Kurt was starting to feel really nervous. He was used to curiosity,
it came with being a mutant so blatantly as him. It was the kind of
curiosity that made him shift as he sat on a smooth rock.
The other Nightscrawlers weren't the ones who made him nervous either. It was the four people who were apparently in charge that made him so.
Maelstrom and Mad With Power both looked like people you did not want to piss off, ever. Kurt found that he couldn't even make eye contact with those two, he just felt too intimated by how serious they were being with him.
Northstar's Love was also someone Kurt knew not to mess with. He had this aura about him that said he was a good friend to have, but a bad enemy to make in the end.
Someone like InterNutter was not the kind of person you ever wanted to take lightly. Her emotions seemed to change along with the direction of the winds.
They asked him many questions, all them pertaining to where he was from and why he was here. The last questions were about his experience with Moira, and what she had told him.
"What exactly did she want to tell you?" Mad With Power asked. Kurt looked at the ground, his tail curling around his ankles lightly.
"She told me about my parents." He said.
"Why was this important?" Mad With Power asked, cocking an eyebrow slightly.
"Because my mother was Shadowcat of the Lightning Squad, and my father... my father was Nightcrawler of the Lightning Squad too." Kurt kept his gaze down on the ground, so he didn't see the look of puzzlement on everyone's faces.
"Why are you ashamed of who your parents were?" Northstar's Love asked. Slowly, Kurt looked up and he told them what Moira had told him about his parents and his father's loyalty to the Reich.
"MOIRA IS A LIAR!"
"SheCat..." Maelstrom started.
"No! Moira lied to him!" SheCat said, fuming. "The bitch told him nothing but lies!" Turning to Kurt, her eyes sparkled intensely. "Your parents were both good people, Kurt."
"Look, maybe my mother was but..."
"Your father was a great help to the Nightscrawlers." Maelstrom said. "Nightcrawler was not the man Moira told you about." When Maelstrom opened her mouth to explain further, Kurt shook his head rubbing his temples.
"I really don't want to hear this right now." He said. "It's getting late, and I don't think I can take anymore stories about who my father was and what he was not. Please, can you tell me tomorrow?" tilting her head slightly, Maelstrom and the others whispered softly to another for a while before they came to a decision.
"All right, we'll discuss this further on the morrow." Mad With Power said. "In the mean time, SheCat and Bamfman will be your keepers"
"Keepers?" Kurt asked.
"To make sure you don't decide to wander away from us." She explained. Shrugging, Kurt got up and stretched his legs out slowly.
"Whatever makes you people happy." He said.
Kurt sat with SheCat and Bamfman around a separate fire, eating from a wooden bowl. They talked about various things, why they chose their names and so on.
"I really like cats." SheCat said with a laugh. "Plus, I once wrote a story with someone called SheCat so," she shrugged, ending it there.
"The first time I met your father, I was very young." Bamfman said. "I thought the Bamf sound he made when he teleported was so funny, and I talked it all the time, so everyone called me Bamfman. The name stuck after that." They tried to tell Kurt more about his father, but he wouldn't have it, saying that it was too late to talk about those kinds of things.
Then SheCat changed the subject to something weird.
"In your world, is there two people called Rogue and Gambit?" she asked, her eyes sparkling with hope. Kurt raised his eyebrows, blinking at her in surprise.
"Aunt Rogue and her boyfriend Gambit?" he asked. "Yeah, we have those in my world." SheCat smiled slowly, making him very suspicious. "Why?"
"In this world, we used to have them. I heard some stories about those two. They were this couple who were mutants. Rogue couldn't touch people, and Gambit could charge things with kinetic energy.
"But once the Reich tried to take over their homeland, they fought like crazy and ended up getting killed together." Bamfman snorted, shaking his head.
"So now SheCat writes all kinds of weird sad stories with them." He said. "She makes up such weird things! Like in one, she says Rogue left Gambit to die in Antarctica because he caused some kind of massacre or something!"
"I like to write angst stories with them! They used to have such violent arguments when they were alive!" SheCat protested. Turning to Kurt, she smiled. "Do they argue in your world too?" Kurt couldn't help but laugh.
"You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you." He said, before he told them everything about Rogue and Gambit, including the fact that Rogue actually DID leave Gambit in Antarctica.
"That bitch!" SheCat cried when he was finished.
Kurt regretted telling her this as she raged on for the rest of the night.
The next morning, someone woke Kurt up by lightly pulling on his tail. When he finally got up, the person let go, laughing.
"It's like a little handle! Just pull a couple of times and you respond!" she said. "They call me Wolvertique by the way."
"Wolvertique, do you mind not pulling on my tail next time?" Kurt asked. "It's kinda sensitive when it comes to stuff like that."
"Sure, but when I shook you, you didn't respond before." She explained. "Come on, you're going to learn all about your dad over breakfast and probably lunch. They actually got Logan and Piotr to show up to tell you about him!"
"Do I really have to hear about how my father fought for the Reich?" Kurt asked. Wolvertique's smile died away, and her eyes became serious.
"Don't say such things." She said. "Not until you hear the whole story about him! Afterwards, you can make your judgment all you want."
