Hello dear readers and reviewers! ^_^ Check out how LONG this chapter is! XD I feel so proud of mehself for not being so lazy and actually getting so much of this story/fanfic done so quickly! But remember, the times when I update/add chapters WILL vary, but it can't be helped. So long as I get reviews though I will continue to upload chapters.

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Okay, so big exciting announcement ya'll! You guys and gals finally get some real insight into Rose's past and also you get to learn more about my adorably homicidal new OC Dr. Tenshi!

WARNING(S): I'm tired of putting up different warnings for every chapter, I'm too lazy and forgetful Lmfao! So, unless it's anything serious, I'm just going to put up this hopefully last one since from here on out, all future chapters may or may not contain the following: Heterosexualness (guy/girl love lol) FemSlash (Lesbian Love), Slash (Gay Love), nudity, violence (levels may vary), dark stuff lol, and also bad language (or whatever you consider to be bad language Lmfao I don't know.) But basically this fanfic is rated M for a reason, so that should be a warning in itself, at least to me. If you get traumatized or whatever I'm not to be held responsible for anything. XD You have been warned so beware, have a slurpee, and read if you dare! Yay I rhymed! Oh and above all else, review please! XD

Disclaimer: The only things I own are my own awesomeness, my OC's, and this Storyline and hopefully someday soon, a cola flavored slurpee!

And now... ON WITH THE STORY! Oh, don't worry, Rose's adventures will continue and we'll get back to the orginal timeline of the story once Gwen's transformation into the Black Cat and stuff has all been taken care of~!


"A Black Cat and A White Coat Pt 2"

Both friends decided to take a break and go get something to eat that wasn't from the cafeteria; not that the food was bad, it's just they liked to get out of the hospital once in a while. The Kane Hospital was rather well renowned and had the best of everything when it came to doctors, equipment, and things like that. Dr. Tenshi and Dr. Aconitum were two of the top doctors and had been close friends since they were children.

As a matter of fact, if it weren't for Rose, she doubted she'd be alive today; much less a skilled doctor, among other of her talents. But she digressed… They chose a pleasantly quiet place with hardly anyone in it, at which to dine in. They took their seats in a booth away from everyone and placed their orders; Dr. Tenshi ordered a tasty looking dessert and Rose of course ordered something that was all you can eat. The younger of the two shook her head, wondering how she could eat so much; though all the while knowing exactly why.

They knew they were mutants; they grew up together, so it was hard not to know. Especially considering the conditions under which they had met. As they waited for their food, the umber haired one fiddled with her spoon; pensively trying to sort out her thoughts.

"Don't tell me you're still upset about my teasing?" Rose asked with a raised eyebrow, though she was smiling with mild amusement. "Hmm? Oh, no… I understand you were just being you again." Her tone was distant and aloof; her mind being obviously on something she found bothersome.

For a moment Rose watched her with calculating pale, silvery grey eyes. Then they widened a bit in realization. "O-ooh! I get it! Its that girl isn't it?" Her voice was filled with interest and giddiness as she leaned forward in her seat. And Rose being Rose, she certainly didn't miss the faint blush her friend was trying to hide as the younger one glowered at her begrudgingly. "S-so what if it is?"

"Has the little Boffin finally taken an interest in another kind of anatomy? Hmm?" She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively

"What?! No! It's not what you're thinking, you weirdo! She… Bothered me is all…" At this Rose tilted her head slightly to the side. "Bothered you? How so?"

Dr. Tenshi shifted uncomfortably in her seat; directing her glare to her spoon. "I… I don't know… She just does!"

"Ms. Stacy seemed pretty nice to me." Rose stated thoughtfully.

"I'm not saying she isn't! That's just it! Something about her in general makes me… Makes me… Not myself! I don't like it!" The childish of the two crossed her arms and huffed at her spoon; like it was the cause of all her problems.

"Tabitha… I think you are getting upset for nothing. Just because you're a genius, doesn't mean you should feel obligated to know and understand every single little thing. Especially, what you're not interested in." But Tabitha flashed her a look as she was about to object, before the other added. "That being emotions and social interactions of course." Rose told her in that familiar genial tone.

Tabitha Tenshi sighed deeply; calming herself from having gotten all worked up again over nothing. Rose was right… But then again her role model always knew how to talk to her. Such things as "feelings" were always something that irked her. She didn't understand them and she didn't want to. They were unnecessary… Right?

Her one and only true friend was the woman sitting across from her and that was it! She didn't feel anything unsettling or anything around Rose like she had Ms. Stacy. Things were always understood in a comfortable and unspoken way.

Tabitha could be herself; cold, calculating, and apart from the few emotions like frustration or hatred that bubbled up from time to time, like today, she normally felt blissfully numb or mildly irked or some other minor thing like fascination or interest, but that was only when it came to her passion for Science. Not this… Weirdness that bothered her now…

The shorter one was pulled from her thoughts when she heard a soft noise coming from across the table. She looked up just in time to see Rose lightly and bemusedly sniffing the air; leaning steadily over the table toward her.

