Chapter 2.
"Keety, open your eyes." She heard her friend plea and slowly opened them to find herself staring out at one of the most beautiful skies she had ever seen.
"Wow." Was all she could muster as she gazed out at the stars. The moon was full and bright and lit up the landscape around them. It was at this moment that the young girl realized where she was. In a hammock, suspended between two trees, that were right along the edge of a drop-off so steep that it could be considered a cliff. She gasped and flinched back, causing the hammock to swing.
"It's Okay." He said trying to ease her and the swinging. "You know I von't let anything happen to you." Kurt placed one of his awkward three fingered hands on her shoulder to comfort her.
" I know." She responded trying to hide her shortness of breath. "It just startled me is all."
The moonlight reflected off his razor sharp canines as he smiled at her, shaking his head. "Do you vant to go back?" he asked.
"No." She stated softly.
With this she seemed more relaxed and they both eased into a comfortable silence as they sat gazing at the amazing scenery. Kurt leaned back more to get into a nice lounging position.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" He said, breaking the silence.
"It's amazing. Thank you for bringing me here." She followed suit and slid down to lounge facing opposite him, with her legs alongside him and his along her. He was wearing shorts too and when her bare leg rubbed against his velvety fur, she smiled inwardly. Kurt flinched a little and tried to move his leg away, but the shape of the hammock was causing them to slide back together.
"Sorry." Kitty said, with a sheepish smile. "Do you want me to move?"
"Nein. I'm uh, just fidgety is all." He assured her.
Together they sat once again in silence, Kitty found herself feeling incredibly at peace. No more worrying about school, or mutant rights, or even Kurt. Everything was fine in the world. This comfort left her feeling a bit drowsy. Her eyes drifted shut and she felt the cool Spring night air blow through her hair. Then she felt something rub against her thigh.
Kitty opened one eye questionably to find Kurt also dosing off and his tail gently swishing from side to side, occasionally grazing her leg. She smiled as she watched his peaceful figure at rest. It was an odd sight to see her friend so still. He was constantly full of energy and very rarely stayed in one place for very long.
When his tail came to a pause, she gently began to scratch it ever so lightly, unintentionally set at making it stay in one place. She absentmindedly continued to to this as she began to drift back to sleep.
"Keety!" He yelped suddenly, the German pronunciation of her name breaking the peaceful silence as he sprang into a sitting position.
"What?!" Kitty questioned, so startled that she too sat quickly upright. When she realized that he had not yet answered she studied his face which look absolutely horrified.
"Kurt? What's wrong?"
"Ah. Nothing." He paused for a moment. "Eet's just that you, ah, startled me." He mumbled as he searched for words.
"Oh." She said, feeling a little relieved. "I'm sorry if I startled you, it's just that your tail was twitchy, so I was just keeping it from..." She reached out to scratch it again in the same manner to better explain. With this the fuzzy elf flinched again.
"Kurt! What's a matter, you like freaked when I bumped into you earlier tonight!" She finally proclaimed, exasperated. "Well?"
"Keety..." He trailed off slowly and she waited patiently. "Eet's just that, vell, I'm not used to people touching me. Especially you."
"But we do all the time, so we can teleport together or so I can phase you through something." She stated a little hurt and a little confused.
"Ja, but, it's usually me grabbing you and it's usually more of a necessity. People don't touch me if they don't have to."
This statement saddened Kitty. She knew of Kurt's fear that someone at school might accidentally bump into to him and feel his fur or notice that there's really only three fingers on his hands. They knew that he was a mutant and that was bad enough, he couldn't even imagine how they would treat him if they knew what he really looked like. She never realized, however, just how insecure he was about the rest of them at the Institute. They were all familiar with his true appearance and accepted him as one of them, their friend. She had also thought that all his time dating Amanda would have helped his confidence.
"What about Amanda, I mean you guys did date for a few months, didn't that," She paused searching for the right words not wanting to embarrass him. "Help you feel more comfortable?"
"Honestly, Amanda and I, ve just hung out more than anything else. She vas my first girlfriend and, well, I'm still a little shy vhen it comes to dating." He shifted his gaze, not wanting to look Kitty in the eye.
