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A/N- NO idea when Kitty's birthday is, so I'm making it up, or maybe not! And another thing is that all of her parent's belongings would have went to Magneto until she turned 18. Which is when they would become hers, along with all of the problems that come along with such an emotional... I'm not quite sure what to call it. But that is the last place she saw her mom, which probably made it hard to go back, so I'm going to say that no one has been there since Remy picked up the 4 kids. Did anyone follow that?

Chapter 1: Kitty's 18th Birthday

"I wonder if Kitty even realizes that it is her 18th birthday? Or for that matter if Remy even knows that it is?" Melinda wonders aloud.

"Oh my God! It is her birthday today! I had forgotten! She's no longer my sister... or whatever you would call her! Yes!" Pietro says getting more excited by the minute.

"Calm down Sparky." Rogue says from her seat across the 'kitchen'. "Ah'm not entirely sure that she cares. She went through a lot more then we can imagine, and ya've seen how she's been reactin' ta it. She's not tha same as before and she doesn't-"

"Mon Chere is doin' much better den you all expected." Remy says walking in and making his presence known. "And for de record Remy knows dat it is her birthday."

"Wow, so you can leave Kitty's side." Pietro remarks. "Get tired of being her lap dog after six months?"

"Vous marchez sur le vieil homme de glace mince." ("You're walking on thin ice, old man." Sorry, I just like that, I had to.)

"I'm so scared though. Like you'll do anything."

"Guys, let's not fight. I personally know that Kitty wouldn't want you to hurt Pietro, Remy." Melinda says quickly stepping between the nearly fighting duo. "And I don't think that you want to fight me, Pietro."

"Ah have ta agree with Melinda. Kit wouldn't want ya ta fight Swamp Rat." Rogue says from her seat in the corner.

"Fine, I'll back off, as long as lap dog over here agrees that that I'd beat him senseless."

"What's the use of admitting a lie." Kitty says walking over and wrapping her arms around Remy.

"And he's a lapdog once again." Pietro says reiterating his current opinion of Remy.

"At least as of today it's legal." Kitty says smiling. "And where did this lapdog idea come from? A lapdog is when a guy will do so much for his girlfriend that he would get up to get her something even if she's perfectly capable and closer. I would never ask anything like that."

"But Remy'd do it for ya mon chere."

"It's like I've been saying, Kitty; you've got a lapdog, not a boyfriend."

"Doing and allowing are two different things." Kitty says looking at Pietro who was trying to leave the room. "And why is it any of your business, Pietro? Did you forget that I saved your life six months ago? Or more importantly, in your opinion, your white hair?"

"You save me? I'd have gotten out eventually. It was only a matter of time until someone let-"Pietro falls to the ground after a collision with Rogue's glove-less hand.

"That is so much better! Kit we all know what ya did fer us. Even he knows somewhere in those misplaced thoughts of his. Ah think that he might be jealous."

"I never thought of that." Melinda says. "I was thinking he was just mad because Kitty seems to have become Magz favorite."

"Dat makes sense."

"Stop it. I didn't do anything that you all wouldn't do." Kitty says blushing and looking down.

"Yeah ya did. If Ah had seen my parents murdered in front of me Ah'd have just left or killed him or at least done something more drastic. I wouldn't have kept quiet for over two weeks."

"I wasn't as strong as you think. I was so torn on the inside, but what would have happened if the peace maker, the over bubbly one, just broke down crying? I did that once. Right after Pietro and Piotr got there. No one was very happy until I was back to normal." Kitty says as one tear makes a solo journey down the side of her face.

"Mon chere, ya don't have to say anything else."

"Don't worry so much about me, Remy, it has to be unhealthy." Kitty giggles somewhat sadly trying to mask her sadness.

"This is nothing compared to what he did while you were gone, Kitty." Melinda says.

"Yeah, just what Ah saw in that brief tahme that Ah was here-"

"Can't Remy defend himself? He saved ya, ya ungrateful fille. Remy saved ya twice!"

"Ah just call it how Ah see it." Rogue says shrugging and leaving the room.

"I wanted to thank you Melinda, and they just made me remember that I wanted to with their bickering." Kitty pauses for a moment trying to look and sound as truly grateful as she is, finally she takes a step away from Remy(her back now to him) and looks Melinda in the eye. "Thank you. When Piotr was thrown into the cell with us... I-I asked as soon as I could about all of you... and he told me... t-that Remy had lost his sanity. I thought that I would loose it, I would have felt horrible... if a-anything had happened to any of you, but that made it hit me that everyone was suffering, but you helped lay my fears to rest. I-it scared me badly... when P-piotr told me that all Remy would do was look for me... but then he said that you made him rest I felt almost instantly better, though I was still guilty. Thank you." Kitty says throwing her arms around Melinda and nearly knocking her off balance.

"Why did ya fell guilty mon chere? Remy'd hope that ya'd do da same for him."

"I would." Kitty steps away from Melinda and turns facing him. "If you ever get put through that you'll know how I felt, though let's hope that you don't get put through it."

