Demons of Hart and Soul
Wooooo hooo! Second chapie! I is on a roll! I have had so much trouble getting this out! It's been a nightmare! I have to always get someone else to spell check it! What a drag!
Well here's something I picked up doing! The chance to say thank you to all my reviewers!
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Yma
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Chapter 2: Strange Coincidence…? I Think Not!
Kurt Wagner had finely finished his first day of after hour duties, he was exhausted… But that still hadn't wiped the grin off his face. He left the school grounds and began the trek home. He thoughts just kept going back to the mahogany haired, Blue eyed, English vixen he meet earlier…
He was so preoccupied by his thoughts that he didn't notice the car pulling up beside him till someone shouted to him.
"Hello! Earth to Kurt!!" The blue mutant jumped then glanced round to see Scott in his little red car(A/N What the hell type of car is that?!) rolling along beside him. "Hay… you felling alright?" Kurt ginned slyly.
"Mein freund, I never felt better. Ach, But enough about me, Vhat's up? Vhat are you doing here?" Scott pulled to a stop.
"Get in and I'll tell you." Without any protest, the German teen hoped into the car. The X-man leader quickly put the car in gear and the two of them where speeding on there way
"The Professor told me it mite be a good idea if I came and picked you up." The holo wearing teenager gave his friend a curious look.
"Vhy? Doesn't he trust me to valk home by myself yet?" The older boy let a small smile curved his lips.
"No, it's not that at all. We just gotta new student arriving, he wanted us all to be there to meet them. He wants us to make a good impression, he also said there is a good chance that he'll put them in the main team."
"Zhem? You sound as zhough you don't know anyzhing about him?"
"That's just it, The Professor hasn't told anyone anything. I don't even know whether it is a Him or a her." Kurt contemplated what he had just been told.
"Zhis is all a little sudden, nein?"
"Your telling me, we usually get at leased some warning before someone comes to stay… but the Professor just told me just five minuets ago. It even took Logan and Storm by surprise." Now Kurt looked surprised.
"You mean he didn't even tell zhem?!" He asked astonished.
"Apparently not…"
"Vow… As if zhe day couldn't get more interesting…" The furry mutant mused.
"Wadday mean?" Asked Scott, his curiosity sparked. Kurt's cheesy grin made it's reappearance.
"Let's just say I meet a very lovely lady." Scott couldn't stop the smile that pulled at the corner of his lips. He sighed and shook his head.
"Alright… who is she?"
"An angel of mischief and mercy." Scott gave Kurt a bewildered look.
"Hun..?"
"She got me in, zhen out of detention within zhe first five minuets of meeting her!"
"How she do that?"
"She stopped me doing litter duty, ve got talking, zhen Kelly came and found me, gave me a detention. Lara charms him vith an eloquent speech, I'm off zhe hook and she has him eating out of zhe palm of her hand! In fact if I didn't know better I'd say he vas flirting vith her!"
"I don't believe it…" said the brown haired male. "Wad' you call her? Laura?
"Lara…" Kurt did consider telling him her last name, but he knew that if he did Scott would instantly think he was making it up.
"She said she vas joining zhe school, so ve'll be seeing her round. I'll have to introduce you." He said as they pulled up to the gates of the institute. "She's a total fox!"
"You sound keen," Said Scott, then his tone trend serious. "I hope you take it slow, Kurt. If she finds about your… unique physiology… Before you know you can really trust her…" He was cut of by a loud sigh.
"JA, ja! I know, I know! I could not only endanger myself, but zhe whole institute and everyone zhat lives zhere, ect, ect, ect…!" Kurt rattled off the speech he had heard so many times he had memorised it. Scott cringed from the tone of the Germans voice.
"I'm sorry, Kurt. I didn't mean to sound like I was getting on you case. I should of known you'd be careful."
"Vell of course I'm going to be careful," He said as they parked in the garage "… You zhink I like rejection?! I'm not going to go and tell her anyzhing till I'm sure I can trust her… I don't even know if she likes me like zhat anyvay… I've only known her Five minuets… Für Gott Willen!! I'm not a fool, Scott…" The X-man sighed.
"I know you not. I was just being the over protective, paranoid leader. I really sorry Kurt. Please forgive me." The pail skinned and dark eyed teen disappeared and was replaced with dark indigo fur, pointy ears and golden glowing eyed Demon.
The impish X-man pouted with a frown. Then cast his friend a squinty look.
"… It is a good zhing I like you so much. Your apology is excepted." And with that said, he hoped out of the car with the natural grace of the gymnast. "Come on, let get inside and meet zhis_ mystery_ mutant, Ja?" He said with he usual smile back on his fuzzy face. Scott grind back.
