Chapter 8: the truth behind Kurt's mother
|a week later|
Rogue is sleeping in her bed, having a vivid nightmare where she sees a woman running away from a castle with a baby in her hands while being chased by wolves and a floating man. The dream ends in the woman dropping the baby down a waterfall once she gets attacked by the wolves, because of that she wakes up screaming, waking most of the tenants in the Institute.
"Rogue, are you alright?" Ben asks worried, opening the door with the other students standing behind him.
"What happened?" Scott asks.
"I don't know, I was dreaming some kind of awful nightmare, with these, these images. It was horrible." Rogue says crying with Kitty trying to comfort the girl.
"Yeah, her shrieking freaked me out I just about phased through the bed." Kitty tells them while Ben pulls his girlfriend in for a hug and she starts to cry on his neck.
"Finals must be really getting to you." Scott says.
"No, it's not the first time. I've had this dream before. They started when I moved to the Institute." Rogue tells them, removing herself from around Ben's neck.
"What's going on man, you guys OK?" Evan asks joining the group of Kitty, Rogue, Ben, Scott and Jean with Kurt.
"Rogue was having creepy nightmares." Kitty informs them.
"What about?" Kurt asks.
"I'm not sure, there is a castle and wolves and oh that poor baby. I didn't really see his face but I seemed to know him somehow. It was you." Rogue says staring at the blue furred boy.
"What was me?" Kurt asks.
"Somehow, I just know it was you Kurt, in the dream there was a baby crying and a woman was running and the baby was dropped into the river. Why am I having this dream?" Rogue says hysterically.
"Maybe the professor can help figure this out, but lets do it in the morning it's pretty late." Jean suggests.
"That's alright Jean, this is important. Rogue and Kurt please come to the library with Jean. The rest of you try to get some sleep." Professor Xavier tells them telepathically.
"Are you going to be OK or do you want me to come with you guys?" Ben asks his girlfriend worried about her.
"No, I don't think you can help with this. Thank you though." Rogue replies and the group of three leave for the library.
"I've always known that my parents adopted me but they've never said anything about me being fished out of a river." Kurt tells them.
"Don't worry Kurt, we'll try to sort this out. Rogue since this was your dream I think I should start with you, would you mind sitting here please?" Charles tells her, motioning to the seat beside him.
"Now just try to relax and think of the dream." Charles says once she's sitting in the chair and puts his hands close to her head and starts to concentrate to read her mind. He then sees the same flashes of the dream Rogue saw.
"Well did you see anything else?" Kurt asks them once they finish looking through her dream.
"Apparently Rogue, your dream isn't a dream. It's a repressed memory and not just your imagination." Charles informs her.
"But if I'm in it then why is she having the dream? Shouldn't it have been mine?" Kurt asks perplexed.
"Yeah professor, what's going on?" Rogue asks also confused.
"Well I'm not quite certain. You must have absorbed the memories of someone who indeed knows about Kurt's past." Charles says.
"She touched me back when we first met. Maybe you got the memories from me." Kurt says excitedly.
"You were just an infant in the dream, it is possible that you could have memories that far back." Charles says thoughtfully.
"probe my mind now Professor to find out more. Maybe I've got more memories about what happened later." Kurt says.
"Yes, that might help, but not tonight. We've had quite enough excitement for now." Charles tells him.
"But professor." Kurt complains.
"Tomorrow after school, I promise." He replies and sends his students back to bed.
When Rogue is about to enter her room Ben goes over to her, having left the door open to see when she's done with the prof.
"Hey Rogue, what happened? Are you going to be alright?" Ben asks her concerned.
"Yes. The professor thinks I have the memories of someone who knows Kurt's past, maybe Kurt himself. I should be OK, hope I'll get some sleep before the finals though." She says and moves to enter her room but Ben stops her.
"Wait, come here, sleep with me tonight. I'll wake you if your starting to dream bad again." Ben tells her and pulls her into his room despite her trying to go into her own room.
"Ben, we can't you said yourself you can't control your powers when you sleep." Rogue says.
