(Kurt's bedroom)
After a couple minutes of tossing and turning, Kurt sort of falls out of his bed after looking at his holowatch, deciding that going to bed around 7 o' clock was definately not his curfew. Just as he decides to pop in the kitchen for a snack, Kitty phases through the wall, holding three cold pieces of pepperoni pizza on a plate to him. This completely catches Kurt by surprise. Taking a deep breath, she quickly apologized to Kurt.
"IamsosorryKurt.Ididnotmeantoscareyouorhurtyourfeelingsorscaretheduplicatesofyou.Pleasepleaseforgiveme.I'msosorry!"
"Vhoa, Keety, you sounded like Quicksilver there. Slow down."
Taking another deep breath she apologized to Kurt, but much slower than before.
"I am like so sorry Kurt. I like totally did not mean to scare you and like trashed your feelings or scare the duplicates of you. Please, please can you like totally forgive me. I totally understand if you'll never forgive me or like even talk to me. I am like so sorry!"
There was a silence in the room.
"Keety, I accept your apology, but I don't know if zhe tvins vill. You scared zhem badly, zhey are scared of those vho are human or look like humans. Tomorrow you can apologize to zhem, if zhey are ready. Please don't criticize me on my eating ever again."
Kitty, who was till feeling ashamed, felt hurt at this lecture. Like she ever got a lecture from Kurt. Something had changed in this fuzzy elf, and she hoped it was for the better. "I'm sorry, Kurt." Then she quickly phases through the wall, leaving the plate of pepperoni pizza on his desk.
Kurt was still puzzled at the fact this all happened. He never got an apology from Kitty before. Hey, maybe she likes me! Enjoying this fact, he settled down to eat the cold pizza, despite what his stomach wanted. He was never one to waste good food.
(Xavier's Office)
Prof. X is alone in his room. Thinking about the past events today. Hmmm... there is something strange about those twins. I mean, how many people do you meet that have the same characteristics as Nightcrawler, not mention both are identical to each other. They also speak German. What I find interesting, if not unnerving, is how they first looked at Ororo and me. (That is correct grammar!) It looked like they were afraid, like we were going to do something harmful to them...and I sense something in them that I never felt before. It feels like raw power...but most mutants did not gain their abilities until during puberty. Nobody ever felt like this in the mansion. This is all very puzzling...
It is 10 o' clock at night. The dreaded curfew hour. Everybody starts to go to their rooms to sleep, while some of them are speculating where Kurt is, wondering why he missed out on dinner. It wasn't like him to miss out on dinner, especially on pizza night. Scott was one of these people. He decided to ask Kurt himself.
Knocking quietly on Kurt's door, hoping that Kurt hadn't fallen asleep yet. "Kurt? Are you awake?"
"Ja. Come in." Scott then comes inside the room, and sits on Kurt's bed, while Kurt is sitting at his desk.
"What's with you today? You missed dinner, and Kitty's been sulking around the mansion, but nobody knows why."
::sigh:: "I knew it would come to zhis."
"What? Don't you want to talk about it?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
" What?"
"It's the twins! I've been in charge of zhem for a while, and that's all. I even got eat two dinners!" Kurt said happily.
Scott groaned. "Figures."
"Keety always yells whenever she sees them. Don't ask me why, but she actually apologized to me for doing it."
"Kitty actually apologized? You sure about this?"
"Ja."
"Maybe she likes you."
"Hopefully, but if not..."
"What?"
"I'll stick to Amanda."
"Who, that girl in your math class?"
"Yes." Kurt yawned, exposing his pearly white fangs.
"Goodnight, Kurt. Thanks for explaining everything to me."
"'Night."
After Scott leaves, Kurt breathes a sigh of relief. Now, at least he won't act like Kitty still. Scott is still jumpy, but Jean seems to like them alot. Rogue won't even notice...unless they happen to be in her way.
Kurt then slowly drifts off to sleep with these thoughts.
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Kurt gets up at a reasonable hour, for once. Instead of usually getting up around lunchtime, he decided to get up around 10:00. What a miracle. The reason for this is that he was brimming with questions for the twins. Usually Kurt doesn't get this interested in new mutants, but then, most new mutants didn't come with his looks. Hope they are up... "ROBERT DRAKES! YOU WILL NOT BE STANDING ONCE I AM DONE WITH YOU!!!!" Kurt winced. That must've woken everybody up. At least the twins weren't being yelled at. He forgave Kitty, but he didn't know how the twins would take it.
Erica was the early riser of the two, so by the time Erick got up, she was already prepared for the day. He stumbled sleepily into her room, his crazy-looking hair even more wild due to bed hair. "Mmm..guten morgen...sis." He rubbed his eyes and yawned. "Wake up sleepyhead." At that, his eyes flared wide-open. "Furface!"
"Stinkyface!
"Fuzzybutt!"
"Slowpoke!" Erick leaped up to tackle her, but she had by that time teleported to the kitchen. He muttered something completely unprintable and that would get him in serious trouble before changing back to his old clothes and meeting her at the table. Ignoring some of the amused looks of the morning people around here, they succeeded in finding the toast and stuffing it in the toaster without ruining the bread. Locating the jam, however was a different story. The first obstacle was to open the refrigerator. Erica tugged first, then Erick tried without any luck. They joined forces and pulled.
