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There was an insistent droning in the Brotherhood house that very slowly began to wear on everyone's nerves slowly. Eventually it was Lance who cracked and he threw the television remote at Pietro.

"Will you quit tapping your foot already?"

The white haired mutant folded his arms. "I have a right to be annoyed – Wanda's invited some Goth boy over."

"So? She can do with torturing someone besides us for a little while." Fred bit into a huge sandwich and continued to speak. "Anyway, would you rather it was Todd?"

Pietro summed up the lesser of two evils. "Fine, but I don't have to like him coming over." He glared as Wanda came into the main room. She looked about calmly before looking at her watch in a way that made all the other mutants hold their breath.

The verdict wasn't pleasant.

"He's late."

Everyone looked at their watches which ranged from five to seven according to Fred and one past seven according to Lance.

BAMF!

"Phew, I vas vorried zhat I vas going to be late." Kurt looked at the gathering and smiled brightly in fear. "So, Wanda, upstairs or down?"

She smiled. "I'd prefer a little privacy."

"Ok, you-saw-him-and-now-you-can-go-goodbye!" Pietro whizzed behind Kurt and tried to shove him out of the door. It failed as the speedster had to stop to look at what Kurt was wearing. "Oh-my-god! Would-you-look-at-him?"

Lance raised his eyebrows. "Where you infected by one of Wanda's friends?" He shook his head and turned to look at the television. "Oh no, I threw the remote at Pietro!"

"Err, here." The blue mutant passed the remote over and was thanked before Wanda grabbed him and started dragging him upstairs. She stopped to look at his tail.

"We could definitely accessorise that."

Grabbing his tail, Kurt possessively hugged it. "Can ve-"

"Upstairs!" The Scarlet Witch started dragging him off again.

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"They've-been-in-there-for-an-hour!" Pietro removed his ear from the door to look at the other members of the brotherhood. "Well?"

"Good stamina?" Lance suggested and was mauled by the speed freak. Blob picked Pietro off and put the mutant down.

"No fighting, now." He smiled and then moved to the door, he looked at the others. "I'll just go in and see."

"Yo, no ones been able to get near that door without one of Wanda's hexes going off."

"You'll see." Blob amazingly reached the door where he chapped it. "I've got some fresh garlic bread, Wanda. Would you and your...date like some?"

"Sure, just come on in." The voice drifted through the door and, without hesitation, Fred entered the room. The brotherhood stopped to gape.

Kurt, stripped to the waist, was clinging for dear life onto the light fixture, his nails now blue again, and the Scarlet Witch was ripping up his simple black t-shirt.

"If you wear this over a red t-shirt it'll look really good." Wanda smiled and accepted the plate from the open mouthed Blob. "You can go now."

Alvers looked about the room, spying a bottle that read 'nail varnish remover' and some tissues stained black. So that was why Kurt had been there. "Yeah, sure. Just give us a call if you want anything, or if he annoys you then we'll throw him out."

"Well..." Wanda smiled darkly. "If you could just shake him off the ceiling, it would be appreciated – I don't want to hex him on our first date."

Pietro suddenly started running about in a small circle.

The blue mutant, who had been about to testify against the idea of a date, fell off the ceiling in laughter when he realised the joke. So Wanda wanted to tease Pietro, that was fine by him. The Scarlet Witch caught his tail and dragged him onto the bed.

"Sit, stay." She commanded.

"Woof." Kurt growled dryly and huffily folded his arms.

"Good boy." Wanda held out a bit of garlic bread absently whilst rooting about in a box, Kurt jokingly bit into the food.

Pietro suddenly hit the wall.

"I'll sweep him up." Fred picked up the bundle and paused at the door. "Do you need anything Wanda? Tabitha will be back at nine, I can call her if you want something from the shops."

Dismissing them with a wave of her hand, Wanda took the tail again. "Some water for me, Kurt?"

The blue mutant blinked then grinned. "A get out of jail card? And some soda. Oh, and maybe a gut bomb. I missed my after dinner feast."

