It's like all right Aaron, it isn't that serious." Aaron visibly relaxed but still stared his mother down. His mother took the cup and gave her a glass of sprite. Kitty began to think that being with him wasn't a good idea. He was demanding and irrational and she didn't want to have a control freak as a boyfriend.
When he drove her home she told him how she felt. "Look, I sort of felt uncomfortable, with the way you, like, spoke to your mom. You should respect your parents."
Aaron looked at her and smiled. "You're right. I was a little hard on them, I just was a little nervous, I wanted everything to be perfect ya know?" He smiled at her and held her hand. Kitty surrendered her thoughts on breaking up with him and decided that he was just worried. She kissed him on the cheek and went into the mansion, intending to ask Xavier the next day if she could invite Aaron over to meet her family, as in the X- Men.
But the next day when she came home from school the visitor that greeted her in the professor's office caught her off guard. Mrs. Kipplestein was seated in front of the professor's desk, twitching as she had done at dinner, the Professor's face was grim as well as Logan's who was sitting in a chair at the corner. As soon as Kitty said hello to her, the woman began to cry.
"Please don't tell him I came." Kitty rushed over and put an arm around her shoulder, the professor passed her a tissue.
"Tell who?"
"Aaron, he'd be so angry at me. I had never done this before but you're such a nice girl, and I wouldn't want him to hurt you." Kitty looked up at the professor.
"It seems Kitty that Aaron has a problem. He had participated in anger management and graduated a year ago, but now he is going back to his old ways." Kitty's mouth slightly opened at the news. Mrs. Kipplestein wasn't crying as hard but the sniffles drew Kitty's sympathy.
"I came because I didn't want to see you get hurt. I wanted to warn you off before you got in deeper into the relationship, he managed to scare the other girls into doing what he said and I just didn't want the same thing to happen again. Anyway I have to go, please don't tell him I was here." With that she hurriedly left, not giving anyone time to be able to lead her out of the door.
Kitty slumped into the chair Aaron's mother had been sitting on. She was emotionally exhausted by what she had just heard and didn't know how to react. The professor remained quiet as well, Logan was the first to speak up.
"Look Half-Pint, I'ma make sure nothing' happens to ya. Ya tell that guy ya don't wanna be with him and if that's a problem, I'll handle it." Kitty straightened up.
"It's okay Logan, I can, like, take care of myself. And can you guys not tell Kurt, he wouldn't be happy to know that my boyfriend is an abusive maniac." She joked. She left the office and bumped into Kurt.
"Are you okay Kitty?" Her face was pale, and he was afraid she was sick.
"Yeah I-I'm fine." Kurt didn't believe her lie but decided to let it go.
"You vant to get some ice cream." Kitty sighed in relief.
"Sure Fuzzy." They went to get their jackets and go to the mall. The long quiet walk suited them both and Kitty's heart had almost returned to normal. They sat in the ice cream parlor and shared a banana split.
"Well here, here." Aaron had walked in with two of his friends and a girl with a black eye on his arm. "Hey Kurt, why may I ask are you sitting here with MY girlfriend?"
Kurt looked at Kitty wondering why Aaron had suddenly become so aggressive. Kitty interrupted anything that Kurt was about to stay.
"Um, Aaron I, like, have to talk to you." She got up and grabbed his arm. They went to a booth in the corner and Aaron's friends and the girl sat at his table. He was wary of it all.
"Excuse me," the girl whispered to Kurt. He looked up at her questioningly. "Is that his girlfriend?"
"Um, yeah. Who are you?" Kurt asked. The girl's eyes brimmed with tears.
"I'm his girl too." Kurt became angry about to get up. "Please don't get up, don't say anything or he'll get mad." The tears threatened to spill down her brown eyes. Kurt felt sorry for her.
"Vhy are you taking this?" One of the guys who looked like a replica of the girl next to him answered for her.
"She's scared. He threatened to kill her and her family if she ever left him."
"And who are you?" He asked the guy.
"Her brother, don't give me that look there isn't much you can do man." The guy looked ashamed of himself and Kurt decided not to press the issue instead he got up and went to Kitty to take her home. By the time he got to her, she was finishing on why she wanted to end their relationship.
"This is just not going to work out." Aaron stared at the napkin he was holding. Suddenly he got up and began to curse at her, spewing vulgar names at her that even the dirtiest mouthed person would never use. His face had turned red and angry in rage and Kitty became afraid. Kurt stepped in though he himself was frightened by the turn the guy had taken, but he wouldn't allow Kitty to get hurt by the maniac.
"Look, she doesn't vant to be vith you so back off." That got up a hard punch to the face, his nose began to bleed and he knew it was broken. Kitty got up and sat Kurt down on the floor, all the anger that entered her caused her fist to fly to Aarons jaw. The fact that he hadn't expected it, made the impact searing and painful. He fell back into the booth and stared at her while blood trickled down the side of his mouth.
"Come on Fuzzy, let's go." At that moment Logan walked in, he didn't pay any mind to the register person who was staring on in shock, not making a move. He grabbed Aaron by the shirt collar and pulled him out of the booth and banged him against the wall.
"I'ma tell you somethin' punk, ya go near my little girl and her friends again and I swear I'll rip you into pieces. That goes for anyone else too. And I best ta find out ya got yourself back into that program or I'ma do worse that just shred ya up." He dropped Aaron on the floor who was shivering with fear and lifted Kurt over his shoulder. Kitty walked out and touched the arm of the girl at the table.
"Get out of it before it's too late." Kitty said. She looked at the girl's brother who was looking ashamed at the table. He had never made a move for his sister because of his fear. But this time, the courage he had seen in the German skinny guy gave him some too. He was naturally bigger than Aaron but for some reason backed off. He grabbed his sister's arm and left the parlor, intending to stop at the police station before going home.
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Kitty held Kurt in her arms in the back of the van, and thanked Logan for coming to her rescue.
"I've been following ya since you guys left. I was waiting till he came by. It's not that I doubt ya could handle yourself, but it doesn't hurt to be around just in case." Kitty smiled at him and brushed her fingers through Kurt's hair. By the time they got the institute she had managed to get his bleeding nose to stop.
She stayed behind in the living room while Mr. McCoy set his nose back into place. She came down stairs and saw the black and blue between his eyes and the thick white tape covering his nose.
"That's, like, gonna hurt something lovely when you take it off." She sat on the bed and looked into the golden eyes of her dearest friend.
"The pain is vorth it liebe." He took her hand and gallantly kissed it.
"Ah, my knight in shining armor." They sighed simultaneously and burst out into laughter. She was happy to have a friend like him. She laid her head down on his chest and hid her face in his fur, taking in his scent. He ran his fingers through her thick dark hair and realized that he would have done much more than threaten to keep her safe.
**************************************************************************** ** I want to apologize for the seriousness that seemed to come out of no where. My fingers began to type and I didn't even know what I was writing. Please review. They aren't together yet, so I don't know whether or not you would like me to make another fic. It would be much more humorous than this one.
On the side, I would like you all to know that an abusive relationship is harder to get out of when you're deeper in the game. I have seen the pain and suffering as an outside viewer who has seen the devastating turns it's had on the lives of some people close to me. If you need help, call a hotline and get help.