8. Of Never Leaving the Elf Alone For Long Periods of Time
Disclaimer: Nope, nada, zip, zilch…for goodness sake NO!
A/N: Yeah, I felt like doing even more fluff, I hope you get a few laughs from this one! Sorry it took me so long to put this up, I hit Writer's Block. It's a disease!
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"Oh yeah! Summer is here!" Evan cheered as he dropped a large stack of past assignments and notes from the school year in the garbage.
Kurt chuckled from his place crouched on the desk chair. "Ja, no more school and no more homevork!"
Evan grinned at his friend who had actually been strangely happy for the past few days. "Yep, and we get to go home and see our folks." Ah the magic words.
Kurt's ears perked up and his eyes seemed to glow even brighter, he had missed his parents a lot and it was well known around the mansion that the German boy was ready to hop on a plane home at a moment's notice. Logan or Storm would've flown the boy home with the X Jet, but the Professor and Hank had taken it to go to a conference in Florida for the month.
"Hey boys." Kitty phased in through the door.
"Hey Kit Kat…what's that?" he asked with trepidation. Kurt also stared at the object in their friends hands like it was about to blow up.
And to be honest, his fear was not out there, the large, brown black thing in Kitty's hands almost resembled a giant muffin, but it looked almost spiky in some places, while others sunk in.
"I made a cake to celebrate the beginning of summer!" she announced happily.
Evan was sure that if Kurt wasn't blue, he would've turned green. He already looked sick as it was. Never having tasted Kitty's cooking, his reaction wasn't as dramatic, but he'd been around when Kurt's system finally decided Shadowcat's 'muffins' weren't food. Nightcrawler had found himself in the bathroom worshipping the toilet for the entire night.
Evan never wanted to take his friend's place in that situation.
"Uh, thanks Kit, but I'm not really hungry." He said, trying to let her down easy.
She looked a little sad, but turned to Kurt instead, looking hopeful.
Kurt turned an interesting shade of blue, and Evan guessed that it was the version of green he got.
"Kurt?" she asked hopefully. Her eyes got big and wide and Evan knew his friend was sunk.
"Uh…Keety, um…" Kitty's expression slowly fell.
"Oh…that's okay…"
Kurt winced and bit his lip, debating.
~Okay, make Kitty feel better or spend the night puking my guts out again… ~
He let out a defeated sigh, "Sure, I'll try it."
Evan stared at Kurt in disbelief, did he not remember what happened last time.
He barely restrained from slapping himself when it became clear, ~He puts her happiness above his own health…now that's scary. ~
Kitty's eyes lit up, "Really?"
Kurt tried to give her a smile and nodded.
Kitty broke off a piece of the cake and handed it to him.
Kurt took a breath ~Good bye world. ~ and took a bite of the concoction.
His eyes widened and he swallowed, "Kitty, vhat exactly is in that?"
She smiled, "Well, basically it's banana bread, but instead of mashing all the bananas I sliced them up. And then I threw in some dark chocolate…it was all we had. So, what do you think?" she looked worried.
Kurt blinked several times before smiling and grabbing more of the cake, "It's great!" and he wasn't lying.
Evan stared; Kitty had made something that didn't destroy the health of millions? The world truly was coming to an end.
Kitty looked like she was about to start cheering she was so happy, "Yay!"
Kurt licked his lips again and Kitty hugged him tightly, after having passed her dish to Evan, who was trying a bit of it himself.
Kurt smiled goofily and hugged his friend back. Evan rolled his eyes even as he chewed a piece of the surprisingly tasty cake-thing.
Kitty pulled away and took the cake from Evan who glared at her, "I'm going to go find Rogue! I'll see you guys at dinner."
She left the room but called over her shoulder, "Thanks Fuzzy!"
Kurt watched her go with a dreamy expression, "No problem Katzchen."
Evan groaned and whipped a pillow at his friend, "You have it so bad."
Kurt glared at him, "Shut up."
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Kurt smiled to himself as he zipped up his duffle bag, the second of the two pieces of luggage he had. Finally, he was done packing, and tomorrow he was catching his flight home, back to Germany.
