Here's some more! (Finally, I can't stand writer's block!) "Hallo Damon" means "Hello Demon" and Verstehen mean understand. Beyond that, I'll just say if it was in German because up until now I've been using Google translate.

chapter 9

BAMF!

They were on the fire escape of a warehouse.

"We're here. Dreamer, find Spyke and Caliban. I'll go take care of Stefan." Said Nightcrawler.

"Kurt, are you going to kill Stefan?" Asked Dreamer.

Nightcrawler sighed, "I don't know yet. I don't want to but I might have to." He smiled halfheartedly "Be safe Dreamer." And he went inside. After a minute Dreamer went inside too.

The whole place had been divided up into rooms.

Okay, find Spyke and Caliban. If I were a psycho with a blood fetish where would I keep my captives?

Dreamer heard footsteps; there was nowhere to hide. Come on, work powers! Make them not see me!

Two young women walked by, they didn't notice Dreamer, or if they did they gave no sign of it. One thing Dreamer noticed though was that both had bandages on their arms.

She kept going, until she reached two doors with locks. She wondered why there weren't guards but then realized that the two people she had seen probably were the guards.

"Hey, anyone in there?" She said knocking on the door.

"Who wants to know?" came a slightly muffled voice from the other side of the door.

"Dreamer, an x-man."

"An x-man? Seriously? Oh man! I'm Spyke. Is Nightcrawler here too? What about the others? And the morlocks? Are they okay?"

"I don't know about the morlocks, except for Torpid, she came to the mansion after Stefan took you. And Kurt is here; he's looking for Stefan. How do I get you out?" Dreamer looked around for the keys or something she could use as a lock pick.

"No! Come get me later, I'm cool, really, but Stefan, he set Kurt up, he was looking for Kurt to end up here by himself."

"Oh man! I gotta help Kurt. I'll come back for you, and Caliban, just hang tight, 'Kay?"

"Yeah, sure. Go on!" said Spyke and Dreamer ran off.

He listened to her retreating footsteps and leaned against the far wall, he sighed. Over the past two days he'd learned why Stefan was after Kurt and he had also learned some other things too, the chief of them being that Stefan Szardos stopped at nothing. Spyke looked down at his legs.

They were slashed numerous times and bloody.

"I'm coming and that is final!" Yelled Mystique, walking past Rogue and Scott it the

X-van.

"And whose bright idea was it to tell her what was going on?" asked Rogue. She still resented Mystique. She couldn't understand why the professor had let her in here or how Kurt had so readily forgiven her.

"It wasn't anyone's idea she just heard Storm telling us to get to the van, put it together and insisted on coming, and as mush as it hurts to say this, she does have a right to come. If it weren't for her morphing ability she would still be lying in the infirmary because of Stefan." Said Scott

"She shouldn't have been there in the first place!" snapped Rogue and then got into the van, as far away form Mystique as possible. Rogue had made up her mind. If Mystique wanted to put a good (and incredibly fake) face forward when Kurt was around, then fine, but Rogue would never accept Mystique. Ever.

What Rogue didn't know was that Mystique truly did care for both her and Kurt, and she wasn't going along to get back at Stefan, that was just an extra plus, she was going to make sure her son was safe.

BAMF!

Kurt looked around; he had teleported around a bit but still hadn't found Stefan.

"Hallo, Damon." Said a voice. Kurt whipped around and saw Stefan standing there. Kurt growled. Not quite the way wolverine did, but still obviously angry.

"Why did you do this?" asked Kurt, in German.

"You took away what I had, my family was normal, my life was complicated enough without you. I stopped with the blood and pain so God would take you away from my family, but He didn't so, it's up to me." Said Stefan (also in German) getting closer. He pulled out a knife.

"Remember this?" he smirked.

"I don't want to hurt you Stefan." Said Kurt.

