Chapter 7
Dr. Metzger was looking at the pictures Raptor took. They were on her website. "Authentic enough, but I don't know."
"Aw, it's from my cuz, she never lied in her life. That little shelia is a good girl." Zach said.
"I know, but how could this happen. What will happen if someone gets hurt, or worse. Mutants will no doubt take the blame. We are the new scapegoats."
"That won't happen." The Professor said. "The X-Men will stop it. We must take care of the business here, and keep our eyes on Pine Gap. They will have to stop whatever happens in the states by themselves. I have faith in them."
Kathy woke up with a huge headache. Last night before they came home, Kathy and Kurt got a little drunk. She was looking for a glass of water on her table, she found two aspirin. "Blue boy." She took the two aspirin and tried to get out of bed. No use. She just fell back in. She looked at the clock, it read 9:30. "Ugg." No point, the aspirin wouldn't kick in until ten. Kathy shrugged and used all her strength to get up. She did it. "Finally"
Kathy got dressed and walked out the door. Kurt was standing right there and scared her. "Aaah. Kurt!"
"Vat? Did I scare you?" Kurt said.
"Just a little bit. Don't do that when I'm hung over." Kathy said with a cold look.
"Oh vell, you should've voken up earlier and taken an aspirin so by zis time you vouldn't feel like crap." Kurt said with an I told you so voice.
"Oh shut up. The last thing I want is a blue German telling me what to do." Kathy walked past Kurt and down the stairs.
"I'm just saying."
"Don't say anything."
As they entered, Kathy saw everyone smiling at the two of them.
"A little drunk last night, eh?" Ray said
"Yeah, look out, the hangover king and queen have arrived." Bobby smirked
"Oh shut up all of you." Kurt said
"So how many drinks did you two have?" Kitty said
"Too many." Was all Kathy said
"So Kathy do you have any idea what these things are?" Scott was talking about the alien things
"Sierra Rip, a theory I made that would explain why some wormholes allow life forms to pass through and others don't. The Sierra Rip is something that allows alien life forms to come out. It is a physics thing, but I have enough info to prove it, and it has just been proven."
"Okay, I'm not going to believe that until I get hard evidence." Tobius said
"Tobius, you are the one who brought the thing home, you of all people should believe it, and I'm not talking to you today." Kathy turned her back to him
"What your still mad about yesterday!?" Kurt shot Tobius a mean look. "You too?"
"Tobius, why don't you go to vork." Kurt said flatly
"Fine, okay. I can tell when I'm unwanted." Tobius walked out the door
"Finally. I swear if he wasn't my brother I would kill him." Kathy said with closed fists
"But Kathy, like, some killers will like kill family members without intentions." Kitty said
Kathy put her evil plotting smile on her face.
"Don't get any ideas Kat." Scott said
"Will you stop calling me that. You are missing a 'h-y' at the end of my name."
"Look. We aren't going anywhere with this thing if we keep talking about how many drinks Raptor and Nightcrawler had, or how Camouflage is such a jerk, we need to know where this is from, okay?" Jean said. Everyone nodded. "Good."
"Okay, like I said, this is from a Sierra Rip. This creature is from the far reaches of our galaxy, or beyond. We need info on what causes wormholes and try to figure out if there is an element that lets life forms pass through." Kathy said
"This is hard to believe that what you just said is coming from a girl who dresses like that." Jean said. Kathy looked down at her outfit. She was wearing a gray quarter length sleeve tight fitting top with a black Korn shirt with the sleeves torn off over it, with faded cargo jeans, a nose ring, spiked, studded, gel, miniature hand cuff bracelets up to where her sleeve sopped, including the image inducer and a sweat band with Garfield on it, an ankle belt on her right ankle made from small sea shells, one bracelet on her tail and a leather rope necklace with a clear quartz stone that Kathy never takes off.
"Going for the Goth punk look?" Jean asked
"Well actually I'm going for the look that says, 'stay the heck away from me'." Kathy smiled
"Vell, it is a little bit more Goth, zen punk, but I like it." Kurt said with thumbs up "But no offense Kathy, but it is hard to zat believe you are a cheer leader, I mean your not a btch, well not most of za time, or a snob, whre, or slt."
Kathy just looked at him then said "I like to be different." Kathy made a small chirping sound
"Yeah if you didn't look like a woman, you could pass as a guy, Kathy." Scott said
"Well then, just call me one of the guys." Kathy said smiling her toothy grin
"Okay zen." Kurt walked over to the body of the thing Tobius found yesterday. It started to smell. "Vat are ve actually going to do vith zis zing? It is starting to smell really bad."
