Kurt Wagner, otherwise known as Nightcrawler, lay on his bed. The fuzzy blue mutant was chewing his lip and thinking about dinner. That was when "the incident" had occurred.

-flashback-

He'd been teasing Kitty and had apparently touched a nerve. She snapped (and he honestly hadn't seen this coming) and shouted "Get away from me!! I'm sick of you, you stupid, ugly, creature!!!" The room froze, everyone staring at the two. The insulted and the one who'd inflicted a wound unthinkingly. Kurt paused, his hand stretched out in the process of calming her. C-creature? It was miracle she hadn't called him demon!! He lowered his hand and head. "I'm sorry Keety, I guess I slipped up." He forced a smile at the room. "I must be sick, I'll pass on dinner. Gute Nacht everyone." With a bamf and a cloud of sulfur-smelling smoke, he vanished.

Kitty just stood there. What was wrong with her? She looked around the room at her fellow teammates. Every one of them was glaring at her. Ororo looked at her sadly and Professor Xavier gave her a stern look but didn't say anything.

"I-I guess I'm not really hungry either. See you guys tomorrow." She said, tears threatening to spill. With that she turned and ran out of the room. She phased through her and Rouge's bedroom door and threw herself on the bed.

-end flashback-

The elf heaved a sigh and stood up. Staying here would do no good, he'd have to go and see her. He knew everyone else was still down at dinner. This was the perfect time. Kurt steeled himself and ported to his sister's room.

The song was over but Kitty was not feeling better, not in the slightest. But on the other hand she couldn't cry anymore either. She slumped down further (if possible) and tried to disappear inside herself, to get away from it all. In all her misery she didn't notice a bamf sound. The smell that accompanied it was so common she'd gotten used to it and thus hardly noticed it now.

"That's not going to work kleine katz, I've tried it often enough." Kitty looked up from her bordering-on-the-edge-of-emo musings to see her favorite elf. He was shuffling his feet and looking down. "I-I'm sorry Keety. I shouldn't have been teasing you. I am just a…a crea-". He was interrupted by a tackling hug from Kitty.

"I'm the one who should be sorry Kurt" she sobbed, tears coming fresh. "I shouldn't have said those things. I didn't mean a word of it. It's just that stupid Lance!! He made mad today and I took it out on you and I really really shouldn't have done that!!" She was stopped in her rant by a big blue finger.

"It's fine" Kurt said with a genuine smile. "You're forgiven." He pulled her into a tight embrace that was gratefully returned. "Ich liebe dich meine kleine katze. Ich werde immer." Kitty pulled back, looking at him confused. "What does that mean?" I'll tell you later" he said, hiding any sadness in his eyes.

And later he did. Much later, when everyone had gone to bed, Kurt ported into Kitty and Rouge's room. Thankfully the noise and smell didn't wake up the girls. He crept to Kitty's bedside (an easy task for the Nightcrawler), leaned over, and whispered the phrase again. "Ich liebe dich meine kleine katze. Ich werde immer." Before porting back out he placed a soft kiss on Kitty's lips.

In the darkness of a new day the one known as Shadowcat smiled and touched her lips were moments before, an elf's had been. She rolled over unable to keep the smile from her face. "I love you too fuzzy."