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Whoa! After about a year's hiatus I've finally updated! I hope you all will still be interested! Again, be sure to read purple sky first! I LOVE YOU GUYS! I MISSED YOU ALL!!!! Sorry if it's not that great, but I have to get back in the groove of things, ya' know??

Kurt and Aurora walked at the edge of the water, their hands intertwined. There eyes

showing signs of hope, Aurora looked up at him, his eyes shining

passionately in the dark. Two bright yellow orbs that seemed to be floating in the night.

She leaned her head on his shoulder, breathing him in. He reached down and took her

horrid looking hand in his three-fingered one, and held it to his chest, to his heartbeat,

which beat right in time with hers. He had her back. And at that exact moment, time

seemed to freeze, and nothing else mattered. Nothing, that is, until the young girl stopped

in her tracks and her voice caught in her throat. Kurt glanced at her, her blue eyes

clouded over in...what was it? Shock? Horror? Thought?

"Kurt, uh......" Aurora started, staring blankly at a post near the deserted

lifeguard station.

"vhat is it, darling?"

"l-l-look." Aurora stammered, quickly licking her lips and motioning towards the

post with her disfigured hands. She tromped over to the post and ripped a ragged piece of

paper off of the post as roughly as a lion might dismember its prey. "I have a frigging

price on my head!!!"

1,000,000,000,000 for the return of: Subject A18. Answers to name "aurora". Blonde

hair, blue eyes. Considered armed and dangerous. Approach with caution. If you obtain

any information, please call 555-9135 office of William Stryker.

It read. And directly underneath it? A picture of Aurora. Scowling at the camera in her

laboratory test subject uniform. Aurora looked upon her picture with a look of true

disgust and threw it down. She plopped down in the sand, feeling it squish between her

toes and legs, and vomited. Kurt rushed to her side and held her golden hair back, talking

calmly to her all the while.

"it's okay liebchen, be strong, liebchen."

Finally, she looked back up at him. The fire, the passion had gone out of her once bright

topaz blue eyes. Those eyes that just a few minutes ago, had a flame like nobody else's.

They were now dull. Lifeless. And Kurt knew that she was gone from there. She was

hidden away, locked inside of her head somewhere, her thoughts............and that she

may never resurface again.

Logan and Ororo stepped back into the mansion, weary and at the end of their ropes.

"thank you for calling us, Jean! It's a good thing we have a telepath on our side,

eh, 'Ro?" Logan glanced over his shoulder at the exhausted willowy figure behind him.

"Yes. Indeed. Thank you, Jean." Said Ororo, using a chair for support, and in fear

that she may fall asleep any minute -no- any second.

"well, as soon as I figured out she was with Kurt, I figured I'd let you two know,

right?"

"thanks again, kid." Said Logan, ruffling her hair and wandering off to bed, his

feet clomping noisily as usual.

Aurora stood defiantly at the edge of the rocks, leading out to a swirling inky mass. The

ocean crashed upon them spraying her face slightly with it's tears.

"Kurt!" her voice cuts through the tension in the air like a knife. Kurt winces at

his name, and steps forward out of the shadows. Aurora turned to him, her once warm,

bright eyes cold, like steel. He knew she was reverted back to her cold, defensive self.

Her defensive mode.

"Kurt, I'm going to figure out what happened! What happened to my hands,

where my father is.....and then I'm going to find Stryker and FIX this mess! Kurt....."

Aurora dashed over to him, taking him into her arms, caressing him. Like a child.

Grabbing his blue-black hair between her fingers, she pulled his head to hers....and

kissed him passionately upon his lips. "Remy was wrong, I was wrong. I'm poison, Kurt.

Don't follow me." She rasped in his pointed ear, and before Kurt could figure out what

had happened, she was gone. Alone in the night, the darkness enveloping his small frame,

Kurt fell to his knees. She was right. She was poison..........and he was broken.