"Strange, I thought demon's liked inflicting pain almost as much as I do. Oh well, but I'll have you know, your mother was just the beginning, you lose today, or let me live, it doesn't matter what you do withy me, I'll come back and I'll keep hurting people you care about, if you really do care about them, until you come back, like that Spyke fellow, or maybe that girl I saw you with before you stopped going to school. What's her name? Ah yes Kitty Pry-"

Kurt lunged at Stefan. He grabbed both his wrists and looked him strait in the eye.

"Stay away from Kitty and everyone else at the Institute. Verstehen?"

"I see I've hit a nerve." Stefan threw Kurt off and then lunged at him with the knife.

Kurt dodged him and came back. It was like before, all he had to do was get the knife away from Stefan and then this would be easy. Unfortunately that was easier said than done.

It went back a forth, neither gaining an advantage. Stefan said something every once and awhile but Kurt quit listening. But then something happened. Someone started yelling.

"Let go of me you moron! Let go!" Dreamer shouted as she was dragged in with Spyke, and Caliban.

Kurt was horrified; Spyke was bleeding profusely from several different places and Caliban looked pretty beat. Dreamer looked okay, but how long would that last?

"I am sorry-" started Caliban but then suddenly went unconscious.

"In case you have failed to guess, I have a telepath who is very skilled at sending out physic blasts. I do not know what this girl, Sierra I think, means to you but I do know that if I hurt her, it'll be your fault for getting her into this mess." Said Stefan.

Kurt didn't know what to do. He really didn't. He hesitated and Stefan, seeing his hesitation,

"AHH!"

Stefan had slashed Kurt above his left eye. Kurt pulled a hand up to his face and Stefan started slashing that with the knife too. Just a minute later both Kurt's arms were battered and bloody. He fell over.

"NO!" screamed Dreamer, she struggled to get free but was knocked out by the psychic.

Stefan leaned down, smiled and said,

"I win."

He was about to stab Kurt with the knife when he was flung up into the air.

The X men had arrived.

The three people dropped the now unconscious Spyke, Sierra, and Caliban and turned to run but were stopped by Jean. She couldn't handle three people and a telepath at once so she flung Stefan down. He hit his head and was knocked out.

"Oh my God! Kurt!" Rogue ran over to her brother, pushing Mystique out of the way to do so.

"You okay?" she asked

"Not really, but I'll live." He said. She gave him a hand up.

"Are they okay?" asked Kurt looking over at the few unconscious figures.

"They're just unconscious, so they'll be fine."

Stefan slowly opened his eyes, he didn't move. He tried to figure out who was standing next to him. When the person spoke he knew. It was Kitty Pryde.

He jumped up and stabbed her with the knife.

"Oh My God!" Screamed Kitty, phasing just it time.

Kurt saw what happened teleported over, grabbed Stefan's arms and threw him back down.

"I told you to stay away from Kitty." He growled. He turned to Kitty.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, he just, like, totally freaked me out."

Both Mystique and Storm grabbed Stefan and pulled him up to his feet after knocking the knife out of his hands.

"Listen here, you hurt me, and my son." said Mystique

"And my nephew." Added Storm.

" And now that your team is gone, Jean Grey took care of them. So what are you going to do now?" asked Mystique.

"I suppose you want me to regret all that I did. But the fact of things is I'd do it again. And again until he is dead!" said Stefan attempting to get out of the strong grip of both Mystique and Storm.

"Listen bub." Said Wolverine putting his claws dangerously close to Stefan's face. "You ain't ever gonna get Kurt, or any of us. Got it?"

"Wolverine, don't." said Kurt. Wolverine looked over at Kurt. He was pretty beat up. He was bleeding all over and a large cut over his left eye.

"I don't want anyone to die. Not even him." Said Kurt. He fainted.

"Blood loss. We have to get him back to the mansion." Said Jean.

"Goodnight bub." Said Wolverine and knocked Stefan out.

Kurt woke up the next morning. He felt weak and he couldn't see out of his left eye. It took him a moment to realize that it had a bandage over it.

"So your awake." Kurt looked up. Mystique was sitting next to him.

"How'd I get here?" he asked.

"After you blacked out, we brought you back to the mansion, locked Stefan in the danger room, and then went and freed the morlocks. That was all about, ten hours ago.

