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The Causeway, Then Through Town, Friday Afternoon

A very expensive, very new SUV (thanks, Castor) parked in the causeway lot, and the driver reached over to shake his passenger's shoulder.

"Smalls, wake up. We're here."

There was no response. Gray was out cold. Raiden should have expected this.

"Okay, Smalls," he said, and went around the car to get his brother out.

There was a very large man with a much smaller, unconscious guy slung over one shoulder like a sack of potatoes dragging a suitcase (which had some anime guy on it, Raiden didn't know which one) behind him, making his way through the town. This was very normal, right?

"I'm starving," Raiden complained aloud. "What's good around here besides the pizza, Smalls?"

'Smalls' once again did not reply. He might have snored a little bit.

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Kurt had just gotten back to the island himself after a trip back home during the break. And finding out that there was no DnD game that evening, it had left him with half the day to himself.

He was a bundle of excited nerves ahead of the welcome picnic tomorrow, especially since he had been chosen to be a big sibling to one of the new students. So to burn off some energy, Kurt was doing what he liked to do best- port around the island.

But something caught his eye as he did. That.... looked like Gray? Asleep... as usual. But who was that carrying him?

"Hey, need any help?" he called out. Kurt knew he tended to fall asleep a lot of random places. But over someone's shoulder was a new one so... might be best to check. "Is Gray alright?"

"Huh?" Raiden asked, swinging around toward the speaker, Gray sort of swaying as he went yet showing no signs of waking.

Huh. Demon kid. Didn't see those outside of the underworld all that often.

Oh, he'd asked a question. "Oh, yeah, he's fine! He...does this." A beat. "Could you point me in the direction of his dorm, maybe?"

"Yeah. Gray's known for being the sleepy one around here," Kurt said giving a nod and still looking at Raiden.

"Haven't see you around here before though...."

And yes. Despite noting the unusually calm response to seeing someone that looked, well...like him, Kurt was still giving you a bit of a cautious look. Couldn't let someone kidnap hid friend's roomie and all now, could he?"

Raiden laughed. "He's known for being the sleepy one around everywhere. Oh, I'm Raiden." Between one hand keeping Gray from sliding off and one hand holding the suitcase, he had to sort of juggle things for a moment. The suitcase might have hit the cobblestones with a clatter. Raiden hoped Gray wasn't really attached to that particular anime guy's face being unscraped or anything. But eventually he got a hand free to offer for a shake. "Gray's my brother."

"Ah, you're one of the brothers" Kurt said with a smile as he reached out sone of those quite unique looking hands of his, complete with the custom gloves he wore when he was training and working.

He gave Raiden a firm handshake and nodded towards the suitcase. "Need some help with that? I live in the dorms so can help you get Gray there if you want."

Not that he was questioning the strength or capability of someone who looked like they were build like Logan.

Raiden didn't bat an eyelash at the hands. The kid was pretty normal-looking, for a demon. Some of them would make you lose your lunch. (Well. Not Raiden. But other people.)

"Nah, I got him. Carryin' Gray home is sort of a family tradition. Although usually Galen does it. He's the most overprotective." Came with being able to see the darkness in everyone. "And the biggest." Yep. Bigger than Raiden's 6'7" hulk.

Kurt nodded and started leading the way along the streets towards the school and the dorms.

"You here visiting? Brining Gray back after the break?" Kurt asked, trying to make small talk as they went.

"Oh, no," Raiden said. "I just moved here. I'm gonna run the pizza place!" He sounded super enthusiastic, but it was a good thing Gray was asleep to not let his expression show how alarming he found this turn of events. "Do you like pizza, uh..." Shit, had he gotten this kid's name?

"Oh, that's cool!" Kurt said. "Name's Kurt," he said with a grin. "And I love pizza! I've been to the pizza place here a few times. It's really good! Will be nice to have it open a bit more though." Kurt's grin when a little sheepish. "There are few foods so made for late night study sessions like pizza!"

"Kurt," Raiden said solemnly, "pizza is made for every time of day."

"Well yes..." Kurt said with a slow nod. "I do a lot of cooking myself though. In the common room. It's kinda become a tradition of sorts. We all seem to share cooking duties around here."

"Nobody's making Gray cook, are they?" Raiden asked, alarmed. "Because that's how you wind up with your kitchen on fire and Gray asleep in the middle of it." Guess how he knew!

"What's your favorite thing to cook?"

"I haven't see him cooking.... so yeah probably a good thing" Kurt said with a nod before breaking into a smile.

