Chapter One A Disturbance in the Night *Author's note: All the X-men characters belong to marvel and all those ppl, except for the new chara.... SHE IS MAH OWN CREATION MWUAHAHA! anyways, enjoy y'all! Kurt Wagner had just gotten over training in the Battle Simulation room. Exhausted, from dodging various beams from Scott and balls being hurled at him from Jean, he decided to go straight to bed, seeing as how it was almost 11:30 p.m. and a school night. "Vhy does time go by so fast in there, I'm going to be dead tired tomorrow....," he said to himself. "Nice job, Kurt," Scott said, "you are really improving" "Yeah, you surprise us everyday, O' fuzzy one," Jean said laughing. "Yeah vell vhen you mess with the 'fuzzy one' you betta watch yourself," Kurt said grinning widely with the goofy grin everyone knows and adores. He said goodnight to Scott and Jean and headed up the stairs quietly. He showered and put on a white wife-beater and black fleece pants and *BAMFed* himself to his room as to not wake anyone up. He appeared a foot above the bed and fell onto it. Covering himself up he immediately went to sleep, only to be awakened a few hours later by something very unusual. A dark figure, stumbling down the sidewalk, rounded the corner and came upon the gates of the Institute. It was a girl, looking very pale and sick, brown shoulder length hair in knots and dirt stains scattered over her skin. She wore a dirty halter top and mud-stained baggy khaki-colored cargoes. Deciding that behind the gate of the Institute in a dark corner looked remotely safe, she painfully started to climb over the fence. When at the top, she lost her balance and fell towards the other side, landing with a sickening thump on the ground. Crawling to a dark corner, she curled up, shivering and teeth-chattering, slowly fell asleep. Not realizing she was in a corner next to the building where the X-men slept and conveniently under Kurt's window. It was about 2:00 in the morning. Sprawled across the bed and half covered in sheets, Kurt lay snoring lightly. A cold breeze blew in from the nearby open window and rustled his blue/black hair. He shivered a little and rolled over. Another breeze blew through the window, this time even stronger, carrying the faint sound of someone coughing. Awaking from that brisk breeze, he rolled over with a moan and slowly got out of bed and walked to the window. Sighing he started to close the window. He stopped when he thought he heard someone below coughing. Dismissing it as probably someone in the next room he continued to close the window. The sound came again followed by the sound of soft crying. "Vhat the...?" Looking down from the window he could barely make out the outline of someone curled in a tight ball, trying to keep warm. Not wanted to wake anyone up by shouting down to the stranger, he teleported about ten feet away from the person and turned on his holographic watch, I don't vant to scare whoever this is. He thought to himself. Cautiously he began to walk towards the shivering girl. "A girl? Vhat is she doing out here?" He reached down and tapped her bare shoulder "Hello? You OK? Wake up." The girl moaned a little and slowly opened her eyes. "Huhh..??" she moaned. Her eyes snapped open wider and glared at Kurt. She released a growl from her clenched teeth and she squeezed herself as far into the corner as she could, trying to stay away from him. Kurt tried to get a good look at her and noticed that she looked about Kitty's age, and not to mention, she even resembled Kitty a little. He also got quite a shock when he noticed that she had vampire-like fangs. The next little surprise came when he noticed how icy blue her eyes were. "Vow...., uh, I'm not going to hurt you, its OK," he said, starting to get closer to her, "just stay calm." The girl continued hissing a little and glaring at him and Kurt was starting to get a little to close for the girl's comfort. What came next completely caught Kurt off guard. "Just stay still, I can help you, just---" "STAY AWAY FROM ME!" the girl half screamed, half growled. Suddenly, feeling trapped, she seemed to hunch over a little and winced as a pair of huge black and red dragon wings exploded out of her back. The force of this made her fall to her knees. "VHAT?!" exclaimed Kurt. She flapped her wings once, seeming to test them out and while Kurt was a little distracted she flew over him and put him in a bear hug. Kurt was surprised partly because of the little predicament he was in and party because of how strong she was. She flapped her wings and flew up about twenty feet. "Vhat are you doing?! I don't mean you any harm!" Kurt said nervously. "Please just let me down!" The girl smirked and her white fangs shone in the moonlight. Kurt managed to look around for a moment until she grabbed his hair and pulled his head back. Kurt yelled out in surprise and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his neck. After a moment of getting over the initial shock of all this he felt the girls face close to his and her lips on his neck. Trying to find his senses, he instinctively teleported to the ground below. He appeared laying on the ground, holding his neck where she had bit him. "V-vhy?" he stammered. The girl didn't say anything, but looked as though she would pass out. She dipped down a little and tried to gain more altitude but her wings gave out and she fell towards the ground. Kurt quickly teleported beneath her and caught the unconscious girl. Her wings seemed to also have disappeared into thin air. He knew he needed some medical attention very fast, due to a somewhat large amount of lost blood. "You get weirder and .....weirder, girl,......Scott ..Scott can help...," he decided. With the girl in his arms he teleported to the outside of Scott's room. Trying to use a free hand he knocked on the door and whispered, "Big-Brother! I need..h-help." A moan came from behind the closed door and the sound of someone getting out of bed. Kurt began to feel a little light headed and hoped Scott would hurry it up. "C'mon man.. this isn't fun...." "If this is a joke," Scott muttered from behind the door. Scott walked out of his room to see Kurt leaning weakly against the wall, with the girl cradled in his arms. "Kurt?! What happened?! What's wrong?! Who's she?!" "Questions later.. take her...but be careful she's danger---" Kurt passed out. Scott was very confused, not knowing whether to get the Professor first or just bring both Kurt and the girl to the medical room. He decided to just bring them to the medical room first, thinking about Kurt's warning about the girl, he didn't want to take any chances if she happened to wake up. But then he thought that possibly Jean would be of some help to all of this, she could contact the Professor while he was helping Kurt and see if there was anything they could do with the unconscious girl. He ran to Jean's room, leaving the two where they were. He finally got to it and lightly banging on the door. "Jean! Jean wake up!! I need you, like now!" He kept pounding on the door until she cracked it open. "What do you want now?" She asked. Then she saw the worried look on his face Scott, what's wrong?" "It's Kurt, He's in trouble and he has someone with him that he said is a problem." "A problem?" "I'll explain later, We need to hurry before she wakes up and Kurt's in tough shape, too" "OK, lets hurry," She said. They hurried down the hall trying not to wake up the others. "Jean can you contact the Professor, please? I think he might help a little in this situation, right?" "Gotcha." Jean said as she slowed a little and used her psychic powers to contact the Professor. Meanwhile Scott made it back to Kurt and the girl, the same way he had left them. A moment later, Jean came running up to his side. "The Professor should be here shortly. For now we got to get these two taken care