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A Rose By Any Other Name�

Jerrin smiled, and settled next to
Kurt on the bench seat.� �Do you have
your literature book?�

�Ja, and it�s a ponderous as its language,� Kurt
said, delving into his backpack for the book.�
�I struggle through these chapters, and only understand a part of
them.� When my teacher goes through them
in class, I feel so stupid��

�You�re not stupid, Kurt.�
Read the chapter out loud.� I�ll
help with pronunciations if you need them.�
Any word or phrases you can�t make sense of, ask me.�

Kurt sighed.� �Just
don�t make fun of my reading, bitte?�

�Promise.�� An hour
later, she�d translated some things into German for him, or found ways to
paraphrase in English other items.�
Jerrin sensed movement from her open doorway.� She looked up to see the Beast looking in as he went by.� She smiled, and lowered her eyes back to the
page Kurt held open.� She thought how it
must have looked to him, seated so close together it would have been improper�
if she were a teacher.

Kurt�s lilting voice stumbled for the second time in one
sentence.� Time for a break.� She put her hand on his knee, and then rose
and went behind her desk.� �Sugar break,
mein Freund.� I think your brain
cells are starving.�� She came back with
a small cooler.� When she showed him the
goodies contained inside he smiled as if it were Christmas morning.� A few apples, a juice box, and a granola bar
later, Kurt looked better.� He had an
odd way with apples; he started at the top and went straight down, core and
all.� The only things spared were the
woody stem and the sticker-label.

�You got about a page to go, ya up for it?� she said when he
finished.

Kurt opened the book again to look at the page, and then
shook his head.� �The rest doesn�t look too
hard, I�ll do it later tonight.�
But�� He stood up and closed the
officer door.� �Are you alright?� Somehow I know� I can sense� that you feel a
little� off.�� He sat back next to her,
pinning her with his gaze.

She tilted her head.�
�You can feel my emotions?�
Strange.� I find that I cannot
shield out what you are feeling.�

�You�re avoiding my question.�� He poked her with his tail.�
�Give.�

She grabbed his tail-spade, and held it in her hand.� �The Professor and I� had a little chat
while you were at class today, that turned into a counseling session.�� Kurt frowned a little.� �He�s seen what happened to us, from my
perspective.� I let him read it
all.�� A grimace crossed his face as
Kurt looked away.� She put an arm around
his shoulders and hugged him.� �He�s�
concerned about us.� What happened to us
was terrible, and we haven�t done so well with dealing with it on our own.� I know you have guilt issues.� Will you let him help you?� He very much wants to.�

He faced her again, a tense expression still on his
face.� �I�ll consider it.� What did he say about �us�?�

�He chooses not to take a stand on the matter, but I think
he wishes it had never happened.�

�He can join the club on that point, but that doesn�t
explain the way you�re feeling.�

Jerrin sighed.� �I
must be projecting to you.� I just had
some notions twisted up in my head and he helped me straighten them out.� I�m still adjusting to the new world view,
that�s all.�� She gazed into his eyes
and let him feel the truth of that in her heart.

He nodded, and brushed her lips with his, leaning his head
against hers.� He whispered in her ear,
�Just remember, that ultimately this is for us deal with.� Others are welcome to give advice, but in
the end, we�ll decide how to proceed.��
She smiled, bemused, as he picked up his backpack and walked to the
door, saying, �Now, if you�ll excuse me, I need to schedule a session with the
Professor.�

Kurt peered into the open doorway of Professor Xavier�s
office.� �Herr Professor?� May I ask you something?�

�Of course, Kurt.�
How may I help you?�

�I guess that�s what you wanted; to help me,� he shrugged in
the doorway.� �Jerrin suggested I might
be able to work out some issues with you.�
When would be a good time for that?�

The Professor said, �Since it�s nearly dinner time, perhaps
a half hour after the meal is over?�

Kurt nodded as he turned to leave.� �Okay.� I�ll see you
then.�

�Well, Jerrin, you certainly didn�t waste any time starting
on tutoring,� Hank said during dinner, nodding at Kurt.

�I�ve been having trouble with my English literature class,�
Kurt said.

Hank looked surprised.�
�You could have always approached me for help.� I doubt there is any selection of classic literature that I�m not
acquainted with.�

�Ah� Um,� Kurt said, tail twitching fitfully.� �You see��

��but, you�re not fluent in German, Hank,� Jerrin said.� �Sometimes Kurt can only really �get� a
concept if you couch it in his native speech� or in words of few
syllables�� She covered her mouth and
lowered her voice considerably, ��or both.�

�Ja.� Danke,
that�s what I wanted to say.� No
offense, Doktor�� Then catching
her last comment, �Hey!�

Jerrin grinned impishly and stage-whispered to the
Beast.� �I think your vocabulary
intimidates him.�� Kurt whapped her on
the legs with his tail, but Jerrin just smiled into his petulant scowl until
Kurt found he couldn�t keep the serious expression anymore, and cracked a grin.

