Under the small bundle of silk sheets, Clara had fallen asleep in her seat, as she should it would be a whole fourteen hours till they arrived back to their destination.

Kurt had sat right across from her, thou pretty far apart, He couldn't help put see such a calm expression on such a wounded face. His thoughts raced with many questions, He wondered why she hadn't fought back her captor, why was she kidnapped to begin with? How did she end up meeting this man? Was it because of just mere coincidence? It was the most likely the case. But what matter to Kurt in this very moment, that she was safe.

"Oh man...you've got that look Kurt."Kurt blinked seeing Kitty leaning from behind her causing him to blink.

"What look?"Kitty giggled as she poked her head Leaning over Kurt's shoulder,"What look kitty?"

"It's the same look Lance gives me."She teased.

It suddenly dawned on Kurt, His jaw ajared,"You think...?No ...N-No no! I have Amanda, Kitty! Beside Were just good friends!"

"Well the way you embraced sure did fool me..."

"Besides even If I did I wouldn't want to put her in that situation right now, after what happened with..."

Kitty's eyes soften, the pain was evident for Kurt, He didn't like what he saw, neither did she, but if this happened to someone she cared about. She honestly wouldn't know what to do or say.

"Clara...Come on..."Se began to shift as she felt her shoulders slightly shaking, flinching in pain due to her ribs she opened her blue eyes slowly to look into a pair of golden eyes.

"...Kurt..." It wasn't a dream. Much to her relief. Kurt unbuckled her from her seat. Gently helping her ipp to her feet. Clara's arms wrapped around his neck loosely, just hugging him close. She flunched as she tried to move herself,"...I-I may need you to help me move so I don't fall over."

"Of course" While she kept a firm grasp his ear twitched slightly as heard an alarming cracking sound in her chest. Kurt's gaze caught her brief glance of pain. Once He took notice of the at that Nightcrawler carefully scooped her up in. "Professor..."

Charles looked to Kurt and nodded,"Of Course Kurt..take much time as you need for today."

'BAMF!'

The next thing Clara knew she was in what appeared to be a medical wing. She held the sheet tightly around herself, as a ind and yet gentle voice rang in the air, "Ah Kurt...Your back and you bought a friend..."

Kurt looked up at McCoy who was already in front of a medical bed

Clara looked to Kurt then back to Beast, seeing he had blue fur, but then returned her gaze to her best friend, Innocently pointing to Hank,"Is he your biological father?"

Kurt blinked before Hank bust into laughter causing Clara to blush, "Kurt and I may both be blue and

hairy but rest assured he and I aren't related."

"So...did it just rubb of on you, Kurt?"Clara asked softly causing a laugh from the elf himself. Shaking his head with a smile on his lips..

"I wish."He placed her onto the bed. Kurt could see her shoulders tense as he gently pressed a hand on her shoulder,"Clara, relax, he's not gonna hurt you."

"I know...but.."

"I need to see your injuries." Hank walked over with a clip board in hand, "I promise I won't do anything to cause any more arm."

"..Kurt can you get T-Shirt..or something?" Kurt nodded before hhe telepor6ed away.

"Now...I may ask you a few questions that may be a bit uncomfortable-"

"Like rape?"He seemed shock seeing the sadness in her eyes,"No...he would succeed through if I didn't have my abilities..it's why I'm..." Slowly she set the makeshift hood around her fall, to revealed her bruised face,"Like this."

Hank was a bit stunned, she was no older than the students here. Yet she looked like someone who was a victim of a vicious predator. He then watched her finch as she clutched her chest, a sound caught his ear, it was one he wasn't sure but would like to observed,"Clara...I may have to give X-Rays. Do you-"

"I'm my own guardian...and it's fine..." Clara assured him while raising her hand.

"...I'm surprised your so mentally..sound after such an experience." Beast had proceeded to slowly peel the blanket from the top. Reminding him of a banana. There were symmetry rectangular bruises and what appeared to be a someone's bare foot on her back It only grew worse in the pattern of bruises.

"I wanted to prevent my dignity to be stolen. That I manage to keep intact."

"Stick and stones?"

Clara smiled to him quite happily A she slowly let go of the sheet letting him observed him feeling much comfortable,"Yeah...stick and stones.."

