Here's some more! Enjoy and as always R&R. Mutti means mom or mother.
chapter 7
"No!"
"Yes"
"There is no way you could be right!"
"But I am!"
"WOULD YOU BOTH STOP!" Bellowed Mystique at Blob and Toad. "Honestly, what are you even arguing about?"
"They're arguing about whether Star Wars is better than Indiana Jones." Said Wanda.
"Star Wars!" Said Blob.
"No! Indiana Jones!" Said Toad. And the childish arguing started back up.
Mystique really couldn't take it any longer "I'm going out. Wanda, you're in charge and can hex either of these idiots if they continue this argument."
She shifted into the form of Raven Darkholme before leaving. And then she just walked. And walked.
She did this a lot actually since Apocalypse, and always would end up thinking about her children. Kurt and Rogue. She had been so blind; first when she trusted Magneto with his experiments, the ones that had made Kurt look like he did. Next in just letting Kurt go, not even trying to get him back. And then with Rogue, she had let someone else take care of her when she got older instead of doing it herself, she hadn't even attempted to tell her who she was, and even though she hadn't been involved enough with Rogue, she still been so wrapped up with her that she stopped watching Kurt, stopped checking to make sure he was still okay, still loved.
"Save it Mystique." Said Nightcrawler "Even you don't believe your lies."
"Yeah, so just leave us alone." Said Rogue.
Ugh. Why had she been so stupid? Why?
"Hello Raven."
Mystique whipped around. A tall, dark man was standing there, just inside an alleyway. He looked vaguely familiar.
"And how are you Mystique? I do hope you can understand when I say this really doesn't have anything to do with you. You're just the key."
Last time Mystique had been called a key she'd been turned into stone.
"Look," she started as she entered the alley. "I don't know who you are or how you know me but-"
"Oh I don't know you, just someone close to you. Well, close biologically that is."
Biologically? Kurt!
"And the light comes on." Said the man. Suddenly someone dropped in front of Mystique and sprayed something in mystique's face and then backed off.
"Temporary Mutation Suppressant. As it's name suggests, it is temporary, but it will still be awhile before you can shift, and it can make you very, shall we say, disoriented? Unbalanced?"
Mystique threw what was meant to be a kick at his head and not only missed, but fell backward. The man smirked, pulled out a knife and…
Pain.
He had slashed her with it, not deeply, but on her face, right above her left eye. Mystique tried to get up but was roughly pushed back down. A few minutes later the man had slashed her arms and legs repeatedly and when she had managed to get up, he had managed to throw her down to hard against the back of the alleyway, and on something hard jutting out, he had broken her wrist. Pretty soon she felt dizzy from blood loss.
I have to shift I have to. I need help.
She did, she shifted into a bird and flew away haphazardly.
"That was fun, let's hope Kurt hears about this, preferably soon. Though I would have liked to have done some more to her first, oh well." It wasn't obvious to whom Stefan was talking, maybe to the strange, stealthy team he had assembled, or maybe just to himself.
He was going to wipe off the knife, now entirely covered in blood, but stopped, and after looking at it for a moment with a strange expression on his face. Then, lifted the knife closer to his own face...
And licked off the blood.
Mystique, who even in her very weakened and confused state found here way to the mansion, she had no choice, she needed help and no one else could help her.
She made it to the front door, then collapsed, hitting the door on her way down. Luckily for Mystique someone was standing just inside the door and mistook her head hitting the door as someone knocking.
Hank McCoy opened the door.
"Dear Lord!" He said upon seeing Mystique laying on the stoop, now unconscious, but still bleeding.
He picked her up, gently and carried her from the stoop down to the infirmary also sending the Professor a psychic message so he was waiting there when beast made it down there.
Half an hour later they had bandaged all of Mystique's injuries and after a small amount of discussion, decided to let Kurt know that she was at the mansion.
Today was bit less dull. Sure, Kurt was still worried but at least now he had something else to think about, he had to keep Torpid out of trouble.
She was an active little girl who was amazed by mansion and wanted to see every place in it. So, for the past two days Jimaine, Storm, and Kurt had had to keep a constant eye on her.
Kurt, please come to the infirmary. The professor said telepathically. Kurt, who had been playing with Torpid, first left her with Jimaine and then went down to the infirmary.
Kurt walked into the infirmary and his jaw dropped. "What happened?" he asked.
"We don't know yet Kurt, Hank found her laying on the front stoop, unconscious and brought her down here." Said the Professor
"Does anyone else know she's here yet?" Asked Kurt. As if to answer his question, Wolverine walked in, and upon seeing Mystique, unsheathed his claws.
"Logan, listen, she's obviously hurt and it's also obvious that she can't go to a conventional hospital so don't be so upset about It." Said the Professor. Logan growled and sheathed his claws.
"Will she be alright?" Asked Kurt.
"Mystique is a very strong person, I'm sure she'll recover." Said Beast.
"Stefan did this." Said Kurt. His fists clenched.
