Hi and welcome to my new story :) I in no way own X-Men, this story is slightly AU where differed events happen at different times, I would love it if you could review the chapter at the end and I just want to say that although nightcrawler is in the description, he does not appear until chapter 2 ^-^

Thanks for reading~

Kitty lay in her bed, the cold breeze from the open window caused her to shiver so she moved to close it. Her hands clicked the latch shut as she just stood there for a moment surveying the grounds and revelling in the peaceful place she had found.

She had a arrived a week before and had been met- for the first time since she found out she was a mutant- with smiles and welcome faces, she felt at home there as if she'd managed to find a small bit off paradise in a world so bent on hating her.

Kitty moved to go back to bed when a small flickering light broke the darkness outside, she tensed and her eyes narrowed in on the source. It appeared in the eerie blackness of the night that there were figures moving around. She considered for a brief moment that it was one of Logan's training exercises but quickly dismissed that thought, she would know if it was one.

Professor! She called out with her mind, wanting to alert him of the intruders but she got no answer, something was definitely wrong.

The institute had only been open for a month; they'd been trying to find other mutants to take in and so far their little family consisted of herself, the professor, Logan, Storm, Jean, Cyclops and Spyke. Kitty needed to find them; she needed to warn them of the men that were skulking in the grounds below. She clenched her eyes shut as she prayed for her intangibility to work and she fazed through the floor right into Logan's room.

'Psst! Logan! Get up there are people outside.' She whispered as loud as she dared, she shook his shoulder lightly as Wolverine suddenly growled and sat up, unsheathing his claws and swung at her.

She was very lucky she could go intangible; if she were anyone else she would have been kebabbed.

'Kitty.' Logan swore under his breath and retracted his animantium claws 'don't do that again half-pint,' he paused for a second when he saw her face 'what's wrong?' he got out of bed quickly and stood next to her, his claws out again- ready for a fight.

'There are men outside-' she started before the sounds of smashed glass filled their ears.

'well it doesn't seem like it anymore. Kitty I need you to get storm and spyke, I'll get the others.' He ran towards the door and opened it just in time to see a shadow fill the doorway as a menacing figure that seemed to be swathed in darkness pointed a gun at Logan and shot a device at him.

Kitty froze for a second, unable to move in fear- Logan's hands went to his chest where the device had landed and he clawed desperately to get it off before his knees buckled and he fell to the floor. 'Logan!' Kitty shrieked in terror and ran to help as his body convulsed for a moment at the strangers feet before going perfectly still.

The man spoke into a headset before stepping over Logan's inanimate bodyand through the doorway toward her, his gun poised in his hand- ready to fire 'Yes sir, I have two mutants in the East Wing, one is down and I have a visual on the other.' His husky voice replied to someone speaking in his ear, he glanced down for a moment at wolverine's extended claws for a moment 'Yes, I believe it's Wolverine, sir.'

Kitty saw her chance and began to faze through the floor, she hadn't been there long enough to master her powers completely though so she sank through the floor at a slow pace. The man noticed this and began firing the small devices at her but miraculously none landed a hit. She fell through to the dining room and landed with a thump on the table, she could hear footsteps running outside the door and she knew she didn't have long, she ran across the top of the long dining table which stretched to the other end of the room till she thought she was directly below where Logan lay above her. Her hands fazed through the ceiling and she felt his mask, she grabbed tight and pulled him through the ceiling.

He landed next to her, his limp body was too heavy to carry so she fazed him through the table and then the floor until she was standing next to his limp body in the sewers.

She heard screams from above and decided that now Logan was out of direct danger she could go help the others.

She fazed back up and found herself face to face with Spyke, his usually tanned skin hel a greenish tinge and he seemed deathly scared of something and she only had a moment to register that he wasn't scared of her but what was behind her, before she turned around to face the doorway again which was now open and was hit in the forehead by a little device.

She tried desperately to go intangible but the thing seemed to shut off her power.. her eyelids started to feel heavy and she heard a familiar voice calling her name from somewhere far away before she too fell forward, unable to support her weight and straight into the arms of one of the men that had invaded her home, her paradise.

A sudden explosion shook the building and made Kitty's bones screech in protest and she was just able to register the searing heat that filled the air, her eyes began to close but she felt herself being picked up and saw the man move away from Evan, the whole squad was evacuating and just as her kidnapper got free of the mansion it exploded, the entire skyline filled with sudden light as fire burst into the sky, creating the form of a phoenix.

Jean… Was all Kitty could think before the darkness overcame her.

Please review, I'm always open to constructive criticism and Ideas for things to include because although I have a plan, you're Idea may be better than mine ^-^