The black haired physician frowned in confusion as she regarded her friend who was nervously twiddling the spoon between her fingers. "Blood." Was what Rose stated in a low, dark tone that only Tabitha could hear.

"W-what?" Her eyes widened a bit, acting as if she hadn't heard her.

"I know you have some… Where is it and why do you have it?"

"I don't know what you're blathering on about. Maybe it's coming from the kitch-" But she stopped as the other woman narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"If you don't answer me, I'm going to take it away and destroy it."

One of Tabitha's skillful, pale hands shot automatically into her pocket like she'd just been burnt as she held protectively onto whatever was in it; the expression on her face like that of a small child who'd been caught with a stray kitten in her backpack. "No! I need it!" Her tone; just as quiet, but urgent and matching the look on her face. "Tabi, you better-"

"Okay! Okay! Just stop threatening! Sheesh!" She said; her hand slowly retracting from her pocket and pulling out a small black box. The smaller female gave a quick look around before opening the box just enough for Rose to see what was inside.

Her eyes widened as she saw small vials of dark red, and then she shook her head and sighed disapprovingly. "You're taking patient blood again? What have I told you about that? Do you want to get into trouble?" But she raised a brow when she saw the other frantically shaking her head side to side; shoving the box securely back into her pocket.

"No, no! You don't get it! No one is going to miss this! I took enough for my experiments and for the hospital to do their little tests!" She was smirking now, in a deviously triumphant way that made Rose facepalm; she had a feeling she already knew the answer. "Okay… I give. Whose blood is it?" Tabitha shifted a little again in her seat; still smirking, but it was a tad sheepish. "Ms. Stacy's…"

"Wait… what? Why?" Rose was starting to feel giddy again. She couldn't help it. It seemed after all these years; the emotionally stunted little boffin was beginning to develop feelings for someone! She wasn't sure what kind of feelings, but Rose knew they were the positive kind.

It must be why she'd been so easily aggravated and whatnot today! Under that cold, calculating, mentally damaged exterior was a shy, stubborn, young girl who never really had the chance to be a kid or be loved. It was partly the reason she could be so childish and behave so oddly. Rose hoped someday her young friend would find someone who could love her for who she is and help bring out the good in her she tried so hard to keep hidden.

"Well… I'm working on something… And when I saw her, I knew she was the perfect candidate for it! And when I get the chance to run some tests of my own, I'll know whether or not I'm right. Which, I am quite certain that I am." She stated confidently, seeming to calm back down to how she normally was; but that faint pink tinge on her cheeks still gave her away and Rose just smiled.

"I see… Please keep me updated won't you?" Tabitha gave a nod as the waitress approached with their food. And for the rest of their lunch break they spoke about the usual things; one being what this new experiment that Tabitha was working on currently, and then they went back to work.

Tabitha felt a lot better about things as she headed home later that evening. When she got home, she cleaned up and headed to her lab to get started! Thankfully, she was able to keep the blood at a stable temperature in her pocket all day with the help of her powers. After a few hours of running some tests, she had some time before a few of them would be ready.

She set an egg timer as she leaned back in her chair; hands folded behind her head as she twirled a pumpkin flavored pockey stick in her mouth with her tongue. For some reason she wasn't quite sure of, it might just be from everything that happened today, but her mind wandered back to when she was little…

Before she was known as Tabitha, she didn't even have a name. An odd thing, but then again she was an orphan, so it wasn't that farfetched. She'd been dumped off on the orphanage's doorstep with no note, no name, nothing.

Just a tattered old blanket or something; she didn't know since the people who ran the place said that since that's usually how kids ended up there, that they didn't bother to remember. But despite her circumstances, she did her best to be a good, well behaved child; kind but very shy and she loved animals and learning very much. She'd always had a strange fascination with how things worked and the like.

But of course, the other children had taken to picking on her and every now and then beating her up and calling her cruel names that she didn't care to remember. You see; most of them had names, and they thought she was a creepy little nerd for not caring that she was nameless and so content with just studying and waiting to be adopted.

Whether said through tears or a smile, she always told them the same thing. "You'll see. Someday, someone's gonna adopt me and give me a name! And I'm going to become a famous Scientist!" Which, usually proceeded with her ending up getting beaten some more and then, ironically she was the one who got punished for "getting into fights", with them lecturing her about not causing trouble and cruel things like maybe she should try to be more "normal" like the other children.

Year after year passed, and still no one wanted her. No matter how hard she tried to be presentable in every way, or how smart she was for her age, they always wanted one of the other kids. And with every year that passed, she became steadily more and more reserved; wondering what was wrong with her and why no one seemed to want her...

It wasn't like she ever really spoken or had anything to do with the other children there anyway since they were so rude, but she stopped smiling and being genial and that sweet, shy, optimistic little girl she had once been.