Storm tried her best not laugh at the twin's antics in the kitchen. She stood there quietly, drinking her coffee. "Whatcha watchin' 'roro?" She turned slightly towards the voice. "Erick and Erica seem to be having a bit of difficulty in the kitchen. They are learning quickly, though." All she got was an arched brow from Logan as he walked away with a newspaper. She glanced at the kids again.
They managed to open the door with such force, it sent them tumbling head over tail. Erica then sat on her brother's shoulders and hunted through the fridge for that damn jam.
"Morning, Ororo." Jean said brightly. "Shhh." Ororo said with a smile. "What?"
"I'm watching the twins get their own breakfast. It is quite hilarious." Jean turned and glanced at Erica sitting on Erick's shoulders. "Oh, yeah." She said with a grin. Jean closed her eyes and tried to remember where she hid the jam from the other X-men. She was rewarded by a squeak of surprise from Erica as it slid out from behind the cheese. Jean strolled into the kitchen and grabbed the toast and put it on the plate. It was a delicious golden-brown color. "Here you go." She said sweetly. Erick gave her one of his famous lop-sided grins that made him seem even more adorable. "Danke." After some time, Erica found a buttering knife for her precious jam. Jean handed them each a glass of milk. Once they said a silent Morning Prayer, they attacked their toast with vigor. Making her own breakfast of cereal, she waited until they were finished before talking.
"Hey, umm I was talking to the professor, and said that you two needed new clothes. 'Specially you, Erica, after yesterday's episode." Erica winced at that memory. "So....he said I could take you shopping!" Jean said with glee. "Now, we need a big head start, cuz we need to get a lot of stuff. I already convinced Kurt to come along. Finish up your milks and get ready. Meet me in the kitchen once you're done. 'Kay?" The twins nodded, too shocked to say otherwise. Jean gave them each a hug and left the kitchen. Erica stared at her milk. {Want to have a milk-blowing contest?} She asked evilly. {Ja} Erick answered with a fiendish grin. "Vone, zwei, fwree. GO!" They blew into their straws. Bubbles in their milk grew and multiplied until they reached the top of the cup. "Ahem." A voice inturrupted. The twins looked up. "Uhh..." Erick stammered, embarrassed at being caught. "No milk-blowing." Ororo said firmly. They took the hint and meekly hopped to the sink and put their bubble-filled cups in. "Go and get ready, like Jean told you." They disappeared before her voice echoed the last word. Ororo grinned to herself and poured another cup of coffee. These children are definitely going to turn the mansion upside down.
Fifteen minutes later, the twins finally met up to Ororo's standards. They had made at least ten trips to their room and back. Ororo looked disapprovingly at Erick's crazy hair. No amount of brushing or gel or hairspray had convinced it to go flat. It simply stuck up, unless it was wet, but the moment some of the water evaporated, it would stick up again. She sighed and decided to let it go. Jean and Kurt nearly arrived at the same time. "Morning, guys!" Kitty said while phasing through the ceiling. "What's happening?" The twins ducked behind Kurt. The other teenagers shot each other looks. "We're going shopping." Jean replied. 'Oh, can I come? Please, pleasepleasepleaseprettyplease?" She begged. "Not until you apologize to the twins." Kurt interrupted her. "Like, why?"
"Cause that's why we're going shopping. For them." Kitty paused for a moment and wondered if this is really worth it. "OK,OK...I'm like so sorry, I uh, like totally didn't mean it." Erica poked her head out. "Say you mean it!"
"I'm SORRY...honest." Kitty added, seeing the skeptical looks on everyone's faces. "Say you're sawry, cross your heart an' hope tae die!" Kurt snorted as he tried not to laugh at Erica's demands. Kitty looked to Jean for help. "I'm sorry..." she said softly. 'And cross my heart an' hope to die. There, I said it." Kitty said dramatically. Erica crawled up to Kurt's shoulder to have a better look at Kitty. "I 'cept your sawriness. An' no more yelling. It's bad for your lungs." Jean bit her lip to keep from laughing out loud at Erica's kidish antics. "Since we got that settled, the professor wants to see the twins again." She managed to say calmly.
" I vill take zhe twins over to zhe professor." Kurt volunteered.
Grabbing the twins (again) Kurt teleported to Prof. X's office. He wasn't the only one that heard Jean's statement. In another part of the mansion, Bobby heard this too. He secretively made it to the bushes outside the mansion without anybody seeing him. It wouldn't do him any good to get caught there. Suddenly, Bobby changed. He got smaller, until he changed into a raven. Flying straight up, the raven headed in the direction of only one place. The Brotherhood.
(Prof. X's office.)