"Simple, I won't sleep then." Ben replies and lifts her up, putting her down on his bed and covering her with his blanket.
"Ben, you've got finals tomorrow too." Rogue reminds him.
"Rogue honey, Just a few months ago I was going on about 6 hours of sleep per week I think I can handle one long night." Ben tells her, lying down next to, over the covers and pulls her close to himself, putting his arm around her to make her feel secure.
"But Ben…" Rogue tries to complain but Ben stops her by giving her a quick kiss.
"Hush and now try to get some sleep, you know how stubborn I can be and I couldn't rest knowing your having a hard time either way." He tells her, squeezing her hand gently.
Rogue decides against struggling against her boyfriend knowing that once he's set his mind on something not much can stop him and tries to get some sleep.
|the next day|
While classes are being held Professor Xavier decides to pay Mystique a visit to confirm his suspicions that Mystique is indeed Kurt's mother and that Magneto did something to him and confronts her about it, reading her mind and sees that he was right in his assumptions. Once he's out of the blue skinned womans office he telepathically informs Logan about the coordinates of the castle, sending him to see what happened there.
Once the school bell rings Kurt hurries out of class, not having been really focused on his tests after what happened the night before.
"Hey Kurt, wait up. What's the rush?" Rogue says jogging over to her friend.
"You know, prof said we'd look for more answers after school." Kurt tells her excitedly.
"Right and you're sure you want to know?" Rogue asks him.
"What of course. Wouldn't you? Haven't you ever wondered who your real parents were?" Kurt asks her.
"I guess so, but Irene was always a good mom to me. I mean she could be all strict and all but…" Rogue says.
"My adoptive parents were great too, but I always felt that they were keeping something from me. Whenever the subject of where I came from came up they were always vague and never mentioned anything like the stuff in your dream." Kurt tells her.
"Maybe they didn't know or maybe they were trying to protect you." Rogue tells him.
"How? By hiding my own past from me? Listen, maybe you can live without knowing but I've got to find out the truth about my life." Kurt says angrily and teleports away while Scott and Jean come over to Rogue.
"Man, what was that about?" Scott asks.
"He's still really worked up about last night." She tells them.
"Well we better go find him." Scott says and they head back to the Institute.
A little later Mystique is giving Pietro a letter.
"Are you sure about this? I mean I've seen the defenses they've got around that place." The whitehaired boy asks her.
"Don't worry, you should be fast enough to get in and out undetected." Mystique tells him.
"Why is it so important? I mean what are you telling that blue furred freak?" Pietro asks.
"That's none of your business, just deliver it." She tells him and Pietro takes of in a blur, delivering the envelope to Kurt's room.
On the way however he reads the message and looks for Logan, having been tasked by his father, Magneto to do so.
Kurt sees the message 'If you want to know the truth come to the new construction site at sun down, come alone.' Kurt decides to follow the instructions desperately wanting to know about his past.
Meanwhile Pietro informs his father about the note and that Logan is gone. Magneto then tells him to get the others and intercept Nightcrawler before he can get to Mystique. Magneto after hearing that Logan is on his way most likely packs his stuff and sets up explosives, wanting to hide what he did in the lab from Xavier.
"Jean, Kurt's taken off. The professor wants us to check out his room." Scott tells her and enters their blue furred friends room with her, looking through drawers.
"So, what are we looking for?" Jean asks.
"I'm not sure, the professor thinks that Kurt had a visit from Pietro this afternoon." Scott informs her.
"Quicksilver here? But how?" Jean asks surprised.
"You know how fast that dude moves, I can imagine him getting past the security with no problem." Scott says.
"Oh no, Scott look at this." Jean says worried upon finding the letter Pietro left for Kurt.
"Get the others, we gotta move." Scott tells her and leaves to gear up himself, fearing that Kurt walked right into a trap.
Meanwhile Kurt has already teleported to the construction site and walks around cautiously saying "OK, so I'm here."
"Hello Kurt." A hooded figure says, matching the description Rogue gave him.
