Kitty had been pretty bored for several days now. With a lack of things to teach and with the school year so close to ending, she could not help but allow her students free rein of the place. Classes had been cancelled because they could not power up the electricity. She and Colossus had so few things to lecture everyone with and the last of it was delayed by something as trivial as the weather and lack of maintenance. He even agreed that they would have gone on field trips in June if the Professor would allow it. They even would have joined Hank in the woods too if they could get away with it.

Indeed, it was just too boring with so few things they would utilize these days. Everything was electronic, making most of the past's items obsolete and considered wasteful. Kitty missed it, longing for the days when she would sit under a tree and Colossus would sketch her on plain paper and pencil. Those times had been the most precious to her, just after Ellis had been disposed and assassinated and the country had been trying to pull itself together and find a good leader to bring them to better times. Nobody had been paying her much attention anyway, since her job was completed and the world seemed to be saved, and it left her to her own devices with Colossus. It was just them and nothing more.

Sitting in her classroom alone, Kitty decided that she should grade some essays she assigned some time ago and had not handed back yet. Sighing, she took out every device of her students' and started reading them. Her own beeped that it was low on battery power and needed to be charged soon. Kitty ignored that, using it as much as she could before it completely died. Afterward, she just read through each one, marking mistakes when she could and writing the grade on the device itself. She resolved to record it later and then give them back to discuss.

If this power came back on. Dammit. Kitty was amazed by how incompetent a utility company can still be in this day and age. Ridiculous!

Finishing up, Kitty was startled to see Logan and Danielle come in suddenly. The latter closed the door behind her and the former took a seat before Kitty's desk, sitting in the chair backwards. If Kitty could place Logan a hundred and fifty years younger, she could swear that he appeared in every way a child with an attitude. She imagined him in clothes for a teenager and a ball cap that was backwards and soon was struggling to keep from laughing. However, the way the two came in and the seriousness on both of their faces indicated that this was no social call. Kitty kept her cool and smiled in a professional way, just as she was taught to do.

"We need to talk," Danielle started, sitting in a chair next to Logan, although she did not copy her husband. "I take it nobody will be bothering us for a while?"

"Colossus is coming in twenty minutes to discuss our classes," Kitty offered, indicating that time was short. "We're going over some of the students' work and hopefully continue with the last chapter when we get power again."

"Good," Logan growled. "It's enough time."

"What's with you?" Kitty blurted out at Logan, a question that she had been aching to ask for some days now. She regretted her lack of professionalism and damned her mouth. "You were fine until that morning you came out in pajamas. What's happened?"

"A long story that we're cutting short," Danielle dismissed, dreading that they now had to make another person privy to the issue. "I think it's best that Logan explains this."

Logan felt the same way as Danielle, taking a deep breath. "Would you believe me if I said I came from another time and place?"

"What?" Kitty was almost rendered speechless.

"I came from a future with no hope," Logan continued. "Trask had developed the Sentinel program and they rendered the world destitute after a period of time. You sent me back in time to change that, to make sure that an assassination of Bolivar Trask did not happen and propel the program out. The last I remembered was drowning and then being here."

Kitty was confused. "Your…consciousness…?"

"Was sent back to the past to change the future, which is the one we have now," Logan clarified once more. "By you."

Kitty had to admit that this was strange and would explain why Logan was locked up with first the Professor and then Danielle several times and for many hours too. It would also explain why Danielle appeared like she was sick, using her powers as she did with her brother. However, it doesn't tell her why the pair were allowing her to hear the big secret. It did remind her of something though. On the day this happened, Kitty did have some strange dream that had her waking up in a sweat. Although Peter, her Colossus, was still asleep next to her and still a reassuring presence that lulled her back to a peaceful slumber, Kitty soon forgot about the nightmare…until now.

All Kitty recalled of the surreal situation was how cold and tired she was. She had been slumped in a stone corner of what appeared to be a Chinese monastery, far away from what she knew. Colorful panes of glass reflected upon the light playing upon the scene. However, even she knew in that dream that it was dark and forbidding out there. Around her were grim and serious faces of people she never thought would be together in the same room. First, there were the Professor and his "old friend" of many years, Magneto. Then, there was Danielle and her two youngest children, watching in a corner at something Kitty could hardly see through the sweat in her eyes.

Her vision was blurry, she recalled, and it chanced once to see what Danielle was looking at briefly. It was Logan. He was laying on a stone bed. Sitting behind his head was Rogue, holding onto something with all of her might…two blue lights at each of Logan's ears…saying something akin to her hold was not strong and it won't be long before things were changed, she hoped. Kitty could not remember the rest of it, although she felt terrified and deeply depressed. She was thinking about Bobby of all people and how she longed to hold him. She was scared of what was happening outside because the noise was getting closer and closer. It was a losing battle for survival.