"One of the first times ve kissed, my fangs cut her lip. Needless to say, it made me even more weary about letting her get close to me."
As he continued Kitty realized how touched she was at his confession, she knew it must be hard for him to share this with her, but she was glad that he was finally letting her in, sharing his feelings and frustrations.
"I'm sure she realized it was an accident." Kitty started, but was interrupted.
"Ja, I know. I just can't help but remember the look on her face when it happened. It's the same surprised look I've seen on the faces of so many others vhen they accidentally brush against my fur or feel my odd hands. She vas just polite enough not to run away screaming like the others. Although, I can't blame them, I vould be frightened too." He finished softly, looking out at the night sky to avoid Kitty's face.
"Kurt." Kitty was quiet, her eyes stung with tears she held back. She softly reached out and touched his silky cheek, turning his face so that she could meet his gaze. "Don't say that."
"AND VHY SHOULDN'T I!?" he suddenly snapped back louder pulling away from her. "In case you haven't noticed, I'M A FREAK!" He held his tridactyl hands out in front of her as if to make a point. "I have pointy ears, a tail and fangs! My whole fucking body is covered in blue fur! I have to come out here, in the middle of novhere before I feel safe to not have my image inducer on. Even YOU vere afraid of me!"
His hollering echoed, cutting through the silence around them. They sat staring at each other, their looks intense. Kitty softly spoke up.
"I'm ashamed of the fact that I was once frightened by you, but I realized that I was being a fool." She spoke quietly, but confidently, looking in his yellow eyes. She could see his fury fading. "You're different Kurt, that's all, unique. It's a part of who you are, please don't be ashamed of it. Some of just need to be given the chance."
His eyes closed, his anger gone. A tear ran down his velvety cheek and Kitty ever so softly leaned over and kissed it away.
"I don't think I ever realized how soft your fur is." She said as she sat back.
Kurt laughed a little to himself opening his eyes to look at her as a smile spread across his face. "You know, eet's not easy to keep all this fur so silky and shiny. I vork hard to be this handsome." Sometimes, even in times like this, he couldn't help being the clown.
Kitty smiled and shook her head, he was obviously feeling better. She wasn't sure what else she could say to her friend to make him feel more at ease. So she decided just to show him that she had meant what she had said. So, she shifted over to his side of the hammock where she stretched out beside him, laying a head on his shoulder and draping her arm across him. At first he tensed up, but quickly found himself relaxing.
The young man couldn't really find a complaint, he had always hoped that someday Kitty would be more comfortable around him and they could become closer. And right now her body snuggled up beside him was like heaven. It was no longer awkward, he no longer worried about his tail and let it wrap itself around her small waist. He didn't even mind that she could feel his three fingers as he pulled out the band holding back her hair and began to run them through her long brown locks. It was perfect.
It was like this that Kurt found himself awakening several hours later to a shivering Katherine Pryde in his embrace. He looked down to see her unconsciously try to snuggle closer to him for warmth. As much as he didn't want their rare moment of such closeness to end, he was thinking that they should probably get back to camp before the other two had awoken. Besides that, the sky had gone from clear to dreary as dawn crept in and it looked as though quite the storm was rolling in, also evident by the distant rumbling of thunder.
"Keety." Kurt traced a finger along her cheek and she stirred.
"Mmmm... what?" She asked still half asleep.
"Ve need to go back now eet's going to start raining on us."
She slowly opened her eyes and smiled as she realized where she was.
"Good morning."
"Good morning Kätzchen."
Suddenly a bolt of lightening struck down hard on a nearby tree. The force traveling through the plant and into the solid rock causing a loud crash as it shattered, loosening the edge of the cliff's face.
"What the!?" Kitty bolted upright, but with no time to react, the entire ledge and all it's trees, including the two they were suspended from began to fall as the ground beneath them gave way. In an instant they were falling down towards the bottom of the deep valley. The two screamed out in fear as they fell, but fortunately they had only gone a short distance before Kurt was able to get in contact with Kitty and just barely teleport them back to the top.
