“I’m going to die.”
“Oh, come on, Kurt, you can’t say that every time you’re the test villain for the new students,” Kitty pointed out as she watched the depressed German stare into his coffee.
He swirled the black liquid around in his mug. “Ja, I can. Because every time it’s true.”
Kitty crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against the refrigerator. “So… You’ve died… Fourteen times now?”
“Twenty-three,” he corrected. He gave her a small smile. “Not that I’m counting or anything.”
“Obviously.” She walked over to the kitchen table and sat down next to him. “Kurt, if you’re so worried, why don’t you just get someone else to do it? I know Logan would love to go head to head with a bunch of new students.”
“Nein. I can’t risk them being torn to ribbons,” he responded. He sighed. “Face it, Kitty. I’m the only one who’s both frightening enough to throw them off-balance and acrobatic enough to dodge without hurting anyone.”
“I could dodge!”
“Ja, but you’re not scary,” he emphasized, sticking out his fangs and waving his tail at her.
Kitty burst out laughing. “Kurt, you look ridiculous,” she chuckled.
He laughed softly as he lowered his tail and hid his fangs behind his lips again. “Alright, maybe to you it isn’t scary… Anymore… But I know those Kinder find it terrifying,” he added, gesturing with his head towards the door. He took another sip of coffee. “Und that’s the point of the exercise, isn’t it? To get them to face fearful creatures like me with panache?”
“Well, maybe not ‘panache,’” she said. “You kind of have the market cornered on that.”
Kurt smiled and stood up, casting his chair aside with a flourish. He bowed deeply and kissed her hand. “I have no idea what you mean, Fraulein,” he teased as he straightened up. His face fell. “If only they could see that side of me rather than…”
Kitty stood up and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Some day, they will,” she said. “Just like I did. But today, you have to be a scary monster for them.”
“Und die,” he added as he straightened out his uniform. He smiled at her. “For the twenty-fourth time.”
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