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"And they fell for it?"

"Every word." She laughed mischievously while twirling her hair around a finger.

"Good. You have proven yourself quite useful Scarlett. You may go."

"What about my money Mystique? I need that money." The blonde smacked her gum noisily.

"It's at your house. By the way, what exactly did you tell them?"

"That her guardian Rhonda abused her, which she did of course just not nearly as much and as terribly as I said. That she didn't have any friends. And that her parents died in a car crash. Oh, and that Rhonda had had other children, which obviously she didn't. I mean, the person I made her into… Somebody would have noticed, but they totally didn't think twice about it. You were right. Those X-Men are waay too trusting."

"Go then."

"K, Bye." Scarlett flounced off down the alley twirling her hair and smacking her gum all the way.

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"So you know what you must do my child?" Cat looked blankly at this woman. She hadn't even been in this wretched house for a full hour, and what she was asking her? If it was true and this strange looking woman was her mother than she did have the right to ask this, but it was so strange. Spy? On her friends? Be an insider and give her information on them? The only people who had displayed even a tiny shred of kindness towards her? Slowly the girl nodded. She knew what she needed to do, but Mystique wouldn't like it. Then again.. she could have a home here. A permanent home with a mother.

"Good, they should be coming for you soon. You must make it seem as though you escaped, so they don't expect anything." Cat nodded again. "Goodbye Cat. Stay strong. I will come to that mansion," she spoke the word mansion the way one would normally say hell hole, "and you will tell them that you wish to stay with me. Once you are back again within our protection you will tell us all what you found out about them and we will use it to destroy them." Cat nodded once more and then was pushed out the back door roughly, this was where she had entered the structure, and where the scents would lead Wolverine.

"Is she gone?" Quicksilver suddenly appeared behind Mystique.

"Thankfully." Mystique said with disdain. She may have been her biological daughter, but Mystique was not her mother.

"Good, she was annoying. Why did we have to act nice again?"

"We had to gain her trust. Don't you know anything?" She angrily stalked upstairs to her room to start planning the next step.

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"Her scent leads to here." Wolverine stepped off his bike and removed his helmet in the back of the Brotherhood's house. If you could even call it a house. The place was as messy as the sky was blue.

"I knew ze Brotherhood had taken her!" Kurt poofed up next to Logan triumphantly.

"We don't know for sure that they took her Kurt. She may just have come here." Scott, ever logical, every pessimistic, interjected.

"Vhatever. Let's get her."

"I don't think we have to go get her elf." Wolverine rumbled out, nodding his head towards a rather disoriented looking Kat.

"Kat!" Kurt immediately poofed next to him. She took one look at his familiar face and smiled just the tiniest bit at him. He wrapped her in a big, blue, fuzzy elf hug. She stiffened, but didn't push him away.

"Vant to go home?" She hesitated. Home? She didn't know what was home anymore. There was home with Rhonda, there was home with Kurt, Bobby, Kitty, Logan, Scott, Jean, and the Professor, and there was home that was directly behind her. Where was home? Slowly she nodded at Kurt knowing that Mystique was watching in a window above, knowing that that was what Mystique expected her to do. She jumped in the jeep that Scott and Kurt had taken down into town. The question plagued her the whole way back. Where was home? What was home? Was home a who? Was home a place? Where did she truly belong? Where did she want to stay? Did home smell like chocolate chip cookies? …. Home?

Sorry that it's soooo short, but this part's given me a run for my money. This was rewritten so many different times. Anywayz… sorry for not mentioning you earlier La Licorne. I have no idea where this would be without you. Thank you sooo much.