"Are you alright?" Kitty gasped. Kurt clutched his side, as he sat beside her. She knew it was incredibly difficult for him to teleport vertical distances and she could only imagine the strain it had caused him to move both of them. Still, they weren't going to be able to stay in this new location for very long, a rock slide had begun from the initial crash and it was still taking down trees and earth all around them. Kitty looked up just in time to see a large tree coming down on them.
"Look out!" She screamed as she grabbed his arm in an effort to phase him out of harm's way. At the exact moment his prehensile tail whipped out around Kitty's ankle and in an instant Kurt had teleported them as close to the campsite as he could, all the while intangible from Kitty's power.
A thick black cloud of smoke and sulfur appeared leaving behind the terrified pair. Kitty let out a gasp of pain as they "landed".
"Ugh!" She coughed as she hugged her chest. "That really hurt." And she dropped to her knees, immediately followed by Kurt collapsing beside her.
"I tried...to take... the brunt if it." He managed to cough out. "Keety, I..." Before he could finish, he was unconscious.
"Kurt!" She yelled out as she checked to make sure his pulse was strong. He looked really bad, almost pale, if it was possible. He was covered in dirt and had a handful of small scrapes on his face and hands. As Kitty knelt beside him, she pulled his head up into her lap, the only thing she could think of to do for the time being. But before she really had the chance to start panicking, she heard her roommate call out just a short distance away.
"Kitty! Kurt!" More shouts by Evan followed.
"We're over here!" Kitty yelled out and was soon greeted by her friends who together, were able to get Kurt to the car and drive to safety.
End chapter 2
Author's notes: Yeah, yeah , I know. lots of talking, sorry, i enjoy dialogue. And they had a lot to talk about right then! but now hopefully (after he's woken up) Kurt will be back to his usual cheery (and hungary) self! ;) So tell me, is this interesting at all? I have so much that I want to happen, I was going to follow the two (and others) through prom, graduation and then focus on Kitty going to college and maybe intertwine a bit of the story line from the Mekanix comic series (if any of y'all are comic book readers). Of course, my version will involve more Nightcrawler. Also, there will be some interesting repercussions for Kitty and Kurt after their incident of teleporting while phasing... So, what do you think should I continue? let me know! Have a great day!
"Keety, open your eyes." She heard her friend plea and slowly opened them to find herself staring out at one of the most beautiful skies she had ever seen.
"Wow." Was all she could muster as she gazed out at the stars. The moon was full and bright and lit up the landscape around them. It was at this moment that the young girl realized where she was. In a hammock, suspended between two trees, that were right along the edge of a drop-off so steep that it could be considered a cliff. She gasped and flinched back, causing the hammock to swing.
"It's Okay." He said trying to ease her and the swinging. "You know I von't let anything happen to you." Kurt placed one of his awkward three fingered hands on her shoulder to comfort her.
" I know." She responded trying to hide her shortness of breath. "It just startled me is all."
The moonlight reflected off his razor sharp canines as he smiled at her, shaking his head. "Do you vant to go back?" he asked.
"No." She stated softly.
With this she seemed more relaxed and they both eased into a comfortable silence as they sat gazing at the amazing scenery. Kurt leaned back more to get into a nice lounging position.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" He said, breaking the silence.
"It's amazing. Thank you for bringing me here." She followed suit and slid down to lounge facing opposite him, with her legs alongside him and his along her. He was wearing shorts too and when her bare leg rubbed against his velvety fur, she smiled inwardly. Kurt flinched a little and tried to move his leg away, but the shape of the hammock was causing them to slide back together.
"Sorry." Kitty said, with a sheepish smile. "Do you want me to move?"
"Nein. I'm uh, just fidgety is all." He assured her.
Together they sat once again in silence, Kitty found herself feeling incredibly at peace. No more worrying about school, or mutant rights, or even Kurt. Everything was fine in the world. This comfort left her feeling a bit drowsy. Her eyes drifted shut and she felt the cool Spring night air blow through her hair. Then she felt something rub against her thigh.
Kitty opened one eye questionably to find Kurt also dosing off and his tail gently swishing from side to side, occasionally grazing her leg. She smiled as she watched his peaceful figure at rest. It was an odd sight to see her friend so still. He was constantly full of energy and very rarely stayed in one place for very long.
