Sierra H.: That is so very weird! I picked Dreamer's name because I've always thought Sierra was a pretty name and her last name was a spur-of-the-moment decision and simply means 'Smith' in Spanish like I said before. Read, Review, and Enjoy!
Chapter Six
Scott, who had been out all day had just gotten back to the mansion about an hour after those who had gone to school had. He had just parked his car in the garage and gotten out when a little girl ran into the garage and crashed into him nearly knocking him over.
"There you are! I've been looking for you." Said Rogue, walked over, took Torpid oversized hand and started to lead her back inside.
"Hey Rogue, who's this?" Asked Scott.
"Hi Scott, this is Torpid, she's one of the Morlocks and is gonna be staying here for awhile."
Torpid smiled and waved and Scott.
"Uh, okay. Why?" asked Scott. He had thought the girl looked familiar.
Rogue's smile disappeared "You'd better go talk to the professor." She said
A bit later after Scott had been clued in on what was going on by the professor and Beast he said:
"Wow. Storm must be really upset."
"Yes, she is. And Kurt as well, I believe he blames himself for the whole thing." Said the Professor.
"So where are they?" Asked Cyclops.
"No one has seen Kurt since we found out about this, he didn't even show up at lunch." Said Hank "And Storm is currently in the danger room beating up Wolverine."
As testimony to this loud, thundering noises were heard from down the hall where the danger room was located.
"Ouch, that's gotta hurt, even for Wolverine." Said Scott.
Meanwhile Kitty was looking for Kurt, like she had been for the last half-hour. She had looked in his bedroom, the sub-levels, all the spare bedrooms, the kitchen, and just about every other room in the mansion too. So now she was looking outside.
She was pretty worried about him; after all, he was her best friend even though he was a guy. She couldn't help but think about when she first came to the institute, and how she had flipped out when she had first seen Kurt.
It had gone something like this:
Storm and the Professor had just brought her to the institute and she was sitting in the Professor's study waiting to meet the institute other students. Scott walked in
"Scott, this is Katherine Pryde, also known as Kitty. Kitty, this is Scott Summers." Said the Professor.
"Hi kitty." Said Scott
"Hey." Kitty said.
"Scott, have you seen Kurt?" Asked Storm.
"Not since we got home from school." Said Scott.
"He'll be here in a moment." Said the Professor removing his hands from his temples.
BAMF
"Guten tag!" Said Kurt
Kitty let out a short yelp and fell through the chair.
"Kurt! No teleporting directly in front of people." Said the Professor
"Sorry." Said Kurt, then to Kitty "Hi, I'm Kurt Wagner, need a hand up?" he asked offering her his blue, three fingered, fuzzy hand
"No Thanks, I can get up myself." She had said, staring at his hand the whole time.
"Storm, why don't you show Kitty to her room?" said the Professor.
"Come child." Said storm taking one of Kitty's bag's and headed out the door.
Kitty followed her, but looked back moment later and saw that Scott and Kurt were also leaving the room.
"Has he, like, always looked like that?" Asked Kitty
"Since I assume you're talking about Kurt, yes he has, and that basically meant isolation his whole life, never being around a lot of people. He has adjusted quite well actually for that." Said Storm.
Kitty had been distant and weird to Kurt for a long while, but now, she wanted only to find him, to make sure he was okay.
"There you are Kurt! I've like, been looking all over for you!" Kitty said. Kurt was up in a tree that the only way he could have gotten up there was by teleporting.
"Hello Kitty." Said Kurt dazed and not looking at her.
"Kurt, would you please come down? Have you been up there all day?"
"No, just most of it."
"Please come down, none of this is your fault!" she yelled up to him
"Yes, it is."
"No one else thinks that Kurt! Just come down please!"
He didn't answer her. So kitty decided to go up to him.
She had figured out that if she phased her hands and feet just a little bit into a tree, she could climb it like a ladder. A moment later she pulled herself up next to the Elf on the tree and started talking to him.
"Alright look, no one blames you at all for any of this, if anyone is to blame it's Stefan and from what I hear he's a nut so don't you dare go off and blame yourself for what he's doing."
"I know it's not really my fault but, how can I not blame myself? If it weren't for me he wouldn't be doing this, what's next? Is he going to kidnap the X men too?"
"Kurt-" started Kitty
"No! You don't understand, I may be what Stefan is after but he'll hurt others, he'll kill others to get to me, not only that, he might even prefer to cause pain suffering, he likes it." Kurt sighed. "One time when I was a little kid, I was playing in the woods near our house, and I found a squirrel, dead, having been bleeding in I don't know how many different ways, it's tail cut off and missing. There was too much blood for it to have been after it died, and sitting next to it was a knife with Stefan's name on it. Later when I was ten, he was home during the summer, I found a dead cat, just as gory if not more than the squirrel, there was no knife there but I'm sure it was Stefan who did it."
"So you're saying He's simply a sadist?" said Kitty"
"Ja, only now he's not only going to kill animals, he'll kill people too, and he'll do it to get to me."
Kitty didn't know what to say, or how to help Kurt. So she said exactly what someone would expect her to say, but she really did mean it.
"Kurt, don't worry, we'll find him, and we won't let him hurt any more people."
He looked over at her and gave a small smile. "Let's get down from here." He said, and then teleported them both down.
Kitty smiled I hope I made difference; he doesn't deserve stuff like this. I wish I could make it all stop for him.
Kurt sat awake in his room that night. He couldn't sleep.
Despite Kitty's attempts to console him he was still scared. Not only for himself but also for the X men and Jimaine. He had tried to convince her to go back to Germany but she wouldn't. She said she would leave when Stefan was either locked up in a prison or insane asylum somewhere, or dead. What if Stefan did manage to hurt someone? The other X men were still going to school and it would be easy enough to-
Stop thinking this stuff! It's not helping!
What about Mystique?
He had told her to leave him alone after Apocalypse but he hadn't really meant it. He wanted to know her, he wanted to care about her but it was kind of late for that now. Stefan had Caliban, he might figure out who Mystique was to Kurt and-
Stop. You're hurting yourself over nothing. Stop. He told himself. He sighed, settled down and despite everything managed to fall asleep
"What is it Caliban?" Said Stefan he had persuaded the mutant to comply and now knew where Kurt was; only now he couldn't get to Kurt, not when he was inside that mansion. So now Caliban's task was to find someone outside the mansion who was important to Kurt, someone who if they got hurt Kurt would be mad enough to try to find Stefan.
Stefan had left some evidence, not covering the rented truck's license plates, making sure that his makeshift base was near somewhere with outdoor security cameras, just enough to give those anyone with good surveillance technology a foothold. And now that he knew the people Kurt know lived with had that technology he knew they would find him. Give it a day or two and they would know where he was, then when whomever Caliban managed to find was damaged Kurt would come running straight to him.
"This might not have quite the affect you want." Said Caliban "But it could work."
"Who did you find?"
"The boy's biological mother, he knows her well and while they have no real relationship it might be-"
"What. Is. Her. Name?" said Stefan "Need I remind you of your own friends? Spyke, Callisto, Cybelle, Scaleface, Lucid, Facade, and what was the other one? Oh yes, Tor-"
"Stop."
"Then tell me the name of Nightcrawler's mother."
Caliban turned to him. "Her name is Raven Darkholme, known better as Mystique."