Instead, she grew silent as the grave, impassive, was prone to disappearing for hours at a time. Her hair and eyes took on a more feral, disturbed look; especially when she took to cutting the umber locks herself. For some reason, if one was within a certain radius of her, an icy sense of dread crept over them and they'd find themselves shivering or with fogged up glasses, and eerie occurrences such as this.

Her complexion paled to match her seemingly icy disposition, and she always came back from where ever it was that she disappeared to; covered in dirt or soot, or had a few scorch marks on her clothes, or something like that. All in all almost everyone there had taken to avoiding her and anyone who'd been curious to try and find out the reasons for these things ended up just deciding it was better left alone.

There was however, one stupid enough not to leave her be. It was a boy who was around eleven years old and had always bullied her. He was twice her size and a very ugly little brute. When she started disappearing for hours at a time within the past few months, he started getting curious and wondering if perhaps she had something she was hiding; something he might want.

So one day, he made the decision to follow to see where it was that she snuck off to. He ended up losing her, but he got better as the days passed. And finally, he managed to stalk her to an old, abandoned vehicle repair shop. The windows and doors were boarded up and everything, but she had a secret entryway that consisted of a hole behind a couple of trashcans in the alley.

He couldn't follow her in, but he did wait until she left, to sneak inside and have a look around. To his astonishment, it looked like something out of a low budget mad Scientist's lab from a movie! Rusty, dusty old parts, that were obviously from around the shop or from junkyards, or whatever, made up the contraptions which were in there.

There was a large pile of books on an old desk in the corner, also there were some couch cushions on the floor in one corner; and what he realized was a small litter box with newspaper in it and a ball of old looking yarn near it. The boy almost jumped out of his skin when something brushed up against his leg!

When he looked down, he saw it was a sleek, black kitten with bandages wrapped around one of her front legs. It was a kitten she'd been taking care of for a few weeks now. She had happened upon the critter during one of her scavenging trips in a nearby junkyard.

It was mewling in agony from underneath an old tire that was propped up against some other stuff. Tablitha dropped everything she was doing to attend to the poor little thing. Felines had always been her favorite animal and she had always wanted a pet! Something she could love and it would return it unconditionally…

Tabitha had gone through a lot of trouble and spent a lot of time away from the orphanage to tend to the little thing, and had grown attached to the furball. It was her very first pet! The closest thing she had to a friend and the first to show her any affection. She affectionately called her furry little friend Frankie; a little nickname she'd come up with from the name Dr. Frankenstein, since it was one of her favorite stories. Well, little was she aware that a certain trespassing bully was enjoying wrecking the little lab she'd established for herself!

It was about an hour or so when she returned from her scavenging; her little arms filled with what she'd gathered, as she paused outside of the secret entrance to her "lab". Funny… She hadn't remembered leaving it open. In fact, she was positive she had pushed the trashcans back in place!

With a frown, she quietly set down what she'd been carrying and picked up a slim outside water faucet she'd had among her findings; thankfully it wasn't very long since someone had cut it at some point before tossing it.

Cautiously, she peered around the corner and saw someone sprawled out across the couch cushions; they were snoring loudly whoever they were. As quietly as she could, she crept inside and over toward the person, when her little foot stepped in something that sounded wet…

It made a soft, squishy sound when her foot landed on it. And as the seven year old little girl looked down, her eyes widened in horror as she felt a surge of mind numbing emotions hit her.

On the floor at her feet was the beaten and twisted remains of her beloved little Frankie…! And the wet thing she'd stepped in was a puddle of blood that had come from her. She quickly kneeled down over the black little corpse; setting the pipe between them, as her little hands ever so gently caressed over the soft black fur that was beginning to mat as the blood dried.

The only thing she could think of was her poor little friend lying dead before her as tears streamed silently down her face. She tried to concentrate and use her powers to see if she could save Frankie, but to no avail. The girl knew it wouldn't have worked anyway…

She had powers of Molecular Manipulation and Innate Capability (A/N: Also known as Intuitive Aptitude, etc. Also powers develop differently for everyone.), not life giving… And even if she could, her powers were still very new to her, and she wasn't very strong. Tabitha hadn't gotten the hang of them when it came to these sorts of things! It wouldn't matter if she could heal Frankie, she'd never be able to put the life back into her delicate little frame!

As she sunk further and further into maddening despair, she heard a loud snoring coming from the corner and it felt like something in her snapped! Her dark eyes narrowed lethally. She knew what she had to do now… And as her blood stained little hand closed over the cold steel of the pipe again, she moved to loom over the sleeping brute; her eyes gleaming madly to match the rictus grin that came over her face, with one word in mind. "Dissect!"

And dissect she did! She used the pipe to make sure he was knocked out cold and went about using her powers to shift the scraps of metal into restraints and hooks; adding rusty chains from the auto shop to create hooked devices that would hold back his flesh and layers of muscle and tissue as she took her time taking him apart bit by bit to see what made him tick!