of." Scott nodded in agreement and he picked up the girl. He'd rather have her attack him if she woke up than have Jean get it head on. Jean picked up Kurt and they both headed to the Med. Room A NEW MUTANT? Chapter 2 "He's going to be fine," The Professor said. It was a half an hour later, after Scott and Jean rushed the two injured ones to the Med. Room. "That's good, poor guy," Jean said, looking down at Kurt simpatically. Who was on the medical bed with an IV in his arm. "Funny thing is, it seems like he got attacked by a vampire or something, I mean he lost a lot of blood and on his neck...you don't think the girl...." Scott said. Scott looked over at the large cage that held the unconscious girl. She looked pretty sick but it didn't seem very serious. "So what are we going to do Professor, I mean she looks really sick," Jean said. "Well, maybe she eats other foods, I just pray blood isn't all she can survive on." "Yeah I hope so too, poor girl, she may have hurt Kurt but, she kinda reminds me of Kitty, and she's sick too, We can't just leave her like that," said Jean. "I guess you're right Jean," Scott said, "by the way, uh how are we going to let the rest of the team know about this?" "I think it's best to wait until Kurt has recovered and that girl is a little better, too," The Professor suggested. Scott and Jean agreed. "I will stay and look after Kurt, You two go to bed, you still have classes to attend in the morning." Scott laughed a little, "It's already morning, I'll be lucky to stay awake during calculus. But I'm still a little worried about Kurt." "Me too," Jean piped in. "He's going to be just fine, if anything happens I'll let you know, now go to sleep." "Alright, alright," Scott said. Jean turned back for a minute and stroked Kurt's hair. "Get better soon, you." Kurt moaned a little as if in reply. Jean smiled and headed out the door with Scott. At school the rest of the X-men were all wondering about where Kurt was. They asked everyone if they'd seen him and then they got to Jean and Scott. "You guys don't seemed to be worried about where Kurt is, you know where he is at all?" Evan asked. "He's uh, with the Professor, he, uh, broke his image inducer last night in a battle sym.. Scott said" "Is he, like, going to be alright after school?" Kitty asked. "Uh, I'm pretty sure he will be," Jean said, forcing a smile. Kitty smiled and said, "well I really, like, have to get to my next class, I'll see you guys, like, later, 'K?" Evan and Rogue also both headed off in separate directions to get to their class rooms. Later when school was over the X-men who didn't know about the incident last night, decided to figure out where Kurt was. Usually when he had an appointment to get his hologram watch fixed he'd be waiting in the main hall of the dorm building, waiting for everybody. But he wasn't anywhere to be found. "I say we try to find him, this isn' like Kurt to be missing like this," Evan said. "h relax! He could be in the bathroom right now for all we know! I have homework to do so if ya don' mind, I' goin'to my room," Rogue said rather flatly. "Like, ok but I'm still going to go, like, look for him," Kitty said. They all split up and began too look around the Institute. Meanwhile, back in the Med. room, the Professor was still sitting beside Kurt. The girl had been showing signs of waking up soon, but then she'd lay still for a long time. The only way to tell if she was even still alive was the slight rise and fall of her chest. The professor sighed and began working on a laptop. There was a knock on the door and Scott came in. "So, how is he doing, Professor?" "Better, much better, I swear it seemed like he almost woke up about ten minutes ago." Kurt stirred a little and his eyelids twitched. A slight moan escaped his lips. Scott smiled relieved. "So He's going to be back in school tomorrow?" "I'd give it another day." "Well everyone's really worried about him, I kinda had to lie today to them about Kurt." "He'll be out and about soon don't worry." "So what about the girl?" "Well, I am not sure yet, I have to see her when she's awake to actually do anything to try and solve this problem of her being supposedly dangerous." "Anything else you found out about her?" "Well yes, turns out she does have mutant genes in her, I don't see why she'd attack Kurt though." "A new mutant?" "Yes, I can hardly wait to see what she is capable of." "If she doesn't attack you first." The professor nodded. They were both silent for a moment. Then the silence was broken by a sudden cough from Kurt. Kurt's eyes closed tight and then opened slightly. Looking around with his yellow eyes, half open he tried to figure out where he was. "Vhere am I," he asked groggily. "Just in the Med. room Kurt. Don't worry, you're going to be OK," Scott said, helping the blue elf to sit up. "Feel better at all?" "Ja, a little, but i have a killer headache..." Scott and the Professor smiled. Kurt then glanced over at the cage and into it, seeing the girl. "So it really vasn't a dream." He laughed a little. Well I better go see everybody, I guess they were expecting to see me in the main ha--" she stopped abruptly and grabbed his head. Wincing, he said, "Anybody have a tylenol?" "Oh no you don't, I'll just tell them you're sick and sleeping. You just go up to your room ok. And, get some sleep." Scott said handing him a Tylenol and getting a glass of water. "Alright I do feel a little woozy," he paused to take the pill. "I just hope the girl will wake up soon too." "Why? She attacked you, Kurt," Scott asked surprised. "Ja, but i have a strange feeling she' really a nice person, just that, she isn' able to control herself to be able to show it." Scott nodded. "And I don't doubt your feelings, we'll let you know when she comes around." "Danke, vell I'll be up in my room if you need me at all." "You got it little Bro," Scott said smiling. Kurt smiled and *BAMFed himself away. Waking Up Chapter 3 Two days later Kurt was back attending classes. He was almost a hundred percent better but he still felt a little sick at times. Evan ran up behind him, "Hey man! Where were you for the past couple of days?" Tired of being asked the same question at least fifty times previously, and a stomach ache coming on he said, "I vas out sick, I think I'm going to attach a sign to myself saying that." Evan laughed, "I see, feeling any better though?" "Not really" "That's too bad, man, well I gotta get to class, Mrs. Dranway hates me enough already. If I'm late, I'm afraid of what shed do to me. Feel better kay?" Smiling, Kurt said, "I'll try my best!" "Later." "Auf weidersein." Kurt continued down the hall to the science classroom, hoping he could get himself out of taking the big test on the Periodic Table. * * * School was out and Kurt had been dealt a lot of make up work, at least he got to miss the big test, that everybody was convinced they failed. He painfully decided skip watching TRL and went straight up to his room to start on his homework. He got up stairs and into his room. He sat down at his desk and pulled out the pile of papers and got to work. He was about three hours into his homework when something began bothering him. He couldn't seem to forget about the girl. He hadn't seen her very much due to being unconscious for a long period of time and school. He tried to get his mind back to homework, he still had a lot left and he was feeling a little sick again. He forced himself back to the problem, it was Language arts, "How did Hamlet let everyone know how his uncle had killed his father?" An easy question for him but he couldn't seem to get his mind off the girl. He felt really bad for her, he knew she wasn't a bad person. (This was due to his empathetic powers) Suddenly Kitty came through the wall of his room. "KURT!!!" "ACH!!" Kurt yelled, shaken out of his deep thought, and fell backwards out