"That's terrible. I'll get you something." Wanda left the room since all the brotherhood had already gone. The moment she was out of sight, Kurt made his own great escape.

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Whistling, Fred started to go up the stairs and then turned around on the landing, scooping up Kurt like a large cat. The blue mutant watched as the front door slowly got smaller and then the kitchen door closed, blocking his freedom from sight altogether.

The Blob put Kurt down on the table and moved to the oven, the smells of food weakening Kurt's resolve to escape.

Halfway into his first serving, Wanda entered the room looking annoyed until her eyes fell on Kurt. She looked over to Fred who was droning away about what spices he'd used and put two and two together. After all, Kurt had said he was hungry so Fred must have brought him down to be fed.

She was going to have to have words later about removing her dates from her room. "Everything alright?"

"Ze food is vunderful." Kurt looked at his plate, over loaded with food and then he looked at the tiny dish next to it. His tail offered the small dish to Wanda. "Vould you like some?"

"You still owe me."

Kurt swallowed thickly. He knew the food was a ploy! He wouldn't be able to talk with his mouth so full.

At that moment, Tabitha entered singing a song loudly then stopped when she saw Kurt wearing just baggies and lots of leather accessories. She grinned. "Meow, wild blue yonder boy!"

Wanda narrowed her eyes. "Sorry, Tabby, he's currently here with me."

The blue mutant franticly tried to swallow then remembered he had to chew first.

Tabitha narrowed her eyes. "And what spell did you cast to get cute and blue to look at you?"

Kurt frantically tried to find a napkin to spit into, or water to aid his swallowing. He tried to sign that this was all a misunderstanding and he was then given his water by Fred.

"I didn't put too much spice in that, did I? I wasn't aware it was so hot."

"The only hot thing in here is blue." Tabitha retorted.

Lance, Todd and Pietro walked into the kitchen and looked at the two girls with Kurt, still topless; on the kitchen table gulping down some water as if his life depended on it.

Then again if there was a cat fight, his life probably did.

"Girls!" He grinned, panting slightly. "I have to go to ze mansion now, curfew and all." Kurt slowly edged back then paused. "Is my shirt still in your room, Wanda?"

Tabitha's jaw hit the ground.

"On the bed where you left it."

"Ja..." Kurt bolted upstairs almost faster than Pietro could have done it. Gentlemanly duty forced him to return to the kitchen as he tried to sort out the torn, yet still clingy, top. "Um, I'll see you all at school, ja?"

The blonde girl looked set to hyperventilate. "What happened to your top!?"

"Vell it vas whole vhen I came here but Wanda got sort of caught up in ze moment." He paused then covered his mouth to try and hide his mortified grin. "Zhat came out totally wrong – don't kill me, Pietro."

The white haired mutant cracked his fists. "You'd better start explaining, you blue furred freak of nature." He suddenly lit up a brilliant green then hit the floor in a smoking heap.

"Now that over protective brothers have been dealt with," Wanda wiped her hands together, "shall we meet up again, same time tomorrow?"

The blue mutant looked at the chaos. "About zhat favour?"

"Of course, I need some time to think it over."

Everyone hit the floor in frozen heaps as Kurt just cradled his head. "Auf weidersien, frauline." He vanished in a puff of smoke.

The kitchen erupted into chaos.

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The mansion kitchen erupted into chaos when Kurt appeared on the table with his shirt all torn and his blue fur burning a bright mauve. He shook his head at their shocked faces and sat down on a seat where he tried to catch his breath.

"What did they do to you?" Scott demanded.

Rouge shook her head. "Ah think he needs a little air." She waited for half a second. "Well?"

The blue mutant looked at her then at all the other girls. "Zere is no such zing as nail varnish remover? Ze bottle said nail varnish remover! I've had to endure Pietro giving me ze third degree as suitable boyfriend material, zen I'm taken to Wanda's room, zen I'm sticking to ze ceiling vhilst she's cutting my shirt up and talking about studded tail things and -"

"Kurt, take a deep breath." Jean tried to soothe the stricken mutant.