"Well my elfin friend, I thought that we could study it more, and by we, I mean me since you people are all to lazy to!" Kathy said
"Okay, okay. Zere isn't any reason to get mad." Kurt said backing down. "But vat if zere are more of zese zings, I mean vat if it kills somebody? Or vorse, it gets in trouble vith someone ve know, like za brotherhood."
"Well that won't happen, I think." Jean said with uncertainty
"The brotherhood. You people are always talking about them, it sounds like I could whoop their arse's." Kathy said
"Don't underestimate them Kat, they can hurt you." Scott said putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Ja, or Tobius vill just scare zem to death by turning into a half decomposed dragon like he did last veek." Kurt shuddered at the though. It was the one of the only times he was truly scared. Kurt didn't scare easily, but when face to face with a decomposing dragon with maggots crawling around was something that would scare anyone.
Kathy was in her room getting ready for her date with Ian. She felt a little bad though. She had to admit it, she was really getting into Kurt, even though she has yet to tell anyone. She day dreamed sometimes about him, and almost said something out loud once. Kathy sighed, she knew this was one of those things that would never happen. She knew that Kurt and Amanda were destined for each other. Still, she wanted to share a kiss on his lips. Her tail flicked back and forth with passion as she hugged the stuffed T-rex Kurt gave her to say he was sorry for the time he teleported on her undressing. She bit her lip and plopped down on her bed. The silky sheets felt soft on her bare body. "Mmm, Kurt. What I wouldn't give for your arms to be around me, for your soft warm touch." Kathy said softly to herself. She closed her eyes and brought her T-rex, who she dubbed Sue after the famous fossil, closer to her chest.
BAMF
"Oh Kathy. Pretty boy is here." Kurt sang. Her curtains were closed, a sign that she was not dressed.
She opened her eyes and got up. "Stop calling Ian a pretty boy." Kathy put her clothes on that she was to wear. It was a navy blue top that was long sleeve on one side, and spaghetti strap on the other. With that she wore leather flared pants, and took off her bracelets, but kept her quartz necklace on. It was meaningful to her. When she was born, both she and Tobius got one, but he never wore it. Kathy walked over and opened the curtains. "Well, well. What do we have here? You look like Dr. Evil, you know." Kurt sat on the edge with Cookie in his lap.
"Vell zen, I might as vell ask for 100 million dollars." Kurt said smiling
"So what are you going to do tonight all by your lonesome. Amanda has family over, Scott and Jean are going out, Tobius is going to the electronics shop for stuff, and I don't know what everyone else is doing, but probably something you don't want." Kathy said as she fliped her image inducer on. "Well I better get going." Kathy stroked Kurt's jaw line as she walked away.
"Auf wiedersehen." Kurt said with a silly look on his face. He hated it when Kathy did that. First of all he was a little ashamed of that because Kathy was his friend, perhaps his best friend, and he had a feeling that she kind of liked him, by the way she flirted the most around him, even though she flirted with all guys. Second, if she did like him, she would be acting a little sluttish if she was dating Ian. Kurt sighed. He hated to think of stuff like that.
BAMF
Kurt ported one foot above his bed and fell into it. "But vat if she does like me." Kurt though for a second, he could go through her room for her diary, since he's seen her right down poems, more than personal thoughts in it. She has even read him some. Kurt found them beautiful, but they are cold and dark, always talking about depression, or pain, or the loss of someone she loved. Kurt thought about it then erased the thought. He did that once with Kitty and almost lost her friendship, he wasn't about to lose someone like Kathy. He could ask people, but judging by the way Kathy thinks, she probably never told anyone. He was so confused, he never felt such mixed emotions before.
Yo, Kurt. Dude are you still mad at me? Tobius flew onto Kurt's balcony ledge as a owl. Kurt threw his pillow at him. Yaahh! Hey watch buddy. I'm trying to do something I normally don't. Tobius landed on Kurt's bed next to him. I'm just trying to say I'm sorry. Tobius morphed into a kitten with big eyes.
"I forgive you, but morph back, I'm starting to feel pity for you." Kurt's stomach growled. "Vats for dinner?"
"Chicken flambé, mash potatoes flambé, chili flambé, salad flambé." Tobius said as he morphed back
"Vat is vith all za flambé?" Kurt asked and cocked his head
"Stoves on fire, but there is some leftover pizza still, if you like mold."
BAMF
Bobby was busy putting the fire out to notice. "So Kurt dinners ready." Bobby smiled weakly
"No zanks. I'm trying to cut down on my ash in my food." Kurt grabbed a bag of chips and headed to watch some TV.
"Come back here and linger!" Bobby yelled
Kurt plopped on the couch next to Kitty.
"Vat are ve vatching?"
"Real World."
Kurt made a sickening face. "Vy vatch ziz crap, it's just people going of to some expensive place zat only us normal people can never go to, and zen camera men record zeir lives. Vy don't ve vatch something better. Monty Python is on BBC now."
