Back to the twins. I invent a lot of twins don't I?
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Kurt wanted to see Hannah perform. He really really REALLY wanted to see her perform. None of the others (except for Rogue) did anything remotely gymnastic so there were not a lot of opportunities to see other people do what he enjoyed..
Kurt walked to the danger room and put in the code so that some bars, a horse (the gymnastic kind) and a beam.
The trap had been set.
Kurt sat up in the monitor room; he wouldn't gain anything from this. He just couldn't let it go!
He didn't even have to wait that long! Hannah walked in under an hour. She touched the beam as if it were an old friend. She did a leapfrog onto it. Hannah sat there for a few minutes before doing a perfect handstand on it. She was dead straight and started to bend her legs forwards. Once they touched the beam in front of her hands she did a forwards roll.
Hannah was silent and still for a minute more. She stood up and did a cartwheel followed by a back flip. She landed so well she barely even wobbled. Hannah sat down on the beam and put her head in her hands.
"That was fantastic!" Kurt cried porting next to her
"Wahh!" Hannah fell off backwards and Kurt had to catch her. She pushed him off "You saw me!" she cried
"Of course I did! I've never seen anything like that before!" Hannah turned away from him "What is it?"
"You should have asked," she said simply
"Then I'd have never seen you do that," Kurt laughed
"You weren't supposed to" Hannah grumbled
"Look, your parents aren't here right now and I don't understand why you don't show off" Kurt honestly didn't understand. She clearly did enjoy gymnastics, why didn't she do it more often?
"You remember I said that my parents love it when I win competitions?" Hannah sighed
"Yes?"
"Most of them I wouldn't have one if Angela hadn't been there" She looked at her feet
"You cheated?" Kurt hated that he'd just said that but he couldn't help himself
"For a long time my parents were easy on me but soon they said I wasn't winning enough and started to make me learn new and more complicated moves. In one session, I hurt my leg. Not so bad that I couldn't walk but performing my moves became impossible." Hannah took a breath "My parents didn't understand and I had to do a show. Angela had just got her powers and when I had to do a jump, which probably would have caused me to break my leg, she supported me."
'I wish the professor had heard that' Kurt thought
"This wasn't cheating Kurt, if I had jumped without my sisters help there is a good chance I would have never been able to do the beam again"
"Wow. But, why does this stop you from doing it?" Kurt asked
"My sister was shunned by my parents even before they found out she was a mutant. They focused on me, the pre Olympic gold medallist. They talked about me to all their friends. Taping all the televised stuff I did. Angela was cleverer than me, she got all A's sometimes but they never cared. If something I wanted to do interfered with something I wanted to do I always won."
"That must have been hard" Kurt put one hand on her shoulder
"She was so much better, so much smarter. In any other family she would have been the favourite" Hannah paused "Do you know what dyslexia is Kurt?"
That question threw him "Well, no not really. They have problems learning right?"
"Sort of, it's really about reading. I can't read"
Kurt looked at her
"You have dyslexia?" He couldn't believe it
"Yes, not helped by the fact that when I started hating school Mum and Dad let me leave" She sighed again "At the time I thought it was wonderful but now I realise it's only slowed me down more"
"Is that why you two are so close, you really need her"
Hannah pulled him into a hug
"Exactly" she whispered "Your such a good friend Kurt"
Kurt pretended to pout
"Awww! I wanna be more than just a friend"
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The Rhodes had stomped in again demanding their rights to see their child. Angela now also knew that her parents were there and was avoiding them. She remembered all to vividly how her father had whacked her around the face when he'd first discovered her powers.
Kitty ran into her room
"Angela! Come on!!" Kitty grabbed her wrist and dragged her to the monitor room.
Angela visibly cowered when she saw her parents but Kitty continued to pull her. It was then that Angela realised what was wrong.
Kurt, not wearing his image inducer, was kissing her sister and her parents could see them.
"Get those mutated lips off my daughter!" her Dad hollered and shoved his way out of the room
"Oh God, they are so dead" Angela muttered, she knew that Hannah would pay for this and forgot how angry she was at her.
*
Hannah couldn't get over Kurt's fangs, it was the strangest feeling on the planet feeling them brush her lips.
She heard a yell and she pulled away in horror as she saw her father lunging at them.
"Dad!" she yelled as he hit Kurt around the head. Kurt was on the floor unconscious almost instantly.
"What do you think your doing!?" Her father boomed at her "Running off with one of those mutant freaks"
"Dad! You've hurt him!" Hannah screamed and tried to reach Kurt. Her Dad grabbed her by the waist and threw her onto his shoulder
"put me down!! PUT ME DOWN!!!" she hollered
"We're leaving, NOW!" came the reply
"No! Angela! Scott! ANYBODY!!" Hannah began to tremble
"Mr Rhodes!" Xavier was blocking their way, Hannah began to breath normally
"You get out of the way! I'm not having my daughter socialising with people like that!" Mr Rhodes yelled
"Let's try to remain calm" Xavier tried to make her Dad calm down
"No, if you don't let me leave with her I'll sue you! You have no right to her, she's not 'gifted'," he smiled at Xavier's silence "am I right?"
Xavier looked so downcast Hannah couldn't let him feel so guilty
"Thank you for letting me stay sir, we all knew this was temporary" She smiled as she passed him. Her Dad let her down but began dragging her along by the wrist. "I hope that Kurt will be okay"
Angela started to run the minute her father began to leave with her sister
"Hannah!" she yelled "Don't take her please!! Dad!!" By the time she reached the gates all she could see was the back of their car as they left.
"Angela?" it was kitty "Are you okay?"
"She left thinking I was mad at her!" Angela gasped "My own twin is being forced back to England and she thinks that I won't help her come back!"
