After four grueling days of drivers training, Kitty was ready to take her written test. She had expected Scott to take her to the DMV, but he and Jean both were busy. She suspected they were on a date, but they denied it firmly. So Tabitha volunteered to take her.

"Hey Tabitha," Kitty asked on the drive up, "aren't you younger than me?"

"Not by much," Tabitha said, cutting off another driver.

"Than how did you get your drivers permit before me? I just turned 15 and a half last Thursday," Kitty asked kind of puzzled.

Tabitha grinned and replied, "I went to the same driving school that Lance originally went to."

"But Lance said he didn't go to one..." Kitty trailed off, realizing what Tabitha meant. "You mean you don't really have your permit?"

"How about we drop it, okay? I don't want Baldy to figure anything out, though, I can't figure out why he hasn't busted me yet," Tabitha said, pulling into the DMV.

Kitty got all her papers together, and got out of the car.

"You'll pick me up when I'm done, right?" she asked Tabitha.

"Yeah, just call me on your cell phone when you're done. Good luck!" She tore out of the parking lot, almost crashing into another driver.

Kitty walked into the building, vaguely wondering how many people in Bayville didn't actually have a license. She knew the Brotherhood all drove, and she was pretty sure Todd had just turned 15. She lost track of thought when she into the main part of the building.

The place was huge. And there were a lot of people in it, in all different kinds of lines. There was a main desk, in which Kitty had to register, an eye test, pictures, and finally a room where she took her written exam.

An hour and 45 minutes later, Kitty called Tabitha, and yelled, "I got my permit!"

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"Okay Kitty, now that you have your permit, let's find an empty parking lot for your first lesson," Tabitha said, once she picked Kitty up.

"I don't know Tabitha..." Kitty trailed off, trying to find a nice way to put the fact that she didn't want her first driving experience to be with a maniac.

"Oh, don't worry Kitty," Tabitha reassured her. "Everybody learns in a parking lot. That's where I first learned how to drive."

"I kind of wanted Scott or Jean to be the first people I drive with," Kitty said, trying not to hurt Tabby's feelings.

"Those guys? Please, they couldn't drive out of a paper bag...although, why would you want to? Hmmm.... That's a really stupid phrase," Tabby sat in silence for a few seconds, trying to make sense of what she just said.

"Okay Tabby," Kitty relented, knowing the blonde mutant wouldn't stop until she got her way.

Tabitha pulled into an empty parking lot, and got out of the car.

"Okay Kitty, switch seats with me, and we'll get started," she said. "Now, lift that lever, and press down on the gas."

Kitty complied, but realized she wasn't going anywhere. Tabby studied her feet for a second, and said, "Kitty, you do know which one's the gas and which one's the brake, right?"

"Well, I've never driven a car before," Kitty said. "I don't really know what any of this stuff does."

Tabby gave her a look, not being able to believe that she had never even backed it out of the parent's driveway, like all her friends had at least once. She gave Kitty a crash course on what all the things did, and they got started again.

After a while, Tabby told Kitty to speed up, and try going through the lampposts that were scattered within the parking lot.

"I don't know Tabby, what if I hit one?" Kitty asked.

"Relax, we're in the X-van, what harm could you do, and if you're about to hit it, you can just phase," Tabby replied.

"Oh yeah," Kitty said. She tried going through the lampposts, and was doing pretty good for a while, but on the sixth one, she was about to hit the pole.

"Phase Kitty!" Tabby yelled, bracing herself for the impact.

Kitty did, and the pole went right through them. Instead of being scared, and kicking Kitty out of the car, like she thought she would, Tabby actually seemed to enjoy it.

"Aw man, that's awesome!" She exclaimed. "Man, you can just phase out of anything. You won't ever get a ticket. That's so unfair!"

"You know the Professor wouldn't like it if I used my powers out in the open like that," Kitty said.

"Come on Kitty, do you think he'll really care as long as he doesn't need you to buy another car. He's got to be pretty annoyed at always having to buy Scotty a new one, and besides, what he doesn't know won't hurt him," Tabby said, pressing one of the buttons to see what it did. "Now, come on, let's go faster!"

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Not far away, Scott and Jean were just finishing up their afternoon together. It wasn't a date, it was more of a, 'get out of the house before the new recruits drive us up the wall' kind of day. As they were driving home, they saw a very familiar car in an empty parking lot, driving at very fast speeds, and disappearing through solid objects.

"Scott, isn't that the X-van?" Jean asked.

"Yup," he replied.

"Do you think that that's Kitty, and that she got her permit?"

"Yup," he said again.

"We're in trouble, aren't we?" Jean asked worriedly, as she watched the van swerve dangerously close to another car, and listened to the squeal of the tires.

"Yup," Scott said, and drove out of there as fast as he could.

A/N Okay people's, sorry it took so long for me to update, I wanted to get my permit before I gave her one. I'm thinking of ending it off right here? What do you guys think? I wanted to answer why Kitty thinks she's such a good driver when she isn't, and I saw "Walk on the Wild Side," and I saw Tabby's driving, and figured she gave Kitty her first lesson. And I also just wanted to answer why Scott and Jean knew that Kitty had got her permit, and was a bad driver before everyone else. So, read and tell me what you think in your review.