"Sound's good to me." He said as they made there way into the large house.
As they entered they noticed that nearly everyone was in the lobby, just standing round chatting. They all looked up and said their greetings.
"How long have you guys been waiting?" Scott asked.
"Not long," Jean said "The Professor just called us hear."
"Know anyzhing ve don't about zhis new student?"
"Like, not a thing!" Kitty didn't seam to delighted to be standing around. "You'd think they where like royalty or something to make the professor act this nervous." Kurt cast a glance over the bald mans way… he did seem unusually edgy…
They all where milling about for about 10 minuets, before they heard the familiar sound of cars coming up the drive way and pulling up outside the mansion doors.
"Logan, if you wouldn't mind showing our gests in?" Professor X asked calmly. The short stocky man grumbled a bit but complied too the request. Xavier turned to his student quickly.
"Now I will ask all of you to be on your best behaviour, and you better turn your image inducer back on Kurt, this meeting is very important, not only for the new addition, but also for the well being of every other Mutant in this house and all the others we will inevitably help in the future…" He said in the most serious voices they had ever heard him use. They all nodded mutely as the first person came threw the door.
The man was the older side of middle-age, very tall and slender almost lanky built, dressed in a very expensive looking tailored black suite he removed his sunglasses, placing them in his front pocket of his jacket as scanned the hall with a sceptical eye. He has longish, wavy brown combed semi-neatly back and had a spiky, moustache and goatee. Somehow he managed to pull off looking neat and professional as well as casual and relaxed at the same time. His sharp blue eye's rested on the Professor and he immediately made his way over to him.
"Aaah, I would I be correct in guessing that you would be the infamous Professor Xavier?" He said… In a thick but what would be classes as 'Posh' English accent. But it also had a certain friendly gentleness to it. He reached out and shook Xavier's Hand. The cogs in Kurt's head were beginning to work over time… and the fact that two other men wearing black suite sunglasses and what can only be described as spy-like looking walkie talkie things in there ears didn't help any… Evan lent over to Kitty and whispered.
"Maybe you where right on the royalty thing after all…"
"Yes that would be me… But I wouldn't call myself infamous…" the Professor said calmly.
"May be not in the real world…" The moustached man said with a smile. "I'm Sir Peter Ingram, We've spoken on the phone…"
"Oh yes, It's a pleasure to finely meet you Sir. Ingram."
"Believe me, the pleasure is all mine…" The introductions went on as the professor indicated to everyone in turn, Sir. Ingram nodding to the girls shaking hands with the guys and asking Kurt 'If he would mind terribly' if he could see him with out his holo. All the student were surprised that this man knew anything about them. But with a reassuring nod from the professor, the German teen deactivated his disguise watch.
To all there, but mostly Kurt's surprise, He didn't flinch, didn't scream, didn't look disgusted, quite the contrary, his eye's became warm and a gentle smile pulled curved his mouth.
"Tell me something Mr. Wagner," The Brit asked.
//Wow. Another one that can say it right… maybe it has something to do with the accent?// Kurt mused as the man continued.
"In all seriousness… And this is important… Are you happy here? I mean at school here, in the country, in this institute?"
"Yes, Sir. Very. It's zhe first place vhere I ever found true friends and people zhat cared about who I am rather zhen vhat I am." He answered truthfully. Casing not only his friends and guardians to smile, but also the Englishman, who's grin had grown twice as big.
"Then we have found the right place…" He nodded to himself before turning back to Kurt. "Thank you Mr. Wagner, It has been a honour." He said, extending his hand once more to the fuzzy teen, Kurt politely shaking it agene. He came to a conclusion… He liked this guy… he was alright…
"Forgive me, But may I inquire as to where our new student is?" The disabled man asked.
"Aaah I'm sorry, time is getting on, must be going senile in my old age," He chuckled "Yes now would be a good time…" He said looking over his shoulder to one of the other men that had followed him in.
With a single nod, the young man turned on his heal and was out the door. "You don't realise how much we, and I personally, appreciate this Professor, there wasn't much more we could do… and judging by these fine young people here… I'm pretty sure this will be a good experience… she needs to be with others of her own kind."
"Well it is what we are her for, to help… and we are more then happy to have her… I am positive that she will be a wonderful addition."
"Well, we now know it's a girl…" Jean murmured.
//A girl… English people… it couldn't be her…? No, she's far too old…// Kurt dismissed the thought as coincidence.
The other guy came back and held the door open for the person following him.