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Kurt wanted to see Hannah perform. He really really REALLY wanted to see her perform. None of the others (except for Rogue) did anything remotely gymnastic so there were not a lot of opportunities to see other people do what he enjoyed..
Kurt walked to the danger room and put in the code so that some bars, a horse (the gymnastic kind) and a beam.
The trap had been set.
Kurt sat up in the monitor room; he wouldn't gain anything from this. He just couldn't let it go!
He didn't even have to wait that long! Hannah walked in under an hour. She touched the beam as if it were an old friend. She did a leapfrog onto it. Hannah sat there for a few minutes before doing a perfect handstand on it. She was dead straight and started to bend her legs forwards. Once they touched the beam in front of her hands she did a forwards roll.
Hannah was silent and still for a minute more. She stood up and did a cartwheel followed by a back flip. She landed so well she barely even wobbled. Hannah sat down on the beam and put her head in her hands.
"That was fantastic!" Kurt cried porting next to her
"Wahh!" Hannah fell off backwards and Kurt had to catch her. She pushed him off "You saw me!" she cried
"Of course I did! I've never seen anything like that before!" Hannah turned away from him "What is it?"
"You should have asked," she said simply
"Then I'd have never seen you do that," Kurt laughed
"You weren't supposed to" Hannah grumbled
"Look, your parents aren't here right now and I don't understand why you don't show off" Kurt honestly didn't understand. She clearly did enjoy gymnastics, why didn't she do it more often?
"You remember I said that my parents love it when I win competitions?" Hannah sighed
"Yes?"
"Most of them I wouldn't have one if Angela hadn't been there" She looked at her feet
"You cheated?" Kurt hated that he'd just said that but he couldn't help himself
"For a long time my parents were easy on me but soon they said I wasn't winning enough and started to make me learn new and more complicated moves. In one session, I hurt my leg. Not so bad that I couldn't walk but performing my moves became impossible." Hannah took a breath "My parents didn't understand and I had to do a show. Angela had just got her powers and when I had to do a jump, which probably would have caused me to break my leg, she supported me."
'I wish the professor had heard that' Kurt thought
"This wasn't cheating Kurt, if I had jumped without my sisters help there is a good chance I would have never been able to do the beam again"
"Wow. But, why does this stop you from doing it?" Kurt asked
"My sister was shunned by my parents even before they found out she was a mutant. They focused on me, the pre Olympic gold medallist. They talked about me to all their friends. Taping all the televised stuff I did. Angela was cleverer than me, she got all A's sometimes but they never cared. If something I wanted to do interfered with something I wanted to do I always won."
"That must have been hard" Kurt put one hand on her shoulder
"She was so much better, so much smarter. In any other family she would have been the favourite" Hannah paused "Do you know what dyslexia is Kurt?"
That question threw him "Well, no not really. They have problems learning right?"
"Sort of, it's really about reading. I can't read"
Kurt looked at her
"You have dyslexia?" He couldn't believe it
"Yes, not helped by the fact that when I started hating school Mum and Dad let me leave" She sighed again "At the time I thought it was wonderful but now I realise it's only slowed me down more"
"Is that why you two are so close, you really need her"
Hannah pulled him into a hug
"Exactly" she whispered "Your such a good friend Kurt"
Kurt pretended to pout
"Awww! I wanna be more than just a friend"
*
The Rhodes had stomped in again demanding their rights to see their child. Angela now also knew that her parents were there and was avoiding them. She remembered all to vividly how her father had whacked her around the face when he'd first discovered her powers.
Kitty ran into her room
"Angela! Come on!!" Kitty grabbed her wrist and dragged her to the monitor room.
Angela visibly cowered when she saw her parents but Kitty continued to pull her. It was then that Angela realised what was wrong.
Kurt, not wearing his image inducer, was kissing her sister and her parents could see them.
"Get those mutated lips off my daughter!" her Dad hollered and shoved his way out of the room
"Oh God, they are so dead" Angela muttered, she knew that Hannah would pay for this and forgot how angry she was at her.
*
Hannah couldn't get over Kurt's fangs, it was the strangest feeling on the planet feeling them brush her lips.
She heard a yell and she pulled away in horror as she saw her father lunging at them.
"Dad!" she yelled as he hit Kurt around the head. Kurt was on the floor unconscious almost instantly.
"What do you think your doing!?" Her father boomed at her "Running off with one of those mutant freaks"
"Dad! You've hurt him!" Hannah screamed and tried to reach Kurt. Her Dad grabbed her by the waist and threw her onto his shoulder
"put me down!! PUT ME DOWN!!!" she hollered
"We're leaving, NOW!" came the reply
"No! Angela! Scott! ANYBODY!!" Hannah began to tremble
"Mr Rhodes!" Xavier was blocking their way, Hannah began to breath normally
"You get out of the way! I'm not having my daughter socialising with people like that!" Mr Rhodes yelled
"Let's try to remain calm" Xavier tried to make her Dad calm down
"No, if you don't let me leave with her I'll sue you! You have no right to her, she's not 'gifted'," he smiled at Xavier's silence "am I right?"
Xavier looked so downcast Hannah couldn't let him feel so guilty
"Thank you for letting me stay sir, we all knew this was temporary" She smiled as she passed him. Her Dad let her down but began dragging her along by the wrist. "I hope that Kurt will be okay"
Angela started to run the minute her father began to leave with her sister
"Hannah!" she yelled "Don't take her please!! Dad!!" By the time she reached the gates all she could see was the back of their car as they left.
"Angela?" it was kitty "Are you okay?"
"She left thinking I was mad at her!" Angela gasped "My own twin is being forced back to England and she thinks that I won't help her come back!"
