We Can Explain...

We Can Explain...Chapter Twenty Six (NC-17)
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Professor Xavier exhaled slowly, a controlled breath that seemed to take all expression on his face with it. "A...Roman bath," he said finally, closing his eyes. "In a shed."
"No stranger than a ball room in a hotel parking lot," Rogue put in a touch defensively. croscrossed her arms over her chest and frowned. "Professor, I gotta be honest here and I think I'm speaking for most if not all of us when I say," she paused and collected her nerve before spouting, "this is regoddamneddiculous! I mean, making us do this and..."
"Language," Professor Xavier cut her off. "Annoyance is not excuse for being crude." His stern expression forbid any further interruptions. "Now, what I have heard so far is quite confusing and begs explanations even reading your minds, to put it in a certain way, would not reveal." He moved from behind his desk and headed towards the door, stopping halfway across the room. "This is not going to be an easy story to finish, even when I have all the...er...chapters. I need..."
"Footnotes?" Kurt suggested helpfully. He cringed slightly under Amara's hard glare.
The Professor smiled slightly. "Something like that. We will take a two hour break. I have some meetings to reschedule and there will be hell to pay to get that done. Kurt, please see Beast imatelately for an overdue check up. I'm concerned about the reports of your behavior changes... In fact, all of you see him before the end of the day. These...implants, for lack of a more exact term, worry me greatly."
There was a general groan of varied emotions as the Professor left, Logan following per force, thanks to a subtle nod on the older man's behalf. Kitty sighed loudest and stood. "Well, okay. Two hours. Who wants to order pizza?"

Beast raised a brow as he pressed the stethoscope to Kurt's chest. "Would you mind not chewing while I do this? It makes it difficult..."
Sheepishly, Kurt did as he was asked, a mouthful of hot pizza with more toppings than Kitty could keep track of making his cheeks puff like a chipmunk. Kitty giggled. "Fuzzy, you've got cheese in your fur..." She dabbed at the food on his bare chest. "I think you have a hole in your chin..."
Beast chuckled as he listened to Kurt's pulse rate increase at Kitty's proximity. "I think that part is fine, at any rate. Recommence chewing."
Kurt masticated and swallowed as Beast turned to the lab table, fiddling over some report or another. "When will the blood work be done?" He anticipated at least a day's wait as he finished off this, his fourth slice of pizza. "Und all the other testing?" Using his tail, he pulled the almost empty pizza carton over from where Kitty had placed it at the end of the exam table. "And are you going to invite Doctor Reyes over to help?" he asked slyly, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Nope, just me!" Tabby announced, entering from Beast's office. "Cecilia's got some connce nce on cooties she's keynote speaker at and couldn't come but..." She struck a cheesy superhero pose. "Lab Girl is here!"
Kitty made a face. "Someone's been in to the coffee..." In truth, she was glad to see Tabby happy and apparently well adjusted. In the months since having Lucas and officially setting up housekeeping with Wanda, Kitty had seen Tabby's usually surly demeanor become no less surly but tempered with more cheer and a sense of stability she had lacked before. "Or the drugs..."
Kurt snorted. "Liebes, be nice." He looked Tabby over as she shot Kitty a rude gesture and picked up the vials of blood Beast had set aside from Kurt's exam. "You know she wouldn't use Beast's stash."
Tabby offered him the same rude gesture. "Don't fuck with me, Fuzzbutt. I can make these test come back positive for crotch rot if you push it!"
"Lovely, Tabby. Such a lady you are," Beast murmured without malice, shooing her from the room. "Now, Kurt and Kitty...since you are apparently joined at the hip these days, I've read what was reported about your strange mood swings and behavior shifts and have to say I share the Professor's concern. I understand that you had one of the silver items removed from you?"
Kurt nodded, his good humor suddenly e ane and pizza like a lump of lead in his stomach. "Ja, Kitty found it after we got to...to wherever it was..."
Kitty nodded in a mirror of Kurt's gesture. "It was hard to find because of his fur and the muscle was all hard and..." She trailed off, seeing Beast's expression. "Sorry. I bab"
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"And we love you anyway," the doctor intoned lightly. "How long was this device in your body?"
Kurt shrugged. "I don't remembe bei being implanted... None of us do!" He began running his tail nervously between his fingers, his body hunching inwards as he relived the previous week. "I didn't act weird until the fair, when Kitty's old friend came up to us."
Kitty's brow twitched. "I hope you're not suggesting he had anything to do with it..." ast ast watched the exchange with interest. When Kitty spoke in apparent defense of her friend, Kurt stiffened and gripped his tail tightly, making himself hiss. "Katzchen," the blue furred teenager said quietly, "I am not blaming anything on him. I am just saying I felt fine until we ran into him!"
Kitty snorted softly. "Okay, babe. I was just wondering..."
"I know what you were wondering," he began, turning flashing yellow eyes to pin her, but Beast raised a staying hand. "Was?"
"I think that I would like for you to stay down here for the rest of the day so I can observe your behavior in a controlled condition. Both of you."
Kitty gasped in surprise as Kurt sighed in resignation. It seemed he had been studied in one form or another most of his life and this was not really a surprise to him. Kitty complained, "But we're supposed to go back up to meet with the Professor again!"
Beast raised one blue brow. "Are you so anxious for another rehashing?"
She wilted. "Not really...but why do you want to look at us?"
"I'm developing a theory," he murmured, peering closely at something on Kurt's chart. "Tabby, we're going to need another blood draw...one for each of them!"
Kitty sighed again and hopped up on the table next to Kurt. "You know what they say...the couple that undergoes vaguely mysterious medical experiments together, stays together..."
He smiled thinly. "Worked for Mulder and Scully..."