of his chair. Getting up he looked at Kitty. He really liked Kitty so a lot of times when he was around her he would try not to screw up talking. "Ah Guten Tag, Kitty." "You've been up here for a while, Scott said to, like not disturb you, but we, like saved you a few pieces of pizza." Kurt's heart lifted. Not only did he have the girl he liked talking to him, but three pieces of pepperoni pizza. "Danke, Kitty, I'm sorry, I'd like to talk but I really have to get this done." "Yeah I know, I haven't really started on mine yet so, uh I'll, like, see you later!" Kurt waved as Kitty disappeared through the wall. He ate his pizza fast, it was a little cold but he was mad hungry and didn't care. He sat back down to his homework, but yet again, he thought about the girl. Fed up with this he decided to just go check on her. He didn't think he was banned from that area while she was in there, but he just wanted to see how she was doing. Kurt teleported himself to the Med. Room, and in the corner he saw the cage containing the girl. He thought to himself how awful it was to have her in a cage like an animal, but he couldn't think of any other way they could have kept her from getting into trouble. He quietly walked over to the cage and looked in. The girl was laying on her stomach and looking as though she had seen better days. He also noticed that she had a little IV thing in her arm. He guessed that's how they were feeding her. He crouched down and just sat there for a while, looking at her, just trying to figure her out. Kitty finished her homework and decided to go see if Kurt needed any help. She phased through the wall into his room only to find him not there. She thought of all the places he may have gone to and began looking around the dorm building for him. Kurt was still sitting in front of the cage when he saw the girl mumble something. He continued watching, to his surprise she started to show signs of waking up. The girls eyelids twitched a little and opened slightly. She pushed herself up to a sitting position and held her head. Groaning a little, and then looking up, she immediately caught sight of the blue elf sitting in front of her cage. She crammed herself as far back into the corner as she could and glared at him. Not surprised at this he began take two of talking to her. "Listen. I von't hurt you, neither will my friends, ve just vant to h--" "Kurt?" A familiar voice asked. "Who are you, like, talking to?" Kurt's eyes went wide. He couldn't hide the cage or the girl inside and he didn't know how Kitty would react to her, or how the girl would react to Kitty. "Kurt? What's in the cage?" "Nothing! Um, nothing at all!" Kurt forced a nervous laugh. "Then why were you, like, talking to it?" "I vas...I vas talking to myself!" "Telling yourself you won't hurt you?" "Urrmmm....." "Nice try, fuzzball, now like, move outta the way." Kitty peered in and gasped. "Why is there a girl in there?!!" "Kitty! Shhh! She's really jumpy." "I'd be too if someone put me in a cage, I'm going to get her out." "No!! Ve have to go get the professor, this is the first time she's voken up in three days!" "Well I'll just go in for a minute and talk to her" "That's even worse! Just--" It was too late Kitty phased herself half way into the cage. Neither of them saw it at first but the girl held out bother her hands close to each other and a small ball of electricity appeared between them. It continued to grow until it was about a foot big. By this time Kitty had noticed it and looked at the girl in horror. "No please! Don't--!" She couldn’t finish her sentence before the girl threw the ball at her and knocked Kitty through the cage and slammed her into the wall. "Kitty!!" Kitty moaned a little trying to get her vision to stop blurring. I-I'm going to go, like, get the professor," she said obviously shaken. "Keep that... that thing in there too!!" A small ball of electricity shot out of the cage and hit the wall near her leg. Kitty quickly jumped through the wall. About ten minutes later the whole X-men team came through the door. No doubt Kitty had said something to everybody when they asked her why she looked like she saw a ghost. Kurt was sitting on the Med. bed. "She...that thing ..is in there!" Kitty exclaimed still scared. "Kurt? Professor? What's goin' on, may I ask?" Rogue said. "Does Scott and Jean know too?" Scott and Jean nodded slightly. "How come we never knew about this?" Evan asked. Storm and Logan equally looked a little disappointed but said nothing. "We didn't want to tell you until the girl was a little more....ready to meet people," the Professor explained. "She'll never be ready to meet people!" Kitty exclaimed. "Maybe she will...," the Professor said. "If I can just examine her a little more I think there is a device we can make to help her to be able to control herself, because according to Kurt, she wasn't born like this." Kurt nodded. "I'm going to have to ask everyone to leave except for Kurt and Jean," the professor said. "Somebody get in contact with Forge, (character from "Middleverse") he may come in handy." "I guess I can do something to help y'all," Rogue said and she got the number from Scott. Everyone except Kurt, Jean and the Professor were in the room. "What did you need us for?" Jean asked, confused. "I need you for holding her with your Telekinesis and I thought it'd be OK if Kurt stayed here, after all he did get attacked by her." "So what do you plan to do?" Jean asked. "You just hold her in place, I have to be able to know some things she can do, that way it'd be easier to help her. this might be a little tricky, but if you can't hold her any longer maybe Kurt can teleport her back into the cage and teleport out immediately." Kurt and Jean nodded in agreement. "Ready then? All right I will do my best to help you, Let's go. Angel Chapter 4 Kurt and Jean were ready to take the girl out. Both a little nervous, but trying not to show it. “Ready Kurt?”Jean asked. “Ja, let’s do it.” Jean began to lift the cage and hold the girl at the same time. Almost immediately Jean felt the strong resistance the girl had. Wincing and giving her all, she levitated the girl in the air, hoping she would panick and do what ever the Professor was expecting her to do. Why exactly is he doing it the hard way? She thought to herself. The girl struggled and growled a little at everyone. Then all of a sudden from some mysterious burst of energy, the girl broke out of Jeans hold and lunged straight at her. :Jean, LOOK OUT!!”Kurt yelled as he dove at the girl, grabbed her foot, teleported her back into the cage and teleported himself back out, all within a matter of moments. “Vell that,”Kurt said panting, “didn’t work.” Jean was silent for a minute in deep thought. “I’ve got it!!”She exclaimed happily. “We need Rogue.” “Vhat for?” “If she touches the girl then Rogue can tell us exactly what we need to know through the memories she gets, maybe even showing us a few powers of that girl. It’s kind of the only option we have left. By the way you think she got Forge to agree to come?” “I don’t know, but your idea has a good chance of working and it’s certainly less dangerous than the last one, my fault, anyway I will contact her,”the Professor said. A few minutes later Rogue came in. “Forge is on his way, he said he was very exited 'bout helpin’ too.” “Good,”the Professor said, “Do you think you can help Rogue?” “I can try” “All right attempt two then!”Kurt said happily. “Well I’ll try and hold her against the bars, all you have to do is touch her, OK?” “I just hope it won’ kill her, she looks like she’s a little sick, ya know? But OK, here goes...” Kurt was looking a little nervous, he walked backwards until he was next to the Professor and watched. Jean forced the girl to the back of the cage while Rogue removed one of her gloves. Jean wasn’t surprised when the girl