Rahne grabbed one of Kurt's sleeves and sniffed it. "He smells strongly like Wanda, his fur even smells like her perfume." She sniffed his neck pointedly. "So then, what happened? Did she kiss you?"

"Nein!" Kurt panicked for a moment before regaining his composure. "Vhere vas I again? Oh, ja. Sticking to ze ceiling before Fred valks in vith garlic bread, zen I make my great escape before he picks me up like some katzchen! Zhen I'm fed before Tabitha comes in and all hell broke loose! Ze innuendos!"

The door opened and Logan entered, smoking a cigar. He stopped behind the elf and leaned over before taking a deep sniff. Patting the blue mutant on the back, he moved to the fridge and returned with a bottle of beer.

"Logan! You can't give him that!"

"It'll calm his nerves, the elf needs it. Especially when he finds out that I know he pulled that tutu stunt."

Kurt looked at the beer and downed it before resting his head on the table. "I'm doomed! Wanda vants to meet again tomorrow!"

"What time, bub?"

"Seven."

"I'll make sure your out in time for a shower then."

"Vhat! Nein, you have to be against zhis entirely, you have to ground me!" Kurt paused. "Extra danger room sessions for zhat stunt I pulled?"

Logan took a sip of his own beer bottle. "Nah, this is punishment enough, besides, I think a relationship amongst the two groups is just what we need. One happy family."

"Um, Mr Logan?" Kitty raised a hand. "I'm going out with Lance, and you're like, totally against it."

"That's because he's a jerk with a one track mind, half pint." Logan paused, grinning as he picked at Kurt's torn shirt. "She's a feisty thing."

"Nein!" Kurt howled, turned round and teleported from the room.

Scott found his voice. "You can't be serious about this Logan; it's a security threat for one thing!"

Wolverine smiled. "Don't worry; the elf will be far too busy saving his hide to give away secrets. And anyhow, those two were made for each other."

"Like me and Lance."

"Like half-pint isn't made for Lance." Logan nodded. "Now, who wants an extra danger room session, I know Kurt is going to be attending, or he will be grounded to the brotherhood house."

Jean raised her eyebrows. "Is that fair?"

Bobby suddenly grinned. "Yeah, alls fair in love and war."

"We all know you were behind that banana pie incident." Logan smirked. "And for letting Kurt take the blame, you're coming too."

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The danger room session had been brutal to put it mildly and all the mutants slowly dragged themselves to wait near the showers. As usual, Kurt had teleported up and put a 'do not disturb' sign on the one he was in.

Except he wasn't in there but actually teleporting about the mansion switching everyone's CD's about. It was just a little too typical how everyone listened to just one kind of music and none other, so he was set to change all that.

Even if it was just for a few minutes.

He teleported into the bathroom and started to wash the smell of Wanda out of his fur, Rahne had made it extremely clear how she could smell it and had even named the scent for him. All Logan had done was compliment her on her good work.

But go figure, who'd have thought Wanda would wear one named 'Poison'.

Kurt stepped out of the shower, drying up his fluffy fur. He paused and carefully sniffed the torn up shirt. It actually smelled quite nice.

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Breakfast was the usual chaos that had begun to be classed as hopelessly normal now at the institute. The mutants scrapped to have the last of the food on offer, to try and retrieve some from the garbage disposal known as Kurt, and also a good deal of the boys where telling innuendos at the mention of the night before with Kurt and Wanda.

The blue mutant refused to bite the bait however as he was surprised that no one had even mentioned the switched CD's yet. Perhaps they weren't as 2-D as he had suspected after all. He froze as Rahne leaned over and sniffed his shirt.

"Vill you please stop doing zhat?"

"I was just smelling."

"Seeing – I mean, smelling vhat?"

The girl grinned wolfishly. "Well, you had a shower last night, so you'd smell like a certain person if you decided to take a certain shirt to cuddle."

He nearly killed her. "I vasn't cuddling any shirts! I only vent to put zat one in ze wash – though Ororo vill probably think it should belong in ze bin."

