I do not own anything to do with black cat but I do own white cat aka Mari...

In an out of the way city, two sweepers had just turned in their bounty.

Mari's POV...

I made my way back through the light fog from the Police station to my work partner and sister Shawna. She stood soulfully by my car staring out into space until I tapped her on the shoulder.

"So how much did we get?" she asked excitedly.

I sighed knowing it wouldn't be enough to satisfy her idea of a pay check. "4,000" I muttered.

"4,000 That's all? Mari, we chased him down and all we get is a bloody 4..."

She was interrupted by the sound of gunshots ran in the direction of the sound to see a gun wielding thug running out of an alley way.

Instinctively Shawna drew her own gun and pointed it at him yelling "FREEZE!" His gun was up pointing at me, but I stood still watching his every move.

He looked at us then behind him and around looking for an escape route.

"Drop it" yelled an unfamiliar voice in front of us.

A man in a white hat came walking up behind the fugitive. "Sweeper business ladies I'll take it from here." he said.

As usual Shawna spoke before I did "Well we're sweepers too, so let it go and we'll take him."

The man looked shocked and said "What!? He was our catch not yours so kindly move on ladies."

After a few minutes of arguing between him and Shawna, I finally put the confused fugitive in hand cuffs and interrupted their squabble.

"Who's your partner?" I asked the man "I assume you have one, seeing as how you refer to this guy as 'our catch' and said 'we found him first'."

The man looked around and said "Yes, I have a partner but I don't know where..."

Just as he was talking another man jumped from the roof into the alley way "About time you stopped arguing!"

He walked over to me and held out his hand "Train Heartnet. That's my partner Sven Vollfied." he said pointing to the man that Shawna had been arguing with.

I shook his hand "Mari White, and that's my sister Shawna Kinsal."

He waved at my sister as Sven spoke "You're sisters with different last names? Is one of you married?"

Shawna giggled "No, were adopted sisters… it's a long story"

After much deliberation we finally agreed to split the bounty on our current capture.

We stood outside of the police station and lingered while talking for a while.

I was looking over our new "friends" as my sister called them and noticed that Train had a tattoo of XIII on his chest.

He noticed me looking at the mark of thirteen and asked "What? Why are you staring?"

I looked into his eyes "So you're the Black Cat. I wondered when I would get to meet you."

He looked confused and asked "Why would you want to meet me?"

I stepped forward and reached my hand out to his chest running two fingers over the mark.

His hand instinctively flew up and caught my wrist.

"Because I'm like you." I said.

He looked shocked for a millisecond then flung my hand away "You have no idea what it's like to be me, you've never seen a life and death like I have"

With this I turned and ran as fast as I could to a place I knew I could find direction and help. My thoughts were racing as fast as I was.

"Sorry about her but she knows just as much as anyone else about life and death" said Shawna watching the fading form of her sister. "Her mother died when she was seven and both my parents died the same day. Her father was heartbroken but took me in none the less. Two years later when she was nine and I was eight her father died. We were orphans, and where we come from orphans are considered evil, the cause of their parents death. She never shed a tear after her mother died because her father told her to be strong and to look after me. She practically ran the orphanage until she was fifteen when she got engaged hoping to provide for the orphans further if she had a husband."

Shawna closed her eyes sighing "He was murdered the week before the wedding. She disappeared a few years later. We thought she was dead until she came back two years later and had enough money to fix the orphanage and hire some decent people to look after the children. She also came back different. She came back as White Cat. Then we left that awful place."

Sven looked at her comfortingly "I'm sorry" he said

"It's ok" she replied "I try to forget but my sister never wants to forget."

"What did you mean white cat?" asked train intrigued.

"It's what she called herself. It's what she said she'd been made into."

Shawna looked up at train who seemed lost in thought.

"So" said Shawna happily do you guys have some where to stay?"

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Thanks guys I hope you like it I'm still working on some kinks in the story so thanks RR