immediately started giving her a hard time. Finally the girl was back against the bars. “Rogue now!”Jean yelled. Rogue quickly touched the girls bare back and memories and images flooded her mind. The girl screamed a little and fell forward, barely conscious. Rogue pulled her hand back and stood up, shocked. “Wow,”she said. “It’s going to be hard to put this into words but I think I can show you basically what she can do. Rogue winced and cried out a little as a pair of black and red dragon wings exploded from her back. Jean, Kurt and the Professor all gasped in surprise. Rogue folded the wings back and began to create a fire ball in one hand and an electric ball in the other. Then she canceled them out and made the wings disappear into thin air. “That is all I got out of it. Other than that, Kurt, why didn’t ya say anything about her hurting you?!” “Vell, I just didn’t vant you all to hate her vithout giving her a chance.” Rogue nodded and said, “Well then, you were right in saying she was never always this wild. She was in control of her own mind one day and the next she totally lost it and ran away. It was horrible for her getting here, and well I’m sorry to say she did seriously hurt a few people by vamping on them, but the fortunate thing is that she didn’t kill anyone. This all happened about three weeks ago. There was a knock on the door and a familiar voice could be heard through it. “You guys needed me?”Forge asked on the other side of the door. Kurt opened the door to let him in, they both did their little “handshake thingie”. “Kurt! Hey good to see you again, and you all too, man what’s got all the rest especially the little girl scared about? It can’t be that girl you were having problems with can it? “Vell, yes, it is about the girl, and Kitty didn’t get off to a good start vith her. Rogue knows all about her and the info can hopefully help her out.” “How so?”He asked. “Why did you need me?” “Forge,”the Professor said, “I was hoping you could make a device that could let the girl have control of her mind again.” “And for that I need info on her.” “And we got just that,”Rogue said. She began filling him in. Ten minutes later Forge began to have pretty good ideas on how to pull this stunt off. “Can I see her?” “Go for it,”Jean replied. Forge bent down to see the girl barely awake on the floor in the corner of the cage. “Wow, she doesn’t look to good.” “We know, a combination of Rogue touching her and her not letting us get near to help is kind of why,”said Jean. “Well if you show me the way to your tech room I can try and whip up something as fast as I can.” “Jean?”the Professor asked. “Can you show him the way please?” She nodded and led him out. “Well I don’t know if you’ll be needing me anymore. I’m very tired, just glad today’s Friday,”Rogue laughed. “Don’t expect to see me up before 11 tomorrow, OK? Goodnight y’all.” “Goodnight,”he Professor and Kurt said in unison. “Are you going to go too Kurt?” “No, I vant to see her as the true her tonight.” The Professor nodded and the waited. It was three hours later when Jean came back into the room with Forge. Kurt was fast asleep, sitting on the medical bed and leaning against the wall. The Professor, one the other hand, was still awake. “Wow, Kurt must’ve been really tired,”Forge said. “What were you doing the whole waiting time, Sir?” “Watching the girl (who was fast asleep) and listening to Kurt mumble things in German.”He chuckled a little. “So what did you come up with?” Forge held up what looked like a thin round metal necklace. “This might work, it’s durable but it can break, meaning that she’d be back like this.” “Thank you for the precautions, but, how do you put it on her?”The professor asked. “Well there is a latch now, just to get it on, but after I can weld it shut.” “Jean, I know she is exhausted but can you hold her again just in case, so that he can put it on her?” “Not a problem,”she said. “But shouldn’t we wake up Kurt?” “That’s true, he really wanted to see her get better.” Jean walked over and gently shook Kurt. “Wha?.... Oh hi Jean.” “Your little friend here is getting help now, the Professor said you’d want to see this.” “Ja!” Jean turned around held the girl in a sitting position near the door of the cage. She struggled a little at first but then was far too tired to do anything but stare at Forge. He crawled in and put it around her neck. When it was latched shut, out of his arm came a small welder. Trying not to burn the girl, he welded the necklace shut. He then opened a small lid near where the latch was and pressed the tiny button inside with a needle point (yes it was a VERY small button). he then welded the lid closed and a small green light came on in the front of the necklace. He had built it so that the light somewhat resembled a glowing jewel. He crawled out and Jean released her hold. Kurt quickly turned on his watch and the more human image of him flickered on. They all crowded around the cage and waited to see what would happen. It took a little while for the girl to actually react, but when she did, she turned around and looked at everyone a little confused. They all stepped back a little in surprise. The girl blinked. “Hello?” They all stared at her. “Can I come out now?” “O-of course,”Jean said as she opened the door. The girl crawled out painfully and stood up very off balance. She stumbled and grabbed onto Kurt’s shoulder. He cried out in surprise and the girl looked him straight in the eyes. “It’s you...”She said eyes widening. “You remember me?” “I’m so sorry,”she said, eyes watering. “Its OK, I don’t blame you for anything.” “I still feel horrible about it, um ....” “Kurt, it’s Kurt.” “My name...my name is Angel. I know after what I did, it’s kind of weird for me to have that name. But who are all of you?” “I’m Jean. And that’s the Professor. You’ll meet the rest of us later.” “I don’t think that girl will want to see me.” “We’ll work things out,”Jean said. Angel felt as though she’d fall and held on tighter to Kurt. “You better get some sleep, and then you can meet everyone tomorrow, OK?” Kurt said. Angel nodded. “I know it isn’t much, but until we get you a room, you’ll have to sleep on the bed in here,”The professor told her. “It’s OK with me, I’m just glad you’re willing to keep me here.” “It’s no trouble at all,”replied the Professor. “Hey, well I gotta get home, I’ll see you guys around, good luck Angel,” Forge said and he left. They all said their thank yous. Angel nodded in thanks. “One last question,”Jean said. “Do you remember anything while you were, you know, not yourself?” “Bits and pieces, but I couldn’t do anything to stop what I had done. I remember hurting Kurt the most though, and I still feel really bad about it, but I guess I can’t really do anything to change the past.” “Really, it’s all right, everything is forgiven,”Kurt said holding her shoulders to steady her. “Also,”Angel started. “I guess that girl showed you what I can do. I bet you think I’m pretty weird, huh?” Kurt smiled and he knew this was his time to step in and settle her whole “thinks she’s weird thing”by showing her the real him. “Listen, do not think you’re weird, I felt the same way.” “Kurt!”Jean said as she saw him reaching for his watch. “It’s all right Jean,”he said as he switched off the watch. The image of a normal looking him flickered off. Kurt saw Angel’s eyes widen and she took an unsteady step back. He was used to this response so he forced a smile. “Wow,”Angel said at a loss of words. “Yeah so I guess I made you feel not as strange, huh? Everybody here accepted me for who I am and they should do the same to you. So don’t vorry about it.” Angel took a step towards him and touched his face. Kurt pulled back a little in surprise. Angel laughed a little. “Hey, you’re fuzzy!” Kurt smiled a little. “Thank you, and you aren’t as weird as you think you are. I think it’s