He loved the Institute and everyone in it (some more than others) but he missed his home badly, letters were only so good.
There was a knock on his door and he wondered who it was as Kitty, who was the most regular visitor to his room, never knocked.
"Come in!" Ororo stepped in, looking a little sad.
Kurt became worried, had something happened to the Professor or Hank?
"Vhat's vrong?" she looked up and sighed.
"Kurt, I have some bad news concerning your flight home."
Kurt stared at her as what felt like the floor fell out from underneath him.
"Because of our recent announcement as mutants, and your foreign citizenship, you have been…banned from any flights."
Nightcrawler continued to stare at her, he wasn't going home?
She looked even sadder at his dumbfounded expression. "I'm sorry Kurt, but as soon as Hank and the Professor get back I'll take you home, okay?"
Kurt just nodded and sat down on his bed, his previous good mood having disappeared completely.
"I'll see you at dinner?" it was a question as his current expression made her wonder if he would even be seen for the rest of the night.
He just nodded again, "Yeah…" his tone was almost bordering on broken.
He looked down at his lap as his tail knocked his duffle bags from his bed.
Two tears fell from his eyes starting the quick flow that made him curl up in a ball on his side. He wasn't going home; he wasn't going to see his Mutti or Vati or Opa and Oma for another month. (Mom and Dad. Grandpa and Grandma)
It wasn't fair.
He shuddered as he continued to cry, whimpering slightly.
He was going to be completely alone for another month, everyone else was going home, even Rogue and Scott was staying with Alex and his foster parents in Hawaii. Kitty was going back to her parents', so was Evan and Jean. Ororo was going to Africa and Logan was disappearing off on one of his trips.
He hated being alone.
Another whimper made its way past his lips.
All alone.
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"Hey, where's Kurt?" Kitty noticed her best friend's empty seat. Usually he was the first one down for any meal.
Across the table, Logan and Ororo exchanged glances sending off alarms in everyone's heads.
Evan's mind immediately went to the cake.
Ororo sighed, "Kurt just learnt that he won't be able to go home as soon as he thought."
"What?!" the X Men were in an uproar, of everyone, Kurt deserved to go home the most.
"What are ya'll talkin' about?" Rogue snarled out.
Logan let out a breath, "None of the air lines are willing to let a mutant on their planes."
"But, no one told me I wouldn't be able to go visit Alex."
Ororo sighed, "That's because you're still an American citizen…Kurt isn't."
Everyone's jaws dropped.
"That's ridiculous! Not only are they being racist against him being a mutant, but now they're just adding his German citizen ship to it!" Kitty shrieked causing Rogue and Evan, who were sitting on either side of her to scoot their chairs as far as possible away from hers.
"We know it ain't fair Half-Pint, but they're ain't anythin' we can do."
"When the Professor and Hank get back from the conference I'll be taking Kurt home in the X Jet, though."
Kitty sat down, crossing her arms, "But that's not fair, he'll be here all alone for weeks!"
Logan winced at the reminder, "Yeah, and I'm worried the mansion isn't going to stay in one piece."
Scott shook his head, "I'll stay, I can wait to go visit Alex."
"No you von't." Kurt walked into the dining room.
Everyone's eyes widened at his appearance, this wasn't the happy-go-lucky elf they were used to. His eyes were downcast and looked a little red. Logan could smell the salt on him that proved he'd been crying. But the biggest thing that had changed was the boy's attire. He was wearing a long sleeved grey tunic and black slacks that they hadn't seen on him before. Kitty imagined the style of the clothing wouldn't have looked out of place back home for him though.
Kurt looked to Scott, "Just because I don't get to see my parents doesn't mean you shouldn't get to see your brozzer." His voice had a note of finality in it as he sat down across from Kitty.
Everyone decided to let the discussion lie and started the regular dinner chatter, but through it all, Kurt never added his regular comments or jokes and as soon as he was done, he disappeared back upstairs.
Kitty watched him sadly; it really wasn't fair to him.
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The next day, while everyone else was getting ready to go to the airport, Scott, having finished his packing long ago, found his way to Kurt's room and knocked on the door.
