All over the island and Room 416, Saturday

[bamf_tastic]

It didn't matter where Kurt went. BAMF! The roof of a warehouse. BAMF! A clearing in the Preserve. BAMF! On the beach. BAMF! Half a mile straight up, falling through the air. EVERYWHERE he teleported to, there was already an onion waiting for him. "Freak!" "Monster!" "Abomination

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[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba could hear Kurt as she passed in the hall. She hesitated, then turned to wait at the doorway.

"Kurt?" she said, unsure of what to do. She didn't particularly like the sound of his sobs.

[bamf_tastic]

Some of the onions turned away from yelling "Freak!" at Kurt to instead yell... well, "Freak!" at Elphaba. It was a pretty useful word for them.

Without taking his head out from under the pillow, Kurt waved a hand at her. Whether he was waving her away or waving her closer wasn't at all clear. "I'm okay," he lied.

[didntchewgrass]

"Oh, those things," Elphaba said, making a displeased face at the onions. "They shut up after you cut them." Or if you get so upset that you accidentally make them explode with your inherent magic.

"You shouldn't listen to them. They're just... stupid onions."

[bamf_tastic]

"Don't you think I know that?!?!?" Kurt shouted. "I shouldn't listen to them, I don't listen to them, but they don't SHUT UP!!!"

One of the onions hopped up onto Kurt's back to get a better taunting position, but he flicked it off with his tail.

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba sighed. "I just told you," she said. "Just grab them and a knife and start making an onion salad. Or should I gather them up for you?"

She wasn't a fan of tantrums. Even if she had a tendency to have them herself. Actually, especially because of that tendency.

[bamf_tastic]

Kurt sat up, sniffled, and tried to wipe his tears away. "It won't work," he told her. "They just keep coming!"

True, he'd only tried running away and not attacking them, but the principle still stood.

[didntchewgrass]

"It works," Elphaba said, walking over to grab one of the onions. "I haven't been bothered by them since I... dealt with two of them." She ignored the onion's shouts that her mother had died because of her greenness. "I'm not sure it will work if I slice them for you."

[bamf_tastic]

Kurt shrugged. "Try it and see," he sighed. "I'm no good at fighting things, anyway."

[didntchewgrass]

"They're vegetables," Elphaba said with a little tilt of her head. "They're not exactly angry lions or tigers or bears."

She looked around. "I don't suppose you have a knife?"

[bamf_tastic]

"Ja, but they're... I don't know!" Kurt picked up an onion and threw it against the wall as hard as he could. The vegetable bounced off and kept up its teasing, barely even fazed.

"There might be a plastic knife in the trash can, if it hasn't been emptied yet," Kurt sighed. "Nothing helpful, though."

[didntchewgrass]

"Well, then look away if you're going to be offended," Elphaba said, walking over to the trash can. She took a bite of the onion in her hand, which let out a yelp of 'Your sister's condition is all your fault!'. She spat out the bit of onion into the trash can.

"They're not too bad tasting, but one really shouldn't eat them like an apple."

She then took another bite and spat that out as well. It seemed the easiest option. The onion was getting quieter, so it was working.

[bamf_tastic]

A dozen conflicting emotions poured across Kurt's face, and then he looked over at her determinedly. "You know what? That's going to take too long. Hang on."

Kurt vanished in a puff of smoke, then reappeared a moment later with two chef's knives from the kitchen. He offered one to Elphaba with a "Here!".

"No sense in being sad when there is work to be done, ja?"

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba's face turned slowly to a smirk. "I was beginning to think you wouldn't be able to help yourself," she said, taking the knife. She started making quick work of the onion, though it still caused her to get weepy-eyed.

"I didn't know you had other magic," she remarked, still slicing the onion.

[bamf_tastic]

"I'm not some weepy little kid," Kurt grumbled. He lashed out with it at an onion and managed to slice a little rip in his sheet instead. "I just let them get to me, that's all."

He shrugged at her. "It's not really magic," he explained. "It's a superpower. TOTALLY different thing. I can also stick to walls!"

[didntchewgrass]

Elphaba almost remarked that she could have fooled him, but just nodded and kept slicing the onion. Cries about how no one truly loved her went ignored.

"Is it just not another word for something incredible?" Elphaba said.

There was a little pause.

"You are not a freak, as well."

[bamf_tastic]

"Well, it's not the alakazam, hocus pocus, sim sim salabim kind of magic," Kurt answered. "It just... I can do things that other people can't. And... I look unusual. According to the dictionary, that does make me a freak." He shrugged. "I... I just wish that wasn't a bad thing, you know?"