kinda cu...,”she blushed and quickly said,. “Um, you guys don’t mind if I take a shower first, do you?” She said looking down at her dirty clothes. “Not at all, and you can borrow some of my clothes. Tomorrow’s Saturday, right? Well then how about we go shopping for you tomorrow?”Jean said cheerily. “Thank you, Jean,”Angel smiled. “So uh, shower right? You can use my bathroom. Follow me then. Goodnight Professor, Goodnight Kurt,”Jean said as she led Angel out. Angel turned to them and waved, then continued to follow Jean to her room. The Smell of Rejection Chapter 5 Angel woke up suddenly in a cold sweat. Her night had been plagued bynightmares and was lucky to get about two hours worth of sleep. It took a few seconds toregister where she was but she finally got out of bed and changed into the clothes Jeanhad given her. She then realized she had no idea what to do next. She didn’t know whereeveryone had breakfast or where their rooms were. Except for Jean’s. She vaguely remembered how to get there but she decided to do her best to find her way there. Angel glanced at the clock on the wall, 9:00am. She sighed, “Great, this should be fun.” And she headed to the door. She began walking down the hall. There was no one to be seen,but luckily she started to recognize some of the things she saw on the way to Jean’s room. OK, painting of a sunset, closet there, picture of a flower in a vase. Angel was in such deep concentration about trying to figure out which door up ahead was Jean’s that she didn’t see Kurt coming down the hall, lost in his own little world trying to figure out if he wanted waffles or pancakes for breakfast. The two collided and stumbled back. “Kurt!! Oh uh sorry about that.” He just smiled. “Guten Morgen, Engel!” Angel smiled and laughed a little. “Guten Morgen zu ihnen zu Kurt.” “Huh?” Kurt was surprised at how fluent she could speak German. “Sprechen sie Deutsch?” She giggled at this. “Ja, bin ich halbes Deutsch.” “Wirklich? Kuhl!” “Gut werde ich, flaumig gehen ibt,” Kurt got an idea, plus not that she was a show off, but he wanted to show Angel what he could do. “Will eine Abkurzung nehmen?” “Ummmm, Ich errate” Kurt smiled, “Sie stimmen sie dann uberein!” He grabbed her arm. “Was das----?!” was all she could say before he teleported her away withhim.They reappeared at the top of the stairs near the dining room. “So are you ready to meet everyone?” “No, not really.” “It’ll be OK, I’ll help ya out!”Angel smiled. Wow, this guy, I never met anyone this nice. No one has ever helped me like this before. Angel thought to herself, remembering how rough her childhood had been, how she never knew her parents, how she had to live her life since she was only aninfant in an orphanage. She then realized Kurt was looking at her confused. “You OK? You look sad.” Angel shook herself out of her trip down memory lane and replied. “Nah I’m good, soum, lets go, I guess.” They headed down the stairs, Kurt was leading and Angel followed close behind. Kurt flicked on his watch and his hologram flickered on. Angel stopped for a second, startled.Then getting over it she continued to follow. Kurt peeked in the doorway. First he saw Jean and gave her the signal that he had Angel with him. Last night they had made a plan for him to introduce her to everyone. Jean glanced in his direction and nodded slightly. Kurt stepped into the doorway. “Mein friends!” he exclaimed, waiting for everyone to look his way. “May I introduce you to Angel.” He basically had to pull her into the room. “Hello,” she said softly. She had never been this nervous in her life. Kitty was the first to react but a sharp look from Jean told her not to do anything and tryto hold it in. Kurt showed Angel to a seat next to Evan and across from Kitty. Then he proceeded to sit on the other side of her. “Vhat do you want for breakfast?” Kurt asked her. We don’t have any blood, you know. Kitty thought, remembering that Rogue told herabout the whole Kurt “being sick” thing. But even Kitty knew that if she said this thoughtout loud, it’d be beyond cruel. “Waffles please.”Kurt nodded and *BAMFed* into the kitchen.Angel sat there in silence. Glancing at everyone now and then.Jean then broke the silence. “So how did you sleep?” “Fine,” she lied. Angel then noticed that Evan began to edge away from her. She just sighed and noticed him jump a little. “Scott, can I ask you a question?” And he got up and went to the opposite side of the table where Scott sat. Angel tried to hold back a tear. How did I know this was going to happen? She though sarcastically to herself.She glanced up at Kitty. Who got up and said, “Ya know, I like, forgot something in myroom. I’ll be like, right back.” She hurried off and ran up the stairs. Angel got up, on the edge of crying, she said in a shaky quiet voice, “I’ll just leave youall alone now,” and she ran out to the front door. “Angel! Wait!” Scott said, starting to get up, but sat back down when he realized sheprobably wanted to be alone for a little while. Storm and Logan both started to show signs of sympathy for the girl. “Evan! You really were rude to her!” Storm exclaimed sternly. “Hey it wasn’t just me! Kitty left too remember? Besides you can’t fully trust that girl.And you didn’t talk to her either.” “That’s true, but still, when you have a chance, you should apologize to her, and tell Kitty to do the same, please.” “Yeah well I just hope she doesn’t--” “Evan enough! She’s having a hard enough time trying to fit in here. I’ll go talk to herlater, then.” Finally Kurt appeared next to the chair. “OK! Here’s your,......Hey vhere did she go?” “She escorted herself out,” Logan said, glaring at Evan. “Evan and Kitty were a little less than curtious,” Storm explained. Kurt sighed, “I’ll go talk to her, Jean?, you know vhere she is?” Jean began to scan for Angel. Angel ran out the front door. A tear was making its way down her cheek.Thinking of a place where she could just be to herself, she looked up to the roof.She forced out her wings , tattering the back of the shirt in the process, not that she caredvery much right now, though. Flapping hard she flew up to the roof. She landed andfolded her wings back. Walked to the middle of the roof she sat down near a chimneyand leaned against it. She pulled her legs in and sat there, thinking about what she coulddo to make everyone not be afraid of her. Everytime thinking the same answer.Absolutely nothing. Suddenly Kurt appeared in front of her. She jumped a little out ofsurprise. “Hey,” Kurt said and smiled slightly. “Hey.” “I was told Evan and Kitty gave you a hard time huh?” “Nothing like the smell of rejection in the morning.” “Don’t vorry,” he said, extending a hand to help her up. She took it and he pulled her up.