Nightcrawler was asleep until he heard the bedroom door open. It was Rouge.
"Hay little guy, what are you doing in my room?"
Kurt stretched out on the bed and rolled over on his back, tail swishing in the air.
Rouge walked over to the bed and scratched the cat mutant's stomach with her gloved hand. "You're just the happiest thing guy aren't you?"
As Rouge rubbed Kurt's belly Kitty walked in. "Ah, Kurt's in here." She said in her cute baby like tone.
Rouge turned to look at her roommate walk over and sit on the bed.
"Come here little guy." At Kitty's request, Kurt rolled back over to prop up on her lap and licked her on the cheek.
"So he gives you kisses now?" Rouge asked in a mocking amused tone.
Kitty gigged, "Not just me, Jean was the first one he gave a kiss to when she was brushing his fur....and since then he's been kissing everyone."
Rouge seemed to find this funny yet cute. "Does that mean his kissed Scott?" she asked making a joke out of it.
"No, it seems he only gives kisses to girls." Kitty replied smiling while she played with Kurt's pointed ears.
Rouge laughed to herself, scratching Kurt's head.
Just then, Bobby walked in. "Hay guys, what's going on?"
Rouge and Kitty both didn't need to answer the ice teens question. Bobby walked over to the bed and put his hand on the Nightcrawlers back and in turn got a lick on the cheek.
Both Kitty and Rouge laughed. "I guess that means Bobby's a girl." Rouge mocked. Bobby was lost but didn't seem to care; he was having too much fun with Kurt.
Kurt was now giving a sweet loving sound. Rouge wanted so bad to take off her glove to truly feel the softness of the Nightcrawlers fur but knew she couldn't.
Lost in her moment of thought she didn't realize Kurt was getting oddly close to her face.
"Oh no, no, little guy, you can't give me a kiss…off now." She cooed gently pushing Kurt away. But the Nightcrawler didn't stop, Kurt ported from the side he was on to the other side and rubbed against her. Due to the fast teleportation, Rouge couldn't block Kurt in time and felt his slick soft fur on her face.
For only a moments touch, Kurt felt enough life force leave him and freaked. Rouge felt Kurt's powers enter her.
In a spilt second, Kurt made a horrible sound and flied the room. Fast!
"Kurt!" Kitty yelled. Rouge felt bad and teleported down in hopes to catch the young mutant cat, Kitty and Bobby following.
Downstairs, Professor X was sitting at the table reading the morning paper when Kurt jumped on the table hissing. His Back hunched over, fangs showing and lifted one paw like hand shooting out three sharp claws.
"What is going on?" Xavier demanded looking at Rouge, Kitty and Bobby as they appeared in the room.
Unlike Kitty and Bobby, Rouge was not out of breath and answered first. "Sorry Professor, it was an accident, see Kurt ported near me and touched me….and he well freaked."
Understanding, Xavier dropped it. But now they had a very upset, very freaked out, mutant Nightcrawler.
Scott, who was in the next room heard everything and tried to be the typical hero by trying to pick Kurt up, but got clawed.
"Ow!" Scott pulled his hand away, it wasn't bleeding but it hurt.
"Scott, I know you want to help but stay back, let me or Jean handle this." Professor X snapped.
But before Xavier could do anything he heard Logan.
"Hold on there Charles, if one power scared him, I don't thing using another will help." Logan said walking in from outside, "Let me handle him, I can deal with the pain better than any of the kids here."
"Very well Logan." Everyone stepped back.
As Logan got close to Kurt the Nightcrawler raised his claw higher, but Logan knew any cuts made would just heal…and pain was something he was use to, and since Kurt had been drained of his powers there was no worry for him teleporting.
Logan didn't move away when Kurt's claws sank into his hand and in a moment of time he grabbed Kurt up.
Logan held Kurt with one arm that was wrapped around the young Nightcrawlers waist, his arms were hanging over Logan's and his back feet's claws sank into the bottom of the big man's arm while his tail slashed crazy.
"Settle down there Elf, come on…." Logan began, trying to calm the mutant cat down. "Shh....come on good kitty….shh…" Logan tried so hard to sound kind, his whispered in the cats ear but couldn't help the growls of pain that came out as well.
After a short time, Kurt slowly retraced his claws and settled down, his tail stopped swishing and wrapped around Logan wrist.
"There ya go elf, it's ok, no ones gonna hurt you…." Logan whispered, and out of reaction like out of most humans with animals, Logan gave a small peck on to Kurt's head before handing him back over to Kitty.