"Lady's and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to my young charge…" He said indicating to the door… Kurt's eye's slowly widened and his mouth drooped open as he saw who walked smoothly in. She moved with feline grace to Peter Ingram's side, her face one of blank emotion, it gave away noting, it was like the face of a stone statue.
"This is Miss Lara Croft, your new resident." All the X-mans eyebrow's raised in unison.
"You have got to be like, kidding me…" Kitty murmured.
Lara Sat in the back of the moderately sized Limo that they had rented… Once more she glanced up from the paper work in her hand at the place that was going to be her domicile for as long as it was deemed appropriate and necessary…
She had seen bigger… lived in bigger… Hell! She owned something bigger! She concluded it was nothing special… even if it was filled with Mutants like her… She sighed and let her gaze travel round the grounds… Seeing if there was anything that could give her a clue as to what this place was really like…
She trusted Peter with her life… she knew that he was looking out for her best interests… but sometimes… She really questioned his decisions… Like that time he sent her on that archaeological dig… In Siberia!! Of all places to sodding send her!! He knew she loathed the cold…!
If the truth be told… she was not looking forward to this… not in the lest… But then agene… She had found at least one person in this pokey little town that she could relate to… She smiled to herself… She just hoped that once he got to know her, Mr. Wagner wouldn't think she was a complete nut case…
She suddenly spotted something very interesting in the driveway… A Motorbike… A rather nice looking hog…
//Ummm… Must belong to one of the lecturers… O.k., so there is probably two people that I can relate too in this godforsaken place…//
Before she could think further, a young 'assistant' of Peter's descended the steps of the institute and made his way to the car…
//An Institute… Peter has finely done it and stuck me in an bloody inster-sodding-tute! Pffffh! If the others could see me now… Grate… Bloody marvellous! I'm gonna be taken the Piss out of till hell freezes over once they all find out… that's all I need… I'm going to have to have some serious word with Mr. Ingram…//
The young looking man opened the door and stuck his head in the vehicle. What was his name…? Mark? Mathew? Marlon? … Whatever….
"Miss Croft, there ready for you." He said, a slight nervousness hinted in his voice, Lara found nothing new, she got that a lot. She sighed and shoved the papers unceremoniously into her bag… Like she hadn't already read them at least a dozen times!
She exited the large black car, the setting sun creating wonderful colour in the sky, the sea brazes making her inhale deeply.
"Come on… might as well get this over and done with…" She mumbled and tossed Mr. what's-his-face her bag which he barely caught without falling over. She followed the young man back up the steps and walked throw the door that he had held open, her poker face already up… until she had sounded everyone in this place out… she wasn't going to give anymore then necessary.
She walked steadily threw the door getting a quick look round.
//Big hall… Large stair case, classy…That short guy in the leather with mutton chops… must own the bike… He's actually rather cute… Bloody hell! I love that woman's hair…How in the name of buggery did she get it white! Guy in wheelchair… Must be the big boss man… and those must be my fellow student…::Sigh:: Wonderful… they look like a cheerful lot… not!//
Lara made her way up to Peter, he gave her a reassuring smile.
"This is Miss Lara Croft, your new resident…" Her guardian said cheerfully. God… she really wanted to slap him one at the moment… Plonking her in a place where she was going to be a freak among freaks… she wondered sometimes if he really did care as much about her like he said he did…
"Lara, this is Professor Xavier." Peter said indicating to the disabled man. Shook the mans offered hand. Well for once the information she was given was correct…
"Good evening Professor, Thank you for allowing me to stay here." She said politely. The bald man smiled kindly at her, his eye's held warmth and wisdom in there brown depths.
Then something odd happened… a strange feeling… Like someone was tickling the back of her brain with a feather. She shook her head and ignored it… Forcing it out, she clearing her throat and shaking her head slightly…
"Well that is a surprise…" Xavier said, a slight twinkle in his eye…
"I beg your pardon, Sir?" She said.
"Your mental barriers are surprisingly strong… you felt one of the lighted psychic scans I'm capable of…" Lara raised a dark eyebrow.
"You mean it was you making me feel like I had rat's scurrying round in the gap between my skull and brain?"