When his tail came to a pause, she gently began to scratch it ever so lightly, unintentionally set at making it stay in one place. She absentmindedly continued to to this as she began to drift back to sleep.
"Keety!" He yelped suddenly, the German pronunciation of her name breaking the peaceful silence as he sprang into a sitting position.
"What?!" Kitty questioned, so startled that she too sat quickly upright. When she realized that he had not yet answered she studied his face which look absolutely horrified.
"Kurt? What's wrong?"
"Ah. Nothing." He paused for a moment. "Eet's just that you, ah, startled me." He mumbled as he searched for words.
"Oh." She said, feeling a little relieved. "I'm sorry if I startled you, it's just that your tail was twitchy, so I was just keeping it from..." She reached out to scratch it again in the same manner to better explain. With this the fuzzy elf flinched again.
"Kurt! What's a matter, you like freaked when I bumped into you earlier tonight!" She finally proclaimed, exasperated. "Well?"
"Keety..." He trailed off slowly and she waited patiently. "Eet's just that, vell, I'm not used to people touching me. Especially you."
"But we do all the time, so we can teleport together or so I can phase you through something." She stated a little hurt and a little confused.
"Ja, but, it's usually me grabbing you and it's usually more of a necessity. People don't touch me if they don't have to."
This statement saddened Kitty. She knew of Kurt's fear that someone at school might accidentally bump into to him and feel his fur or notice that there's really only three fingers on his hands. They knew that he was a mutant and that was bad enough, he couldn't even imagine how they would treat him if they knew what he really looked like. She never realized, however, just how insecure he was about the rest of them at the Institute. They were all familiar with his true appearance and accepted him as one of them, their friend. She had also thought that all his time dating Amanda would have helped his confidence.
"What about Amanda, I mean you guys did date for a few months, didn't that," She paused searching for the right words not wanting to embarrass him. "Help you feel more comfortable?"
"Honestly, Amanda and I, ve just hung out more than anything else. She vas my first girlfriend and, well, I'm still a little shy vhen it comes to dating." He shifted his gaze, not wanting to look Kitty in the eye.
"One of the first times ve kissed, my fangs cut her lip. Needless to say, it made me even more weary about letting her get close to me."
As he continued Kitty realized how touched she was at his confession, she knew it must be hard for him to share this with her, but she was glad that he was finally letting her in, sharing his feelings and frustrations.
"I'm sure she realized it was an accident." Kitty started, but was interrupted.
"Ja, I know. I just can't help but remember the look on her face when it happened. It's the same surprised look I've seen on the faces of so many others vhen they accidentally brush against my fur or feel my odd hands. She vas just polite enough not to run away screaming like the others. Although, I can't blame them, I vould be frightened too." He finished softly, looking out at the night sky to avoid Kitty's face.
"Kurt." Kitty was quiet, her eyes stung with tears she held back. She softly reached out and touched his silky cheek, turning his face so that she could meet his gaze. "Don't say that."
"AND VHY SHOULDN'T I!?" he suddenly snapped back louder pulling away from her. "In case you haven't noticed, I'M A FREAK!" He held his tridactyl hands out in front of her as if to make a point. "I have pointy ears, a tail and fangs! My whole fucking body is covered in blue fur! I have to come out here, in the middle of novhere before I feel safe to not have my image inducer on. Even YOU vere afraid of me!"
His hollering echoed, cutting through the silence around them. They sat staring at each other, their looks intense. Kitty softly spoke up.
"I'm ashamed of the fact that I was once frightened by you, but I realized that I was being a fool." She spoke quietly, but confidently, looking in his yellow eyes. She could see his fury fading. "You're different Kurt, that's all, unique. It's a part of who you are, please don't be ashamed of it. Some of just need to be given the chance."
His eyes closed, his anger gone. A tear ran down his velvety cheek and Kitty ever so softly leaned over and kissed it away.
"I don't think I ever realized how soft your fur is." She said as she sat back.
Kurt laughed a little to himself opening his eyes to look at her as a smile spread across his face. "You know, eet's not easy to keep all this fur so silky and shiny. I vork hard to be this handsome." Sometimes, even in times like this, he couldn't help being the clown.
