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Moment of Aweseome: Kurt Sefton/Nightcrawler: Kurt and Wanda Maximoff fight to save a brainwashed Jean Grey. But telepaths fight exceptionally dirty. Staring at Wanda's vain attempts to try to break free and the panic on her face, Jean felt something...unpleasant stirring within her. A sense of wrongness. But before she could address it, Kurt had tackled her, causing her to skid across the ocean floor and kick up sand. The bubble popped. Jean flipped Kurt over, raking her claws against his arms and back as she tried to throw him off of her. ~You never quit, do you? Your allegiance to your friend will get you killed. Why do you care? The world would call you demon. Or they would if they saw you on the street. You should just give in. I may make it painless.~ "The world does call me demon", he retorted, clinging on despite the pain. "But I know who and what I am, and I will not abandon a friend." He wasn't only talking about Wanda. The squid's tentacles twitched around her mouth as Jean regarded him with her black eyes, looking completely inhuman. ~We all know why, right?~ she said, keeping her distance for the moment as she swam around him. ~Why you try so hard...~ She cocked her head to the side, parroting the words Kurt had no doubt turned over and over in his mind back for him to hear in Jubilee's voice. ~'I can’t be who I need to be and love you. I’m sorry.'~ She let the words hang there for a moment, then spoke with her own. ~Because no one will ever love you. How could they? They'll realize it before it's too late. You're a waste. And you know it...~ she said gently, like a mother talking to a child. ~You're in pain. I can take it away. Just give in, Kurt.~ He flinched at the reminder of those words, and Jean's own, but didn't back down. "I would rather be free and in pain, than a slave with none."