"Piotr didn't lie to you, Kit, any of us will tell you that, well I guess that Pietro over there couldn't since he was already gone, but you understand." Melinda shrugs as she watches Remy sit down in the neares chair and Kitty sit on his lap.

"Of course I do." Kitty says leaning against Remy." You all will never understand what feels like to come back for 10 minutes just to submit yourself to possibly death or worst torture, coming back with Pietro over there had to be the hardest part of it."

"I have to admit Kit, that it was a surprise to find out that this was the person that you never actually named the entire time." Bobby, the newest Acolyte recruit, says. "That Remy here was the one person that all of the locked up Acolytes didn't want to show up."

"Ya didn't want Remy ta show up?" Remy asks looking down at her.

"Not exactly that... I didn't want you to see what was going on there. I just knew that you'd blow up the whole place. You still don't know everything that went on there, but I'll tell you... eventually."

"Remy's not gonna push ya. He knows how ta wait, now dat you're here with him." Kitty laughs slightly.

"Happy birthday Kit." Bobby says throwing her a medium sized box wrapped in black and silver wrapping paper Kitty catches it smiling.

"You're the first to say anything Bobby. Did everyone else forget?" Kitty asks pouting up to Remy.

"Non, Remy'd never forget. He's got somethin ta give ya later." He says leaning down and kissing her.

"No a sight I wanted to bloody wake up to." Pyro says walking in.

"I have ta agree." Pete says coming in behind him.

"You have eyelids, neither of you have to watch them, or are you jealous?" Melinda asks.

"I have to agree with Melinda." Bobby says. "You do seem a little jealous."

"Which bloody one of us?" Pyro asks sarcastically.

"Both." Melinda and Bobby say in unison causing the now blushing Kitty to laugh.

"That is kind of sad." Kitty says "Sorry guys, you'd have each had a chance when I first came to New York, you'd have even had a chance right before I went to the X-men, though Pete, you did meet me a little bit late."

"Harsh shelia. And what makes you bloody think that I'd have tried anything with the way Gambit over there was always looking at you." Pyro asks.

"Who wouldn't want ta look at her?" Remy asks innocently.

"I'm out of this one." Melinda says walking out of the room.

"No one say Happy Birthday to me then. Just act like me having a boyfriend is a bad thing." Kitty says teasingly as she phases through the floor waving.

-Later-

"Hey Kit." Kate says as Kitty answers her cell phone. "Happy Birthday!"

"Thanks Kate." Kitty sighs.

"Don't get sad. At least your parents would have called you for your birthday, mine won't. They say that they don't have a daughter."

"That has to be hard." Kitty says, her voice dropping.

Dear Diary,

I often forget that Kate lost not only her real parents, but her second set as well, I may have been their only daughter in reality, but she was their daughter in their heart. I am so selfish sometimes thinking that it's only me, but I wish they were here, it's my 18th birthday. They missed me becoming legal, we had such big plans. We had plans for all of the typical high school senior things also, but none of that will ever happen. Prom, Homecoming, senior pictures, even graduation. Wow, I never really realized what all I would miss. I miss college, I miss applying for college... just so many things.

"Hey, swing by the mansion today."

"Why? I'm your enemy."

"You're an honorary X-Man, regardless of your team affiliation. You saved members of the X-Men that day, Kit. Mr. Logan like totally is the one that like put you up for it. They were talking about like totally putting up a statue of you."

"You are lying."

"No, I'm totally not. I would come alone though. Trusting you is one thing for some of these total stick-in-the-mud types that like totally flock here, but any other Acolyte may be too much."

"Ok, I'll try to come by. I'm not sure if I can."

"You like totally have to like be here, like trust me."

"Ok, I'll be there in a while, though Remy may not like me going alone."

"tell him to like totally buzz off it's like none of his business."

"I'll make sure to tell him. Talk to you when I get there, ok?"

"Ok, bye."

"bye."

Some things are just huge to miss, you never realize what they would have been worth had you gotten to live them. I have to admit I probably wouldn't have gone at all. I probably would have just stayed at home with Remy, though had none of this happened we may have never gotten this close, or it may have taken much longer.

I wake up in the middle of the night and think that I am going to wake up in my bed at home and all of this time I spent with Remy and the other mutants of New York will all be some weird dream. Though I would never wish that I hadn't met him, I just want a normal life. I wish that my powers had taken longer, or that this war could have waited. This is such a confusing time. They are trying to pass a mutant eradication act in the senate, we are hoping that it doesn't pass. They are forbidding us to defend ourselves. They say that we cannot be there. I personally disbelieve this. We are people too, regardless of one gene or two.

The X-Men are up in arms about it. They keep inviting me back for various things and what Kate says about me being an honorary member regardless of my party affiliation is right. I saved 12 mutants that day, but they never learned the truth of my time with them. They never learned that I was honestly a spy. I will never tell them. The Acolytes will never tell them, though we did have several incidents where the truth behind my team change was revealed. In a way I'm glad that it was never revealed, I can stay with them and not have to worry about them not trusting me though I will have to live with my dark, dirty secrets for the rest of my life.

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