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Chapter 8

Nightcrawler goes crazy

By the time the final bell rang, almost everyone in the school believed Kitty to be pregnant. Lance and Kitty hadn't really heard any of the rumors themselves, but had noticed the looks that people were giving them. But they just shrugged it off; thinking it was because of them being mutants.

Kitty, who was still mad at Scott, rode home with Lance. Lance parked outside the gates and turned toward Kitty.

"So, do you think Summers still thinks you're pregnant?" Lance asked, smirking.

"Probably," Kitty said, rolling her eyes. "He can be like, such a jerk sometimes."

Lance found it wise not to respond to that. So instead, they sat in silence for a few moments until Kitty decided to speak up.

"So, um, do you want to like, have dinner here tonight?" Kitty asked nervously.

"I don't think that's the best idea, Kitty. Wolverine might not be too happy about it…and I know Summers won't be." Lance added, smirking.

"Please," she begged, pouting somewhat and forcing Lance to give in.

"Damn it Kitty, why do you always do that to me?"

She just smiled and leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.

"What time should I be here?" Lance asked.

"Well, dinner's usually at 6:30. So you can either like, come around then, or just stay now ." Kitty said, emphasizing the 'stay now' part.

Lance thought about it and decided that he'd just stay.

"Are you sure the Professor won't mind?" Lance asked.

Professor, can Lance like, stay for dinner? Kitty asked.

It is fine with me Kitty. Let whoever's cooking tonight know their will be another mouth to feed. Professor X. answered her.

"He said it's fine." Kitty said.

"That's so weird." Lance mumbled.

"Come on." Kitty said, taking his hand and leading him toward the kitchen. "Hmm, who's cooking tonight?" She looked on the list. "Rogue and ...Gambit? Why is he cooking? Whatever, I'll just leave her a note." She said to herself.

"Uh, what's Gambit doing here?" Lance asked.

"Who knows." Kitty said. "Did you know he gave Rogue a promise ring for her birthday? It was so romantic. Kurt and I got it on film."

"Does Rogue know you got it on film?" Lance asked, already knowing the answer.

"Well, um, no." Kitty said guiltily. "Don't look at me like that Lance! She'll thank us one day..." Kitty said trailing off as she opened her door and walked into an empty room.

Lance walked in behind her and closed the door. He followed Kitty over to her bed and sat down beside of her. Kitty yawned and Lance grinned.

"Tired?" He asked.

"A little." She admitted.

Lance leaned against her baseboard and brought her into his arms. He then pulled the blanket up over them. Kitty smiled and snuggled against him as he tightened his grip on her.

"Lance, if Mr. Logan or Scott walks in you're like, so dead." Kitty said, yawning again.

"I'll take my chances." Lance said, yawning as well and then kissing her forehead.

Kitty smiled and was asleep within minutes. Lance, on the other hand, was wide-awake. He sat there just listening to Kitty's breathing. As he held her though, that foreboding feeling that something wasn't right came back. He reached his hand up and moved a strand of hair behind her ear, looking down at her peaceful face.

It had probably only been about ten minutes before Lance heard someone knocking on the door. Panicking, he just sat there not really knowing what to do. The knock came again, somewhat louder this time. Maybe they'll go away. He thought, or rather hoped.

"Kitty, are you in zhere." A German accented voice asked.

Lance let out a sigh of relief. It's only Kurt. Man, if that were Wolverine I…I'd probably be dead by now. He reasoned.

"Kitty?" Kurt asked again, knocking once more.

Lance stood up, careful not to wake Kitty, and walked over to the door. He opened it to see a nervous-looking Kurt.

But when Kurt realized who was standing in front of him he become angry; and you did not want to make Kurt angry.

"Kitty's asleep." Lance said, stepping back and allowing Kurt to enter the room. Once in the room, Kurt closed the door and turned to the person he wasn't very happy with at the moment.

Kurt then jumped on Lance, knocking him to the ground. He was above him, strangling him with all his might.

