Here's another chapter! hope this one is just as good as the others!

I do not own the X-Men, yadda, yadda, yadda....... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*

It was 11:30 at night at the Mansion. All was quiet and peaceful and everyone was in bed. They had a rough week with final exams, and they just had their last one today. Well, everyone except Kurt. He couldn't go to school because of what he looked like....Kurt sighed with sorrow. Why did he have to look like this? Why couldn't he be "normal" like everyone else? Then he could go to school, try this "shopping" idea, and not have any cares at all.....Only one person, besides the Professor, didn't really care how he looked.

GOD how he missed her...he used to sit on the banks of his river by his home in Germany with her. He would play with that golden hair that he used to call "angel's hair" and stare into those sky blue eyes. Sometimes, he would chase her through the woods when she had a lot of energy. Rather like a cat, she was, with her amazing reflexes and her speed...he would always catch her in the end, but they would roll on the ground, laughing together. The first time he ever did that with her, he rolled on top of her and saw her beautiful, laughing face, and kissed her. He kissed her a long time, long and passionate. He loved this girl. He loved her so much.

But then, the fire happened. It all started out innocently, when Kurt bamfed himself and her up to the top of a building. It was so tall, you could see over the entire city by looking all around you. She jumped up and down with glee, she could hardly contain herself. She jumped into his arms and kissed him soundly. "Ich liebe dich,"* she said. "Ich liebe dich," Kurt sayed, smiling. They lay down on the warm concrete next to each other, smiling...they always were smiling, it seemed.

BOOM!

They bolted upright. They looked at each other, quickly, fear crawling over her face....Kurt crept to the edge of the building and started to look down. Suddenly, flames shot up and licked his face, almost singing his fur. His beloved suddenly screamed. "There are flames all around us! Oh God, oh God...." Kurt started panicking. Suddenly, he heard the wail of sirens down below. He shot a wild look at her, and made a decision. "LIEBE! COME HERE!" he shouted over the roar of the fire. She came to him quickly and he told her what she should do. She began to wave her arms frantically and screaming for help.

Kurt heard voices of recognition down below. Yes! he thought. They see her! He heard faint voices crying, "Jump! Jump!" His angel took one last fearful look at him and then, taking a deep breath, jumped off the building.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!! The building blew up! There were several screams down below, people running away in fear. Some of the firemen had been caught in the blast and were being dragged away by the paramedics. Luckily, Kurt knew something like this was going to happen, and he jumped off the other side of the building, away from the people, and bamfed the rest of the way down. When he reappeared, he was still falling, falling, falling, the ground was rushing up to meet him very very quickly! He covered his face with his arms, and right before he hit the ground, he bamfed again and recovered a few feet away, hitting knees first and slamming into the ground, rolling a few feet, before coming to a halt on his butt, and rolling back onto his back. His vision was swimming, he could barely see.........

"Kurt?"

Snapping out of his reminiscing, he turned to see inside the doorway, stood Kitty Pryde. "Ja, Kitty. Vat are you still doing avake?"

Crossing the threshhold of Kurt's messy room, she came out to his balcony and gripped his balcony ledge with both hands. She sighed. "Kurt, me and the others.....well, we've been like really worried about you. I haven't had anytime to talk to you lately, with finals and all. Is something wrong? I mean, don't take this wrong, but you've been acting, like, really wierd and not yourself, you know?"

Kurt sighed. So, the other X-Men realized something was wrong. They just couldn't tell how bad it was...his past was haunting him, he looked scary, he missed his homeland in Germany, he never knew what happened to his angel..."Kitty, it's just....my past has been disturbink me. I had some very trying times in Germany, and I lost somevone very dear to me." Kitty looked pityingly at him. That was exactly what he didn't want, pity. All the X-Men pitied him, from leaving Germany to looking like the freak that he was. "Hey, Kurt, I'm sorry....I....we didn't know. You weren't acting your goofy self, so we figured something was wrong," explained Kitty. Kitty, seeing that heartbreaking look on her friend's face, reached over and hugged him. Kurt returned the hug and they stayed there for a little while.

They soon began to feel raindrops on their heads. Kitty broke away from Kurt and they went inside. Kitty shut the balcony doors and bid Kurt a goodnight. A few minutes after Kitty closed the door to his room, Kurt bamfed downstairs with a book the Professor gave him. It was pretty interesting so far, even though he wasn't very far along in it. He reappeared on the main floor close to the front door.

Meanwhile~*~*~*~*~

Alexandra was walking in the rain. Why is it always raining here? She was beginning to get a little frustrated with all this rain. She was tired of being wet. Alexandra was walking along the sidewalk in what seemed like a bad part of the town. She wasn't nervous, just uneasy. She could easily overpower one or two people should anyone attack her, but more than that she was done for.