Though he made all sorts of sickening screams and sounds while he flailed fruitlessly back and forth like a fish out of water between pleading, praying and cussing at her, it was to no avail for him. No one could hear him where they were, and all it did was cause her to laugh a heartless, maniacal laugh that caused him to become even more frightened, as the room grew steadily colder; his ragged breath coming out in visible puffs!

For that entire day, until the sun rose the next morning, she used her powers to keep him alive so that she could torture him and make him suffer. She poured out her sadness and hatred into her work, but eventually she grew tired from having used her powers for so long and all the emotional strain and drain, so she stopped and the room began to warm. (A/N: If no one has noticed yet, she uses her molecular manipulation to cause the cold. It's just something that she does really, more than likely an emotional response or way to intimidate. It varies.)

Poor Frankie was her first and last pet. For some reason she couldn't bear the thought of getting attached like that and have it ripped away again. Sure, she was friends with Rose, but that was different. She knew the older woman could take care of herself after knowing her for so long.

Tabitha just wasn't as attached to the other as she'd been to that kitten. It was just something she found hard to explain or comprehend, so she just pushed it out of her mind; not caring about such useless things as emotions. Whatever good had been left of her back then had died with Frankie; the only being she'd ever been able to ever truly care about…

After that, she went and gave Frankie as proper a burial as she could, got cleaned up, took her books and hid them somewhere safe, and then set the place on fire to get rid of the rest of the evidence before returning to the orphanage. As she was getting ready to sneak back inside, she saw a strange looking vehicle parked outside, and as she peered in through a window she spotted even stranger looking men. She recognized them from newspaper articles and news shows she'd seen while out passing places that had televisions, while she'd been out foraging for goodies.

Those men were Mutant Hunters! They were a group known locally as Uranus; and although in her opinion, it was an insurmountably lame name, at least it wasn't something as stupid as the "X-Men" which to her, sounded like a bad, gay porn movie; not that she had any problems with gays, it's just… Well, very comical and not something that sounds very formidable for being who they're supposed to be.

Again, she digressed… She decided that perhaps it was time to leave the orphanage for good; its not like she had anything there that wasn't easily replaceable, in fact she didn't have anything there to begin with!

The young girl turned to make a stealthy retreat, when one of the orphanage kids spotted her! "Hey! There's the freak!" The kid hollered; pointing and drawing the attention of the men inside. The kid continued to scream and yell to get their attention and it was too late to do anything since he was too far away and they were all ready coming out and saw her.

Oh how she wanted to dissect that stupid brat too! But now was not the time she decided, taking off as fast as her little legs could carry her! They chased her for a while, but she kept on running; until her feet and legs hurt and she was finding it harder to breathe! Though she did her best to push through it however, fate seemed to have other ideas for her, as one of the men pulled out a gun and fired off some warning shots. The girl didn't care though; she'd rather be dead than captured!

And just as she turned a sharp corner, did she feel dread smack her in the face like a sock full of rocks. It was a dead end! She heard one of the men give a dark chuckle as they closed in on her; the other man holding the gun steady and aiming it right at her. Dark eyes flitted around for something to use to defend herself with, but there was nothing! The man without the drawn gun made to lunge at Tabitha, but then the man tripped and fell right on his face!

The young girl and the other man looked down to see what had happened to the moron, only to see that the ground appeared to have swallowed up the man's foot! And not only that, his other one was sinking into the ground as well; like it was quicksand that was actually quick! "AH! BURNING! ITS BURNING ME! OH DEAR GOD!" Cried the sinking man; it seemed the pavement he was sinking into was hot or something by what she observed.

The other man went to help his friend, only to end up getting the same treatment of sinking; but unlike his friend, his shoes were still protecting him; but neither man seemed to be able to wrench themselves free of the hot goop. He aimed his gun angrily at the little girl. "This is your doing you little freak! If you don't stop I'll shoot!" But before she could open her mouth to tell him otherwise, something dressed in black swooped out of nowhere and knocked the weapon from his hands!

In that next moment, the dark clad figure held up a hand as something dull colored and metallic flicked out; the girl recognizing it as a blade! This new, mysterious figure who wasn't much taller than herself, made quick work of stabbing both men in their spines; right in the back of their necks, before slashing their throats for good measure. Silencing them both for good… well, minus the bloodied gurgling.

The little girl's eyes widened as the figure turned to gaze slightly down at her! This person wore a mask too! It wasn't very complex; it was simply a black mask with a white infinity symbol painted onto it where the eyes were supposed to be; and the figure's clothing was rather ratty yet otherwise normal looking black clothes. No silly tights or anything as ridiculous as those X-men people. (A/N: Lmfao yes I AM bashing them some. I have my reasons. That's all I'm saying.)

The dark hero wiped off the blood on one of the men's jackets before flipping the knife blade closed and stuffing it back into the pocket she'd procured it from in the first place. "Are you okay kid?" Came a slightly muffled voice from behind the mask. The girl nodded. "Good… Are you a mutant?" Again the girl nodded, not quite sure how else to respond as she didn't really like talking anyway. Nor for that matter had she really spoken in years.