“They’ll get to know you better over time. At least for now you have me, Jean, Scott,Rogue and the professor. Storm and Logan seem to be warming up to you. Kitty and Evan are always the difficult ones,” he laughed. Angel smiled a little. “Thank you.” “Huh?” “You are being so nice to me even after what I did and all, no one has ever been this nice to me.”Kurt smiled and pulled her into a hug. Angels eyes went wide in shock. “Everything will be fine, just gove it a little while.” He pulled away. “Oh! Jean told me totell you to cheer up fast, she vants to take you shopping now. I guess this is vhy you vearhalter tops?” He said looking at the tattered back of the shirt. “I know it’s not much but you can vear this for now.” He took off his tan overshirt and she took it. Her wingsdisappeared and she put it on.She smiled, “Thanks again.” “Not a problem, vell ve better hurry and get you to Jean, believe me, you don’t vant tomake that girl vait!”He took her arm and teleported them both away. Battle Sym. Chapter 6 Angel came home with Jean about five hours later. “You’re a total mall rat you know that?! I never knew anyone who could navigate around a mall like you.” Jean laughed. “What can I say? I’m full of surprises right?” Angel and Jean both laughed. “That you are.” “So um, I’ll try and pay you back for all this ASAP, k?” Angel said. “Hey this was all on me, just think of these as a, uh, combo of early birthday and Christmas presents, “ Jean said, smiling. Angel nodded and giggled a little, “You’re the best, Jean!!” “Yeah well,...” They were greeted at the door by the Professor. “Finally you’re back.” “Well...” Jean trailed off. “I have good news for Angel. We finally have your room finished for you. Just up the stairs and three doors down.” “Sweet! I uh mean, Thank you so much!” Taking the bags from Jean and saying another quick thank you she ran up the stairs and to her room. I don’t think I’ve ever said thank you this much in one day! She thought to herself. She burst into her room and jumped on the bed. “Finally an actual bed!” (she was of course, used to the lesser qualities of things) She glanced around the room and also noticed a T.V in the corner. THIS JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER! Then she noticed the stereo, she beamed with happiness. Angel began to unpack all the clothes she had gotten. Mostly halter tops but she also had gotten a couple of regular short and long sleeve tees. Some pairs of pants and some new pairs of shoes. She had also gone shopping for some entertainment things. Jean had gotten her a few CD’s including Moby, SR-71, and the Night at the Roxbury soundtrack. Also they had to stop when she saw her all time favorite store in the mall, Suncoast. Angel was a MAJOR anime freak and spent about twenty minutes browsing through all the anime titles. Jean had gotten her A Ranma 1/2 OVA, Escaflowne#1, Trigun#1, and of course, A Night at the Roxbury. All the way home Angel talked about how great Chris Kattan was and the different genres of anime. Jean was very confused about most of the anime but she could carry on a short convo about once seeing Chris Kattan do the Mr. Peepers sketch. Angel arranged her four movies and three CD’s nicely on the shelf and put all the clothes in the closet. Exhausted, she flopped down on the bed and just lay there. She began to fall asleep when she heard someone knocking on the door. “Who is it?” “It’s Scott, can I come in?” “Go for it.” He walked in. “So, do you like it?” She nodded. “That’s good. Hey The Professor and I thought it’d be a good idea to show you our little Battle Simulator. That is if you’re up to it.” “Sure,” Angel said and hopped off her bed. “Follow me then.” She followed him to a part of the mansion she had never been to and then proceeded to go into an elevator. They got off and stopped before a door. “Here we are.” Scott opened the door and led her into a huge room. Angel was amazed at how big it was and looked it up and down. Noticing that the Professor was in the little control room above with Storm with him. Angel smiled and waved. Storm waved back while the Professor just gave a little tilt of the head. “So let’s get you suited up and get started.” “What do you mean suited up? Get started on what?” “We all have special suits. We’re a team called the X-men, and we were wondering if you’d like to be a part of it. But all of us need to go through training, and that’s what we do here.” Angel nodded. “Kay, show me to my new threads then.” Scott smiled and led her to the changing rooms. A few minutes later, Angel came out in her new suit. Black tight plasticy leather with an “X” in a circle on the belt. The back of the suit was halter like. Which to Angel got a little drafty, but this design was right for her to be able to use her wings without having to worry about ripping anything. She greeted Jean and Scott in the middle of the room. “Ready?” Jean asked. “You bet!” “I’ll have to warn you, it may seem a little odd at first but we’ll give you a minute to adjust.” Angel nodded, “Let’s go then!” “Professor! We’re all set!” Scott yelled up to him in the control room. The round room suddenly turned into a huge wall of rocks in the middle of a dense forest. Angel just stood there amazed but quickly gathered her senses and began to make it up the rocks. Kurt suddenly appeared in a puff of brimstone scented smoke. “Am I late?” “Don’t worry she just started, she took right to it too,” Storm said. “You chose this scenario?” “It looked like she could handle it,” the Professor said. Kurt nodded, “I don’t doubt that she can’t, either.” They all watched on. Meanwhile, Angel was almost halfway up the mountain. “What kind of training is this? Where’d everyone go?” She said out loud. Suddenly she looked up and saw a rock come tumbling down at her. “WHAT THE...?!” She quickly jumped out of the way. Doing a 'dino’ (rock climbing term, here, jumping from one rock to another, basically) she grabbed onto a nearby hold. Pulling herself up, using her arms, she continued the climb. All of a sudden a beam came from nowhere and shot the rock she was holding onto into dust. She screamed and fell a little way, scraping her knee, she winced. Using her naturally cat-like reflexes, she grabbed another hold. The blood from her scrape started to trickle down her shin, but she ignored it. Logan appeared in the control room. “So how’s the squirt doing?” “So far so good,” the Professor explained. “Quite the reflexes,” Storm observed. Kurt said nothing and continued watching intently. Angel was almost at the top and was thinking that this test didn’t seem all that hard as they all made it sound. Suddenly a beam and a rock were coming fast in her direction. Doing another dino she jumped up and to the left. Then the real challenge started to kick in. More rocks and red beams came at her. Gritting her teeth she continued to dodge the opposing obstacles. A beam caught her off guard. She was thrown from the wall completely and began to fall. Instinctively she let out her wings and started to fly the rest of the way up. More beams and flying rocks, but she was getting better at flying and dodged most of them, a few rocks and beams hit her but they were nothing big. She was almost to the top, just ten feet more, she began to celebrate her own victory in her mind, then suddenly, “Hey Jean?!!” Kitty burst into the room. Her voice echoing. Through her whole life, Angel had always been easily distracted, so without thinking, she looked for Kitty. Taking her mind off the simulation, altogether. A beam and a rock came in both directions at her, but it was too late to react. She heard Kurt yell something from the control room and then the rock hit her square in the back and knocked her forward. A beam hit her stomach and bounced her back and into the wall, hard. Angel got the wind knocked out of her and hit her head pretty hard. She fell what looked like 50 feet down but actually was only a ten or fifteen foot drop to the floor. With her vision blurring she faintly saw everyone come running to her. Yelling her name. “I’m.....OK...just....fine..” She felt someone pick her up and carry her for a long time. A little bit dazed, she didn’t realize where they were going but finally she snapped out of it and found herself, once again, in the Medical room. She sat up and saw everyone standing around her. v “Are you OK?!” Storm asked worried. She came over and touched Angels shoulder. “You didn’t break anything did you?” Rogue asked. Angel moved her arms and opened her wings a little. “No, I’m just a little sore.” “That was quite an impressive show you put on.” Kurt said. “I give it to thumbs up!” “Thanks!” “Very nice indeed, great reflexes.” the Professor added. Angel just smiled. She winced at her pounding headache. “You guys have any aspirin?” “I’ll get ya some,” Rogue offered, “An’ by the way, I think SOMEONE owes ya an apology.” Kitty stepped forward, “I’m sorry, Angel,” she said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.” Angel picked