“I invited you here as a test. When you live as long as I do, few things bring you pleasure. I find pleasure by testing and tempting people.” Azazel pulled a glowing fruit out of a bowl and took a bite, the sweet nectar tasting like life and light itself. “Tell me child, is there anything here that draws you to itself?”
There were many things, out in the light for all to see. Chess matches with living pieces, contests of skill in magic and weaponry, costumes that looked as if they were imagined instead of made. In the dark shadows were cruel things- small places of torture and trysts galore. This was a true revel.
Kurt’s eyes wondered around the room, he was too distracted by the magnificent costumes that he never noticed the things hidden among the dark shadows. Had he noticed them, the man would have most definitely been appalled by them. His eyes marveled over the beautiful details in each costume, tempted to touch them but did not.
He remained standing besides Azazel and looked at him, “zere are a few zings, but I’d much rather try zem on myself zen watch zem being paraded.” The theater geek in him was excited at what this school seems to offer, if he had the heart to leave Kitty or had no reason to stay there he would have come here and asked to join the theater department, even if not as a teacher then as a student.
Kurt suddenly looked sad and it threw her. He had been actually happy just a second ago and now he was pretending, what changed? Her brow furrowed slightly in thought before she relaxed let out a light sigh. Something was bothering Kurt but he obviously wasn’t interested in sharing right now. He’d tell her when he was ready. Instead she reached out and grabbed his hand with a smile.
“Come on, the living room is this way. Any type of movie you want to see? I still haven’t seen the new Star Trek movie because that was our thing and I didn’t want to see it without you.” Kitty looked down slightly awkwardly as she led him through the school to the TV room. Great because that wasn’t a big obvious sign that she’d practically been pining over him. she never had been good at being subtle so why was she surprised she kept nearly blowing it with Kurt? She needed to be more careful or she’d scare him off or something. Kitty twisted around the last corner and flopped down on the couch, smiling at him before pulling out her phone.
“What do you want on your pizza, fuzzy?”
He shook his head and gave her an earnest smile, “Nichts is vrong,” was all he said as he followed her to the living room. Even though he’s lived in this house for years, it all still seems so strange. The home was familiar, rooms were located in the same place it’s just that furniture and wall treatments changed. So it was kinda of interesting to see the progress and change of the school.
He was following her silently, squeezing her hand on the way. When he saw the big comfy couch he teleported to it, arriving just above it to comfortably fall onto the piece of furniture. His legs were stretched out onto the table in front of him and his hands were resting underneath his head. Grinning he turned to look at her, “I’ll take vatever it is you vant, Kätzchen. I’m in ze mood for anything.”
His stomach lightly grumbled and he burst into a laughing fit.
The top image is a manip my friend Alicia did for me [original unedited still] and the bottom image is a few panels from Uncanny X-Men #144.
The manip looks like it could have come directly from this scene, Kitty’s jacket even matches the one in the manip. Too awesome.
{OOC: I needed this here}
Etch was amazed. Hours and hours of research, seemingly hundreds of textbooks and talking to anyone she could think of… and no one had suggested hypnotism.
“My lord, Kurt, you’ve come up with the one solution no one else could. I’m usually the most skeptical person I know but- that actually makes sense.” She thought back to all the theses she’d read and still none of them had even mentioned it.
“You’re brilliant,” she grinned.
He was quite flattered but unsure why or how he was brilliant, the mutant had never attended school and was merely suggesting for her to try something he’s seen work before his very own eyes. “I…uh…danke,” he said as he scratched the back of his head.
Luckily, if it weren’t for the thick blue fur she would currently be seeing a blushing mess. “Ve should be able to find someone vithin ze school capable of it. I’m sure zere’s at least one person familiar vith ze task.”
The two were fighting, it were the X-Men versus the Brotherhood. His former student and friend was now fighting against him and it seemed the others had separated into pairs as well. Things had gone by so fast that he doesn’t understand how he had her pinned with his tail’s sharp tip facing her.
He wasn’t sure why his tail grazed over her skin, causing her to bleed. What was going on? They were friends and now for some reason he is causing her bodily harm and it caused him to panic, if it weren’t for her words, “gonna kill me, Kurt?,” he would have never had snapped out of it.