"Figured. We better get out of here now. Come on." She began to walk away around the corner before the orphan reached out and grabbed the person's sleeve. "Wait! What about them?" She pointed to the two dead bodies; only to notice that they were already half sunken in the ground!

The young girl made a note to figure out how the other girl had done that, so that she could attempt to try it out via manipulating the molecules later on. One never knew when it might come in handy after all... (A/N: For anyone wondering, it was done via pyrokinesis. Basically she melted the concrete or asphalt, whatever it was, but only enough to where it would be a scalding goop. And yes Tabitha WOULD be able to heat the ground like that via Molecular Manipulation, like how she makes it cold.)

"That answer your question kid?" The taller of the two replied; sounding somewhat amused and cocky, before starting off again. Tabitha scowled and followed the strange person; still holding onto her sleeve, but the taller either didn't seem to mind or simply didn't notice. "My name's not kid!"

"Oh yeah? Then what is it?"

At this, she paused and frowned sadly. "I… I don't know… They never gave me a name at the orphanage… B-but it's not like I wanted them too anyway!" She added the last part with a rather defiant and angry pout. The black clad individual turned to look down at the other; at least, she figured the masked person was looking at her. "Yah seem like a nice kid… So I'll see what I can do. But!" The older one said, holding up a gloved finger. "I can only take responsibility of you, if you join my gang. Sound fair?"

The smaller one frowned skeptically as they continued to walk down many twists and turns of dark alleys and shady streets at a hasty pace. "Gang? Just who are you and what kind of deal is this anyway?" She didn't need to end up in a worse situation than the orphanage, so she had every right to be cynical. "Oh, right! Where are my manners!" The other said in an amused way. "The name is Rose, but everyone I know calls me Infinita."

"Infinita? Why Infinita?"

"It's the Italian feminine form of the word Infinity… And, well…" The taller of the two rubbed the back of her head in a rather sheepish way. "Being a mutant and all, I'm kind of a complicated person in regards to what it is that I am capable of and the seeming lack of limits to my powers. Yah know?" For some reason, the girl gave a nod; feeling that she actually did know and understand for once.

"And as for the rest of your question, I'm the leader of a gang known as the "Phantom Renegades" ever since our former leader died. Apart of my job as leader is to try and help fellow mutants from getting caught; like you almost were, and offer them a chance to join up with us, so we'll have a better chance at survival… Or something like that…" Rose finished with a shrug; it seemed she was pretty mellow for someone who supposedly had such a great responsibility for someone her age.

The girl muddled this. Well, it wasn't like she had much to lose, and at least she would be able to use her powers more… "Fine. But I want a good name." The girl stated finally. "What about a mutant name?" The little girl shrugged. "I don't much care for them… I don't want to be a hero, and it isn't like anyone would recognize me anyway." There came an amused chortle from behind the mask.

"Come on then. We better hurry up and get outta here!" Rose said in a giddy tone, holding out her gloved hand to the smaller girl, who glaringly regarded the hand for a moment before she reached out and took a hold of the outstretched appendage with her smaller hand. Tabitha continued to glare but in a cute pouting sort of way as they ran away hand in hand. And with that, the little girl joined the taller girl's gang and became a Phantom Renegade!

It wasn't long before the two girls got to know each other a little better, and the smaller saw what was behind the mask; which was just a simple, older girl with short black hair and silvery, pale grey eyes. She also discovered that Infinita had the power of Absorption and that she could obtain the powers, memories, and many other things via coming into contact with the skin or bodily fluids of another being, but was still learning how to use her powers.

She even confided in the girl how she herself suffered from nightmares from not only her own past but sometimes a memory of someone whose powers she'd absorbed but had accidentally collected a memory from in the process; and that she wasn't sure if she was born with a Healing Factor or if she'd picked it up unconsciously.

As Rose learned about the other, she decided that since she liked cats so much, she'd give her a feline type of name that sounded sweet. So she chose "Tabitha" because, despite the warped, cold exterior, she knew there was good in Tabitha; whether she admitted it or not, so she also gave her the last name "Tenshi" which she'd learned from somewhere meant "Angel".

Tabitha had made a deal with Rose that entailed her allowing the older girl to absorb her powers so that her Intuitive Aptitude would allow Rose to better master and understand her abilities, but only if Rose allowed her to do some examining so she could figure out how Rose's powers worked for herself.

However, Rose only agreed to it if Tabitha gained the proper medical knowledge and supplies first; just to be on the safe side. It was fair to say that they both learned much about their mutant abilities over the years and a lot from each other, but Tabitha didn't get to do a biopsy on her friend until she'd finished Med school later on in years, but that's getting ahead of things…

And thus, back on topic; young Tabitha came to have not only her life saved, but she gained a new one along with an identity all her own! Rose trained her in what she herself knew, and apart from books to study from, she watched the other mutants and learned via that or the other two mutants who were on friendly terms with her, but not as well as Rose was. Although, she still didn't seem to get along very well, what with her trying to learn more by dissecting or experimenting on a few of the ones who annoyed or offended her in some way.