Suddenly, without warning, something, or someone, shoved Alexandra against a brick wall. She couldn't see who it was, as it was moving too fast. She caught a blur of white against a teal-colored body suit. "What's a pretty thing like you doing in this part of town?" the moving blur asked. It suddenly stopped, leaning against the wall on her left. She saw a teenager in a hard, teal body suit. He was pale and had very pale hair, it was even white. He was very handsome, but she didn't really care who the hell he was. She pushed past him and kept walking. Suddenly, a huge pair of hands wrapped around her waist and she felt the breath being squeezed out of her. She was lifted off of the ground and turned to face the huge man that was holding her. "We said, what do you think you're doing down here? This is OUR neighborhood."

Gasping for breath and fighting at the same time, she said, "Let...go of me, you big lummox!" She tried to kick him, but missed. He laughed. He didn't sound like a man, but more like a teenager...which was wierd, because this guy was bigger than any person she had ever seen. Squeezing harder, she could barely breathe and she heard a few of her ribs crack....which was NOT good.

"Don't kill her, Blob," another voice from the dark said. Another handsome teen stepped out from the dark, wearing the same kind of suit the speed-demon was wearing, except it was black and he looked like he was wearing a bowl on his head, like a visor. She assumed he was the leader of the group. "I gotta wonder myself, what in hell is a gorgeous thing like you doing around here? I've never seen you before, and you look like a drowned rat," the leader said. The others in his company laughed. "Hey, yo Lance, what are we gonna do with her?" another voice asked. A green tongue lashed out of the darkness and with lightning reflexes, Alexandra ducked it and it snapped back into the mouth of a small guy who was sitting on his haunches. "Hehe, got some quickness in ya, yo."

"WE aren't going to do anything with her. We are just gonna hang with this lovely young lady. Put 'er down, Blob." Reluctantly, the big guy they called the Blob put her down. Her ribs were on fire. "Hey guys, I don't want any trouble. I'm just gonna leave your area and be on my way." She turned to go, but the speed-demon sped in front of her and pushed her backwards. "I don't think so, honey. See, we get kinda lonely, and when a pretty girl comes along, we can't help but take her." He laughed, as if pleased with his arrogance. She fell to the ground, amidst the laughter of all the others. She drew a few sharp, deep breaths and turning toward the leader of the group, her eyes went that deep gold color. He took a step back, startled out of his laughter. She snarled like the big cat that she had inside, and lunged at him. She made contact and they hit the ground with a thud that could be heard for quite a distance. Alexandra lay on the leader's back, and, having grown her huge white teeth, she snarled at him.

Lance was obviously really freaked out now. She saw that his helmet was cracked, right down the middle of it. He grinned maniaclly, "You ain't gonna be nice, are ya?" The next instant, Alexandra was shoved painfully off of the leader and was rolling on the ground, on her feet in a flash. The speed-demon had shoulder-stabbed her right in the ribs...they were on fire...Suddenly, blows began raining down on her from everywhere at once. Her head, stomach, back, legs, arms, face...they were all getting hit at once. She tried to slash at the moving blur, but the white-haired devil saw her arm coming and ran into it purposefully, causing a sickening crunch to be heard. White hot streaks of pain shot through Alexandra's arm to her head, causing her to become faint. She began to back away, as if in submission. She couldn't fight these guys alone. She knew when to stand and fight and when to back off. This was one of those times to back off, she knew. She felt blood coming down from her face where Speedy had hit her in the head. Her arm was on fire....so much pain..... She stood up and ran the direction she had been heading earlier, before the attack.

Alexandra heard their crows of triumph and laughter dying into the distance. She could barely walk, let alone run, with all the blood streaming from her head and the pain she felt in her arm and body. She was soaking wet, bloody, bedraggled, every word you could possibly think of to describe her condition. She kept running.....running like she would never stop.....running. "Come on, girl," she gasped to herself. "Keep going...come on, keep going...keep.......going....." The pavement rushed to meet her and she collapsed onto the ground, her vision swimming. Suddenly, a car pulled up, a black Mercedez, its lights shining in her face before pulling away from her. She knew it stopped and saw a beautiful girl get out of it, shielding herself from the rain. The girl had bright red hair and a pretty face. She knelt down next to her and asked, "Are you okay? We came to rescue you, but you seem to have taken care of yourself....sort of." Alexandra mumbled, "Yes, yes I'm okay. I just....hurt. Really bad." She started to stand up and stumbled. The girl caught her before she hit the ground again and hoisted her good arm over her shoulder.

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*Ich liebe dich = I love you

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~*A Bleeding Rose*~