Only the Lonely

Chapter 4: Blonde and Fuzzy

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- I don't own anything, all familiar characters belong to Marvel.

Shout Outs-

Paprika90- Heh, I hope you enjoy what I have in store for Meggan.

Ldypebsaby- Yep, Meggan's powers react to her emotions and the emotions of those around her. Meggan will be going to school.

Agent-G- You're partly right, not about the pink bit though.

Frozenblossom- I hope you enjoy the update.

Notes- For those of you that don't know, I have been on holiday so that is why there has been a delay in updating. Luckily for you guys, I didn't sit idly by, drinking JD and coke, I had a notebook handy to jot down any ideas I have for my fics. This was actually written the day after I consumed two JD and cokes, two pints of San Miguel, two pints of cider and four glasses of sangria. There might have been some vodka involved but I can't remember.

Also, I have a new fic in the Batman: The Animated Series section. It's called 'Harley and Ivy.' (No guesses to who it stars.) I would greatly appreciate it if you reviewed.

Xavier's-

It was morning at the Xavier School for Gifted Children and Meggan had just woken up from a good night's sleep, the best that she'd had in a good while. She and Kurt had finally begun to make progress with each other. There was still the matter of Amanda to attend to however but Meggan was sure that everything would work out in the end.

The blonde metamorph stretched languidly as she got up out of bed. She padded, still slightly asleep, over to her dresser and started to go about her daily routine of getting dressed. Meggan, being one of the newest recruits, had her own en suite bathroom, as did several of the newer students. This annoyed the older students to no end, well Jean anyway.

After a quick shower, Meggan started to brush her teeth. Still in her sleep-addled state, she didn't notice her reflection. After seeing to her teeth, Meggan walked back into her room to select her clothes for the day. She decided on a long green skirt and blouse combo. She then sat down to comb her hair. That was when she noticed that something was up.

Meggan touched her now prominent canines as she opened her mouth for inspection. She then ran her hand through the blue fur that had sprouted over her body before finally holding her newly sprouted tail.

Meanwhile-

Kitty Pryde had just finished getting ready herself and was on her way to breakfast when she heard a scream coming from Meggan's room. Without another thought she raced in the direction of the scream and phased through the door. She halted in midstep as she saw the figure sitting at Meggan's dresser.

'Kurt, what are you like, doing in Meggan's room?' She asked. 'Come to think of it, where's Meggan?'

'Kurt' turned towards Kitty. She then saw that the figure was not in fact the fuzzy elf but Meggan herself, albeit a fuzzy blue Meggan.

'Meggan, what like, happened to you?' Kitty asked.

'I was kind of thinking the same thing.' Meggan replied.

'I think we'd better go see Mister McCoy.' Kitty said. 'I think he's like, going to want to have a look at this.'

McCoy's lab-

Hank had just finished running several tests to find the reason for the sudden change in Meggan's appearance. He ripped out a printout and looked at it.

'From what I have been able to ascertain from these results, you seem to be perfectly fine Meggan.' Hank said.

'But why am I blue and Fuzzy?' Meggan asked.

'Perhaps your subconscious acted upon your attraction to Kurt while you were asleep and activated your powers.' Hank replied.

'Meggan can like, change back to normal, right Mister McCoy?' Kitty asked.

'Of course.' Hank replied. 'It shouldn't be too hard.'

'You're not the one that has to do the actual changing.' Meggan muttered as she closed her eyes and tried to change back to normal. The blue fur around her body slowly began to recede, her fangs changed back into regular teeth and her tail drew back into her spine.

'Well that was easy.' Meggan winced as she rubbed her butt.

'C'mon Meggan.' Kitty said. 'Let's get some breakfast before it gets eaten.'

Later-

Meggan and the other X-Men had finished breakfast and were preparing for school. Due to her powers going on the fritz, Meggan was given a holo-watch just as a precaution should her powers act up again.

Meggan was in the back of Scott's car along with Kitty, Rogue and Bobby. Kurt was sat in the passenger seat next to Scott in place of Jean. Jean had elected to give the others a lift to school, as Scott was notorious for leaving the others behind in his rush to get to school.

'I'm not really sure I'm up to this.' Meggan said. 'It's been so long since I last went to school.'

'Ah thought yah said that yah were raised by gypsies.' Rogue said.