"How could you do zhat to Kitty?" Kurt said menacingly.

Lance was trying to free himself from the psychotic Nightcrawler, but failing miserably. The house began to shake and Kitty sat up, suddenly wide-awake. She looked for Lance and found him on the floor, with someone on top of him. Once it sunk-in that her best friend was attempting to kill her boyfriend, she jumped out of bed and tried to pull Kurt off of Lance, tears in her eyes; but she was too weak.

"Kurt! Stop it! You're going to kill him." Kitty screamed, too scared and shocked to know what to do; she had never seen Kurt this way before.

Kurt didn't seem to hear her and continued to strangle Lance, whose earthquake was becoming weaker by the minute.

Rogue and Gambit ran into the room followed by Wolverine after feeling the earthquake and hearing Kitty's scream. Rogue and Wolverine went over to Kurt and pulled him off of Lance as Gambit went over to the now hysterical Kitty and put his arms around her.

"Hush, petite, everyt'ing gonna be alrigh'." Gambit said as Kitty sobbed into his chest.

Wolverine was holding Kurt back as Rogue helped Lance up.

"Are ya okay?" she asked worriedly.

"Yeah, I…I think so." Lance answered coughing and sitting down on Kitty's bed, rubbing his neck.

"What the hell were ya thinkin' Kurt?" Rogue yelled at him.

"I…I don't know." Kurt said, looking down and trying to ignore the sound of Kitty sobbing. "I…I'm sorry." And then he ported away. Wolverine growled.

Rogue shook her head and walked over to Kitty, who was still being comforted by Gambit, to see how she was.

"Kit, ya okay?" Rogue asked. Kitty merely nodded.

Wolverine walked over to Lance.

"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked. "Do you want to have Hank take a look at you?"

Lance didn't really hear what he said; he was paying more attention to his girlfriend. She looked really scared. He got up and walked over to where they were standing. Once Kitty noticed him, she broke away from Gambit and threw her arms around Lance and started to cry again. He put his arms around her, holding her tight.

"Shhh…Kit, it's alright, everything's fine." Lance whispered.

"Lance, I thought you were like, going to die." Kitty said quietly, no longer crying but sniffling occasionally.

"I hate to interrupt, but would one of you like to tell me what the hell happened?" Wolverine said.

Lance looked at Kitty, who was looking at the ground. There was no way they could explain their way out of this without getting Kurt into some serious trouble. Lance didn't have anything against Kurt, and he had no idea what possessed him to do such a thing. Kitty was still a bit in shock and didn't know what to think.

Logan was growing impatient. He wanted to know why Kurt was trying to kill Avalanche, and he wanted to know now.

"It's a long story." Kitty said finally.

"I've got time." Wolverine said sitting down on Rogue's bed.

So Kitty told Logan everything; starting with Lance's phone call to Scott up to the point where she woke up to Kurt strangling Lance, with a little bit of help from Lance at some parts. Wolverine wasn't too happy about the phone call prank, but there was still something that wasn't adding up.

"That still doesn't explain why elf would want to strangle Avalanche here." Logan said, nodding toward Lance.

"Well, Scott and Jean told us that they thought Kitty was pregnant at lunch. Kurt was really quiet and seemed to be havin' some kind of internal battle. My bet is that he was comin' up here to talk to Kitty, and when he saw Lance he went crazy." Rogue said.

Everyone looked at her.

"What? That's just my guess." She said shrugging. "Now if y'all will excuse us, we're supposed to be fixin' dinner." And she grabbed Gambit's hand and dragged him out of the room.

Lance felt horrible and Kitty felt ashamed. Wolverine noticed this and decided to leave them be.

"Next time, and there better not be, I expect you not to let it go as far as this did today." Logan said, and he left them to their thoughts.

A/N: Hmm…I don't know. I seem to have lost complete track of my plot. Oh well, randomness never killed anyone…I think.