Rose and a small few that were close to Rose, were kind enough to look out for her. A girl who was a little older than Rose, named Violet who was in fact a human; thought most of what Tabitha did was pretty comical and even helped her in some of her exploits because she thought it'd be a good prank! While another girl around Violet's age, named Emily was usually the one to reprimand both of them for their childish antics. Even if Tabitha didn't like her "research" being interfered with, she did learn a lot from Emily and even Violet as well.

But alas! All good things must come to an end! The group had their ups and downs over the next few years, but unlike some groups; with the wit of Rose and the inventive skills of Tabitha, the Phantom Renegades had been able to turn an abandoned underground train station, into a nice little hideout for themselves. And on top of that, they started being able to afford to better educate themselves in a home schooling styled way that was funded by Rose after she one day borrowed one of Tabitha's books; saying she was curious about something.

Unfortunately, the base became compromised when a few of the group who had gone out, ended up getting followed by some members of Uranus (A/N: LMFAO! That name keeps making me laugh! XD) when they came back! That night all Hell had broken loose!

Tabitha remembered she'd been awake; since she hardly slept anyway; a problem that seemed to get worse as she got older, when she heard the sound of many footsteps. She went to investigate only to see soldiers getting into position!

Tabitha hurried and woke up Rose, who helped her wake up the others who were closest; then after a quick battle plan, they sounded the alarm and the fight ensued! And everyone was awake by then! No one was sure how long the battle had gone on, or even who was winning really.

There was so much chaos that Rose couldn't properly tactician her group like she wanted to once everyone was so far spread out; even though she had ordered them all to stay close. Only those closest to her like Tabitha tried to listen, but as the old saying goes, crap happens…!

She'd somehow gotten separated from Tabitha; whom was still one of the smallest and youngest of the group, and could still be pretty defenseless since she was only ten; especially when she got caught up trying to slice someone open. Curse that one track mind she got when it came to that!

Rose felt very responsible for the kid and usually kept her on her team whenever they went to do something, since they worked well together and she could better keep the smaller girl's mental stability and such in check; so as not to harm the other members of their group via dissection or worse. Even if she could only do so much. So, when she saw Tabitha strangling a soldier with the intestines of, what she guessed belonged to another, she at first thought she'd be okay.

But then, as Rose was busy filling one of the bastards with lead from his own gun, she noticed someone tossed a grenade that landed near Tabitha. She literally dropped everything she was doing and sprinted across their home and current battlefield in a flash! And then she lunged at the smaller girl; knocking her away from it and using her own body as a shield. Rose only hoped her healing ability would save her. No sooner had their bodies hit the ground, had the grenade exploded, and everything went black!

Tabitha hadn't really registered what the heck had happened, but the only sound she could hear at first was the ringing in her ears. The smell of burnt flesh and blood filled her nostrils as she struggled out from under the body on top of her to try and get away from it and whoever it was that had knocked her over.

But she realized it was Rose and that her friend wasn't moving! For a few moments she forgot herself and tore off the damaged mask from her friends face before she began to frantically shake the girl; wondering if she was still alive. She knew now it wasn't the best thing to have done, but it was a heat of the moment sort of deal…

"WAKE UP! YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP!" Tabitha yelled at the other girl, afraid for the second time in her life that she would lose someone. But thankfully the other was breathing faintly; despite burns, abrasions, and other injuries that covered the back half of Rose's body that was in the process of healing. Her pale eyes painfully fluttered open to stare in a blank and confused way up at the girl.

Tabitha managed to calm down a little so she could move Rose over to some cover over in one of the small rooms. Once her friend had managed to recover enough, they rejoined the fray, and fought until the soldiers fell back.

Their leader took count of everyone and saw that quite a few were badly injured, only two had died; one had simply been too young and inexperienced and the other was one of the few humans who joined their group; like Violet.

You see, unlike most mutant groups that were around, Rose allowed anyone who was pro-mutant and needed help, to have a place in her gang. To her, the death of one of these humans was just as much of a loss as losing a fellow mutant. And although such strange morals and whatnot baffled the little boffin, she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of respect for Infinita and looked to her as a role model; even if she'd never admit it to that overly playful weed's face…

During the count, Rose discovered that not only was Violet unaccounted for, but quite a few of their fellow Renegades were missing; she figured they must have gotten captured during the attack. She put Tabitha in charge of triage and tending to the wounded; she'd also put those who were capable or useful, under Tabitha's charge while she further assessed the situation.

Now, while the younger of the two was busy, she still noticed how strange their leader behaved and how she put Emily in charge while she disappeared. Although Emily had been a usual choice for being placed in command; Tabitha didn't like the uncharacteristically pensive expression that Emily wore when she thought no one was looking. The older, more mature female hardly ever brooded like this… She wondered where their leader had disappeared to; especially when Emily told her that even she didn't know.