He looked along her inner thigh..it was the worse out of it all, Claw marks visibly scared most of the skin, Grotesque and clearly violent as it looked. They were causes knives cut into her , Her vaginal area remained untouched much to his surprise, He felt a dryness in his throat,"...First things first... we'll have to remove that collar."

Clara nodded, in complete agreement with him.

"Ahh...finally something that doesn't flaunt my body." Kurt watched as his best friend snuggled into his shirt as he noticed the bandages around her neck, "Thanks Blue."

Kurt himself was n a pair of red Pajama bottoms and a black top, "Any time." He sat on her bed side seeing her fiddle with the long sleeves her back well rested, "..."

Clara's happy expression changed when she noticed the look in his eyes, "Don't ask me...that"

"If you know the answer then please tell me..."

"On how we met? I told you He snatched me off the streets-"

"Willingly."

"Yeah but can you blame me, I was only six years old..." Clara clutched her covers, "I had nothing to fall back too...I was cast out onto the streets, I need to survive somehow...I was in West key Florida posing as a cat, only way I could of think to survive. He watched me transform"

"Kalam...?"

All Clara could do was merely nod to his words, "Yeah him, All know he's..a powerful influential man...and with his own persuasion he had convinced me to travel on his yacht...he had three other girls, one was fifteen, another fourteen and then a girl who was eleven. And everyone seemed...to be happy but...everyone was escorted by a man for a time it was always with...him..." She shuttered as she held herself, "When the one turned twelve...is when I discovered his true intentions...when he was getting a new Yacht..I think it was Bremen-Vegesack we stopped in. I decided to make my escape saying I needed to use the bathroom. I had open the port window and few the heck out of there."

"And what were his intentions?" Kurt watched as she bit her lower lip, hugging herself as best as she could.

"Kind obvious how I look like I'm pretty much could be used as a Wife beater." Clara huffed as her hand motion to her own body., "...Being Islamic he wants a Harlem..."

Kurt just stared down at her shock he felt numb, he couldn't believe those words, "That...but how you were just-"

"Six? I know... but he wouldn't do anything until I was twelve..."She bit her lower lip and fiddled with the covers on her lap, "He very passionate about animals I'll give him that...He loves that cheetah of his. But he's a monster none the less... fortunately I had my ability to help me out when needed."

Kurt hung his head after her tale. He sat down beside her as he found some difficulty in his feelings, Of course, he was angry, outright enraged someone to lay a hand on his friend. His tail was erratically swaying curing up his hand gently placed onto of hers, To which she responded by shifting it so her hand could grasped his. A light squeeze with his grasped let her know he wasn't angry with her, A silent promise he would tell no one in this world or the next that he intended to keep, "...I'm sorry-"

"Kurt...it was nobody fault but his..."She stressed, seeing under his hidden gaze held a calm expression,"I don't want you to think what happened that day was your fault...I'm here now."

"That doesn't Excuse myself!"He looked up to her to see that shocked expression.

Clara saw his eyes were filled with both guilt as he folded his arms,"After you were gone, I...I felt it was all my fault that you...I actually had run away to the circus.. Just to find away to be closer to what I knew you loved...and-"

"Come here, ya goof."Clara pulled him down right beside her keeping him close as he nuzzled into the crook of her neck, She held him close. Stunned at first in shock he slowly let his undying rage die down on the inside, he returned the embrace, Kurt buried rested his own head on her shoulder as her words dispelled the anger he had, "I missed you too.."

Hank had walked into the room with a clipboard in hand. He was stunned to see what he was seeing. Kuet was hugging the lovely lady. His face buried into the you lady's neck as she just held him close, her eyes closed with smile. The beast smiled warmly at the sight, but right now he had to interrupted this tender moment.

Clara perked her head up hearing Hank's soft cough. Kurt pulled away flushing."Mr. McCoy...so..the results of the X-Ray?"

Hank who had his classes on were now pulled off,"It seems thou to had broken not a rib but the fractured the Sternum...what surprises me that you chest hasn't collapsed inward to flatten your chest."

"What do you mean ?"Kurt walked over to him. As of recently Kurt had been taking medical training for obvious reasons for the future if someone got hurt out there in battle.

"Take a these two images. One's of Clara's and another is someone of the same gender with the same injury. Can you see the difference?"