�It is a little hard to follow you sometimes,� Kurt
admitted.

�Heck, it�s a little hard for some of us to follow ya, Doc,�
Sam Guthrie said.� �And we�re from
here!�

�Ah, America,� Jerrin said.�
�A land divided by a common language, or so Dad always said.�� Kurt gave her a surprised look.� Jerrin smiled again.� �My people�s technology includes time-manipulation.� My folks both spent their formative years in
20^th Century California.�
What, did you think Dad was from Babylon or something?�

�You said they�d been married for centuries� I guess I
didn�t think they were so� contemporary, or that your Mom lived on Earth,� Kurt
said.

�I� backtracked along their time lines to come here.� And she lived on Earth because she was born
there.� Her folks lived in hiding among
humans, because when the species consisted of just them and one of their
parents, it was almost like living among their own kind.�� Jerrin picked at her food with a fork.� �There isn�t a Qard home world.�

Kurt saw a tremor in her hand, one that rattled the tines of
her fork along her plate.� He covered
her wrist with his, and she looked back at him.� �What�s wrong?� he said.�
�Your hand is shaking.�

She looked down at her hand for a moment.� �I don�t know.�� She scooted her chair back a little and looked through the
Mansion to her room.� She�d previous
stowed away a medical kit from her case of holding.� She brought up her misty aura, and the bag appeared in her
lap.� She took a sensor from the bag and
waved it over herself.� �Let�s see; high
stress levels, and a variety of mineral deficiencies.�� She looked over at Hank.� �We require a different assortment of salts
and minerals than you do to function properly.�
I haven�t had any for, oh, over a month now, and it�s starting to affect
me.� Don�t worry, it�s easily remedied.�

She dug in the bag for a jar of small blue crystals, and
sprinkled it over her food.� She rolled
her eyes in pleasure at the first bite with them, and began eating with
gusto.� �Imagine eating no salt for a
month.� Not just added salt, but no salt
in anything.� It would throw your
electrolytes all out of balance, among other problems.�

Hank shook his head.�
�You�ll have to brief me on your physiognomy later.� Do you have access to the kind of
information I�ll require?�

�Yeah, it�s a required subject in my family.�� She took a drink.� �I should start giving you blood, too, in case I get
injured.� Needless to say, human blood
types won�t work for me.�

Rogue picked a stray crystal from the table.� �What does it taste like?�

�Extremely bitter, I�m told,� Jerrin said as she took the
blue speck from Rogue�s gloved finger and put in her mouth.� �Also mildly to strongly noxious to humans,
depending on the dose.� It contains
trace amounts of exotic elements that you�d react badly to.� To me, it just tastes� salty.�

�If it�s so hard being around humans, why do you do it?�
Scott said.

�Good question.�
Because while a thousand or so individuals is actually a lot for a long
lived race, and it�s certainly better than three, still, everybody in the
Family knows everybody else, and I wanted to get away from them for a
while.� These sorts of problems don�t
usually come up if I don�t get too close to people, or stay in any spot too
long.� This time� well, it couldn�t be
helped now, could it?�� She smiled
fondly at Kurt, who smiled back.

�So, you ran away from home?� Jean said with a mischievous
smirk.

�I�m a legal adult among my kind,� Jerrin said.� �I can go where I want.� It�s more of a broadening experience,
actually.� Like an American spending a
year in Europe.�� She put her shaker in
her pocket and closed up the medical bag, before rinsing her plates in the
sink.� �I�ll get that data ready for
you, Hank.�� A last nod at Kurt, and she
left the room.

Kurt arrived at the Professor�s office a half hour after
dinner.� �Come in, Kurt, and please
close the door.�

The young mutant entered the room and sat tensely on the
comfortable chair facing the large walnut desk.� �Yes, Professor?� Kurt said, and frowned when his voice sounded
unsteady.

�It�s alright, Kurt.�
I�ll try to make this as easy on you as possible,� Charles said
gently.� �May I examine your
memories?� Jerrin said there are things
that you don�t remember very well.�� At
Kurt�s ragged nod, Charles dipped into his mind, and recoiled slightly at the
roiling uncertainty and confusion that gripped his ward.� With strengthened resolve, he looked for
what, exactly, did Kurt remember, and how those memories were affecting him.