Kitty smiled and shook her head, he was obviously feeling better. She wasn't sure what else she could say to her friend to make him feel more at ease. So she decided just to show him that she had meant what she had said. So, she shifted over to his side of the hammock where she stretched out beside him, laying a head on his shoulder and draping her arm across him. At first he tensed up, but quickly found himself relaxing.
The young man couldn't really find a complaint, he had always hoped that someday Kitty would be more comfortable around him and they could become closer. And right now her body snuggled up beside him was like heaven. It was no longer awkward, he no longer worried about his tail and let it wrap itself around her small waist. He didn't even mind that she could feel his three fingers as he pulled out the band holding back her hair and began to run them through her long brown locks. It was perfect.
It was like this that Kurt found himself awakening several hours later to a shivering Katherine Pryde in his embrace. He looked down to see her unconsciously try to snuggle closer to him for warmth. As much as he didn't want their rare moment of such closeness to end, he was thinking that they should probably get back to camp before the other two had awoken. Besides that, the sky had gone from clear to dreary as dawn crept in and it looked as though quite the storm was rolling in, also evident by the distant rumbling of thunder.
"Keety." Kurt traced a finger along her cheek and she stirred.
"Mmmm... what?" She asked still half asleep.
"Ve need to go back now eet's going to start raining on us."
She slowly opened her eyes and smiled as she realized where she was.
"Good morning."
"Good morning Kätzchen."
Suddenly a bolt of lightening struck down hard on a nearby tree. The force traveling through the plant and into the solid rock causing a loud crash as it shattered, loosening the edge of the cliff's face.
"What the!?" Kitty bolted upright, but with no time to react, the entire ledge and all it's trees, including the two they were suspended from began to fall as the ground beneath them gave way. In an instant they were falling down towards the bottom of the deep valley. The two screamed out in fear as they fell, but fortunately they had only gone a short distance before Kurt was able to get in contact with Kitty and just barely teleport them back to the top.
"Are you alright?" Kitty gasped. Kurt clutched his side, as he sat beside her. She knew it was incredibly difficult for him to teleport vertical distances and she could only imagine the strain it had caused him to move both of them. Still, they weren't going to be able to stay in this new location for very long, a rock slide had begun from the initial crash and it was still taking down trees and earth all around them. Kitty looked up just in time to see a large tree coming down on them.
"Look out!" She screamed as she grabbed his arm in an effort to phase him out of harm's way. At the exact moment his prehensile tail whipped out around Kitty's ankle and in an instant Kurt had teleported them as close to the campsite as he could, all the while intangible from Kitty's power.
A thick black cloud of smoke and sulfur appeared leaving behind the terrified pair. Kitty let out a gasp of pain as they "landed".
"Ugh!" She coughed as she hugged her chest. "That really hurt." And she dropped to her knees, immediately followed by Kurt collapsing beside her.
"I tried...to take... the brunt if it." He managed to cough out. "Keety, I..." Before he could finish, he was unconscious.
"Kurt!" She yelled out as she checked to make sure his pulse was strong. He looked really bad, almost pale, if it was possible. He was covered in dirt and had a handful of small scrapes on his face and hands. As Kitty knelt beside him, she pulled his head up into her lap, the only thing she could think of to do for the time being. But before she really had the chance to start panicking, she heard her roommate call out just a short distance away.
"Kitty! Kurt!" More shouts by Evan followed.
"We're over here!" Kitty yelled out and was soon greeted by her friends who together, were able to get Kurt to the car and drive to safety.
End chapter 2
Author's notes: Yeah, yeah , I know. lots of talking, sorry, i enjoy dialogue. And they had a lot to talk about right then! but now hopefully (after he's woken up) Kurt will be back to his usual cheery (and hungary) self! ;) So tell me, is this interesting at all? I have so much that I want to happen, I was going to follow the two (and others) through prom, graduation and then focus on Kitty going to college and maybe intertwine a bit of the story line from the Mekanix comic series (if any of y'all are comic book readers). Of course, my version will involve more Nightcrawler. Also, there will be some interesting repercussions for Kitty and Kurt after their incident of teleporting while phasing... So, what do you think should I continue? let me know! Have a great day!