Kurt walked up to the little screen and obused the X-Rays closely. Indeed he could see the differences clearly, and it wasn't just the facture but the thickness of the bones,

"It...could because of the fact I shift into so many animals, sometimes mythical." Clara spoke up as Hank turned to her seeing the concern in her eyes. Kurt was still looking at them, "But...I could never shift into anything like a butterfly or a spider, some turtles even."

"It could be but looking at it your thick structure is what sustaining your chest to not collapse." Clara tilted her head confusedly to Kurt.

"Eh?"

"Clara...your lungs chest and heart should have collapsed." Hank spoke up as he walked over, "And you'll be bed ridden for a little while-"

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!" She flopped back down with her arms crossed causing Kurt to slightly laugh, "For the past two years it's what I've been doing!"

"It's for the best."Clara huffed though slightly flushing as he leaned in with a goofy smile, "Besides, We wouldn't want you to end up getting caught again."

"S-Shut up! That happened that one time!"

"Nein. "Kurt leaned over with a teasing smile it happened quite a couple of times, "Remember when you had that cold?"

"H-Hey I wanted to see the comet!"

"Any you got a cold."

"It was totally worth it!"She murmured before he chuckled

"You should take her to the guest room for the moment, I'll inform the Professor of my findings."

"Ja, Danke, mien frrund." With that Clara yelped as her arms wrapped around Kurt's neck instinctively so as she looked up to him seeing the mischief in his eyes.

"Kurt, don't you dare! I've got a Fractured sternum!"

"Don't I dare do what?"Kurt sly smirk had definitely alerted her, flushing a bright red.

"Kurt I swear if you even-"

'BAMF!'

Just like that they were gone. Hank shook his head as he couldn't help but chuckle. He returned his gaze to the X-Rays. Kurt seemed to be a little more confident with her than with most people. In which it did surprise him. The former Chemistry teacher knew when thing react and then collided that they could make the perfect serum. When a reaction as powerful as the one he had just witness. He knew that there was something right in the world.

"No!'

"Come on!"

"Absolutely not!"

"You love it!"

Kurt was having his tail in front of her face with a couple of feathers hung from it. Clara's cheeks puffed as she felt her right eye twitched, "I haven't played that game since we were eight Kurt!"

"Oh but you still smile every time~"Clara's moth was twitching. The fuzzy elf could see it from the corners of her mouth.

"Pssh! No!" She lightly pushed the tail away turning her head away. But the pointy end of his tail twitched as it touched, She burst out laughing,"OKay okay you win!"

A smile and warm sensation filed his being, Kurt couldn't help but find it contagious when she laughed, sitting on the side of the bed and just be able to do the small things once again was comforting to him.

Clara ran her fingers threw her cream colored hair, all the way down to the brown tips. She looked around this room, seeing it had a simple yet refined style. Traditional and with specs of gold insight. Which relieved her own mind set reassuring she wasn't in an exotic country. "So...what have you been doing this whole time?"

"Believe or not I've been going to high school."

"Wait really?"Clara blinked she was more than stun,"How?"

"Well.."Kurt took his watch and pressed the button. His image inducer began to form showing his usually blue fury three fingered self. Into a normal looking person with five fingers instead of thre. CLara was confused for a moment before hand gently leaned over and gently placed against his cheek, even under the allusion she could feel the softness of his fur.

"How...?"

Kurt motion his two virtual fingers to his watch,"With this."

She gasped his wrist oh so gentle as she loked to his peach colored hand, "...Even though I don't approve...I'm still happy for you."

"What you don't like this version of me?"He blinked.

Clara sighed as she rubbed the back of her head with an nervous smile, shaking her head,"No it's not that it's just, I want you to be comfortable in your own skin when your with others, not to freak out, ya

know." Fiddling with the cover between her fingertips.

"You sound just like my girlfriend when you say that." A sense of numbness washed over Clara as her face felt paralyzed, freezing her with a state of shock.

"….Girlfriend?"

"Yeah my Girlfriend, She's a god send, Her names Amanda." Clara frowned at this o the inside but remained shocked, Kurt was beaming with a smile, "You should meet her once your feeling better."

"I...I'd like that..."

Weeks had gone by since She had arrived to the mansion. Right now Clara was sitting in Professor Xavier's study wrapping her paintbrush like tail along with her cat ears out into the open. Her legs politely crossed. Her ears lowered as she fiddled with her bracelets on her wrist,"Do...I have to go to public school?"

