Chapter 9 - 'Kurt's Tale'

Several Jamies were sitting around the living room anxiously awaiting the return of the older students from school. They were munching on cheddar cheese and sour cream chips and watching cartoons as they tried to distract themselves for the unbearable thirty minute difference between the end of their school day and when the others arrived home. Jamie didn't really mind that he was so much younger than most of the students at Xavier's. But it did bother him that he was only in Middle school, it made him feel as if he was always out-of-the-loop. It seemed like so much stuff happened at the High School that he would never even hear about until weeks later.
However, the last few days had been different. The rumor of the Xavier student who looked like a demon had made it all the way from Bayville High to Winston Middle school in record time. By yesterday afternoon all the kids on his bus were asking if he knew the demon kid. The rumors and stories today had been even better and Jamie could hardly wait to hear what had happened that afternoon.
Scott had been walking through the living room on his way to the library when he noticed the slew of Jamies twiddling their thumbs as they sat watching the front door more closely than the television.
"What's up with you...guys?" Scott asked, always unsure as to whether he should refer to them as one or as a group.
"Huh?" All seven Jamies turned to him looking quite dazed. It was one thing for someone to be staring off into space, but it was a little bit creepy to see seven identical people all looking as though they were in some sort of trance.
"Are you all right? You're just sitting there staring at the door. I mean, you don't even seem to care that you're watching some bad after school special." He asked a little concerned.
"What? Ugh, it was cartoons." One of the Jamie's sitting on the floor responded. Another on the couch clicked off the television with the remote. A third one continued. "I'm waiting for the others to get back from school, something big happened and I want to know the dirt!"
"What do you mean?" Scott's voice changed dramatically, he sounded like an angry father who just found out something happened to his car.
Before Scott could continue, one of the Jamies nearest the windows stood up shouting. "Hey they're home!"
The crowd, made up of the young boy went spilling out the front door in the direction of the others parking their car. Scott followed closely behind, concerned over what kind of trouble Kurt had gotten himself into.
"Soooooo?" One of the Jamies asked as the group of seniors made their way into the house.
"So, What?" Rouge answered, rolling her eyes at the younger boy.
"What happened? How did it go?"
Jamie walked right past Rouge to come face to face with Nightcrawler, completely missing her cynicism. In fact, it was more likely that he had not even noticed that she had responded.
Kurt looked down at the younger boy. If he had thought the kid was worried about him he might have cared more, but he knew that he was just fishing for gossip.
"So, is it true that you freaked out in the cafeteria today?" All of the Jamie's eyes were wide and full of excitement.
"Ja." Kurt muttered half under his breath and went into the house from the garage. All of the Jamies on his heel as well as everyone else.
"So, you seriously flaunted your fuzzy blue self all over the lunchroom, yet again?" Jamie asked way too enthusiastically. He was not known for his tactfulness and this was something becoming more and more obvious with every word he spoke.
The entire group had unknowingly formed a circle around Kurt waiting to hear what he would say.
"Ja." Was again, Kurt's half whispered response.
"Oh man! I cannot believe that I missed that!" Yelled one of the Jamies.
However the much more notable response came from Scott Summers.
"You did what!? Are you trying to get the shit beat out of you?!"
The room fell silent. Most of the students couldn't decide which surprised them more; Scott's yelling or his cursing.
He had gained the attention of Kurt however, the two had their eyes locked on one another. Scott's expression was of exasperation while Kurt's was of hurt and a little anger.
Before the elf had a chance to respond, he was quickly cut off by two of his teammates, Rogue and Kitty.
"That is like, so not how it happened!" Kitty interjected. Quickly followed by Rogue.
"It's not like he had a choice!" Her accent was harsh.
"This is so great!" One of the Jamies said to another, very glad that they were able to partake in this argument.
"Shut up!" Came from every other student in the room, all casting an angry look at the Jamie that was closest to them.
Kurt took this opportunity as the room fell silent to tell his side of the story. It was true that things did not go as planned during his lunch hour today, but not quite as dramatically due to his part as Jamie had made it seem.
Kurt thought back to that afternoon as he retold the events. he remembered having a bad feeling about the cafeteria, but had just brushed it off as remnants of the day before.
The group of young mutants had made their way into the lunch room, getting the normal amounts of stares and whispers that was to be expected. What they weren't expecting was the shout from a certain silver-haired mutant that echoed across from the other side of the room.
"Hey blue boy! Fuzz freak! Demon spawn!"
An instant later the shouting was right in front of them.
"You know, elf. I'm not so sure that everyone was able to get a good look at you yesterday."
In another instant Pietro had sped back over to the other side of the room. With him, Kurt's watch that he had snatched right off of his wrist. Once again, leaving the poor blue mutant exposed in everyone's sight, feeling more than a little vulnerable.
This time however, Kurt was determined to stand up and fight, so to speak.
The half second it had taken Pietro to run back to the other side of the room was just barely enough time for anyone to figure out what had happened. By the time they did, Kurt had already begun to march towards Pietro who was now standing on the top of a table in the center of the cafeteria.
"Kurt." Rogue had called out to him, not even really sure if she knew what she had intended to say.
"Not this time Rogue. It's too late, he's gotta stand up for himself." Evan explained, his hand on her shoulder as if to keep her from running after him.
Kitty was unable to speak. She was terrified for her friend having to face his biggest fear for the second day in a row. At the same time, she was absolutely full of admiration for his bravery.
The entire student body was watching the scene play out. The blue mutant walked quickly to the table where the white-haired mutant stood. The blue mutant's tail seemed to twitch in an agitated way.
"Give it back Pietro." He stated forcefully, looking up at him with his hand extended.
Quicksilver, in all of his maturity had switched the watch to his other hand, holding it way out beyond the other edge of the table in a taunting manner.
"I dunno hairball, I think it's only fair to let the student body see what kind of mutants they've been sharing their classrooms with. And I'm pretty sure there were a few who didn't get to see you yesterday."
Before Kurt could respond to Pietro's taunts, the watch had been snatched from his hand. Everyone with their eyes on Quicksilver had quickly looked over to see that it was Principal Kelly who had taken it.
"Causing more problems today Wagner?" Kelly asked in a rather depreciating manner. "It's not enough to get kicked out of one class, you have to cause a scene in the lunchroom too?"
"It's not his fault and you know it!" Kitty had shouted at Kelly, coming up to stand beside Kurt before he himself had been able to respond. Although he had his jaw clenched so tight, he wasn't sure he would have been able to.
"Well I think that Mr. Maximoff here has a rather good point." Principal Kelly said, glowering up at the other young mutant. "I think we should have been shown, what kind of filth we were sharing our school with."
"Fine!" Kurt's voice was about two octaves lower than usual and full of anger, obviously he had had enough. "If this is what you want, than take a good look! Here I am, the walking blue FREAK SHOW!"
Every word that escaped his mouth was laced with sarcasm and anger. Not even really knowing what he was doing, Kurt leapt up onto the table next to Pietro. He startled the silver-haired boy enough to cause him to lose his balance and fall off. While in his new vantage point, Kurt held his arms out beside him as if putting himself on display.
"Here I am! This is me, the mutant freak that sat beside you everyday for the last three years!"
After completing one full circle, Kurt leaned down face to face with Principal Kelly, who had apparently been stunned into a silence.
"Happy now?" The words rolled off his tongue with a growl. Without hesitation, Kurt swiped his watch back from the principal's hand, latched it on his wrist, turned it on and hoped down from the table, all in one fluid motion. "Because I'm starving." Kurt added, leaving Kelly standing there looking a quite dumbfounded and terrified. He turned his back to the silent authority figure as he walked away to join his group.
As Kurt and the others began to leave, his performance actually gained a few cheers and applause from the crowd. As much as the majority of the students hated mutants, they despised their new principal even more and anyone making him look like an ass deserved a cheer.