"I think it's sweet that you want to keep it." The werewolf smiled and batted her eyelashes. "If you want, I can get you some of that perfume so you can keep remembering her."

Kurt very nearly killed her again. "Zhat's alright, I vont be needing it." He suddenly smiled, catching sight of Scott's glare. "After all, I'm going to see ze girl in question tonight."

Scott hit his head off the table as Rahne fell off her seat, shifting to a wolf and then howling. Her wolf whistles were joined with cat calls from the others and Kurt cradled his head, wondering why on earth he had said that.

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He was feeling depressed. Kurt sat alone at a table, void of any friends as they had completely abandoned him after his recent make over. He didn't want to sit with the other x-men having endured constant teasing. In fact, he was probably fitting into the stereotyped role he had chosen.

Vunderbar.

Oh, and he had forgotten his lunch.

Double vunderbar.

"Mind if I sit here?" Fred sat down anyway, his weight causing the side of the bench where Kurt sat to rise off the ground a few inches. "I was wondering if you could tell me what I've done wrong with this food I cooked last night."

Things were suddenly looking up "Of course, anything for a friend." He happily accepted the food – a small feasts worth – and tucked into it. The only fault he could think of was that perhaps not everyone appreciated such spicy food. Oh well, all the more for him.

"What-you-doing-sitting-with-that-X-geek?" Pietro appeared in a blur and glared at Kurt as if he was some parasite with the cheek to be next to him.

"He's got a point, yo." Todd jumped onto the bench, trying to look menacing.

It failed as Kurt's tail grabbed his foot and whipped him out of the way of his food. "Eating. Leave alone."

Fred's eyes were brimming with tears of joy.

"He's actually eating that?" Lance looked shocked, jumping to his feet. "Someone get a fire hydrant!"

Blob growled and then put an arm over Kurt's shoulder. "Hey, he's cool, he's not an x-geek, he's Wanda's boyfriend."

The blue mutant chocked, then looked over to Pietro who was seething, his fists clenching and unclenching. Kurt quickly swallowed. "Now, now, Pietro, ve're not really...going out. She vas just taking advantage of a bad sit-"

"She wasn't taking advantage! Wanda would never take advantage – you were!"

Lance grabbed Pietro and forced him to sit down. "Can it. Anyway, what can it hurt? The number of 'accidents' around Wanda towards us has reduced to nil!"

"Unless you're Tabitha." Todd laughed. "Those two are like cat and dog."

Shying away, Kurt smiled politely and tried to get away with as much food as possible. Unfortunately, he didn't take heed of the warning signals from the brotherhood and he froze as he bumped into someone.

Giggles accompanied the hands that slid under his shirt and pulled it off. Wanda held the article at arms length in front of her before grinning. "It needs some tears in it – it's too plain."

Kurt was standing there, in the middle of the quad with no shirt on and the girl who took it was discussing ideas with Lance. He decided to sit down and rescue it. And perhaps save some sanity if there was time.

A few tables away, Scott glowered and tried to ignore the giggles from the girls and comments about Kurt's 'slim but toned' physique. He looked at them sharply. "They're turning him!"

"Oh, Scott, don't be silly. Kurt's incorruptible." Jean waved a hand to the blue mutant who was trying to get his shirt back except Wanda had it out at arms length with one of her slim hands resting on his chest.

Rogue raised her eyebrows. "I think she likes the feeling of his fur – she's stroking him!"

The Scarlet Witch now had one arm looped about his waist and the shirt above his head.

"She's like, totally evil." Kitty glowered then her eyes opened in wide shock. "Oh my god, that's like, like totally, just like totally, like, like wrong!"

Scott's eyes snapped back to the pair and his jaw fell open.

Wanda had Kurt on the ground, flat on his back and was straddling him in an attempt to stop him jumping up and grabbing the shirt dangling centimetres from his nose.

