chapter 2
The mansion wakes on a bright day and in a cacophony of sounds. Spike is listening to music loudly just to annoy his friends, Bobby is being Bobby and Scott is reading the newspaper as drinking coffee. Jean will take a while to get ready.
“I heard that” the red hair speak in his mind and Scott merely chuckles amused.
As Scott waits for the red hair to be ready the resident German blue elf shows up still with the bandages on his chest that his clothes are doing a poor job to hide it.
Scott and Jean did come in time and this cement his hatred for Mystique anything related to her(which is ironic since Kurt is her son) the boy looks a bit shy of sudden which is new.
“Good morning, Kurt, how are you feeling?” Scott make a small talk as it is apparent that Kurt wants to talk (he is not with the holo watch on yet which is a big thing)
“Guten Tag, Kurt” Kurt speak a bit freely as preparing his own breakfast “I want to thank you and Jean for what you guys did,” Kurt said with all honesty and Scott merely smiles saying this is something that teammates do for another.
“Can we talk between us? like a secret?” Kurt asked feeling vulnerable. And Scott nods as the boy takes his time to speak on his own term.
“Kitty did hold my hand and said she will protect me,” Kurt said scratching his neck and Scott is not seeing the problem yet “ last night, Kitty even hug me promising to be there for me next time”
“Kurt, I have no idea what´s the problem is” you are very obvious with your crush, only Kitty does notice. Scott thought amused.
“Is just …according to the Errol Flynn´s movies, I should be the one to vow to protect Kitty,” Kurt said shyly and Scott, even with the shades, arch his eyebrows.
“Would you prefer Kitty to be the one beat down for you to say such words?” Scott asked.
“No, that´s not what I said” Kurt tried again “I just …should be the man´s role to protect?”
“Kurt, that´s really sexist and extremely outdated” Scott then explain “Do you know how many times Jean has saved me? us? that does not make me inferior in any way. Rogue saved Bobby and Spike more times than what I can count, Kitty did save Wolverine and Ororo as well, do you want to go to the Canadian and said he is not man enough?”
Then Scott continues with his rant.
“This outdated idea that a man needs to save a woman is harmful to both parties, sometimes, Kurt, it is good to receive help, to be saved. The media and society have this notion on how humans should act…and frankly considering that we are mutant we shouldn´t abide by their expectations” Scott then take his coffee. For a moment, the voice of Jean Grey echoes in his mind.
(“Aww, thank you, but in that time, I really used my powers to lift you up, you are too heavy”)
“But …I want to be like Errol Flynn” Kurt said shyly and a bit confused. And Scott decides that is the right time to speak about Errol Flynn.
“Because he is good looking, has any women he wants and has adventures and you want to mould yourself at his image, right?” Scott asked assertively as the blue boy nods and certainly this image has some appeal to the blue fuzzy boy, however, Scott decides to reveal the truth.
“Well, Kurt, if you want to be a dashing hero to impress Kitty, then Errol Flynn is not the right choice” Scott adds as Kurt is confused “ the man, in real life, was very friendly to Nazis and was incredibly sexist and cheat on his wife for years. Do you really want to be this man?”
Kurt is flabbergasted at such revelation and before he could ask for proofs, Scott opens his cell phone and thanks to Wi-fi show an article where it highlights the type of person Errol Flynn was, the old movies in Germany never mentioned this.
“If you want a role model how about Cary Elwes, he made the only Robin Hood who was real British and is a nice person who is still married to his wife” Scott suggested and adds “or better yet, maybe, try to be yourself as maybe that´s why Kitty likes on you”
“What? Don´t joke with that Kitty don´t like me in that way…” now adds a bit darkly “ she has Lance”
“Does she?” Scott asked broking the dramatic effect that Kurt created, as the elf asks for more details all Scott says is “ Kurt, you will be late for school”
Kurt Wagner is now thinking about his role models and crushes. Certainly, after that, Kurt Wagner won´t ever watch Errol´s movie again.