“Nein, never!” He was scared and confused, he shook his head and let her go. He took a few steps back to prove that he has no such intentions but yet he couldn’t remember what happened prior to this, what’s going on right now?
The town around them seemed to be burning to ashes almost apocalyptic. He was busy looking around, and was surprised that they were the cause of all of this bloodshed and destruction.
Blaze was busy creating a large fireball to attack him with; she was furious. He was teleporting about because it seemed as if the entire group had been killing one another, something that was unusual for the X-Men and Brotherhood to do.
When he returned to Blaze she struck him with the fire, burning him as if she knew and was informed just when and where he would appear. The flames consumed him, they had long scorched and burned off all of his fur and were working on his skin now, “you are….mein….Freundin.” Was what he managed to say inbetween his screams.
He attempted to stop, drop, and roll only to obtain no success.
His screams continued until he died.
Kurt couldn’t do it, despite all of the things Kitty had done, he just didn’t have the heart to hurt her, let alone kill her. But they both knew that if he didn’t stop her now, she would just end up killing more.
He loved her so much and the mere thought was destroying him, but he couldn’t allow for anyone else to harm her, not his Kätzchen. If she were to die, he would volunteer for the task, something he wished to never to resort to but the day had finally came.
After a long time of thinking in his room and crying quietly to himself, he teleported out of there and into her current confinement. They had created a cage in a sort so she wouldn’t be able to phase out of it and return to killing the innocents she’s been murdering by phasing their hearts and/or other organs depending on her opponents. She’s killed many of the X-Men, students and Avengers until Kurt had managed to gather a team to stop her.
The problem with her cage was that she would escape once they opened the door, her swordsmanship and martial art abilities were great so he was definitely in for a tough fight if she were to escape him. He opened the door, no weapons at hand, only himself. Kurt had prior to taken a poison before arriving her, if he was going to kill her, he was going to kill himself as well.
The poison was already flowing through his veins. He watched her step out of her holding cell, she flung forward when his tail pierced her through her heart. The girl slumped forward and grabbed onto him, her eyes welled up with tears just like his own.
They took their last breaths together, not speaking a word of it before sleep became permanent.
“And fortunately, I’ve done enough things wrong for it to be a real treat,” she added, raising an eyebrow and pursing her lips.
“I’ve been looking for a long time,” she said in reply. “I haven’t exhausted all the resources I have yet, though, and it’s sort of a continuing project for me. I have to keep myself occupied while other people are sleeping, you know? I’ve been reading up on medical journals and theses relating to mutations, and although I’ve not found anything yet, i’m sure I can’t be that far off.”
He took in what she was saying and bit his lower lip as he was lost in thought, he wasn’t going to let his friend go without a proper sleep but just what could they do to offer her a good night’s rest? And then he remembered, back in the Munich circus they had a psychic who was also a trained hypnotist.
“Have you ever tried hypnotism? I’ve seen it do vonders.”
Kitty knew what she was in the mood for, but it was something Kurt would certainly find sinful to think about. She hoped that the blush she felt coloring her cheeks at the thought wasn’t too noticeable. She shrugged off the thoughts and looked up at him with a smile.
“Honestly? I just want to order a pizza, curl up on the couch, and watch a movie. But if you’d rather go out I’m totally okay with that. This is your homecoming after all.” She was tired and she wanted to lay down with Kurt on the couch curled up next to him like she used to. Would he even still be comfortable with that? Where was the friend boundary now? She wasn’t even sure she still cared about minding it. She tried hiding the confusion from her face as she waited for his answer with a smile.
He of course did notice the light blush and the glow that had accompanied with it. Kurt has always been watching over her, he’s always noticed and seen how she’s gotten any time she would speak about Piotr. So he knows that blush and the shy smile she had to cover it, however he didn’t understand it’s context. He didn’t understand why she would have such a blush unless she was thinking of him again and because of that he gave a defeated smile in return.
It was good to see that she could still love despite her feeling betrayed by Piotr. She deserves to be loved, hopefully she will find someone that loves him as much as he does.
“Pizza sounds gut. I haven’t seen a movie in ages,” it was surprising for the film junkie but yet he couldn’t. He had so much guilt and other than religion he felt so lost, so when wandering around he had decided to help those in need in various small European nations. He helped as many people as he could before realizing the empty void was due to not being home, so now that he’s back and she is as well, he feels better about giving into such indulgences.