"I cook a lot of foods from back home. In Germany. I enjoy learning other recipes and trying new foods."

There was a slight pause as Kurt thought about all the meals he and Guillermo had made already in the common room.

"I... I tend to eat a lot" Kurt said with a shy grin. "Kind of a necessity most of the time."

Huh. Raiden didn't remember hearing anything about demons needing to eat a lot, but maybe he'd just missed it? There were a lot of different kinds of demon, after all.

"Me, too," he said. "Although more like...all of the time. I'm actually starving right now." He'd downed half a dozen cheeseburgers in the car on the way from the airport, but that was practically a snack. "What's good around here--besides the pizza, I mean?"

Hungry, Gluttony whined.

"Well, there's several different places along the boardwalk- sushi, seafood, and Thai are the ones I've tried so far. Those were all good," Kurt said thoughtfully. "There's an amazing bakery and a really nice coffee shop and an ice cream parlor too. The two bars have some good food at times.... And Luke's Diner is really good for all kinds of different foods too!"

...oh, fuck.

Hungry.

Yeah, bud, Raiden told Gluttony. We're gonna feed you. We've just gotta take care of Smalls first. He then reminded himself that he didn't know this Kurt kid from Bellamy's last fling and he could not just ditch Gray with him to go eat his way through the entire boardwalk, and finally said, "So the dorm is this way, right?" while heading in that direction, because seriously, he needed to eat soon.

"Aye. Dorms are up by the school... that big castle up on the hill there" he said with a nod towards the school.

He noted the sense of urgency and how Raiden's pace had quickened some. Kurt bit his lip in thought for a moment before continuing.

"I... I could try and get the two of you there a little faster," he offered slowly, still trying to weigh in his mind if this was something he should be considering. "I... could port the two of you, at least to the school grounds."

Accept a teleport from a random demon he'd just met? Raiden knew he didn't have the same smarts as some of his brothers, but how dumb did this kid think he was? Busting him and Gray back out of the underworld would delay his next meal even more, plus Al would probably yank Gray out of school and him back home. "No thanks, kid." He took a few more steps before stopping to look down at Kurt curiously. "Did you really think that was gonna work?"

Raiden wasn't mad. He was just disappointed. Also, wrong, but it was an honest mistake.

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Kurt stopped as well and returned that curious look right back at Raiden.

"Work how?" Kurt asked. "To get you and Gray to the dorms faster. Isn't that what you wanted?"

Kurt held that questioning gaze for a moment then a realization suddenly dawned on him. Raiden had barely reacted at all, to anything so far. Barely raised eyebrow at the sight of him when most people's controlled and subdued reaction was one of near panic at the sight of a 'demon.' Raiden thought he was a demon.... and was just now, questioning it?

"Wait.... You think I'm a demon. Don't you?" Kurt said with an expression that was both 'of course you do' and 'then why are you so chill about it' at the same time.

"Duh," Raiden said, because obviously he was a demon. He even had the tail! Raiden knew demons with that tail. And teleportation, come to think of it. "Because you're a demon." That should clear it up. "I mean, I'm cool with it, I've met some perfectly nice--" No, that would be a lie. And he couldn't tell the kid he'd fucked a demon or three in his day. "Just don't teleport anyone to the underworld and we're cool."

OK so this was new. Someone convinced he was a demon and being marginally ok with that concept. For a moment Kurt considered just going with it, worried that going through the whole Mutant thing might actually make Raiden's view of him worse...somehow.

But no, he couldn't. It would probably come back and really bite him on the tail later. So, with a awkward smile Kurt looked up, and up, at Raiden.

"Ah well see, I'm actually NOT a demon. I, I am actually more human than demon..." which he was sure was going to be so easy to accept. "I'm what we call, back in my world and time, a Mutant."

"What, like a crossbreed?" Raiden asked. That sounded...bad, but like a Nephilim could talk.

"Not... exactly. Mutants are basically humans who have different ... mutated ... genes that give us powers, abilities, and appearances," Kurt tried to explain and simply as possible. "Some us look basically human but have powers and abilities, others have more, obvious" and here was a slightly awkward grin and gesture at himself "signs of that mutation."

"...huh," Raiden said. "Never heard of 'em."

Was he sure he wasn't just a demon?

Yeah pretty sure, Raiden. Being chased out of towns and having people try to kill you because they think you are a demon is a pretty definitive experience.

"Not every place has Mutants. In fact, it seems like most don't. But... it's ok," Kurt said looking up the hill towards the school. "It's not that much farther till we get there."

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