*BAMF*
"Kurt, I'm glad that you could get here so soon." Seeing him puzzled, as well as the twins, he decided to explain a bit more. "Twins, could you step forward? I have a little gift for you." Kurt smiled. He remembered this moment too, not so long ago. "Now put out your wrist." Both of them put out their right wrist towards the professor, still looking confused. " I will put on this watch on each of you." Putting the watch on each of them, he continued, "These are very special, they can change your appearance. See this green button? This makes you change to look human. The red button means that you will turn back to your 'normal' self. Try it." Both twins push the green button. They gasp in shock. Instead of two blue, furry elves, they are changed. Both of them are tanned skinned, with blackish-brown hair, and with the biggest baby blue eyes.
{Where's my fur?!}
{It's gone! My beautiful, blue fur is gone!}
{Mein Gott! I have umm, five fingers, and so do you!}
{WHAT HAPPENED???!!!!}
Chucking, Kurt explained to them again.
{This, watch, it makes you look different. You know that if you push the green button you look 'human'. Don't worry, you're still you. Now push the red button.}
The twins do as they are told and are relieved to be back to their furry blue selves.
{See! Now, when you have it on, you have to wrap your tail around your ankle. Also, don't teleport with the watch on, it really messes it up. And one more thing, you can let anybody touch you wherever the clothes aren't covering. If they touch you, they will feel fur, not skin. Remember this: green is for go for the holowatch and red is for stopping the holowatch.}
"Ja, your royal fuzziness." Erica and Erick saluted him in sync.
"Well, that's over. I trust you not to use your powers outside the mansion, unless it is an emergency. People aren't ready to know about mutants yet. Jean, Kitty, and Kurt will be taking you to get some clothes. Please be careful of your powers. Good luck."
Taking the mystified twins by the hand, Kurt *BAMF*s them to the living room, where Jean and Kitty are ready and waiting for the fuzzy trio.
"So, can you like, turn your holowatchamacllit on?"
"Ja!"
The twins excitedly turn it on, knowing that they are still themselves. "Aren't they adorable?!"
"It's like, so hard to tell which version is cuter, the holo or the fuzzy version!" Jean looked surprised at this sudden change in Kitty's behavior.
Kurt turns his holowatch on, surprising the twins even more.
"You got vone?"
"Yep."
"Wunderbar!"
"All right! Let's go to Scott's car!"
"Hey! You didn't ask me!"
"I'm asking you now." Jean gives her 'please-oh-please-let-me-have-it' look that most boys find irresistible. "Fine, you can drive...."
"Danke!" the twins quickly reply. Scott looks at them again and sighs. "You're welcome, however you say it in German."
"Bittishun." Kurt added. "What ever!"
"Cummon, I'll show you!" Each girl takes a twin by the wrist and sprints down to the garage. Getting them into the car, however, is a different story.
"We go inna Auto?" Erica asks, looking very worried. "Why, what's wrong? The car's not gonna bite you!" Jean would have continued on, except Erica had her feet firmly planted down and refused to budge an inch. "Nien." She said stubbornly. Erick bit his lip to keep himself from laughing out loud. Kitty and Kurt had ushered him into the car, and went to deal with his pigheaded twin. "You can't make me." Erica crossed her arms defiantly. "Like, come on! Doncha want to get new stuff?" Kitty asked. Erica shook her head. "Why not?"
"Cuz there's people."
"So?"
"Ach, don't vorry, lichben. Hold on, I know vhat to do. Jean, uh, you better keep her from teleporting. Zhis could get a bit rough." Jean eyed him suspiciously, but did as told. Kitty waltzed over to the car to check on Erick. Kurt knelt down to Erica's eye level. Ve can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice. We need to go." Erica remained silent. "Fine zhen. I hate to do zhis...but it's for your own good. He lunged forward and grabbed her by her midriff. She tried to slither away, but was unsuccessful in his arm lock. Kurt half-dragged, and teleported in the car. Somehow, he managed to buckle her in.
"Zhat's how you do it." He said with a small smile. Jean and Kitty rolled their eyes.
The twins, knowing that Kurt knows German, but wanting to still talk to each other without their chaperones knowing, proceeded to talk in a language they had just mastered from reading books. The language was difficult to learn, and only the very determined could speak it fluently. The language came from books, Tolkien's books in fact, and that language was Elvish. It took many years to master, and in their spare time, the twins managed to learn to speak it fluently. (I do not claim the language. It belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien only!!)
(* Very special note: Elvish is a very beautiful language, and I don't want to ruin it. So, they must speak properly!)
-How did she do that? I could barely move!-
-She must be another gifted one. Like me, she her powers reside in the mind.- Before speaking any further, they are interrupted by Kurt. "Vhat language is zhat? I haven't heard of it before." "Yeah, tell us what you are saying. We want to know!" "It's so beautiful, flawless, where did you learn to speak like that?"
"Ve speak umm....vhat you'd call umm.... Elvish!"
"Vhat is Elvish?" Everybody is very confused at this point. "It'z a langvitch zhat iz in books." This only prompts more questions.
"Like, how do you know this?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about."
"Vhat do you mean?"
Both twins are frustrated, and tired of answering questions that lead to only more questions. They decide to be rebellious. Instead of answering the questions, they sit, pout, and are silent for the remainder of the trip.
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