Once the Blackbird had safely landed in Genosha, Kurt wasted no time in teleporting into the palace's throne room, where he usually found Wanda. When the X-man appeared in the hall however, he was greeted only by Blink, who was examining the hologram transmitter. She looked to him with surprise, an emotion Kurt had yet to see cross her face before.
"Blink, vhere is Vanda?" he glanced around while the female teleporter shut off the transmitter and faced him.
"She hasn't left her room, she isn't feeling well today."
It occurred to Kurt that he had never seen Wanda sick before; the woman he knew wasn't the type to give in to anything, including illness.
He was just about to teleport to her room when Blink touched his arm,
"Nightcrawler," she said pointedly, "maybe today isn't the best time for a visit."
"I must check on her at least," the good-natured X-men offered her a small smile,
"Und call me Kurt."
He reappeared outside the door of Wanda's bedroom suite, and tapped on one of the double doors,
"Vanda, may I come in?"
He heard nothing but a cough and the familiar deep hum of a hex-bolt being summoned, and with a flash of red light the doors were torn open. He entered but saw no one.
"Vanda?" he repeated , and when he turned around he found her, walking out of her bathroom dressed only in a silk chemise and a thigh-length changing robe.
"Kurt?" she looked up in surprise and quickly pulled her small red robe shut to cover herself,
"I'm sorry, I thought you were Lorna-otherwise I would have, well, gotten dressed-"
Kurt smiled and walked over to her as she blushed prettily,
"Don't apologize," he gently brushed her cheek with his hand,
"Blink said you veren't feeling well; I vanted to make sure you vere alright."
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Wanda smiled and wrapped her arms about him, leaning her head onto his chest.
"I'm so glad to see you, Kurt. I can't believe it's been nearly two months since your last visit."
"I've missed you every day, Vanda," he held her tightly in his arms, "But tell me, how are you feeling?"
Wanda fell silent before looking critically at his X-suit,
"Are you…here for X-men business?"
"Nein, ze team has actually had some down time, vhile Hank and Logan research some new developments. I'll stay as long as I am able to."
Wanda shut her eyes and savored their embrace, but the concern of his voice ate at her heart when he spoke again,
"Vanda , you look so pale, maybe you should lie down."
His arm grasped her shoulders protectively as he walked her to the side of her bed. She climbed onto the lush comforter and remembered longingly the last time he had laid beside her here. She leaned back onto a pillow and looked up at him hopefully, and was happy to see him sit down next to her on the bed.
"Is there anything you need?"
"Only for you to stop worrying, darling," she replied weakly as she leaned into his shoulder affectionately.
The familiar feeling of his hand sliding through her hair brought a smile to the edge of her lips. They had not sat in comfortable silence long, however, before Lorna's words crept into her head like a broken record,
'He deserves to know- you're lying to him-what kind of relationship do you want, anyway?'
Her chest seemed to throb with guilt as she lay in his arms, the silence between them steadily growing unbearable.
"Kurt?"
He looked at her with his strange, pupil-less and completely trusting golden eyes.
"We've held this relationship together for a while now, but we've never really talked about plans for the future," she pulled her robe a little closer against herself nervously,
"I guess in our lives the present is hard enough to handle, but I was wondering…"
He shifted slightly to face her, and her voice faltered despite her efforts to keep calm,
"Have you ever hoped to have children someday?"
He raised his eyebrows a bit, and worry's fingers tightened about Wanda's throat.
"Of course. In fact, I think of my vork vith the X-men as trying to provide a safer world for zhem, and all young mutants, vhen they arrive."
Hope shone in Wanda's eyes as she smiled at him, and he returned it.
"Vas about you?"
"Oh," she laughed nervously and cast her eyes down, "I'd say children are certainly in my future."
Wanda was so delighted with Kurt's words that her guilt was the furthest thing from her mind as she climbed onto his lap and pressed a kiss across his lips. Her hands traced the angles of his shoulders and biceps as she felt him gently slide a wave of her hair away from her face, and just as his kiss began to melt away her anxiousness; he ended it. She had to fight to keep her face clear of disappointment as he spoke.
"Vanda, I'm concerned about you, vhy von't you tell me how you are feeling?" he frowned in a way that assured Wanda she wouldn't be able to change the subject this time, and she gave a small sigh.
"Well, it's because it's nothing serious. I just don't seem to have much energy lately, and I tend to get sick when I eat."
"All ze time?" Worry was etched across his face, but his voice was even as always.
"Only in the mornings, mostly."
Her heart pounded as Kurt looked at her in a calculating way. She wondered if her guilt could be showing in her face, and looked away from him.
'Why can't you just tell him? Are you that much of a coward?' she mentally berated herself until Kurt's voice distracted her from her thoughts.
"Ve have two doctors on ze team; are you sure you don't vant to see one of zhem?"
"Right now the only person I want to see is you." She replied evenly, and Kurt smiled.
As if he had just noticed her fortunate position upon his lap, the teleporter slid his hands along her shapely legs, free of her boots for once.
Wanda let her silk robe slip down from her shoulders, and when her hand met Kurt's chest and gently pushed him onto his back, they both decided they had talked for long enough.
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Bornbored: Yay for fluffy cliff-hangers!
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