"You, you're the one in Rogue's dream, who are you and why don't you show yourself?" Kurt says.
"You already know me son." Mystique tells him and takes off her hood.
"No, no it's impossible. What happened to me why didn't you…" Kurt says desperately but gets interrupted by Blob jumping between the two.
"Get out." Mystique orders the large teen.
"Get out of here all of you." Mytique yells at the rest of the crew once they show up surrounding Kurt.
"No can do Bosslady, we've got higher orders." Quicksilver tells her.
Toad takes this as his cue to attack and tries to catch Kurt with his tongue but Kurt teleports onto a crane's hook.
"I got him." Toad says hopping after the blue furred teen only for Kurt to teleport away and ask Mystique what she's playing at before he gets knocked off the construct he teleported to by the now wildly swinging toad.
"Hah, that was easy." Quicksilver says going over to the downed X-men with his friends.
"Wrong, it just got hard." Scott says arriving with the X-men behind them.
"Get 'em Toad says landing on solid ground again and they start to attack the X-men.
Toad goes for Evan, who dodges his tongue and uses a arm long spike to catch the next tongue attack and uses it to throw Toad over his head, right into a pile of rubble with Toad being unable to defend himself because his tongue got tied up.
Blob runs at Kitty, intending to flatten her only for her to phase though him, making him land head first in the concrete mixer she was standing in front off.
Scott turns on the mixer which results in Blob yelling for help, panicking.
Jean is taking care of Kurt and Lance tries to stop her, by using his powers to shake the construction they are standing under. Rogue quickly stops him however by tackling him over and draining his powers, knocking him out.
Quicksilver is facing off against Ben who turned into Fasttrack, a black and Blue alien with blades along his lower arms and shins.
"Come on, you can't hit me." Quicksilver taunts Ben only for Ben to disappear and suddenly reappear hinter Quicksilver, who was running circles around him previously.
"You sure about that?" He asks and uses his foot to swipe Quicksilver's leg, making him hit the floor and skid along it painfully.
"Going somewhere? Me and Kurt have a few questions we need you to answer." Rogue says intending to stop Mystique from leaving.
"I'm afraid it's to late for answers." Mystique replies and shifts into a raven, taking off.
"Want me to catch her?" Ben asks Rogue, speeding over to her.
"No, she's gone and she wouldn't tell us anything either way." Rogue tells him.
|The next morning|
Kurt and Rogue are on his balcony watching the sun go up with him sitting on the balcony's ledge.
"I still can't believe it, mystique is my mother?" Kurt says bummed out.
"Listen Kurt, who really knows? I mean that is one seriously disturbed lady, maybe she's just messing with ya." Rogue tells him.
"I guess. But there is a certain resemblance." Kurt replies.
"Hey look, that doesn't mean anything. Let's just wait till the prof finds more answers for ya." Rogue says trying to cheer him up.
"Somehow I think he already knows more than he's willing to tell us." Kurt says disappointed.
"Maybe, but if he does he probably got good reasons for not telling you. And listen Kurt, I really do know what you`re going through we'll both just keep looking and find the answers together someday OK?" Rogue says.
"Yeah OK." Kurt agrees solemnly.
"Listen, we still have to finish the rest of the finals and I need to get ready for school and so do you." Rogue tells him, leaving his room.
"Thanks Rogue" he tells her before she's out the door.
"You know that was really sweet of you." Ben tells his girlfriend waiting in front of Kurt's room.
"Were you listening in on us?" She asks shocked.
"No but I'm guessing you tried to cheer him up. I'm proud of you." He tells her, giving her a big hug.
"Yeah, but that reminds me I never heard about your parents, mind sharing while I get ready?" She asks.
"Sure, well when I grew up they were great. Normal parents basically but once they saw me transform things didn't end so well. They chased me out, thinking I was gonna kill them." Ben tells her sadly.
"Oh Ben, I'm so sorry, I didn't know." She says hugging him.
"It's quite alright, that was many years ago now, about 4 or so I think. So I've gotten over it mostly." Ben tells her.
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