When Rose returned later the next day though, her clothing was even more tattered and singed than it had been from their earlier battle; with new blood stains and spatterings of debris. And the mask she usually wore; that Tabitha had built a device into to protect their leader from any types of poisonous or other dangers gases and toxins, had definitely seen better days. Part of the top half where her left eye could now be seen, had been shattered and there were small dents, scraps and other things on it; and some of the white horizontal 8 that was painted on had come off.

But as she trudged into their lair, behind her followed the missing members of their group; like Violet, who had mistakenly been taken since they figured she was a mutant, including a few people Tabitha hadn't seen. Tabitha later learned that they were also being held captive at the facility their people had been taken to!

Turns out Rose had somehow tracked that pack of bumbaclot soldiers down to that particular facility, rescued all of the mutants they had prisoner, and then proceeded to demolish the place! All of them eagerly regaled the rest of the group on how awesomely Rose had stormed the place and how they all feared she had died when the building was destroyed and collapsed in on itself! But how, out of the wrecked remnants, she emerged like a black clad phoenix from the Hellish ashes!

But, even though some of their renditions of what had happened, all varied in certain aspects; like how one guy said she ripped one guy's head off while one girl argued that she didn't rip it off, she threw a potato so hard it exploded the guy's head, still they all agreed that it was the coolest thing they'd been involved in since they'd joined the Phantom Renegades! And they were all glad to be free and alive.

Tabitha felt rather disappointed that she couldn't have gone all Jack the Ripper on some more people, but knew Rose had trusted her to stay and tend to the wounded since she was the most medically competent; thanks to all the medical books and such that Rose had procured for her. (A/N: Remember, she has Intuitive Aptitude so she can learn how to do anything.) With a sigh, she realized she'd rather have stayed out of it anyway.

Still… it might've been neat to have seen what kind of technology and such that they had, simply to better understand what tricks their enemies had for them, but mainly because it would've been interesting to see.

Rose had gone to check on the wounded before retiring to her own room to rest. But she approached her later on that night and told her about what had really happened, and Tabitha just listened.

Infinita had stealthily infiltrated the facility and had figured out where their gang was being held. Turns out some had been locked up, waiting to be experimented on, while a few others were currently being experimented on or in the process of it! She'd kindly tended to those mutants first. Poor Violet had been one of them and had apparently tried to tell them she was a human; but they told her that they couldn't trust her and would find out the hard way.

Their leader had interrupted them and saved Violet whom, luckily hadn't gotten sliced open yet. Then they went about rescuing the rest and fighting off who ever got in their way; killing them for good measure. And after all of this, Rose confided in Tabitha that she suspected that this whole thing wasn't as much of a coincidence as they were lead to believe, and that she planned to get to the bottom of it soon, but she wouldn't say anymore when Tabitha tried to question. Rose merely told her that she had a good idea as to what had happened, but she needed to make sure she was right.

It wasn't too long afterward, when everyone was patched up and getting better, that some of the newcomers decided to leave. It turns out a few of them were X-Men, or at least they were young enough to attend the school in hopes of one day becoming one. They spoke about how neat it was to live at the mansion and how they lived such a nice, luxurious life, blah, blah, blah. Tabitha scowled and went back to reading her book; trying to tune them out. But apparently, quite a few of their group wanted to go to the Xavier school too.

In fact, the ones that wanted to go; and it was a pretty large group, ended up using a guilt trip on Rose about how they could all live better lives, etc. and if they didn't like it, they could just leave. Tabitha, Violet and even Emily tried to persuade Rose to just ignore them, but Rose felt it was her responsibility to look out for them; and that this included their welfare.

So, the ones who wanted to go, left with Rose; who wanted to make sure they got there safe. Tabitha went with her, since she didn't much care to be around anyone else, even if she was on friendly terms with Violet and Emily; she simply wanted to make sure Rose didn't end up getting killed or something stupid like that because of these morons she had to escort.

Emily was left in charge with Violet as her second in command; much to Emily's slight annoyance and Violet's mischievous delight! Needless to say, much pranking and getting chased down by the mutant in charge would be done, and no doubt Rose would get an earful when they got back. But it would end up like that either way. Besides, Violet behaved much better when given something productive to do.

Well, Rose met with Charles Xavier and they had a discussion about everything. He thanked them for saving and returning his students, and said if they wanted they could stay, so it worked out pretty well… At least, it did for the idiots who wanted to stay there; thinking they were getting a good deal.

Which in some aspects, yes they kind of were… But the big picture was that they'd be bigger targets since the Phantom Renegades hardly ever fought. In fact, they only had one or two major skirmishes and whatnot per year and mainly because they went out to terrorize anti-mutant groups like Uranus! Otherwise they were pretty well left alone in that aspect.

Tabitha knew Rose didn't like being there, and she only stayed because she felt responsible for those ungrateful idiots… The little boffin however, did her best to go around and learn all she could from mutants like Beast and Forge; but the only thing they had that was useful were their tools, technology, and books. In regards to teaching her anything, they told her to join one of their classes, rather than answering questions she had that didn't even come up in their class material! The morons…

It seemed Rose thought they were idiots too; mainly due to when the school was attacked while they were there and some of the selfish Renegades ended up listening to Xavier's orders instead of hers, and got themselves killed. So, Infinita went around obtaining the powers of every mutant there, before informing the remaining members of the group that she was going to leave.