"Augh! I can't believe I missed that!" Shouted all of the Jamies as soon as Kurt was done recounting the afternoon.
"Ja, you're pretty much the only one who did." Kurt added.
"What happened after that?" Jamie sounded rather exasperated at that point.
"Not much really. I finished the day, about zhe same as the morning. Although feeling a bit more confident, I must confess."
Kitty lit up as she noticed the hint of a grin in the corner of Kurt's mouth.
Apparently done with his story telling, Kurt devoted his entire attention to the sandwich he had started making about half way through his tale. Most of the group seemed to not have even realized until that point that they had followed Kurt all the way into the kitchen.
Honestly, for Kitty, it had become second nature. When she was with Kurt, they almost always ended up in the kitchen at some point in time.
Most everyone satisfied with the story, began to exit the kitchen, although Jamie's moaning could be heard for quite some time after his departure. The only ones remaining were Kitty who was sitting on the counter eating an apple, Kurt already half way through his sandwich and Scott who was looking a little guilty.
"Hey Kurt, I'm sorry man. I really had no place to yell at you like that." He spoke up.
Kurt put down the last of his snack so that he could look up at the older boy.
"Eet's all right, you vere just being my 'Big Brother Scott'"
"Either way, I'm sorry. I mean, you really amaze me sometimes. I'm sure that I could never go through what you did and walk away with a smile on my face." Scott added, truly proud of his younger "brother".
"Ja, vell, I've had a lot of years of practice." He smiled before finishing his sandwich.

end chapter 9 - 'Kurt's Tale'

A/N: Alright, I know that took awhile to get posted, but luckily I had an evening of inspiration and I got this and the next chapter finally, completely written out! I was even going to make it one big chapter, but I figured this way you got something to read while I typed up the next one. And I promise it will have more Kurtty moments than this one! ;o)

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