The red head telepath smiled as she closed Scott's mouth. "Lighten up, they're allowed to have a little fun. Should we help Kurt?" She made an 'o' with her fingers and lined it up with Wanda's head. She flicked.

Kurt suddenly had Wanda flat against his chest, noses inches apart. Immediately, he rolled her over and found himself straddling her this time. Blushing, an act only too noticeable with his image inducer on, he bolted to his feet then helped her up, grabbed his shirt and hid behind Fred.

There was silence at the x-men's table before they all burst out laughing.

The blue mutant looked longingly at the table and decided to make a sprint for it. Only Fred was talking about an idea for his desert. Ignoring his stomach, Kurt ran for it only to trip over Todd and be carried back by Lance who seated him next to Wanda.

She batted her eyelashes at him and started to rub one of her hands against his bare arm as he feebly clutched at his shirt which he still hadn't put on yet.

Pietro seemed to be the only mutant in the brotherhood present unhappy to see Kurt with Wanda. That changed when suddenly Tabitha appeared and ran her hands up the blue mutants back, causing him to yowl slightly.

They all looked at him.

"Vhat? I'm pretty much feline any vay." Kurt regretted those words instantly as Wanda decided to see if he could purr.

The x-men slowly looked back at their plates in slight shock at the antics. It was a hard concept to understand that the brotherhoods actually wanted one of them, the x-men, near them let alone at their table. There had to be a reason and –

BAMF

Kurt panted and fell practically on Kitty's lap as he tried to catch his breath. Looking up, he realised where he was and leapt up to sit as far from anything female as possible.

That happened to be next to Scott and the blue mutant used him as a prop as he wriggled into his shirt, cursing the fact that it was a tight one.

"Zey must have all shrunk in ze wash."

"Or you've put on weight from all those gut bombs you eat." Scott replied dryly.

"Like, Kurt, why do those idiots like, want to sit next to you?"

The blue mutant looked at Kitty with a lopsided smile. "They've realised ze benefits of Wanda having something furry to pet. She's stopped torturing zem and all her energy is focused on keeping up vith me." He paused. "Ah! Verdamment innuendos!"

Rogue laughed as her brother hit his head off the table. It might benefit the brotherhood but it sure made for good entertainment for the x-men.

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After enduring a thorough sniffing by Rahne and having her declare that he reeked of Wanda, Kurt managed to escape them all and get on with his homework before his danger room session and then his 'date' with Wanda. The fact that he was high up a tree didn't matter to him, so long as he got some peace and quiet with just his music in his ears.

It wasn't to last as all too soon it was time for dinner which was excruciatingly painful as all the new mutants had learned somehow of today's happenings at school. Also, Scott was still determined that the brotherhood would corrupt him and Magneto would have a new member.

Then it was a quick hour for more homework and then a danger room session in which Logan made him run his laps twice over. Though the gruff Canadian was true to his words and let him off early enough to shower and be ready for seven.

Just what shirt to wear was a problem since every time he had met Wanda recently, Kurt had lost it. He settled for his net top since it was practically non-existent anyway and couldn't have any more holes added to it.

Kurt, may you come to my office?

He glanced at the clock, noted that he had ten minutes to go and so teleported to Professor Xavier's office. "You asked for me?"

The man smiled and sat back. "Yes, I did. I've heard through the grapevine of your involvement with a member of the Brotherhood of late."

"Ja, I hope you don't disapprove, its just zhat -"

"Oh no, why would I disapprove? I commend you on helping to bridge the gap between our two factions and when the day comes that we are revealed, they will perhaps listen to us."

Kurt frowned, he hadn't actually thought about all that. "I just zink zat zhis is -"

Professor Xavier smiled again. "I understand your embarrassment, but you needn't worry at all. She knows how you look and obviously finds you attractive the way you are. You don't need to be so bashful, live a little. Now, I believe I've kept you long enough from your date."

"Ja..." The blue mutant teleported to his room, shaking his head in disbelief. The most powerful telepath in the world had gotten the wrong end of the stick. With another shake of his head, Kurt grabbed a small box and teleported.

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