Tabitha Smith

1. She'd never had very much growing up. In fact she came to the Institute with little more than the clothes on her back. But she never wanted anything more, never whined or complained. Tabby had the rare ability to take whatever was thrown at her in stride and with a smile on her face.

2. But the smile didn't always last, every once in a while the scared little girl would break through her tough exterior and she would fall apart. In times like those she did the only thing she knew how; she curled up in a ball and let the tears flow, hoping it would get better for her one day.

3. Tabby never fit in with the Institute, though it really wasn't noticeable. She could float into anywhere she wanted from the darkest, dirtiest alleys to having tea with the Queen of England. It was skill she had, to make people fit around her but she could never make herself fit around people. Sometimes she just couldn't make things work, it was like trying to squeeze into a pair of too-small shoes. You might be able to get your feet inside them, but you would be very uncomfortable.

4. She had always done whatever it was that she needed to do. When she couldn't live at the mansion anymore she left and then when the Brotherhood stopped working she went out on her own. But when Apocalypse came she realized that what she needed to do was what she had been avoiding for so long. She guessed that she had always been an X-geek at heart.

5. Just before she left home her mother had told her to 'not fuck it up', but Tabitha was afraid she had gone and done just that. That is until she found herself welcomed back with open arms, like she'd never even left.

6. Nobody at the mansion knew when her birthday was, she refused to tell them. On that day she left the mansion in favor of the more dangerous side of town, the kind places that will serve alcohol to anyone with money. She then spends the rest of the night trying to forget and swearing to kill him next time she met him.

7. She never had any sort of luck with men, Kurt wasn't interested in her do to the fact he was dating someone. Lance was too wrapped up in Kitty to see any other girls and Toad and Blob were, well Toad and Blob. Pietro was too much of a narcissist and his fixation with Evan Daniels was a little creepy. All the other boys at the Institute all had crushes on the good, wholesome girls. Even the tin-man, Colossus wasn't biting what she was baiting.

8. Her luck changed though, when she met St. John Allerdyce. The man was crazier and wilder than her and he had no deep seeded emotional baggage. He was honest and sincere in everything that he did, there were no secrets with the pyromaniac. And that had been all she'd been looking for.

9. Tabitha had many secrets, few of which she would ever openly share. One that she would take to the grave was her tattoo. She had the word free inked into the inside of her lower lip. She never showed anyone or even told anyone, for the simple fact that she'd gotten it to remind herself that nobody could or would control her ever again.

10. On the rare occasions that she allows herself to remember her past Tabitha is always reminded of one thing, that the future can only get better. And she'll do anything to make sure that it does.