Shrugging, Kurt got to his feet and he followed after her to where the whole group of Nightscrawlers was assembled, with two older men standing at the head.
The other Nightscrawlers weren't the ones who made him nervous either. It was the four people who were apparently in charge that made him so.
Maelstrom and Mad With Power both looked like people you did not want to piss off, ever. Kurt found that he couldn't even make eye contact with those two, he just felt too intimated by how serious they were being with him.
Northstar's Love was also someone Kurt knew not to mess with. He had this aura about him that said he was a good friend to have, but a bad enemy to make in the end.
Someone like InterNutter was not the kind of person you ever wanted to take lightly. Her emotions seemed to change along with the direction of the winds.
They asked him many questions, all them pertaining to where he was from and why he was here. The last questions were about his experience with Moira, and what she had told him.
"What exactly did she want to tell you?" Mad With Power asked. Kurt looked at the ground, his tail curling around his ankles lightly.
"She told me about my parents." He said.
"Why was this important?" Mad With Power asked, cocking an eyebrow slightly.
"Because my mother was Shadowcat of the Lightning Squad, and my father... my father was Nightcrawler of the Lightning Squad too." Kurt kept his gaze down on the ground, so he didn't see the look of puzzlement on everyone's faces.
"Why are you ashamed of who your parents were?" Northstar's Love asked. Slowly, Kurt looked up and he told them what Moira had told him about his parents and his father's loyalty to the Reich.
"MOIRA IS A LIAR!"
"SheCat..." Maelstrom started.
"No! Moira lied to him!" SheCat said, fuming. "The bitch told him nothing but lies!" Turning to Kurt, her eyes sparkled intensely. "Your parents were both good people, Kurt."
"Look, maybe my mother was but..."
"Your father was a great help to the Nightscrawlers." Maelstrom said. "Nightcrawler was not the man Moira told you about." When Maelstrom opened her mouth to explain further, Kurt shook his head rubbing his temples.
"I really don't want to hear this right now." He said. "It's getting late, and I don't think I can take anymore stories about who my father was and what he was not. Please, can you tell me tomorrow?" tilting her head slightly, Maelstrom and the others whispered softly to another for a while before they came to a decision.
"All right, we'll discuss this further on the morrow." Mad With Power said. "In the mean time, SheCat and Bamfman will be your keepers"
"Keepers?" Kurt asked.
"To make sure you don't decide to wander away from us." She explained. Shrugging, Kurt got up and stretched his legs out slowly.
"Whatever makes you people happy." He said.
Kurt sat with SheCat and Bamfman around a separate fire, eating from a wooden bowl. They talked about various things, why they chose their names and so on.
"I really like cats." SheCat said with a laugh. "Plus, I once wrote a story with someone called SheCat so," she shrugged, ending it there.
"The first time I met your father, I was very young." Bamfman said. "I thought the Bamf sound he made when he teleported was so funny, and I talked it all the time, so everyone called me Bamfman. The name stuck after that." They tried to tell Kurt more about his father, but he wouldn't have it, saying that it was too late to talk about those kinds of things.
Then SheCat changed the subject to something weird.
"In your world, is there two people called Rogue and Gambit?" she asked, her eyes sparkling with hope. Kurt raised his eyebrows, blinking at her in surprise.
"Aunt Rogue and her boyfriend Gambit?" he asked. "Yeah, we have those in my world." SheCat smiled slowly, making him very suspicious. "Why?"
"In this world, we used to have them. I heard some stories about those two. They were this couple who were mutants. Rogue couldn't touch people, and Gambit could charge things with kinetic energy.
"But once the Reich tried to take over their homeland, they fought like crazy and ended up getting killed together." Bamfman snorted, shaking his head.
"So now SheCat writes all kinds of weird sad stories with them." He said. "She makes up such weird things! Like in one, she says Rogue left Gambit to die in Antarctica because he caused some kind of massacre or something!"
"I like to write angst stories with them! They used to have such violent arguments when they were alive!" SheCat protested. Turning to Kurt, she smiled. "Do they argue in your world too?" Kurt couldn't help but laugh.
"You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you." He said, before he told them everything about Rogue and Gambit, including the fact that Rogue actually DID leave Gambit in Antarctica.
"That bitch!" SheCat cried when he was finished.
Kurt regretted telling her this as she raged on for the rest of the night.
The next morning, someone woke Kurt up by lightly pulling on his tail. When he finally got up, the person let go, laughing.
"It's like a little handle! Just pull a couple of times and you respond!" she said. "They call me Wolvertique by the way."
"Wolvertique, do you mind not pulling on my tail next time?" Kurt asked. "It's kinda sensitive when it comes to stuff like that."
"Sure, but when I shook you, you didn't respond before." She explained. "Come on, you're going to learn all about your dad over breakfast and probably lunch. They actually got Logan and Piotr to show up to tell you about him!"
"Do I really have to hear about how my father fought for the Reich?" Kurt asked. Wolvertique's smile died away, and her eyes became serious.
"Don't say such things." She said. "Not until you hear the whole story about him! Afterwards, you can make your judgment all you want."
Shrugging, Kurt got to his feet and he followed after her to where the whole group of Nightscrawlers was assembled, with two older men standing at the head.