Everyone stood around looking at the rubble that was the mansion. Everyone except me. I was off by myself, up in a tree. I had managed to get away from Logan just by waving the paper in his face. He knew I was up to something and that I needed my privacy. I had grabbed a piece of wood that used to be part of the mansion and was using it as a flat surface to draw on. I had already started the new plans for the mansion. When I'd stop to think, I'd bite the end of the pencil then I would get back to drawing.

"Kat, what are you doing up there?" Charles asked turning his wheelchair towards me. I held up the pencil and shook it back and forth partly showing him what I was doing, partly telling him that he needed to be quiet so I could concentrate.

"Might as well leave her alone, she's up to something."

"Damn right I'm up to something," I said jumping down from the tree. "I'm drawing out the plans for the new mansion so these kids will have a roof over their head." I showed Charles the plans I had gotten so far. "It's mainly going to be just like the old mansion with some few additions." Charles looked them over and looked up at me.

"Are we going to be able to do this?" I smiled.

"Of course, Chuck. There's nothing we can't do. We're the X-Men!" Charles rubbed his forehead and sighed.

"That's not what I meant." The words had flown right passed me as I walked back to my tree and climbed up in it to continue drawing on the plans.

"Oh, and you may want to start clearing the rubble and salvaging as much as possible. I'm going to be done with these in about an hour. Then I'm going to go and pick up some supplies." The kids had managed to find a phone book that was barely damaged in the explosion much to my surprise and they brought it to me so I could go through it and start making phone calls. I took one of the kid's cell phones and began making calls for garbage pick-up. The first couple I had called was more than willing to come for such a big job, but as soon as they found out that it was at Xavier's Mansion, they refused their service.

"Racists," I thought and called the next number. I got tired real quick asking how much they would charge first then tell them where they needed to come that I started saying if you don't want to be up at Xavier's Mansion, then hang up the phone, but they weren't helping innocent children get a new roof over their head. That really didn't seem to matter to them because they considered the children to be monsters and quickly hung up.

I was quickly running out of options as I just went down the line of numbers listed in the yellow pages. On the last number, they agreed quickly to come and help and even gave us a good deal on how much they would charge us. I wondered why they seemed so happy to oblige and wondered if they were mutants as well, but those thoughts were quickly pushed aside as I started looking up numbers for lumber yards.

After a few calls, I had found a lumber yard willing to sell to us. They even gave me a number I could call where I could rent some equipment until the mansion was rebuilt. Giving the phone a strange look as if it were the man's face I was looking at, I jumped down from the tree.

"What is it, Kat?" Charles asked as I stood next to him.

"That was just easier than I thought it was going to be. That's all." He grinned at me. I started helping clear away the rubble waiting for the garbage truck to show up. I was shocked when four garbage trucks and two flat bed trucks pulled up. Men jumped out greeting us with bright smiles. The man I had deemed the boss came over and shook hands with Charles and I.

"Just show us what needs to be tossed and we'll do the rest he said." I pointed out the garbage pile and they immediately got to work. My suspicions were proven correct about some of them being mutants as one grew to an impossible size and picked up the whole garbage pile like it was a piece of trash and loaded it on the back of one of the trucks as they sorted through it and made it sit right. I walked over to the boss.

"Is this why you're helping us? Because one of your crew is a mutant?" He crossed his arms looking at me.

"Partly yes, but I also saw what you and those kids did to stop that mutant on the dam. If it weren't for you guys, a lot of people could be dead right now. We need you guys around. You're like superheroes." I grinned at the remark. Superheroes. Could they really consider us to be superheroes?

"Does that make you guys our sidekicks?" The boss man laughed at me. I yelled for Kurt to come over which he did happily. He was excited to see the giant mutant collecting all the trash and rubble throwing it on the trucks like it was nothing. That was when i realized that I had no money on me. I would have to visit my bank before I could pay anything to anyone. I hurried away and told Logan what was going on. He told me that he would take me. Good thing it was in New York City and wasn't too far away from us.

Author's Note: This chapter was just a random chapter i decided to throw in. It leads up to something so don't worry more action is coming soon. Much love readers! Aven91 P.S. I wanted to update ASAP just to make up for the lack of updating on this story. :)