"Yes… as you might have been told… I'm a telepath… It was just a quick empathic scan… nothing to be worried about… there usually undetectable… even to other Telepaths…"
"Yes, we found that as her powers began to develop, the stronger her subconscious mind became…" Lara Slowly began to tune out Peter's proud rambling as he began to explain how bloody amazing she was… that was juuuuust what she needed… she caught the looks on the other teen's faces as Petety poo said her damned name… they already thought she was weird…
She sighed, rolled her eyes and tuned her gaze to the astonishing carpet under her feet… A rather nice shade of red… bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, BORED… She shook her head and took a deep breath to calm herself down… No good getting worked up already… Then something sparked in her brain… she snapped her head up… and inhaled deeply agene, closing her eye's to concentrate…
No… it couldn't be…? Could it? How mean people smell like that…? She tasted the air… but to anyone else it looked like she was just licking her lips… a neat little trick she had learnt over the years… Her Crystal blue eye's travelled over to the students that lived in the 'School for the gifted'. She really hadn't paid them much heed… but she now thought she should have…
//Now what have we here… short skinny, twig girl in a hideous Pink cardigan and pedal pushers… Pikkie alert!! YUCK! … but not her… Tall red head… oh now she has to be a cheerleader… Not her… short skater boy with… very interesting choice of hair colour… Nope… not him… Now… what do we have here…? Tall… brown hair… Muscular… he's not one of these, what are they called 'Jocks', doesn't have the look… nice shades though… very yummy… But not him… poo…// She was mildly interested by the other teens… that was until she got to the last one… //Well hello there…// She let her stone facade fall for a moment… changing into curiosity, astonishment and joy….
The last teen in the group was looking at her with what she could only think of as utter shock… He was remarkable! He came up to the brown hair guy's chest… His skin… No… hang on… that was FUR! Wow! Deep Indigo fur… long dark hair… Beautiful Golden eye's… and… she couldn't believe her luck! A… tail!
She couldn't help the small smile that quirked at her lips… The evidence was all there… She was 99.9% sure of who it was… The cloths where the same… the hair the same… the face the same... well, apart from the fur and eye's… god those eye's were amazing! And the dead give away… that very distinctive smell… now… how many people smell of fire, Brimstone and Sulphur, humm?
She locked eyes with the Blue boy as he walked slowly over to the small group… Ignoring the odd looks she was getting from the others in the room. She came to a halt in front of the young mutant… he still had the same blatantly shocked look in his fuzzy features...
"Kurt…?" She asked.
"Lara…?!" And bingo was his name-o… She smiled brightly at him.
"I thought that was you… I didn't recognise you for a moment. Do you live here then?" Kurt nodded, the realisation of what she was seemed to finely be sinking in.
"You're a Mutant?" He asked, regaining his voice.
"Yes… I wouldn't be here other wise…"
"You Know this young man Lara?" Mr. Ingram asked sounding some what confused…
"Yes, we meet earlier today, at the school."
"Hum… really is a small world isn't it?" Peter said with a shrug.
"Though I must say, you did look a little different the last time I saw you… Aber persönlich... ich denke, daß Ihr viel reizender auf diese Weise ist.. …" She said, surprising the X-men, in German and with a very cheeky smile. Those that knew Kurt didn't miss the blush that appeared under his fur or the very flattered smile that appeared on his face, though no one had a clue as to what she said to him... She changed the subject before things could get hairy… "But how did you do it…? Are you a shape shifter?" Kurt grinned, shook his shaggy head and held up his wrist.
"No… but by zhe magical powers of technology…," he clicked the button on his
watch and the pail skinned normal looking teen she had seen before stood in his place. "… I can pull of zhat allusion… it's an image inducer zhe professor gave me… it allows me to get out vith having gorgeous vomen mob me vhere ever I go…"
"Yeah… I bet that can get really tiring after a while…" Lara said looking very serious before chuckled. She lent down to studied the watch on the boys wrist closely "Nice…" She looked back up and grinned slyly. "Seems I'm not the only one…"
Kurt frowned and was about to ask what she meant, but was interrupted before he get her to elaborate further.
"Well, Kurt. Seeing as you and Miss Croft already are acquainted, maybe you would care to show her around the Institute?" The Professor asked smiling, already knowing the answer. Kurt's whole face lit up at the prospect.
"Sure zhing Professor!"
"Is that alright with you, Lara?" The telepath questioned. The tall, mahogany haired Briton smiled broadly and nodded vigorously.
"Umm hum… More then alright, Sir." She seamed almost as excited as Kurt was now, he was practically bouncing on the spot.
"And I believe the rest of you have homework to do?" They all groaned, Peter chuckled.
"No matter where you go… all teenagers seem to hate homework…"
"I think it's a built in response to work." Professor X mused. The adults all seemed amused at the statement. "Well while Kurt shows Lara around would you care to join me and the other instructors for a cup of tea?"