"Come in." his voice was as downcast as it had been the day before.
Scott entered to see Kurt sitting against the door frame shrouded in the cloak he'd been wearing the first day he came to the Institute.
The blue teen looked over at him and attempted to smile, "You guys leaving now?" he stood up, and Scott saw the cloak was undone at the front.
Scott gave him a small smile, "Yeah, we're just packing up."
Kurt gave him a grin and if Scott hadn't known him better, he could've sworn it was real.
"Vell in that case I'll just come and see you guys off."
Scott followed after his younger friend and they walked side by side downstairs. When they got there, they found that everyone, minus Kitty was there and helping lode their bags into the X Van.
Kurt gave them another realistic, fake grin and left Scott to say good bye to Evan and Rogue.
Jean also walked over and Scott soon joined them.
"Hey, we'll call when we got home, kay?" Evan punched his friend's arm playfully as Rogue nodded in agreement. Kurt nodded and grinned.
"Where's Kitty? Her flight's one of the first to leave." Jean looked down at her watch.
"I'll see vhat's taking her so long." Kurt stated before bamfing upstairs to see Kitty struggling with her luggage which consisted of two very full suitcases.
"Need some help Katzchen?"
She looked up and smiled gratefully, "Yeah, that'd be great."
Kurt smiled and grabbed her and her suitcases and ported back downstairs.
After everything was loaded in the van, there were more good byes before everyone, without Kurt, piled into the van. Kurt watched them until the gates closed before losing his fake smile and walking back inside.
And begin his three and a half weeks of solitude.
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As Kitty looked up at the flight board, her eyes found the flight to Germany that Kurt was supposed to be boarding in a few minutes.
As she boarded her own flight, waving to everyone who was seeing her off, she felt like she was going to start crying.
~This is so unfair. ~
She sat sadly in her seat throughout her entire flight, when they finally landed Kitty forced herself to put on a happy face for meeting her parents.
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One week had passed and Kurt had never been more depressed in his entire life. There was literally no one around. So he spent his time either in the library reading one of the numerous books that the Professor owned or when he didn't want to sit still, he spent his time cleaning all those hard to reach places in the mansion, like the ceiling and all the chandeliers.
That was how bored he was.
He didn't trust himself to train without hurting himself and without someone else to help him should that happen, he quickly decided against anything including lasers or giant spinning blades of doom.
He sighed as he finished washing his dishes from breakfast, he could easily say this was the longest he'd gone without smiling or laughing in his entire life. And aside from the calls from everyone once they reached their destinations for the summer, he hadn't really spoken either.
He shoved his hands in his pockets and wandered down the hall and into the main entry. It was dead silent and caused Kurt to frown as he left the spacious area to port into the rec room.
He stared at the blank TV for a few minutes, he hadn't taken the time yet to find the remote, he was saving that for the day he started talking to himself for something to do.
It was sad that he had planned for that.
Ding-dong.
His head shot up at the sound of the doorbell. Standing he looked down the hall to the entry way with a confused expression.
Ding-dong.
~Should I get that? ~
Worried he may have lost his sanity while cleaning, he headed back to the main entry, flicking on his inducer as he went.
He reached the front door and opened it before staring at the visitor with a stunned expression.
Kitty smiled shyly at him, "Hey Fuzzy."
He blinked several times then closed the door for a second and opened it again. Kitty stifled her laughter, this was a typical Kurt response taken to the extreme, although she had a feeling that came from being alone for an entire week.
He blinked a few times before Kitty spoke again, "So are you going to help me get my stuff upstairs?" she gestured to her suitcases that sat at the base of the steps.
"Katzchen!" Kurt cheered and grabbed her in a hug that lifted her from the ground.
Kitty gasped before laughing loudly, "This is more of the welcome I expected!" she said in a breathless voice as her best friend attempted to squeeze her to death.
Kitty was only sort of surprised when Kurt started purring happily. She giggled a little, "Miss me?" he just nodded, putting her down and hugged her in a more traditional fashion.
"You have no idea."