"Kurt there is no proof of that." Said the Professor
"Did she have slash over her left eye? Running diagonally?" Asked Kurt
"Well yes, but-"
"And the bloodiest part on her were her arms, weren't they?"
"Yes Kurt, they were. And I suppose that is how you think Stefan would do this?" Asked Beast.
"He did to the little girl, and the first injury he gave me was a slash over my left eye." Said Kurt.
"I'm going to go back and see if the searches turned anything up." Said Beast, excusing himself from the situation.
"And I ain't sticking around her either." Said Wolverine and he also left the room.
"Kurt, would you stay here and watch Mystique? So that someone will be there when she does wake up?" Asked the Professor "Unless that would be-"
"Nien, it's alright, I'll stay." Said Kurt. The Professor took one last look over at Mystique, and then to Kurt before leaving the room.
"Did you find anything Mr. McCoy?" Asked Jimaine, she and Torpid had come to see if any progress had been made in finding Stefan. Jimaine wanted him found as much as Kurt did, and Torpid also wanted him found, now that it had been explained to her who Stefan was, because he had the Morlocks.
"Well the truck turned out to be a rental, but look at this." He pulled up a picture of a white truck with license plates that matched the ones on the truck Torpid had seen pulling into a garage next to a warehouse.
"So he's in there?"
"Most likely, we're keeping surveillance on the place to see if he can get confirmation of it." Said Beast
"Good work Hank, now to figure out how to tell Kurt." Said the Professor, who had just come in followed by Wolverine.
"Yeah, and not just him, Storm too." Said Wolverine. He involuntarily winced. "She was pretty upset."
"We'll tell them this afternoon, along with the rest of the team, though we might want to leave the new recruits out of it for now." Said the Professor.
"Professor Xavier, I think you should tell Sierra as well, because of that time with the illusion, I found out about it from Jean, she feels that this is in some way her fault and letting her know and maybe even help when the time comes would be a good idea in my mind." Said Jimaine
"Yes, it would. She will also be informed." Said the Professor. "And u hope this all goes well, it will be much better for everyone involved if this is all over quickly."
Mystique groaned, she opened her eyes and saw that she was laying in a bed and sitting next to her was Nightcrawler.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"The mansion. How are you feeling Mutti?" Asked Kurt.
"Dizzy."
"The Prof. Said you lost a lot of blood." He leaned over. "Who did this?"
"I don't exactly know Kurt. He was tall, dark hair, dark eyes, smooth voice, he had something that stopped me from using my powers for awhile, Kurt, what is the matter?" Mystique, despite the fact she was still flat on her back and couldn't do anything became worried, her son, her son, had his fists clenched and was fighting back tears.
"He did this, Stefan did this!" Kurt said through clenched teeth.
"Who is Stefan?" Asked Mystique.
"I'll tell you, Kurt, you can go now." Jimaine had walked in. Kurt stood up looked at Mystique and said
"I'll see you later, okay Mutti?" And then he teleported away.
"My name is Jimaine Szardos, allow me to explain what's going on."
The day passed, Kurt spent it alternating between the danger room, doing training sequences he had done so may times he could do them almost without thinking, and the Infirmary keeping Mystique company. She told him again that she was sorry again for everything she had done, and this time he told her something she had wanted so much to hear:
"It's okay, I forgive you."
That afternoon, the X men, including Jean who generally would have been in New York attending college in the middle of the week, but since she came back to the mansion some weekends and tomorrow (a Friday) she had no classes, she had come home.
"So we can get Evan back?" said Storm.
"Yes, we can, soon. But for now, we have to wait, unless Stefan makes a move, we are going to wait for awhile longer, but still soon."
"Stefan did make a move, he attacked Mystique!" Said Kurt.
"Kurt, I know this is difficult for you. But you must realize, if he had the resources to do what he did to Mystique, somehow stopping her from using her powers, how easily could he take out the X men in a similar fashion?" Said Professor.
"It'll be okay Kurt." Said Kitty.
"No one messes with one of us without getting us all coming down on him." Said Cyclops
"Yeah, we'll get him, you'll see." Said Jean.
Kurt smiled weakly, he knew his friends wanted to help them but he also knew he couldn't let them, not at the risk of them dying.
That Night
Kurt had his uniform on, and was about to teleport away when,
"You're going to that warehouse? Aren't you?" Asked Dreamer, she had guessed Kurt's motives and come to stop him.
"Ja, I am."
"I'm coming with you." Dreamer was also wearing here uniform.
"No you have to stay here."
"I said I'm coming. Look, I've been in your head, I was really understand what Stefan did to you, and I just don't want to help, I need to help." She came closer to him. "And I'll tell if you don't let me come."
Kurt sighed, he really didn't want her along, and he didn't want to risk her life. But she was right; she understood what had happened best because in a sense, she had lived it too.
"Hold on to my hand, I'll teleport us a few times to get over there." He said, and after she took his hand they were off.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. And just for Dragoncat I'll write about Stefan's point of view next chapter.