Potential

Chapter 5: Don't Freeze

That morning, Kate and Kurt were sitting in the kitchen with their breakfasts, with Kate's head on Kurt's shoulder as usual as she took a much longer time to wake up than he did, but Kurt tapped her arm when Logan and K showed up silently to grab a cup of coffee and settle into a corner together.

"Did you sleep well?" Kurt called out to the two of them. "That was quite the entrance you made."

"It wasn't an entrance," K said quietly. "I'd been here for a while before those asshats showed up." She looked up at the two of them for a moment. "Thanks for the food, by the way. Didn't really want to leave the bed."

Kate gave the faintest of smiles. "No problem," she said, then tipped her head Logan's way. "Didn't think you'd want to leave the teddy bear."

"Hey, let's get something straight right now: I wasn't hugged at all last night. Drop the teddy bear nonsense," Logan told her in no uncertain terms.

"I don't want to know details," Kate said, wrinkling her nose at him.

"It's hard to be a teddy bear if I'm not getting hugged — isn't that your whole schtick?"

Kate smirked and tipped her head at a couple of the bamfs, who looked up at her, giggled, and teleported over to hug Logan, one on each arm.

"Sending your little blue minions don't count," Logan growled out.

"But they love hugging you," Kate said with a soft smile.

"He's not lying," K said as she snuggled into his side with her coffee just under her nose. "I was getting all the hugs." She looked up at Logan with a little smirk. "Right, Nallebjörn?" Logan just smirked and gave her a quick kiss.

"Semantics," Kate said, waving her hand, though she had to chuckle — that was the one word K had taught her in Swedish at the Halloween bash. She smiled cautiously at K. "So — Scott's going to Memphis for Thanksgiving with Annie's family. Which America insists is an invitation for a party."

"How?" K asked with a frown.

"Because no Sunglasses to rain on the fun," Kate said. "Although I think she really just wants to watch Noh spin again. That was quality entertainment."

"Well, glad to help," K said noncommittally. "But if you're going to try your hand at burning the place down, I'm gonna be out for the weekend."

"Then I'll tell her that's a no," Kate said with a shrug, looking back down at her coffee.

"Do what you want to," K said with a little frown. "I'm not going to do anything but try to hibernate. I got cold. It takes time to bounce back from."

"Alright." Kate shrugged. "Probably just gonna stay with the Elf anyway. Don't feel much like burning anything down either."

"Maybe once you've finished healing from the chill, the four of us can find a warmer climate for a weekend," Kurt suggested.

"Like where?" Logan asked.

"We could find an island in the Pacific," Kurt said, then paused. "Of course, if you are intent on proving Kate right, we could find somewhere further North where you could find yourself on the other end of the hugs for warmth," he added with a soft smirk.

"I like the sound of that," K said. "I'm sure Kate wouldn't mind a fire and an Elf either."

Kurt broke into a grin at that, perking up significantly at the suggestion — and most of all the fact that K had seemed to invite them. "Then we're agreed? The four of us — a winter getaway, and some peace and quiet would do us all a world of good, I think."