Kitty quickly made a decision; ~We are to never leave Kurt alone ever again. ~
"So about those bags…" she didn't need to say anything more as Kurt disappeared in a flash of smoke with them, then reappeared without them a second later.
He gave her a huge smile, "Vhat are you doing here?"
She shrugged and looped her arm with his, pulling him inside, "Eh, I didn't want you to go crazy all by yourself." In reality she hadn't been able to stand spending so much time with her relatives who had all wanted to see her after she'd been away.
Before, when she'd focused on things like, becoming more popular and such, she hadn't really registered her relatives comments, but now that she'd actually been around people she knew liked her for her and not as a popularity ploy or for just helping them with their homework, she was a bit more in tune to those hurtful comments that her uncles enjoyed throwing around.
A few in particular, drove her up the wall.
[Flashback]
Kitty smiled as another one of her aunts greeted her.
"So how is your new school dear?"
Kitty smiled, inwardly thinking about how much fun Evan and Kurt would've had finding different ways to mess with the food and punch that didn't involve alcohol, it was the best catalyst to help her give convincingly happy smiles.
"It's been great. Classes are going good and I've-"
"Well that's nice dear. Charlotte! How's Betty doing at Yale?" and her aunt was gone.
Kitty let her shoulders fall, thirty relatives down, sixty three left to go, and that wasn't including her cousins.
"I'm just saying that if there's proof that they're dangerous, why is there so much debate over rounding them up and putting them in holding facilities?" that comment sent ice up Kitty's spine, she'd heard enough of comments similar to that, that she knew immediately what they were talking about.
It was in that moment she was glad her mutant ability was to phase, some of her uncles were fairly big and with that, came good swinging muscles for baseball or…other things.
Taking a sharp breath, she attempted to find the owner of the voice that had said the comment. She soon found her uncle Ross.
Kitty didn't make her presence known and busied herself straightening some decorative blankets on one of the near arm chairs.
"Oh come off it Ross! You know it's because they're still, supposedly, human." Her uncle Bill said it with so much venom Kitty had to bite her lip.
"Yeah, did ya see the news report from New York? There was one that looked like a friggin' demon!"
Kitty froze, but her hands started to shake like mad.
~Oh no, oh no, oh no… ~
"Yeah, I saw it, coulda sworn one of 'em muties looked like Katherine though."
"Naw, impossible, she's going to…what was the name of that school Frank said they'd sent her?"
She couldn't listen to anymore, instead rushing up to her room and phasing through her door and the barricade she'd created to keep out snoopers. Some of her cousins were pure evil.
She took a shuddering breath before pulling out her suitcases while simultaneously booting up her laptop, she'd done this before, but always stopped herself from buying her ticket. Now, there was no hesitation.
Just the thought of Kurt all alone back at the Institute had driven her to tears every night, now the comments from her family were driving her crazy!
She was spending her summer with the one person she knew she'd have a good time with.
Besides, leaving Kurt alone for long periods of time was never smart.
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Kitty smiled later that night, glad to be curled up in her bed at the Institute, but a little sad knowing she'd have to go back home at the end of the month.
~Maybe I can go to Germany with Kurt. ~ She thought jokingly to herself.
With a sigh, she rolled onto her side and fell asleep, a small smile playing on her lips.
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Kurt stared at his ceiling.
~I know I'm dreaming. ~ He thought. It was impossible that Kitty was back at the Institute with him, just impossible.
~Maybe I am crazy. ~ Kurt shook his head and jumped from his head, porting mid jump to the hall outside Kitty and Rogue's room.
Continuing to question his sanity, he turned the doorknob and stepped into the dark room, his feet silent on the soft carpet.
His glowing eyes quickly located Kitty, sleeping silently in her bed, completely unaware of her midnight visitor.
Kurt finally smiled, ~Okay, so I'm not crazy. Good. ~
He smiled again and turned to leave before he remembered how he'd been feeling the past week.
It had been pure torture to be alone for so long, he wasn't meant to be a loner, that was Logan, and sometimes Rogue, but not him.
He didn't get that trait from Mystique.