"That's the best suggestion I've heard all day… Haven't had a decent cup since I left the Heathrow…" The bearded man grinned, rubbing his hands together… "But I'm afraid I can't stay too long… I have a flight to catch later… Another business appointment…" He explained, walking over to Lara. "I'll have to say good bye to you now then, my dear…"
"Nothing new there then…," She said rolling her eye's. "Just going to dump me here to fend for myself in the wild, wild, west…" He gave her a grin.
"Now you will behave yourself this time wouldn't you?"
"I always behave myself…," She sniffed. "It just that some people have extremely stupid rules that I just can't abide by…" She said crossing her arms with a scowl. "That last place you stuck me in was a down right prison… Pfffhh! You have to be in by 11… you can't ride that thing on the roads. No drinking on Sight grounds! Treating me like I'm sodding 5 years old! I'm an adult and that was bloody humiliating…!" She sneered.
Mr. Ingram smiled. Gently and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"I know… But considering what you did to the place, on hind side, I now see that it really was a mistake… But rest assured I'm sure you'll be happy here…" Lara narrowed her eye's at him…
"You said that about the last place… and look how that turned out…" She then had a quick glance at Kurt. "But something has told me this might work out… at least for a while… that before they start try penning me in…" She smiled.
"Well, before you start giving them hell… go have a look at the place… you're the one going to be living here…"
"Don't remind me…" She mumbled. Peter chose to ignore her…
"Any, server life or death problems, who are you going to call…?"
"Ghost Busters?" Kurt rather badly tried to hide a laugh.
"Very funny…" The tall man said duly.
"Oh you and I both know I'll be fine… Now go on… bugger off… The sooner you go the sooner I can plot my sinister and ruthless revenge on you… go… shoo…" She said with a sweeping wave of her hand.
Peter shook his head and smiled fondly at the young woman.
"O.k, ok… I get the point… after I disgust some thing with the professor and the other instructors, I'll be out of your way…" He said with a pat on her shoulder. Lara nodded curtly and turned on her heal and moved over to Kurt's side.
"Well Mr. Wagner… I'm all yours…" She said with a grin.
"Wunderbar! Vaite till you see zhe hanger bay and zhe Danger room…" He said cheerfully. "Zhough you might start to loath it after a few session in zhere…"
"Danger room…? What's one of them when it's at home?" She asked.
"Bye then Lara…" Mr. Ingram called as the too teens began to move off.
"Oh, Goodbye Peter… Don't let the door hit you on the way out, will you…" Everybody else was a little taken back by the sudden rudeness Lara had taken on… but Peter only laughed, a bright smile on his bearded face.
"Ahhh… You'll miss me though…" He said cheerfully. "I know it!" Lara turned round to face him again… her face one of total seriousness.
"Of course I will Peter… as much as I miss having a root canal work done without anaesthetic to every single tooth in my mouth…" She said with the most sincere expression.
Mr. Ingram only laughed again and shook his head. Lara smirked.
"Goodbye Lara…"
"Bye Peter…" with that she turned back to Kurt. "So come on then… where's this dreaded Danger room then…"
"Follow me… Say, you vouldn't be hungrey, vould you?" he asked as they waked throw the door and disappeared…
Peter turned back to the others in the room and was meat with there curious looks.
"Oh don't worry about that… she's usually very polite… she's just still angry with me about the last place I put her in…"
"Why, what happened…?" Logan rumbled. He was already starting to like the girl. Peter rubbed the back of his neck…
"Well lets just say they weren't particularly nice to her… and she didn't take to kindly at the fact that they treated her like an animal…" He saw the strange look he got and quickly changed the subject. "Well how bout that tea, then, humm? I still have thing to discuss with you…"
"Oh, yes. Of course. Ororo if you would be so kind as to bring some tea, well be in my study. Mr. Ingram, if you would follow me please?"
"Certainly, after you. It was wonderful to meet you all…" The tall man said to the other X-men as Professor X lead him and Logan off to his large study.
"Lara… Croft…"Kitty mumbled when the adults where out of ear shot. "Is that supposed to be like, some kind of joke…?!I mean like, PLEASE!" She scoffed.
"Well you gotta admit…" Scott said running a hand throw his hair. "She did look a lot like her."
"All she needed was the shorts, guns and tight vest!" Evan said with a sly grin, nudging the taller teen in the ribs. "Man, things are going to be a lot more interesting round here with her around." Scott nodded in agreement. The girls seemed to sense what they where really thinking and scowled.
"Typical men…" Rouge mumbled. As they all trudged up the stairs to their respective rooms.
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Well that another chappie out…. sorry it took so long… But I was having major problems with the Computer…. Hopefully go it all sorted out now…
So how was it… Not finished with the surprises yet so stay tuned… your going to love it! I promise…
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