"Where is Stefan now?" he asked. He thought about the night before. He had been so angry. He had wanted Stefan to die. But when Wolverine was about kill him for real, he had realized that that wasn't what he really wanted.

"Stokes maximum security prison." Said the professor entering the infirmary, followed by Rogue and Kitty. "The first he did when he came to was attempted to stab Wolverine who had come in to get him. He's proven himself to be a menace and to be obsessed with your death and that of the X men.

"I'm sorry professor." Said Kurt.

"It was never your fault Kurt. Stefan was like, mentally unstable." Said Kitty.

"Yeah don't blame yourself." Said Rogue.

"But what now?" Asked Kurt.

"Now, you get better, we accept that this happened, and move on. Bad things happen, and what's important here is that no one was seriously injured and you'll make a full recovery." Said The Professor.

Kurt thought about what the professor had said over two weeks ago now. And if it did happen again, you have friends who wouldn't hesitate to help you.

He smiled.

Life went on. After much debate, yelling and Rogue threatening to absorb people, Mystique joined the X men. A few of the X men (mainly Wolverine, Rogue, and Cyclops.) were against it but they got over it, mostly.

Torpid went back to the morlocks with Spyke, who had said that in a few years he would talk to Calisto about Torpid coming back to the mansion for good.

Those who had been working for Stefan were apprehended, and most admitted that they knew what Stefan was doing.

Kurt healed, but he wasn't so lucky as last time. This time he was left with scars on his arms and over his left eye. But he didn't care. He went back to being his old, happy, self.

Two weeks later.

Stefan sat in the cell given to him in stokes maximum-security prison. He heard the door open and three people walked in.

One was a tall, dark woman who looked a lot like Stefan; the other was also an adult, brown shoulder length hair, glasses, and a grey skirt and blazer.

And the third was a teenaged boy. Blue-black hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin.

"Guten tag, Stefan" said the boy. He hit a button on his watch and his whole form shifted turning into a blue furred, three fingered mutant with a tail.

The brunette lady also changed, into a tall blue skinned lady.

" Hallo Damon." Said Stefan, not even looking at him.

"Stefan, I am not a demon, and I didn't cause anything bad in your life that I know of. And I want you to know that despite the fact that you hate me so much, I don't hate you back, and I never will." Kurt took a breath and went on.

"The Professor wants me to offer his help to you, he can use his psychic powers to help get rid of whatever it is that is wrong with you, he can make it end."

"I don't want it to end!" Stefan jumped up. "When will you see, what you say is wrong with me is the very thing I love about myself. And you took it away! You took away my happiness! I want to see your blood pooling around you. I want you to die!" he tried to lunge at Kurt but an invisible electric wall stopped him.

Kurt sighed "I tried Stefan, remember that." And with that he turned his image inducer back on and left.

"I don't hate you either Stefan and I wish you would see sense." Said Jimaine and left as well, followed by Mystique. Stefan lay back down and attempted to erase their words from his head.

He never did.

"I'm proud of you Kurt for facing him today. Said Mystique.

"Danke Mutti." Said Kurt.

"I'd better get going, my flight for Germany leaves soon." said Jimaine, she gave her brother kiss on the cheek.

"Bye Kurt."

"Bye Jimaine, tell Mum and Dad I said hi."

Two hours later Kurt was sitting in his room holding his image inducer I his hand. He realized something I don't want it anymore, I don't need to hide what I am. I'm not a demon. He went and found Kitty, and with her help, got rid of his image inducer.

The next few days were difficult while Kurt dealt with the strange looks and comments he got at school, since now he was going as his blue, furry self, but eventually they all but stopped and life went back to the way it was before, maybe even better.

Several years later, an extremely tall tree ob the mansion grounds blew down in a storm. And when it was being cut up, a fancy looking digital watch was found inside of it, embedded deep into the wood, high up in the tree, right where Kitty and Kurt had left it.

The End

You like it? If you did R&R and a great big thank you to everyone who read this, but especically to The Ember Raven. thanks for the drawing!