"There, see, all better." Logan growled, but more irritated then mad.
Kitty took Kurt in her arms as good as she could, due to his height, and gave him an even bigger kiss on the head.
Everyone was happy to see and hear Kurt purr in his normal loving way, and he even brushed up against Rouge wanting her to pet him as a sign he forgave what happened.
"Isn't he just the sweetest thing?" Kitty asked talking to Rouge and Jean who were both now petting him.
"Yeah, yeah, now get that thing out of here." Logan stated chasing the kids out of the room.
As the kids left with Kurt, Xavier glanced at Logan playfully.
"If I didn't know any better Logan, I'd say you really cared about Nightcrawler."
Logan heard this and snapped his head around to glare at the professor. "Then maybe it's good you know me well enough." He remarked before leaving into another room.
As the day went on, everyone went on with their day, over all, leaving Kurt alone except Kitty.
Kurt being everyone's cat Jean would enter Kitty and Rouges room, where Kurt normally was, and brushed his short soft blue fur.
Nightcrawler truly had full run of the house, he got to go anywhere he wanted, as long as he stayed out of the danger room.
Professor Xavier was in the med lab with Beast going over some mutant drank that hurt people when Scott entered; a question as plain as day on his face.
"Hay, umm, professor?"
"Yes Scott?" he asked looking at the young teen.
"I was wondering, would it be okay to take Kurt for a walk?"
Out of reaction the professor just about snapped, but controlled himself. "No Scott, he cannot! Under any circumstances be taken outside! Do you understand?"
Scott nodded but hated that he now had to tell Kitty no.
"I understand professor." With that he left.
Beast looked at the professor for a moment. "Why don't you want Kurt outside? I'm sure the students are very capable of keeping him out of sight."
Xavier sighed slightly frustrated, "I would want nothing more than for Kurt to live as a normal outdoor cat, but I just can't let that happen…like all cats he will not be easy to keep near the house and in the end I'm afraid he would be seen by people who do not understand….see I never did tell anyone where I got Kurt from…"
At this, Beast was all ears wanting to know everything.
"You see, I got Kurt from a government testing lab…he was born from a normal house cat, a Bombay cat to be exact, but when the mother gave birth, the young boy, 3 years of age, living in the house poured this exact drink over the baby kitten turning it into the Nightcrawler we know today…the family seeing the deformed cat turned him over to the government."
Beast felt his heart sink.
"This is why I'm having this drink tested."
Scott knocked on Kitty's door.
"Oh hay Scott, so what did he say?"
Scott rubbed the back of his head as if trying to find the right words. "I got some bad news about that…Kurt's not aloud outside….ever."
This all but upset Kitty. "Like really?! That's so unfair! Like Kurt needs fresh air."
"I'm sorry Kitty but the professor said under any circumstances Kurt can NOT go outside."
Kitty huffed and closed her door on Scott.
Evan walked down stairs to go outside to skateboard when Kurt 'bamfed' right in front of him.
"Wha! Hay there little guy…you scared me there for a moment." He said petting him on the head and running his hand along the full length of his body.
"Me'ow…" was Kurt's answer.
"Kay, little blue, I'm off, see you later, k?" with that Kurt watched Evan leave the house.
Leaping up on the window seal Kurt looked outside, but before he could think about porting out there, Storm detracted him.
"Hay Kurt…" she said. She watched Kurt looking outside. "you want to go out there little fella?"
Nightcrawler turned his head to look at her. "Well I fear the professor wouldn't be very happy if you did…but I do know a way you can…." Kurt looked at her as if confused but didn't struggle when she picked him up.
Storm took Kurt into the danger room, but unlike with the students she set the room out to look and feel just like the front yard.
Kurt looked around puzzled at first, but once he leaped onto the water fountain and felt the cool water hit his tongue he happy as could be.
Storm giggled as she watched Kurt hop and pounce around, she even put in some butterflies for him to chase.
Strom was so preoccupied with Kurt she never heard the professor come in.
"Storm. What are you doing?"
Jumping a bit Strom looked at him, "I just wanted to give Kurt a taste of the outside since he can't have the real thing….I mean it's safe enough."
Xavier looked down at Kurt and couldn't help but smile as he watched the Nightcrawler play and leap around in the fake outdoors.
"I trust your judgment Strom…just be sure Kurt doesn't come in here when Logan is running a coarse with the students."
After that, Kurt didn't stare out the window as much unless he was waiting for the students to come home from school, which he did every day at 3:00pm.
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