up on the hint. “No problem.” Then uttered, “I don’t blame you for doing what you did.” She sighed. Rogue got back with the aspirin and a cup of water. Angel took it and said. “If you guys don’t mind, I’m going to go to my room. And she walked out. Angel walked into her room and slammed the door. “Why does this have to happen to me?!” She yelled, her clenched fists began to spark with an oncoming electric ball. Then she controlled herself and jumped on her bed. She grabbed the remote to her T.V and laid down on her bed, stretching her wings out, comfortably. She sighed and turned on the T.V, channel surfing for a few minutes. She stopped on Comedy Central and watched a rerun of Saturday Night Live, to her surprise, Chris Kattan was on. She smiled, I guess my day won’t suck so much after all, she thought to herself. The “Goth Talk” sketch came on. “I’m Asrael Abyss, Prince of sorrow.” Said Chris in a very high pitched voice. Then a voice offstage, “Hey Todd! Mom said to clean your room now!” “My name isn’t Todd, It’s Asrael Abyss, Prince of Sorrow!” Angel laughed a little. Suddenly, she heard the sound Kurt makes when he teleports and jumped a little in surprise. Trying not to smell the Brimstone smell, she smiled, “Hey,” she said, happy to see the only person who really trusted her. “Guten tag!” Kurt said in his normally cheerful mood, then he sensed that she was not in one of the best moods. “You’re still bummin’, huh?” She nodded. “What are you watching?” “Saturday Night Live.” “Mind if I watch it with you?” “Go for it,” she said. She let her wings disappear to allow more room on the bed. Kurt *BAMFed* himself next to her. Angel frowned when the end credits started to roll, “well I guess you missed it...I have some movies though.” Kurt smiled. “Vhat ones?” “Well, Escaflowne is about a girl going to another world, Ranma,” she giggled, “Is about a guy that turns into a girl when splashed with cold water,” then seeing Kurt’s expression, “But it’s really funny, then there is Trigun, its kinda western, all of those are anime.” “Anime?” “Yeah, Japanese Cartoons, basically, Then we have A Night at the Roxbury, it’s about two club hoppers, And it has my fave actor! Chris Kattan!” Kurt seemed interested in the Roxbury and Angel saw that. “Roxbury it is!” She got up and put it in. Forwarding through the previews. Together they watched. “So who is your favorite?” Angel laughed a little, “the short one....” It was about halfway through the movie and Angel began to feel very tired. Her eyes began to close and she fell asleep, leaning over against Kurt who was laying on his stomach next to her. “Vas?” Then he smiled. He watched the rest of the movie and when it was over, he took it out. After putting it back on the shelf, he went back over to Angel. He picked her up and put her under the covers. Then stroking her hair, he whispered, “Goodnight......Engel, “ and teleported himself to his room. The Cat Inside Chapter 7 Angel awoke the next day, refreshed. She knew she hadn’t gone to bed that late, though. It was Sunday, about 9:30 in the morning. She showered and got dressed. Black halter and cargo shorts. It’s going to be hot today..... she thought to herself. She headed down to breakfast. Out in the hallway she heard someone coming down the hall, she could hear the person actually singing something. Turning the corner, she saw Kurt coming down the hallway, “Vhat is love? Baby don’t hurt me..Don’t hurt me, no more...” Singing the “Roxbury Theme” while doing a slight head bop. Angel decided to scare him when he came around the corner. She saw him and.. “BOO!!” “ACH!!” Kurt yelled in surprise, falling on his butt. Angel giggled. “Heh, very nice...” Angel held out a hand to help him up. “Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.” “I know where you sleep little girl,” Kurt said, trying to sound menacing. Angel smiled, “I’d hope so, you were in my room last night, fuzzy.” Kurt just smiled in return, “Vell I’m hungry.” “Same here.” “Let’s go then,” then to Angel’s surprise, he picked her up over his shoulder and teleported them both to the dining room. Later that day, Angel had just got out of another battle sym and was heading outside to sit by the pool. She came across Jean and later Evan. Jean waved happily, Evan waved...nervously. She sat on a chair and soaked up the beams. “Having fun lizard girl?” Angel slightly opened one eye to see Kurt sitting on top of the nearby table. “Oh..yeah...” She said happily. Kurt got off and sat in a chair next to her. Together they sat in silence, eyes closed, soaking up the rays. Then out of the blue, Kurt asked. “Engel?” “Hm..?” “If you could be an animal for the day what would it be?” She thought for a minute. “A panther I guess. How 'bout you?” “I don’t know really, maybe a bird.” Angel smiled, then continued to think about what it’d be like to be able to turn into a panther. Unexpectedly, she felt her arms starting to itch. Naturally, she scratched them then they felt as though they were a little more hairier than they should’ve been. She just thought it was Kurt. “Kurt get your arm off of me.” “Vhat are you talking about?” A little alarmed she looked at her arm. “WHAT THE?!!” Part of her arm was covered in short black fur. Kurt sat straight up and looked equally as surprised as Angel. Angel quickly thought of what her arm looked like before and the fur disappeared. Panting, she glanced at Kurt, seriously freaked out. “Y-You saw that too, Huh?...” “Ja...weird... Do you know how it happened?” “I remember, I remember thinking about what it’d be like to be a panther.....and then...” “I don’t vant to push you or anything, but if you really concentrated and thought about it again, maybe you’d be one.” “Aren’t I weird enough? Hell, I have those wings to worry about already!” “Just try, and no, no one is too weird, I should know,” he said smiling a little. “Fine,” she said sighing, “Here goes....” She closed her eyes and thought of being a panther again. The black fur came back and spread across her even faster, her hands turned to paws, and her abnormally long canine teeth grew longer. Within moments she was a full grown black panther. (A.N) * the little {{ }} means she’s talking telepathically* {{KURT!! Can you get me to my room please?!!}} Kurt was a little surprised at hearing her voice in his head, but quickly touched her shoulder and teleported them both to her room. Once there, Angel began pacing around. {{Kurt, I don’t know what I’m going to do about this...}} “Vell, we have to get Jean, Scott, and Storm and...” {{O.K I know everyone will find out, but, well, can you get Jean?}} “Right away,” He disappeared and reappeared a few minutes later. “Kurt?! What were you th-- OH MY GOD!!” She screamed as she saw Angel as a panther sitting on the bed. {{JEAN! It’s OK! It’s me, Angel!}} “What happened to you?”v {{I don’t even really know.}} “You can turn back right?” Angel began to think of her normal self again and in seconds, was back looking like her old self. “I’m full of surprises right?” She said glumly. “I’ll say,” Jean said as she sat beside her. Kurt appeared on the other side of Angel. “Don’t vorry, I think it is kind of cool!” “Yeah. But you know we have to tell everyone else though right? I just don’t want you to feel weird.” “I’m OK with it. After all, no one is too weird, right?” Saving Kitty Chapter 8 Naturally everyone was a little surprised about Angel’s new found power. To her relief, Kitty was away when everyone else was told. The Professor asked if she wouldn’t mind doing another battle sym to test out her new power. She agreed and everyone minus Kitty went down to the room. When everyone was ready, the room shifted to a forest with a lot of jagged rocks and logs. “Ready!” Angel yelled and she began to turn into a panther. When finished, she jumped up on a rock and waited for the first attack. Evan was up in a tree, he looked down and shot a spike at her. Angel jumped and began to run through the “forest”. Rocks began to come at her and the usual red eye beams from Scott. Using her quick cat-like reflexes, Angel was able to dodge most of the obstacles. She jumped up onto a high rock and growled a little. {{C’mon guys! That all ya got?!