Disclaimer: Again, I do not own nightcrawler

Nightcrawler's POV:

I voke up feeling sore all over. I vent to rub my head but I couldn't move, and my tail vas tied down too. I vas trapped in a pillory, surrounded by a big group of people. I guessed zat ze whole town vas here to vatch my punishment. I looked around for Anabelle, but she vas novhere to be found. I sighed. I guess I'll never see her again. She vas so pretty, and she vasn't even afraid of me eizer. Zat is very rare. People r alvays scared of me. I felt some sort of special connection to her vhen she touched my face. I vish I could just see her von more time. I zought sadly. I looked at ze people zhat surrounded me. Zhey ver vispering and pointing at me. Some of zhem looke scared and ozhers looked disgusted.

"Come one come all! Buy my things to throw at the beast! Get satisfaction from throwing things at it, or better yet, if you're brave enough, buy a stick to poke him with! Get them before they sell out!" a man yelled out.

I stared in shock as I vatched people from ze crowd go up to ze man and buy items from him. Most of it vas food, but zhere ver ozher zhings like sticks and ozher pointy objects as vell. I vas scared. I couldn't move and people ver going to zhrow zhings at me and jab me vith sticks. I felt horrible. I'd only seen people treated zis vay in movies. I knew people ver mean, but I didn't know zhey ver heartless and cruel.

Please God don't let me die zhis vay. Please I need you to save me. I need a miracle. I can't die this vay, it's too cruel. Please, vhatever vrong I have done, forgive me. I prayed silently in my mind. I looked up at ze sky and zhen closed my eyes, still silently praying for a miracle to come and save me. Tears formed in my eyes and tears slid down my face and on to zhe ground.

"Look! The demon is crying! What a baby! We'll teach him to never bother humans again! Won't we?" yelled a voman lifting a pointed stick in zhe air.

"yeah!" yelled a crowd of people next to her.

"I call the first throw!" an old man called as he zhrew an apple at me. Zhe apple hit my face and exploded on my cheek. Zhe crowd laughed as bits of apple and juices slid off of my face.

"Everyone join in!" cried the same voman zhat called me a baby. I vas really starting to not like her. Everyvon lifted zheir items and aimed to zhrow zhem at me. I closed my eyes as tears continued to fall and I vaited for the vorst to come. Sooner or later zhey ver going to start poking me. Zhe food vas nozhing compared to the pain zat I vas going to feel vhen zhey stabbed me.

"Wait! I wanna give him a jab first, before we throw food at him!" cried a man. Everyvon looked at him and zhen nodded.

"ok go ahead!" somevon yelled. "But hurry up, I wanna throw stuff at him!"

The man smiled and walked over to me looking very brave. "Listen demon! This is what you get for messing with us!" He raised zhe stick and smacked me across zhe face. I held in my scream as he smacked me again. "Let this be a lesson learned." He said valking avay. But I just couldn't keep my mouth shut. "Ze only zhing I've learned about humans is zhat zhey are stupid, heartless beings who don't care for anybody else but zhemselves. I'm proud to be a mutant." I said. "What did you say?" he asked angrily turning around. "Apparently ze stupid humans are deaf too." He growled and angrily stomped back to vhere I vas being held. He jabbed me hard a few times in my stomach and back and zhen he pulled his leg back zhen kicked me as hard as he could in my stomach. It knocked zhe vind out of me and I stood zhere gasping for air. "That'll teach you to talk like that about us you worthless piece of shit." He spit in my face and zhen valked avay. Tears formed in my eyes again. I looked up and saw people giving him high fives and cheering at him. Never have I felt such hatred tovards a person in my life. I glared at him. I vas still in pain and gasping for air when zhe people ver getting ready to zhrow zhings at me again. The spots vhere zhe man stabbed me burned and stung badly. I still silently prayed for a miracle, doing my best to ignore zhe pain .

I saw zhem zhrow zhe food and vaited for it to splatter me. I can't possibly be more humiliated zhan I am now. I zhought to myself sadly. But ze food never hit me. A big shadow covered me and seemed to be blocking ze food. "Huh?" I looked up and saw Anabelle holding up a big vooden board using it as a shield. She vas shielding me from ze food. I vas never more happy to see somevon in my entire life.

"Are you okay?" she asked. I heard her gasp and realized she must've seen my svollen face and ze bloody spots on my body from vhere ze man had jabbed me.

"I'm okay now zhat you're here" I gasped. Eventually my breath came back and I coughed.

"What did they do to you?" She asked looking very concerned. She put down ze shield after zhey finished and zhen knelt down beside me and she gently touched my face, examining my svollen cheek.

"Zhey zhrough food at me and zhat von man hit me in ze face vith zhat stick tvice and zhen he poked me vith it and kicked me in ze stomach and spit on me." I told her.

She looked at zhe man angrily. Even vhen she vas angry she still looked beautiful. She looked back at me and her expression softened as she took out a handkerchief and viped my face vith it. "You poor thing" she said.

"Anabelle get away from that creature! I already told you to stay away from him!" yelled ze same man zhat had attacked me in ze dead end earlier.

"No, you're not my father!" she yelled at him.

"Obviously! Your father's dead! But he told me to look after you and take care of you!" he yelled.