When Rose told them why and asked who wanted to leave with her, the only person who followed her was Tabitha. And what annoyed the umber haired mutant the most was that they got angry and tried to start a whole argument with Rose; insulting her and blaming her for the death of their comrades, but the leader had had enough and told them that if they really wanted to stay, that was fine, but she wasn't going to have anything else to do with a bunch of unappreciative traitors! And with that, she left!

It was incredibly difficult to truly anger Rose, but the younger mutant had never remembered a time when she had seen their usually calm, courageous, and happy-go-lucky leader so upset! And it was because of this that lead to Tabitha following the leader rather fumingly; having been ordered by Rose not to tear them apart like she'd wanted to for upsetting the older mutant so!

It was at this point that Rose had enough of being the groups leader; after all the years of having tried to do her best at protecting them and making sure they lived comfortably, only to find out that almost all of them thought it was all beneath them, and disrespected her so. She just couldn't stand the treachery anymore!

The younger of the two soon found out after pressing the issue that, this wasn't the first time that people left the group in such an uncouth way or that she'd been disrespected or betrayed and that, there had been a few worse cases of treachery. For example: Rose told her that the only reason anyone found their hidden underground base, was that those mutants who said they were followed, were actually the ones who lead the soldiers there to begin with!

They claimed they were promised to be left alone and rewarded. And the reason Rose had gone to rescue everyone was because she sensed foul play and it turned out to be far worse than she thought.

Rose also told her that ironically, they had gotten captured and that she had tried to do the benevolent thing and have them apologize for their malicious actions. Only for them to argue by saying they didn't regret what they did and the usual selfish drivel; that jerks like that prattle on about. So, to teach them a lesson, she killed them and then finished up her rescue mission.

When they returned, Infinita told them all that she was resigning as leader and informed said person that was chosen to take over; since Emily wanted no part in becoming the permanent leader, about everything that was needed to know. Such as, the hidden room filled with gold bars that Rose had made from scrap metal, using Tabitha's Molecular Manipulation ability and that book she'd borrowed; and that is part of how she'd been funding everything for so long and how they had been living so well, but she didn't want to let everyone know since there was no telling who the traitors were until it was too late.

Then she left, but Tabitha as usual, followed her despite the older girl's protests; being worried that the younger girl might not like where she was going and trying to look out for her well being. But Tabitha knew where it was the safest and that it was the wiser choice to follow Rose.

Besides, the shorter girl didn't want to leave the other because she knew she'd be alone again… And she hated that. So together, they got a place, established their identities, gained their education, and became doctors; although they decided it was best to live in separate apartments once they were old enough, because of all of Tabitha's noisy experiments and such, and also because Rose got annoyed from having woken up with the top of her skull open again, while the Science fiend poked and prodded at her brain!

And as she began to smirk wickedly at all the other heinous things she'd gotten away with while living with Rose, she became distracted from her thoughts by the egg timer going off with a loud buzz! Ah, well… She could think about it later. Right now she had important issues to deal with. Like finding out whether or not a certain blonde woman was a candidate for her latest experiment…


DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN! TO BE CONTINUED!

WELL! There yah have it! Some parts of Rose's past have been revealed along with Tabitha's! Lmfao I felt kinda bad I couldn't do much more stuff with Tabitha but since she IS apart of the Sub-Pairing with Gwen/Black Cat I decided I'd maybe do a spin-off or something of her and Gwen when I'm done with this fanfic. Let me know ya'lls thoughts on that. I may even do some serious romanceness for them. XD More than I can really do in here of course. Like what happens to them after all of this or something. ~shrugs~ I'm not sure yet...

So how do ya'll like these "A Black Cat & A White Coat" segments so far? Lmfao it's kind of like a mini-series inside the series.

I've all ready had Rose explain why her mutant name is "Infinita" since it just means "Infinity" in Italian. I mean her powers are pretty infinite/unlimited or whatever, so it fits. I had a whole list of what I could've called her, but nothing seemed to fit as well.

Okay so in regards to the name of that mutant hunting group, I felt like adding a comical element to something that's supposed to be all "serious" and such, Lmfao and since I've heard lame names for evil groups, etc before, I decided to have some fun. You may ask "Why Uranus?" and my answer would be "Why not?" Kuwahahahahahahahahah! I mean it sounds like "Your Anus" so yeah.

And if anyone is wondering who these other OC's named "Violet" and "Emily", etc. are, then you'd have to wait until I write those fanfics Lmfao because they are my OC's from other Marvel type storylines.

Hmm... Well, I think that's all the notes I have to make for this chapter. I'm not sure if anyone is even reading my notes but oh well, here they are.

Until next chapter! ^_^ Please review!