So he padded over to Kitty's bed and carefully climbed onto it. He curled on his side, his tail looping around to twine around his ankle and let his eyes closed, finally feeling better.
Kitty woke up when she felt something brush her back and froze up before turning over to see Kurt's sleeping face a few inches from hers.
She would've jumped, but then she noticed how peaceful he looked.
Kitty finally realized how it must have been for him, to be completely isolated from everyone.
~My poor Fuzzy…Wait! My? Kurt isn't mine. ~
She looked at his sleeping form again and smiled before tugging a thickly knitted blanket up over his shoulders. His smile widened a bit and so did hers.
~Okay, so maybe he's mine a little bit. ~
With a happy sigh, she lay back down and curled closer to him. She tucked her head under his and smiled happily when she felt his arm wrap around her.
"Night Kurt." She whispered softly.
"Nacht Katzchen." she could hear the smile in his voice.
"Should've known you wouldn't be asleep." She muttered before closing her eyes again.
Kitty felt more than heard Kurt chuckle softly before his arm tightened around her and they both fell asleep.
~Definitely not a dream. ~ Kurt decided.
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Ororo took a careful breath as she watched her cab drive away. Looking up at the mansion, nothing appeared to be out of order, or wrong in any way, but that was what worried her. Leaving Kurt alone for a few hours was a bad idea, she didn't even want to think about what had happened in the last three and a half weeks she'd been gone.
She hadn't exactly had access to a phone, so she hadn't been able to check up on everyone's favorite elf, she just hoped the others might have taken the time to.
Unlocking the front door she looked around the entry way to see everything in order but that still didn't alleviate her worry.
"Kurt?" she called his name, hoping he was close enough for him to hear her.
"Kurt?" she called again.
A few seconds later, there was a soft 'bamf' and she looked up to have her jaw drop.
"Hi Storm!" Kitty and Kurt chimed together, wide smiles on their faces.
Storm continued to stare and for good reason. Kurt clung to the ceiling with his hands and feet, while Kitty had her arms looped around his rib cage and dangled above the ground. Upon a second look, Ororo was slightly relieved to see that Kurt had his tail wound tightly around her waist incase she slipped.
"Kitty, what are you doing here?"
Shadowcat giggled and Kurt ported them to the ground, now standing side by side.
"I kept thinking about how Kurt would probably initiate defcon four, so I came back to keep him company."
Storm caught the glimmer of happiness in both their eyes, "Well thank you for that. I'm pretty sure everyone will be relieved to know Kurt didn't blow up the mansion."
Nightcrawler grimaced, "Ja, I'd rather not take after mein muzzer that much." He shuddered and Kitty wrapped her arms around him from the side and hugged him tightly.
Ororo shook her head ~These two… ~
"So Kitty, are you going to head home soon?"
Shadowcat bit her lip, "Actually, I was hoping to stay here for a little while longer. You know, until Kurt goes home."
Storm noticed Kurt's tail start waving happily and bit back a laugh at his obvious happiness at spending more time with his best friend.
"I don't see a problem with that."
"Yay!" they both cheered and Ororo did laugh this time.
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Several days later, Charles and Hank came home to find, with great surprise, Kurt and Kitty both waiting with their bags packed.
"Uh, did we miss something?" Hank questioned as they stepped from the plane.
Ororo smiled at her friend, "Don't worry Hank, I'm just flying Kurt and Kitty to Germany for the rest of the summer."
Charles smiled slightly, like he was suppressing laughter as he wheeled away, greeting Kurt and Kitty as he went.
"Wait Kurt and Kitty?"
Storm nodded, "Yes. Come on you two, we want to get to Kurt's before dinner."
Hank just watched as the three boarded the jet.
"I will never understand these sorts of things." He mumbled to himself as he left the hanger.
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A/N: -Dances because I actually finished it- Happy day! I hope you guys liked it!
P.S. If you guys want to see Kitty comfort Kurt in a certain way or in a certain situation: let me know because I just might use it!
Review! Because it's the only enjoyable thing I have to read these days that doesn't include death/destruction/divorce etc. etc. I mean seriously, can't the paper write about good things for once?!