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I love it Slart! Question: is Alysa related to Alistair and his sister (forgot her name) from Excal? They were named Stewart weren't they?
Woohoo, Kurt think she's cute! Next thing you know he'll slather her in honey and lick it off...oh wait...getting fanfics mixed up here.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Spatula Gal:
I love it Slart! Question: is Alysa related to Alistair and his sister (forgot her name) from Excal?
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Her name was Alysande, wasn't it?
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I got the name from a newspaper, its not a real person but an analgam of two people. I forgot that their last name was Stuart!
No honey...maybe whipped cream?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BAMF!:
... Suffice to say i'm hooked and EAGERLY anticipating your next entry... http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif!
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SLARTIBARTFAST I'm dying for your next installment! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
BAMF!
ME TOO!!!
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Yeah, I've got a bunch written but as some of ya'll know, I was dying of the super flu last week. Now that I'm all better I'll get some more stuff up and bring this puppy home.
I think we need to do another round robin! That last one was fun but it just kinda petered out. Anybody else think we need another?
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Hows that fanfic comin' along, Slarti?
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Here we go again...
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"Here is your toy back."
The night-vision goggles dropped onto the table in front of her with a clattering thud as a man slid into the opposite chair and smiled across at her. She blinked at him uncertainly.
"Don't recognize me, do you?"
Alyza started at the familiar voice. It was Nightcrawler. She looked him up and down, smiling despite herself.
"Cat got your tongue?" His smile broadened. "Or you just like what you see?"
"It's fascinating. Are you a shapeshifter too?"
"Ach, no. This is an image inducer; I can look like anyone I choose with it." He pulled a small device from his belt, holding it up to her. It looked like a pager. Her eyes slid past it to his fingers, they split unnaturally between his middle and ring fingers.
They're like his real fingers, she thought. She held her own hand up to him, fingers split in the same fashion as his.
"Live long and prosper," she giggled.
He looked down at his own hand, chuckling.
"Ja, it has its limitations. You have a sense of humor, how excellent."
"Of course I do. But back to this. Who makes them, is it a hologram?"
"Stark Industries makes them," he clipped it back on his belt, settling back into the chair. "Ja, it's just a form of hologram. If you touched me, I'd still be furry. On this setting, this is how I would look as a 'normal' human. I used to use it to look like Errol Flynn."
"Really."
"Ja."
"So, are you going to tell me yet?"
"Nope," he picked a menu off the table. "We're going to eat first."
"That's what I was afraid of."
She watched him bury his nose in the menu and picked up her own with a sigh. Surreptitiously, she studied him.
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She leaned over the laptop, cooing at it as if it were a living thing.
"This technology is amazing, where did you get it?"
"I can't give away all our secrets, now can I?"
I already have given away most of them, he thought, watching her gush over the small computer. Should I have? He had told her as much of his mission as he had dared. He had watched the restaurant for hours before he entered, it had been of his choosing, but he had wanted to be absolutely sure he could trust her. She had apparently told no one of their meeting and his phone call to her last night had been untraceable. After several hours, and glasses of wine, at the restaurant he had decided she was trustworthy enough to bring back to his hotel.
Alyza tore her gaze away from the computer. Refilling her wineglass, she looked at the dark-haired man in the chair beside her. His eyes look so far away, she thought. He just doesn't look right like that.
"Kurt?"
He had even told her his real name.
"Ja?"
"I want to see you without the image thingie."
"You do, do you?"
"Yeah."
"There, better?"
"You are so amazing. I can't believe that we humans are so dumb to not embrace diversity like this. Like my associate, Steve, he was so scared of you that I think, if I hadn't been there, that you would be dissected by now. Mutant hatred and misunderstanding like that is just inexcusable, especially in a doctor. We're all only human."
"If only all humans were like you."
"Maybe, someday, we will be."
"Ja...it's a dream of mine," he trailed off, his thoughts with his friends in Westchester, the cheap hotel wineglass tipping, forgotten in his hand. "And of other people."
She took the glass from his hand before he spilled the wine. He looked at it, aghast that he had been so distracted. Smiling, he looked up at her with a thank you on his lips.
She stopped his words with her own lips. After a moment, he drew back
"That was nice."
"Ja," he smiled again.
"Are you angry?"
He wrapped his arms around her in reply, returning her kiss with passion.
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Kurt held the heavy curtain back with one finger. He was mostly in the shadows; no one outside could see him. If they are up this early, he thought. I should have gotten some sleep last night. I can't afford to be tired. The rising sun lit his eyes with amber fire.
He closed them, enjoying the feel of the morning light on his face. There is such beauty in the world, he thought. Sometimes I forget to experience it anymore. We X-Men are so hung up on our problems that we don't see the good we sometimes do. One by one, humans like Alyza do see us as fellows. She looks at me and sees a man, not just a mutant. That one simple fact justifies the sacrifices we make. God works His wonders in the most unexpected places.
The clearing of a feminine throat woke him from his thoughts.
"I'll help you on one condition."
He turned away from the window, smiling down at her. "And what's that?"
"Well, I don't like it here. I won't be able to stay after this. Eventually, they'll figure out that I'm the one who helped you, right?" Alyza sat up in her chair, watching him out of the corner of her eyes.
"Ja...I suppose."
"Take me back with you, to the X-Men."
He shifted, suddenly uncomfortable. "I don't know about that. You see, it's complicated. You're not a mutant, but that isn't the real reason-"
Her face falling, her eyes dropped to the patterned carpet. "Is it...what happened..."
"No!"
"...because I understand if it is. I shouldn't have. It was probably the wine."
"Nein." He dropped into a crouch before her. Lifting her chin with one hand, he gazed into her eyes. "That's not it at all. We are having...difficulties. Difficulties that I can't go into. It has nothing to do with us...er, you. The wine? Why, do you regret it?"
"No, not at all. You can't tell me?"
"No, I'm sorry..."
"We'll talk about it after I help you..." She smiled, brushing a lock of blue-black hair out of his eyes. "Who knows, I may not be any help after all."
"Well, for good or ill, we'll find out the truth today."
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Okie day. I'm getting ready to wind this up, any requests? Comments? Criticisms?
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Once again Slarti, Great Stuff!
I can't think of much in the way of requests for now. I do hope the doctor doesn't have a bad end, since she's probably endangering herself.
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