I noticed her eyes water. "Well you didn't do what he asked, because I take care of you! You can't even cook your own meals! Without me you would be helpless because you wouldn't even know how to feed yourself! All you've ever done to me was abuse me! I've never had any love from you, you've never even hugged me! You're nothing to me! I HATE YOU!" She screamed, tears streaming down her face.

He looked angry. "Everyone leave! There's nothing more to see here!" he yelled. "The demon's punishment will be revealed in public tomorrow in the afternoon. Be there to watch him die!" He yelled and everyvon quickly disappeared. Clearly he vasn't somevon people liked to mess vith. "You're such a pathetic little girl Anabelle. Stay here with the demon, but be home in time to make me some dinner. If you're not there, you're going to get it." He said as he valked avay.

"Who the HELL does he think he is? He can't talk to me like that! I hate him so much!" She fumed. "Oh my gosh, I wish I could just leave this stupid village already! If only I had a place to go!" She sat down, put her knees up to her chest, and cried into her hands.

"You can come vith me." I suggested. She looked up at me. "I mean, only if you vant to. I vouldn't mind some company zhough. It does get a little bit lonely sometimes." I said sadly. She smiled at me.

"I would love to go with you!" She got up wiping her tears. "but I have to get you out first. By the way, what's your name?" she asked.

Oh, I'm sorry! My mutant name is Nightcrawler, but my real name is Kurt Vagner."

"Hmm, Nightcrawler. That's a pretty cool name. Well, it's nice to meet you Kurt." She smiled and zhen she shook my hand. I looked at her face. It didn't even bozher her to touch my hand. She acted as if I vas a normal human.

"Nice to meet you too Anabelle." I gave her my best smile.

She looked around. "We have to hurry and get out of here! Pretty soon that Craig will come looking for me again."

"If you untie my tail first, zhen maybe I can pick ze lock and get out. It's tied to my leg.

She vent behind me and found my tail. Having it tied down vas really uncomfortable. I hate it vhen I can't move my tail, it drives me crazy. She untied it and backed up as I thrashed it around.

Ah, zhat's much better." I said, bringing my tail to zhe lock to try and unlock it. She came back around to zhe front to vatch me try to get out, but my tail vouldn't fit in ze lock. "Ze lock is too small, my tail von't fit." He explained.

"We're gonna have to break it then." Anabelle said, looking around for somezhing to free me vith. "Hold on I see something." She called as she ran to a fence. I saw her pick up somezhing off ze floor. She carried it back vith her. It vas a big rock. "Here I go, I'm gonna smash it" she said.

"Just try not hit my face or my hands." I said jokingly as she raised ze rock above her head. She brought it down hard and I heard zhe lock break easily. She lifted the top of the pillory and I stood up stretching. I winced as ze stab wounds started hurting again. "I vish I could teleport right now, ve vould be about twenty miles from here in about a second."

"You can teleport? That's awesome! How come you can't do it right now though?" She asked, clearly interested.

"Because I'm still pretty veak. I need to eat and rest before I can teleport again." He replied.

"So we should probably leave so you can get some rest and food." she said.

Anabelle's POV

Kurt nodded. "Follow me." He turned and walked in the direction of the woods.

"ANABELLE WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" yelled Craig.

"Shit." I swore under my breath. "Run Kurt! He's coming!" I yelled. Kurt took my hand and we started running. I could hear Craig's footsteps behind us. "Kurt he's catching up! We have to lose him!" I looked behind me and saw that he was catching up and he was not alone. A group of people were running with him. Looking back was a mistake. I felt my feet fall from under me as I tripped on an uprooted tree root. My hand slipped from Kurt's grasp. I tried to get up quickly but when I stepped on my ankle, a sharp pain shot through my leg, causing me to fall again. Kurt stopped to help me.

"I can carry you!" He said reaching to pick me up. I could hear Craig and his crew getting closer.

"No Kurt keep going! I'll just slow you down. It wouldn't be good if we were both caught. Just go, I'll be fine. GO!" I yelled. He looked really sad, but he turned around and kept running. He looked back at me once more before disappearing into the shadows.

Nightcrawler's POV

I hated to leave Anabelle, but she vas right. If ve vere both caught, zhere vould be no von to help us escape. I hid in a tree and vatched her try to get up and follow me. It took all of my vill power to stay vhere I vas and not help her. I heard Craig and his crew coming closer.

"Here she is! Aw she hurt her ankle. Look she's trying to get away and follow her demon friend. Too bad he left you! I told you that demon was bad news, and now look, you have to get punished for helping him escape." Craig sneered. He grabbed Anabelle by her hair and zhrew her on ze floor. My anger boiled up inside of me. How dare he treat her like zhat!

"Look now she's crying! That's what you get for not being home to make me dinner. I told you that you were gonna get it. He picked her up by her hair again. "Now listen up little girl, you're gonna go home and make me dinner, and then we'll decide your punishment. Got that?" he smirked.

Anabelle looked angry, but she just shook her head and said "ok."

"Good, now let's get you home so you can cook." He laughed and zhen pushed her, making her valk on her svollen ankle. I vas so mad, I almost attacked him right zhere! But I had to stay hidden. I vas going to save her, but I just had to vait for ze perfect time, vhen it vas very dark out, and no von can really see me. But for now, all I could do vas vatch as zhey disappeared from my view, back to ze village.