"Kurt you know I don't like stuff like that, it like rots the intellect, but I guess that like wouldn't matter with you." Kitty started to giggle. "Besides, what do you mean normal? Look at you. You have a tail, fangs, three fingers, two toes, elf ears, indigo hair, and blue fur all over. Your like anything but normal."
"Oh sure beat me ven I'm still down." Kurt snatched the controls from Kitty's hand. What she said made him feel a little bad.
"Hey, I was watching!" Kitty demanded
"I'm sorry, za non normal one can't understand you normal people." Kurt flipped to Monty Python
"Kurt."
"Keety." Kurt mimicked
"Give me those controls you blue fuzzy elf!"
"You know your cute ven your angry" Kurt smiled as he jumped to the love seat.
"Get back here!" Kitty yelled. Kurt teleported to the other side of the mansion. "I'm going to turn you into a floor rug, you blue fuzzy, thing!"
At the other side of the mansion, Kurt collapsed to the floor laughing. He had the controls, but no TV.
Just then Kitty fazed threw the floor. "Ah ha! I found you, now give me the controls back Kurt!"
"Never!" Kurt tried to run, but Kitty yanked hard on his tail. He gave a loud yelp of pain. He fell on his back. "Do you mind letting go of mien tail, Kitty." Kurt said in a weak voice as Kitty squeezed harder.
"Only if you give me the controls."
"Okay, okays. Just have mercy on my tail." Kurt bit his lip to hold back the pain.
"I win." Kitty said as they fazed threw the floor.
"So, Ian, how did you get the money for this?" Kathy was at a four star restaurant with Ian. So far he had taken her to the park, to see his band play at House Of Blues in New York City, and last was the dinner at 10:00 at night.
"Oh it wouldn't matter for someone with as much beauty that you have" Ian put his hand atop Kathy's.
"Ian, my friends have been pretty mean to you, saying that you're a pretty boy, but I think there is something more to you then that. So what do you think is my most perfect feature, that doesn't have to do with my body." Kathy said. She wanted to find out if he was just dating her for her looks.
"Well, gee that's kinda hard. I mean I just can't find anything but your body interesting." Kathy just looked at him.
"Well Ian, chocolate milkshakes are like that too, they just can't find anyone else to be poured on but you." Kathy took her shake and poured it on his head. "I hope you have a good time alone cretin." Kathy got up and walked away. She was sick of guys only liking her for her looks. But she had a bigger problem. She was five miles from home. She took out her cell and called Tobius. It gave no answer. "Aw fudge. Why can't my idiot brother ever leave his cell on?" Kathy said to no one. She sighed and walked home. Personally she wasn't as mad as some girls would have been if their boyfriends said they only liked them for their looks. Kathy was a little relived, the weight on her shoulders was gone. She thought about Kurt. 'What in the world gave me this crush. I love a man that I can never have, but the knowing I can't have him makes me want him more. All I want is his love. I just want him to hold me, to always be with me. Something I always needed.' Kathy lifted her head and looked inside a store window. She saw her reflection. "What happened to you Raptor? You were this cold person that hated the world, but you know love it's lavish beauty it. You would push people around, kill for money, believed in false love, but you find out tonight that you fall for it again. What is the point? You think your going somewhere, but your not. Just ending up in the same story, but with added twists.
"You will never find one that truly loves you, just some bastard that that likes you for your looks. But they won't like you if they saw the real you. They will fear you, and hate you, just like so many once did. But their was only one that cared, and you love him but you will never get him. And there is one who also cared too, but he is dead. Dead from the bullet of your gun." Kathy wiped away a tear. In the reflection she saw a quick glimpse of Trex staring at her smiling menacingly. Kathy jumped and looked around. Nothing. Just an illusion created from the memories of her dark past.
"Get a grip girl, your strong." Kathy tried to reassure herself. She took out her cell again to try to call someone else. "Scott's on date, Kurt broke his, Rogue doesn't have one, Kitty drives like a maniac. Why aren't any of my friends reachable!" Kathy yelled at the black twilight. An owl flew by.
What do you mean Kath? Tobius was that owl.
"Toby, you are one sly guy." Kathy shook her head and smiled.
"Ian turn out to a self centered pretty boy like we said? Tobius landed on Kathy's shoulder.
"Yeah, I just thought someone would be different, You know." Kathy put her head down.
Yeah, life's like that sis, you should know that, but I think you should tell him.
Kathy's head sprang up. "You know!?"
Kathy, I'm your bro, of course, but your right, you'll never get Kurt's love. He has Amanda, and those two are inseparable.
"Right. But you must promise me that you'll tell no one. A twins promise."
Kath, you know I you would never tell anyone. Now how about a ride on the griffon express?
"I'd like that."