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Moment of Awesome - Kurt Sefton/Nightcrawler : Greeting his fiancee Jubilation Lee as she returns from an X-Force job, Kurt does his best to provide her with comfort and stability.
"In this place, normalcy is really very rarely normal." He made a face. "There was a Slendermen incident." “Remind me to put in a protest with the management,” Jubilee responded with a groan as she burrowed herself further into his embrace. “Did everyone make it back okay?” "More or less." He tugged her gently down onto the couch. "Physically, yes, though at least one of the children needed some psychic assistance." “Because of course they would,” Jubilee said, allowing herself to be drawn. She breathed a sigh of relief as weight was taken off her somewhat sore feet. “Is it too late to go back to the ski lodge, do you think? You could come with this time.” "Ski boots do not fit me", he said solemnly, and wrapped his arms more closely around her. "But we could go away. Some country hotel, with fires and hot chocolate." “Mmmhmm,” Jubilee murmured, her eyes heavy as she settled her head against his shoulder. “That sounds like a plan, charmer. So other than Slender hell, what else did you get up to? ” "Not really very much", he admitted. "Things have almost been - no, I will not use that word, it would tempt fate." “Well, I might be home for a little longer this time around,” Jubilee noted, enjoying the quiet stillness that always centred her whenever she came home to the mansion. “I’m going to be taking on a bit more of the analysis work where I can, which should keep me in the office and at home for a while.” "I would be very glad of it", he said sincerely. "I know you would not go away if you did not have to, but I do miss you when you are gone." “It’s not really the travel or the being away I mind,” Jubilee admitted, feeling slightly guilty. For all that her job had hard decisions and made her having a normal life impossible, she loved that she made some sort of difference, even if the wins were few and far between. She did miss him when she was away though, even if she knew what she was doing was important. “If I didn’t think you’d have moral objections to some of the stuff I have to do, I’d take you with me.” "It is probably better", he agreed reluctantly, "that I keep out of that side of your life as far as possible. I am hardly inconspicuous." “There’s places where that wouldn’t matter,” Jubilee noted, thinking of Madripoor, very few people there cared what you looked like as long as you had money to spend. “But you’re the X-man and I’m the spy – I like that I get to come home to you and only have to deal with Magneto trying to blow up the world stories rather than mutant teenage prostitution rings and rich assholes setting up body farms using people with healing factors. It’s cleaner, you know? I like that you can do that, I’d hate it if you were in my world – I don’t know who you’d be if you could work where I do.” Kurt nodded. "I do understand. And I will do all I can to always be that for you." “Babe, I love that you want to, but never change or stay the same for just me,” Jubilee explained, sitting up to give him a searching look. “Whatever you want to be or do, I’m gonna be here anyway. I want you, you know? Not some guy you think I want to see. If you suddenly had like, the urge to go be a test pilot for NASA, I would totally support that.” He laughed, and reached to cup her face. "That does sound exciting. But what I meant was that I will try to make our home - something that you can have unsoiled by the darker world." He'd try, anyway. |