'Just because I was raised by gypsies, it doesn't mean that I was raised in ignorance.' Meggan replied.

'Personally, I don't see what you're so worried about.' Scott said. 'If your powers go nuts, you've got your image inducer as backup.'

'Ja, but vhat if she bumps into Duncan and his cronies?' Kurt asked. 'A holo-watch von't be able to stop Meggan from turning into a giant red monster and kicking zeir butts.'

'As much as I'd like to see that happen.' Scott replied. 'I somehow doubt that it will.'

'Thanks for your faith in me, Scott.' Meggan replied. 'But let's leave the judgments about shapeshifting to those that can, okay?'

With that everybody just sat back in their seats in relative silence as they arrived at the school.

At school-

Upon arriving at school, everybody split up to go to their respective classes. Fortunately, Meggan had the same classes as Kurt so he kindly offered to escort her to them. Her first class was mathematics, that didn't go too bad, apart from the fact that Meggan almost passed out from the sheer volume of hatred she sensed from the other students. Next was biology, which went a little better as the sense of hatred was more understated. Then it was time for lunch.

Meggan followed Kurt into the cafeteria and was almost knocked over by the mass of emotions that she sensed from the students eating their lunches.

'Is everyzhing alright?' Kurt asked concernedly. 'You're not going to freak out are you?'

'No, I'm holding it together.' Meggan replied. 'But can we go somewhere quieter, I'm kind of getting a headache.'

'No problem.' Kurt said. 'Fortunately enough, ve both decided to bag it today.'

'You mean we brought our own lunches, right?' Meggan asked.

'Oh ja.' Kurt replied. 'Ze lunches here just don't seem to satisfy me like they used to.'

Meggan followed Kurt outside to a quiet space under a tree and sat down on a bench. Kurt had packed a cheese, ham and chicken baguette while Meggan had decided upon a low-fat bowl of salad.

She was about to tuck into a particularly succulent piece of lettuce when she sensed an unusual feeling of longing from Kurt. She looked in the direction that he was looking and saw a girl with dark skin and long brown hair. She guessed that this was the Amanda girl that he was always brooding about; she had heard Kitty and Rogue talking about her.

'You don't mind if I go up and say hi, do you?' Meggan asked as she out down her bowl of salad.

'Uh... I don't see vhy not.' Kurt replied. 'It's a free world after all.'

Meggan jogged over to where Amanda was walking and began to talk to her. After a brief conversation, she brought Amanda over to where Kurt was sitting.

'I hope you don't mind.' She said. 'But I invited Amanda to come sit with us.'

'Zat's cool.' Kurt shrugged. 'So Amanda, how have you been?'

'Fine.' Amanda replied. 'You?'

'Not so bad.' Kurt replied.

There was then an awkward silence as the two of them simply looked at each other without saying a word. Meggan could sense the feelings of love emanating from the two of them that was also mixed with a little regret.

'To be honest with you, Amanda.' She said. 'I asked you to come sit with us for a reason.'

'Uh... ja.' Kurt replied nervously. 'I know zat ve haff been apart for a few weeks now and I vas vondering if ve should see other people. Now, don't get me wrong, ze time zat ve spent togezzer vas vonderful but I vanted to ask your permission to start dating again so it doesn't seem like I'm flaunting it in your face.'

'I see where you're coming from, Kurt.' Amanda replied. 'And I agree with you. Sure, it was nice of you to come ask me first but there wasn't really any need. I would have understood.'

'So ve're cool now?' Kurt asked.

'Oh yeah.' Amanda replied. 'Besides, I think you and Meggan make a cute couple.'

'In that case then.' Meggan said. 'Do you want to compare notes over coffee some time? You know, so I can get any meaty gossip about Kurt.'

'I'm afraid that I'm kinda busy for the rest of the week.' Amanda replied. 'I've got band practice but I'm free on Saturday.'

'I'll see you there then.' Meggan said. 'How's eight o'clock for you?'

'I'm fine with that.' Amanda replied. 'I'm glad that I met you Meggan, you're a nice girl, Kurt deserves somebody like you.'

END...

NEXT: Meggan meets up with Amanda but who should appear to spoil the fun? Pietro and the Brotherhood! Heh, Pie is sooo gonna pay.