"I'm afraid so." The telepath softly spoke as he rolled over seeing the girl flinche,"Clara, I'm aware that for quite some time you parents had home school you with the finest of scholars at some point, but you have to understand, nobody here is qualified and you can do so much better, and able to socialize with other your own age."

"...Okay Professor."Charles eyes soften. He could see her hesitation in her gaze and within her thoughts.

"You'll have classes with a couple of familiar faces, I assure You Clara, you'll be safe." He placed a hand onto of hers.

"It's...not that..."She murmured flushing turning her gaze away,"I just...not sure if I'm ready for it.."

"You will be, trust me."He patted her hand and she nodded slowly, "Now I've roomed you with someone who has similar abilities to yours, and seeing you're in some what more control I was hoping you could help her as she will be helping you."

"Yes of course."Clara said as she slowly stood up following Xavier who begun to wheel out of the room.

Clara followed him into the girls dormitory. Three doors down He made a stop to the third door on the right side of the hallway,"Now, I do hope you make yourself acquainted with her."

She nodded as she watched Xavier roll away. The animal morpher took a deep breath before she slowly opened the door. She blinked in surprise seeing a red wolf, 'He wasn't kidding.'

The red wolf perked her head and her ears stood tall. Clara stood motionless hearing her growl, She knew exactly why. She rolled her eyes with a smile as she then shut the door behind her and instantly shifted into a wolf herself, white fur with light brown accents.

The red wolf's ears perked as the newcomer walked into the room. She then began to proceed with caution sniffing her. Clara watched as she began to go behind her,"Okay...I think That's enough sniffing."

Clara watched as the red wolf transformed to a girl with red pigtails in a black uniform, "Sorry, You must be my new roommate."

"Yeah I am."Clara walked to her pile of clothing and slipped back nto them while she shifted back into her dress dusting her hand, she extended her hand out to her,"I'm Clara Hart."

"I'm Rahne Sinclair, I have the code name Wolfsbane."

"Sinclair...that's Scottish no?"

"Ah, You could tell."

"Well my dad before he past was an immigrant from Ireland. So he had a few associates from Scotland."

"I see." She and I sat next to each other on the floor.

"So you can transform into a wolf, What else can you do?"Clara took a hold of her pilllow from her new bed

"Well..." Rahne's body features shifted depicting her to be twice as tall as the average human, becoming what appeared to be a werewolf, She yelped .

"Woah I can't even do that, full furry rendition of myself, I have tried but it takes too much concentration."Clara watched as she shifted back a

Rahne rubbed her head,"So can you shift into any animal?"

"Well anything that had a Skeleton, bugs, spiders, octopuses, Squids. I can't transform into anything that has a full invertebrate skeleton."

"Oh that stinks I would love to be at least a squid."

"Hey I can mimic mythical animals behavior...as long as I have read about something or learned any theories I try them out and push myself."

"Wow so you can breathe fire like a dragon?"

"Ah I can do something even better." Rahne watched as She breathed inward very slowly as if she was concentrating. She suddenly held her breath puffing her cheeks.

Clara looked around until she noticed a figure in the corner. She let a small stream of white snowy particles, slow as it began to increase the fairy figure in ice. suddenly when finished she rubbed her right eye tiredly "Woah...I haven't done that in so long it literally knocks the wind out of me."

"Oh wow! You can breath Ice...How?"

"We breathe out carbon monoxide right? So picture when we take oxygen we can carry elements such as nitrogen, it's everywhere, so I guess I kinda isolate it. I recommend not telling everyone else I can do that..I don't wanna do something that could damage my esophagus."

"No I hear ya, I get scared every time just thinking of not being able to transform into myself again." She then paused for a moment in thought,"Umm...what's a furry?"

Clara blinked before she placed a hand on her shoulders,"My friend, I am going to guide you into my world of Anime!"

"My life belongs to you, Asuna. So I will use it for you. Let's stay together until the end."

"And I'll protect you too. I'll protect you forever."

"I'll see to it that you can go back to the other world, no matter what happens."

"Aww there so Cute together!" Rahne squealed as she sat beside Cara with her phone in hand while Clara watched with some what of a saden expression. But she quickly shook it off,"Clara you've got an incredible sense of this stuff."