}} As it in response, a bunch of rocks and spikes came her way. She jumped out of the way and saw a glimpse of Jean. Angel positioned herself behind Jean and silently snuck up on her. When behind her she nudged her a little. Jean screamed and instinctively used her mind to throw Angel back into a tree. Angel shook it off and walked away back into the open. “Sorry!” Jean yelled. {{I’m OK. No problem}} Kitty walked into the mansion to find it empty. Confused, she looked everywhere but still couldn’t find everyone. She did remember something about them saying that they wanted to test something out about Angel, and she knew where they would do to do that. “Battle Sym,” she said to no one. “Wonder what else she can do, hopefully she hasn’t like, killed anyone yet.” Kitty then hurried down to the room. Once there she peered in through the small window on the door only to see a forest scene. “What are they doing in there? I’ve never had this scenario before.” Then she saw a panther run from being hit by a beam. “They aren’t! They are so not testing stuff on animals!” She was quite mad and without thinking, she burst into the room. “What are you guys doing?!!” The panther stopped, and looked at her. Then getting hit by a beam and thrown against a tree. “Hey!” Kitty ran to the panther and cautiously sat next to it. “How could you guys do this to a poor animal!” Behind her, Angel was a little dazed. Kitty looked back and noticed something that was the last thing she would expect to be happening. The panther’s paw started to turn into a hand. Kitty jumped up, completely freaked out. “What the...?!” Angel was back to normal in a few second, and painfully got up. “Kitty, do you really have to barge in like that? I kinda have a bit of a distraction problem.” “What is this? This means she can like, hurt us even more easily!” “What is your problem?! You’ve been going off about how I’m going to kill you all! That was before Kitty! I’m Better now!” “Yeah well, just stay away from me, Vampira!!” Kitty yelled, up in Angel’s face. “Fine I will! I don’t see why anyone would want to hang around a stuck up person like you!” Kitty turned back around, “By the way, I’m going out tonight with some people. I hope you all are careful around her.” And she glared right at Angel. Then mumbling as she left, “Angel, what a name, it should be Diablo if you ask me.” And she phased through the wall. Everyone was looking at Angel. “I’m really sorry about all that, I don’t know what’s gotten into her,” Jean tried to explain. Angel began to leave. She sighed, “I’m getting used to it.” “I say we all just get a pizza and just chill out,” Evan said. Everybody agreed to it and walked out. Evan was behind Angel. “Angel?” He asked. She turned around, “Yeah?” “I just wanted to apologize for before. I was being really mean, and after Kitty gave you a hard time tonight I realized that you really are trying to fit in, and I think that’s really awesome. I’m really sorry.” Angel smiled. “Thanks Evan, I totally forgive ya.” He smiled back and they both went to catch up with the others. They got their pizza and were all just hanging around the main hall of the mansion. “Hey Jean another piece of pizza please!” Kurt said and Jean floated a piece over to him. “That’s your fourth piece! How do you stay so skinny?” He shrugged and shoved it into his mouth. Angel had a worried look on her face. Kurt was the first to notice. “You OK, Engel?” She had a strange feeling about Kitty. “Something isn’t right.” “Vhat do you mean?” “I just have this feeling, I’ll be back in a bit.” And she ran out the front door. “Vhat got into her?” Kurt asked everyone. “I really have no idea,” Rogue said. Angel let out her wings and jumped into the air. She began to jump from roof to roof until she found Kitty, who was walking by herself in a dark alley. She’s just asking to get into trouble. Then looking behind Kitty, she saw two really big guys walking quickly towards her. Ugh, Kitty was really mean today, but...but I have to do something! Angel jumped to the next, lower rooftop. She saw the men grab Kitty from behind. “Hey!!” Kitty yelled in surprise. “Hey little girl, you wouldn’t have any money on you, would you?” One of the men asked. “Like I would give it to you?!” Then one of the men pushed her down into a few trashcans. Angel jumped down behind all of them. “You still got no money?!” “Like I said! I would never give it to you, you jerks!” “She called us jerks!” And one of the men picked her up again and threw her, causing her to hit her head against the wall. “HEY!” Angel yelled from behind. They spun around, “Hey look another little girlie. What are you going to do? Threaten us with your Barbies?” Kitty looked up a little to see Angel. “Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.” Angel said mockingly. Both the men charged at her. “Too slow!” And she opened her wings and jumped up over them. “What the?! She’s a freak!” The little comment only made her even more mad. She spun around and kicked them both in the back, sending them to the ground. Getting an electricity ball ready in each hand, she patiently waited to get themselves back up. When someone behind her grabbed her. It was another guy that was hiding in the shadows of the alley. Angel growled a little. The other two were coming at her. Thinking quickly she sank her teeth into the arm of the one holding her and broke free from his hold. Making two more electricity balls, she hurled them at the two oncoming men. It hit them both square in the face sending them back into the wall. She turned around to see the one she bit holding a knife. He lunged at her and she ducked, then he swung around and the blade caught her cheek. Angel immediately felt warm blood running down her face. She was seriously mad now. “That’s it! You all are going down!!” She jumped behind the one with the knife and grabbed his hair. She pulled his head back and sunk her teeth into his neck, Only drinking enough to make him pass out. She then flew over to one of the others, picked him up, and threw him into a dumpster. Then taking the other, she threw him in the dumpster as well. Wiping the blood of her face, she walked over to Kitty. “Looks like you could use a little help.” And she picked her up and flew back to the institute. Angel knocked on the door and it was instantly answered by Scott. Scott was very surprised and immediately took Kitty to the Med room. They’ve been using this room a lot since I’ve been here. Angel thought to herself. She followed them. Angel got the cut on her face cleaned up and bandaged. Then explained everything that happened. Kitty woke up soon after, she was fine, but had a big bump on her head. “What happened?” She asked to everyone who was standing around her. “Well Angel basically saved your life,” Evan told her. Kitty looked at Angel. “I remember, you were there, before I...and you got rid of those guys?” Angel nodded. Kitty looked down, “ Angel, I’m really sorry about what I said before. I see now that...you really aren’t a bad person. If you don’t forgive me, I’ll understand.” “What you said was mean, but I totally understand, and you are forgiven. I just want to be trusted by you all.” “Well you’ve totally gained my trust, Angel, and again, I’m sorry.” And she sat up and gave Angel a hug. “This is all too sweet, Group hug!” Kurt yelled. “AAAH!” Angel yelled and they all swarmed in on her. She was so happy. She was finally trusted, and now felt more a part of the whole Family.

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