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Moment of Awesome - Kurt Sefton: Kurt rescues a child from a car, and then Jean has to rescue him as his image inducer breaks. Conversation follows.


"Hold on...I sense a couple of people in the parking lot. We should probably wait until they leave."

Kurt nodded and stopped walking. "Not everybody takes it badly to see me, but more than enough do to have made me cautious."

Jean glanced over at Kurt, nodding herself, then glanced back to the parking lot to keep watch. "I'm sorry you have to go through that," she said quietly.

"I have known it all my life", he said with a simple shrug. "It has been worse since M-Day, that is all."

"Must be hard," Jean said Even if he had adjusted it was still an unfortunate reality that they lived in. Especially in these times.

"So were you...born with your physical mutation? It didn't manifest at puberty?"

"Only the teleportation came at puberty," he confirmed. "Which is a very good thing for my parents, it is difficult enough to keep track of toddlers when they must move around the usual way."

Jean laughed at the mental image of a 3 year old Kurt sitting on top of a fridge, triumphantly holding a cookie jar crossing her mind.

"Small blessings. How did you...go to school?" she said. She blinked, then shook her head.

"I'm sorry, if I'm being too forward with my questions I apologize."

"That is quite all right," he assured her. "You are hardly a stranger, we live under the same roof... and many others know the answers, there are no secrets. The answer is I did not go to school. My people are Romany, and they kept me very much sheltered as a child. I would be surprised if any outsider even knew I existed in my first years."

Jean smiled brightly. "You're Romany? My friend Wanda is as well. She lives at the mansion too....Wanda Maximoff? I don't know if you two have met."

"We have", Kurt said with a smile, and it was true of this version as well even if he didn't know her as well as he had.

"Several times in childhood, though I have yet to see her more than in passing at the mansion."

"Me too, sadly. Even through we live under the same roof now. I think work keeps us busy," Jean said. She glanced over, noticing the car leaving the parking lot.

"I think they're gone."