Where Jerrin�s mind had a solid narrative of the time Kurt
was drugged, Kurt himself only recalled jumbled images, and it was the very
chaotic nature of what he did or didn�t remember that seemed to be fueling most
of Kurt�s troubled thoughts at present.�
One minor example was Kurt being uncertain if he was bi-sexual because
of what happened, and unsure if he still thought bi-sexuality was wrong, or at
least, wrong for him.� �You�re wondering
if you�re bi-sexual, is one of the problems I see.�� Kurt ducked his head and nodded.�
�Well, perhaps we can analyze that.�
Are you attracted to Jerrin as a male as well as a female?�

Kurt squirmed in his seat, and then said huskily, �I�m
attracted to Jerrin, period.�

�Your usual orientation is to females,� Charles said.� �After� what happened to you, do you find
yourself being attracted to any other males?�

Kurt frowned, looking off, thinking hard.� The light contact he still had to Kurt�s
mind showed him thinking over the males he knew at the institute or High
School, or of masculine figures he knew from mass media with a speculative eye,
and finding none that appealed.� �No.� I�m not interested in� other guys
like that.�

�Then I think you can safely put that one to rest.� Jerrin is an exception to many rules.� Let�s say that you, Kurt, are not bi-sexual,
but you�re involved with someone who is?��
Kurt turned the notion over in his head, and slowly nodded.� A palpable sense of relief came over the boy
as one of his problems evaporated.

�Ja.� I can
live with that.� All a matter of
perspective isn�t it?�� He gave a
humorless laugh.� �I can still remember
when things used to be black or white, good or bad�� He met the Professor�s eyes.�
�There may even come a time when I can think of myself as bi-sexual and
not struggle with self-condemnation because of it.�

Charles grieved for the death of part of Kurt�s innocence
that he was witnessing, but he didn�t let it show.� When I became a man, I put away childish things�� �She said something about guilt issues�?�

Kurt held up a hand.�
�I know, I know� I couldn�t control what happened, and it�s stupid to
beat myself up for it, but�� tears glittered in his eyes and he irritably wiped
them away.

�Until you can come to accept that truth, those issues will
stay with you, and there�s little I can do to help you with them.�� Charles leaned his chin on his steepled
finger.� �Most of the rest of your confusion
can be traced to the fact that you don�t clearly remember most of this, but you
remember enough to disturb you.� I
suggest that you ask Jerrin about the things you don�t recall or understand.� She holds the majority of the pieces that
you�re missing, and will be of more use to you than I will be until you�ve come
to terms with the unknowns in your memories.�

�That�s it?� Ask
Jerrin?� Kurt said.

�She holds your answers, Kurt.� But get them on your terms, not hers.� If you�re unsure what to ask about, ask her to tell you what you
need to know; about her or what happened to you both.� That should penetrate some of her tendency to avoid a straight
answer.�� He rolled out from behind the
desk, and put a hand on Kurt�s shoulder, �You�ll get your answers.� If you need help dealing with them when you
get them, I�ll always be there for you.�

Kurt smiled a little.�
�Danke, Professor.� I�ll
remember that.�

Later that night, Kurt finished his homework and put his
books away, then turned to the matter most on his mind.� He brought up his awareness of Jerrin,
filling his thoughts with her, feeling her putter around her own room, and then
projected as strongly as he could, �Jerrin!�

He felt her jump in surprise.� �Kurt?� Goodness man,
don�t yell at me like that.� You need
something?�

�I need to talk to you.�
Can you come here?� he asked.

�Sit back by your pillows, and I�ll join you.�� Kurt settled back, and saw the misty outline
of Jerrin form on the bed in front of him.�
She didn�t coalesce entirely, but stayed as a ghostly presence,
physically in her own room, but psychically connected to his.� �Maybe it�s better like this.� Talk normally, I can hear you.�

She wore a button up short-sleeved shirt over pajama
bottoms, and currently sported a bandage inside one elbow.� �He took some blood already?�

�Yeah, he�s got one pint of whole blood, and four pints
of Qard �saline�,� she made quote marks with her fingers as she said the
word.� �And a whole boatload of
medical information on us to study.�
I�ll give him more blood every couple of weeks.�� She peeled off the bandage and threw it out
of range of her projected image.� �But
I really doubt that�s what you wanted to talk about.�

�Yeah.� I talked to the Professor, and he said most of my issues now are
because I don�t remember, and the best way to remember is to ask you.�

�Oh.�� She looked at his twitching tail, then into
his eyes.� �Hmm.� Mind if I take a look?�� He nodded, and she leaned forward, placing a
silvery hand against his temple in what was a shadow of her real touch.� Frowning, she looked down in his eyes
again.� �My, it�s a mess in there.�

A/N: There�s actually an overarching plot to this one,
believe it or not� it�s just I�m making the chapters shorter so it�s taking
longer to get to.� I�m also trying to
get Jerrin firmly established before bringing on the outside drama.� There�s actually some porn, too, though I�ve
only hinted at it until now.� Believe it
or not, the place I first posted this at wanted me to put a chapter as link
only because of the italics paragraph at the beginning of (what is now) chapter
6� frustration with that is why I stopped posting there.� (I combined chapters for posting here.)� Anyway, expect Porn next chapter as Kurt
gets a major flashback!� /Faints.� =)

And thanks for the reviews� I was wondering if the review
button was broken or something.�
/grin.� Took me forever to finish
this one, I kept going off on tangents that I had to ruthlessly cut.� I�ve been working on this one all the time
I�ve been re-editing and posting what�s come before this.� I finally figured out what was next, and it
led me through the transitions that this chapter is mostly made up of.
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