"Ah..SAO is one of my favorites."Clara sighed as she then returned to her bed seeing the night sky outside, "The relationship those two have, is incredibly deep. It's so heartfelt..."

"Yeah..."Rahne sighed happily as she flushed,"It makes me think about Roberto."

"Oooooh."Clara watched the girl flushed a bright shade of chili red, "So is it someone who lives here with us?"

"N-NO-I-I mean yes!"

"Relax, I won't tell."Clara flops back and folded her arms behind her head

"Really?"

"Of course." Clara's blue eyes gazed over to her, "How bout we get some sleep...I'm not looking forward for my first day of school."

"So...You've never been to public school?"

Clara shook her head, "No... I haven't"Clara walked nervously side by side with her new friend, "I was always homes schooled, with Kurt when we were kids. He and I grew up together for moment in time. I was born with my abilities so My parents didn't trust many people to teach me."

"Wait as in Nightcrawler?" Rahne looked o Clara in shock seeing the pale beauty flushed a slight pink in shyness,"Your kidding..."

"No...I'm not his parents were kind enough to take me in...but then a lot of junk happened."

"Like?"

"Getting kidnapped and taken to a country where women have to treated as objects."Clara hissed as she walked into rge school grounds

"Oh..."

"Don't worry about it, I just wanna try and put it behind me right now ya know..."Clara paused in movement, it hurt to breath for a moment. Kurt was walking side by side with a dark skinned girl, known as Amanda. She turned her head away not wanting to see her arms around his right.

"I thought they were taking a break from one another." Red haired girl held her books close to her chest, "Guess the two couldn't keep their distances."

"No..Soon as I showed up she called him." Pain was evident in Clara gaze as she watched the couple kiss it was a brief one, but it was enough to take a chip out of her own heart, "I haven't been introduce

to her yet...but I hear...she's nice."

"She's pretty much the only normal person who accepts us."

Clara scoffed as she looked to Rahne,"Puuulease, We are all different, normality is so booooring."

"Well you have a point...looks like we have first period together." Rahne said with a smile.

"Clara!" She sighed as she suddenly looked over to see Kurt waving his hand in the air while holding his girlfriends hand who seemed to just look over her way.

Clara sighed as she had looked to Rahne,"Will you come with me?...I don't want to say anything to offend the either of them..."

"Sure...I guess but why would you worry about something like that?"

Clara walked forth just keeping her expression a calm one,"I tend to be...territorial... when it comes to Kurt...I don't want to embarrass him."

Rahen wasn't buying it but she complied the two stepped forth.

Amanda watched The girl who seemed very petite girl walk forth, fair skin, her long waist length hair showed similar color of a lightly Roasted marshmallow. All tied up in a braid. Wearing a lilac Chinese blouse with pale pink trimming, white capris and sandals. Her doll like eyes held the purest shade of blue. She was only five foot, which Amanda knew she wouldn't get any taller than that, "Amanda this is Clara, I've been tell you about."

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you.'Amanda extended her hand out in a friendly jester.

Clara smiled softly as she shook her hand,"It's nice to meet you to." Clara noticed her grip on her hand was firm, Clara honestly like that, it told of a person's character. She was an honest person for sure."Yeah same."

"Oh Ah Rahne, let's give these girls some room!"Kurt gently placed his hands on her shoulder slowly pulling her away.

Once they were completely alone, "So Amanda-"

"Stay away form Kurt..."Clara look to her surprised seeing her let go. There was a bit of hesitation on her part, "...Look...I don't want to be...that girl...ya know."

The two girls just stared at one another. Intensity, in a stand off, Clara could now feel Amanda's determination, she loved Kurt, She understood that, She knew that much, "….Amanda...That's something you can't ask me to do, He's my best friend and-"

"Then find another-"

"Amanda just hear me out please."Clara placed her hand out in defense, "I understand that you're dating him, I respect that... but let's not turn this into a huge thing. He's in love with you no contest-"

"So, you in love with my boyfriend?"Her voice were above whisper but malicious in it's nature. It wasn't a question rather a statement. She may be shy but can be very bold when she wanted to speak up. "Well you know he's taken..." With that she left in a hurry.

Clara bit her lower lip, she wasn't afraid, She could tell Amanda just wanted to be with Kurt, she respected that but She and Kurt were still friends. The animal morpher knew that she wouldn't stop being best friends with him. She would remain by his side if he needed her.