I know it has been a while since last time I updated, sorry. I hope that all of you have had a merry christmas and a happy new year.
I recently discovered a HUGE, GIGANTIC, EXTREMELY BIG error in chapter one. I wrote that there was a beautiful sunset over the sea. But since the X-Men live at the East coast (don't they?) there cannot have been a sunset over the sea, since the sun doesn't set in East. I cannot understand how I could make that mistake!
Telepathy
Thinking
Chapter 9: Getting pictures
The X-Men stood in the Bubble Vision studio to which Vingen had brought them. For once, the walls weren't purple, but that might have been because there were computer screens all over them instead. Most of the screens were black, but some of them showed different rooms and corridors, with or without Vrogor.
"Security cameras," explained Vingen. "Since this place is an important government building, they keep record of everything that moves in here."
"What if they've, like, caught us on tape?" asked Kitty.
"We'd know if they had. The alarms would have gone off long ago."
"So, Charles, what's your plan?" asked Wolverine and poked the recently awake, but now unconscious guard on the floor with his foot.
Instead of answering, Xavier turned to Jean. "Did you bring the pictures of Varok's family as I asked you to?"
Jean's face turned the same red colour as her hair. "Eh…"
"You forgot them, didn't you?" sighed Rogue.
"Nightcrawler, would you please teleport back to Varok's office and pick up some pictures?" said the professor. Then he continued in telepathy: I can understand it if you don't want to, but you know that I wouldn't ask you if it wasn't necessary.
Kitty saw that Kurt wasn't very eager to go back to the room in which he'd gotten to know that he would be executed, so she glared at Xavier and then put a hand on the blue mutant's arm. I'm coming with you, fuzzy, she thought. And even though she wasn't a telepath, Kurt seemed to understand. He smiled a little, and turned to the professor. "I'll do it."
Professor Xavier gave a small smile that clearly said that he knew what was going on. "Thank you. Well, off you go! And be careful… both of you."
How is it zat he knows everyzing? Kurt had time to think before he and Kitty vanished into thin air. Even vithout all zis telepazy, he alvays seems to have a clue about vat's going on…
Kitty was only too glad to be allowed to follow Kurt. She would do anything to protect him, even if she'd have to face that monster of a lord all by herself… although she hoped that she wouldn't have to do it.
When they appeared again in Varok's office, they were pleased to discover that it still was empty. They immediately started to pick up some pictures of the lord's family. Suddenly, they reached for the same photography (one with three Vrogor children wearing big toothless smiles), and their hands touched. They both froze and stared at each other uncomfortably, when they saw the door knob moving. Without thinking, both of the mutants threw themselves down under the desk. The door opened, and they could see the legs of one of the Vrogor. It wasn't Varok though; Kurt remembered that his colour was a little different from most of the others. The Vrogor started going through some of the papers on the desk while humming on something that sounded uncomfortably much like a funeral song. Kurt winced.
Suddenly, both of the X-Men became aware of how close they sat. Even though it was a big desk, there wasn't space enough for the both of them to have their 'own personal sphere'. Kitty sat with one arm around Kurt's shoulders, and the blue boy's tail encircled her waist. It's quite needless to say that their legs touched, also. Kind of much.
They looked at each other, and for a moment they forgot all about the danger they were in. Their eyes locked, Kitty's blue ones and Kurt's yellow ones. It was as if time stopped. They didn't even realize when the Vrogor found the papers it was looking for and left. They closed their eyes and the space between their faces became smaller and smaller…
Kurt! Kitty! You alright back there?
The two mutants under the desk jumped away from each other, both blushing furiously. The tension was broken in the same moment Jean called for them.
Guys? Do you hear me?
Eh, yes, answered Kitty. We hear you.
Are you okay?
Yeah. We almost got discovered, but it all went out fine.
Good. We were getting quite worried over here. Can you come back now? Vingen doesn't know how long 'til someone comes in here.
Sure, ve're on our vay, Kurt thought back.
He and Kitty looked at each other uncomfortably.
"So," started Kitty, "I guess we should, like, take some last pictures with us…"
"Yeah, zat sounds good," agreed Kurt. They picked up some pictures during silence, where after Kurt teleported them back to the BV studio.
When they appeared in front of the others, Xavier gave them a weird look, but mentioned nothing that could have anything to do with what almost happened under Varok's desk. "Do you have the pictures?"
"Sure, here they are," said Kitty, and she and Kurt gave the pictures to professor Xavier while they carefully avoided looking at each other. Rogue noticed their awkwardness and raised an eyebrow. Kitty saw the look she gave them and frowned, so that Rogue looked away.
While Vingen explained the Vrogor technology to the others, neither Shadowcat nor Nightcrawler were paying attention, and the same question moved in both of their minds: What in the world just happened in there?
I know that this chapter was short, but I noticed that there wasn't much Kurtty, as I've promised you. So this chapter is simply a bit of romance.
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