Set a few weeks after Sins of the Father, Kailey and Ben are settling in to life at sanctuary but their relationship is about to change as they make the transition from brother and sister to friends and maybe something more.

Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X but Ben and Kailey are Mine, All Mine 

Kailey blinked a few times and let her eyes adjust to the dim light of her bedroom. She looked around confused for a moment and then settled back down in comfort. She had been living a sanctuary for a few weeks now but every so often when she was just waking up she would forget, for the briefest moment, where she was. Then the memories would come flooding back about how she and Ben had been rescued by Mutant X, how they had discovered their own mutant abilities and how they had been welcomed in to Sanctuary as part of the family.

Kailey looked over at the alarm clock next to her bed. 6:30, it read. She didn't really like getting up this early but lately Ben had taken to hogging their shared bathroom in the mornings so she had decided to try waking up a little early so she could get to it first. The plan had worked yesterday so she had decided to continue it. Kailey yawned and through off the covers as she sat up slowly; she quietly stood up and slipped her feet into her slippers that Shalimar had given her. Padding softly towards the bathroom door she reached for the handle, but it wouldn't turn. She pulled on it a few more times before she realized it must be locked.

"What the…" Kailey said to herself as she pressed her ear up to the door and listened. The sound of running water could be heard coming from the other side. Anger struck Kailey as she realized that Ben had discovered her plan and gotten up even earlier than usual to mess it up. Kailey huffed angrily and stomped out of her room and towards the kitchen.

Shalimar and Emma were sitting at the breakfast table chatting. Shalimar liked to get up early and go for a run while the world was quiet but Emma wasn't normally up yet. She was busy telling Shalimar about how she couldn't sleep when Kailey stomped into the room and sat down with a thump at the table.

"Good morning sunshine," Shalimar smiled as she and Emma looked at Kailey's annoyed expression. "You don't seem like your normal cheerful self, something wrong?"

"I am going to kill Ben." Was all of a reply they got."

"Do you care to elaborate?" the feral asked, although she already knew the answer, she had heard Ben get up and start the shower when she walked by his room on her way in to changed after her run. Kailey sat up straighter and prepared to respond.

"He is always doing things that he knows are going to annoy me. Like yesterday I set my alarm extra early so I could have a shower before he got up because he always hogs the bathroom and then this morning I did the same thing and found out that he as beaten me too it, again! It's like he does it on purpose. I don't know what's up with him lately." She fumed.

Emma and Shalimar exchanged glances of amusement as Kailey went to the cupboard to get a bowl for some serial. They had all seen the way Ben and Kailey had been acting around each other the last week or so. When they first came to Mutant X the two were inseparable, Ben took on the older brother role (although they aren't really related) and was so protective of Kailey that he didn't want her out of his sight and Kailey was so timid that she was afraid of doing things on her own. But after the two had gotten a hang of their new abilities, Kailey especially started becoming a little more independent and Ben was beginning to realize that he didn't have to worry about her all the time. Their brother-sister relationship is changing to more of a close friendship and neither ones knows how to deal with it.

"I am sure he didn't do it on purpose." Emma said. Kailey tuned from the fridge and gave Emma a, "you've got to be kidding me," look. Then she poured milk on her cereal and came to sit down at the table with the two women.

"All I know is he's going to pay." Kailey said as she took a mouthful of Cheerios. She was thinking of ways she could get back at Ben when Jesse and Brennan entered the kitchen.

"Wow," said Emma with an exaggerated look of surprise on her face. "I never thought I'd see the day when Brennan Mulwray and Jesse Kilmartin were out of bed before the sun was up." Kailey got up to put her bowl in the sink and Brennan took her place at the table. Jesse went to pour himself a cup of coffee and stood against the counter.

"Well I would still be in bed but somebody woke me up slamming doors." Brennan said as he turned to look at Kailey with an eyebrow raised. She looked back at him with a guilty expression.

"Sorry Brennan, I didn't mean to wake you. Will you ever forgive me?" She replied giving Brennan her most guilty eyes and innocent smile." He chuckled lightly.

"I suppose, but tomorrow I am expecting not to be woken up before at least noon."

"No problem. Anyway I am going to get in a little practice in the dojo while I am waiting for a certain irritating bathroom hog to get out of the shower." Kailey stated as she walked off towards the living room.

"What was that all about?" Jesse asked as he took a seat at the table with the other three.

"Kailey's mad at Ben because she had planed to get up early and have a shower but Ben beat her to it." Shalimar answered.

"Those two are always fighting about something lately." Jesse commented.

"Yeah it's classic," Brennan smiled.

"What is?" Emma asked, confused.

"Boy likes girl, boy annoys girl to get her attention."

"Yeah, you would think that by now boys would have figured out that girls hate that." Shalimar smiled.

"I don't know guys; I still think you are wrong about them liking each other. I think it's just a little brother sister rivalry going on." Jesse said sipping his coffee.

"I am starting to agree with Brennan and Shalimar." Emma started in. "Whenever Ben is around Kailey, I get these intense feelings of confusion coming from him. Like he has feelings that he doesn't know what to do with."

"Well only time will tell." Jesse replied.