And that was when Kitty woke up. It had been three in the morning and she had a class to teach in five hours. It was too easy to curl back up with Colossus and sleep for the next three hours. However, now that Danielle and Logan had mentioned something though, everything was starting to make sense. The last puzzle piece was given to her and it was complete.

"I do have the ability to send someone to the past," Kitty admitted, something that the Professor told her to keep quiet. They decided that years ago since many people might ask her to change something in their past and that alone would destroy them. "We decided that, since it was changing people and places and it didn't seem moral, we weren't going to continue with exploring it."

"And there's no way of going back to what Logan had then," Danielle observed.

"Exactly," Kitty said. "Every time it's used, whatever changes in that time frame that happen will ultimately alter the future. I could love someone now and if another person went into the past and did something to tweak it, a new ripple in the water is made. My feelings might be for another person."

"We believe there's a rift somewhere," Danielle revealed. "By showing Logan what happened in this past, we believe that somehow, where he came from and this lifetime have been merged because some sort of portal might have been left open."

Kitty had to laugh at the absurdity of the idea. "Sounds very science fiction to me."

"Mutation is evolution and a very scientific matter."

"I have to say you're right on that aspect."

"So, if you want to think about it, everything we do and have is still impossible."

"True again. However, I don't see how I can help."

"Telling you might give you an idea. Did you feel anything the night before Logan came out? Remember anything that seemed out of place?"

"Nothing I can think of," Kitty lied flawlessly, thinking it none of their business to know about her dream, especially when it might not have anything to do with what happened, no matter how unbelievable it is. "If I do, I'll let you know immediately. Anything I can do to help, let me know too."

"I think we will." Logan got up, feeling like they were finished. "Stick around and be available."

Kitty saw it as a threat from Logan. Then again, he was always full of those and was still as gruff too. "You can count on that."

Danielle stood up as well, leaving with Logan just as they saw Colossus walk down the hallway and enter the classroom they were just in. They turned to the stairwell and headed upstairs to their bedroom. However, before Logan could open the door, Danielle stopped him gently with the touch of her hand.

"I'll join you in a few minutes," she said quietly. "I want to visit Jay first and check on the kids and I'll be up. I'm sure Celeste would love to see you before she gets into trouble again."

Logan shook his head. "I understand. However, I think I smell a rat."

"You too?" Danielle suspected as much. "I think Kitty was truthful until the end. I think she knows more than she's letting on."

"I agree. Even if she didn't get it at first, I think she connected some dots and figured it all out."

"I wasn't able to read her even if I tried. Even so, she seemed protective of herself. We'll find out more soon enough, Logan. I wouldn't worry about it."

"You coming back soon?"

"Give me an hour max. I'm checking on everyone and coming right back up, I promise."

Logan nodded. Danielle took this as his assent and left, carefully sneaking down to the infirmary on the basement level. She entered, ignoring Mae at her desk and Jean in her office. They both noted that she was here and left her to her own devices, thinking she was yelled at enough for her foolishness over the years. That was just fine with Danielle. She found Jay quickly, hooked up to a life support device in the corner. Given privacy behind a curtain, Jay was hardly breathing on his own, his body bruised from all of the wires and needles stuck there to make it happen. Keeping back her dismay, Danielle took the seat that Fiona most likely sat before, holding Jay's least wired hand tightly.

What Danielle did not expect was an overwhelming feeling of darkness and death, enough to make her vomit. She took her hand away, rubbing the cold off of it, and tried again. This time, she probed deeper and controlled her bodily screams, passing all of that and the memories of now to see the ones from another time. And they were there all right, even though Jay might not be aware of it. Deep inside, there were images of a man who lost his wife to a car accident for real, received a hardship discharge because of it, lost his son to Child Services and spent the rest of his life drunk. He, as well as Roger, taught his sister to be an assassin, creating a monster inside of her that he always regretted, just as he'd done now. He did not like bringing his younger sister into the troubles that he knew were coming, but she had to learn.

And that was where it ended. There was nothing after a short twenty-eight years on this Earth. Danielle pulled back and was soon back in the infirmary. She did not realize the rare tears on her face. She wiped them away with shaking hands, getting up and passing Fiona on the way out without a greeting. She didn't say a word to either Mae or Jean either. All she knew was that she needed answers and so did Logan. Right now though, he was more than willing to continue on with the story. She would give it to him all right. She would try her best to solve his problems and hers as well.

When they married, Danielle promised to do everything in her power to make this relationship last. Even if this new Logan was different than the one she married, she saw similarities and was falling in love with him again. This was just a hurdle and something that they both can get past. When she returned, she would continue the story, even if Jay was no longer there to help her or supplying power. She would make sure Logan knows what happened until the end and beyond too, even a bullet to the head of her first husband started their relationship anew.