[*Cowers inside bomb shelter* Please don't kill me for taking so long to update! I never meant to leave you with that cliffie for so long, I swear!
[I think that you should probably all have me on author alert, instead of your favourites lists. I'm not offended by it, or anything – let's face it, it's much better for everyone.]
Monster shifted in her chair. "My – power – is adaptation, as I just showed you. It's half-conscious – if I'm in physical danger, my body adapts to protect me automatically, but I can also force changes. I wanted to be safe from the hunters, so I thought that poison would be the best way to ensure it." Professor X nodded, remembering the chant of, 'Not to kill, just to sleep'. "But I was focussing on the fact that they were large and strong, and so – when I clawed Kurt, he got too much poison for his body to handle. It was designed to make grown men comatose, and he was only seven, and…" she trailed off, shrugging.
Professor Xavier considered her carefully. "So what did you do? You must have done something for him."
Monster drew in a breath. "I – know quite a bit about – physiology, and biochemistry, and related areas of scientific knowledge. And since my power is half-conscious, I found a way of…" she paused, trying to think of the right way to explain it. "I found a way of giving Kurt something of my own powers of adaptation. The pills are made of my altered venom. They force his body to adapt to the poison, which means that so long as he takes the pills, he doesn't have any problems."
"So what went wrong?"
Monster's lips twisted bitterly. "He's never been happy with the fact that I clawed him, and knowing what I did to keep him from dying –" Professor X realised that she meant the mental link she had somehow forged between them – "just made him more scared of me. So he's been blocking off the memories. But that meant that when he moved here, he didn't remember to let me know about it, so I couldn't get him another supply of the pills when he ran out. I didn't even know that he'd moved to America, at first," she added with a sigh. "It's taken me almost three weeks to find him and get the medicine to him."
"And you're sure it hasn't been too long?" Professor X asked her.
Monster met his eyes. "I'm hoping –" she began, then shot out of her chair and headed to the door.
What? the Professor asked.
Kurt's body is reacting against the pills, she answered, already out of the door.